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Did you know?
South Africa has introduced strong legislation to protect its historical shipwrecks.
The Cape of Good Hope – the spiritual southern tip of Africa (though Cape Agulhas is actually Africa's southernmost point) – has been famous for more than 500 years as the 'graveyard of ships'.
And sea captains of yore also talked about another danger spot: the 'mountains of water' off the Wild Coast of the Eastern Cape.
Indeed, the 3 000km South African coastline has claimed perhaps 3 000 vessels over the centuries, with known records dating back to the 1500s and the heyday of Portuguese navigation and conquest by sail. That's about one for every kilometre of coastline.
And here we're not taking into account the sea-going Phoenicians who might have come earlier, or any other sailing civilisation – possibly Arab traders – that may have passed these shores and almost certainly lost some of their ships to misadventure, bad visibility and treacherous reefs.
It is believed that the ships that were wrecked came from as many as 37 nations, and that their sites are invaluable heritage and historical assets.
Everything that went down with a ship tells a story of how people lived, what they did, what they traded in, and what they achieved during their times. The modern attitude to shipwrecks – especially along the South African coastline – is to preserve the sites instead of indulging in the frenetic kind of 'treasure hunting' that took place in the 20th Century. Indeed, all shipwrecks are protected by South African law, and it is illegal to remove any part of them or object associated with them.
The names of famous shipwrecks off South Africa's coast include the Grosvenor, the Arniston, the Waratah, the Birkenhead, the Sacramento and, in more recent times, the Oceanos. Even the mythical Flying Dutchman is sometimes 'spotted' on a foggy day down at Cape Point.
Many ships that sailed these waters simply disappeared without trace – the most famous being the Waratah in 1909.
Because of the numerous shipwrecks, lighthouses were put up along the South African coast, and thousands of castaways suddenly found themselves on forbidding African soil for the first time in their lives. As they wandered up and down the coastline, they were killed by starvation, animals and hostile locals, or simply assimilated into whatever village system existed in the area.
There are some colourful accounts of European castaways being integrated with local communities of people, even marrying into them, and living out their days not far from where their ships went down.
And if you wander about the various museums of South Africa, including the Maritime Services Museum at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town, the Shipwreck Museum in Bredasdorp, and a section of the East London Museum, you will gather the kind of sea stories that once made Robert Louis Stephenson such a popular nautical adventure writer.
The only difference is, most of these South African shipwreck stories are true...
Travel tips & Planning info
Who to contact
South African Maritime Services Centre
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Bredasdorp Shipwreck Museum
Tel: +27 (0)28 424 1240
East London Museum
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4X4 Shipwreck Tour of Namaqualand
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Mile by Mile Tours (Cape Agulhas day tours)
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Cape Agulhas Shipwreck Hiking Trail
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Best time to visit
The Western Cape has winter rainfall between May and August and this is when you'll encounter whipping winds and storms – the most evocative weather in which to contemplate wreck sites from the shore.
Tours to do
There are a number of shipwreck tours available in South Africa – check with the local tourism office.
Get around
Most shipwreck tours involve walks on beaches or clambering over rocks. There are also 4x4 tours along the rugged coastlines of the West Coast.
What will it cost
Depending on the particular shipwreck tour, costs are approximately R1 000 per person per day. Museums either charge a small fee or request an optional donation. Or you could just wander along the beach close to the shipwrecks (often marked by lighthouses), which will cost you nothing.
What to pack
Take along an anorak or something warm, a sunhat and sunblock.
Best buys
There are at least eight 'must-reads' on shipwrecks and castaways of South Africa: Swept by Wind and Wave by WL Speight; The Sunburnt Queen by Hazel Crampton; Strange Shipwrecks of the Southern Seas by Jose Burman; Shipwreck! by Jose Burman; Survivors of Africa's Oceans by Ian Uys; The Cape of Good Hope – A Maritime History by Robin Knox-Johnston; The Caliban Shore – The Fate of the Grosvenor Castaways by Stephen Taylor; and The Wind Makes Dust by Ben Maclennan.


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SPRING, Texas - A Spring father is concerned for his son's safety after learning that a student at Klein High School brought a knife to school.
According to John Huante, the student showed the knife to his son in a threatening manner, and he's now fearful of what might happen next.
"He was scared," said Huante. "He thought he was going to get stabbed."
Haunte said the incident happened last Wednesday in the locker room.
Huante said the student was trying to intimidate his freshman son after an earlier bullying incident.
The concerned father contacted the school, but said he was surprised to learn the student with the weapon wasn't expelled.
"From what they said, it was not an illegal knife, it wasn't an illegal weapon," Huante said.
According to a Klein Independent School District spokesperson, state law considers knives over 5.5 inches illegal.
Huante's son said the knife in question was about 3 inches long.
"I don't want other kids thinking it's okay to bring a knife," said Huante. "I don't want to see knives in the school at all. I want to make sure our kids are safe."
In a statement provided to KPRC Local 2, Klein ISD said, "Knives are not permitted on Klein ISD campuses regardless of whether they meet the penal code definition of an illegal weapon. We did have an incident last week at Klein High School involving a knife that did not meet the definition of an illegal weapon. However, because student safety is of utmost importance, all incidents such as this are thoroughly investigated by the Klein ISD police and administration and appropriate disciplinary action is taken."
Huante said the student has been back in class, and he's worried about his son's safety.
The school spokesperson told KPRC Local 2 the student would have been expelled if the knife had been longer than 5.5, but it wasn't. She said the student was disciplined, but wouldn't disclose how or to what extent.
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Three more British Columbia ski resorts opened this weekend. Mt. Seymour, Red Mountain Resort, and Whitewater Ski Area started up their lifts for the 2012-13 winter and are offering ways for skiers to get on the slopes at a discount.
Mt. Seymour skiers hopped on a new chairlift on opening day last Friday. The new $5 million Mystery Peak Express replaced an ailing fixed grip double chair from 1962. The faster ride at half the time will translate into more slope time.
In addition to the new lift, skiers can also get discount lift tickets at Seymour. The ski area sells a book of five tickets. The adult book, which costs $229, works out to a $5 discount off the ticket window price for each day. Books of five lift tickets are also available for youth, seniors, and children.
Red Mountain Resort reportedly had the best early season base in more than five years when it opened last Saturday. The base in the upper elevations tallied up more than four feet. This winter, the resort will run a cat shuttle on Grey Mountain for $10 a ride Thursdays through Sundays plus holidays to access the new terrain this year.
Red Mountain has its Vertical Value Cards for sale until Dec. 24. The cards include three free days of skiing or riding on the first, fourth, and seventh days. Adult cardholders also get a $15 discount for five more visits. Discounted cat skiing and lodging are additional perks. The card is available only for residents of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Washington, and Idaho. The cards cost $79 for adults, but youth, junior, and senior cards are lower.
Following the biggest snowpack in a decade last winter, Whitewater Ski Area opened last Friday with dreams of a repeat season. Three lifts started up, but the Glory Chair may need another week or so of snowfall to open.
The ski area is still selling its Powder Plus Card. The cards give owners free skiing or snowboarding on the first and sixth days of use. Cardholders can purchase lift tickets for $7.50 off on all other days. The cards cost $77 for adults, $63 for youth and seniors, and $50 for juniors. Other perks include discounts on rentals and private lessons.
Find more information on discount cards here: Mt. Seymour, Red Mountain, Whitewater.
Mt Seymour Ski Area, British Columbia
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Happy Friday Spry:readers,
As I mentioned before, we are busy finishing Spry 1.6.
I thought I would give a heads-up on what to expect in the next release.
Since pretty early on, we have been criticized for using custom attributes and that turned into "Spry doesn't follow standards." Well, that is partially right. Spry Data uses custom attributes, as allowed in XHTML. Spry Effects and Widgets have no such concerns. So we decided to take this release to answer some of those concerns, both with code and with words. This next release will focus on accessibility, standards and things like unobtrusive Spry techniques.
We often hear things like: "My page doesn't validate", but find that many users don't know what that means. So we are going to talk about what validating, standards, eXtensible HTML and custom attributes means, and also try to present the pros and cons of each idea. It's more of an 'education' push rather than a 'convincing' push. If users really understand what these things mean, then they can decide what is important.
We worked on what we are calling the Element Selector. This allows page manipulation via CSS Selectors. Those familiar with DOMQuery or jquery might be interested in checking it out. This will allow for unobtrusive Spry pages, allowing Spry attributes and constructors to be attached and fired off from external javascript files. We have always said that making unobtrusive Spry pages is possible; now we offer a tool to make it that much easier.
We are also adding keyboard navigation to the Menu Bar and ensuring consistency between our widgets on the accessibility front.
We will be rounding out our Form Validation widget collection.
But I am not going to give away the whole thing now…
Look for Spry 1.6 in early October.
Speaking of October, back in the previous one, Kin made a Spry Poker Game for the MAX conference in Vegas. Check it out: http://shinarp.com/SprySamples/iPhone/poker/


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Bangalore, India (June 4, 2013) — COMSOL India has partnered with the IEEE Bangalore Section to sponsor the All IEEE R10 Young Engineer's Humanitarian Challenge, AIyeHum 2013. The contest is intended for all professionals and students under the age of 35 from Asia-Pacific (IEEE R10) countries and from any science or engineering field.
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AIyeHum is a project-contest designed to encourage young scientists and engineers to solve real-world problems within the Asia-Pacific community. Particular emphasis is on the implementation of innovative technology including distribution methods to reach the intended beneficiaries.
Each team that has been selected will receive funding for their projects and guidance from a mentor from either industry or academia. Contest winners will be selected by a panel of experts and the top contestant may have the opportunity to present their work at an IEEE Humanitarian Conference. For more details visit: http://ieeehumanitarian.com.
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After 22 rounds, Emma is spelling bee champ
Published: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 at 7:04 p.m.
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Emma Porter stood at the microphone pondering the word she needed to spell in order to win the day.
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The Oak View Middle School student had lasted 22 rounds and survived words like exuberant, musicale and keelhaul. She asked for the definition to buy some time and get the letters in order in her head.
"R-I-D-I-C-U-L-O-U-S. Ridiculous," she said.
With that, Porter punched her ticket to the regional spelling bee in Jacksonville as she won the Alachua County Public Schools District Spelling Bee on Wednesday.
Parents and teachers packed into the boardroom at the Kirby-Smith Center to see 38 students from public and private schools compete.
Tim McShane, pronouncer, reassured the spellers after a practice round.
"Take your time. Relax," he said. "Remember, you're all champions."
Formidable words like "obituary," "jitney" and "taciturn" bested students and emptied the rows of the chairs at the front of the room.
David Bowden, a 9-year-old fifth-grader at Forest Grove Christian Academy, stumbled over "malachite" in the third round.
He later said the words he did spell correctly were a result of good training.
"I sounded them out by syllables," he said. "That's what my teacher taught me."
By round 16, two students were left. Alexandra Ro, who attends Oak Hall School, faced off against Porter.
In the 22nd round, Ro was interrupted by the ding of a bell as she tried to spell "regatta."
"I didn't think I would get that far," she later said.
Porter beamed as she heard she had won a free week at Camp Crystal for the summer, in addition to gift certificates to local restaurants and a chance to advance at the annual Times-Union Regional Spelling Bee in Jacksonville in February.
"I'm really competitive," she said, explaining that she made flash cards with every word she practiced spelling, writing the origins and definitions on each one.
"I think that's why," she said.
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text: Show Hide image 7 August 2012 Nissan unveils new London cab The taxi will cut carbon dioxide emissions in half. Sign up for our weekly email * It's London calling for Nissan, which has made the most of the Olympic spotlight on the city by unveiling its new five-seater NV200 London Taxi. The vehicle, based on the company's multi-purpose NV200 compact van, is 50 per cent more fuel-efficient than alternative cabs and cuts carbon dioxide emissions in half – good news for the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, who has promised to tackle London's air-quality problem. Johnson said: Having taken the significant step of introducing the first age limit for taxis in London, I am absolutely delighted that manufacturers are stepping up to the plate and are responding to the challenge I set in my air-quality strategy to reduce taxi emissions and improve efficiency. I look forward to when a fully competitive model comes to market. The new taxi features a 2.7-litre TD27 diesel engine and complies with Transport for London regulations. The company is also planning to trial an all-electric e-NV200 prototype London Taxi in 2013. Nissan has already unveiled versions of the NV200 taxi in Tokyo and New York City. Andy Palmer, executive vice-president of Nissan, said: Nissan is proud to be delivering a 21st-century vision for one of London's most iconic vehicles. The "black cab" is as much a part of the London landscape as Big Ben and, whilst there will always be a place for that familiar silhouette, the Nissan NV200 London Taxi focuses as much attention on its interior as the exterior – a better experience for drivers and passengers. Palmer concluded: The Nissan NV200 is a global taxi, launching in the biggest and brightest cities in the world. Safe, comfortable, efficient and convenient – it's a great step forward for providing a transport solution that is good for both its users and other city inhabitants. Subscribe from just £1 per issue More


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Charming and Well Decorated Apartment
Size90 m²
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- Internet/WiFi
- Kitchen
- Washer/dryer
- Parking available
- Balcony/terrace
- Towels
Accommodation summary
|R. do Almada, 1200 Lisbon, Portugal
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This pretty 3 bedroom apartment is ideally located in the center of Lisbon in the typical neighborhood of Santa Catarina. This is one of the best places to stay when visiting Lisbon. You can easily visit the whole historic city center on foot, because you are at the center! The street is very central but not noisy
You will be living very comfortably in this remodeled house, in the 1st floor of an ancient building, with 3 bedrooms, living room and kitchen.
The kitchen is fully equipped, including clothes washer and dishwasher.
Nice living room with dining table, seating for everybody, cable TV with international channels, books, board games, radio / CD / ipod player and broadband internet with wi-fi.
A large main bedroom that can sleep up to 4 persons, with 2 windows and 2 balconies (4 individual beds), the 2nd bedroom that sleeps 2 persons (1 double bed) and the 3rd inner bedroom for 2 persons (2 individual beds).
The house includes 1 large bathroom with bathtub / shower.
Lots of windows and balconies, as the house is in a street corner. All the rooms in the house including the WC have windows, except 1 bedroom. The windows have double glass for excellent noise insulation.
This area is also very practical, it has everything you may need on a daily basis: excellent restaurants, supermarkets, groceries.
It is not possible to park on the street because this is a restricted traffic area, but there is a public parking 100m from the apartment that costs 13€/day.
After a tiring day full of walking and visits at this beautiful city of Lisbon, you will be happy to return to this well located, practical and comfortable place.
The announced price includes everything: cleaning (before and after you leave), electricity, water, internet, sheets, towels, etc.
House rulesPlease be considerate with the neighbors. Please avoid loud noises, especially at night!
Close the street door when you enter or leave the building.
Put out the trash in a closed bag on the street, in the evening after 9.00 PM (except Sundays). The garbage is collected during the night.
Turn off heaters, TV, lights and other electrical equipment when you are out of the house. Please help us save electricity!
If there is something broken or missing, or that you don't like in any way, please let me know immediately.
Check-out is until 11 AM, so we can clean and prepare the apartment for the next guests. Depending on the time of arrival of the next guests, it's possible to leave your luggage until a later time.
Please leave the apartment as you found it. Sheets and towels can be put in a pile on the bathroom floor. Dishes are to be washed and put back in the cabinets.
Leave both sets of keys on the living room table and TV remotes by the TV.
Security Deposit: €120
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Reviews of this property
The stay in the apartment of Luis was fantastic. The apartment does have charm and is located in a great area for quick access to all the highlights of Lisbon on foot.
The host is very friendly and courteous at all times pending that everything was to our liking. It was a pleasure being there. Highly recommended.
La estancia en el apartamento de Luis ha sido fantástica. El apartamento efectivamente tiene encanto y está ubicado en una zona estupenda de acceso rápido a todo lo más destacado de Lisboa a pie.
El anfitrión es muy amable y correcto y en todo momento pendiente de que todo estuviese a nuestro gusto. Ha sido un placer haber estado allí. Muy recomendable.
Reviews for this host's other properties
The best place to stay in Lisbon.
Yo no lo recomendaría a nadie, Apartamento muy ruidoso, no apto para descansar. Las camas incomodas al máximo, no te mueves en la cama porque el somier chilla horrores y despiertas a tu pareja si es que con los ruidos constantes del piso superior ha conseguido dormirse. El plato de ducha asqueroso , sucio, oxidado. La limpieza del apartamento deja mucho que desear. El dueño del apartamento un prepotente, y Windu una aplicación impresentable, si tienes algún problema con el dueño del apartamento, porque lo encontrado no se corresponde con la realidad, no te responden para nada, te dejan con el culo al aire, como ellos ya han cobrado se la suda los problemas que tu tengas. Se hecha de menos un numero de teléfono directo con el que poder reclamar
arrivée un peu tard, suite decalage de la compagnie arienne et du coup, nous n'avons pas rencontré Luis, mais sa femme nous a tres bien acceuilli.
L'appartement correspond bien aux descriptions et la petite cours interieur est pratique. La proximité des bus et tram + petit commerce est un plus.
Le petit point negatif est que la cuisine est assez sombre et au niveau de la douche, il faudrait revoir l'evacuation (car légère odeur apres plusieurs douches).
Nous recommandons cet appartement un peu ex-centré et pres de Belem.
Well located, i.e. on a main street in Bairo Alto, near Restauradores and Rossio. Enough 'living room' for four men. Good restaurants and small shops within 5 minutes. Miradouro Sao Pedro your back garden.
Apartment very well located (tram 38 and elevator Bica) nice neighborhood.
Luis is also very nice and francophone.
Thank you to you and we will return.
Appartement très bien situé (tramway 38 et ascenseur Bica) quartier sympa.
Luis est en plus très sympa et francophone.
Merci à toi et on reviendra.
We are happy with the stay in the apartment, all very well equipped, and cuidado.Situado in one of the most beautiful areas of Lisbon, it is accessed walking three major monuments. and to go to the rest of the city we had the tram and bus stops 2 minutes walk. Luis, the host, was very kind and friendly. We recommend this apartment to all our friends!
Estamos encantados con la estancia en el apartamento, todo muy bien equipado, y cuidado.Situado en una de las zonas mas bonitas de Lisboa, caminando se accede a tres grandes monumentos. y para ir al resto de la ciudad teníamos las paradas de tranvia y bus a 2 minutos caminando. Luis, el anfitrión,ha sido muy amable y simpático. Recomendaremos este apartamento a todos nuestros amigos!
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TEP - Transit Effectiveness Project
Project Overview
The TEP was an in-depth planning process that brought together technology, technical expertise, and deep community insight to better understand and thus better solve the problems affecting San Francisco's transit network, and represented the first major evaluation of the Muni system in 30 years. In March 2014, the SFMTA Board of Directors approved the majority of recommendations that emerged from this planning process, including an overall 12 percent service increase.
The changes—some major, some minor—are distributed across an extensive system of over 75 bus, trolley, rail, cable car, and streetcar lines, together weaving their way across a 49 square-mile service area, and serving 700,000 trips a day. Behind these system-wide statistics are real people—our customers—and SFMTA is now taking additional steps to preserve and enhance the quality, consistency, and seamlessness of our customers' experience with its launch of the Muni Forward program.
Learn more about the numerous Muni Forward projects that were informed by the TEP and are now planned for implementation:
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Community Guide to the TEP, the TEP Implementation Plan, & the TEP Outreach Summary are Now Available!
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The TEP was an in-depth planning process that has helped to inform and develop a comprehensive overhaul of San Francisco's transit network, which will make Muni more efficient, reliable, safe, and comfortable for its 700,000 daily passengers. In conjunction with other Muni programs, the TEP built the blueprint for improving mobility for all residents while making Muni a great transportation choice for residents and visitors alike. The TEP includes two categories of implementation tools to modernize Muni: 1) "Rapid" Proposals (or Travel Time Reduction Proposals), and 2) Network Service and Route Changes. In addition, the TEP proposes to improve the customer experience by updating maps and investing in new signage to clearly communicate route information. Some of the many improvements identified and informed by the TEP include:
|- Better reliability and on-time performance
|- More user-friendly customer experiences
|- Faster travel times
|- More accessible service
|- Safer boardings on busiest routes
|- Better air quality and less congestion
|- Shorter wait times
The TEP has informed numerous projects that are now planned for implementation as a part of Muni Forward, which is the project focused on enacting Muni system enhancements and modifications that look beyond the bus to the end-to-end customer experience - from the walk, to the wait, to the ride.
TEP Projects Approved by the SFMTA Board of Directors
Muni Service and Route Changes
At a special meeting on March 28, 2014, after SFMTA staff conducted extensive outreach about its numerous TEP service change proposals, collected a great deal of feedback about the proposals from members of the public, and made changes to the proposals based on that feedback, the SFMTA Board of Directors approved and legislated many of the TEP service change proposals. These proposals are now being planned for implementation as a part of Muni Forward.
Service and Route Changes are approved for most Muni routes:
These are approved proposals for route restructuring, frequency improvements, and vehicle type changes, which will direct resources to where they are needed most, reducing crowding and improving connections to regional transit.
- List of Approved Service Changes by Route
Some of these service improvements require capital investment, such as new overhead wire or pedestrian improvements, to allow the bus to change routing, or to allow limited and local buses to run on the same street.
- List of Capital Projects Associated with Service Changes
TEP proposals are strategized based in part on recently-collected ridership and boarding statistics for each route.
- Table that Includes Ridership / Boarding Data
Fast-Tracked Rapid Projects
Also approved by the SFMTA Board of Directors on March 28 is the fast-tracking of portions of proposed Rapid network corridors, which will be equipped with various capital enhancements for the purpose of improving transit efficiency and reliability. Specifically, there are seven segments within the Rapid Proposals that have been approved for fast-tracking for the purpose of coordinating with already-scheduled paving and other construction projects, which are anticipated for initiation between the Spring and Fall of 2014.
The seven fast-tracked Rapid projects include the following segments:
- 30 Stockton: Columbus Avenue between Powell and Stockton
- 5 Fulton: Fulton Street between 46th and 25th Avenues
- 7 Haight Noriega: Haight Street between Fillmore and Lyon Streets
- N Judah: Irving Street between Arguello Boulevard and 9th Avenue
- N Judah: Judah Street at 28th Avenue
- 14 Mission: Mission Street at Silver Avenue
- 9 San Bruno: Potrero Avenue between Alameda and Cesar Chavez Streets
The planning process conducted as a part of the TEP identified the need for a "Rapid" network (or travel time teduction strategies), which are now being planned for implementation as a part of Muni Forward.
The proposed Rapid Network includes the following corridors:
- J Church: Balboa Park Station to Market
- L Taraval: West Portal to SF Zoo
- N Judah: La Playa to Cole
- 5 Fulton: La Playa to Market
- 9 San Bruno: 11th & Market to Bayshore & Alemany
- 14 Mission: Daly City BART to Embarcadero
- 2 8/28L 19th Avenue: Junipero Serra to California
- 7 Haight Noriega: Laguna to Stanyan
The Transit Effectiveness Project (TEP) is a planning project developed to achieve SFMTA's goal of helping San Francisco remain a vibrant, livable, world-class, transportation-rich city and realize its Transit First Policy. Its focus is Muni: at once, the transit backbone of a transportation-rich system that connects all modes and all people, but also a system that has failed to keep pace with a changing San Francisco. By way of an extensive planning process supported by data, engagement with the community at various levels, and critical lessons learned through the implementation of pilot projects, the TEP represents the first major evaluation of San Francisco's mass transit system in thirty years.
Service and Route Changes: At a special meeting on March 28, 2014, after SFMTA staff conducted extensive outreach about its numerous TEP service change proposals, collected a great deal of feedback about the proposals from members of the public, and made changes to the proposals based on that feedback, the SFMTA Board of Directors approved and legislated many of the TEP service and route change proposals. These changes will better serve Muni customers, reflect changing transit, streamline routes for improved reliability and reduced delay, and direct resources where they are needed most. The service and route changes include:
- Creating new routes
- Redesigning existing routes
- Adding service to new streets
- Eliminating unproductive existing routes or route segments
- Changing vehicle type
- Changing frequency and span of service
- Changing the mix of local/limited/express service
- Other changes, such as new express service stops, expansion of Limited-stop service to include Sundays, and the expansion of other service with the addition of days of operation.
See a list of approved service changes by route.
Some of these service improvements require capital investment, such as new overhead wire or pedestrian improvements, to allow the bus to change routing, or to allow limited and local buses to run on the same street. Capital improvements needed for route restructuring include:
- Overhead wire expansion to streets proposed for trolley service
- Layover space expansion and pedestrian improvements to terminals and transfer points where routes are proposed to intersect
- Road reconfiguration for a contraflow transit lane
- Additional accessible rail platforms.
These capital improvements will be phased upon resource availability and are needed to complete the TEP proposed service changes. See a list of capital projects associated with service changes.
Rapid Network: Travel time reduction proposals along the Rapid Network, including bus stop and roadway changes, will help customers get to their destinations more quickly. For these proposals, there are no route changes proposed; these engineering changes are proposed specifically to address the delays vehicles face along their routes. The Rapid proposals are focused to optimize each operating dollar. By reducing travel time and improving reliability, there are opportunities to save operating dollars that can be reinvested. These proposals are based on ideas from outreach and best engineering practices for transit. They are not changes to route frequency or alignment.
About the TEP Environmental Review Process:
The Planning Department conducted an environmental review of the Transit Effectiveness Project (TEP) in compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). The environmental review process provides decision makers and the general public with an objective analysis of the immediate and long range specific and cumulative environmental impacts of a proposed project on its surrounding physical environment. In California, an environmental review is two-fold in purpose: to disclose the impacts of a project and to ensure public participation.
On March 27, 2014, the CEQA Final Environmental Impact Report (EIR) developed for the TEP was legislated by the San Francisco Planning Commission. The Planning Department has more detailed information about the TEP environmental review process that took place.
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HOUSTON - Teacher by day, citizen cop by night. Local 2 Investigates has learned new details about the woman at the center of the sex scandal that got three Harris County sheriff's deputies fired.
The woman volunteered with the Citizens Police Academy where she did ride-alongs with deputies in Harris County District 3 on the northeast side of the county near Wallisville and McHard roads. At the same time, she was an elementary school teacher in the Pasadena Independent School District.
She has since moved to the administrative offices at the Galena Park Independent School District.
The Harris County Sheriff's Office confirmed deputies Adam Wright, Michael Medina and Robert Johnson were all terminated Monday for improper conduct, specifically, for having consensual sex in their patrol cars with the married teacher.
As if that weren't tangled enough, Local 2 confirmed the woman's husband is also a reserve deputy, a volunteer who also rides along with deputies in District 3.
KPRC Local 2 made calls to the woman, her husband and reached out to the deputies, but no one returned our calls.
Art Hood, president of the Citizens Police Academy, said the woman admitted to the vice president that she had sex with the three deputies. Hood said she was booted from the group at that time.
Te incident first came to light two to three months ago. Between that time and the time the deputies were fired, the sheriff's department has been investigating the allegations.
The department issued the following statement.
"The Harris County Sheriff's Office holds all of its employees to the highest of standards, as should the citizens. Employees are expected to act in a professional and responsible manner at all times. Any employee whose conduct discredits and dishonors the Sheriff's Office and the uniform he/she wears will be disciplined accordingly. Improper conduct of any kind will not be tolerated."
If you have a news tip or question for KPRC Local 2 Investigates, drop them an e-mail or call their tipline at (713) 223-TIPS (8477). Copyright 2013 by Click2Houston.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


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A VITAL homeless centre in Worcester has been handed a £7,000 funding boost - which means it could open for an extra day every week.
Maggs Day Centre is celebrating after getting one of its biggest single donations in recent years.
The Deansway-based facility, which caters for people off the streets, has been handed the money from St Andrew's Methodist Church in Pump Street.
Bosses at the centre now say it could be open for six days a week instead of the current five, with a decision due to be taken by the autumn.
The trustees are seeing if they can raise more cash before making their minds up, saying they don't want to extend it six days only to lurch back again once the fund dries up.
John Stanbury, chairman of the Maggs Day Centre trustees board, said: "We used to open for five days, then we went to seven only to go back to five.
"The money will allow us to open for an extra day for six months, so we are prepared to wait a little longer before making a decision to see if we can make that sixth day a long-term move.
"The money from the church is wonderful for us, it's greatly appreciated and I'd like to say thank you to St Andrews, sincerely, for making the continued development of our work possible."
The decision to go to five days per week was made last year after funds dropped due to organisations and backers feeling the squeeze in their finances.
Over the last year Maggs Day Centre got £165,000 in income, of which nearly £64,000 was donated from the public, churches, schools and a range of other organisations.
From January 2013 to March this year a total of 344 homeless people used the centre - meaning it is vital to the city.
The Reverend Anne Smith, from St Andrew's Methodist Church, said: "We were delighted to hand over the money because Maggs Day Centre is something we believe plays a very important role for the city."


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Foreign Minister Westerwelle held a meeting with Tony Blair, Quartet Representative, at the Federal Foreign Office this morning, Friday March 1st, 2013. The talks focused on ways to bring new momentum to the Middle East peace process. Foreign Minister Westerwelle said after the meeting:
"We urgently need to end the standstill in the Middle East peace process. We are working intensively with our international partners to smooth the way for the start of new, direct talks. I appeal to Israelis and Palestinians to use the window of opportunity opened up by the arrival of the new US Administration and President Obama's planned visit to the region. Only a two-state solution can bring lasting peace for Israelis and Palestinians."


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I really don't know what forum to post this in.
I want to post code snippets on my site. I'm sure you've all seem demos and tutorials where the author shows the code used. My questions is, do people copy and paste the code from the file into the markup or is there some way they are pulling the appropriate code into the page so said snippet is only maintained once?
Use the pre tag. And convert these < > to these < > here is more info http://www.websitecodetutorials.com/code/css/how-to-display-code-examples-on-website.php
btw, I posted this in the js forum thinking the solution might use an ajax request.
So, say you're displaying a snippet of css code. When you show code examples are you maintaining the code both in the .css file and in your markup ( or pulling it from a database)?
I'm trying to find out if that's what people do -- maintain code in 2 separate locations. Or if there is some elegant way to pull a snippet of ( for example ) css code from the .css file so developers than can maintain code once.
No elegant way that I know of. Your over thinking it. Just copy and paste it. Two seconds
I would check out Prettify, it will let you post code as well as do all of the syntax highlighting.
The <pre> element is handy for preserving the formatting of the code, but it's more semantic to include <code> tags around the code as well. E.g.
[I]thy code here[/I]
Because <code> is an inline element, it's a good idea to set it to display: block when inside a <pre> element.
Why is that a good idea? Is it just for presentation purposes so that a different background color doesn't result in a ragged background on the right margin to the code?
I should take back the comment. I used to use the <code> element inside a <pre> and had troubles with it, but recently read about the semantics of keeping the <code> element, and have been meaning to go over some old code and put it back in (I stopped using it at some point, as I found it was simpler just to use <pre> on its own.) From memory, it made a difference to set <<code> to display: block. But just testing it now, it didn't make much difference at all, apart from the background issue you mentioned. So I guess I've just thrown in a red herring. Sorry about that. (Either I've remembered incorrectly, or things have changed ... but I suspect the former.)
It might also be worth mentioning that you can save your code in a GitHub Gist and then embed that on your site.This is quite handy for longer code snippets.I use this technique on my blog - here's an example.
The longer code snippets are in Gists, the shorter snippets in <pre> and <code> tags.
So it's shown on your site and a link to Gist? That's cool.
Ya 10 years ago I tried to use code tag but found the margins/padding it produced (or something) too inconsistent cross browser. So that's why I only use pre.
When showing HTML, is there a tool that converts < and > the < and >? Or is it a manual process?
Yes I have one. http://www.websitecodetutorials.com/code/html/code-converter.php
I was also wondering about converting on the fly, as the page loads ( of course targeting certain elements as to not convert all html on the page )
Anything is possible. Google it see what pops up.
You would need to do this server-side (using PHP, for example).Shouldn't be too hard.


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KENTON Smith's arrival at Swindon Wildcats has signalled the end of Aku Pekkarinen's time at the Link Centre.
The 34-year-old Canadian has agreed terms to join Ryan Aldridge's EPL side for the upcoming campaign and completes Cats' list of imported players, alongside Jan Kostal, Henri Sandvik and Tomasz Malasinski, for the 2014/15 season.
The D-man, who departed Elite League outfit Braehead Clan in order to spend more time with his family in Cardiff, will join Alex Symonds, Steve Whitfield and Shane Moore on Cats blueline, with one further player expected to join them before the opening puck of the season is dropped.
Smith's departure from the Clan's is a massive gain for Wildcats and Aldridge acted as quickly as possible to secure his man.
The head coach said: "When a player of Kenton's quality becomes available, you have to act and he's a big, big signing for us.
"He comes to the club with a wealth of experience and is a guy that can quarterback our power play."
The 5'11" player has a wealth of experience in the Western Hockey League, American Hockey League and the East Coast Hockey League with 13 consecutive seasons under his belt before he arrived in Great Britain.
Smith spent one year at Manchester Phoenix in the Elite League before spending a season with Valpellice in the Italian Serie A1, the top league in Italy.
He returned to the Elite League in 2010 where he teamed up with the Cardiff Devils and two of the next three seasons as an alternate captain, before heading north of the boarder to join Clan for the 2013/14 campaign.
Aldridge added: "He is known as a leader both off and on the ice and he will be an exciting player to watch.
"I have spoken to a lot of players and coaches about him and have only ever heard great things and I'm happy with the way the team is shaping up.
"He is a massive leader and is an unbelievable guy to have in the dressing room and I can't wait for the season now with the squad that we are building."
Aldridge admits that it was a tough decision not to bring back Finnish D-man Pekkarinen despite holding talks at the end of the previous campaign.
"We spoke at the end of the last season and he wanted me to talk to his agent," Aldridge said. "We did that but we just couldn't agree terms.
"It was a tough decision to go looking elsewhere, but we have got a superb signing in Kenton."


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Topic: Neighbours from hell part 2!
GRRRRRRR, Major GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR in fact!!!!
Not my neighbours but my mums, again! My mum lives alone in a block of tenament flats with 8 flats in the block. There is a common close area that leads to all the flats and my mum is on the ground floor with 3 floors or storeys as you Americans call them I think!
Anyway, a few years ago on the top floor heroin addicts moved in and rented out one of the top flats, neighbours from hell part 1! Just what you do not need anytime and especially not so when you are just 1 month out of the hospital with your second heart attack! And to cut a long story short, it was a complete and utter nightmare to say the least at my mums! Drug dealing all hours of the day and night, druggies coming and going, needles found in the garden, theft from the garden and all manner of mayhem in general. They also did not agree with the principal of having to pay for electricity and thought it best for them to bypass paying for it and break into the elctricty supply to the building and redirect cables etc so they got it for free. Not only did they do this once and got caught.......they did it again and we reported them again! They also cut the cable to my mums TV ariel on the roof of the building and re-directed it into their flat instead of them paying to have their own ariel put up on the roof! And throw in the fact that there were police raids by drug squad and doors getting kicked in and you get the picture of what went on for about 8 months! Not the most peaceful of summers but eventually they had enough and realised that we would not put up with their garbage and they moved out, thank goodness!
Peace reigned supreme for a few years and last summer was a good one bar the rain! You could sit outside in the garden and not have to worry about heroin addicts coming and going all hours! Well, that all changed a few weeks ago and my mum now has a new neighbour. Not a drug addict this time, at least I don't think so but for a change it is some nutter that likes drinking with his mates too much and fighting......
Friday night 2 weeks ago there was a party or so in his flat which ended up in a fight in the close after midnight and Friday just passed again there was trouble after midnight again. This time someone got stabbed right outside my mums front door and it was chaos there that we can all do without. Not sure if it was the guy up the stairs that got stabbed or stabbed someone but we haven't seen him since. Most probably he is in either hospital or the jail for the weekend but this is nonsense that we can do without, again! Friday night was something out of CSI at my mums. Police everywhere, everything cordoned off with police tape, police wanting statements and blood all over the close and wall.
Neighbours from hell part 2, GRRRRRRRRRR.................... Hopefully it will be a shorter chapter than part 1!


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Fox deceptively edited a White House official's statements to claim that the Obama administration is contradicting itself about whether the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya was pre-planned.
This is Fox's second attempt to create a contradiction in the administration's position on Libya out of thin air.
On Fox & Friends today, senior Fox News correspondent Rick Leventhal juxtaposed three statements by White House Press Secretary Jay Carney to falsely suggest they were each inconsistent with each other.
In each case, if Leventhal had quoted more than snippets of Carney's comments, it would have been clear that Carney made three points each time: (1) the attack in Libya was under investigation, (2) that protests in the region had been sparked by an anti-Muslim video, and (3) that the administration had no evidence to "indicate that any of this unrest was pre-planned."
First, Leventhal paraphrased Carney as having said initially that "the assault was sparked by anger over an anti-Muslim video, a protest that turned ugly."
Leventhal then claimed that Carney "adjusted his position" on Wednesday and aired a clip of Carney saying: "Based on the information we had at the time, we have now, we do not yet have indication that it was preplanned or premeditated ... If that active investigation produces facts that lead to a different conclusion, we will make clear that that's where the investigation has led."
Leventhal followed up saying that on Thursday, Carney stated: "It is, I think, self-evident that what happened in Benghazi was a terrorist attack. Our embassy was attacked violently, and the result was four deaths of American officials. So, again, that's self-evident."
Despite this series of clips, which were all quoted or paraphrased, Carney's statements have been consistent with each other.
Here's Carney on Monday stating that the Libya attack is under investigation, that the anti-Muslim video sparked unrest, and that there is no evidence the attack on the consulate was pre-planned:
I think there has been news reports on this, Jake, even in the press, which some of it has been speculative. What I'm telling you is this is under investigation. The unrest around the region has been in response to this video. We do not, at this moment, have information to suggest or to tell you that would indicate that any of this unrest was preplanned.
Carney made the same three points during the Wednesday press briefing from which Leventhal aired a clip:
I think the FBI is leading an investigation that will encompass all of the information available to the White House and to the intelligence community and to the broader diplomatic community. What I can tell you is that, as I said last week, as our Ambassador to the United Nations said on Sunday and as I said the other day, based on what we know now and knew at the time, we have no evidence of a preplanned or premeditated attack. This, however, remains under investigation, and I made that clear last week, and Ambassador Rice made that clear on Sunday. And if more facts come to light that change our assessment of what transpired in Benghazi and why and how, we will welcome those facts and make you aware of them.
But again, based on the information that we had at the time and have to this day, we do not have evidence that it was premeditated.
It is certainly the case that there are a number of bad actors and armed groups of extremists in Libya who might take advantage of a situation that was brought about initially as a response to the video in question. But this is under active investigation and we await the results of that investigation by the FBI before we can reach any firm conclusions about what precipitated the attacks.
Carney again made the same three points during Thursday's press briefing from which Leventhal quoted:
It is, I think, self-evident that what happened in Benghazi was a terrorist attack. Our embassy was attacked violently, and the result was four deaths of American officials. So, again, that's self-evident. I would point you to a couple of things that Mr. Olsen said, which is that at this point it appears that a number of different elements were involved in the attack, including individuals connected to militant groups that are prevalent in Eastern Libya.
He also made clear that at this point, based on the information he has -- and he is briefing the Hill on the most up-to-date intelligence -- we have no information at this point that suggests that this was a significantly preplanned attack, but this was the result of opportunism, taking advantage of and exploiting what was happening as a result of reaction to the video that was found to be offensive.
I will simply point you to the testimony of Mr. Olsen, in which he said, based on the information that they have now -- and this is an ongoing investigation -- their judgment is that it was an opportunistic attack in which elements including, possibly, elements of al Qaeda in the Maghreb, participated.
Only Fox's imagination could dream up conflict among these statements.
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Saint Leo, Fla. (March 30, 2008) – The Saint Leo softball team (25-7, 8-1 SSC) defeated the Florida Southern College Moccasins (21-8, 2-7 SSC) by the score of 6-0 Sunday afternoon at University Field.
Monique Dominguez (Sr., LaPuente, Calif.) hit her fourth home run of the season going 1-for-3 with two RBI. Ally Maddox (Jr., Brandon, Fla.) went 2-for-3 with a double and an RBI. Ashley Urbanik (Jr., Riverview, Fla.) picked up the win for the Lions, as she threw a complete game shutout, scattering seven hits and striking out four. Urbanik (18-4), also helped herself out at the plate going 1-for-3 with two RBI and a run scored. April Slate (Sr., Land O'Lakes, Fla.) finished the afternoon going 2-for-3 with two runs scored. Tatiana Casis (Jr., Port St. Lucie, Fla.) went 1-for-3 with an RBI, while Elysha Agen (Fr., Palm Harbor, Fla.) picked up hit number 39 on the season going 1-for-3.
The Lions struck first with two outs in the bottom of the second inning. Dominguez sent a Brittany Minton offering racing over the left field fence just out of the reach of the left fielder scoring the pinch runner Kasey Postupack (Fr., Seminole, Fla.) making the score 2-0 in favor of the Lions. Pitching and defense made sure those runs stood up.
The Lions scored again in the third inning, as Casis sent a two-out single into leftfield scoring Slate from second base to give the Lions a 3-0 lead.
The Lions' bats caught fire in the fifth inning scoring three times in the inning. Both Slate and Agen singled to start the fifth giving Urbanik the chance to came up clutch once again. She delivered a two-out, two-RBI single to leftfield, knocking the Mocs starter out of the game while picking up her 13th RBI in the past six games. Maddox continued the scoring for the Lions driving home the Lions sixth run of the game.
The Lions played outstanding defense while the Mocs left 9 runners on base with seven I scoring position. Urbanik is currently riding a 12 game hitting streak while batting .324 on the season. The win is also Urbanik's ninth shutout of the year. The Lions have now won 13 of their last 15 games.
The Lions leave SSC play for a non-conference match-up with the No. 11 Valdosta State Blazers Wednesday, April 2 at University Field. First pitch of the doubleheader is set for 5:00 p.m.


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Chicken Yakisoba Salad
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Hi! I just heard about your blog from my brother who (I think) lives in your neighborhood and RAVED about your cooking/baking! I can't wait to try some of your recipes - they ALL look delicious! I'm going to start with this salad. Thank you for sharing your talent!!ReplyDelete
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I'm so glad to have you following my blog. Who is your brother?? He obviously has great taste in food (haha).
Welcome back. This looks delicious.ReplyDelete
Season! So good to be back. I want to learn how to make a pattern - an easy skirt. Do you know of a good resource? We miss your style!ReplyDelete
I made this for dinner tonight. Preston will be home any second. Cant wait to eat! Delicious!ReplyDelete
This recipe has become a summer staple. We all love it. I hope Preston likes it. Let me know what he thinks.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous9/10/10, 11:58 AM
Ok so I have made this about 5 times and everyone loves it!! This really is an amazing recipeReplyDelete
I completely agree. It's a summer favorite. I'm really glad you like it.ReplyDelete
- Micah9/3/11, 5:23 PM
Hi Janet! Thanks for letting me come along on that fabulous run this morning! Loved it. Hey, I'll forget to ask you in church tomorrow, so I'm posting a question. Will this recipe, as is, serve 8 adults? Wonder what you think . . .ReplyDelete
It was so great to have you run with us. I hope we didn't slow you down too much. I think I would double the recipe for 8 adults. It will serve 4 generously. I can squeeze out 5 servings and make the portions a bit smaller. Definitely double for 8. I hope everyone likes it.ReplyDelete
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I made this recipe yesterday and WOW. It is a new favorite. I made it for my boyfriend and his parents who have celiac disease. (I just used gluten free soy sauce and the buckwheat soba noodles) Everyone loved it! My little sister Kirsten (from NY) told me about your blog many times before she left on her mission! I am happy to have finally attempted to cook something from it :)ReplyDeleteReplies
Hi Allison, Oh my gosh! We love Kirsten. She stayed with up for a couple of days before she went into the MTC. Do you know which Sydney mission she is going to? A friend of ours was just called to be the mission president in the Sydney south. Apparently the person who was called is sick and can't go. That would be so cool if he was her mission president.Delete
Back to the salad. My daughter can't have gluten or grains of any form, so she uses Coconut Aminos in place of the soy and makes zucchini noodles with a spiralizer. I so thrilled the salad was a hit. It's one of our families favorite summer dishes. Greetings to your family in NY. It was so great to hear from you.


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Oh Mighty Wing
Provide some examples of when need and want are mutual, if you would.
Lazy idiot
Tick tock
I'm not gonna get all graphic for your voyeuristic pleasure. Sometimes, they are.
In less exotic terms, as a runner: shoes are both a need and a want. HRM/GPS/iPod/etc are not necessarily needs, IMO.
technically you don't need shoes to run... children run all the time without shoes.
True dat. See the implied example then. I need that.
I was going to use that one too... mostly cause I want it... not sure that you would die without it though.
Add to that shelter, clothing and fuel. Of course there is always the case where an individual does not want what he or she needs. That's just irrational.
If I don't get it, someone will die. Maybe not me.
When it's all said and done, will you have said more than you've done?
you mean like how i probably need a day off to let my legs rest, but I don't want to take a day off so i'm not.
Nope. Talking about basic needs, a scenario in which your current predicament would not be a predicament at all, as running is not a basic need.
Define: fuel
i find the sunshine beckons me to open up the gate and dream and dream ~~robbie williams
but clothing isn't a basic need - it just helps keep you out of jail.
and what do you mean by fuel?
ok so like a starving man in the wilderness passing up eating bugs because he's a vegetarian?