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Imagine if 100 million Americans participated in the Tea Party movement. And then imagine that the movement had no impact on American politics. Finally imagine that in the wake of the Tea Party movement, Republicans embraced President Obama's positions on spending and taxation.
These scenarios are of course, unimaginable. Anywhere from a million to ten million people participated in Tea Party protests in the U.S. over the past year. At best that's perhaps three percent of all Americans.
Yet this was sufficient for the citizens' movement calling for fiscal restraint, spending and tax cuts to have a defining impact on the Republican takeover of the House of Representatives. The Republican establishment is being challenged and in many cases unseated by Tea Party politicians. Owing in large part to the Tea Party movement, just two years after Obama was elected president the American political map has been transformed. The American people are abandoning leftist socialist domestic policy formulations in favor of supply side Reaganomics.
Now look at Israel. Seventeen years ago the Rabin government adopted the radical policy of appeasing the PLO. Since then, around two million Israelis – that's approximately 30 percent of the country's population – have participated in protests against this policy. In four of the six elections since then, the Right has won by pledging to abandon this policy. And in one of the two elections won by the Left, Ehud Barak triumphed in 1999 by running on a rightist platform.
The resistance Israelis have demonstrated to the government's policies toward the Palestinians is arguably unprecedented in modern history. And yet, the unimaginable scenarios for the Tea Party movement in the U.S. have been the glum reality in Israel for 17 years.
Presently, Prime Minister Netanyahu is implementing the Left's appeasement policy toward the Palestinians with as much enthusiasm as Shimon Peres before him. On Monday Ron Dermer, Netanyahu's most trusted adviser, told Politico.com that a leader is defined by the contempt he feels for his voters. As Dermer put it, "The test of leadership is doing things that are not popular with your base."
There are many explanations for what is going on. The most cited are Israel's indirect elections system in which leaders are unaccountable to voters, the weakness of Israel's politicians, and the poor quality of their advisers.
While all are true, another explanation is more compelling. In Israel the Left exerts almost complete control over the political and social discourse. Unlike the situation in the U.S. – particularly in the era of Fox News – there are no significant communications outlets in Israel that are not controlled by the Left. Even Yisrael Hayom, the free newspaper owned by Sheldon Adelson that has eroded the market shares of Israel's leading tabloids, is not a rightist newspaper.)
The Left's monopoly over the public discourse is not only expressed in the media. In the worlds of culture, academia and entertainment, all the leading figures are leftists. They cultivate one another in an elite universe that is affected neither by reality nor by the convictions of most of their countrymen.
This has led to a situation in which a small minority of Israelis behaves as if it were a large majority. They use their control over the public discourse to present the sentiments of the majority of Israelis as if they were the views of a small, fanatical minority.
This distorted presentation of the convictions of most Israelis has induced a number of pathologies within Israeli society. Most pertinently, it has caused leaders of the Right to spend an inordinate amount of time trying to win the support of a ft that despises them. And as Dermer made clear, motivates men like Netanyahu and former prime minister Ariel Sharon to betray their voters in favor of the leftist agenda they were elected to reject.
In a bid to begin contending with this dismal reality, in early 2009 I launched a Hebrew-language media satire website called Latma. Latma is an Arabic term for "slap" that has been adopted in Israeli slang.
Latma combines short, pithy blog posts ridiculing the daily media coverage of events with a weekly television show on the Internet called The Tribal Update. The show parodies the broadcast media in Israel while exposing the absurdity of the leftist political and cultural narratives they trumpet.
The insight guiding Latma is that people do not fear what they laugh at. By exposing the failure of Israel's cultural elites in a humorous way, Latma empowers the majority of Israelis to express their views without fearing leftist demonization.
While Latma is only one small voice, entirely funded by charitable donations, its impact has been enormous. It is one of the most visited websites in Israel today with close to a million page views per month. Our broadcasts are eagerly awaited by tens of thousands of Israelis. Week after week, our shows become viral within hours after we post them on YouTube.
Our work is doing more than making the case for a strong Zionism. It is undermining leftist stereotypes about the nature of the Israeli Right and making it cool to be Zionist again.
Latma's greatest international success to date was our clip "We Con the World," which we produced three days after the IDF takeover of the Turkish-Hamas terror ship Mavi Marmara. "We Con the World" was seen by more than a million viewers in one week and has been viewed over five million times since we produced it. The song changed the tone of the media coverage of the operation. Perhaps most importantly, it empowered Israel's supporters to stand up to anti-Zionist intimidation throughout the world.
Building on that success, and subsequent successes with English language clips like "The Three Terrors" and "The Iranian Bomb Song," we are recruiting a team of English-language satirists to produce clips directed at an international audience on a regular basis.
Liberal media outlets and other cultural institutions in the U.S. went to enormous lengths to belittle and demonize the Tea Party movement. They failed because over the past generation American conservatives have developed alternative media outlets and cultural institutions to which the general public and politicians alike pay attention.
I believe Latma's success must serve as a springboard for cultivating an alternative elite in Israel whose members reflect rather than demonize the convictions of the majority of Israelis. Given the massive dimensions of the public's rejection of the Left's worldview, if these alternative media outlets and cultural bodies are properly conceived and managed, I am certain that, like Latma, they will not only be rapidly successful but also have a profound and salutary impact on the behavior of Israel's political leaders – who will finally recognize that the true test of leadership is standing up to a hostile world and keeping faith with the Israeli people.
Caroline Glick is senior contributing editor at The Jerusalem Post. Her Jewish Press-exclusive column appears the last week of every other month. Look for her next column in the Jan. 28, 2011 issue.
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Dear Pres. Obama, A "deal" in which one side makes all the concessions is, of course, a "surrender."
ALLY is a terrific read because Oren has a mission: Defending&protecting the Jewish State of Israel.
George Soros: "European anti-Semitism is the result of the policies of Israel and the United States"
Sources say seemingly irreconcilable differences between the 2 main parties, Washington and Tehran.
Instead of accepting reality, the President is trying to hold on to an illusion.
Those who suggest further capitulation to Iran are wrongly harming the interests of the West.
Few Arab Israelis found anything positive in the decision of its MKS to join any Gaza flotilla.
US Jews prefer to be like their non-Jewish liberal friends complaining about "settlements" and Bibi
New Israel Fund & its supporters must be countered; Israel's in the midst of an unprecedented storm
PM Netanyahu this week identified ISIS and Iran as Israel's primary threat. It is a planetary threat that carries the promise of peace.
Haym Solomon, overlooked hero of the Revolutionary War, was America's "Funding Father."
Latvia, July 4, 1941 they forced many Jews in the shul putting it on fire; everyone was burned alive
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Israel, like the non-radical Islamic world. will be happy see the ISIS beheaded for once.
On November 24 Palestinian Authority Chairman and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas is scheduled to meet Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal in Cairo.
Last week at the UN, President Obama did something he had never done before. He discussed Israel and the Palestinians without once attacking Israel. He didn't blame Israel for the absence of peace.
Imagine if 100 million Americans participated in the Tea Party movement. And then imagine that the movement had no impact on American politics. Finally imagine that in the wake of the Tea Party movement, Republicans embraced President Obama's positions on spending and taxation.
According to Israel Army Radio, Prime Minister Netanyahu has offered to extend the moratorium on Jewish property rights in Judea and Samaria for an additional three months in exchange for Jonathan Pollard's freedom. That is, if Obama pardons Pollard, who has served 25 years of a life sentence for transferring classified documents to Israel, then Israel will agree to extend the ten-month moratorium on Jewish construction in Judea and Samaria, due to expire next week, for another three months.
According to Israel Army Radio, Prime Minister Netanyahu has offered to extend the moratorium on Jewish property rights in Judea and Samaria for an additional three months in exchange for Jonathan Pollard's freedom. That is, if Obama pardons Pollard, who has served 25 years of a life sentence for transferring classified documents to Israel, then Israel will agree to extend the ten-month moratorium on Jewish construction in Judea and Samaria, due to expire next week, for another three months.
In a much discussed article in the current issue of The American Spectator titled "America's Ruling Class," Prof. Angelo Codevilla describes the divide between those who run the U.S. – the politicians, bureaucrats and policy establishment – and the rest of the country.
In a much discussed article in the current issue of The American Spectator titled "America's Ruling Class," Prof. Angelo Codevilla describes the divide between those who run the U.S. – the politicians, bureaucrats and policy establishment – and the rest of the country.
Iran is on a winning streak. As it sprints towards the nuclear finishing line, it finds itself – and its allies and clients – being wooed by one and all. In contrast, Israel has never been more isolated.
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"About a dozen passengers survived by swimming ashore. Survivors told us another 25 people were in the ferry when it sank," district government administrator Kazi Sayemuzzamanhe told AFP.
"Local people have so far recovered six bodies," the official added.
A salvage vessel was headed to the spot to lift the sunken boat, he said.
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Most of the accidents occur during the storm season between April and June.
Experts blame poorly maintained vessels and overcrowding for most of the tragedies.
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48 CFR 715.370-1 - Title XII selection procedure
(a) General. The Deputy Administrator has determined, as provided in AIDAR 706.302-70(b)(3)(ii) that use of this Title XII source selection procedure is necessary so as not to impair or affect USAID's ability to administer Title XII of the Foreign Assistance Act. This determination is reflected in AIDAR 706.302-70(b)(4). This constitutes authority for other than full and open competition when selecting Title XII institutions to perform Title XII projects.
(b) Scope of subsection. This subsection prescribes policies and procedures for the selection of institutions eligible under Title XII of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, to perform activities authorized under Title XII.
(c) Applicability. The provisions of this subsection are applicable when the project office certifies that the activity is authorized under Title XII, and determines that use of the Title XII selection procedure is appropriate.
(1) Competition shall be sought among eligible Title XII institutions to the maximum practicable extent; this requirement shall be deemed satisfied when a contractor is selected under the procedures of this subsection.
(i) Prepare selection criteria for evaluation of eligible institutions for use in preparing the source list, determining predominantly qualified sources, and selecting the contractor;
(ii) Prepare an initial list of eligible institutions considered qualified to perform the proposed activity;
(iii) Provide a statement describing qualifications and areas of expertise considered essential, a statement of work, estimate of personnel requirements, special requirements (logistic support, government furnished property, and so forth) for the contracting officer's use in preparing the request for technical proposal (RFTP).
(iv) Send a memorandum incorporating the certification and determination required by paragraph (c) of this section, together with the information required by paragraphs (d)(2) (i) through (iii) of this section, with the "Action" copy of the PIO/T to the contracting officer, requesting him/her to prepare and distribute the RFTP.
(3) Upon receipt and acceptance of the project officer's request, the contracting officer shall prepare the RFTP. The RFTP shall contain sufficient information to enable an offeror to submit a responsive and complete technical proposal. This includes a definitive statement of work, an estimate of the personnel required, and special provisions (such as logistic support, government furnished equipment, and so forth), a proposed contract format, and evaluation criteria. No cost or pricing data will be requested or required by the RFTP. The RFTP will be distributed to the eligible institutions recommended by the project office. The RFTP will be synopsized, as required by FAR 5.201, and will normally allow a minimum of 60 days for preparation and submission of a proposal.
(4) Upon receipt of responses to the RFTP by the contracting officer, an evaluation committee will be established as provided for in 715.608 of this subpart.
(5) The evaluation committee will evaluate all proposals in accordance with the criteria set forth in the RFTP, and will prepare a selection memorandum which shall:
(6) The evaluation committee will submit the selection memorandum to the contracting officer for review and approval.
(7) The contracting officer will either approve the selection memorandum, or return it to the evaluation committee for reconsideration for specified reasons.
(8) If the selection memorandum is approved, the contracting officer shall obtain cost, pricing, and other necessary data from the recommended institution or institutions and shall conduct negotiations. If a satisfactory contract cannot be obtained, the contracting officer will so advise the evaluation committee. The evaluation committee may then recommend an alternate institution or institutions.
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Thomas Denman, 1st Baron Denman
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At 11:15 A.M. Razi Barkai bites into a pickle. Just five minutes earlier he strolled confidently into a small hummus shop on a Jaffa street corner, greeted the proprietor with the friendliness reserved for old acquaintances and placed his usual order. A few minutes later the table was groaning. The whole thing looked like a daily ritual.
For more than 20 years Barkai has presented one of the country's most important current affairs daily radio shows. From 1989-1993 he presented "Hakol Diburim" on Israel Radio, before moving to Army Radio's Jaffa studio for "Mah Bo'er." It's thus safe to say that Barkai is a man of steady habits: verbal duels with politicians in the morning and hummus in the afternoon.
Barkai, 60, has two children and recently became a grandfather for the first time. He joined Israel Radio shortly after his army service, covering welfare and health before moving on to education and society. He was assigned to the Knesset in 1977, where he remained until 1983, when he was appointed Washington correspondent. Three years later he returned and became a political reporter, paving his way to "Hakol Diburim."
"I started presenting 'Hakol Diburim' when I was exactly 40," he recalls. At that time the most popular morning radio program was Rafi Reshef's 'Nakhon Le'achshav,' on the rival Army Radio. Gideon Lev-Ari, the director of Israel Radio, was looking for a way to bring our listeners back. The idea was that I would do a talk show that would try to compete with 'Nakhon Le'achshav'. I thought of a sly name and came up with 'Hakol Diburim,' which really caught on. Even now people on the street tell me that I host 'Hakol Diburim.'"
Barkai arrived at Army Radio after leaving the state station for what turned out to be a brief, failed stint hosting a Channel 1 television current affairs show. By then Shelly Yachimovich was hosting "Hakol Diburim."
"Since I wasn't offered anything I wanted" at Israel Radio, Barkai recalls, he went over to the competition. "At first I hosted 'Sha'ah Lifney,' which began at 4 P.M. At 5 another presenter would join and we would do the late afternoon newsmagazine together. That's when we began building the program that would compete with 'Hakol Diburim.' In this respect I've been competing against myself for 20 years."
Despite a varied career, including sorties into television also as a host of "Tik Tikshoret" ("Media File") and on the Knesset channel, Barkai seems to be wholly identified with his radio slot, to the point where it is difficult to imagine him anywhere else. Unlike other journalists Barkai is satisfied to remain in the radio arena, and is not eyeing other, glitzier media that would give him greater public stature and higher earnings. Around four years ago, for example, he turned down an offer to direct an early version of Channel 10's Friday evening newscast, and about three years ago he said no to a very generous offer ("a huge amount of money," he says) from Arcadi Gaydamak.
"There is something magical about radio," Barkai says, almost squirming, to a question about other media. "I wouldn't do a daily TV program. I did a weekly TV program and had all sorts of offers."
Why not?
"The easy answer is that I really love radio."
And the complicated one?
"The complicated one is that I'm pretty lazy," he says with a smile. "It's clear to me that even if I do TV it won't be at the expense of radio. I don't want to be addicted to work, that's the point. I'm not willing to give up my weekends."
Hosting a program or being a regular panel member on a current affairs program is a sort of a status symbol for a journalist, a mark of success.
"I never had the urge to be a panelist. Presenting a daily TV program, something like 'Erev Hadash,' is out of the question. I'm not there any more. There is something unjournalistic about everything surrounding television, with all the packaging. Radio is very clean journalistically. It's your voice and what you say to the person you are interviewing. There are no games here, even less than in the press."
When Barkai is not on the air, working on a program or discussing items with editor Nurit Canetti, he leads a comfortable life. A sports fan, he watches games on TV and often travels to see soccer games in Europe. He spends time with friends, volunteers at the emergency room in the Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer and maintains a "media diet" when he does not have to keep up to date. "For years I have been totally cut off from the media on weekends," he acknowledges. "I don't read the weekend newspapers and don't watch TV."
He brings the same equanimity into the studio. Shortly after 8 A.M., less than an hour before airtime, he comports himself calmly in the spartan room at Army Radio. Canetti, too, is amazingly relaxed. A disorderly pile of newspapers litters her desk. A young producer, in uniform, has her ear to the telephone as together they confirm the morning's interviews and stories. At 9:02 Barkai walks calmly into the studio and attaches his headset, with not a moment to lose.
Calmness is not exactly a characteristic associated with Barkai. He has walked out of the studio because an editor addressed him on his headset after Barkai explicitly forbade him from doing so. "I cannot divide my attention and I have a serious hearing impairment," he says. "When two people talk to me simultaneously I don't hear either one. If I hear a producer or editor shouting in the headset over which I listen to the interviewee, the broadcast is over. In that respect I'm disabled."
It is not only technical matters that infuriate him, but also articles like the one in Yedioth Ahronoth about his colleague and friend Raviv Drucker, now a Channel 10 TV commentator, that criticized Barkai as well. (The article claimed that in the 2000 Camp David summit Barkai and Drucker report not from the site itself but rather from a town some distance away, and from their hotel.) Barkai explains that no reporters were allowed at Camp David itself.
In fact, much of today's newspapers annoy him. He talks of superficial reporting aimed only at creating headlines, of newspapers that settle accounts, that select a target and then shoot. He calls this "dialogue of the Web talkbackers" and "sewer journalism": "Just as I despise 'talkbackers,' I abhor that kind of writing."
Barkai is also enraged by the Defense Ministry's occasional criticism of the way that Army Radio's news department, and he in particular, cover military matters. "It's not our job to be the Defense Ministry's or the army's deodorant," he says.
You have said in the past that were the idea of creating Army Radio to be raised only now, you would oppose it.
"If you were to ask me whether a military station should be established, my answer would be no. But the moment Army Radio exists, with all its achievements and contributions to Israeli culture, then closing it would be a disaster. I am happy to say that the man who today is defense minister, who had this foolish idea when he was army chief of staff, no longer thinks so. There is a certain problem, but it is important that Army Radio remain."
What is the difference between working at Army Radio and at Israel Radio?
"Army Radio is my favorite place to work. There is something lovely about the encounter between my generation and the youngsters there; their unbearable language, through which I connect with a great many things, the speed at which they talk and the kind of words they use. One time they tested my command of slang during a broadcast. In 90 percent of the cases I didn't know what they were talking about. This is my link with a generation with which I am not connected, and it gives me a lot."
And that is in contrast to the Israel Broadcasting Authority [which controls Israel Radio and Israel Television]?
The broadcasting authority is old. It has experience and stateliness, but with these young guys there is something much warmer and connected. I am sorry about what is happening there. I have friends there that I worked with for more than 20 years. I think it must be shut down and reopened. There is no other way. The broadcasting authority cannot continue in its present state. It's irrelevant, to my regret, and I am talking mainly of the television."
During the 20 years in which Barkai has hosted the main current affairs radio show, the country's media map has changed completely. In the beginning, Barkai's show was a sought-after destination; being interviewed on it was an achievement one could be proud of. Judging by the responses of public figures to the morning telephone calls from Barkai's staff, it still is. But how has the huge increase in the past decade of the number of media outlets, including radio, affected him.
"It's just like Maariv eyeing Yedioth Ahronoth and Yedioth eyeing Maariv," Barkai says, referring to Israel's tabloid dailies. "There are more players but the competition is between two. Just like Channel 2 television eyes Channel 10, and vice versa. I set my sights on Israel Radio."
Even though you have competition in the regional radio stations.
"Yes, but I don't see local radio as my competition. I look at Israel Radio as a rival and I value Yaron Dekel, my competitor. Occasionally we hit one another and that's okay, I am challenged by the fact I have a proper competitor."
What about the interview subjects? The number of media outlets has grown, it would seem to be easier to make headlines on the Internet than to deal with you.
"The politician who does that knows that the minute they're quoted elsewhere they won't appear on my program. Sometimes they manage to explain their wise views there as well as with me, but it doesn't happen often. Overall, I don't know whether the people listens to me. I am sure the politicians hear me, and the journalists, and in this respect it's very important for the politicians to be on my program. I remember that I once interviewed (former Shas leader) Aryeh Deri and asked him which newspaper he reads in the morning. He said, 'Haaretz, in order to know what the enemy thinks.' I see myself in this spot. Even if I do not have a broad audience, the first thing they need in the morning is to know what's happening on my show."
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If Thatcher was condemning the settlement movement back then, she did nothing about it. And what would she say now, with the past year seeing an increase of settlement activity of 124%. They all mention the settlement issue but none of them hold Israel accountable. They all have given Israel a free pass to continue doing what it is doing. As for the two state solution and their recognition of the large "settlement blocs", they surely are not so stupid as to see that a two state solution is nothing more than a pretext for Israel to continue its expansionism.
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Part of the Monorail track parallels Harbor Blvd., traveling over the sidewalk and even a bus station.
Is that on Disney property or city property? I'm guessing the latter, since sidewalks and bus stations are part of the city transportation.
Part of the Monorail track parallels Harbor Blvd., traveling over the sidewalk and even a bus station.
Is that on Disney property or city property? I'm guessing the latter, since sidewalks and bus stations are part of the city transportation.
Disney owns half of Anaheim and 3/4 of Burbank.
The CITY had to PAY DISNEY to put a bus stop there.
Looking at the GIS maps from the City of Anaheim, I'm going to say that the Monorail track is on both Disney and City property. Here are links to the general info pages for the GIS maps:
Disneyland Parcel
Parcel Info
DCA Parcel
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These are the satellite map overlays with plat boundaries on map for the properties
Parcel Info
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These are the actual recorded basemaps along Harbor Blvd.
I would guess that there has been much give and take on the boundaries along that road.
Stalking is when two people go for a long romantic walk together but only one of them knows about it.
Disney owned all the property along Harbor from day one. However, the Monorail crossed over West (now Disneyland Dr.) to the Disneyland Hotel. Disney did not own the Hotel and the Hotel entrance was where the Monorail DTD stop is. The Disneyland Hotel and entrance have been moved since then.
The sidewalk it goes over is where the heliport and cast parking was located. Only the sidewalk running directly next to the west side of Harbor is Anaheim property.
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It's somewhat unclear, but easty to deduce. If you compare the actual locations of the Monorail pads compared to Anaheim's basemap survey maps, it appears that the pads rest on Disney property for the majority of the Monorail line along Harbor Blvd (also evidenced by the fact that most of the pads on Harbor are backstage, with a backstage access road runnign below them). However, there is an easement granted to the city below the monorail just north of the Disneyland shuttle entrance. Given that Harbor Blvd was much narrower road in 1959 when the Monrail debuted, it looks like all of the space was once on Disney property, but that Anaheim must have negotiated an easement at the bus stop in question. Since moving the monorail for that one segment impractical, we can assume that the Resort has easement rights to the property, while the City owns that small corner where teh bus stop resides. A cursory view of the bus stop from street level, when compared to the Anaheim parcel map, seems to support that. So, in short, the answer to the question is: The Harbor portion of the Monrail is all on Disney property, with the exception of the bus stop, which belongs to the City but to which the Resprt has an easement.
Now, in regards to Disneyland drive it's simpler: the City owns the land, but the Resort has an easement to the locations of the Monorail pads and supports for the DTD overcrossing. It's similar to St Joseph Hospital, Kaiser Hospital, and South Coast Plaza, which have pedestrian overcrossings over city-owned roads, and to whom each city grants easement rights respectively.
This totally got my mind spinning again... Wouldnt it be great if the monorail track was altered just enough for it to go across harbor to the proposed new parking structure and back! Wouldnt be that much track really!
And, ultimately, to the third park.
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I never understood how a monorail beam can be that expensive. I assume that much of the cost comes from the trains and buying right-of-way (seeing as that new cost comes from the Las Vegas total cost divided by the track length). I wonder how much a single monorail beam and a post to hold it would cost. That would be an interesting statistic.
Take for example Walt Disney World, where Disney owns the entire right of way on any expansion. Even there, they have not expanded the Monorail since the EPCOT line opened in 1982. If it's not financially feasable for WDW to replace their bus lines with monorails, it's even less feasable to do so in Anaheim.
More expensive than what? I was referring to the article which talks about the costs. All I was wondering was what the cost for a beam and support would be...
I believe part of the issue in Anaheim would come from retrofitting the beam for more trains. However, for simply the track, the cost is extreme due to the special contruction process. Check out The Monorail Society for some more information on costs of varying projects around the world.


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Yes I can. Most guys can.
Not sure how it's possible since the penis isn't an actual muscle. But I just flex, and it moves up. I do kegal exercises so I can hold it too.
What about a stick lol? When you flex it, it gets harder like more blood fills it(probably how it moves). And yes it moves. You can flex it both flaccid, and erect. It moves quite a bit more when erect though.
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American universities are accepting more minorities than ever. Graduating them is another matter.
Barry Mills, the president of Bowdoin College, was justifiably proud of Bowdoin's efforts to recruit minority students. Since 2003 the small, elite liberal-arts school in Brunswick, Maine, has boosted the proportion of so-called underrepresented minority students (blacks, Latinos, and Native Americans, about 30 percent of the U.S. population) in entering freshman classes from 8 percent to 13 percent. "It is our responsibility, given our place in the world, to reach out and attract students to come to our kinds of places," he told a NEWSWEEK reporter. But Bowdoin has not done quite as well when it comes to actually graduating minorities. While nine out of 10 white students routinely get their diplomas within six years, only seven out of 10 black students made it to graduation day in several recent classes.
The picture of diversity--black, white, and brown students cavorting or studying together out on the quad--is a stock shot in college catalogs. The picture on graduation day is a good deal more monochromatic. "If you look at who enters college, it now looks like America," says Hilary Pennington, director of postsecondary programs for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which has closely studied enrollment patterns in higher education. "But if you look at who walks across the stage for a diploma, it's still largely the white, upper-income population."
The United States once had the highest graduation rate of any nation. Now it stands 10th. For the first time in American history, there is the risk that the rising generation will be less well educated than the previous one. The graduation rate among 25- to 34-year-olds is no better than the rate for the 55- to 64-year-olds who were going to college more than 30 years ago. Studies show that more and more poor and nonwhite students aspire to graduate from -college--but their graduation rates fall far short of their dreams. The graduation rates for blacks, Latinos, and Native Americans lag far be-hind the graduation rates for whites and Asians. As the minority population grows in the United States, low college--graduation rates become a threat to national -prosperity.
The problem is pronounced at public universities. In 2007 (the last year for which Education Trust, a nonprofit advocacy group, has comparative statistics) the University of Wisconsin--Madison--one of the top five or so "public Ivies"--graduated 81 percent of its white students within six years, but only 56 percent of its blacks. At less-selective state schools, the numbers get worse. During the same time frame, the University of Northern Iowa graduated 67 percent of its white students, but only 39 percent of its blacks. Community colleges have low graduation rates generally--but rock-bottom rates for minorities. A recent review of California community colleges found that while a third of the Asian students picked up their degrees, only 15 percent of African-Americans did so as well.
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David Moyes claims the more high-profile games the better for Everton - although the Toffees chief would be happy staying under the Champions League radar for another couple of weeks. The battle to claim a coveted top-four berth has crystallised into discussion over who will get squeezed out from the London trio of Tottenham, Chelsea and Arsenal. Yet such debate completely ignores the challenge coming from Merseyside. For not only are an improving Liverpool mounting an assault, so too are Everton. Indeed, presently six points behind with a game in hand, Everton would move to within striking distance if they were able to overcome Spurs at White Hart Lane tomorrow. It is a situation Moyes relishes. But he is not ready to blow his side's cover just yet. "If we are in the middle of April and people start to talk us up, that will do me nicely because it will mean we are coming into the final furlong with a chance. If we could somehow get our head in front that would be great." Wit...
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Like McCarthy, Cruz seems incapable of distinguishing between flavors of liberalism.
Without commanding, distinguishing words from their mouths, the narrative can be wholly invented for Kate and Letizia.
And garnering a great one depends on an ability to specialize, distinguishing yourself from the pack.
1560s, from Middle French distinguiss-, stem of distinguer, or directly from Latin distinguere "to separate between, separate by pricking," from dis- "apart" (see dis-) + -stinguere "to prick" (see extinguish, and cf. Latin instinguere "to incite, impel").
The suffix -ish is due to the influence of many verbs in which it is the equivalent of Old French -iss-, ultimately from Latin inchoative suffix -iscere (this is also the case in extinguish, admonish, and astonish). Related: Distinguishing. The earlier form of the verb was distinguen (mid-14c.).


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PAWTUCKET ŌĆō A Providence teen was found guilty in Providence Superior Court for the 2013 Christmas Eve murder of a 21-year-old man at the Galego Court housing complex, according to the Attorney GeneralŌĆÖs Office confirmed on Friday.
The jury convicted Jose ŌĆ£GioŌĆØ Lopez, 18, with a last known address on Joslin Street in Providence, of the Dec. 24, 2013 murder of Ryan Almeida.
The jury found Lopez guilty of murder, discharging a firearm while in the commission of a crime of violence, and conspiracy. Lopez was found not guilty of carrying a firearm without a license.
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ŌĆó OVER- She has done the National Anthem on multiple occasions. In her earlier appearance she was under more later over. Her fame is at an all-time high thanks to Frozen. She will really bring it in a drawn out way.
PAWTUCKET ŌĆō City firefighters responded to back-to-back incidents Wednesday night, including a grease fire that erupted in the kitchen of a group home on Manchester Street for persons recovering from substance abuse disorders, and a furnace explosion an hour later at an assisted living facility on Central Avenue.
Fire Chief William Sisson said a resident at the Sanctuary Recovery Residence, 12 Manchester St., was cooking when a grease fire flared-up on the kitchen stove. The fire was contained to the kitchen and did not affect the rest of the dwelling, he said.
PAWTUCKET – With snow days and school cancellations behind us for the most part, interscholastic boys and girls basketball teams can resume their quest of padding the playoff résumé.
One area squad that is on firm footing heading into February is the Tolman boys' hoopsters. Head coach Mike Kayata has enjoyed a fabulous campaign to date, winning eight of nine Division II contests. In the season-long PowerPoint standings that will determine the 16 berths in the Open State Tournament, the Tigers occupy the seventh position with 6.4 points.
With the Blizzard of 2015 headed out to sea, the clouds gave way to partial sun just after 9:30 Wednesday morning, a welcome respite for residents slowly digging out from a powerful storm that dumped upwards of three feet of snow in Southern New England.
Massachusetts and Rhode Island lifted statewide driving bans at midnight on Tuesday, and trains, buses and subways were back to normal service Wednesday, although there were plenty of delays for the morning commute.
PROVIDENCE – This much is known: Providence College will not be hosting DePaul in a key Big East Conference men's basketball matchup Tuesday night.
Whether the rescheduled game takes place Thursday, which PC officials have announced as a tentative date ... your guess is as good as athletic director Bob Driscoll's
"We have plans, but they could change depending on the weather conditions and their ability to get a charter flight," said Driscoll. "The weather the way it is, it could be hard to get a plane."
PROVIDENCE ŌĆō With the Blizzard of 2015 shaping as one of the most damaging on record, Gov. Gina Raimondo on Monday declared a state of emergency until further notice, banishing vehicular travel as of midnight as crews prepared for a multi-day chore of restoring power and clearing roads.
Raimondo struck a tone of dire urgency during a briefing at the Statehouse, strongly advising storm preppers to get their business finished and get off the roads voluntarily by 8 last night, but she said that by midnight a travel ban would be strictly enforced by the state police.
Weather forecasts for a potentially massive blizzard striking Rhode Island and nearby Massachusetts had Gov. Gina M. Raimondo and state officials preparing for the worst on Sunday.
on Sunday in a statement in which she advised the stateŌĆÖs residents to prepare for severe winter weather.
A PawSox reunion that also included an appearance by Paws the mascot helped highlight the first-ever Red Sox-sponsored ŌĆśBaseball Winter WeekendŌĆÖ that took place at Foxwoods Resort Casino. In the photo, members of the 2014 Pawtucket Red Sox that made the trek to Connecticut include, left to right, Garin Cecchini, Anthony Ranaudo, Brandon Workman, Rusney Castillo and Bryce Brentz
PAWTUCKET ŌĆō The long, dark journey of the legendary Silver Top Diner appears to be coming to an end, and maybe ŌĆō just maybe ŌĆō there may be some light at the far side of the tunnel.
Recently freed from a legal limbo in which it had been mired nearly seven years, the 1930s dining car is heading for the auction block. Though itŌĆÖs in poor condition, despite efforts to protect it from the elements, City Planner Barney S. Heath is optimistic that some nostalgic, diner-loving savior might be interested in reviving the landmark as a going business.
PAWTUCKET – It looked like a shootout at the O.K. Corral during the first half of Friday night's Division II showdown between Tolman and Juanita Sanchez. The two top gunslingers in the division led the way. Miguel Prieto came in averaging 24 points per game for the Cavaliers while Tolman's Steve Otis brought along his 21-point per game average.
Prieto nailed a long three-pointer early in the game and stared down Otis heading back up-court.
BOSTON – In essence, the Red Sox made two moves when they traded former PawSox catcher Dan Butler to Washington earlier this month. While one of them did not appear under the transitions listing, an unofficial memo was sent out regarding how the organization plans to proceed with Pawtucket's catching situation in 2015.
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PAWTUCKET ŌĆō Paul and Susan Graseck of Pawtucket got a first look at the proposed plans for a commuter rail station in the city between Goff Avenue and Barton Street Thursday night at the Blackstone Valley Visitor Center at 175 Main St., and liked what they saw.
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PAWTUCKET – Tolman High took advantage of a 16-4 flurry at the start of the final stanza and sailed to a 73-61 Division II victory over Tiverton at the James W. Donaldson Gymnasium on Wednesday night.
Head coach Mike Kayata learned senior swing Prince Johnson would be unable to play as he suffered from the flu, but classmate Derek Ashley mustered a premier performance in his absence. At the small forward spot, Ashley delivered a game-high 22 points with three treys, but that wasn't the half of it.


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SYDNEY: Three people were dead and dozens plucked from roofs and marooned cars in dramatic air rescues in northeastern Australia Monday as severe floods swept through two states, inundating thousands of homes.
The bodies of two men swept away by floodwaters were found Monday, one in the Queensland state capital Brisbane and another further north at Gympie, following the earlier discovery of an elderly man's body near the city of Bundaberg.
A pregnant woman and her three-year-old son were rushed to hospital after a large tree fell on them as they were walking Monday morning in Brisbane. They were reported to have head injuries, with the child in a critical condition.
There were dozens of dramatic rescues as rapidly rising waters left people suddenly stranded, including one family who had to zip their infant son into a waterproof bag to be winched to safety by helicopter as floods surrounded their car.
Queensland Premier Campbell Newman said there was an acute emergency unfolding in Bundaberg, home to about 50,000 people 360 kilometres (220 miles) north of Brisbane, with many people scrambling to get out as the river hit a record peak.
Newman said authorities were now in "uncharted territory", with debris-laden floodwaters roaring through the town at such speeds water evacuations were no longer viable and there were fears homes could be ripped from their foundations.
More than 2,000 homes had flooded and "many thousands" of people were affected, he said, with a "significant number" of people expected to be trapped in their homes.
Some 60 patients at the local hospital were being shifted to its upper floors.
"We are at a point where we've never seen floodwaters like this before," Newman told reporters.
"We're very concerned that the velocity of the water and the rise in water levels means that literally houses, particularly in North Bundaberg and maybe other locations, could be swept away. This is a very real prospect."
Fourteen helicopters including two army Black Hawks would fly rescue missions until nightfall and Newman said the government was scrambling to find extra aircraft to boost efforts.
"We've got to pull all stops out to do this before it gets dark," he said.
Thousands of people have evacuated their homes across Queensland with flood warnings for the majority of the state's rivers as ex-tropical cyclone Oswald sweeps into neighbouring New South Wales bringing high winds and heavy rains.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard said the "wild weather had broken a lot of hearts", with some Queensland residents experiencing their third flood in two years, including the devastating 2011 inundation which killed 35 people.
"As this weather moves into New South Wales can I reiterate to everyone, it is very important you keep yourself safe," said Gillard.
"We have seen three fatalities and... we have got grave concerns for a number of others."
Floodwaters were rising in Brisbane, home to some two million people, though Newman said its river was expected to peak some seven metres lower than in 2011, when flooding brought the city to a standstill for several days.
Almost 250,000 homes across Queensland were without power Monday and the triple-zero emergency phone network was down in a number of areas, with mobile phones also out of service.
Rural towns were isolated by floodwaters in neighbouring New South Wales state, where hundreds of millimetres of rain and strong winds were expected in coming hours, including in Sydney.
Cyclones and floods are common in Australia's northeast during the warmer summer months, with a series of huge storms wreaking havoc across Queensland in early 2011, devastating large agricultural districts and key coal mines. - AFP
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The Miami Marlins disgrace to baseball continues. Two reports have surfaced that the Marlins are unloading even more of their talent. First, Bob Nightengale of USA Today reports that the Marlins are letting teams know that "virtually everyone" is available. Then, Jon Morosi of Fox Sports just reported that the Marlins are close to sending the Marlins' best and prciest pitcher Josh Johnson could be headed to the Toronto Blue Jays. Shortly thereafter another bombshell: Jose Reyes is possibly headed to the Blue Jays too. Ken Rosenthal, also of Fox Sports, calls Reyes "uncomfirmed" but adds that recent free agent acquisition Mark Buehrle is in the deal too. "This is not a joke", Morosi tweeted. Well, I think it is: Jeffrey Loria is a complete joke. I've written this many times before. Kevin Cooney of the Bucks County Courier Times suggests Loria has committed fraud. The Marlins and that city just bought that ugly new stadium. Watch him turn around and sell the t...
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Wimbledon 2013: Novak Djokovic will beat Andy Murray in four sets
Many factors favour Andy Murray in the Wimbledon final, says Barry Cowan, but Novak Djokovic should win.
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Novak is playing better and has raised his level over the course of his six matches at the All England Club, while he showed his excellent mental state in his incredible semi-final with Juan Martin Del Potro by not getting down on himself when Del Potro saved two match points in the fourth set.
I don't think either man will have an edge physically - Djokovic had a long match, yes, but Murray had an emotional one against Jerzy Janowicz after losing the opening set, slipping 4-1 down in the third and then coming roaring back - but the crowd may give Andy an advantage.
The fans on Centre Court will be 99.9 per cent in favour of the Brit, which wasn't the case in last year's final versus Roger Federer, and I think they will be with him if he loses the first set to Djokovic, something they may not have been if he had fallen behind to a supposed underdog like Del Potro.
There is also the little matter of destiny as it could now be that the time is right for Andy, having gone so close last year, to win his first Wimbledon and for Britain to have a men's singles champion at SW19 for the first time since Fred Perry in 1936.
However, Murray will glean huge confidence from his serve, too, which is now consistently great.
He has had periods before where he serves well for three or four games and then misses three or four first serves in a row - but he has been around 70 per cent for first serves at Wimbledon in recent matches.
That is what, I felt, won him that rip-roaring quarter-final with Fernando Verdasco on Wednesday evening, in which he went two sets down, and it was also key for him as he conquered Janowicz in four on Friday.
I also think Andy might be able to relax in the final and feel more at ease - in the previous two rounds Murray was playing streaky players and was the overwhelming favourite, but as Djokovic is the world number one and the man with more Grand Slam titles, he is expected to win this match.
Murray obviously defeated Novak in the 2012 US Open final but it was very windy that day and Djokovic is not as comfortable in those conditions as he is when it is hot and still, which it looks likely to be on Sunday.
However, I don't think Novak is as great on grass as on a hard court or on clay, while the green stuff is possibly Andy's best surface; his excellent slice keeps low on it and he enjoys the pace of the grass, whereas Djokovic is better on a medium-paced court.
So, who do I expect to win? I have to go for Djokovic in four.
Novak has improved round by round, is world number one, and has six Grand Slam titles in his cabinet as opposed to Andy's one.
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Three of Bollywood filmmaker Karan Johar's films will be screened at the Marrakech International Film Festival, to be held Nov 30-Dec 8.
"Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham", released in 2001, will be screened on the opening night, and the event is expected to be attended by megastar Amitabh Bachchan and Karan himself.
On Dec 2, two of Karan's latest films "Agneepath(2012)" and "Student of the Year" - will be screened. The director will be accompanied by veteran actor Rishi Kapoor for "Agneepath" screening, while for SOTY the filmmaker and his cast - Siddharth Malhotra, Alia Bhatt and Varun Dhawan will be present.
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"It's a great tribute for the Indian film fraternity to be honoured at an international platform such as this. The fest also has a special emotional connect with me because my films, such as 'Kabhi Khushi...' have a vast audience in Morocco," the 40 year old said in a statement.
As Hindi cinema completes 100 years in 2013, the film fest officials have decided to pay a tribute to the industry. As a special gesture, they will screen some movies that made a mark this year as well as in the past.
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woww great tribute and well desrved
Want to see trio in another film by KJ sooon
all movies which are mentioned are awesome movies loveee SOTY, and Kabhi khushi kabhi gum. That's great congrats KJO
all movies are tooo nice specially k3g,soty...in some newspaper i read u r planing for a movie with trio (sid-alia-varun) i hope ye sach ho
Love all the movies ...thxs IF for the article
Karan Sir plzzz recast the trio in ur next movie ...they rock ...bless u all
IF why didnt you tag Sidharth in this article?he is also mentioned
K3G and SOTY<3<3<3Hayye...loved these two!!!
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