Georgia Improves Reefer Capacity

Georgia Ports Authority’s (GPA) Executive Director Curtis J. Foltz announced that a new set of electrified refrigerated container racks were completed and came online in Container Berth Five (CB-5) last week. With the ten new racks, Garden City Terminal now has a total of 44 racks, which accommodate 1,056 containers.

Yet another band name: Bathroom Bolsheviks

#45, I-270, St. Louis
Weekly hours of bottleneck congestion: 89
Worst bottleneck: Southbound, Dougherty Ferry Rd/Exit 8
Length of worst bottleneck: 1.26 mi
Weekly hours of congestion on worst bottleneck: 15
Speed of worst bottleneck when congested: 24.5 mph

Commuter Buzz: “Replacement of the current design with the diverging diamond interchange will not only improve the flow of traffic along the 270-70 corridor, but it will also be a national example of innovation in highway safety and design,” Maryland Heights Councilwoman Mary Nichols told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Fortunately, my daily commute on I-270 is north of Exit 8, plus I’ve chosen my work hours to avoid the worse of the traffic.

The U.S. Coast Guard’s Director of Prevention Policy announced Thursday publication in the Federal Register of plans to cease broadcasting the North American Loran-C signal Feb. 8.

As a result of technological advancements during the last 20 years and the emergence of the U.S. Global Positioning System, Loran-C is no longer required by the armed forces, the transportation sector or the nation’s security interests, and is used by only a small segment of the population.

President Barack Obama’s fiscal year 2010 budget supported the termination of outdated systems and specifically cited the terrestrial-based North American Loran-C system as such an example. The president did not seek funding for the Loran-C system in fiscal year 2010. Termination was also supported through the enactment of the 2010 Homeland Security Appropriations Bill.

The decision to terminate transmission of the Loran-C signal reflects the president’s pledge to eliminate unnecessary federal programs.

The Loran-C system was not established as, nor was it intended to be, a viable systemic backup for GPS. If a single, domestic national system to back up GPS is identified as being necessary, the Department of Homeland Security will complete an analysis of potential backups to GPS. The continued active operation of Loran-C is not necessary to advance this evaluation.

The notice may be viewed online at www.regulations.gov, docket number: USCG-2009-0299. for more information on terminations, reductions and savings contained in the fiscal year 2010 budget, including Loran-C, visit: www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/TRS/

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• LOL!
• A brush with greatness
• A bunch of deviated preverts

• Miserable cities.
• SCAM
• Is this Kenneth Parcell?
• Look who is into teabagging

• Will the stupidity ever end?
• Is Chuck Norris a traitor?
• My irony meter just broke

• Another sign of the times
• WANT
• Is Todd Akin a Teabagger?
• Bill O’Reilly is an idiot
• SCAM
• I can’t believe it’s not Jesus!

• Mmmm, Tang
• Here’s some relationship advice from an insane jackass
• SCAM
• SCAM
• SCAM
• SCAM

• Todd Akin is an idiot
• Good news everyone!
• This is really stupid
• Are audiophiles really this stupid?
• Fox “News” strikes again

• OH NOES! Not the metric system!
• Department of Law?
• Generic Drug
• Bill O’Reilly is an idiot
• Bill O’Reilly is an idiot

• I have a Bacon number of 3.
• Fox “News” strikes again
• Snuggies
• Gog? Magog? Bush? WTF?
• Brewing flavorless beers and ales was the engine that drove the American economy during the 1950’s.
• Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus
• A radical cleric uses science to stay alive
• One used to have find a street corner

• Mmmm, canned squid
• SCAM
• SCAM
• A sign of the times
• OH NOES! Communists
• An insane idiot displays his ignorance and dishonesty.
• The future of drum corps?
• Hitler is angry
• SCAM

• A Dog Bites Man Story
• SCAM
• Conservatives want to rewrite the Bible
• More Popular than Jesus
• A bunch of heads explode
• A lifetime of depravity
• SCAM
• Worst. Motivational Speaker. Ever.
• A local radio station makes a profoundly stupid mistake
• A product for stupid people
• An insane idiot demonstrates his gullibility
• Something I used to do

• A former President gets a statue
• A stupid person says something stupid
• Here’s lots of drums
• SCAM
• “Jesus, please give me some numbers that will win me lotteries tonight“
• This is pretty nutty
• Fox “News” is stupid
• People are Stupid
• A stupid person says something stupid
• Mmmm, exploding turkeys

• Mmmm, Mail Order Milk
• Tetsujin 28
• Joe Lieberman is Droopy Dog
• Newt Gingrich is an idiot
• WANT
• Here’s a really stupid product
• God hates drums
• Mmmm, Hanukkah Ham
• God hates drums
• Let’s put things into perspective.
• Happy Holidays
• I post a lame year in review.

November 18 2009, Times Live

Pirates off Somalia attacked a Danish container ship, already hijacked once, but were scared off by a security contingent aboard. The US-flagged Maersk Alabama came under attack from automatic weapons early on Wednesday morning some 350 nautical miles east off the Somali coast but the security team returned fire, the EUNAVFOR mission said in a statement.

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Great Lakes Storm of 1913

In early November, 1913, a blizzard struck the U.S. Midwest and the Canadian province of Ontario. The Great Lakes storm of 1913 reached its highest intensity on November 9. A total of 19 ships were sunk and another 19 were stranded on Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, and Erie. Cargo losses were in excess of 68,300 tons and were valued at over a million dollars. More than 280 mariners lost their lives in the most destructive natural disaster to ever strike the Great Lakes.

Let us not forget the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank on November 10, 1975: