Sentences with phrase «as ballast»

[4] The point derived the name Ballast Point from the fact that the early Yankee skippers would have stones gathered from Ballast Point to serve as ballast in their ships during their returns around Cape Horn to their home town, Boston.

Scientists are also investigating why outbreaks of exotic organisms have been reported only in the past 20 years, when water has been used as ballast for more than a century.

The point derived its name from the fact that the early Yankee skippers would have stones gathered from Ballast Point to serve as ballast in their ships during their returns around Cape Horn to their home town, Boston.

Its composition is believed to be from rocks that were said to have been used as ballast of old sailing ships that came around Cape Horn and were dumped at Ballast Point when the ships docked there.

Our bonds and low cost index funds act as a ballast for our portfolio.

What started as a small group of home brewers, who simply wanted to make a better beer, evolved into the adventurers known today as Ballast Point.

Going a step further, you can approximate the effect of bond ballast using smaller amounts of cash as ballast instead.

At present, our mindful conclusion is that cash has more advantages than bonds as ballast in a portfolio of mixed investments, because cash can be used for short term expenditures and investment opportunities with no risk of permanent loss (other than slow and persistent inflation erosion).

What started in 1996 as a small group of home brewers who simply wanted to make great beer evolved into a team of adventurers known today as Ballast Point.

A lighthouse known as the Ballast Point Light was built on Ballast Point in 1890 and survived until 1957.

It was fascinating and welcoming, and a great insight into the personal side of being a comics fan in the time before Diamond Distribution, and before there were comic shops both large and small at which fans and enthusiasts could congregate, where issues would be transported as ballast on freight ships, and young comic lovers could only communicate and hone their craft through mail order lists and self - published zines.

The reason is that Emiliania's dense calcareous platelets function as ballast in aggregated organic matter and accelerate its sinking to the deep ocean.

Candidate with a valid Ballast operator license and comprehensive working experience on marine vessels, seeks to work as a Ballast operator for a reputed marine organization.

When intermediate bonds yields become measurably better than cash, say about 4 %, it is probably time to reconsider using bonds as ballast instead of cash.

Other Belize City points of interest: the Swing Bridge, Supreme Court Building, Government House of Culture and St. John's Anglican Church, constructed in 1812 from bricks brought as ballast from European Sailing ships.

The oldest Anglican Cathedral Church in Central America, St. John's Cathedral, was built in 1812 from bricks brought as ballast from European sailing ships.

While bonds have traditionally been seen as ballast for the equity side of portfolios, they may not hold up well going forward.

Long - term treasuries will likely still work as ballast when it matters most (global risk - off events), but we see short - term U.S. debt now offering compelling income, along with a healthy buffer against the risk of further interest rate rises.

Our core fixed - income portfolios seek to preserve capital, provide current income and serve as ballast against stock market volatility.

In a call with investors, Sands provided an overview of Constellation's beer portfolio, which includes Mexican import brands Corona Extra, Casa Modelo and Pacifico, as well as Ballast Point.

In 1974, Rosenfeld founded the Center for Building Science at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and began developing energy - saving technologies such as ballasts for light bulbs and low - leakage windows.

They also outlast equivalent compact fluorescent lightbulbs but use 50 percent less energy and skip the toxic mercury required as ballast.

Empty ships routinely take on seawater as ballast before they set sail, to keep them stable while at sea.

More problematic, though, is something which can't really be laid at his door, since a drama about a defining moment in British history — where standing alone and embattled proves a vastly superior option to negotiating with those fiendish continentals is inevitably ripe to be unfairly co-opted as ballast for the Brexit cause.

With interest rates finally on an expected path toward normalization, at least in the U.S., bonds may be less reliable as ballast.

It maintains 5 years» worth of spending as ballast in the short and mid-term buckets, or about 20 % of your portfolio, assuming you are using the mindful bucket plan described above.

The internal sandstone wall which formed part of the old «Watch House» was built from sandstone that came to Eden as ballast in the old steamers.

Built of old bricks used by sailing ships as ballast, this historic landmark is surrounded by bougainvillea and palm trees in a tropical garden setting.

These plants came to the UK hundreds of years ago as ballast in old boats — and now they are growing again.

(GML Heritage 2018) SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA — According to a BBC News report, indigenous Australians made traditional tools from flint cobbles carried to Australia as ballast on British ships in the...

A deep - set central lagoon would collect and purify rainwater (and also act as ballast), and three mountains would support terraced housing.

In Article 7.3, we found that the normal advantage of bonds over cash as ballast in a mixed portfolio with stocks is currently absent, because bonds are not expected to provide a real return above inflation anytime in the foreseeable future.

Lawrence and his screenwriters, Simon Beaufoy and Michael Arndt, have done a fine job of calibrating the film's many moving parts, action serving as a ballast for heaps of exposition, flashes of mordant humor darting through all the despair and destruction.

Bonds as ballast — Let's examine the conventional wisdom by first looking at the historical ballast performance of bonds using FIRECalc again.

What started in 1996 as a small group of home brewers who simply wanted to make great beer evolved into the team of adventurers known today as Ballast Point.

Rats, the world's foremost invasive species, have traveled the world with explorers and traders; so have tropical fire ants, which genetic studies suggest have hitchhiked from southwestern Mexico to Asia and beyond starting in the 16th century in soil used as ballast in Spanish ships.

This fort was built on the land which is today known as Ballast Point.

That's a tricky balance to strike, between fact and feeling, and I suppose the family bits were added to act as ballast for the film's practical policy talk, but I'd imagine that there is some root emotional oomph to be found in that policy that could bolster the story in its own right.

«ETFs serve as a ballast for these trying times.

However, there are ways of making weight not measured as ballast under the rule act as ballast.

In the 40s he gradually forsook pay diving for treasure hunting, prowling from one wrecksite to another, most of them located on tips from local fishermen who had worked over round rocks but never figured them as the ballasts of old ships.

This is a Tory government with the Lib Dems strapped on as ballast.»

The lead was hauled up from a 200 - year - old shipwreck, where it served as ballast.

«Tetrapodophis doesn't show any aquatic adaptations — no long, oar - like tail, no thick bones to act as ballast, no flippers,» says Nick Longrich of the University of Bath, UK, who is a co-author of the study.

Functioning as a ballast, these platelets are important for the carbon transport to the deep ocean — and thus for the ability of the oceans to take up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and mitigate the effects of climate change.

This material acts as ballast, so getting rid of it means they drift upwards.

The Duplasses, who have for a long while served as ballasts and champions of indie filmmaking, created a pipeline with this show to bring new voices to HBO.

The best way to avoid this bad luck scenario is to add some ballast (intermediate bonds and cash) to your portfolio just prior to and during the vulnerable period; long - term bonds should not be used as ballast.