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This is one of those big, sleek soulless movies that hums along, impressed with itself and the Big Issue it allegedly tackles—here it's sexual harassment, with the twist that it's a man leveling the charge at his female boss. But like Fatal Attraction and Indecent Proposal, its predecessors in casting and in feel, what Disclosure really does best is appeal to your most prurient instincts while simultaneously making you covetous of the characters' designer wardrobes and swank home-and-office furnishings.
Douglas plays a happily married executive at a computer company who is finessed out of a promotion by his ex-girlfriend, a business whiz (Moore). After his new boss invites him to her office for an after-hours cocktail, she plays tug with his zipper. Initially responsive, he then just says no. Moore screeches a caustic and specific response that is destined to become a camp classic, right up there with "No wire hangers, ever!" The next day she announces that he attacked her. He, in turn, hires a hotshot lawyer (Roma Maffia, who nails her every line) and charges sexual harassment.
As directed by Barry Levinson and adapted by screenwriter Paul Attanasio from Michael Crichton's best-selling 1994 novel of the same name, Disclosure has a slick veneer and fast pace that help gloss over the plot holes, which are gaping by the movie's end. As for the cast, righteous indignation becomes Douglas, but Moore is less successful with her dragon lady. She's fine when either predatorily sexy or fuming, but embarrassingly unconvincing in scenes where she is required to talk computerese or financialese. In smaller roles, Sutherland is appropriately silky as the company owner, Caroline Goodall labors mightily to add a touch of steel to the wimpy part of Douglas's wife, and the hypersnide Miller, playing one of Douglas's colleagues, gets off a couple of hilariously proto-Millerian lines. (R)
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10 Ways to Improve Product Photos
Online stores do not have the shelves filled with products for consumers to touch and examine like physical stores do. This makes the use of compelling product images important for online merchants. Here are ten ways to improve your product images.
1. Start With Good Photographs
You can save yourself a lot of effort if you start with a quality product image. Take the time to find the right lighting, use a tripod or a flat surface to steady your camera, and make sure your camera is properly focused on your product. You may also want to take multiple shots of the same product using different lighting and angles. Having a larger pool of photos to pull from when you edit can help you find the best way to present a product. The better you know how to use your camera and the more time you take with your initial photos, the better your product images.
2. Use High Quality and Large Resolution Images
Customers want to thoroughly examine a product before purchasing it. Online, this means having a high quality or large resolution image. Provide your customers with a clear, large product image on your product page — or link to it from a thumbnail.
3. Use More Than One Product Photo
Because consumers can't actually touch the products you are selling in your online store, having images depicting multiple angles of your product allows a better understanding of it. This is especially true for products that have many options or features. Consumers want to see what they are buying.
There are instances where more than one product photo is unnecessary. But be cautious. Most of the time a single product image is not sufficient.
4. Show The Product In Use
Including an image depicting your product in use helps connect the consumer to it. This is another way to overcome the gap left by an online storefront where consumers can't physically touch the products.
5. Use The Right Dimensions
Sometimes moving an image from your computer to your online storefront can distort the aspect ratio — i.e., width vs. height — of the product image. Make sure the dimensions of the image on your computer match the dimensions of the image on your storefront. Not only will this ensure the proper aspect ratio for your image, but it can also cut down on load time if the browser doesn't have to resize the image before rendering it.
6. Use Clean Backgrounds
A cluttered background can distract from the product you are trying to sell. Use either a simple, appropriate background or remove the background all together. You may even want to use a seamless backdrop when shooting your photos in the first place.
Even images shot against a white backdrop can sometimes require adjusting to make the background truly white and not a shade of grey. Subtle gradients can also be used as backgrounds for product images and can sometimes provide the illusion of a horizon line behind a product.
7. Use Clean Product Cutouts
If you remove the background from your product image, make sure you have a clean cutout of your product. This means not having a pixelated edge around your it, but rather a smooth cutout of your image that doesn't have pieces of the background showing through. Depending on your product, this could require more advanced image isolation techniques.
8. Use Realistic Reflections
If you include an image reflection, make sure your reflection is realistic. The simplest way to ensure this is to shoot the product on a reflective surface rather than to add the reflection during post-processing. If you add a reflection using Photoshop or another image editor, be conscious of your image perspective and light source. Overdone and unrealistic reflections will detract focus from the actual product.
9. Use Proper Brightness and Contrast
Your product image should have the right amount of brightness and contrast to highlight product details and make your image stand out. Using "Levels" or "Curves" in Photoshop will allow you to preview and adjust changes in brightness and contrast. You may also want to try "Auto Contrast" in Photoshop as a starting point for adjusting your image.
10. Be Consistent
All of the product images used by your online store should have a similar aesthetic. This means similar lighting, sizing, and spacing. Image consistency will not only improve the look of your store page, but also make browsing through products in your store easier.
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Good advice, can't emphasize enough starting with good photos. I would add that all these points need to be considered for the full range of multichannel display devices so the shopping experience is great on each.
Absolutely, good photos are a must. High quality product images are important. It's the closest your customers are going to get to your products online. With dynamic imaging, the product experience increases. Have a look at the Picaris platform: http://www.picarisplatform.com
Photos are the key to engaging your consumer. As much as good descriptions/copy are important for SEO, Images are key for sales.
Many of our customers go the extra mile and invest in 360 views, videos and installation steps on their products as well though
No Question. Images impact conversion. See some great examples of 360 imaging to enhance product presentation. http://www.thinkgeekspeak.com/services.html
Honestly, when it comes to product photos you are always better off with a professional. The investment almost always pays off increased sales. I recently did a post about this here: http://www.robertlowdon.com/#!What-Do-Your-Website-Images-Say-About-Your-Company/c1qao/BEAE56A7-9B98-464A-9E03-DF2349F0DB68
I agree with all the comments here. Good photos will sell!!! In my over 20 year carrier as a product photographer it has been verified to me many times. What you really need is high quality, clean, color accurate photos on a solid background and you are set. The best examples you can see on our website http://www.123ProductPhotos.com/. Do NOT forget to download high resolution samples at the bottom of the photo gallery. Contact me with any questions.
I start with my small e-commerce shop.I have very less infrastructure regarding product images.I ususally sell the product which is already in market .how i improve my quality of store ?
Why not use 360 degree photography, it allows customers to view all angles of the product on a clear background at the correct brightness and contrast and is high resolution!
Why not look at a couple of examples here: http://outsphere.co.uk/

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Seldom in the history of the GAA has the timespan of players' careers been under so much discussion than as at present.
Seldom in the history of the GAA has the timespan of players' careers been under so much discussion than as at present.
One of the founding members of the Gaelic Players' Association, present at the famous first meeting in Belfast's Wellington Park Hotel, has questioned the direction the body have taken in the wake of CEO Dessie Farrell standing down.
The progressive Slaughtneil club may be on the cusp of a treble coup in the Derry Senior Football Championship, but long-serving mentor John Joe Kearney believes this will not automatically translate into success at inter-county level.
Naturally, the first casualty of war is the truth.
There are three strands that will influence the All-Ireland final replay between Dublin and Mayo this weekend: the sidelines, the psychological side and the football itself.
Donegal captain Michael Murphy has hailed the agreement that locks Rory Gallagher into a four-year arrangement as the county manager as "necessary" as he begins a rebuilding job in the north-west.
Dublin ladies have ruled out any possible appeal over Sunday's All-Ireland senior final, in which they lost by a point to Cork.
A leading sports doctor and former All-Ireland-winning manager has warned about the dangers of concussions in GAA games hosted in remote areas, with no medical assistance or expertise available.
Antrim manager Seamus McKenna cut a dejected-looking figure in the otherwise empty press conference room after his side suffered a complete collapse to Longford, having led by nine points after only 24 minutes.
Amazing as it sounds, but another two own goals in an All-Ireland final - coming a week after it scuppered Mayo - helped Longford overturn what was a nine-point deficit to deservedly win the All-Ireland Ladies' Junior football final.
Just why Kilcoo roared to their fifth Down senior football championship title on the trot and a place in the history books became abundantly clear within minutes of referee Neil Cousins having sounded the final whistle at Pairc Esler in Newry yesterday.
The Battle of the Loughshore ended all-square between Clonoe and Coalisland at Edendork yesterday, meaning both sides will have to go again to determine who faces Killyclogher in the Tyrone senior final.
Slaughtneil remain on course to achieve a potentially astonishing three in a row of Derry Championships, after their 2-9 to 0-9 win over old adversaries Ballinderry, at Owenbeg on Sunday.
Ballygalget limped to the Down senior hurling championship title at the expense of Ballycran at wind and rain-lashed Portaferry but really this game was nothing more than a lottery.
Loughgiel Shamrocks were crowned Antrim senior hurling champions as they dethroned Cushendall in yesterday's final in Ballycastle.
Former Antrim ace Martin Mulholland finally ended his 29-year wait for a championship medal at the weekend.
The Armagh senior football championship semi-final bill of fare could hardly be more attractive.
At Tuesday's photocall between the team captains at Croke Park, they had some problems trying to get Antrim's leader, Jenny McCavana, to comply with the photographer's wishes.
The ink had scarcely dried on Damien Barton's agreement to take charge of the Derry football side for another season than he was already focusing on taking in this weekend's senior championship semi-finals.
"Don't get me wrong," says the reluctant Loughgiel Shamrocks manager Johnny Campbell. "I would swap the world and its dog to be able to pull a red jersey on me on Sunday. It is the place you want to be.
Brothers Ryan and Mark McHugh along with their cousin Eoin certainly made their mark in Donegal's colours this year, their consistency helping to take the side into the Ulster final where they lost to Tyrone before exiting the All-Ireland series to Dublin at the quarter-final stage.
Emmett McFadden was the toast of Killyclogher last night as his vital second half goal turned the tie in their favour, the St Mary's beating Dromore in the Tyrone semi-final, 1-9 to 0-11.
Crossmaglen Rangers and Harps will renew their rivalry in the Armagh Senior Football Championship when they meet in the quarter-finals tomorrow at Keady (3.45pm).
Darragh O'Hanlon could prove the man on the spot in more ways than one when Kilcoo bid to land what would be a fifth successive Down Senior Football Championship title tomorrow.
Dublin ladies aim to make it third time lucky as they complete a trio of clashes with Cork in Sunday's All-Ireland final, under the guidance of manager Gregory McGonigle.
Antrim ladies' manager Seamus McKenna has revealed his team are getting a look around Croke Park tomorrow night to strip away a bit of the ground's mystique ahead of Sunday's All-Ireland junior final against Longford (throw-in, 11.45am).
Cathal McCarron may be no stranger to controversy but if anything his brush with the darker side of life has seen him emerge as a stronger, resolute and more complete person.
Slaughtneil are well on their way towards rewriting the history books in Derry.
Whisper it softly but Kilcoo's ambitions have extended beyond landing a possible fifth Down Senior Football Championship title on the trot.
Just over a year ago Tiarnan McCann was one of the most pilloried participants in Irish sport. The Tyrone defender appeared to incur the wrath of the entire country following his split-second decision to plunge to the ground after Monaghan's Darren Hughes ruffled his hair in...
Over 82,000 fans at Croke Park on Sunday afternoon watched Mayo and Dublin's battle for the All-Ireland crown end in a draw, meaning they have to do it all over again on October 1.
Watching the All-Ireland final back at this remove, and even that stirring classic between Kerry and Dublin from a few weeks ago, leads to the thought: just how far back are Ulster's finest?
It is anticipated that the GAA will make over £3million from the All-Ireland Senior Football final replay on Saturday, October 1.
Kieran McGourty became the most decorated player in sevens history on Saturday when he secured his sixth All-Ireland title with St Gall's at the Kilmacud Sevens.
The Donegal county board have confirmed that Rory Gallagher is to remain as manager for the next three seasons, with an option for a fourth.
Jim Gavin won't even try and hide it - he is a relieved man to be still in the hunt for Sam.
Crossmaglen Rangers and Harps are set to renew their rivalry in the Armagh Senior Football Championship now that they have been paired in the quarter-finals.
Donegal manager Rory Gallagher is expected to learn tonight if he will be given an extended term in charge.
St Gall's gave Antrim football another shot in the arm by winning the prestigious Kilmacud Sevens competition at the weekend.
All back to Croke Park, Saturday week for a repeat of the biggest house party in Gaelic games after Dublin and Mayo could not be separated after 78 minutes of this final.
A draw is the most rare of GAA animals, and as such, everyone is left in a sort of confused limbo at the final whistle.
Mayo manager Stephen Rochford comes into the room, Andy Moran alongside him, resolutely dressed in the bearing of men who have not missed a boat of any description.
They may have accomplished their goal the hard way but in landing a third All-Ireland minor football championship on the trot at Croke Park yesterday Kerry served up a sharp reminder that the old order at senior level could pertain.
After all the plotting and scheming, column writing and radio blah-blah, you might think that this All-Ireland title will go to Mayo if they can successfully 'spook' Stephen Cluxton with his kickouts, whatever that means.
Tony Mac? Oisin McConville considers the one line that might sum up his lifelong friend, team-mate and, for a spell, manager. Tony McEntee.
Funny, the odd thoughts that come to mind. Jack McCaffrey, the 2015 Gaelic Football Player of the Year, found himself at Croke Park a few weeks ago with his brother to watch the All-Ireland semi-final between Dublin and Kerry, just another ordinary Joe.
Connor McAliskey hit the high spots on occasions when Tyrone landed four trophies from mid-December to mid-July but today his aspirations are focused in a different direction.
Blalinderry nosed more strongly into contention for the Derry Senior Football Championship title last night when they beat Banagher by 1-14 to 1-7, a victory that has earned them a semi-final meeting with champions Slaughtneil.
Two sides who have already fallen to Crossmaglen Rangers will hope to gain redemption when they cross swords in the Armagh Senior Football Championship at the Athletic Grounds on Monday night (6.45pm).
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NAYPYITAW — The United States on Thursday urged Burma to draft a new plan to allow the ethnic Rohingya minority to become citizens and to scrap a proposed plan to send them to detention camps if they refuse to identify themselves as Bengalis.
Most of Burma's 1.1 million Rohingya Muslims are stateless and live in apartheid-like conditions in Arakan State on the west coast of the predominantly Buddhist country. Almost 140,000 are displaced after deadly clashes with ethnic Arakanese Buddhists in 2012.
The Rakhine [Arakan] State Action Plan will require Rohingya to identify themselves as Bengali—a term most reject because it implies they are immigrants from Bangladesh despite having lived in Burma for generations— in order to possibly receive citizenship.
According to a draft of the plan obtained by Reuters in September, the government has proposed that authorities "construct temporary camps in required numbers for those who refuse to be registered and those without adequate documents."
The plan violates "universal rights" and challenges Burma's reform efforts, said US deputy national security adviser for strategic communications Ben Rhodes.
"We would like to see a new plan that will allow the Rohingya to become citizens through a normal process without having to do that type of self-identification," he told reporters in Burma's capital, Naypyidaw, where US President Barack Obama is meeting with leaders at a regional summit.
Obama will travel to Burma's largest city, Rangoon, on Friday to meet with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi at her home where she spent more than 15 years under house arrest, because of her public resistance of the former military junta.
Suu Kyi, who became an international icon for democracy after winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991, has been notably quiet on the plight of the Rohingya.
Rhodes urged her to speak out.
"Her voice is obviously critically important," he said.
Burma emerged from 49 years of military rule when a semi-civilian government took power and initiated sweeping reforms, including releasing political prisoners and lifting restrictions on the media.
But Obama told local news website and magazine The Irrawaddy in an interview published Wednesday that Burma is "backsliding" on reforms, citing issues including a crackdown on journalists and the treatment of the Rohingya.
Obama can declare all illegal Mexicans as US citizens before Burma does this. America has no rights to demand something nonexistent in Burma. Burma after all is not the 51st state of the US. The brazen demand only shows the bullying mentality of the US, and Obama suffering from megalomania.
why not Myanmar wait and see what the US law is to be on the Latinos, at the moment it is much like the proverbial POT CALLING KETTLE BLACK.
Obama appears to be in no position to lead the world, with the Republicans sniping – can he really sign and or promise anything.
Heartiest congrats to The President Obama for his unqualified support of the World's most persecuted underdogs – The Rohingya/s – in their plight to receive such recognition and support.
May God Almighty bless the President & the United States of America.
Damn Obama!!
It will happen when the US gives citizenship to illegal Latinos and the Chinese who are hiding in the kitchens for decades in America. I know there are hundreds of thousands of Chinese who work in the kitchens of the Chinese restaurants in America due to illegal status. Many Chinese women got bailed out from immigration detention centers by wealthy Chinese but they never show up in the courts for hearings. They disappear in cities working as prostitutes for the ones who bailed them out. If US is doing something for these exploited women and men, Myanmar may learn how to help these illegal Bengali immigrants too.
Why I don't see this article in Burmese version of Irrawaddy? "US Says Burma Should Draft New Plan to Give Rohingya Citizenship"
ကမၻာက ရုိဟင္ဂ်ာ ေတြကိုအသိအမွတ္ျပဳလို ့ရခီးေတြနဲ႕အာဏာရွင္ေဟာင္းေတြ အိပ္မဝင္ စားမေပ်ာ္ျဖစ္ေနပါျပီးလား
Added Note: re: DASSK's notable silence on Rohingya issues; she once said that people are complaining because they do not hear what they wanted to hear from her. Whether anybody agrees with her explanation or not, we all must get used to this situation.
Of course, as a grassroots and community activists, we all like to have, from time to time, making use of the 'star-powers'. Indeed, when the famous and influentials start talking, things seem to go a lot further. Daw Suu does have the star-powers. That's why we've got asking Daw Suu please do this or NLD please do that. But, sadly, the star won't shine on Rohingyas, or so it seems. — U Ne Oo
1982 citizenship law is not in line with present constitution so it is illegal to take action over Rohingya ( also call Arakanese Muslims or Rakhine Muslims since 1948 soon after Burmese Independence ). Rohingya terms was given to them the first prime Minister of Burma U Nu and Brig.general Aung Gyi the then Burma Army second in command; by that time why Army Chief Ne Win keep quite. Are they not Bama leaders? Please think hundred times when you point a finger to other and at the same time three fingers are pointing you.
Enough is enough please stop style of lobbying This Rohingya issue is very ( very ) simple. the trick of white card also a just mockery. Not good, treat them properly to become community of the world, otherwise Myanmar or Burma or Burma or Myanmar be laughing stock in front of international community as well as Asean nations so it is bad.
The authority do not want to give political rights to Muslims through out Burma ( Myanmar ). That is why they are destroying religious buildings every where.


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[[caption-width-right:310:You are looking at the cover to ''If on a winter's night a traveler''.]]
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Italo Calvino's novel ''If on a winter's night a traveler'' is about you. You are trying to read Italo Calvino's book ''If on a winter's night a traveler'' when something quite annoying happens: there was an error and only the first exciting chapter is there. So you go back to the bookstore and try to exchange your copy of ''If on a winter's night a traveler'' for another one, but the person at the bookstore tells you that the chapter you just read -- which you wish to continue reading, after all -- was not actually a part of ''If on a winter's night a traveler'' at all, but rather a different book entirely.
And so you go off in search of that book and, naturally, you find [[HilarityEnsues hilarity]], an international book-fraud conspiracy, and [[LoveTropes true love]].
!!These are the tropes you find in Italo Calvino's ''If on a winter's night a traveler'':
* ArcWords: An interesting example, where each of the titles of the books you read add up to an entirely new first sentence of a book. It goes [[spoiler:''If, on a winter's night, a traveler, outside the town of Malbork, leaning from the steep slope, without fear of wind or vertigo, looks down in the gathering shadow (in a network of lines that interlace/in a network of lines that intersect) on the carpet of leaves illuminated by the moon around an empty grave, what story down there awaits its end? (he asks, anxious to hear the story)'']]
* AudienceSurrogate: The Reader for male readers, Ludmilla/the Other Reader for female readers.
* BerserkButton: For you, starting "If on a winter's night a traveler" and finding out that the copy you have is [[spoiler: defunct.]]
* BookEnds: A variant - the book begins with you reading ''If on a winter's night a traveler'', and ends with you finishing the book.
* TheDulcineaEffect: Ludmilla has this on [[AudienceSurrogate you]], Silas Flannery, and Ermes Marana. It's also a running theme in the various [[ShowWithinAShow novels]].
* FictionalDocument
* GenreSavvy
* GenreShift: Each even numbered passage is a new first chapter of a different book you are reading and is a slightly different genre, from detective fiction to romance.
** [[spoiler:Or is it a different variation/translation of the same chapter?]]
* HappilyMarried: By the end of the book, [[spoiler:you are]].
* MetaFiction: It's about ''you'' trying to read ''If on a winter's night a traveler''.
* MindScrew
* MilkmanConspiracy: There's an international plot to mislabel and bind books so you'll never read the right one, involving an evil translator, faceless publishers, and the government of a Latin American dictatorship. [[MindScrew Or so it appears.]]
* MultipleNarrativeModes: The FrameStory is narrated in the second person. All the internal stories are narrated in either the first or third person. Sometimes this is used to refer to both narrators simultaneously.
* PaintingTheMedium
* PhilosophicalNovel
* PostModernism
* PresentTenseNarrative
* RunningGag: You never get to read past the first chapter of any book (except for ''If on a winter's night a traveler'', which you eventually finish).
* SecondPersonNarration
* SeriousBusiness: Books are.
* ShowWithinAShow: ''Books within a book'' actually.
* TropeName
!! These are the tropes you find within the books within ''If on a winter's night a traveler''
* AlwaysFemale: the LoveInterests.
* AlwaysMale: the narrators.
* AsianAndNerdy: Narrator of "On a Carpet of Leaves Illuminated By The Moon."
* CherryBlossoms: Replaced by gingko leaves in "On a Carpet of Leaves," but a similar aesthetic and philosophical association remains.
* CliffHanger: Ubiquitous.
* FarEast: Japan, in "On a Carpet of Leaves." Our narrator and his stern mentor spend much time contemplating the [[CherryBlossoms falling gingko leaves]], and the narrator appears to be learning a Zen-like mode of consciousness, isolating particular sensations to understand them completely.
* FemmeFatale: Irina in "Without Fear of Wind or Vertigo."
* TheFool: The narrator of "Leaning From the Steep Slope."
* GeneHunting: After his father's death, Nacho from "Around an Empty Grave" goes looking for his mother. He has a very hard time getting a straight answer.
* GenreSavvy: The narrator of "Around an Empty Grave." See below.
* [[HisNameIs Her Name Is]]: The protagonist of "Around an Empty Grave" [[GenreSavvy sees this coming]] with his father's death, but is unable to keep the trope from being played absolutely straight.
* IconicItem: Irina's hat with the rose on it.
* LatinoIsBrown: The novel includes a story about a population in Latin America where the indigenous people and the European people all look the same. This is implied to be a product of interbreeding.
* LoveInterests: AlwaysFemale, and run the gamut from sweet and naive, to sadistic and controlling, and everything in between.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: in "What Story Down There Awaits Its End?"
* NoNameGiven: For almost all of them.
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* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: It's entirely possible that the narrator of "Leaning From the Steep Slope" is not mentally stable.
''You have now finished reading the TVTropes entry on Italo Calvino's ''If on a winter's night a traveler''. Thank you.''


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Should be built in to firefox out of the box!
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3rd edit box in dialog (with browse button) for destination folder would be nice.
Anyway this add-on is very usefull for me!
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Skip to comments.Pickup driver killed in first fatality involving MetroRail
Posted on 05/11/2005 7:17:41 AM PDT by weegee
A pickup driver was killed in downtown Houston late Tuesday when his vehicle was broadsided by a Metro light rail train, the first fatality on the rail line since it opened to the public in January 2004.
The accident happened shortly before 10:30 p.m. on southbound Main at Jefferson. The driver, who was killed on impact, was believed to be a man in his 30s. He was the only person in the Dodge pickup truck, police said.
Veda Flores was following the pickup truck when she said the driver drove through a red light and into the path of the oncoming train.
"We stopped at the light but he kept going," she said. "It was just like slow motion."
Visibly shaken after witnessing the fatal accident, Flores said it was clear the driver was at fault.
"There was no way the train could stop," she said. "He (the train operator) didn't have time."
The front of the train ripped through the driver's side door and pushed the pickup about 50 feet along the tracks.
"The impact is right on the driver's door, which is kind of a weak part of the vehicle," said Sgt. G.T. Hall, with the Houston Police Department accident division.
The pickup truck came to a rest against the Downtown Transit Center stop at Main and Jefferson.
Police said four passengers on the train were taken to area hospitals with minor injuries. Eight other riders were not injured.
Accident investigators confirmed that the train operator who wasn't injured likely would not be found at fault because the victim ran a red light and may have been speeding.
" We're very confident that the fault lies with the deceased," Sgt. Hall said.
Transit agency technicians were at the scene to remove a recording device similiar to a black box in an airliner which investigators hope may offer clues in the investigation, such as the speed of the train at the time.
Metro officials said they also would be conducting an investigation into Tuesday's fatal accident.
"We're going to have to take a hard look at it and see if there's anything at all we can do to improve safety," said Metro spokesman George Smalley.
Since MetroRail began taking passengers it has been involved in more than 74 accidents, including at least four in which pedestrians were struck by trains.
The 7.5-mile rail line holds the record for the number of accidents in a year among light rail systems in the United States 63, set during its first year of operation.
The Metropolitan Transit Authority and police have blamed all but one of the accidents on pedestrians getting too close to the tracks and motorists attempting illegal turns across the tracks or running red lights.
Critics blame the record number of accidents on the system's at-grade rail design, with some nicknaming the $324 million MetroRail "The Danger Train." Questions also have been raised about confusing signage and traffic lights along the rail line. Additionally, MetroRail tracks share the left-turn lanes with motorists in the Texas Medical Center area.
In the first quarter of this year, Metro reported 13 rail-automobile collisions, half the number during the first quarter of 2004.
Metro considers an incident a reportable accident if it results in at least one injury or property damage in excess of $1,000.
The rail line carries about 32,000 riders a day as it runs from the University of Houston-Downtown to just south of the Loop 610, and back.
The train has a top speed of 40 mph, but an average speed of 15.5 mph, according to Metro.
Metro officials expect to resume full operation of the light rail by rush hour today.
Let me guess... the train was named "Darwin"?
I guess the light at the end of his tunnel really was a train.
For what it's worth, two or three weeks ago I was at Main (and maybe Elgin) and I had the green light (something failed and the light didn't go red). Metrorail ran the light (because basically, it is illegal to hit the Chronicle/Mayor Brown's train). I didn't get hit (I was approaching the light when I observed this) but there are problems in the system.
Problems that an elevated rail never would have had.
Sorry about the double post. Could you please help out htere thanks.
weird thing about that photo is that it looks like there are people actually about to USE the train. What is the ridership level of this system?
hmm, isn't Willie Green moving to Texas....
This waste cost more then $400 million dollars, ridership is falling. To be blunt they could have bought every rider of this a new Jeep Libery sport and still have saved money.
Traffic engineers spent decades separating different modes of transportation to reduce fatalities. Now we have the train fanatics grabbing money from the Feds and promoting light rail in every city in the country as a way to reduce congestion if you don't mind taking a lot longer to get from point A to point B.
Current estimates for the real price of a light rail ride is from $15 to $20 or so a ticket. It carries a miniscule amount of rush hour traffic, and the trains themselves have far less capacity than a freeway lane. Light rail also has a higher per fatality rate per passenger mile than any other form of transit. Mixed mode transport is deadly. You'd save a lot and get better, more flexible transit, by spending the money on express buses that pick up and drop off in various parts ot the city.
But, as with all leftist projects, it's the idea, not the outcome. Besides, all of these deaths are someone else's fault.
Is that sign on the station in Spanish?
I hope it isn't.
Makes no sense to me. Put it in a tunnel or elevate it, but you are not alleviating congestion when you build it to compete with surface traffic that is already gridlocked enough on its own.
They're building essential a clone in Phoenix.
Many of us fought the ballot initiative hard, but lost.
It will traverse my neighborhood.
Oh joy.
And to say this is the first fatality! Check out the Wham-Bam-Tram numbers on the Action America Houston page http://www.actionamerica.org/houston/index.shtml
Can't put it underground in Houston. It would flood. Hell this one is surface level and floods (where it cannot be run) in 3 inches of rain.
Houston probably has the own Main Street in a major city that is only one lane in each direction.
This passed as did all of the other major ballot initiatives with the bare minimum of support (like 1 or 2 percent).
The Comical was a sponsor of this (for their downtown and construction business buddies). Tom Delay fought against federal funding for this project and has been on their "enemies" list ever since.
It would probably reduce traffic if people used it, but retrofitting a commuter rail system onto a city which has developed on an automobile model is not going to be easy.
In my heart, I think it would be great for there to be safe fast comfortable mass transit, but where I live (Nashville) the population density in the suburbs is too low to suddenly think we could switch back to a trolley system. Maybe it would have been smart not to have ripped out the tracks way back when, but its about 60 years too late to undue that decision.
Then elevating it would be the logical thing to do, eh?
From the story:
Veda Flores was following the pickup truck when she said the driver drove through a red light and into the path of the oncoming train.
Seems pretty silly to blame the train for penalizing the dead guy's own stupidity...
I cross over those tracks everyday and you can't hear the whistle when its coming. This is one place where if you run a red light you have a good chance of being killed.
Having lived in Houston for ten years, I can say that a commuter rail from someplace to someplace (like from Katy to downtown, for instance) would have alleviated a lot of congestion on I-10.
The fact that it was built from the Astrodome to The Field Formerly Known as Enron to service Drayton McClane's business ventures is criminal.
Funny thing is in Houston they dug down to put in the new road and rail line for this thing, and construction was slowed because they hit the trolley rail from 100 years ago. The city fathers then figured out rail was not a good idea in Houston. But liberals are slowly creeping into the game now, and creating a complete mess of the roads etc.
The trains in Houston travel atround 30 mph ("The train has a top speed of 40 mph, but an average speed of 15.5 mph, according to Metro") and make no effort to stop outside of the loading stations. The law makes it clear that people are not to collide with Metro's train.
If you read another quote, she says "There was no way the train could stop," she said. "He (the train operator) didn't have time."
I've seen car drivers who choose to hit their horn instead of the breaks. Same result. Slow down and accidents can be avoided.
The lights traditionally (but don't always) turn red in all four directions when the train approaches the interesection. If a driver is approaching a green light and it turns red quickly, some will speed up instead of stopping. If they believe that the rail will also stop before proceeding through the interesection (obeying "their" light), then they may think it is safe. Metrorail does not stop for any red light.
Police and other emergency vehicles stop before they run red lights in this town.
Bus drivers have to stop and listen for REAL trains any time they cross traintracks. There is no reason that Metrorail couldn't approach each interesection from a stop before proceeding.
Isn't the Federal Transportation and Safety Board suppose to protect tax-paying citizens from this TERROR TRAIN?
To hear the left tell it, cities got rid of rail because of evil auto manufacturers bribing city officials.
The buggy whip manufacturers are still upset too ;P
Sure but elevating rail costs more money- the state government can't provide and some of our own representatives actively work in congress to kill any funding for mass transit in Houston- this was the only option left.
Also it goes through the medical center where I work- there are skybridges there connecting the buildings- with an elevated system those skybridges would have had to been torn down shifted up a few stories or just eliminated altogether.
Can you explain to me the logic of building it from the Astrodome to The Field Formerly Known As Enron, other than as a personal favor to Drayton McClain, who already owns half of Houston?
By Metro's own calculations, only a few dozen people can actually use it to commute.
If it had been built from Katy to downtown, tens of thousands of people could and would have used it.
Metro is nothing but affirmative action for minority crooks.
Sooner or later there will be a lawsuit against MetroRail and the city about the safety of rail, and they will lose.
What this individual did in this unfortunate case was wrong I am sure, it does not excuse Metro from their liability of making an unsafe rail line, which can be proven sustained.
If I were to build an apartment building, say seven stories tall, and install balconies on this building but not place a rail, citing esthetic or finacial reasons, would I be acting negligent?
Let's say I could even paint a giant red line on the floor of the balcony a foot or two from the edge, and post a sign say "do not stand on or past the red line", would that be enough?
Let's say I even had the power to have a law passed saying it was illegal to stand on or past a thick red line on a balcony, does that excuse what I have failed to do?
For I can guarantee you people will fall. Metro may claim it was not their fault, and the driver violated the law, but with Metro's current accident record, and all of the history, there is more to the story. The rail iine is a lawsuit waiting to happen.
The truth of the matter is they considered elevated rail "ugly". It was about taking a picture and presenting their people mover to the Olympic committee.
Houston wanted the Olympics and wanted a way of getting large numbers of visitors between their 5 stadiums.
It never was about moving workers in and out of downtown.
The more you learn about who was influencing the mayor's office (in Houston, Cleveland, New Orleans, Detroit, and other major cities) bribing officials for city contracts, the more this scandal becomes a national disgrace.
The Chronicle sat out on this one just as they protected their boy Ken Lay (who went to bat for them to get the 51% majority vote to get their billions of dollars of new stadiums).
How may pedestrians have been hit in the medical center so far?
Well at least they have ready access to some of the finest medical care in the world.
No one said it had to go down that street (Fanin?).
The surface rail makes cars wait at traffic lights (which adds to congestion and pollution).
What exactly was the point of this expensive boondoggle?
If "Houstonians" don't use rail, then why didn't Metrorail serve the visitors of Houston instead?
Metro opposed the smarter line that went from Intercontiental/Bush Airport into a triangle of the Galleria, Medical Center, and downtown.
Can't offer any solutions in this town that keep visitors out of cars (especially now that the city is dependent on their higher rental car taxes, roughly 28%, for the financing of the staduiums).
As someone else pointed out, it would have been far cheaper to buy each rider a Jeep Liberty than build this toy train.
Houstonians use the Park and Rides all the time. Whoever told you that they would not use mass transit if it were available in meaningful form is simply blowing smoke.
And to say this is the first fatality! Check out the Wham-Bam-Tram numbers on the Action America Houston page http://www.actionamerica.org/houston/index.shtml
Shoot weegee, if they and anyone else is smart - they'll stop or slow down before going through a green light in this town (Houston).
Another sign that this is a yuppie shuttle...
The city is trying to force Greyhound to move their bus terminal off of West Gray and Main St. Not because it gets too much or too little traffic, but because it is "unsightly" to the new residents in the area. Look for the city to pick up the tab on the new terminal if they move.
The downtown establishment is about lining their pockets, not improving Houston.
Poor, stupid dope.
When it's between an automobile and a train, ALWAYS bet on the train.
>How may pedestrians have been hit in the medical center so
I don't know offhand- I though there was a website that kept track of this but I can't seem to find it now.
>Well at least they have ready access to some of the finest
>medical care in the world.
>No one said it had to go down that street (Fanin?).
>The surface rail makes cars wait at traffic lights (which
>adds to congestion and pollution).
In the past I had to wait for buses alot more as there are no dedicated drop off or pick zones for buses. Six of one, half dozen of another.
>What exactly was the point of this expensive boondoggle?
The population of Houston is growing and is predicted to continue to grow. Travel times to all of the outlying suburbs is increasing, not just Katy but Pearland, Sugarland, etc... What can be done to ease the problem? The two choices are mass transit and widening of the highways as is happening between Houston and Katy. If you go with mass transit, you have got to start somewhere. Mass transit works best in areas with relative high population density. Houston suburbs are problematic because they are not densely populated.
Also with gas price trends looking the way they are people may soon start looking for alternatives. There aren't any great options though given the overall low density sprawl that is greater Houston.
>As someone else pointed out, it would have been far
>cheaper to buy each rider a Jeep Liberty than build this
>toy train.
The medical center does not have enough parking for all of its employees and with the plans of Baylor expansion and Methodist expansion there is not going to be any more anytime soon. More SUVs wouldn't help.
>Houstonians use the Park and Rides all the time. Whoever
>told you that they would not use mass transit if it were
>available in meaningful form is simply blowing smoke.
Perhaps but I was hearing this from native Houstonians and being a transplant myself what do I know about how the locals think.
Everybody in Houston is from someplace else.
>If "Houstonians" don't use rail, then why didn't Metrorail
>serve the visitors of Houston instead?
>Metro opposed the smarter line that went from
>Intercontiental/Bush Airport into a triangle of the
>Galleria, Medical Center, and downtown.
>Can't offer any solutions in this town that keep visitors
>out of cars (especially now that the city is dependent on
>their higher rental car taxes, roughly 28%, for the
>financing of the staduiums).
Personally I would love to see this- I already pay for parking in the med center- I could just park there and take it up to IAH. I believe one of the proposed expansions moves it closer to IAH, but ultimately just closer doesn't count. If the city is in fact opposing expansion to the airports on the basis of revenue than I have to say that is a short sighted approach to a long term problem.
>Another sign that this is a yuppie shuttle...
>The city is trying to force Greyhound to move their bus
>terminal off of West Gray and Main St. Not because it gets
>too much or too little traffic, but because it
>is "unsightly" to the new residents in the area. Look for
>the city to pick up the tab on the new terminal if they
>The downtown establishment is about lining their pockets,
>not improving Houston.
Well I am in favor of the downtown insofar as it is a comparitively high density area that is in some areas mixed use. I think Houston needs more of them. I don't live in the downtown myself.
Light Rail = Heavy Rip Off.
Democrats loooooove light rail.
Most Houston driver have all the survival instincts of a manically depressed lemming.
That's one of the big reasons the voters killed high speed rail here in Florida back in 2004. When Disney demanded that part of the Orlando system run from Orlando International Airport to the gates of their theme parks, instead of going toward downtown, and when Disney got that concession, it helped show what the thing was really going to be. Nothing more than a taxpayer-subsidized trolley at the service of South Florida liberals who wanted to take their grandkids to Disney World and not have to rub elbows with us grubby unwashed hicks along the highways leading there.
As a Houstonian, I can promise you the debate over the Metro still lives on today. The initial cost was astounding, and every time an accident occurs involving the Metro (which I believe now is roughly fifty), the repair costs are in the millions. People do ride it, but I have never seen it even close to being full. One problem is that the signs/street markers/etc. directing traffic in the area of the Metro are hard to see. The other problem is that the Metro is extremely quiet. If you are in a car at a light, or even on foot next to the tracks, you wouldn't know it was coming unless you looked in that direction.
Am I reading this correctly? ONLY 12 PASSENGERS ON THE WHOLE TRAIN?
Why is this system even running if no one uses it?
Like they say, if you can't dodge it, ram it!
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We hope to see you all at the meetings in October.
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In this video, we'll take a quick look at some of the commands found on the Analysis toolbar. These are very helpful when receiving a new model from someone else, and you need to check or match some of the sizes. However, the Analysis tools can be just as available for own models. For example, when you haven't worked on the project in a while and forgot what you did in certain areas. Take a look up here at the menu. All the commands will be found under Analyze. I am going to go ahead and open up the Analyses toolbar and dock it. So, we are going to by right-clicking on a blank area. These are all the toolbars available. Select Analyze.
And then just go ahead and dock it, just to make it a little bit quicker and easier. Another reminder along the way. I always keep the curves that have generated all the surfaces in the file. You can always move them to another layer later, but these are extremely helpful for checking sizes or regenerating geometry. So, there is no need to get rid of them. Let's maximize the Perspective viewport, and we'll start of with the Analyze Direction. We've talked about this previously. This is very helpful when you have problems with trimming or even Boolean operations.
So, it will tell you which is the inside direction and the outside direction. So, let's pick a couple of objects, right-click to accept. And that's as expected, so everything is working fine there. And right-click to finish. Now, let's switch over to the front view. We'll double-click that and maximize by double-clicking again. I'll go in Wireframe. I am curious about the angle between these two antennas, so we'll go up to Analyze toolbar and determine the angle.
Now, it wants the start of the first line. It's a little bit helpful to make it consistent between the two line. So, I am going to snap to that endpoint. It'd probably be better to turn everything else off. So, just the End snap. So, there is the first point, and the end point is up there somewhere. The second line, I try to keep it consistent, so I'll go back to the same beginning origin. It tells the angle is 59.9682, just as I was guessing.
Here I am going to jump back to the Perspective view. I want to try and look at some radii on this model. This is especially important if you have a detail that has already been done, and you need to match. For example, what is the radius here? I have another object that needs to be in the same set of products, so we'll check the radius. It's pretty good about finding any curve out there. You can see the actual number right there by the cursor, at 7.0, go ahead and click.
Then it gives us the diameter and radius up at the top. Let me try that again. So, we can snap to almost any arc that it can find, including parts of a sphere. So, it looks like it's snapping around the midline, giving us instant feedback of a radius of 2. Now, the next radius check is probably the best trick yet. Many times you are trying to match certain details and it was very easy to snap to these curves here or the edges of the eye there.
But how do you determine the radius on this shape? There is no curves, and the edge is going along the other way. We don't have anything to calculate the radius from this direction. So, we are going to do one more command here. I'll go to the Curve menu > From Objects > Extract Isocurve. So, as you know the surface is technically infinitely smooth, and there is isocurves pretty much everywhere. So, we can just make a copy of one of those at any time. So, I am going to select the surface. Looks like I have picked the wrong surface, try it again. There we go.
So, this is coming up in the correct direction. If it wasn't, you just flip the toggle option here. You can see you always have two directions in any surface. It's kind of a guess which is the U Direction and which is the V Direction. So, that's why you have a toggle in most of these commands. So, we can just extract this anywhere. I don't need to snap it anywhere particular. Right-click when we are done. It's still selected. I can go back to Radius and instantly it tells me that there was a Radius of 3 units and Diameter of 6.
Okay, one more analysis. To do this we are going to zoom down to the feet. This next command works the best on organic and curved surfaces. This is under the Curvature Analysis. We are going to select Environment Map. So, it wants us to select a couple of objects. I am just going to pick everything down here in the viewport. Right-click. So, what we get is an environmental reflex map, meaning it's as if this is a shiny object in an environment reflected by the picture you have selected.
But we can change the image pretty quickly and easily. There is one called Tru-Sphere. This is very popular with car designers or boathull designers, where they need to get tremendous amount of detail and feedback. Why this is so useful is you can see discontinuities. You can see the surface change direction abruptly, and that will tell you that it's not as smooth as you thought. So it's an Analysis tool that helps you make surfaces smoother or find flaws before you go much further. And of course, it's fun to look at.
One nice little factor here is we can add objects by selecting this button. It just puts more objects in the reflection set. Like I said, it's more effective on the curved surfaces, not that useful on the flat surfaces. Hopefully, these Analysis commands will reduce or eliminate your concern when modeling quickly. Too often, beginners will slow down as they worry over the size of each component. With the Analysis commands, you are free to design and model with more focus on the form and proportions, and less on the actual dimensions.
These dimensions can be derived at anytime, so no need to stress unless you like to stress.
- Understanding 3D terminology
- Viewing a 3D model in Rhino 4.0
- Manipulating objects with commands
- Creating curves, surfaces, and solids
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- Creating unique shapes with Boolean operators
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