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Shaq on his Hollywood plans: 'I want to be the next Rock'
Post-NBA life has been very successful for the four-time NBA champion
Shaquille O'Neal is already known by many names. Superman. The Diesel. The Big Aristotle. But he would like to add another to the list: Movie Star.
In "Uncle Drew," which opens Friday, he plays one of the former basketball stars (all of them real pros under heavy old-man makeup) reunited by Kyrie Irving's titular character (first created for a TV ad) to compete in a street-ball tournament at Harlem's Rucker Park. Shaq's character, known as Big Fella, is found running a martial arts dojo.
But post-NBA life has been far more successful for the four-time NBA champion. He's an analyst on TNT's "Inside the NBA," a popular pitchman and an active entrepreneur and investor. He has dabbled in everything from professional wrestling to law enforcement. He's even a voice setting on the Waze navigation app. This summer he will tour under the name DJ Diesel.
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"Uncle Drew" is just one of the projects that the 46-year-old O'Neal has going. Among his favourites is a TBS show he's developing with Ken Jeong. Comparing their chemistry to Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan, O'Neal says it will be "'Seinfeld"-epic-ish."
In an interview, O'Neal spoke about his big plans in Hollywood, why the NBA has gotten soft and where he hopes LeBron James lands this off-season.
AP: What do you miss about playing in the NBA?
O'Neal: I miss all of it. I miss interacting with the fans. I miss having the unexpected adrenaline rush, the doubts, the fear, overcoming the fear. I miss everything.
AP: Do you play anymore?
O'Neal: No, not at all.
AP: How come?
O'Neal: I ain't got it. Right now, I'm relinquishing all my powers to my son who's going to UCLA .
AP: That's a shame. I'd love to see you and Charles Barkley play one-on-one.
O'Neal: Yeah, Charles would lose.
AP: Your post-NBA career has been uncommonly busy. Why?
O'Neal: Seventy per cent of all professional athletes have nothing, not even a job, after they're done. The fact that I couldn't even call a franchise to get an interview to be a coach frightened me. So nothing was simple. Educate yourself, be nice to people and save your money. If you do that, you should be OK.
AP: You have numerous TV shows and films in development. What are your Hollywood aspirations?
O'Neal: I want to be as big as Rock.
AP: Dwayne Johnson is the biggest movie star on the planet. That's setting a high bar.
O'Neal: We come from the same place: athletes that transition. That's my goal. I want similar type movies. I want to get thrillers. I want to get dramas. I want to do comedies. I want to be the next Rock. I want to do a thriller where I'm like a hero and beat up all the bad guys.
AP: It's been 24 years since your big-screen debut, "Blue Chips." Do you feel like a veteran actor?
O'Neal: Well, I have shot 15 movies. I always tell my friends I shot 15 movies but they say, "Yeah, but if you play Shaq in nine of the movies, that's not really acting." I say, "You make a good point." I'm just happy to have the opportunity.
AP: Favourite movie?
O'Neal: Oh, "Stepbrothers." All day, every day. I know that movie by heart.
AP: What else do you like?
O'Neal: I just got done watching "Justice League." I thought it was pretty good. But they held Superman out too long.
AP: In vogue in today's NBA are big men who can shoot from the perimeter . Could you have developed a three-point game?
O'Neal: No, I would have played the same way. Because you can't score 40 points a night shooting jumpers. Nobody has, nobody will. But you can score 40 points a night shooting 60, 70 per cent inside the paint. The fact that guys are shooting jumpers, that's just telling me they don't like physical contact. Shooting jumpers is easy. Anybody can shoot a jumper. But can you bang a guy four of five times and then still have enough to score two points for your team?
AP: You think the league has gotten soft.
O'Neal: Of course.
AP: The Lakers are rumoured to be a likely landing spot for LeBron James. Do you want that to happen?
O'Neal: I just want the Lakers to be like they were back in the day. I want somebody that can beat Golden State. Golden State has turned into madness. The thing that would make me very excited is if LeBron James and Kawhi Leonard came to the Lakers. Then you'd have problems in the West. Then basketball would be fun again.
AP: Have you ever talked to Kyrie Irving about his flat Earth beliefs ?
O'Neal: No, because I said it too. But I was playing.
AP: You were in make-up for four hours a day for "Uncle Drew." How did you pass the time?
O'Neal: Sleep. When I woke up, it still wasn't done.
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I'm really liking Titans new beat writer for ESPN.
Good job Blake. At this rate, Henne will be in there by week 4.
I mean they have enough material to continuously laugh at though.
What if after all of this Bortles talk he plays better than Mariota during the season. I would laugh and cry at the same time.
edit - -oops 0021 beat me to it!
It's nothing new. He really wanted Watson in the Draft and liked every tweet on twitter when it came to the Jags bringing in a QB for a visit.
Jalen and his dad can't stand Blake and I don't blame them. He is horrible.
Alright, it's probably just time to face the fact that this thread is going to mainly just involve laughing at Blake Bortles.
The Jags look even worse than we did last week.
...means absolutely nothing if they don't execute. Just a lot of talent and money going to waste.
I have no ideal who this guy is, seems to be disliked by a lot of people but i'll keep posting his tweets until I find a valid reason not to.
We Titans fans always make fun of Blake Bortles until he plays against our secondary. Then he looks like Tom Brady.


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Future-Proof Structures: BMW Group Reorganizes Management Board Divisions
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Mathias Schmidt
BMW Group Head of Corporate and Culture Communications
BMW, MINI and Rolls-Royce to be part of one single Sales Division, headed by Nota
Schwarzenbauer to promote transformation to e-mobility
BMW Motorrad to join Development Division
Krüger: "Clear message for lean, future-proof structures"
Munich, Germany (March 15, 2019)…The BMW Group is reorganizing its Board of Management to create a new leaner, future-oriented structure. From 1 April 2019, the BMW, MINI and Rolls-Royce automotive brands will be part of a new central Sales Division. It will be headed by Pieter Nota, Member of the BMW AG Board of Management responsible until now for Sales and Brand BMW, Aftersales BMW Group. Nota will also remain responsible for additional functions including brand and product management and aftersales. Meanwhile, BMW Motorrad will become part of the Development Division under Management Board member Klaus Fröhlich.
"We are restructuring our divisions to give us the best possible foundation for the future. It sends out a clear signal that our organisation is lean and efficient throughout the company," said Harald Krüger, Chairman of the BMW AG Board of Management, speaking in Munich on Friday.
Peter Schwarzenbauer, responsible for MINI, Rolls-Royce, BMW Motorrad, Customer Engagement and Digital Business Innovation BMW Group until the end of the first quarter of 2019, will remain a Member of the BMW AG Board of Management until October. During this period he will promote the company's strategical focus on electromobility. Mr. Schwarzenbauer will then leave the company at his own request when he turns 60.
"Over the last six years, Peter Schwarzenbauer has taken MINI and Rolls-Royce as well as BMW Motorrad to new heights and set important impulses in the fields of Mobility Services, Digital Services and Customer Engagement. We would like to thank him very much for that and have every confidence that his conviction and passion for electromobility will drive our transformation momentum and ensure the successful launch of the MINI Electric," said Krüger.
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With its four brands BMW, MINI, Rolls-Royce and BMW Motorrad, the BMW Group is the world's leading premium manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles and also provides premium financial and mobility services. The BMW Group production network comprises 30 production and assembly facilities in 14 countries; the company has a global sales network in more than 140 countries.
In 2018, the BMW Group sold over 2,490,000 passenger vehicles and more than 165,000 motorcycles worldwide. The profit before tax in the financial year 2018 was € 9.815 billion on revenues amounting to € 97.480 billion. As of 31 December 2018, the BMW Group had a workforce of 134,682 employees.
The success of the BMW Group has always been based on long-term thinking and responsible action. The company has therefore established ecological and social sustainability throughout the value chain, comprehensive product responsibility and a clear commitment to conserving resources as an integral part of its strategy.
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ISLETON (CBS13) — Search crews have still not located a 41-year-old man who reportedly dove into the San Joaquin River to save his one-year-old son Friday morning. CBS13 is being told crews have called off the search.
His family has identified him as Moua Lo of Stockton.
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Police say they received a 911 call from a 10-year-old child at 11:30 a.m. The child said his one-year-old brother had fallen out of the boat while fishing with her father and younger sibling. The child was wearing a life vest, but the father was not, according to officials.
This all happened near Pirate's Lair Marina, just south of Isleton.
The U.S. Coast Guard rescued the children in the boat and then located the one-year-old floating in the river.
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Harvard hires top commodities trader
By Alistair Barr
Published: Apr 14, 2011 11:18 a.m. ET
Parikh to help university's endowment push further into hot market
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Harvard Management Co., which oversees the university's $28 billion endowment, said Thursday it hired a top trader to help it push further into the hot commodities market.
Satu Parikh will join Harvard's investment management team as managing director and head of commodities in June. He will report to Stephen Blyth, head of internal management and will be responsible for building and leading a portfolio management team focused on commodities, HMC said.
Parikh, 36, was president and head of trading at RBS Sempra Commodities LLP, a top commodities trading firm owned by Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) . Late last year, Sempra sold a chunk of assets from its commodities trading North American Power and Gas business to a unit of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. JPM, +0.69%
Before RBS Sempra, Parikh spent 13 years at Lehman Brothers LEHMQ , most recently as global head of commodities.
Parikh's move to Harvard Management highlights how some big institutional investors are continuing to move into the commodities sector in search of different sources of returns and hedges against potential inflation.
"HMC has long had broad exposure to commodities and commodity-related investments, and adding Satu's leadership and extensive experience will provide extra dimensions to our market perspectives," Blyth said in a statement.
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Machiavelli once said that "politics have no relation to morals." But do politics have any relation to fashion? It's a question that continues to rattle the very foundations of this republic — one that The Huffington Post attempted to tackle on the night of the biggest political speech of the year. We're proud to present our exploration of #SOTUstyle.
How did we stumble upon this idea? Well, we realized that asking members of Congress political questions as they walk the halls on their way to the State of the Union is a time-honored tradition — in fact, it's so time-honored, it's become a little dated. So we decided last year to confront lawmakers with the one question their communications teams might not have given them a pre-packaged answer for: Who are you wearing?
This year, as we headed to the Capitol to do it all again, we took not just our cameras but also our in-house style expert, Lauren Rothman, author of Style Bible: What To Wear To Work. We donned our personal best, too, in the hopes that we might inspire some on-trend choices to next year's address (or maybe just a little daring leather at a committee hearing this spring).
From TV-friendly bright colors to wives picking out clothes, the answers were not disappointing — and we got a couple of incredible stand-outs.
Watch the video above to hear which designers your top elected representatives, including leaders from both parties like Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), were wearing to hear President Barack Obama make his big speech. And let us know — in the comments section below, or on Twitter using the hashtag #SOTUstyle — whose ensembles you loved or hated.


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Tony Gonzalez on 'xXx' sequel, predicts teams going to Super Bowl
by Ronda Racha Penrice
Tony Gonzalez as Paul Donovan in "xXx: Return of Xander Cage" (Photo credit: George Kraychyk/Paramount Pictures)
Football fans know Tony Gonzalez for his Pro Ball caliber work with the Kansas City Chiefs and later the Atlanta Falcons. Since retiring in 2013, he has slid easily into an analyst role at CBS. And now he might be adding movie star to his many accomplishments.
In xXx: Return of Xander Cage starring Vin Diesel, Toni Collette, Samuel Jackson, Donny Yen, Ruby Rose and a few surprises, Gonzalez plays a GI Joe type actually at odds with Diesel's Xander Cage.
"I know my mom is going to love this movie because she loves these types of movies," he says seated at the St. Regis in Atlanta. "She loves Vin Diesel. She will probably be cheering for him when he beats me up," he laughs.
Actually, Diesel was concerned about whether super nice guy Gonzalez could pull off the role of a villain. "I am a nice guy but I know how to take it there," Gonzalez let him know. "If we gotta take it there, I'm going to take it there." After all, he didn't get to Hall of Fame caliber status in the NFL by being Mr. Nice Guy on the field.
Because of his football background, the physical aspects of his role as Paul Donovan were a breeze. So much so he even did his own stunts. "That was the easiest part," he explains. "The fight scene, the physical, because that's what I am used to. You gotta let yourself go and I can do that easily because I'm trained for that."
What stumped him? "It was more like the dialogue part of it where you gotta get into that natural mode," he says.
Even there, however, he found parallels with football. "These are good actors," he says of his XXX cast. "Like they'll say stuff back to you and you'll go 'oh I didn't know you were going to say that.' But you have to go with it and stay in the moment.
"And that's another thing [it has in common with acting], you have to stay in the moment, which in football, it's essential. You have to get out of your head and take it one play at a time which is extremely hard to do. That's why players take a while. It has nothing to do with talent or how fast and strong you are. It's about staying in the moment. It's the same thing with acting," he says. "If you start thinking about what you're going to say and you stop listening, you stop reacting, and it's not going come off as natural."
As for who is going to the Super Bowl, he says, "I think New England's going to win and I think Atlanta's going to win." While New England at home over Pittsburgh is not a surprising pick, Atlanta is, especially with how spectacularly Greenbay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers has been playing. But Gonzalez insists, "I really like their chances and I'm not being a homer here just because I played with [Atlanta Falcons quarterback] Matt [Ryan]."
Either way, he's looking forward to watching the Falcons and Packers go head-to-head. "It's going to be a really, really close game," he thinks. "Take a couple of drinks before you watch the game if you're a nervous type. Have the tequila sitting there ready for you," he advises, "because it's going to be a nerve-racking game whether you're a Greenbay Packer fan or a Falcon fan."
He's a lot more certain about xXx, though. "The movie turned out awesome. It's a roller-coaster ride," he says.
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The evolution of container ships and their sizes
In this article, we will look the evolution of container ship since 1955 and at the largest container ships of the last 67+ years.
In 1955, the first container dedicated vessel, the Clifford J.Rodgers, was put into service and was used to deliver cargo containers (non-standard) from railheads in Vancouver and Skagway.
The Clifford J.Rodgers was 102.24 meters long, 14.33 meters wide, carried specifically designed containers of 2.14 meters long (with a container carrying capacity perhaps equivalent to 65-70 TEUs), reached a speed of 11.75 knots, and was operated by a crew of fifteen.
In 1956, the Ideal X, a converted WW2 tanker carried the first standard containers – all 58 of them – from Newark to Houston and become the first commercial container ship using standardized steel containers.
The Ideal X was 160 meters long and 9.1 meters wide and we can estimate its capacity at around 100 TEUs.
In 2022, Ever Alot – a container vessel owned by Evergreen Marine – was put to sea and set to operate on China to Europe routes.
The Ever Alot is 399.99 meters long, 61.5 meters wide, can carry an astounding 24,004 TEUs, can cruise at 22.6 knots, and is operated by a crew of around twenty-five.
But how did the capacity evolve from 100 to over 24,000 TEUs – a capacity of 50 forty feet (40′) containers to one of 12,000 – in just over 65+ years?
The below chart, based on our research and publicly available data, shows the evolution of the capacity of container ships since 1969 (when the model was starting to prove itself and the capacities were starting to grow) to 2022.
The evolution of container ships sizes and capacities – largest container ships by year.
Source – logisticselearning.com —– reusable under Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 intl license
As you can see, there are some key steps, some key jumps, in the evolution of the size of container ships. These are generally linked to the technological evolution of shipbuilding, the changes in infrastructure, such as port sizes or canal widths, and also in function of the development of international trade and the strategies of the major shipping lines. Below, we will present some of these important changes and see how they impacted the size and capacity of container ships.
Exploring the concept – the first generation of container ships
From 1955, with the Clifford J.Rodgers, and 1956, with the more famous Ideal-X, the first generation of container vessels, still competing with the break-bulk shipping lines, were looking to prove the efficiency of container shipping and pioneer this new transportation technology and strategy.
And even if these first generation ships were often converted tankers or bulk carriers, who would carry their containers only on their modified decks and had to be geared (equipped with cranes), as, at the time, ports did not have the proper equipment to offload containers, they still saw their market share grow and their record TEU capacities slowly increased to around 1,500 TEUs towards the end of the 1960s.
To support this growth and profit from this emerging opportunity, the ship and port infrastructure building industries increased their technological development efforts. These efforts paid back with the delivery of the 2 major technological improvements:
in 1959 – the first container shore crane, which would enable container vessels to rely on port equipment rather than their own cranes, freeing up deck space and enabling less constrained ship designs.
and even more importantly, from 1968, the development of the fully cellular container ships.
First container crane — source: asme.org
Proving the concept – the second generation of container ships
Until 1968, container ships would carry containers only on their deck, but that year would see the deployment of the first fully cellular (C7 class) container ships, such as the Encounter bay (IMO 6818461, TEU 1,530).
These second generation container ships were able to carry containers in their belly hold, thanks to rails and cells which hold them securely in place while helping their smooth and efficient loading and unloading.
Fully cellular container ships were also designed to sail faster, reaching cruising speeds of 20-24 knots, making them more competitive for the dry, typically manufactured and higher value goods transported in shipping containers when compared to the slowly more energy efficient converted bulk carriers, tankers or their competing break bulk vessels whose cruise speeds would be closer to 16-20 knots.
The hold of a cellular ship (left) – Source: Wikimedia/Seebeer Under deck/on deck containers – container guides (right) – Source: UNECE.org
In the following years, significantly larger, fully cellular vessels were put to sea such as the Liverpool Bay (IMO 7126762, TEU 2,961), in 1971, or the Hamburg Express (IMO 7129934, TEU 2,964), in 1972.
The evolution of these shipbuilding technologies and the success of these larger vessels were the final proof needed that shipping containers and vessels were the way of the future for moving non-bulk cargo.
With this proof of concept secured, ports increased even further their investment and development of container specific terminals and handling equipment, which in turn alleviated any concern in developing and using fully cellular, non-geared, container dedicated vessels.
The adoption of containerization – the third generation of container ships
From its confirmed adoption in the late 1960s, and early 1970s, the amount of shipped containers started to grow in parallel, and at the same rate as the growth of worldwide exported goods. Container shipping lines were holding on to their market share in the international ocean shipping world.
To absorb the increase in the number of containers to be moved and to support the growth of global export, not only did the global fleet grow in number of vessels, but new larger vessels – such as the American New York (IMO 8212611 – TEU 4,614 – built 1984) – were built, as their owners could now be confident that enough containers needing to be moved would be available to maximize their utilization and benefit from a lower per container operating cost.
But with the deployment of American New York, in 1984, the strive to develop ever larger container vessels came close to a standstill and the largest vessels would stay comparable until 1996.
This reticence to pursue the development of larger vessels can be seen as mainly linked to the fact that many major routes and containers would, at the time, transit through the Panama Canal and there was a concern that building vessels wider than the canal would restrict their usage to certain routes, they would be too large to operate efficiently on these limited routes, and their relatively limited demand.
In fact, the width of American New York was 32.20 meters (105.5 ft) with the maximum authorized width of the canal being 32.31 meters (106 ft) at the time.
A few vessels, such as President Truman (IMO 8616283, TEU 4340, built 1988), were built in this period (1984 to 1996) with a width larger than the Panama Canal but their capacities were comparable to the Panamax vessels, therefore confirming that the non-Panama Canal related traffic may not have been considered sufficient to accommodate higher capacity vessels.
The take-off of containerization – Post-Panamax vessels
The increase of international trade (and even more so of the Asia – Europe one) from the mid 1990s, resulted in a dramatic increase of the number of containers needing to be moved, and the development of multiple major shipping routes originating in Asia and more specifically China.
More and more dry goods were being produced in Asia and looking to be shipped to Europe or North America.
Maersk saw this as the opportunity to develop post-Panamax vessels – larger vessels that could not pass through the Panama canal but could perfectly serve the routes from Asia to Europe and from Asia to North America West Coast.
Taking a different approach to the previous focus on the polyvalence of the fleet and no longer considering the width of the Panama canal as the reference width for the largest vessels, Maersk deployed the Regina Maersk (IMO 9085522, TEU 6,418) in 1996 with its width of 42 meters, compared to the canal's maximum of 32, and the even higher capacity Sovereign Maersk (IMO 9120841, TEU 8,160) in 1997.
Container throughput compared to World exports – index 100 in 1978 –
The development of these new vessels, the development of Asia as a major production region, and the resulting surge in dry manufactured goods needing to be transported overseas, resulted, as you can see in the above chart, in an increased rate of growth for the number of moved containers. This growth was now strongly exceeding the one of exported goods – meaning that a higher and higher portion of exports were now relying on containers and container vessels rather than on other means of overseas transport.
Economies of scale – the development of Very Large and Ultra Large Container Vessels
These post-Panamax vessels were a strong contributor to the decrease in transport rates for containers from Asia and helped confirm the Asian region as a major source of international trade which in turn increased the number of containers needing to be moved from and to this region. Based on this, Maersk decided it was once again feasible to increase significantly the size of its largest carriers and target higher economies of scale.
In 2006, the newly built Emma Maersk (IMO 9321483) was the first vessel of their Triple E class and was developed for Maersk with a focus on "Economy of scale, Energy efficiency, and Environmental impact improvement".
She started operation on the Asia to Europe route and her capacity of 14,770 represented an increase of 80% in capacity compared to the previous record holder.
The Emma Maersk and the Triple E fleet confirmed the leader position of Maersk on the container shipping market and, over the following years, proved that the model of using even larger container vessels to move from major ports to major ports and smaller vessels to feed containers into these ports worked and that economies of scale were possible and real.
The race for the largest container ship
The Triple E vessels, the first Very Large Container Vessels, remained the largest vessels until 2013 when multiple shipping lines actively joined the race for economies of scale.
From 2013 to today, shipping lines (mainly those operating on the Asia-Europe routes) have been breaking records of the largest container vessel and capacity, year after year, with for example:
CSCL Globe (IMO 9695121) – built 2014 – with a capacity of 19,100 TEUs.
OOCL Hong Kong (IMO 9776171) – built 2017 – with a capacity of 21,413 TEUs.
Ever Ace (IMO 9893890) – built 2021 – with a capacity of 23,992 TEUs.
Ever Alot (IMO 9893955) – built 2022 – with a capacity of 24,004 TEUs.
The largest container ship to date
Ever Alot is the seventh vessel of the Evergreen A class and, as we saw, the first ship to pass the symbolic bar of 24,000 TEU in capacity. Another 6 ships are planned for this class but their capacity should not break the current record of 24,004 TEUs.
Nevertheless plans to build vessels with capacities over 25,000 TEUs are already in place and it seems the race for economies of scale and the development of Ultra Large Container Vessels is not yet over.
The new Panama Canal locks and the Neo-Panamax vessels
Parallelly to the development of these Ultra Large Container Vessels on the Asia-Europe routes, there have also been significant changes to the Pacific-Atlantic routes.
Indeed in 2016, after a 10 year construction effort, new wider locks were put in place in the Panama Canal, and the newly released limits and requirements allow vessels up to a width of 51.25 m (168 ft) to pass compared to the previous maximum of 32.31 m (106 ft).
The Panama Canal being the key passage for the trade between the Pacific and the Atlantic ocean based ports, this widened capacity resulted in the development of larger container vessels, called New-Panamax or Neo-Panamax for these routes with a capacity of up to 14,000 TEUs (compared to the previous 5,000 TEUs of the Panamax vessels), and while larger vessels were already in operation (notably on the China – Europe route), the development of these New-Panamax vessels had a direct and significant impact on the average TEU capacity of the container vessel fleet.
Panama canal locks – source – Pixabay / spalla67
We hope you enjoyed this article on the evolution of container ship and their sizes.
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Largest container ships by year
In the below table, you can find our list of largest container vessels, in terms of TEU capacity, by year – the record breaking container vessel of the year.
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If a year or multiple year windows are not listed it means that based on our information the previous record breaking vessel was still holding the record.
For example, American New York was the largest container vessel from 1984 until 1990 when Magleby was built.
This data is used in our article on the largest container ships and the evolution of container ships which can be found here.
TEU capacity
1969 Encounter bay 6818461 1,530
1971 Liverpool bay 7126762 2,961
1972 Hamburg express 7129934 2,984
1980 Neptune garnet 7819371 3,268
1981 Frankfurt express 7909592 3,430
1984 American New York 8212611 4,614
1990 Magleby 8715871 4,819
1994 NYK Altair 9073995 4,953
1995 APL China 9074389 5,108
1996 Regina Maersk 9085522 6,418
1997 Sovereign Maersk 9120841 8,160
2003 Anna Maersk 9260421 8,272
2004 CSCL Asia 9285976 8,500
2005 Gjertrud Mærsk 9320233 9,074
2012 CMA CGM Marco Polo 9454436 16,020
2013 Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller 9619907 18,270
2014 CSCL Globe 9695121 19,100
2015 MSC Oscar 9703291 19,224
2016 MSC Diana 9755933 19,462
2017 OOCL Hong Kong 9776171 21,413
2019 MSC Gülsün 9839430 23,756
2020 HMM Algeciras 9863297 23,964
2021 Ever Ace 9893890 23,992
2022 Ever Alot 9893955 24,004
Our list of largest container vessels by year. Source – logisticselearning.com
Recommended reading – "The evolution of container ships and their sizes"
CMA CGM Brazil – Very Large Container Ship (VLCS) in action.
You can see below a video of the container ship CMA CGM Brazil, a container vessel from the Very Large Container Ship category, approaching the port of Charleston, S.C. where it docked at the Wando Welch Terminal.
In September 2020, it set the record for the largest vessel ever to enter the port of New York & New Jersey and to dock on the U.S. East Coast. Here approaching the port of Charleston.
Continue reading CMA CGM Brazil – Very Large Container Ship (VLCS) in action.
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Container port animation
Today, 18% of the global ocean cargo is moved thanks to shipping containers, container vessels, and container ports or terminals. But how do containers ports work?
Container ports can be gigantic like the Shanghai container port through which over 40 000 000 TEUs* pass each year or small local single quays possibly relying on the gears (cranes) of the arriving vessel for the loading operations.
They can be fully automated – calling upon automated cranes, handling and repositioning equipment – or can rely on a qualified workforce operating specialized equipment and cranes.
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Liner versus Tramp – ocean transport services
When working with ocean freight and maritime transport, it is important to know and understand the difference between Liner and Tramp.
These terms are used to designate a type of ocean transport service and can also be used to designate how a vessel is currently operating.
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2020 world merchant fleet
Based on the publicly available UNCTAD data, the world merchant fleet was composed of over 95,000 vessels in 2020.
The total deadweight* of this gigantic fleet was over 2,000,000 thousand tons – meaning that in 2020 the merchant fleet had the capacity to carry (all in : crew, cargo, fuel, ballast,….) over 2,000,000,000 tons at any one point in time.
Continue reading 2020 world merchant fleet
Main types of ocean cargo
The various goods transported by ocean and transiting through ports can be divided in 5 main types of cargo:
Liquid Bulk (cca. 29% of the 2018 loaded tons for international maritime trade)
Dry Bulk (cca. 46%)
Containers (cca. 18%)
Roll On Roll Off and Break Bulk. (put together – cca. 7%)
Continue reading Main types of ocean cargo
Gantry cranes in action
A gantry is a bridge-like structure, with side supports, enabling it to span, to be, over something.
A gantry crane is exactly that: a crane, which thanks to its supporting side and cross beams, can straddle, be placed above cargo, and approach it from this position.
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Vessel ship profiles
Below are some graphics of vessel ship profiles, we use in our logistics eLearnings and training courses.
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UAF researchers embark on an expedition frozen at sea
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Five UAF researchers are among hundreds of scientists worldwide who will spend part of the coming year on board a research ship frozen in the Arctic sea ice.
The 387-foot icebreaker Polarstern will embark from Tromsø, Norway today to kick off MOSAiC, the world's largest and most comprehensive expedition to the central Arctic Ocean. During the next year, the Polarstern will be locked in the frozen sea ice and set to drift past the North Pole. The UAF team will share their experience via a weekly blog.
The Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate will capture chemical, physical and biological data related to the ocean, sea ice, snow and atmosphere. The goal of the project is to understand why the Arctic is warming faster than any other region on the planet. Arctic sea ice loss is already impacting sea level rise, storminess, and ocean and atmospheric warming at lower latitudes.
More than 600 scientists from 17 nations will participate in the expedition which is led by the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research. An international fleet of helicopters, aircraft and icebreakers will supply the team during its voyage.
"This mission is groundbreaking," said AWI's Markus Rex, head of MOSAiC. "For the first time we will be able to measure the climate processes in the central Arctic in winter. And so, for the first time, we will be able to understand this region and correctly represent it in climate models."
Rob Rember, a researcher at the International Arctic Research Center and UAF's science lead on the expedition, expects that MOSAiC will multiply the amount of existing data by a factor of a thousand.
"The amount of sea ice data physically collected [from the Arctic Ocean] from October to March is very, very small," Rember said.
Rember will be at sea for 100 days this year. The UAF team will rotate through several shifts on the Polarstern. UAF postdoctoral researcher Marc Oggier will spend 195 days at sea, getting through the long, dark months with 10 pounds each of good chocolate and yerba mate.
The team hopes to gain a complete picture of what's happening in the Arctic Ocean, particularly where the ocean, sea ice and atmosphere meet, Rember said. "We're working at the interfaces, so how does the ice interact with the snow, and how do they both interact with the water column, and how the water column interacts back with the ice."
These areas are where gases and nutrients are transferred between the ocean and ice, and the ice and the atmosphere.
"Think of sea ice as a substrate where life can be and where nutrients get cycled and recycled," said Ana Aguilar-Islas, MOSAiC participant and an associate professor at UAF College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences. In the ocean system, these nutrients are used by phytoplankton and sea ice algae to grow and ultimately feed the rest of the food web.
"It's basically the same as your garden, you need the right mixture of nutrients to be productive," explained Rember.
The Polarstern will be attached to the same sheet of floating ice for the entire seasonal cycle, which will allow the UAF team constant access to the ice. They will gather sea water, snow and cores of ice drilled from the frozen sea, then melt, filter and analyze the samples in a lab onboard the Polarstern and back at UAF to quantify their nutrient content.
"Throughout the whole year, every week, we are going to make the same set of measurements," Oggier said. Those measurements will show how nutrients in the Arctic change throughout the year.
Since space is limited on the ship, each researcher will do a variety of tasks in addition to their own research. For example, Oggier will help other scientists survey ice ridges, use underwater cameras to explore the bottom of the ice and take images of ice and snow using MRI-like instruments.
As a young scientist, this part of the expedition is an opportunity that many people would dream of, Oggier said. "I'm really excited because I'm going to learn lots of stuff."
MOSAiC is offering researchers a chance to be a part of something extraordinary, Rember said, "This opportunity will never come along again."
In addition to Rember, Oggier and Aguilar-Islas, other UAF participants include Mette Kaufman, a research professional at IARC; and Rachel Lekanoff, a doctoral student in CFOS.
FOLLOW MOSAiC ONLINE: To read about their journey visit https://uaf-iarc.org/engagement/expeditions/mosaic/ or follow them on twitter, @ArcticMosaic or Facebook, @MOSAiCuaf. Search for more information from partner institutions using the hashtags #MOSAiCexpedition. Download the MOSAiC web app to see Polarstern's drift route live, follow.mosaic-expedition.org
Heather McFarland
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Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. is a biotechnology company founded in 2004 that develops and manufactures systems for gene sequencing and some novel real time biological observation. They describe their platform as single molecule real time sequencing, based on the properties of zero-mode waveguides. Their first commercial product, the PacBio RS, was sold to a limited set of customers in 2010 and was commercially released in early 2011. A new version of the sequencer called the PacBio RS II was released in April 2013. On 25 September 2013 a partnership between Pacific Biosciences and Roche Diagnostics was announced for the development of in vitro diagnostic products using the technology, with Roche providing US$75,000,000 in the deal. In 2015, the company launched a new sequencing instrument called the Sequel System with approximately 7-fold greater capacity than the PacBio RS II.
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Updated: Voucher Expansion Bill Goes To Scott After Last-Minute Haggling
WFSU | By Lynn Hatter
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Update: 9:40 p.m: The Florida House and Senate have approved an expansion of the state's corporate tax scholarship "voucher" program and are sending the bill to Governor Rick Scott. The Senate approved its version of the bill early Friday sending it to the House--where lawmakers delayed in passing the bill over concerns it takes away the special diploma option for disabled students.
Ultimately, the house approved the bill as written by the Senate. The bill makes foster care children eligible for the scholarships and requires a Florida State University research institute to track how well voucher/scholarship students fare against their public school counterparts.
The bill marks a victory for House Speaker Will Weatherford who made the expansion a priority. Approval of the program comes after another Weatherford-backed priority bill--a revamp of the state's retirement system--failed.
*Editor's Note: This story reflects the information available at 6:30 p.m. Friday, May 2. Story will be updated after the legislature adjourns.
More families would be eligible for scholarships to send their children to private school, and more students would have access to regular diplomas. The Florida House and Senate are in the process of forging a last-minute deal that could send the issue to Governor Rick Scott, and salvage the remains of a more controversial expansion of the school voucher program that didn't fly with Senators.
The original plan for the state's corporate tax scholarship program increased income eligibility and tried to tap into the state's sales tax revenue, to steer more money into the program. The Senate wanted to make voucher students in private schools take the same exams as those in public schools, but conversation on the issues collapsed early on. Friday, Sen. Bill Galvano, R-Bradenton, who initially sponsored the Senate-version of the voucher bill, brought a far smaller proposal to the chamber.
"I can tell you getting to this point, leading up through the final days to this, the last day, there's been intense negotiation," Galvano said.
The revamped bill puts greater rules on scholarship organizations by having the state conduct audits and perform more thorough background checks on owners. It would also require application fees to be refunded to families who can't find schools and puts more restrictions on how those fees are used by the organizations:
"This amendment would prohibit eligible contributions and application fees from being used for lobbying or political contributions. Let me tell you, that was a big step and a hard provision for many to swallow," he said.
The rebirth of the voucher issue on the last day of session in the Senate caught some lawmakers by surprise and caused others to hedge, especially after Senate Democrats blocked the language from being added onto another bill a day prior. Also driving the concern is the voucher's placement onto another, more favorable piece of legislation that would grant some students with disabilities extra funds. It would also allow disabled children to qualify for a traditional diploma, rather than a special diploma which isn't recognized by colleges, universities or vocational schools. The issue is deeply personal to several Senator, including Incoming Senate President Andy Gardiner--whose Son Andy has Down Syndrome. Gardiner urged his fellow lawmakers to vote for the whole bill:
"I felt very strongly that the special diploma did not provide a child with a disabilities with a real career path. Senator Thrasher and I last year changed the IEP process to empower the parents, and we've seen a sea change," Gardiner explained. "That was Phase One. This is Phase Two. And if I'm honored to be a part of the chamber the next few years, there will be a Phase Three and a Phase Four."
The House had already combined both issues into one piece of legislation and passed a similar version of the measure before the Senate vote. Most of the Senate agreed with the special accounts for disabled students, but the voucher language—despite the increased safeguards outlined by Galvano, still didn't set well with many. Sen. Dwight Bullard, D-Miami, caused an uproar in the Senate when he suggested some lawmakers in the House were offered jobs in exchange for votes.
"We've had individuals from that organization going around these halls, offering jobs to other people in the process as incentive for voting for this bill. That's not the way we should be doing business. But it's happened," Bullard charged, prompting a frosty response from Senate President Don Gaetz.
"Senator, you're an officer of the state of Florida. You took an oath to preserve and protect the laws of this state. If you have knowledge of a crime, or an attempt to commit a crime, sir, you need to report that to the state attorney today," Gaetz said.
Bullard has not named who he was referring to.
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"OMG!" I said out loud sitting at a table at Taaffe's on Shop Street. It's a prominent pub known for it's original Irish Music and I was there rather early in the day having a bit of Irish Coffee. "I that an Irish Wolfhound?"
And I left my backpack, my drink, and my coat behind as I dashed off to pet him. I had to run a block and a half to catch up with him.
I've really been wanting to see one in person here. He stood taller than a Great Dane and was as shaggy as my Briard, Blyss, was so many years ago. And he was just ambling through the touristy area of the town seemingly on his own. His owner was a six and half foot tall man who did bring the dog down to size.
"What's his name?" I asked. "Can I pet him?"
"Of course," his owner said. "Go right ahead, he loves the attention! His name is Rover."
It's so odd to find yourself starstruck like that. I mean, I realize he's just a dog. But to me he was a symbol of what Irish Woflhounds meant to this area decades ago. They were actually used to hunt wolves. And they are huge, yet gentle. Rover was all that and more. And seeing him was just one more really cool thing about Galway, to me. They have Irish Wolfhounds here.
The guy at the table I'd left behind looked relieved when I returned.
"Everything's here," he said. " Right where you left it," he said.
"Oh, I wasn't worried," I replied. "I've got friends, like Rover, there, to make sure things are fine!"


BRAD Pitt and Leo DiCaprio are taking on the grisly legacy of the cult leader in their next movie.
Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio are teaming up to lead Quentin Tarantino's forthcoming Charles Manson movie.
The two Hollywood heavyweights will reunite for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, a true story of glamour, murder and a cult, alongside Margot Robbie who is tipped to play the leading lady.
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood will recount the tragic circumstances around the death of acclaimed director Roman Polanski's pregnant wife Sharon Tate (Robbie) back in the 60s.
Sharon and four of her friends were brutally attacked and stabbed to death by members of the Manson Family in August 1969 in her home, with the cult leader Manson later being convicted of her murder two years later and spending the rest of his life behind bars.
Manson died last year but his grisly legacy is set to be immortalised on screen.
Sony Pictures announced the project on Wednesday, 28 February and Tarantino described the movie as "a story that takes place in Los Angeles in 1969, at the height of hippy Hollywood.
"The two lead characters are Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio), former star of a western TV series, and his longtime stunt double Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt).
"Both are struggling to make it in a Hollywood they don't recognise anymore. But Rick has a very famous next-door neighbour...Sharon Tate."
Tom Cruise has also been linked to the project, but it is yet to be revealed in what capacity.
The pair starred in Inglorious Basterds and Django Unchained before, and this movie will be DiCaprio's first project since his Oscar-winning performance in The Revenant, while Brad, 54, was last seen in War Machine in 2017.
Sharon and the inhabitants of the Los Angeles house were attacked with guns and knives over several hours. Manson and other members of his group were also sentenced to life for a number of other murders committed in the summer of '69.
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is scheduled for release in August 2019.


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The Kings In Yellow
The creature known by the few who had reason to speak with him as Cervin stood unflinching still amidst the saturated jaundiced rooms of Level 0, his heavy boots sinking into the damp and pungent yellow carpet. From a distance, Cervin looked a bit like a large, lanky man in a long, weathered coat and a deer-skull mask. Up close though, the illusion of humanity was quickly lost, as it became obvious that what looked like a mask was actually growing out of his face.
His neon-green eyes glared with mild contempt at the mustard-coloured walls in front of him, his deliberative breathing the only sound other than the flickering fluorescent lights above him. The only definite sound, anyway. There might have been whispering, but there always might have been whispering, so he did his best to ignore it. The lights flickered again, and in the corner of his eye, Cervin thought that he saw something that was a slightly different shade of yellow than everything else, but he didn't react to it. There was no point, and he knew it.
The Backrooms were filled with all manner of 'what-was-that's and 'who's-there's, and greater fools than Cervin knew those were questions best left unanswered.
Each year, thousands of people inadvertently found themselves trapped within The Backrooms, usually on Level 0. Many, maybe most, of those people never made it beyond that and died alone within the sickly yellow rooms that Cervin found himself in now. Despite that, no human had ever found a corpse within Level 0.
It was the things that might have been whispering, that Cervin might have seen in the corner of his eye, that were responsible for this.
Cervin tilted his head slightly to the right, the first whiff of a dead body having reached his nose. His olfactory senses were so powerful, he effectively had binocular smelling, able to judge the distance and direction to something simply by the difference in strength between one nostril and the other.
Once he had the scent, he burst into action, sprinting through door after door towards the body. If he wanted to claim it first, he wouldn't have much time.
Following a scent through Level 0 wasn't as straightforward as it would have been in The Frontrooms, since the entire infinitude of rooms was non-Euclidian and two rooms never lead to one another twice, but Cervin had been at this for a long time. Navigating The Backrooms may not have been easy, but it could be done.
It took hours, but he did eventually find the room where the body was. It was a tiny, skeletal thing lying in a fetal position in the corner, its face buried in its arms. It took months just to die of thirst in The Backrooms, entropy being a very weird thing there. That was nearly always a curse rather than a blessing, delaying death and extending suffering beyond anything that was naturally possible.
Somewhat less explicably, the body was covered in strange marks, similar to the ones that might be left by the suckers of an octopus. There were also three pairs of slight indentations in the carpet around it, vaguely resembling inhuman footprints, but not quite enough to undeniably be anything other than depressions in the carpet.
Cervin ignored these oddities, in the same way he ignored the sounds that might have been whispers or the shadows that might have been movement. Unfurling a large burlap sack, he grabbed the corpse by the scruff of the neck and shoved it in.
Then, and only then, did he hear the door furthest from him creak open.
He looked up, and standing there in the doorway was a scrawny teenage girl. She was noticeably underweight, and had likely been in The Backrooms for a while, but she didn't look like she was about to keel over just yet.
Her eyes went wide when she saw him, but she didn't scream, and she didn't run. She just stood perfectly still, staring at him, seemingly not knowing how to react.
'Well, that makes two of us,' Cervin thought to himself sardonically. He was probably the closest thing she had seen to another human since she had got there, and was so desperate for aid and companionship that she was willing to give him every benefit of the doubt before trying to flee.
He slung his sack over his shoulder and rose to his full height, looking the girl up and down as he did so. She was in no shape to outrun him or fight him off, so he could do with her as he pleased. He could kill her, but he couldn't bring two bodies back at once without his bosses knowing something was up, and he had no idea if they'd want her dead anyway. Even if killing her wasn't a violation of any rule, leaving her corpse to rot definitely would have been.
And the thought of deliberately sacrificing someone to the things lurking at the edges of his vision made his stomach roil.
He could just run off and pretend nothing happened, but there was always a chance that she would escape Level 0 and tell others about what she had seen. No, trying to pretend this never happened would only make things worse for everyone in the long run; including him. He needed to report to his bosses to see what they wanted to be done with her, and the girl needed to come with him. He could have just grabbed her and slung her over his other shoulder, but why make more work for himself than he had to?
"Follow me," he said, firmly but softly enough that it was closer to an invitation than an order. He set off through the nearest door, and sure enough, he heard her soft footsteps in the carpet pitter-pattering after him. "What's your name, girl?"
"Nami; Chinami, actually," she said, her voice hoarse and metallic from lack of use. "What's yours?"
"Cervin," he replied curtly. "How long have you been here, Chinami?"
"I'm not sure. I lost count a little after the first month, and that count was based on the assumption that light-dark cycles here are twenty-four hours," she told him. "The, the body – the body in your bag. Did you, did you –"
"No. I just clean them up," he answered truthfully. Chinami sighed in relief, and picked up her pace to stand a little closer to him.
"I haven't seen another person since I got here, but I might have seen something. I'm not sure, I thought I was going crazy, but… you're not human, and you're real, aren't you?" she asked hopefully.
"As real as anything else here, which isn't saying much," he said glibly, making four sharp ninety-degree turns through four clustered doors that should have led him back to where he started, but of course didn't.
"What is this place?" Chinami asked hesitantly, as if she was afraid of what the answer might be.
"These days, most of your kind call it The Backrooms; a manifold of nested pocket dimensions that split off from base reality aeons ago," Cervin told her. "This is Level 0, and it's looked like this since the sixties, but I remember it when it was a medieval labyrinth. It's almost impossible to get off of this level if you don't know what you're doing, and most mortals that do get out just got lucky."
He stopped suddenly for no apparent reason, holding up his hand in a commanding gesture for her to stop as well.
"And you, young lady, are very lucky indeed," he said as he held up a long key, the bottom portion of a smile visible beneath the deer-skull portion of his face.
With his other hand, he reached out towards the wall. There, Chinami saw that there was a small panel, like the ones used for light switches and electrical sockets, painted the exact same shade of sickly yellow as the wallpaper. She doubted she would have noticed it if Cervin hadn't drawn her attention to it.
He flipped the panel open, revealing a keyhole integrated into some sort of mechanical contraption. He deftly inserted the key, and then turned it around and around like he was winding up a music box. When he removed it, the device began to unwind, causing the walls to slide open and reveal a small, brown room behind them.
Chinami stumbled backwards and brought her hands to her face in shock; the earthy brown tones of the chamber before her was a desperately needed change of scenery after so long on Level 0.
"Is that, is that…" she croaked, too terrified to finish asking the question.
"It's a service elevator, accessible to staff only," Cervin said as he casually stepped across the threshold, then turning around to face the control box. He placed his hand on the lever, cocking his head towards Chinami before pulling it down. "You coming?"
She jumped into the elevator as fast as she could, desperate to finally escape that dreadful and desolate level. He pulled down upon the lever, and the doors slid shut, an angry yellow form dashing towards them just before they closed. Chinami recoiled in shock, but Cervin didn't react at all.
"Did, did you…" she mumbled pathetically, certain that she was just crazy from her long ordeal.
"Yes. I saw it," he assured her.
With a gentle lurch, Chinami could feel the elevator begin to ascend.
"Congratulations, you've just escaped for Level 0 of The Backrooms," Cervin said dryly. "Listen, I'm not a hundred percent sure what they're going to do with you when we get to Processing. I've only ever brought them dead humans before. You'll be better off up here than down there though. Just do what you're told, keep your nose clean, and you'll be fine. Got that?"
Chinami nodded emphatically.
"…Thank you," she said, very softly and very sincerely, tears flowing down her face.
"…You're welcome," Cervin replied, turning his head back towards the doors.
Within seconds they were open again, revealing a cavernously large room made almost entirely from uneven, russet-brown bricks. Numerous conveyor belts lined the opposite side of the room, each leading into an enormous machine of dulled brass and rusted cast iron. Distantly, Chinami could hear the faint dim of blast furnaces and industrial machinery, but she hardly noticed it over the much nearer sound of rain on glass.
She looked up and saw there were large windows lining the breadth of the room, and she could see rainclouds of the same sickly yellow hue that she had spent the last several weeks staring at down on Level 0. The rain itself was brown, and stained the glass as it ran down its surface. It was hardly a pretty sight, but it was the only view of the outdoors that Chinami had had for a very long time, and it was enough to bring her to tears once again.
She followed Cervin to one of the conveyor belts, where he casually dumped the body he was carrying onto the rollers. He inserted some sort of yellowed punch card into the control console and pulled a lever, stamping both the card and the corpse with a date and serial number. The machine then whirred to life, and the conveyor belt swiftly rolled the corpse into the impervious black box at the end of the line.
"Do… do you know what happens to the bodies?" Chinami asked meekly, gazing up at the massive contraption in muted horror.
"Yes," Cervin said flatly as he pocketed his punch card. He turned around to leave, only to find that a man had suddenly come out of nowhere to block his path.
The man was lean and short, though not as lean and short as Chinami. He was completely hairless, and his skin was abnormally smooth and pale. He was dressed in an ornate three-piece suit and cravat, and clasped upon the bridge of his nose was a pair of opaque spectacles with brass rims.
Despite his inferior stature, it was clear that Cervin was unnerved by the man's presence.
"Taskmaster Ichmann; how are you, sir?" Cervin asked, standing as straight as he could and clasping his hands behind his back. "I was just depositing my latest –"
"Who is the fräulein, Herr Cervin?" Ichmann asked impatiently, eyeing Chinami with suspicion.
"Yes, I, ah… I ran into her on Level 0," he confessed. "She walked in on me right as I was bagging a body. I wasn't sure what I was supposed to do, so I brought her back with me."
Ichmann clucked his tongue in irritation as he evaluated Chinami.
"Herr Raubritter doesn't want anyone to know about his operation on Level 0," he said. "She and I will need to come to an agreement before we can decide what's to be done with her."
"She's in no condition to enter any kind of contract right now; she needs food and water," Cervin insisted.
"Oy. You Union types, always going on and on about your 'food' and your 'water'," Ichmann threw up his hands in frustration. "Yes, fine. Come to my office. We'll get her fed first then."
The two of them followed him up a flight of stairs to his office on the administrative floor, where they were left alone and waited on by a four-foot-tall, bat-eared, vitiligo afflicted servant in full livery. Cervin had expected for Chinami to be fed only a penny's worth a gruel like the Foundry workers, but to his surprise, they were each presented with a bowl of creamy vegetable soup with crackers, bread and butter, cheese, Genoa salami, chocolate truffles, and sparkling strawberry water.
Chinami was understandably overjoyed at the feast provided to her, and devoured it ravenously.
"It's not like Ichmann to put out a spread like this for a Bagman and a beggar," Cervin said to her when she had nearly finished. "It seems that he wants you in an amicable mood. I don't know what he's up to, but be very careful with any deal he tries to make when he comes back."
Chinami swallowed and nodded understandingly, then gazed out the brown-streaked window to the yellow clouds outside.
"Can I ever go back home?" she asked timidly. As she expected, Cervin shook his head.
"No. But you don't have to go back to Level 0," he assured her, trying to soften the blow. "There's plenty of other levels, some of which aren't half-bad."
"Why do you go back, then?" she asked. "Why work as a Bagman?"
Cervin wrung his hands as he considered his response.
"You said that when you were down there, you thought you saw something, but you weren't sure, and that you thought you might be going crazy," he began slowly. "Those somethings are called 'The Kings In Yellow', and they're what tried to attack us before the elevator closed. They're not real, in the sense that they can't exist in baseline reality, and even here they can't interact directly with real people. You'll catch glimpses of them in your periphery when you're not paying attention, but never enough to be sure you saw anything at all, or hear them when you're not sure what the sound was or where it came from. The MEG's file on Level 0 says it has a minimal entity count, but they're wrong. The Kings In Yellow are everywhere down there, stalking every single person unfortunate enough to fall into their web. Every time you went to sleep down there, they were standing over you, watching you, waiting for you to die.
"They're the ones who created Level 0, I think. The rest of The Backrooms were just an unintentional byproduct that grew from that, inhabited and shaped by all manner of strange beings the crept in over the millennia, but Level 0 are the Kings' hunting grounds. They made a labyrinth where they could trap people, isolate people, starve and stalk them until they went mad and after an impossibly long ordeal, finally die. They can only interact with you directly when you're dead, and that's the whole point of all of this. I don't know why they need or want human corpses, just that they do, and that they're the reason it's so rare to find dead bodies on Level 0.
"And that's why I gather those bodies. I'm not going to sit here and pretend that what Raubritter does with them is respectful, but it's better than letting the Kings have them. I hate those bastards, and every body that I get to first is a win. I don't know if it will actually make any difference in the long run, but the thought that I might actually be a thorn in their side is enough for me."
Chinami grew sullen as she processed everything he had said. She thought back to countless days of lonely wandering, knowing now that she wasn't crazy, and that something had been hunting her all that time. She had a name for them now, and that name conjured up images of tall beings in yellow cloaks and golden crowns, standing behind her and reaching out a necrotic hand, desperate to touch her but never quite able to.
It disgusted her, terrified her, and most importantly, enraged her.
The office door swung open and Ichmann returned, tossing a manilla folder onto his mahogany desk as he sat down.
"I've spoken with Herr Raubritter, and as this is the first time one of our Bagman has ever been found by a wanderer, we're not willing to credit this to mere luck just yet," he said, leaning back in his chair and pensively folding his fingers together. "The good news is that this means we're not going to kill or even harm you, but the bad news is we're not willing to just send you on your merry way. Now, the amount of oversight on our part depends entirely on how cooperative you're willing to be. I can't offer you a position on the factory floor, since the necessary augmentations might affect whatever led you to Herr Cervin, but there are perhaps less intensive jobs that you might find more agreeable than a prison cell? Fieldwork, perhaps? You can get out, meet people, see the rest of The Backrooms. How does that sound?"
Chinami swallowed nervously, mulling over her response for as long as she could before she finally spoke.
"How can I be of use against The Kings In Yellow?" she asked firmly.
Cervin twisted his head at her in dismay, but a wide, avaricious grin immediately spread across Ichmann's pale face.
"Yes. Perhaps you could be of use to us in that department."
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Q: Run many users login at same time, always passed half and fail half in the controller I setup a scenario in loadrunner controller to setup one group with 10 users login at same time, setup parameters with username as 10 usernames, setup parameters run the "next row" with "Unique".

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*if start 10 Vusers simultaneously till run completion. I got 5 users passes, 5 users failed.

*if start 8 Vusers simultaneously till run completion. I got 4 users passes, 4 users failed.

*if start 6 Vusers simultaneously till run completion. I got 3 users passes, 3 users failed.

Anyone know why that happens? My testcase just needs to run 10 users login at same time.

A: Can you please let us know the error which you are getting in output window.
looks like in sufficient parameters related to user name, did you select the password as same line as username.

A: Real users do not engage in simultaneous synchronized behavior.   They may engage in a common activity in the same time window or they may have a coincident operation in the same section of code at the same time, but true synchronized simultaneity requires an automated agent and a clock tick.
Why don't you consider ramping up your users rather than starting them all at once and then ramping them down after your test window under load?

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