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Sponsored by
the Federal
Transit Administration
Guidebook for Rural Demand-
Response Transportation:
Measuring, Assessing, and
Improving Performance
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Ann August
Santee Wateree Regional Transportation Authority CHAIR: Adib K. Kanafani, Cahill Professor of Civil Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
VICE CHAIR: Michael R. Morris, Director of Transportation, North Central Texas Council of
MEMBERS Governments, Arlington
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Raul V. Bravo & Associates Larry L. Brown, Sr., Executive Director, Mississippi DOT, Jackson
John B. Catoe, Jr.
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Deborah H. Butler, Executive Vice President, Planning, and CIO, Norfolk Southern Corporation,
Gregory Cook Norfolk, VA
Veolia Transportation William A.V. Clark, Professor, Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles
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GO Transit Sandra Rosenbloom, Professor of Planning, University of Arizona, Tucson
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Motor Coach Industries
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Guidebook for Rural
Demand-Response Transportation:
Measuring, Assessing, and
Improving Performance
Elizabeth Ellis
Bethesda, MD
Brian McCollom
Darnestown, MD
Subject Areas
Public Transit
Research sponsored by the Federal Transit Administration in cooperation with the Transit Development Corporation
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Field of Service Configuration
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The research conducted for this Guidebook was performed under TCRP Project B-31 by the KFH
Group, Inc., with assistance from McCollom Management Consulting, Inc.
Elizabeth (Buffy) Ellis, AICP, of the KFH Group was the Principal Investigator for the project and pri-
mary author of the Guidebook. Ken Hosen and Beth Hamby of the KFH Group assisted with the research
and data collection from the demand-response transportation (DRT) systems participating in the proj-
ect. Brian McCollom of McCollom Management Consulting contributed to preparation of the chapter
on performance data and definitions. Sue Knapp and Ken Hosen of the KFH Group provided review and
advice throughout the project.
The research team gratefully appreciates the assistance and support of Dianne Schwager, TCRP Senior
Program Officer for the project, and of the Project Panel, whose members provided valuable guidance
and continuity for this second phase of the research project. We also want to sincerely thank the rural
DRT systems that participated in the research project. The system managers took time from their
demanding schedules to provide us data, information, and insights on their efforts to improve their DRT
services; for that, the research team is very appreciative.
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By Dianne Schwager
Staff Officer
Transportation Research Board
TCRP Report 136: Guidebook for Rural Demand-Response Transportation: Measuring,
Assessing, and Improving Performance will be of interest to rural public transportation sys-
tems that provide demand-response transit (DRT) services and to the communities they
serve. The Guidebook is a resource to assist DRT systems to measure, assess, and improve
their performance, focusing on DRT systems in rural areas.
This Guidebook has been prepared under TCRP Project B-31, "Guidebook for Measur-
ing, Assessing, and Improving Performance of Demand-Response Transportation." The
research project produced two guidebooks. The first focused on DRT systems in urban areas
and was published in 2008 as TCRP Report 124: Guidebook for Measuring, Assessing, and
Improving Performance of Demand-Response Transportation. This is TCRP Project B-31's
second guidebook and, given the important distinctions between DRT in rural and urban
areas, it addresses rural DRT.
The research team followed a similar methodology in developing the Guidebook for
rural DRT as was followed for the project's first guidebook, which included
� Developing a typology of rural DRT systems based on criteria affecting performance,
� Defining key performance data and a limited set of performance measures for DRT,
� Identifying the various factors that influence DRT performance,
� Collecting performance data from DRT systems representative of the defined categories,
� Identifying actions that rural DRT systems have implemented to improve their performance,
� Documenting quantitative and qualitative effects on performance from those actions.
While this Guidebook focuses on rural DRT, it shares some similarities with TCRP
Report 124, the urban Guidebook, particularly with the identification of factors that influ-
ence DRT performance and the background discussion on the development of the DRT
typology. It is also noted that the rural Guidebook provides only limited information
related to Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) paratransit service because most rural
DRT systems do not provide this type of DRT. Those rural systems interested in ADA
paratransit and its performance may want to refer to the urban Guidebook for more
Improving DRT performance requires an understanding of the characteristics of DRT
and the environment within which it operates. Improving performance also requires that
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DRT systems measure where they are now and the progress of their performance over time.
To do so, DRT systems need consistent data and clearly defined performance measures,
which will facilitate their own internal assessment as well as comparisons of performance
across the industry. Once DRT systems have assessed their performance and documented
where they stand relative to their own service and compared with others, opportunities for
improvement can then be considered.
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1 Chapter 1 Introduction
1 1.1 Development of Guidebook and Relationship to TCRP Report 124
2 1.2 Guidebook Organization
3 Chapter 2 Rural DRT and Why Performance Matters
3 2.1 Rural DRT--It's Different
4 2.2 The Rural Transit Environment
7 2.3 What Does All This Mean for Rural DRT Performance Assessment?
10 Chapter 3 Performance Data for Rural DRT
10 3.1 Performance Data--Which Data Elements Are Particularly Important?
10 3.2 Performance Data for Rural DRT: Now There Is NTD
11 3.3 Key Performance Data for Rural DRT Performance Assessment
18 3.4 Other Performance Data for Rural DRT Performance Assessment
22 3.5 Rural DRT--Performance Data to Measure Transit Impact
23 Chapter 4 Performance Measures for Rural DRT
23 4.1 Key Performance Measures for Assessing Rural DRT
29 4.2 Additional Performance Measures
31 4.3 Transit-Impact Performance Measures
33 Chapter 5 Assessing Performance--A Typology of Rural DRT
33 5.1 Factors Influencing Rural DRT Performance
36 5.2 Different Methodologies for Assessing DRT Performance
38 5.3 Categorization of Rural DRT Systems
46 Chapter 6 Performance Data from Representative Systems
46 6.1 Rural Systems Participating as Representative Systems
49 6.2 Comparing Your Performance Against Other Systems--Performance Data
of Representative Rural DRT Systems
55 6.3 Summary Rural DRT Performance Data
59 Chapter 7 Improving Performance
59 7.1 Actions for Improving Rural DRT Performance
61 7.2 Performance Improvement Actions--More Details and Selected Experience
86 References
88 Appendix A Rural NTD Data, Demand-Response-Only
Systems, 2007 Report Year
89 Appendix B Summary Performance Data and System
Characteristics by Individual System for
Representative Rural DRT Systems, FY07 Data


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Review: Mother aka Earthbound Zero (Famicom)
Console: Famicom
Released: 1989
Developer: Ape
Publisher: Nintendo
Instruction Manual: None released outside of Japan
Difficulty: Difficult
Played it as a child? No
Value: N/A – No official US release, most versions are fan translations and prototype carts have no official price
Other Releases: Yes – This game was updated and re-released in Japan on GBA as Mother 1 + 2
Digital Release? Yes – Although technically not true. Digital fan translations to English are available but not really legal.
Thanks to a strong and devoted fan community and some odd ambiguity with Nintendo's releases of this series, Mother (known as Earthbound Zero with most circles that play english translations) has got to be one of the hardest series to cover. Having never played Earthbound (Mother 2 in Japan) I did the traditional completionist thing and started with the original game, which is extremely dated by almost all RPG standards. Mother suffers from everything I dread about going into retro role-playing games: a ton of grinding (or "meat walls"), constant random encounters, no true direction as to where to go next, casual dungeons with incredibly hard boss battles, slow pacing, and a limited inventory system. Not only that, anytime you try to look up help on this game, everyone who's written about it has played the game a million times and speaks so condescending of people who get stuck that you feel like an idiot. That's because Mother has a small but incredibly devoted community that feels this game and its sequels are the apex of game design. Despite all these faults, the charm of the writing and what it was doing at the time was enough to keep me invested until the grueling end.
Mother tells the story of Ninten (I believe some translations name him Ness after the name for the character in Earthbound), a 12-year-old boy living in the late 1980s that discovers he has psychic abilities after a paranormal event occurs at his house. Subsequently an adventure unfolds where Ninten traverses several towns and dungeons completing several tasks from finding a girl in a graveyard to saving the world as we know it. Along the way he finds a few friends that join his party and by the end of the game it somewhat emulates the battle structure of Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest. Towns are named after holidays (or at least they are in the english version), what we know of as magic is "psi" powers, and careful attention to what is said must be taken to keep track of where to go and what to do next. Much like other JRPGs of the time period, the map is vast and there's not much to keep you from exploring so you can get lost easily and die even easier. Since you can only save in towns, this can be problematic and typically the best solution is to grind like crazy and level yourself up. This makes continuing in the game's relatively meager main plot drag as you consistently stop to grind for an hour or two after getting pummeled in a dungeon or new area. It's not all bad, though, because just like Dragon Warrior you are simply returned to the place where you last saved and your money is halved, but all progress and items collected remain on your person. As I said before, this game is chock full of charm because of its non-fantasy setting, which makes for hilarious conversions of role-playing conventions. Instead of armor, you wear hats and coats. Instead of swords and shields, you pick up slingshots, baseball bats, and even boards with nails in them. Instead of traditional enemies you will confront hippies, smoking crows, and even weird alien life forms. You gain money for battle, like with most games of the genre, but instead of instantly receiving it you have to get it from your father at the ATM, who is a disembodied voice you only interact with on the phone. All of this ties together to be the ultimate mockery on modern culture: absent working father, mother who lets you risk life and limb to save the world, towns that just shrug off hostile zoo takeovers and zombie-infested graveyards with kidnapped kids.
This is only the beginning of Ninten's larger adventure and once you start throwing in other factors like transdimensional travel, the game gets complicated fast. I did not play this with a guide, although I wish I had because much like a Sierra adventure game from the nineties, you can get stuck and upon looking up the solution discover that you've got a world of backtracking to do for one single item or quest. This is when the bare inventory system becomes a slog on your progress. Since Ninten can only hold six items from the start, holding a quest item along with a couple of healing items makes discovering anything new quite the chore. You will consistently need to store items in boxes scattered around the world (but only in towns, of course) and with the several reasons to be forced back into town (reviving teammates at hospitals, taking/leaving items, saving at the inn) the pace of the game slows to a crawl. It's not surprising considering this game was developed by a famous Japanese writer, Shigesato Itoi, because the overall plot and dialogue seems well planned out and is entertaining while the gameplay aspects of this title make it hard to recommend. If you can, play this on a portable of some kind in smaller 30-60 min doses over the course of a month or so (it took me just over 35 hours to complete the campaign). I also must admit that I've read some things on Earthbound and even listened to a podcast or two discussing the plot and I feel that this game is extremely similar in terms of what happens: you need to find melodies in both, the cast seems to be identical, Gyiyg is the final boss (he's renamed to Gyiygus in Earthbound). Knowing all that, I'm betting that Earthbound is just an overall better game that tells a similar story, so unless you're a fan of the series there's little need to play the first game. I'm sure there will be references, but I know for a fact that each game tells a story that's self-contained.
Mother released in Japan in 1989 and by that time gamers had already experienced a couple of Dragon Quests and a couple of Final Fantasy titles as well, so it's hard to say that Mother couldn't have taken the lessons from these games and applied them to a better design here. This is probably best explained by the fact that Mother didn't consider itself to have much in common with those games because it's not taking a fantasy setting and definitely not trying to emulate Dungeons & Dragons. Additionally it was developed in-house by Nintendo (Shigeru Miyamoto was even the producer on it) and they had little experience creating an RPG so the fact that it turned out as decent as it did is admirably. Still, the game is a 10 hour experience begrudgingly stretched to nearly four times that size by backtracking, complicated quests, and endless grinding. Not only that but it feels like you can't walk more than a few steps in certain areas without being constantly bum-rushed by enemies. There's also a major balance issue and the fact that quite a few bosses have a gimmick to beating them that you don't much time to discover. An example of this is a Starman, who is an early boss at the zoo: he can deal nearly fatal damage in one attack, doesn't seem to be remotely concerned with your attack, and simply needs to be tied up with rope to beat. Unfortunately you may have not discovered the rope on your way to him or not had enough inventory slots to pick it up when you found it. You may not know to use the rope and you'd have to die a dozen times to figure this out. You may get killed by an instant critical hit before even getting a chace to tie him up first. Given the fact that the zoo is in a remote area and to travel to it and reach Starman can take up to 30 minutes each go, this can be an early example of why you would want to quit before too long (and it only gets worse from there). If you hang in there and eventually save the world, the extended ending from the english translation does nicely wrap the plot and feels quite rewarding. Oh well, it wasn't the most productive mass of hours I've ever spent, but at least I can check it off of the "games I'm ashamed I haven't played" list.
The Sordid Tale of Earthbound Zero
Mother is one of those anomalies that spawns from several frustrating decisions of Nintendo near the end of the NES console cycle. Mother was fully translated and localized by Phil Sandhop and slated for release on the NES in 1991. With the appearance of the Super NES the same year, Mother, which was named Earth Bound for the US, was permanently delayed in the interest of focusing on SNES releases instead. Similar considerations were made for Final Fantasy II and III, which would be SNES games in America and actually FF IV and IV, so just like Mother we never saw those later Famicom titles. It was probably a smart business decision too because Enix decided to ignore this precedence and release Dragon Warrior III and IV in the US after the SNES release and both suffered horrible sales. As a result, we never got Dragon Warrior (Quest) V on the SNES in America. Instead, Mother 2, which was developed by nearly the same team and talent, was translated and also named Earthbound (obviously with a slight title change) and released in America. This title was huge and sold with an equally large price tag of up to $100 on release, which is why it released in a huge box and included scratch-and-sniff stickers and a full game guide (which I'm told was definitely necessary). It also suffered poor sales and along with the comparatively larger fan population in America, the title sells for $200+ for cart only, more than $500 for a complete version and several thousand (as much as $10,000) for a sealed copy.
During the mid-late 90s when fans tried digging up copies of the original to translate for emulation in english, the prototype of the completed english title was discovered and released on the web. It was later confirmed that the copies of Earth Bound in english that were found were, in fact, translated by Phil Sandhop and not Demiforce, the hacker group that discovered the game. This is further backed by the re-release of Mother in Japan on the GBA has all the enhancements and changes from the english version. To help gamers and anyone who looked for the game from being confused by the same title, Mother has been renamed and is better known these days as Earthbound Zero. Of all the unreleased and prototype NES titles I've seen and researched over the years, Mother/Earthbound Zero is easily the most "ready to ship" title I've ever come across. You have to wonder what the market for this series would be like in America had Earthbound Zero been released. Perhaps more would have played the game and been turned off by the difficulty ramp and discouraged Nintendo from taking the risk to release the sequel. The more likely theory is that it would have celebrated success (it sold more than 400,000 copies in Japan) and more people would have purchased Earthbound (or whatever it would be called) and brought down the rarity from America's $200 price tag to Japan's much more appropriate $30-$40.
Podcast: Tis the Season
For our holiday show, Fred is joined by Shawn Freeman of Knuckleballer Radio and Rob "Trees" O'Connor from EZ Mode Unlocked to discuss the holiday releases of days passed. With a plan to cover 20 years of releases we only get through five (1985-1989), but plenty of fond memories are shared.
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Review: Christmas Nights Into Dreams (Saturn)
Console: Saturn
Released: December 1996
Developer: Sonic Team
Publisher: Sega
Instruction Manual: It did not have one – manual of the original game should suffice
Difficulty: Easy
Played it as a child? Yes
Value: $24.25 (used), $56.00 (new) (pricecharting.com)
Other Releases: Yes – A Japan only PS2 remake of Nights Into Dreams includes the Christmas content
Digital Release? Yes – included in the HD remake of Nights Into Dreams on XBLA and PSN, certain content removed (see below)
Christmas Nights Into Dreams is significant for several reasons, but most of all it's one of the only Christmas themed games to ever come out. No, seriously, look through the vaults of retro console history, this is a holiday that is rarely celebrated save for games that focus on certain days (Animal Crossing, for example). In the winter of 1996 Sega was already in big trouble with the Saturn. At only about a year and a half old, Sony's Playstation was killing it in terms of sales and there were few exclusive titles that generated any kind of buzz. Even Sonic, the faithful hedgehog that always seemed to sweep in and save Sega's butt, hadn't released a real game yet. Not only that, but this was the Christmas release of the Nintendo 64 and Mario 64 was selling out consoles nationwide. Nights Into Dreams was the only recent release on the Saturn that appealed to the typical gamer and with its colorful aesthetic, roots in platforming, and Sonic Team developer it was Sega's best bet for the holidays. Under these circumstances Christmas Nights invaded the market in several forms from being a free pack-in with Christmas console bundles (that already included Nights), inside several magazines, a mail away/in store offer with certain game purchases, and even for rent at Blockbuster Video. This "sampler" title was everywhere, but only for about 45 days, and now it's one of the more rare and sought after pieces of a retro gamer's collection.
When you first boot it up, the game isn't really much. You get to play as either of Nights protagonists Elliot and Claris in the Spring Valley level from the original game. Claris was the only character who could play this dream in the original game, so to be able to play Elliot complete with different item layout was somewhat of a treat. It's a short run, only probably 10-20 minutes depending on your familiarity and exploration, which was as much a demo back then as it is now. The devil is in the details with this game, though, because it has a ton of hidden content to explore. Depending on the game clock you can get several special versions of Christmas Nights including a heavily adapted Christmas theme if your clock reads December, New Year's and Halloween also receive special aesthetics, and playing on April Fools will let you play as Reala (Nights' nemesis) instead of Nights when you change. You can also unlock a speed mode, sound test, and a few other extras like artwork and visual options. Probably my favorite unlockable is Sonic the Hedgehog: Into Dreams, which lets you play through the level as Sonic the Hedgehog without the ability to transform into Nights and the boss, Puffy, is instead Dr. Robotnik.
Sure, when you tell someone about this title, especially with online prices for this game starting around $35 and getting as high as a $100 asking price, it's a tough sell. For those of us who picked it up when it was nothing more than a throw away demo disc, forgotten in the "no case" bin of your local FuncoLand or GameStop that was liquidating Saturn inventory, it was a robust find. I think I paid $10 for mine and I was surprised to find out about all the extra content years after picking it up. It's not like the content is hidden by any means, I just had no interest back when I brought it home amidst a stack of games. If you happen to own the HD remake on 360/PS3, the Christmas Nights content does unlock after completing the game, although I'm not sure about the non-Christmas holiday motifs, much of the extra content has been stripped, and Sonic the Hedgehog: Into Dreams is gone as well. For fans of the original Nights that have about an hour to kill and get all festive in the holiday spirit, it's a great Christmas Eve game. Given its high price and frankly unjust amount of content, I've created a gameplay video to show you what all the fuss is about. Merry Christmas!
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San Antonio's Stephen Jackson returned to the court Monday night after missing a game with a sprained ankle. An injury he got last Thursday reportedly when colliding with a waitress kneeling courtside at the Knicks game to give New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg his drink.
Bloomberg told the New York Post that it wasn't the waitress, that he actually pushed Jackson on the play.
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Nadia: A septuagenarian nun was allegedly gangraped by robbers in Nadia district on Saturday morning triggering blockade of road and rail tracks as West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee ordered a CID probe into the incident. According to authorities of the local convent school in Ranaghat sub-division, the gang broke into...
Afghan central bank branch employees raid their own bank and run
February 22, 2015
Staff at a branch of Afghanistan's central bank in southern Kandahar province may have got away with as much as 81 million Afghanis ($1.4 million) when they robbed their own bank and ran, an official said on Saturday.Security cameras showed the bank's vault had been cleaned out, but investigators were...
Mumbai: Security guard spikes colleagues' tea, loots Rs 2 crore from ATM cash van
January 17, 2015
Mumbai: In a daring daylight heist, a security van carrying Rs two crore to be deposited in ATM centres was looted this afternoon in suburban Vile Parle by four persons, including one of the employees of the security firm, police said on Friday. According to police, the incident took place...
8,973 criminal cases with senior citizens as victims in India
December 23, 2014
New Delhi: As many as 8,973 criminal cases, in which senior citizens were victims, have been registered in the country till October this year and cheating and robbery accounted for maximum numbers of cases, Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday. The maximum number of 2,257 cases...
Bengaluru: Robbery attempt foiled as passersby catch man who robbed woman inside ATM
December 7, 2014
Bengaluru: A robbery attempt was foiled in Bengaluru as passersby caught the man who robbed a woman inside an ATM of Punjab National Bank on Friday evening in Vasanth Nagar area. The incident took place when the woman and her friend had gone to the ATM to withdraw cash. As there...
Delhi: Robbers caught on camera after looting Rs 1.5 crore from ATM Cash Van
December 4, 2014
CNN-BN has accessed CCTV footage of the Kamala Nagar ATM robbery that took place last week. The robbers can be seen running away in the mobile footage that was shot at the time of the incident. The robbers shot at the guard stationed outside the van when he tried to...
No breakthrough yet in over Rs 1 crore ATM heist in North Delhi
November 30, 2014
New Delhi: Delhi Police are yet to make any headway in the daring ATM heist in North Delhi in which a security guard was killed, even as investigations reveal glaring security lapses on part of the cash replenishment agency. Although police has so far questioned more than 100 people including...
Daylight heist in Delhi, robbers caught on camera after looting Rs 1.5 crore from ATM Cash Van
November 29, 2014
Delhi: A cash van of a private bank in Kamla Nagar area of Delhi was robbed of Rs 1.5 crore in broad daylight on Saturday morning after two men on a bike shot the security guard stationed at the spot. The robbers can be seen running away in the mobile...
Delhi: Bank cash van robbed of Rs 1.5 crore, guard shot at remains critical
November 29, 2014
Delhi: A cash van of a private bank in Kamla Nagar area of Delhi was robbed of Rs 1.5 crore in broad daylight on Saturday morning. The robbers shot at the guard stationed outside the van when he tried to retaliate. The guard remains critical. Two men on bike committed the...
Coimbatore: Rs 1.70 crore of gold ornaments stolen from financial firm
November 24, 2014
Coimbatore: Gold ornaments worth Rs 1.70 crore and Rs 5.6 lakh in cash were stolen from a city- based private financial firm dealing in gold loans, police said. A woman sweeper noticed the main doors of the firm at Kovaipudur area open and informed the security guard. He in turn...
Madhya Pradesh: Woman thrown off running train after alleged rape attempt
November 20, 2014
New Delhi: In yet another shocking incident of crime against women in Madhya Pradesh a young woman was thrown off a train after an alleged rape attempt. The victim who is a professional from Delhi was thown off a train in Madhya Pradesh near Sagar. The girl was found unconcious...
Taxi driver rapes Delhi-based woman, throws her and friend off a cliff near Dehradun
November 11, 2014
Dehradun: A Delhi-based woman was allegedly raped and murdered while her male friend was killed by a taxi driver and his three accomplices near Dehradun in Uttarakhand, a police official said on Tuesday. The 27-year-old woman, identified as Moumita Das, and her 24-year-old companion Avijit Paul had arrived in Dehradun on...
DNA from toilet leads police to burglary suspect as he forgot to flush after robbing house of jewellery
October 30, 2014
Albuquerque, NM: Police in Albuquerque say a man suspected of a $250,000 heist should have flushed the evidence he left behind. KOAT-TV reports investigators tied Ramon Herrera to the September burglary using DNA left on a toilet. Police say the 33-year-old relieved himself while taking $250,000 worth of jewelry from a...
Sonipat robbery: PMO sends top officials to visit the crime spot
October 29, 2014
Sonipat: A day after a shocking heist in Sonipat, where burglars used a 80 feet tunnel to break into a Punjab National Bank, the the Prime Minister's Office has dispatched one of its top officials to the site. The burglars had stolen crores of rupees and valuables from 90 lockers. The...
Sonipat: Burglars dig 80 feet tunnel to break into a bank, steal crores
October 28, 2014
Sonipat: A shocking heist in Haryana has left police officers stumped as the burglars dug a 80 feet tunnel to break into a Punjan National Bank in Sonipat. Burglars have stolen crores of rupees and valuables from 90 lockers. The incident came to light on Monday morning when the bank was opened...
Arkansas man who dropped his state-issued ID card outside store he robbed sentenced to 12 years in prison
October 20, 2014
Fort Smith, Ark.: An Arkansas man who dropped his state-issued identification card outside of a gas station he robbed has been sentenced to 12 years in prison. The Southwest Times Record reports that 21-year-old Malcolm Thomas was sentenced Wednesday after accepting a deal with prosecutors. He pleaded guilty to the robbery...
Good guy robber: Remorseful robber waits for police after Washington state heist
October 15, 2014
Seattle: A suspected robber with a guilty conscience walked out of a Washington state bank with stolen cash on Tuesday then waited outside the building for police to arrest him, police said. The 64-year-old man walked into a Banner Bank branch in Bellingham early on Tuesday and handed a teller a...
Cyclone Hudhud: Chaos in Vizag, locals loot essential supplies, water costs Rs 250 per litre, milk Rs 100
October 14, 2014
Visakhapatnam: As Visakhapatnam tries to limp back to normalcy after the destruction caused by Cyclone Hudhud, there is a mad scramble for food, water and fuel in the affected areas. The situation is tense with people stopping trucks, mobbing relief officers and looting supplies. The police have been resorting to...
Rs 23 lakh goes missing from cash van
October 8, 2014
New Delhi: Around Rs 23 lakh went missing from a cash van in Central Delhi's Paharganj area on Tuesday evening under mysterious circumstances. The incident took place around 6:15 PM when the cash van, which belonged to a private company, reached an ATM at Paharganj. "As a couple of its staff...
Ahmedabad: Jeweller distracted by 'fallen notes' tricked, robbed
September 26, 2014
Ahmedabad: A Mumbai-based jeweller was relieved of a bag containing jewellery worth Rs 90 lakh outside a police chowky near Parimal garden area on Friday evening, police said. According to the complaint filed by Pradeep Dhakan he and his brother Pravin had come here to sell ornaments to jewellers. ...
Watch: Incredible GoPro footage shows cyclist barely escaping an armed robber in a rough neighbourhood in Buenos Aires
September 18, 2014
A man was on a bike tour in a rough part of Buenos Aires in Argentina in broad daylight when a thief attempted to steal his camera gear at gunpoint. The footage was captured as he happened to be recording with a GoPro strapped to his forehead. The armed man is...
In floodhit Srinagar, it's raining burglars and thieves
September 16, 2014
Srinagar: Leaving his family behind at a relief camp, Gulzar Ahmed swims every night to reach his house in inundated Gogji Bagh area and sleeps there to ensure that his belongings are safe. As the ravaging flood of Kashmir has emptied the city of its dwellers, the burglars in Srinagar...
No illegality in quashing FIR in lesser offences if parties reach compromise: SC
September 9, 2014
New Delhi: There is no illegality in quashing proceedings in matrimonial and civil property disputes if the parties have reached a compromise and there are no chances of conviction but the same would not apply in serious offences like rape, murder and robbery, the Supreme Court has said. "We are...
Andhra Pradesh: Thieves decamp with ATM machine with Rs 11 lakh inside
September 7, 2014
Srikakulam (AP): Unidentified persons stole an entire ATM machine of a nationalised bank containing about Rs 11 lakh in Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh on Sunday. The incident took place at Kotturu. The thieves entered the ATM kiosk early this morning, applied...
Robbers shoot 2 train passengers dead
August 17, 2014
Armed robbers shot dead two passengers aboard a Hatiabound train in Bihar, police said on Sunday. The robbers opened fire at passengers Saturday late in the night for resisting robbery attempt on the GorakhpurHatia Maurya Express near Hathidih railway station, some 110 km from here, Government Railway Police official Upender Kumar...
Wearing branded shoes and clothes, two men loot Rs 7.5 lakh from a temple in just 15 minutes
August 13, 2014
Wearing branded clothes and shoes, two members of a gang in Korba conducted a robbery at Sarvmangla Temple in just 15 minutes! According to a report published in Daily Bhaskar, the gang looted Rs 7.5 lakh from the temple. The incident has sent shock waves around the area. To catch the...
Six criminals rob man of foreign currency, ornaments
August 11, 2014
Six unidentified persons looted cash including foreign currency and other valuables worth Rs 3 lakhs from a man who was returning to his native village in Muzaffarnagarfrom Saudi Arabia, police said. Six armed men came in a car and intercepted the victim Nafis' car on DelhiDehradun National highway near here yesterday,...
3 teenagers loot Rs 32 lakh from a Nadaun bank near Hamirpur
August 9, 2014
Three teenagers in the age group of 1215 years allegedly looted Rs 32 lakh in a robbery this afternoon at a bank branch in Nadaun, 40km from Harimpur, policesaid. According to police, the robbery, which took place at a State Bank of India branch, was captured on CCTV camera and the...
Stolen Durga statue worth Rs 15 crore recovered
August 8, 2014
Two persons were arrested with a 50 kg 'ashtdhatu' statue worth Rs 15 crore from near Parsoiya crossing in the district, police said. Superintendent of Police, Amethi, Hira Lal told reporters today that two criminals Vikram Verma and Kuldeep Gupta were arrested on Friday. "A 50 kg astdhatu statue of Maa Durga...
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Eisenstein, J. P. and Stormer, H. L. and Pfeiffer, L. and West, K. W. (1989) Evidence for a phase transition in the fractional quantum Hall effect. Physical Review Letters, 62 (13). pp. 1540-1543. ISSN 0031-9007. http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:EISprl89
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We observe a novel transition between distinct fractional quantum Hall states sharing the same filling fraction ν=8/5. The transition is driven by tilting the two-dimensional electron-gas sample relative to the external magnetic field and is manifested by a sharp change in the dependence of the measured activation energy on tilt angle. After an initial decline, the activation energy abruptly begins to increase as the tilt angle exceeds about 30°. A plausible model for these results implies a transition from a spin-unpolarized quantum fluid at small angles to a polarized one at higher angles.
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Authorities are predicting the imminent arrest of Serbia's most wanted criminal, Darko Saric, who has been on the run for three years.
Serbian media are reporting that the Serbian police, together with US Drug Enforcement bodies, are undertaking intensive action on locating Darko Saric, a man seen as a major drug lord in southern Europe.
Prime Minister Ivica Dacic said this week that police were "on the track of locating the chief of the Balkan mafia and his arrest may be expected soon".
His deputy, Aleksandar Vucic, has previously said that "the circle around Saric is getting smaller, which will result in his arrest".
A specialist in organised crime, Vojislav Tufegdzic, said it was unusual for politicians to announce arrests in the media.
"Maybe their goal is to confuse Saric so he makes a wrong move and reveals where is he hiding… But this also can be seen as wishful thinking among Serbian politicians and a move that can score them political points," Tufegdzic told Radio Free Europe.
Saric, who is of Montenegrin origin but holds Serbian citizenship, allegedly leads an organised criminal group suspected of smuggling high quality cocaine from Latin America to Europe. He is currently at large.
Serbian prosecutors filed charges against Saric and 19 alleged associates in April 2010 on suspicion that they had trafficked in cocaine and laundered money.
The Serbian authorities say he heads a major drug trafficking network running from South Africa to Europe, and estimate that he has made more than €1 billion annually.
Vladimir Bozovic, state secretary in the Interior Ministry, said the ministry is investigating who gave a Serbian passport to Saric.
"I will insist on determining who gave Saric Serbian citizenship and why, who made it possible for him to buy private companies and which officials made it possible for him to buy land," Bozovic said.
Saric was last seen in South Africa, reportedly living under a pseudonym in the province of Gauteng, which contains the cities of Pretoria and Johannesburg.
South African police say they have located a man believed to be fugitive Darko Saric who is wanted by Serbia on drug smuggling charges.
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The 20th anniversary edition of 1982's Tron was recently released, and celebrates the neon-glow of the Mark Messier-helmeted peons with the high-tech remastering they deserve.
The surprising truth about Disney's 1982 computer-game fantasy is that it's still visually impressive (though technologically quaint by later high-definition standards) and a lot of fun.
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It's about a computer wizard named Flynn (Jeff Bridges) who is digitally broken down into a data stream by a villainous software pirate (David Warner) and reconstituted into the internal, 3-D graphical world of computers. It is there, in the blazingly colorful, geometrically intense landscapes of cyberspace, that Flynn joins forces with Tron (Bruce Boxleitner) to outmaneuver the Master Control program that holds them captive in the equivalent of a gigantic, infinitely challenging computer game. Disney's wizards used a variety of cinematic techniques and early-'80s state-of-the-art computer-generated graphics to accomplish their dynamic visual goals, and the result was a milestone in cyberentertainment, catering to technogeeks while providing a dazzling adventure for hackers and nonhackers alike. Appearing just in time to celebrate the nascent cyberpunk movement in science fiction, Tron received a decidedly mixed reaction when originally released, but has since become a high-tech favorite and a landmark in special effects, with a loyal following of fans. DVD is a perfect format for the movie's neon-glow color scheme, and the musical score by synthesizer pioneer Wendy Carlos is faithfully preserved on the digitally remastered soundtrack.
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Roots growing deeper at Montessori centre
One year on, the Making Roots Montessori Centre in Windsor Park has been a resounding hit.
Making Roots was founded by Kristin Shipman-Adams and Megan Turner, who felt the need for a facility that provided quality child care with a learning component.
Montessori is an educational curriculum developed by Italian physician and educator Maria Montessori back in 1897. The approach meets children where they are at and engages their natural propensity to soak in as much as they can. There is an emphasis put on independence, freedom within limits, and respect for a child's natural, psychological, physical, and social development.
"The idea came from the love that myself and my business partner, Megan, had of the Montessori philosophy," Shipman-Adams said. "Education should be as individual as the child, and we are moms and it was hard to find child care and even harder to find it with exemplary care and education.
"We wanted to provide that, and we knew we couldn't possibly be the only moms looking for that."
Making Roots is licensed by the province to have 32 children in their preschool program, which runs all 12 months of the year at their 660 Elizabeth Rd. location and offers a 6:1 child-to-caregiver ratio compared to the provincial 8:1. The facility also includes an attached green space which aims to foster a child's natural movement as they explore their own environment and interests.
Shipman-Adams views Making Roots as a full child care service centre. Rather than just being traditional child care, Making Roots provides the educational component to go along with all-day child care, from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
"We are along the big commuter routes, so we tap into not only the area around us in Windsor Park, but many of the surrounding communities such as Sage Creek," she said.
Looking to the future, Making Roots is adding a new service to its repertoire this year.
"We are introducing our all-day kindergarten class for the upcoming year," said Shipman-Adams. "Traditionally, kindergartens are half-day programs, so parents often have to find child care for the part of the day their child isn't there.
"What we've done here is that the children in the kindergarten program get the morning of the Montessori curriculum and then we have brought in a teacher, Reegan Kerchak, with her Bachelor of Education, who will provide the Manitoba curriculum in the afternoon."
The community has certainly taken to their idea since they opened last Sept. 16.
"They have been very supportive of it," Shipman-Adams said. "We are booking registrations now into 2015 and 2016. It's been really nice getting to know people from the community. We are definitely a family-oriented centre.
"Given the demand that we have seen, we are looking at opening up a second location and are scouting locations for that currently."
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