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Return to PENSION PAPERS
Claim of Private or Non-Commissioned Officer for Pay for the Use and Risk of Horse
State of Tennessee, County of Monroe. On this ____ day of ___ 1881 before me Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State above named, personally appeared Richard Arden aged 45 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, declares that his residence and post office address is Madisonville in the State of Tennessee and that he is the identical Richard Arden who was a Private of Company AD@ commanded by Capt.Wm. B. Milligan in the 3d Regiment of Tenn Mt Vounteer Infty. That he volunteered at Loudon Tenn on or about the 25th day of July 1864, for the term of 100 days and was honorably discharged at Knoxville Tenn on or about the 30th day of November 1864 by reason of expiration of term of service . . . That said horse was his own private property, that he continued mounted upon said private horse, and continued to use him in the service until the 30th day of Nov 1864 when he was discharged as aforesaid.. .. He now claims pay at the then legal rates for the use and risk of said private horse from the 25 day of July 1864 when he entered the service, to the 30th day of Novembr 1864 when said horse was taken out of service by Claimant. . . .He makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining arrears of pay for the use and risk of said horse for the time aforesaid and he hereby constitutes and appoints L. M. Blackman of Madisonville, Tenn his Attorney . . . [R1-V-C-4-a]
South Division Department of the Interior Pension Office June 12, 1880
Sir The claim of G. W. Carney of K 3 Tenn Cav No. 361971 for Pension has been received and will be examined . . .
[letterhead] Department of the Interior, Pension office, Washington D. C. Oct 22nd 1883. George W. Cornley [Carney] you are informed that it has become necessary to have your claim, No. 361971 Invalid Pension determined by a special examination at Prospect, Tenn. For this purpose E T. Johnson Esq, a special examiner of this office now at Knoxville, Knox County Tenn, who will you notify you by mail, in due time, of the probable date at which he will enter upon said examination and will afford you an opportunity to be present in person or by attorney. Wm. W. Dudley. [to] Mecca, McMinn Co. Tenn
[notes on scrap of paper] Geo W. Carney, Prospect McMinn Co. Proof only partially made. The case is a good one and only requires attention to be successful. Carney is a fair man, at least he presents that appearance from his conversation, and it is understood that he will suply pay for all that is done for him. David M. Lewis knew him for years before the war and had the appearance of a stout able bodied man and had such appearance at his enlistment. Lives within 2 miles at present and been his near neighbor ever since the war; and his general appearance since and that before the war has been quite different, showing signs before of being able &c, and since of being disabled complaining the [torn]
Claimant Carney States: Nov 18, 1881
41 years of age. Resided 5 yrs prior to enlistment in the 13 Civil Dist McMinn Co. Occupation farmer. Since discharge in June 1865 has resided in same place.
Incurred disability in following manner. Was on board Sultana morning 28th Spr 1865. At time of explosion was lying asleep on the upper deck: was awakened by report of explosion & being in a dazed condition stepped off the edge of said deck & in falling struck his hip on edge of middle deck by which received injury. Managed to get hold of a plank & floated distance of some 8 miles. Was rescued by a passing boat & landed at Memphis. After landing was taken to Washington hospital at said place where he stayed about 36 hours - from thence to soldiers home in said city where he stayed 3 days - thence to Camp Chase Ohio stayed about 3 weeks when he was ordered to Nashville for muster out. Thence returned to his home. From time injury received to muster out altho lame did not aply for and received no treatment. Did not apply for [illegible] of being sent to hospital. During that period treated his own case with linement from which he received no benefits. After his return home continued to treat with linaments not feeling able to employ a physician. Has stated his case to Dr. J. L. Leonard & Dr. E. Daniels since war who told him they could afford no relief. That about 1 month ago was examined by Dr. J. E. Jerrill at Queen McMinn Co. who also stated he could not cure said hip. Has not been able to perform more that half the labor of an ordinary farm hand. Has suffered from no acute disease since discharge. Hip has pained him almost continuously since injured. G. W. Carney. [witnesses] L. T. McNapp, J.P., R. A. Ellis Clerk Co. Court. [R1-V-G]
I F. M. Jack of the County McMinn and the state of Tennessee hav bin pursonly acquainted with George W. Carney for 25 years and was musterd into U. S. Armey the same day and into same regt . . and (Co) an to the best of my knolledg he was a Sound able boded man to which he made a good and faithful Soldir for about 17 months to the best of my knolledg he never was on the Sick list at any time during his Servis and Said time he was captured and lay in Calabba prison sea for about 6 months then returned to Vicksburg Miss for exchainge then on his way North on board the Steamer Sultana She blew up and a totle reck isued to which the said George W. Carney states that he resived and injury by a fall in his left hip which he says has grone worse ever cince which ceeps him from doing manuel labor to which I beleav to be correct for in conversations with him at difirnt times he has complaind to me of his hip to which I believ his statement to be correct and true as I never heard him complain before to which this is my affadavid under oath sworn to and subscribed befor me this the 18 day of November 1881. F. M. Jack. L. T. McNabb Justice of the Peace
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John B. Hamilton, aged 47 years, member Co. H 3rd Cavy with claimant Geo W. Carney resides in 6th civil District McMinn Co. Was on Sultana with Carney - Saw him after got to land next day at Memphis - went to Hospital at Memphis and remained but short time. Afterwards but short time command was in Nashville for the purpose of being mustered out. While waiting to be discharged affiant procured a private house for Carney to stop at - being in bad health and complaining of being injured. Remained there until discharged ___ several days - Saw him afterwards and knew him all the time and been complaining of receiving injuries on Sultana - hip. Is disabled from manual labor - was stout and healthy when enlisted - knew him before and during the war.
[letterhead] Department of the Interior, Pension Office, Washington D. C., Oct 25, 1882.
[to] L. W. Blackman, Madisonville, Tenn
Sir: You will not be recognized as the Attorney of record in the Original pension claim No. 361971. George W. Carney late private of Co. AK@ 3d Tenn Cavl unless you file a power of Attorney from Claimant . . . Wm. W. Dudley.
[note on bottom] answered Nov 22d informing office that I had forward P.of Atty before receiving above letter.
[same letterhead as previous - Dec 2, 1882 - tells Blackman that he has now been recognized as attorney for Carney]
[letterhead] Department of the Interior, Pension Office. Washington D. C. Dec 20, 1882.
[mostly unreadable - water damage smeared ink. - regarding invalid pension claim of Geo W. Carney, Prospect, McMinn Co.]
State of Tenn McMinn County. Personally appeared before me R. A. Ellis Clerk of the County Court of McMinn County, James H. Knight and being duly sworn says that he was Captain of company C 2d Regt Tenn cavalry, vols. Who further says that he was personally acquainted with Geo. W. Carney a private in Co. (K) 3rd Tenn Cav. Vols. That he was Sound and able Boddied before he Enlisted and while in the Service untill the Explosion of the Sultana near Memphis on the morning of the 28th April 1865 and that the said Carney received a Severe injury in the left hip by said Explosion. He also further says that he is still acquainted with the said Carney and has been ever since up to this time and that he has been complaining of the injury Ever Since. J. (X) Knight. Attest M. L. Ellis.
[letterhead] Department of the Interior, Pension Office, Apr 19, 1884. [to] Atty L. M. Blackman, Madisonville, Tenn. Sir: You are hereby notified that a certificate No. 263069 for Original pension, has this day been issued in favor of George W. Carney whose P. O. Address is Mecca, County of McMinn State of Tenn, and that said certificate will be sent to the Pension Agent of Knoxville who will forward it . . . Rate of Pension $2 per month, commencing June 11, 1865. .. . Wm. W. Dudley.
Articles of Agreement
Whereas I (minor children) Joseph Devine late a Major of Third Regiment of Tennessee Mounted Volunteers war of the rebellion . . . for restoration and arrears. [form not complete] [R1-VII]
T. W. Tallmadge, Attorney at Law and Solicitor of [Claims] for Prosecution before Government Departments or Courts. 1423 F. Street, Washington, D. C., Oct 2, 1886. L. M. Blackman, Esq. Dear Sir: Yours of the 30 Ult at hand. If you can secure the affidavits of officers or comerads proving that Joseph Devine was killed while in line of duty I can have the claim reconsidered, but before I can do so it will be necessary to send certificate of the death of Mrs. Devine and that her children are the rightful heir. Also have them fill out the enclosed contracts and return to me when properly executed. They were minors at the time the pension was stopped otherwise nothing can be done. Yours truly T. W. Tallmadge.
Declaration for the increase of an invalid pension
State of Tennessee .. . 1869 . . . John B. Hamilton aged 55 of Nonaburg, McMinn Co., TN . . . declares that he is a pensioner of the United States duly entitled at the Knox___ Tenn Pension Agency at the rate of $4.00 per month . . by reason of disability from Rheumatism . . . incurred in the Military service of the United States while serving as a Farrier in Co. AF@ 3d Tenn Cavy. . . The disability for which his original pension was granted has greatly increased since his last medical examination. The disease has extended to both legs and both hips. He has also very severe pains in right side of head, left hip, lower part of back and left knee & heel. The Fistula for which he originally claimed pension but has received none is troubling him at times and periodically greatly disables him. That he is now totally disabled for the performance of manual labor by reason of said diseases and believes himself entitled to full pension. . . his post office address is Nonaburg, McMinn County, Tennessee. [R1-V-C-5]
letterhead] Treasury Department, Second Auditor's Office, Washington D. C. May 14, 1885. L. M. Blackman, Madisonvile Tenn. Sir: The claim for pay for use and risk of horse of John Hibberts late sergeant Co. D 3 Tenn Mtd Inf has been examined and disallowed . . As the military records of this soldier do not show that he furnished or used a private horse in the service his claim cannot be allowed. . . . O. Ferris.
Claim of Private or Non-Commissioned Officer for pay for the use and risk of horse.
State of Tennessee County of Monroe}ss
On this ___ day of ___ 1881 before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State above-named, persoanlly appeared [left blank] aged 38 years, who being duly sworn according to law declares that his residence and post office address is Madisonville in the state of Tennessee and that he is the identical Pendleton Isbell who was a private of company AD@ commanded by Capt William _ Milligan in the 3d Regiment of Tenn Mt Volunteer Infty. That he volunteered at Loudon Tenn on or about the 25th day of July 1864 for the term of 100 days and was honorably discharged at Knoxville Tenn on or about the 30th day of November 1864 by reason of expiration of term of service. . . . That said horse was his own private property; that he continued mounted upon said private horse, and continued to use him in the service until the 30th day of Nov 1864 when he was discharged as aforesaid. . . . when said horse was taken from the service by claimant . . . He now claims pay at the then legal rates for the use and risk of said private horse from the 25th day of July 1864, when he entered the service to the 30 day of November 1864 when said horse was taken from the service as aforesaid. . . He was mustered for the time for which he claims pay for use and risk of horse as aforesaid on Rolls at the following places On the 25 July 1864 at Loudon Tenn. . . and he hereby constitutes and appoints Robinson & Blackman of Madisonville Tenn his attorneys [R1-V-C-4-a]
[letterhead] Treasury Department, Second Auditor's Office, Washington D. C., Oct 10th 1883. [to] L. M. Blackman, Madisonville Tenn. Sir: Action upon the claim filed by you in this Office for arrears of pay used horse &c, as Atty in the case of Pendleton Isbell Co. D 3rd Tenn Mtd Inf is deferred until necessary information . . . shall have been obtained. .. O. Ferris, Auditor.
Department of the Interior, Pension Office, Washington D. C. April 20th 1882
Madam: In response to the personal request of Hon. L. C. Houk you are informed that your claim no. 285253 as widow of Wm. Jenkins, AC@ 3r Tenn Mtd Inf is awaiting the evidence called for by letter addressed to your attorney John C. Nelson dated April 10th 1882, to prove origin of the soldiers fatal disease, condition at discharge from the army and thereafter to date of his death with cause thereof and for better proof of marriage and of birth of the soldiers children. Very respectfully O. P. G. Cluck, Acting Commissioner.
Mrs. Minerva Jenkins Philadelphia Loudon Co. Tenn
[letterhead] Department of the Interior, Pension Office, Mch 7, 1883
[to] L. M. Blackman, Madisonville, Tenn
Sir: The claim of George H. Lambert of AA@ 3 Tenn Inf no. 473076 for Pension has been received and will be examined . . . Wm. M. Dudley Commissioner
Morganton Tennessee
Hon Commissioner of Pensions, Washington D C.
Relative to my claim no. ______ for Pension as the widow of Stephen C. Newberry late Pvt Co.@A@ 3d Tenn Infty I have to state that I desire to abandon the prosecution of the same for the reason that the Physician who attended said soldier in his last illness is unable to certify that his death was caused by the disease for which he was granted pension.
In view of this fact I only desire to collect the accrued pension due said soldier at date of his death, a claim for which I long ago preferred, and I respectfully ask that the evidence filed in both my said claims be used in support of the latter. Respectfully [unsigned]
[letterhead] Department of the Interior, Bureau of Pensions, Washington D. C. Sept 12, 1891. [claim of] John H. Norwood, E 3Tenn Mtd Inf. [claim #] 823,316. John H. Norwood, Trigonia Tenn, Sir: In the claim of John H. Norwood alleged private Co. E. 3" Tenn Mtd Inf further action can not be taken by this Bureau until his proper service shall have been furnished. The records on file in the War Department fail to show his name in connection with the service named in the application or any Co. of 3d Tenn Mts. Inf. If possible his discharge certificate should be furnished; if not the correct letter of the company, number of the regiment, names of all vessels, or designation of the organization in which service was renderd, should be given, together with the names of commanding officers and dates of enlistment and discharge; also nature of the duties performed and the correct name under which he enlisted and served. Very Respectfully, Green B. Raum.
[letterhead] Treasury Department, Second Auditor's Office, Washington D.C., Jan 11th 1884. L. M. Blackman, Madisonville, Tenn. Sir: Action upon claim filed by you in this office for arrears of pay used risk of horse &c as Attorney in the case of Andrew Rogers 3d Tenn Mtd Vols is deferred . . . O. Ferris.
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GCC equity markets, excluding Saudi Arabia, stumbled on policy changes and expect higher volatility ahead, Emirates NBD said in its latest weekly report.
The Saudi Arabian Index has moved steadily upwards (+9 percent) over the last month. Saudi M&A activity is increasing with Savola officially announcing its interest in Kuwait Foods (Americana), Arjuna Mahendran, Chief Investment Officer of the bank, said in the report.
The Saudi stock benchmark Tadawul All Share Index maintained the upward trajectory closing Sunday at 10,903.04 points or an increase of 1.57 percent from the last trading day over the weekend.
The Saudi food and retail sectors have been outperformers this year (+ 55 percent YTD) with consensus earnings growth forecast at 25 percent and 17 percent for 2014 and 2015, respectively. We like the defensive nature of the sector, with an average beta of 0.9 and would stay invested in Savola, the GCC's largest and most diversified food company.
The Qatar market briefly rallied last week in expectation of increased weightage in the MSCI Emerging Market Index (quarterly August review) but is currently pulling back. It was announced that Qatar National Bank and Industries Qatar, already up +18 percent and +10 percent respectively (from their lows in mid-2014) will have increased weightage in the MSCI indices, as their Foreign Ownership Limits have increased. However, the surprise Monday removal of a small-cap stock, Mesaieed from the MSCI EM Index stunned analysts and looks likely to raise volatility in the near term.
Flight to safety supported the bid for US treasuries with 10 year UST at 2.34 percent after touching 2.30 percent on Friday, 14th August. Over the week, 10-year UK gilts and the German bunds followed suit strengthening 16 bps and 10 bps, respectively. GCC bond and credit spreads were a tad wider given the sharp move in USD benchmark rates.
One of the most popular sukuk – Sovereign notes backed by the Ras Al Khaimah government matured ($400 million, 8 percent coupon due July 22, 2014). The month of September also awaits benchmark bond maturities from National Bank of Abu Dhabi, TAQA, ISDB (Islamic Development Bank) and Ras Laffan totaling USD 4 bn. We expect these proceeds to be reinvested, potentially tightening existing credits in the GCC space. Dubai 5 year CDS has already tightened to 160 bps.
Damac 5-year sukuk saw renewed interest over the week, after the company reported positive earnings. TAQA bonds across the curve were well supported after headline news on asset sales as well as news on their not returning to debt capital markets at least till 2017. Regional laggards such as the Investment Corporation of Dubai (sukuk), and the Emaar Malls group saw demand as investors picked up relative value in the 7 to 10 year space. The Tier 1 and Tier 2 UAE-based credits were also in popular demand.
Rising geopolitical tension and slowing global growth should not be ignored
Geopolitical events continue to dominate and volatility increased with the CBOE Volatility Index spiking. There is not much change in the Gaza standoff, the Ukraine Russia conflict and warfare continues in Iraq and Syria. Equity markets, which had begun selling off last week, took a breather with President Putin striking a conciliatory tone. Russian companies have begun feeling the impact of sanctions, with Rosneft Oil being the first to request bailout funds.
As expected, Japan's economy shrank 6.8 percent in the second quarter on the back of lower consumption, affected by a 3 percent increase in sales tax on 1st April. The German economy has contracted 0.2 percent while France remains in stagnation.
China's bank lending has slowed and additionally Chinese banks are being forced to fortify their balance sheets against an expected rise in bad loans. Investors flew to the safety of the Yen and the Swiss Franc leading to a strengthening of both the currencies.
We remain overweight on Japan as we see an increased allocation by Japan's pension fund with equities generating higher returns than the lower yielding Japanese Government bonds. We are neutral on Europe until we see trade return to normal with Russia. However, we remain cautious on markets in the short term and until we see clarity on ECB and Fed policy and an abatement of the current military conflicts.
We favor high dividend yielding equities versus high-yielding bonds
The current year was supposed to mark – according to consensus research – the first one since the Great Recession in 2008 when the US economy would reach 'escape velocity', that is a self-sustained growth path whereby the economy would not need stimulus anymore.
Actually the analysis of asset performance across the globe and latest economic data – waning investors' confidence in Germany and weak retail sales in the US –may instill doubts about the strength of global growth, although the 'escape velocity' is there.
The top performing sectors in the MSCI World – the world equity benchmark – are (year-to-date) information technology and pharma. Both sectors rely heavily on research breakthroughs and thus can easily expand for extended periods of time above GDP growth rates. They tend to outperform the rest of the market when it is difficult to find widespread growth in those pockets more directly related to the business cycle.
Economic data, although good on the surface, do not speak in favor of high-flying expansion rates yet. In all major developed economies, the US, Europe, the UK and Japan, wage growth is sluggish, so much so that inflationary pressures – another indicator of rampant growth – are non-existent.
Long term bond yields – directly linked to long-term economic growth – are quite subdued as well. US 10-year yields are stubbornly below 3 percent and in Europe Germany 10-year yields are dangerously close to 1 percent, bringing to mind recollections of what happened in Japan in the so-called 'lost decade'.
In a lower economic growth environment we think it is best to circumvent the world of low returns by investing in high dividend-yielding stocks, which tend to outperform by compensating investors with larger dividends, and by focusing on stock and equity fund selection.
On the other hand we advise clients against a plain overweight strategy in high-yielding bonds, although until recently a favorite asset class supported by the hunt for yield.
The forthcoming end of Quantitative Easing (QE) by the Fed in October, combined with overly tight spreads of junk bonds and the recent outflows recorded in this market segment, do not speak of continued outperformance versus equities.
Commodity prices remain elevated primarily on the Russia Ukraine conflict.
Palladium seems to have broken out from an important level of $890 per ounce and if it manages to sustain these levels we could see new highs.© Copyright - Saudi Gazette

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I ran breathlessly through the empty concourses under the stands like Dustin Hoffman in The Marathon Man. I hadn't signed up for this shit. What kind of lunatic brings his pregnant wife – one who is ready to pop at any moment – to a stadium show? I spotted a paramedics station and minutes later we were back. I smirked proudly at the elderly smart-ass, until the paramedic turned to me and said, "We need your help to get her out. Grab one end of the stretcher." Oh really? Just two emergency personnel for 12,000 people?
I had never gone down a flight of stairs that gingerly in my life. I was on the verge of panic myself: "Don't let me drop her…please…please…please." The Rat Pack were holding court out in the middle of the arena - a live orchestra (conducted by Sinatra's son) was wailing away - and the crowd was screaming as I edged down those endless steps. I needed oxygen when we made it out. The husband gave me a bear-hug (and sent a thank you note later). AC/DC played the following week.
Cock-rock was all the rage on MTV then, but I wasn't even remotely arsed about Poison, Mötley Crüe, Def Leppard, Bon Jovi or Whitesnake. My tastes and opinions were too hardened (courtesy of those procurers back in India) by the time I arrived in America. Hardened enough to get into violent arguments and bar fights with American friends:
"Yes, Phil Collins is an idiot who has ruined Genesis…just like Ronnie James Dio with Black Sabbath…Eddie Van Halen is a severely over-rated guitarist and Stevie Ray Vaughan can kick his ass in his sleep…The Eagles are just a mediocre band, driven only by Don Henley's insecurities and need to prove himself…Neil Peart is not human…Metallica have sold out to crass commercialization…Page and Plant are cheap assholes for trying to brazenly rip-off blues artists like Willie Dixon…Duran Duran are just a bunch of wannabe porn-stars…and no, I will not take sides in the Roger Waters vs. David Gilmour debate."
The only thing that shut me up was when they started discussing and comparing concerts they had been to. The longing and obsession to see live concerts was still intense. The usher's gig had finally let the monkey into the mango orchard. Then the sudden realization that there was more fruit to be picked – and right outside my university.
The jolt came one early morning with a full page advertisement in the Arizona Republic announcing the local stop on Roger Waters' American tour. My reaction was speechlessness and a faint feeling of disbelief that this had to be a dream. The nagging anxiety persisted up to the moment when the stadium lights dimmed to the ominous strains of Welcome to the Machine as my eyes misted over, blurring Gerald Scarfe's animated beast thundering out from the projection screen.
Somebody up above must have attended engineering school too, for Jethro Tull followed right in Waters' wake. The chill in the air that night reduced a hilariously garrulous Ian Anderson's voice to a croak, forcing him to blast through the last hour of the show as instrumentals. And you could only thank your good fortune as they ripped into extended versions of Cross-eyed Mary and Locomotive Breath. And I was the proud owner of my first tour shirt that night!
A lot has changed since my Ph.D. days. It seems like it was yesterday that I walked into a Tower Records in Tempe, Arizona and felt like the desperate Viggo Mortensen in The Road stumbling upon a bunker full of food supplies in the middle of a barren landscape; felt like Adrian Brody in The Pianist holding onto a precious tin of fruit when fingering the magical artwork of a vinyl copy of Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti.
My musical tastes began to evolve and undergo radical changes. That which was brewing when boarding a flight to the USA from India grew into an obsession with Chicago and Mississippi Delta blues. At some point I stumbled upon Alan Lomax and a lot changed. New Orleans jazz, funk, Brooklyn punk and more edgier music also took over. Mammoth arena concerts took a backseat to smaller venues, clubs and more intimate shows. I began to feel more at home at Tipitinas and Kingston Mines.
But the expulsion of the pent up desperation of those days made me a slave to the live performance. New releases still bring forth an immediate conjuring of the possibilities of live versions of a song. I'm always searching for the epiphany when things fall into place and the moment is lived in the hands of the creators of the music.
Yes, those days did a number on the mind. And left behind a collage of indelible moments that still tingles the spine:
…Carlos Santana, days after Nelson Mandela's release from prison, walking up to the microphone: "This one's for you Mandela," and proceeding to play a gorgeous twenty minute solo to start the concert.
…Sun Devil stadium in Tempe, shivering with a high fever in the Arizona heat as 80,000 voices sang every line of every song along with Paul McCartney for two hours.
…Peter Gabriel's excruciatingly beautiful versions of Solsbury Hill and Games Without Frontiers that were so beautiful I can't bring myself to hear the album versions any more.
...trying to muscle in through mobs and running through pitch darkness into the stadium just as Richard Wright's keyboard and David Gilmour's exquisite guitar strains opened up with Shine On You Crazy Diamond (and arguing with my brother, the usher, that I had no intentions of moving and finding my seat till the song was over).
…battling a hangover on the flight back and studying for a final exam after being talked into flying to Detroit for twenty four hours by a mate to see the Rolling Stones at the Pontiac Silverdome.
…Bob Dylan, alone on stage with a spotlight on him, strumming to Blowin' in the Wind. A night when my room-mate (another deprivation survivor from India) and I drove straight from the show to a record store and bought up the entire Dylan catalog on CD.
Nowadays, it is a world of stifling abundance and Google is the only procurer you need to befriend. But some scars never heal, some itches can never be scratched enough. Even after a zillion shows that familiar panic still sets in when browsing a local rag and happening upon a concert advertisement. Sucks you right in and without thinking you are back in line again, lest you miss out on a once-in-a-lifetime gig.
Roger Waters wants to tear down The Wall and you show up to see it demolished. Steely Dan want to preach the gospel of the Bodhisattva and you turn pious all over again. Rush, your brothers from Toronto, invite you over for the evening. Surely you're not going to decline that? And you have no choice but to show up for Motörhead, just to yell back in the affirmative when Lemmy asks, "Oi, you alright?"
It had been threatening rain all day in Toronto and it came in sheets as we entered the amphitheater. Being right next to the grey and frothing lake lashed by lightning made the situation more desperate. It was twilight and it wasn't looking promising.
Just as they took the stage - miraculously - the skies parted. The sun was dipping under the skyline and we stood gawking at a perfect rainbow suspended over the crowd.
Every Radiohead show has reduced my brain to pulp; knocked the stuffing right out. Made me swear to myself that I would not soil its memory by attending another concert ever in my life.
The hypnotic and gorgeous end to their "In Rainbows" show – as Thom and gang disappeared one by one, leaving behind just dazzling tubes of light on stage flashing to the throbbing refrain of "Everything in its Right Place", reducing us to rapturous agony.
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I have curly hair and a high forehead, I'm not sure which one is better for me, hairline lowering or hair transplant, thanks for the replies.
Hairline Lowering or Hair Transplants? Which One is Better for Me? (photo)
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Hair Transplant or Hairline Lowering
I have found that usually hair transplant is better because it avoids the scarring of an excisional procedure such as lowering the forehead. Occasionally when you try to surgically lower the forehead there is recurrance because of stretch back of the skin.
A transplant will be superior based on the photos. "Hairline lowering" will cause a permanent scar that would look bad should hair loss be ongoing; I think it would be a mistake.
If you are a genetic male, hair line lowering surgery can expose the scar if your hair recedes.
If you are female, the incision will still be there but the risk of genetic male pattern balding is not there.
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Hairline Lowering or Hair Transplants
It is very nice that you sent pictures. Pictures of your entire face would be helpful but a consult would be best to examine you. Particularly the length of your forehead if shortening is to be considered and the density of your donor area if hair transplants are to be considered. Also, the inclination of which treatment would be appropriate would have to consider your gender as indicated by Dr. Kabaker.
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Hairline Lowering vs Hair Transplants
I assume you are a young male. If there is evidence that hair loss will progress I wound not do hairline lowering because you will ultimately lose the hair that is moved down lower on your forehead. Hair transplants or the Fleming Mayer Flap would be a better procedure. Schedule a consult with a physician who does all hair replacement procedures.
Hairline lowering
There is no question in my mind and experience that the hairline lowering operation is the superior choice unless the scalp has no laxity. This operation gives the most density and a near instantaneous result when compared to hair transplants. The scar is usually less undetectable than the appearance of a hair transplant result. If you are male, with a balding pattern, the opposite would apply.
Hairline lowering
Based on the photos you have included in your question, it is nearly impossible to make a recommendation to you. Your next step is to make an in-person consultation with an experienced hair transplant surgeon. At that time, you can discuss hairline design, goals, look at pre- and post- operative photos, and go over all of your medical/surgical options. This is the only way you can get a treatment plan that is right for you. Best of luck to you. Dr. P
Hair Transplant versus Hairline Lowering
This depends on if you have pattern baldness or were just born with a large forehead, or both. I am an advocate of the FUE method of hair transplant in either case, but especially for those with pattern baldness. The scarring result with follicular unit extraction hair transplant is visually negligible, the result is incredibly natural looking, and the surgery is minimally invasive (no staples or stitches). Of course, it's critical to find an experienced surgeon in order to get the best outcome possible.
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I suggest talking to your doctor because a lot depends on the pill you're taking.
You can be off the pill and be careful so you don't get pregnant right away and start ttc when you're ready. As far as I know getting pregnant next month after you stop taking the pill might be a bit stressful for your body.Girls: Neva, Hope, Katherine, Harlow, Vivienne, Florence, Grace, Nalha, Primrose, Arabella, Isla.
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It may take a few months to get pregnant, it may happen right away, but don't go off the pill without using other BC methods if you aren't ready to get pregnant right away. If you want to go off the pill before you want to TTC, just use other methods until you are able to say "yes I would be happy if I got pregnant this month." That's the best idea I think, but whatever makes you feel the most comfortable is what you should do.Apollo Allan (12-9-14)
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I was taking Alesse because I'm small & my body is very sensitive to hormones (Alesse has a lower dose than a lot of other pills), anyway I came off the pill at the beginning of October 2011, and intended to start TTC in January 2012... Instead, I got pregnant within just a few days of coming off the pill. I had some bleeding after that but I think it was implantation bleeding rather than an actual period.
I might be just one of those SUPER fertile people though. With this baby I got pregnant while breastfeeding which is fairly unusual.
You could always come off the pill & just use condoms or try not to have sex near ovulation for a few months - that way your body can "detox" from the pill but you can be sure you won't get pregnant earlier than you plan.New username is @ truenature
October 20th, 2013 06:25 PM #12
Got pregnant with #4 right after going off the pill (I think it was Lutera) but I am one of those obnoxious "fertile Myrtle" types (knock on wood). My husband had recently had his vasectomy reversed, too, so we were very fortunate.
I think gemmav had good advice; just go off it now if you'd like your hormones to re-calibrate, and use barrier methods until you're really ready.
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Going to echo everyone else. BC was a nightmare for me, so I'd give yourself a few months to reset your hormones and look into barrier methods until you're ready. Chart your cycle while you're waiting to get a better sense of your cycle without pills. Like everyone said, it could take several months to get pregnant.Zoe Milena and Lucas Emmanuel


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Soccer News of Monday, 26 November 2012
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Ghana Striker Emmanuel Clottey on Sunday scored his debut goal for new club Esperance Sportive de Tunis in the 2012/13 Tunisia Ligue 1 third Group A league fixture at home to Olympique du Kef.
The former Berekum Chelsea top scorer got on the score sheet with the second goal in Esperance's 3-0 thrashing of Olympique du Kef at the Stade El Menzah.
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Published: November 11th, 2008 | Tags: Green Bay Packers, Mason Crosby, San Francisco 49ers
One play, one simple play, often determines whether coaches, players and organizations endure a week of praise or criticism.
If Packers kicker Mason Crosby nails the 52-yard, game-winning field goal attempt he missed Sunday against the Vikings, then Green Bay coach Mike McCarthy is applauded for leading his team into Minnesota and showing the necessary grit to win in one of the NFL's toughest venues.
Instead, McCarthy is grilled for his play calling at his Monday press conference and his team is not criticized for falling another game back in the NFC North.
If 49ers running back Frank Gore is not grazed on his back before he slips and falls in the closing seconds of Monday night's game, then San Francisco coach Mike Singeltary is saluted for rallying his team and winning a game nobody outside his organzation thought it could.
Instead, Singletary is questioned about the final play calls and 49ers offensive coordinator Mike Martz is blamed for making the run-play call that never found a cavity but did hit a nerve.
It has always been this way in football, it always will be. The Buffalo Bills are the greatest losers, instead of remarkable champions for one slightly off-line kick.
Tones for weeks and ages often are established from one play. Those in the game know it's no grand revelation, but it is a tremendous fascination. One play can make or break coaches, teams and organizations.


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Urban Transportation Development Corporation
The Urban Transportation Development Corporation Ltd. (UTDC) was a Crown corporation owned by the Government of Ontario, Canada. It was created in the 1970s as a way to enter what was then expected to be a burgeoning market in advanced light rail mass transit systems.[1] UTDC built a respected team of engineers and project managers. It developed significant expertise in linear propulsion, steerable trucks and driverless system controls which were integrated into a transit system known as the Intermediate Capacity Transit System (ICTS). It was designed to provide service at rider levels between a traditional subway on the upper end and buses and streetcars on the lower, filling a niche aimed at suburbs that were otherwise expensive to service.
Urban Transportation Development Corporation Ltd. was a holding company. During its time it held several wholly owned subsidiary companies:
- Metro Canada Ltd. was established as the contracting, delivery and operating company for system sales.
- UTDC USA Inc. was a marketing company located in Detroit.
- UTDC Services Inc. provided transit service consulting to international clients and worked very closely with the experts from the TTC.
- UTDC Research and Development Ltd. was formed to support the continuing improvement of the group's base technology, and to repurpose it and apply it to different, non-transit markets. Buses that ran on rails, materials handling systems, steerable trucks for freight rail cars and extruded tunnel lining systems were some of the products researched.
The Services and R&D companies were merged in the mid-1980s to form Transportation Technology Ltd.
The Intermediate Capacity Transit System (ICTS) was sold into three markets: the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) for its Scarborough RT line, Detroit's Detroit People Mover, and Vancouver's SkyTrain system.
Further sales proved more difficult than had been hoped, but in the early 1980s, Hawker Siddeley Canada joined forces with UTDC in order to win a number of contracts with the TTC and Ontario's GO Transit commuter network. They formed a joint operating company at their Canadian Car and Foundry (CC&F) factories in Thunder Bay and Kingston, Ontario: Can-Car Rail built heavy-rail passenger cars, subway cars, streetcars and other vehicles. Now armed with a complete portfolio from light to heavy rail, UTDC had a number of additional successes in North America, and became a major vendor in the mass transit market. It was privatized in the 1980s, when it was purchased by Lavalin of Quebec. The UTDC factories in Kingston and Thunder Bay continue to produce rapid transit systems for use in Ontario and abroad.
- 1 History
- 2 UTDC products
- 3 Major clients
- 4 References
- 5 External links
Toronto grew extensively during the 1960s and 1970s, and like many cities in North America, most of this growth was in the suburbs. In order to move workers to and from the business and industrial areas in the city centre, an extensive series of expressways was planned, and made its way into the city's Official Plan in 1966. As work on the new highways started, a wave of public protest followed as many houses, and in some cases entire neighbourhoods, were bulldozed to make way. The work became increasingly opposed in Toronto, especially after the cause was taken up by famous urban commentator, Jane Jacobs.[2]
In 1971 Bill Davis won the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership contest, replacing long-serving John Robarts as the official party leader and Premier of Ontario. Shortly after taking power, on 3 June Davis announced that he was cancelling provincial support for the highly controversial Spadina Expressway in Toronto, rising in the legislature and stating that "Cities were built for people and not cars. If we are building a transportation system to serve the automobile, the Spadina Expressway would be a good place to start. But if we are building a transportation system to serve people, the Spadina Expressway is a good place to stop."[2]
Davis felt that the future of urban transit lay not in the automobile, but mass rapid transit systems. In keeping with this, the street portion of the Spadina Expressway was cancelled in 1971, but full funding remained for the Spadina subway line that shared the same right-of-way.[2] However, subways were suitable only for high-density routes that could afford to pay for their expensive construction and operation. In 1980 this was estimated to be between $75 and $80 million a mile.[3] The TTC suggested that all of the high-density routes suitable for subways were already being served.
The other vehicles in use with the TTC, buses and streetcars, would not be able to provide rapid transit unless they were given a separate right-of-way. This expense is easy to justify in the case of a subway with its large passenger capacity, but for a system like a bus the capital costs overwhelm the passenger numbers these systems could carry. What was needed was a new system that reduced the capital costs to be able to efficiently serve low-density routes in the suburbs, a system with flexible sizing somewhere between a small subway and large streetcar, an "intermediate" sized system.
Work on an Intermediate Capacity Transit System (ICTS) had already started in 1970.[4] Several consulting firms were asked to provide separate feasibility reports with outlines of a basic system. At the time, new urban transit systems were a field of active research across North America due to U.S. federal funding under the Urban Mass Transportation Administration's (UMTA) plans to roll out new systems in cities across the country. UMTA was convinced that urban rail systems would only be able to compete with cars if they had more car-like capabilities, and they were primarily interested in the personal rapid transit (PRT) concept of automated car-like cabs that would pick up and drop off passengers as individual units and then link up into longer trains for travel at high speed between stations.[5] A number of companies in the U.S. were in the process of developing systems for the UMTA, and many of these companies submitted a proposal for the ICTS project.
It was with the formation of the new Ministry of Transportation and Communications in May 1972 that serious development of the ICTS started. On 22 November the new policy was announced.[4] The Davis government proposed a new rail network known as "GO-Urban" that would operate three routes in the Toronto area under the auspices of the recently created GO Transit, and asked for submissions for ICTS vehicles to serve the routes. Fourteen designs were studied, but whittled down to eight formal proposals. Some were PRT systems, while others were more traditional subway-like systems. Three of the eight ran on rubber wheels, four were air cushion vehicles (hovercrafts) including a version of the French Aérotrain, while the German firm Krauss-Maffei entered its Transurban system, a smaller version of its Transrapid magnetically levitated train (maglev).
The space age maglev system immediately won the interest of the Davis government, and in the Phase II proposals they selected it for further study, along with the Ford ACT and Hawker Siddeley's entry, both of which used rubber tires. Ford withdrew when the ICTS varied too greatly from the system it wanted to develop, which was aimed primarily at sites in the U.S.[6] With only Hawker Siddeley and Krauss-Maffei remaining, the 1 May 1973 announcement that the Krauss-Maffei design had won the contest was unsurprising.[7]
In November 1974 Krauss-Maffei announced that it was forced to withdraw from the project. The West German government had been funding development of several maglev systems based on different technologies, and decided at that time that Krauss-Maffei's system was less interesting than ones from Thyssen-Henschel and Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm.[8] There were also technical problems; in testing, the complex systems needed to switch trains on the magnetic tracks froze up, and would require a re-design.[7] With Krauss-Maffei's financial support gone, and daunting technical problems remaining to be solved, the maglev project died. A test track being constructed on the grounds of the Canadian National Exhibition was abandoned in place, with the foundations and a few support pillars already constructed. Krauss-Maffei continued development of the original inter-city Transrapid, but at a very slow pace and through a series of mergers with other companies involved in maglev technology. The first Transrapid system did not enter service until 30 years later.[9]
On 14 April 1975 the Ministry of Transportation arranged financing for Phase I and II studies to develop a new system to replace the maglev. In June 1975 the Ontario Transportation Development Corporation (OTDC) announced that it had arranged a consortium to continue the development of the ICTS, changing its name to "Urban Transportation Development Corporation" to avoid any "provinciality" during its efforts to market what would now be an entirely local design to other cities.[10] The consortium consisted of SPAR Aerospace for the linear induction motor, Standard Elektrik Lorenz's "SelTrac IS" system for the automatic control system, Dofasco for an articulated bogie system, Alcan for the design of the car bodies and a set of prototypes, and Canadair for assembly and production.[11]
A Transit Development Centre for UTDC was built on a 480-acre (1.9 km2) site in Millhaven, outside of Kingston, Ontario. Kingston had been home to the Canadian Locomotive Company that closed its doors in 1969, and the city lobbied hard for the new company to locate there. It was officially opened on 29 September 1978 by James Snow, the Minister of Transportation and Communications. The site included a 1.9 km oval test track that included at-grade, elevated and ramped sections, switches, and the automatic control centre.[12] Phase III of the ICTS program ended on 31 January 1980 when testing on the prototype was completed at the Millhaven site; by this point the government had invested about $57.2 million, of a total $63 million spent on the product by the government and its industrial partners.[13]
Looking for a site in Ontario to serve as a test bed for the ICTS, the government focused on an extension of the eastern end of TTC's Bloor–Danforth line. The TTC had already started building a streetcar line that would extend from the end of the subway at Kennedy station to the Scarborough City Centre, a low-density route passing through industrial land. The TTC was not interested in changing to the ICTS for this route, until the Ontario government, which provided about 80% of the capital costs, stepped in and demanded the ICTS be used. A smaller system in Hamilton was also considered, and there was a brief study for a similar system in Ottawa.[3] Vancouver was interested in the system as part of the Expo 86 buildout in keeping with the theme, "Transportation and Communication".[3] Although the UMTA program in the U.S. was "de-funded" that year, Detroit pressed ahead with its plans and signed up in August. Hamilton, Ottawa, Miami, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. were also in talks with UTDC.[14] With three customers lined up, a manufacturing plant was added to the Millhaven site, VentureTrans Manufacturing, which opened in 1982.
In 1982 UTDC also entered a design to offer rail service to the suburbs east of Toronto, a system known as GO ALRT. ALRT was based on the ICTS technology, but used a longer car about the size of a conventional railway passenger car, and replaced the third rail power with an overhead pantograph. Given the larger sized cars that made mechanical placements easier, conventional motors replaced the linear motor in order to reduce capital costs (the linear motor requires an aluminum "fourth rail" for the entire line). However, due to changes in the laws governing the operation of GO trains on the freight railways they ran on, GO was able to improve its schedules without having to build any new infrastructure. ALRT was cancelled in 1985 in favour of conventional heavy rail technology.[15] UTDC later played an important part in this build-out in spite of these changes, and GO eventually built its own twin-track line to Oshawa. Construction of the exclusive guideway had already begun in the early 1980s for GO ALRT, which was then modified shortly after to allow for conventional GO Train service. Work on the exclusive track from Pickering to Whitby was completed in 1988, followed by an extension to Oshawa in 1995 with limited service, which was shortly after pushed back up to all day two-way service, allowing for further expansion of Lakeshore East GO train service.
Construction of the Toronto and Vancouver systems proceeded apace, with the Scarborough RT opening for service on 22 March 1985,[16] followed by the Vancouver SkyTrain on 11 December 1985, where passenger service started in January 1986.[17] The systems suffered from serious teething problems; snow froze to the third rail which required the Scarborough RT system to be fitted with protective covers. The braking system was too powerful and caused the wheels to rub flat in spots, which led to noisy running, the opposite of the design goal. Bugs in the automatic control software led to a number of problems with doors that would not open, "phantom cars" that would appear mid-line and cause the collision avoidance systems to turn on and freeze trains in place in spite of having a driver. A host of other problems seriously delayed scheduled operations. In Toronto, the Scarborough RT became a subject of ridicule, often closing in heavy snows.[18] Most of the problems with the Toronto and Vancouver systems were worked out by the time the Detroit People Mover opened in July 1987.
In the early 1980s, the UTDC was involved in the planning of a new light railway in the northwest New Territories, Hong Kong. The corporation was engaged under a bid by Kowloon Wharf to build and operate the system. After Kowloon Wharf pulled out of the project in 1983, citing concerns over the slow pace of development in Tuen Mun New Town, UTDC was among several companies that expressed interest in building the railway, but not in operating it.[19] The Light Rail Transit was eventually built by the Kowloon–Canton Railway Corporation and opened in 1988.
Can-Car Rail[edit]
Starting in 1972, the TTC contracted Hawker Siddeley Canada to design a new streetcar known as the "Municipal Surface Car". However, the Government of Ontario had formed the OTDC in the early 1970s, and provided the TTC 75% of its capital funding. The government then demanded that the TTC turn to OTDC for new vehicles.[20]
In August 1973 the TTC placed an order with the OTDC for 200 new Canadian Light Rail Vehicles (CLRV). The design was purchased from the Swiss company Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft (SIG). SIG was contracted to build the first 10 before turning over construction to OTDC, subcontracted at Hawker Siddeley's CC&F factory in Thunder Bay. The prototype run was cut to six, in order to allow four to be converted into an articulated design, the Articulated Light Rail Vehicle (ALRV).[21] UTDC unveiled the ALRV at a June 18–19, 1982 open house at its Transit Development Centre, which over 10,000 people attended.
In March 1983 Hawker Siddeley Canada sold a portion of its CC&F factory in Thunder Bay to the UTDC, creating the jointly owned Can-Car Rail. Hawker Siddeley had already developed a number of rail vehicles, and with its partnership with UTDC these became the favoured products for a number of contracts in Ontario. In addition to the ICTS, UTDC now had a product portfolio that spanned everything from streetcars to subways to traditional heavy rail passenger cars and hoppers.
Continued successes[edit]
In December 1983 the TTC announced that it was buying 126 subway cars from UTDC, and followed this in February 1984 with an order for 52 ALRVs. The subway cars were built at Can-Car, but after the first ten ALRVs, streetcar production moved to the Millhaven plants which were winding down their ICTS production.
A further run of a modified double-ended ALRVs followed for the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, and then a run of 58 subway cars for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority in Boston. These were the first of many such orders, and hundreds of subway cars were delivered to various U.S. transport services over the next two decades.
Since the early 1970s, Hawker Siddeley had been designing a new two-level railcar for GO Transit, which they started delivering in 1976 as the BiLevel. GO continued placing additional orders, eventually buying 470 for their service in southern Ontario, where the BiLevel is widely associated with GO.
When downsizing hit GO in the early 1990s, a number of these coaches were leased out to various operators in Canada and the US. They were received to rave reviews, and quickly generated orders from operators across North America. Several hundred additional BiLevel cars were built, and over 700 remain in service.[when?]
UTDC's Can-Car also produced a number of other products for sales to the Canadian Forces, including versions of the Volkswagen Iltis, the medium-sized M35 2-1/2 ton cargo truck and the larger Steyr Percheron.[22]
Sale to Lavalin[edit]
As early as 1981 the Government of Ontario had considered selling UTDC to the private sector. The government's concern was that without a manufacturing business, UTDC would find it difficult to make enough income to justify its Kingston operations. If the company did start a manufacturing side, it would be inappropriate for the company to remain government owned.[14]
In 1986 the new Ontario government announced its intention to sell UTDC to Lavalin, a large engineering company in Montreal. Lavalin purchased the company for CAD$50 million, less than the $70 million spent on the UTDC by the government up to 1981.[14] The sale was very controversial at the time: $39 million of several non-performance payments had to be made because of the early problems on the ICTS that had to be paid out by the government. Soon after, Hawker Siddeley announced that it was selling its remaining interest in CC&F to Lavalin as well.
This was during a period of rapid conglomeration by Lavalin, which included purchases of the Bellechasse Hospital in Montreal, MétéoMédia's television services, and many other businesses that were unrelated to its core engineering strengths. By the early 1990s this aggressive expansion plan led to a massive debt load and serious financial difficulties. In 1991, Lavalin's bankers put it under pressure to be acquired by its chief rival, SNC. Lavalin announced its intent to sell its stake in UTDC, and several companies expressed an interest, including Asea Brown Boveri and Westinghouse.[23] Before this was completed, the company went bankrupt.
Sale to Bombardier Transportation[edit]
As part of the proceedings, UTDC was returned to the Ontario government, who quickly sold it to Bombardier in 1991.[24] SNC purchased the engineering portions of the company and became SNC-Lavalin, while most other business were sold to other firms.
Bombardier quickly re-branded the UTDC products under its growing Bombardier Transportation marque. Bombardier Transportation is the company's railway equipment division, started in 1970 with its purchase of Rotax, which made engines used in Bombardier's snowmobiles, and made trams. Now in the train business, in 1975 it added the Montreal Locomotive Works and its LRC high-speed train design. Although the LRC was never the success Bombardier hoped, the company continued to buy other rail companies in North America and Europe, dramatically expanding division until it became the largest supplier of rail equipment in the world with its purchase of ADtranz in 2001.[25]
Bombardier was much more aggressive in marketing the UTDC product line than either the government or Lavalin had been, especially the ICTS. Bombardier re-designed the cars, expanding the passenger capacity and updating their look, re-introducing the product as the Bombardier Advanced Rapid Transit (ART). ART won the contest for the AirTrain JFK project, which is widely considered a great success in spite of predictions to the contrary.[citation needed]
After winning SkyTrain, Bombardier further improved the design by introducing an articulating section between adjacent cars, replacing the coupling and doors of the older (retroactively named) Mark I design. The articulation allows passengers to move freely between the cars, and adds more internal space for passenger seating. These versions of the Mk II design have won several new contests, and are operating on the Kelana Jaya Line in Kuala Lumpur, the Airport Express in Beijing (in four-car trains), and on the EverLine outside of Seoul.
Vancouver continues to be the largest operator of the ICTS system, with 49.5 km of operational lines. The SkyTrain system uses a mix of Mk I and Mk II trains.
Bombardier also continues to win sales with its other light rail vehicles, including a major expansion of the TTC's network using a derivative of the Flexity platform, which is being built at the CC&F plants.[26]
UTDC products[edit]
Mass transit[edit]
- H6 subway cars (Toronto Transit Commission), modified version also used by Ankara Metro
- #3 (01700 series) subway cars (Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority) for the Red Line
Light rail[edit]
- ICTS Mark I; 2, 4 or 6 car working model (Toronto Transit Commission, TransLink (British Columbia), Detroit People Mover)
- ICTS Mark I Test Vehicles; lead car and trailer (UTDC Test Centre)
- ICTS Mark II Clearance Test; 1 working car (BC Transit/TransLink)
- CLRV L2 (Toronto Transit Commission)
- ALRV L3 (Toronto Transit Commission)
- Santa Clara VTA Light-rail Cars (Santa Clara VTA, now in secondhand use in Sacramento and Salt Lake City) - Double-ended articulated variant of the ALRV L3 cars; some cars sold to TRAX and Sacramento Regional Transit District (used by Sacramento RT Light Rail)
Heavy rail[edit]
- Bi-Level III and IV coaches - originally developed by Hawker Siddeley Canada - GO Transit, Altamont Commuter Express and various other North American operators
- GO ALRT, a lengthened and articulated version of the ICTS (prototype only).
Military and other[edit]
- UTDC 24M32 - HLVW military trucks based on the Steyr 91 (Percheron)
- MLVW military trucks based on the M35 2-1/2 ton cargo truck
- Volkswagen Iltis scout car
- Multi-Purpose Small Bus, a handicap transit vehicle developed with Rek-Vee Industries in Scarborough and FunCraft Vehicles in Cambridge
Major clients[edit]
- Canadian Forces
- Toronto Transit Commission
- GO Transit
- Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority
- Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
- Vancouver SkyTrain
- Detroit People Mover
- ^ Chris Bateman (2014-08-19). "The story of the last new streetcar launch in Toronto". BlogTO. Archived from the original on 2014-08-21. Retrieved 2014-08-20.
The decision to keep the city's streetcars wasn't a simple one. The TTC's Presidents' Conference Committee streetcars were in urgent need of replacement, but no successor was in development. As a result, the province established the Ontario Transportation Development Corporation (later re-named Urban Transportation Development Corporation, UTDC for short) to design a new light rail vehicle it could sell to Toronto and, it hoped, other cities.
- ^ a b c Sewell
- ^ a b c Litvak & Maule, pg. 104 - the first mention puts it at $80 million, but the very next page puts it at $75
- ^ a b Litvak & Maule, pg. 72
- ^ Ken Avidor, "A Brief History of Personal Rapid Transit in Minnesota", Minnesota2020
- ^ Litvak & Maule, pg. 75
- ^ a b Filey, pg. 39
- ^ "1934 - 1977 From the idea to the system decision", Transrapid International
- ^ Harald Maas, "Schanghai stutzt den Transrapid", Tagesspiegel, 1 February 2008
- ^ Litvak & Maule, pg. 93
- ^ Litvak & Maule, pg. 99
- ^ James Bow, "UTDC Kingston Transit Development Centre", Transit Toronto
- ^ Litvak & Maule, pg. 103
- ^ a b c Litvak & Maule, pg. 105
- ^ Peter Drost, "The GO-ALRT Program", Transit Toronto, 10 November 2006
- ^ "TTC Rapid Transit and Streetcar Official Opening Dates", TTC
- ^ Heather Conn, "On track: the SkyTrain story", B.C. Transit, 1996
- ^ "Scarborough RT back in service", Toronto Star, 18 January 2009
- ^ Chugani, Michael (22 January 1983). "Tuen Mun light rail system will still be built" (PDF). South China Morning Post. Retrieved 6 November 2014.
- ^ "PURCHASE OF TTC VEHICLES", Hansard, 24 May 1983
- ^ Ray Corley, "CLRV: Canadian Light Rail Vehicle", The Toronto Transit Commission, October 1996
- ^ "HLVW: Heavy utility truck". Military-Today.com. Andrius Genys (ARG). Retrieved 2014-05-22.
- ^ "UTDC for sale", Northern Ontario Business, June 1991
- ^ "Hon Ms Wark-Martyn", Hansard (HIGHWAY TRAFFIC AMENDMENT ACT (FIREFIGHTERS)), 7 December 1994, pg. 2330
- ^ Philip Hopkins, "Rail industry spooked by international suppliers", The Age, 19 February 2007
- ^ "Toronto picks Flexity Outlook", Railway Gazette International, 27 April 2009
- Isaiah Litvak and Christopher Maule, "The Light-Rapid Comfortable (LRC) Train and the Intermediate Capacity Transit System (ICTS): Two Case Studies of Innovation in the Urban Transportation Equipment Manufacturing Industry", University of Toronto/York University Joint Program in Transportation, 1982
- John Sewell, "The Shape of the Suburbs", University of Toronto Press, 2009, ISBN 0-8020-9587-9
- Jüri Pill, "Planning and Politics", MIT Press, 1979, ISBN 0-262-16073-0
- Mike Filey, "Toronto Sketches 5: The Way We Were", Dundurn Press, 1997, ISBN 1-55002-292-X, pg. 38-40
- R. C. Baker, "The Intermediate Capacity Transportation System for Toronto", Transportation Planning and Technology, Volume 4 (1972)
Further reading[edit]
- William Middleton, "Metropolitan railways: Rapid Transit in America", Indiana University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-253-34179-5
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Urban Transportation Development Corporation.
- James Bow, "The Scarborough Rapid Transit Line", Transit Toronto


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He knew he needed his own standout, Brandi Dawson, to lock down Young defensively if Garrett were to win its first sectional title since 2011.
"I said 'There's the key and you got her,'" Lapadot said after the win. "'Now are we going to win or lose?'"
Dawson scored 16 points – 13 in the second half – to lead Garrett to a 49-39 victory on the Railroaders' home floor. She also took care of defending Young by limiting her to eight points.
"He talked to me about (Young) and was really hard about it." Dawson said. "I knew that I had to play as hard as I could and do everything I can. And I did."
Heading into the sectional round, No. 3 Garrett (23-0) heard the criticism that it played a weak schedule and more experienced teams could get to them. The team ignored that criticism and quieted the critics after stopping a Cadets offense that was averaging 54 points a game.
No. 5 Concordia (19-4) had its only lead come after the opening basket by Young. Garrett sophomore Rachel DePew responded with a 3-pointer to take a 3-2 lead.
The Railroaders never lead by more than five points through three quarters, but the Cadets couldn't get the run it needed to take a lead and the game. Concordia's offense never got into a rhythm, which started with the struggling Young and senior forward Courtney Smith.
Smith scored nine points in the game, but seven points from the foul line.
"They pack in their defense and did a nice job," Cadet coach David Miller explained. "And we didn't make shots. We had opportunities and nothing went in."
Garrett pulled away midway through the fourth quarter as it was able to convert its foul shots. The combination of Dawson, guard Emily Somers, and guard Kaitlin Wisel drained 16 of 20 foul shots in the final quarter to build a late double-digit lead to ice the game.
"To hold them to 39 points, with the athletes they have, and the fact they've been there," Lapadot said. "I told them with about four minutes to go, 'Here's where you're going to prove your naysayers right or wrong.'"
Wisel scored 15 points in the game, while Somers added seven.
The sectional championship is Garrett's first since 2011 and first in class 3A. More importantly, the win keeps Garrett's unbeaten season alive for at least another week.
"This is a very special team, and what it means the most to me is I get to spend another week with them," Lapadot said. "The trophies are great and the banners will be there forever, but this journey were on at the most only has three more weeks and we want to make the most of it."


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The 2009 Honda Accord has a softer, more conservative appeal than its coupe cousin, but it's still an attractive vehicle.
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