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Marilyse Chaussée
We've featured the works of Marilyse Chaussée before, but with the work she's been doing since our last post we thought it was time for a revisit. In the piece above, What do you think of when you create?, the artist created an installation regrouping four big tracing paper sheets, aligned in order to create a spiral like shape. As Chaussée describes the work,
"My project is about escaping reality by projecting ourselves in a minimal miniature landscape. It talks about reinventing daily living, recycling objects and how to evoke fascination out of the ordinary. It talks about scales, humans and systems. It is playful. I don't think it's about nature preservation, I find it relates more to how to deal with what we have, and to go on from there."
The piece's title also carries a larger message about how we access art. The title of the work came from a discussion Chaussée had with a colleague who asked her about the inspiration for her works. As she states,
"At first, I dismissed the question thinking that artists have a common understanding of creation process. But I realised that he had a different approach, he would pick up an idea and then bring it to life materially whereas I would play with the proprieties of the materials and think of ideas along the way. This title also alludes to the common belief that in order to appreciate or talk about art one must be a specialist. That is often not the case and, sadly, this belief prevents people from going to galleries and even talking about art. I would like my work to be an access to imaginary and, perhaps, the starting point of interesting discussions."
This is a really poignant message to contemplate, how do we make galleries more accessible? Why do people sometimes hesitate when talking about art?
(If you happen to be in Ottawa, this piece will be at Blink Gallery from September 6th to 9th, and for more of Chaussée artworks, click here.)
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CHRISTIAN MARCLAY, The Clock — 29 March - 3 June 2012 @ MCA
Christian Marclay's groundbreaking 24-hour video work, The Clock, which has attracted record crowds wherever it has been shown and gained numerous credits from art critics, was awarded the prestigious Golden Lion for best artist at last year's 54th Venice Biennale.
Just as the sentences in a novel build into patterns and story lines, so did Marclay's clips. Marclay spent three years assembling "The Clock," that comprises several thousand short extracts from cinema history, each suggesting a particular time of day or referencing a specific moment, often through the appearance of a watch or clock-face. They are edited together to form a continuous visual sequence synchronised with the real time of visitors in the gallery who watch the film; and they suggest countless interlocking narratives despite the constant changes in genres, eras, locations and plotlines. The result marks the exact time in real time for the viewer for 24 consecutive hours.
The Clock highlights the centrality of time within conventional cinematic narratives – the way it binds stories together and leads us through their events. Yet by the same token, cinema traditionally immerses viewers within an illusory sense of time, suspending momentarily the real time of the world outside. The Clock creates an uncanny correspondence between cinematic and real time, drawing viewers into a parallel awareness of what they watch on screen and experience beyond it.
Each hour of "The Clock" has a unique rhythm. Marclay has taken one of the most objective measurements humans have ever devised, one that now strictly governs our working lives, and found poetry and mystery inside hard numbers…
Christian Marclay was born in California in 1955 and grew up in Switzerland. He now lives between London and New York. He is an internationally acclaimed artist who has employed the concept of collage since the 1970s across diverse media including film and video, photography, installation, sound and music.
Image © Christian Marclay, The Clock, 2010. Courtesy White Cube, London and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Curator: Rachel Kent
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Daniel Zalewski, The Hours: How Christian Marclay created the ultimate digital mosaic. Daniel Zalewski, Night Shift with The Clock.
Peter Bradshaw, Christian Marclay's The Clock: A masterpiece of our times. This staggering artistic montage telling the time in film and TV clips will run on in your thoughts.
Richard B. Woodward, Twenty-Four Hour View Cycle: A superb movie involves us so convincingly in an illusory world that the more prosaic one never enters our thoughts.
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Even as Auburn was en route to the BCS title, there was something unreal about the journey. Not that the 2010 Tigers weren't the nation's best team. But you wondered how they got that way.
This is a reference to Cam Newton, but not in the way you'd think. Nearly two years after it was reported that Newton's dad had sought $180,000 to send his son to Mississippi State, we await the first bit of evidence that Auburn paid, or even offered, anything beyond a scholarship. The NCAA investigated at length and found nothing untoward. So far as can be discerned, Auburn won with Newton fair and square. That said …
Newton blew across the Plains in the time it takes to change, er, planes at Hartsfield-Jackson. (OK, slight exaggeration. But only slight.) He arrived from Blinn Junior College in January 2010, took his team to 14-0 the next January and, Heisman Trophy in tow, was gone. He was an Auburn
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This Swimming Pool Leader Is a Good Play in the Housing Recovery
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Since the bottom of 2009, Pool Corporation (NASDAQ: POOL) has been on a rising trend, from nearly $11.60 per share in March 2009 to more than $53.50 per share. This company is in the portfolios of many famous investors including Joel Greenblatt and Jim Simons. Sandy Villere of Villere Balanced Fund was also bullish about this company, mentioning that it had a dominating position in the industry with its pricing power. Let's take a closer look to determine whether or not we should buy Pool at its current trading price.
The leader in the pool niche market
Pool Corporation is considered the biggest swimming pool supplies and equipment wholesale distributor, operating 312 sales centers in North America and Europe. The company has three of the biggest suppliers including Pentair Water Pool and Spa (18% of the total purchases), Hayward Pool Products (11%), and Zodiac Pool Systems (8%). In the past four years, Pool has consistently generated growing sales and net income. Its top line increased from $1.54 billion in 2009 to more than $1.95 billion in 2012, while net income rose from $19.2 million, or $0.39 EPS, to nearly $82 million, or $1.71 EPS, during the same period.
Currently, there are around 80 million U.S. homes that could have space for a swimming pool, but only around 9.6 million homes have pools. Thus, according to the company, there was a huge potential growth for swimming pool equipment supplies and replacement. Its sales growth in the past two years was mainly due to the market share gain, along with the industry growth of 3% to 4%.
Looking forward, Pool expected that the industry would experience a growth rate of 4%-7% before it reverts back to the range of 3%-5% in the long run. The improvement in the housing market will help Pool in the long run. In the period of 2013-2010, U.S. new pool construction was projected to have a consistent growth, supported by the overall housing recovery. Pool is trading at around $53 per share, with a total market cap of around $2.4 billion. The market values Pool at nearly 20.6 times its forward earnings.
Fast-growing Tile Shop
Pool is quite a good stock to play the ongoing recovery in the U.S. Another two stocks that would benefit substantially from this recovery trend are Tile Shop Holdings (NASDAQ: TTS) and Home Depot (NYSE: HD). Tile Shop has been growing quite fast, operating around 70 stores in 22 states in the U.S. Shoppers can examine 60 various bathroom and kitchens vignettes in its showrooms. In the past three years, Tile Shop has consistently grown its comparable store sales. In 2012, the same store sales growth was 7.1% and operating margin was 18.8%. Interestingly, Tile Shop has managed to significantly raise its store count from 14 to 68 in the past twelve years. In the next several years, it's expected that the total number of stores could reach 130-140. Tile Shop is trading at nearly $29.70 per share, with a total market cap of around $1.52 billion. The market seems to value Tile Shop quite expensively, at nearly 44.3 times its forward earnings.
Giant home improvement retailer expects more future growth
Home Depot, one of the biggest global home improvement retailers, is operating around 2,256 stores in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, with the total square footage of 235 million. In 2013, the company set the target of 2.8% for sales growth, with the comparable store sales growth of around 4%, leading to double-digit EPS growth of around 17%, or $3.52 per share. What makes investors interested is its commitment to maximize shareholders' returns, including dividends and share buybacks. Home Depot targeted the payout ratio of around 50%, with the ongoing efforts to increase dividend every year. In the full-year 2013, Home Depot expected to pay a $1.56 per-share dividend , much higher than the dividend payment of $1.16 per share in 2012. Home Depot intended to repurchase up to $6.5 billion worth of its shares, creating the potential share repurchase yield of 5.8% for the year at the current trading price. At $76.60 per share, Home Depot is worth nearly $111.9 billion. The market values Home Depot at nearly 18 times its forward earnings.
My Foolish take
All three of these stocks could benefit shareholders in a long run, along with the ongoing recovery of the overall U.S. housing market. Income investors might go for Home Depot with its juiciest dividend yield among the three at 2%. Personally, I like Pool and Tile Shop because of their leading market positions. Those two businesses are positioned well in the upcoming housing boom.
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How Can I Quickly Use 6 Gallons of Chicken Stock?
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Q: I recently received a wonderful, generous gift of homemade vegetable and chicken stock. The only downside: It was almost six gallons, in frozen cubes. It's just me and my partner in our apartment, and we are strapped for freezer and fridge space.
Any ideas how to use it up? It's too hot for soup — we're out of ideas!
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Editor: Taylor, I have two ideas for you.
First one: Thaw the broth and refreeze it in plastic freezer bags that can lay flat on the floor of your freezer, or stand on their ends in the back. These will take up far less room and may allow you to keep the stock for later.
Second idea: Thaw at least some of the stock and reduce it down by half, and then half again, until you have a thick, deeply flavorful liquid. Then use a flour roux to thicken it into a sauce for a pasta dish or baked casserole. See this wild mushroom sauce for an example of this kind of sauce.
Perhaps a combination of both of these ideas would work?
Readers, any ideas for Taylor's windfall of chicken stock?
Related: How To Make Homemade Chicken Stock
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what you said, plus risotto-- a great way that's not soup to use up stock!
you can use it when you boil pasta. It gives it a creamy/greasy feel. It's a great way to make tasty summer pasta using stock.
share the wealth with some friends!
Make a balsamic reduction with stock that reduces down forever--you'll lose a lot of that volume quickly, but end up with a rich, dense sauce for meat and polenta!
Where do you live? I'll take some!
If you know someone with a pressure canner, you can safely can it for use in the winter!
See if you know someone with a pressure canner. You can process that stock into shelf stable jars easily with one.
As well as using for risotto or pasta, you can use it to cook rice!
Instead of using it all up, you could condense it quite dramatically by reducing it to a demi-glace: reduce it over gentle heat (steaming but not boiling) until it is quite thick and let cool until just warm; pour it off into a fridge- or freezer-safe container. When completely cool, it will be a soft-solid consistency, something you could pick up in your hands.
A puck of demi-glace will keep well-wrapped in your freezer indefinitely, but in the years before refrigeration, the stuff was considered to be, essentially, shelf-stable. More recently, chefs would keep a puck of demi-glace in the fridge and simply pick off any mold that developed. (N.B.: I am not suggesting you keep it at room temp or store it long-term in the fridge, just that in other times it was considered safe to do so.)
It's handy to have around: because the liquid content is minimal, demi-glace is great for flavoring dishes, especially sauces, without watering them down. A little goes a long way and, of course, it's so very reduced in volume that it takes up very little freezer space.
I would make some of Ina's gravy to portion out and freeze for quick meals throughout the fall. This is the most amazing gravy I have tasted, even without the pan drippings. If not adding drippings, go with that extra tablespoon of cognac, sherry, or marsala :)
Does the person you got the stock from have freezer space - maybe he/she would store some of it for you until you've used the first lot?
I use it in place of water in my savory pie crust, so you could make up some crusts to freeze or use now. Not that you need 6 quarts worth for pie dough, but you could do a bunch of dough to keep on hand, since a round of dough takes up much less space than a quart of stock in the freezer. You could also use it to steam vegetables for extra flavor, poach some chicken, use it for cooking down some greens (I always use stock instead of water when making kale or collards), or use it as the base of a brine for roasting some chicken to have on hand for quick meals during the week. I also like the idea of freezing stock in ice cube trays and then popping the cubes into a bag to keep on hand to drop into sauces for a little added depth of flavor. I can store a freezer gallon size bag of cubes on the door of my freezer, so it doesn't eat up too much freezer space. You could break it down into quart or even sandwich sized bags so you could fit it in the freezer around things. You could also make a hot soup that can be served cold. I make carrot soup (stock, onions, celery, garlic, salt, pepper, fresh thyme and dill, tons of carrots, cook down and puree with immersion blender) that we serve cold in the warmer months and it is even better than hot!
Risotto and roux-thickened mushroom sauce with pasta are both fantastic ideas. We also cook Asian-style flat wide wheat noodles in broth - the flour thickens the broth and, tossed with chicken and scallions, it becomes a delicious meal. Any kind of noodle is delicious cooked in stock, really. I also eat ramen noodles cooked in broth with an egg stirred in for breakfast.
I personally rely heavily on condensed stock to save space; reducing it yourself is a great idea so you can still have the delicious stock later!
I'd use it to cook lentils, it will give them awesome flavor. Cooked lentils can keep for a week and can be used in so many different ways (lentil burgers, lentil loaf, soup, etc.). Good luck!
Too hot for soup? Nonsense! Use it in a gazpacho!
I came here to suggest reducing it down to a demi-glace as well. You should end up with a dense dark jelly that will take up very little room. Then you can add a tsp to a stir fry or pasta sauce with no problem. Feel like making a soup after all? No problem, just add water plus your demi where you'd add stock. And this keeps for a really long time in the freezer.
use it to deglaze pans with a click of butter and make beautiful sauces.
Use it to make rice, and use some every time you sautee veggies or meats. Its a great flavour for EVERYTHING!
Stock is great for cooking ANY grains -- not just rice or pasta. (Wheat berries, barley, amaranth, couscous, quinoa......) Many of these grains absorb quite a lot of liquid as they cook, so you'll probably use up a lot of the stock if you use it this way.
The Kitchn has featured myriad grain salad recipes this summer and in previous years, so i suspect you'll find something that pleases your summer palate. :)
What a generous gift!
Make a big pot of soup and take it to a soup kitchen or hand it out to people on the streets.


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Things are about to get interesting with Gerard and Casey. and no, you pervs i dont mean what your thinking! gosh, you all have gutter minds.
Gerard looked into Casey's eyes and answered "you only use that voice when somethings on your mind. what is it baby?"
Casey smiled. Gerard knew her so well. "Honestly, did you really belive Maranda?"
Gerard sighed "No. I was just kind of angry and i wasn't thinking."
"Okay. Just making sure you dont think im going to cheat on you ever. You know i love you." Casey said lovingly.
(1 hour later. Math class.)
Casey scooted closer to Gerard, poking him in the shoulder. "Gee?" she whined softley, so the rude math teacher wouldnt hear "I dont get this... maybe you could come over to my house and teach me a little something?" At this she winked scooted back to her original position, perched on the edge of her chair looking at the not so complicated math problem.
Gerard smiled to himself. He knew she knew perfectly well how to solve these problems, but he decided to play along. "Well, this is a very complicated problem. But i do get it. So..." He leaned in closer "How about not going to your house, but to the lake instead?"
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I got this via an ARRL maililng list.
We can argue about whether or not the tests should be more difficult, and I think a case could be made that the Extra Class test should be tougher, but I'm a bit aghast that the FCC says in this denial that,
the purpose of the examinations is not to demonstrate an applicant's comprehension of certain material, but rather to determine whether he or she can properly operate an amateur station.
If that were the case, then why even bother with having three different classes of license? This just doesn't make any sense to me. How about you?
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ARRL Bulletin 16 ARLB016
From ARRL Headquarters
Newington CT March 20, 2009
To all radio amateurs
ARLB016 FCC Denies Petition to Increase Size of Amateur Radio Question Pools
In April 2008, Michael Mancuso, KI4NGN, of Raleigh, North Carolina, filed a petition with the FCC, seeking to increase the size of the question pools that make up the Amateur Radio licensing exams.Mancuso sought to increase the question pool from 10 times the number of questions on an exam to 50 times more questions. On March 19, 2009, the Commission notified Mancuso that it was denying his petition.
In his 2008 petition, Mancuso claimed that the current question pool is too easy to memorize and "that there has been a significant increase in the number of Amateur Radio operators receiving their licenses over at least the last decade or more who do not appear to possess the knowledge indicated by the class of license that they have received. Most discussion about this topic, both on the air and on Internet forums, generally refers to these widespread observations as the 'dumbing down' of Amateur Radio. It has been widely assumed that the cause of this observed situation is based upon the subject material addressed by the license examinations, that the material requirements specified for the examinations does [sic] not meet some minimum level of knowledge expected by some or many in the Amateur Radio community."
The FCC pointed out to Mancuso that each applicant for a new or upgraded Amateur Radio operator license "is required to pass a written examination in order to prove that he or she possesses the operational and technical qualifications required to perform properly the duties of an amateur service operator licensee, i.e., that he or she is qualified to be an amateur service licensee."
The Commission summed up Mancuso's petition, saying, "You argue that the current question pool size is no longer adequate, because online practice examinations enable examinees to memorize a question pool without fully comprehending the subject matter being tested. Consequently, you propose to increase the size of the question pools, in order to hinder memorization."
The Commission concluded that Mancuso did not present grounds for the Commission to amend its rules: "As noted above, the purpose of the examinations is not to demonstrate an applicant's comprehension of certain material, but rather to determine whether he or she can properly operate an amateur station. Moreover, your contention that there has been 'a significant increase in the number of Amateur Radio operators…who do not appear to possess the knowledge indicated by their class of license' is not supported by any data or facts."
The FCC pointed out to Mancuso that the Commission's Rules only dictate the minimum number of questions for each question pool for the three Amateur Radio license classes. This, the Commission told Mancuso, "does not prevent the National Conference of Volunteer Examiner Coordinators (NCVEC) from increasing the number of questions in a question pool should it decide that this is appropriate. We conclude, therefore, that the petition presents no evidence of an existing problem or other reason for a rule change."


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"Your Children's Safety Is Our Business"
|Bus manufacturing
|Albert L. Luce, Sr.
|402 Blue Bird Blvd
P.O. Box 937
Fort Valley, GA 31030
|Area served
The United States
|Key people
|Phil Horlock, President and CEO
|The Traxis Group, B.V.
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"Your Children's Safety Is Our Business"
|Bus manufacturing
|Albert L. Luce, Sr.
|402 Blue Bird Blvd
P.O. Box 937
Fort Valley, GA 31030
|Area served
The United States
|Key people
|Phil Horlock, President and CEO
|The Traxis Group, B.V.
|1000+ [1]
The Blue Bird Corporation, originally known as the Blue Bird Body Company, is an American manufacturer of school and activity buses.[3] Established in 1927, the company has also manufactured transit buses, motorhomes, and specialty vehicles such as mobile libraries and mobile police command centers. Blue Bird's corporate headquarters and main manufacturing facility are in Fort Valley, Georgia. It is a subsidiary of the Traxis Group B.V., part of Cerberus Capital Management.
The Blue Bird company logo, painted on the roof of its buses, is a silhouette profile of its namesake, a bluebird.
Albert L. Luce, Sr. was the owner of the local Ford dealership in Fort Valley, Georgia in the late 1920s. Luce was given the idea to construct a bus after a stock vehicle sold to a customer was of insufficient quality; the wooden bus body started to disintegrate before the customer finished paying for the vehicle.[4] After suggestions from the customer, he decided to try building his own bus body on a Model T frame.[5] In an effort to improve over the original wood-framed bus that he had sold, Luce constructed the frame of his bus body with steel angles and sheetmetal, using wood sparingly.[4] Completed in 1927, the bus was put into service transporting school children.
After the construction of seven more bus bodies, Luce sold his Ford franchise in 1932 to produce bus bodies full-time to start his own company.[5] When deciding upon a name, Luce chose the Blue Bird name for a variety of reasons. The Blue Bird name originated from the positive reception of school children to a blue and yellow demonstrator unit from a group of school children; Luce was nervous about the use of the family name for his business out of fears of it being mispronounced (i.e., "the loose bus").[5]
In 1937, the company began production of full-steel bus bodies, an innovation which soon replaced the wooden bodies which were then in common use around the United States.[5] The early use of farm wagons on a part-time basis soon evolved into purpose-built school bus products, each with economy and function as major priorities.
As the second quarter of the 20th century began, Albert Luce Sr. was one of the entrepreneurs of the period who transitioned from building wagons to developing some of the earliest purpose-built school buses. In a 1939 conference, Blue Bird engineers helped to develop the color school bus yellow, which is still in use today. Blue Bird and Wayne Corporation were several of the earliest to experiment with steel body construction, although such efforts were severely limited by war production product shortages and restrictions during World War II.
Following World War II, continuing a transition from one-room schools, there was a nationwide movement in the US to consolidate schools into fewer and larger ones, facilitating graded class structures. This meant that fewer students were attending school in their immediate neighborhoods, particularly as they progressed into high school; for many, the previous practice of walking to school became impractical. This led in turn to a large increase in the demand for transportation. The company grew substantially and became a major school bus body builder in the post-World War II period.
In 1948, Blue Bird founder Albert Luce Sr. viewed a design for a flat-front bus at an auto show in Paris. Two years later Blue Bird Body Company introduced their own transit-style design which evolved into the Blue Bird All American, often pointed to as one of the pioneer transit designs to gain widespread acceptance for school buses in North America, along with Wayne Corporation, Gillig Corporation and Crown Coach Corporation (whose "Supercoach" dated to 1932). In 1952, Blue Bird became the first school bus manufacturer to produce its own chassis rather than rely on outside suppliers for the All American; today, Blue Bird builds the chassis for every full-size bus produced.[6]
Blue Bird became an international manufacturer of school buses with the opening of Blue Bird Canada in Brantford, Ontario in 1958.[7] In 1965, the company opened its first facility in Latin America. In Guatemala, Blue Bird manufactured the bodies for the Conventional and the All American for use both as school and transit buses. Instead of importing truck chassis (or the Blue Bird All American transit-style chassis) from the United States, the bus bodies were manufactured on locally available chassis unseen in North America (Mercedes-Benz, Hino, Nissan Diesel, and Toyota).
At the time of Albert Luce, Sr.'s death in 1962, Blue Bird Body Company had become the fourth-largest school bus manufacturer in the industry.[5] By 1980, Blue Bird was one of the "Big Six" school bus body manufacturers in the United States, competing with Carpenter Body Works, Superior Coach Company, Thomas Built Buses, Inc., Ward Body Works, and Wayne Corporation. By this time, almost the entire Baby Boom generation had completed their high-school education; along with the move to from cities to suburbs, the higher student populations of the previous two decades had been a key factor behind school bus sales. The recession of the early 1980s cut deeply into profits, leading to the re-organization or closure of several manufacturers. Blue Bird fared better than most manufacturers, becoming the largest manufacturer in terms of sales; by the mid-1980s, one out of every three new school buses was a Blue Bird.[5]
In the 1960s, Blue Bird Body Company also started making luxury motor coaches based on the All American. Branded "Wanderlodge", the first of this popular product line was built in 1963. The design of the Wanderlodge [8] closely followed that of the All American for over 25 years.
Blue Bird entered the commercial public transit bus market in the 1970s. The shorter wheelbase transit-style models proved popular with smaller cities and those with cul-de-sac route ends, providing better maneuverability, and more efficient costs than larger models. The Q-Bus commercial bus for transit and charter applications was introduced in 1992.[9]
Although Blue Bird did not come up with the idea of the small school bus, the company gained significant market share with two of its designs.[citation needed] In 1975, Blue Bird introduced the Micro Bird, a dual rear-wheel cutaway van similar to the Wayne Busette. The Micro Bird set itself apart from other small school buses of the time by featuring a full-height school bus door and additional windows forward of the door to aid loading-zone visibility.[citation needed]
A limitation of the Micro Bird was that its van chassis restricted the overall width of the bus body. For a school bus that was still short in length but was still as wide as the Conventional/All American, a different solution was needed. In 1977, the Mini Bird was introduced.[citation needed]
For the 1988 model year, Blue Bird supplemented the All American school bus line with the TC/2000 transit-style school bus. Unlike the premium All American, the TC/2000 was priced lower (nearly in line with the Conventional) in an effort to secure bids from larger fleet operators. Coinciding with the introduction of the TC/2000 was most extensive redesign of the All American for the first time since the late 1950s; it was introduced for 1989.
From 1997 to 2001, Blue Bird sold a smaller version of the TC/2000 named the TC/1000. Like the TC/2000, the TC/1000 was developed for a specific type of buyer. Its body was slightly modified to better accommodate operators who transported special needs customers.[citation needed]
From its 1932 foundation until 1984, Blue Bird was run entirely by the Luce family, either by Albert Sr or by his three sons. In 1986, the board of directors hired Paul Glaske, president of Marathon LeTourneau, a Texas-based heavy equipment manufacturer.[5] During this time, the Luce family still maintained ownership of the company. In 1992, Merrill Lynch Capital Partners purchased an 82% stake of the company in a management-led buyout with the other 18% spread between Paul Glaske and 14 other Blue Bird managers.[5] After the buyout, the company name changed from Blue Bird Body Company to Blue Bird Corporation.
Sagging demand, financial difficulties and changing world markets in the 1990s and early 2000s lead to Blue Bird closing two plants and opening another. Blue Bird East was shut down in 1992; Blue Bird de Mexico in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, was opened in 1995.
Blue Bird was owned by the British Henlys Group PLC with a substantial financial stake held by Volvo Group[10] from 1999 to 2004. Henlys had financial difficulties during this time, including some not related to its investment in Blue Bird. Blue Bird de Mexico in Monterrey, Mexico was closed in 2001.[11] Blue Bird Midwest was closed in 2002.
According to a company news release from the fall of 2004, Blue Bird became the "sole operating subsidiary" of a newly created holding company, Peach County Holdings Inc. As part of the deal, a banking syndicate made up of Henlys creditors owned 42.5 percent of the Peach stock, according to Blue Bird. The Volvo Group (the world's largest bus manufacturer) owned another 42.5 percent, with the balance owned by Henlys' "pension scheme" and Blue Bird's management. Also in 2004, Blue Bird introduced the Vision, the first conventional-style school bus to be built without relying on an outside supplier for chassis.
However, after a bankruptcy filing, Blue Bird was acquired by Cerberus Capital Management. In connection with the acquisition by Cerberus of North American Bus Industries and Optima Bus Corporation, Blue Bird's acquisition led to Cerberus having a complete line of school and transit buses. Blue Bird is currently owned by the Traxis Group B.V., who acquired them in 2006.[12]
The late 1980s and 1990s saw the Blue Bird product lineup in flux in comparison to the decades before. In 1988, Blue Bird introduced the TC/2000, its first all-new transit-style school bus in over 25 years; the flagship All American was redesigned a year later. In 1991, the Blue Bird Wanderlodge ended the use of its school bus body. The 1992 Q-Bus was the first Blue Bird transit bus designed from the ground up as a transit bus and not derived from the All American.
The 1990s were also a period that the company explored the use of alternative power sources for school buses. In 1991, Blue Bird introduced the first school bus (an All American Rear Engine) powered by compressed natural gas (CNG). In 1994, Blue Bird developed a battery-powered school bus in an effort with Westinghouse Electronic Systems for a school district in California.[5] While the electric school bus remained a prototype, Blue Bird has continued to offer CNG as an option on the All American since its 1991 introduction.
Through 2007, Blue Bird executed a series of plant closing and product line divestitures intended to re-focus the company on the school bus market in an effort to improve profitability and market position.[13] The commercial bus production was transferred to NABI's Anniston, Alabama facilities.[13] Blue Bird's original and last remaining international plant, Blue Bird Canada, was closed August 10, 2007.[7] Later in 2007, the rights to the Wanderlodge were sold to Complete Coach Works, ending Blue Bird's 44-year participation in the recreational vehicle market. [13][14]
In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of Blue Bird No. 1 (and the centennial of the Model T Ford), it was donated to The Henry Ford Museum by the Luce family in 2008.[4][15] 2008 saw major updates for the Vision. Unveiled in late 2008 as a 2010 model, the All American saw the most extensive changes to its body in nearly 50 years.
In October 2009, Blue Bird further streamlined its bus production as it entered into a joint venture with Canadian school bus manufacturer Girardin Minibus.[16] Dubbed Micro Bird, Inc., all small bus production was consolidated at the Girardin facilities in Quebec, Canada; consequently, all Blue Bird production is now limited to full-size conventional and transit buses. The 2010 Micro Bird was the last Blue Bird bus to use a non-Blue Bird chassis.
During 2013, a new generation of the All American entered production as a 2014 model, replacing its predecessors launched in 2008 and in 1999. Distinguished by its rounder roof, the new All American has increased parts commonality with the Vision. Alongside the All American, the Vision saw its own update, introduced for the 2015 model year; propane-fueled Visions now have an extended-range 98-gallon fuel tank. In late 2013, Blue Bird announced the option of Blue Bird Connect™, integrated GPS-based fleet management software developed by Synovia Solutions. While Blue Bird Connect™ was designed as an integrated system, it was also intended for retrofit to existing fleets of school buses as well. [17]
In addition to school, activity, and commercial applications, Blue Bird buses have been custom-built for unique applications such as bloodmobiles, mobile libraries, and public safety command centers.
|Current Product Line
|Model Name
|Micro Bird by Girardin
|All American (T3)
|Year Introduced
|Drummondville, Quebec, Canada
|Fort Valley, Georgia
Type A
MB-II:single rear wheel
G5:dual rear wheel
|Type C
Type D
(front engine, rear engine)
|Chassis Manufacturer
|Ford Motor Company
|Blue Bird
|Fuel Type(s)
Gasoline, Diesel, Propane
Diesel, Propane
Diesel, Compressed Natural Gas (CNG)
|Passenger Capacity
|Other Notes
|Former Product Lines
|Model Name
|Years Produced
|Chassis Supplier
|Micro Bird
|Type A
(single or dual rear wheel)
|Ford Motor Company
Ford Econoline/E-Series General Motors
Chevrolet Express (1997–present)
Chevrolet G-30/GMC Vandura (1975–1996)
Chevrolet P-30 (1995–1996)
|Drummondville, Quebec, Canada
|Type A
|Ford Motor Company
Ford Econoline/E-Series (1992–1999)
General Motors
Chevrolet Express/GMC Savana (1997–1999)
Chevrolet G-30/GMC Vandura (1992–1996)
|Mini Bird
|Type B
|General Motors
Chevrolet P30
|Type C
|Chrysler Corporation
Dodge D-300 (to 1977)
DaimlerChrysler Corporation
Freightliner FS-65 (1997–2002)
Ford Motor Company
General Motors
Chevrolet/GMC B-Series (1966–2003)
International Harvester
Loadstar (1962–1978)
S-Series (1979–1989)
Navistar International
International 3800 (1989–2004)
International 3300 (2005–2008)[clarification needed]
|Type D
(front engine)
(front engine,rear engine)
|Blue Bird Corporation
|Blue Bird Corporation
|Blue Bird Corporation Timeline, 1970-present
(by configuration)
|Company Ownership
|A.L. Luce family
|Merrill Lynch
|Henlys plc
|Traxis Group
|Type A
|Micro Bird
|Microbird MB-II
|MB-II/MB-IV by Girardin
|Microbird G5
|Type B
|Mini Bird
|Type C
|Type D
|All American (1957)
|All American (1989)
|All American (A3)
|All Amer. (T3)
|All American (D3)
Traditionally, school buses such as those produced by Blue Bird consist of components purchased from various outside suppliers and parts which are manufactured in-house to the company's specifications. These two categories of parts are then typically assembled into bodies which can be mounted onto chassis which have often been variations of those used in a myriad of truck applications.
Production-wise, the large "home" plant complex in Fort Valley, Georgia served as both a part manufacturing plant for the entire organization as well as one of the six locations where bodies were assembled from in house and purchased components. Parts and service were also located in Fort Valley, as was Wanderlodge Wayside Park, a tree-shaded motor home park for visiting Wanderlodges adjacent to the Wanderlodge plant.
Blue Bird Corporation currently operates a single manufacturing facility in the United States: the Blue Bird Body Company in Fort Valley, Georgia. A second facility (Blue Bird North Georgia) in LaFayette, Georgia was closed August 30, 2010.[23]
In the past, Blue Bird has had an international manufacturing presence, with two factories in Canada, one in Mexico, and one in South America. These have now all been closed due to changing market conditions and Blue Bird's shift back to a lineup of school bus-based vehicles.
|Blue Bird Corporation Manufacturing Facilities
|Product Lines
|Year Opened
|Year Closed
|United States
|Blue Bird Body Company
|Fort Valley, Georgia
|See Notes
|Blue Bird North Georgia
|LaFayette, Georgia
|Closed August 30, 2010.[24]
|Blue Bird Midwest
|Mount Pleasant, Iowa
|Blue Bird East
|Buena Vista, Virginia
|Blue Bird Wanderlodge
|Fort Valley, Georgia
|Originally opened as Cardinal Manufacturing
|Blue Bird Canada
|Brantford, Ontario, Canada
|Blue Bird also operated a facility in St. Lin, Quebec from 1975 to 1982
|Micro Bird, Inc.
|Drummondville, Quebec, Canada
|Micro Bird (MB-II, G5)
|Girardin Minibus production facility
|Worldwide Facilities
|Blue Bird de Mexico
|Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
|Blue Bird Central America
|Guatemala City, Guatemala
|See Notes
|Produced All American and Conventional bodies on locally available chassis.
2000s Blue Bird All American FE bus in transit service in Bronx, NY.
Right hand drive Blue Bird TC/3000 in use with First Essex in Essex, UK.
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Blue Bird buses.
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- Anonymous, October 25, 2012 at 9:27 PM
Antara kroni2 Anwar : good example is Anwar's former private secretary Nasaruddin Jalil, Nasaruddin became owner of an airline, was awarded the privatisation of the ambulance services (which charges the poor for services provided free previously by the Government), a finance company and many others.
Kamaruddin Jaafar – a research officer in the Prime Minister's Department was made political secretary to Ghafar Baba on Anwar's recommendations. Ghafar was in his own simple way too trusting. He brought in an enemy into the camp, little knowing that Anwar would one day use all information gathered by Kamaruddin to topple Ghafar as deputy prime minister. Betraying the trust of people is an Anwar trademark.
Kamaruddin was rewarded after leaving Ghafar.Kamaruddin through his involvement with Charterfield, received six major contracts in the KLIA – a project chaired by Anwar Ibrahim. He became major shareholder in Kanzen after Anwar "persuaded" Chen Lip Keong to finance and guarantee the purchase of Kamaruddin's shares. Kamaruddin became one of the richest Malays in Kuala Lumpur in six years from 1992 to 1998.
There are many others. The crude Ahmad Saad, Anwar's deputy in the Permatang Pauh division. Since Anwar became finance minister, he did an MBO of Volvo's Federal Auto Holdings. Ahmad Saad controls listed LBI Berhad.
Anwar's secretary in the division - Ishak Ismail - controls Idris Hydraulics and Kentucky Fried Chicken. When the Lau brothers of Leong Hup Holdings tried to ouster Ishak in a boardroom battle, they were arrested by police. On whose instructions?
Anuar Othman of Kumpulan Pinang. The number of privatisation projects within Penang and the country that went to Kumpulan Pinang will astound Malaysians.
Sarit Jusoh, his former political secretary, who owns a piece of KFC.
Yusof Yusoh, or Yusof Perancis, his former private secretary, who has received licences for two Independent Power Plants in Sabah.
Azmin Ali, a private secretary to Anwar since he graduated in 1988. Living in a posh double story bungalow in Damansara Heights, chauffeur driven in a BMW – all on a salary of RM2500 a month. Azmin's wife, Shida. An executive director of Phileo Allied's property divison. Paid RM20,000 a month by crony Tong Kooi Ong.
Nazeri Abdullah of MRCB. For being a close supporter, he became controlling shareholder in four listed companies – MRCB, NSTP, TV3 and Malakoff. Not to mention the numerous privatisations and IPPs he received.
Latiff Mirasa – from being private secretary to Farid Ariffin in the Health Ministry earning RM2200 in 1993, he became a very rich businessman in 1994.
Ismail Munir – another ABIM man. Suddenly, he was awarded a RM 2 billion IPP project by Anwar. Another mega-rich friend overnight.
Salomon Salamat, a former political secretary. Overnight a shareholder in listed companies and a multi-milliionaire, barely months after leaving his RM7000 job as political secretary to Anwar Ibrahim.
Rahim Ghouse – a relative through marriage and Anwar's divisional Youth leader. Suddenly a major shareholder in listed Abrar Corporation and its executive director. From no background in business to running a multi-million dollar corporation backed by Kuwaiti funds. It is no surprise Abrar is today on the verge of bankruptcy.
Tong Kooi Ong – a young stock-broker, a whizz-kid, who packaged the MRCB deal for Ahmad Nazeri Abdullah. He was given the Central Co-operative Bank, now Phileo Bank, and now controls three listed companies through Anwar's largesse. All within a period of five years. Tong could threaten Securities Commission chief Munir Majid with impunity. With similar impunity, he refused to join the Malaysian Stockbrokers Association, the only non-member in the industry, because he had direct access to Anwar. Ada faham pencacai2 najis BABI.
- Anonymous, October 25, 2012 at 9:29 PM
And then, the family.
Father-in-law Dato Wan Ismail – director and shareholder in many listed companies, including Stamford College.
His daughter Wan Fairuz, sister of Wan Azizah, received 2000 acres of land in Batu Berendam, Malacca. Her former occupation? Photographer of Bernama news agency, earning RM1200 a month.
Anwar's sister, Farizun Ibrahim, a housewife, with no experience in business. A co-owner of the Gianfranco Ferre franchise together with his adopted brother, Sukma Dermawan.
His father, Datuk Ibrahim Abdul Rahman. Chairman and substantial shareholder of IOI Berhad. Dato Ibrahim was awarded 50,000 hectares of state land for ranching by the Sabah Government over whom Anwar exercised tremendous influence. Received bumiputra share allocations in many listed companies.
His brother, Rani Ibrahim. Deputy head of Bagan Umno division. Deputy chairman of Olympia, a gambling company which obtained gambling liciences for Sabah from the Finance Ministry despite objections from the Sabah Government. Recipient of many bumi share issues.
Brother Marzuki Ibrahim. An operator of a petrol pump. Received licence to operate another two petrol pumps. Received bumi shares in listed FACB Berhad.
Brothers Idrus Ibrahim, a teacher, and Rosli Ibrahim, no known job, but driving in Mercedes Benzs and living upper middle-class lifestyles.
Lepas itu jangna buat2 lupa ya pencacai najis BABI dan penjilat2 juboq blendir berak mencret Hero Tamil, wang rakyat RM3billion yg beliau angkut bawa lari keluar negara. Bila nak pulangkan.
Source : http://socialistmalaysia.tripod.com/oldstuff/news0812.html
- Anonymous, October 25, 2012 at 10:34 PM
org bodoh jer tulis pjg2. takde org bace la bodoh
- Anonymous, October 25, 2012 at 10:37 PM
video seks plz..
kami penyokong2 UMNO dah sangap ni!!
- Anonymous, October 25, 2012 at 10:57 PM
apa hukum mb tak buat kerja mb,halalkah atau haram dia mkn gaji n alaun yg dia dapat?
- berasiam, October 26, 2012 at 1:23 AM
pencacai pr mmg tak baca fakta walaupun tulis dua tiga patah perkataan. kepala masing2 dah diselaputi najis BABI. yang waras sentiasa mencari kebenaran akan membuka minda pada apa saja sumber. kisah 1 juta USD jadi 1 juta ringgit pun pencacai tidak tahu kerana pemikiran yang telah terbelenggu. kesian pencacai pr, soraknya berderai2, kampung habis tergadai kepada cina dap.
- Anonymous, October 26, 2012 at 2:59 AM
kami tolak kerajaan perasuah besar bn
- Anonymous, October 26, 2012 at 7:47 AM
selain isu tawas angkara kerajaan PR.
BN pun ada isu juga.
Isu Bernama TV yg rugi angkara siapa.
Tak kan isu ini nak sembunyi juga.
BN jolok isu Tawas.
Bernama TV juga akan terbongkar nanti.
- Anonymous, October 26, 2012 at 11:05 AM
Org bodoh mcm ko je x nak baca kebenaran.sbb ko bodo bi kan?hahahha.mmgsama pemikiran dgn atok nuar.kih kih kih.bodo memanjang
- Anonymous, October 26, 2012 at 5:27 PM
8 Tahun menjadi Menteri Kewangan, 8tahun dikelentong Tun Dr Mahathir. 8tahun ditipu Tun dan UMNO bulat2. 8tahun berlakun, pijak semut pun tak mati. 8tahun menipu Kak Wan Jijik, tiap kali berkata bermain tennis, tetapi tennis di dalam bilek di Tivoli Villa, bersama Syamsidar, bermain tennis di atas katil, 8tahun sembunyi malam2, siap pake rambut palsu untuk berzina, dgn pelacur2, jantan2, boypren2, isteri2 orang, 8tahun Kak Wan Jijik dikelentong dan ditipu, tetapi takan lah Kak Wan Jijik tak perasan kan. Tetapi apa nak kata, dah betina sundal, sanggup membiarkan Sang Suami bebas bergeluamng dalam kancak terkutok, juboh menjuboh.
Nasib baik Allah masih melindungi tanah bumi Melayu, Allah masih melindungi bumi Tanah Melayu, Tun Dr Mahathir dapat menghidu perbuatan terkutok beliau, dapat beliau dipecat dari UMNO.
Lihat Kelantan 22tahun, dibawah regim PAS, mendapat wabak dan bala. 22tahun rakyat Kelantan hidup dalam kedaifan dan jahil. Mesjid tak dibina, malah kuil Buddha tumbuh umpama cendawan setelah hujan. Kes2 jenayah, cerai berai, najis dadah, buang bayi semua tumbuh dan naik dgn pesat, seolah olah mengjahanam bersama PAS. Malah Kelantan bole diibaratkan sebagai Darul AIDS, kerrana selam 22tahun ditarbiyah dan assobiyah untuk menambahkan gejala2 pesakit2 AIDS dan aktiviti2 AIDS yg bertambah tambah.
Malah PAS bole berbngga dgn kejayaan memberi air teh susu terus terkeluar dari paip rumah, dari memberi air bersih.
Selangor 4tahun bersama Fuckaton haramjadah, bukan ranap dan bangkrap, malah menjadi Darul Sampah sarap dan tidak terurus.
Jikalau inginkan bala dan wabak undilah Fuckaton haramjadah, mengjahanam bersama Fuckaton haramjadah.
- Anonymous, October 26, 2012 at 9:28 PM
org bodoh jer sokong kjan bn perasuah besar ni. eanai rakyat dah buka mata skg. tunggulah pru nanti. byk pemimpin bn masuk penjara, padan muka sialan-sialan ni.
- ark, October 26, 2012 at 9:50 PM
Some & many off them are still in UMNO. This people make & iffluence people to hate UMNO. They blocked all exleader & supporter of their incumbent to work with UMNO. Their only intention is because they only make money in UMNO. No more sacrifice. UMNO COUNCIL should look & take action before its to late & they are "TALAM DUA MUKA" Thay will win at both side.
- Anonymous, October 27, 2012 at 7:41 AM
Kenapa takut kebenaran kalau keadilan tiada adilnya
- Anonymous, October 27, 2012 at 6:16 PM
kalau keadilan...
kembalikan konsep separation of power dalam sistem pemerintahan kerajaan pusat tu dulu..
kuasa perundangan
kuasa pentadbiran
kuasa kehakiman
tiga badan ini perlu dibebaskan dari sebarang pengaruh politik....
ubn yg memusatkan kuasa kpd pm....
pr perlu bebaskanya....
kuasa pm hendaklah dihadkan.... pr jangan tiru diktator BN....
- Anonymous, October 28, 2012 at 10:28 AM
Dan hanya dia ni yg dah bangap.
- kakbedah, October 29, 2012 at 2:39 PM
anon 9.28... ko ni marah sangat kat BN nape??? rumah ko x de air ke @ ko x dapat bantuan rakyat 1 malaysia... so yg mana satu ko rasa ????? aq x kisah sangat klu mana2 memerintah pun tp yg penting aq x nak pemimpin yg mcm kat dlm pakatan tu.. mcm lembu kena cucuk bontot je
- kelly engku, October 29, 2012 at 2:43 PM
seteruk2 BN pun ramai gak pelabur luar yg dtg utk melabur duit diorang kat malaysia yg diperintah BN nie... tgk je lah kemajuan yg dibawa BN kat malaysia nie dari zaman pemerintahan Tun M dari dulu lg...
- Abang Iman, November 1, 2012 at 12:29 PM
55 tahun BN dah buat banyak itu tak nampak budak budak ni...mata kat muka ke kat buntut.....nak kutut tu biar lar logik sikit.....pikia betui betui.....aku dh frust betul lar asyik nak ajar budak budak PR ni..tak faham faham ....


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AMSTERDAM, November 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
Winners Announced at International Semantic Web Conference
Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, is pleased to announce the winners of the 2012 Semantic Web Challenge (SWC). Determined by a jury of leading experts from both academia and industry, winners were announced at the International Semantic Web Conference held in Boston, MA, this month. The challenge and allocated prizes were sponsored by Elsevier.
SWC contestants competed in any of two challenge categories: 'Open Track' and 'Billion Triples Track'. Open Track contestants are required to submit applications that utilize the semantics (meaning) of data and applications are designed to operate in an open web environment where information sources are under diverse ownership and control; Billion Triples Track contestants have to reason with a pre-supplied, very big data set of mixed quality.
Of this year's 24 submissions, the panel of experts selected 4 Open Track Challenge winners and 1 Billion Triples Track winner.
Open Track challenge:
- 1st prize: "Event Media" by Houd Khrouf, Vuk Milicic and Raphaël Troncy from EURECOM, Sophia Antipolis, France - This application demonstrates how to use semantic web technology to more efficiently and easily integrate multiple online and social media content sources that evolve over time.
- 2nd prize: "Semantic Processing of Urban Data" by S. Kotoulas, V. Lopez, R Lloyd, M. Sbodid, F. Lecue, M. Stephenson, E. Daly, V. Bicer, A. Gkoulalas-Divanis, G. Di Lorenzo, A. Schumann and P. Aonghusa from IBM research's Smart Cities Team - The mayor of Dublin wanted to know why his ambulances were perennially late so this team 'knowledge mined' hundreds of information sources emanating from the city ranging from usual twitter feeds to garbage collection tags and many more to help the mayor improve city service.
- 3rd prize: jointly awarded to: "Open Self Medication" by Olivier Curé of Universite Paris-Est, LIGM, CNRS - This application advises on self-medication, using the Linked Open Data cloud to mine contra indications for various over the counter medications and adds to these where they were missing. A mobile geo location price comparison tool enables users to find nearby pharmacies that sell the cheapest drugs, enabling French health care insurance companies to reduce their costs; "Wildfire Monitoring" by K. Kyzirakos, M. Karpathiotakis, G. Garbis, C. Nikoladu, K. Bereta, I Papatousis, T. Herekakis, D. Michail, M. Koubarakis and C. Kontoes from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, National Observatory of Athens and the Harokopeio University of Athens - This application combines multimedia satellite images with ontologies and Linked Geospatial Data to improve the wildfire monitoring service used by the Greek civil protection agencies, military, and firefighters.
Billion Triples Track challenge:
- "Exploring the linked data cloud" by X. Zhang, D. Song, S.Priya, Z. Daniels, K. Reynolds and J. Heflin of Lehigh University, USA. This system allows users to understand how massive data sets are populated and reveals patterns in within these data sets.
"We were extremely impressed by the demos this year, many of which were interesting, well designed, highly polished, and had clear use cases for both the general public and for domain experts," explained SWC co-chairs Andreas Harth, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and Diana Maynard, University of Sheffield.
In 2003 the SWC was set up to showcase the very latest in semantic web technology. Over the years the challenge has attracted over 165 submissions from across the globe. Every year the final rounds of this competition take place at the annual International Semantic Web Conference. The continuing maturity of the tools and components used to build applications has resulted in increasingly more compelling demonstrations.
"Elsevier is a proud sponsor of the Semantic Web Challenge as it clearly illustrates what the Semantic Web can provide to the world by highlighting the state-of-the-art developments in web technology each year. Furthermore, allowing researchers to showcase their work and compare it to others stimulates current research in this exciting and growing field," said Sweitze Roffel, Senior Publisher in Computer Science at Elsevier.
About the Semantic Web Challenge
The Semantic Web Challenge has been organized in cooperation with the Semantic Web Science Association since 2003 with the aim to offer participants the chance to submit their best Semantic Web Applications. The overall objective of the challenge is to apply Semantic Web techniques in building online end-user applications that integrate, combine and deduce information needed to assist users in performing tasks. As the potential of the Semantic Web is very broad, the open challenge intentionally does not define any specific task, data set, or application domain. To allow a broad range of applications to compete with each other, all teams are judged using a number of minimal criteria, as well as additional desired criteria. Based on these predefined criteria the winners are selected by an expert jury.
Full details of the competition, judging, as well as all the competing teams, including their papers, demos and presentations can be found on http://challenge.semanticweb.org
About the Semantic Web
The central idea of the Semantic Web is to extend the current human-readable web by encoding some of the semantics of resources in a machine-processable form. Moving beyond syntax opens the door to more advanced applications and functionality on the Web. Computers will be better able to search, process, integrate and present the content of these resources in a meaningful, intelligent manner.
About the International Semantic Web Conference series
The International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) is the premier international forum for the Semantic Web and Linked Data Community. At the conference scientists, industry specialists, and practitioners meet to discuss the future of practical, scalable, user-friendly, and game changing solutions. ISWC is organized annually by the Semantic Web Science Association and typically rotates between America, Europe and Asia.
About Elsevier
Elsevier is a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. The company works in partnership with the global science and health communities to publish more than 2,000 journals, including The Lancet and Cell, and close to 20,000 book titles, including major reference works from Mosby and Saunders. Elsevier's online solutions include ScienceDirect, Scopus, Reaxys, ClinicalKey and Mosby's Nursing Suite, which enhance the productivity of science and health professionals, and the SciVal suite and MEDai's Pinpoint Review, which help research and health care institutions deliver better outcomes more cost-effectively.
A global business headquartered in Amsterdam, Elsevier employs 7,000 people worldwide. The company is part of Reed Elsevier Group PLC, a world-leading publisher and information provider, which is jointly owned by Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV. The ticker symbols are REN (Euronext Amsterdam), REL (London Stock Exchange), RUK and ENL (New York Stock Exchange).
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This course intended to introduce the general principles and considerations involved in the design of maritime structures especially the environmental and design loadings on the structures. The trainer will introduce the various types of jetty layouts, including breasting and mooring dolphins. In addition, design of the above structures will be taught in detail with actual examples. Fender design is one of the key factors in docking (or berthing) of the ship and forming an important loading to the jetties and dolphins. The function and terminology used in maritime structures will also be explained.
The course also includes the computation of wave forces on piles and seawalls, and design of breakwaters and groins.
A complete design calculation of as-built Maritime Facilities consists of a Jetty (Loading Platform), two Breasting Dolphins and a pair of Mooring Dolphins for berthing of different sizes of oil tankers will be included the course.
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Introduction of Port and Maritime Structures
• Environmental and Design Forces on Maritime Structures
Introduction to various types of maritime structures, function, terminology and environment. General design considerations: criteria, requirements, site selection and layout. Impacts of maritime structures on environment. Design forces on maritime structures : Wind, current, wave, docking force, mooring line force, earthquake (if applicable) in additional to the dead, superimposed and live loads.
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Introduction of various types of maritime structures consist of jetty (loading platform), breasting
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Mooring Line Forces
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Mooring line patterns for securing ships. Computation of mooring line forces. Mooring Dolphin : Selection, functions, loadings and design.
Forces on Jetty (Loading Platform)
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Jetty (loading platform) : General consideration, selection, functions, loadings and design.
Wave Forces on Piles, Seawalls and Breakwater Design
Computation of wave forces on piles and seawalls. Breakwaters : Types, selection and design.
A complete design calculation of an as-built Maritime Facilities consists of a Jetty (Loading Platform), two Breasting Dolphins and a pair of Mooring Dolphins for berthing of different sizes of oil tankers.
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There probably isn't anyone happier in the Patriots locker room this week than Aaron Hernandez. On Tuesday, the day he turned 23, he welcomed his first child, a daughter named Avielle.
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Business Ideas in the News / January 30, 2014
The following is a guest post by Jemima Lopez.
If you're in college, chances are you're broke. Poverty is something of a rite of passage that goes along with pursuing secondary education — at the same time, just because you're trying to get another degree doesn't mean you have to be penniless.
But, unless you want to work part-time for the Gap or some other soul-sucking commercial store/restaurant*, you're going to have to be creative. Making money isn't always boring, especially if you start your own business, and as it happens, your college years are a great time to experiment with business ideas, because you have dozens of resources available to you and all the clients you need right on campus.
Maybe you've got the verve, but haven't got the inspiration to kick-start a small business on the side while going to school. Fear not — the following list should help give you some ideas and maybe even spark a new idea altogether:
While not the most original idea in the book, tutoring is actually a very lucrative field to be in as a student, and has benefits beyond just making a buck. You won't learn anything as well as when you teach it to someone else. So, as you're raking in some extra cash (tutors generally charge anywhere from $20 to $50 an hour, depending on expertise), you'll also be cementing concepts in your head that will help you succeed in the classroom.
Yes, it's an outdated expression, but it's not an outdated practice. Especially with the internet, selling products you've made to others is both easy and fruitful. At this point you might be thinking, "But I don't have any talents I can capitalize on!" Sure you do. Can you draw? Paint? Sing? Cook? Sculpt? Make jewelry? You get the picture.
And the great thing is that if you actually can't do any of these things, it's still ok, because you can take classes to learn them while you're in school. That's the great thing about college — it's an environment that not only supports learning new trades, but encourages it, too.
Another profitable venture to research while in school is blogging. Blogging for money doesn't raise the kind of funds you might want right away, but if you pick a niche that interests you, get the right ads, generate a large enough following, and sell an e-book or presentation or two, you'll be the proud owner of a successful blog and will also be generating money while you sleep. And there's really nothing better than that.
Jemima Lopez is a freelance blogger and writer who writes for Zen College Life, the directory of higher education, distance learning, and online degrees. She welcomes your comments at her email: lopezjemima562 @ gmail.com.
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Trolling Techniques, Rod Holders and Electric Motors
For many freshwater anglers in Texas, trolling is a eight-letter word that translates to novice. Texas anglers would rather hang out with a monstrous "troll" of folk legend than admit to pulling a lure behind their boats. That's why they invent cute trolling euphemisms such as "strolling" or "long lining" to describe a variation of a fishing art that predates mechanical engines. Sailors in search of the New World supplemented their boring diet at sea with fresh fish caught by trolling behind sailing vessels. Many sailors still troll with wind power.
Windsurfers in Hawaii and Florida use inventive rod holders that secure a fishing rod to a surfboard and double their pleasure by indulging in two sports at once. They troll while windsurfing and often land fish that weigh more than their sporty craft.
Trolling has never caught on among Texas freshwater anglers because 80 percent of Texas fishermen favor largemouth bass, and trolling is less effective for largemouths than for any other popular game fish. Catfish rank second among Texas fishing fans, and trolling is generally a poor technique for catching catfish.
Where trolling shines is for open-water game fish such as striped bass, hybrid stripers and their smaller cousins-sand bass, more accurately called white bass. Trolling is the best fishing technique for northern game fish species such as lake trout, chinook salmon or walleye, and the anti-trolling bias is not a factor where those species exist.
Trolling techniques can be modified to make them effective for game fish such as crappie. In fact, crappie fishing pro Wally Marshall uses a technique he calls long lining because he puts out ultralight jigs a long way behind his boat and uses a bow-mounted electric motor to slowly move the jigs over submerged structure.
Electric motors are often called "trolling motors," though they are generally used to position a fishing boat rather than for trolling lures. Fishing guides at Toledo Bend called it "strolling" 25 years ago when they dropped one-ounce striper jigs under the boat and used an electric motor to troll the jigs through suspended stripers that showed up clearly on sonar flashers.
Because the fish were swimming at a specific depth, "strolling" the jigs at that level was a more effective fishing technique than vertical jigging at the correct depth. Moving lures were more apt to be intercepted by moving fish.
There is an art to trolling. In fact, Ken Schultz, fishing editor for Field & Streammagazine has written a book titled The Art of Trolling, published by Ragged Mountain Press. The 130-page volume was revised in 1996 and includes more about trolling than the average Texas angler ever wanted to know.
The sport's art deals with presenting a lure at the right depth and speed to suspended fish, a task that's not as easy as it sounds. In the heyday of Lake Texoma's big striped bass fishery, anglers learned exactly how deep the Whopper Stopper Hellbender would dive at optimum trolling speeds. Always innovative, the fishermen learned to add a heavy jig trailer to the deep-diving crankbait. The trailer jig's weight and drag added a couple of feet to the maximum depth you can troll a Hellbender.
Diving lures feature oversized snouts mindful of a spoonbill duck. Most packages that contain deep-diving lures include information about maximum diving depths. Unfortunately, the depths to which billed lures dive depend on what weight line the angler is using and how much line he has out. More line typically results in a deeper dive. So does smaller diameter line. Boat speed is another variable.
Since boat speedometers are notoriously inaccurate, veteran trollers monitor speed by engine rpms or by speed readouts on a GPS (global positioning systems) unit. Trolling fanatics often rely on downriggers to take the guesswork out of trolling depth. Downriggers mount on the stern gunnels of a fishing boat and use a heavy weight to drop a measured distance straight down under the boat. The fishing line is attached to the weight via a specialized clip. When a fish bites, the strike or ensuing fight jerks the fishing line free of the clip so the fish can be fought.
Downriggers work great because you can put your lure at the precise depth you want it and you can troll very slowly, or just drift with the lure at the productive depth, says Rusty Cox, a Carrollton angler who caught his share of Texoma stripers on downriggers.
Cox has also used downriggers for slow trolling live bait around oil rigs in Gulf of Mexico offshore waters. Near Venice, La., he trolled a live blue runner beside an offshore rig. When a big amberjack ate the bait, Cox gunned his engines and used the boat to pull the big, tough fish away from the structure.
Amberjacks are notorious for swimming into abrasive structure when they're hooked, and the powerful fish are hard to catch when encountered close to a rig. Use sonar to pinpoint suspended fish, then try to troll your lures through the fish. Simply trolling through the open lake is not an efficient method of fishing unless you know target fish are present. You can hold a rod while trolling, but it works better if you mount rod holders to securely hold the rod until a fish is hooked.
Generally speaking, lipped diving lures dive deeper when used on small diameter lines. They also dive deeper when more line is released behind the boat. In trolling tests, most diving lures also dived deepest at the slowest possible speeds. Increasing the boat speed did not make the lures dive deeper.
When choosing a lure, try to select a size and design that imitates local baitfish. For most fishing in Texas lakes, this means threadfin or gizzard shad. Experiment with lures and boat speed until you find a winning combination, then stick with it.
Do not troll when fish such as stripers, hybrids or sand bass are schooling actively on the surface. You can easily catch those fish by casting to them. Driving a boat through surfacing fish will spook them and cause them to disperse. Trolling is not advisable in crowded waters where long lines are apt to get tangled with other fishermen.


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Never Knew It Was So Much Fun
My husband and I had always shared a love for play wrestling each other. He especially likes me to pin him down. Recently I began wrestling with a neighbor gal who actually brought up the idea while we were exercising as a way of getting in shape. We have had several matches and I find myself really liking wrestling with her. We do not try and hurt each other but some of the matches have been very compettitive. Our matches always end with one of us sitting on top of the other.
two months befor my wife and my cousin wife wrestled for us ,they started just funny and become compettitive they both are big bonned type and tall women,it was very sexy and i cannot forget,after a tight and rough match my wife lost match,
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Skybound, the Image Comics imprint producing Walking Dead, Invincible, and Witchdoctor, among others, posted up an interview today with its owner and founder, creator/writer Robert Kirkman.
He said some kind things I really appreciated.
6- Which creator do you predict will be the breakout talent in 2012?
I hate to say Joe Keatinge, because he'll get the big head and turn into a giant jerk… but HELL YEAH and GLORY (both from Image) are GREAT and more people should be reading them, no matter how many people are reading it (and it's a lot, HELL YEAH is a hit). I think Joe is definitely one to watch. Artist-wise… I think Matteo Scalera is really good, I'm digging his work quite a bit.
Big thanks to Robert for the support. Dude's been pretty instrumental in my career since the beginning. The first publish text I ever had in a comic was in the back of an issue of Savage Dragon: God War, a book which wrote and I color flatted. Dude's a great guy and I'm flattered by what he said.
Also, I can't second his endorsement for Matteo Scalera enough. Dude is so wicked talented. I love his work. Check it out here.


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Turf Paradise in Phoenix was forced to cancel a fourth straight live card Tuesday as the main track and turf course remained unsuitable for racing after record rains pelted the area over the past few days.
According to track general manager Vince Francia, the track received permission from the Arizona Racing Commission to take Tuesday's card and move it in its entirety to Thursday, normally a dark day.
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Listen to bestselling author Augusten Burroughs read from his memoir Dry. From the New York Times Bestselling author of Running With Scissors comes the story of one man trying to out-drink his memories, outlast his demons, and outrun his past. When the ordinary person had two drinks, Augusten had twelve; when the ordinary person went home at midnight, Augusten never went home at all.
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TONKIN Charles married Elizabeth Ann ROWE 1889
Information & Research Journal.
Charles Harris TONKIN.
Born: 6 January 1869, Strathalbyn, South Australia.
Died: 6 June 1940, Norwood, South Australia, aged 71 years.
Parents: Thomas TONKIN and Cordelia THOMAS.
Elizabeth Ann ROWE.
Born: 3 February 1868, Kapunda, South Australia.
Died: 18 February 1935, Norwood, South Australia, aged 67 years.
Parents: James ROWE and Eliza JOHNS.
Marriage details for Charles and Elizabeth.
Groom: Charles Harris TONKIN.
Age: 21 years.
Status: Single.
Father: Thomas TONKIN.
Bride: Elizabeth Ann ROWE.
Age: 21 years.
Status: Single.
Father: James ROWE.
Date married: 28 February 1889.
Place: Norwood, South Australia.
Five children located South Australian records for Charles and Elizabeth.
James Harris TONKIN.
Born: 28 February 1890, Norwood, South Australia.
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Charles Thomas TONKIN.
Born: 12 March 1893, Norwood, South Australia.
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Elsie May TONKIN.
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Lillian Gertrude TONKIN.
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Born: 21 January 1901, Norwood, South Australia.
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