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Saturday 30 June 2012

10. New jobs for Brooke Dockyard

KUCHING: State-owned Brooke Dockyard & Engineering Works Corp has clinched two contracts worth RM102mil for the fabrication of an offshore jacket and construction of a 45m-long landing craft.

Sarawak Infrastructure Development and Communications Minister Datuk Sri Michael Manyin said the RM90mil offshore jacket contract was awarded by Murphy Oil while the RM12mil landing craft contract came from Marine Department.

He said the offshore jacket contract was part of a package worth RM500mil that included the fabrication of three offshore platforms.

?Hopefully, Brooke Dockyard will secure the entire RM500mil contract to be delivered over two years,? he said after opening Brooke Dockyard's new Sejingkat yard office building near here yesterday.

Manyin is the minister in charge of Brooke Dockyard, which just turned 100 years old.

Brooke Dockyard board member and technical advisor Zuraimi Sabki said it had just completed a RM160mil offshore module for Murphy, which is ready to be delivered and installed in Merapuh, offshore Bintulu.

Founded by the third White Rajah Sir Charles Vyner Brooke in 1912 to repair his fleet of boats, Zuraimi said Brooke Dockyard was one of the seven fabricators for the oil and gas (O&G) industry licensed by Petrolium Nasional Bhd.

Zuraimi said Brooke Dockyard had completed 15 offshore modules, 10 substructures and four offshore living quarters. Its clients included Petronas Carigali, Shell, Talisman and Exxon Mobil Exploration and Production Ltd, in addition to Murphy Oil.

It has also built navigational boats, multi-mission vessels, ferries for marine engineering works and steel-arch bridges.

Asked if Brooke Dockyard is to be privatised to enable it to expand and undertake bigger jobs, Manyin said: ?We have not gone to that level.?

Over the years, there have been media reports singling out Brooke Dockyard as a potential takeover target as several parties have shown their interests.

Manyin said the Sarawak government had not received any formal proposal on Brooke Dockyard's privatisation.

Brooke Dockyard chairman Datuk Abang Abdul Karim Tun Openg said the marine engineering entity was looking at various options, including renting the fabrication yard of other companies, to expand its capacity.

?We are exploring our own yard to optimise its utilisation,? he added.

Last November, Brooke Dockyard signed a memorandum of understanding with KKB Engineering Bhd for possible joint collaboration to undertake jacket and other structural steel fabrication activities for offshore O&G industry and marine sector.

The two parties may enter into joint venture or other forms of collaboration on businesses to be identified. It is understood that the framework for the proposed strategic alliance had been drawn up.

KKB, whose core business is steel fabrication and manufacturing of steel pipes, had said that the tie-up might include the company leasing its waterfront land in Muara Tebas to Brooke Dockyard for its fabrication work for the O&G industry, with the exclusive rights given to KKB to carry out such works.

Abang Karim said Brooke Dockyard had been building up its capabilities as a reliable fabricator of offshore modules comprising drilling platforms, gas compression/production modules, water injection platforms and living quarters.

?Brooke Dockyard also has the capabilities to undertake turnkey projects for offshore development, fast-track projects, offshore host tie-in and hook-up and commissioning works, subsea fabrication, skid packages and onshore petro-chemical plants.

?It maintains its traditional business as a shipbuilder for high-speed and modern boats, ship-repair total lifecycle service provider and mid-span bridge fabricator,? he added.

Abang Karim said Brooke Dockyard had been structured to face the changing industry.

He said that with its niche capabilities in shallow water sized modules as living quarters and with an integrated in-house engineering team, it aimed to become a project developer for offshore marginal oil fields in Malaysia.

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Timothy John Shanahan was born on June 2, 1940 in South Nassau Community Hospital, Oceanside, Long Island, NY and was baptized at St. Agnes Roman Catholic Church in Rockville Center, Long Island, NY.

He attended Terrell Avenue Elementary School in Oceanside and graduated from Hempstead High School, Hempstead, Long Island, NY in June 1958. On July 21, 1958, he enlisted in the United States Navy and completed boot camp at the Great Lakes Naval Station in Illinois. He also completed the Naval Meteorology Program and in 1958 was stationed briefly in Texas where he met the Shanahan family that had moved from NY to Texas in the 1940?s. He was then assigned to the aircraft carrier Lake Champlain and was honorably discharged on July 20, 1962. During his service in the United States Navy, Tim received the ?Good Conduct Award.?

He worked at IBM in New York City, but resigned in the late 1960?s to set out driving across Canada to Alaska. He settled in Vancouver for a short time and then in 1970 moved on to Carnation, Washington, where he worked as a baker. He once said that he had visited 47 states.

During his childhood in NY, he met his Father?s sisters, brothers and their children. This helped him to eventually prepare the Shanahan Family Tree. The Family history and stories told by his Mom, Grandmother and Grandfather, allowed him to also construct his Maternal Family Trees.

In the late 1970?s, his Uncle Ray moved to Carnation with his wife Lu Ming and their two daughters, Lu Ming (Mamie) and Marion. Lu Ming (Mamie) gave birth to a daughter, Bethany, and sons, Robert and Dustin. Marion gave birth to a daughter, Ashlee, and son. Christopher. All remained in the State of Washington or Oregon. They were Tim?s beloved Family.

Tim loved Lu Ming and Marion, the two daughters, who were his cousins, and tried to make their lives better. Each of their children, Bethany, Ashlee, Robert, Dustin, and Christopher and the grandchildren were exceptional in his eyes. Tim also became very fond of Priscilla and her daughter, Gracie. Priscilla, his cousin living in Hawaii, came to Washington to meet him. He proudly included all of them in his Family Trees.

Tim?s closest kin, his sister and brother, called each other regularly over the past few years to keep up on each other?s lives and to also discuss and gather information on their Ancestry.

Source: http://bartonfuneral.com/2012/06/29/timothy-john-shanahan/

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Friday 29 June 2012

Easter Island drug raises cognition throughout life span in mice

ScienceDaily (June 29, 2012) ? Cognitive skills such as learning and memory diminish with age in everyone, and the drop-off is steepest in Alzheimer's disease. Texas scientists seeking a way to prevent this decline reported exciting results this week with a drug that has Polynesian roots.

The researchers, appointed in the School of Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, added rapamycin to the diet of healthy mice throughout the rodents' life span. Rapamycin, a bacterial product first isolated from soil on Easter Island, enhanced learning and memory in young mice and improved these faculties in old mice, the study showed.

"We made the young ones learn, and remember what they learned, better than what is normal," said Veronica Galvan, Ph.D., assistant professor of physiology at the Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies, part of the UT Health Science Center. "Among the older mice, the ones fed with a diet including rapamycin actually showed an improvement, negating the normal decline that you see in these functions with age."

The drug also lowered anxiety and depressive-like behavior in the mice, Dr. Galvan said. Anxiety and depression are factors that impair human cognitive performance. Lead author Jonathan Halloran conducted scientifically reliable tests to accurately measure these cognitive components in the rodents.

Venturing into the open

Mice are burrowers that prefer tunnels with walls. To observe behavior, Halloran used an elevated maze of tunnels that led to a catwalk. "All of a sudden the mice are in open space," Halloran said. "It's pretty far from the floor for their size, sort of like if a person is hiking and suddenly the trail gets steep. It's pretty far down and not so comfortable."

Mice with less anxiety were more curious to explore the catwalk. "We observed that the mice fed with a diet containing rapamycin spent significantly more time out in the open arms of the catwalk than the animals fed with a regular diet," Halloran said.

The second test measured depressive-like behavior in the rodents. Mice do not like to be held by their tails, which is the way they are moved from cage to cage. Inevitably they struggle to find a way out. "So we can measure how much and how often they struggle as a measure of the motivation they have to get out of an uncomfortable situation," Dr. Galvan said.

Rapamycin acts like an antidepressant

Some mice barely struggle to get free, but if an antidepressant is administered they struggle a lot more. This behavior is very sensitive to the action of antidepressants and is a reliable measure of whether a drug is acting like an antidepressant, Dr. Galvan said.

"We found rapamycin acts like an antidepressant -- it increases the time the mice are trying to get out of the situation," she said. "They don't give up; they struggle more."

The reductions of anxiety and depressive-like behavior in rapamycin-treated mice held true for all ages tested, from 4 months of age (college age in human years) to 12 months old (the equivalent of middle age) to 25 months old (advanced age).

Feel-good chemicals elevated

The researchers measured levels of three "happy, feel-good" neurotransmitters: serotonin, dopamine and norepinephrine. All were significantly augmented in the midbrains of mice treated with rapamycin. "This is super-interesting, something we are going to pursue in the lab," Dr. Galvan said.

Dr. Galvan and her team published research in 2010 showing that rapamycin rescues learning and memory in mice with Alzheimer's-like deficits. The elevation of the three neurotransmitters, which are chemical messengers in the brain, may explain how rapamycin accomplished this, Dr. Galvan said.

Rapamycin is an antifungal agent administered to transplant patients to prevent organ rejection. The drug is named for Rapa Nui, the Polynesian title for Easter Island. This island, 2,000 miles from any population centers, is the famed site of nearly 900 mysterious monolithic statues.

This study became available online June 28 as a manuscript in press in the journal Neuroscience.

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Thursday 28 June 2012

Where Should I Invest My 401k? | WiseStockBuyer

401k retirement savings plans are terrific ways to save for retirement. They use the power of investment and compound interest to deliver tremendous returns based on how much you put in each year. By the time you are able to withdraw your funds without penalty 401k savings and ira eggs ? at the age of 59 ? ? the percentage of your total amount that was accumulated by your investments absolutely dwarfs the amount you put into it out of your monthly salary.

In other words, you?ll make far more for retirement with a 401k than you would simply by saving your money and putting it into a low-yield savings account. Plus, the fact that you gain access to free money through employer contributions is a huge bonus.

Still, having a 401k means you have to make certain decisions involving your investment allocations. Where should you put your money? What are the pros and cons of the options available to you? There are nearly two dozen investment options; which is the best for you? Here, I?ll cover the main five ? stocks, bonds, mutual funds, certificates of deposit, and money market accounts ? and give you an overview for each one.

Money Market Accounts

I?ll start with money market accounts, because they are generally the safest option available. A money market account works by paying interest on your money when it is placed into money markets, or markets that buy and sell Treasury bills, bank certificates of deposits, federal funds, commercial paper, and the like. It?s a short-term market, not a long-term market like bonds and stocks.

Money market accounts deliver lower rates than other options, but they beat the return you?d get by having your money sit in a savings account or checking account. The advantage is that they are generally viewed as safe places to put your money because they are insured by the FDIC and aren?t very volatile.

Pros: Low volatility and risk; insured by FDIC

Cons: Lowest rate of return

Certificates of Deposit

You can also allocate your money into certificates of deposit, which are financial products that give you a certain rate of return if you keep your money in them for a certain period of time (called a fixed term). You can find CDs that have terms of one month, three months, six months, one year, or more ? up to five years, in most cases. They deliver a predictable rate of return that can be higher than what you receive with a money market account if you go for longer maturities.

The downside, again, is that they do not offer nearly as high a rate of return as some other options. Additionally, CDs are susceptible to inflation because they are not very liquid if you go for bigger returns through longer terms. Rising inflation can eat into and even vanish your gains.

Pros: Low risk; insured by FDIC

Cons: Not as profitable as most options; susceptible to inflation for long terms

Bonds

Bonds as an asset class offer a step up from either of the two mentioned above. Heading into this territory can be a bit tricky, though, because there are several types of bonds out there. In general, there are three types most 401k participants use: municipal bonds; Treasury bonds; and corporate bonds.

Treasury bonds (T-Bonds) are issued by the U.S. Treasury and are viewed as the safest investments in the world because they?re backed by the U.S. government. They come in three flavors, depending on their maturity: T-Bills (mature in one year or less); T-Notes (mature in 2-10 years); and T-Bonds (mature in 20-30 years). T-Bonds and T-Notes both pay what is called a coupon payment every six months; this amount is a percentage of the note?s value paid to you. Collectively, all three of these are called Treasurys.

Rates of return (called ?yields?) for these vary; historically, they have underperformed stocks (except from 2002 to 2011, when they actually outperformed stocks by a significant amount).

Municipal bonds are similar to T-Bonds in that they are issued by a government agency and come with a term, a maturity, and a fluctuating interest rate. Most municipal bonds are considered quite safe and generate decent returns, but they vary considerably because not all cities and local governments are created equal. These generally return lower rates than all other bond types. But ? and this is a big but ? these are usually exempt from federal, state, and local taxes.

Corporate bonds offer the largest rates of return, typically, and are issued by corporations as a way to finance their operations. They are similar to the other two bond types, but have a higher risk of default than either. Of course, that?s why they also offer better returns.

Pros: T-Bonds are the safest investments you can make; less risk than stocks; predictable returns

Cons: Less liquid than the above assets; outperformed in most years by stocks; subject to some volatility; default wipes out value

Mutual Fund

A mutual fund is a collection of assets that you can own under the umbrella of the fund. Most are managed professionally, either actively ? a fund manager trades assets regularly for maximum return ? or passively ? they are tied to an index or have some automated way to change asset allocation. You can find mutual funds for virtually every asset class, including bonds, money markets, and stocks. Your average investor pictures stock-based (or equity) mutual funds when they think of the term.

Mutual funds typically offer better returns than bonds, CDs, or money market accounts but smaller returns than investing in a pure stock portfolio. They are safer than stocks, though, and also give you the chance to easily diversify your portfolio, which insulates you a bit from downturns in the market.

Mutual funds, though, come with fees that are paid regardless of if the fund performs well. Plus, you don?t have control of what assets the fund owns.

Pros: Better return than bonds and the other above asset classes; diversification; safer than stocks

Cons: Lower returns, on average, than stocks; subject to volatility and risk

Stocks

Finally, we are at the main asset most people think when they picture using their 401k assets to invest: stocks.

Stocks typically offer a far greater return than any other asset class and are very flexible. From 2006 to 2011, stocks routinely topped the charts of the annual returns of several benchmark asset classes, bested usually only by gold. You can buy shares of stock in thousands of companies across the world, and this stock can be sold quickly and easily for cash, making it a very liquid asset.

The disadvantages of stocks, though, are considerable. For starters, it takes some experience and knowledge to pick the right stocks. You can remedy this somewhat by choosing an exchange-traded fund that is traded like a stock but covers several different assets. Also, stocks are volatile and generally the riskiest assets, with the possible exception of credit default swaps, high-yield ?junk? bonds, and other similar assets. You can lose far more, on average, with stocks than you can with bonds, mutual funds, or any other asset class.

Choosing stocks is for people who want more of an aggressive strategy in their 401k portfolio.

Pros: Usually offer the highest rates of return; liquid; provide thousands of choices

Cons: Volatile; riskier than the other major asset classes; harder to invest in successfully

Which One Should You Pick?

Ideally, you should have a well-rounded, balanced, and diversified portfolio with a little bit of everything thrown in. Bonds and money market accounts and certificates of deposits provide some balance against a turbulent stock market and give you a safe harbor for your money; stocks give you the earning power that can turn your contributions into a sizable nest egg.

You need a little of all to truly make your portfolio successful. But, the degree to which you choose one asset over the other is largely dependent on your risk profile.

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Wildfire victims crowd shelters as fight continues

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) ? Fire crews fought to save the U.S. Air Force Academy and residents begged for information on the fate of their homes Wednesday after a night of terror sent thousands of people fleeing a raging Colorado Springs wildfire.

More than 30,000 have been displaced by the fire, including thousands who frantically packed up belongings Tuesday night after it barreled into neighborhoods in the foothills west and north of Colorado's second-largest city. With flames looming overhead, they clogged roads shrouded in smoke and flying embers, their fear punctuated by explosions of bright orange flame that signaled yet another house had been claimed.

"The sky was red, the wind was blowing really fast and there were embers falling from the sky," said Simone Covey, a 26-year-old mother of three who fled an apartment near Garden of the Gods park and was staying at a shelter. "I didn't really have time to think about it. I was just trying to keep my kids calm."

Wilma Juachon sat under a tree at an evacuation center, wearing a mask to block the smoke. A tourist from California, she was evacuated from a fire near Rocky Mountain National Park last week and, now, from her Colorado Springs hotel.

"I said I hope it never happens again, and guess what?" Juachon said.

Constantly shifting winds challenged firefighters trying to contain the 24-square-Mile Waldo Canyon blaze and extinguish hot spots inside the city's western suburbs. The National Weather Service reported 60 mph winds and lightning above the fire Wednesday afternoon.

"It won't stay in the same place," said incident commander Rich Harvey.

Some 3,000 more people were evacuated to the west of the fire, Teller County authorities said Wednesday.

Meanwhile, the White House said President Barack Obama will tour fire-stricken areas of Colorado on Friday and thank firefighters battling some of the worst fires to hit the American West in decades.

City Police Chief Richard Carey said Obama's visit to Colorado, considered a key battleground state in the presidential election, would not tax Carey's already-strained police force. Gov. John Hickenlooper said he expected the president might sign a disaster declaration that would allow for more federal aid.

The full scope of the fire remained unknown. So intense were the flames and so thick the smoke that rescue workers weren't able to tell residents which structures were destroyed and which ones were still standing. Steve Cox, a spokesman for Mayor Steve Bach, reported that at least dozens of homes had been consumed, though he had no more precise figure.

Indeed, authorities were too busy Wednesday struggling to save homes in near-zero visibility to count how many had been destroyed in what is the latest test for a drought-parched and tinder-dry state. Crews also were battling a deadly and destructive wildfire in northern Colorado and another that flared Tuesday night near Boulder.

Carey said officials had no plans to release the numbers of homes destroyed ? insisting residents have a right to be told first, in private.

FBI spokesman Dave Joly said federal investigators are working closely with local and state law enforcement to determine if any of Colorado's fires were deliberately set or resulted from criminal activity. He did not elaborate.

Colorado Springs Fire Chief Rich Brown said his personnel heroically saved many homes in the midst of the firestorm. The strategy: protecting houses adjacent to those in flames to prevent a domino effect and then racing to the next suburban hot spot, a technique he called "triage." Federal firefighters worked with U.S. Army bulldozer crews from nearby Fort Carson to create perimeter lines.

The Waldo Canyon Fire burned about 10 acres along the southwest boundary of the Air Force Academy campus. No injuries or damage to structures ? including the iconic Cadet Chapel ? were reported. With 90 firefighters battling the flames, Academy Superintendent Lt. Gen. Michael Gould said 1,500 cadets taking summer classes and more than 1,000 freshmen arriving Thursday will be safe ? with campus ceremonies or housing to be moved away from the fire-hit area or off-campus if needed.

Four firefighting bulldozers were in a convoy heading into the academy Wednesday evening.

The Red Cross struggled to accommodate victims at its shelters, with space enough for perhaps 2,500 people. Most evacuees were staying with family and friends.

Colorado wasn't the only state affected by fire, as several burned throughout the parched West.

Tom Harbour, director of fire and aviation management for the U.S. Forest Service, said that with several fires burning, there is competition for firefighting resources, but "we're still at a point where we've got lots of available assets to mix and match on individual incidents."

Harbour said there's a difference between what incident commanders want and what they need to fight a fire effectively. And despite some criticism, he said the agency has been working to get equipment where it's needed most. Four military C-130 tankers, which can each carry up to 3,000 gallons of water, are positioned to cover the blazes burning near Colorado Springs and Fort Collins, as well as the entire Front Range if another fire were to break out, he said. At total of 18 air tankers were assigned to wildfires across the region.

Overall, there have been fewer fires and less acreage burned for the first six months of the year than for the same period in the previous six years. Some states are seeing fires earlier this year, but Harbour said resources are far from being exhausted.

"With over 10,000 firefighters in the Forest Service and the ability to get over 700 aircraft of all types, we're feeling cautiously confident when you look at the season as a whole," Harbour said.

Among the fires elsewhere in the West:

? A central Utah wildfire has destroyed at least 56 structures, mainly homes, and continues to burn with little containment, authorities said Wednesday. Officials expected the damage estimate to rise considerably as they continue their assessment of the fire-ravaged area between Fountain Green and Fairview and north across the Utah County line. Authorities were about halfway through their damage assessment of a fire that has burned about 46,000 acres, or 72 square miles. Officials returned to an evacuated area and found a woman dead Tuesday.

? Wildfires that have torched more than 128,000 acres and burned dozens of homes in southeastern Montana spread farther Wednesday, with additional evacuations ordered after a blaze south of Roundup jumped a perimeter line built by firefighters. The growing Dahl fire, which has burned more than 60 homes by one estimate, forced an unknown number of residents to leave their homes near its southern flank, on top of an estimated 600 people evacuated the day before.

"That's one of the most dangerous fires in the history of Montana," Gov. Brian Schweitzer said.

? A wildfire in the Bridger-Teton National Forest has grown from about 2,000 acres to 12,000 acres, or nearly 19 square miles, officials said Wednesday.

___

Associated Press writers Susan Montoya Bryan in Albuquerque, N.M., and Mead Gruver in Cheyenne, Wyo., contributed to this report.

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Stowaways suspected in container ship docked in NJ

This image made from video provided by Eyewitness News WABC-TV shows an aerial view near a container ship in Newark with suspected stowaways. Dock workers rushed to unload containers stacked on top of one another inside a cargo ship that arrived in New Jersey from the Middle East on Wednesday, June 27, 2012 after Coast Guard officials heard knocking from one during a routine inspection, suggesting that stowaways might be on board. (AP Photo/Eyewitness News WABC-TV) MANDATORY CREDIT

This image made from video provided by Eyewitness News WABC-TV shows an aerial view of a container ship in Newark with suspected stowaways. Dock workers rushed to unload containers stacked on top of one another inside a cargo ship that arrived in New Jersey from the Middle East on Wednesday, June 27, 2012 after Coast Guard officials heard knocking from one during a routine inspection, suggesting that stowaways might be on board. (AP Photo/Eyewitness News WABC-TV) MANDATORY CREDIT

Officials arrive at Port Newark to investigate reports of stowaways in a container inside a ship, Wednesday, June 27, 2012, in Newark, N.J. The Coast Guard suspects there are stowaways in a container that was loaded on a ship. Coast Guard spokesman Charles Rowe says a boarding party heard sounds consistent with people coming from the container. The container was loaded aboard The Villa D'Aquarius in India. The manifest says the container was carrying machine parts to be unloaded in Norfolk, Va. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

A police official stands near the entrance to a terminal at Port Newark, Wednesday, June 27, 2012, in Newark, N.J. The Coast Guard suspects there are stowaways in a container that was loaded on a ship. Coast Guard spokesman Charles Rowe says a boarding party heard sounds consistent with people coming from the container. The container was loaded aboard The Villa D'Aquarius in India. The manifest says the container was carrying machine parts to be unloaded in Norfolk, Va. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) ? Dock workers rushed to unload stacked containers from a cargo ship that arrived in New Jersey from the Middle East on Wednesday after a Coast Guard inspection team heard knocking for about two hours that suggested stowaways might be inside one of the boxes.

More than a dozen ambulances and law enforcement officials met the 850-foot Ville D'Aquarius when it docked early Wednesday at Port Newark, one of the nation's busiest ports. Large mechanical cranes began unloading containers from the ship.

By midday Wednesday, all but one ambulance had quietly left the pier. Coast Guard spokesman Charles Rowe said officials have inspected 80 of the 200 containers authorities believe could be carrying people. The ship has 2,000 containers altogether.

The Coast Guard team had boarded the ship outside New York Harbor early Wednesday as the ship prepared to dock, Rowe said. The officers were knocking on a bulkhead, or partition, of the ship as a routine security check and heard knocks back, he said, but they couldn't pinpoint the source of the sound. The return knocks ended after about two hours, Rowe said.

The team followed protocol and didn't open the container at sea in order to control the situation, he said.

Drew Barry, of the Sandy Hook Pilots Association, said he boarded the vessel about 20 miles offshore to help pilot it into port.

"There are at least 30 to 40 containers on top of the hatch cover, and I don't know how many more below it," Barry said. "If there are people down there, with no food and water for days, they're probably pretty desperate by now."

Shipping containers are steel boxes, usually 8 feet wide and 8- to 10-feet high and either 20- or 40-feet long, designed to withstand the rigors of the high seas and are strong enough to be stacked several high.

They normally can be opened only from the outside. There's hardly any ventilation.

Rowe said it has been taking about eight minutes to check each container ? unloading it off the ship, opening it up and X-raying it if necessary.

The container, which a manifest said was carrying machine parts to Norfolk, Va., was loaded in India, he said.

The ship began its voyage May 30 in the United Arab Emirates, then made one stop in Pakistan and two stops in India. Its last port before Newark was in Egypt on June 15.

Speaking at an unrelated news conference, Andrew McLees, special agent in charge of Homeland Security investigations for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said the ship's origin and itinerary prompted the initial search.

"The routing of the ship and the ports of call was what led to the actions," McLees said.

Michael Ward, the FBI's top official in New Jersey, said the response was appropriate given the port's vulnerability. The area is considered a prime potential target for terrorists.

"You're going to get a response like this any time you have these types of facts," Ward said. "It was an appropriate response which we did out of an abundance of caution."

Shipping companies are legally responsible for keeping stowaways off their vessels, said Frank Atcheson, a maritime lawyer based in North Bergen, N.J. When stowaways are found, the companies are liable not only for fines but also must pay to house the stowaways where they are found and for secure transportation back to where they originated.

Between January and Aug. 15, 2012, more than 13,000 stowaways were found in more than 4,000 incidents around the world, according to the International Maritime Organization.

Some of the higher-profile discoveries of recent years: 22 Chinese men, all in good health, arrived in Seattle in 2006; 32 Chinese men, also in good health, were found in Los Angeles in 2005; eight people, most of them Turkish, were found dead along with five survivors in a ship in Ireland in 2001.

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Associated Press writers Geoff Mulvihill in Haddonfield, N.J., and David Porter in Newark, N.J., contributed to this report.

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Widening sex scandal rocks Texas Air Force base

SAN ANTONIO?? From a chapel pulpit on Lackland Air Force Base, where every American airman reports for basic training, Col. Glenn Palmer delivered his first order to nearly 600 recruits seated in the pews: If you're sexually harassed or assaulted, tell someone.

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"My job is to give you a safe, effective training environment," Palmer said firmly.

What the colonel did not mention directly in his recent address was a widening sex scandal that has rocked the base, one of the nation's busiest military training centers. Allegations that male instructors had sex with, and in one case raped, female trainees have led to criminal charges against four men. Charges against others are possible.

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The most serious accusations surround an Air Force staff sergeant scheduled to face a court-martial in July on charges that include rape and multiple counts of aggravated sexual assault. The other three defendants were charged with lesser crimes ranging from sexual misconduct to adultery. All of the defendants were assigned to turn raw recruits into airmen in eight weeks of basic training.

A two-star general is now investigating alongside a separate criminal probe, which military prosecutors say could sweep up more airmen. Advocates for female service members and members of Congress have started taking notice.

"It's a pretty big scandal the Air Force is having to deal with at this point," said Greg Jacob, a former Marine infantry officer and policy director of the Service Women's Action Network. "It's pretty substantial in its scope."

Yet there are signs the Air Force still doesn't have a handle on the full depth of the problem. Staff Sgt. Peter Vega-Maldonado pleaded guilty earlier this month to having sex with a female trainee and struck a plea deal for 90 days' confinement. Then he acknowledged being involved with a total of 10 trainees ? a number previously unknown to investigators.

On Friday, after months of embarrassing disclosures, the head of the Air Force's training command ordered Maj. Gen. Margaret H. Woodward to lead an independent investigation. That same day, the Air Force gave reporters rare access to Lackland's instructional headquarters in an effort to show there was nothing to hide.

The headquarters facility is where Lackland trains the people who train recruits. Inside one small classroom, three women and two men were lectured on the importance of having a moral compass while watching a slide presentation titled "Integrity First."

Lackland has about 475 instructors for the nearly 36,000 airmen who will graduate this year. That's about 85 percent of what Lackland would consider a full roster of instructors, a demanding job that requires airmen to work longer hours than most for four years, at the expense of family and personal time. The Air Force recently launched a smartphone app to help recruit instructors. Topping a page of frequently asked questions is whether the divorce rate for instructors really is higher. (The Air Force says no.)

Palmer said that a slight shortage in instructors has not lowered the standards for applicants. In response to the allegations, he said instructor training is being revamped and that he was accountable for problems within the training wing.

Leaders of the instructor program, however, said the responsibility falls on the accused.

"A person sitting in that seat, they're going to do what they're going to do when no one is watching," said Master Sgt. Greg Pendleton, who oversees the training. "That's across the board. That's just them. When we're outside this door or outside these walls, there are individuals that have their own personal values."

So widespread is the fallout that Lackland halted operations for an entire day in March to survey about 5,900 trainees about whether they had seen or been a victim of sexual misconduct.

Video: Film exposes rape in the U.S. military (on this page)

It was a highly unusual move for a vast 15-square-mile base that runs with relentless efficiency. A new class of airmen graduates every Friday for 50 of the 52 weeks in the year. At first, Palmer, commander of the 737th training wing, said he wasn't sure that halting training was even possible.

Airman Andrea Madison, a new graduate who was in basic training at the height of the investigation at Lackland, said she never felt uncomfortable with her instructors.

"They want to make sure no foul play is happening, no one is taking advantage of us," said Madison, of Columbus, Ohio.

Last week, one commander of a Lackland training squadron caught up in the sex scandal was dismissed after the Air Force lost confidence in his leadership. Col. Polly Kenny, 2nd Air Force Staff, said the dismissal was not directly related to the sexual misconduct investigation.

Nearly three dozen instructors at Lackland have also been removed in the past year, but the Air Force will not say how many lost their jobs as a result of the investigation that began last fall, only that the majority of dismissals were unrelated.

The first sexual misconduct allegations at Lackland surfaced a year ago against Staff Sgt. Luis Walker, who is charged with 28 counts.

Walker, the only instructor who has been accused of sexually assaulting another airman, faces life in prison if convicted. His civilian attorney, Joseph Esparza, has declined to speak with reporters and did not return multiple calls for comment.

Sexual assault victims are reassigned and can apply for a "humanitarian discharge" from the military, but Lackland civilian spokeswoman Collen McGhee said she did not know whether those affected by this case had done so.

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The last stop of our Eat, Play, Wear Series brings us to Sports Graphics located at 333 First Street in Menasha. Sports Graphics has long been a staple of Menasha as one of the local favorite spots for screen printing and embroidery. Under new ownership since the Fall of 2011, the store is growing by leaps and bounds. They are currently expanding into a huge retail area next to their current address. Not only is their customer service personal and friendly, but they boast a super speedy turnaround on orders, which you can also place online.

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Aerobic Vs Anaerobic: How to Maximize Your Calories Burned ...

Aerobic vs anaerobic ? cardio is the best way to torch fat but is long aerobic cardio or short high intensity anaerobic cardio better? The experts will tell you that the science supports high intensity training as the best way to maximize calories burned jogging; but if you have more than 10 lbs to lose, it really isn?t.

Aerobic vs., Anaerobic Exercise

If you want to reduce the size of your stomach or get rid of the layer of fat that is hiding your great body, I recommend you focus on aerobic exercise first and then progress into anaerobic exercise to maintain your new look. The aerobic exercise increases your efficiency over longer periods so that you can create the huge calorie deficit you need to torch fat. Don?t get me wrong, I am a big fan of anaerobic HIIT (high intensity interval training), but there is only so much you can do and only so many calories you can burn at a time. When you train aerobically, on the other hand, if you follow the guidelines below, you can burn calories for a longer period of time and net with the huge calorie deficit you need for significant weight loss.

Build your Aerobic Efficiency First to Burn the Most Calories

When you begin a calorie burning phase of exercise, it helps to take a step back and think deeply about your goal (burn a ton of calories). Think about the specific exercise and compare it to the physiological changes and benefits it will give you.

Take running for example, if you train anaerobically you will get speed, you will get strength, but you will also get very tired. Exhausted, you will finish your workout having burned the most calories possible for the short time period you could last.

On the flip side, if you teach your body to run efficiently in an aerobic state you can exercise tirelessly for a much longer time netting a huge calorie deficit. It takes longer but you achieve your goal and have more energy for the rest of your day.

Benefits of Anaerobic Exercise

Anaerobic exercise increases your steady state which means that you can run a greater distance in the same amount of time. This is one of the reasons people love HIIT; you burn more calories per minute and have a high metabolic rate for hours after the exercise. What limits your ability to burn as many calories as you need for impressive fat loss is that physiology limits the amount of time you can keep the effort up. You get tired and can?t keep it up for long.

The Science ? Why Anaerobic Exercise Makes You So Tired

When you are exercising anaerobically, your body cannot supply enough oxygen to your muscles and chemical changes are initiated in your body?s metabolism to provide the additional oxygen your muscles need. This cascade of events that occur so that your body can continue anaerobic running is called ?oxygen debt?. The problem is that it comes with an accumulation of lactic acid in your blood which gives you tired muscles that will not continue to work. So, your calorie burning is capped. Anaerobic exercise is the most efficient per minute but you are limited to the number of minutes you get.

Benefits of Aerobic Exercise

Your ability to burn fat is controlled by your ability to take oxygen from the air, move it to your muscles and then use it. This is called maximum steady state. If you stay below this limit, your muscles do not experience the oxygen debt explained above and are able to continue indefinitely. The trick is to recognize when you start to feel tired, understand that you are going anaerobic, and slow down. If you do this, your muscles will not tire and you can continue. As long as you stay below your maximum steady state you burn your fat, do not create the lactic acid that tires your muscles, and can continue for a long amount of time.

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Aerobic vs anaerobic? Both have their benefits when it comes to calories burned jogging. I recommend you start with mostly aerobic and then switch to mostly anaerobic to maintain your lean body.

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Monday 25 June 2012

Obama, Romney Both Winners at Latino Conference

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- A high-profile gathering of Latino public officials turned out to be a win-win for President Obama and Republican Mitt Romney, according to interviews with those who attended. Democrats did not take Obama to task for waiting so long to stop deportations of young illegal immigrants, and Republicans expressed relief at Romney?s presence and softer tone.

?I think people are ready to give both of them, really both of them some pass,? said Ron Garcia, a Republican from Southern California and a member of the board of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials. ?There?s some time now to digest what the two candidates have to offer.?

The fast-growing Latino community is a pivotal voting bloc in several battleground states, including Florida, Colorado, Nevada, Virginia, North Carolina and Arizona. Obama won two-thirds of the Latino vote in 2008 and is doing even better than that in some polls this year. Analysts estimate that Romney needs to win as much as?40 percent of the Latino vote to win the White House, a goal he is not reaching in several states and one made harder by the tough immigration rhetoric he and other Republican candidates employed during the primaries.

Obama?s standing with Latinos was reflected in the enthusiastic cheers and multiple standing ovations he received at NALEO. Better yet for him: the only subject that came close to generating as much fervor as his new policy on undocumented youth was his mention of the Affordable Care Act, a toxic subject in much of the country.

?I was very moved by it,? said Mary Rose Wilcox, a Maricopa County supervisor from Phoenix, Ariz. ?I saw a toughness that I had not seen the last time he came to NALEO and I like that a lot, because he has done so much -- in terms of not only what he did with the executive decision (on young immigrants) but also with the economy.?

Her chief of staff, Terri Leija, said Obama?s speech motivated her to get out the vote.

While Obama had a natural advantage at the conference, Romney benefitted from offering his own ideas for immigration reform in front of a polite, if unenthusiastic audience. His proposals, aimed in part at keeping families together and highly educated foreign students in the United States, allowed him to move away from his much-scorned ?self-deportation? language and reintroduce himself as a general-election nominee sympathetic to the concerns of Latino voters.

?I was a little upset with him over some of the harshness with respect to immigration in the past, ?but what he said today was something I find appealing,? said Juan Zapata, a self-described moderate Republican who chairs the NALEO Education fund. ?Softening that rhetoric with regards to immigration will definitely go a long way towards helping Republicans.?

If Romney?s speech was part of the learning process of how to speak to Hispanic voters, ?he?s on the right track,? said Longwood, Fla., city councilman Bob Cortes, a Republican.

Key to the satisfaction of several Republicans at the conference was a sense that Romney did not outright reject the ideas behind the DREAM Act, legislation that would create a path to citizenship to people brought to the United States illegally as children, if they pursue a college education or military service.

However, several Democrats -- including Obama -- pointed to Romney?s emphatic opposition to the DREAM Act during the primary campaign. Many called Romney?s ideas vague and accused him of deliberately avoiding saying whether he would overturn Obama?s new policy of letting young undocumented immigrants apply for temporary deportation reprieves and work permits (Romney said in his speech he would propose comprehensive reform that would ?supersede? Obama?s order).

?This is clearly a contrast between action and words,? said Texas State Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer, a Democrat. ?We heard a bunch of great ideas about immigration policies, but we know that when Gov. Romney is fundraising in other parts of the country, he talks about vetoing the DREAM Act, building walls, doing things that take Latinos back for generations.?

Many gave Romney credit for appearing at the conference even with the knowledge that the crowd would be largely comprised of Democrats supportive of Obama. ?I think he basically showed them that he did care one way or another, he did believe in the Latino vote and that he did believe that immigration is an issue,? said Republican political consultant Esteban Ferreiro. ?I think he did what he needed to do within his beliefs.?

Even Democrats like Utah State Senate minority leader Ross Romero said Romney?s intentions seemed sincere, even if his policy proposals were too general. ?The fact that he spent 20 minutes, 30 minutes walking the rope line after his speech said to me that he knew he had work to do, he knew that he needed to make those one-on-one connections, and the fact that we were respectful when he was speaking lent for that opportunity,? Romero said.

Romney is unlikely to make much headway with his attempts to convince the Hispanic community that the president is taking their votes for granted. Most Obama supporters, like Leija, blame Republicans in Congress for blocking immigration reform. And as for the charge that Obama broke a promise by not appearing at NALEO in every year of his presidency?

?I?ve been a member of NALEO for 12 years and I?ve never seen Gov. Romney here,? Martinez Fischer said. ?The fact of the matter is, [Obama is] the president of the United States and he?s the leader of the world and we don?t expect him to be at every place every time we have a convening. But we know where we stand within his policies.?

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Video of bus monitor's misery strikes a nerve

In this cellphone video image taken from YouTube via AP video, bus monitor Karen Klein reacts to several seventh-grade students mercilessly taunting her on a bus, Monday, June 18, 2012, in Greece, N.Y. Since the video has gone viral, small donations for Klein from around the world have poured into the crowd-funding site indiegogo.com, at one point crashing the site and pulling in a staggering $443,057 by early Friday, June 22, 2012. (AP Photo/YouTube via AP video)

In this video image taken from AP video, bus monitor Karen Klein speaks during an interview, Thursday, June 21, 2012, in Greece, N.Y. A video of four seventh-grade boys mercilessly taunting the 68-year-old Klein that went viral has turned the victim into an international fundraising juggernaut and opened her tormentors to an onslaught of threats and abuse. From around the world, small donations for Klein poured into the crowd-funding site indiegogo.com, at one point crashing the site and pulling in a staggering $443,057 by early Friday. (AP Photo/AP video)

In this June 20, 2012 photo, Karen Klein, 68, of Greece, N.Y., talks about the verbal abuse she endured from Greece middle school students while she was school bus monitor. Since the incident was captured in a 10-minute video posted to YouTube, more than $120,000 has been raised to send the grandmother on vacation. The Greece School District is investigating the incident. (AP Photo/Democrat & Chronicle, Jamie Germano) MAGS OUT; NO SALES

The pebble was tossed when a middle-school student in upstate New York posted a 10-minute video on his Facebook page.

The video, showing four other seventh-grade boys cruelly taunting 68-year-old bus monitor Karen Klein, was quickly uploaded to YouTube.

And the ripples began.

Millions of viewers from around the world watched her humiliation. There were cries of indignation and sympathy, retribution and recompense. Through posts on social media and the user-generated news site Reddit.com, word spread geometrically, leading to a fund drive that began with a modest goal of $5,000 to help Klein take a nice vacation and scrub the foul memories of the last days of school from her mind.

By Friday afternoon, the drive had sailed past $520,000, with donations from more than 24,000 people.

Even in an increasingly connected, fast-moving world of information flow and echo, the response to Klein's plight is a stunning example of the power of people in the new, Me-Media era.

"Oh, my God," Klein told The Associated Press in an interview Thursday, when the total was around $370,000. She said it was "weird, very weird" to suddenly be an international celebrity and joked she'd have to go out in public disguised by a wig and dark glasses.

"I appreciate everything so much," she said. "It's just hard to believe strangers, people I never talked to, never seen, will send me a message saying, 'We love you, we think you're a great person.'"

Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Internet Project and author of "Networked: The New Social Operating System," said these kinds of moments have occurred before, but he still called the sheer volume of the response to the Klein video "head-scratching."

"It kind of feels like there aren't boundaries to this stuff," said Rainie.

The formula is pretty simple, Rainie said: A lot of people passionate about what they do keep vigilant eyes on the Web and react instantly when something offends or delights. The speed and reach of the Web do the rest.

"It's clear there are any number of watchdogs, you can call them; cultural or civic observers who scan YouTube or pictures for evidence of bad behavior," he said.

"Once it sort of gets in the line of vision of the people who get mad about these things, they use the Web to sort of, first, exact their version of justice and secondly, to help people who are clear targets or victims. Obviously, there's a cascading networking effect on this."

The verbal abuse was captured in a 10-minute cellphone video recorded Monday by a student of Athena Middle School in the Rochester suburb of Greece. The video shows Klein trying her best to ignore the stream of profanity, insults and outright threats.

One student taunted: "You don't have a family because they all killed themselves because they don't want to be near you." Klein's oldest son killed himself 10 years ago.

Eventually, she appears to break down in tears.

Max Sidorov, the 25-year-old Canadian man who started the fund drive on the site Indiegogo.com started with modest goals. In an interview with the National Post newspaper in Canada, the kinesiologist and nutritionist said he was astonished at the generosity of complete strangers.

"It is ridiculously more than I expected," Sidorov said. "I just had an idea. It's the people who took it and ran with it."

Not all the feedback has been positive. Police in the Rochester suburb of Greece, N.Y., stepped up patrols around the houses of the middle-schoolers accused of taunting her. Police didn't name the boys, but their purported identities leaked out on the Web and at least one received death threats.

"There's a danger it turns into a vigilante sort of mob and people are misidentified," Rainie said. "These things can move very rapidly out of hand and make things miserable for the wrong people."

Police said Klein does not want the boys to face criminal charges, partly because of the storm of criticism leveled at them. The district will pursue disciplinary actions against all four students.

In the AP interview, Klein asked people to leave the boys alone.

"Threatening them? No. That's not the way to go about things," she said. "They're just kids."

"I don't want to judge anybody or put them in jail or anything like that. I just want them to learn a lesson."

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Stevens reported from Albany, N.Y.

Associated Press

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