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By Tom Ward
Special Contributor
The second time around was a charm for Stanford's Patrick Rodgers as he took home the prestigious Ben Hogan Award Sunday night at Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, TX. Rodgers was a Hogan finalist in 2012 when he was just a freshman. The Ben Hogan award, which has been called 'The Heisman Trophy' of college golf, is annually given to the top collegiate golfer in the country. Rodgers beat out fellow Stanford golfer teammate Cameron Wilson and Georgia Tech's Ollie Schniederjans.
Rodgers said in his acceptance speech, "To be linked with Mr. Hogan, he's such an iconic figure. Not just in golf, but in sports. He symbolizes what it means to work hard and have a disciplined approach."
With the win, Rodgers received the first invitation to next year's event at Colonial Country Club by tournament chairman Bobby Patton. The Master of Ceremonies for the black tie affair was WBAP 820 AM's Brian Estridge, who always does a terrific job. The keynote speaker for the evening was 1966 Colonial Champion Bruce Devlin from Australia. Devlin told the packed audience that he first met Ben Hogan in 1962 at the Masters. He got an opportunity to play with Hogan in a practice round.
Devlin recalled, "It was scary to think I've come all this way to play my first practice round at the Masters and I'm playing with Mr. Ben Hogan. I called him Ben because the very first day I met him he told me to. In 1966, my wife Gloria and I had the opportunity to stop off in Dallas/Fort Worth on our way to the U.S. Open at the Olympic club. We hooked up with Ben and his wife Valerie and had dinner with them every night and I played practice rounds with him every day. On the first night, I hesitantly asked Ben at dinner if he ever talked about what happened that February of 1949 (the Hogan's had a horrific car accident running into a bus). Hogan said, 'Yes, I think about it all the time.' He started on that Monday evening and finished his story on Tuesday morning. So people who say that Hogan wasn't a person that was easy to get to know didn't know the man I knew." Devlin added, "He was quite a remarkable man and of all the people I've seen play the game there is no doubt in my mind that he was the greatest striker of the golf ball that I've ever seen. Hogan had control of the height of the golf ball better than anyone. You could stand behind him as he hit balls and you could picture a hole out there and that ball kept going through that hole whether he was hitting 6 irons or drivers. I remember him as a gentle kind soul and a very lovely man."
Next to speak was Brandel Chamblee from the Golf Channel, who was the special guest speaker on the program. Brian Estridge introduced him saying, "He's the best analyst in golf television today and someone who isn't afraid to speak his mind, giving terrific insight". Brandel told the audience about the time in 1983 he got invited to play the Colonial at 20 years old. He ended up sitting right next to Ben Hogan at the dinner and had heard about Hogan's reputation for small talk.
Chanblee said, "I had seen Hogan hit golf balls from about 100 yards or so and he had a legend about having a secret. I was trying to define the secret on every golf swing he made and for the life of me I couldn't figure out what it was. So I thought on the drive over that night I am not going to ask him. I'm going to go that whole night and not say one word to him other than nice to meet you Mr. Hogan because I didn't want to piss him off. So I sat there all night long and he and I have literally in my mind had a contest to see who would say the least. Well, I outlasted Mr. Hogan and finally he turned to me and asked me if I played golf. At the end of the night he said to me that he looked forward to watching my progress this week. Now I took that as we were best friends."
Chamblee continued, "After 3 days I was tied for lead with Jack Nicklaus, Tom Weiskopt and Andy Bean. I'm looking at the scoreboard and I had done the math and I figured I was going to get paired with Jack Nicklaus and Tom Weiskopt. Well, I ended up getting paired with Andy Bean and back then Andy Bean was like Steve Stricker today; he was as good as there was. As I was walking up the 18th hole and looked over and there was Ben Hogan sitting in a golf cart and as far as I knew he was watching me play. So when people ask me to list my biggest moments in the game of golf I never say that, but I think it."
Brian Estridge asked Chamblee, "As you sit here when you think about these three young men and what they are about to embark on in careers in professional golf,what is it that they don't know?" Chamblee replied, "They don't know that the most dangerous place for a tour professional is the driving range. It's a lion's den and the lions are dressed like kittens. They're in the form of agents, sports psychologists, fitness instructors, spoon benders, swing instructors, and short game gurus. All of them are well-intentioned, but they want to use your talents to elevate their status and to try out their theories and ideas. Now, I was a nice guy and I enjoyed talking about things so I engaged them and I learned a lot from it. The tour is a test of skill, but it's really a test of will. That's because the players that make it are arrogant. There is no other word for it. Now you can be arrogant and still be likeable. You have to have unbelievable amount of belief to go with that passion. I could talk all night about players I saw that come out on tour and lose their way engaging people. Now, I'm not saying they don't know what they're talking about because some of them do. However, if they weren't directly involved in getting you where you are at then they don't have as much skin in the game as you. I'd be worried and I'd be leery. There's power in discovery. Ben Hogan said to dig it out of the dirt and what I think he meant by that was when you discover something yourself first of all you have the confidence to fix something yourself. Second, your belief that nobody knows what you know and that's important. Third, you feel like you deserve success because it didn't come to you easy. You had to solve these problems yourself. What I'm telling you is to make your own judgments."
Chamblee told another funny story about playing with Jumbo Ozaki in the 1999 U.S. Open at Pinehurst. He said, "I was playing the first round with David Toms and Jumbo Ozaki. Jumbo won 100 golf tournaments and he was like a god in Japan. He was the only player I ever saw that had an entourage inside the ropes. At the 6th tee, a long par 3 of 240 yards, we were waiting on the tee and it was one of the coolest things I've ever seen on the golf course. Ozaki was leaning on his club and held up two fingers and within seconds there was a lit cigarette in his hand. That's when you know you've made it big. After we finished the first round, Jumbo comes over and shakes my hand on the 18th green and gives me David Toms' scorecard with my scores on it. I told him, 'That's alright we all look alike.'"
Also, singer/songwriter Sonny Burgess sang a beautiful original tune he wrote honoring Ben Hogan and everyone seemed to enjoy it. Eddie Merrins (pro emeritus from Bel-Air Country Club) spoke representing FOG (Friends of Golf). After the ceremony, I had a chance to speak with Patrick Rodgers to congratulate him and the other two finalists. It was great seeing renowned author Dan Jenkins there, as I just did a review of his new book. I also had a chance to visit with former Fort Worth Mayor Mike Moncrief and his wife Rosie. It was nice catching up with Marty Leonard, the daughter of Colonial founder Marvin Leonard. I visited with legendary Los Angeles Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda, who was in town as a guest of tournament Chairman Bobby Patton, who is one of the owners of the team. Before heading home, I stopped by to thank my friend Dr. Bill Barnes who, along with Dr. Wally Schmuck, is the Co-Chairman of the Ben Hogan Awards. I told them how much I appreciated the invitation to attend and for allowing me to bring my wife Mary Jo this year, who told me she really enjoyed the evening's entertainment. On the drive home I told my wife that I look forward to following the careers of all three of the young men we met this evening, because they are great examples of how young athletes should act on and off the golf course. I could tell after speaking with these remarkable young collegiate golfers that they were in awe of what Ben Hogan accomplished and what this award bearing his name really meant.
Tom Ward can be reached at www.teetimewithtom.com


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Texoma's EF2-EF5 Tornado Risk Highest in Nation
The National Weather Service keeps a continuous record of the following statistics:
- Tornadoes that occur in the nation
- Strength of the tornadoes
- Frequency of the tornadoes in a geographic area
- Damage of the tornadoes
This information combined allows the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center (NWS-SPC) to create risk maps for significant tornadoes.
These maps are updated daily but a clear trend has been evident lately.
These maps take the history of all tornadoes over past years and then puts them into a formula that kicks out a probability of having a significant tornado within 25 miles of any given point in the United States.
The next question you might be asking is; what is a significant tornado? Keep in mind that the Enhance Fujita Scale (EF Scale) measures the damage of a tornado. A "significant tornado" is considered to be an EF2 or greater.
Then after the damage is analyzed the tornado itself gets a rating. The rating scale goes from EF0 up to EF5. EF0 is a very weak tornado while an EF5 tornado is the strongest tornado on earth.
As far as our risks of seeing a significant tornado in any part of Texoma along and north of a line from Altus to Wichita Falls is about 0.35% and greater. Now this doesn't sound like much but it is considered by researchers to be very high. In fact it is the highest rated risk category for the United States.
Check the graphic which shows the bullseye of activity in Oklahoma and North Texas. There is a closer up image attached as well.
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Last November, MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell proudly declared himself a socialist on national television.
On Wednesday, "The Last Word" host took this a huge step further saying the whole idea that Americans are rugged individualists is an illusion because they're all really socialists (video follows with transcript and commentary):
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: From our first days as a nation, we have put our faith in free markets and free enterprise as the engine of America's wealth and prosperity. More than citizens of any other country, we are rugged individualists, a self-reliant people, with a healthy skepticism of too much government.
LAWRENCE O'DONNELL: This is an illusion, of course. We are not the rugged individualists we think we are. After getting an education paid for by the government, if we live long enough, we all get retirement income from the government and health care paid for by the government. That is a very healthy dose of good old-fashioned socialism, but we remain the country that pretends to hate socialism. Homeowners and the entire real estate industry float on a massive government subsidy written into the tax code called the mortgage deduction. The federal government gives millionaires and billionaires tens of thousands of dollars a year to pay, $50,000, to pay for their housing, a subsidy that none of them need, and yet our rugged individualist self-image continues.
Honestly, this has more holes in it than Swiss cheese.
First off, for the roughly 50 percent of the nation that pays taxes, nothing that we "receive" from the federal or state government is given to us. My parents paid federal, state, local, and property taxes that went for my public education, much as I've done for my children.
As for the Social Security and Medicare benefits I may some day receive, I will have at that point paid into the system since I was 18-years-old, and, depending upon when I retire and eventually pass away, could very possibly have paid in more than I received not including a simple rate of growth applied to my contributions.
For the percentage of our population that are much like myself in this regard, whatever they have and/or will receive from federal and state governments is a payback of what's been deducted from their income without their permission or - in some cases - approval.
As for mortgage interest deductability being a subsidy, one really has to wonder what Lawrence learned at Harvard because tax deductions aren't subsidies. Even the liberal Wikipedia knows that:
A subsidy (also known as a subvention) is a form of financial assistance paid to a business or economic sector. Most subsidies are made by the government to producers or distributors in an industry to prevent the decline of that industry (e.g., as a result of continuous unprofitable operations) or an increase in the prices of its products or simply to encourage it to hire more labor (as in the case of a wage subsidy). Examples are subsidies to encourage the sale of exports; subsidies on some foods to keep down the cost of living, especially in urban areas; and subsidies to encourage the expansion of farm production and achieve self-reliance in food production.
A tax deduction is not a form of financial assistance paid to you by the government. Instead, it is a means by which you get to pay less taxes and therefore keep more of -- are you listening, Lawrence? - your money.
But this is a common mistake by liberals that are really socialists, for they don't understand that the government doesn't actually have any money except for what it takes from the citizenry, borrows or prints.
What it taxes is ours, and any current or future statutes in the IRS code that allow us to keep more is neither a subsidy nor a gift.
As it pertains to mortgage interest, if the Left wants to see this tepid recovery fall on its face quickly, they should eliminate this deductability and watch housing prices and the home construction industry collapse even further sending us right back into a recession.
Maybe that's what a socialist like O'Donnell wants. Then there will be more folks trading in their rugged individualism for handouts from those that still believe in such a thing.
Never let a good crisis go to waste, right?


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Agence métropolitaine de transport
An outbound train on the Mont-Saint-Hilaire Line
|Greater Montreal
|Transit type
|Commuter rail
Express bus service
|Number of lines
|Number of stations
|61 rail (2 planned)
19 bus[1]
|Daily ridership
|86,100 (all modes)[2]
- 79,700 (train)
- 6,400 (bus)
|Annual ridership
|19,322,200 (2014)[3]
|Chief executive
|Paul Côté
|700 rue de la Gauchetière, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
|Began operation
|January 1, 1996
|Reporting marks
|Number of vehicles
|50 locomotives
206 coaches
The Agence métropolitaine de transport (AMT; English: Metropolitan Transportation Agency) (reporting mark AMT) is the umbrella organization that plans, integrates, and coordinates public transportation services across Canada's Greater Montreal Region, including the Island of Montreal, Laval (Île Jésus), and communities along both the North Shore of the Rivière des Mille-Îles and the South Shore of the St. Lawrence River. It was created on December 15, 1995 by the Loi sur l'Agence métropolitaine de transport (English: AMT Act) and took over from the STCUM's commuter rail service on January 1, 1996. The AMT operates Montreal's commuter rail and express bus services, and is the second busiest such system in Canada after Toronto's GO Transit.
AMT's territory spans 63 municipalities and one native reserve, 13 regional county municipalities, and 21 transit authorities. It serves a population of approximately 4.1 million people who make more than 750,000 trips daily in the 4,258.97 km2 (1,644.40 sq mi) area radiating from Montreal.
AMT's mandate includes the management of reserved bus lanes as well as HOVs on the A-15 north of the A-40, metropolitan terminuses, park-and-ride lots, and a budget of $163 million, which is shared amongst the transit corporations and inter-municipal public transit organizations. Apart from these essential services, AMT is also responsible for Montreal's commuter rail service, which links the downtown core with communities as far west as Hudson, as far east as Mont-Saint-Hilaire, and as far north as Saint-Jérôme.
In 2014, the AMT ranked first among commuter rail agencies in North America with a punctuality rate of 96.6%, trailed by Chicago's Metra, New Jersey's NJ Transit and Minneapolis' Northstar.[3]
- 1 Partners in transport
- 2 Commuter rail
- 3 Buses
- 4 Park and ride
- 5 Ridership
- 6 Future projects
- 7 References
- 8 External links
Partners in transport[edit]
The main partners in transport are 14 transit agencies:[4]
- 3 public transport agencies: Réseau de transport de Longueuil (RTL) / Société de transport de Laval (STL) / Société de transport de Montréal (STM)
- 9 intermunicipal boards of transport (CIT): CIT Chambly-Richelieu-Carignan / CIT de la Vallée du Richelieu / CIT du Haut-Saint-Laurent / CIT du Sud-Ouest / CIT La Presqu'Île / CIT Laurentides / CIT Le Richelain / CIT Roussillon / CIT Sorel-Varennes
- 1 regional transport board (CRT): CRT Lanaudière
- 1 municipality that organizes its own public transit service: the town of Sainte-Julie
Commuter rail[edit]
The AMT's commuter trains are its highest-profile division. It has two types of trains: electric multiple unit (EMU) trains, used on the Deux-Montagnes Line, and diesel-electric push-pull trains, used on all the others. The Deux-Montagnes line was electrified because of the 4.8 km (3 mi) long poorly ventilated tunnel to Central Station. Diesel trains through the tunnel were at one time restricted and are now prohibited; the diesel-powered trains of AMT's Mont-Saint-Hilaire line, Via Rail and Amtrak all arrive at Central Station from the direction opposite the tunnel.
The AMT commuter trains operate on tracks owned by Canadian National, Canadian Pacific. The Mont-Saint-Hilaire line run on CN trackage and operate out of Central Station, while the Vaudreuil-Hudson, Saint-Jérôme, and Candiac lines run on CP trackage and operate out of Lucien L'Allier terminus, beside the historic Windsor Station. The Saint-Jérôme line also runs on Canadian Pacific (CP) trackage and on the AMT's own trackage between Sainte-Thérèse and Saint-Jérôme. The Deux-Montagnes line, including trackage and all infrastructure, as well as the Mount-Royal tunnel, is also fully owned by the AMT.[5]
The train lines are integrated with the bus and Metro network maintained by the Société de transport de Montréal (STM). The AMT bus and train operations are currently being given to the Réseau de Transport Métropolitain (reporting mark RTM).
List of commuter train lines[edit]
|Train Lines
|Line length
|AMT service inaugurated
|Line N°
|62.8 km (39.0 mi)
|July 1997
|25.6 km (15.9 mi)
|September 4, 2001
|51.2 km (31.8 mi)
|January 1, 1996
|29.9 km (18.6 mi)
|January 1, 1996
|Gare Centrale
|34.9 km (21.7 mi)
|52 km (32 mi)
|December 1, 2014
|Partial[n 1]
The greater Montreal area is divided into 8 fare zones. Starting from downtown Montreal, they stretch outwards in all directions. The first three zones are within the cities of Montreal, Laval and Longueuil only. The commuter train fare system is based on the assumption that the user is travelling to or from downtown. It is the same price, for example, to travel within zone 3 or from zone 3 to zone 2 as opposed to travel from zone 3 to zone 1.
To use the train, passengers must have a validated TRAM or TRAIN fare that covers the furthest zone travelled. TRAM fares provide access to the Montreal Metro and buses within the fare zone without any additional payment while the TRAIN fares are only valid on commuter trains. Tickets can be purchased individually or in a six-trip card Single and 6-trip TRAM fares are available for zones 1, 2, and 3 only, and are valid only on STM buses. Regular users can get a monthly pass if they have an OPUS card. Tickets and passes for commuter trains are valid for any line, as long as the ticket is used within 120 minutes from the time of purchase or validation. Travel is limited to the zone for which the ticket is purchased, or any lower-numbered zone, but not a higher-numbered one. For example, a zone 5 ticket is valid for zones 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, but not zones 6, 7, and 8. Local bus tickets and passes are not valid on commuter trains. There are no faregates; instead, fare inspectors randomly check tickets.
All fares are available in a cheaper "reduced" category for children 6 to 15 years old, students 16 and 17 years old, and seniors that are 65 or older. Additionally, monthly passes are available in a "student" category (which is cheaper than the regular fare but more than the reduced fare) for students 18 to 25 years old. To benefit from the reduced or student fares, the passenger must have a reduced-fare OPUS card with their name and photo on it. Travel on the commuter trains is free for anyone 5 and under as well as children 6 to 11 years old travelling with an adult.
Following the introduction of the OPUS, smart card system tickets and passes are now sold by automated vending machines at each station. The machines accept cash, credit and debit cards. Purchases of more than $80 must be paid by cards. Tickets and passes are also sold at a few stores near the suburban stations. Consult the full list on the AMT's website.[7][8] Passes are valid for a calendar month, and are normally on sale from the 20th of the previous month to the 5th of their month of validity. Passengers can also subscribe to OPUS+ which automatically debits the passenger's bank account or credit card and adds the pass to the passenger's OPUS card.
Locomotives and passenger vehicles[edit]
The AMT has a variety of rolling stock, some of it acquired from GO Transit, the rest built specifically for the AMT. There are total of 256 cars and locomotives in the fleet.[citation needed]
|Number in Service
|General Motors
|Used on the Vaudreuil-Hudson Line and Saint-Jérôme Line, sometime used on the Candiac line.
|General Motors
|Acquired from GO Transit. Used on the Candiac Line, are used on Vaudreuil-Hudson and Mont-Saint-Hilaire Lines. Some of them are undergoing refurbishments and repainting.
|Used on Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Vaudreuil-Hudson and Saint-Jérôme Lines; are now also used on Deux-Montagnes and Mascouche Lines.[9]
|Single-level electric multiple unit used exclusively on the Deux-Montagnes Line.
Passenger cars[edit]
- Current push-pull train coaches
- 160 multi-level coaches built between 2008 and 2011 by Bombardier Transportation (similar to NJ Transit's multilevel fleet)[10]
- 24 single-level coaches; Built in 1989 by Bombardier Transportation (similar to NJ Transit's Comet II and Metro-North's Shoreliner I fleet)
- 22 bilevel coaches; Built in 2004 by Bombardier Transportation
- Retired Coaches
- 80 single-level coaches (originally from GO Transit); Built between 1967 and 1976 by Hawker-Siddeley Canada; retired following the arrival of the 160 multi-level cars.
- 9 Canadian Vickers gallery cars (rebuilt from June 2005 to December 2006).
The 58 Bombardier electrics are exclusively used on the Deux-Montagnes Line. These are numbered in the 400s, and operate in married pairs (as only one car in each pair has motors).
The 22 bilevel coaches are in operation on the Saint-Jérôme Line. The AMT did not purchase additional bilevels as it sought to standardize its train fleet with the arrival of the multi-level coaches.
On December 18, 2007, the AMT awarded Bombardier a $386-million contract to build 160 multi-level commuter cars. These cars will be based on the multilevel series of NJ Transit, as opposed to the recent purchase of GO-style bilevel cars, and will be able to enter the Mount Royal Tunnel. NJ Transit has a similar technical requirement; Bombardier designed the cars to enter the North River Tunnels between NJ and NYC. They are numbered in the 3000s.
Canadian National (CN) and Canadian Pacific (CP) had long operated commuter trains in the Montreal area, but by the 1980s, their services had dwindled to one route each. The Société de transport de la communauté urbaine de Montréal (STCUM), or Montreal Urban Community Transportation Corporation (MUCTC), which already managed Metro and bus services across the Island of Montreal, assumed management of CN's Deux-Montagnes commuter service and CP's Rigaud service in 1982 as the two railways began scaling back their services.
In 1997, management and financing of both lines was transferred to the newly created AMT, which had been established to distribute funding and coordinate transportation planning among the numerous transit operators throughout the Greater Montreal Region. Later that year, the AMT inaugurated service between Blainville and Jean-Talon (now Parc) train station in Montreal's Park Extension district, connecting to the Metro at Parc . Originally, the service was designed to provide a temporary alternative for motorists from Laval and the North Shore of Montreal, while the Highway 117 Dufresne Bridge was being repaired. The service proved to be so popular that the AMT continued to fund it, and even extended a number of trains to the Lucien-L'Allier station downtown in 1999, and continues to provide off-peak daytime weekday service on this line. The service was extended further north to Saint-Jérôme in 2007.
In 2000, AMT inaugurated its service to McMasterville (which runs along a CN line), and later extended it to Mont-Saint-Hilaire in 2002.
In 2001, the AMT initiated a pilot project, launching service on a fifth line (using CP tracks) to Delson. This was later extended to Candiac in 2005. More information about the history of each line can be found in their respective articles.
In 2014, the AMT acquired the entire Deux-Montagnes line from CN, including the right of way, infrastructure, trackage, other railway equipment, grounds, curb lanes, rights in the Mount Royal tunnel and air rights, in a $97 million transaction.[5]
The AMT runs one Metropolitan Express Bus.
- Express Chevrier 90, also called Express Terminus Centre-Ville 90 — operated by the RTL in Longueuil (using Van Hool AG300 buses) and links the Brossard-Chevrier Park and Ride in Brossard to the Downtown Terminus.
Park and ride[edit]
The AMT also is responsible for all Park and ride lots in the greater Montreal region. It runs 61 park-and-ride lots,[11] many that are connected to either metropolitan bus terminuses, STM Metro stations, or AMT commuter rail stations.
In addition, the agency also organizes carpooling, offering unloading spaces near public transit services in several of its park-and-ride lots, which allow for transfers to the bus, Metro or commuter train.[12]
In 2014, the AMT carried 86,100 passengers on a typical weekday — 79,700 on the trains and 6,400 by bus.[2]
|Number of Passenger Trips (2014)[3]
|Rail lines
|Deux-Montagnes Line
|Vaudreuil-Hudson Line
|Saint-Jérôme Line
|Mont-Saint-Hilaire Line
|Candiac Line
|Subtotal — Rail lines
|Bus routes
|AMT Express Bus Service
|Total — AMT System
Future projects[edit]
Vision 2020 Strategic Plan[edit]
In its Vision 2020 Strategic Plan, the AMT plans to focus on improving its current commuter rail lines. No new line is expected before 2020. The AMT will focus on eight major public transportation projects for the Montréal area:[13]
- Metro extensions: Extending the Orange, Yellow and Blue lines. A project office is currently studying extensions of the Blue line to the Montréal boroughs of Saint-Léonard and Anjou, the Orange line to the suburb of Laval, passing through the Montréal borough Saint-Laurent, and the Yellow line into Longueuil,
- Building the South Shore Line rapid transit service over the new Champlain Bridge, currently in planning.
- Electrification of its commuter rail lines. Currently, only the Deux-Montagnes line runs on electricity.
- A bus rapid transit (BRT) system on Pie-IX boulevard. The BRT will include two dedicated bus lanes in the middle of Pie-IX Boulevard from Laval to Montréal and include 21 stations and three park-and-ride lots.
- Increasing capacity of the Terminus Centre-Ville (Downtown Bus Terminal), mainly serving South Shore buses.
- Build the Train de l'Ouest light rail line with connection to Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport.
- Build maintenance centres in Lachine and Pointe-Saint-Charles. The two sites will allow the AMT to maintain and store (between peak hours) its train cars and locomotives. The Lachine site will accommodate rolling stock running on Canadian Pacific tracks and the Pointe-Saint-Charles site will accommodate trains running on Canadian National tracks.
- Increasing capacity in the Mont Royal Tunnel. To increase service on the Deux-Montagnes Line and accommodate the Mascouche Line, the AMT must carry out important infrastructure work to make the tunnel safer.
Deux-Montagnes Line[edit]
Main projects:
- Since 2010, the AMT has been building a railway overpass for commuter trains to pass below freight trains that currently use CN's Saint-Laurent subdivision just south of the Montpellier station. The overpass is a prerequisite to increase commuter train frequencies on the Deux-Montagnes line as well the commissioning of the Mascouche Line. The $60-million project should be completed by early 2014, when the new line is also expected to be commissioned.[14]
- Extend the double track from its current end point at the Bois-Franc station to the Roxboro-Pierrefonds station in Pierrefonds-Roxboro. Work includes doubling the track over 7.5 km parallel to the existing track, rebuilding a small bridge, building a new overpass over the bike path through Bois-de-Liesse park, reconfiguring three level crossings, and adding a second platform at Sunnybrooke station. Construction should begin in 2013 and be complete by 2015. Preliminary costs are estimated at $51 million.[15][16]
Vaudreuil-Hudson Line[edit]
To increase service on the Vaudreuil-Hudson Line, there are plans to add dedicated tracks for commuter trains. The current tracks are used by the AMT under the permission from Canadian Pacific. On July 1, 2010, service to Rigaud was discontinued, due to Rigaud's reluctance to pay annual fees; the rail line now ends at Hudson.[17]
Candiac Line[edit]
The possibility of extending the Candiac Line to Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu is currently being examined by the Quebec Government, and a study on the project will start in 2014.
- ^ a b "Programme Triennal d'Immobilisations 2011/2012/2013" (PDF) (in French). Agence métropolitaine de transport. 2010-11-12. Retrieved 3 October 2011.
- ^ a b AMT Rapport d'activité 2012 (French, p.7)[permanent dead link]
- ^ a b c https://www.amt.qc.ca/Media/Default/pdf/section8/publications/amt-rapport-annuel-2014.pdf
- ^ AMT, The Main Players in Transport: 14 transit agencies
- ^ a b L'AMT FAIT L'ACQUISITION DE LA LIGNE DE TRAINS DE BANLIEUE DEUX-MONTAGNES (In French)
- ^ amt.qc.ca - Projected Route
- ^ Tarifs
- ^ Points de vente de titres
- ^ "AMT electro-diesel arrives in Montréal". Railway Gazette International. 16 June 2011. Archived from the original on 23 June 2011. Retrieved 23 June 2011.
- ^ "Bombardier clinches big deal for new commuter trains". CBC News. December 18, 2007.
- ^ The AMT is
- ^ AMT - Carpooling
- ^ Vision 2020 - Plan stratégique de l'AMT http://www.amt.qc.ca/uploadedFiles/AMT/Site_Corpo/Salle_de_presse/Plan_stratégique_Liste/AMT_Plan2020_Court.pdf
- ^ http://www.amt.qc.ca/uploadedFiles/AMT/Site_Corpo/Nouvelles_et_Publications/section1/Rapport_annuel_AMT_2012.pdf[permanent dead link]
- ^ Montreal Gazette[dead link]
- ^ AMT PTI 2012-1013-2014 http://www.amt.qc.ca/uploadedfiles/amt/site_corpo/nouvelles_et_publications/PTI_2012-13-14.pdf
- ^ Montreal Gazette: "All aboard for the last train to Rigaud", April 23, 2010.[dead link]


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This was published on Aug 28, 2010
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Sp0nky Aug 28 2010
If Andy dont want the custom logo give it to me :)))
congratulations :)
Pontus Ekman Aug 28 2010
Congrats to Andy!
James Moralde Aug 28 2010
AndyW, congratulations! You just won $299 bucks worth of custom logo work. Looks like your wish to become "millionaire by Christmas" time is getting closer, eh?
Kimcool Aug 28 2010
It's luckly for Andy:)
Craig Aug 29 2010
Congratulations Andy and Good Luck with becoming a millionaire by Christmas with the new logo ;-)
Curtis Scott Aug 30 2010
Lucky Guy! Congrats Andy! :)
everlearner Sep 01 2010
Congratulations Andy!
SixRevisions – I like the way of choosing the Winner by MySQL query. :)


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Title: Secret Garden
Genre: Melodrama, fantasy, romance
Episodes: 20 + 1 special
Director: Shin Woo Chul (City Hall, On Air, Hello Miss, Lovers in Paris)
Screenwriter: Kim Eun Sook (City Hall, On Air, Hello Miss, Lovers in Paris)
Broadcast network: SBS , Saturday & Sunday 21:45
Broadcast period: 2010-Nov-13 to 2011-Jan-16
The drama tells the story of Kim Joo Won (Hyun Bin), an arrogant and eccentric CEO who maintains the image of seeming perfection, and Gil Ra Im (Ha Ji Won), a poor and humble stuntwoman whose beauty and body are the object of envy amongst top actresses. Their accidental meeting, when Joo Won mistakes Ra Im for actress Park Chae Rin, marks the beginning of a tense, bickering relationship, through which Joo Won tries to hide a growing attraction to Ra Im that both confuses and disturbs him. To complicate matters further, a strange sequence of events results in them swapping bodies.
Main Cast
Hyun Bin as Kim Joo Won
Ha Ji Won as Gil Ra Im
Yoon Sang Hyun as Choi Woo Young/Oska (Joo Won's cousin)
Kim Sa Rang as Yoon Seul
Lee Philip as Im Jong Soo
Lee Jong Suk as Han Tae Ssun
Yoo In Na as Im Ah Young
Kim Ji Sook as Moon Yeon Hong
Park Joon Geum as Moon Boon Hong
Kim Sung Oh as Secretary Oh
Choi Yoon So as Kim Hee Won (Joo Won's sister)
Kim Sung Kyum as Moon Chang Soo
Lee Byung Joon as Park Bong Ho
Sung Byung Sook as Park Bong Hee
Yoon Gi Won as Choi Dong Kyu
Yoo Seo Jin as Lee Ji Hyun
Kim Gun as Yoo Jong Heon
Baek Seung Hee as Park Chae Rin
Kim Dong Gyoon as director
Kim Mi Kyung as guest house ahjumma
Song Yoon Ah as herself (cameo)
Beige (cameo)
Kang Chan Yang
Jang Seo Won
Kim Sung Hoon
Related News
- Kim Sung Oh (Secretary Kim) : our future hot actor
- Hyun Bin can sing and hints military duty
- Ha Ji Won donates her Secret Garden's shoes
- Hyun Bin got a parody looks
- The famous Hyun Bin blue jacket
- Hyun Bin feels honor to join 'Tears of Africa'
- Lee Philip is hot martial arts director in Secret Garden
- Hyun Bin to enlist military duty next March
- Ha Ji Won energetics in Cosmopolitan
- Secret Garden first stills
- Confirmed, Hyun Bin for Secret Garden
- Jang Hyuk is a no go for Secret Garden?
- Lee Phillip as tempered art director in Secret Garden
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Other Pictures
Episode 1 2010/11/13–16.1
Episode 2 2010/11/14–15.0
Episode 3 2010/11/20–17.9
Episode 4 2010/11/21–20.0
Episode 5 2010/11/27–25.4
Episode 6 2010/11/28–25.2
Episode 7 2010/12/4–24.1
Episode 8 2010/12/5–24.6
Episode 9 2010/12/11–27.0
Episode 10 2010/12/12–28.0
Episode 11 2010/12/18–27.0
Episode 12 2010/12/19–28.2
Episode 13 2010/12/25–24.4
Episode 14 2010/12/26–26.5
Episode 15 2011/1/1–23.0
Episode 16 2011/1/2–23.9
Episode 17 2011/1/8–23.8
Episode 18 2011/1/9–27.4
Episode 19 2011/1/15–29.1
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On the heels of Steven Pinker's recent essay defending scientism, some atheists have denied that scientism is a real phenomenon. They claim that critics of scientism cannot point to a valid instance of the crime. Enter this article in The Guardian. It provides an elephant-sized example that has been staring everyone in the face, as well as a succinct and witty overview of the failures of scientism in general.
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— Catherine Martinez,By embracing the community, we can bring awareness and education to the children and families of Saginaw County.
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Our extremely colorful CAN van is now in full operation. With the initial donation of a used MMR ambulance van and generous donations from the community, we were able to retrofit the van to meet the needs of our Baby Think It Over program. Our Education Coordinator, Danelle Elliott, is able to easily transport our 60 infant simulators to all Saginaw County high schools.
This van attracts attention wherever it goes. Many thanks to: Mobile Medical Response, Superior Interiors, Total Performance Restoration, AGP & Associates, Inc., Zentx Media Group, Ken Ayres, Jeff Dupuis, and Vic Davila for their work on the van. Thank you also to HealthPlus, the Andersen Foundation and the Timbertown Dollology Club for funding the infant simulators.
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In August, the Child Abuse and Neglect Council Great Lakes Bay Region and Safe & Sound of Midland team with 102.5 WIOG and area McDonald's Restaurants to increase the awareness of child abuse prevention. Radio personalities station
themselves on the roof of the Wilder Road McDonald's and broadcast public service announcements along with appeals for contributions.
Welcome Wednesdays
On the second Wednesday of every month, the Council hosts an open house for individuals to find out more about the programs and services of the CAN Council. You are welcome to join us at 8 a.m. to view a short video and take a personal tour of our facilities. No reservations necessary-please join us.
April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month
The CAN Council Great Lakes Bay Region plans many activities and events for April to bring awareness to the prevention of child abuse and neglect.
Pinwheels for Prevention
The pinwheel is a nationally recognized symbol encouraging everyone to "play their part" in the prevention of child abuse and neglect.
- • Local high schools and businesses are encouraged to plant pinwheel gardens in the shape of a blue ribbon to promote prevention.
Blue Ribbons & Pinwheels at the Courthouse begins at noon on the first Tuesday of April at Bay & Saginaw County courthouses with a 15-minute program during which the county proclamation will be read. Volunteers will tie blue ribbons to trees and plant pinwheels in the courthouse lawn. The Children's flag, a tribute to missing children, will also fly over the courthouse for the month of April.
Blue Ribbon Campaign
The blue ribbon is a nationally recognized symbol of child abuse and neglect prevention. It symbolizes the positive steps that everyone can take to keep children safe from abuse and neglect.
- • For the month of April, the CAN Council Great Lakes Bay Region requests local businesses to sell blue ribbon cards for a minimum donation of $1 each.
- • Local business and home owners are encouraged to tie blue ribbons on their trees.
- • Blue ribbon lapel pins are distributed to law enforcement officers, civic leaders, and those who are working as professionals or volunteers for child abuse prevention.
Blue Sunday Campaign
Blue Sunday is a national child abuse prevention initiative seeking to inspire others to create their own child abuse prevention efforts.
- • The CAN Council encourages local faith communities across the region to take the time in their morning service to pray for the victims of child abuse.
- • Faith communities organize members to donate needed items to the CAN Council during "Fill a Van for CAN".
- • The last Sunday in April the CAN Council opens it's doors to the community for an open house, children's prayer and to receive donations collected.
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Originally Posted by NYGisBallin
It goes both ways.. Giants fans dish it out, we got to be able to take it as well. But you are right.. Things can turn around quickly.. For the Giants, not quick enough. Best of luck to Dallas, they seem pretty banged up.
Thanks, we will need it. Dallas is one more DL injury away from disaster.
I like talking smack as the next guy but at least make sure it is warranted, Dallas is tinkering on the edge and karma can be....well you know
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County judges, other officials begin tackling mental health service
Glenn Evans
March 21, 2012 at 10 p.m.
KILGORE - County judges and their representatives began a long-term effort Wednesday toward improving a 14-county regional approach to helping people with mental illness.
"This is going to be grass roots-up rather than Washington-down," East Texas Council of Governments Director David Cleveland told about 30 members of the East Texas Mental Health Team.
The panel was formed out of an April roundtable at which participants, largely county judges in ETCOG's 14-county service area, learned each county had its own protocols in dealing with mentally ill people.
"There's 14 different counties and 14 different ways of doing things," Cleveland said Wednesday at the meeting at the Comfort Suites Hotel in Kilgore. "That not only wastes time, it also wastes a lot of money. If we can come up with a process, a common intake system, that will eliminate a lot of (waste and duplication)."
Northeast Texans with mental illness seek treatment at a handful of major providers, such as Longview-based Community HealthCore or, to the south and west, the Andrews Center network. The criminal justice system also sends people to state facilities for observation and, in some cases, long-term treatment.
In addition to devising a simplified, unified intake system, the mental health team hopes to encourage establishment of a regional mental health treatment facility.
"Judge (Bill) Stoudt would call this, 'the elephant in the room,' " Cleveland said of that long-range goal.
He credited Stoudt, the Gregg County judge, with leading the effort a year ago that brought the regional approach to the mental health service picture.
Joe Gonzalez, a corporate facilitator who guided the meeting, said the group plans to meet three more times to work toward writing specific goals and programs to meet those.
"Today is just information-sharing - (identifying) the problem," he said.


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A new video series from the Museum offers a crash course on our numerous neighbors in the solar system, asteroids.
Asteroid to Pass Near Earth on Halloween
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Take a crash course about asteroids—like the one doing a fly-by of Earth this Halloween—by watching our new series of video explainers.
SciCafe: Imaging Space Rocks
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Museum curator Denton Ebel is joined by Amanda White, a con-focal microscopy specialist, and Ellen Crapster-Pregont, a doctoral candidate conducting her research at the Museum, in a discussion of the 2 and 3-dimensional analysis of meteors and asteroids.
Meteorite's Magnetic Fields Hint at How Planets Formed
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New work on an ancient meteorite in the Museum's scientific collection has provided the first physical evidence that strong magnetic fields whipped the early solar system into shape.
Defending Earth from Asteroids: Live Stream Friday 10/25 at 11 am
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Tune into to a live stream on amnh.org/live this Friday, October 25, at 11 am, as Hayden Planetarium Director Neil deGrasse Tyson hosts a discussion with members of the Association of Space Explorers (ASE)—a group of astronauts and cosmonauts who recently recommended steps for planetary asteroid defense to the United Nations.


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They're back! Nuggety international tourists, they are the cast members of the original biological real life epic: Mission Impossible. I miss them when they're gone. Just this week, thousands of migrating godwits show up on our shores, catching up with old friends and helping themselves to Northland's best known resource; rich sea-food. Right when you think winter will never end and just when the kowhai starts flowering to prove you wrong - they're back. I like their style.
These are good-time gourmands who know that if the odds are stacked against you, you'd better have a good strategy. They're not airliners like the albatross; they're not even sea birds - and they can't touch down and have a rest on the waves if they feel like it. Yet they cross 11,000km of ocean to spend the summer in Aotearoa. Many home-sick Kiwis living in dingy flats in London or teaching English on the 52nd floor of some high rise in Japan or Korea will know the feeling.
The godwits know, as we should, that if you've got mission impossible ahead - you need to stack the cards in your favour. Eat really well. Keep good company - don't go it alone.
Wait for a decent tail wind and then ... just do it. And keep doing it until it's done. Spend the summer enjoying the good times. The godwit recipe for success.
They are the hard-case battlers of the bird world and the epitome of what one of my friends calls the "regardless principle". Her idea, and I think it's a good one, is that most people do things "because". Because it's easy. Because they have a native talent for it. Because there's money in it. Because they have the beauty, encouragement or finances to do it. She believes (after years of being a successful corporate hustler) if you're going to pick your team - you look for those who are operating under the "regardless principle" and not the "because" one. She looks for old school tenacity and resilience. They'll get the job done regardless of lack of resources, encouragement or even the fact that "it's not their job".
It's something I've noticed in education too. Often, it's not the kid who has the easy talent who achieves later on - it's the one who battles a bit but has a mental strength and faith they'll get there if they persevere who ultimately succeeds. We have a history of that same ethos in the first people who arrived here and in the later gum-diggers who came to start new lives.
Maybe it's time to start celebrating our diversity and resilience in the stories we tell ourselves and others about who we are and where we're going. This weekend has a rich pick of family events to celebrate the place we love. The Festival of Lights and Art welcomes in the spring and is part of Hannah Mitchell's work with Unicef to make Whangarei a child and youth friendly city where kids feel they really belong. I'm also proud to launch my new kids' book, Baba Didi and the Godwits Fly at Whangarei library this Saturday; a joint project with Unicef which receives royalties from the sale of each book. We come from a rich and diverse place. It's why we're not the only ones who love it.


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This is a picture of a bacterial community, taken by Eshel Ben-Jacob, who thinks bacteria are both the key to understanding complex biological systems and a source of incredible art. These bacteria, discovered by Ben-Jacob's research team, self-organize into intricate and beautiful systems.
Bacteria are generally pictures swimming around by themselves, but they're not as solitary as they're made out to be. Many are quorum-sensing, meaning that when they detect a certain amount of them are present, they can build up into astounding complex communities.
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WESTON, Conn. - An adult and children's choir and talented vocalists from the community will be featured in the first holiday concert at La Roue Elanye at Cobb's Mill Inn on Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m.
Tickets are $20, with a portion of the proceeds donated to the families of the Sandy Hook Elementary School victims.
Enjoy the holiday music with hors d'oeuvres and post show coffee, cocoa and cookies.
Doors open at 7 p.m both nights at La Roue Elayne at Cobb's Mill Inn, 12 Old Mill Road, Weston.


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im confused and need help
Should I put a lift on my cj7 or put the leaf springs on top of the axles? If I do that I can fit 35s:)
SOA (Spring Over Axle) will greatly reduce the road worthiness, but it's extra cheap and is good for off roading. Most lifts will also reduce road handling to a lesser degree, and ANY means of lifting it will raise the center of gravity making it less safe cornering and such.
35's can cause issues if you got an Iron Duke 4 banger (but it's doable), and on a CJ, can actually make it less capable off roading if you don't have the torque to power that much weight over obstacles.
Nobody can really answer that question for you, because it's really a personal preference sort of thing, and based on what you have now, how much you want to spend, and most importantly, how you plan to use your jeep.
Make some jeep friends, go on a few trail runs, and you should figure out pretty quickly what the right way to go is.
I have done spring overs on several and liked them all
IMO SOA is the only way :)
spring over allows you to keep your stock springs which usually ride a lot better than aftermarket,lifted springs IMO
I'd recommend staying sua and going with a yj axle conversion. Old man emu makes a nice spring. Rides very nice.
I have a 2.5" ome spring with a 1" body lift and run 33" tires on my cj7.
What size tire do you have now?
I had a SOA on mine with 2.5"springs and Revolver shackles and a 2"BL. Loved it, had narrow track axles with a 4.27 gear ratio welded up. I ran 35X13.50 Mickey Thompson Bias Ply Claws and they barely stuck out past my fender flares.
It was like a ATV with a roof.
Wouldn't recomend but I never had any sway bars or a high steering setup and drove it daily for 3 years, no death wobble, no uneasy feeling at highway speeds.
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Free Flea Market To Host Thanksgiving Dinner
The Rockaway Free Flea Market and thePS 183 Parent Association are hosting a community Thanksgiving dinner.
The Rockaway Free Flea Market ladies, who have been helping the community since Sandy, wanted to hold a Thanksgiving dinner for residents. Having held Thanksgiving dinners in the past, thePS 183 Parent Association reached out to the women and offered the school as a space at which to hold the dinner. The dinner will take place at PS 183 at 245 Beach 79th Street from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Tuesday, November 26th..
Among those serving will be elected officials including Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder, Councilman Donovan Richards, Senator Joseph Addabbo Jr., and Democratic district Leader Lew Simon, as well as 100th Precinct Community and Council President Danny Ruscillo.
The food is being provided by members of the community and various groups. "Almost every tray of food is donated from local people, paying it forward," Marissa Bernowitz of the Rockaway Free Flea Market said.
There will be stuffing, mashed potatoes, yams, cranberry sauce, green beans, broccoli, other veggies, ham, and of course, turkey. The Community Affairs Bureau has donated several turkeys, some of which will be cooked and some of which include uncooked turkeys that will be given away in a raffle.
"This event is for anybody. If you're hungry, you can come. This isn't about Sandy," Bernowitz said. "People shouldn't have to worry about not being able to feed their families for Thanksgiving."
All who attend will be given a free raffle ticket for gift baskets containing food items, gift cards and more. Winners do not need to be present when the raffles are drawn as phone numbers will be written on the tickets. "We're expecting anybody from anywhere to come out. We hope we have a really good turnout," Bernowitz said.


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Teen Game Designer Wins Big At STEM Challenge (VIDEO)
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"Watts" is defined as a measurement of power output that the user is exerting. Vision Fitness is one of the few manufacturers to offer a Watts program, which comes standard in the Deluxe and Premier Consoles for all cardio machines. The program works by setting a watts level (try 150 to start) which is used to calculate the user's RPMs. The treadmill, bike or elliptical will then apply resistance or elevation accordingly. If the user moves at a faster RPM, the resistance will remain at a lower level, but if the user starts slowing down the product will increase the resistance. No slacking during your workout! Most users slow the pace after the first 15 minutes, but the Watts program will just apply more resistance to remind them to pick the pace back up. If the user would rather move at a slower pace, that's fine too—the resistance will just be more difficult. The Watts program is great because you are keeping a consistent power output, which is the same as maintaining a consistent caloric expenditure, thus making your workout more efficient and productive. Try it out at your nearest Vision Fitness retailer today!
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These are the 15 famous faces who'll be putting some sparkle back into Saturday nights from this weekend.
The new crop of Strictly Come Dancing contestants range from young mum Frankie Bridge, 25, who's looking for support from footballer husband Wayne, to 61-year-old auctioneer Tim Wonnacott who hopes he won't be going, going, gone on the first show.
One of the prime contenders to raise this year's glitterball trophy is singer Pixie, because when it comes to glitz and glamour she's got the Lott...
The show kicks off this Saturday when the contestants are paired up with their pro partners.
Let's hope they all rise to the cha-cha-challenge.
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Michelin & Cie. announces its stars for U.K. restaurants on Jan. 19 and kitchens are buzzing.
The first predictions started as long ago as Nov. 21 on the chefs' Web site http://www.thestaffcanteen.com/. Only Gordon Ramsay has three stars in London while eight other places have two. Michelin last year earmarked Alain Ducasse at the Dorchester for a possible third star and the Ledbury for a second.
Those two restaurants, together with Launceston Place, L'Anima, Texture and the Greenhouse were among the favorite picks when I asked chefs and restaurateurs to say which venues they felt most deserved stars this time round:
Tom Aikens (Tom Aikens): "Tristan Welch deserves a star at Launceston Place. The Ledbury should get a second. Antonin Bonnet at the Greenhouse deserves a second for his talent and consistency."
Jason Atherton (Maze): "Brett (The Ledbury) should get a second star and I'd like to see the Square go up to three. No reason Tristan (Welch) shouldn't get a star at Launceston Place. It's crazy that Texture hasn't got a star. Definitely L'Anima."
Sat Bains (Restaurant Sat Bains): "Maze for two stars. I had a great meal there in November, and two for the Ledbury."
Antonin Bonnet (The Greenhouse): "The Ledbury will probably get a second star. The feedback I've been hearing about the restaurant has been fantastic."
Claude Bosi (Hibiscus): "Antonin Bonnet at the Greenhouse deserves a second, and L'Anima should get its first. Texture is also overdue."
Richard Corrigan (Corrigan's Mayfair): "Mark Hix deserves to have three stars and then he can let me borrow one."
Anthony Demetre (Arbutus): "Theo Randall should get one star. Also Roka in Charlotte Street, as Nic Watt epitomizes the new generation of Pacific Rim cooking."
Sanjay Dwivedi (Zaika): "Tom (Aikens) is going to get his second and Shane (Osborn at Pied a Terre) deserves three. The Ledbury should get its second."
Brett Graham (The Ledbury): "I think Michelin will give two stars to The Greenhouse this year."
Skye Gyngell (Petersham Nurseries): "I'd place a bet on Corrigan Mayfair getting a star and I'd like to see Umu awarded a second."
Henry Harris (Racine): "I'd imagine Corrigan would get a star. That would be my tip. L'Anima would be looking at a star. I've eaten Francesco's food and it's beautiful."
Mark Hix (Hix): "Corrigan's Mayfair. He's set up shop off posh Park Lane and deserves to take his star with him. If Michelin does something unpredictable, my crystal ball says Bocca di Lupo, Barrafina or Terroirs."
Philip Howard (The Square): "I would like Adam Byatt at Trinity to get a star. The Ledbury should get another. I'd be certain that Marcus Wareing is being looked at for a third."
Pierre Koffmann (ex-Tante Claire): "The best meal I've had was with you at Hibiscus and I really enjoy the Ledbury. I also had a very good meal at Le Gavroche. It's strange Texture doesn't have a star, and La Petite Maison, too. And we had a very good meal at L'Anima."
Jeremy Lee (Blueprint Cafe): "I wish we had our own stars. It's irritating having a French travel guide dictating the way we cook. Phil Howard at the Square should get his third and dear Michel (Roux) at Le Gavroche should get his third restored."
Rowley Leigh (Le Cafe Anglais): "Haven't a clue although I hope the Ledbury does well."
Bruno Loubet (Bistro Bruno Loubet): "Texture deserves a star. I'm surprised it didn't get one last year."
Francesco Mazzei (L'Anima): Claude Bosi deserves to have a third star at Hibiscus, and Launceston Place should get one star. I expect Ducasse will get his third."
Thomasina Miers (Wahaca): "The Ledbury should get its second. I had my most memorable meal of 2009 there. Richard Corrigan's cooking has been extremely good, too."
Russell Norman, Polpo: "Michelin is less relevant than ever. I had a pretentious meal at Ducasse that left me craving real food and honesty. I suppose we'll see the Square getting its rising third and Marcus Wareing and Hibiscus might get their rising thirds."
Shane Osborn (Pied a Terre): "Brett at the Ledbury should get his second. Francesco at L'Anima is also doing outstanding food and should get a star, as should Tristan at Launceston place. Texture has been consistently good. It wouldn't surprise me if Hibiscus went to three rising. Marcus Wareing is likely to get three, next year if not this. Corrigan will get a star."
Gary Rhodes (Rhodes Twenty Four): "Tristan Welch used to work for me at City Rhodes and he had brilliant potential, which he has fulfilled at Launceston Place. I'd love to see him get a star and to see Le Gavroche get its third star back and I'd love to see Marcus Wareing get his third star."
Michel Roux Jr. (Le Gavroche): "I hope Zuma will finally get one. I'm a fan. I'd presume Ducasse will get his third. Launceston Place for one. It's unbelievable the Greenhouse hasn't got a second star. I had a meal there recently and it was nearer a three than a two. Corrigan should get one."
Agnar Sverrisson (Texture): "The Greenhouse definitely deserves a second star because of the style of cooking, and also Le Manoir Aux Quat'Saisons should get a third star."
Mitch Tonks (Seahorse): "I'd like to see Michelin recognizing some more informal places such as Bocca di Lupo. They should have one and Arbutus should be a two star. Chefs who aren't at their restaurants shouldn't have stars."
Brian Turner: "The Ritz should definitely get its first star. Emotionally, I'd love to see Le Gavroche get its third back and Angela Harnett (Murano) deserves an upgrade."
Marcus Wareing (Marcus Wareing at the Berkeley): "I hope there will be lots of shiny new stars but I hope they take some away as well. It's only fair there should be deletions to keep up the standards." Anyone in mind? "No."
Tristan Welch (Launceston Place): "L'Anima deserves a star. I haven't got a bad word to say about it. The Ledbury should get its second and Texture deserves a star, too."
Ed Wilson (Terroirs): Galvin at Windows has to be a serious contender this year. Although I haven't eaten at the Eastside Inn, I'm sure with his previous history with Michelin, Bjorn van der Horst will probably get a star."
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Speaking of Hurry Up, it sounds wonderful live. The intro to the album also began the set, sounding as immediately intense as it does there, even without the majestic vocals provided by Zola Jesus on the record. "Steve McQueen" still shines as the most active and anthemic track, with the ending of "Just Waiting!" being extended for maximum effect. That segued into the quiet ballad "Wait," a needed respite from the dance/mosh atmosphere. It also helped showcase Gonzalez's sneaky-good vocals; while not the strongest of singers, his style works perfectly with the pained lyrics of "Wait," simultaneously bringing incisive emotion and pounding intensity. In other words, it's a cry-while-you-dance song.
Oh, and then there was "Midnight City." Easily the band's most famous song (it's in a Victoria's Secret commercial, after all), it was reined in to serve as the penultimate pre-encore track. What a release it was, though. Every yell was perfectly executed by Gonzalez, the memorable synth line seemed even louder than on the record, if that's possible, and the crowd seemed to rise to the occasion by upping the energy level to 11. Then came the sax solo. If anything is remembered from 2011's music, I hope that it's the reemergence of the sax solo. Hearing it live was as bizarre as you'd expect: 2000-plus people bopping up and down to a jazzy solo is not my idea of normal indie show-going, but it sure was awesome.
The tracks from the band's previous albums were noticeable in their short supply: only six songs were from albums before Hurry Up, We're Dreaming. Fan favorite "Kim and Jessie" was the best of these in the main set, but it was the encore double that really showed off why M83 is such a stunning band to see live. "Skin Of The Night" is the the band's most accurate depiction of "dream pop," and the wooing vocals at the climax of the song worked well with a backing vocals section consisting of the entire audience. It was then time for "Couleurs," easily the best song of the night. Almost entirely instrumental, it transformed Webster Hall into a full-on French discotheque for nine minutes. It was the perfect ending for a set with very few missteps, and as the band walked off, no one really moved. Perhaps it was the exhaustion from dancing or perhaps they just wanted more; whatever the case, it's safe to say that M83 did not disappoint.
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A penny for your thoughts
Hello all,
I'm a long time listener, first time caller. I have a plan for world domination...oops, I mean navigation...and I would like to know what the cumulative knowledge and experience of the Sailnet community has to say about it.
First, a little bit about myself and my partner. We're young. Not jail-bait young, but mid-twenties. We've both grown up on the water racing and cruising the waters of BC's beautiful coast. I became a mate on cruise ships and worked for a few years on one of the largest cruise ships in the world (no, not the Costa Concordia) before resigning last September to pursue adventure. My partner is a talented - not to mention gorgeous - graphic designer. I love to surf, kayak, snorkel and dive. We are an outgoing, funny, awesome, sexy and don't forget modest couple with a plan. Here goes.
The budget:
~ $100,000
The boat in mind:
~ 40ft offshore capable sailboat with at least two separate cabins. In that price range it will likely be a well maintained boat from the mid-80's. Something like the Valiant 40, Baba 40, Bayfield 40 or this Spencer 41 (doubleyoudoubleyoudoubleyou.simplesite.com/asailinglife/120200127).
The idea:
Set up a no-frills crewed charter/adventure business to fund our sailing. We would live aboard and publish a rough itinerary on our website and charter the extra cabin to those with a bigger taste for adventure than for luxuries. Rates would be somewhere between $1,500 - 2,000 for the cabin. An extra $30/day per person if more than two people and we would sacrifice our cabin and sleep in the saloon. We would offer adventure, safety, good food and lots of laughs at an affordable price. We're not looking to get rich, only to fund our voyages and meet a ton of interesting, like-minded folks.
The numbers:
35 weeks with charter guests @ $1,500/wk = $52,500
Minus maintenance/running costs of 10,000 = $42,500
Minus insurance/fuel ~$3,500 = $39,000
That's $39k/year that will go towards paying down the loan, food and all other costs incurred.
Rough itinerary for the first year:
Spring and summer on the West coast from Seattle to Bella Coola. Fall and winter on the West coast of California and Mexico. As we increase our offshore experience we will start to venture farther.
My questions:
1) Am I in dreamland to think that this is a feasible plan?
2) Are my numbers realistic?
3) How many of you would be interested in coming to cruise with us, or maybe know someone who might be interested?
4) Do you have suggestions about an ideal boat for this operation that I have overlooked?
5) Is this market already cornered by someone I'm not aware of?
6) Do I have my head up my rear or in the clouds?
Glad to finally be a part of the online community. I can't wait to read your responses!
Re: A penny for your thoughts
Wow, 35 weeks? maybe more like 12 weeks,and then you better be good at sales....Dale
Re: A penny for your thoughts
To produce those kinds of numbers the weather gods and the airline schedules need to agree. The only way that's likely to happen is if you stay in the same area rather than travelling.
Re: A penny for your thoughts
Thanks for the feedback guys. Follow up questions for ya...
Superior: Why only 12 charters per year? Is that what you experienced when trying to start a business?
FSMike: I agree that a single location would be easiest, but I envision a lot of my customers would be return customers and the varied locations might help facilitate that. I think by making arrival and departure ports in major cities like Seattle, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc. the flight schedule problem would be mitigated.
As for weather, I live on Vancouver Island and 6 months of rain and cold is not appealing to most folks. Hence the plan to migrate south for the winter.
Do you think these are adequate justifications? How would you do it?
Re: A penny for your thoughts
Frankly - just to highlight one area - the insurance at 3.5k a year is waaaaayyyyy low.
For a business, with charter guest - on a circumnavigation - take it way up.
Considering you have to make schedules the fuel alone will eat that up.
The other area - you can not legally charter in the US unless you are licensed - and as a consumer of charter boats - no way I'm going blue water sailing with a skipper who is still in a learning phase.
Re: A penny for your thoughts
Selling weeks during school on is so hard you wouldn't believe, you will find out all that sells at top dollar is vacations and summer, the rest is a uphill challenge! This makes no difference if your in Wisconsin or Florida............Dale
Re: A penny for your thoughts
ummm .... not wishing to be Mr Negative Misery Guts guts about this but don't you think that if it were feasible, on that budget, with one of those boats, even 26 weeks of the years then we'd all be doing it ?
Re: A penny for your thoughts
FSMike: --- I think by making arrival and departure ports in major cities like Seattle, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc. the flight schedule problem would be mitigated.
The flight schedule isn't the problem, it's getting the weather gods to agree with it.
Re: A penny for your thoughts
Wow. Tough pills to swallow, but I appreciate your honest input.
I guess I'll have to think of another way to fund my adventures!
Re: A penny for your thoughts
Well I think you need to not give up so easily. First off you are already live in one of the most ,interested in, cruising areas in the world. But you have to think maybe a bit bigger. I live in Alaska and know someone that does charters. Now he has a power boat not a sailboat. But it is a nice power boat.More like staying in a 4 star+ hotel complete with laundry. He charges more like $2500 per person. He already has lots of money and does it more for pleasure then profit. But I am sure it pays a lot of boat bills. He only does like 4 or 5 charters a year. There is also a an outfit here that does hunting in a luxury boat and charges closer to the $7000 per passenger rate. But it includes guided trophy hunts. I looked into this for my father-in-law quite a few years back but was even more then he wanted to pay. My wife says it was closer to $10,000. You have to appeal to the higher end people. But this also requires a higher end boat. And of course the captain's license, insurance and boat maintenance. But to say it can't be done is flat out wrong. You just have to find the right niche to make the money.
And here is also the lower end, champagne sunset sails, whale watching day trips and kick back fishing trips. There are boats ,and owners, that do this so it is not impossible. Look for charters do a couple maybe. See what ya get. Call some ask for advice, some might be willing to give you some. SN is a good site but geared more to the cruiser and pleasure sailor then the money maker. But any business requires more work then the average cruiser is going to want to do. That is why they are cruisers! Don't mean that in any bad way. I know some worked themselves half to death so they can do just that.
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Elaine and Rory meet us at Rory's school and drive us back to their house, which is beautifully located in Sydney's southern suburbs, right next to a national park. Because of the location, the air is filled with the sounds of a hundred varieties of birds, from repetitive cheepers to irregular squawkers and occasional warblers. To sit on their back porch as the sun goes down and look into hte darkening trees of the park, haring these amazing sounds, is almost like transporting yourself into a rainforest.
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Saturday, November 11
This part of Sydney has a famous pie shop that all the locals rave about, so Angela drives us there in the morning with everyone's orders. They are indeed delicious pies, with some interesting flavours (mine is chicken, mango and walnut - yum!), although I would say they are matched in deliciousness by good old Trisha's Pies of Wellington.
The overseas professional at my cricket club this year in Toronto was a guy named Stewart and I had remembered a couple of days ago that he played here in Sydney, so we looked up his fixture for this weekend. Fortuitously, the ground is is playing at is fairly close to the Wilsons' place, so they kindly offer to take us there to surprise Stew. The Hurstville Oval is a beautiful suburban ground where many greats of the game - including the incomporable Don Bradman - played their club cricket. Stewart is suitably surprised when we show up but we can't chat much because he is due in to bat next. I can only guess that he is a bit overwhelmed by our presence as he only manages a scratchy 7 runs before getting out.
Jane and Elaine drive home while Alan, Rory and myself hoon around in Alan's 1971 Lotus sports car for a while. In the evening, we all drive out to Cronulla Beach for a fancy dinner. Cronulla is a pretty part of Sydney, with beaches that Alan reckons are nicer than the more famous Manly and Bondi versions, but it was also the scene of the riots back in 2005 involving Sydney's Lebanese community. That whole issue still seems a bit of a sore point with many Aussies so I don't bring it up all that much. Our restaurant is a lovely spot overlooking the beach. The food is top notch, as is the company and Alan graciously picks up the tab at the end of the night. We can't help but think how lucky we are to have such hospitable hosts, especially considering we only met them a couple of months ago and then only for a few days.
Jane has a fear of spiders so, back at the house, the large funnel-web in the driveway is cause for alarm and makes everyone aware of her phobia. Accordingly, Rory decides it would be funny to find a spider picture on the internet, print it off, cut it out and sticky-tape it behind Jane's pillow. I am in on the joke and, sure enough, Jane pulls back her pillow and utters an unrepeatable exclamation before she realises it is a fake. Rory and I have a good laugh.


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text: CLEVELAND, Feb. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Associated Estates Realty Corporation (NYSE, NASDAQ: AEC) announced today that James Sanfilippo has been named to its board of directors, filling the vacancy created by the retirement of James Delaney. Mr. Delaney's retirement was consistent with the retirement policy contained in the Company's corporate governance guidelines. " Jim Delaney's strong accounting skills and great human qualities have been a source of support to the board and me for the past thirteen years," said Jeffrey I. Friedman, president and chief executive officer. "As Mr. Delaney reached our mandatory retirement age, the U.S. economy was in a tailspin and he agreed to stay on until conditions improved. He played an important role in finding his replacement. We sincerely appreciate his dedication and hard work as a member of our board, various committees and in his role as chairman of the audit committee," Friedman continued. Jim Sanfilippo joins the Associated Estates' board following a thirty-six year career at Grant Thornton, LLP. He spent twenty-six years as an audit partner and nineteen of those years as the managing partner of the Cleveland, OH office of Grant Thornton. He retired from the firm on July 31, 2009, and continued in a consulting capacity for two years following his retirement. Mr. Sanfilippo's areas of focus included advising both publicly traded and private companies on accounting and auditing matters as well as Sarbanes Oxley 404 compliance. In addition to joining the Company's board, Mr. Sanfilippo was appointed chairman of the Company's audit committee. Mr. Sanfilippo and his family live in Greater Cleveland, where he is involved in various professional and community activities, including being a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Ohio Society of Certified Public Accountants. He also serves as a member of the Advisory Council for the Department of Accounting for Kent State University and the Development Board for Chanel High School. "We welcome Jim to the board," said Friedman. "We are fortunate that someone with Jim's breadth of public accounting experience will be joining our board and taking over as chair of the audit committee," Friedman continued. Associated Estates is a real estate investment trust ("REIT") and is a member of the Russell 2000 and the MSCI US REIT Indices. The Company is headquartered in Richmond Heights, Ohio. Associated Estates' portfolio consists of 53 properties containing 13,908 units located in eight states. For more information about the Company, please visit its website at AssociatedEstates.com. For more information, please contact: