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When wearing a tuxedo, can a cumberbund be worn with suspenders?—Colin, Lawrence, KS
As long as you're wearing the suspenders under the cummerbund and not over (yes, we've seen it), the answer is yes.
One of the great benefits of wearing suspenders (those that clip on with the metal teeth) or braces (those that fasten with buttons on the inside of your trousers. Ask your tailor if you don't have them) is that you can wear your trousers a bit looser and at your natural waist. Both of which are more flattering. That and you're often wearing a tuxedo where eating is involved so the extra room in the waist will likely come in handy.


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The Ottawa Silver Seven is pleased to announce its coaching staff for the 2010-2011 Season:
Minor Atom A White Glenn Coyle Minor Atom A Black Michael McQuade Major Atom AA Scott Bolton Major Atom A Black Howie Baker Major Atom A White Tim Giles Minor Peewee AA Steve Horvath Minor PW A White Shawn Cameron Minor PW A Black Jeff Choffe Major PW AA Norm Pickering Major PW A Black Tony Quick Major PW A White Gary Driver Minor Bantam AA Bill Wright Major Bantam AA Tony Dimillo (updated: Aug 7) Minor Midget AA Larry Bellinger
Note that the Silver Seven will not be hosting a Major Midget AA team for the 2010-2011 season. Players are encouraged to review the program at the AAA Level (Titans) or their local Associations' Rep B programs.
The tryout schedule is currently being finalized. Tentatively, tryouts are expected to begin as follows.
August 21, 2010 – Major Atom AA, Minor Peewee AA, Major Peewee AA
August 27, 2010 – Minor Atom A
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Architectural Lens
From Design with Intent Toolkit
Architectural design patterns for influencing behaviour
The Architectural Lens draws on techniques used to influence user behaviour in architecture, urban planning and related disciplines such as traffic management and crime prevention through environmental design (see also the Security Lens).
While most of the techniques have been developed in the built environment, many of the ideas can also be applied in interaction and product design, even in software or services; they are effectively about using the structure of systems to influence behaviour. Some of the patterns, such as Simplicity, Feature deletion and Hiding things are really fundamental to all kinds of design.
Click on each of the cards below to go to a dedicated page about it (which will be expanded in due course).
Angles | Converging & diverging | Conveyor belts | Feature deletion | Hiding things | Material properties | Mazes | Pave the cowpaths | Positioning | Roadblock | Segmentation & spacing | Simplicity
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Eight lenses on influencing behaviour through design
If you've used the cards and found them useful (or not), it would really be appreciated if you could have a go at a quick 5-minute survey. Every 40 respondents, there'll be a mini-prize draw for a book on interaction design, UX, architecture, or similar. The 39th respondent's just finished!


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Crnfa Vs Cnor?????
0Mar 2, '03 by welnet66VERY INTERESTED IN OR NURSING (PRESENTLY ON MED/SURG) AND WHILE LOOKING UP SOME INFO ON THE AORN SITE, I SAW COURSES AVAILABLE FOR CERTIFICATION AS A CRNFA AND CNOR. WHAT ARE THESE JOB TITLES?????!!!!!
0Mar 2, '03 by agelessCRNFA = Certified Registered Nurse First Assistant
The certified registered nurse first assistant (CRNFA) is a technically skilled and highly educated professional who renders direct patient care as part of the peri-operative health team. In the operating room, the CRNFA functions interdependently with the surgeon as a first assistant to him/her. Through post nursing education, the CRNFA acquires skills, knowledge, and judgment necessary to assist the surgeon in performing a safe operation that yields optimal results for the patient. Scope of practice includes handling tissue, using instruments and providing exposure, suturing and tying, providing hemostasis, wound closure and infection control.
In addition to assisting in surgery, the CRNFA is involved in the pre-operative and post-operative phases of patient care. These include performing history and physicals, pre-operative assessments, ordering appropriate laboratory and diagnostic tests, post-operative rounds and communication with the attending surgeon. CRNFAs who are employed by a surgeon may also see patients in the office setting.
Physicians and institutional employers in all surgical settings and specialties recognize the quality and value of the services provided by CRNFAs. CRNFAs are nationally recognized by the American College of Surgeons, the Association of Operating Room Nurses, the American Nurses Association, and all State Boards of Nursing.
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Who Knew? National Cheesecake Day (and a Discount)
I'm not quite sure who comes up with these silly "official holidays" – but I'm not going to argue with something called National Cheesecake Day. Instead, I'm going to use it as an excuse to indulge in some decadent dessert, and so should you.
In light of today's holiday, The Cheesecake Factory is having a special promotion – "Any Slice, Half Price" when you dine-in at one of their restaurants today. Find a location near you by going here.
If you'd rather stay in and make your own, you can't beat a recipe that takes only 10 minutes (hands-on time) to make. Kudos to the Real Simple Food Editors for coming up with this delicious Vanilla Cheesecake.
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- Breed: Cocker Spaniel
- Color: Black
- Age: Young
- Size: Med. 26-60 lbs (12-27 kg)
- Sex: Female
Molly -Adopted!'s Info...
I am already spayed, purebred, up to date with shots, and good with dogs.
My name is Molly and I am a very sweet, black, 2 1/2 year old, smaller, medium sized cocker girl with a long tail. I was picked up as a stray by animal control and taken to a shelter here in NC. When I could not be placed for adoption, the shelter asked for rescue help and I was taken in by an organization where I was safe, but then they put out a post asking for another rescue to take me because I had tested heartworm positive and they did not have the funds to get me well. CCR stepped in and arranged tranport to bring me here to rescue where I am safe until I can be adopted. CCR raised the money awhile back to get my heartworm treatment done, and I did well with my 6 week recovery period.
Now I am looking forward to a new forever home again. Being here in rescue is ok, but I would love to find a home of my own and someone to love me again. I will need to be adopted to a home where I am the only dog. And I need to find a home with a securely fenced yard and a 5 to 6 ft. fence. I will also do best with supervised outdoor time, as I am a quick girl if I find a way out. I am now micro-chipped by CCR to find my way home, so if you adopt me and keep my information current, I will always find my way back to you. Please give me the 2nd chance that I deserve to have a loving home and a great rest of my life. I am a nice girl and I would really love to meet you! Maybe I am your new best friend!!
If you are interested in adopting this sweet cocker girl, please email: email@example.com for an adoption application. Our adoption fee is $300 which includes all the vetting and medical needs for the dog.
Other Pets at Charlotte Cocker Rescue of NC
Why Adoption is a Great Option
Molly -Adopted!, a Kannapolis Cocker Spaniel dog was adopted! Here's how you can benefit by looking at adoption as an option to buying a Cocker Spaniel for sale in Kannapolis, or seeking a Cocker Spaniel dog from a breeder in Kannapolis.
- Rescues and shelter volunteers in Kannapolis already know the personality and tendencies of their pets. This means they can match you with the right pet. That will makes it much easier transition to owning a pet for yourself and your new pet.
- On average adoption fees are much less than you'd pay a Kannapolis breeder, or pet store. Plus most often rescue pets have already been to the veterinarian for a check-up, had a round of vaccinations, and are spayed or neutered. That is a lot of savings!
- You will become a hero, and give a needy dog or cat a loving home. In fact, there are even Cocker Spaniel breeders who help with Cocker Spaniel rescue. One puppy or kitten adopted in Kannapolis paves the way for another one to be saved.


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New Music: Janelle Monáe Feat. Big Boi, Cee-Lo Green And Solange 'Electric Lady (Remix)'
Janelle Monae keeps it 100% Southern on her official "Electric Lady (Remix)." Complementing her own raps, Big Boi and Cee Lo Green tack on their playa charm to the party record. The track was included as a bonus cut on the Target version of Janelle's new album, The Electric Lady.


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10 Things You Might Not Know about Bisexuality
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People who have anger problems often go from zero to sixty on the anger scale in the blink of an eye. The problem is that anger has a "point of no return", when you truly DO lose control over your outbursts. And once you get to that point, the stress-related neurotransmitters in your brain shut down your 'thinking brain' so that you literally can't think straight.
Anger management involves learning to notice the early "warning signals", the tiny physical and mental changes that signal that your anger is brewing, before you become enraged and the anger is to hard to control. You learn self-calming techniques like taking "time outs" and deep breathing. And you learn to change your thought processes from anger-inflaming to anger-defusing thoughts. Finally, you develop constructive alternative strategies for dealing with the things that make you angry. As you see your life and relationships improve, the techniques you have learned are reinforced.
If you are a "rageaholic", you may be unable to control or even to recognize your angry feelings; it may take little to trigger your anger, and each anger outburst probably appears justified to you. Your anger may subside as quickly as it appears, and you can be left feeling baffled as to why others seem so upset with you. However, if you have an anger problem you can harm your family, your relationships, your career and your health - anger is directly correlated with Coronary Heart Disease. Road-rage, verbal attacks on co-workers or loved ones, even domestic violence are some common examples of anger management problems.
If you have a problem with excessive anger, you may come to treatment mostly because someone else - your boss, your spouse, the legal system - wants you there. If this is the case, the first step in treatment is to help you to see yourself as others see you and come to terms with the effects your anger has on others. Next, in treatment, we will teach you to identify triggers that set off your anger, and to substitute helpful responses for angry ones. We believe that anger is usually a secondary emotion; often what underlies anger is hurt or fear and, in general, expressing these emotions is more productive than expressing rage. We will teach you to identify and deal with these feelings - anger, pain or fear - in safe and non-destructive ways that can radically transform your relationships and overall quality of life.
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NIU technology student Nick DiOrio is all about the green…greener golf courses and a greener environment in general.
DiOrio, a senior from Wheaton, is one of several students working with Professor Robert Tatara investigating the feasibility of combining fillers derived from the making of ethanol with biodegradable resins to create plastic products that will breakdown naturally instead of cluttering the landscape and clogging landfills for hundreds of decades to come.
The team started with golf tees out of convenience (they already had a mold, and it was a logical application) but they are exploring other uses ranging from shotgun sporting clays to packing peanuts.
Their work is an excellent example of how careers in technology blend the old and new. The injection molding equipment they use has been a familiar part of the plastics industry for more than half a century, but the materials they are working with are so new that plastics companies are watching their progress closely. The project has also attracted funding from the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
"Our students don't just learn about challenges facing our world, sometimes they are part of the solution," says Chair of Technology Cliff Mirman.
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Forum post of the day: The fate of Outland {WoW}
Jul 7th 2008 8:19AM I think it'll be better than you think, at least the T6 content. Why?
They've said that Sunwell Epics are going to be the equiv roughly to lvl 80 blues or so. I could really see guilds gearing up in BT/Sunwell while actually leveling from 71-80. Get to level 73 or 74, maybe get your main tank up a bit higher, get some dungeon gear that's T5 equiv. and between the gear and the higher level, the T6 content shouldn't be too bad. It'll allow guilds to actually continue to raid new content while leveling. and the gear should be good right up until Naxx.
It doesn't do much for guilds on the bleeding edge who are fully geared up, but for most raiding guilds out there, I think the possibilities for raiding for 71-80 are there.
Arcane Brilliance: How to fix Mages {WoW}
Jul 5th 2008 3:28PM Mages just need their strong points clarified and beefed up a bit.
A mage shouldn't always be the highest DPS for an entire fight. I don't think that's the correct role. What a mage should be able to do is to provide overwhelming DPS for a portion of the fight, and respectable sustained DPS (both in numbers and in mana) for the rest of it. In short, the Mage's job should be to get you through the Enrage at the end, or the stupid phase that's murder on the tanks/healers. That's what the mage's job should be.
The problem is that people are looking to the fire tree, when the solution is actually arcane. Arcane for sure is a sort of a gimmick build right now, but give it some talents that make it shine. But probably the craziest DPS right now is Arcane Blast spam. And it's sustainable for a minute, two minutes or so, enough to get you over the hump. Does an extra 500-600 DPS help? Sure does.
In most fights, HOW much damage isn't as important as WHEN it's done. And the Mage, given the ability to do a prolonged spike of DPS, would give that.
Faction frustrations eased in Wrath {WoW}
Jun 30th 2008 10:08AM One thing people need to realize is that there's been a fundamental change in design from WoW's launch to today, and most of it has been done within the last year or so.
Originally, it was about slowing down progress, in order to ensure that people would have lots of long-term goals, and stay interested in the game, so the subscription fees would roll in (and the game world would remain well populated).
And it worked.
But then they realized something. People were staying in the game regardless. They'd start to level an alt, or sometimes would want to, but the thought of going through all that grind again just didn't appeal to them.
So Blizzard went the other way. Now it's fairly easy to get an alt up to speed, or at least much easier. And when we're "done" of that character? We'll start another. And another. And eventually the expansion will come out, and all those chars will be leveled to the next level cap, and so on.
Everybody wins. Well. Except those who use long grinds as a measure of their e-peens, but I don't think they count.
Shifting Perspectives: Gearing up your Resto Druid for Kara Part 1 {WoW}
Jun 17th 2008 9:28AM I don't think it's that difficult to get geared up for Kara with a resto druid, at least I didn't have much difficulty. A combination of the loot coming from SLabs, Steamvaults and Botanica will provide a really good base of gear to get you started for early Kara. And then you get the Shard of the Virtuous from Maiden, and either Tears of Heaven for badges or the off-hand from Moroes, and to be honest, you're laughing.
Hybrid Theory: Druids and the Wrath Alpha {WoW}
May 24th 2008 5:03PM The Restro Druid abilities are very interesting, and really does symbolize a large step forward and a change for the class.
The PBAoE HoT spell is amazing. Not too expensive, especially in tree form with the discount. It'll be a tree's responsibility to keep this up in almost every encounter except for ones where there's a ton of spreading out. (I.E. Most). On top of this, there's a talent that gives a 10% chance of restoring mana...and rage/energy on every tick. (Plus Rejuv). This will actually lesson the need for Shadow Priests. It depends on the % of mana regen, but for the rage/energy boost alone I think it's substantial.
And the new direct heal spell, castable from tree form and a bonus to rejuv. This depends on the cast time. If it's reasonable...
I don't expect these changes to make it to retail. Far from QQing, I think these changes are overpowered, and could potentially turn Trees into Holy Pallies+Shadow Priests+BC Resto Druids.
But would I love them? Yup.
Breakfast Topic: Who should be leader of the free world (of Azeroth)? (Poll) {WoW}
Mar 10th 2008 9:11AM Jaina Proudmoore. No doubt about it. The reality is that the "old" leaders are too well..old to handle the new world where the biggest threat isn't the Horde. Whereas Jaina would be able to do a much better job of maintaining a better peace than the other leaders. Then they could all focus on the real threat..the Burning Crusade and the forces of the Lich King.
Two Bosses Enter: Rajaxx vs. Mandokir {WoW}
Jun 25th 2007 12:02AM Do the math. They're both lvl 70 right now. But with the waves..49 kills in total...Mandokir would gain 49 levels. up to level 119.
Thunderclap? Resist. Resist. Resist. Ok, maybe it hits once. But Rajaxx doesn't last 20 hits.
The Guessing Game: Nintendo's E3 Showing {Joystiq}
Jun 21st 2007 3:13PM The big three will be out this year. MP3 in September, Galaxy in October and Brawl in December.
Announced with release dates:Mario Kart Wii, WiiMusic, WiiHealth (Both as well out this year), Animal Crossing Wii, and a puzzle compilation disc (PPL, Dr. Mario, Tetris, Sudoku, etc. with online play and voice chat through a Wiimote attachment.)
Nintendo Ultimate Stars:A game using the Jump Ulimate Stars engine with video game characters. Will feature tons of characters from tons of games.
My out of the blue/holy shit/wtf? prediction that will NEVER happen. A Ouendan/Elite Beat Agents for the Wii, with both western and eastern songs on the same disk.
BigRedKitty: Basic hunter macros {WoW}
Jun 13th 2007 3:00PM Yup.
I have the Hunter's Mark/PetAttack macro set up already, however, I'll probably replace the normal assist keystroke with /assist focus. That's a damn good idea for a function I use a lot in quite a few situations.
WoW Patch 126.96.36.19929 - shortest patchnotes ever {WoW}
May 30th 2007 10:32AM Alt-tabbing to desktop and back? *raises hand*. This hit me last night.
Glad to see they're on the ball.


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It's easy to be green. Landscape with low-water plants, efficient irrigation, mulch and compost. It will save you money and be easier to maintain. A helpful tip from Chula Vista CLEAN Businesses.
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Along with living in Chula Vista's beautiful Mediterranean climate comes the important responsibility to work together to use water efficiently. In Southern California, outdoor landscape irrigation can typically account for over 50% of residential water use. Incorporating WaterSmart strategies such as water-efficient design, state-of-the-art irrigation technologies, climate-appropriate plant selections, and best maintenance practices is a great way to create both a beautiful and sustainable garden.
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on March 14, 2013I will have more on this tomorrow, but I'd just like to say, for the record, that if you like this blog, you have dozens of people, living and dead, who worked at The Boston Phoenix to thank because all I learned about being a journalist, and a good deal of what I learned about being a human being in the world, I learned because I worked there.
The Phoenix Media/Communications Group owner and publisher Stephen M. Mindich today announced a major reorganization. Among the changes: With the issue dated March 15, The Phoenix, the 47 year old alternative arts and news weekly will cease print publication. The online issue slated for the week of March 22, will be the publication's last.
I am so very proud to have worked with them, and I am honored by their continuing friendship, and I am so very proud that my work appeared in that glorious newspaper which arose from the traditions of outlaw Boston journalism going back to William Lloyd Garrison and The Liberator.
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Am I the only one who bothered to tune in to watch Christine Prody talk about her relationship with O.J. Simpson on "Good Morning America"? I was intrigued for reasons that I can't altogether explain. I guess I watched it for the same reason that I watched that show on women who seek out men in prison. What's the mindset of a woman who seeks out a murderer as a life partner? Keep reading »
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Fact is people, if you get a pointer it is going to point.
You maybe in a rush or perhaps would prefer the hound did something else, like give a paw. But the pointer is not really fussed about that, not if there's something to point at. It's breeding. Good pointer breeding. The same thing that makes their ears so soft.
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Nemo Hoes, aka Snoop Dogg, sits down with worldwide superstar PSY to the GGN studio. Check out their interview talking about his mega hit Gangnam Style and the growing hip hop culture in Korea.
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Caluco C606-9 Mirabella Sunbrella Outdoor Single Chaise Lounge Chair Cushion
This Caluco Mirabella Sunbrella Outdoor Single Chaise Lounge Chair Cushions C606-9 offers luxury outdoor deep seating. Single chaise lounge chair is pictured with Sunbrella Capri cushions.
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simpy.resources — Shared resource primitives¶
SimPy implements three types of resources that can be used to synchronize processes or to model congestion points:
resource | Shared resources supporting priorities and preemption. |
container | Resource for sharing homogeneous matter between processes, either continuous (like water) or discrete (like apples). |
store | Shared resources for storing a possibly unlimited amount of objects supporting requests for specific objects. |
They are derived from the base classes defined in the base module. These classes are also meant to support the implementation of custom resource types.
Resources — simpy.resources.resource¶
Shared resources supporting priorities and preemption.
These resources can be used to limit the number of processes using them concurrently. A process needs to request the usage right to a resource. Once the usage right is not needed anymore it has to be released. A gas station can be modelled as a resource with a limited amount of fuel-pumps. Vehicles arrive at the gas station and request to use a fuel-pump. If all fuel-pumps are in use, the vehicle needs to wait until one of the users has finished refueling and releases its fuel-pump.
These resources can be used by a limited number of processes at a time. Processes request these resources to become a user and have to release them once they are done. For example, a gas station with a limited number of fuel pumps can be modeled with a Resource. Arriving vehicles request a fuel-pump. Once one is available they refuel. When they are done, the release the fuel-pump and leave the gas station.
Requesting a resource is modelled as "putting a process' token into the resources" and releasing a resources correspondingly as "getting a process' token out of the resource". Thus, calling request()/release() is equivalent to calling put()/get(). Note, that releasing a resource will always succeed immediately, no matter if a process is actually using a resource or not.
Besides Resource, there is a PriorityResource, where processes can define a request priority, and a PreemptiveResource whose resource users can be preempted by requests with a higher priority.
- class simpy.resources.resource.Resource(env, capacity=1)¶
Resource with capacity of usage slots that can be requested by processes.
If all slots are taken, requests are enqueued. Once a usage request is released, a pending request will be triggered.
The env parameter is the Environment instance the resource is bound to.
- count¶
Number of users currently using the resource.
- class simpy.resources.resource.PriorityResource(env, capacity=1)¶
A Resource supporting prioritized requests.
Pending requests in the queue are sorted in ascending order by their priority (that means lower values are more important).
- PutQueue¶
Type of the put queue. See put_queue for details.
alias of SortedQueue
- request¶
Request a usage slot with the given priority.
alias of PriorityRequest
- class simpy.resources.resource.PreemptiveResource(env, capacity=1)¶
A PriorityResource with preemption.
If a request is preempted, the process of that request will receive an Interrupt with a Preempted instance as cause.
- class simpy.resources.resource.Preempted(by, usage_since)¶
Cause of an preemption Interrupt containing information about the preemption.
- by = None¶
The preempting simpy.events.Process.
- usage_since = None¶
The simulation time at which the preempted process started to use the resource.
- class simpy.resources.resource.Request(resource)¶
Request usage of the resource. The event is triggered once access is granted. Subclass of simpy.resources.base.Put.
If the maximum capacity of users has not yet been reached, the request is triggered immediately. If the maximum capacity has been reached, the request is triggered once an earlier usage request on the resource is released.
The request is automatically released when the request was created within a with statement.
- class simpy.resources.resource.PriorityRequest(resource, priority=0, preempt=True)¶
Request the usage of resource with a given priority. If the resource supports preemption and preempt is True other usage requests of the resource may be preempted (see PreemptiveResource for details).
This event type inherits Request and adds some additional attributes needed by PriorityResource and PreemptiveResource
- priority = None¶
The priority of this request. A smaller number means higher priority.
- preempt = None¶
Indicates whether the request should preempt a resource user or not (PriorityResource ignores this flag).
- time = None¶
The time at which the request was made.
- key = None¶
Key for sorting events. Consists of the priority (lower value is more important), the time at which the request was made (earlier requests are more important) and finally the preemption flag (preempt requests are more important).
- class simpy.resources.resource.Release(resource, request)¶
Releases the usage of resource granted by request. This event is triggered immediately. Subclass of simpy.resources.base.Get.
- class simpy.resources.resource.SortedQueue(maxlen=None)¶
Queue for sorting events by their key attribute.
- maxlen = None¶
Maximum length of the queue.
- append(item)¶
Sort item into the queue.
Raise a RuntimeError if the queue is full.
Containers — simpy.resources.container¶
Resource for sharing homogeneous matter between processes, either continuous (like water) or discrete (like apples).
A Container can be used to model the fuel tank of a gasoline station. Tankers increase and refuelled cars decrease the amount of gas in the station's fuel tanks.
- class simpy.resources.container.Container(env, capacity=inf, init=0)¶
Resource containing up to capacity of matter which may either be continuous (like water) or discrete (like apples). It supports requests to put or get matter into/from the container.
The env parameter is the Environment instance the container is bound to.
The capacity defines the size of the container. By default, a container is of unlimited size. The initial amount of matter is specified by init and defaults to 0.
Raise a ValueError if capacity <= 0, init < 0 or init > capacity.
- level¶
The current amount of the matter in the container.
- put¶
Request to put amount of matter into the container.
alias of ContainerPut
- get¶
Request to get amount of matter out of the container.
alias of ContainerGet
- class simpy.resources.container.ContainerPut(container, amount)¶
Request to put amount of matter into the container. The request will be triggered once there is enough space in the container available.
Raise a ValueError if amount <= 0.
- amount = None¶
The amount of matter to be put into the container.
- class simpy.resources.container.ContainerGet(container, amount)¶
Request to get amount of matter from the container. The request will be triggered once there is enough matter available in the container.
Raise a ValueError if amount <= 0.
- amount = None¶
The amount of matter to be taken out of the container.
Stores — simpy.resources.store¶
Shared resources for storing a possibly unlimited amount of objects supporting requests for specific objects.
The Store operates in a FIFO (first-in, first-out) order. Objects are retrieved from the store in the order they were put in. The get requests of a FilterStore can be customized by a filter to only retrieve objects matching a given criterion.
- class simpy.resources.store.Store(env, capacity=inf)¶
Resource with capacity slots for storing arbitrary objects. By default, the capacity is unlimited and objects are put and retrieved from the store in a first-in first-out order.
The env parameter is the Environment instance the container is bound to.
- items = None¶
List of the items available in the store.
- class simpy.resources.store.FilterStore(env, capacity=inf)¶
Resource with capacity slots for storing arbitrary objects supporting filtered get requests. Like the Store, the capacity is unlimited by default and objects are put and retrieved from the store in a first-in first-out order.
Get requests can be customized with a filter function to only trigger for items for which said filter function returns True.
In contrast to Store, get requests of a FilterStore won't necessarily be triggered in the same order they were issued.
Example: The store is empty. Process 1 tries to get an item of type a, Process 2 an item of type b. Another process puts one item of type b into the store. Though Process 2 made his request after Process 1, it will receive that new item because Process 1 doesn't want it.
- get¶
Request a to get an item, for which filter returns True, out of the store.
alias of FilterStoreGet
- class simpy.resources.store.StorePut(store, item)¶
Request to put item into the store. The request is triggered once there is space for the item in the store.
- item = None¶
The item to put into the store.
- class simpy.resources.store.StoreGet(resource)¶
Request to get an item from the store. The request is triggered once there is an item available in the store.
- class simpy.resources.store.FilterStoreGet(resource, filter=<function <lambda> at 0x7f87fd4ce140>)¶
Request to get an item from the store matching the filter. The request is triggered once there is such an item available in the store.
filter is a function receiving one item. It should return True for items matching the filter criterion. The default function returns True for all items, which makes the request to behave exactly like StoreGet.
- filter = None¶
The filter function to filter items in the store.
Base classes — simpy.resources.base¶
Base classes of for Simpy's shared resource types.
BaseResource defines the abstract base resource. It supports get and put requests, which return Put and Get events respectively. These events are triggered once the request has been completed.
- class simpy.resources.base.BaseResource(env, capacity)¶
Abstract base class for a shared resource.
You can put() something into the resources or get() something out of it. Both methods return an event that is triggered once the operation is completed. If a put() request cannot complete immediately (for example if the resource has reached a capacity limit) it is enqueued in the put_queue for later processing. Likewise for get() requests.
Subclasses can customize the resource by:
- providing different PutQueue and GetQueue types,
- providing Put respectively Get events,
- and implementing the request processing behaviour through the methods _do_get() and _do_put().
- PutQueue¶
The type to be used for the put_queue. It is a plain list by default. The type must support iteration and provide append() and remove() operations.
alias of list
- GetQueue¶
The type to be used for the get_queue. It is a plain list by default. The type must support iteration and provide append() and remove() operations.
alias of list
- put_queue = None¶
Queue of pending put requests.
- get_queue = None¶
Queue of pending get requests.
- capacity¶
Maximum capacity of the resource.
- class simpy.resources.base.Put(resource)¶
Generic event for requesting to put something into the resource.
This event (and all of its subclasses) can act as context manager and can be used with the with statement to automatically cancel the request if an exception (like an simpy.events.Interrupt for example) occurs:
with res.put(item) as request: yield request
- class simpy.resources.base.Get(resource)¶
Generic event for requesting to get something from the resource.
This event (and all of its subclasses) can act as context manager and can be used with the with statement to automatically cancel the request if an exception (like an simpy.events.Interrupt for example) occurs:
with res.put(item) as request: yield request


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A high-speed rail dream unrealized
The federal high-speed rail (HSR) program lately championed by politicians and administrators in the other Washington is fading into history. In his remarks at the March 15 launch of a $22.7-million seismic-upgrade project at Seattle's King Street Station, Federal Railroad Administration chief Joseph Szabo spoke instead about "high-performance rail." The transportation funding bill currently in the Senate makes the same emendation in referring to the measure's meager appropriation, $100 million, for passenger rail enhancements. Some experts are meanwhile using the term "higher-speed rail," downgrading the once-regnant HSR by interposing a lowly r, giving us HrSR.
It adds up to a recognition of some of the idea's flaws and, some would say, of its insurmountable obstacles. First of all, the program would cost lots of money. Here in the Eugene-to-Vancouver, B.C. Pacific Northwest HSR corridor, $1.5 million gets you the preliminary engineering for an overnight parking track — not the track itself, or even its final engineering — for an Amtrak train less than 800 feet long. On the opposite side of the country, planners are pricing an expansion of HSR access from New Jersey into Manhattan in the $10-15 billion range.
Still, with what some might call chump change, some states are making their trains substantially faster. Washington and Oregon are not among them. Oregon spent $72 million on its 133 miles of passenger-rail track between 1994 — two years after the feds designated the mileage part of the HSR corridor — and 2008, with zero schedule improvement to show for it. Since Washington state's passenger rail program began in 1994, Olympia has devoted $98 million to capital investment in track and signaling systems between Portland and Seattle, but that sum has not improved running time, either. The only timetable improvement has been the 25 minutes saved by virtue of the trains' tilting mechanism, which allows for higher speed in curves. The trip still takes three and a half hours and the train never goes faster than 79 mph. Meanwhile, the discount BoltBus service launched in May is advertising Seattle-Portland travel times as little as three hours and 15 minutes.
The $796 million in federal HSR money recently received by Washington state will underwrite some schedule improvement, but again at high cost. The $91 million going into the Point Defiance bypass project, for example, will trim only six minutes off travel time between the Emerald and Rose cities.
Then there is HSR's "green problem." Rail is only green insofar as it is wholesale, rather than retail, transportation. A train carrying 130 passengers, as corridor trains do on average, is far from wholesale, however. The volume of fuel that a 3200-horsepower locomotive weighing 12 times its human payload uses to move one of those 130 passengers dwarfs what an intercity bus uses for the same result.
At HSR's envisioned speeds, typically defined as a sustained 110 mph, the efficiency worsens with the additional mechanical effort needed to overcome greater air resistance. My own calculations, based on data for an actual Amtrak service, indicate that high-speed trains using today's diesel locomotives would not save any carbon emissions, and could in fact increase emissions by 15 percent or more. That's an optimistic calculation — a Danish researcher indicated the increase could be as high as 66 percent. Indeed, the most efficient speed for a train appears to be the same as a car: around 50 mph.
Electric propulsion is an appealing alternative on the face, but in most parts of the United States electricity comes from fossil fuels. Washington enjoys the advantages of largely hydroelectric power generation, but that merely gets us to the next hurdle: the challenge of stringing hundreds of miles of catenary, the overhead wires that power trains, along the track. Most tracks Amtrak use are privately owned, and owners are less than excited about a massive transformation of the infrastructure. The alternative is to create new, publicly owned rights-of-way and put catenary on them. A great idea, until NIMBYs such as those in Lakewood, the San Francisco suburbs, or the Connecticut exurbs jump on it, maul it, and leave it dead on the political ground.
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Posted Thu, Jun 28, 8:36 a.m.
My Hall ignores the creation of China's high speed rail network within the last decade. That development points to the advantage the Chinese have in making command decisions without the need to create consensus. Not likely in the USA, but as Mr. Hall's op ed implies the USA appears to have reached a point where the need for consensus prevents rather than promotes concepts such as high speed rail. The comparison of diesel run high speed trains as a means of calculating cost benefits is pointless. Diesel high speed is a contradiction. Every system in the world uses catenary electricity. The comparison of Germany's high density population to the US low density population is invalid. High speed rail in the US is not envisioned as a national system. Corridors are where high speed rail can function. The Northeast, the the Austin-Dallas-Houston triangle in Texas, the California Coast, Portland to Vancouver BC, Cleveland to Chicago, even within Ohio, Cleveland down to Cincinnati. These viable options have been studied and in the Texas case private entrepreneurs had what they felt was a viable model. Automakers, tire makers and similar interested parties killed the project in the Texas Legislature. Freight and passenger are presented as an either-or choice. Once again, not so. Much of the Chinese high speed rail system is elevated Leave those private rails on the ground for the freight operators. Build an elevated system along the same rights of way. The ultimate irony may be in the further development of convoy automobile travel when your computer controlled car slips into a line of cars while you sit back and leave the driving to "Hal". Sounds a lot like a....train of cars.
Posted Sun, Jul 1, 1:55 p.m.
The ultimate irony may be in the further development of convoy automobile travel when your computer controlled car slips into a line of cars while you sit back and leave the driving to "Hal". Sounds a lot like a....train of cars.
This makes infinitely more sense than spending hundreds of billions on new fixed rail.
Posted Thu, Jun 28, 9:33 a.m.
Excellent analysis right up to the end. There is another idea other than raising gas prices, however. It is that high-speed rail is not cost-efficient except in the dense Northeast corridor and that hugely inefficient projects, such as the proposed California and LA-Vegas projects, should just be abandoned. You are right on the money, by the way, in pointing out the differences between Europe and the U.S.
You often hear the question: "Why can't we have high-speed trains like Europe?" You have answered it well.
Posted Sat, Jun 30, 10:43 p.m.
Unfortunately Ted, he missed half of the analysis. I'll chalk it up to 'limited news space'.
Posted Wed, Jul 4, 4 p.m.
Mr Hall's failing is that he didn't flesh out the whole argument, which is summed up in his comment "First of all, the program would cost lots of money. "
It would,... but a truer argument would be adding the next part "Compared to what?" Widening I-5?
Plus, I'm surprised at this:
"The $91 million going into the Point Defiance bypass project, for example, will trim only six minutes off travel time between the Emerald and Rose cities."
Mr. Hall of all people should know that the Point Defiance bypass project is how more capacity and better adherance to the schedule can be achieved, since the single track Nelson Bennett tunnel is the major constriction point. That part of the project is only partially a 'higher speed rail' project.
Again, lots of rail data, but conclusions based on only a narrow dataset.
If we included all the data, we might draw a completely different conclusion, but that would require an in depth article on how roads are built and funded.
Posted Thu, Jun 28, 10:26 a.m.
Ted, the "no density" argument is almost a tautology. We don't have density because we don't support density with top notch transit.
"Why can't we have high-speed trains like Europe?" The answer is simple: we have massive auto/airline subsidies. The current gas taxes are paying only half of the costs of auto travel. Airports enjoy huge federal subsidies not covered by air fares.
Posted Sat, Jun 30, 8:32 p.m.
We don't have density because we don't support density with top notch transit.
You obviously flunked geography. Have you ever even bothered to look at a map of the United States, or does the whole idea scare you too much? Once you get west of the Mississippi River, this country's population density drops off like crazy.
Except for California and Texas, every state west of the Mississippi has a population density less than 70 per square mile. And if you look more closely, that density is in widely spaced clusters. On the West Coast, for example, there are only three metro areas above Los Angeles with appreciable population density (Bay Area, Portland, Seattle), and they are widely spaced.
Go east from those places, especially Portland and Seattle, and you must travel hundreds of miles to hit cities of any great size. Passenger rail (high speed or otherwise), a 19th century technology, is unsuited for the West.
Posted Sat, Jun 30, 10:44 p.m.
You make an excellent argument against the Inerstate Highway System.
Posted Wed, Jul 4, 3:28 p.m.
The population density of rural America, which equates to 'ridership' on any Interstate highway, and consequently how much gas they burn (contributing to Highway Trust Fund via the gas tax), doesn't even come close to paying for both the construction, and the upkeep. It's only by charging excess taxes in populated areas that rural highways, especially the Interstates, can be subsidized.
Of course, the true cost would be known if highways were privately owned and operated, and users were charged a fee for access.
Posted Fri, Jul 6, 8:38 a.m.
The highway trust fund pays for the roads. Of course, it'd do better if 16% of the money wasn't siphoned off to mass transit. For some reason, car drivers are expected to pay for bus and train passengers. Why can't they pay their own way for a change?
It's unfortunate that your knee-jerk hatred of cars extends to the Interstates, without which the delivery of many yuppie toys, not to mention food (including the "local" produce that "progressives" are always touting) would be far more difficult and expensive.
Posted Thu, Jun 28, 11:03 a.m.
Airports are funded by taxes and fees on airlines and airline passengers -- they are not subsidized by non-flyers.
Motorists pay a plethora of taxes, fees, and tolls, other than the gas tax which, in WA state, combine to generate more revenue than is spent on roads and highways.
Trains are an anachronism. Passenger trains are nothing but a waste of money in the U.S. outside of the Northeast corridor. And those train systems are falling into disarray because of the enormous public subsidy it would take to return them to good condition.
Meanwhile, oil and gas prices have fallen significantly in just the past few months and the short- and long-term prognosis for gasoline prices is for prices to keep falling as oil production just keeps increasing and the mpg of new cars just keeps increasing, as well.
We can not afford the massive tax subsidies that our public transit systems require. Transit users are going to have to start paying the full cost of their trips, as motorists and flyers do, or transit systems in the U.S. are going to continue to deteriorate.
Posted Thu, Jun 28, 3:15 p.m.
This may have been true in the past, but increasingly the highway and airport trust funds are being bailed out by the general fund (income tax, to you and me). The percentage of bailout is rising every year as gas tax revenues decrease.
Airlines had a massive bailout as a result of the 9/11 attacks.
Also, most local roads are paid for with property tax, not user fees.
None of this takes into consideration the defense of "our" oil supplies in the middle east.
Posted Thu, Jun 28, 3:25 p.m.
Lincoln, a simple search turns up some much needed facts:
"The overall FAA budget in recent years has increasingly depended on general-fund support; as recently as 2007, the general fund provided less than 16% of the FAA budget, but in FY2011 that percentage has grown to over 31%. If and when Congress cuts way back on general-fund support, AIP would likely be the "least-bad" candidate for cutbacks (as opposed to air traffic controller payroll or NextGen ATC modernisation funding, which are the other two major budget categories)."
Posted Sat, Jul 7, 4:42 a.m.
Thanks for the figures, Andy.
It would seem that Congress has been influenced by the industries that formerly collected our nation's transportation taxes, such as the airlines for the Airport Improvement Program and the truckers (and general public) for gas taxes into the Highway Trust Fund.
And, based on what I am reading locally about the Port of Seattle, it appears the Harbor Maintenance Tax will be the next funding source Congress -in its infinite wisdom- will shift into the General Fund.
Posted Thu, Jun 28, 11:37 a.m.
Is high speed rail cost effective? If one looks at the broader picture, one can more truely compare and amortize the costs of a high speed eugene-vancouver bc corridor. It's not just about fuel costs and assumptions of poor density to serve rail.
What I'm getting at is the cost to build and maintain more freeway lanes. Also the cost of air travel between the points along this corridor. I don't know what these numbers are, but I think the discussion is meaningless without them.
My feeling is that many people would much prefer to take a high speed train between seattle and portland if they had the choice. The current Cascade run is nice, but much too slow. Thus, it doesn't generate a good passenger density. I'm pretty certain that once the speed was over some threshold, the density would support the operations side. And, contrast that with the current frustration of 3.x hours driving in heavy traffic.
Let's see the big picture costs.
Posted Sat, Jun 30, 8:36 p.m.
For a fraction of the cost of high speed rail, we could retrofit every vehicle with the cooperative cruise control and dramatically increase the carrying capacity of existing roads.
Posted Sat, Jun 30, 9:40 p.m.
"For a fraction of the cost of high speed rail, we could retrofit every vehicle with the cooperative cruise control and dramatically increase the carrying capacity of existing roads."
Prove it.
In fact, I challenge you to prove the existing highway system would pay for itself.
Posted Sun, Jul 1, 11:46 a.m.
Do your own research. Or are the "progressives" too lazy for that?
Posted Wed, Jul 4, 4:08 p.m.
I have all the data you need.
Straight from the folks tasked to build your preffered transportation choice infrastructure. From this comment "Come on, kids. A 260-passenger top capacity is supposed to replace I-5? Where do you get your drugs, because I want some of those." I can tell you don't have a clue what the numbers are.
Posted Fri, Jul 6, 8:42 a.m.
Jim, once again in true "progressive" fashion, you've substituted invective for research. Do you work, son. It's how responsible, self-supporting adults behave if they expect to succeed. No one will fund your high-speed choo choo fantasy if all you can do is whine and sputter at them.
Posted Wed, Jul 11, 7:48 p.m.
An adult would use his real name to post conflicting arguments. Given the tone of your responses, I will give your arguments all the gravity they deserve.
Posted Sat, Jun 30, 9:51 p.m.
"Let's see the big picture costs."
Good point. That's what makes this article disappointing. I felt I was going to see a Mike Lindblom byline.
Unfortunately, as I've found over the years, no decisions of any importance get the true, accurate, and unbiased press they need.
Posted Wed, Jul 11, 8:05 p.m.
Actually, that was the lament of the staff person on the I-405 Corridor Program who was the public relations liason.
All the meetings of the Executive, Steering and Citizen committees were open to the public, and anyone could attend and get the same raw documentation that we were given. The press never attended, according to her.
This wasn't a secret process, and yet I never saw any reporting on the workings of how the I-405 Corridor Program came to its decisions.
See, the thing is.. .I have all the numbers to make a valid argument for a roads solution.
What I don't understand is why the people who are adamant about having no other option won't put their argument forward in a clear concise... 'voter approval ready' package that would convince the public to vote YES.
The argument after the first Prop 1, the 'Roads and Transit' Referendum, was what sunk it? The Roads half, or the Transit half?
When Sound Transit came out with the second Prop 1, ST2 it passed.
At the end of the I-405 program, when Kemper Freeman stated that he thought it was important that the full buildout of the freeway system be studied, I completely agreed with him (eliciting the response of the Transportation Choices representative looking at me as if I'd grown another head).
The best place I suggest you start is Dr. Eager's current proposal
End Gridlock Now (which went under the name "Reduce Congestion Now" when it was presented to us at one of the meetings).
I wonder why that proposal isn't just put before the voters. The numbers aren't fanciful. They align pretty well with what we looked at, although they lack some of the detail.
Posted Thu, Jun 28, 11:45 a.m.
According to Amtrak, average number of Cascades riders daily is 2400. With 4 trainsets, 600 per train seems more accurate than CB's 130. Total seating capacity is something like 400, but 400 people do not board in Eugene and disembark in Vancouver BC.
I'm no fan of 200mph HSR systems. What better way to kill HSR than to design them wildly expensive to construct and affordable only for the wealthy to ride. San Francisco peninsula communities opposed the removal of hundreds of trees for new guideway, not the overhead catenary which will be installed on existing track instead.
I've taken the morning Acela from New York to Boston. Though this segment of track reaches higher speeds, I was not impressed. At higher speed, the blurring scenery made my stomach a little queezy. The Cascades Talgo is a smoother, more comfortable, quieter ride; more affordable to construct and which benefits freight rail operation.
Our worst transportation problems aren't intra-city. They're more related to the daily metropolitan area traffic miasma that Wsdot, SDOT, Metro & Sound Transit have seemingly no clue how to address successfully.
Posted Sun, Jul 1, 12:24 p.m.
At higher speed, the blurring scenery made my stomach a little queezy.
Then you have a glass stomach. I used to live on the East Coast, and took the Acela train a bunch of times. It's not especially fast. You'd really hate the Japanese bullet trains, which I have also taken without endangering lunch.
The issue with high speed rail in the Northwest is distance and cost. Planes, cars, and buses are cheaper, faster, more flexible, or more efficient, depending on which one you use. I chuckle at the rail buffs, who want to replace 20th century cars with 19th century trains. There are much better ways to move people than to indulge in yuppie Steampunk fantasies at great public expense.
Posted Thu, Jun 28, 12:36 p.m.
Just back from Korea where we took high-speed rail KTX (at a rather low speed) from Seoul to Yeosu and back (about the same distance as Seattle to Portland). All other considerations aside, from a passenger's standpoint the trip was terrific--a very smooth ride, great seats, and seamless wi-fi the whole way, on-time and unhindered progress. I was able to get work done in a way that is impossible of lurching Amtrak. Plus, scenery was beautiful and even the pre-packaged food wasn't too bad. Puts our routine rail service to shame.
Posted Thu, Jun 28, 4:05 p.m.
One of my favorite sounds is the popping of beers and bento box openings as the shinkansen starts the journey from Tokyo to Kyoto.
Posted Sun, Jul 1, 2:18 p.m.
What, you've never had a 24-ounce Bud, beef jerky, and Doritos while driving the pickup (GMC 3500 diesel dually, long bed) out I-90 on the way to the Ellensburg Rodeo? What are cup holders and center consoles for, fer chrissakes? It's a little tricky to eat, drink, drive, smoke a cigarette, give the dog a scratch on the ear and a spare Dorito, and talk on the phone all at once, especially when you're pulling a horse trailer and one of the kids in the back seat keeps trying to knock your cowboy hat off and the other three banditos take turns putting their hands over your eyes when you least expect it. But if you use your knees and the cruise control, and jerk the wheel every so often or maybe wave the "tire billy" (heh heh) to scare the kids, it works great.
This is America. Keep them dang sushi fish in the water where they belong. Beef, it's what's for dinner. Always has been, always will be. You'll pry my steaks and my gun from my cold dead fingers at the barbecue, God damn it, but not before I exercise my second amendment rights if ya know what I mean.
Posted Thu, Jun 28, 8:32 p.m.
How refreshing to read an article by a rail advocate who understands basic physics and what it means for the economics of operating trains.
I believe it takes something like twelve times as much energy to push a train at 200 mph compared to 100 mph. Talk of constructing ultra high speed rail in the U.S. just gets in the way of real solutions. Ultra fast trains lose their efficiency advantage over airplanes. Even in France they have backed off from the ultra high speed idea.
But trains are still a very attractive and sensible way to go places if they can avoid stopping and just keep rolling. But sadly, they often don't. My admittedly limited experience with Amtrak is that the passenger trains wait for the freight trains, not the other way around. Passenger trains need their own dedicated rights of way. Hopefully someday before the very last of the oil gets too expensive, we will get past the NIMBYs and build some. Crowded Europe managed to figure out how to squeeze them in.
I hope I am wrong, but it seems as though we will never get decent passenger rail in this country until it once again looks profitable to the RR companies. Someday it will, maybe even someday soonish. Trains are a great way to go, if they don't sit on sidings while coal trains pass. After all, no one ever made a TV series called "Great Bus Journeys."
Posted Sat, Jun 30, 8:47 a.m.
I believe the problem with the HSR program was (is) the attempt to hit the home run vs. going for what was possible, IMO the latter was (is) a series of regional HSR networks, e.g. the Northwest, the Northeast, California, the south, the Midwest, the mountain states. For instance, in the Northwest corridor, going for grade separation as fast as possible, e.g. the Marysville/Arlington area might have been the top priority in this corridor, most of the efforts and $ would have been focused there, which would benefit vehicular traffic and pollution levels considerably!
Posted Sat, Jun 30, 8:59 a.m.
We already have the highway system, we already have the air traffic system. We don't need to begin over again as if we had a blank map, maybe we could just maintain and improve what we have (and travel a whole lot less). Incidentally, Wells, I don't think the ridership you imply is anywhere near accurate. When I go to total Cascade travel per year and divide that by 365 I get a number much closer to 130 than 600. Big passenger train usage would depend on a huge change in our entire economic model. Our model is flawed but it's what we got.
Posted Sat, Jun 30, 10:37 a.m.
Ridership on the Portland-to-Eugene segment is low, IMO, because a return trip is inconveniently timed. A 2nd daily run would probably increase patronage both per train and overall on this segment; not exactly a radical change in the economic model. This segment also has some delays caused by the conflict with freight trains. Track upgrades to resolve this problem are the more modest but still effective investment. The 130 ridership estimate may be per train, but the higher estimate of 400 is closer to the number of passengers overall. Cascades has a good record of ridership therefore Talgo implementation is more possible nationwide than Acela-type HSR.
Posted Sat, Jun 30, 4:52 p.m.
"Meanwhile, the discount BoltBus service launched in May is advertising Seattle-Portland travel times as little as three hours and 15 minutes."
They can advertise whatever they want, but good luck actually getting from downtown Seattle to downtown Portland via I-5 in less than four hours on a regular basis, especially if you're heading down on a Friday afternoon.
True HSR would be possible if it got the same subsidies that the airline and automotive businesses got in their infancy, and continue to get thanks to their strong lobbies in D.C. and Americans' addiction to the status quo.
Posted Sun, Jul 1, 12:30 p.m.
good luck actually getting from downtown Seattle to downtown Portland via I-5 in less than four hours on a regular basis, especially if you're heading down on a Friday afternoon
I drive from Seattle to the Portland area once a month. The 190-mile trip (door to door) rarely takes more than 3-1/2 hours, including a rest stop. Leave Seattle after 9 a.m. and before 3 p.m. and you're fine, and that includes Friday afternoons. I can't say it's fun, but there are only three bottlenecks: the Tacoma Dome, the JBLM military base, and downtown Portland.
I'm a long-time road tripper, and have always liked to keep track of mileage and average speed. My average driving speed over the entire route, including the local driving at each end, is 60-65 mph, plus a 15-minute rest stop, usually at the 100-mile point. I have no interest in taking the train. It takes much more time, is much more expensive, and is much less flexible because once you're in Portland you don't have a car. Not to mention that, as is often the case for me, if you're hauling anything, the train is impractical or impossible.
Believe it or not, Portland's light rail is skeletal. Hardly anyone dares live there without a car, except for hipsters and the poor. The only way you'd get me out of the car is to prohibit it. And good luck on that, especially in the forthcoming McKenna administration. It's nice and quaint to see the choo-choo fetish rail buffs wax nostalgic and whine so much about how hardly anyone does it their way. Come on, kids. A 260-passenger top capacity is supposed to replace I-5? Where do you get your drugs, because I want some of those.
p.s.: Today, Monday July 2, I entered U.S. 26 at Exit 69, four miles west of downtown Portland, at 3:15 p.m. Traffic was on the slow side out of Portland and through Vantucky, averaging 40 miles an hour. Took a 13-minute pit stop at a rest area along the way for myself and a walk for the dog.
Ran into a 20-minute traffic jam at JBLM, averaging about 20 miles an hour or less. Short slowdowns through Olympia and Tacoma. Left I-5 at the Mercr/Seattle Center at exactly 6:30 p.m., and exactly 180 miles on the trip odometer. Wheels rolled for 3 hours and 2 minutes, i.e., averaged 60 mph through one traffic jam and a few slowdowns. All in all, it was maybe 20 minutes longer than my usual drive. I am not a blatant speeder; I set the cruise control at 5 mph over the limit.
So much for "good luck getting from downtown Portland to downtown Seattle in less than four hours on a regular basis." I regularly do it in 2-1/2 to 3 hours, plus a brief rest stop. I give the gritty details in hopes that the choo-choo train fetishists will maybe once tell the truth about the alternatives.
Posted Sun, Jul 1, 11:55 a.m.
Any significant investment in rail passenger service has to be paid for by luring travelers from their automobiles and from airplanes. That fact cannot be avoided. Does rail travel have the appeal to do that? I doubt it. It is relatively slow, less accessible to our dispersed population than automobiles and is merely equal to bus transit. Maybe more accessible than airports but not dramatically so. The investment is a gamble. If there are energy savings to rail transportation they are miniscule (even with a full load of passengers a train is less energy efficient than my Prius). It might be easier to convince Americans to travel less than to take the train when they do. Surely worth a try.
Posted Sun, Jul 1, 12:47 p.m.
kieth, at least you're honest about the "progressive" agenda, which is to confine people. You get a silver star for honesty.
Posted Sat, Nov 17, 2:13 p.m.
The Texas statements above are incorrect.
The impediment to the two European private companies in the 1990s who wanted to build a train was not the car industry, it was state legislature lobbying by a well-known airline, a line identified by the part of the country it originally served.
Second, the triangle more fittingly entailed San Antonio as the original apex, Austin is close to San Antonio, but to exclude a 2 million major urban area was part of the reason the latter attempts at a Texas T-bone which connected service in the midpoint between San Antonio and Dallas failed.
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Thanks for your blog. I have found it most helpful. Earlier this spring we gave away our King Plush Simmons Beautyrest Chadfield mattress because it was sinking on one side. While we loved the support of the simmons, our experience with quality (which I have read from your blog) was horrible.
Anyway since then I feel like I have been in mattress hell trying to find a good mattress. We first bought a basic Comfortaire bed (similar to a sleep number bed). While the customer service was superb, we ended up returning it. Our backs were killing us!
I have scoliosis with an 18 degree curve on the side I love to sleep on and my husband has a bulging disk in his lower back. We are not very large people. Also my husband struggles with restless legs syndrome so a bed that would reduce motion is helpful.
We then bought from Costco a novafoam memory bed. I didn't realize it, but this is a FIRM bed. It hurt! We added a 2 inch mattress topper made of 4 lb density but now I hurt, because I am sinking too much. Thankfully Costco said they will take it back.
I only want to buy 1 more mattress. And was hoping for some guidance from you. I was thinking that since we both liked the support the simmons oftered in it's early days, that we would try to find a mattress to recreate that. I read on your blog that S & F make a higher quality mattress that might have a similar feel to the simmons because of the coil system.
I am going mattress shopping soon...would those be the mattresses you recommend I try? I had really wanted to stay under $1000, but now I just want to sleep without pain! I've also contemplated a latex mattress, but have been afraid, since the other "alternative" mattresses did not work out so well!
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Hi Kim. The S&Fs are a good choice. I'd suggest staying with a luxury firm, as your backs require a firmer support. You can always add a topper if you want the surface to be softer...which doesn't hinder that support.
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Gas prices continue to fall for fourth straight week Delaware drivers saw another drop in the cost of fueling up at the pump last week as the national average of the cost of a gallon of gasoline fell for the fourth straight week. Triple A Mid Atlantic reports the cost of a gallon of unleaded regular dropped 2 cents over the weekend to a statewide average of $3.45. Auto Club spokeswoman Jana Tidwell says the recent decline is good news for drivers who have been paying the highest calendar day price since August. She says the national average for a price of gas could fall to between $3.25 and $3.40 per gallon in time for Thanksgiving and gas prices could continue to fall further by the end of the year. |
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I bottled a 114.5 IBU IPA almost two weeks ago. I tasted a couple of them yesterday and they are still incredibly sugary. Will another week or longer get rid of the priming sugar? I mean, I love really hoppy beers and this one is so sweet I can hardly taste the hops.
Did you taste before adding priming sugar? At two weeks you definately shouldnt notice anything. It should be barely noticeable at bottling given the amount you are adding.
Just brewed my Belma IPA a few weeks back, let it sit 3-4 weeks, then bottled, and it is cloyingly sweet. Don't know what happened ....
I did taste before adding sugar and it was pretty good. Now it seems it isnt mellowing out. Kinda bummed but gonna give it another week or two.
what was the FG? Did they ferment out all the way? What kind of yeast did you use? Sometimes very big beers with a lot of unfermentable sugars may taste sweet.
Do you have a link to the recipe or kit? What did OG and FG look like? Time can usually heal all wounds (beer related), although depending on hop schedule you might lose some aroma. All that said I generally wait the standard three weeks before passing judgement.
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How did you prime? How much sugar did you use? At what temp are the bottles sitting?
You used 4 OUNCES of sugar to prime, not POUNDS, right? lol
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I do not believe you should give the Portuguese Ambassador any reason to hope that we can support Portugal's position in Timor. Prime Minister has already made clear to Salazar our belief that the principle of self-determination should be applied to the Portuguese overseas territories and we are at present considering the desirability of re-iterating this warning in the context of likely discussions on Timor in the Committee of Twenty-four.
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I got one too this year (Palatine or Pickering, I can't remember which). It really does have some nice blooms and a beautiful creamy color. I can't wait until mine really gets established! Tammy |
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WITH less than a week left for this absolutely wonderful month of Ramadan to arrive, it is time to see if we are prepared enough to welcome it. Also to refresh whether we understand Ramadan, or sawm, which is also the fourth pillar of Islam?
Most of us have the notion that fasting is merely to refrain from eating and drinking from dawn to dusk, which is but a minor part of fasting. The purpose of Ramadan is much more deep and significant.
Abstaining from lying, slandering, backbiting and sinning is as much part of the fasting too. The word siyam (singular sawm) is derived from sama, which means to refrain from all sinful activities and from eating and drinking. If a person refrains from these things, he is a saim.
Let us all take a resolution for this holy month, it won't be only about fasting and the tempting and appetizing iftaar and shopping, but much more.
The month of Ramadan, Allah calls upon his believers, is a month when the doors of paradise are opened and when those of hell are locked; a month when previous sins are forgiven and plenty of good deeds and the pleasure of Allah can be earned.
We are rewarded with this month every year but what do we make out of it? Take it as a challenge this year and the challenge is not about making stamina to fast for 13 hours or so in a very hot climate, but the real challenge is to taking use of the fasting day with ibadah whilst doing your daily work and chores.
Reading a few chapters of Qur'an every day, saying Tahajjud prayers and going to the masjid for Fajr without fail must be part of the every day of the month.
Make a vow to make this Ramadan constructive and gainful. A month to get rid of your bad deeds and to rectify yourself to become a better Muslim.
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I get creeped out big time by insects, and these ads only make matters worse. Boecker Public Health are serious about getting their message across to you, "Every year pests are respnsible for over 2 millon deaths." The Lebanese company provides pest control services for hospitals, hotels, restaurants, food processing units, business and house complexes.
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- Seminal UK Ska Band The Beat Join EMI Music Publishing
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EMI Artists and Songwriters Among Winners at the 54th Annual Grammys
LOS ANGELES – EMI writers and artists Kanyé West, Lady Antebellum, Corinne Bailey Rae, Chris Tomlin, Levon Helm and Joyce DiDonato were among the winner's at this year's Grammy Awards which were unveiled tonight in Los Angeles. Also honoured was EMI's Paul Epworth who won the Best Producer, Non Classical award. This year's Record Of The Year and Song Of The Year winner, "Rolling In The Deep" by Adele, was co-written and co-produced by Epworth. The show also included the first live performance in more than 20 years by all the surviving members of iconic band The Beach Boys who have reunited this year for their 50th anniversary.
EMI Group CEO Roger Faxon said: "Congratulations to all our winning artists and writers on these richly deserved successes. Their achievements across such varied genres and categories is a testament to their amazing talents, and everyone at EMI is so privileged to work with these incredible musicians. The live performances were fantastic and it was such a thrill to see the reunited Beach Boys back on stage together once again."
EMI Music Publishing-signed Kanyé West went into this year's Grammys with more nominations than any other artist and won four awards, bringing his career total to a remarkable 18 so far. Tonight he won the Grammys for Best Rap Performance for "Otis" with fellow EMI Music Publishing writer Jay-Z, Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for "All Of The Lights" with Kid Cudi, Fergie and EMI Music Publishing's Rihanna, and Best Rap Album for 'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy'. "All Of The Lights" also won the Best Rap Song songwriter award.
EMI Music Publishing songwriter/producer Paul Epworth was honoured with the Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical Grammy for his recent work on many hugely successful songs including hits by Foster The People, Cee-Lo Green and Adele, including her global smash and this year's Record Of The Year and Song Of The Year "Rolling In The Deep".
After taking home an incredible five Grammys last year, Capitol Records Nashville trio Lady Antebellum won the award for Best Country Album for their third studio set, 'Own The Night', which debuted at number one in both the Billboard Top 200 and Country album charts when it was released last September. Band member Hillary Scott is also signed to EMI Music Publishing.
Corinne Bailey Rae collected her second Grammy for Best R&B Performance for her creative and emotional cover of Bob Marley's "Is This Love" from her Parlophone/Capitol Records EP 'The Love'. Bailey Rae's previous Grammy win was in 2008 for her work on Herbie Hancock's "River: The Joni Letters".
Other Grammy winners tonight included sixsteprecords/Sparrow's Chris Tomlin who picked up the Best Contemporary Christian Christian Album for 'And If Our God Is For Us...', Levon Helm who won Best Americana Album for the Vanguard Records/Dirt Farmer Music release 'Ramble At The Ryman', and Joyce DiDonato who won Best Classical Vocal Solo for her critically-acclaimed Virgin Classics album 'Diva, Divo'. Following the tragic death of Amy Winehouse last year, her recording with Tony Bennett for his 'Duets II' album was honoured twice in the Best Pop Duo/Group Performance and Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album categories. Amy's catalogue is represented by EMI Music Publishing.
The Awards show at the Staples Center in Los Angeles included a number of stunning live performances from EMI artists including Coldplay, Katy Perry, Rihanna, Glen Campbell, David Guetta, deadmau5 and The Beach Boys who were joined by Foster The People and Maroon 5 for the first performance in more than two decades by all the surviving members of the iconic American band.
Afterwards EMI's artists and songwriters celebrated at the biggest after-show party of the year at the legendary building of EMI's Capitol Records in Hollywood. Sponsored by GreenLight Music, the industry's first online music synch licensing solution for iconic music, and by Patrón Tequila, the party took the form of an incredible carnival around the foot of the landmark Los Angeles building.
The full list of EMI Music and EMI Music Publishing Grammy honours is as follows:
Record Of The Year
"Rolling In The Deep" – Adele (co-written and produced by EMI Music Publishing's Paul Epworth)
Song Of The Year
"Rolling In The Deep" – performed by Adele, co-written and produced by EMI Music Publishing's Paul Epworth
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
"Body And Soul" - Tony Bennett & Amy Winehouse
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
'Duets II' - Tony Bennett & Various Artists [including Amy Winehouse]
Best R&B Performance
"Is This Love" - Corinne Bailey Rae
Best Rap Performance
"Otis" - Jay-Z & Kanyé West
Best Rap/Sung Collaboration
"All Of The Lights" - Kanyé West, Rihanna, Kid Cudi & Fergie
Best Rap Song
"All Of The Lights" - songwriters Jeff Bhasker, Stacy Ferguson, Malik Jones, Warren Trotter & Kanyé West
Best Rap Album
'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy' - Kanyé West
Best Country Album
'Own The Night' - Lady Antebellum
Best Contemporary Christian Music Album
'And If Our God Is For Us...' - Chris Tomlin
Best Americana Album
'Ramble At The Ryman' – Levon Helm
Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical
Paul Epworth – projects include "Call It What You Want" (Foster The People), "No One's Gonna Love You" (Cee-Lo Green) and Song Of The Year and Record Of The Year Grammy winner "Rolling In The Deep" (Adele)
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