The 2010 G-20 Toronto summit protests began one week ahead of the summit of the leaders of the G-20 on June 26 and 27 in Toronto. Protests included demonstrations, rallies, marches, as well as a violent riot that broke out on June 26 which caused extensive vandalism to several businesses in Downtown Toronto. A reported 1105 people were arrested in relation to the protests,the largest mass arrests in Canadian history. — Wikipedia

Reuven’s G20 Summit

– Editor’s Note –

@ruv‘s real name Reuven Cohen. He lives in Toronto.His twitter bio claims he is a “Dad, Provocateur, Blogger & Founder of Enomaly, a world wide leader in Cloud Computing — and creator of the CloudCamp series of events around the globe”.

We have never met but we do follow each other on twitter.

Reuven Cohen's face PhotoShopped on Ernesto "Che" Guevara

Is this a guessing game? Give us another clue, please. RT @ruv Most of the anarchists in Toronto are not from Toronto. #g208:59 PM Jun 26th via web

Thank you. RT @ruv G20 Riot brings Protest tourism to Toronto http://ruv.net/a/53
9:03 PM Jun 26th via web

Reuven’s link is to Toronto’s National Post’s blog, Posted Toronto. At this point I start to follow @postedtoronto

RT @Batman Toronto: I am watching. RT @ruv Awesome it’s pouring out, hopefully those rioting idiots catch a cold. #g20
10:28 PM Jun 26th via web

The above tweet is a style of tweeting I invented called DoubleTwit

Plenty to do at the Vieux-To-Do!

BestofNewOrleans.com (News and Classifieds by Gambit)’s newsletter sent Flipside Florida a reminder of the collective festival known as Vieux-To-Do:

The annual Louisiana Seafood Festival returns this weekend to the Old U.S. Mint, part of a three-festival lineup known collectively as the Vieux-To-Do. The Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Festival  provides the tunes with a lineup of bands from south Louisiana while the adjacent French Market holds its popular Creole Tomato Festival. w

Flipside Florida now reminds itself that it published a couple of articles about the 2nd annual Vieux-To-Do festival last year here and here.  And also wrote about the inaugural festival the year before that (but the Jacksonville Business Journal doesn’t allow other sites to publish their articles even if you wrote the story).

Anyway,  the YatPundit’s blog is on Gambit‘s  blogroll (scroll all the way down because it’s in alphabetical order). Flipside Florida had mentioned Mr. and Mrs. YatPundit’s opinion about Chef Paul Prudhomme’s Louisiana Red Pepper sauce in an article about Disney World and the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Foundation‘s Jazz Fest which is here.

Incidentally, the NOJHFF coordinates the music for The Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Festival so the musical talent is very talented.

Veiux To Do is Friday June 11 through Sunday June 13th

Come on down!   The weather’s fine …

Lea Sinclair, the director of communications  for New Orleans Tourism Marketing Corporation wants everyone to know that New Orleans has not been affected by the tragedy in the Gulf. (In terms of tourism, that is). She said the biggest problem that New Orleans tourism is having is that  tourists are afraid to come to New Orleans (but the oil spill isn’t anywhere near the Crescent City).

And the greatest seafood in the world is still found in New Orleans!

Bon Appetit!

Anyone with any sense knows the Gentilly Stage is the best stage, except on Saturday when there may be a conflict with the Acura [American Honda Motor Co., Inc] Stage. Although Flipside Florida won’t be attending the festival, it still wouldn’t be a conflict. One-time Grammy Award winning Pearl Jam, a Seattle Grunge band, plays at 5 p.m on the Acura stage.

Jeff Beck courtesy of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

And then 40 minutes later,  five-time Grammy Award winning Jeff Beck, an English rock guitarist,  will mesmerize his legion of fans with his haunting genre of  blues-rock, heavy metal, jazz fusion and most recently an additional blend of guitar-rock and electronica. Also, Jeff Beck  was inducted into the Cleveland’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April 2009 ~his first anniversary!

But on Friday night, the Acura Stage is definitely the best stage at 5:35 p.m. because 20-time Grammy Award winning Aretha Franklin, The Queen of Soul, takes the stage (probably without the gray hat with the big bow that she wore at President Obama’s January 2009 inauguration in Washington, D.C.)

Terrance Simien and the Zydeco Experience already played on Sunday, April 25th, so that stage is now history, but Flipside Florida congratulates them none the less for being in 2008 the  first recipients of the newly established Grammy Award for the Best Zydeco or Cagun Album!

Terrance Simien courtesy of New Orleans Jazz Festival and Foundation

The 41st annual Jazz and Heritage Festival ends Sunday, May 2nd with the Neville Brothers, The Radiators, B.B. King and Richie Havens all playing on different stages at the same time.  Everything to know about the festival is linked here.

Five ways JazzFest and DisneyWorld are alike

My twitter friend @YatPundit [A.K.A. Edward Branley] is a New Orleans pundit, as indicated by his twitter moniker.  His main website is YatBazaar – An Online Community for New Orleans and the World and he maintains several blogs from that sight. One blog entry, linked above as the subtitle, compares JazzFest to DisneyWorld. In Flipside Florida’s opinion, the most important similarity is  ”Phony parades.” His YatTravel  blog is going to feature several articles about his and Mrs. YatPundit’s impressions of Walt Disney World. His YatCuisine’s latest blog entry is his Quick Thoughts – Prudhomme’s Louisiana Red Pepper Sauce. Mrs. YatPundit didn’t like it at all.

Mrs. YatPundit doesn't like it

The New York Time’s critic Sam Sifton also wrote an April 28th travelogue about New Orleans: In New Orleans – The Taste of A Comeback.

And for a critic on the prowl for an authentic taste of the city in full springtime bloom, surprises abounded. One of the most purely joyful and purely New Orleans restaurants of the moment is Emeril’s, a place run by a television chef who was born in Fall River, Mass., and lives mostly in New York City.

Sifton also wrote a nice paragraph about the New Orlean Jazz and Heritage Festival. (Hat Tip: RT @johnmcquaid NYT’s Sam Sifton explores the current renaissance of New Orleans cuisine)

Flipside Florida looking forward to reading YatPundit’s impressions of Walt Disney World.

Jim Jeroo's twitter-face avatar

This I found out this Wednesday evening past during my visit with him at Downtown Jacksonville’s Art Walk.  Jim Jeroo was displaying his magnificent artistry at the Old (Haydon-Burns*) Library, which is where we left him this past November. At that time, he had tweeted, ” My last US art show 5 Points J’ville, tonite … Come see my art & face!” Any readers not seeing @JimJeroo‘s face then may do so now.

I  personally didn’t see this Wednesday night, but Jim Jeroo relayed a bit of a “color” story with reference to  the all-volunteer 501st Legion Florida Garrison Squad 7 [The 501st Legion is "The World's Definitive Imperial [Star Wars] Costuming  Organization”].

"A Little Short For A Stormtrooper"

The  inspiration for “A Little Short for a Stormtrooper” came from a photo in a pamphlet. It just so happened that the short Stormtrooper was at the Old Library that very evening and recognized herself by the clothes she was wearing in the painting. Her Imperial-costumed Dad wanted to buy her portrait on the spot but Jim Jeroo said, “no”. He wanted the Stormtrooper Dad to have for it  free. They squabbled a bit and finally agreed that if the painting remained unsold by evening’s end, it would have a new home.

This is exactly what happened and now Jim Jeroo is an honorary member of 501st Legion Florida Garrison Squad 7.

Not surprisingly,  I asked Jim Jeroo, “so whad’ya do in London and why did you tweet about your Nan all the time?”

Jim Jeroo was enmeshed in TWO secret projects with a secretive self-described award-winning actor, writer and comedian from Liverpool. One project has something to do with a relatively unknown British Television Network. The other project  is something you can read or just leave on your coffee table for other people to read. Either way, this secret project  might make a tolerable Christmas present.

Fraggle Rock Band

As we already know by sheer “osmosis”, Jim Jeroo is back in Riverside and he lives near 5 Points. Jeroo plans to become “Andy Warhol with bigger hair” and will accomplish this by doing art shows all over the place. Jim Jeroo’s next series of paintings will feature the Sesame Street neighborhood, but you don’t have to wait until Christmas to buy a tolerable one.

p.s.  Nan called this morning with a new phrase she invented about Grandad. Also, she needs a new ice cream scoop.

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*The Haydon Burns Library in Jacksonville, Florida was named in honor of W. Haydon Burns, who served as Mayor of Jacksonville for 15 years, longest of any person. Burns also served an abbreviated 2-year term as Governor of Florida. The Burns Library replaced the Carnegie library, built in 1905 and designed by Henry John Klutho of New York.

The Library Project is a multi-purpose development of the building by Main Branch LLC. For additional information on this project, please refer to Flipside Florida’s July 17, 2009 blog post, Brothers in Arms: Mark Rinaman, who is a Main Branch partner and also is a Major in the Florida Army National Guard.

The city is defined by the St Johns River, which bisects it en route to the nearby Atlantic coast. The mild climate and access to the ocean have made it an important centre for the U.S. Navy and for commercial shipping and it has attracted the back-office operations of several national financial institutions. A logistical centre, Jacksonville is also home to CSX Corporation, the dominant rail company in the eastern U.S.

Obviously a well-researched article, it is the work of one Henry Hamman, a Financial Times contributing writer,  living in Sewanee, Tenn.  This seemed a curious arrangement, so I phoned Hamman to ask him how an FT contributor, who lives in Tennessee, came to learn of Riverside and Avondale. He’s a very affable man, tells great stories and has led quite an interesting life.

Hamman, at one point in his life, was Bureau Chief for Radio Free Europe in London. I’m not exactly sure how he ended up in Miami, but there he was, a Financial Times correspondent covering sporadic South Florida events.  He named a few, from the Noreiga trial and the murder of Gianni Versace to hurricanes and everglades. All the while, he was working on his doctorate in International Relations at the University of Miami, and also as a UM administrator.

As it turns out, he is also an avid architectural buff and a proponent of the New Urbanism architectural movement, which stresses urban reinvestment over suburban sprawl. He has a penchant for Prairie School and Craftsman styling. He particularly enjoyed the resources available at University of Miami’s School of Architecture and made great use of its Archives of the New Urbanism.

Hamman is also president of Sociocybernetics, a computer research company founded around his  patented communications software. UPDATE: Sociocybernetics was actually started to study the application of cybernetic theory to social organizations. Our patent came out of work we were doing on computer-assisted negotiation, and I [Hamman] am a co-inventor only. Through the patenting process in New York City, he became friendly with Joe Kincart, an intellectual property attorney, who now lives in Avondale and works for Johnson and Johnson’s Vistakon as a patent attorney. In a phone chat between the two, Kincart raved on about his cosmopolitan neighborhood:

It’s the closest thing to Greenwich Village you’ll find in Florida!

Any journalist will probably tell you it’s not easy finding  great resources right away in a new city, but fortunately, Hamman had Kincart AND Riverside Avondale Preservation (RAP). These neighborhoods have had a National Trust for Historic Preservation designation since 2000, so there’s plenty of historic information available. Hamman also had the help of long-time Riverside resident Myrtice Craig, who he describes as a lovely and gracious woman, who knows just about everybody. [Local events and news are posted on RAP's blog.]

All told, Riverside and Avondale, which lie contiguously along the bank of the St Johns River, comprise a collection of about 5,000 buildings, of which about three-quarters are protected by historic designation. Architectural styles range from late Victorian to craftsman bungalows, colonial revival and prairie school, the design tradition of America’s pre-eminent 20th-century architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.

Henry is back in Sewanee, Tenn. His 15-acre spread is named The Tick Farm. He tells  me the area is awful, it’ s very unscenic and there’s no reason whatsoever to move there.   I suspect  his disdain for Sewanee  is a self-devised plot to prevent other people from moving to the area and ruining everything. Update: FYI, the weather in Sewanee is horrible, too — we had snow yesterday, the ground is soggy, and the deer are eating all the foliage.

Hat-Tip to Brother in arms, Jon Singleton, for posting Perfectly Preserved on twitter.

Henry James Klutho, a prominent Prairie School architect, practically redesigned Jacksonville single-handedly after the Great Fire of 1901. And that is a post for another day!

Update: Just in case I don’t get to a post about Klutho any time soon, “The Architecture of Henry John Klutho, The Prairie School in Jacksonville” by Robert C. Broward is available through  The Jacksonville Historical Society.

… today’s “smart” cities tend to be smaller, compact and more efficient: places like Amsterdam; Seattle; Singapore; Curitiba, Brazil; and Monterrey, Mexico. This is not an entirely new notion: Between the 14th and 18th centuries, modest-sized cities like Venice, Italy; Antwerp, Belgium; and Amsterdam nurtured modern capitalism and created canals and vibrant urban quarters that remain wonders even today.

Lo and Behold!

Not  only is Curitiba, Brazil a Jacksonville Sister city, it is also a Forbes Smartest city. And in  Joel Kotkin‘s opinion, what makes a city smart is savvy urban planning, attractive economies and strong infrastructure.

… Not all the world’s “smart” cities are trading giants like Hong Kong and Singapore. They also include well-run metropolises, such as the city of Curitiba. The south Brazilian city is regarded as an innovator in everything from bus-based rapid transit, used by some 70% of residents, and its balanced, diverse economic development strategy.

Curitiba may not have the canals of Venice, Antwerp or Brussels, but its urban transit system runs as smoothly as a gliding gondola.

… Curitiba’s bus system is composed of a hierarchical system of services. Minibuses routed through residential neighborhoods feed passengers to conventional buses on circumferential routes around the central city and on inter-district routes. The backbone of the system is composed of the Bus Rapid Transit, operating on the five main arteries leading into the center of the city like spokes on a wheel hub. (Courtesy of Kotkin’s provided link)

Curitiba's Bus Rapid Transit by Inhabitat/Emily

Curitiba’s  transportation system is integral part of its “diverse economic development strategy.”   According to a Curitiba Metropolitan Economic Strategy Report (Be forewarned –  the MESR is a 30-page PDF file and is not particularly light reading):

… The growth of the city was not haphazard; the cultivation of the environment and the careful planning and integration of public transportation played a large part in the decision of workers and corporations to move to the metropolitan area.

… Curitiba’s four industry networks (automotive manufacturing, communications software and information technology (IT), infrastructure, and tourism) have grown since the 1970s due to the ability of the metropolitan area to attract skilled workers and international employers. [Nissan, Renault, Volkswagen, Audi, Volvo, HSBC, Siemens, ExxonMobil, Electrolux and Kraft Foods].

THE ECOLOGICAL CAPITAL OF BRAZIL!

Beyond the current connotation of an energy-efficient   “Green City,”   Curitiba is literally green:  Twenty-eight city parks ~ 5,190 acres of linear parks along rivers and streams act as  buffers between flood-prone rivers and the city.

Curitiba’s trademark park, Botanical Garden  of Curitiba, is styled after French gardens ~ fountains, waterfalls and lakes, a massive art nouveau greenhouse inspired by the Crystal Palace in London. The Botanic Museum is a global research center for botanists of native flora from Atlantic Forests of eastern Brazil. The fourth largest herbarium in the country is located  on the grounds, as well as campus of Federal University of Paraná. (Curitiba is the capitol city of the Paraná, Brazil).

Opera de Arame

Another of Curitiba’s impressive parks is  Parque das Pedreiras (Quarry Park) and home the 2,600-seat Ópera de Arame (The Wire Opera) – The structure is built on three-levels around an old quarry, complete with waterfall and carp pond.

And this completes this post’s savvy tour of Curitiba, Brazil.

p.s.  Go there and back again to Brazil-Jacksonville Alliance, June 2009 - Based on the minutes of one BJA meeting  updating status on educational and business ties with Curitiba).

It just so happens that across the Atlantic Ocean, which we’ll now refer to as the “pond,” and in another city named London, lives a guy from Northeast Florida named Jim Jeroo. Actually, his  name is really Jim Hance, he’s really from London but lives a lot of the time in Palm Coast.

Jim Jeroo is an artist. …

This I found out through the social-media sensation, twitter, which has now become a recurring theme in my semi-recent posts. I don’t remember how I came to follow Peter Serafinowicz (self-described award-winning actor, writer and comedian from Liverpool), but on Sept. 2nd I read the following tweet:

FLORIDIANS! @JimJeroo‘s paintings in downtown Jacksonville tonight -Artwalk starts at 5

(So of course I did an RT [translation for non-twitters, "returned the tweet"] to  Serafinowicz’s tweet,  then Jeroo began “following” my tweets and I his).

ART WALK: Jim Jeroo's art as shown by an unknown Storm Trooper

Art Walk is a downtown Jacksonville 15-block art gallery held the First Wednesday of the month. I haven’t been yet, but I understand people in-the-know just walk around, going from art gallery to art gallery and possibly buying something. It was organized by Downtown Jacksonville, a not-for-profit organization tasked to build a “vibrant” downtown (or basically to make downtown Jacksonville a “hipster enclave” even if there isn’t any parking).

Various venues are organized by different folks. One such venue is the Hayden-Burns Library which (as we’ll recall) is one of  (the Brothers in Arms series, Happy Veteran’s Day) Mark Rinaman’s  real estate development projects. Gray Solomon, who knows Rinaman well, organizes the Hayden-Burns gallery showing. (KTK – copy to come)

Chewbanker and the back of Jim Jeroo's head

At this point we should be able to guess who one of the artists showing in the Hayden-Burns Library was that evening (Jim Jeroo), who had his own fun and games before the show:

RT @JimJeroo At old main library, dwntwn Jax for Artwalk – stealing WiFi like some sort of lone bandit w/ paintbrush. YOU HEARD ME

And then more Jim Jeroo tweets from nearby Five Points two days later:

RT @JimJeroo Hey petals! My last US art show 5 Points J’ville, tonite http://tinyurl.com/lxdn7r -Come see my art & face!

We’re all thrilled! RT @JimJeroo http://twitpic.com/gnv48 – Chewbanker just sold at tonight’s ‘Beards & Brushes’ show at the Bogda gallery

RT @bikejax My newest art acquisition via @JimJeroo http://twitpic.com/gga2t See his work tonight at Raglands for 1st Fridays in 5 pts.

At this point, I’ve probably written enough about JimJeroo for a while.  He’s supposed to be putting together a fake bio for this story, but it’s too late for you, Jim Jeroo. I’ve never even  met Jim Jeroo because I was too lazy to go to any of his shows.  We do have fun twitter-banter back and forth:

Hi absurdly good chum @JimJeroo

He’ll be back in January, so I’m sure he’ll torment all of Jacksonville then. The next Art Walk is Dec. 2nd.  (Cue  Gray Solomon …)

Although just last week its TITAN Salvage team [was] involved in the dramatic, 12-hour cliff-top rescue of the 25 crewmembers onboard the grounded cargo ship Fedra crew during rough storm conditions at Gibraltar’s Europa Point, so there’s that.

And then just yesterday, Crowley issued a press release about  how  it shipped  196 audio speakers, 12-LED video screens, scaffolding, six sound-mixing consoles, 25 microphones and stands, 30 musical instruments, six electrical generators, four portable power plants, and other elements  to Havana for the Peace Without Borders concert this Sunday, Sept. 20, 2009.

Apparently the Concierto Paz Sin Fronteras is important because more than half-a-million Cubans are expected to gather at Havana’s storied Plaza de la Revolución for the highly-anticipated concert.

Fifteen artists from six different countries will be performing including international music star and noted humanitarian Juanes; Latin Grammy award winning Spanish musician and actor Miguel Bose and Grammy and Latin Grammy award winning Puerto Rican merengue and pop music star Olga Tañon.

Crowley has taken part in several cultural and historical moves to Havana throughout the years, including the transportation and logistics for The Royal Ballet, Great Britain’s largest and most prestigious ballet company.

Also ESPN television production equipment for the historic U.S.-Cuba 2010 World Cup qualifying game.

In less than a month, the company also expects to transport cargo for the New York Philharmonic.

At this point I’ll have to concede Crowley does more than chemical parcel transportation and bulk petroleum transportation throughout the North American coasts, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and to a lesser degree internationally.

Who knew?

Image courtesy of  ”Solo Sabor ~ Your Latin Entertainment Connection“

(Why the article ran in Malaysia at all is probably a story unto itself, so we won’t concern ourselves with that today).

“On the Ile de Nantes [Isle of Nantes] in France, bizarre monstrous creatures right out of the pages of fantasy penned by the likes of Jules Verne [of Nantes] are taking astonished visitors for a ride.”

(Intrigued, I read on because, as everyone knows, Nantes is one of Jacksonville’s sister cities).

Reverse Propulsion Squid © Stephan Muntaner

“Up till the 70s, Nantes’ harbour was located at Ile de Nantes before it was moved to St Nazaire, leaving the island bereft and forlorn. But now the forsaken island has been revitalised into a major leisure and cultural project. Soon residential towers will bring life back to the newly designated city centre after dark.

“The Isle of Nantes project is a circus, theatre, laboratory, exhibition and roadside show all rolled into one. What used to be rundown industrial warehouses and derelict shipyards, once the pride of Nantes, is now party central for the rejuvenation of the entire island.”

(With a lead-up like that it’s hard not to immediately search for project’s Web site).

The main attraction of Les Machines de L’ile Nantes is, of course, “bizarre monstrous” machines.  They’re  elaborate stage-machines,  which have been used since the 17th-century as set-props in operas and theatre

(Although I’m sure not as huge as these particular machines).

The L’ile Nantes opened in 2007 with the Great Elephant as its first attraction. In total, 10 such machines are planned for its “bestiary.”

The Great Elephant ©Nautilus Nantes

(I’m doing this some day):

The GREAT ELEPHANT is  40′ tall and 26′ wide,  lumbering  around the grounds with 45 passengers aboard:

“From the inside, the passengers will be able to see the moving gears that power the legs. They can make the elephant trumpet and control some its movements, thus becoming truly a part of the Machine. On the back of the Elephant, it’s like being on the 4th floor of a moving house, with a breathtaking view of the banks of the Loire River. In this time-travelling carriage, the passengers can voyage to the imaginary world of Jules Verne in the city where he was born.”

Two other projects are ongoing:

Visitors are able to view the craftmen in the warehouses constructing the MARINE WORLDS CAROUSEL [project completion date 2011]:

“Twenty-seven moving underwater creatures on three levels: the ocean floor, the depths, and sea and boats. Visitors will be able to move about amidst a ballet of aquatic animals and sea carriages - - The Lantern of the Depths, The Crab Larva, The Pirate Fish,The Reverse-Propelling Squid, The Manta Ray.

“Preview of  The Heron Tree:   A monumental structure in the heart of the city, this steel tree 45 m in diameter and 28 m high will be topped by two herons. Visitors will be able to take a circular flight on the bird’s wings and walk from branch to branch in the amazing hanging gardens.”

Anyway, Jeff Price is also my buddy at the Florida Times-Union, which was a surprise to both of us  because we both have mysterious pen names. Jeff is named Scene from Florida. He claims, “I run my own biz when I’m not on the clock at JAXPORT.”

So back to JAXPORT IN THE NEWS:

[one] The following is actually from an invitation to a luncheon commerating:

” A HISTORIC EVENT!!!The Puerto Rico Chamber of Northeast Florida and the Jacksonville Sister Cities Association [announced Monday, August 24th]

Cordially invite you to attend and be a sponsor at the luncheon commemorating the signing of an international Sisters Cities agreement between San Juan, Puerto Rico and Jacksonville, Fla.

The Honorable Mayor Jorge Santini and The Honorable Mayor John Peyton October 2, 2009 – From 11:30am – 1:30pm OMNI HOTEL – 245 Water St., Jacksonville, FL 32202

Via PRCNF:

Puerto Rico is Jacksonville’s largest trading partner.  The Port of Jacksonville handles over 75% of the U.S. marine traffic to Puerto Rico.  The economic impact on our community delivers revenues to Jacksonville of over $1 billion dollars annually. The twinning of these two cities will serve to further increase Jacksonville’s economy, increase tourism and open DIRECT FLIGHTS from Jacksonville to San Juan.

Flag of Puerto Rico

[Jacksonville Sister Cities:  Bahia Blanca, Argentina; Curitiba, Brazil; Port Elizabeth, South Africa; Nantes, France; Murmansk, Russia; Yingkao, China; Mason, South Korea]

[two] Via Cargonews Asia: The ka-ching of Cash for Clunkers is being heard at the Southeast Toyota Distributors processing centre at the Port of Jacksonville, the Florida Times-Union reported. The sound is still more of a rustle than a roar. But Southeast Toyota, which shrunk its workforce to deal with a brutal downturn in business, expects the second half of 2009 will be busier than the first six months.

[three] Any word on Carnival? @jaxport Isn’t the port having a FASCINATION networking party soon – sometime in Sept., I thought. @flipsideflorida While JAXPORT isn’t organizing any events, two groups have reserved the terminal for meetings: CSCMP on 9/8, IVC on 9/17 .

[four] JAXPORT CEO Rick Ferrin accepts a certificate of appreciation from Capt. Tuohy/Jax Council-Navy League/ after port speech. >>>twitpic<<<

[last] Via JAXPORT news & notes:  UNF’s Small Business Development Center is offering a six-part International Trade Certificate Program for small businesses interested in international exporting. In 2008, this program was quite helpful for Heavy Equipment Resources of Florida Co., who began exporting agricultural equipment in containers through JAXPORT after completing the program.

The End

TWITTER UPDATE:    via @milleratcrowley

Crowley delivers for the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) New Electrical transformers to benefit island residents

(SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico.; Aug. 28, 2009) Crowley has safely and successfully transported one of seven new electrical transformers slated for the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA). The transformer arrived on the island Tuesday, following its journey from Mumbai, India to the U.S. mainland. The transformer will be installed at the Buen Pastor electric sub-station to provide improved electric service to island residents.

Read on!

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