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"ballast" Definitions
  1. heavy material placed in a ship or hot-air balloon to make it heavier and keep it steady
  2. a layer of stones that makes a strong base on which a road, railway, etc. can be built

360 Sentences With "ballast"

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Solid ballast was largely replaced by water ballast in the early 20th century, but ships continued to bring ballast into New York until after World War II. After delivering goods and arms to bombed-out English cities during the war, ships sailed back filled with rubble.
In New York, many ballast sites had been paved or built over, so she turned to historical records, including the list of ballast plants identified by Mr. Brown.
All of the around 60 plants, housed in black bags at the center of a gallery, are recognized as ballast flora, or seeds carried in the ballast of ships.
That economic relationship acted as a ballast for security challenges.
VLCCs are to pay $230,000 on their return ballast trip.
Adam Mignanelli: I started the Ballast Projects, a curatorial program.
The ballast system, designed to control buoyancy, didn't work properly.
I could feel the ballast shifting and outside rubber straining.
But "Kekszakallu" lacks the ballast of memorable images or scenes.
The bill included a version of the Vessel Incidental Discharge Act (VIDA), which would exempt ships' ballast water from Clean Water Act oversight under the EPA and stop most states' attempts to regulate ballast water.
There had been a defect on the ballast tank, he said.
That may not provide the steady ballast that some investors want.
China has long defined commerce as the ballast in the relationship.
Ballast was brought from ports by boat to Harlem and elsewhere.
Can it be a form of ballast rather than a millstone?
The LF's ballast tanks began filling with seawater, taking on weight.
It also provided Ratliff with the philosophical ballast of his story.
Steady and even-keeled, Lucy is the ballast of her family.
I like it fine, but it's weighed down by emotional ballast.
It's used to spread ballast (the gravel you find between the ties).
Clinton with important ballast for the stormy and unpredictable race ahead. Opinion
The heavenly sounds fully soar with a bit of hell for ballast.
She was his ballast — incredibly spiritual — and a tempering force on him.
It's smaller than a pickup and held upright by a concrete ballast.
I inflated my belly like a balloon, sucking in air for ballast.
The bill included a version of the Vessel Incidental Discharge Act (VIDA), which would exempt ships' ballast water from Clean Water Act oversight under the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and stop most states' attempts to regulate ballast water.
The bill includes a version of the Vessel Incidental Discharge Act (VIDA), which would exempt ships' ballast water from Clean Water Act oversight under the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and stop most states' attempts to regulate the ballast water.
The ballast for these views was laid down in Mr Harari's earlier books.
"We have lift chambers at top and ballast chambers at bottom," explained Ospa.
Disclosure: Stephen Greenwood, the CEO of Ballast VR, is a former Verge employee.
Another benefit is that they will provide ballast for equities in your portfolio.
"Bonds offer little value currently, except for portfolio ballast," Kaye told Business Insider.
But I have to admit that the coffee did give it some ballast.
With the ballast of his marriage removed, Macon immediately tips into serious eccentricity.
She recites survivalist techniques as emotional ballast against her sense of imminent oblivion.
Decoupling would also jettison all this economic ballast that has stabilized China-U.
Ballast water has been blamed for some of the worst invasive species cases.
It became a welcome ritual, a ballast against the chaos of the everyday.
Next spring, these sites will continue Seeds of Change through ballast flora gardens.
The April version of the bill included a version of the Vessel Incidental Discharge Act, which would exempt ships' ballast water from Clean Water Act oversight under the Environmental Protection Agency and stop most states' attempts to regulate ballast water.
Some of the earth came over as ballast in the belly of French ships.
For much of Book Five, however, Knausgaard is without the ballast of his art.
No, I -- I... OBAMA: But it -- it -- she has been ballast for our family.
So Burnell used the easily accessible ship ballast and wood to build the castle.
Throughout their life together, she was his interlocutor, editor, domestic ballast, and emotional scapegoat.
Originalists and textualists gave intellectual and theoretical ballast to this approach in the academy.
Having a pile of low-risk investments offers ballast to an otherwise risky life.
In December, the company announced a deal to sell its Ballast Point beer brand.
Pork, lamb or even venison would provide ballast for the mellowness of the allium.
"VIDA moves us away from the responsible management of ballast water discharges by completely removing Clean Water Act authority over ship ballast water discharges," a coalition of green groups, including the Natural Resources Defense Council and American Rivers, wrote to senators last week.
Now that the relationship's ballast has been largely jettisoned, future squalls will be even scarier.
The pipe carried water to a ballast tank that helped the sub submerge and surface.
Williams regularly escaped to Ballast Key, a private island Mr. Wolkowsky owned off Key West.
If you value the ballast that high-quality bonds provide, holding them still makes sense.
A ballast stage would have been filled to bring the rocket to an upright position.
May's survival provides a certain ballast as this process moves forward, Ms. da Costa said.
"Ballast Point is born and raised in Southern California, so we're particularly excited to strengthen our relationship with the local Anaheim community and beyond this, the many guests who visit Disneyland each year," Ben Dollard, president of Ballast Point, said in a press release.
Mumin Sahin and Emin Ozmen concealed the stash in hidden compartments inside their boat's ballast tanks.
The former "provide ballast to the portfolio," and the latter, opportunities for outsized returns, he said.
Only when Emmanuelle Devos shows up in a Paris detour does Mr. Shannon find some ballast.
They were even tossed overboard when a ship needed to lose ballast for a quick getaway.
They could have also nested in any soil used as ballast material in ships, she said.
"The ballast has become less stable in recent years" in the U.S.-China economic relationship, he added.
Regardless of where rates are headed, bonds serve as an important ballast to stocks in investors' portfolios.
Xi said trade and economic relations had always been the ballast and propeller of U.S.-China relations.
Either hat could be ballast for that other current Jacquemus best-seller, the teensy Sac Chiquito handbag.
Moreover, people-to-people exchanges serve as ballast, enabling the U.S.-China relationship to weather difficult storms.
Print advertising, the ballast of newspapers for so many decades, continues to move online, eroding newsroom budgets.
Where Teach First injects youthful vitality into the teaching profession, Now Teach hopes to provide more experienced ballast.
Tencent's outsize influence in China's online world is ballast that should steady it as it targets business customers.
Stone and Ballast Point in San Diego saw this hop-head market emerging and triple IPAs were born.
He provided ballast against political storms and a bridge between ideologues on both sides of the Brexit divide.
Utility group BDEW said the government should "relieve the power price from the ballast of state-induced charges".
Now the company has raised an additional $17 million in Series A funding led by Ballast Point Ventures.
The submarine sank because of an apparent problem with the ballast tank, and the journalist is still missing.
My personal life, techwise, operates in sharp contrast to and in part as ballast against my professional life.
Afterward, I headed to Ballast Point, an absurdly large brewpub with great views on the Alamitos Bay Marina.
The NGO community serves as an important ballast for relationships, and if this is mishandled, it won't help.
Mr. Trump's White House is drifting so dangerously that we find ourselves searching for ballast in unlikely places.
Constellation struggled to grow Ballast Point nationally as it competed against established local breweries and shifting consumer tastes.
So-called HODLs ("hang on for dear lifers") have been a ballast for cryptos through ups and downs.
While appearing on the show did not make them rich, it did add some ballast to their partnership.
Here, though, the family's toughness, thieving and secrets, its poverty and desperation, work like ballast on his sensibilities.
Most damningly, Tyson Chandler, the team's defensive ballast and emotional soul, had signed with the New York Knicks.
Whether filling waterways, smoothing valleys, or extending the shore, ballast became a part of the city's altered topography.
At the end of its mission it jettisoned some ballast and floated back to the surface with its prey.
For instance, Ballast Point Brewing & Spirits sold to mega beer company Constellation Brands in 2015 for $1 billion dollars.
He didn't mention the journalist, and he said the sinking was due to issues with the submarine's ballast tank.
This has become something of a ritual, a ballast in the turbulent first year in New York after college.
There's food, too—creamy, cheesy, spicy—including a fried-chicken sandwich that serves as excellent ballast for the booze.
Funding: $61.5 million from Accel, Silverton Partners, Floodgate Fund, Ballast Point Ventures, Mark Cuban, Daher Capital, and Birchmere Ventures.
Get your Corona alongside your Ballast Point, then pick up some snacks to pair with the icy cold beverages.
The minimum weight of drivers is expected to be set at 80kg, with ballast required for anyone weighing less.
To provide factual ballast, the story would be interwoven with interviews of incarceration experts, former prisoners, and corrections officials.
Low-lying areas and marshland were commonly filled in with refuse, ashes, sand — and ballast from around the world.
At the center of the exhibition is an arrangement of live "ballast plants" from seed grown by local volunteers.
Apple alone provided 49 points' worth of ballast after a glowing earnings report sent its stock up 5 percent.
For over a decade, the Stone served as a ballast for the avant-garde on the Lower East Side.
But Hall brings a welcome ballast to the series as the modern '80s woman Dawn, patterned after her mother.
Ballast seeds can remain dormant for centuries, only flourishing when the conditions are right or the soil is disrupted.
Currently, he's taking his time, and thankfully, the tiny but mighty Ballast label lets him do so over six cassettes.
The crew had been replacing ballast, the rocks that fill the rail bed and help to keep the tracks stable.
The work involved using the backhoe to remove gravel and replace it with ballast distributed by a nearby work train.
But there's a beauty in what Teibel's constructions offer, especially if these records are intended as ballast for suffering brains.
The Loyalist House is now a museum, filled with mahogany furniture carved from the ships' ballast discarded on the docks.
But there's a danger in operating at such high speed, especially when Carey decides to go for more historical ballast.
Just hearing the words you know are true can serve as ballast, steadying your mind when so much seems unreal.
But worry about anti-Semitism outside the region and unrelated to the conflict is ballast we have long-since jettisoned.
And the neighborhood itself was losing one more bit of precious ballast: the rare public institution that held them together.
Constellation Brands (STZ) sold its Ballast Point craft beer unit to Illinois-based Kings & Convicts Brewing for an undisclosed amount.
Just make sure you ballast the base; sand works, so does water, and there should be plenty of it around.
But such bottom-line ballast could be just the beginning, depending on how Samsung's image fares among the phone-buying public.
Part of this ballast comes from the addition of her band, which coalesced in the wake of her last record Heights.
Each turbine is moored to a steel tube that has a ballast attached to the sea bed, allowing them to float.
All teams aim for the lightest car and driver combination, with ballast used to bring it up to the minimum weight.
Selling to Google, he insists, was the right choice to give Nest the financial ballast it needs for the long term.
When its cargo is in place, the ship releases its ballast and is now able to move under its own power.
Go deeper: The SEC even concocted a bogus white paper, the must-have academic ballast for cryptocurrency startups (real or fake).
Amaranth, which grows wild in Red Hook, Brooklyn, is among the plants introduced to New York via ships' ballast long ago.
Part of the magic of parental love — its ballast, its power — is that your family will always be there for you.
For almost 20 years, García's caddie was Glen Murray, who provided the temperamental García with a ballast of stability and steadiness.
At PS1, the American anthropologist Elizabeth A. Povinelli, herself a member of Karrabing, provides theoretical ballast in exhaustive books and interviews.
The novel's structure feels true to the effect of memory, the way we use the past as ballast for the present.
Even in this book, without the ballast of a sustained argument, there's a deliberation in her pacing that keeps everything moving.
Economics: Three ideas to strengthen the middle class There is political, as well as economic ballast in a strong middle class.
A woman wearing a seahorse-inspired robotic tail rotated serenely, twirling around its flexible ballast like a stripper on a pole.
Supporting the Manyani school is a concrete vote for the future, because without the other beings, we will have no ballast.
Constellation last year acquired Sculpin IPA craft beer maker Ballast Point for about $1 billion to enter a fast-growing market.
The partners involved in cultivation and local investigation include Pioneer Works in Red Hook, itself built on ballast ground; the High Line, where Western plants arrived on the 19th-century freight trains; the Weeksville Heritage Center, one of the first free black communities in the United States; and the New School, where students tended ballast plants in dorm rooms.
To be sure, bonds have rallied this year and have played their traditional role as portfolio ballast during bouts of market instability.
However, other shipboard controls like Operation Technology systems managing "the steering gear, engines, ballast pumps and more" communicate in unprotected plain text.
The vessel sustained damage to her ballast tank in the collision while Astro Saturn sustained damage to her port anchor and bow.
The drone can resurface by ejecting the ballast water, letting it go airborne once again and take off rom the water's surface.
P&O Maritime, which operates the ship, worked to use the ship's ballast system and work boats to get it floating again.
The maker of machinery such as heat exchangers, separators and ballast water treatment equipment forecast "somewhat higher" demand in the current quarter.
Despite its achievements, which include winning 12.6% of the vote in last year's general election, UKIP has never had much institutional ballast.
Democratic state attorneys general also object to the bill because it would block states, in most cases, from regulating ballast water themselves.
On the album, that band includes a tenor saxophonist, Bill McHenry, who imparts some front-line ballast and an element of counterpoint.
Another strong performer is the quickly growing craft beer brand, Ballast Point, which is now leveraging Constellation's national distribution and marketing scale.
The authors propose that contaminated ballast water of early ships passing through the Panama Canal first brought the fungus to the Pacific.
Damian Lewis, as a single-minded British agent, proves better ballast to Mr. Skarsgard and together they suggest what might have been.
Every newcomer leaves its trace, whether it be pollution or invasive species, transported across oceans in the ballast tanks of cargo ships.
The broth for dushbara soup is similar, but the ballast is provided by miniature lamb dumplings about the size of M&Ms.
Instead, conservatives found new ballast while liberals bemoaned what they characterized as a silly pre-emptive capitulation to unlikely or marginal offense.
This year, however, it launched Ballast Point Lager, the brand's first beer denoted with a calorie count (99 per 12-ounce can).
"IMO 25, together with the ballast water treatment, will turn shipping upside down and create supply shock," chief investment officer Tor Svelland said.
Most advisors use liquid alts as ballast during falling markets because they invest in nontraditional assets that aren't correlated with stocks or bonds.
In Europe, the STOXX 2959.31 edged up 270% as optimism over trade relations provided ballast for the index even as corporate earnings disappointed.
"IMO 20203, together with the ballast water treatment, will turn shipping upside down and create supply shock," chief investment officer Tor Svelland said.
"IMO 22020, together with the ballast water treatment, will turn shipping upside down and create supply shock," chief investment officer Tor Svelland said.
For refuelling and maintenance unmanageable from a submarine, the cylinder would be floated to the surface with air injected into its ballast tanks.
Environmentalists say removing the EPA's authority — and leaving the regulation of ballast water solely to the Coast Guard — would remove important water protections.
He said the two sides should push to ensure trade cooperation continued to be a "ballast stone and propeller" of U.S.-China relations.
"But with so much uncertainty, high-grade bonds have a significant place in a portfolio as ballast against a potential downturn" in stocks.
An exhibition using plants brought to New York in ships' ballast illuminates the city's hidden past using stinging nettle, milk thistle and amaranth.
The promise of Pompeo is that he can provide ballast against some of Trump's other gusts, particularly when it comes to the Kremlin.
To my surprise, one can do many stretches either sitting on a chair or standing and using a chair for balance or ballast.
Constellation Brands (STZ) – The spirits maker sold its Ballast Point craft beer unit to Illinois-based Kings & Convicts Brewing for an undisclosed amount.
Rescuers pumped ballast water out of the ship and then used two tugboats with 1,500-meter (4,920-foot) tow lines to pull it free.
"The ballasts are now probably contaminated with landslide mud and debri; fouled ballast needs to be replaced, or cleaned and placed again," Indraratna said.
We identified multiple (40 or more ships pins and scattered ballast) smaller artifacts, but we were looking for a game changing discovery, and voilà !!
Big banks have doubled down on wealth management in recent years to serve as a ballast to other businesses that are struggling, particularly trading.
The lower yields are a reminder for investors that bonds are most valuable for their "insurance policy" as providing ballast and diversification, Rosenberg said.
Ballast Points' new 7,300-square-foot space will house an outdoor beer garden, where visitors will be able to taste beer brewed on site.
It's All Relative Two wildly different character-rich novels from the 1990s hit the elusive sweet spot you're craving between wit and emotional ballast.
Lingering questions about her ties to Wall Street have also weighed on Clinton's candidacy, while giving Sanders' ballast and more credibility with progressive voters.
At the same time, my brother was in town visiting and my beloved Raptors, whose playoff run is currently my emotional ballast, were playing.
But environmentalists say removing the EPA's authority — and leaving the regulation of ballast water solely to the Coast Guard — would remove important water protections.
"We have explored moving into high-quality fixed income and even alternatives in order to provide ballast in a volatile equity market," Smith said.
There has to be a Republican majority in Congress to give ballast to a Trump presidency or block the excesses of a Clinton one.
Ballast water has been blamed for some of the worst invasive species cases, like zebra mussels in the Great Lakes and various algae species.
The car also features "articulated fins" that can be moved with mechanical levers to steer, while diving underwater is made possible by ballast tanks.
Which is surprising only in so much as Takeoff is the group's utility player and its ballast — rarely is he allowed the full spotlight.
Blanche Knopf was not as retiring as Giroux, but with her husband she played much the same role, and added ballast to his bluster.
And some boldface names are preparing to begin trading in the public markets next year, potentially providing ballast for a bigger wave of debutantes.
Officials wanted proof that sewage, ballast water discharge (which can carry alien species as well as pollution), or ship transit was harming the sargassum.
The original ballast, the steadying factor which allowed Richard Nixon's opening to China in the 21996s, was a shared strategic mistrust of the Soviet Union.
Gold has become slightly negatively correlated to the stock market, Bernstein said, and so gold adds extra ballast in a portfolio to hedge against volatility.
That helps explain why the tax cut provided so little ballast for the GOP as Democrats recaptured control of the House in November's midterm elections.
Also convinced myself to try the pineapple version of Ballast Point Sculpin IPA because I love Sculpin and I love pineapple, so can't go wrong.
He is a modern celebrity in the sense that the ballast of his success isn't any particular artistic expertise, but rather a capacity for reaction.
Romances in superhero movies are often dull, flimsy things, but Deadpool 2's love story provides some much-needed ballast for the film's nonstop irreverence.
These early European settlers in the New World, he says, also adopted "Hebraic communal discipline," as ballast to the relentless Puritan focus on individual salvation.
Additionally, outside of the Grand Californian is Downtown Disney, filled with restaurants, shops, Ballast Point brewery and other bars, and not one, but two Starbucks.
With oil and gas prices low, chemicals and refining have become important profit centers and have provided ballast for companies that were otherwise losing money.
Virtually everything they buy to improve their infrastructure – the ties, the steel rail, the ballast, the locomotives and the freight cars – are made in America.
" The A.V. Club described it as "clever for its own sake, a showy piece of writing that doesn't have that all-important ballast of sincerity.
The company said it has made "extensive preparations" as it continues to monitor the path of Hurricane Irma, including staging compressors, generators, ballast and work equipment.
Previously struggling to find work, some of the men are now employed as loaders at the sand and ballast vending sites; others have jobs in construction.
He's got an extra chin, a gut you wouldn't want to see riding above a bathing suit, and a rear that serves no purpose but ballast.
For example, the invasive species that have radically altered the lakes, often introduced inadvertently, appear in the painting "Pioneers" as ballast water pouring into a lake.
The closest thing in the Navy dive manual is what's called "enclosed space" diving, which includes diving in shipwrecks or inside the ballast tanks of submarines.
Tracks like "Avainsana," ballast her spiraling melodies with drippy, treated found sounds which pulls them closer to earth, even if they're still hovering somewhere above it.
Mr. Abbasi flies into the fray after a darting solo from Mr. Mahanthappa, using his creamy distortion and patient phrasing as a ballast in the swarm.
On that specific ride, according to Lieberman, too much sand was let go so the balloon didn&apost have enough ballast to hit its intended landing.
Ballast Point, the San Diego-based craft brewery that's now owned by Constellation Brands, made its name on such IPAs, like the popular Grapefruit Sculpin ale.
With his connections in the Justice Department and his prosecutorial chops, Mr. Giuliani adds some ballast to a legal team that is currently composed of lesser lights.
Wherever conspiracism is reshaping public life, two preventatives are vital: to defend the integrity of knowledge-producing institutions and bolster confidence in the ballast of common sense.
Over the last five years, she's made twisting, imagistic songs that function both as a depiction of and ballast against the heaviness of moving through the world.
In earlier eras, when there was less chance that a marriage, entered often for economic reasons, would provide emotional or intellectual succor, female friends offered intimate ballast.
While the ballast water explanation made sense, he wanted to see how common this sort of evolution via hybridization event is in polluted waters around the world.
Insurance startup The Zebra announced $38.5 million in Series C funding from Accel, Silverton Partners, Daher Capital, Floodgate Fund, Ballast Point Ventures, and Weatherford Capital on Wednesday.
Rice and refried beans can provide ballast — at Teotihuacan to such an extent that a plate of cheese enchiladas is roughly the size of a stretching cat.
Why it Matters: The selection of a familiar name will provide some ballast to an industry facing a new political and policy landscape under the Trump administration.
Of course, Schwab argues that the conventional wisdom is wrong, and holding some of your portfolio in cash makes sense, providing "ballast" in times of economic turmoil.
Organizational arms like Nick Martinez and Nick Tepesh have held as occasional rotation ballast, while Rule 5 castoff Delino DeShields Jr. sufficed as last year's leadoff man.
An IPA with an abv of 7.0, Sculpin is the flagship of Ballast Point Brewing Company, which was purchased Constellation Brands for $1 billion in November 2015.
They are allowed to be sillier than either of the two stars, who are saddled with the thankless task of providing sentimental ballast that nobody really needs.
At the end of winter, I loved the combination of crisp Bosc pears with soft roasted leeks over thick yogurt, and some sugar-glazed walnuts for ballast.
"He sees agriculture could be like the ballast of the relationship," said Mr. Kimberley, paraphrasing something that Mr. Xi said on his visit to the Kimberleys' farm.
But this approach at least offers more intellectual ballast than any previous GOP impeachment defense, as laid out by the minority's witness at the hearing, Jonathan Turley.
If the Wise Use movement did not condone or support militias, it created an intellectual framework for militia operations and has, on occasion, lent the groups ideological ballast.
If—as seems likely—Mr Khan wins on May 5th he will need to build a team that can anchor his mayoralty and give it public-policy ballast.
"Under VIDA, the Clean Water Act would cease to apply to all ship incidental discharges — including ballast water, nutrient-laden greywater, and chemicals — from commercial vessels," they wrote.
And that fact that we went to Harvard together, that was a ballast that kept us steady, that we had this common experience we could fall back on.
Each song doesn't really tell a story, but instead hints at one obliquely, often through inventive language ("sky above a palace joy/we beneath in un-ballast loving").
We were standing on a ballast-stone road at the entrance to barracoons (from the Spanish, barracón): cavelike enclosures where slaves were held before being sent to auction.
The other source of ballast/inertia in the modern economy stems from consumer spending, which is holding up well at the moment but also shows signs of decelerating.
Mr. Gingrich has relentlessly promoted Mr. Trump's policy adviser, Stephen Miller, as the West Wing conservative ballast as the chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, has been under fire.
Equally dazzling is the novel's emotional ballast: Evie's relationship with her father, who is such an inexorable feature of the island he tethers her to it with him.
They provide strength and ballast to new generations of white Americans who continue to imbibe cultural, political and social images that dehumanize the sanctity of black life. Gov.
Op-Docs In September 2016, I curdled under the fluorescent light of a psychiatric clinic in San Francisco, trying to tune out the maddening buzz of the ballast.
Last year, Ballast Point sold a controlling stake to Constellation Brands, which also owns Corona, for $20153 billion; earlier in 22015, San Diego's Saint Archer sold to MillerCoors.
" For instance, during and after World War II, "American ships brought goods to devastated Europe and, again, would return with earth or now also war rubble as ballast.
Long considered the ballast in a relationship fraught with geopolitical frictions, the U.S. business community in China in recent years has advocated a harder line on Beijing's trade policies.
Originally from Russia and Ukraine, tiny baby mussels (called veligers) were sucked up along with ballast water in large cargo ships and then unknowingly dumped in the Great Lakes.
Alex Abad-Santos, Vox: Romances in superhero movies are often dull, flimsy things, but Deadpool 2's love story provides some much-needed ballast for the film's nonstop irreverence.
In a release, CEO Rob Sands said the company saw 13 percent net sales growth, partially as a result of the recently-completed acquisition of craft brewery Ballast Point.
Transitioning back to airborne flight is as easy as bringing the Loon Copter back to the surface, pumping out all that water ballast and taking to the skies again.
Ballast water has been blamed for some of the worst invasive species cases, like zebra mussels in the Great Lakes and the introduction of various algae species to waterways.
On the waterfront in Red Hook, where Mr. Brown had once watched vessels spreading ballast "without cessation, night and day," there wasn't much vegetation to be seen last week.
Mostly, it serves as ballast for Smith, but when she's set free, accompanied only by guitar on "Goodbyes," her voice is lithe, vibrant and moist like a fresh wound.
He told himself that even if he never got another Hollywood job, he'd be satisfied (he says he still keeps that attitude today, and that it's been a ballast).
"We decided it was very important to add ballast to our institution to give us protection during a period of downside," Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman said in June.
As an adult, she learned the sand she had played in as a child had been brought as ballast for ships from as far away as Europe and Africa.
A vase in a hallway off the main gallery is replenished each week with a new bouquet including wild carrot, plantain, buttercups, and burdock, all indicators of ballast soil.
Some of his biggest detractors are hardline conservatives whose long practice at withstanding public blowback for their ideas gave them the ballast to make their disgust with Trump's behavior known.
Kroes in the past has been on the boards of AB Volvo, Ballast Nedam, McDonald's Netherlands, Lucent Netherlands, P&O Nedlloyd and Nederlandse Spoorwegen and was chairperson of Nyenrode University.
"Its the economic relationship that needs more ballast, more grunt, more investment, more engagement and that is what we're here to set off today with this new arrangement," Morrison said.
Our Guests are constantly asking for new and innovative dining experience, and Ballast Point's selection of award-winning beers, locally inspired cuisine, and friendly atmosphere make them a perfect fit.
We could see evenings of a future weekend trip including selections of Master Sommelier George Miliotes at Wine Bar George, and a Ballast Point brew, all while rocking Mickey ears.
But the Miami is not being allowed in port because of a dispute about empty Hanjin shipping containers, which the Miami normally would load up as ballast to exit port.
In the past decade it has been Ivanka, not Trump's wife Melania, who served as his sounding board and ballast in the development and operation of the Trump business empire.
The maker of machinery such as heat exchangers, separators and ballast water treatment equipment said order intake decreased by 20% during the second quarter to 10.0 billion crowns ($1.07 billion).
Strong sales growth of beer cans and the expanding distribution of craft beer by Ballast Point, which Constellation bought late last year, are expected to have helped in the quarter.
In the late nineteen-eighties, cargo ships, travelling from the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea, had dumped their ballast water into the Great Lakes, contaminating them with foreign organisms.
It also has a weighted knot that can be moved up and down the cable to provide enough ballast to keep the cable and the phone it's charging in place.
Titch picks little Wash—who narrates the tale from the perspective of his eighteenth year—simply because the boy is about the right weight to provide ballast for the flight.
The family-friendly brewpub will offer more than 50 styles of Ballast Point's beer across 100 tap lines, as well as a menu fit for your entire theme park crew.
Lacking a ballast of gravitas or grit, the book lists into the realm of magical thinking: nothing Gilbert touches seems to turn out wrong; not a single wish goes unfulfilled.
Those recollections, and images of Eichmann supervising the mass slaughter of innocents, serve as cautionary ballast, inoculating the audience against being too caught up in a suspenseful, entertaining wartime thriller.
White wine is generally served colder than red, which suggests that it is more refreshing in the heat, and red is often sturdier, providing the necessary ballast in the cold.
And even with the political upheaval in Washington, most market participants remain convinced that the Trump administration's pledges for lower taxes and lighter regulation will provide ballast to the market.
With the bassist Matt Brewer offering a sturdy ballast, Ms. Aldana cooled the energy coming off the drums and the piano, holding long notes and weaving her own symmetrical lines.
PERSONAL INCOME The other source of ballast/inertia in the modern economy stems from consumer spending, which is holding up well at the moment but also shows signs of decelerating.
But the Miami has not been allowed in port because of a dispute about empty Hanjin shipping containers, which the Miami normally would load up as ballast to exit port.
"Just hearing the words you know are true can serve as ballast, steadying your mind when so much seems unreal," Charen said in a subsequent New York Times op-ed.
At its height, ships would regularly cross the Atlantic almost entirely "in ballast" as it was more profitable to travel without freight and pick up enslaved people for the return.
And if that current happens to be a few thousand feet below, the balloon pumps air into its outer chamber; the heavier air works like ballast, weighing the whole thing down.
Mike Crapo of Idaho and I have worked with our Canadian counterparts to hash out issues ranging from border crossings to ballast water, timber to beef, and wood pulp to energy.
A tough law-and-order approach to immigration was the ballast of Trump's successful presidential run, and the effort to make good on his campaign promise has energized the conservative base.
The maker of machinery such as heat exchangers, separators and ballast water treatment equipment, is benefiting from a rebound in contracting for tankers as well as upstream oil and gas activity.
Adding a cable channel could help provide scale at a time when other studios have been swallowed up by bigger entertainment giants, while providing ballast for a sometimes volatile movie business.
Though he could seldom match Phelps's results, Lochte nevertheless has enjoyed a long reign as the public's champion, providing the ballast with his fun-loving nature for Phelps's machine-like efficiency.
Admiral Sullivan said that as part of the study, divers inspected the hull, and engineers peered into the ship's more than 100 ballast and fuel tanks and assessed the structural condition.
There's comfort in the moments that lean that way, when vocalist Amirtha Kidambi is centered—which provides a nice ballast for the passages where Halvorson stretches out into barely tonal hinterlands.
" Back in 1879, Mr. Brown had been realistic about the future prospects of plants brought in ballast to the city, predicting that most of them would "perish after a few seasons.
In old-fashioned fluorescent lights, a separate device called a ballast provides the surge, then damps down the current to a steady voltage that will not quickly burn out the light.
But they can also be ballast, and in a time like this I refuse to cede an essential value of books just to maintain some irrelevant dedication to an intellectual credo.
During the 1980s quagga and zebra mussels arrived in ships' ballast water and began gobbling up the Great Lakes' phytoplankton, the foundation of their food web, and clogging water intake pipes.
So maybe the lesson to remember today is that economic engagement provides the ballast for our relationship with China, and we should be very careful how we let politics interfere with it.
She has spent nearly two decades uncovering long-buried colonial histories using ballast seeds, which can lie dormant in the soil for hundreds of years, only to sprout in the right conditions.
Severino threw 94, and barely resembled the pitcher who has given so much ballast to the Yankees rotation, carrying a 14-2 record and a 2.12 earned run average into the game.
"Nancy Pelosi is the ballast of our ship; she is the stabilizing force," said Representative Andy Levin, a freshman Democrat whose Michigan district includes Macomb County, which Mr. Trump won in 2016.
Google has already prepared some ballast to meet the changing tax winds, revealing in filings lodged with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission just days before the budget that it was restructuring.
I would hope if I had that head of ESPN job, that I would use that as ballast to do something a little bit risky and long-term strategic off the TV product.
Last week, Ballast Point, a San Diego-based brewing company, announced it will be opening a brewery as well as a tasting room and kitchen in the Downtown Disney District later this year.
In an interview with Bloomberg, the CEO of Constellation Brands—which sells Corona, Modelo, Svedka, Ballast Point, and a large portfolio of wines—said he sees cannabis-infused alcoholic beverages on the horizon.
The U.S. has been a crucial part of the ballast meant to be upholding the global order in the face of these other challenges Tusk mentions, from Russia and China to Islamic radicalism.
As Western empires had their "civilizing missions" in India, Africa and elsewhere, so Japanese leaders drew on the likes of Watsuji to supply cultural ballast for their own empire-building and war-making.
Madsen originally claimed the submarine went down due to a "minor problem with a ballast tank" that subsequently turned into a "major issue," but that he had dropped Wall off in Copenhagen without incident.
The policy halo effect that provided ballast to the stock market and fueled investor optimism is already being dimmed by political realities, according to Goldman Sachs, which may have negative implications for economic growth.
Alfa Laval, a maker of products such as heat exchangers, separators and ballast water treatment equipment, said order intake dropped to 11.2 billion crowns from 11.6 billion, just below the 11.4 billion analysts' forecast.
Long considered the ballast in a relationship fraught with geopolitical frictions, the U.S. business community in China in recent years has advocated a harder line on what it sees as discriminatory Chinese trade policies.
Nor do a series of smallish roles by more seasoned players, such as RuPaul Charles, Jim Rash and Norm Macdonald, add ballast to a show where genuine emotion is largely conveyed via musical cues.
Rather than foie gras, there is beef heart, chopped into red filaments that provide ballast and iron to a salad of skinny asparagus stems and garlic scapes with tart green slices of unripe strawberries.
Both became indispensable in their new teams' title chases — Miller as a dominating tool that Indians Manager Terry Francona used early, late and liberally, and Chapman providing some ballast to a wobbly Cubs bullpen.
Molson Coors' brands include Blue Moon, Hop Valley and Revolver; Constellation owns Ballast Point and Funky Buddha; Heineken markets Affligem, Lagunitas and Mort Subite; Pabst has partnered with Small Town, Minerva and New Holland.
Curators, including Ballast Projects founder and VICE Design Director Adam Mignanelli, and Baltimore-based Platform Gallery director Lydia Pettit, brought small enclaves of art to each of the 12 rooms on the third floor.
The extra money went through a secret set of accounts and the company, Ballast Nedam, was later fined 85033 million Euros (now about $620 million) for illegal payments to foreign agents, the BBC reported.
Edgar Ramirez plays him, with Ricky Martin as his lover and Penelope Cruz a perfect choice as his protective sister Donatella, who endeavors to be the business-minded ballast to her brother's artistic genius.
Even those who have no taste at all: They could walk out of here with a garish 1960s reproduction of the Apollo Belvedere, if their Fire Island pool house needs a little historical ballast.
Had they survived the blast, the crewmembers would've tried to release the keel ballast weights, start pumping water, or make an effort to escape the sub—but it appears none of these actions were taken.
As Kevin Rudd, a former prime minister of Australia now running the Asia Society Policy Institute, a think-tank, puts it, the ballast that once kept the relationship on an even keel has been jettisoned.
The International Maritime Organisation (IMO), the United Nations agency for shipping, last September brought in rules forcing owners to install equipment by 2024 to clean the dirty ballast water their ships suck in and discharge.
Even when the pianist swept down to the lowest reaches of his instrument, Mr. Graves seemed to stay underneath him, a ballast in constant flux, offering only the guarantee that he would listen, and change.
Still, the United States posture, and the concerns over a continued slowdown of the Chinese economy give ballast to Chinese promoters of heavy industry, some China analysts say, putting President Xi Jinping under considerable pressure.
On the walls are maps and texts describing how both ballast and slaves were dropped off in semisecret locations around New York to avoid tariffs, thus furthering the connection between human trafficking and uprooted nature.
Michelin's global network of anonymous inspectors lends its ratings a bit more ballast than those of newer entries like the World's 50 Best Restaurants list and La Liste (which announced its worldwide rankings on Thursday).
In addition to this focus on the renowned, Whitaker brings in a number of ordinary folks from East Liberty, Oakland, Homewood and the Hill District to give "Smoketown" the ballast of quotidian voices and memories.
In "Adam," which premiered last August, Sheng plays Ethan, a young trans man so emotionally grounded that he becomes the ballast for the cis characters flailing all around him, thus flipping a trans narrative trope.
Four years after paying $1 billion for the fast-growing Ballast Point Brewing, Constellation Brands (STZ)this week unloaded the iconic craft beer brand to little-known Chicagoland brewer Kings & Convicts for an undisclosed sum.
"Cargo and Ballast," dedicated to Édouard Glissant, warns us from the start that "Everything will be used against you," and continues with another version of the "Noah-boat Jonah-boat": The captain's seasick and dying.
Another pinpoints areas of New York City that likely involved ballast landfill, such as Hunter's Point in Queens, Gowanus Creek in Brooklyn, Mott Haven in the Bronx, and 107th Street and 8th Avenue in Manhattan.
Dr Marsh and her colleagues suggest that deep-diving whales may be foraging on the CCZ seafloor, using it as a giant loofah to scrape parasites from their skins or even ingesting the nodules as ballast.
The deals are part of Constellation's strategy to focus on its premium beer and wine business in the United States, where it has made a number of acquisitions including Sculpin IPA-owner Ballast Point Brewing & Spirits.
Ballast — the company behind VRSlide — is viewing this as the first step toward a larger kind of aquatic VR setup, one that would see full, impressive tanks that users could swim in while in virtual reality.
Among those deals, Anheuser-Busch announced the acquisition of fellow global giant SAB Miller and acquired four U.S. craft breweries and a cider company in separate deals; Constellation Brands bought Ballast Point Brewing for $1 billion.
But the shipping industry has long argued that the EPA and states are not the right bodies to regulate ballast and that the Coast Guard, as the main authority overseeing waterways in ports, is better equipped.
Lacking workable ideas or intellectual ballast, Mr. Trump's candidacy thrives on his refusal to be "politically correct," a term he deploys to give license to declarations that should be called bigotry, or cruelty, or verbal battery.
Once the switches are pulled, the submarine's ballast tanks are supposed to fill with high-pressure air, making the sub positively buoyant (up to 2 million pounds lighter) and pop above the surface of the water.
There are surely reasons that some of us resist being wholly settled, but when the ballast of incompletion grew too much for me I logged on to TaskRabbit to finish what I had failed to start.
Elsewhere on Born This Way there's a new bulk to the sound matching the weightier themes: stadium rock and eighties schlock add ballast and bombast to the clubby sound, flavors of Springsteen, Pat Benatar, Jim Steinman.
One factor may have been missing ballast: four hundred pounds of radar equipment had been intentionally left out from the aircraft's nose and should've been replaced with the same weight in sandbags, but apparently hadn't been.
If you could create that, make it public, refer to it, use it, actually believe it, then that is the ballast that keeps you from being swung from side to side by the Trump Twitter feed.
In the opening section, Washington's master, Erasmus Wilde, is visited by his brother, Christopher, who has plans to build and test a flying machine and sees Washington as a perfect piece of ballast for his experiment.
A sunset over the water from 2008 is one of several seascapes that, though never dipping into sentiment, feel immaterial and lackluster, and badly need the ballast that houses and cabins provide to her best pictures.
That certainly lacks the verve and appeal of the revolutionary changes put forth by the progressives, but it may be more doable and some would argue is more in keeping with the ballast of the party.
Another chief tactic in his speech is repetition, which amplifies his sentiment and creates the appearance of some order by lending his sentences a little initial ballast ("a big, big dilemma") before flying out of control.
That sculpture is the moral ballast of the current retrospective — LMCC's 250 summer exhibition on Governors Island — but the rest of Richards's oeuvre displays the makings of a major artist whose life was tragically cut short.
No matter how dense and detailed their tracks get, they ballast their work with zero-G synth pads, dizzy rhythms, and slippery breaks—the sort of stuff that keeps you floating somewhere above the club's sticky floor.
Statoil's design, known as Hywind, attaches the turbine to a special buoy that uses a steel cylinder filled with water and rocks as ballast — a floating structure that extends more than 300 feet beneath the water's surface.
He visited the craft breweries that were popping up like wildflowers there: Sierra Nevada, Bear Republic, Coronado, Ballast Point; he surveilled the coast and hit the Bay Area, San Diego, and Portland, trying every beer he could.
Ms. Rankin makes spare, poetic collages in which a few oblique phrases, like "barely volunteering" or "your little pool of words," give ballast to geological formations, the night sky or the Empire State Building shrouded in fog.
Recognition of their value independent of food can be traced to the 1950s, when shells started to be used in the United States as paving material and railroad ballast, as well as to make cement, he said.
Mr. Tillerson arrived in Washington after running Exxon Mobil, one of the world's largest corporations, backed by business leaders and some foreign policy experts as a man who could bring experience and ballast to an untested administration.
As he was brought to shore, Mr. Madsen told the local television station TV2 that he had been on a test drive when he ran into problems with a valve on a ballast tank on the vessel.
These, of course, include the love of a good woman, who, in this case, is a morally grounded young television producer named Rita Hanson, charmingly embodied and sung by Barrett Doss, who provides ballast without being boring.
Booths C262/D212 Judith Linhares, who uses thick, glowing lines to depict titanic female figures, brings out the color in Annabeth Rosen's work — wire-wrapped ceramic assemblages that evoke seashells, ballast or construction sites on the moon.
That's what happened with the Sewol: Most of its ballast water — which would have helped balance the ship — had been drained so that it wouldn't appear to sit too low in the water to inspectors on shore.
"It's common for folks to look at bonds as a ballast at times when stocks aren't doing as well," said Eddy Vataru, senior portfolio manager of the Osterweis Total Return Fund, which invests primarily in investment grade bonds.
Germany&aposs central command for maritime emergencies said late Tuesday that it has put in place a rescue plan that involves using up to 1,000-meter (3,280-foot) tow lines and pumping ballast water out of the ship.
Apparently, she feels no compulsion to hedge her vision with edginess or intentionally disagreeable ballast, like the male-objectified ingenues in Lisa Yuskavage's work that seem to ridicule a viewer's attraction to the allure of her imaginative atmosphere.
The 100-Day Action Plan established at Mar-a-Lago was an important step toward addressing imbalances in the commercial and economic relationship that threaten that ballast, and reinstating a pragmatic agenda for bilateral trade and investment liberalization.
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WHALEY BRIDGE, England (Reuters) - A British military helicopter dropped sacks of ballast onto the outer slope of a reservoir dam in central England on Friday in an effort to prevent it from collapsing and flooding the town below.
The Zebra, which has raised more than $63 million in funding, used some of those venture dollars it raised from Mark Cuban, Ballast Point Ventures, Accel Partners and Daher Capital to survey U.S. drivers on a few things.
Later, the boat's engineers were able to rig the auxiliary diesel engine to use the exhaust to keep the damaged ballast tanks full, and after making temporary repairs in Guam, she was able to move to Pearl Harbor.
So little thought was given to wood that when ships docked in Saint John, they typically just tossed the solid mahogany they used for ballast out onto the docks, there for anyone who wanted to carry it off.
Two Cuban artists provide historical ballast: Ana Mendieta (1948—85), represented by tender ink drawings of fruit and flowers, and the wonderfully rediscovered artist Belkis Ayón (1967—99), whose large black-and-white monoprints have a ghostly authority.
Open Book For conservatives buffeted by Trump-force winds, nothing looks so sturdy as the ballast of the past, which is perhaps why the Republican senator Jeff Flake chose to name his new book after an old one.
Formula One cars have a minimum weight limit, minus fuel but with driver included, and designers aim to get it down as far as possible so that additional ballast can be distributed around the car to improve handling.
The children of other presidents have readily, even greedily, reaped the fruits of nepotism, but how many have done so while simultaneously suggesting that they're around to provide crucial ballast, performing an invaluable service for the American people?
"At this stage it appears that heavy rainfall and flash flooding in the region on Saturday washed out some ballast from under a small section of the track," Mineral Resources said in a statement to the Australian stock exchange.
Regardless, defacing the UCT statue instantly ignited the Rhodes Must Fall movement, and along with it a campaign demanding not only the destruction of the statues themselves, but also the white supremacist institutions for which they provided symbolic ballast.
The Ballast Point acquisition allows Constellation to more effectively target different demographic segments that are attracted to craft beer and spirits and should minimize potential cannibalization of its existing Mexican beer and spirits portfolio, thus supporting its growth profile.
While this may not seem like much, it was more than 6,000 tons of nuclear-powered ship ramming into a mountain, enough to cause significant structural damage, ground the boat, and heavily damage its ballast tanks and sonar dome.
To admirers, America's civil service became the ballast in the ship of state, exemplified by the National Laboratories, Neil Armstrong, and generations of humble bureaucrats who banned unsafe medications, recalled defective motor vehicles, and monitored conditions at nursing homes.
A second source familiar with the details confirmed that Saipem was expected to work as a subcontractor to build the LNG units, which will be gravity-based platforms near the coast held in place on the seabed with ballast.
Kauai, meanwhile, is plagued by feral pigs, rose-ringed parakeets and a new invasive seaweed that arrived either in ballast water or in the dumped contents of aquarium tanks and that has begun to smother the island's reef ecosystem.
He has performed consistently well for Barcelona since joining from Sevilla, has rarely been anything less than a model professional, and now he has to spend a year at a club that saw him as ballast in a deal.
There's been a convergence of technology across all platforms and this gives us access to both the workplace direct as well as our core financial advisory which is unchanged … and then for Morgan Stanley this gives us more ballast.
"To attract a ship to ballast (into the Atlantic market) it's going to cost about $10 million" for U.S. Gulf Coast shipments bound for China or South Korea, said another U.S. shipbroker who brokers about 20 vessels per month.
Whereas a couple of shots might make you completely useless to the world, you can still climb a mountain or stand up on a paddleboard with a can or two of a Ballast Point Lager or a Ritas Spritz.
One of Alves's watercolor maps is called "In Ballast: To and From New York," and charts boats entering and exiting the New York harbor from London, Amsterdam, Cape Verde, Haiti, Algeria, the West Indies, and elsewhere across the globe.
"Number of Facebook shares: 373,237Dumbest quotes: "Their test, designed to provide empirical ballast to a feminist agenda, ... suggested that employers actually discriminate in favor of women, choosing them in favor of men when they believe them to be competent enough.
Combining aspects of all these improvements, World View found a way to use air as ballast, and change the buoyancy of the crafts on demand, which let them ride stratospheric wind patterns to maintain their position by altering their altitude.
In its official announcement, Ballast Point explained that the space will be family-friendly, which also makes it an ideal stop for parents who want to treat themselves in the midst of a Disney vacation that's mostly for their kids.

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