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BWR: An update on the upcoming alliances
Thursday, February 23, 2017
Ocean carrier schedule and capacity database BlueWater Reporting has been closely monitoring the tumultuous changes the ocean carrier industry is going through as the new ocean carrier alliance agreements established over the past year will take effect in April. The Ocean Alliance will include CMA CGM, COSCO, Evergreen Line and OOCL; and THE Alliance will include Yang Ming, "K" Line, NYK Line, MOL and Hapag-Lloyd. Meanwhile, the 2M Alliance network of Maersk Line an...
BWR: Blanked sailings surge on China-North America trade
Friday, February 03, 2017
Ocean carriers are voiding several sailings on the China to North Europe and China to North America trades, resulting from the Chinese New Year holiday, as illustrated by data from BlueWater Reporting 's Blanked Sailings Report. This year, Chinese New Year fell on Jan. 28, with blanked sailings most prominent between Jan. 29 and Feb. 12. In 2016, the holiday landed on Feb. 8, with blanked sailings mostly occurring between Feb. 7 and Feb. 20. As illustrated in the fi...
BWR: Europe to U.S. North Atlantic trade
Tuesday, January 03, 2017
Utilizing BlueWater Reporting 's Capacity Report, the charts below display the total deployed capacity for all services operating on the Europe to U.S. North Atlantic trade, the amount of vessels deployed on the trade, and the weekly allocated capacity on the trade. Source: BlueWater Reporting Source: BlueWater Reporting The U.S. North Atlantic encompasses ports in the following states: Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rh...
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survey on the FMC
Monday, December 05, 2016
The business relationships between shippers and shipping lines are under tremendous pressure these days, given the huge structural change going on in the liner carrier industry and dampened trade growth in 2016. With a new presidential administration taking the helm in early 2017, shifting carrier alliances, and the potential for more M&A activity, the spotlight on the United States' body responsible for regulating the shipping industry has never been brighter. ...
Executive Summary - A Clear View of Supply Chain: Visibility Benchmark Study
Saturday, November 19, 2016
Source: American Shipper research For years, American Shipper has gauged the international transportation market on its attitudes toward supply chain visibility, but the issue has always been tangential to broader disciplines that we have examined. At some point, it became incumbent upon us to delve deeper into visibility as its own discipline because supply chain visibility has clearly moved from the realm of luxury to necessity for most multinational shippers. Chalk it up to ...
Retailers turning to forward-looking analytics more than manufacturers
Wednesday, November 16, 2016
Retailers have cited increased supply chain visibility and reduced freight spend as the primary benefits of business intelligence tools, according to new research from American Shipper . However, a new study released Wednesday, You Can't Manage What You Can't Measure: Supply Chain Analytics Benchmark Study, also found that while 65 percent of retailer respondents see visibility as a primary benefit of analytics, only 47 percent of retailers are actually using analytics for visib...
AS visibility research shows shippers tracking too many milestones
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Shippers track more freight milestones than they need to and third-party logistics companies (3PLs) have little understanding of what it costs to provide visibility to their customers, according to new groundbreaking research from American Shipper . A new report, A Clear View of Supply Chain: Visibility Benchmark Study , finds that nearly two-thirds of shippers are using their visibility tool to track five or more milestones but nearly three-quarters say fewer than five mileston...
Rise of e-commerce has companies eyeing automated payment
Friday, October 07, 2016
In a sign of e-commerce's increasing importance to world trade, AFEX, a non-bank provider of global payment and risk management solutions, said this week that 46 percent of the 500 companies they surveyed plan to use international payments more this year than in 2015. The companies surveyed are North American small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and corporations involved in international commerce, and nearly 30 percent said they plan to start using an online automated internation...
BlueWater Reporting Hanjin Terminal Report
Friday, October 07, 2016
BlueWater Reporting tracks terminal data for services operated by major carriers and has released a report detailing all services on which Hanjin Shipping operated at the time of its insolvency filing in South Korea Aug. 31. The report includes the ports called on each service, and in most cases, the terminal being used at the time of the filing. The report is free to corporate licensees of BlueWater Reporting and can be downloaded here or it can be purchased as a s...
WLS: Capacity plummets in wake of Hanjin bankruptcy
Friday, October 07, 2016
Overall capacity in the major east-west trades dropped in the third quarter of 2016 after experiencing a boost heading into peak season at the close of the second quarter. The Asia to East Coast North America trade was the only one to maintain positive growth during the third quarter as capacity dropped in the transpacific trade between Asia and the West Coast of North America, as well as the Asia-North Europe and transatlantic trades. A large portion of the third quarter decrease was a...
Several NVOs played chicken with Hanjin situation
Tuesday, September 06, 2016
Hanjin Shipping's plunge into receivership has caused a great deal of chaos for non-vessel-operating common carriers (NVOs) around the world, but it appears some NVOs saw the writing on the wall prior to August. According to import statistics provided to American Shipper by the trade data provider Datamyne, a number of major NVOs all but pulled their U.S. import volume from Hanjin sailings prior to August, while some other NVOs doubled down on their use of the troubled Sout...
NEWS FLASH: Some NVOs played chicken with Hanjin situation
Friday, September 02, 2016
Hanjin Shipping's plunge into receivership has caused a great deal of chaos for non-vessel-operating common carriers (NVOs) around the world, but it appears some NVOs saw the writing on the wall prior to August. According to import statistics provided to American Shipper by the trade data provider Datamyne, a number of major NVOs all but pulled their U.S. import volume from Hanjin sailings prior to August, while some other NVOs doubled down on their use of the troubled South Kor...
AS Survey: Shippers highly exposed to Hanjin collapse
Friday, September 02, 2016
More than 72 percent of beneficial cargo owners and ocean intermediaries surveyed by American Shipper Thursday and Friday said they currently have cargo aboard vessels belonging to the beleaguered liner carrier Hanjin Shipping. The South Korean shipping line filed for receivership Wednesday, setting off pandemonium in global container trades. Reports of soaring spot market rates on both the transpacific and Asia-Europe trades were widespread, and more worryingly, vessels are bei...
CitySprint: Nearly half of UK SMEs expect no disruption from Brexit
Tuesday, August 23, 2016
A total of 47 percent of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the United Kingdom anticipate no disruptive impact from the UK's decision to leave the European Union, according to a survey conducted by CitySprint, a same day delivery company in the UK. The UK voted on June 23 to leave the European Union, with 52 percent of voters in favor of the so-called Brexit and 48 percent of voters wanting to remain in the EU. CitySprint's survey revealed that only 14 percent o...
AS Report: Preparing for VGM
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
Shippers and freight forwarders are unclear how to comply with a fast-approaching mandate to verify the weights of containers prior to loading on vessels, according to new research from American Shipper . A new report released Tuesday, " Weighing on an Industry: Shipper, NVO, and Carrier Perspectives on VGM ," found that nearly three-quarters of shippers and forwarders believe they will have containers held when the new mandate kicks in July 1. What's more, the vast majority of ...
Executive Summary: Transportation Procurement Report
Thursday, April 28, 2016
Freight transportation decisions are often walled off from other parts of a company's supply chain, a reality transportation and logistics practitioners face every day. But it's also true that for many shippers, global transportation procurement occurs in a silo away from other transportation decisions. Procurement is a periodic, episodic process that is often influenced as much by circumstantial or relationship-based dynamics as by systematic or data-driven ones. In a...
WLS: Capacity falls in east-west trades
Wednesday, January 07, 2015
After a relatively stable third quarter, overall container capacity in the major east-west trades fell across the board in the fourth quarter of 2014. The G6 Alliance surpassed the CKYHE Alliance in terms of market share by weekly allocated capacity in the westbound Asia-North Europe trade lane, though both still trail the combined capacity of 2M vessel-sharing agreement partners Maersk Line and Mediterranean Shipping Co. (MSC). In addition, the pending 2M VSA wrestled the top spot away from...
Report: Alliance Consolidation Continues
Tuesday, September 09, 2014
Two months after Maersk Line and Mediterranean Shipping Co. joined forces to form the 2M vessel-sharing agreement, following the denial of regulatory approval for the proposed P3 Network due to antitrust concerns, the last of the former three P3 members—French carrier CMA CGM—has moved on as well. CMA CGM announced Sept. 9 that it has signed three agreements with CSCL and UASC, dubbed the "Ocean Three," on the Asia-Europe, transpacific and transatlantic trades. Expected to star...
Report: 2014 Export Compliance and Operations Benchmark Study: Navigating a Post-AES World
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Despite attempts by the U.S. government to streamline export regulation and stoke growth of exported goods, it remains a tricky and evolving process. This year's report takes a deeper look at how exporters are managing their export documentation in the wake of the latest AES deadlines last year. This report, co-produced with BPE Global and AAEI, also continues our examination of the level of involvement export practitioners have in strategic areas like new markets and mergers and acquisitions, as ...
Report: 2014 Import Operations and Compliance Benchmark Study: Chasing a Moving Target
Sunday, August 10, 2014
American Shipper and BPE Global have been benchmarking import supply chains for six years – no one has a better handle on the innate complexities facing import transportation and compliance teams. This year's study captures the extent to which advances in sophistication and technology deployment are being offset by increased external complexity. Importer seem to be forever chasing a moving target. From late March through late May 2014, 250 qualified respondents participated in a 27-question benchmarking...
Report: From P3 to "Plan B": Maersk, MSC enter 10-year VSA
Friday, July 11, 2014
Only a few weeks after the termination of the P3 Network due to antitrust concerns, two of the former three P3 members have moved on to "plan B," as Maersk Line and Mediterranean Shipping Co. announced July 10 that they plan to enter a 10-year vessel-sharing agreement (VSA), dubbed 2M, on the Asia-Europe, transatlantic and transpacific trades. Expected to start in early 2015, contingent upon approvals from relevant regulatory authorities, 2M will include 21 services with 185 vessels a...
WLS: Transpacific capacity rebounds in Q2 2014
Tuesday, July 08, 2014
Overall capacity in the major east-west trades increased across the board in the second quarter of 2014 compared to the first quarter. The newly formed CKYHE Alliance made its presence felt in the eastbound transpacific and westbound Asia-North Europe trade lanes, surpassing its closest competitor, the G6 Alliance, in market share. The member carriers of the recently rejected P3 continue to fight for their share as single entities, according to the latest quarterly "World Liner ...
Report: CKYHE Alliance Implications – Will CSCL and UASC be next to join?
Friday, June 27, 2014
To download this report you must be an American Shipper Permium Global Subscriber, a BlueWater Reporting Individual Subscriber or a BlueWater Reporting Corporate Subscriber or you may purchase the report directly by visiting http://www.bluewaterreporting.com/CKYHEAllianceImplications The CKYH Alliance of ocean liner carriers, which is comprised of China -owned COSCO Container Lines, Hanjin Shipping of South Korea, Taiwan-based Yang Ming, and "K" Line of Japan, announced in...
2014 Transportation Payment Benchmark Study: Paying the Price for an Outdated Payment Process
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
American Shipper , in partnership with the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) and the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA), surveyed nearly 190 shippers and third party logistics providers on their freight payment procedures, strategies, global integration, and technology. This year's report picks up where last year's left off, focusing on the crucial interplay between the role that logistics and finance play in the development of an automated freight pay process, as wel...
Roundtable Discussion: China denies P3 proposal
Thursday, June 19, 2014
Surprised by China's decision to block the P3 Alliance's proposal? So was most of the shipping world. Tune in to this 35-minutes podcast to hear American Shipper and BlueWater Reporting staff weigh in on this momentous decision. We explore some of the crucial questions left unanswered, where Maersk, Mediterranean Shipping Co. and CMA CGM go from here, and what it means for you, the shippers. Topics include: Why did China's Ministry of Commerce block the P3? What does it mean for the P3 carriers, th...
2014 Global Transportation Management Benchmark Study: Building the Business Case for Better Visibility
Monday, June 02, 2014
American Shipper , in partnership with the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) and the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA), surveyed more than 200 shippers and third party logistics providers about their global transportation management processes, visibility, and technology. This sixth annual study examines, in particular, how shippers and 3PLs view the bottom line benefits of visibility, the roadblocks in managing visibility and global transportation management systems, and ...
Survey: Ex-Im Bank clients satisfied
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Clients of the Export-Import Bank of the United States say the bank is doing its job, and improving their ease of business, according to survey results released Monday by the bank. In the survey of more that 2,100 small business customers, the bank said, 95 percent would recommend Ex-Im Bank's services to another exporter, and 86 percent noted they were satisfied or extremely satisfied with their Ex-Im Bank experience. "Maximizing customer engagement and providing ...
Truckload capacity tightens despite winter backlog clearing
Tuesday, May 06, 2014
The Trucking Conditions Index from analyst FTR rose steeply in March, "reflecting the extremely tight capacity in the truckload sector." The index rose more than a point, to 8.69, with FTR projecting that capacity will stay tight for the remainder of 2014. "There is a possibility for some relief of the tight truckload capacity over the next few months if freight growth slows as expected in the second quarter," FTR said. "The stressed supply situation of today is cau...
FreightWatch: Thefts down, but values higher
Monday, May 05, 2014
The logistics security services firm FreightWatch International said in the first quarter of 2014 that it recorded a total of 206 full-truckload cargo theft incidents in the United States, with 82 thefts in January, 46 in February and 78 in March. The average loss value per incident during the quarter was $207,982. Compared with Q1-13, these results represent a 4.9 percent decrease in volume, which, it said, was "well within the margin of incidents expected to filter in through...
IATA: Air freight, capacity up in March
Monday, May 05, 2014
Air freight was up 5.9 percent in March compared to the previous year, and capacity was also up 3.4 percent, according to information released Monday by the International Air Transport Association. IATA noted that business conditions in the United States and Europe provide "a reason to be cautiously optimistic for a resumption of growth in the months ahead." It added that rising export orders in those markets was one reason for an upswing. "Cargo marke...
Moody's revises shipping industry outlook
Thursday, May 01, 2014
The rating agency Moody's said it has revised its outlook for the global shipping industry to stable from negative, reflecting its expectation that the shipping industry's aggregate earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) will rise by mid-single digits in percentage terms year-over-year in 2014. Moody's said it had seen the shipping industry as having a negative outlook since June 2011. "While overcapacity remains a concern, we believe ...
WTO: Mega-regional trading blocs to emerge
Thursday, April 24, 2014
A new paper from the World Trade Organization suggests there is a distinct possibility that countries will form into mega-regional trading blocs in the next two decades. The paper, " Simulating world trade in the decades ahead: driving forces and policy implications ," attempts to project how the global economy will function through 2035. The primary objective of the research was to attempt to establish which current trends in trade are expected to continue and to what extent i...
Report: Maersk's 'SeaLand' plan to capture the Americas
Thursday, April 24, 2014
To download this report you must be an American Shipper Global Schedule Subscriber, a BlueWater Reporting Individual Subscriber or a BlueWater Reporting Corporate Subscriber or you may purchase the report directly by visiting http://www.bluewaterreporting.com/MaerskSeaLandReportAnalysis A new report from the BlueWater Reporting team suggests there is much more to Maersk's plan to reintroduce the SeaLand brand name than simply as a vehicle for marketing its intra-American s...
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2014 Transportation Procurement Benchmark Study: The Benefits of Global Procurement Integration
Friday, April 18, 2014
Each day, transportation procurement becomes a more complex process to manage, and yet shippers and logistics companies have a bevy of emerging tools to handle this vital task. American Shipper , in partnership with the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) and the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA), surveyed roughly 230 transportation buyers on procurement practices, processes, technologies and results. Key issues addressed in this study include: Transportation sp...
Report: G6 Transpacific and Transatlantic Network Analysis
Thursday, April 17, 2014
To download this report you must be an American Shipper Global Schedule Subscriber, a BlueWater Reporting Individual Subscriber or a BlueWater Reporting Corporate Subscriber or you may purchase the report directly by visiting http://www.bluewaterreporting.com/G6TATPAnalysis The G6 Alliance of liner carriers, which includes Singapore-owned APL; Japan's NYK Line and MOL; HMM of South Korea; Hong Kong-based OOCL; and Hapag-Lloyd of Germany, has announced port rotations for a ...
WTO predicts rising, but still subpar 2014 trade growth
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
World Trade Organization economists expect global trade to grow by 4.7 percent in 2014 and 5.3 percent in 2015, the WTO said this week. Although the 2014 forecast of 4.7 percent is more than double the 2.1 percent increase of last year, it remains below the 20-year average of 5.3 percent, the organization noted. For the past two years, growth has averaged only 2.2 percent. The WTO said the sluggish pace of trade growth in 2013 was due to a combination of flat impor...
Stifel sees pricing momentum for LTL carriers
Monday, April 14, 2014
The investment bank Stifel said Monday it expects to see "pricing momentum" in the second quarter for less-than-truckload carriers as the industry enters the "seasonally strong" second quarter. In a note on the LTL market, Stifel's transportation and logistics group said pricing rose in the range of 3 to 4 percent in the first quarter, relative to the final quarter of 2013. "At our February conference, there was talk of a reaccelerating pricing environment but still...
Research reflects rise in skipped sailings
Monday, April 14, 2014
Shippers should prepare for longer transit times and more frequent use of skipped sailings or "blank voyages" by container carriers, according to recent research. BlueWater Reporting tracks skipped sailings globally on a week-to-week basis of all inter-regional services, and skipped vessel capacity has been running ahead of levels from a year ago. Hayes Howard, chief executive officer of BlueWater Reporting said, "Carriers are pulling sailings more frequently as one...
Commission: LA-Long Beach port merger a 'no-brainer'
Thursday, April 10, 2014
The nation's two largest ports, Los Angeles and Long Beach, should collaborate by combining into a single entity, according to a recommendation in a report issued by an independent private commission studying fiscal stability and job growth in Los Angeles. "Regional cooperation is a no-brainer, especially when it comes to tourism and ports -- two big job creators in our region," said the Los Angeles 2020 Commission in a report entitled "A Time for Action" that was issued Wednesd...
WLS: Transpacific capacity continues free fall in Q1 2014
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Overall capacity in the major east-west trades was mostly stagnant in the first quarter of 2014, with the exception of the eastbound transpacific, which fell for the second straight quarter, while the member carriers of the G6, P3 and newly-formed CKYHE alliances continued to jockey for market share, according to the latest quarterly World Liner Supply Report from BlueWater Reporting. The only significant change among the three major east-west trades came in the eastbound transp...
2014 'bleak' for container carriers
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
This year's outlook for the container shipping industry is "bleak" and publicly-listed global container shipping companies "face a greater risk of financial distress, including possible bankruptcy, than at any time since 2010," according to the global business-advisory firm AlixPartners, which Tuesday released a new study titled "Change on the Horizon: The 2014 Container Shipping Outlook." The firm said the container industry's problems stem from both sluggish demand as well as...
2014 Global Trade Management Landscape Report
Tuesday, March 04, 2014
Year-end merger activity up 57%
Friday, February 14, 2014
Global transportation and logistics mergers and acquisitions rose by 57 percent in the fourth quarter, while the value of those deals increased by 100 percent, according to a study by PwC US. The firm, which publishes a quarterly analysis of mergers, said there were 66 transportation and logistics transactions deals worth $50 million or more in the fourth quarter, which totaled $23.2 billion. Third-quarter deals in 2013 were worth $10.7 billion. "As momentum picked ...
CSX ends 2013 with $12 billion in revenue
Thursday, January 16, 2014
CSX saw a $3 billion increase in revenue during the fourth quarter, a 5-percent rise when compared to the in the same period in 2012, which helped the carrier end 2013 with $12 billion in total revenue, according to the company's earnings release issued Wednesday. Total volume for the fourth quarter of 2013 was 1.66 million units, up from 1.57 million units in the fourth quarter of 2012. "Supported by the strength of an expanding economy, we delivered 6-percent volu...
Manufacturing up, retail down in Q4
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
The manufacturing sector gained strength in the fourth quarter of 2013, with retail demand remaining sluggish, according to the investment banking firm Stifel Nicolaus. In a report issued Tuesday, the company highlighted its findings for the quarter, and concluded that energy-related, automotive and construction-related freight remains strong. It also found that grain traffic is on the rebound, and coal volumes continue to decline due to swollen stockpiles. &nb...
Global Transportation Management Benchmark Study: Climbing the Visibility Sophistication Ladder
Sunday, November 03, 2013
American Shipper , in partnership with the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA), surveyed more than 350 shippers and third party logistics providers about their global transportation management technology, global footprint, and data quality. This fifth annual study examines, in particular, how shippers and 3PLs define visibility, the quality of the data that underlies that visibility, and the degree to which their global transportation management platform covers global growth. Key themes include: ...
The Role of Finance in Logistics Management
Wednesday, September 04, 2013
A decade ago CFOs took aim at their supply chains to reduce inventory levels and take cost out. With inventory levels near historic lows the finance department is now chasing other opportunities to reduce costs and increase cash flow. However, American Shipper's research demonstrates that many shippers have achieved mixed results working with finance. This one-hour interactive discussion will explore the challenges and benefits of collaboration and best practices for establishing a productive working re...
Drewry's Outlook for Air and Container Freight Rates
Wednesday, September 04, 2013
American Shipper Research Director Eric Johnson will host an interactive discussion with Philip Damas and Martin Dixon of Drewry Supply Chain Advisors. The presentation will draw on airfreight pricing data published in its Sea & Air Shipper Insight, container shipping rates published in its Container Freight Rate Insight and the World Container Index. Key discussion points will include: Freight rate volatility & associated drivers across both air and container shipping modes. Recent a...
The New Normal for Freight Movement
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
American Shipper 's publisher, Jim Blaeser will host an interactive discussion with Walter Kemmsies, chief economist for Moffatt & Nichol, about emerging dynamics that will impact domestic and international freight markets in the years ahead. Key discussion points will include: Economic outlook on key freight transportation modes The impact of the shift from diesel to natural gas The emergence of multi-channel retailing Various scenarios for the future of freight Kemmsies is a highly-regarded e...
Compliance Roundup - Inside Track on Global Customs Regulatory Changes
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Governments around the world are actively establishing new trade regulations, which their customs authorities must implement and enforce. Meanwhile, shippers are serving increasingly complex networks of both mature and emerging markets, where they run up against an increasing number of regulatory changes. Global shippers need to understand these regulatory changes stay compliant, avoid costly delays and mitigate supply chain disruptions. To help keep pace with these complex demands, our expert panelists...
Combating Corruption: Best Practices In FCPA Compliance
Friday, August 09, 2013
American shippers are juggling more responsibility as they source from and sell to a growing number of geographic regions. What they may not realize is that their exposure to compliance risk might be growing as quickly as their supply chains expand. The greatest vulnerabilities to risk often lie in emerging markets, according to benchmark indices that measure corruption. In particular, recent increased enforcement of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) should give global shippers cause for con...
Back to School: Understanding the Value of a Supply Chain Education
Tuesday, August 06, 2013
The supply chain management career has come of age. Accordingly, a growing number of targeted degree programs have been established to educate the next generation of industry leaders. For many applicants making sense of these relatively new options for personal and professional growth can be intimidating and complex. This one-hour, interactive discussion will help you understand how to assess the value supply chain education presents to you and your organization. Key discussion points will include: Logi...
2013 Midyear Review & Outlook for the U.S. Transportation Market
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
American Shipper's research director, Eric Johnson, will host an interactive discussion with David Ross, managing director of global transportation and logistics for Stifel. Ross' presentation will cover the key trends driving the domestic transportation market in 2013 and look ahead at the challenges and opportunities in the balance of the year. Key discussion points will include: Expectations for continued slow growth in the U.S. economic and freight environments. Will pending trucking regulations squ...
Transportation Procurement Benchmark Study: Flat Market, Tactical Focus
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
American Shipper , in partnership with the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) and the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA), surveyed roughly 230 transportation buyers on procurement practices, processes, technologies and results. Key issues addressed in this study include: Transportation spend and contract rates Length of negotiations and timeframe to implementation Assessing bids and timing procurement events Procurement and contract management technologies REGISTER HERE: Tr...
The Paper Chase – E-Invoicing's Impact on Ocean Freight Billing, June 5th, 2013, 12 PM EDT
Thursday, May 23, 2013
The ocean freight invoicing and payment process remains firmly rooted in a bygone era. Transactions are still overwhelmingly reliant on paper invoices and mailed checks, which can result in expensive inefficiencies, high dispute rates, and slow payment. What's more, there's little in the way of standardization across the two dozen or so major ocean carriers, meaning shippers and their intermediaries have to account for different formats with each of their lines. This 60-minute interactive discussion wil...
Transportation Payment Benchmark Study: Making Dollars and Sense
Thursday, March 28, 2013
American Shipper surveyed more than 250 shippers and third party logistics providers on their transportation payment and auditing practices and technologies. This year's report delves into new areas, including the interaction between shippers' logistics operations and finance departments, and whether shippers and 3PLs are using their payment data in the broader procure-to-pay process. Key Focus Areas Include: Manual vs. automated processes Domestic vs. international payment Payment terms Auditing ...
Global Trade Management Landscape: Strategies Beyond Compliance
Monday, March 04, 2013
The increasing volume and complexity of global trade has placed demands on global trade managers that are amplified by broadened regulations affecting that trade. Governments are writing expanded rules and enforcing them with unprecedented vigor. But GTM is about more than just compliance – it's about integrating the financial, regulatory, and transportation components of a supply chain through enhanced processes and the best people. The report explores five challenges universal to global trade manageme...
Demystifying Liner Shipping Webinar: Understanding how carriers manage capacity and schedules, February 14, 2013, 11 AM EST
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
A shoe manufacturer knows that when sales for its products slow in winter, it needs to reduce production capacity. That could involve temporarily closing a production line for a time, removing a shift, or just slowing the speed of production. All tools to help match output to demand. Ocean carriers have the same problem: how to manage capacity to bring it in line with demand. And their problems are exacerbated by a requirement to best utilize the new super-efficient "factories" (i.e. large vessels) bein...
Webinar: The Looming Driver Shortage: How Regulations and Demand May Affect Trucking Capacity
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
A bevy of regulations is due to hit the trucking industry just as the carriers are finding it more difficult to find and retain qualified drivers. Additionally, analysts predict an uptick in U.S. GDP could create a demand spike for truckload and less-than-truckload services. These dual forces have the potential to create a significant driver shortage. A host of questions are left to be answered: How might this shortage affect shippers? What is the status of regulations affecting the trucking industry? H...
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Machete Kills - Alternative Trailer
Machete Cortez is a formidable former member of the Mexican Federal Police and happens to be one of the most badass, ruthless killers ever known. He is enlisted by the US President on a new mission to save the world, being asked to find a crazed anarchist named Mendez and prevent him from launching a nuclear weapon at Washington DC. However, it soon begins clear that he can't trust everyone around him and discovers that an arms dealer named Luther Voz may actually be the real villain in the situation as he is hatching a dastardly plan to cause chaos in every country in the world. There's something no-one's telling Machete about this business but he'll damn well try to find out what it is.
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"I think I was trying to suggest something about the duality of man, sir ... the Jungian thing, sir." Private Joker, Full Metal Jacket
Friday, July 21, 2006
Purchase of Allen-Edmonds
1. Stollenwerk will do good things with the money.
2. Private equity firms nowdays seem to have more money than sense. I don't know, but I'm thinking that, if they paid 100 million, it was too much. I wonder if they aren't going to be under pressure eventually to cut costs and raise margin? Perhaps you want to get that new pair of shoes now.
4 comments:
- Dad29 said...
Under the "old rules" of acquisition, $100MM would be 5X pre-tax earnings, indicating that A-E was earning $20MM/year (pretax) on $100MM in sales.
That cannot be TOO far off from the reality, can it?
Even with the "new rules" (7X earnings) the Company should have been earning $14MM/year on $100MM sales.
And most well-managed firms should be able to knock down 15-20% pretax. - 8:16 AM
- Rick Esenberg said...
Could be, but I doubt it. Remember the enormously, obscenely profitable Exxon was only at 10% last year
Sweeney says, "it's a 500 million brand".
That suggests, with good marking, the earnings could be greater.
I'll take 10% of 500 mil. - 3:25 PM
- Dad29 said...
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This is an extension of my previous blog, where a restless milling mob of 30000 souls showed CONSTRUCTIVE behavior-- and produced awesome opposing Mexican waves---
What follows is my observations when i put myself inside a milling mob-- to get the feel, and also from outside--
Once in Pusan Korea , watching the milling from outside gave me the shivers and i beat a hasty retreat-- what with bandannas and warpaint being put on, the swagger, gasoline jerry cans popping out to make Molotov cocktails to the beat of drums-- and a armed to the teeth riot police waiting nearby--
Riots and public lynchings being commonplace in India, mob psychology can be predicted easily.
I have seen in Australia, police showing preferential treatment when the berserk drunken mob chasing Lebanese on the beachfront is made of English speaking whites. Another set of standards are shown for students of coloured Indian race who protest peacefully against racist violence , by pinning them down without escape routes--and not allowing them a voice.
In the Jallianwala bagh massacre , the British had sealed off all escape routes before gunning down 1500 unarmed and peaceful people ( 10% of the crowd including women and children ) who were holding a meeting.
Ego laden Capt Bligh of Mutiny on the County fame could not see the signs of milling with a thousand natives beating rocks held in both hands together in unison on the beach -- causing painful loss of life .
here we go--
A crowd is not a mob but it can become one, in a jiffy — that all crowds can transform into law breaking mobs , is the core of mob sociology. A crowd is law abiding, while a mob is not.
A crowd turns into a destructive mob only due to one factor-- ANONYMITY.
This makes them feel that they can beat up anybody or burn property. This is called mob mentality.
De individualisation leads to strange lowering of intellectual faculties and bizzare de-rationalisation. The individual is absorbed into the crowd and is now controlled by the singular mob mind.
In society there always exists an undercurrent of anger towards the establishment for unfair treatment, with no effective way to deal with the situation. Our conventions of manners have taught us to react politely even to people whom we distrust and dislike.
There is a perception that a crisis is required to achieve long denied aspirations, and that all legitimate channels of achieving this are blocked deliberately..
Once the fuel has accumulated , any spark can set it off. The self importance of the individual , suddenly far exceeds his own mundane social life standing. Delusions of grandeur and self righteousness prevails.
An actual incident isn't required— just a rumor ( like an attempted assassination attempt ) can spread through a group and turn deep-seeded anger into a violent outburst.
Riots which are set off due to soccer sports teams losing , is due to disappointment and release of pent up frustrations by hitting slow passing cars etc -- while if it is due to team winning, it is always alcohol related and a victory celebration.
It is important that the police know the basics of crowd management-- it is NOT about charging in like storm troopers and beating all the so called enemies to bone crunching submission or putting them behind bars.
Faced with the prospect of arrest 99% people just want to home home.
All that is required is for the uniformed police to intimidate by beating their batons on their shields, or even taking photographs of the crowd, to knock off the CLOAK OF ANONYMITY-- so that feelings of selfconsiousness are not erased.
It may be critical to arrest the ring leaders.
It is crucial to cordon off the area, to prevent more people from coming in--but an escape route must be provided for the mob caught inside, lest in panic they trample each other.
There are many who look for that ecstatic experience of outlandish behavior, for release from dreary routine , removal of inhibitions , partisanship and to dominate those whom they don't like but dare not attack alone.
The sole aim of the police is to transform the mob back into into a crowd, and give them time to dissipate their emotions or burn itself out.
Once a single riot is full blown it can spread to hundreds of cities like what happened when Indira Gandhi was gunned down-- this is called scapegoating.. 3000 innocent patriotic Sikhs were butchered overnight.


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"Literature is on a dialectic that has fiction and nonfiction on either end. Together, they form one narrative…. The Black Veil will not be shelved with my [fiction], which is incredibly irritating to me. I want people to read it in the context of everything else I've done."
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Purple America (1997), Rick Moody's most recent novel, begins with a remembered family Christmas gift-giving scene. Receiving the gift is Billie Raitcliff, a Connecticut matron afflicted with an incapacitating neuromuscular disease. The excited gift-givers are Billie's son and husband. The present is a Dell "notebook-style computer" with a voice synthesizer that will enable Billie to "talk" as long as she can click a mouse. As the already pitiably disabled woman watches, her son scrolls A-words, intent on a choice—the "perfect arrangement of euphony and content"—that will do justice to the gift. He chooses adore and hits Go:
Adore, the Yamaha YM262 twenty-voice synthesizer's disembodied woman's voice called out from the pile of space junk and wrapping paper on the Oriental carpet in the living room, the disembodied woman's self-assured and yet clinical voice sang out, as though there were a fourth person in the room, an unexpected overstaying holiday guest. The voice, as Billie recollected it, was like nothing so much as the voice of science, the voice of technological advancement, the voice of lasers and digits and particle colliders, of ultra-frequency transmissions. A woman's voice as men would design it. There was perfume in the room of dying pine. A rich smell. And there was candlelight. An intimate little fire in the fireplace. And then there was this voice. Louis [her husband] and Hex [her son] circled around her trying to gauge her response. They were expectant. Hex knelt by the computer and clicked on return twice more: adore, adore. The enormity of the machinery was apparent to Billie at last, what science could manage, which, in her case, amounted to using fifty pounds of microchips and motherboards and plastic chassis to enable her to croak out a few mea-ger remarks in a prefabricated woman's voice, not her own voice at all, which had been rich and full, with vigorous laughter, ample melody—her voice was gone.
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This winter, Manchester United have been linked with more than a few quality playmakers and now a new name is reportedly in the media in the form of Inter Milan star Ivan Perisic.
According to Italian news outlet CalcioMercato, United manager Jose Mourinho likes the tactical flexibility of the 27-year-old Croatian international and the Red Devils are expected to make an official move to lure him soon.
The Croatian was brilliant for the national side at the European Championships in France last year. Moreover, he has been in top form for the Nerazzurri this season. In 18 league appearances, the former Borussia Dortmund star has directly contributed in no fewer than 10 goals (6 goals and 4 assists).
The Inter midfielder is mainly deployed as a winger who starts on the left hand side of the attack but over the years, Perisic has been playing in multiple attacking positions, even as a center forward for the Nerazzurri's.
The versatile playmaker made his debut for the senior national side back in 2011. Since then, he has featured in 51 games for Croatia and scored 15 goals.
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Definition of trait in English:
1A distinguishing quality or characteristic, typically one belonging to a person.
'the traditionally British trait of self-denigration'- 'Humility is the finest of all virtues and is the source of all admirable character traits.'
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- 'Also, at least in maturity, people seem to have relatively stable character traits.'
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- 'There were no differences between groups in their self-reported worry and trait anxiety.'
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- 'It may seem facile, but teams do reflect the traits and characteristics of their coaches.'
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- 'The distinction being that personality traits dictate how people use and abuse drugs.'
- 'One of her brother's more admirable personality traits was his general lack of prejudice.'
- 'The F, or femininity, scale measures socially desirable personality traits perceived to be stereotypically characteristic of women.'
- 'A recognised trait among gamblers is that you are likely to spend more when you are not physically handing over money.'
- 'In talking with the many men, she had come to distinguish similar traits in all of them.'
- 'Completely inhabiting his character's traits and quirks, he is tailor made for the role.'
- 'This is not a common trait in oncologists, or other doctors who deal with death on a daily basis.'
- 'Insomnia is also a common trait of anyone who uses computers for more than a few hours a day.'
characteristic, attribute, feature, quality, essential quality, property, distinction, idiosyncrasy, peculiarity, quirk, foible, singularity, oddity, eccentricity, abnormality, mark, trademark, hallmark, earmarkView synonyms- 1.1 A genetically determined characteristic.'breeders were installing some trait that allowed the crop to thrive'
- 'Furthermore, by inbreeding his livestock he fixed and exaggerated those traits he felt to be desirable.'
- 'Here we identify three reproductive strategies of adult male grackles and the phenotypic traits associated with each strategy.'
- 'They have lived on, the recessive traits in our genetic coding, and they have emerged in us.'
- 'The relationships between the genetic variability of complex agronomic traits and traits for these two enzymes are discussed.'
- 'These parameters could be considered as quantitative traits and characterize a genotype.'
- 'In the latter case, the male and female traits may drift along the line of equilibria.'
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- 'Studies of genetic variation of morphological traits in natural populations of mammals are essential to understanding their evolution.'
- 'The people who emerged from this genetic bottleneck had traits never before seen in human beings.'
- 'Most of her seeds are chosen because of the parents' hardy traits, so the genetic base of the garden is superb.'
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- 'In fact IQ is a great example of a trait that is highly heritable but not genetically determined.'
- 'They say the teachers were simply trying to teach genetics and family traits.'
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Download citation file: RIS (Zotero) EndNote BibTex Medlars ProCite RefWorks Reference Manager © Copyright Tools Search Book Top Return Clip Streptococcal, skin infections ++ Superficial pyodermaStreptococcal impetigoImpetigo contagiosa ++ 041.01 Streptococcus infection in conditions classified elsewhere and of unspecified site, Streptococcus, group A ++ B95.0 Streptococcus, group A, as the cause of diseases classified elsewhere ++ 7B: Impaired Integumentary Integrity Secondary to Superficial Skin Involvement ++ Description ++ Streptococcus pyogenes (group A Streptococcus) is responsible for infections in the skinHighly infectious skin rash, spreads rapidlyIt occurs most often in tropical climates or during the summer months in non-tropical climatesWith this infection, the patient is usually afebrile and has no pain.Lesions are most often on the face and extremities and may become a mild but chronic illness if untreatedMost common in children, particularly those in unhealthy living conditionsIn adults, it may follow other skin disorders or a recent upper respiratory infection, such as a cold or other virusPreceding a streptococcal respiratory infection ++ Essentials of Diagnosis ++ Diagnosis is usually made by considering medical history and signs and symptoms, including the distinctive soresA culture may be used to confirm the diagnosis or to rule out another cause ++ General Considerations ++ Highly contagious and can be spread through close contact or sharing itemsScratching can spread the sores to other parts of the bodyIt can be difficult to distinguish clinically between skin infection caused by streptococci and other bacteria such as Staphylococcus ++ Demographics ++ Highest prevalence in children 2 to 5 years of ageCan be seen in adults, but is more prevalent in children ++ Signs and Symptoms ++ ImpetigoErysipelasRashBlisters filled with pusFeverMalaiseVomiting: childhood typeItching blisterErythematous denuded areasHoney-colored crustsLocalized area of rednessPurulent vesicles covered with a thick, confluent, honey-colored fluidSwollen lymph nodes near the infectionLesions most often on face, lips, arms, and legs ++ Functional Implications ++ Very contagious, limiting contact and social status ++ Possible Contributing Causes ++ Skin lesionsCirculation impairmentPainEdemaContact with someone with the skin infection ++ Differential Diagnosis ++ TineaHerpetic impetigoPemphigus vulgarisPemphigus foliaceusFolliculitisPseudomonas folliculitisFollicular mucinosisErysipelasLymphadenitisLymphadenopathyS. aureus infectionInsect bites ++ Laboratory Tests ++ Culture of the skin or lesionBlood cultures: leukocytosis tests ++ Medication ++ Parental antibioticsPenicillinCefazolin ++ Allergist/immunologistDermatologist ++ Skin integrityCirculationPainSensationJoint ROMMuscle strengthFunctional mobilitySelf-careHome management ++ Integumentary integrityPigmentationShape and size of skin involvementPresence of rash, fungi, blistering, ecchymosis, hair growth, signs of infectionSkin temperatureTissue mobility: turgor, textureCirculationCapillary refill, palpation of pulsesVolume ... 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LINCECUM, GIDEON (1793–1874). Gideon Lincecum, physician, philosopher, and naturalist, son of Hezekiah and Sally (Hickman) Lincecum, was born in Warren County, Georgia, on April 22, 1793. After successive moves he and his wife, the former Sarah Bryan, moved in 1818 with his parents and siblings to the Tombigbee River above the site of present Columbus, Mississippi. From there in January 1835 Lincecum joined an exploring expedition to Texas. In 1848, after years of practicing medicine with herbal remedies learned from Indians and trading with the Indians on the Tombigbee, he moved to Texas. He purchased 1,828 acres of the fertile prairie land he had seen on his Texas visit thirteen years before. Lincecum, Sarah, and their surviving ten children, a number of grandchildren, and ten slaves arrived in Long Point on his fifty-fifth birthday.
In Texas Lincecum continued to practice medicine, made geological explorations, assembled a plant collection including 500 species with medicinal properties, kept a meteorological journal that charted drought cycles, and observed and recorded the daily activities of insect life. He became recognized as an astute naturalist, corresponded with internationally known scientists, and contributed valuable collections to the Philadelphia Academy of Science and the Smithsonian Institution. He was elected a corresponding member of the Philadelphia Academy, a rare honor for an amateur. His writings appeared in such national publications as the American Naturalist, the American Sportsman, and the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, and his views on a variety of subjects, including politics, appeared in the Texas Almanac and in newspapers. Charles Darwin sponsored the publication of Lincecum's controversial paper on the agricultural ant in the Journal of the Linnaean Society of London in 1862.
Lincecum was self-educated and spent his boyhood principally in the company of Muskogees. While living among the Choctaws in Mississippi he recorded their legends and traditions in Choctaw and after moving to Texas translated it as the "Chahta Tradition." Some of these were published by the Mississippi Historical Society in 1904. His manuscripts, particularly those of his Choctaw notes and his study of agricultural ants, and his plant collection have been examined and used by a number of later scholars. Lincecum was opposed to organized religion and considered himself an atheist and free-thinker. He was an ardent advocate of castration for criminals and mental misfits and led a vigorous campaign to legalize castration as the only method of improving the human race.
He sought a new frontier in 1868 and, at the age of seventy-six, with a widowed daughter and her seven children, joined a Confederate colony in Tuxpan, Vera Cruz, Mexico. He spent five years there working his banana plantation, exploring Indian ruins, and continuing his natural history collection and correspondence. He returned to Texas in 1873 and devoted his remaining years to writing his autobiography in a series of letters printed in the American Sportsman. After a long illness he died on November 28, 1874, at his Long Point home. He was buried in Mount Zion Cemetery, between Burton and Long Point, and his remains were moved to the State Cemetery in Austin in 1936.
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COMPANY: The Asylum
RUNTIME: 85 mins
FORMAT: Netflix
PLOT: When the U.S. Military re-opens the Philadelphia Experiment, a group of scientists get sent through time and trapped back in the prehistoric age, so a team of soldiers is sent to retrieve them but, as to be expected, not all survive. And to make matters worse, when they're able to get back to the Present, something prehistoric returns with them.
REVIEW: Ever since I can remember, I've loved dinosaurs – pretty much my favorite thing, ever. So whenever a movie comes out with dinosaurs in it, no matter how good or bad, I have to check it out. But when one of those movies is made by none other then my favorite low budget production company The Asylum...well...I get pretty excited to check the thing out, especially since the only other dinosaur flick by them that I've seen, I really enjoyed (The Land That Time Forgot – never did a review of that one, but I may next time I do a re-watch of it). So when I heard that they had another dinosaur movie out there titled 100 Million BC, and starred none other then Tremors famer Michael Gross, I knew I had to check it out for review.
This movie starts off with a couple of mountain climbers finding a previously-undiscovered cave where there are cave paintings of humans interacting with dinosaurs, along with messages written on the wall alongside them. We then cut to a team of military soldiers arriving at some building in Los Angeles. We can tell right away that pretty much all of these characters are only in the movie to raise the body count up because none of them save for maybe one or two have anything even resembling characterization given to them during the course of the movie and most only have two or three lines. The two that do get just a smidgen of characterization – the team leader and one other one – are among the first two to be killed off when they travel back in time, leaving us stuck with the far-less interesting bland cardboard-cutout soldier characters.
But I'm getting ahead of myself here. They get introduced to a military scientist played to perfection by Michael Gross of Tremors fame. Having played the character of Burt Gummer on Tremors and not really much else that I'm familiar with, I was really excited to hear he was in this movie, and he didn't disappoint. He played the role exactly as you would expect him to, and the character is one of the few fleshed-out characters in the movie. The only crappy thing about his role is that he wasn't given much to do other then stand around and talk. Even when they get to the past he mostly just stands there behind everyone while the other characters get in on the dinosaur action. Anyway, he briefs the soldiers on the situation: In the 1950's, they re-opened the top secret and legendary Philadelphia Experiment. Now on top of this being a dinosaur movie starring the actor of my favorite B-movie character, now they throw the Philadelphia Experiment into the blender as well! I'm a huge fan of the Philadelphia Experiment conspiracy and read up on anything that deals with it. This movie seems to be made up of all the things I love, so at this point I'm really digging it.
Burt Gummer...errr, sorry...Michael Gross's character goes on to explain that once again the experiment was a failure and resulted in the team of scientists working on it to disappear right before their eyes. They were never seen nor heard from again, so the project was once again shut down. That is, until the recent cave discovery shown in the intro, of which the messages written and paintings depicted on the wall were done by the scientists that went missing and was a message made by them. So now the military has re-opened the project once more in order to send a rescue team back into prehistoric times to find those missing people and bring them back home.
Upon arriving in prehistoric times via what seems like early unfinished Stargate effects, the military team (accompanied by Michael Gross) discover that - much like when the original Philadelphia Experiment happened and soldiers were fused to the bulkhead of the ship – one of their soldiers had been fused with a nearby tree. From there, things just go from bad to worse as they seem to run into danger almost right away and it hardly gives them more then two minutes at any given time to breathe. It actually got a bit annoying because I kind of wanted a few minutes for the characters to just relax a bit and get some characterization, but it was just one thing after another - deadly plants, a prehistoric crocodile, a pack of vicious raptors, killer pteranodons, and their biggest and most recurring problem: a Tyrannosaurus Rex, named Big Red due to his size and the dark blood-like color of his skin. If they're not being actively pursued by something, they're accidentally stumbling upon something else and each danger they come across shortens the size of their group more and more.
The biggest problem with all that, which bugged me even more then the consistency of the attacks, are the uneven effects. I don't mind bad CGI, and I don't mind bad puppetry, but for the love of God, just pick one and stick with it! As if it wasn't bad enough that the CGI was some of the worst I've ever seen (and disappointingly far below that of what I was expecting from The Asylum after seeing their low-budget version of The Land That Time Forgot), but they also used some of the worst dinosaur puppetry that I've ever seen (and that coming from a fan of the Carnosaur movies), and there seemed to be no rhyme or reason as to which effect was used at which time. Some shots were CGI, some were of puppets, and it went back forth at random. At least with the bad CGI shots, you can see the full animal; with the puppetry you only get to see super close-ups of part of its body, and only for about a split second before it cut away to the reactions of people around it – you don't even get a good look. They should have just picked one or the other instead of distractingly using both, and as much as I normally love practical effects over CGI, if this is how they're gonna be used then just give me the crappy CGI because at least it focuses on the creature for more then a second and we get a good view of the entire creature instead of just a close-up on its mouth or eye.
The few characters that are still alive by this point of the movie (among them of course is Michael Gross), get saved from the Mr. Dressup-reject pack of raptors by a ragtag group of cave-dwelling humans which, not surprisingly, turn out to be the survivors of the scientists stuck in the past – while it had been 50 years in our time, it's only been a few years for them. But a few years in a land as dangerous as this is far too long and it means there's only a few of them still alive. Among them is a scientist that turns out to be the older (but now much-younger) brother of Michael Gross' character, another scientist who likes to paint in his spare time (hence the cave drawings), and two girls that consist of a medic and a cook. After using spears and a make-shift bow-and-arrow set, they kill most of the raptors and drive away the rest, and bring the survivors of the rescue team back to their cave-home for the night, to rest up, eat, drink, and be merry.
Other then Michael Gross, I haven't really cared about the other characters much since they're badly-written, badly-acted, and are around pretty much solely to be cannon fodder. Thankfully that changed with the introduction of these four new characters in almost every way – they're written really well, portrayed really well by the actors playing them, and each one gets a decent amount of proper characterization. There's even an oddly-emotional scene where Michael Gross is talking with the other scientist/painter guy under a star-filled prehistoric sky about how things 'back home' have changed and when the guy questions him on his family, Michael Gross has to break the news to him that things never really got good for them – his wife lived her life depressed at his mysterious disappearance and died a few years back from cancer, and his son grew up without any fatherly-guidance and thus was always into trouble with the law and grew up a delinquent. Quite heavy stuff for an Asylum film and it's stuff like that, that proves the scriptwriter had the chops to do excellent character-building scenes, so it's a mystery to me why only Michael Gross and these new four ended up getting any of that.
Anyway, the next morning everyone packs up and they all head back out to return to the portal entrance and get back home. What baffles me about this whole part of the movie, and doesn't make any sense that I can figure out, is that the trip back to the portal entrance took way longer. When they arrived it seemed to only take an hour at the most for them to get from there to the cave, but the trip back seems to be many hours, if not a couple of days worth of trekking. Not to mention the landscape looked completely different, almost as if they took a different route. But why take a different, much-longer route when you're in a hurry to get back and the other one would have you back in an hour, tops? It was another one of those script problems I didn't much care for and hampered my enjoyment a bit. Where it does match up with the first trek though, is that it's filled with non-stop danger with them running into one thing trying to kill them after another with nothing more then about 20 seconds of breathing space between. By the time they reach the portal entrance again, they've lost everyone who initially came with the rescue mission except one nameless soldier with zero personality (and sadly, that also includes Michael Gross' character, who sacrifices himself in order for the others to get back) so it's only the four people who had been stuck there to begin with that makes it back, and one other minor guy (who completely drops out of the movie shortly after returning to the Present Day). But of course they don't come alone, as the recurring Big Red chases them through the portal, and back into present-day Los Angeles, which leads into the final act of the movie.
This is a section of the movie that I both really love, and really dislike, but for different reasons. Much like in The Lost World: Jurassic Park, and unlike everyone else in the world it seems, I really enjoy seeing dinosaurs rampaging through a city. There's just something fun to me about seeing a prehistoric animal from millions of years ago wrecking havoc in present day, and in that regard this portion of the movie doesn't disappoint. It's a nice contrast to see the Rex causing destruction in an environment of metal and glass, in comparison to seeing it reigning over a green jungle like we saw previous, and there are some really tense chase scenes in this part of the movie.
What I don't like about it though, is that it goes on way too long. Taking up an entire half of the movie at 45 minutes. This should have just been a quick 15-20 minute climax and not an entire half of the movie. Especially since the whole 45 minutes is made up of them either chasing after the Rex or being chased by the Rex. Almost all on-foot. That's right, right in the middle of Los Angeles (though a very empty Los Angeles by the looks of it) and they need to either get to the Rex quickly or get away from it quickly, and instead of using vehicles they feel using their own legs is the best method of quick transportation. I actually started feeling really bored by the time the final few minutes came around because everything was just so damn repetitive by that point.
This one had all the ingredients within it to be an instant Asylum Classic – a really good basic story, lots of dinosaurs, the Philadelphia Experiment, Michael Gross, and plenty of good shots of a tough hot chick in a tight tank top. How could they possibly mess something up that consists of all those awesome things? Well, a lot of really bad acting, too many characters that you just don't care about, the worst and most inconsistent effects I've ever laid eyes on (even when going by The Asylum's low standards), a climax that overstays its welcome, and some glaring problems on a script level all contributed to lowering my enjoyment of it, which is a shame because it could easily have been so much better with just a little tinkering here and there.
4/10 rooms in the Psych Ward


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First Update to KDE Frameworks 5KDE has today made the first update to KDE Frameworks 5. Frameworks are our addon libraries for Qt applications which provide numerous useful features using peer reviewed APIs and regular monthly updates. This release has 60 different Frameworks, adding features from Zip file support to Audio file previews. For a full list, see KDE's Qt library archive website Inqlude. In this release KAuth gets a backend so you can again add features which require root access, KWallet gets a migration system from its KDELibs 4 version, and support has been added for AppStream files. To code with Frameworks, read the API documentation and install them with Linux distro binary packages or grab the source code directly. CommentsKwalletIn the qt5 kwallet: is there now native (OOB) support for single signon?
By Thomas22 at Thu, 2014/08/07 - 11:44am
Weather WidgetAny plans to add this much needed widget?
By Weather widget at Thu, 2014/08/07 - 4:04pm
different productThis is a release of KDE Frameworks: the libraries under KDE applications. The weather widget is part of Plasma, which is an entirely different product in the same way Konsole, Kontact, Calligra, etc. are.
By Aaron Seigo at Thu, 2014/08/07 - 9:48pm
Re: Weather WidgetI've had no time to even look at KDE 5 Frameworks porting, unfortunately. Soon maybe, help is requested too.
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Recommended KDE SC version?Hi, which kde SC version is recommended with plasma 5.1? 4.13 od 4.14 RC1? I have two machines and having ptoblem with start od kde plasma 5 session - after login is only one od ten trying start kde successfull.
By Petr Malý at Fri, 2014/08/08 - 5:50am
both experimentalTry both and pickwhat works best - it is all work in progress at the moment...
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Hi Is there a way of checking out wifi networks in the area in order to select the optimum channel on my router?
I wish. I've never been able to find one. I'm pretty sure that it's not possible within Apples guidelines/rules. At least I can't think of any other reason why the rather obvious IT tool is missing from the App Store.
This may not help you much (unless you happen to have an Android device), but I have an app on my Android phone call Wifi Analyzer, which is exactly what you are looking for.
Channels 1,6 or 11 are recommended to avoid interference. You will probably need hardware other than the iPad to see the channels in use by your neighbors. Netstumbler on a PC/Mac for example.
http://www.meraki.com/products/wireless/wifi-stumbler Meraki WiFi Stumbler You need to run it from a computer with wifi turned on.


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IMO number | 9647564 |
Name of the ship | HOS COMMANDER |
Type of ship | OFFSHORE SUPPLY SHIP |
Gross tonnage | 3835 tons |
DWT | 6143 tons |
Year of build | 2013 |
Builder | VT HALTER MARINE MOSS POINT - MOSS POINT MS, U.S.A. |
Flag | U.S.A. |
Home port | COVINGTON LA |
Class society | AMERICAN BUREAU OF SHIPPING |
Manager & owner | HORNBECK OFFSHORE OPERATORS - COVINGTON LA, U.S.A. |
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