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After a long day at work, I stupidly went thought it best to do my Easter Sunday shopping. By the time I reached the check out and started unloading the trolley, I'd discovered a leaking bag of organic caster sugar. The very same bag I needed to make my breakfast muffins.
The thought of making a mad dash to grab a new one left me on the verge of passing out. I've spent the last month trying to perfect the recipe for my gorgeous breakfast treats. But there's pain, and there's PAIN.
I am still suffering from a 1,000 yard dash in very high heels down the Kings Road two nights ago. My feet are in ribbons. If that wasn't bad enough, after a full day in the office in four inch heels yesterday, I went to meet my very fast-on-her-feet sister for dinner and a movie last night. I must have walked two miles from the station to restaurant to cinema to car park, and the soles of my feet were screaming. And so was I inside.
Today I have found solace in my Minnetonka moccasin boots, call me Pocahontas, I don't care, comfort is what I'm craving.
So back to the checkout.
In bleeding heart style, I meekly held up the offending sugar bag to show the lovely man on the check out that it had sprung a miniscule but meaningful leak.
'I'm sorry,' I choked the words out. 'But there's a hole in the bag, I am not going to take it'
'You can change it you know.'
I yawned (how embrassing at 6.45pm) and rather comically raised my tired and deflated eyebrows (yes I can, no botox). Please ring the bell and ask some wonderful person to save my feet and get it for me, I was thinking. He opened his mouth as if to say the magic words, but…out came
'Yes, you can'
My eyes narrowed. I did not need a Barack Obama-ism to spur me on to do another marathon around our supersized not so super market.
'I'm. Too. Tired.' I gasped.
But after two days back at work and a marathon shop, that's the easy bit out of the way. My Easter holidays are just beginning. I've got to head to North, South, East and West London, there's an Easter Egg Hunt to prepare, a massive Sunday feast to produce and packing for a holiday and that's all before the back to school mayhem, and then work. Compared to what's coming, this was a bloody picnic!
Honestly, I'm really looking forward to it all. But there always needs to be a Plan B. At times like these, my hero Pedro Almodovar springs to mind. I'm a real fan of his early movies and especially this Gazpacho recipe. It's an evil twin to my Bloody Mary Mix which I'll begin marinading tomorrow for Sunday.
Ladies and gents, if your Easter Sunday gets too much don't worry. When everyone hits the chocolate high from too many eggs, you may start to feel the exasperation of being chained to the kitchen and that irksome feeling when the champagne runs dry. Fear not, just remember this clip from Women on the Verge of A Nervous Breakdown. It's an all time family favourite among the women in my family. Give them a bowl of this special gazpacho and I guarantee you'll have a peaceful day and no arguments over what crap to watch on telly.


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Christmas, which brings the message of peace and love to the world, is an important occasion to strengthen reconciliation and co-existence among committees, President Maithripala Sirisena said.
He was addressing the gathering at the State Christmas Festival held at the Hindu Cultural Centre in Trincomalee recently.
The President said the light of humanism always dawned with Christmas. "Everyone had a responsibility to light a lamp for the less fortunate which is the essence of Christmas, and to work for their benefit.
The President, who said that peace and reconciliation among communities should be strengthened in the interests of the country's future, said he would make use of Christmas to request all people to join hands to build reconciliation among all communities to prevent a recurrence of war. The President extended greetings to all Christian devotees making arrangements to celebrate Christmas this year.
Presentation of Christmas carols and several other items were among the special features of the festival.
The President distributed prizes and certificates to the winners of the several competitions. Apostolic Pro Nuncio Bishop Pierre Nguyen Van Wat, Bishops Vincent Fernando and Noel Emmanuel, Tourism Development and Christian Religious Affairs Minister John Amaratunge, Eastern Province Governor Rohitha Bogollagama, Parliamentarian Abudul Maharoof, MinistrySecretary Esala Weerakoon, Christian Affairs Department Director A.R. Gunawardene and IGP Pujith Jayasundera were present- Daily News


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Shishmaref Airstrip Should Remain Open After Visit From FAA
Aviation officials from across the state are visiting runways and airports throughout Western Alaska to gain an eye-witness understanding of rural aviation.
On Tuesday the Alaska Aviation Advisory Board, along with officials from the Federal Aviation Administration and the Department of Transportation, visited Wales, Port Clarence, and Shishmaref to inspect the areas' runways and talk with community members about flight concerns.
The outfit also flew over Diomede, Brevig Mission, and Teller to view their air facilities.
Lee Ryan is the Chairman of the Aviation Advisory Board, a body appointed by the governor to provide council on aviation matters across the state.
Ryan said visiting these communities allows the Board to better understand aviation in rural communities and how decisions made in Washington DC and Juneau affect the bush and how they could be amended for rural areas.
One of those amendments might come for Shishmaref. The FAA has threatened to shut down nighttime operations for the community's airstrip because of the runway's proximity to a road leading to a nearby dump. The shutdown would almost eliminate flights during the dark winter months, severing the community from necessary goods and services.
Ryan said the trip to Shishmaref allowed officials to see the situation for themselves and find solutions to curtail the issue.
"Being able to do these trips with the FAA officials onboard," Ryan explained, "they can see issues that happen, and say, 'Okay, well, the road is way out there. Let's think of something that can make it usable and feasible to not run into an overnight shutdown.'"
Ryan said the officials with the FAA and DOT will work with personnel in Washington DC to make sure Shishmaref does not experience any "service interruptions."


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New Jersey Statutes 18A:39-1 sets the guidelines for student transportation. It states that elementary school students (grades K to 8) who live beyond 2 miles from their school of attendance and secondary school students (grades 9 to 12) who live beyond 2-1/2 miles from their school of attendance are entitled to transportation. The guideline further states that the Board of Education may adopt lesser distances.
The Monroe Township Board of Education has established the following distances for students to be eligible for transportation:
|All kindergarten students are entitled to transportation
Grades 1 to 4
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The other day, I was watching a timelapse YouTube video of a programmer who had created a video game prototype in just 48 hours. The timelapse video itself was only about 5 minutes long, which means everything zipped by at lightning speed.
The only way to get anything useful out of the video was to watch it frame by frame. It's not like it was a tutorial or anything, but it was still insightful enough to watch from start to finish.
Have you ever wanted to watch a YouTube video frame by frame? It's actually much easier than you might think. No plugins or extensions needed. Only two keys on your keyboard.
All you have to do is pause the video and then use the period key (.) to go forward one frame or the comma key (,) to go backward one frame. One tap, one frame. Tap at your own frequency to watch the video however fast or slow you want.
Try it with the digital art timelapse video above. You can also use the J and L keys to skip forward or backward by a few seconds rather than one frame.
What other uses for frame-by-frame YouTube can you think of? Are there any other interesting YouTube tricks you think are worth sharing? Let us know in the comments below!
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So often during YouTube videos I had the thought it should be able to watch it slowly or even frame after frame, so for me this is great! But immediately the following problem appears:
On Android devices is no keyboard available while watching a YouTube video!!!
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View from the ground at Mitchel Field, on Long Island Spirit as the Spirit of St. Louis is seen circling to land. A small group of people stand near a hangar. Lindbergh's plane lands on the grass field and taxis toward three army soldiers there to help him park. Lindbergh, in flying gear, steps from his airplane. Closeups of him standing near it. Scene shifts to Brooklyn New York, where Lindbergh, now dressed in business suit, and surrounded by a crowd, descends wooden steps to enter an open car. He sits prominently in the back of the car, accompanied by Raymond Orteig and officials. Mounted police escort the car. View from rear as motorcade drives along a festooned Brooklyn street with a "Welcome Lindy" banner stretched across the road. Motorcycle police escort the cars. Spectators crowd the sidewalks. The motorcade continues through leafy boulevards and open highways. Everywhere enthusiastic crowds line the way. American flags decorate the lead car. A group of Boy Scouts with massed American flags lines one side of the highway. Crowds, waving American flags, teeter on the edge of the sidewalks along a commercial section of town. View from a high location overlooking Prospect Park in Brooklyn, where people throng the sidewalks and park paths. Camera pans across the park. A motorcade (now grown to include numerous cars) circles to enter at the Grand Army Plaza entrance to the park. A slate reads: At Knights of Columbus Building for a luncheon in his honor." Then the motorcade stops at a building festooned with patriotic bunting and a banner reading: "U.S. Council 126 K of C." Later, Lindbergh enters the open car again with Raymond Orteig and they leave. Next, at the Brevoort Hotel (owned by Mr. Orgteig) an elaborate check for twenty five thousand dollars is shown. It is dated June 17, 1927 and signed by Raymond Orteig. Lindbergh and Orteig shake hands and chat amicably while attempting to pose for a photograph. Glimpse of U.S. Capitol building overlaid by a "Welcome Lindy" sign. Closeup of Lindbergh superimposed on top of that along with a waving American flag.
People gathered early on a misty morning at Roosevelt Field, Long Island, New York, to watch as Charles Lindbergh attempts to make a solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean in his airplane, The Spirit of St. Louis. The plane starts its takeoff role between groups of spectators, raising dust. The spectators move to get a better view as the plane continues, out of sight in the fog and mist. It is not clear where the plane is, although engine sound has changed. Spectators strain to see it through the mist. Then, some cheers are raised when the crowd realizes that Lindbergh has successfully taken off in his heavily laden airplane. The opening caption refers to Curtiss Field, where the Spirit of St. Louis was test flown and reportedly maintained in Hanger 16. there, from May 12th through the 20th. However, for the Paris flight, the plane was towed a mile to Roosevelt Field where, heavily loaded with fuel, it could take advantage of the longer runway for takeoff. (Note: Both fields were originally part of the old Hempstead Plains Field renamed Hazlehurst Field when taken over by the U.S. Army in 1917. U.S. Geological survey maps of 1918 show three areas named, respectively, Hazelhurst Aviation Field No. 1; Aviation Field No. 2; and Camp Albert L. Mills, abutting it. Field No. 2 was renamed Mitchel Field on July 16, 1918. The eastern part of Field No. 1 was dedicated as Roosevelt Field, on September 24, 1918. After the war, the western part of Field No. 1 became known as Curtiss Field, associated, as it was, with the Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Company located there.)
American aviator Charles A. Lindbergh arrives aboard USS Memphis (CL-13) at the Washington Navy Yard, Washington D.C. upon his return from Europe to the United States following his pioneering trans-Atlantic solo flight. He comes down the gangplank and is greeted by a phalanx of officials. They drive Lindbergh away in an open car. Two days later, June 13, 1927, the scene shifts to New York harbor, where there is a virtual traffic jam of ships and boats of all sizes and shapes, assembled to greet Lindbergh. Fireboats salute with streams of water as Lindberg arrives (as backseat passenger) in a seaplane from Mitchel Field on Long Island. The seaplane is seen flying over the harbor,and descending to land. The seaplane is seen in the water amongst the flotilla of vessels, as. Lindbergh is picked up by a police launch that takes him to the ship Macom, where he is helped aboard by passengers. (He almost falls into the water while stepping from the launch to the ship.) Lindbergh waves from the deck of the Macom, as they proceed in a parade of vessels toward a Manhattan pier. Upon arriving, Lindbergh is hustled into an open car and driven away surrounded by New york City policemen,including mounted police, who escort the car through mobs of spectators. Police form lines to hold back enthusiastic admirers. The car proceeds along a city street where cheering spectators jam the sidewalks and office workers create a virtual storm of ticker tape and confetti from their windows high above the street.
Shows several aviation "firsts" accomplished by U.S. Army Air Service aviators in the period from 1918 through 1924. A close formation of biplanes in flight. President and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson chat with Major Fleet, Officer in charge, on the occasion of the first air mail flight, inaugurated on May 15,1918 between Washington DC and New York.The mail is loaded into the Curtis JN-4 aircraft. Pilot in the cockpit. The aircraft takes off and in flight. Air Service. Mention of aviators helping spot forest fires. Smoke rising from forest fires and mountain ranges. In 1920, U.S. Army Captain St. Clair Streett is seen with some of his Squadron who flew four De Havilland DH-4 aircraft 9,000 miles, from New York City to Nome, Alaska. Two of the men play with pet dogs. Their itinerary is painted on the side of one of the aircraft, along with the names of pilot and mechanic (C.E. Crumline and J.E. Long). In 1923 the first non stop coast-to-coast flight was made in the Fokker T-2 aircraft. . A sign on the aircraft reads 'Army Air Service non stop coast to coast'.First Lieutenants Oakley O.Kelly and John A. Macready board the aircraft, at Roosevelt Field, Long Island, New York, on May 2, 1923. Their Fokker T-2 in flight. Their arrival at Rockwell Field, on Coronado Island (San Diego) California. In 1924, Lt. Russell Maughan is seen boarding his P-1 Hawk airplane at Mitchel Field, on Long Island, New York, and taking off , bound for Crissy Field at the Presidio, San Francisco, California. His goal is the first dawn-to-dusk, coast-to-coast flight. Views of his P-1 Hawk airplane flying over Manhattan, New York City.
Officials and crowd assembled at Long Island's Mitchel Field to welcome Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Colonel Lindbergh's airplane 'Spirit of St Louis' pushed by men at airfield. Charles Lindbergh poses with an officer. Cameramen take pictures while Colonel Lindbergh gets into car.
View from the front, of Curtiss P-40 aircraft, from the U.S. Army Air Corps 8th Pursuit Group parked side-by-side with engines running on the flight line of Mitchel Field, Long Island, New York. View from their rear. Next, three flights of three aircraft each are flying at low altitude, over the shore and waters of Long Island.


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This past Sunday, Christian worshippers in Baghdad celebrated Mass and welcomed Cardinal Emmanuel III Delly, leader of the ancient Chaldean Church, recently elevated by Pope Benedict XVI in a symbolic expression of his sympathy for, and solidarity with, the Christian community of Iraq. Sameer Yacoub (Associated Press) reports:
Under heavy guard and broadcast live on Iraqi state television, the service was capped by a handshake from a visiting Shiite imam—a symbolic show of unity between Iraq's majority Muslim sect and its tiny Christian community. . . .
Delly presided over other services this week in Baghdad and the northern Kurdish city of Irbil, spreading his message of unity and forgiveness among Iraq's Christians.
"We are of one family, everyone should work for the progress of this country," he said during his sermon.
The frequent target of Islamic extremists, Iraq's Christians have been forced to flee by the tens of thousands or to isolate themselves in barricaded neighborhoods if they choose to remain.
"We pray today for the sake of each other and to forgive each other, as well to be directed to do good deeds," Delly said. "That is my demand for the Iraqis, moreover I urge the return home for displaced people and immigrants to their ancestral land."
Many people who filled the pews at the elegant brick Church of the Virgin Mary said they were taking advantage of a lull in violence to attend services and to congratulate Delly. The imam of a nearby Shiite mosque shook hands with him in the church's courtyard after the service.
"I came here to show the unity of the Iraqi people," said the black- turbaned imam, Jassim al-Jazairi. "We are happy with the cardinal. We are very proud of any person, whether Christian or Muslim, who raises the name of Iraq in the international arena."
This past November combat journalist Michael Yon released a truly epic photograph of Christians and Muslims, placing a cross atop the St. John's Church in Baghdad ("Thanks and Praise" Against The Grain Nov. 8, 2007). In "Come Home", Michael Yon provides the background to the story and the momentous events that occurred after the taking of the photo.
On November 19, 2007, Most Reverend Shlemon Warduni, Auxiliary Bishop of the St. Peter the Apostle Catholic Diocese for Chaldeans and Assyrians in Iraq officiated at a mass in St. John's Church in Baghdad. He was welcomed home by a crowd of locals and American soldiers, who had fought hard to cleanse the streets of Al Qaeda. According to Michael Yon, "speaking in both Arabic and English, Bishop Warduni thanked those American soldiers sitting in the pews for their sacrifices":
. . . when al Qaeda came to Dora, they began harassing Christians first, charging them "rent." It was the local Muslims, according to LTC Michael, who first came to him for help to protect the Christians in his area. . . . the Muslims reached out to him to protect the Christians from al Qaeda. Real Muslims here are quick to say that al Qaeda members are not true Muslims. From charging "rent," al Qaeda's harassment escalated to killing Christians, and also Muslims. Untold thousands of Christians and Muslims fled Baghdad in the wake of the darkness of civil war.According to Michael Yon, the front pews of the Mass were filled with Muslims, to express their solidarity with their Christian neighbors and invite them back to Iraq. He concludes his post:
It's been a long time since I've seen any fighting. I can't remember my last shootout: it's been months. The nightmare is ending. Al Qaeda is being crushed. The Sunni tribes are awakening all across Iraq and forswearing violence for negotiation. Many of the Shia are ready to stop the fighting that undermines their ability to forge and manage a new government. This is a complex and still delicate denouement, and the war may not be over yet. But the Muslims are saying it's time to come home. And the Christians are saying it's time to come home. They are weary, and there is much work to be done.Let us pray that it's only the beginning -- and give thanks to the U.S. and Iraqi military efforts to make this possible.


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Fecal egg per gram (EPG) counts are valuable to actually determine the number of worm eggs in a horse's manure. Routine fecal floats determine if parasite eggs are present but cannot differentiate a heavy-shedding horse from one shedding fewer worm eggs. Manure for EPG determination is weighed, floated in a standard volume-of-egg flotation solution, and worm eggs are counted under a microscope using a special slide.
The most commonly observed worm egg is called a typical strongyle-type ova (eggs) because the eggs of small and large strongyles look alike. Small strongyles are the most common internal parasite of horses. Roundworm eggs are also observed, especially in younger horses. Tapeworm eggs are seldom seen, even when horses are infected with large numbers of tapeworms.
An excellent study from Denmark found that horses tend to be consistent in the amount of worm eggs shed in their manure. Less than 200 EPG is considered a low level of shedding. Horses that had two previous EPG counts performed six months apart that were both less than 200 EPG had an 84% chance that their third EPG count would also be low. Similarly, if a horse had two previous EPG counts greater than 200, the chance of being greater than 200 EPG on the third count was 59%. This demonstrated that horses with low EPG counts tend to keep low EPG counts and those that are high also tend to stay high.
These findings help to target deworming to reduce resistance and allow for the classification of horses into low or high EPG shedders. Horses that consistently have low EPG counts do not require frequent deworming, and deworming twice a year is probably sufficient. Horses that have a consistently high EPG count can be segregated to reduce overall pasture parasite egg contamination, and these horses may benefit from more frequent deworming.
Your veterinarian can perform EPG counts and is the best source of information to tailor a deworming program that is best for your farm. EPG counts also help slow the development of resistance to dewormers, and less frequent deworming reduces costs.
Reference: Nielsen, M.K., N. Haaning, and S.N. Olsen. 2006. Strongyle egg shedding consistency in horses on farms using selective therapy in Denmark. Veterinary Parasitology 135:333-335.


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Always having a passion in all forms of art, I feel that graphic design has opened me up to the freedom in exploring everything from photography, to motion graphics, to sculpture, to illustration, to art and crafts, and to typography. As a graphic design student at the Art Institute of Los Angeles I have been able to see that the opportunities are endless and that the connection in art is through design. I believe my portfolio to be well-rounded with projects from freelance jobs, school projects, and my personal work.
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Swags Under Stars are a Cairns based multi day tour operation. They explore tropical rainforest, outback, tablelands and more. It is a three day, two night swag camping experience. Guests will visit spectacular Mossman Gorge in the Daintree. Have lunch by a tropical beach. Enjoy a nature spotting cruise on the Daintree river.
Journey to Chillagoe, an outback heritage mining town. Spend the night on a working cattle station. Visit Undara, worlds most extensive lava tube system. Or how about the Atherton Tablelands, with their volcanic craters and pristine waterfalls. Explore all these areas on your three day tour plus all meals provided and a campfire each night to relax around.
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The only seat in the cluttered room off the gilded 42nd Street theatre lobby is a wheelchair. "It's bad luck. Don't do that," says lead producer Michael Cohl, as I suggest one of us should sit in it. Cohl, 62, has stepped away from rehearsals for Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark and, given the bad luck besetting the most ambitious and costly production in the history of Broadway musicals, I am guessing the wheelchair is not a prop.
In the past few weeks, one performer injured both feet being catapulted across the stage of the Foxwoods Theatre, and another fractured his wrists trying the same stunt. As we talk, a group of young men is shown in to the theatre. "Stuntman try-outs. Hey, the cast keeps shrinking every week," Cohl smiles from underneath a giant beard. "More victims," jokes Julie Taymor, Spider-Man's director, as she goes off to audition the would-be fliers.
The accidents, says Taymor, have been "much less aggressively horrifying" than press coverage would suggest but they cap a series of setbacks that has sent the project's cost soaring to $55m-$60m, a Broadway record, and left doubters wondering whether a musical Spider-Man will ever fly.
After years of delays, previews were due to begin on November 14, with the official opening night on December 21, but Cohl recently announced he was moving these dates, to November 28 and January 11 respectively, effectively missing the most lucrative period of New York's tourist year.
The Marvel comic book empire first licensed the musical rights to Peter Parker's web-slinging alter-ego eight years ago, soon after the first of what has become a franchise worth of Spider-Man films. The rights were bought by Tony Adams, an Irish-born producer who had worked with the director Blake Edwards on the Pink Panther films and brought Edwards' film Victor Victoria (1982) to the New York stage.
Adams, a friend of U2 manager Paul McGuinness from his Dublin days, approached the band to see if its members would write the music and lyrics. Two of them – Bono and The Edge – agreed, in part to pick up a gauntlet thrown (improbably) by the composer of Cats and Phantom of the Opera some time before. "There was an incident once at a songwriters' awards show where Andrew Lloyd Webber was receiving an award and said, 'I want to thank the pop people for staying off my patch.' Bono took that as a bit of a challenge," McGuinness recalls.
The Irish singer then pulled in Julie Taymor, a director of visually arresting operas, Shakespeare plays and films such as Frida (2002), whose stylised masks and puppets had made The Lion King, Disney's 1997 musical, Broadway's biggest commercial hit since Phantom and turned her into one of the industry's most revered creative figures.
By late 2005, she had picked a writer, Glen Berger, a playwright whose main claim to fame was a minimalist off-Broadway monologue, Underneath the Lintel. The script and music were under way when Adams dropped dead, aged 52, during a meeting in Edge's New York apartment.
His sudden stroke proved to be just the start of the production's problems. David Garfinkle, an Illinois entertainment lawyer who had been Adams' producing partner, took over. Readings began in mid-2007 but the money ran out in summer 2009 after the financial crisis, a long hunt for a New York venue large enough for aerial acrobatics, and unexpected expenses in refitting Foxwoods, a landmark theatre.
"There was nothing. It was [running on] fumes, it was bankrupt, it was horrible," says Cohl, who had to raise two-thirds of the show's budget after being asked by U2's members to step up and take over from Garfinkle as lead producer. The Canadian promoter, who had worked on everything from Spamalot, the Monty Python musical, to U2's famously lavish rock concerts, had invested in Spider-Man while chairman of Live Nation, the tour promoters and venue owner, and had taken the investment with him when he left the group the year before (the two sides remain in dispute over the terms of his exit).
Cohl says it took months "to figure out what in God's name was going on". It was not until this February, after dozens of calls to new investors from Canada to Mexico, that Cohl could confirm the show would go ahead. Within weeks, two of the lead actors, Evan Rachel Wood and Alan Cumming, had dropped out because of clashes with other commitments and an accompanying press release's references to Peter Parker ("maligned by the media, buffeted by financial woes and stretched thin by the expectations of the world at large") seemed laden with double meanings.
Asked now – with "tweaks" still being made to the script, music and choreography – whether investors will recoup their investment, Taymor says: "Sure, we can make it back." Cohl shrugs: "I sure hope so, but it's showbiz. Who knows?"
Looking at the stage of the Foxwoods Theatre, it is hard to grasp the scale of what Cohl and Taymor have planned. The flying scenes, involving aerial battles with six super-villains, are being rehearsed in the middle of the night, when fewer people are in the way. Nobody has yet seen the full show rehearsed from start to finish.
What stands out are the exaggerated perspective lines of a set meant to look like a 3D pop-up book version of New York, and the fact that where the audience's seats should be, I can see only rows of desks, each with a bank of computer screens, making it look more like a Nasa control room than a theatre.
When I walk in, Reeve Carney, the star of the show, is pacing the stage, playing an angsty teenage Peter Parker in a school setting. "Pow!!", "Bammm!!!", "Krrraak" and other comic book exclamations are splashed across the canvas behind him as a cut-out cartoon car speeds across the stage. A few minutes later, a garish oversized figure, looking like a masked Mexican wrestler, pops up from the middle of the stage.
"What's different about Spider-Man from Superman or Batman is he's not coming from a place of privilege or specialness," Taymor says. "The idea that a small, unimpressive, self-effacing smart kid could be a superhero is such an incredibly inspiring story for many people."
Spider-Man, she argues, is a New York precursor to Harry Potter, a mythic story of our age akin to the Greek myths or the Mahabharata. Cohl puts it more simply: "At the end of the day it's a spectacle with a very basic love story at its heart, and the conflict between great power and responsibility and your loved one. What do you do? Do you go to work or stay home with your girlfriend?"
Both agree, however, that the Spider-Man story can't be done on the cheap. "Nobody wants to see the $25m Spider-Man," Cohl says. "The only thing about this budget that should feel right or wrong is, 'Are we getting the right show?' We're making the show we want to make and, therefore, it's the right budget."
What costs $60m, though? "It's everything. You've got to take seven years and kill the first producer," he says, with grim humour.
Broadway itself is a big part of the cost. New York's unions sharply increase the budget compared to other cities but Taymor says there was no way that Spider-Man could have followed time-honoured tradition and ironed out its production problems in a smaller city first. She opened Lion King in Minneapolis in 1997, and was still writing scenes in its first week. It moved to New York after eight weeks for another five weeks of rehearsals before New York's critics could see the show.
"Nobody starts out of town any more because of the internet," she says. It's now as easy for a blogger to write off a show from Minneapolis as from Manhattan.
Taymor is clearly stung by the relentless press focus on the production's ballooning cost. "The constant obsession about money is a sickness in our society," she complains. "Whose money is that [$60m]? Millionaires' money. Who gets hurt by the cost? The people who invest. Why would you be outraged when it keeps an enormous number of actors, designers and technicians employed?"
Theatre was originally part of a religious experience, she says, and she wants Spider-Man to "transcend the meanness" of everyday life, with its bitchy bloggers and base reality television shows. "Reality TV isn't reality, at least not my reality. My reality is more like Spider-Man."
Taymor and Cohl both describe what they are about to unveil as part drama, part rock show and part circus. The designer of their ambitious aerial rigging comes from Cirque du Soleil, and Taymor points to the Canadian acrobats as a different benchmark by which to judge Spider-Man's budget. "It's out of the limelight because it's in Vegas or Canada but everybody knows they cost $150m or $200m."
The Cirque du Soleil approach, though, is close to a Broadway and West End model pioneered in the era of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Cameron Mackintosh. The return on that initial investment comes not just from one show but from transporting the show to several other cities.
Lion King, for example, has taken more than $735m on Broadway but Taymor says its global ticket sales now add up to more than $3.8bn. While the original New York production cost about $28m 13 years ago, its Las Vegas production cost half that sum. Cohl says he is focused on getting the first show right but hopes that productions in London, Tokyo and beyond will follow.
At first glance, "$60m is an extraordinary sum of money to spend but, in the context of building a global brand, maybe it has some commercial merit," says Patrick McKenna, a former chief executive of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Group, who now runs a UK media investment group called Ingenious and chairs the board of London's Young Vic theatre. "Even if the payback takes a year and a half instead of a year, if it runs for 10 years that's still a very nice return on your money."
Shrek the Musical, which previously claimed the tag of Broadway's most expensive show, reportedly cost $25m-$40m and grossed just $46m before closing in January after just 14 months. Estimating Spider-Man's likely returns is difficult but some rough calculations suggest it is plausible that its backers will make their money back, albeit not overnight.
The average ticket is likely to be about $100. Foxwoods seats 1,900 people and there will be eight shows a week. A full house for every show would bring in about $1.5m a week, more than covering the production's $1m weekly running costs. Even at full capacity, though, it would take at least two years to recoup the upfront investment from the New York production alone.
Spider-Man has other trends in its favour. As spending on other media forms has lost ground to digital technologies, consumers have continued to spend on live experiences, be they concerts, comedy shows, sporting events, or musicals. New York's theatres took a combined $1bn in the year to May 2010, according to Broadway League estimates, holding steady with the previous year on a slight dip in audience numbers to 11.9m people.
As McKenna notes, there has been a flight to bigger, more proven brands at the expense of smaller shows: "The hits are even bigger but something that might have once classified as a hit is now a miss."
Jeffrey Hecktman, chief executive of Hilco Trading and one of Spider-Man's earliest investors, says he is "as confident today as the day I made my original investment," because of the strength of the Spider-Man brand and the names associated with the production. Having seen a rehearsal, he says: "I walked out very excited. I think this will be the most spectacular production ever to hit Broadway."
Paul McGuinness adds: "I've seen some of the flying and it's mind-blowing. This is a show unlike any other. I just want to see it all at the same time from a comfortable seat." The first audiences will have that chance soon.
Between now and then, though, there is much to be done. "It's a bit like trying to land Apollo 11 at this very last stage," Glen Berger says. "We're orbiting the moon: we just need to land the thing."
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson is the FT's media editor
'Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark' is due to begin previews at the Foxwoods Theatre on November 28
Bono and The Edge on 'Spider-Man' The Musical
"In the digital age, live art is where it's at," says Bono, the rock showman who with U2 guitarist The Edge is about to make his Broadway songwriting debut. "The music fan is placing the value they once put on owning a recorded moment to, instead, having a moment that can't be recorded."
Since their Zoo TV shows in the 1990s, U2 have led a music industry arms race in ever-more lavish arena performances, incorporating elaborate staging and vast video screens. Spider-Man's high-budget ambitions are part of the same trend, the two men say, but they are taking on a very different stage.
As blockbuster films rely more heavily on computer graphics, Edge says: "People have lost their trust in what they are seeing and feeling. There is something very visceral about theatre, and there is nowhere to hide."
The two men, answering questions by e-mail, are not known for self-doubt but confess that with Spider-Man they were not sure what they had taken on. "U2's better work …has always come from a place where we feel out of our depth," says Bono. "After you've been around for a few years, craft becomes more of an enemy than a friend. It gets you to the 'very good'. But what gets you a shot at 'great' often comes from not knowing what you are doing."
Bono says he found himself sprinting the 200 yards between his house and the studio in Edge's Dublin home while they were writing, "to discover these characters and unlock the songs that might be in their head".
But the need to put lyrics in other people's mouths and "push the story along" required a more "Tin Pan Alley" approach than U2's four band members would usually take, Edge says.
Bono describes director Julie Taymor as a magician and a perfectionist. "With Julie, God and the Devil are in the details. Everything has to be right." This can make life tough on the show's producers, he admits, "but, in recessionary times, we want this to be the richest of experiences for the punter."
Bono says the project has been harder than anyone thought it would be but also better than anyone imagined. "If it's a hit, the costs will be forgotten," he says. And if not? "Edge and I will be available for weddings, bar mitzvahs [and] funerals."
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Umpire Reuben and cricket's cheats
Before the current spot-fixing scam and the match-fixing scam that broke in 2000, the biggest controversy in cricket in India happened in 1976 when England's fast bowler John Lever was found using Vaseline, allegedly to get more 'swing,' by umpire Judah Reuben of Bombay who died in 2006. Ayaz Memon writes.india Updated: May 20, 2013 02:34 IST
Before the current spot-fixing scam and the match-fixing scam that broke in circa 2000, the biggest controversy in cricket in India happened in 1976 when England's fast bowler John Lever was found using Vaseline, allegedly to get more 'swing,' by umpire Judah Reuben of Bombay who died in 2006.
The incident happened in the third Test at Chennai when Reuben found Vaseline on a gauze strip that Lever had used on his eyebrows to prevent, as the bowler was to say later, sweat from his forehead running into his eyes before discarding it on the ground.
This was before even before ball-tampering earned notoriety, but in previous Tests, Lever had demolished India with lethal late-swing and the umpire's suspicion was aroused. Reuben lodged a complaint with the England team and the BCCI.
The England team hotly refuted the charge. In those days the BCCI was not the powerhouse in cricket it is today and pursued the matter only perfunctorily with the MCC which took the moral high ground, rejected all allegations and gave Lever a clean chit.
The net result of the controversy was that India's then captain Bishen Singh Bedi lost his contract with county Northamptonshire. For Reuben, this was the last Test he stood in, but that was because he had turned 55 which was the retirement age for umpires.
Some years later, I asked Reuben why he suspected Lever of cheating. "Why couldn't he mop his head dry like other bowlers were doing instead of using a gauze strip that had to be stuck on his brow with Vaseline?" was his counter-query.
Proficiency in deductive and inductive logic was Reuben's strength. He was a hugely interesting man, thin and wiry, humble and soft-spoken, but upright and no-nonsense when it came to work.
While his passion was cricket, his primary calling was as fingerprint expert with the crime branch of Bombay for whom he was reputed to have cracked several vexing cases. His powers of observation and concentration earned him widespread accolades. Pinning down Lever was a piece of cake for him.
As his name would indicate, Reuben was from the Bene Israeli community the first lot of whom moved from the Konkan to Bombay in mid-18th century as Wikipedia reveals.
Jews today rarely occupy our mind-space except when the horrific 26/11 terror attack targeted Chabad House in Colaba. Most have migrated to Israel since the 1970s, but at one time several thousand lived in Mumbai, largely in the area spanning Dongri, Byculla and Mazagaon.
Mainly converts from the Konkan, they spoke excellent Marathi and were culturally indistinguishable from the sons of the soil, as it were. Reuben lived at Mazagaon, co-incidentally next to the police court.
"Howzatt!" was a greeting commonly reserved for him because of his dual-vocation as fingerprint expert and cricket umpire. He would always respond with a smile and if he felt indulgent, would respond with raised index finger of one hand to 'give out.'
I got to know about him first when he once came to my school, where his daughters also studied, to lecture us on fingerprint detection. When I began writing on cricket, I met him more often at events and got to know him better.
His knowledge of the game was deep, though he had never played at the first class level but it was as a person that he left a bigger impression. He was thin and wiry physically, but upright in his conduct; he was soft-spoken and humble, but forthright in his views
I once asked Reuben why cricketers would cheat? "Cricketers are also human beings and human nature is complex. So difficult to understand that only god knows" he replied.
Perhaps even god couldn't, if I might be permitted a little sermonising, which explains the fall of man.
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This is an historic night for a true Nebraska legend. Darin Erstad, who once toyed with the idea of being an NFL punter but made an infinitely wiser decision to play Major League Baseball, will fill out a lineup card. He will hand it to the home plate umpire and go back to his dugout in Peoria, Ariz. He will sit down and then count down to the first pitch of the 2012 college baseball season. No one in the country will be more wired for the curtain to go up than Nebraska's first-year head baseball coach.
Erstad has waited for this moment since Tom Osborne named him head coach last June. Forget Erstad's legendary status as a high school all-state player in baseball, football, hockey and track while growing up in Jamestown, N.D. Forget the ground he broke as a first-team All-America baseball player at Nebraska and the slew of records he set along the way. Erstad then spent the next 14 years in the majors, playing 1,654 games, getting 1,697 hits and grinding out a .282 career batting average.
For Erstad, none of that matters. He considers every single brush with personal productivity almost irrelevant. World Series champion ... big deal. Two-time MLB All-Star ...so what? Three-time Gold Glove Winner ... that was yesterday and yesterday's gone. Wouldn't you like to climb inside Erstad's head today and take his competitive temperature? Here's a guy who's been a great athlete, a wonderful role model, a good husband, a caring father and tonight is the first chapter in the next book of his life: Darin Erstad, head baseball coach for the University of Nebraska ... a destination job for a man who is perfectly willing to grab destiny with his old glove and keep the ball in his hand for many years to come.
In many ways, Erstad's first game as a major college head coach is the perfect scenario. It's against Gonzaga in a baseball complex that serves as the spring training home of the Seattle Mariners and the San Diego Padres. Still, when the first pitch is thrown at 8 p.m. CT, there will be no TV and no Internet video ... tonight, tomorrow night or Sunday. That means your best bet is to follow Live Stats on Huskers.com and listen to Greg Sharpe and Lane Grindle call the action on our free audio offering. In between the action, you can enjoy Jeremy Foote's Nebraska Baseball Notes in easy-to-read format.
Darin Erstad has hit thousands upon thousands of baseballs. He has chased down countless flies to the warning track and has dived head first into home plate more than once. Now, before his first game ever as a head baseball coach, he must keep the controlled aggressiveness he held inside as an athlete and see how much of it has transferred into the hearts and minds of his first Husker team.
It's a long regular-season journey that begins with Gonzaga in Arizona and ends with three games at Michigan May 17-18-19. After that, it's the Big Ten Conference Tournament followed by three other dates on Nebraska's official schedule - NCAA Regionals June 1-4, NCAA Super Regionals June 8-12 and the College World Series in Omaha June 15-26.
Logic would say those NCAA dates are daydreams. But remember this: Darin Erstad was raised to love baseball, and he was born to dream. He took his first trip to the Baseball Hall of Fame when he was a first-grader in Jamestown and made regular pilgrimages to the Roger Maris Museum in Fargo, N.D. The little boy became a man, a major leaguer and now head baseball coach at his alma mater, where he helped Nebraska win the 1994 national championship as a punter. He enjoyed that experience so much, he now wants a similar experience in baseball.
It's a long, long, long road to travel, and Erstad's Omaha dream may not play out in his first year. But don't bet against him. The fire still burns in his heart. That's why this historic pursuit has rekindled his hopes and revived his dreams. Tonight, when you start up the fireplace at home, keep the radio close by. Listen to Erstad take that first step and see if his dreams of the future can match the history of his past.
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Thanks for the article on Coach Erstad. Hope springs eternal in the breast of a Husker baseball fan. I have a gut feeling that in 10 years he will be considered Dr. Tom's best hire. I'm so excited for this season ... not so much for wins and losses, but to see how Coach's drive and passion are transferred to this very young team. John Beltzer, Lincoln, Nebraska


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E-Mails Debated
The agency described how Grout allegedly ignored Iksil's requests to mark certain CIO positions within the latest bid- offer spreads available. As an example, the complaint stated that Grout told Iksil he was able to come up with a $4 million loss for March 16 last year with "lots of effort." If Grout had followed Iksil's marking request, the daily loss would have been greater than $100 million, the SEC said.
Internal e-mails have become a regular part of Wall Street court battles, with the government and defense attorneys arguing over which messages best reflect the thinking of bank employees.
A New York jury found Fabrice Tourre, an ex-Goldman Sachs Group Inc. trader, liable Aug. 1 in a lawsuit brought by the SEC over his role in selling a $1 billion investment that failed. The agency focused on Tourre's e-mails to overcome his defense that as a junior employee he wasn't primarily responsible for the deal.
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A Brooklyn jury in 2009 found two former Bear Stearns Cos. portfolio managers not guilty of defrauding investors by improperly touting the health of funds made up mostly of subprime mortgage-backed securities. After the trial judge barred prosecutors from presenting a key 2006 e-mail, jurors acquitted the men, saying other e-mails shown by the government were ambiguous.
Grout and Martin-Artajo remain in Europe, facing as long as 20 years in prison if convicted of the most serious counts. Grout, a French citizen, moved to France this year and hasn't been arrested.
Martin-Artajo was on vacation when prosecutors unsealed the criminal charges Aug. 14, according to a statement that week from his attorneys at Norton Rose Fulbright LLP. He turned himself in to Spanish police Aug. 27, a police official there said at the time. Martin-Artajo was released on bail in Madrid and said he was unwilling to be extradited, a spokeswoman for the National Court said.
The criminal cases are U.S. v. Grout, 13-MAG-01976, and U.S. v. Martin-Artajo, 13-MAG-01975, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan). The SEC case is Securities and Exchange Commission v. Martin-Artajo, 13- cv-05677, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan).
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Thursday, February 7, 2013
something great just happened....
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Porsche has finally realised it was time to have a closer look at this wizzard from the West Coast who has incredible power to magnusfy Dr Porsche's creation.ReplyDelete
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When the Miami Dolphins met the Broward Sheriff`s Office team on the softball field Sunday at Floyd Hall Stadium, even the fiercest of loyalties were split.
``I`m married to one of the deputies. Player number 6. Don Snyder,`` said Phyllis Snyder. ``And I`ve been a Dolphin fan since I was born in Florida.``
Her daughter, Teresa, 13, had mixed feelings, she said, ``because I like somebody on the Miami Dolphins team.``
Don Snyder, 14, was the only member of the family who was certain who he was rooting for -- the sheriff`s officers 100 percent.
``If it were between the (Pittsburgh) Steelers and my father`s team, then I`d be torn,`` he said.
As it turned out, the Sheriff`s Office team beat the Dolphins, 17-8. They also beat the Dolphins team each of the past four years. The game was held to raise money for the police to attend the Florida Law Enforcement Olympics, which begin the week of June 17 in Tampa.
``It really is great. But we certainly wouldn`t want to turn around and have them challenge us at football,`` said sheriff`s deputy and pitcher Nick Argentine, who hit a home run in the first inning.
``They`re professionals at what they do and we`re professionals at what we do. We practice softball twice a week. Our team is picked from the best players from the sheriff`s office. So we gear up and we really take softball very seriously.``
That was not the case for some members of the Dolphins team, which included trainer Bill Davis at second base, defensive back Mike Kozlowski, catcher, running back Tony Nathan at third base and tight end Joe Rose at shortstop.
``This is my first time playing baseball this year,`` said Dolphin linebacker Ernie Rhone, who was in right-center for the day. ``I think for about two minutes we tossed the ball around.``


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Melanie Lynn Conley and Michael Thomas Staggs, both of Redlands, were married March 29, 2008, in Palm Desert.
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"magpie update", used to update automatically a perl module rpm to its latest version, was a bit slow. the culprit was parse::cpan::packages, taking a whole 10 seconds to parse 02packages.details.txt.gz
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so, with a 16-line patch (-2/+2), magpie update now is almost instant. cpan is definitely the home of nice gems, and *the* advantage of perl.
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Friday, October 22, 2010
Big Fat Friday Free For All
Secondly, because I've been such a lazy slob in my blogging, I haven't heard much from you--so let 'er rip--get it off your chest--what's on your mind, people?
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- Mudge said...
Campaigner in Chief takes full blame for anger in the country.
Damned big of him.
Goes something like this:
I inherited a crisis of epic proportions. I acted decisively to stabilize the economy, solve health care, create or save jobs, etc and (here's the mea culpa) "didn't have time to do victory laps and explain to the American people how good all this was for them."
Awww, shucks. That's okay Mr. President. We're just a buncha ol' bumps on a log. We wouldn't unnerstand all that high falootin' cipherin' stuff ennyways. Looks to me we been pretty unfair on you and your'n.
At least that must be what he thinks we are for him to muster the hubris to say something as asinine (and condescending and, not to overlook, narcissistic) as that.
In this guy's world, he is the adult and we are the adolescents waiting for him to explain the complexities only comprehendable by breathing his rarified air.
I remain utterly astounded that my fellow countrymen and women elected this guy and that there was/is such a powerful and influential machine behind keeping him electable when, given the politically lethal baggage he carried (Rev Wright, William Ayres, zero experience, absentee voting record, ACORN association, etc etc), any other man or woman would have turned toxic at the national political level.
I almost wish we had elected Marion Barry. At least he would've been too busy chasing tail and snorting coke and (poorly) impersonating real Africans to have focused at all on the destructive acts of this Administration.
- October 22, 2010
- "The Hammer" said...
Well, we're gonna make some nice gains this election but the fact is the powers that be in the Republican Party had a Royal Flush and didn't have the damn sense to bet the hand and drag the pot.
I and many others have repeatedly said we need an agenda, a manifesto, a contract with America, something that ties all conservative candidates together, nationalizes the election, puts the Dems on the defensive and give people something to vote FOR! The gains we make will be entirely due to anti-socialist sentiment, and as a result we're leaving money on the table.
How and why did this happen? Simple, Republicans are warring with each other. The country-club Republicans are none too thrilled with the ascension of the Reagan wing of the party, as exemplified in the Tea Party movement. They go on about the "Big Tent" and how they're being excluded. But they put the lie to their rhetoric when they lose a primary (DE, AL) and then won't support the nominee. They not interested in the Big Tent they're interested in running the party. The only problem with country club Republicans is they; #1 govern like Democrats #2 typically lose to Democrats in elections.
If this election serves to purge the Party of the Judd Greggs and Olympia Snowes then it will have been worth it. If they remain in control we and the country are in deep trouble.
- October 22, 2010
- Doc Milnamo said...
Stupid me. I've been operating under the assumption (false obviously) that we have the right to associate with whomever we wish.
Moonbattery in Michigan
- October 22, 2010
- Doc Milnamo said...
I know it's no longer Friday, but I had to post this link:
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19 crew members from the South Korean-flagged bulk carrier JS Comet simultaneously came down with an apparent case of debilitating food poisoning off Port Canaveral while a Tropical Storm Arthur churned just to their east yesterday.
An unconfirmed report indicates the crew may have eaten some bad barracuda, a fish that is particularly likely to contain ciguatoxin.
According to the US Food and Drug Administration:
"Initial signs of poisoning occur within six hours after consumption of toxic fish and include perioral numbness and tingling (paresthesia), which may spread to the extremities, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. Neurological signs include intensified paresthesia, arthralgia, myalgia, headache, temperature sensory reversal and acute sensitivity to temperature extremes, vertigo, and muscular weakness to the point of prostration. Cardiovascular signs include arrhythmia, bradycardia or tachycardia, and reduced blood pressure. Ciguatera poisoning is usually self-limiting, and signs of poisoning often subside within several days from onset. However, in severe cases the neurological symptoms are known to persist from weeks to months."
The 35 knot winds and five to 6-foot seas forced the U.S. Coast Guard to evacuate 19 of the sick crewmembers from the 584-foot vessel by helicopter leaving only two of the original crew aboard.
The ship remains at anchor off the beach under a Captain of the Port Order, which prohibits it to enter any U.S. port of call until the following conditions are met.
- The U.S. Coast Guard determines the nature of the illness and the expected duration.
- Vessel shall have a minimum of three harbor safety tugs immediately available to assist in the event that the vessel starts to drag anchor.
- Provide credential mariners to assist in anchor watch to include at least one navigational officer, one deckhand or able seaman and one engineer.
- Maintain an hourly communication schedule with Sector Jacksonville command center to report position, crew status and any other safety concerns via VHF radio.
- Vessel minimum safe manning requirements are adequately satisfied to ensure the safe operation of the vessel when it has been cleared to depart.
"The health and well-being of the ill crewmembers was our top priority," said Capt. Tom Allan, commanding officer and captain of the port for Coast Guard Sector Jacksonville. "Our responders performed extraordinarily in challenging conditions to get the sick crewmembers to the hospital. We are coordinating with the company to identify qualified personnel to operate the vessel, mitigate the maritime environmental risks and ensure the public's safety."
The 35,362 ton dwt vessel is managed by Seoul-based ShippingBank Co Ltd. and was built in 1999.
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