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who am i, dude?
Michael. 24.
Born and raised in the bay, ventured to LA for 6 years for school and work (UCLA, go Bruins!), and now i'm back in the San Francisco Bay Area. Recently came back from France from a 2.5 month visit in the Cote d'Azur to learn French and explore the region, and it was tres fantastique!
Things I Like: cooking, tennis, photography, classical piano, and obviously music. I love meeting new people who are chill and down to hit up shows. If you want to rap about music, LA, the bay, whatever. hit me up via le Facebook or tweeter @LimZen
The beats in the head put the step in my walk. Music is my passion. My dream is to one day work for a company like Soundcloud, Spotify, or Resident Advisor.
I love to discover new music, and sharing it with other music lovers brings me joy. if you have any must have suggestions, feel free to message me! I absolutely love getting new music from wherever i can get my hands on it.
I have a newfound passion for listening to my music on vinyl and collecting them. There is something to be said about having a physical piece of music; I feel like it is a lost art that should be continued. That being said, I collect my favorite albums and singles via vinyl, and most of the time it comes with a digital copy anyways! Besides, how cool is it to have actual cover art?
The Blog.. what is LimZen?
It's a rough work in progress. 'Lim' = My last name, and I am interested in things relating to Buddhism, hence the word 'Zen'. I try to share songs that are my favorites… the songs that you'll want to listen to a couple times through before being completely satisfied. I have an eclectic and diverse musical taste, and this blog will try to highlight my favorite tracks in all different genres: classic rock, old school hip-hop, house, deep house, dubstep, drum and bass, indie rock, minimal, tech house… you get the picture.
The main musical focus of my blog is electronica and indie rock, but i will definitely throw tracks from the entire spectrum (minus country, sorry country lovers.) Examples of who I artists who I cover: Frederic Chopin, Royksopp, Azari and III, Maya Jane Coles, Star Slinger, Disclosure, Shigeto, Bonobo, etc.
Disclaimer: This music is for your personal use only. To the artists - if you see something you don't like (AKA your music being posted for streaming and sometimes downloading on my site), please email me [(foodisgood) at gmail] and I will immediately take it down. I will even directly send you money if you provide me with an address or PayPal. Recently I have been posting download links only if they have been given away by the artist, or if there is a preexisting one somewhere on the internet. That being said, I support you artists with all my heart. I show my support by attending your shows and buying my favorite vinyls. Play on.


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No Offer
Negative Experience
Very Difficult Interview
I applied through a recruiter and the process took 2 days - interviewed at Capgemini in November 2013.
Interview Details Telephone interview followed by face-2-face in London
Interview Question – Interviewer more interested in showing how smart he was. Stupid questions like ' what was the name of the character in this film ? ' Interviewer concentrated on attempting to trip me up whilst showing how smart he was, Put me down at every opportunity. Asked questions about things that were not on my CV. Sample question : "how would you have converted the factory you worked at in to a lean manufacturing system ?" my response " i have not worked with lean manufacturing so cannot reply", response "you know FA about manufacturing then !" " no - i have 15 years experience". "not much of a SAP consultant are you !" " I am - and have 20 years experience to prove it !" Answer Question
Accepted Offer
Positive Experience
Difficult Interview
I applied online and the process took 3 months - interviewed at Capgemini.
Interview Details Applied via a generic jobs board on the internet, followed by a response a couple of weeks later for a phone interview. Phone interview consisted of a 1-on-1 analysis of my CV & experience to date with little reference to specific technical ability. This was followed by an invitation to 2nd interview - this time face to face. I was advised that this would be a 3 hour process consisting of role play, presentation, technical interview & general interview. On the day of the interview I was met by a member of the recruiting team & briefed on the order of the day. An hour or so of preparation & role play, followed by a presentation & then the technical & general interviews.
Interview Question – As part of the role play I was asked about data protection laws in Europe Answer Question
Negotiation Details – Negotiation was straight forward, with their first offer & my first request both refused
Accepted Offer
Positive Experience
Average Interview
I applied in-person and the process took 6 months - interviewed at Capgemini in July 2013.
Interview Details Filled out application form, they called me up for a telephone interview which touched on competencies and a test of basic computer practices. I was called in for a group exercise and personal interview. Then I was asked to complete a psychometric test.
Interview Question – What does cloud computing mean to me. Answer Question
Accepted Offer
Positive Experience
Difficult Interview
I applied through a recruiter and the process took 2+ weeks - interviewed at Capgemini.
Interview Details Interview process was a telephone interview followed up by a 2:1 interview with a panel of two senior architects. There was a role-play where the two Capgemini people were two senior executives from two merging divisions of a fictional prospective customer. A 45-minute preparation window was given to put together a 15 minute presentation on the prospective customer's scenario. The presentation was designed to show how well you could tailor messages to specific needs and preferences, and to judge content creation and delivery skills.
Interview Question – Why should we do business with Capgemini over everyone else? Answer Question
Negotiation Details – Negotiation was straightforward. They were amenable to compromise but had hard limits that could not be breached. Conformance to HR policies was very strict and not negotiable in any way.
Accepted Offer
Positive Experience
Easy Interview
I applied online - interviewed at Capgemini in May 2013.
Interview Details
2 initial telephone intevrivewa, face to face case study
and hr competency interview
Interview Question – when did you last fail Answer Question
Negotiation Details – very strict no room to moaneouvre
Accepted Offer
Positive Experience
Difficult Interview
I applied through a recruiter and the process took 2 weeks - interviewed at Capgemini in April 2013.
Interview Details
1) Technical interview on the phone
2) Interview at Cap offices in London 1 to 1. Got a case scenario where I had to come up with a technical solution, team and project structure.
Interview Question – Most questions were fairly standard Answer Question
Negotiation Details – I was given an offer which I accepted. The agency had told them upfront what my minimum expectation was. Thats what I got.
No Offer
Neutral Experience
Difficult Interview
I applied online and the process took 4+ weeks - interviewed at Capgemini in April 2013.
Interview Details
Online application
Telephone interview
Interview Question – Tell me about software development lifecycle - totally threw me off! Answer Question
No Offer
Negative Experience
Very Easy Interview
I applied through a recruiter and the process took 2 weeks - interviewed at Capgemini in March 2013.
Interview Details
I was approached by email by senior recruiter who had viewed my LinkedIn profile, initial 'phone discussion with recruiter to establish my potential interest. Full job spec supplied after I confirmed possible interest in the role.
As the role was biased towards innovation I submitted my resumé as a PowerPoint presentation, in the expectation that my presentation would be close to those I would have to deliver in-post. This was favourably received and I was invited to a formal interview.
The interview went well but I realised that my decision to wear an expensive suit, shoes, collar and tie did not mirror the interview panel, who were all dressed for business casual.
About ten days after the interview, the senior recruiter called me and ran through a whole list of praise for my experience, skills and interview performance - summarised as being excellent. But then came the killer punch: "we consider that your management presence is not congruent with the needs of the Center."
So, in their words, good enough to do the job but didn't look the part. My conclusion that it was probably my smarter attire, when they expected business casual dress. Or it could have been my age (mid 50s) which, of course, they could not cite legally as a valid reason for rejection.
Interview Question – None Answer Question
Accepted Offer
Positive Experience
Average Interview
I applied online and the process took 3 months - interviewed at Capgemini in February 2013.
Interview Details
I applied online via the Capgemini website (which is a pretty standard application form – it asks about your work experience and a few motivational questions) then received an email from the Graduate Recruitment (GR) team (who have been outsourced to India, though don't let this put you off, they are all very efficient) a couple of days later inviting me to take a telephone interview.
This was mainly competency-based and lasted around 30 minutes. The interviewer asked a bit about Capgemini so make sure you do your research first: what they do, how they are organised, who their competitors are, what projects have they been involved in and so on. The best place to look for this is on their homepage – all resources can be accessed there. The interviewer was very friendly and professional and didn't ask me anything to catch me out; at this stage they are simply trying to find out your strengths and weaknesses and whether they think you are a good match for the company. I received an email 10 (yes, 10) minutes after I had put the phone down from GR saying that I had been successful and that they would like to invite me to an assessment centre, which took place at their HQ in Woking. I received a case study along with the invitation, where I was instructed to prepare a 15-minute presentation which I had to do in the interview.
The first exercise was a chat with 2 existing graduates, which I found very useful as it gives you the opportunity to find out more about the company. Make sure you ask lots of questions and be prepared to regurgitate all this information for the "Why Capgemini?" question in the interview. The face-to-face interview was with an SAP consultant and kicked off with the presentation. I thought I did alright but afterwards the interviewer grilled me for 10 minutes, asking very awkward and obscure questions. In this stage, it's important to keep your cool: they aren't expecting precise answers but they are looking for whether you can arrive at a solution logically (so explain your methodology!). You can have a handout but don't refer to this constantly during the interview – instead write down some bullet points on prompt cards (these will be collected) and use these instead.
The rest of the interview was much more pleasant and consisted of a couple of competency-based questions and a few motivational questions (e.g. Why Capgemini? Why the technology programme? What does a consultant do?). If you have knowledge of SAP then show this off – the interviewer will know what you're talking about. It was really more of a discussion; in my case there weren't any set questions and it made me feel a lot more relaxed. After the interview, there was a short lunch break then a group exercise (in a group of 6 with 3 Capgemini assessors) and a verbal reasoning test. The group exercise was arguing an investment strategy and they aren't looking for leadership but whether or not you can work effectively in a group discussion, so don't talk over people or dismiss other people's ideas – this won't go down well! The verbal reasoning test was a standard SHL one (with a technology theme) which I, surprisingly, found easier than the online ones. If you've done them before then you needn't worry – just read through the questions and take your time.
After the interview I received a call from HR a couple of days later saying that I had passed the assessment centre stage but unfortunately the original position that I had applied for (SAP Finance) was already filled and Capgemini felt that I was a better fit in another SAP department. I was told that the head of this department wanted to have a further chat with me, which came a week after the assessment centre. This wasn't an interview at all – more the manager trying to sell me the position and asking me whether I wanted to work for them! I then got a call a week later saying that I had been successful and they would like to make me an offer, which I happily accepted.
Overall, I had a really positive interview experience. The HR and GR staff are polite and efficient and never try to catch you out at any stage. Just be yourself and do your research and everything will be fine.
Interview Question – When will I make a return on my investment? [referring to the cloud computing strategy I was presenting for my interview] View Answer
Negotiation Details – With a graduate scheme there isn't much room for negotiation until you've completed it.
Accepted Offer
Positive Experience
Average Interview
I applied through a recruiter and the process took 4+ weeks - interviewed at Capgemini in January 2013.
Interview Details 2 phones interview (Both technical and non technical questions) lasted about 30-45mns each. Then a face to face interview on client site, mainly technical questions, then they decided to skip the case study.
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I have suffered from social anxiety disorder since I was about 10 years old, or about 34 years. I was a very intelligent child, but when teachers noticed a difference in me, I started trying to be invisible. Social situations, including school, were torture. I bulldozed my way through life, including dabbling in alcohol and substance abuse for relief of my anxiety and depression. I find it very interesting that the disorder is marked by a morbid fear of authority figures. And here I thought I was just being a rebel!
ReadI went through some pretty tough times when I had my first full-blown panic attack.
Read"I'm back!" That was the phrase I'd said to myself starting in middle school when my malaise lifted and a cycle of joy came around. I seemed to live in a world moving in slow motion. It was only when "I was back" that I returned to normal life speed. This slow-to-normal oscillation went on well into my thirties. But I had no idea I was depressed.
I have learned that anxiety and depression go hand-in-hand, and there is no shame in having either — although it's tough for many people to get their arms around that concept. When I struggled with both in my last couple years as the Texas Rangers' baseball play-by-play announcer, the few people in whom I confided expressed genuine shock. "Depressed? About what? You've got a great job! Legions of adoring fans! A wonderful family! Dude, what's your problem?"
I had my first experience with severe long-term depression at age 23 when a series of events converged simultaneously. I couldn't sleep, and my lack of appetite had me losing such a significant amount of weight that I feared I would end up in the hospital. I forced myself to eat and eventually gained back the weight, and later an appetite. Being on my own at this age in the late 1980s with limited knowledge of depression, I wouldn't realize what was happening to me until years later.


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1up Community Dance Competition! Win a game! My blog got deleted *sad face*
Posted: October 28, 2008So as some of you may or may not know, there is a little Community Dancing Competition going on right now
in Not Games (or NG for short).
It's been going on for more than 2 months and 9 pages and we've
had 3 (amazing) entries so far.
Since it's heading towards it's deadline (9th November), I've
decided to open it up to you guys to join in on the fun. The winner
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their choice as their prize.
You don't have to go to NG to post your entry, just embed a
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automatically. The 3 entries so far are below.
The only rule I have is that the dance has to be tailored for the
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Thomas Sowell: Who shut down the government?
This is not a matter of opinion. You can check the Congressional Record.
But the whole point of having a division of powers within the federal government is that each branch can decide independently what it wants to do or not do, regardless of what the other branches do, when exercising the powers specifically granted to that branch by the Constitution.
Perhaps the biggest of the big lies is that the government will not be able to pay what it owes on the national debt, creating a danger of default. Tax money keeps coming into the Treasury during the shutdown, and it vastly exceeds the interest that has to be paid on the national debt.
None of this is rocket science. But unless the Republicans get their side of the story out — and articulation has never been their strong suit — the lies will win. More important, the whole country will lose.
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Self esteem.
I once knew this boy that was at one time a friend of mine. Even though most would find his life average there was a simple thing that he had that I didn't. Although his parents were not perfect, all his life they encouraged his family to love themselves for the way they were made. This astonished me. To his family, Weight never mattered, not hair color, not clothing, not skin, and this was something I had never seen before.
Don't get me wrong, my parents have never said to me "Girl, you won't get anywhere in this world with out maintaining those looks." but it's never took a blunt sentence for me to get general feels about the world through observing the way exterior is dealt with my superiors.
I know that both my parents, even though they live in different households, spend forever figuring out what they are going to wear, get highlights, worry about weight, Get grumbly when there's something wrong with their skin, use anti-aging products, and more of the same nature. There a quote from a beauty guru that I remembered from a few years ago that goes a little like: "It's fine if you want to enhance yourself, but when it gets to the point where you can't walk out of the house without those things, that's when it's become a problem."
Image is something important I see all around me, and only when I see it becoming a steering wheel for how I feel that day do I notice how controlling it can be. I don't think that sort of thing will ever change, but I just want to say as a final note, that if you are in the same boat me I want you to pause every now and then and just realize something. You as a whole, Image and all, inside and out, you are unique and rare and perfect. This is not one of those "preechy" posts, in fact go ahead and Consume beauty, but remember that it should never consume you.


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Sinusoidal Career of Ajith - நேற்று, இன்று, நாளை
by Rajasekar S with inputs from MovieCrow Editor
"Ajith" -A man who came to the cinema industry without any background. But with his self confidence, today he is having one of the largest fan followers in Tamil. All happened over a span of 20 years. Ajith touched the extremes of tremendous success and painful failures. But, it is a mystery how his fan base could steadily increase in upward direction irrespective of the roller coaster journey in his career.
First 10 Years (1992 to 2001)
After making a noteworthy debut in "Amaravathi", Ajith met with an accident and was bed-ridden for one and half years. After recovery, He slowly clawed back in "Pavithra","Pasamalargal","Rajavin parvailey"(with his friend & competitor Vijay). Finally, Ajith got a crutch to stand-up in "Aasai" even though prakash Raj stole the limelight. The real break in his carreer happened in "Kadhal Kottai" when Tamil directors started to take him seriously as a dependable hero. Again, his career sputtered with intermittent hits in the form of "Kadhal Mannan". From 1999 to 2001, Ajith finally established himself as a class and mass hero with movies such such as Vaali, Amarkalam, Mugavari, Kandukonden, Dheena, Citizen. and Poovellam un Vasam.
Last 10 Years (2001 to 2012)
During the last 10 years, Ajith had only 4 major hits out of 18 movies -- Villain, Varalaaru, Billa and Mankatha. With such high failure rate, no hero could have survived in this extremely competitive industry. However, these failures made him more mature, humble and genuine in an industry known for backstabbing. This helped steadily gain tremendous fan support irrespective of his movie's success.
Next 10 years (2012 to 2021)
Undoubtedly, Ajith is a good actor but why Success is not travelling continuously with him? It is understandable that there will be no shortage of advice after Billa 2's reception. Here are the summary of top 3 things that I am hearing from fans (listed in the order of priority),
1. Listen to Script
Director Saran said in a recent interview (Suhasini's Autograph)When Ajith accept "Kadhal mannan" he didn't even hear the story. He believed saran because he is trained from KB school. The ideology of blindly trusting the newcomers without listening to scripts may have worked well in "Dheena" and "Vaali" which helped launch AR Murugadoss and SJ Suryah. But, one must not forget Red, Anjaneya, Jana, Azhwar, Ennai Thalata Varuvala, which almost ruined his career.
2. Work with accomplished Directors
Ajith is known in the industry for signing up producers before listening to the script or discussing with a director. Ajith has less number of family Audience compared to Suriya or Vijay. This could be changed if Ajith works with directors like Shankar, KV Anand, Gautham menon, AR Murugadoss. Shankar once said "I had a thought of doing a film with Ajith. With out even meeting it dissolved and didn't happen". In the current scenario, even his peer and competitor, Vijay, has changed his strategy by giving more importance to directors as one can clearly notice from his strong line-up of movies. Of course, he can give chance to the new directors who are coming up with a good script & not the directors who are just trying to monetize his stardom.
3. Selectively participate in Promotions
Ajith says "A good film doesn't need advertisement". This philosophy used to work when the film budget used to be within 20 crores. However, Ajith's salary is nearing 20 crores. In current reality, without strong promotions and viral marketing strategies, one cannot reach all sects of audience outside of the core group of fans. For example, Rajinkanth who has never endorsed a brand has understood the practical realities and participated in "Endhiran" promotions and gave media interviews.
Is it time for Ajith to relax his ideology a bit to launch himself strongly for the next 10 years?


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November 30, 2007 Global Warmists Exploit the HolocaustBy Marc SheppardWhen Ellen Goodman likened climate skeptics to holocaust deniers last February, she raised more than a few eyebrows. Yet, hers was not the first reprehensible use of that fetid analogy, nor, unfortunately, would it be the last. In truth, environmentalists' deplorable trivialization of Hitler's genocide can be traced as far back as the late 1980's (by an ambitious senator from Tennessee) and as recently as last month by the scientist considered to be the world's premiere global warming researcher. In 1989, Al Gore wrote a scare piece for the New York Times under the improbable title An Ecological Kristallnacht. Listen. Predicting a laughable 5 degree Celsius rise in global temperatures "in our lifetimes," he warned that unless we
Boiler-plate eviro-mumbo-jumbo, to be sure. But the man who would be king of the greens then ratcheted the rhetoric down a few notches by invoking nightmares 50 years past:
Kristallnacht -- German for "Crystal Night." The very name elicits lurid images of that dark night in November of 1938 when Germans throughout the land were awakened to the sights and smells of burning synagogues and the noise of shattering window glass and the screams of innocent Jews being savagely beaten. A night when thousands of Germans, reading the signal that Jews were vogelfrei (fair game), joined Hitler's Sturmabteilung (brown shirts) in killing at least one hundred and dragging 30 thousand more men, women, and children one step closer to the death and agony awaiting them in Nazi concentration camps. Repulsion mission accomplished. Gore then dared compare the world's failure to respond then to contemporary environmental complacency and "dark" self-interest:
The audacity of recalling the very sounds that evoked the tag Kristallnacht to suggest that those disregarding Gore's personal delusions of our "self-destructive behavior and environmental vandalism" are somehow synonymous with a "world [that] closed its eyes as Hitler marched" betrays a mind at once deluded and devious. Not to mention, outrageous, as noted by Matt Brooks when the same words appeared in Gore's 1992 book, Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit. The executive director of the Republican Jewish Coalition added that:
Outrageous, indeed -- yet merely the first act of a word play that would continue after Gore's vice-presidential intermission and the U.S Senate's unanimous 1997 vote not to consider the Kyoto Protocol for ratification. A Brief History of Green Holocaust Revisionism Allegory On March 27, 1998, Deborah Tannen appeared on Jim Lehrer's Newshour to discuss her new book, The Argument Culture: Moving from Dialogue to Debate. The author, after declaring global warming settled fact and skeptics oil-company shills, took Gore's analogy to its next illogical step by listing global-warming doubters right alongside Holocaust deniers. She explained this specious leap to guest host David Gergen. Note the striking similarity of the emphasized sentence to recent statements from Gore himself:
Most on the Right immediately recognized the ploy for the sleight-of-thought it was. For starters, while the extermination of 6 million Jews at the hands of the Third Reich is indisputable, the apocalypse promised by the Big Green Scare Machine is served absent proof of anything to actually deny. Then there's that nasty little distinction of denying history as opposed to disputing tea-leaf reading. The word "holocaust" itself is a weapon being exerted by climate scare-mongers in much the manner that "racist" has been wielded by race-mongers: to shut down debate by questioning the opposition's morality. If you were against the first Holocaust, they attest, then you must be equally against the coming climate holocaust -- otherwise, you are undoubtedly immoral. Critical thinkers recalled parrying similar lame false dilemmas and ethical genetic fallacies -- part and parcel of virtually all green arguments -- and wisely refused to be conned. Not surprisingly, however, many Lefties -- and all eco-maniacs -- happily whistled along whenever they heard this catchy new tune. And, like an awful rumor, the lyric gradually spread. Months later, in the July 1998 edition of Corporate Legal Times, Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher was first referred to as,
And so it was that a full 8 years before the media would advocate Gore's "debate is over" mantra in response to the junk-science he spewed in An Inconvenient Truth, the reviled "Global Warming Denier" was born. Now, the term wasn't an instant hit. A Nexis search of "Global Warming Denier" and "Climate Change Denier" for articles prior to 2004 yields a scant 13 and 2 scattered hits, respectively, beginning with the July 1998 Rohrabacher reference. But in December of 2003, Peter Simple of London's Daily Telegraph noted that:
Nice call. There were 8/7 articles in 2004 which grew to 25/42 in 2005. 2006 saw a significant jump to 107/111, beginning with the New York Times "Scorched Earth" piece on January 15th, and ending with a year-end wrap-up which reminded readers of the October letter Senators Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and John Rockefeller (D-WV) wrote to ExxonMobil Chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson, urging him to end his company's support of "climate change denial front groups." By November of 2007, the term had gained genuine traction: 452/714 articles, starting with 5 about the Union of Concerned Scientists Issuing a False, Misleading Report which branded the Competitive Enterprise Institute as global warming "deniers" and ending with the a handful of articles referring to Aussie PM John Howard's ouster for being a "climate change denier." So then, eco-political correctness had successfully banned not just a word, but an idea. Unlike the "N" word, the "F" word and that nasty little "C" word, none of which may be spoken in polite company, use of the "D" word was not only tolerated, but encouraged, to convince a pitifully pliable audience that those accused of fitting its distorted description were ignorant demons to be shunned. Thus, in true authoritative fashion, freedom of speech and any open, rational debate on the subject are effectively shut down Equating Climate Theory Skeptics to Nazi Mass Murderers With Holocaust-level guilt established in the psyches of the indoctrinated, the next step was to further marginalize heretics by projecting imaginary Holocaust-worthy punishment. In May of 2006, enviro-paranoid Mark Lynas complied:
Wow. Then, four months later, Grist magazine's equally hysterical David Roberts suggested that the method by which deniers be held accountable for the consequences of their inactions should mirror that by which the most heinous of Nazi war criminals had been for their actions:
His outrageously moronic suggestion was met with some jeers, but many more smiles and cheers. Once again, runaway ignorance of both climate change and the historic trial carelessly referenced prevailed. Of course, Greenies will never understand the former, but perhaps some perspective is in order on the 24 major Nazi murderers prosecuted in the latter, including:
To suggest those offering dissenting scientific opinion on the causes, scope, dangers, and anthropogenic influence of global warming are guilty of similar crimes against humanity is nothing short of madness. The Final Solution to Carbon Pollution On October 22nd of this year, James Hansen, yes that James Hansen -- NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies director -- gave testimony before the Iowa Utilities Board. His appearance represented but one battle in his ongoing war against commissioning any new coal-burning power plants prior to the development and deployment of successful carbon dioxide sequestration technologies. Amid the requisite doomsday floods and extinctions, he avowed that:
While metaphorically sloppy (the trains carried the victims, not the Zyklon B), Hansen's words were clearly crafted to evoke vivid imagery of the cattle cars used by the Nazis to transport European Jews to camps in Poland built for the purpose of their extermination, and no other. Cars the rolling counterpart of death marches, in which entire families were forcefully packed standing-room-only with little light or ventilation and no latrines, food, water, or hope -- to endure torturous journeys often lasting several long days and rarely ending in anything short of their cremation. If not to further the public's revulsion of "deniers," why, then, would the leading expert on the subject resort to such shockingly hyperbolic sooth-saying? This affront compelled not Jewish organizations but rather Kraig R. Naasz, president of the National Mining Association, to pen a letter a week later demanding an apology for miners and railroad workers (but not - curiously -- camp survivors or the families of the butchered):
To which Hansen callously wrote, to open an incredibly inept response dated November 21st:
Even a purportedly brilliant green-fever sufferer failed to recognize that addressing a straw-man rather than Naasz's decency concerns only served to strengthen the latter. Is it any wonder the green rank-and-file are so easily duped?
Ironically, that quote from Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's Minister of Propaganda, epitomizes many aspects of the Big Green Scare Machine's modus operandi, not just the imposition of their core tenets and "settled science" lies on a naïve public. From the ravings of their loudest in 1989 to their smartest in 2007 and all the blathering drones in between, the repeated cavalier trivialization of one of mankind's darkest endeavors has been exploited to capture hearts, repress minds, and shut mouths. Last year, TBGSM's own propaganda chief Gore(bbels) made this remarkably sophomoric comment:
Of course, "global-warming deniers" might have been replaced by "9/11 truthers," "UFO captives" or, for that matter, "climate alarmists" to establish similar arbitrary relationships. Broad associations are as effortless as they are intellectually dishonest - yet aimed at the proper target, undeniably effective and generally innocuous. But imagine this response to Gore's inane remark, employing similar associative nonsense - but stronger correlations: A larger percentage of the world believes the green lie that human salvation demands a coerced return to a less modern, less industrialized society and blind acceptance of fanatical dogma which can currently be neither proved nor disproved. Perhaps they'd enjoy entertaining an analogous group with similar traits that calls its heretical enemies "infidels" rather than "deniers." Perhaps those who would find such wordplay offensive might consider that exploiting the eliminationist anti-Semitism of the Nazis equally so -- and extend its 6 million victims all due respect. Don't hold your breath. Marc Sheppard is a technology consultant, software engineer, writer, and political and systems analyst. He is a frequent contributor to American Thinker and welcomes your feedback.
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Lowery gave the benediction at Obama's inauguration as 44th U.S. president on Jan. 20, 2009…
Lowery said Obama lost Georgia by 200,000 votes in 2008 while 390,000 black folks in Georgia did not vote.
"I don't know what kind of a nigger wouldn't vote with a black man running," said Lowery. "All that he did with the stimulus was genius. Nobody intelligent would risk this country with Romney…"
Lowery said that when he was a young militant, he used to say all white folks were going to hell. Then he mellowed and just said most of them were. Now, he said, he is back to where he was.
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In July 2008 the University of Cambridge Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (CAUV) team competed in the third Student Autonomous Underwater Challenge-European (SAUC-E) competition and won the Award for Innovation in Systems Engineering. The competition challenges university students from across Europe to design and build their own underwater robots and then perform realistic missions in the underwater environment, and by doing so advance Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) technology.
The competition encourages young engineers and scientists to think about underwater technology and its future possibilities, as well as fostering ties between the students and the organisations involved in AUV technologies.
The robots that the students build must be able to travel through an underwater assault course consisting of validation gates, submerged buoys, marker dropping targets and surface zones. However, the most impressive aspect of this competition is that the Autonomous Underwater Vehicles, as the robots are known, must complete the task on their own. This means no remote controls and no communication from equipment on the surface. Once the AUV is placed in the water it is on its own and must navigate its way based purely on its own sensors.
The Cambridge AUV team have a much improved robot from their 2007 model, with large thanks to sponsors Schlumberger, Composite Engineering and SimplySim. The entire hull was brand new and custom built including the carbon fibre shell.
The CAUV is 1.1m long and has a 90mm diameter with 4 internal vectored thrusters to provide manoeuvrability and a 100W rear propeller for a maximum speed of around 4.2m/s and a maximum range of 40km at a cruising speed of 2.4m/s. It makes use of the world's smallest full-featured x86 mainboard, the PICO-ITX, to power the autonomy software which guides it through the underwater assault course.
Paul Esparon, team captain said "The best part of the competition is meeting the people from the other teams. There is a fantastic amount of camaraderie between all the teams. Every team was quick to help the other teams by lending the various nuts or bolts that they were missing."
CAUV is a student-run Society of the University of Cambridge and relies on new recruits to keep the project a success. Preparations for the 2009 competition are underway.
Cambridge AUV would like to thank everyone who is involved with the project in one way or another. Particular thanks go to Dr T. Nickels, Alistair Ross, Steve, Professor Peter Wadhams, all the staff at the Department of Engineering, and the teams and organisers of SAUC-E.
The 2008 team was made up of 15 people: Paul Esparon (Team Captain 2008) (4th year), Richard Mathie (4th year), Andy Pritchard (Team Captain 2009) (2nd year), Simon Calcutt (2nd Year), Alex Ridge (2nd Year), Sunil Shah (2nd Year), Lezsek Swirski (2nd year), Alex Nixon (2nd Year), Binh Le (1st year), Thanh Le (1st year), Justin Weng (2nd year), Hiro Funakoshi (3rd year), Jason Wong (post grad), Parmesh Gajjar (2nd year), Arjun Mehta (2nd year).
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Budget cut layoffs hit Lane County Historical Museum
EUGENE, Ore. - Months after their announcement, Lane County budget cuts have made their way to county-funded programs like the historical museum.
The non-profit Lane County Historical Museum has lost all its county hotel room tax money, making up about $38,000.00.
Officials said that all of that money went to the county parks system. Three people have lost their jobs and directors said they will have to rely more on volunteers donating their time.
"We're going to be looking for more private support." Museum Director Bob Hart told KVAL News Thursday. "Basically we will attempt to give the same level of public service but we're going to be looking for more help to do that."
Hart said the Lane County Historical Museum won't cut its schedule or the days it is open. Rather the museum will need around 10 more volunteers to keep programs going.
The historical board is still interested in an eventual museum move away from the Fairgrounds and possibly into the downtown Eugene U.S. Post Office.
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(AP) -- LANSING, Mich. (AP) - The state has begun mailing year-end tax statements to approximately 913,000 people who received unemployment benefits in 2009. Stephen Geskey, director of Michigan's Unemployment Insurance Agency, says unemployment benefits are taxable, and recipients will need 1099-G forms to prepare their 2009 state and federal tax returns.
The forms show how much individuals received in unemployment benefits last year. They also state how much in state and federal income taxes were deducted from a person's unemployment benefits, if the individual chose to have the taxes withheld. Geskey says the American Recovery & Reinvestment Tax Act exempts the first $2,400 in unemployment benefits paid in 2009 from federal income taxes.
Persons who have created Web accounts with the agency can obtain the 1099-G forms online at http://www.michigan.gov/uia starting Jan. 28.
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Kathy Kelly co-coordinates Voices for Creative Nonviolence. Dr. Hakim mentors the Afghan Peace Volunteers.
Here is a simple, reachable step towards peace in Afghanistan: build international relationships by befriending the Afghan Peace Volunteers Ali and Abdulhai and bringing their forgotten, alternative voices of non-violence to the United States - support their U.S. visa re-applications.
The Afghan population is estimated at 30 million, with about 70% below the age of 25 years. The vibrant, youthful demographics mean that there's a window of opportunity for Afghanistan and the international community to accompany the new Afghan generation towards a better world.
Who ARE these 30 million Afghan human beings? Are they just a 'bunch of wild extremists', as often depicted, indiscriminately or by omission, through the mainstream media? Of course not.
Using the Occupy analogy, 99% of these 30 million ordinary Afghans are not surviving easily under the wealthy and powerful 1% of well-connected Afghans.
We hardly hear anything from this 99%. As is conventional in this topsy-turvy global system, 99% is considered 'negligible and unimportant' in policy decisions over their 'inconsequential' lives.
There's hope though.
The worldwide worsening of socio-economic inequalities has given rise to the amassing of ordinary voices through the 99% Occupy movement, and other people protests in Chile, Mexico, the U.S., Spain, Greece, London and of course in the Arab Spring.
During this year's international Children's Day, the Afghanistan Ministry of Work and Social Affairs announced that '6 million vulnerable Afghan children face poverty and other serious threats'.
Ali and Abdulhai are 16 years olds whose lives are fairly typical of the most vulnerable and impoverished of the 99%, ordinary youth coping with ordinary teenage issues in a war-torn 'hell'.
They face what every Afghan faces : corruption ( Afghanistan is the 3rd most corrupt nation on earth ) , poverty ( 35% of Afghans are unemployed, 36% of Afghans live below the poverty line and as many as a third of Afghanistan's children have to work to supplement their family's income ) , a trust deficit with other Afghans and with foreigners, and a lack of good learning opportunities ( particularly difficult for Afghan youth who crave for change through education).
They frequently get disheartened with the increasing violence and injustice in their country and the impunity that aggravates lawlessness. Studies by the Afghan health ministry in 2009 showed that an astonishing 66% of Afghans suffered from mental health problems. And that was in 2009. A recent Gallup poll shows that Afghans are feeling more miserable and hopeless today!
In this emotionally and psychologically heavy environ, Abdulhai, a 16 year old Afghan student, wants to be happy. But he says, "I've hardly ever been happy since childhood."
Daily, as Ali and Abdulhai go to school in Kabul, organize the tailoring and back-to-school programs, and plan for their '2 Million Friends' campaign to be held on the International Day of Human Rights on 10 December 2012, they do so with a faith that small but radical acts of love can change their world.
They know that as long as they keep their consciences close to the hardworking, teeming masses, they needn't submit to systems which gradually replace relationships with money and power.
Despite their U.S. visa denials last week, they are eager to celebrate the upcoming Eid with their families in Bamiyan to mark the end of the Ramadan fasting month.
Ali says, "I miss my mum and dad."
Is it at all important, in the midst of the Afghan war and its attendant socio-economic devastation, to wish that two Afghan youth, Ali and Abdulhai, will eventually obtain U.S. visas to participate in the U.S. Mexico Caravan for Peace?
Perhaps, it's not important for the 1%. But it is important for those of us who believe in considering alternative visions of building friendships for human progress, and for those who hope against cynical odds that love can change everything, even war, even the Afghan war.
Three U.S. Senators, three members of the U.S. Congress , Nobel Laureate Mairead Maguire and 4,775 signatories to a Roots Action petition believed that such opportunities for peaceful exchanges was important enough for them to have written letters to the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, in support of Ali and Abdulhai's U.S. visa applications and interviews.
It was probably a first time any Afghan individual received such a warm American public show of support, but that was not enough to overcome the concerns of the U.S. Consular officials.
Ali and Abdulhai's visa applications were denied.
In a worldwide reality of power and wealth concentrated in the hands of a few fellow human beings, ordinary Afghans like Ali and Abdulhai are 'unknowns'. They are 'no-bodies'; their voices are not heard.
It discourages us to think of how the U.S. Consular officials regarded the democratic wish of over 4000 of their fellow American citizens to have Ali and Abdulhai join the Caravan for Peace in the U.S for 10 days.
Abdulhai wondered at the curious words of the U.S. Embassy's consular officer delivered through an Afghan interpreter, "Sorry. Your visa application has been rejected. You are not working with the government, and the people of Afghanistan do not know you. The situation of Afghanistan is not good."
Later that day, Abdulhai tried the therapeutic method of leisurely preparing the Afghan Peace Volunteer community meal to break the Ramadan fast. Ali tried to finish the Math homework he had in seventh-grade school, though he 'couldn't really concentrate."
Both Ali and Abdulhai told us, "We thanked them at the end of our interview and left feeling disappointed."
Governments can deny 'visas', but thankfully, they can't deny friendships.
This visa denial will not stop Ali and Abdulhai, who are core members of the Afghan Peace Volunteers, from their committed effort to build a multi-ethnic Afghan community in Kabul, at a time when continued conflict is aggravating ethnic and political divisions which threaten the integrity of Afghan society.
Ali and Abdulhai will look forward to seeing Nobel Laureate Mairead Maguire on December 10, 2012, when she will join them for their '2 Million Friends' Campaign. Their hope for '2 Million Friends' is simple, that in place of the 2 million Afghan victims of war over the past 4 decades, they wish to find 2 million friends, as expressed in the video clip 'Be One of 2 Million Friends'. And so as not to lose any more human lives, they will be wishing for a multilateral ceasefire to end the war in Afghanistan.
Ali and Abdulhai have a reconciliatory and non-violent message that warring groups and governments are not keen to hear; they long for the laying down of arms, the soothing of fears and the calming of antagonisms.
Apparently, a poster plastered all over the hallways of the U.S. embassy in Kabul reads, "Keep Calm, and Transition." Ali and Abdulhai are suggesting with their actions and lives, "Build reconciliation and relationships, and transition."
We invite all global citizens to change this impersonal status quo, by sending a deluge of support letters for their U.S. visa re-applications through http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=6447 ; we believe that when friends stand together, everything can change!
We can stand together as friends of 30 million Afghans.
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Should new freeways be tolled?
The CEO of South Australia's Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure, Mr Rod Hook, is reported to have said the only way the state will get any money from the Federal Government for new freeways is if it imposes a toll on users.
Unlike Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, Adelaide doesn't have any tolled roads (neither does Perth). According to a report in Adelaide Now:
Mr Hook said this week South Australia could no longer to afford to ignore tolls as a funding source for new roads. He said the Federal Government had warned SA it would not pay for future roads unless the state also had private-sector funding through toll roads.
However Federal Transport Minister Anthony Albanese says this simply isn't true. The Australian says a spokesman for Mr Albanese claimed last week:
Neither the minister nor his department has expressed those alleged views to the South Australian government…..Under our constitutional arrangements, only state governments have the power to impose tolls on roads within their jurisdictions, including on the national highways.
Mr Albanese might say that, but I can understand how Mr Hook gets the impression tolling is a prerequisite for Federal funding. The funding guidelines issued last month by Mr Albanese's own bureaucrats in Infrastructure Australia suggest otherwise.
They indicate the Australian Government is unlikely to support urban road projects unless they "provide for tolling/charging to recover the costs of the project(s), and send signals that will influence demand".
The newly released report of The Infrastructure Finance Working Group, chaired by Treasury, supports that view:
Governments should implement targeted measures such as user charges to enhance price signals to better balance supply and demand, and to increase the funding available for infrastructure investment
This seems especially pertinent given Infrastructure Australia has chosen to list the Working Group's report on its web site under the Guidelines for applications for funding.
Of course Infrastructure Australia has got it right – if we are going to have freeways in the first place (and that's another debate) then they should be tolled. The Executive Director of the Sydney Business Chamber, Patricia Forsythe, agrees.
She's reported to have said the O'Farrell Government should have scrapped the former governments M4/M5 cashback scheme, which enables motorists to claim back the cost of tolls. According to Ms Forsythe:
The Cashback Scheme continues to be an incentive for commuters to drive on Sydney's already congested motorways and is the wrong approach if we are serious about reducing congestion
The argument for tolls is straightforward. They provide the ultimate test for the relevance of a project: are users prepared to pay the full cost of providing and operating the facility? If they are, the project is not only warranted in financial terms (there's still the tricky issue of negative externalities though) but generates a cash revenue stream.
Indeed, as the Infrastructure finance Working Group is keen to point out, the private sector can fund it instead of state governments who're reluctant because they're concerned about tarnishing their credit ratings. Without a private investor it probably won't get built. And if the estimates are wrong, the private investors are the ones who take a bath.
This is what has happened with a number of privately financed transport projects in Australia. That list includes the Clem7 road tunnel in Brisbane, the Cross City tunnel in Sydney and both the Brisbane and Sydney airport rail services.
Tolling new roads also means state governments can reserve their spending for projects like public transport facilities that don't usually generate the sorts of returns attractive to the private sector. Another benefit is tolls effectively price road space (albeit imperfectly) and thus moderate demand for both the new facility and related parts of the overall network.
The report of the Infrastructure finance Working Group is interesting in its own right. As well as advocating greater use of user-pays charges, it urges the Federal Government to make infrastructure grants conditional on the states' implementing initiatives like tolling and asset sales.
It also recommends governments privatise more assets and/or use availability charges. Perhaps that's not surprising when six out of nine members are drawn from the private sector and work in industries that stand to benefit directly from government investment in infrastructure.
These are important issues worth discussing another time. So is the possibility that tolls should capture the cost of negative externalities.
For the moment though I want to digress a little and mention the Working Group's contention that transport projects yield high economic benefits:
The dividends economies can gain from infrastructure investment are unequivocal. Analysis undertaken by the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE) found that current Australian Government investment in Australia's highways, interstate rail network and urban public transport systems will deliver a return of $2.65 on every $1 now being invested.
This assertion contradicts the finding in the Grattan Institute's new report, Game changers: economic reform priorities for Australia. As I discussed last week, the Institute analysed Infrastructure Australia's current project portfolio and estimated the aggregate Benefit Cost Ratio as a much more modest 1.5. That's a $1.50 return on each $1 invested, or $0.50 net.
The discrepancy might be due to differences in the time frame, the mix of projects, or something else. I looked up the reference the Working Group provided for the BITRE research. Turns out it's a press release by Anthony Albanese! It mentions "new data" compiled by BITRE but doesn't even give a reference to it! I do hope the Working Group applied itself a little harder to the rest of the report.
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There is no doubt that tolls should be imposed on freeways. And they should be imposed on any major road project, and probably most minor road projects.
A case in point, the "Sexton Hill deviation" on the Pacific Highway in Tweed Heads. An upgrade of the road has been under consideration since 1995 at least. When discussions started in earnest in about 2004, I was on one of the Community Liaison Groups. We saw the original plans of the RTA, and commented they were bad. For information, Sexton Hill is a ridge over which the Pacific Highway, a four lane dual carriageway, curves. It has 8% gradients one side and 5% the other. And it has a substantial S-bend on the southern slope. Allegedly it has the worst accident record for any section of the Pacific Highway. In early discussion, the new plans showed gradients near 5% each side. We argued for a deep tunnel under the ridge. This could have been about 200 m, depending on the exact location of the portals, but would have reduced the gradients to about 2% or less. The reduced gradients would have meant that trucks would not have needed to change gear, nor would they have had problems maintaining a constant road speed. To no avail.
We were advised that an early set of solutions, including a tunnel, had been put to RTA executive in Sydney. Their 'hilly' option was to cost about $110M. Their tunnel version would cost about $130M. It would also have required supervision, and trucks carrying dangerous goods would have been prohibited (they would have used the existing road, as they do now). The executive ruled out a tunnel solution, and no arguments we put forward could change this.
The RTA put up two versions of their 'hilly' solution, one effectively rebuilding the existing road, digging out the crest to a lower level, and one using a new road, in a very deep cutting (about 24 m deep). The new road was preferred, on the grounds that it was not as bad as the other, and after many changes it was adopted.
Work is now nearly finished, and the generally accepted figure is the work has cost around $355M – largely put up by the Commonwealth Government – which is perhaps why the RTA was happy with the near trebling of the cost.
We were asked to give a review of the CLG process. Amongst other comments, I made these comments (after suggesting that a proper benefit/cost study should have been done):
"The other is to drop funding from Consolidated Revenue, and fund projects from bond issues backed by toll charges on the project. This is the way that the Gateway Bridge in Brisbane has been financed, the way that motorways and tunnels in Sydney are financed, and is the way all major road projects should be financed. If a project is so costly that it cannot be financed by tolls, then the question must arise, should it be financed at all."
"Examination of current traffic and likely future traffic growth shows that the Deep Tunnel Option as proposed by the CLG could easily be financed by a reasonable toll. Certainly such would have covered the original difference between the RTA's cheaper option and the CLG's tunnel option, even with its costs inflated by the RTA. Probably the entire cost of the project could be covered by a toll, much to the benefit of the State's finances."Now, knowing the final cost, one might add that if the upgrade were to be financed by a bond issue, and tolls to cover the cost of the bonds, it is doubtful that the overrun to near treble the original cost would have been acceptable.
A member of parliament has crowed that through her actions she has brought funding of about $350M to this area for the Sexton Hill upgrade, and another $500M or thereabouts for a road upgrade further south. This is at least $800M on which tolls should be charged, to repay the State of NSW's costs at least, and preferably to return some of the cost to the Commonwealth.
Railways are supposed to pay their way, but mostly don't – roads should also be supposed to pay their way, and charging tolls on main roads would help to get nearer to a level playing field.
Those interested may care to view the progress of the works on NearMap – look for "Laura Street, Tweed Heads South " and move west to the road works.
"The argument for tolls is straightforward. They provide the ultimate test for the relevance of a project: are users prepared to pay the full cost of providing and operating the facility?"
Are the users of the Mandurah railway prepared to pay the full $2 billion cost of building it? When they build our new museum (only half the cost of the new stadium!) should users expect to pay for it/them?
I'm implacably opposed to tolls and hope they never arrive in Perth. We need the roads we need, along with trains, museums etc. Governments will set the taxes and prioritise the projects and face the voters' disapproval at the election if they don't suit the electorate. I don't want to have to face charges for every public service and facility, it's tiresome and will result in never ending arguments about whether it's fair etc
Boscombe has something of a point. But if you're comparing a railway line and a road, the accurate equivalent would be that just as the railway line is partly funded by the ticket price, major freeways should be at least partly funded by usage fees.
It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to ask if "users [are] prepared to pay the *full* cost of providing and operating the facility" when in reality the economic benefits of large infrastructure projects flow through the whole economy over the scale of multiple decades. It may well be that almost no single major road or rail-line ever built in any developed economy would pass any sort of straighforward profitability test over a 10 or even 20 year period, but the reality is no developed economy can exist without them. -
it is amazing to watch in Brisbane, many avoid a toll road at almost all costs – brisbane now has several, with more to come, and they are working to reduce travel times – but i have sat and timed a queue in peak hour avoiding the Clem Jones tunnel at KP – 15 minutes later the cars moved less than 200 metres – in that time i would have been across town and in my office about 10km away and all for a few dollars
many must not place a high value on their time
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Why shouldn't we toll all metro freeways like we ticket all metro public transport. i.e. an integrated system that reaches a capped toll on all metro freeways. The problem with the current system is we have ended up with nearly every freeway in the west of Melbourne toll free and nearly every one in the east tolled…
New facilities could be built with a mix of tolls collected on the new freeway itself and tolls collected from the whole existing system… Which also reflects the fact that everyone through taxes paid for and benifits from the existing freeways and should also contribute/benifit from the new ones.The way we are tolling roads now is saying that we want people to drive over the Westgate and on the western ring road but not through the tunnel or on Eastlink? The tolling structure of our citys freeways needs to be more equitable much like the public transport ticketing system is. Some of this revenue could also go to public transport improvements and you could effectively correlate the pricing of each system.
I think its interesting that we often impose costs on people living in the outer suburbs and having to drive to work as we see that as a choice and yet living in inner Melbourne penthouse and catching public transport to work is seen as a sacrifice worthy of subsidy.
"just as the railway line is partly funded by the ticket price, major freeways should be at least partly funded by usage fees" – aren't we paying tax on petrol? That's our contribution to their cost.
Agree with Wiz oZ and Austin M – toll ALL the freeways ! Why should they be free ? why not pay a fee just like public transport ?
Indeed in Melb at least, if all freeways were tolled at matching rates, then the current toll for the Tulla and East Link could be greatly lessened, avoiding the avoidance. If the tolls were say 20c per section, capped at $1 / day and $5 / week, then no great impost, but total amount of fees collected from the millions of trips on the south-eastern / monash / ring road etc. could generate lots of cash to pay off the ones already requiring payment, and ultimately go to improving PT in the outer burbs ! Though if it work, then the $ would go no doubt to more freeways.
I support tolling all existing urban freeways. Why stop at freeways? There are congestion problems on other arterial roads too. Why not toll the main arterial roads too?
I think start with the freeways first Tom as there is already a fairly well established structure for how it would work. I personally think arterials would be better done by a GPS based time, road, distance system which still may be a bit of a leap for current adoption.
If we had a capped tolling system on all the metro freeways it may also be worth incorporating a cordon charge (with the same cap) on the CBD into the system to help pick up affluent inner suburb trips and prevent toll avoidance/rat running through the CBD.
The logical cap for a regular vehicle to me would be a cap to match the daily fare of an adult PT ticket (including matching changes in the fare over time). Offering Yearly or Monthly passes that also match the PT ticket could also be of benefit.
You then have a system where atleast the major arteries of our transport system are paying a similar rate for daily use into a direct pool. This pool could then be spent on mostly major transport upgrades with an aim to sustained longterm revenue security for continued system improvement.
The remaining existing government money outside this system should then be reserved for the not so glamorous/economically competitive improvements like outer suburb bus improvements, tram works, fleet upgrades, cyclist provisions, pedestrian facilities, maintenance of existing roads, grade separations and arterial road improvements/upgrades. -
Boscombe, the point is that if a proposed new train line could not be expected to have at least some given percentage of the cost of building it covered by the fares of passengers using it over the next 20 years, then it probably shouldn't be built*. Likewise for proposed freeways. But without tolls there's no way of determining the "fares" drivers are willing to pay to use that particular road.
* I say probably because it's not unreasonable to make the case that a particular transport corridor may be especially expensive to provide a route for no matter what means, but could reasonably be estimated to deliver important an overall benefit to the economy in excess of the cost of building it – in such a case it would be sensible to compare the cost of building a railway line minus the likely fares collected by passengers using such a line over a 20 year period to the cost of building/maintenaining a freeway (including externalities where possible) minus the likely tolls collected by drivers using such a freeway. If the estimates for both are similar, then the decision would made on other grounds (e.g. on the grounds of what would get the most votes – which is probably just as good as way to determine it as any. Eventually voters will get lose their love affair with freeways once they can see the advantages of the alternatives).
The benefits quoted for road projects are always suspect.
We have an aversion to recognising the implications of induced travel, which quickly erode any supposed benefits. We also tend to do the economic evaluation ignoring the fact that tolls, when added later to pay for the project, will discourage use and therefore reduce the benefits.
Finally, as the marginal benefits of even more investment decline (as it inevitably must if transport is "good enough") we start dreaming up new concepts such as agglomeration economies and wider economic benefits to justify projects.
Even worse, I have heard it argued that the extra cost to preserve environmental or societal values (such as for a tunnel instead of a surface road) should also be treated as a benefit, because the higher cost project is not destroying those values – forgetting that not building the project would also not destroy the values!
Finally, tolling freeways doesn't really make sense as it discourages use of the most efficient and safest roads we have, reducing economic and amenity benefits. More general road pricing is a preferred option as it reduces the spatial distortion that tolling only one class of road introduces.
Wiz Aus – as far as I know the fares don't even cover the cost of running the trains, let alone contribute to paying off how much they cost to build.
"We have an aversion to recognising the implications of induced travel, which quickly erode any supposed benefits." That is often said, but not true. If you build another bridge or add new lanes to a freeway you can solve congestion there for years and years, and the benefits of that to the users aren't "supposed". Eventually, if you live in a fast growing city, like Perth, of course you have to keep adding more infrastructure – along with more hospitals, universities etc.
The system for tolling freeways would be extended to arterial roads. Toll gantries and signs. Simple.
Capping tolling would be counter productive because it would reduce the disincentive to drive especially for those who drive a lot. Capping tolls at a daily pt fare would compound the problem as it would not encourage 2-7 (depending on vehicle size) passenger trips.
I agree that tolling only freeways is distorting. However freeways do not use their safety on staying safer but on allowing higher speeds at the same safety. Also as people do not start and finish their travel on freeways, they create heavier traffic on other roads people use to get to the freeways.
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