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• Porking out at BC Ferries

  
  Creekside — Authority: 513
  Why does BC Ferries CEO David Hahn make over $1-million a year? Well, because the BC Ferries Services board gets to pick their own number. They came up with $1-million after advising their consultant to consider the salaries of CEOs at large corporations like Coca Cola, Ford, Nike, and McDonalds. The BC Ferries ...
  14 hours ago

• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 433
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
  15 hours ago

• Major BC Ferries and TransLink reforms needed

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 508
  The top levels of both BC Ferries and TransLink require a major restructuring to give them more accountability, greater transparency and better oversight, B.C.s comptroller general says.
  1 day ago

• SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition

  
  GConsole.info — Authority: 135
  SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition turns you into a citizen, a criminal, an architect, a mayor, even a god — bringing you deeper into SimLife than ever! As you create railways, ferries, plan out streets, you also get to use that transportation in a series of great new driving missions Related [...]
  1 day ago

• aboard the Sturgeon Bay

  
  Bowsprite: A New York Harbor Sketchbook — Authority: 406
  On VHF 13: “Look at at that moon!” At 0604h in Bayonne, the moon was a half hidden, huge, beautiful orange glowing ball. Onboard the Sturgeon Bay , we sailed past Penobscot Bay and Katherine Walker , and south towards the Narrows to greet the USS New York . See Tugster for amazing photos and ...
  2 days ago

• Day 5 on the island: Were on island time now

  
  Love in the Time of Foreclosure — Authority: 423
  Day 5 weather = Sunny & cold On the agenda for today: 1. Get the furnace working 2. Have the chimney checked 3. Go for a run 4. Return the Budget truck How long do you think that last one would take? Returning the Budget truck? Two hours? Three? Four? Wrong, wrong, wrong. This errand involves ...
  2 days ago

• Judge Dismisses Suit Stemming From Staten Island Ferry Crash

  
  City Room — Authority: 804
  A man who sued the city, claiming to be a victim of a ferry crash that killed 11 people and injured dozens more, had his case dismissed when a judge ruled he failed to prove he was on the boat.
  3 days ago

• Water Taxi Woes Again Threaten South Williamsburgs Sanity

  
  Curbed — Authority: 670
  In what is becoming as much of a fall tradition as the turning of the leaves, the New York Water Taxi may once again have to temporarily shut down its East River commuter ferry commuter service unless a city subsidy comes through—necessary because ridership drops by half during wintertime. This would be the third ...
  3 days ago

• East River Commuter Ferry Service Could Be Halted, Again

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 916
  Waiting for the water taxi at Schaefer Landing in Brooklyn.
  4 days ago

• RoRo Your Boat

  
  EASTCLIFF SAMANTHA — Authority: 130
  Sticking with matters ferrylike, Oostende (Ostend in old money) reader Kris has sent me a link to this wonderfully evocative film hes put on BoobTube. It chronicles a crossing on the TransEuropa ferry Primrose. So if youve ever, like me, gazed out over Ramsgates East Cliff at one of our lovely ferries and wondered ...
  5 days ago

• N.Y.C. Election 2009: Voices From the Boroughs: Port Richmond, Staten Island

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 916
  “Were here, we pay our taxes and deserve the same kinds of services that the other boroughs have.” BETSY ROSALEN Student
  5 days ago

• Night comes soon…

  
  this fragile tent — Authority: 126
  The dark nights are always a surprise when the clocks change from BST to GMT- it was already dark when I was home from work at 5.15.Winter feels that step closer.Darkness is rising.So on this All Saints Day- may some fractals of light make their home in your soul.For the winter is longBut alsoBeautiful. [...]
  5 days ago

• Super fast ferries to boost UK travel

  
  The Latest Travel News and Information — Authority: 439
  Severn link, the ferry services provider, has announced its intention to provide a super fast ferry service on the North Devon to South Wales route in the near future. A speedy catamaran service will link the route between the two destinations, reducing travel time to just 50 minutes. Up until now, it has taken ...
  6 days ago

• Travel æsthetics

  
  Peter Parkes — Authority: 91
  A 747 swivels round to the end of the runway, powers up, and lumbers slowly forwards, picking up speed and growling towards me. As it passes, the livery glints in the light, and the growl fades to a dull roar as the exhausts slide into view. Gradually, the aircraft rises from the tarmac in a breath-like motion and ...
  6 days ago

• Poor leadership linked to soldier’s death

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 433
  Deficiencies in training, leadership and deployment readiness may have contributed to the death of Lieutenant Michael Fussell in Afghanistan last year, a Defence inquiry has found. The Major in charge of the operation in which Lieutenant Fussell died on November 27 has now been stood down from his command. ...
  6 days ago

• Victoria, British Columbia by Boat

  
  Vacations Blog — Authority: 503
  Victoria Ferry Coming into Port The first thing of note about Victoria, British Columbia is that when making plans to travel there it’s likely that you’ll be traveling there by a ferry or cruise. Located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island, Victoria is the capital of British Columbia. The beautiful ...
  1 week ago

• DAY ONE: The Bay Area without the Bay Bridge

  
  CALIFORNIA BEAT — Authority: 423
  There was a lot of teeth gnashing Wednesday. Everyone did it: the guy stuck in that 10-mile long back-up trying to get across the Golden Gate Bridge, the woman crammed into a packed BART train next to the kid with bad B.O., and the folks at Caltrans wondering just how a brace installed over the Labor Day weekend to ...
  1 week ago

• Video: Ferry Marko Polo Stranded on the Island

  
  Croatia Travel Blog — Authority: 119
  Video clip of ferry Marko Polo stranded on the Sit island  in  Sibenik archipelago, was broadcasted on NOVA TV – Croatian tv station  - have a look at this YouTube clip: More good photos of Marko Polo ferry at Jutanji.hr page
  1 week ago

• EC approves Scotland’s ferry subsidies

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 144
  Following an official enquiry the European Commission has ruled that Scottish Government subsidies for lifeline ferry routes on the Clyde, Hebridean and Northern Isles routes are ‘compatible with state=aid rules’.There had been concerns that the arrangements breached European competition law.No company is ...
  1 week ago

• Ferry Marko Polo Stranded on the Island near Sibenik, Croatia

  
  Croatia Travel Blog — Authority: 119
  Ferry ‘Marko Polo’ , which over the weekend, crashes into Croatian island of Sit  is still stranded, despite the efforts o rescue team. The Jadrolinija ’s ferry Marco Polo,  was on its regular route Rijeka – Split – Dubrovnik – Bari (Italy)  when it ran aground on the island Sit (small island ...
  1 week ago

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