Observation Centre Canal Expansion

Panama Canal Partial Transit

This video was taken during a partial transit of the Panama Canal on Thursday 21st January 2016 by the P&O cruise ship “Oceana”. The ship entered from the Caribbean Sea at Colon through the ladder of three locks at Gatun that raised it 85 feet and into the Gatun Lake, where it anchored for a few hours before returning to the Caribbean. Finally there are short clips at the Gatun Locks observation centre and on the Panama Canal Railway during a journey from Colon to Panama City.

Panama Canal Expansion Inaugural Transit - Agua Clara Locks (Atlantic side)

Views from the transit of the Cosco Shipping Panama during the inauguration of the new locks of the expanded Panama Canal.

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PANAMA CANAL, huge cargo ship crosses the MIRAFLORES LOCKS on the Pacific side ????️

SUBSCRIBE: - Let's go to the eight wonder of the world, the Panama Canal and let's watch as a huge cargo ship crosses the Miraflores Locks on the Pacific Ocean side of the canal. Miraflores is the name of one of the three locks that form part of the Panama Canal, and the name of the small lake that separates these locks from the Pedro Miguel Locks upstream. In the Miraflores locks, vessels are lifted (or lowered) 54 feet (16.5 m) in two stages, allowing them to transit to or from the Pacific Ocean port of Balboa in Panama City.
Panama is a country on the isthmus linking Central and South America. The Panama Canal, a famous feat of human engineering, cuts through its center, linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans to create an essential shipping route. In the capital, Panama City, modern skyscrapers, casinos and nightclubs contrast with colonial buildings in the Casco Viejo district and the rainforest of Natural Metropolitan Park.
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Visitor center at new Agua Clara Locks, Caribbean Sea, Colón, Panama, 2017-02-25

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Container Ship EVER LIFTING at New Agua Clara Locks - Expanded Panama Canal (April 22, 2017)

Panama Canal Ship Spotting April 22 video 1 of 7

The 8508 TEU Evergreen Neo-Panamax container vessel EVER LIFTING at the new expanded Agua Clara Locks on the Atlantic side as she makes her southbound Panama Canal transit. The Panama Canal Authority tugs CERRO TIGRE (bow), and CERRO LA VIEJA (stern) help keep the 98,882 Ton EVER LIFTING straight as she slowly exits the locks.

The new expanded locks opened in June of 2016 and can accommodate container vessels of over 13,000 TEUs.

IMO Number: 9629122
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Flag / Nationality: United Kingdom
Operator: Evergreen
Completion Year: 2015 / 05
Maximum TEU Capacity: 8508
Maximum Speed (Kn): 24.9
Overall Length (M): 333.50
Overall Beam (M): 42.80
Maximum Draught (M): 14.50
Deadweight (Ton): 104,409
Gross Tonnage (Ton): 98,882

Last Port: Colon, Panama
Next Port: Qingdao, China

Filmed between 8:50am to 9:30am Saturday April 22, 2017 at the Agua Clara Expansion Visitors Center.

Camera: Canon VIXIA HF R70

Due to a large crowd, I was not able to use my tripod.

Miraflores Locks Visitor Centre, Panama Canal (from Norwegian Star Cruise Ship)

Friday, January 21, 2014
Read about my voyage through the Panama Canal
from Robbie Morrisons Photography Blog

The Panama Canal

The Panama Canal doubled its capacity after the Expansion Program was completed in June 2016, almost a century after the canal first transformed international trade. Join us for an in-depth look at the most notable component of the Expansion Program, the Third Set of Locks project, presented by Carlos Fábrega.

Carlos Fábrega, member, Board of Representatives and Executive Committee of the Grupo Unidos por el Canal JV (GUPC), executive vice president, Constructora Urbana S.A.

10/27/16

FCC in Panama

Panama is a country that is consolidated as the business centre in America. It's a country in which people from all round the world work. FCC, the international environmental, water and construction services company, has been present in Panama for over fifteen years, developing and constructing strategic projects that help to improve the people's quality of life.

Leading construction company in the country

Health IT Webinar: Tips For Generating and Utilizing Quality Data Reports Using Health IT

HRSA Health IT Webinar: Tips For Generating and Utilizing Quality Data Reports Using Health IT. Presented on Friday , July 22, 2011, 2pm to 3:30pm EST

This webinar focuses on how safety net providers such as health centers and rural providers can generate quality reports and utilize this data for improving healthcare outcomes. Collecting and analyzing data is one of the central functions for assessing and targeting how to improve healthcare quality. Data enables staff to accurately identify workflow and care coordination inefficiencies, establish best practices, and assist in providing evidence based examples to staff and patients on how to improve outcomes. This webinar's presenters will demonstrate how they use health IT and/or electronic health records systems as a tool for generating quality reports. Furthermore, these safety net providers will demonstrate how they use their health center or critical access hospital clinical data for successfully coordinating care among provider teams, informing and engaging patients on care decisions, and for improving health quality and outcomes.

The presenters include:
• Kwame Kitson, M.D. Director of Quality Institute of Family Health, New York State

• Margaret Flinter, APRN, PhD, Vice President and Clinical Director, Community Health Center, Connecticut

• Bob DeMarco, RN, MA, BSN, Chief of Quality and Systems Improvement, Springfield Medical Care Systems, Vermont

04 Sendero Aguas Claras

Jorge Quijano Panama Canal Lecture | Lamar University

Development and Operation of the Newly Expanded Panama Canal and Vision for Its Future.

DJI PHANTOM 3 PRO FOOTAGE-PANAMA CANAL

DJI PHANTOM 3 PRO FOOTAGE AT PANAMA CANAL

John C. Stennis | Wikipedia audio article

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
John C. Stennis


00:01:42 1 Family
00:02:11 2 Early life
00:03:19 3 U.S. Senator
00:03:23 3.1 Early career
00:09:48 3.2 1970s
00:18:12 3.2.1 1970 re-election campaign
00:18:21 3.2.2 Vietnam
00:22:42 3.2.3 Other foreign policy issues
00:28:39 3.2.4 Watergate
00:29:41 3.2.5 1976 re-election campaign
00:30:05 3.3 1980s
00:33:30 3.4 Civil rights record
00:34:53 3.5 Opposition to Bork
00:35:17 4 Retirement
00:36:11 5 Naming honors
00:37:04 6 See also



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John Cornelius Stennis (August 3, 1901 – April 23, 1995) was a U.S. Senator from the state of Mississippi. He was a Democrat who served in the Senate for over 41 years, becoming its most senior member for his last eight years. He retired from the Senate in 1989.
While attending law school, Stennis won a seat in the Mississippi House of Representatives, holding office from 1928 to 1932. After serving as a prosecutor and state judge, Stennis won a special election to fill the Senate vacancy that arose following the death of Theodore G. Bilbo. He won election to a full term in 1952 and remained in the Senate until he declined to seek re-election in 1988. Stennis became the first Chairman of the Senate Ethics Committee and also chaired the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Appropriations. He also served as President pro tempore of the Senate from 1987 to 1989. In 1973, President Richard Nixon proposed the Stennis Compromise, whereby the hard-of-hearing Stennis would be allowed to listen to and summarize the Watergate tapes, but this idea was rejected by Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox.
Stennis was a zealous supporter of racial segregation. He signed the Southern Manifesto, which called for resistance to the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education. He also voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Civil Rights Act of 1968. He supported the extension of the Voting Rights Act in 1982 but voted against the establishment of Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a holiday.

2nd Annual Rochester Global Health Symposium

Innovative Solutions to Combat Global Health Disparities
April 21, 2016, 8:30am to 5:15pm (United Stated EDT, UTC/GMT -04:00)

This year’s symposium brings together leaders in global health research from Upstate New York and around the world to promote research collaboration, provide networking opportunities and help new researchers begin a career in global health. Students, trainees, junior faculty and senior faculty are all invited!

The one-day event includes timely presentations on global health issues, a poster session, a student poster competition, and breakout sessions. Multiple networking opportunities will give participants a chance to share ideas one-on-one and connect with experts in the field.

[All times below are in United States EDT (UTC/GMT -04:00)]

8:30 am: Welcome/Overview of the Global Network/Overview of UNYTE & Introduction of Speakers (Tim Dye, PhD and Nana Bennett, MD, MS; University of Rochester)

8:50am: Highlight Topic 1: Global Health Policy (Neal Palafox, MD, MPH; University of Hawai’i)

9:10am: Highlight Topic 2: Global Cancer Prevention and Control (Jennifer Smith, PhD; University of North Carolina)

9:30am: Highlight Topic 3: Zika Virus and Health Diplomacy (Mehran Massoudi, PhD, MPH; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

9:50am: Highlight Topic 4: Mobilizing food systems for Improved Health and Nutrition (Per Pinstrup-Andersen, PhD, MS; Cornell University)

10:10am: Highlight Topic 5: Global Health and Technology: New Solutions for Development (Saurabh Mehta, MBBS, ScD; Cornell University)

10:30am: Q&A for Highlight Topic Speakers

10:40am: Networking Break

11:15am: Rapid Fire Sessions
- Connections Between Prematurity and Toxic Substances in Puerto Rico: From Genomic Research to Community Engagement,
Carmen Vélez-Vega, University of Puerto Rico
- Health Care System in Costa Rica, Esteban Avendaño MD MPH, Universidad de Ciencias Médicas
- Mercury exposure from fish consumption: A global public health concern, Edwin VanWijngaarden PhD, University of Rochester
- Capacity Building in Zimbabwe: Linking Patient Support Groups with HIV Clinical Pharmacology Research Initiatives,
Samantha Sithole PharmD, University at Buffalo
- HIV, HPV, and Cervical Dysplasia in South Africa, David Adler MD, University of Rochester

12:15pm: Poster Session - join us for a stroll through the poster session to meet presenters and learn about their research.

Zika/Mosquito-Borne Illness Symposium – Moderator: Mehran Massoudi PhD
1:45pm: Zika in pregnancy/planned cohort studies - José Cordero , MD MPH
2:05pm: TBD
2:25pm: Mobile surveillance technology - Solomon Abiola/José Pérez-Ramos
2:45pm: Q&A

3:50pm: Policy, System, and Environmental Interventions in Global Cancer Control
– Angela Sy PhD, Neal Palafox MD, Karen Peters DrPH

4:00pm: Panel Discussion – Building partnerships in global health research/Careers in global health
– Tim Dye PhD, Mehran Massoudi PhD, Karen Peters DrPH, Haq Nawaz MD, Esteban Avendaño MD, Deborah Ossip PhD
5:00 pm: Announcement of poster session awards; closing – Tim Dye PhD

Supply Chain Cities - Supply & Command 2018

Yair Rubinstein (Duke University)
The Uberization of Everything: Life and Labor in the Logistical City

Niccolò Cuppini (SUPSI)
Infrastructural media and labour conflict in Northern Italy

Silvia Lindtner (University of Michigan)
Pleasures of the Hack: Machines, Markets, Supply Chains, China

Guillermo León Gómez (Parsons School of Design)
Logistical Paradise: Zones of exclusion in Panama’s first port city

Hosted by New York University’s Department of Media, Culture, and Communication and co-hosted by New York University's Urban Democracy Lab.

JFK: AND THE DEEP; STATE : WITH PALADIN, DR. JIM FETZER & OLE DAMMEGARD

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION bringing forward all the evidence and where it leads. In tribute to the life of John F. Kennedy

KERRY CASSIDY
PROJECT CAMELOT

Panama Canal | Wikipedia audio article

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Panama Canal


00:02:27 1 History
00:02:36 1.1 Early proposals in Panama
00:06:55 1.2 French construction attempts, 1881–1894
00:10:19 1.3 United States acquisition
00:14:20 1.4 United States construction of the Panama canal, 1904–1914
00:19:33 1.5 George Washington Goethals replaces John Frank Stevens as chief engineer
00:22:33 1.6 Later developments
00:25:11 2 Canal
00:25:19 2.1 Layout
00:28:31 2.2 Navigation
00:28:40 2.3 Gatun Lake
00:30:28 2.4 Lock size
00:32:48 2.5 Tolls
00:37:14 3 Issues leading to expansion
00:37:47 3.1 Efficiency and maintenance
00:41:07 3.2 Capacity
00:42:49 3.3 Competition
00:44:05 3.4 Water issues
00:45:48 4 Third set of locks project (expansion)
00:53:31 4.1 Rival Colombia rail link
00:53:51 4.2 Rival Nicaragua canal
00:55:12 4.3 Other projects
00:55:39 5 Panama Canal Honorary Pilots
00:56:25 6 See also



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- Socrates



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The Panama Canal (Spanish: Canal de Panamá) is an artificial 82 km (51 mi) waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean. The canal cuts across the Isthmus of Panama and is a conduit for maritime trade. Canal locks are at each end to lift ships up to Gatun Lake, an artificial lake created to reduce the amount of excavation work required for the canal, 26 m (85 ft) above sea level, and then lower the ships at the other end. The original locks are 34 m (110 ft) wide. A third, wider lane of locks was constructed between September 2007 and May 2016. The expanded canal began commercial operation on June 26, 2016. The new locks allow transit of larger, post-Panamax ships, capable of handling more cargo.France began work on the canal in 1881, but stopped due to engineering problems and a high worker mortality rate. The United States took over the project in 1904 and opened the canal on August 15, 1914. One of the largest and most difficult engineering projects ever undertaken, the Panama Canal shortcut greatly reduced the time for ships to travel between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, enabling them to avoid the lengthy, hazardous Cape Horn route around the southernmost tip of South America via the Drake Passage or Strait of Magellan.
Colombia, France, and later the United States controlled the territory surrounding the canal during construction. The US continued to control the canal and surrounding Panama Canal Zone until the 1977 Torrijos–Carter Treaties provided for handover to Panama. After a period of joint American–Panamanian control, in 1999, the canal was taken over by the Panamanian government. It is now managed and operated by the government-owned Panama Canal Authority.
Annual traffic has risen from about 1,000 ships in 1914, when the canal opened, to 14,702 vessels in 2008, for a total of 333.7 million Panama Canal/Universal Measurement System (PC/UMS) tons. By 2012, more than 815,000 vessels had passed through the canal. It takes 11.38 hours to pass through the Panama Canal. The American Society of Civil Engineers has ranked the Panama Canal one of the seven wonders of the modern world.

2018 Demystifying Medicine: Brave New World: Imaging from the Cosmos to the Molecule

2018 Demystifying Medicine: Brave New World: Imaging from the Cosmos to the Molecule

Air date: Tuesday, March 13, 2018, 4:00:00 PM

Category: Demystifying Medicine

Runtime: 01:50:58

Description: Demystifying Medicine Lecture Series

John Mather is the co-recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in detecting the remnant radiation from the birth of the universe, called the cosmic microwave background, which strongly supported the big bang theory and which physicist Stephen Hawking described as the most important discovery of the century, if not of all time. Mather now is project scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the planned successor to the Hubble Space Telescope.

Lippincott-Schwartz was chief of the NICHD Section on Organelle Biology before moving to the Janelia Research Campus in 2016. Her NIH lab hosted and provided the biological materials to Eric Betzig, who worked with Lippincott-Schwartz, George Patterson (now at NIBIB) and others to develop photoactivation localization microscopy (PALM), which ultimately earned Betzig the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

The Demystifying Medicine Lecture Series is designed to help bridge the gap between advances in biology and their applications to major human diseases. The lectures include presentations of patients, pathology, diagnosis, and therapy in the context of major diseases and current research. All clinicians, trainees including fellows, medical students, Ph.D. students, and other healthcare and research professionals are welcome to attend.

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Author: John Mather, PhD, Nobel Prize in Physics, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, PhD, MS, HHMI, Janelia Research Campus

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