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To get eastside legislators to sign off on that, Murray says, hes appeasing their concerns about light rail on I-90, and putting the brakes on it, so voters there have time to air their concerns.
What Eastside legislators? Names, please. I thought Eastside light rail had almost universal support at least among the city governments on the Eastside.
I'm starting to think that the Tom Friedman rule on Middle Eastern politicians has to be applied to Ed Murray. Friedman of the NY Times says only believe what a Middle East politicians says in public to his constituents; don't believe the spin he gives the press or intelligentsia in private. You take what Murray wrote in that letter at face value and it just smells. Anyway, at some point you have to judge elected officials by their actions, not by their labyrinthine explanations for their actions.
Again, this is the same guy who slipped in the "anything but monorail" language into a bill concerning the Seattle monorail MVET and then tried to pass it off as something that legislators in the rest of the state insisted on. I am really afraid there's something Ed Murray is not telling us.
Let me pose this question to other commenters, who are these "eastside legislators" that Ed Murray claims to be appeasing?
And how does Sound Transit 2 go to the ballot without Eastside light rail? What will there be for anyone outside Seattle to vote on? It's like Murray is saying to Sound Transit, "You get your wish. You get to go to the ballot on your own. (Oh, and you get to go to the ballot with an eviscerated, cockamamie package that is sure to kill whatever political momentum you may have.)"
Josh writes: Again, all of this is a bit ironic given that state Rep. Ed Murray (last year) was the one who tied light rail and RTID together. He has since renounced the idea blaming it on a compromise solution he was forced into.
So we already have one 800-pound gorilla of a reform that Ed Murray proposed that -- wink-wink, nod-nod -- backfired. And now we want to trust him to come up with some more reforms?!
Is this going to be some annual ritual?:
Pulling East Link out of the mix would likely kill Sound Transit at the polls - that's an absolutely key component for both Eastside voters and Seattle commuters. The cities of Issaquah, Kirkland, Redmond and Bellevue all sent letters to Sound Transit last year supporting light rail in the 90 corridor.
So, who benefits from keeping those express lanes open? Mercer Island residents - who are allowed, unlike anyone else, to use their single occupancy vehicles in our HOV express lanes. Who are they represented by? Judy Clibborn, chair of the House Transportation Committee. This is blatant politicking - Murray should represent his district, and Clibborn should be taken to task for trying to extend the unfair exception Mercer Island residents are getting at the expense of everyone else in the region.
There's more here: Support for Murray's regional governance bill came largely from anti-rail and anti-transit activists like John Niles and John Stanton. They also want to kill light rail to the eastside. They pretend to offer "bus rapid transit" as an alternative because it doesn't get votes - and because asphalt can be converted back to general purpose highway lanes in the right political climate. A convenient way of getting transit money to build you more roads, eh?
Murray coupled ST and RTID, and we told him them that RTID would go down the tubes. Sound Transit is a balanced, regional package - letting political pandering at the state level interfere with regional decisions will destroy the work we've done to get this far.
Pulling East Link out of the mix would likely kill Sound Transit at the polls - that's an absolutely key component for both Eastside voters and Seattle commuters. The cities of Issaquah, Kirkland, Redmond and Bellevue all sent letters to Sound Transit last year supporting light rail in the 90 corridor.
So, who benefits from keeping those express lanes open? Mercer Island residents - who are allowed, unlike anyone else, to use their single occupancy vehicles in our HOV express lanes. Who are they represented by? Judy Clibborn, chair of the House Transportation Committee. This is blatant politicking - Murray should represent his district, and Clibborn should be taken to task for trying to extend the unfair exception Mercer Island residents are getting at the expense of everyone else in the region.
There's more here: Support for Murray's regional governance bill came largely from anti-rail and anti-transit activists like John Niles and John Stanton. They also want to kill light rail to the eastside. They pretend to offer "bus rapid transit" as an alternative because it doesn't get votes - and because asphalt can be converted back to general purpose highway lanes in the right political climate. A convenient way of getting transit money to build you more roads, eh?
Murray coupled ST and RTID, and we told him then that RTID would go down the tubes. Sound Transit is a balanced, regional package - letting political pandering at the state level interfere with regional decisions will destroy the work we've done to get this far.
See, this is what's so scary. The powerful foes of transit like Kemper Freeman are still out there, still working behind the scenes. But now they know that transit has become more and more popular. Fervid transit opponents and freeway supporters like Jim Horn have been voted out of office. So the rail foes have to take a more insidious tack and line up politicians who claim to be transit supporters but really are not.
The Jim Horns of Olympia have been replaced by the Ed Murrays. And the Ed Murrays are that much more dangerous because you don't realize they're the enemy.
I don't actually think Murray is against transit - I just think that he's angry at Sound Transit for not putting more stops in his district (seven, with three in major residential cores, isn't enough) and he refuses to accept that the 520 interchange is not as good a station site as the hospital/university/Husky Stadium.
Personally, yes, I'd like to see RTID and ST2 delinked - but if we have to break up the ST2 package to do it, we should keep them together and put our efforts into supporting both. Even RTID is building HOV, and that's right-of-way that our bus system depends on.
Enjoy the RUCKUS of today's transit problems. The problems will only get worse.
The latest figures from the UN's population division predict a global upheaval without parallel in human history over the next four decades.
There will be billions more people in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Of these, tens of millions will migrate to Europe and America, while the indigenous populations of most countries in the rich world will either stagnate or decline.
Vote no/no. Like zombies, theyll take the bullets, and come staggering back.
But next time it will be a better package. Look at how surface + transit is in the works after that no/no vote.
Tell us who they are so we can read them the riot act from their own district voters.
The reality is that everyone wants I-90 lightrail.
But Ed's right, RTID is currently going to go down - and it will take ST with it if it isn't decoupled - and FAST.
Just Say No:
What do you propose we do "better" about the Sound Transit 2 package? We're going to build light rail in these corridors eventually, no matter what - and those expansions have to be done in the order in which we're doing them regardless. That's the majority of the ST2 package.
@9 - no, we'll vote Yes for ST and No for RTID - and everyone who has done any polling of likely voters knows this is exactly what's going to happen.
These projects need to get started: light rail to north, south and east, plus HOV lanes and buses and some new roads. We can work on improving the mix and tweaking the financing later.
One lesson of the Seattle area's gridlock is that it's not going to get any easier to start if we delay.
Cascadia Report:
The new roads are what's killing the package.
If he wants to decouple them to help Sound Transit, why not just support a simple decoupling? He can still claim it's because there are questions about both, but that voters should be able to consider the strengths and weaknesses of each component (road or rail) on its own.
The only reason to talk about taking I-90 rail out of the picture is to kill the popularity of ST2 by removing its most popular piece. So long as that's Murray's position, he's either fooling us or fooling himself.
Well, gridlock's going to get worse and worse with or without transit. The availability of transit doesn' really affect gridlock one way or the other. Yes, a few people leave their cars, but not enough to make any difference. Telling people "this will solve gridlock" is a lie, no matter what you're selling; the only thing that eases gridlock is economic collapse.
Transit is about options, not easing car traffic.
Fnarf: Transit's impact on people leaving their cars is high, but latent demand fills those spaces on the roadway. That's why traffic hasn't improved in LA, despite their expansion of I-5 from 8 to 10 and then 14 lanes (seriously outpacing population growth, I might add).
Cascadian: A simple decoupling won't pass without the House Transportation Committee chair's approval. Read my earlier, longer comment.
Good lord, the perfect IS the enemy of the good.
I would like to see them uncoupled. But really, if they are coupled, do you really hate RTID *so much* that you're willing to block ST just to spite it?
RTID has lots of warts -- but as Ben suggests, a lot of it is HOV improvements that help the transit system. Another big chunk is projects like 520 that everyone agrees have to get done. So you're holding up the entire regional transit plan, incurring further inflation costs (which reduces service delivery), because you don't like - what - the Cross-Base Highway?
And you have confidence that the political system is going to, in a timely fashion, produce *exactly* the package you want?
As I said in the other thread: it's too late for good ideas. Either we agree to a basically good package that's on the table -- or condemn ourselves to process hell and years of religious road vs. transit wars.
Ben, you wrote,
"That's why traffic hasn't improved in LA, despite their expansion of I-5 from 8 to 10 and then 14 lanes (seriously outpacing population growth, I might add)."
I don't quite follow.
-traffic hasn't improved
-expanded to 14 lanes
-outpacing population
If trafiic hasn't improved with an expansion like that, what, if not population, has caused it? But actually I'm not even sure if you mean that it's the expansion that has outpaced population. Not being a smart-ass, I just can't see a logical thread, which is probably my fault, not sure.
If it's possible to abolish auto gridlock with transit, perhaps you could point to ONE city in the world where the presence of a mass transit system has made driving through the city a breeze at rushhour.
There are many cities with transit systems, gas taxes, and land use patterns a Seattle urban planner couldn't achieve in his most fevered imagination, and I bet they still have gridlock at 5pm.
I don't like the Cross-Base Highway either, but it's been pointed out to me that it won't drive sprawl simply because there's a base there - it'll be mostly freight and existing users.
I'm willing to accept that for ST2.
The problem is, most people aren't. RTID refuses to accept that yes, a lot of voters will simply kill both rather than have to see highway expansion.
MHD, I didn't say you could reduce auto gridlock. I said that a lot of people get out of their cars.
Other people come to take their place on the roads.
It would be great if one of your reporters could actually, you know, report on what's in the RTID package. I think people have a vision of 14-lane highways around the region, and although there are some bad projects in there, it's really not all that.
MHD - yes, reporting has been a huge issue. Nobody's covered the ST2 or RTID packages at all - the excuse is "the packages aren't done!" but the reality is that the main projects aren't budging.
I just quickly reviewed the RTID "Blueprint for Action" and I see very few HOV projects: SR 520 of course, a couple HOV direct interchanges on SR 167/I-405 and another in Snohomish, along with a direct access ramp in Pierce at Tacoma Mall. That's it. Most of the regional HOV projects have already been funded by the state gas tax increases.
Regarding Cross-base Highway, I used to able to just hold my nose on that one. But, as I've gotten more involved in fighting global warming, I just can't do it anymore. Transportation is the biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions in Washington state and that's where we have not just stop increasing emissions, but cut them pretty dramatically. Building new lane miles as the answer to congestion when it doesn't work anyway is not just a waste of money, it's immoral.
There is already a lot of sprawl in that area, but there's also room for a lot more with a new highway. And, Cross-base is not the only bad RTID project in this respect, it's just the worst of the worst because it creates a brand new corridor. There are more sensible ways to improve access in that area like getting the I-5 HOV lanes down to 512 (which is already funded), putting HOV lanes on 512 and beefing up bus service on that corridor. Maybe even BRT on SR 7 from downtown Tacoma.
It would suck to make ST2 wait a year, but it would be a lot better than digging our climate hole much deeper (and spending billions of precious tax dollars in the process) with a joint ST2/RTID package (which based on the potential RTID campaign funders' own polling is doomed to fail anyway).
Josh has 'drive': The increase in auto usage has far outstripped the increase in population, because a lot more people have cars, people have a lot more cars, and people drive their cars a lot more. Not just in LA. In the Seattle area, we have twice the population of thirty years ago, and the number of cars is twice that, and the number of miles is twice that, or eight times as much. Roughly speaking. There is absolutely no reason to believe that this kind of increase won't continue, barring total gridlock. If traffic in any urban area is at less than gridlock, it WILL expand to the point of gridlock just because it can.
I remember reading about the traffic projections for the Long Island Expressway (which was famously gridlocked on the very day it opened), where they tried to calculate the optimum width for free movement of cars, and the only limit they ran into in the calculations was the width of Long Island -- traffic would literally continue to expand in the model until the freeway's width approached that of the island, and which point it started to go down again (because there would be no room for houses then). Literally, the only way for free moving traffic was upwards of a couple hundred lanes. And that was without taking into consideration the connectors, i.e., where would all the cars go when they reach Manhattan.
That's the problem they're having with 520 bridge projections -- the only way to free up traffic on the bridge so overloads the Montlake connectors that traffic backs up again. All the fancy interchanges they're talking about here fail to take this into account; where do the cars go on the other end? Montlake, Pacific Street, and 25th Ave NE can't take them all. People who think a new bridge isn't going to be backed up with traffic are dreaming.
Good points, Fnarf. In fact, Seattle has more cars per person than most suburbs do.
But, unless RTID is seriously changed it's going to die a quick death from the voters - and the major death knell will be led by Seattle voters.
What most people don't grok is roads packages only pass because of the margin in Seattle - and if we turn it down it will die a quick death. Suburbanites say they want roads, but won't vote for them by massive margins, so without our support, no RTID will survive.
Everyone knows that who does polling.
Read my lips: double local transit in Seattle and stop trying to build roads we won't vote for. Or they die. And messily.
Fnarf, thanks for making that point clear - the usage of cars outpaces population, not the outpacing of highway expansion. Cool. Gotcha. Still though, the massive boom in people will only exponentialize the usage of cars one would think. Who knows?
Hey, do you like R.Crumb comix?
This image is pretty cool, it can be enlarged to read. http://renewnorthfield.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/03/Peak%20oil%20as%20seen%20by%20R.%20Crumb.jpg
-top panel reads my likely prediction
-middle panel feels like some transit cheerleaders
-third panel (am i too naive to hope?)
One of the benefits of the SB 5803 approach is that it gives planners congestion-tolling as an option. If there were costs associated with driving a SOV during peak periods on the bridges or I-5 in Seattle or I-405 in Bellevue, people would not do it. That would not only raise revenue, but decrease throughput needs of those highways. Let's get the right revenue raising tools in the hands of accountable officials who can prioritize and plan from a position of power. Now we have little fiefdoms throwing bloated wish-lists at voters and no one can say where the next tax hit would be coming from. Let's say this ST2 + RTID thing passes. Well, what additional taxes is the State going to impose to close the $3 billion shortfall? Cressona? Ben? Would the voters be given any say in those additional taxes? Would they be regressive or progressive? Obviously you RTID/ST2 supporters don't know.
Not only that, you don't even know what the bonding limits will be for either the RTID or ST2 sets of projects, because those details are being kept secret. If you don't know the price, you can't support a public project (unless it is on a faith-based basis).
Murray's letter is Exhibit A on why his regional government dream will never work. If the new government doesn't do exactly what legislator's want, they make big trouble and kill it.
And itsn't the purpose of a letter to make your position clear? Why would anybody write a
letter that needed so much explaining?
And just how does Murray plan to pay for the 520 bridge? Which is a state freeway?
Let's just vote this fall and move on. Murray can feel free to throw up roadblocks after that.
R. Crumb is interesting sometimes, but that comic is ridiculous. No one who's lived in an area of dirt roads would describe it as any kind of -topia. Think two seasons: dust, and mud. And of course his Ecotopia, like all utopias, presumes that 90% of the population dies off. It's every bit as unrealistic as a Thomas Kinkade painting.
Thanks for the response, I agree.
I truly enjoy realistic painting. It's good and bad that it gets both mocked and ignored by the contemporary scene. Have a nice weekend.
Sen. Ed Murray has publicly acknowledged that coupling RTID-ST2 and delaying the vote was a mistake. So decoupling it seems to make some sense. However, killing off the I-90 light rail (as part of the R8/A option) project doesn't seem to make sense. People on the Eastside WANT rail to get into Seattle, especially on weekends, when I-90 is terribly congested.
The RTID folks are trying to fund $62 billion of highway projects with $5 billion worth of money. Needless to say, they haven't much success.
It would be like someone in Seattle trying to finance one of the big new multimillion dollar condos with a part-time job. It's not going to happen. It's delusional.
The other delusion of the highway-oriented lobbyists like John Stanton is that you can build your way out of congestion. You cannot.
Out of curiousity, where will the
proposed I-90 ST Link meet up with the Central Link?
TIA for any and all replies.
Jensen- According to ST's docs, east link will connect to the line currently being built at the International Dist station, where it turn north on the existing track, providing a one-seat ride from the east side into downtown all the way north thru CapHill, UW, Roosevelt, Northgate on up to Lynnwood. They are adding a digital-age solution to an otherwise analog transportation grid. Check it out:
All of Senator Murray's points are valid on both RTID and ST2.
The RTID Blueprint for progress is terrible. The proposal comes from a government designed by Senators McDonald, Finkbinder, and Horn aimed at expanding the I-405 general-purpose capacity. They are out of office, yet their monster government lumbers on.
The RTID proposal have several fatal flaws. 1. It add four unpriced general-purpose lanes to I-405; that would induce more sprawl. 2. It would use one-tenth on the sales tax. That would be unfair (not related to use), inefficient (would not send a price signal to roadway users), and politically risky (the sales tax is already quite high). 3. They do not propose systemwide dynamic tolling and that should be a condition of support for large highway expansion. 4. If the SR-167 extension to the Port of Tacoma and the SR-509 extension to SeaTac are designed for freight movement, they should be tolled. If tolled, they could be smaller and less costly. 5. The cross base highway would lead to sprawl in east Pierce County. 6. There are more important transportation needs to fund that are not highway expansion. How much of the limited taxpayer capacity should be devoted to expansion when we do not have a way to pay for the long-term maintenance of I-5 in north Seattle or to fill the sidewalk deficit in all the communities developed after WWII? The RTID legislation requires that90 percent of the funds be spent on major highways. 7. We should not fund the fifth and sixth lanes of SR-520 without first funding the replacement four lanes.
ST2 is also flawed, though in more subtle ways.
n Pierce County, an extension of the Tacoma streetcar to both TCC and PLU would attract more ridership and support growth management better than the extension of Link LRT to Fife. Have you seen the anemic ridership forecasts for the south line in 2030? Another worthy Pierce project left off would be two-way all-day commuter rail between Tacoma and Seattle via the Green River Valley. This is funded by the Pierce and South King subareas. ST got burned by BNSF in phase one. It should ask the state and ports to help and bring UPRR into the discussions.
In South King County, the extension of Link LRT is a weak costly project. In phase one, Link LRT is deviated to MLK Jr. Way South for ridership. That deviation slows the line down and makes it ineffective as a regional transit spine. ST should give up that dream and invest in long-distance express bus and commuter rail. That would build more effectively on the phase one investments including BNSF capacity and the South 312th Street center access ramps. ST, RTID, and the state should work together to implement systemwide dynamic tolling of the limited access highways. The distance between Tacoma and Seattle is great and better suited for express bus and commuter rail than for LRT.
Murray may have been referring to Representative Jarrett, R-41st. He is skeptical about Link LRT on I-90. There are probably others.
ST2 has studies east Link LRT enough to learn that they cannot afford it all the way to downtown Redmond even without considering the tunnel question in downtown Bellevue. The ridership forecasts are modest.
ST is suggesting a nine-minute headway (minutes between trains) on East Link LRT in 2030. The central Link LRT between downtown Seattle and Northgate would have three minute headway. Does using the entire center roadway of I-90 for one train in each direction every nine minutes pass the laugh test? That would leave a lot of empty space.
Link LRT would be a wonderful transit system. But Murray fears are probably correct: it would not be the best use of scarce ST2 funds or I-90 space.
Instead, ST2 should implement R8A on I-90 and improve bus flow in both directions. All the lanes on both I-90 and SR-520 and other limited-access highways should become HOT lanes. the ST2 East King County funds not spent on LRT should be spent improving the several East King County bus lines to BRT service frequency. they are on SR-522, SR-520, and I-90. A center access ramp could be provided at Issaquah. Diesel LRT could be built along side the trail in the dinner train track between Renton and Woodinville via Bellevue, Overlake Hospital, Kirkland, and Totem Lake. an elevated wye could connect the line with the Bellevue Transit Center.
Senator Murray is also correct about north Link LRT: it is the best transit project on the table. South-first Link LRT was a tradgic mistake of the ST Board in 2001, as they feared for their existance.
Note that the three Snohomish County reps on the ST board voted no on the package out for review.
Why did the two boards not work more closely together to alter each others' projects? They are simultaneous but not integrated.
Yes, the East Link LRT line would join the north-south line at International District station.
The center roadway of I-90 would be used for LRT and HOV lanes restriped on the outside. LRT would also use the D-2 ramps between I-90 and downtown Seattle. If WSDOT does not allow joint bus-rail operation on the D-2 ramps, buses would be forced to use the congested general-purpose interchange at 4th Avenue South. This combination would degrade the trips of bus routes serving Eastgate, Issaquah, Sammamish, Issaquah Highland, and north Renton. The two-plus HOV lanes will slow and probably face a bottlenect in Seattle.
The one-seat ride on Link LRT between the U District and Bellevue would not be as fast as the bus today via SR-520, nor in the future, if either it is tolled or has HOV lanes.
All these commentators saying Sen. Murray is out to "kill" Sound Transit probably are being paid by ST, or work for an ST contractor. The letter actually has two main themes. The tax package is unfairly weighted toward sales taxes, and the combined measure leaves the SR 520 project short of funds. If the public's capacity to pay taxes gets tapped out in November, the legislature can't do what it would need to for the SR 520 work.
This region deserves a more progressive funding package and more prioritization between these major project proposals. Now you just have greedy proponents of different projects trying to claim maximum taxes, no matter the impact on people or any other projects. Sen. Murray is serving his constituents very well by this letter.
appalled at the avarice: All these commentators saying Sen. Murray is out to "kill" Sound Transit probably are being paid by ST, or work for an ST contractor.
Sorry to burst your bubble, "appalled," but you'll be appalled to know that I have no professional interest whatsoever in Sound Transit (work in a completely different field), and neither do most of the names I recognize on this thread.
eddiew: ST is suggesting a nine-minute headway (minutes between trains) on East Link LRT in 2030. The central Link LRT between downtown Seattle and Northgate would have three minute headway. Does using the entire center roadway of I-90 for one train in each direction every nine minutes pass the laugh test? That would leave a lot of empty space.
Wow, this is the first I'm hearing about nine-minute headways on East Link. Eddiew, can you provide a link anywhere to corroborate that? Can anyone else corroborate that? Because I'll tell you, if that's true, that really, really sucks.
The only such limitation I'm aware of with Sound Transit light rail is that Central Link cannot do better than six-minute headways on account of going at-grade through the Rainier Valley and having to rely on the synchronized lights.
Cressona @42,
I doubt the nine-minute headway is on their web site.
The 2030 Link LRT operating plan was described as having three overlapping lines each with nine-minute headway: Lynnwood to Overlake; Lynnwood to South Henderson Street; and, Northgate to Fife. There would be a combined even three minute headway between Northgate and the International District station. Between Northgate and Lynnwood, the headway would not be even, but three and six minutes. That same uneven headway would be provided between IDS and South Henderston Street. The east line and the south line south of Seattle would each have nine-minute headway.
ST transit has long discussed having the north line trips split at IDS with half its trips going east and half south.
The east and south lines will cost a bundle, about $200 million a mile? Their ridership is relatively modest. Building new transit rights-of-way is quite costly and faces diminishing marginal utility, as there are fewer and fewer transit riders to attract outside the pedestrian-oriented urban centers.
Cressona @2,
Consider the following East King County ST2 package without Link LRT. It would be stronger. It could be implemented much faster and would attract more transit ridership.
1. After King County acquires the BNSFRR Woodinville subdivision, ST2 could provide diesel LRT between Renton and Woodinville via Bellevue, Overlake Hospital, Kirkland, and Totem Lake. An elevated wye would connect the line with the Bellevue Transit Center via NE 6th Street. There would have to enough double track for 15-minute headway service, but not complete double tracking. The existing track is in poor shape, so it would reqire significant work. Freight and the dinner train service could continue. stations could be modest. There would have to be a signal system upgrade. stations could be built at Renton, Kennydale, Port Quendall, Newport, SE 8th Street, Bellevue Transit Center, Overlake Hospital, South Kirkland, NE 68th Street, Central Way, Totem Lake, NE 145th Street for the wineries, and in Woodinville. Diesel LRT is common in Europe and is in Ottawa and NJ. the Colorado car could be used. The ST regional express routes on I-405 serve a different long distance market than the diesel LRT would serve. The latter would serve an intra East King County market and not a cross subarea or county market. We should take advantage of the available right of way. The I-90 center roadway can be reconfigured at a relatively low cost to move buses faster and more reliably without the high capital cost of Link LRT.
2. ST regional express bus routes 522, 545, 550, and 554 could be elevated to BRT with improved service frequency, fare collection, and additional priority. They would not require the full grade separation that ST2 studied; they were sham options designed to fail. The ST Board is too interested in reliability. Instead, ST should work with RTID and WSDOT to implement regional dynamic tolling. Long distance buses should use HOT lanes. Both SR-520 and I-90 should be all HOT. Two additional East King County BRT routes could be considered: between Woodinville and Seattle via Bellevue; and, between Renton and Seattle. A bus-based system could be implemented in a few years. The constraints are buses and a base. The Link LRT line would not open until 2020 or 2022. with a bus based East King County system, the Metro routes serving Eastgate, Issaquah, Sammamish, Issaquah Highlands, and north Renton would not be kicked off the I-90 center roadway and the D-2 roadway at the west end of I-90. If north Link LRT headways remained long enough, some bus routes could remain in the downtown Seattle bus tunnel under joint operation.
Under the Link LRT option, ST Route 550 is improved, but several other I-90 routes that carry more total riders are degraded by getting kicked off the center roadway and the D-2 roadway.
3. The RTID, WSDOT, and ST could help bus flow. HOT lanes is one step. additional center access ramps is another. on I-90 at Issaquah seems like a good place. on SR-520 at 108th Avenue NE is another. If SR-520 is not all HOT and its HOV lanes are shifted to the inside, a center access ramp should be provided in Overlake. WSDOT will soon build a braided ramp between NE 10th Street in Bellevue and SR-520 to and from the east. This will allow a fast bus connection between downtown Bellevue and Overlake without requiring the freeway-to-freeway ramps that bust the bank.
4. if the East King County ST2 funds are spread out, they will serve more markets and not just Bellevue. Bothell, Kirkland, Totem Lake, Redmond, Bellevue, Issaquah, Eastgate, and Issaquah Highlands would all get improved service
North Link LRT is the rail project to implement as fast as possible. This is one of Murray's points.
"The tax package is unfairly weighted toward sales taxes, and the combined measure leaves the SR 520 project short of funds. If the public's capacity to pay taxes gets tapped out in November, the legislature can't do what it would need to for the SR 520 work."
It's "unfairly" weighted that way, because the legislature made it so. You should be appalled, appalled. You're running in circles with your criticisms.
Taking ST's light rail money, and dropping it in to the 520 money-pit also won't fly too well with Ed Murray's constituents.
You are SO in favor of this. So sell me on it. I'm a manager at Microsoft (in Redmond). What does RTID and ST2 give ME?
Rich East
....and I live in Kent, and usually drive to work.
An honest question to Ed Murray. If 520 is so important, why didn't you fund it in 2003 or 2005 when you raised the gas tax? We knew about the problems with this bridge back then.
You funded 200 different road projects in King County alone in 2003 and 2005. And you say that local officials are spreading things too thin.
So somebody tell me why the House Transportation Chair who represents the district where 520 cuts through, can't find the money to fund 520 and now expects local governments in KC to bail him out?
I think we need state transportation governance reform.
If the ballots are decoupled, I plan to vote note to RTID and abstain from voting on ST. However, if they aren't decoupled, then it'll be a no vote for both. I am willing to sacrifice rail to spite roads.
Rail won't reduce congestion, because of, as people have mentioned, latent demand. However, user charges on roads will reduce demand. Additionally, user charges prevent congestion (which expanding the roads doesn't) andmore importantlyactually earns money for the state, instead of costing it money.
Any new freeway will create sprawl, which is why bypass highways don't work.
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Coeurs De Palmier En Vinaigrette (Marinated Hearts of Palm)
Total Time
2hrs 5mins
Prep 5 mins
Cook 2 hrs
Veganized from a old family recipe. It's a really yummy and creamy appetizer. Cooking time is chilling time.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 2 green onions, minced
- 1 tablespoon celery leaves, chopped
- 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
- 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
- 6 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 tablespoons soy mayonnaise
- 1 tablespoon dried parsley
- 1 pinch dried thyme
- salt and pepper
- 1 (398 ml) can hearts of palm
- Mix all the ingredient except for the hearts of palm together in a bowl.
- Slice the hearts of palm into coins. Add to the vinaigrette.
- Chill in the fridge for at least 2 hours before serving.
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This was really very good. The dressing is tangy and a perfect complement for the hearts of palm.
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With the controversy between Ray J and Fabolous still the talk of the town, some footage of Fabolous' performance after the "fight" with Brandy's brother has surfaced. The saga has now taken a twist, as it looks like Fab has a knot on the side of his head. In earlier interviews, Fab ensured that he was not injured at all and that Ray did not swing on him. See for yourself.
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Let parents decide if teen is dead
By Robert Veatch | 1/2/2014, 4:07 p.m.
Why, then, does American law continue to force one standard of death on Jahi's parents and others who have plausible alternative definitions? Once one realizes that the choice among the options is not a cut-and-dried matter of medical science, why not let people have some choice based on their personal religious and cultural views?
This is a "conscience-based" approach to defining death. We need to have a default public policy -- the brain-based definition currently in law -- but people like Jahi's parents should have the option to record their conscientiously held positions and allow pronouncements of death to be based on those beliefs. That's the law in New Jersey and Japan. That would mean Jahi could be classified as alive if that is what her parents choose.
That, of course, doesn't end the controversy. Just like it is not illegal to provide medical support for dead people, it is not necessarily illegal to stop life-support on someone who is still alive. We do that every day, particularly for those who are permanently unconscious.
The trouble arises when physicians want to stop life-support, perhaps because they believe the case is hopeless, and the patient or family insist that life support continue. We call this the "futile care problem." I defended in court the mother of a severely brain-damaged baby referred to as Baby K who wanted life support to continue even though her doctors wanted to stop. Society should show sympathy for mothers who want their children to be kept alive.
If preserving life requires high-tech support like a ventilator, doctors are the ones who should provide it. The costs shouldn't be borne by the hospital. The health insurance company or Medicaid shouldn't pay. But if the family can raise the funds, like Jahi's parents are doing, and the patient is beyond feeling pain, no harm is done by continuing, especially if they can find a facility willing to take the case.
Whether this right to medical support should extend to those considered dead by one standard, but alive by another is the question we face with Jahi McMath. If the patient does not suffer, and private funding is available, people should have the right to make this decision for their loved ones.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Robert Veatch.
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Create a cool computer input device with a piezo sensor, Arduino, and the Processing language.
This fun and easy project shows you how to create a simple input device with little more than a cheap piezo sensor, an old mousepad, and an Arduino board. Using household supplies and a few passive electrical components, you can create a basic physical-computing game input device for your Arduino.
Cut the traced circle out. You should now have a circular piece of mousepad. This will become our drumpad.
Using this simple-to-construct piece of hardware, you can create a cool input device that will allow you to control all sorts of fun software you can create, from a drum-practice application to drum-beat-controlled video games. If you do code any apps for this project, please tell us about them in this project's Notes.
For more beginner's information about Arduino and Processing, check out Getting Started with Arduino and Getting Started with Processing.
Also, take a look at our bi-weekly Codebox column (about using Processing) on Make: Online.
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Madoka Movie Madoka Figure
- Categories: Anime Figures, News
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- Tags: Good Smile, Kaname Madoka, Mahou Shoujo, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, PVC
Madoka receives another figure by Good Smile Company based on Aoki Ume's illustration for the 2012 movies, which has been faithfully rendered into PVC. The figure will be released in January 2014.
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I just got badly April Fool'd by Rudy...
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Thanks! Got it from someone on another forum. These guys make awesome sigs.
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Rangers losing again, feels awesome to not watch them and not to give a flying ****.
from watching the pathetic yankees to now watching the pathetic rangers. hopefully it won't be followed up by giants being pathetic.
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This template comes with few Basic Options to help you further customize your Joomla website. Choose from how you want to display your logo to what type of fonts you want on the website.
Module Styles and Positions
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Philosophy (Philosophy and Economics)
Master of Arts (MA) in Philosophy (Philosophy and Economics)
Get a solid analytical and critical grasp of new views. Be part of an advanced discussion in the philosophy, methodology, history and culture of economics, and go on to a research or academic career.
Why do economists often fail to predict? Are there moral limits to markets? What, if anything, is wrong with the conception of rationality in economics? What are good accounts of the evolution of cooperation and morality?
The Research Master in Philosophy and Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam is unique in studying all aspects of the philosophy of economics. It is an intensive two-year programme, where you can profit from a truly interdisciplinary environment. This programme is part of the world's leading research institute Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics (EIPE).
Why study a Research Master in Philosophy (Philosophy and Economics) in Rotterdam?
- An intensive programme taught by international experts.
- A unique and exciting interdisciplinary research focus.
- An emphasis on your academic development, particularly research and publishing.
- An internationally recognised MA and access to an academic career.
- The internationally renowned Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics (EIPE).
Career opportunities
The programme prepares you for the following:
- Further research leading to a PhD, at Erasmus University or elsewhere.
- A junior research position within an academic programme in philosophy and economics.
Graduate destinations
- Graduates are well equipped to pursue PhDs in philosophy of economics, philosophy, economics, and social science
- Graduate destinations include programmes at the London School of Economics (LSE), University of Toronto, University of British Columbia, Tilburg, Nottingham, and other leading research universities.
Education objectives
The Research Master Philosophy and Economics aims to prepare students for an academic career in the area of philosophy and economics. It provides a thorough grounding in the main areas of the philosophy of economics. You will be able to understand and critique complex texts, conduct independent interdisciplinary research projects and present your work in a clear manner.
The programme comprises two years of study (120 EC) in analytic philosophy. The curriculum comprises ten courses altogether: seven so-called core courses in philosophy of economics and three courses in the fields of philosophy of science, ethics, history of philosophy or philosophical anthropology. You finish the programme by writing a thesis and a Ph.D. research proposal.
Read more about: Curriculum Research Master in Philosophy (Philosophy and Economics)
Mode of education
You will follow seminars where teachers engage in a direct exchange of ideas with students and give immediate feedback on their class participation and written assignments. You actively participate in the bi-weekly Ph.D-seminars. All students are appointed an academic advisor to discuss their plans and performance in the programme on a regular basis.
Target audience
Highly motivated students in philosophy, economics, PPE or closely related programmes with grade average in the top quintile.
Admission criteria
- A Bachelor/Master in Economics, or Philosophy, Philosophy and Economics, or related programmes
- A grade for the BA thesis equivalent to at least 8 in the Dutch grading system
- An average grade in the BA equivalent to at least 8 in the Dutch grading system
- A successful proficiency test of English
- A detailed letter of intent
- A writing sample in philosophy or economics
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Easy money
- Get all your resources to +2000 an hour and wait.
- Sell your spare resources for gold.
- Raid to get more and resources.
- Use the tax system to your advantage. Set it to 100% while online and 50% while offline. Then, change it to 0% when you come back. When loyalty increases to 100% change the tax to 100%. Stay online and change it to 50% again.
- To get easy money, get started immediately on lumber. Lumber is one of the most common high priced resources. It constantly goes up and down. It is possible to make over a million gold by selling lumber off every other day. Build your lumber yards swiftly. Get them to the highest first. Try building about eight of them immediately when you can. Build up to a maximum of four and level them as high as you possible. It increases your amount to hold in lumber and the amount you can generate per hour. After you build up that, try iron then stone. Do not about food unless you are building your army. You will then need the food just to keep troops. Iron and lumber usually are the most highly priced. Keep working on those and then you will be on your way to make more money.
- Make only one type of resource, and make it extremely well, then trade in the market for all other resources, including gold. To do this, first, follow the quests as far as they go for improving fields. That is easy money, at first. Build at least a level 3 market. Get a feasting hall and an inn. The goal with these is to get a hero with level 60 or above in Politics. Refresh the hero in the inn as much as you can to try to get one. If that does not work, when feasible you can hire a hero and fire them to get refreshes at the inn. Get a level 60 Politics Hero. This improves production. Build only lumber mills, one after another. Do not waste time building quarries, farms, or iron mines. Research wood production (milling). Research one after another. Do not research quarrying, mining, or farming. When you have armies, take over as many high level forests as you can in your area. Do not take over grasslands, swamps, etc. Trade lumber for other resources. By doing this, you save 75% of the money you would have spent on researching or enhancing other production.
Easy prestige
Build one warrior. One warrior will earn you one prestige. You can do this multiple times and keep getting one prestige. This takes some time, but works.
Select plunders in cities where you can calculate the loss up against the resources and gold you plunder. If the city is a good fortress, look for another. Troops are able to carry a lot of your plunder back home. Bring workers if you do not have transporters.
Taking over a city
Scout a city. Your opponent might have fortified units. Make sure to have enough troops. Do not attack with all your men. You could easily end up been attacked by your opponent or someone from his alliance. Make sure to be strong. Calculate with "waves" of Footmen (excluding archers). The initial waves are used to destroy traps. The next wave is your footmen (still excluding archers) and cavalry. It will be a suicide action again, but you want to make sure that all traps are destroyed. You should be looking at a city with very pathetic defense. Send in your main attack force, including archers, cataphract and mechanics. Make sure to have two to four heroes ready with good armies. You can attack with your scouts/cavalry only to get the loyalty down to zero to take over the city as fast as possible.


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Rich Sturges, Sr. installed as Verger at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Columbia, Tennessee
Bill Stowell, the VGEC 1,000th Active Member at St. George's Church in Middlebury, CT
Richard Lammlin, St. John's Episcopal Chuch, Essex, CT
stallation of Sandy Salser 12/12/10 by Margaret Johnson
Philadelphia Cathedral
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Bob Mikrut Installation - Philadelphia Cathedra - November 2010
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Cathedral Church of St John the Divine - New York City
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Frederick Pollard
St Pauls Episcopal Church - Millis Massachusetts
23 August 1992
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Ordice Gallups
Cathedral Church of the Advent - Birmingham Alabama
9 June 1991
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Christ Episcopal Church - Overland Park Kansas
20 April 1997
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Raymond Newton
St Francis Episcopal Church - Pelham Alabama
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Saint Paul's Cathedral, Detroit Michigan
13 June 1993
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Timothy Webb
Trinity Episcopal Church, Anderson Indiana
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St Matthais Episcopal Church, Nashville Tennessee
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St Peters Episcopal Church - San Pedro California
23 June 1991
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Christ Church Cathedral - Louisville Kentucky
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St Paul's Cathedral - San Diego California
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Grace Church - Paducah Kentucky
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Christ & St Luke Church - Norfolk Virginia
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St Paul's Cathedral - San Diego California
5 September 1993
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Church of the Resurrection, Surfside Beach South Carolina
26 May 1996
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Judge David Johnson enjoyed visiting Red Hill, but he wouldn't want to live there. Too much murdering.
Editor's Note
Our review of Red Hill, published January 26th, 2011, is also available.
The Charge
Revenge just rode into town.
Opening Statement
The Aussies bring it with this bad-ass modern Western.
Facts of the Case
It's the first day on the job for Constable Shane Cooper (Ryan Kwanten, True Blood) on his new beat: the middle-of-nowhere town of Red Hill. Right away he feels like a stranger in a strange land, ostracized by his peers, looked down upon by his boss and riding a horse to investigate possible panther attacks.
Things get interesting quickly however, when it's learned that Jimmy Conway (Tom Lewis), a man serving time for the murder of his wife, has escaped. Jimmy's got a bone to pick with the dudes of Red Hill and he rolls into town with violence on his mind, trapping Cooper in the crossfire.
The Evidence
Sometimes you just have a feeling about a movie. When this disc showed up on the product review list, I swiped a glance at the cover art, learned that it was a violent crime thriller made in Australia, and leapt at the opportunity to take it for a spin.
My instincts served me well; Red Hill is a taut, vicious piece of filmmaking that surprises and excites from the second our hapless hero sets foot in the sleepy hamlet to the culminating moments when he realizes the full potential of his balls.
Kwanten is the engine that drives this misadventure, and he's terrific. In many ways, his performance reminds me of Ethan Hawke's in Training Day, from the restless idealism to his deference to authority to his cute, pregnant wife. His arc is similar, as he navigates the violence to get to a truth that, frankly, we're all suspecting, though the details manage to still be jarring. Then he cowboys up and that is big fun.
If Kwanten is the heart and soul of Red Hill, Lewis's Jimmy Conway is the clenched fist beating on you until your windpipe collapses. He's a marvelous construction, an unstoppable killing machine hiding a secret that adds another angle to his homicide; he's like the Terminator crossed with Jason Seaver.
The film doesn't take long to get rolling either. The tone is set early on as Cooper struggles to get in the good graces of his superior (Steve Bisley) and shortly after Jimmy's escape is announced and all hell breaks loose. Unfortunately, as engaging a character as Cooper is, he's sort of a dolt early on, refusing to ask simple questions like "Why aren't we calling back-up?" and "Why is everyone so freaked about this guy?" and "Why is the Chief giving high-powered scope rifles to civilians and ordering them to shoot to kill?" That information would have been handy and saved Cooper much heartache and grief later on. This manufactured tension short circuits some of the coolness of the finished product.
But you'll get past it, as I did. I am nearly certain you'll get sucked into the expertly staged Jimmy attacks, shot as if he were a slasher in a horror film; the roll-out of the central mystery's resolution; the metamorphosis of Cooper into Clint Eastwood and a fantastic surprise appearance by a panther.
Sony's Blu-ray is lean, but technically proficient. The 2.40:1 transfer is a looker, and director Patrick Hughes summons up some stunning Australian vistas to blast out to your TV. Picture quality can be grainy, but that's stylistic and the grittiness helps foster the tone. A hugely active 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio track works the throwback Western soundtrack nicely and the sound effects are expertly mapped to the discrete channels, producing a truly enveloping experience. No extras though.
Closing Statement
A few logical gaffes should not deter you from a rip-roaring trip down under. The Blu-ray is sadly as barren as the outback.
The Verdict
Not Guilty.
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"Tucson, AZ.....Indian Casinos Galore" Tucson by sargentjeff
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I was stationed at Ft. Huachuca a couple times, and if you've been there, you know that Tucson is the closest piece of civilization you can find around. It was about an 80 mile drive, but well worth the time. I have been to Tucson several times, and actually, the nightlife here is pretty good. Shopping at the malls is nice, as they are big, modern, and full of great stores. Old town Tucson is cool to visit, but what I remember the most are the thousands of Saguaro Cacti in the surrounding hills. The University of Arizona is in Tucson, so it's a definite college town. You can see
The area is very hot in the Summer, and I have driven from here back to Sierra Vista (home of Ft. Huachuca) in winter when it snowed. Odd, but it happens.
The area is also home to several indian reservations, which operate casinos, as the US law allows them to do this. Kind of a "We're sorry for pushin' you guys around. Now you can open some casinos and rip of all the pale face customers."
Tucson sits in a valley next to the Catalina mountains, which provide stunning views, and beautiful sunsets. Arizona sunsets and lightning storms are some of the prettiest I've ever seen. The red desert floor really makes a nice setting for the green cacti and the mountains.
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The process of buying a new Volkswagen car or truck can seem overwhelming if you don't know where to begin. Edmunds.com can get you started on the right track with a convenient directory of Volkswagen car dealerships in and around Enfield, Connecticut. Compare online price quotes on the new or used car, truck, SUV, minivan, or wagon of your choice to locate the best deals. Edmunds.com makes it easy to find trusted Volkswagen car dealers in Enfield, saving car buyers time and money on what will be an important purchase.
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text: FILE - In this Sept. 7, 2013, file photo, Florida defensive lineman Dominique Easley warms up for an NCAA football game against Miami in Miami Gardens, Fla. Coach Will Muschamp says Easley "tweaked" his right knee during a non-contact drill in practice on Tuesday. Easley, however, indicated on his Twitter page Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013, that he's done for the year. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz, File)


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Space Invaders Extreme (Xbox 360)
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Stage mode
Complete a stage in Arcade mode under Normal setting to unlock it at the "Extra" menu. You can then replay that stage as desired.
Endless mode
Complete the game in Arcade mode and all five stages in Stage mode. There are no Bosses in this mode, with the stages cycling endlessly.
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Extra mode
Successfully complete Arcade mode. Extra mode will be available after Arcade mode is selected again. It features a higher difficulty.
Walkthrough (DS)
Complete the following achievements to unlock Xbox Live Gamerscore points.
- Sure Shot (10 points): Defeated a wave of invaders without missing a shot.
- Combo Meal (10 points): Destroyed at least 21 invaders in a row.
- Goliath Killer (10 points): Defeated the first Boss Invader.
- First Taste of Victory (10 points): Won an online match for the first time.
- Lieutenant Rank A (10 points): Achieved Rank A at the end of a level.
- Lone Wolf Victory (15 points): Completed the game in Arcade Mode.
- Hot Streak (15 points): Triggered at least 4 rounds of Fever Time.
- Space Invader Veteran (20 points): Won 25 online matches in VS Mode.
- Team Victory (20 points): Completed the game in Co-op Arcade mode.
- Hero of Nagoya (25 points): Achieved 1 ROW using the Nagoya Attack technique.
- Space Commander Rank S (25 points): Achieved Rank S 3 times.
- Take That! (30 points): Defeated a Boss Invader without missing a shot.


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Released: Mar 01st, 2006
Running Time: 83
Company: Hustler Video
Cast: Celeste Star, Alicia Alighatti, Bree (I), Courtney Simpson, Eva Angelina, Sandra Shine, Lee Stone, Reno, Kurt Lockwood
Critical Rating: AAA
Genre: All-Sex
Dance on Fire is a series of five different fantasies - like the suit who gets to bang his hot co-worker or the carpenter that gets a surprise visit by a hottie in daisy dukes who wants to help measure his wood. They're quick, professional scenes that definitely get the job done.
Alicia Alighatti plays the hot co-worker. She gives a wide-eyed Reno good reason to clear off his desk and dump a load on her ass. Courtney Simpson gets Kurt Lockwood to put down the measuring tape and bang her in the workshop. Celeste Star and Sandra Shine finish things off with some decent pussy licking.
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A car crash happens so quickly, but the pain can last forever, especially when it's the pain of losing a child. Last April, 5-year-old Jason Santamaria went for a drive with his Aunt Florencia. Based on Jason's size and weight, the safest place for him to ride was in a car seat or booster seat in the back seat of the car.
As many as 262,300 children are treated in ERs for toy-related injuries every year.
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Are you looking to get your kids away from the TV and outdoors for real fun and exercise? The TT-320 Gym Dandy Pendulum Teeter Totter is equipped with a unique and patented dual pendulum rocking motion that is safer than traditional Teeter Totters. Rubber shock absorbers under each seat cushion minimize the impact to the back and neck. Rubber encased handle bars minimize head injuries caused by accidents. Feel secure knowing that this product comes with a locking safety mechanism that secures it in place when adults are not around to supervise.
Features a unique pendulum rocking motion and elongated soft molded seats for even weight distribution
Bump absorbers under the seats reduce impact
Safety cable lock prevents unsupervised use
Also has an open suspended design, soft rubber-coated handles and a durable powder-coated finish
Manufacturer's Suggested Age: 4 Years and Up
Number of Players: 2 Players
Material: steel
Frame Material: Steel
Surface Treatment Finish: Powder-coated
Protective Qualities: Weather-resistant
Maximum Weight Capacity: 300.000
Dimensions: 41.000 H x 34.000 W x 101.000 L
Care and Cleaning: Wipe Clean with a Damp Cloth
Battery: no battery used:
Assembly Details: assembly required
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Topic: Lance Armstrong
Lance Armstrong and Oscar Pistorius Get (Fake) Tiger Woods-Style Nike 'Winning' Ads
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Here's a rundown of some late-breaking news before today's games.
Titans at Vikings: Kevin Carter will start at defensive end and Rien Long at defensive tackle for the Titans. Wide receiver Randy Moss will be announced in the starting lineup for the Vikings. It's unclear how much he'll play, but he will play. Linebacker Chris Claiborne is out.
Eagles at Browns: Linebacker Mark Simoneau and Jerome McDougle are out for the Eagles. Wide receiver Andre' Davis is inactive for the Browns. William Green starts again at running back.
Jaguars at Colts: Quarterback Byron Leftwich will start for the Jaguars. Nothing major for the Colts.
Rams at Dolphins: Jeff Wilkins will kick and running back Arlen Harris is out for the Rams. Safety Antuan Edwards and running back Leonard Henry are inactive for the Dolphins. Arturo Freeman starts at free safety.
Lions at Giants: Lions wide receiver will play, but fellow receiver Az-Zahir Hakim is out with an ankle injury. Cornerback Fernando Bryant is out. Giants linebacker Barrett Green will not start, but will play and see action on special teams.
Falcons at Chiefs: Defensive tackle Rod Coleman is out, cornerback Aaron Beasley is out and safety Cory Hall are out for the Falcons. Kansas City's Larry Johnson is out at running back, and William Bartee will start at cornerback for Dexter McCleon. Defensive tackle Ryan Sims is active.
Chargers at Panthers: Wide receiver Bobby Shaw is inactive, but Keenan McCardell will play for the Chargers. Running back Stephen Davis is out for the Panthers. Colin Branch is active but will not start at safety.
Bills at Ravens: Offensive linemen Trey Teague and Jonas Jennings are both inactive for the Bills. Chester Taylor will start at running back for the Ravens.
Bears at Bucs: Safety Bobby Gray, cornerback Charles Tillman and defensive end Adewale Ogunleye are all inactive. Bucs wide receivers Joey Galloway and Charles Lee are out. Joe Jurevicius will start at receiver.
Cowboys at Packers: Nothing major for the Cowboys. Defensive tackle Grady Jackson is back for Green Bay.
Jets at Patriots: No major surprises for the Jets. Wide receivers Deion Branch and Troy Brown are still out for the Patriots.
Saints at Raiders: Cornerback Ashley Ambrose and defensive end Darren Howard are out for the Saints. Running backs Tyrone Wheatley and Justin Fargas, guard Ron Stone and linebacker Travian Smith are all out for the Raiders.
Seahawks at Cardinals: Linebacker Brian Simmons is out for the Seahawks. Nothing unexpected for the Cards.
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Penang Hill Railway
|Penang Hill Railway
The Doppelmayr Garaventa 100-FUL Penang Hill coach at lower station.
|Penang Hill, Penang, Malaysia
|October 21, 1923
|Penang Hill Corporation (Perbadanan Bukit Bendera Pulau Pinang)
|Rolling stock
|2 coaches of Doppelmayr Garaventa 100-FUL Penang Hill
|Track length
|1,996 metres (6,549 ft)
|Track gauge
|1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in)
The Penang Hill Railway is a one section funicular railway which climbs the Penang Hill from Air Itam, near George Town on the island of Penang in Malaysia. The railway first opened in 1923 as a two-section railway, and the system was overhauled in 2010. The total journey time can take between five and twenty minutes.[1][2] The funicular train coach travels directly from the lower station to the top, but may stop at other intermediate stations upon request.[3]
The Penang Hill Railway was constructed for the British colonists to enjoy the cooler air of the Penang Hill.[4] The first attempt at a mountain railway on Penang Hill began with a proposal by three British residents, D. Logan, Joseph Heim and Alan Wilson and the formation of a private company in 1897, with funding from the colonial administration.[5][6] The first attempt was to use steam engines and not funicular, and it proved to be a failure. The line was constructed between 1901 and 1905, but did not work due to technical faults.[7]
The Straits government then organized a new project in 1909.[7] The Penang Hills Funicular Railway was designed by Arnold R Johnson, an engineer with the Federated Malay States Railways, based on a Swiss design. Construction of the second railway cost 1.5 million Straits dollars, and the 2,007m long funicular railway was informally opened on October 21, 1923 and it commenced operation.[8] After a successful trial period, on 1 January 1924, the railway was officially opened by the then Governor of Straits Settlement, Sir L.N. Guillemard.[7] In its first year of operation it carried 35,201 passengers and made 4,021 trips.[9] The Penang Municipality, George Town managed and maintained the railway from its opening until February 1, 1977, when it was taken over by the Penang state Government.[10]
Until 2010, the Penang Hills Funicular Railway had two independent sections due to the difference in gradient between the lower and upper section, and passengers were required to change train in the middle station. The upper and lower sections each had two counterbalanced 40-passenger cars, and each section had a passing loop in the middle and intermediate stops.[3] The cars were pulled by steel cable electrically driven with 500 volts power. The railway has a tunnel which measures 258 feet long and is the steepest tunnel in the world.[10] It took 30 minutes to go up the hill on the funicular service with a change of train in the middle station.[11]
1977 upgrade[edit]
The first carriages were wooden with defined first and second class compartments in each one. The four carriages were in use on the railway for over 50 years until they were retired in 1977 and replaced with the red carriages which had fans and automatic sliding doors. Each of the red Swiss-made carriages can hold up to 80 people, mostly standing.[12] They were in use for over 30 years until 2010.
2010 overhaul[edit]
After a series of breakdowns, the idea of a complete overhaul of the system with a new funicular railway was mooted. On 22 February 2010, the 87-year-old funicular railway was closed for an upgrade to a new system at a cost of RM63 million.[13][14] New tracks were laid, and new cars purchased to increase the passenger capacity and the speed of the train.[15] A new base station and a public carpark was also constructed.[16] The timber from the old railway track was re-used in the construction of a new four-storey Penang Hill Visitor Centre at the top.[17]
The new train and railway, unlike the railway before 2010, does not require passengers to change trains halfway up. Passengers can have non-stop service in the new blue and white, air-conditioned Swiss-made cars which is capable of ferrying up to 100 passengers at one go.[18][19] The funicular train maximum working load has been set at 7,500 kg.[20] It can carry 1,000 passengers per hour compared to 250 under the old system.[14]
On April 25, 2011, the new railway system resumed its service, although initially there were a number of technical hitches which caused the service to be temporarily suspended.[21] The train service runs from 6.30am to 9pm daily, and the new car can reach the top in as little as five minutes.[1][22]
Visitors can enter the funicular railway at the Lower Station at Air Itam, and the final stop of the ride is the Upper Station at the top of Penang Hill. There are a number of stations along the railway between the Upper and Lower stations - the Middle Station, as well as the Claremont, Moniot Road, Viaduct, and the Lower and Upper Tunnel stations. Since the 2010 upgrade, the train normally proceeds directly to the top without stopping at the Middle Station. It is however possible to stop at some of the intermediate stations by arrangement with the driver.[23]
The Upper Station has been upgraded with the construction of an extended viewing platform named Skywalk, an elevated walkway leading to a food court, as well as a lift, a cafe and a museum gallery.[24][25] The Lower Station at Air Itam has been improved with a new building with retractable roof and a new multi-storey car park for visitors travelling by car.[26] Visitors can also reach the station on the 204 Rapid Penang bus from George Town, Penang.
Fares & tickets[edit]
For Malaysian citizens, the fare for a return ticket is RM10 per adult and RM4 per child aged between three and 12. Senior citizens will enjoy cheaper fares at RM4 per person. For non-Malaysian the fare is RM30 for adults and RM15 for children.[27]
The ride continues to remain free of charge for disabled persons holding the OKU card.
Also unchanged are the fares for Penang Hill residents, licensed traders and hawkers and workers, who can purchase monthly season pass at RM24.
Technical parameters[edit]
Before 2010, the lower section of the funicular has the following technical parameters:[28]
- Length: 907 metres (2,976 ft)
- Height: 319 metres (1,047 ft)
- Maximum Steepness: 50.5%
- Cars: 2
- Capacity: 80 passengers per car
- Configuration: Single track with passing loop
- Journey time: 11 minutes
- Maximum speed: 1.4 metres per second (4.6 ft/s)
- Track gauge: 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in)
- Traction: Electricity
The upper section of the funicular has the following technical parameters:[29]
- Length: 1,313 metres (4,308 ft)
- Height: 367 metres (1,204 ft)
- Maximum Steepness: 51.3%
- Cars: 2
- Capacity: 80 passengers per car
- Configuration: Single track with passing loop
- Journey time: 13 minutes
- Maximum speed: 1.8 metres per second (5.9 ft/s)
- Track gauge: 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in)
- Traction: Electricity
After 2010[edit]
- Length: 1,996 metres (6,549 ft)
- Height: 691.4 metres (2,268 ft)
- Maximum slope: 52.9%, 27.9°
- Minimum slope: 18.8%, 10.7°
- Cars: 2
- Coach empty weight: 14,500 kg
- Maximum payload: 7,500 kg
- Capacity: 100 passengers per car
- Maximum speed: 10 metres per second (33 ft/s)
- Haul rope diameter: 38 mm
- Traction: Electricity
- Main drive motor: 710 kW
See also[edit]
- Cable car
- Awana Skyway - Aerial tramway type
- Genting Skyway - Gondola lift type
- Langkawi Cable Car - Gondola lift type
- Rail transport in Malaysia
- ^ a b "Up Penang Hill in five minutes". The Star Online. Retrieved March 20, 2011.
- ^ "A new joy ride up the hill". The Star Online. Retrieved March 26, 2011.
- ^ a b "Penang Hills Funicular Railway". Joe Thompson. Retrieved March 12, 2007.
- ^ "Penang Hill Railway". Penang Travel Tips.
- ^ Joe Bindloss, Celeste Brash (2008). Kuala Lumpur, Melaka & Penang. Lonely Planet Publications. p. 202. ISBN 978-1741044850.
- ^ "Penang Hill Funicular Train". Penang Travel Tips.
- ^ a b c "About us: Corporate Info".
- ^ "Railways". The Railway Magazine. 120-121: 385.
- ^ Jin Seng Cheah (26 February 2013). Penang 500 Early Postcards. Editions Didier Millet. ISBN 978-9671061718.
- ^ a b "Brief History Of Penang Hill Railway". Penang Hill with forestexplorers.com.
- ^ "Penang Hill funicular trains to attract more tourists". The Star Online. Retrieved March 19, 2011.
- ^ "Penang hill railway Mad genius?". The Sunday Times. 24 May 1998.
- ^ "A new chapter begins". allmalaysia.info. Archived from the original on February 12, 2013. Retrieved February 22, 2010.
- ^ a b "New hill railway coaches ready for the ride". allmalaysia.info. Archived from the original on 26 February 2011. Retrieved August 20, 2010.
- ^ "All set to soar uphill Handover of refurbished funicular train today". The Star Online. Retrieved March 19, 2011.
- ^ "Service to resume soon". The Star Online. Retrieved March 29, 2011.
- ^ "Railing for a new lease of life". The Star Online. Retrieved March 26, 2011.
- ^ "Slow or fast ride, that's the question now". The Star Online. Retrieved March 26, 2011.
- ^ "Penang Hill train service delayed". The Star Online. Retrieved January 5, 2011.
- ^ Hafiz Marzukhi (11 October 2014). "Penang Hill railway gets clean bill of health". Malay Mail.
- ^ "Penang Hill train resumes service". The Star Online. Retrieved 19 August 2011.
- ^ "Mixed response to hill project". allmalaysia.info. Archived from the original on 17 October 2012. Retrieved May 18, 2009.
- ^ Frances Wilks (December 21, 2012). "Penang's Hill Station". Expat Go.
- ^ "Facilities coming up include museum gallery and cafe". The Star. February 9, 2015.
- ^ Kae Min Goh (February 9, 2015). "Skywalk on Penang Hill to draw more visitors". The Malay Mail.
- ^ Christopher Tan (January 20, 2015). "Lift glitch at new Penang Hill car park". The Star.
- ^ "Ticket Fares". Penang Hill Inc.
- ^ "Penang Hill Railway (section 1)". Funiculars.net. Retrieved March 12, 2007.
- ^ "Penang Hill Railway (section 2)". Funiculars.net. Retrieved March 12, 2007.
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Penang Hill Railway.
- Penang Hill Railway official site
- The International Steam Pages Numerous images of The Penang Hill Railway before, after, and during the 2010 upgrade.
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Saturated Fat 3.9 g19.3%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 28.5 mg9.5%
Sodium 743 mg31%
Total Carbohydrates 25 g8.2%
Dietary Fiber 6 g23.9%
Sugars 4.7 g
Protein 14 g28.8%
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Hamlet's Blackberry
Hamlet's Blackberry
Building a Good Life in the Digital Age
Harper Perennial, Paperback, 9780061687174, 267pp.
Publication Date: August 9, 2011
Our computers and mobile devices do wonderful things for us. But they also impose a burden, making it harder for us to focus, do our best work, build strong relationships, and find the depth and fulfillment we crave.
How to solve this problem? Hamlet's BlackBerry argues that we just need a new way of thinking, an everyday philosophy for life with screens. William Powers sets out to solve what he calls the conundrum of connectedness. Reaching into the past using his own life as laboratory and object lesson he draws on some of history's most brilliant thinkers, from Plato to Shakespeare to Thoreau, to demonstrate that digital connectedness serves us best when it's balanced by its opposite, disconnectedness. Lively, original, and entertaining, Hamlet's BlackBerry will challenge you to rethink your digital life.
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"Always connected. Anytime. Anyplace. We know it's a blessing, but we're starting to notice that it's also a curse. In Hamlet's Blackberry, William Powers helps us understand what being 'connected' disconnects us from, and offers wise advice about what we can do about it…. A thoughtful, elegant, and moving book."
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