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How Hillary Will Become President As America's Nighmare Is About to Get A Lot Worse
Submitted by Dave Hodges on Thursday, December 23, 2021 - 12:59.
Regime change is in the air. Biden is about to leave office and the path will be paved for Hillary to assume her life-long goal, the ascension to the Presidency of the United States. This story is about how this will happen. Make no mistake about it. Hillary will be taking over at a time when WW III is a possibility and so is civil war. She will wage war on the American people.
Let's take a preliminary look at what the ruling class must have in place before they wage purposeful war on its own people.
Corporate support for the government. The major box stores and Wall Street are on board with the woke agenda and the present redistribution of wealth because they are benefitting from it. they are awaiting leadership that make this happen.
The media must provide the justification for very hostile behavior and the level of hostility that is coming which is needed to subjugate the opposition.
Basic and overwhelming control of the military. I recently interviewed Jamie Walden and he recounted a discussion he had with Col. Oliver North in which he said that most of the senior military leadership has been bought off by the Chinese and willing to accept the defeat of the United States by outside forces (eg China). Further, a narrative is being created that Trump supporters will create a deadly insurrection in 2024 when Trump is defeated. I have been told by two sources that the Generals who promoted this false agenda in Newsweek Magazine are all on the take from Communist China. They also require leadership to move forward their treason that Biden/Harris cannot provide.
As I alluded to before, I indicated that a regime change must first take place before this administration, controlled largely by Obama and Susan Rice, can begin the dissident roundups and gun confiscations that every Communist regime engages in. It is not a matter of if a regime change is coming, but when and how will it happen? Look at the information chart I have created :
Biden Is Removed by the 25th Amendment
The coup would be bloodless
This sets the stage for more draconian leadership to lead the country which would be needed if the ultimate intent is civil war.
The Disadvantages
If Biden must be removed through the relatively peaceful 25th Amendment the Democratic Party would be roundly criticized for running Biden in the first place. If he has dementia now, he had dementia a year ago. This would create a large shadow of doubt over the Democrats ability to select a viable and durable candidate. This would impair anyone the Democrats would select for the 2024 campaign and it will not under any circumstance be Kamala Harris.
For the record, it is important to state that I oppose any and all Presidential assassinations. First, it violates my Christian beliefs. Second, such an act disenfranchises the voting public. Third, no Presidential assassination ever improved a country. However, and the reader will see below, I have strong reason to believe that Biden will not leave office alive because the Deep State/Democratic Party have no hesitation of using violence to achieve their goals, simply look at the last 11 months.
The Advantages Associated with a Deep State Planned Assassination of Joe Biden
The Democrats will be the beneficiary of sympathy. When JFK was assassinated in 1963, his main agenda, civil rights, was stalled. Biden's infrastructure, voting bill and climate change policies are similarly stalled. When JFK was the sympathy vote pushed through his civil rights agenda with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In the even of Biden's untimely demise his New World Order programs might pass along the same lines.
There is also great mileage to be had from an assassination. Trump supporters could be framed. This would open up justification for gun confiscation. Roundups would occur. One might wonder how wide the roundups would go? If one looks at the behavior of Pelosi and the Jan 6 Commission, they are subpoenaing phone records for people who were not even in DC on that date. I would expect the administration would use this potential event to go after dissidents they wanted removed from society. Yes, the round ups would begin. Vocal opposition could be eliminated and the birth of the American concentration camps would begin. I would also expect door-to-door gun confiscations. This violent approach would ensure a 2022 and/or 2024 victory for the Democrats.
What About Kamala's Removal?
Kamala Harris will not be allowed to become the permanent replacement President for two reasons:
She alienates everyone around her. Her leadership would be so schizophrenic that Biden's stalled legislation would not likely pass.
She does not have the intelligence or executive leadership capacity to carry out the direction the Deep State's path of destruction for America's future.
The Scenario for the Ascension of Hillary Clinton to the Presidency
Biden leaves office and Harris is sworn in. There will be little opposition because of the sympathy card.
The shocked Senate would approve the appointment of Hillary Clinton to the Vice-President. I should mention a caveat here…Some think that the new VP will be Michelle Obama. However, I am not in agreement with this line of thinking. Hillary has recently resurfaced as the media portrays her in a softer light. Below is a display of Hillary's extreme narcissism as she tearfully reads from what was to be her 2016 Presidential acceptance speech. I don't recommend watching this video on a fully stomach. Meet your next President...
The Removal of Kamala
How will Kamala leave office? She has more skeletons than a haunted house on Halloween. In a previous article, I established, as did the Gateway Pundit, a relationship with Smollett. As previously stated, the Obamas and Smollett were close. Kamala was allegedly used to help coordinate the hoax racial/gay attack by working with the Nigerians. There are many that believe that at the right time, the Nigerians will roll over on Kamala, in secret, to obtain a lighter sentence. This would be done all behind the scenes. Kamala will resign for a bogus reason and Hillary becomes President and America's nightmare is just beginning.
It should be noted that the leveraging of the Nigerians to force a Kamala resignation is a hot story right now. However, the Deep State, because of Kamala's past criminality, many avenues that can be used to force her resignation. For example, when she was the Alameda County DA, she ran interference for the local Catholic officials who were abusing young boys. She even went as far, to block open records access to the media on the topic.
In summary, this is the most likely path for the ascension of Hillary to the Presidency. What would a Hillary Presidency look like, that will be the subject of an upcoming article. However, I am going play a telling interview I had with Doug Thornton, ex DEA official and now present talk show host on Global Star Radio Network with his new show, American Vindicta. In the interview, Doug and myself paint the unwavering picture that an American Civil War is close at hand. Some will not like this, but I am encouraging everyone to pray for Biden's safety. We can remove him from office using legitmate means and I don't think it is wise to lower ourselves to the Bolshvik Communists who have taken over the country
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What a Christmas and New…
Edward Workman… Thu, 12/23/2021 - 18:21
What a Christmas and New Year's nightmare: hillary as pres, WWIII, supply chain breakdowns. We need a CW2 unless secession is successful.
The Last president?
Gary Hines Thu, 12/23/2021 - 18:58
Hi Dave the last president will be a woman to fill a freemason prophecy once she becomes president 18 months later plus or minus 18 months later Dave the United States gets hit with thromo nuclear .you can blame these maniac's in Washington for all of this.
GOOD LORD, DAVE....
Neil Cahill Thu, 12/23/2021 - 21:19
ARE YOU SURE???? GEEZ....
What About God?
Wayne Burden Thu, 12/23/2021 - 22:23
Dave, as Christians do we believe God's in control or not… and do we believe He has a plan as outlined in Daniel and Revelation? If so, then Hillary will be President if it's His will to carry out His master plan. He raises up and put down rulers for His purposes, not ours. Our nation can still be saved from this fate if we get on our knees… repent… and make intercessory prayer for our Nation! Repentance and prayer are the only two things that will postpone or totally delay our national decline!
I love my American brothers…
James Grubbs Thu, 12/23/2021 - 23:03
I love my American brothers and sisters but despise this gruberment with a passion. over 107 years ago our sovereignty was handed over to the very establishments that we are being oppressed by today. I wish I could say fighting today but we are not putting up any fight. You will not beat these entities with civil war or succession as this just feeds into their end game plans. A strong unwavering relationship with Jesus Christ will be your only hope and even then it will not keep you above the danger. It still amazes me how quickly things started to change in this nation. 2011 was when I started noticing things ramping up fast. Don't get me wrong I knew things were bad but it was like the pits of hell were opened up around that time.
Salvation From Eternal Hell
Ashton Hammond Thu, 12/23/2021 - 23:07
God is real and wants a relationship with you all. Heaven is where you wanna be, and eternal Hell not at all. What you have to do is repent and accept salvation through Yahshua God's Son! Hell is forever so repent as needed, also lead a life according to the Bible! End Times Here! Concentration camps near future!
The covenant our ancestors made with The Lord through the Mayflower Compact reached it's 400th anniversary last year (2020) and it appears his hand of protection has now been lifted from this nation as a whole and rightfully so. If you don't have a relationship with Jesus Christ then you are probably scoffing at my words because a veil of darkness has fallen on this land that only true believers can see through. This is why so many are blindly getting poison injected into their veins at the request of the Luciferians running this world. I truly believe that this will be the last traditional American holiday season you and I will experience. I don't say Christmas because everyday is Christmas for me.
The idea that the Senate…
Charles Yarbrough Fri, 12/24/2021 - 00:42
The idea that the Senate will be in such shock that they would vote in Hillary is asinine…never happen. I do agree that Kamala will not last long in the Oval Office, but Hillary is a non-starter. The GOP would then be in charge because it will then be a 50-50 split…


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REFUGE from MKSHFT/CLLCTV on Vimeo.
What happens when a cyber-terrorist attack in the year of 2020 on America's immigration database leaves thousands of Iranian immigrants vulnerable to deportation? The exploitation of one woman's powerlessness by giving her the choice of participating in a research program to create genetically modified humans in exchange for a Green Card, or going back to Iran and facing imprisonment or worse for her political activism. This is the premise of the film Refuge, written and directed by up-and-coming Iranian-American independent filmmaker Mohammad Gorjestani. Featured as an episode on the PBS FutureStates series at http://futurestates.tv/episodes/refuge, Refuge explores the dilemma of self-preservation verses the moral greater good, and asks each of us to decide which choice we'd make when faced with the impossible.
1) For me, the film was about the escalating use of technology in warfare. In this case, you touched on cyberwar. The GM embryos, though their purpose wasn't actually stated, appeared to be about the creation of super-soldiers. Is that right?
I think everyone takes away different elements from the film that resonate with them the most. For me, the presence of technology in the film, from cyber warfare to facial identification, is part of the picture of a possible future -- one in which security is prioritized over personal freedom and privacy. Today, you see this tension playing out in issues from the NSA leaks to Facebook policy changes, and I wanted to imagine what the future might be like if our society continued to drift in this direction, the trajectory steered by technology. It seemed natural to imagine cyber warfare as an increasing battlefield in this vision of the future.
This "new normal" is the backdrop to the film, but the main focal point is Sonia, a character who symbolizes the potential cost and effects of this kind of societal shift. She's both a struggling immigrant and a collateral victim of an international conflict. Sonia is a character who is simply trying to do the right thing and make the most out of her opportunity to be in the U.S. She's the type of person who, according to the "American Dream," should be rewarded for her hard work. I wanted to lift that veil and peer into the reality of what that experience might be like.
Regarding super-soldiers, yes, that's what is alluded to in the interactions between Sonia and Reza, and his offer of a Green Card in exchange for carrying a genetically-modified embryo.
2) Exploiting a race of people and their situation to have an advantage over the "enemy"?
In the final scene of the film, we see a 4th of July neighborhood party with Sonia on the steps looking on, but not part of the celebration. For me, this was a visual metaphor for the greater immigrant experience -- a part of society but also separate from it. Immigrants are so fundamental to the American way of life and our economy, and yet they exist in the shadows and on the margins. So, I was thinking less about how the US might create an advantage over the enemy, and more imagining how the way things are now might continue and morph into the future.
3) And her being torn between two conflicting loyalties? Wanting to stay in the US where she's safe, both physically and politically, but being morally opposed to GM?
Yes, this is the "making a deal with the devil" aspect of the film. There's really no right choice. It's an elaborate bureaucratic/political version of entrapment. I was interested in how a person like Sonia, with strong values and sense of self, might end up having to relinquish those values for the greater promise of staying in the U.S.
4) What was the inspiration for this film? Was there a specific moment that clicked for you?
I thought it would be interesting to explore an idea for a film set in the not-too-distant future where technology, immigration, and government had dovetailed in potentially perilous ways. Within this context, I also wanted to look at the question of why immigrants are often willing to pay a high price to live a life that many of us take for granted. With Sonia, we have a young, ambitious, and independent character that left a troubled situation in Iran to pursue an education and the American dream -- which ultimately proves to resemble more of a nightmare. I wanted to place Sonia in a situation and give her a choice to make, which blended irony and allegory, and which directly conflicted her values. Ultimately, Refuge is a story about a character facing an extraordinary circumstance, and falling victim to a geopolitical conflict reflective of a world we could all soon live in.
I think the wrong way, or the "Hollywood way" to make this film would have been to focus on the institutions and governments as the primary characters, and place the geopolitical conflict at the forefront. I don't think that kind of film is a bad film, but it plays out a grand scale that doesn't resonate emotionally. When you strip back the spectacle of international conflict, you're left with common people who are being affected by something they have no association with. I'm interested in those type of stories. The ordinary person placed in an extraordinary, but realistic situation. And instead of looking at how a person survives that situation -- like so many movies seem to -- I think these stories present an opportunity for us to explore the realities of a greater world through a complex, human lens.
5) With genetically modified food so prevalent now, and the controversy surrounding it, do you see genetically modified humans next on the evolutionary track?
6) What are your thoughts on cyber warfare?
It's fascinating because it's happening now, but so many people are unaware of it. It's rarely, if ever, front page news. And we're not just talking about rogue hackers armed with a PC and a grudge, it's major government operations such as the "Operation Olympic Games" virus which the US and Israel allegedly used to shut down Iran's nuclear facilities. This summer, documents leaked by Edward Snowden revealed that China and the US have been hacking each other since 2009. And just this month, the head of Iran's cyber warfare division was assassinated. The real threat of cyberwar is it's expansive reach and the vulnerability of central systems such as banks, energy facilities, water plants, etc. It's not just about hacking into a computer to steal information, imagine a cyber attack on a water facility to release more chemicals into our water supply. Like any stealth offensive, by the time we become aware it's likely already causing damage. And since to most people this sounds like science fiction, it mostly continues to fly under the radar and isn't part of our public discourse.
7) Is this film concept science fiction to you, along the lines of the flying cars of the 1950s, or do you see it as an inevitable future for the human race?
8) Could this concept have been applied to any group of immigrants and you just happened to choose Iran because you are Iranian and it felt more personal, or do you see a broader political issue with Iran, or even the Middle East specifically?
I think this is a universal story not specific to one community or to any one character. I'm drawn to telling stories that I can take out of my own well of experience and life. I was born in Iran and having nearly all of my family back home allows me to have a very unique perspective on the escalating tension between the two countries (both of which I'm citizens of). There's no question that Iran is a hotspot right now politically, and there is a turbulent history between the two countries, extending back to the CIA's overthrowing of Mosadegh to pave way for the Shah in the 50's, to the hostage crisis in 80's, to the US supplying Iraq during the Iran/Iraq war, to the conflicts we see today over nuclear facilities, etc. -- so this adds a sense of relevancy to the story. But these are conflicts between governments and not necessarily representative of the people.
One of my favorite things that happened this past year was the US and Iranian Wrestling teams competing in LA and hugging and embracing each other after the competition . Most of the Iranians I know love Americans and most Americans I know love Iranians.
Think about that irony for a minute. Indeed.


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Harrison Taylor among honorees at 48th annual Freedom Day
Jul 28, 2017 at 8:07 PM Jul 28, 2017 at 11:00 PM
Greene County will hold its 48th annual Freedom Day celebration at 10 a.m. Saturday at the William M. Branch Courthouse.
The celebration marks the July 1969 special elections that led to Greene County's first black elected officials.
Among the honorees will be Harrison Taylor, former Tuscaloosa City Council president, and Earnestine Tucker, former member of the Tuscaloosa City Board of Education.
Robert Hines, the last surviving member of the group of black leaders elected in Greene County in 1969, will also be honored. Hines served on the school board and the Greene County Commission.
The Rev. Wendell Paris of Jackson, Mississippi, will be the keynote speaker.
The celebration will conclude with an evening of music and food on the old courthouse lawn.


Earning fame over social media pages is the in-thing these days. One good example of a megastar over these social sites is Simon Britton. He is an upcoming star in the industry, and it is quite surprising that he has gained a lot in the few years he has been a socialite. Being a YouNow notable celebrity, Britton boasts of over 2 million followers.
Other social media pages where he is famous are on YouTube, Twitter, and Instagram. Initially, Britton had other special interests in broadcasting. He fell in love with this profession since it gave him the opportunity of entertaining other people. This attribute has greatly influenced the direction that his new career is taking. Most videos aired on his page feature his family and friends. His popular video uploads are labeled Whipped Cream and Gummy Worm Challenge and Whisper Challenge.
Simon Britton was born on June 23rd, in 1999. His place of birth was in Brownsburg, Indiana in the USA. Just before venturing in YouNow, Britton had special interests in soccer, particularly in Indiana. Nevertheless, he was happy that he made other people happy through broadcasting. From this, he thought it was wise to try out social media pages to entertain people. Fortunately, to him, this transformed his career path into something worthwhile. In no time, he became a phenomenal individual in all the social media pages that he owned. What followed next was a huge string of followers in these social pages. In Instagram, for example, he is proudly followed by over 300K followers.
Britton's YouTube page also appeals to many, and he has close to 50K subscribers to his channel. Things are also good on Twitter as over 70K followers follow him. On YouNow channel, where he gained his high acclaim, he has close to 280K followers. All his supporters call themselves Simonkey.
Simon Britton earned his fame through the unique content that he posts to his social media pages. Simonkey, his followers, claim that his videos are family oriented and that they represent the good intentions that Britton has to his fans. Aside from featuring his friends and family, some of his videos also feature beautiful pets people would love to own.
Simon Britton has gained the love of many people in just a few years that he has been entertaining people over social media pages. An interesting fact that makes him stand out from other socialites is that he loves making people happy. This is a special intrinsic value that makes his videos so natural. He also finds it worthy to connect with his fan base from time to time. Therefore, he links up with them over social web pages and in the numerous tours that he undertakes regularly.
Apart from being famous over the internet, Simon Britton is also a talented soccer player. This is an activity that he initially engaged in before trying his luck over the internet. Right from the time he was aged 4, he used to play soccer in Indiana. It was not until recently in 2014 that Britton tried venturing into social media as a way of entertaining others. To him, this was an activity that he did just for fun. Luckily, things turned out great beyond his expectations.
Simon Britton's parents are called Rick and Lori Britton. He was born in a family of three children where he is the only boy child. His sisters are called Emily and Sophie. Before earning huge fame over social media pages, Simon Britton was a talented soccer player.


Sinn Féin MLA Cathal Boylan said today that new proposed road safety legislation will save lives and he urged people to have their say on the proposals.
"I welcome any new proposals which will save lives on the roads. But it's important people have the opportunity to help shape the legislation.
"Young road users are a group who are at particular risk and it is crucially important that we engage with them before introducing changes to legislation.
"We also need to have input from other road users and members of the public.
"The proposals will include a number of changes to many aspects of driving.
"Some of those proposals include a requirement for quad bike users to wear a helmet while on a public road, a new drink driving training and testing regime for learner drivers and restrictions on new drivers.
"I would encourage all organisations and individuals with an interest in road safety to have their say on this Bill.
"It's important we make sure that any measures brought forward will make our roads a safer place for all in the future."


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# MantisBT - a php based bugtracking system

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# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with MantisBT.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

	 /**
	  * MantisBT Core API's
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	require_once( 'core.php' );

	require_once( 'category_api.php' );

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	auth_reauthenticate();

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	access_ensure_project_level( config_get( 'manage_project_threshold' ), $f_project_id );
	access_ensure_project_level( config_get( 'manage_project_threshold' ), $f_other_project_id );

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	foreach ( $rows as $row ) {
		$t_name = $row['name'];

		if ( category_is_unique( $t_dst_project_id, $t_name ) ) {
			category_add( $t_dst_project_id, $t_name );
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Rails.application.routes.draw do

  root 'watching#feed'

  scope 'api' do
    get 'subscriptions' => 'api#subscriptions', as: :api_subscriptions
    get 'users' => 'api#users', as: :api_users
    get 'pages' => 'api#pages', as: :api_pages
    get 'stats' => 'api#stats', as: :api_stats

    scope 'embed' do
      post 'page' => 'api#embed_find_page', as: :embed_find_page
      post 'page/update-selector' => 'api#embed_update_page_selector', as: :embed_update_page_selector
    end

    get '/page-preview' => 'api#page_preview', as: :api_page_preview
  end

  scope '/watching' do
    get '/' => 'watching#index', as: :watching

    resources :pages do
      get '/latest-change' => 'pages#latest_change', on: :member
      get '/snapshots' => 'pages#snapshots', on: :member
      get '/setup-compare' => 'pages#setup_compare', on: :member, as: :setup_compare
      get '/compare/:before_id/:after_id' => 'pages#compare', on: :member
    end
  end

  get '/changes/page/:change_id' => 'changes#page', as: :page_change
  post '/changes/resend/:change_id' => 'changes#resend', as: :resend_change_notifications
  patch '/changes/:change_id' => 'changes#update', as: :change

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  get '/page_snapshots/download_html/:page_snapshot_id' => 'page_snapshots#download', as: :download_page_snapshot_html

  scope '/embed' do
    get 'inject' => 'embed#inject'
    get 'iframe' => 'embed#iframe'
  end

  scope '/integrations' do
    get '/' => 'integrations#index', as: :integrations
    resources :slack, as: 'slack_integrations', controller: 'slack_integrations'
    resources :sqs, as: 'sqs_integrations', controller: 'sqs_integrations'
  end

  get '/help' => 'static#help', as: :help

  resources :users do
    get  '/invite' => 'users#invite', as: :invite
    post '/invite' => 'users#create_invite', as: :create_invite
    resources :pages do
     delete '/' => 'users#unsubscribe', as: :unsubscribe
    end

  end

  scope '/login' do
    get '/' => 'sessions#new', as: :login
    get '/token' => 'sessions#token', as: :token_session
    post '/' => 'sessions#create', as: :create_session
    get 'unknown' => 'sessions#unknown_user', as: :unknown_user
    get 'expired/:user_id' => 'sessions#expired_token', as: :expired_token
  end
  post '/logout' => 'sessions#destroy', as: :logout

end


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Day 74: Uptown Cafeteria and Support Group
Published on: 06/15/10 6:21 PM
If you're like me, you're always on the lookout for the latest hotspot for dinner, happy hour, or just hanging out with friends. Well, today's hotspot is so new, it just opened today.
Uptown Cafeteria and Support Group is actually neither a cafeteria, nor a support group, but a cool new restaurant in Uptwon's Calhoun Square at the corner of Hennepin and Lake Street in Minneapolis. The place has about 200 table, bar and counter seats on the street level, part of a recently completed Calhoun Square addition, plus another 200 a few floors up on the roof, accessible by a glass-walled elevator.
The Sky Bar, as the rooftop area is called, offers a great view of the uptown neighborhood, and is right across the street from another popular rooftop–Stella's Fish Cafe.
On the street level, the restaurant is decked out with a retro-mod vibe that could be straight out of A Clockwork Orange, with retro glazed white brick accented by distinctive orange and blue, plastic wood-grain paneling and Naugahyde-covered saddleback chairs.
If one word were to sum up the menu, it would be eclectic. With everything from surprisingly inexpensive breakfasts, ranging from around $4 to $14, most choices are around $8. Breakfast is served weekends, from 8 a.m. to noon both Saturday and Sunday.
As for the rest of the menu, the prices are equally as reasonable. From the $2.95 Field Green Salad to the most expensive thing on the menu–a King-Cut Prime Rib Dinner for $29.95–the choices are many and varied. Sandwiches and burgers range from around $8 for the sliders to a Grilled Shrimp Pita for around $13.
As for appetizers, they serve up Lightly Battered Tempura Vegetables with Green Tea Sea Salt for $6.95 and a Seared Ahi Tuna with a cucumber salad and ginger-soy dipping sauce for a reasonable $9.95. All other appetizers fall within this price range. Not bad.
Choices for entree salads are pretty standard. The Chef's Salad is $11.95 at the lower end of the range, and the Greek Salad with Grilled Shrimp, at $15.95, is at the top. One salad caught my eye as being a bit unique: The Big Hippie Salad, with lots of veggies, quinoa, and a hempseed vinaigrette. Not sure if it's my thing or not, but it's definitely a little different.
If you like an ethnic flavor to your dinner, perhaps the Chicken Curry Masala or Hungarian Beef Goulash would be more your speed. Or even the Nankin Chicken Subgum Chow Mein, which is the weekly special dinner on Monday nights.
There's plenty of choices for the budget-minded, from the aforementioned burgers and sandwiches, to the Friday night All-You-Can-Eat Fish Fry. At $15.95, it's a good value, with fries and cole slaw.
See the full menu for more details and exact pricing.
If you're unsure where Calhoun Square is, check out the location page on the Uptown Cafeteria and Support Group website.
For more information, check out uptowncafeteria.com.
L. says
Watch out for this place, specifically one of the managers on duty (Melissa) and Assistant General Manager (Brad Berge)!!!! I was just there this last Saturday and was treated extremely disrespectfully for NO reason. I had been there for 1 hour, had 1 glass of wine and was denied further service being told I was too intoxicated! The MOD Melissa told me I wasn't able to keep my head off the bar… this was a flat out lie! I was sitting directly at the bar, the bartenders and barbacks even thought it was a joke I was denied service. They were offended their judgment was not trusted to continue serving a patron who was 100% SOBER when asked their opinion!!! The Assistant GM told me to my face he thought I was sober, but yet continued to deny me service! Watch out, the MOD Melissa appears to have a personal vendetta that she will take out on anyone she feels she would like to.


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At Work 109 (Summer 2022)
IWH estimates point to positive return on OHS investment in three Ontario sectors
The Institute's method to estimate the ROI of occupational health and safety spending includes intangible benefits
While employer expenditures on occupational health and safety (OHS) in Canada can be substantial, the financial benefits of these expenditures are not well understood. To learn more about the range of financial returns on employers' investments in the prevention of work-related injury and illness, the Institute for Work & Health (IWH) conducted a study estimating the financial benefits that may be realized by Ontario employers who are strong OHS performers.
The study found positive returns for strong OHS performers in the three Ontario sectors it examined: manufacturing, construction and transportation. The findings were based on a set of plausible assumptions used by the study team—a crucial one being an estimate of the intangible benefits of strong health and safety performance.
As part of the study, we asked employers how important the intangible benefits of OHS are. That is, if they've worked really hard to have first-in-class policies and practices to prevent work-related injuries and illnesses, do they believe that investment pays them back in terms of employee satisfaction and morale, quality of work or corporate reputation? They all said yes, says Dr. Cameron Mustard, the study lead and former senior scientist and president at IWH. Some told us those are the real payback.
Incorporating that feedback into its set of plausible assumptions, the team found that, for every dollar spent on worker health and safety, manufacturing employers in Ontario with strong OHS performance get back an average of $1.24. Those in construction get back $1.34, and those in transportation recoup $2.14 in benefits.
The estimates in this study are, we think, conservative and consistent with the range of estimates available from research in this field over the past decade, says Mustard. He notes that, to determine savings realized because of injuries that didn't happen, the team compared the incidence rate of lost-time claims among the high OHS performers included in the study against the averages in their respective sectors. Had the team compared them to the lost-time claim rates of the poorest performers in their sectors—say, the bottom 25 per cent—the ROI would have been higher, he adds.
A summary of this research is available in an IWH Issue Briefing, published in May 2022.
This study builds on a 2017 project, also led by Mustard, that estimated average OHS expenditures by Ontario employers, based on information provided by 334 organizations. It was conducted using in-depth interviews with a person knowledgeable about OHS at each of the 334 employers.
The interviews were focused on how much participating organizations spent on the following five dimensions: 1) organizational management and supervision; 2) staff training in health and safety; 3) personal protective equipment; 4) professional services provided by external organizations; and 5) share of new capital investment attributed to improved OHS performance. Based on these interviews, the study team arrived at average estimates of OHS investment per employee, per year, in each of 17 Ontario sectors (see the open access article at doi.org/10.5271/sjweh.3778).
In this new study, the team turned to claims records from Ontario's Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB). Using those records, the team identified organizations in the manufacturing, construction and transportation sectors with at least 100 full-time equivalent (FTE) employees and with incidences of work-related injury and illness from 2013 to 2018 that were at least 60 per cent lower than the average of their rate group. For each employer identified—289 in manufacturing, 88 in construction and 56 in transportation—the team applied an estimate of OHS expenditures, based on the per-employee per-year estimate from the 2017 study.
The team also calculated the number of claims averted at each participating employer by comparing its actual lost-time claims with its expected lost-time claims, which was assumed to be the average lost-time incidence of its rate group. To estimate the tangible costs of each averted claim, the team used a formula developed by the WSIB, combined with an estimate of indirect costs experienced by the employer. These averted costs were defined as tangible financial benefits.
The team also estimated and included the financial value of intangible benefits—an innovative feature of the study. It recognizes that employers with strong OHS performance may realize intangible financial benefits arising from improved employee retention and morale, improved production quality and strengthened corporate reputation.
Throughout the research process, the team consulted with representatives of leading employers to get feedback on the method. Employers with whom the study team consulted agreed that these intangible benefits were real and that they represented important organizational outcomes of strong OHS performance. The research team applied a plausible assumption that intangible benefits equalled tangible benefits in its calculation of the overall financial return.
The feedback we heard was that intangible benefits were substantial, and likely higher than what we estimated, says Dr. Basak Yanar, an IWH associate scientist and member of the research team.
An estimate of the return-on-investment in occupational health and safety is not a figure that many individual organizations can easily come up with on their own, says Mustard. OHS practitioners and leaders already know the importance of such investment. With these estimates of OHS ROI in three Ontario sectors, we hope we can help them show the value of such investment and further make the business case for OHS expenditures.
Source: At Work, Issue 109, Summer 2022: Institute for Work & Health, Toronto
Workers doing vigorous, tiring activity all day no healthier than those who are least active
IWH model influences other research orgs' approach to measuring impact
Grant round-up: Exploring the impact of AI, recovery and work after COVID, and more
New initiative 'skills up' employers to hire, promote, support workers with disabilities


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Vizhinjam....Moving Forward
For a change, the Vizhinjam project has been getting the sort of attention that a Rs 6000 Crore mega-infrastructure project, which can change the face of Kerala, should be getting. After the heartening progress made with the ongoing bid process, it has been embroiled in the controversy of whether it would or would not receive environmental clearance.
The recent visit to Trivandrum by Jairam Ramesh seems to have added some impetus to the project's chances of getting a green flag sooner rather than later. Despite the fact that the whole drama reeks of being staged for the benefit of the current Congress-led Government, it is to be hoped that Mr Ramesh's promise of a speedy and positive conclusion to the whole debate will be honored. Especially, in light of the fact that ports like Tata's Dhamra project in Orissa, which is in close proximity to a national park, sailed clean through with the proper mitigation measures in place.
The Environmental Question
So is the Vizhinjam deep water port going to irreparably destroy our environment? Of course, not.
Firstly, the project does not lie in an ecologically sensitive area, there are no mangrove forests or coral reefs anywhere in sight! There are no endangered species at risk from the construction of the port. Vizhinjam lies in a category of the Coastal Regulation/Management Zone that is well below the most sensitive type.
Secondly, the only environment-related response of the Environmental Clearance committee meetings that considered the project is about the question of coastal erosion. The Trivandrum coast has its share of seasonal erosion and deposition and perhaps the Committee is concerned that the massive breakwater would alter the sediment flow patterns and cause accelerated erosion in nearby areas. While this is not totally implausible, the studies conducted by top-flight agencies such as Ramboll, not to mention the simulation tests run at the wave-pool in CET years ago are clear pointers to the fact that the minimal littoral drift along the project site would not result in any massive erosional effect. Moreover, when the final design of the breakwater is done, it would incorporate sophisticated modeling techniques to ensure that adverse hydrological impacts are minimized or mitigated. This is an issue that is associated with any major marine structure, not just ports, and is not a cause for extreme concern in view of the relative benign nature of the surroundings of the project.
The other points raised by the latest EC Committee look far less scientific and more politically motivated in nature. For example, they have expressed concern about other container terminals in South India and how they would be affected by the development of Vizhinjam. For some weird reason, they even mentioned Colachel, where there is currently not even a proposal far less a concrete plan and a bid process in progress! This time, VISL - the project's nodal agency - was asked to submit an overall study of India's container sector. It seems odd that an EC discussion should focus so closely on techno-financial viability when the same EC didn't balk at sanctioning nearly a dozen major port projects just along the coast of Gujarat or gave the green flag for the Gangavaram port project just a few kilometers from the sprawling Vizag port! For an economy growing at 8 to 10% annually, which is now has the third largest GDP (in PPP terms) and which does not have even a single deep water container transshipment terminal till date, I fail to see where the question of viability or necessity lies.
That said, some of the points raised in the Terms of Reference such as marine traffic study, construction methodology and site connectivity seem to be genuine, and seem to point towards a surprising lack of completeness of the EIA submitted by VISL. Either the latter and its consultants are totally incompetent, which is hard to believe considering the consultants include global majors such as the IFC and Royal-Haskoning, or there is some sort of smoke-and-mirrors act in progress to slow down the port's development.
I believe that the project will eventually get its EIA approved. The only question is how long it will take. Hopefully, a provisional clearance can be issued with a revised application using available data, which would allow for construction to begin under carefully monitored conditions such as air and water quality, coastal erosion and so on. This is not an extraordinary practice for major projects and will allow preliminary work to begin before the results of the three season study come in (sometime in mid-2012). Without some sort of environmental nod, the current bid process is unlikely to get far and it seems the bankers are also unwilling to invest money, without such a green flag, in the Government's bid to construct the basic infrastructure.
The Landlord Model
The Good news is that the new Government is persisting with the "landlord" model of development for the project and has just awarded the Project Management Consultancy to global construction giant, AECOM. But what is this model all about? In a nutshell, this means that the Government builds and owns the basic infrastructure of the port and then leases it out to one or more operators who bring in what is called the superstructure elements - cranes and other cargo handling equipment - and operates the berths, with a share of the revenue/lease rentals accruing to the Government. This has the obvious advantages of ensuring the construction of the port itself, complete control for the State over the asset and creating confidence for investors in a greenfield project, when compared to the previously touted Build-Operate-Transfer model which would have transferred the entire burden and risk on to the private developer-operator. The Government's getting ready to invest as much as Rs 2500 Crores ($ 600 Mn) into the Phase I infrastructure, drawing on funding from a consortium of bank led by local financial giant, State Bank of Travancore (fitting indeed!).
Sounds hunky dory, doesn't it? As with anything, there are a few downsides too. When we let the Government design anything, the result typically is the most conservative and boring option possible. One major concern about the landlord model is that the Government will fail to maximize the use of India's deepest port by being conservative about its capabilities and the volume of the investment. For example, the current traffic projects are unbelievably low. If we believe what the Government has to say, Vizhinjam would see a traffic of 2.8 Million TEUs in 2030, less than what JNPT is seeing today and probably less than 3% of India's total traffic at that time. Not very bullish for the deepest and best located container transshipment terminal, is it? Especially in view of L&T Ramboll's projection of 5.5 Million TEUs during the last bid process. So either there is something wrong the fundamental logical assumption that India's deepest port, located closest to the main container routes would attract the lion's share of Indian cargo traffic or the Government is selling the project very very short. This means that the project looks much less attractive to an investor than it really is, and this would adversely impact its chances of attracting a good bid from a leading operator. Furthermore, while the current project proposal considers options such as a cruise terminal and general cargo over and above pure container traffic, there are many more options out there, as we will shortly talk about.
Secondly, the landlord model, by design, transfers a lot of the project risk from the private sector to the public sector, in this classic case of Public Private Partnership (PPP). This is beneficial in making a risky, greenfield project more attractive. However, too much of a good thing could be bad. Once more, the Government needs to avoid selling itself short. An alternative would be for VISL to underwrite the cost of developing the basic infrastructure but base the bid on how much of the cost the private operator is willing to share. This will help to minimize the burden on the Treasury (creaky as it is!) and also ensure that the private player has as much skin in the game as possible and is therefore as motivated as possible to hard-sell the port and attract as much traffic as possible. The way that the Government is pushing ahead with the Engineering Procurement Construction (EPC) contract for the basic infrastructure, I hope that they will include sufficient flexibility in the design to meet the needs of the operator's plans. In the end, it will probably mean that either the EPC tender waits till the operator on board, which could take six months to a year, or that the construction starts with the operating area left as a blank slate. The ideal scenario - conditional environmental clearance would be granted in a month or two, the operator bid goes ahead and the EPC tender is handed out in consultation with the operator in about six months from now.
What's in a Port?
So when we talk about infrastructure, connectivity and superstructure, what are we talking about? Okay, here we go into Port Construction 101!
The basic constituents of a major port project include the breakwater, berths, backup area and connectivity.
In the artist's impression above of the Vizhinjam port, the breakwater is the "J" shaped wall along the periphery of the port and stretching out into the sea. The berths are the "L" shaped area where the ships actually dock and include the cranes which handle containers and other cargo. The back-up area includes most of the rest of the port area, typically where cargo is stored. Connectivity refers to the road and rail connections which allow cargo to be brought in and taken out.
The breakwater at Vizhinjam would be a massive structure stretching between 3 and 5 Km and located in up to 20 m of water depth. It seems that Vizhinjam would use a design based on massive boulders, quarried from somewhere close by - possibly near Attingal. The breakwater shelters the port's operating area, also called the basin, from the vagaries of the sea. This sheltered area allows ships to dock in all kinds of weather conditions, ranging from the placid calm to a raging cyclone.
The berths are constructed by driving pilings into the sea and either filling the area behind with silt dredged from the sea or soil excavated from land, or using a concrete structure. Ships dock alongside the berths and they also support the cargo handling equipment - also called the port's superstructure - which includes quay cranes to handle containers, general purpose cranes and material handlers to work with bulk cargo.
The backup area is usually created by leveling existing land or by reclaiming area from the sea as in the case of Vizhinjam. It's usually used to store cargo - container, bulk materials, cars, liquid cargo and so on. Vizhinjam would involve the reclamation of over 400 acres from the sea for the berths and back-up areas, in effect expanding the State of Kerala! This avoids costly and troublesome land acquisition.
Vizhinjam will be connected to the rail and road network via dedicated links that will feed into the National Highway 47 and the main line railway from Trivandrum to Nagercoil. Survey work for this has already been completed and work is already in progress for the road connections.
All told, the deep water port will have between 3 and 6 Km of berths (if the breakwater is also utilized), allowing for up to 12 of the world's longest ships to comfortably dock. The container berths themselves could be 2 to 3 Km long, capable of handling 6 ships the size of the reigning behemoths of the seas, the Emma Maersk class, at the same time.
One Port, Many Uses
As some of us may recall, Vizhinjam started out as a general purpose port. This had its drawbacks when faced with the lack of cargo from Kerala, which is a minimally industrialized State (the port at Ernakulam gets most of its cargo from neighboring States). Next it evolved into a general purpose with a coal fired power plant attached to it, with the idea being to use the port to import the coal for the plant, as in the case of Ennore Port or the upcoming Ultra Mega Power Plants at Mundra and Krishnapatanam. Unfortunately, no one pursued this proposal to its conclusion, in which case we may have had the first energy port in India.
Ennore Port; Vizhinjam could have looked like this ten years ago
In the 2000s, as the concept of containerization caught on globally, the need for deep water transshipment terminals to facilitate movement of cargo to and from India's relatively shallow major ports became evident with the success of Colombo and Singapore as very obvious indicators. Vizhinjam metamorphosized into a transshipment terminal with its location 10 nautical miles from the strategic Suze/Gulf - Malacca shipping lane and its inherent depth of 18 m making it an unbeatable proposition. Finally, in the latest round of bidding, the project consultant recommended making the port multi-purpose once more with the container terminal as an anchor use, thus introducing more flexibility into the project and reducing market risk.
Today's economic scenario lays open a variety of uses in front of Vizhinjam. The container transshipment is a no-brainer. The rapidly expanding Indian economy is going to radically ramp up import-export volumes in the coming years and a large portion of this will be containerized. India's container traffic is expected to hit about 21 Million TEUs by 2015 (by when Phase I of Vizhinjam is expected to be operational). China's container traffic is up around 100 Million TEUs already and at India's current trade growth rates, we can confidently expect India's container traffic to be up around 100 Million TEUs by 2025 or so. There is absolutely no reason to expect that Vizhinjam which has strategic advantages over any other Indian port will not capture at least 10% of this volume through transshipment. While the deep water ports in Gujarat and those along the East Coast such as Gangavaram and Dhamra would be able to directly handle large main-line container ships (of capacity >8000 TEUs, 14 m draft), most existing major ports like JNPT, Mangalore, Ernakulam and Chennai would not be able to increase their existing drafts beyond the 12 to 14 m mark. This means that transshipment is unavoidable for these ports in order to remain competitive in view of the move by shipping lines to deploy larger and larger ships on the Asia to Europe/US routes to achieve economies of scale. This will allow Vizhinjam to tap into the traffic generated by the industrial areas in the peninsula. For starters, a deep water terminal at Vizhinjam would be able to give Colombo, the current regional transshipment hub, a real run for its money. Vizhinjam has the advantages of greater natural depth, proximity to the feeder ports (the transit between the hub and feeder ports is usually the most extensive on a per-kilometer basis) and the simplicity/security of being on Indian soil. If it is able to offer competitive tariffs (in my opinion, the Indian Government should offer subsidies to allow Vizhinjam to offer competitive rates in the National interest), there is no reason that Vizhinjam should not capture a major share of the traffic that currently flows via Colombo. Eventually, container volumes through the port should climb well past the 5 Million TEUs per year.
Another clear possibility is cruise traffic, an area that the current project proposal seem to address. India's fast becoming a major cruise destination in the Indian Ocean region with nearly 100 cruise ships calling at Indian ports like the ones at Ernakulam, Goa and Mangalore last year. The major shipping lanes across the Indian Ocean see over 300 cruise ships pass through and with the excitement over India as a tourist destination, it is not surprising that many ships are now making stops in Indian ports to allow their passengers to glimpse the wonders of our country. Vizhinjam lies closer to these shipping lanes than any other port in India, which allows the massive cruise liners to sample India with the least expense and within the least time. Moreover, Trivandrum is one of the biggest destinations for foreign tourists in India and with an international airport within 15 Kilometers of the port, tourists can fly to any part of India and then later re-join their ship at its next port of call (usually Singapore or Dubai), a type of cruise activity called cruise-fly-cruise.Ports which have cruise ships just passing through typically do not make much money because neither the ships nor the tourists stay long enough spend much other than on short tours and trinkets. The real money lies in becoming the home port for cruise ships, just like Miami, Singapore, Hong Kong or Barcelona. Other Indian ports including Mumbai and Ernakulam have tried this without success, but the fact that Vizhinjam's location in the middle of the Indian Ocean could allow ships based there to sail to a number of attractive locations such as Goa, Lakshadweep, Mauritius, Maladives, Sri Lanka and the Seychelles. Even with ships just calling at Vizhinjam, the multiplier effect on the tourism industry in Kerala that has been wilting under the effect of the recession would be justification enough for the Government to invest money in building a adequately equipped cruise terminal, rather than on grandiose schemes that some other Indian ports have been dreaming up.
The Indian Government has been looking for a couple of sites, one each on the West and East Coasts, for a world-class shipyard in an effort to boost India's presence in the global ship building and repair industry, which has come to be predominantly based in East Asia - China, South Korea and Japan. Poovar, a few Kilometers down the coast from Vizhinjam, has been proposed as a site and has gained a lot of support.The natural draft along the coast together with the proximity to a deep water port, as well as the presence of the international shipping lanes, make the Poovar site a clear winner but unfortunately the proposal has made no headway. The fact that neither the State Government nor the State's MPs seem to realize that this could be a multi-billion dollar investment doesn't help expedite the process. The port project itself could devote berth length to a ship repair facility, if not a true shipyard. This could be situated at one end of the port basin or along the breakwater. The yards at Singapore and Dubai find the majority of their thriving business due to their proximity to the shipping lane because ship owners tend to get their vessels repaired when they return empty after delivering cargo and at yard that require minimum deviation from the usual routes. Like Dubai and Singapore, Vizhinjam lies on these routes which account for about 1/3rd of the world's shipping trade, unlike major shipyards in Gujarat which lie about 3 days sailing distance away. An Indian shipyard also has the advantage of access to a more economical workforce and the massive production capacity of the Indian steel and engineering industries. A world-class ship building facility at Vizhinjam and Poovar, along the lines of the Dubai Maritime City, could finally put India on the world marine engineering map.
In the 1990s, Vizhinjam was envisaged as an energy port, one that would import coal and use it to fuel a thermal power plant. There is no reason to think otherwise now, in fact the idea makes more sense now than at any other time in the past. India plans to add over 100,000 MW of power generation capacity in the next 10 years, of which the vast majority would be coal-fired. Recent reports point to the fact that India's biggest coal producer, Coal India Limited, is going to fall far short of the demand for thermal coal as more and more power plants come online to feed the needs of India's rising giant of an economy. Moreover, Indian coal tends to be lower in energy value and more polluting that global supplies, such as those found in Australia. All of this means that a massive volume of coal imports is unavoidable into the foreseeable future. Most of this will come by sea from Australia and Indonesia. As in the case of any cargo, and more so in the case of other bulk cargo such as crude oil, coal transport sees major economies of scale - bigger ships have lower transport costs - per ton per kilometer. At present only a handful of ports like Mundra, Gangavaram and Dhamra can handle the largest coal carriers, behemoths that can carry over 200,000 tons of coal and need operating drafts of over 18 m. This is the prime reason for locating most of the giant Ultra Mega Power Projects near these ports, as each needs over 20 Million tons of coal a year. Kerala has not laid claim to one of these massive power stations but it can easily ask for one to be built somewhere in Trivandrum district, where large tracts of Government-owned land are available in the Eastern parts of the district. These UMPPs use super-critical boiler technology which minimizes pollution and produces power at low tariffs (of the order of Rs 2/unit) which is comparable to that of hydro-power. A single UMPP could not only solve Kerala's energy needs for the foreseeable future, it could export half its power to other States. If land is a major constraint, the UMPP could be built in partnership with Tamilnadu which could host the power station itself in its Kanyakumari or Tirunelveli districts (which have tens of thousands of acres of available land), with the coal being off-loaded at Vizhinjam and moved to the station by rail or long distance conveyor belt. The deep water port could also provide a facility for coal transshipment, which is analogous to container transshipment, and involves transferring coal from giant dry bulk carriers to smaller ships which can deliver to shallower, existing ports.
Vizhinjam is also the only port in India and one of the very few in the world which can accommodate Very/Ultra Large Crude Carriers at a berth. Other Indian ports have to make do by handling these giants with drafts of over 22 m at Single Point Moorings (SPM) located out at sea. For example, the refinery at Ernakulam has to use a SPM located nearly 20 Km from shore, whereas these supertankers could actually come into Vizhinjam fully loaded. This opens the possibility of having a new refinery built in or close to Trivandrum, one which could be export oriented, like the Reliance unit at Jamnagar which imports crude and exports the refined products. In short, the deep water port can lead investments of over Rs 30,000 Crores ($ 7 Billion) if the State Government plays its cards right.
Control over the Indian Ocean
Whereas once wars were fought over the control of the Aegean, the Atlantic and the Pacific, today the world's centers of maritime tension are in Asia - the Persian Gulf, the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean. The latter not only adjoins all of South and South-East Asia but East Africa and the Middle East. Almost every single barrel of the Persian Gulf's crude oil supplies passes through the Indian Ocean on its way to India, China, Japan, Europe and the US. So does the vast majority of the Asia - Europe trade and almost all of China and Japan's imports. Just how important this trade artery has become was exposed by how a few half-naked pirates were able to grab international headlines and result in the deployment of an international naval fleet seldom seen since World War II.
China has been following a "string of pearls" policy to extend its maritime influence over crucial trade routes by locating naval bases in countries along these routes. Bases have come up in Myanmar and recently in Sri Lanka, where China has just completed a deep water port at Hambantota. Recently, the Wall Street Journal and other media agencies had reported the Chinese take-over of Pakistan's deep water port at Gwador. This means that not only does China have significant secure access to the vital Indian Ocean but the Chinese Navy now has potential bases close to both the vital trade routes and Indian soil. Not to sound alarmist, but the situation is akin to the 1962 stand off between the two Superpowers, that we now call the Cuban Missile Crisis (refer X-Men: First Class!). Vizhinjam offers the Indian Navy its best possible location for a strategic base that can dominate the northern Indian Ocean and every major shipping lane passing close to India. Next to the US base at Diego Garcia, Vizhinjam offers the ideal location for a long range naval base for the Indian Navy to control the Indian Ocean. The other option is in the Andaman Islands but a mainland base would probably be more preferable. With its deep draft and the protection afforded by the Southern Air Command (SAC) fighter bases at Trivandrum, Sulur, Thirunelveli and Tanjore, the port could be a great location to deploy the Navy's new flagship, the INS Vikramaditya. Even if we are not tangling with the People's Navy (which is moving ahead with its own aircraft carrier program), long range patrol vessels located at Vizhinjam would be able to interdict any pirate threats to the shipping lanes. Indeed, the major expansion of the Coast Guard presence at Vizhinjam is a sure sign of this as are the shifting of the IAF's Maritime Operations Center to Trivandrum and the annual Dakshin Prahar exercises. The fact that SAC is being beefed up with three new fighter bases and the ongoing acquisition of both long range maritime patrol aircraft and strike aircraft like the SU-30 and the new Multi-Role Combat Aircraft is yet another sign that India is taking its Indian Ocean role very, very seriously. The Indian Navy has already asked for space to berth its ships at Vizhinjam and I would not be surprised to say a couple of missile frigates and a carrier docked in the port in the near future. In short, the port's importance as a strategic security asset is as clear as its importance as a strategic economic asset and it won't be very surprising if A.K. Antony is one of the staunchest behind-the-scenes supporters of the project!
In short, India's deepest port is far from being a simple commercial proposition. It's potential is only limited by the imagination and ambition of the Government, and it's to be hoped that the approach adopted in the coming month is not the conventional tame one but an audacious proposal which seeks to harness all the obvious advantages of Vizhinjam and transform Southern Kerala into a world-class economic powerhouse. Ideally, I would like to see the port start off with a total berth length of atleast 3 Km in Phase I with 1.5 Km devoted to container transshipment, a 300 m berth for the Indian Navy, a basic cruise terminal and the beginnings of a world-class ship repair facility in the remaining area. Simultaneously, Kerala can make a bid for a UMPP which would use Vizhinjam to import its fuel and this can form the lynch pin of Phase II that starts by around 2015, together with a doubling of the container handling capacity. From there, it all depends on the economics but I would not be surprised if the port finally ends up accommodating a greater density and diversity of uses than we discussed here. It all depends on how the first few steps - the bid, the clearances and the initial development work - fare and fingers crossed on that!
Labels: Port, PPP, Public Policy, Shanghai, Singapore, supertanker, Thiruvananthapuram, Trivandrum, ULCC, UMPP, Vizhinjam
Deepak Benny Monday, June 20, 2011 at 10:44:00 PM EDT
Excellent write Ajay. The article did summarise all aspects of the recent happenings at Vizhinjam and port engineering in general. I would like to supplement a few thoughts as well.
• Coastal Erosion - Yes, as you mentioned the coastal erosion is not a serious issue that ports have not been facing in the past. Quite a few numbers of engineering solutions have been implemented globally to minimise the effect of new structures at sea. Of all of these techniques, the most environmental friendly and innovative method was dared to be implemented by Port of Rotterdam in their Maasvlakte 2 project. The project is constructing 6kms of artificial beach / sand dune with planted grass, on the seaward side of the breakwater to minimise the littoral drift effects and to maintain the more tranquil condition at the port entrance.
http://www.maasvlakte2.com/en/news/show/id/2831/
Hence let us hope that all necessary studies are done by the EPC contractor and the master planner prior to the infrastructure construction activities. Hopefully AECOM / Haskoning detail a more stringent design methodology while preparing the bids for EPC contractor.
• Proximity to other ports - The development of other ports in the vicinity will be proving better in long term on a national port planning point of view. There will be a good pie for everyone as the container traffic has been witnessing an exponential growth over the last decade and this is expected to grow. The south-west coast of India can thus emerge as a large hub of maritime business with Vallarpadam and Vizhinjam or maybe even Colachel. Thus a deepwater port of the scale of Vizhinjam is imperative at this stage for India's economy.
• Landlord Model – The landlord model has been seen successful in most of the major ports across the world. Regarding the downsides as you mentioned, the trend maybe, in the initial phase to come up with a more conservative and boring option. But once the first container terminal can bring in revenues and impart confidence to the government, and then more innovative methods can be asked for the subsequent phases of development. Moreover, the subsequent phases will bring in a second or third developer/operator of the terminal thus bringing in a healthy competition between two terminals inside the same port. This model has been running successfully in Hong Kong, Rotterdam and Laem Chabang in Thailand.
Singapore also has a similar model with Maritime Port Authority owning the land and Port of Singapore Authority acting as operators. Eventually both are controlled by government though.
Earlier as stated by VISL, the developer will have the conditional right of first refusal for the EPC contract. Hence let us hope that the team can be work together in bringing out the best option for the infrastructure facility as well.
The concern at this moment is how much thoughts are put into the expansion options of Vizhinjam terminal to enable it to grow in the coming years. Hope AECOM and Haskoning cover up these items as well.
• Port facilities – Further to the port facilities as mentioned, the following might also needs to be addressed by VISL sooner.
o Development of a Maritime Law
o Land Use planning
o A Robust hinterland connectivity model
o Customs and Security control
o Logistics Park
o Tug and Pilotage facilities
o Bunkering options
o Ship Supplies
o Salvage and Rescue
o Port Tariffs
o Asset Management
• Finally, the annual throughput of 2.3Mn TEU's as predicted by Drewry/IFC is definitely too low as Vizhinjam is concerned. Hopefully in the coming years, it is proven wrong and let Trivandrum emerge as a major maritime destination in South Asia.
Sandeep Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at 8:11:00 AM EDT
A good article.
I feel that the history of 'Planning Vizhinjam port' should have been detailed. It would have given an idea of those forces who are against this project.
My fear is that this project will not be functional anytime soon.
Rajeev Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at 3:10:00 PM EDT
Ajay, it's really a nice one. Let the authorities open their eyes and implement Vizhinjam, rather putting hurdles based on reasons unknown to all.
R.Sajan Thursday, June 23, 2011 at 2:14:00 AM EDT
What about the waterway [for country barges and houseboats] from the Airport to the rest of the State, proposed by VN Chandran, former Director of TVM Airport, and said to be approved by the LDF government?
Jason Sunday, June 26, 2011 at 11:02:00 AM EDT
Ajay, you know we can't allow this project as 4 or 5 fishermen might have to be relocated. Perhaps if they were compensated on the order of 1 crore each (some for them, some for the politicians), something might happen..
Anonymous Saturday, July 16, 2011 at 8:49:00 AM EDT
that a very well written article , i have been following your blog for a long time, i think this is the most detailed article you have put in the recent times , anyway hope things work out the way its projected .keep posting in more and let the good works continue.
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A clinicopathologic study of 15 cases of angiolymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia
Jin Choi Yoon, Ryung Roh Mi, Min Geol Lee
Background: Angiolymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia (ALHE) is an uncommon distinctive vascular lesion characterized by proliferation of endothelial cells. Because of its rarity, the clinical and pathological aspects of ALHE have not been fully studied in Korea. Objective: The purpose of our investigation was to describe the clinical and pathological characteristics of ALHE. Methods: We reviewed the medical records, clinical photographs and histological slides of 15 patients who were diagnosed as ALHE at Severance hospital. Results: Of the 15 patients, 60% were men and 40% women. The average onset age of men was 53.7 years, women 33.2 years. Overall average onset age was 45.5 years. The scalp was the most frequently involved site in ALHE. Pruritus was the most common symptom. Two of four patients demonstrated peripheral blood eosinophilia and one patient showed elevation of serum IgE. The essential microscopic features of the fifteen lesions of ALHE were epithelioid proliferation of endothelial cells and perivascular inflammatory infiltration with eosinophils and lymphocytes. Four patients underwent surgery as their sole treatment modality and there were no recurrences. Other treatment modalities were topical steroid, intralesional injection of triamcinolone, systemic steroid, and 5% imiquimod cream. Conclusion: The clinical and pathological features of patients in this survey differ from previous studies in the age of onset, gender distribution, and anatomical distribution. Men were more affected (60%) than woman (40%), and the average age of onset was 45.5 years. The scalp and extremities were the most frequently involved sites. Surgery was the treatment of choice in ALHE. However, the clinical findings of ALHE need to be further evaluated in larger groups of patients.
Korean Journal of Dermatology
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Yoon, J. C., Mi, R. R., & Lee, M. G. (2008). A clinicopathologic study of 15 cases of angiolymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia. Korean Journal of Dermatology, 46(7), 881-888.
Yoon, Jin Choi ; Mi, Ryung Roh ; Lee, Min Geol. / A clinicopathologic study of 15 cases of angiolymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia. In: Korean Journal of Dermatology. 2008 ; Vol. 46, No. 7. pp. 881-888.
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I write because I love stories. I love to read them. I love to hear them. I love to watch them. And most of all I love to tell them. It really is that simple.
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I was a barrister for fifteen years. I still am; it is a profession I love and of which I am privileged to be a part. In that time I have defended hundreds of trials. Told hundreds of 'stories'. And for perhaps a decade that was enough.
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