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Twelve months is a relatively short period of time but in a time of recession and declining business, a year can seem like an eternity. We can learn a lot from the negatives but dwelling on the past may not serve our purpose as we go forward. There are many things for which we can be grateful; for which we can give thanks. In the spirit of Christmas, I urge you all to count your blessings and to take encouragement from those situations that have gone well. In this season of goodwill, the Caribbean Shipping Association extends best wishes to all its members, hoping you will have a happy and healthy Christmas. May the spirit of the season reinvigorate and replenish you in body and spirit and empower you to succeed in the year ahead. impresses with his community spirit. The Caribbean Shipping Association has selected St. Lucia Marine Terminals and the Port of Cartagena (SPRC) as the leading ports in the region. 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Russian ro-ro and Chinese bulker detained over safety faults in Montreal during November. Korean bulker owner forms three special purpose companies to borrow $180m for newbuildings. The huge drydock at Poland’s Gdynia Shipyard remains unsold after latest asset auction. Klaveness was ready for a trip to the barber but instead wins $30m freight futures award against Pioneer. Oil major cancels charter for ITC VLCC from January 2011, ending 12-year association with the ship. Thirteen crew rescued after veteran Moldovan-flagged cargoship breaks up in storm in Black Sea. Germany’s ThyssenKrupp will sell 75% of Hellenic Shipyards to Abu Dhabi Mar. Shipowner’s $4bn outlay on tankers this year is less than half 2008 figure - number of deals dives. World’s former largest ship, the Knock Nevis (ex Jahre Viking/Seawise Giant), sold for scrap in India, cash buyer says. Container line CMA CGM considering $240m sale of chunk of real estate interests to raise money. Japanese yard group MHI completed only 18 ships this year, against 21 in 2008, with no boxships on that list. Indian Navy steps in as Japanese-operated car carrier chased by pirates in the Gulf of Aden. Brittany Ferries ends service from Poole, UK, but adds sailings from Portsmouth. Continuing demand for Persian Gulf VLCCs at the end of December and early January edges rates up. Capesize rates on the drop despite port congestion but panamaxes are relatively firm. Hamburg Shipbrokers' Association ConTex charter assessment again unchanged at 238. Brokers looking for improvement in the anchor handler market as PSV rates tail off. Canada's Bay Ferries pulls run from Nova Scotia to Maine after losing state funding. Waning sales hit cruise giant’s profit but CEO Micky Arison says it weathered storm “exceptionally well”. Shipowner seals $130m takeover of coal trader, Unique Mining Services. Founder and CEO Richard Elman named executive chairman at Hong Kong shipping and commodities giant. Japanese shipowner raises JPY20bn to repay existing loans, but has no plans to issue fresh equity. Norden signs 15-year contract with mystery European and 11-year deal with Filipino as handy fleet fixed. Apeejay Shipping panamax left with out power in North Pacific; Maersk boxship riding to the rescue. Fazel Fazelbhoy’s Topaz Energy and Marine seals $42m loan to fund its fleet expansion plan. Justice Smith turns up the heat and Tagir Izmaylov gets hot under the collar in Sovcomflot's trial this week. Or broking? Former Clarkson’s broker Nick Wood puts up spirited defence of Sovcomflot newbuilding commission negotiations. USCG releases 2009’s top 11 videos of operations with pirates, drug smugglers and pets all making the cut. Legless rig owner gets vice ruling overturned in battle over a heavy lift voyage that went wrong. Yuri Nikitin's 'loans' to friends are revealed while Hapag-Lloyd stretches for a $1bn loss. 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It's shipping now in the UK, with a price hovering in the £330 range (about $540 US). If someone manages to shoehorn Android 2. onto this thing we might start talking serious, but for now it's probably a stretch for a bit of EDGE-only (or 3G if you win the tri-band lottery and us AT&T) import action in the US. The price of liberty and happiness, we suppose. boot animation for the Nexus One reminds us of. Vodafone UK to start iPhone sales Jan. Looks cool, not as sexy as the DROID tho. Way sexier than the droid. SHUT UP ABOUT THE DROID ALREADY!!! you are about as stupid as the apple fanboys but instead of apple's dong in you mouth its android's dong. not saying android is bad on the contrary I love it. Stop drinking coffee kid, it'll stunt your growth. "The price of liberty and happiness, we suppose. Studies have shown that europeans are happier. And as for liberty, well my own country ranks 15 places higher than the US on the world press freedom index (tied for No. and also ranks better in other studies for personal liberties. Regarding the phone, I'll stick to my Hero & my iphone until the HTC Passion comes out. The Acer is just too much compromise. I would agree, HTC Passion/Bravo seems like it will be THE phone to get now. Well now you gotta say what your country is. since he said press freedom tied for first then its definately not the UK thats out. and frankly America is free enough. and HE probably wont ever post his own country because he is too much of a pussy to admit that he is from some shit-hole place, and to get off he has to point out some random fact that his country is better than america. and since when was america the standard to beat? if you are 15 places higher then obviously america isnt the standard and you need to find a different country to put your country up against, OH and who has done this study? because I can survey 20 people and have 15 of them aggree with me and say 15 out of 16 people agree and every dumbass and his dog will suck that shit up like its doctrine. and really here in the good old U. I can say what I want when I want and where I want and NOBODY GIVES A FUCK!!!!!! back when Pres. Obama was campaigning to become president he was scheduled to come to my part of the country and I said man if I see him i'm going to kick that stupid shits ass, and actually one of his security guards overheard me and just simply asked: "seriously why? what has he done to you?" and I replied "nothing I just felt like saying that. in other countries I would have gotten in serious trouble for saying that possibly even killed. @cros13 maybe but the British are depressed sad sacks according to surveys. and I'm a Brit so technically I'm offending my self. And I live in Ireland. I did live in the US for a while and I'm afraid>I'd agree with the Indexes based on my experience. In hindsight my comment is a little bit flamebait. I work for a US Defence Contractor. I spend roughly half my time>in the US. I've lived full-time in the US in the past. I just get annoyed when americans assume that they are automatically>superior to other countries. Whether in Sport, Tech or Personal Freedom. I get that "The price of liberty and happiness, we suppose" was meant somewhat tongue-in-cheek. Maybe I'm just having an off day. doesn't look like a 800x480 screen either. @Wikimon I believe it is a 1ghz snapdragon that has been underclocked to save battery. You must be one of those guys who doesnt actually read anything on Engadget but likes to hang out in the comment sections. Well then maybe you should hang out in the comment section more, since as Hydra rightfully mentions above, the Liquid is underclocked at 768Mhz. Now please, proceed to go all Jack Bauer if you so wish. "If someone manages to shoehorn Android 2. onto this thing we might start talking serious" - Umm, it runs Android 2. Apart from that I don't actually mind the looks. This thing is ugly, expensive and the processor is underclocked to hte point where it is barely faster than an OMAP3430 anyway. HTCs roadmap is miles ahead. Of course, this one has the advantage of actually shipping right now. @Hydra So AT&T is upgrading to 850 bands and this only has 1900. Still it'll probably work with 3G in my area. Snapdragon finally! Now all you need to do Acer is double the ram, make it look a little bit sleeker, and make a CDMA version. I really don't understand the Droid's appeal. Its specs definitely make it the best one on the market right now (well, now its going to compete with this phone, and the HTC phones early next year) but I think it does look really really plain. Still, I doubt i'd go for this one. I had this on the short list, but after this rumor about the HTC Bravo/Passion, I'm gonna have to wait and compare. the htc roadmap doesn't look that great. @kevin460 I believe T-Mobile requires both 1700 and 2100. This phone only has 2100. There is 3 version, white, black and red. It looks way better in red imo. 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Back up the transaction log at the primary server instance. Copy the transaction log file to the secondary server instance. Restore the log backup on the secondary server instance. The log can be shipped to multiple secondary server instances. In such cases, operations 2 and 3 are duplicated for each secondary server instance. A log shipping configuration does not automatically fail over from the primary server to the secondary server. If the primary database becomes unavailable, any of the secondary databases can be brought online manually. You can use a secondary database for reporting purposes. In addition, you can configure alerts for your log shipping configuration. The primary server in a log shipping configuration is the instance of the SQL Server Database Engine that is your production server. The primary database is the database on the primary server that you want to back up to another server. All administration of the log shipping configuration through SQL Server Management Studio is performed from the primary database. The primary database must use the full or bulk-logged recovery model; switching the database to simple recovery will cause log shipping to stop functioning. The secondary server in a log shipping configuration is the server where you want to keep a warm standby copy of your primary database. A secondary server can contain backup copies of databases from several different primary servers. For example, a department could have five servers, each running a mission-critical database system. Rather than having five separate secondary servers, a single secondary server could be used. The backups from the five primary systems could be loaded onto the single backup system, reducing the number of resources required and saving money. It is unlikely that more than one primary system would fail at the same time. Additionally, to cover the remote chance that more than one primary system becomes unavailable at the same time, the secondary server could be of higher specification than the primary servers. The secondary database must be initialized by restoring a full backup of the primary database. The restore can be completed using either the NORECOVERY or STANDBY option. This can be done manually or through SQL Server Management Studio. When the transaction log on the primary database was last backed up. When the secondary servers last copied and restored the backup files. Information about any backup failure alerts. The monitor server should be on a server separate from the primary or secondary servers to avoid losing critical information and disrupting monitoring if the primary or secondary server is lost. A single monitor server can monitor multiple log shipping configurations. In such a case, all of the log shipping configurations that use that monitor server would share a single alert job. Once the monitor server has been configured, it cannot be changed without removing log shipping first. Log shipping involves four jobs, which are handled by dedicated SQL Server Agent jobs. These jobs include the backup job, copy job, restore job, and alert job. The user controls how frequently log backups are taken, how frequently they are copied to each secondary server, and how frequently they are applied to the secondary database. To reduce the work required to bring a secondary server online, for example after the production system fails, you can copy and restore each transaction log backup soon after it is created. Alternatively, perhaps on a second secondary server, you can delay applying transaction log backups to the secondary database. This delay provides an interval during which you can notice and respond to a failure on the primary, such as accidental deletion of critical data. A backup job is created on the primary server instance for each primary database. It performs the backup operation, logs history to the local server and the monitor server, and deletes old backup files and history information. By default, this job will run every 15 minutes, but the interval is customizable. When log shipping is enabled, the SQL Server Agent job category "Log Shipping Backup" is created on the primary server instance. SQL Server 2008 Enterprise and later versions support backup compression. When creating a log shipping configuration, you can control the backup compression behavior of log backups. A copy job is created on each secondary server instance in a log shipping configuration. This job copies the backup files from the primary server to a configurable destination on the secondary server and logs history on the secondary server and the monitor server. The copy job schedule, which is customizable, should approximate the backup schedule. When log shipping is enabled, the SQL Server Agent job category "Log Shipping Copy" is created on the secondary server instance. A restore job is created on the secondary server instance for each log shipping configuration. This job restores the copied backup files to the secondary databases. It logs history on the local server and the monitor server, and deletes old files and old history information. The SQL Server job category "Log Shipping Restore" is created on the secondary server instance when log shipping is enabled. On a given secondary server instance, the restore job can be scheduled as frequently as the copy job, or the restore job can delayed. Scheduling these jobs with the same frequency keeps the secondary database as closely aligned with the primary database as possible to create a warm standby database. In contrast, delaying restore jobs, perhaps by several hours, can be useful in the event of a serious user error, such as a dropped table or inappropriately deleted table row. If the time of the error is known, you can move that secondary database forward to a time soon before the error. Then you can export the lost data and import it back into the primary database. If a monitor server is used, an alert job is created on the monitor server instance. This alert job is shared by the primary and secondary databases of all log shipping configurations using this monitor server instance. Any change to the alert job (such as rescheduling, disabling, or enabling the job) affects all databases using that monitor server. This job raises alerts (for which you must specify alert numbers) for primary and secondary databases when backup and restore operations have not completed successfully within specified thresholds. You must configure these alerts to have an operator receive notification of the log shipping failure. The SQL Server Agent job category "Log Shipping Alert" is created on the monitor server instance when log shipping is enabled. If a monitor server is not used, alert jobs are created locally on the primary server instance and each secondary server instance. The alert job on the primary server instance raises errors when backup operations have not completed successfully within a specified threshold. The alert job on the secondary server instance raises errors when local copy and restore operations have not completed successfully within a specified threshold. The following figure shows a log shipping configuration with the primary server instance, three secondary server instances, and a monitor server instance. The primary server instance runs the backup job to back up the transaction log on the primary database. This server instance then places the log backup into a primary log-backup file, which it sends to the backup folder. Each of the three secondary server instances runs its own copy job to copy the primary log-backup file to its own local destination folder. Each secondary server instance runs its own restore job to restore the log backup from the local destination folder onto the local secondary database. The primary and secondary server instances send their own history and status to the monitor server instance. Updated the "Backup Job" section to correct the default job interval, to 15 minutes. This is the print version of this page. China shipping container line for overseas freight forwarding provided by Zircon Logistics USA. We have years of experience in international ocean shipping, motor freight trucking, air freight services, freight broker services, freight forwarding and logistics management. 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"To promote and foster the highest quality service to the maritime industry through training development; working with all agencies, groups and other associations for the benefit and development of its members and the peoples of the Caribbean region. *** CSA port awards for 2009 go to Cartagena and St. *** CSA urges regional protocol for cruise industry to deal with 'swine flu'. Caribbean Port Awards won by St. , fully accredited, offers range of degree and professional maritime qualifications. of Puerto Rico (PUCPR) College of Business Administration offers degree, professional certificate programmes for managers in shipping industry. You will need the latest version of Adobe Reader to download information from this website. Adobe Read is available free of charge. Click the icon below for the latest version. As 2009 draws to a close we will naturally reflect on the events and developments we have experienced over the year. Twelve months is a relatively short period of time but in a time of recession and declining business, a year can seem like an eternity. We can learn a lot from the negatives but dwelling on the past may not serve our purpose as we go forward. There are many things for which we can be grateful; for which we can give thanks. In the spirit of Christmas, I urge you all to count your blessings and to take encouragement from those situations that have gone well. In this season of goodwill, the Caribbean Shipping Association extends best wishes to all its members, hoping you will have a happy and healthy Christmas. May the spirit of the season reinvigorate and replenish you in body and spirit and empower you to succeed in the year ahead. impresses with his community spirit. The Caribbean Shipping Association has selected St. Lucia Marine Terminals and the Port of Cartagena (SPRC) as the leading ports in the region. The Association announced its selections at its annual banquet in Paramaribo on Wednesday, October 14. won the award for the Best Multi-purpose Terminal while the Colombian port took the award for Best Container Terminal. The French territory of Guadeloupe has taken another step to protect its environment and shipping played a major part. discharged a Duratech Model 3010 FL machine crusher at the port of Jarry. The machine crusher was brought into the Caribbean from West Palm Beach by Tropical Shipping and discharged at St. It was then taken from the Netherlands Antilles port to Jarry by CMA-CGM. Link your business website to the CSA's. the CSA website is an ideal gateway to your business. By using this site you are agreeing to the terms and conditions outlined below. Caribbean Shipping Association (CSA) has made all reasonable efforts to ensure that all information provided through CSA's web site on the internet is accurate at the time of inclusion. 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STX Pan Ocean entered into a strategic cooperation program on October 8 to participate in an LNG transportation project for Repsol, a global energy company. firstpage - Shipping news - www. Golden Ocean and Pipavav Shipyard are working to prevent a newbuilding contract dispute ending in an arbiter’s court. Fred Olsen company snaps up 1993-built tanker with a view to an FPSO conversion. Sovcomflot trial disrupted after Ince & Co lawyer taken to Moscow hospital for surgery after receiving files. Cruiseship owner Royal Caribbean secures $1. to cover 80% of finance for newbuilding. George Economou’s DryShips is keeping the Alameda after China deal fails to materialise. A leaking Greek bulker and Turkish tanker with lifeboat issues were among the nine ships detained by UK authorities in November. Wife of former Sovcomflot boss Dmitry Skarga says nothing untoward about purchase of family home outside Moscow. Russian ro-ro and Chinese bulker detained over safety faults in Montreal during November. Korean bulker owner forms three special purpose companies to borrow $180m for newbuildings. The huge drydock at Poland’s Gdynia Shipyard remains unsold after latest asset auction. Klaveness was ready for a trip to the barber but instead wins $30m freight futures award against Pioneer. Oil major cancels charter for ITC VLCC from January 2011, ending 12-year association with the ship. Thirteen crew rescued after veteran Moldovan-flagged cargoship breaks up in storm in Black Sea. Germany’s ThyssenKrupp will sell 75% of Hellenic Shipyards to Abu Dhabi Mar. Shipowner’s $4bn outlay on tankers this year is less than half 2008 figure - number of deals dives. World’s former largest ship, the Knock Nevis (ex Jahre Viking/Seawise Giant), sold for scrap in India, cash buyer says. Container line CMA CGM considering $240m sale of chunk of real estate interests to raise money. Japanese yard group MHI completed only 18 ships this year, against 21 in 2008, with no boxships on that list. Indian Navy steps in as Japanese-operated car carrier chased by pirates in the Gulf of Aden. Brittany Ferries ends service from Poole, UK, but adds sailings from Portsmouth. Continuing demand for Persian Gulf VLCCs at the end of December and early January edges rates up. Capesize rates on the drop despite port congestion but panamaxes are relatively firm. Hamburg Shipbrokers' Association ConTex charter assessment again unchanged at 238. Brokers looking for improvement in the anchor handler market as PSV rates tail off. Canada's Bay Ferries pulls run from Nova Scotia to Maine after losing state funding. Waning sales hit cruise giant’s profit but CEO Micky Arison says it weathered storm “exceptionally well”. Shipowner seals $130m takeover of coal trader, Unique Mining Services. Founder and CEO Richard Elman named executive chairman at Hong Kong shipping and commodities giant. Japanese shipowner raises JPY20bn to repay existing loans, but has no plans to issue fresh equity. Norden signs 15-year contract with mystery European and 11-year deal with Filipino as handy fleet fixed. Apeejay Shipping panamax left with out power in North Pacific; Maersk boxship riding to the rescue. Fazel Fazelbhoy’s Topaz Energy and Marine seals $42m loan to fund its fleet expansion plan. Justice Smith turns up the heat and Tagir Izmaylov gets hot under the collar in Sovcomflot's trial this week. Or broking? Former Clarkson’s broker Nick Wood puts up spirited defence of Sovcomflot newbuilding commission negotiations. USCG releases 2009’s top 11 videos of operations with pirates, drug smugglers and pets all making the cut. Legless rig owner gets vice ruling overturned in battle over a heavy lift voyage that went wrong. Yuri Nikitin's 'loans' to friends are revealed while Hapag-Lloyd stretches for a $1bn loss. Tug refloats grounded German cargoship laden with fertiliser at Gwadar, Pakistan. Togolese-flagged cargoship goes down after hitting breakwater in Algeria, six more crew missing. Founder of CMA CGM to become president, with Philippe Soulie taking over his CEO role, as group clinches $500m loan. Ukrainian-controlled Lady Juliet ploughs into breakwater at Canakkale, Turkey. Four bodies found but dozens still missing as frantic search for livestock carrier survivors continues off Lebanon. Korean shipyard clinches two separate orders for drillships and a semi-submersible rig. Cargoship Allegretto suffers hull breach and water ingress in grounding off Sweden. Greece's Attica takes EUR 3. loss from offloading 700-passenger ro-pax to Brittany Ferries. Information communicated under the provisions of SOLAS regulation XI-2/13 (SOLAS chapter X1-2 and the ISPS Code). Electronic database for the implementation of the Condition Assessment Scheme - Resolution MEPC. Information submitted by Member States under MSC/Circ. Data on marine casualties and incidents, as defined by circulars MSC-MEPC. Data on the available port reception facilities for the reception of ship-generated waste. Pollution prevention equipment required by MARPOL 73/78. Information on simulators available for use in maritime training. Electronic database for Contact Points. GAC - For shipping, logistics and marine services wherever you go. Heard Island & McDonald Isl. GAC's business is about people. In more than 1,000 locations around the globe, we provide high-quality shipping, logistics and marine services. We're there wherever you go - and with more than 8,000 employees and half a century of experience, we make sure things always go right. The GAC Group's quarterly magazine "GAC World" provides news and updates relating to the shipping, logistics and marines industries, as well as GAC's global activities in these fields. GAC is a leading shipping organisation offering global port and hub agency services. GAC Logistics, the freight forwarding and distribution arm of the GAC Group, specialises in a comprehensive range of supply chain and logistics solutions. GAC Marine supports various phases of offshore exploration, development and production, including anchor handling of lay barges and mobile drilling rigs. GAC Solutions specialises in strategic tie-ups that marry GAC's capabilities in shipping, logistics and marine with the specialist services of its partners. Content on this page requires a newer version of Adobe Flash Player. , and auto transport companies. was established with a mission of providing the highest quality of shipping services to exporters, organizations and individuals alike. needs and get the job done right the first time. Here at Uniworld International Inc. we believe that your satisfaction is the key to our mutual success. We are large enough to negotiate the best possible prices on your behalf and small enough to give you the personal attention that you deserve. Auto shipping lines have reduced their rates significantly for 2009. Uniworld International has earned an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau. Copyright © 2009 UniWorld International Inc. Disney Dream is a cruise ship being built for Disney Cruise Line, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, at Meyer Werft. The Clelia II is a luxury expedition cruise ship. Disney Dream is a cruise ship being built for Disney Cruise Line, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, at Meyer Werft. Predictions may be bleak for European shipbuilders as Asia becomes a growing force but that does not mean gloom for all. The Oasis of the Seas, the world’s largest cruise ship, has embarked on its first full commercial cruise. Marine Service GmbH is a ship engineering and advisory company providing a complete package of project-related services. Satlynx, a GE company, is a global provider of innovative satellite communication services. GESAB produces and delivers complete heating systems. Established in 1999, Ship Technology is a procurement and reference resource providing a one-stop-shop for professionals and decision makers within the global ship and shipbuilding industry. We provide a comprehensive breakdown of marine shipping equipment manufacturers, contractors, ship suppliers and services, up-to-date news and press releases and white papers. Our recruitment area provides career information and the latest job vacancies in the field. is a product of Net Resources International. 2009 Net Resources International, a trading division of SPG Media Limited. Meeting the increased demand for energy presents shipping with quite a challenge. The shipping of oil liquids and natural gases is vital to maintaining energy security, particularly in regions where indigenous resources cannot keep up with demand for power and mobility. Equally, oil and natural gas exporting countries depend heavily on shipping to honour their contracts with importers. Many companies – including Shell – are investing to develop alternative and renewable sources of energy. But oil and gas will remain very important in the energy mix to 2050 and beyond. During that time, about three million more consumers will be added to the world’s population. And living standards in fast-growing, highly populous economies such as China and India are expected to see dramatic change. The global economy and global energy consumption will undoubtedly continue to fluctuate, but the underlying trend in energy use will still be up – and so will demand for shipping. The Shell Shipping organisation is based in London, with specialist centres in Houston, The Hague, Singapore, Perth and Tokyo - networked to maritime professionals across the globe. Offering high level expertise and decades of experience, we provide group businesses and operations with an unmatched and vital resource. Our connectivity with different customer groups in Shell focuses on the aspects of their business where we can add most value. In Exploration and Production, for example, our relationships encompass projects and logistics on both a regional and a global level. Shell Shipping’s work supports many of Shell’s success stories: For example, in liquefied natural gas (LNG), and in marine elements of floating production and storage systems. Shell Shipping enables the Trading organisation to deliver safely on its contracts. We safeguard Shell’s standards and reputation regarding maritime safety, environment, vessel quality assurance, oil spill preparedness, port and berth assessments, and emergency management. We carry out audits as a governance assurance process for all group businesses with exposure to maritime activities and shipping. Shell International Trading and Shipping Company Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority. Shipping has been an integrale part of Royal Dutch Shell for over 100 years. Welcome to MaritimeMatters, a webport for cruise ships, ocean liners, cruise ship and shipping news, live blogs from the seven seas and thousands of maritime photographs! We update frequently, so please check back often. MaritimeMatters has grown rapidly since its launch by Martin Cox in 1997 and is one of the world's most visited sites for fans of passenger ships and cruising. It has a vast archive of news posts, articles on historic, preserved and contemporary liners and cruise ships, personal travel memoirs and links to maritime groups, museums, nautical books and cruise ship cams. Please use the index or search box to find a specific ship or browse the article and feature topics. Copying text or images is expressly prohibited. 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Shipping around the coast of West Africa could come under the renewed threat of pirate attack after the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) launched an attack on an oil pipeline in the region and issued a release stating that they intended to resume hostilities if dialogue on their demands was not undertaken within a month. A couple in their 60s had to be rescued after their 30ft motor cruiser vessel broke down at the mouth of the River Humber. boat, missing for nearly 40 days since Cyclone Phyan, was found Sunday with six bodies of fishermen near Ratnagiri, around 250 km south of Mumbai, police said. Inmarsat , has announced activation of the 5,000th FleetBroadband terminal. This figure represents commercially active SIM cards passing operational traffic. Somali Deputy Prime Minister Abdurahman Aden Ibrahim Ibbi will lead a high-level Somali delegation to visit the Philippines on Dec. The Indian navy on Saturday foiled a piracy attempt on cargo vessel MV Sanderling Ace in the Gulf of Aden. The vessel had sent out a distress call after sighting seven persons aboard a white skiff (a small boat) approaching it at 20 knots. The anti-whaling vessel Steve Irwin has emerged unscathed from its first skirmish of the new whaling season against a Japanese security ship. When a Hampshire couple lost their cat the last thing they expected was to get a call from seafarers in Spain. The prospect of sliding freight rates from vessel overcapacity and piracy in Somalia were the main topics of discussion the 35th Annual General Meeting of the Federation of Association of South East Asian Nations (FASA) Ship Owners Associations hosted by the Vietnam Ship Owners Association. BIMCO and the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) hosted a special side event for participants at the United Nations’ Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (COP 15) on December 11. China will increasingly chart plans to build more LNG carriers, according to a report by the official government publication, the China Daily. Too many ships today, are still unprepared for transit through pirates waters, came the worrying verdict from the IQPC Counter-Piracy and Ship Security conference held in Dubai last week. Denmark’s Maersk Line is to become the world’s first shipping company to test biodiesel on a container ship. Australian authorities have intercepted another asylum seeker boat, taking the tally for the year to 55. A seafarer killed on board a Danish cargo ship that had just docked in Fremantle a few days before could have been suffering from tiredness as a result of the ship’s duty roster and movement in heavy seas. Copyright © Shiptalk Ltd, 2005. Please note: If you're a current Engadget commenter, you do not need to re-register. Simply login and you will be prompted to select a username. The best part? It's shipping now in the UK, with a price hovering in the £330 range (about $540 US). If someone manages to shoehorn Android 2. onto this thing we might start talking serious, but for now it's probably a stretch for a bit of EDGE-only (or 3G if you win the tri-band lottery and us AT&T) import action in the US. The price of liberty and happiness, we suppose. boot animation for the Nexus One reminds us of. Vodafone UK to start iPhone sales Jan. Looks cool, not as sexy as the DROID tho. Way sexier than the droid. SHUT UP ABOUT THE DROID ALREADY!!! you are about as stupid as the apple fanboys but instead of apple's dong in you mouth its android's dong. not saying android is bad on the contrary I love it. Stop drinking coffee kid, it'll stunt your growth. "The price of liberty and happiness, we suppose. Studies have shown that europeans are happier. And as for liberty, well my own country ranks 15 places higher than the US on the world press freedom index (tied for No. and also ranks better in other studies for personal liberties. Regarding the phone, I'll stick to my Hero & my iphone until the HTC Passion comes out. The Acer is just too much compromise. I would agree, HTC Passion/Bravo seems like it will be THE phone to get now. Well now you gotta say what your country is. since he said press freedom tied for first then its definately not the UK thats out. and frankly America is free enough. and HE probably wont ever post his own country because he is too much of a pussy to admit that he is from some shit-hole place, and to get off he has to point out some random fact that his country is better than america. and since when was america the standard to beat? if you are 15 places higher then obviously america isnt the standard and you need to find a different country to put your country up against, OH and who has done this study? because I can survey 20 people and have 15 of them aggree with me and say 15 out of 16 people agree and every dumbass and his dog will suck that shit up like its doctrine. and really here in the good old U. I can say what I want when I want and where I want and NOBODY GIVES A FUCK!!!!!! back when Pres. Obama was campaigning to become president he was scheduled to come to my part of the country and I said man if I see him i'm going to kick that stupid shits ass, and actually one of his security guards overheard me and just simply asked: "seriously why? what has he done to you?" and I replied "nothing I just felt like saying that. in other countries I would have gotten in serious trouble for saying that possibly even killed. @cros13 maybe but the British are depressed sad sacks according to surveys. and I'm a Brit so technically I'm offending my self. And I live in Ireland. I did live in the US for a while and I'm afraid>I'd agree with the Indexes based on my experience. In hindsight my comment is a little bit flamebait. I work for a US Defence Contractor. I spend roughly half my time>in the US. I've lived full-time in the US in the past. I just get annoyed when americans assume that they are automatically>superior to other countries. Whether in Sport, Tech or Personal Freedom. I get that "The price of liberty and happiness, we suppose" was meant somewhat tongue-in-cheek. Maybe I'm just having an off day. doesn't look like a 800x480 screen either. @Wikimon I believe it is a 1ghz snapdragon that has been underclocked to save battery. You must be one of those guys who doesnt actually read anything on Engadget but likes to hang out in the comment sections. Well then maybe you should hang out in the comment section more, since as Hydra rightfully mentions above, the Liquid is underclocked at 768Mhz. Now please, proceed to go all Jack Bauer if you so wish. "If someone manages to shoehorn Android 2. onto this thing we might start talking serious" - Umm, it runs Android 2. Apart from that I don't actually mind the looks. This thing is ugly, expensive and the processor is underclocked to hte point where it is barely faster than an OMAP3430 anyway. HTCs roadmap is miles ahead. Of course, this one has the advantage of actually shipping right now. @Hydra So AT&T is upgrading to 850 bands and this only has 1900. Still it'll probably work with 3G in my area. Snapdragon finally! Now all you need to do Acer is double the ram, make it look a little bit sleeker, and make a CDMA version. I really don't understand the Droid's appeal. Its specs definitely make it the best one on the market right now (well, now its going to compete with this phone, and the HTC phones early next year) but I think it does look really really plain. Still, I doubt i'd go for this one. I had this on the short list, but after this rumor about the HTC Bravo/Passion, I'm gonna have to wait and compare. the htc roadmap doesn't look that great. @kevin460 I believe T-Mobile requires both 1700 and 2100. This phone only has 2100. There is 3 version, white, black and red. It looks way better in red imo. 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Back up the transaction log at the primary server instance. Copy the transaction log file to the secondary server instance. Restore the log backup on the secondary server instance. The log can be shipped to multiple secondary server instances. In such cases, operations 2 and 3 are duplicated for each secondary server instance. A log shipping configuration does not automatically fail over from the primary server to the secondary server. If the primary database becomes unavailable, any of the secondary databases can be brought online manually. You can use a secondary database for reporting purposes. In addition, you can configure alerts for your log shipping configuration. The primary server in a log shipping configuration is the instance of the SQL Server Database Engine that is your production server. The primary database is the database on the primary server that you want to back up to another server. All administration of the log shipping configuration through SQL Server Management Studio is performed from the primary database. The primary database must use the full or bulk-logged recovery model; switching the database to simple recovery will cause log shipping to stop functioning. The secondary server in a log shipping configuration is the server where you want to keep a warm standby copy of your primary database. A secondary server can contain backup copies of databases from several different primary servers. For example, a department could have five servers, each running a mission-critical database system. Rather than having five separate secondary servers, a single secondary server could be used. The backups from the five primary systems could be loaded onto the single backup system, reducing the number of resources required and saving money. It is unlikely that more than one primary system would fail at the same time. Additionally, to cover the remote chance that more than one primary system becomes unavailable at the same time, the secondary server could be of higher specification than the primary servers. The secondary database must be initialized by restoring a full backup of the primary database. The restore can be completed using either the NORECOVERY or STANDBY option. This can be done manually or through SQL Server Management Studio. When the transaction log on the primary database was last backed up. When the secondary servers last copied and restored the backup files. Information about any backup failure alerts. The monitor server should be on a server separate from the primary or secondary servers to avoid losing critical information and disrupting monitoring if the primary or secondary server is lost. A single monitor server can monitor multiple log shipping configurations. In such a case, all of the log shipping configurations that use that monitor server would share a single alert job. Once the monitor server has been configured, it cannot be changed without removing log shipping first. Log shipping involves four jobs, which are handled by dedicated SQL Server Agent jobs. These jobs include the backup job, copy job, restore job, and alert job. The user controls how frequently log backups are taken, how frequently they are copied to each secondary server, and how frequently they are applied to the secondary database. To reduce the work required to bring a secondary server online, for example after the production system fails, you can copy and restore each transaction log backup soon after it is created. Alternatively, perhaps on a second secondary server, you can delay applying transaction log backups to the secondary database. This delay provides an interval during which you can notice and respond to a failure on the primary, such as accidental deletion of critical data. A backup job is created on the primary server instance for each primary database. It performs the backup operation, logs history to the local server and the monitor server, and deletes old backup files and history information. By default, this job will run every 15 minutes, but the interval is customizable. When log shipping is enabled, the SQL Server Agent job category "Log Shipping Backup" is created on the primary server instance. SQL Server 2008 Enterprise and later versions support backup compression. When creating a log shipping configuration, you can control the backup compression behavior of log backups. A copy job is created on each secondary server instance in a log shipping configuration. This job copies the backup files from the primary server to a configurable destination on the secondary server and logs history on the secondary server and the monitor server. The copy job schedule, which is customizable, should approximate the backup schedule. When log shipping is enabled, the SQL Server Agent job category "Log Shipping Copy" is created on the secondary server instance. A restore job is created on the secondary server instance for each log shipping configuration. This job restores the copied backup files to the secondary databases. It logs history on the local server and the monitor server, and deletes old files and old history information. The SQL Server job category "Log Shipping Restore" is created on the secondary server instance when log shipping is enabled. On a given secondary server instance, the restore job can be scheduled as frequently as the copy job, or the restore job can delayed. Scheduling these jobs with the same frequency keeps the secondary database as closely aligned with the primary database as possible to create a warm standby database. In contrast, delaying restore jobs, perhaps by several hours, can be useful in the event of a serious user error, such as a dropped table or inappropriately deleted table row. If the time of the error is known, you can move that secondary database forward to a time soon before the error. Then you can export the lost data and import it back into the primary database. If a monitor server is used, an alert job is created on the monitor server instance. This alert job is shared by the primary and secondary databases of all log shipping configurations using this monitor server instance. Any change to the alert job (such as rescheduling, disabling, or enabling the job) affects all databases using that monitor server. This job raises alerts (for which you must specify alert numbers) for primary and secondary databases when backup and restore operations have not completed successfully within specified thresholds. You must configure these alerts to have an operator receive notification of the log shipping failure. The SQL Server Agent job category "Log Shipping Alert" is created on the monitor server instance when log shipping is enabled. If a monitor server is not used, alert jobs are created locally on the primary server instance and each secondary server instance. The alert job on the primary server instance raises errors when backup operations have not completed successfully within a specified threshold. The alert job on the secondary server instance raises errors when local copy and restore operations have not completed successfully within a specified threshold. The following figure shows a log shipping configuration with the primary server instance, three secondary server instances, and a monitor server instance. The primary server instance runs the backup job to back up the transaction log on the primary database. This server instance then places the log backup into a primary log-backup file, which it sends to the backup folder. Each of the three secondary server instances runs its own copy job to copy the primary log-backup file to its own local destination folder. Each secondary server instance runs its own restore job to restore the log backup from the local destination folder onto the local secondary database. The primary and secondary server instances send their own history and status to the monitor server instance. Updated the "Backup Job" section to correct the default job interval, to 15 minutes. This is the print version of this page. China shipping container line for overseas freight forwarding provided by Zircon Logistics USA. We have years of experience in international ocean shipping, motor freight trucking, air freight services, freight broker services, freight forwarding and logistics management. 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Japanese yard group MHI completed only 18 ships this year, against 21 in 2008, with no boxships on that list. Indian Navy steps in as Japanese-operated car carrier chased by pirates in the Gulf of Aden. Brittany Ferries ends service from Poole, UK, but adds sailings from Portsmouth. Continuing demand for Persian Gulf VLCCs at the end of December and early January edges rates up. Capesize rates on the drop despite port congestion but panamaxes are relatively firm. Hamburg Shipbrokers' Association ConTex charter assessment again unchanged at 238. Brokers looking for improvement in the anchor handler market as PSV rates tail off. Canada's Bay Ferries pulls run from Nova Scotia to Maine after losing state funding. Waning sales hit cruise giant’s profit but CEO Micky Arison says it weathered storm “exceptionally well”. Shipowner seals $130m takeover of coal trader, Unique Mining Services. Founder and CEO Richard Elman named executive chairman at Hong Kong shipping and commodities giant. 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It's shipping now in the UK, with a price hovering in the £330 range (about $540 US). If someone manages to shoehorn Android 2. onto this thing we might start talking serious, but for now it's probably a stretch for a bit of EDGE-only (or 3G if you win the tri-band lottery and us AT&T) import action in the US. The price of liberty and happiness, we suppose. boot animation for the Nexus One reminds us of. Vodafone UK to start iPhone sales Jan. Looks cool, not as sexy as the DROID tho. Way sexier than the droid. SHUT UP ABOUT THE DROID ALREADY!!! you are about as stupid as the apple fanboys but instead of apple's dong in you mouth its android's dong. not saying android is bad on the contrary I love it. Stop drinking coffee kid, it'll stunt your growth. "The price of liberty and happiness, we suppose. Studies have shown that europeans are happier. And as for liberty, well my own country ranks 15 places higher than the US on the world press freedom index (tied for No. and also ranks better in other studies for personal liberties. Regarding the phone, I'll stick to my Hero & my iphone until the HTC Passion comes out. The Acer is just too much compromise. I would agree, HTC Passion/Bravo seems like it will be THE phone to get now. Well now you gotta say what your country is. since he said press freedom tied for first then its definately not the UK thats out. and frankly America is free enough. and HE probably wont ever post his own country because he is too much of a pussy to admit that he is from some shit-hole place, and to get off he has to point out some random fact that his country is better than america. and since when was america the standard to beat? if you are 15 places higher then obviously america isnt the standard and you need to find a different country to put your country up against, OH and who has done this study? because I can survey 20 people and have 15 of them aggree with me and say 15 out of 16 people agree and every dumbass and his dog will suck that shit up like its doctrine. and really here in the good old U. I can say what I want when I want and where I want and NOBODY GIVES A FUCK!!!!!! back when Pres. Obama was campaigning to become president he was scheduled to come to my part of the country and I said man if I see him i'm going to kick that stupid shits ass, and actually one of his security guards overheard me and just simply asked: "seriously why? what has he done to you?" and I replied "nothing I just felt like saying that. in other countries I would have gotten in serious trouble for saying that possibly even killed. @cros13 maybe but the British are depressed sad sacks according to surveys. and I'm a Brit so technically I'm offending my self. And I live in Ireland. I did live in the US for a while and I'm afraid>I'd agree with the Indexes based on my experience. In hindsight my comment is a little bit flamebait. I work for a US Defence Contractor. I spend roughly half my time>in the US. I've lived full-time in the US in the past. I just get annoyed when americans assume that they are automatically>superior to other countries. Whether in Sport, Tech or Personal Freedom. I get that "The price of liberty and happiness, we suppose" was meant somewhat tongue-in-cheek. Maybe I'm just having an off day. doesn't look like a 800x480 screen either. @Wikimon I believe it is a 1ghz snapdragon that has been underclocked to save battery. You must be one of those guys who doesnt actually read anything on Engadget but likes to hang out in the comment sections. Well then maybe you should hang out in the comment section more, since as Hydra rightfully mentions above, the Liquid is underclocked at 768Mhz. Now please, proceed to go all Jack Bauer if you so wish. "If someone manages to shoehorn Android 2. onto this thing we might start talking serious" - Umm, it runs Android 2. Apart from that I don't actually mind the looks. This thing is ugly, expensive and the processor is underclocked to hte point where it is barely faster than an OMAP3430 anyway. HTCs roadmap is miles ahead. Of course, this one has the advantage of actually shipping right now. @Hydra So AT&T is upgrading to 850 bands and this only has 1900. Still it'll probably work with 3G in my area. Snapdragon finally! Now all you need to do Acer is double the ram, make it look a little bit sleeker, and make a CDMA version. I really don't understand the Droid's appeal. Its specs definitely make it the best one on the market right now (well, now its going to compete with this phone, and the HTC phones early next year) but I think it does look really really plain. Still, I doubt i'd go for this one. I had this on the short list, but after this rumor about the HTC Bravo/Passion, I'm gonna have to wait and compare. the htc roadmap doesn't look that great. @kevin460 I believe T-Mobile requires both 1700 and 2100. This phone only has 2100. There is 3 version, white, black and red. It looks way better in red imo. The Engadget Show tapes today. “The general size and shape certainly calls forth memories of the Centro, but while the previous version was chunky and playful, the Pixi comes off more like its distant cousin. The most commented posts on Engadget over the past 24 hours. Vodafone UK to start iPhone sales Jan. Inappropriate Christmas Decoration Spotted in Temecula, Calif. Now that we've thrown 'em off the trail, use the form below to get in touch with the people at Engadget. Please fill in all of the required fields because they're required. The Graig Group is a broad-based international shipowning and shipping services group delivering technical and commercial ship management, newbuilding supervision, lay-up services, ship design, ship owning and ship finance to global clients who appreciate personal service. Graig provides the missing piece which completes the picture for any shipping puzzle. 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Graig group staff bridge the gap between sea and shore, between east and west to bring the best in innovation, service and partnership to the global shipping industry. Turkey's Kiran Holdings celebrated the launch of the first of two 57,000 dwt Dolphin class Bulk carriers at Wu Jia Zui Shipyard, China on 26th August. It has afurther similar vessel under construction along with two 79,000 dwt Panamax bulk-carriers. During the same week, the second of the Kiran 179,000 dwt Capesize vessels was steel-cut at Rong Sheng Shipyard in Nantong, China. Graig China is contracted to carry out plan approval and newbuilding supervision on all Kiran's projects which includes six vessels building in China at present. The transaction log backups are applied to each of the secondary databases individually. monitor server>, records the history and status of backup and restore operations and, optionally, raises alerts if these operations fail to occur as scheduled. Back up the transaction log at the primary server instance. Copy the transaction log file to the secondary server instance. Restore the log backup on the secondary server instance. The log can be shipped to multiple secondary server instances. In such cases, operations 2 and 3 are duplicated for each secondary server instance. A log shipping configuration does not automatically fail over from the primary server to the secondary server. If the primary database becomes unavailable, any of the secondary databases can be brought online manually. You can use a secondary database for reporting purposes. In addition, you can configure alerts for your log shipping configuration. The primary server in a log shipping configuration is the instance of the SQL Server Database Engine that is your production server. The primary database is the database on the primary server that you want to back up to another server. All administration of the log shipping configuration through SQL Server Management Studio is performed from the primary database. The primary database must use the full or bulk-logged recovery model; switching the database to simple recovery will cause log shipping to stop functioning. The secondary server in a log shipping configuration is the server where you want to keep a warm standby copy of your primary database. A secondary server can contain backup copies of databases from several different primary servers. For example, a department could have five servers, each running a mission-critical database system. Rather than having five separate secondary servers, a single secondary server could be used. The backups from the five primary systems could be loaded onto the single backup system, reducing the number of resources required and saving money. It is unlikely that more than one primary system would fail at the same time. Additionally, to cover the remote chance that more than one primary system becomes unavailable at the same time, the secondary server could be of higher specification than the primary servers. The secondary database must be initialized by restoring a full backup of the primary database. The restore can be completed using either the NORECOVERY or STANDBY option. This can be done manually or through SQL Server Management Studio. When the transaction log on the primary database was last backed up. When the secondary servers last copied and restored the backup files. Information about any backup failure alerts. The monitor server should be on a server separate from the primary or secondary servers to avoid losing critical information and disrupting monitoring if the primary or secondary server is lost. A single monitor server can monitor multiple log shipping configurations. In such a case, all of the log shipping configurations that use that monitor server would share a single alert job. Once the monitor server has been configured, it cannot be changed without removing log shipping first. Log shipping involves four jobs, which are handled by dedicated SQL Server Agent jobs. These jobs include the backup job, copy job, restore job, and alert job. The user controls how frequently log backups are taken, how frequently they are copied to each secondary server, and how frequently they are applied to the secondary database. To reduce the work required to bring a secondary server online, for example after the production system fails, you can copy and restore each transaction log backup soon after it is created. Alternatively, perhaps on a second secondary server, you can delay applying transaction log backups to the secondary database. This delay provides an interval during which you can notice and respond to a failure on the primary, such as accidental deletion of critical data. A backup job is created on the primary server instance for each primary database. It performs the backup operation, logs history to the local server and the monitor server, and deletes old backup files and history information. By default, this job will run every 15 minutes, but the interval is customizable. When log shipping is enabled, the SQL Server Agent job category "Log Shipping Backup" is created on the primary server instance. SQL Server 2008 Enterprise and later versions support backup compression. When creating a log shipping configuration, you can control the backup compression behavior of log backups. A copy job is created on each secondary server instance in a log shipping configuration. This job copies the backup files from the primary server to a configurable destination on the secondary server and logs history on the secondary server and the monitor server. The copy job schedule, which is customizable, should approximate the backup schedule. When log shipping is enabled, the SQL Server Agent job category "Log Shipping Copy" is created on the secondary server instance. A restore job is created on the secondary server instance for each log shipping configuration. This job restores the copied backup files to the secondary databases. It logs history on the local server and the monitor server, and deletes old files and old history information. The SQL Server job category "Log Shipping Restore" is created on the secondary server instance when log shipping is enabled. On a given secondary server instance, the restore job can be scheduled as frequently as the copy job, or the restore job can delayed. Scheduling these jobs with the same frequency keeps the secondary database as closely aligned with the primary database as possible to create a warm standby database. In contrast, delaying restore jobs, perhaps by several hours, can be useful in the event of a serious user error, such as a dropped table or inappropriately deleted table row. If the time of the error is known, you can move that secondary database forward to a time soon before the error. Then you can export the lost data and import it back into the primary database. If a monitor server is used, an alert job is created on the monitor server instance. This alert job is shared by the primary and secondary databases of all log shipping configurations using this monitor server instance. Any change to the alert job (such as rescheduling, disabling, or enabling the job) affects all databases using that monitor server. This job raises alerts (for which you must specify alert numbers) for primary and secondary databases when backup and restore operations have not completed successfully within specified thresholds. You must configure these alerts to have an operator receive notification of the log shipping failure. The SQL Server Agent job category "Log Shipping Alert" is created on the monitor server instance when log shipping is enabled. If a monitor server is not used, alert jobs are created locally on the primary server instance and each secondary server instance. The alert job on the primary server instance raises errors when backup operations have not completed successfully within a specified threshold. The alert job on the secondary server instance raises errors when local copy and restore operations have not completed successfully within a specified threshold. The following figure shows a log shipping configuration with the primary server instance, three secondary server instances, and a monitor server instance. The primary server instance runs the backup job to back up the transaction log on the primary database. This server instance then places the log backup into a primary log-backup file, which it sends to the backup folder. Each of the three secondary server instances runs its own copy job to copy the primary log-backup file to its own local destination folder. Each secondary server instance runs its own restore job to restore the log backup from the local destination folder onto the local secondary database. The primary and secondary server instances send their own history and status to the monitor server instance. Updated the "Backup Job" section to correct the default job interval, to 15 minutes. This is the print version of this page. China shipping container line for overseas freight forwarding provided by Zircon Logistics USA. We have years of experience in international ocean shipping, motor freight trucking, air freight services, freight broker services, freight forwarding and logistics management. 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Japanese yard group MHI completed only 18 ships this year, against 21 in 2008, with no boxships on that list. Indian Navy steps in as Japanese-operated car carrier chased by pirates in the Gulf of Aden. Brittany Ferries ends service from Poole, UK, but adds sailings from Portsmouth. Continuing demand for Persian Gulf VLCCs at the end of December and early January edges rates up. Capesize rates on the drop despite port congestion but panamaxes are relatively firm. Hamburg Shipbrokers' Association ConTex charter assessment again unchanged at 238. Brokers looking for improvement in the anchor handler market as PSV rates tail off. Canada's Bay Ferries pulls run from Nova Scotia to Maine after losing state funding. Waning sales hit cruise giant’s profit but CEO Micky Arison says it weathered storm “exceptionally well”. Shipowner seals $130m takeover of coal trader, Unique Mining Services. Founder and CEO Richard Elman named executive chairman at Hong Kong shipping and commodities giant. Japanese shipowner raises JPY20bn to repay existing loans, but has no plans to issue fresh equity. Norden signs 15-year contract with mystery European and 11-year deal with Filipino as handy fleet fixed. Apeejay Shipping panamax left with out power in North Pacific; Maersk boxship riding to the rescue. Fazel Fazelbhoy’s Topaz Energy and Marine seals $42m loan to fund its fleet expansion plan. Justice Smith turns up the heat and Tagir Izmaylov gets hot under the collar in Sovcomflot's trial this week. Or broking? Former Clarkson’s broker Nick Wood puts up spirited defence of Sovcomflot newbuilding commission negotiations. USCG releases 2009’s top 11 videos of operations with pirates, drug smugglers and pets all making the cut. Legless rig owner gets vice ruling overturned in battle over a heavy lift voyage that went wrong. Yuri Nikitin's 'loans' to friends are revealed while Hapag-Lloyd stretches for a $1bn loss. 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It's shipping now in the UK, with a price hovering in the £330 range (about $540 US). If someone manages to shoehorn Android 2. onto this thing we might start talking serious, but for now it's probably a stretch for a bit of EDGE-only (or 3G if you win the tri-band lottery and us AT&T) import action in the US. The price of liberty and happiness, we suppose. boot animation for the Nexus One reminds us of. Vodafone UK to start iPhone sales Jan. Looks cool, not as sexy as the DROID tho. Way sexier than the droid. SHUT UP ABOUT THE DROID ALREADY!!! you are about as stupid as the apple fanboys but instead of apple's dong in you mouth its android's dong. not saying android is bad on the contrary I love it. Stop drinking coffee kid, it'll stunt your growth. "The price of liberty and happiness, we suppose. Studies have shown that europeans are happier. And as for liberty, well my own country ranks 15 places higher than the US on the world press freedom index (tied for No. and also ranks better in other studies for personal liberties. Regarding the phone, I'll stick to my Hero & my iphone until the HTC Passion comes out. The Acer is just too much compromise. I would agree, HTC Passion/Bravo seems like it will be THE phone to get now. Well now you gotta say what your country is. since he said press freedom tied for first then its definately not the UK thats out. and frankly America is free enough. and HE probably wont ever post his own country because he is too much of a pussy to admit that he is from some shit-hole place, and to get off he has to point out some random fact that his country is better than america. and since when was america the standard to beat? if you are 15 places higher then obviously america isnt the standard and you need to find a different country to put your country up against, OH and who has done this study? because I can survey 20 people and have 15 of them aggree with me and say 15 out of 16 people agree and every dumbass and his dog will suck that shit up like its doctrine. and really here in the good old U. I can say what I want when I want and where I want and NOBODY GIVES A FUCK!!!!!! back when Pres. Obama was campaigning to become president he was scheduled to come to my part of the country and I said man if I see him i'm going to kick that stupid shits ass, and actually one of his security guards overheard me and just simply asked: "seriously why? what has he done to you?" and I replied "nothing I just felt like saying that. in other countries I would have gotten in serious trouble for saying that possibly even killed. @cros13 maybe but the British are depressed sad sacks according to surveys. and I'm a Brit so technically I'm offending my self. And I live in Ireland. I did live in the US for a while and I'm afraid>I'd agree with the Indexes based on my experience. In hindsight my comment is a little bit flamebait. I work for a US Defence Contractor. I spend roughly half my time>in the US. I've lived full-time in the US in the past. I just get annoyed when americans assume that they are automatically>superior to other countries. Whether in Sport, Tech or Personal Freedom. I get that "The price of liberty and happiness, we suppose" was meant somewhat tongue-in-cheek. Maybe I'm just having an off day. doesn't look like a 800x480 screen either. @Wikimon I believe it is a 1ghz snapdragon that has been underclocked to save battery. You must be one of those guys who doesnt actually read anything on Engadget but likes to hang out in the comment sections. Well then maybe you should hang out in the comment section more, since as Hydra rightfully mentions above, the Liquid is underclocked at 768Mhz. Now please, proceed to go all Jack Bauer if you so wish. "If someone manages to shoehorn Android 2. onto this thing we might start talking serious" - Umm, it runs Android 2. Apart from that I don't actually mind the looks. This thing is ugly, expensive and the processor is underclocked to hte point where it is barely faster than an OMAP3430 anyway. HTCs roadmap is miles ahead. Of course, this one has the advantage of actually shipping right now. @Hydra So AT&T is upgrading to 850 bands and this only has 1900. Still it'll probably work with 3G in my area. Snapdragon finally! Now all you need to do Acer is double the ram, make it look a little bit sleeker, and make a CDMA version. I really don't understand the Droid's appeal. Its specs definitely make it the best one on the market right now (well, now its going to compete with this phone, and the HTC phones early next year) but I think it does look really really plain. Still, I doubt i'd go for this one. I had this on the short list, but after this rumor about the HTC Bravo/Passion, I'm gonna have to wait and compare. the htc roadmap doesn't look that great. @kevin460 I believe T-Mobile requires both 1700 and 2100. This phone only has 2100. There is 3 version, white, black and red. It looks way better in red imo. 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All administration of the log shipping configuration through SQL Server Management Studio is performed from the primary database. The primary database must use the full or bulk-logged recovery model; switching the database to simple recovery will cause log shipping to stop functioning. The secondary server in a log shipping configuration is the server where you want to keep a warm standby copy of your primary database. A secondary server can contain backup copies of databases from several different primary servers. For example, a department could have five servers, each running a mission-critical database system. Rather than having five separate secondary servers, a single secondary server could be used. The backups from the five primary systems could be loaded onto the single backup system, reducing the number of resources required and saving money. It is unlikely that more than one primary system would fail at the same time. Additionally, to cover the remote chance that more than one primary system becomes unavailable at the same time, the secondary server could be of higher specification than the primary servers. The secondary database must be initialized by restoring a full backup of the primary database. The restore can be completed using either the NORECOVERY or STANDBY option. This can be done manually or through SQL Server Management Studio. When the transaction log on the primary database was last backed up. When the secondary servers last copied and restored the backup files. Information about any backup failure alerts. The monitor server should be on a server separate from the primary or secondary servers to avoid losing critical information and disrupting monitoring if the primary or secondary server is lost. A single monitor server can monitor multiple log shipping configurations. In such a case, all of the log shipping configurations that use that monitor server would share a single alert job. Once the monitor server has been configured, it cannot be changed without removing log shipping first. Log shipping involves four jobs, which are handled by dedicated SQL Server Agent jobs. These jobs include the backup job, copy job, restore job, and alert job. The user controls how frequently log backups are taken, how frequently they are copied to each secondary server, and how frequently they are applied to the secondary database. To reduce the work required to bring a secondary server online, for example after the production system fails, you can copy and restore each transaction log backup soon after it is created. Alternatively, perhaps on a second secondary server, you can delay applying transaction log backups to the secondary database. This delay provides an interval during which you can notice and respond to a failure on the primary, such as accidental deletion of critical data. A backup job is created on the primary server instance for each primary database. It performs the backup operation, logs history to the local server and the monitor server, and deletes old backup files and history information. By default, this job will run every 15 minutes, but the interval is customizable. When log shipping is enabled, the SQL Server Agent job category "Log Shipping Backup" is created on the primary server instance. SQL Server 2008 Enterprise and later versions support backup compression. When creating a log shipping configuration, you can control the backup compression behavior of log backups. A copy job is created on each secondary server instance in a log shipping configuration. This job copies the backup files from the primary server to a configurable destination on the secondary server and logs history on the secondary server and the monitor server. The copy job schedule, which is customizable, should approximate the backup schedule. When log shipping is enabled, the SQL Server Agent job category "Log Shipping Copy" is created on the secondary server instance. A restore job is created on the secondary server instance for each log shipping configuration. This job restores the copied backup files to the secondary databases. It logs history on the local server and the monitor server, and deletes old files and old history information. The SQL Server job category "Log Shipping Restore" is created on the secondary server instance when log shipping is enabled. On a given secondary server instance, the restore job can be scheduled as frequently as the copy job, or the restore job can delayed. Scheduling these jobs with the same frequency keeps the secondary database as closely aligned with the primary database as possible to create a warm standby database. In contrast, delaying restore jobs, perhaps by several hours, can be useful in the event of a serious user error, such as a dropped table or inappropriately deleted table row. If the time of the error is known, you can move that secondary database forward to a time soon before the error. Then you can export the lost data and import it back into the primary database. If a monitor server is used, an alert job is created on the monitor server instance. This alert job is shared by the primary and secondary databases of all log shipping configurations using this monitor server instance. Any change to the alert job (such as rescheduling, disabling, or enabling the job) affects all databases using that monitor server. This job raises alerts (for which you must specify alert numbers) for primary and secondary databases when backup and restore operations have not completed successfully within specified thresholds. You must configure these alerts to have an operator receive notification of the log shipping failure. The SQL Server Agent job category "Log Shipping Alert" is created on the monitor server instance when log shipping is enabled. If a monitor server is not used, alert jobs are created locally on the primary server instance and each secondary server instance. The alert job on the primary server instance raises errors when backup operations have not completed successfully within a specified threshold. The alert job on the secondary server instance raises errors when local copy and restore operations have not completed successfully within a specified threshold. The following figure shows a log shipping configuration with the primary server instance, three secondary server instances, and a monitor server instance. The primary server instance runs the backup job to back up the transaction log on the primary database. This server instance then places the log backup into a primary log-backup file, which it sends to the backup folder. Each of the three secondary server instances runs its own copy job to copy the primary log-backup file to its own local destination folder. Each secondary server instance runs its own restore job to restore the log backup from the local destination folder onto the local secondary database. The primary and secondary server instances send their own history and status to the monitor server instance. Updated the "Backup Job" section to correct the default job interval, to 15 minutes. This is the print version of this page. China shipping container line for overseas freight forwarding provided by Zircon Logistics USA. We have years of experience in international ocean shipping, motor freight trucking, air freight services, freight broker services, freight forwarding and logistics management. 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