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A couple of things to know about the Mahindra Mojo
[i] What is the Price of the Mahindra Mojo?
A: 1.75 Lakh Ex-Showroom Pune. That means the final on road price will be around 2 lakhs.
[ii] When will the Mahindra Mojo be on sale in the showrooms?
A: No dates have been fixed yet. But according to the Mahindra officials it could be probably by late this year or early next year.
[iii] In which cities will the Mahindra Mojo be on sale?
Quality of components used on the Mojo (the bike displayed at the launch) was good
Tyres from Pirelli, USD front suspension from Piaoli Italy..
A: Again Mahindra has yet to finalize the distribution structure for the Mojo (according to what was told in the launch). It probably means that the Mojo would be on sale only in select metros.
Makes sense too since to develop the infrastructure to service such a technically advanced bike will need some time and effort from Mahindra.
[iv] How much of an Indian content will be on the Mahindra Mojo?
According to the Mahindra officials at the launch, the Indian content on the bike will be very less. The parts will be mostly imported and assembled in Mahindra's Pithampur plant near Indore, M.P.
This means that the bike will be assembled and sold like the Kawasaki Ninja in India. No wonder the price tag is high.
[v] The Mahindra Mojo will be the "Fastest Indian" bike according to Mahindra.
But Mahindra officials did not give a kmph figure with the claim. According to me, with all the imported content on the bike the Mojo will be pitted against the Kawasaki Ninja for this title and not the Pulsar 220 DTS-i.
[vi] The model displayed at the launch was a protoype.
Yes, it was only a prototype and not a working model. But inspite of that, the quality of the parts on the bike was quite decent.
Mahindra Mojo- Features
[Note: The feature list has been complied by whatever was posted on Mahindra Website on 29'th of night and also what was observed on the bike at the launch]
The features has been explained in as simple language as possible, along with the benefits of the feature; for someone who is not that familiar with motorcycle technology and terminology.
1. 300 cc, Single Cylinder, Liquid Cooled Engine
Prior to the launch, rumors were flying thick and fast that the new Mahindra bike will have a twin cylinder engine. A screenshot of the teaser video has indeed shown two exhausts, which raised the hopes of a twin cylinder engine. The bike has two exhausts, but sadly and surprisingly the engine has just a single cylinder.
Benefit: The single cylinder engine should ensure a healthy torque if not high on power like a crazy revving multi cylinder engine. But even then this engine should be capable of revving freely as its stroke seems to be smaller than its bore.
2. Dual Exhausts:
The mojo is the first Indian bike with twin exhausts. Even the twin cylinder Ninja 250R comes with a single exhaust (where two exhausts merge into a single one).
Benefit: This should be purely to give a multi cylinder look to the bike. Its vanity according to me. Even in line 4 cylinder 1000 cc engines come with a single end can these days.
3. 4 Valve Engine with DOHC (Double OverHead Camshafts)
Like the other 4 valve engine bikes in India, viz. the Ninja 250R, YZF R15 and the Pulsar 135LS, the Mojo's single cylinder head will come with 4 valves.
Benefit: The engine will be relaxed and perform better at higher engine speeds.
The Mojo will be the second bike after the Ninja 250R to feature DOHC (discounting the imports of course).
Benefit: Although not obviously felt, the DOHC arrangement is the preferred one over the simpler SOHC (Single Over Head Cam Shaft) that most of over Indian bikes come with.
4. "Ducati Energia" Electronic Fuel Injection
The Mojo's engine also features a Fuel Injection system. The marketing name of the Fuel injection system suggests some Italian/Ducati connection. Other bikes with Fuel injection system in India are the Ninja 250R, Karizma ZMR and the YZF R15.
The Fuel Injection system is an advanced system with a lot of electronics, including sensors involved. Unlike a carburettor which is a simple mechanical system, a fuel injected sytem delivers accurate amount of the Air + Fuel mixture to the engine. Which improves the drivability and helps in reducing pollution.
Benefit: After having ridden a Fuel Injected bike (Pulsar 220 DTS-Fi) for 3 years now, I can say that the most obvious advantange of this sytem is during starting. I have never had a problem while starting the bike in any condition and never even had any problem even during idling.
But the fuel injection system does cost a lot. For example after the FI system was replaced with a carburetor on the Pulsar 220, the price dropped by nearly Rs. 15,000..!!
5. Inverted shock absorbers / Upside down shock absorbers
Now this is a feature which has so far only appeared on imported bikes. Not even the Ninja 250R comes with this kind of front suspension. The difference over a normal/conventional front suspension system is that the front forks appears to have been inverted. i.e the fatter outer fork is at the top and the slimmer inner fork at the bottom.
The front suspension on the Mojo is of "Piaoli" make, which is an Italian brand.
Benefit: The theoretical benefit of such a system is that it reduces the un sprung weight (the weight that is not supported by the springs of the suspension, which includes the wheels, tyres and the lower fork of the front suspension). The benefit of having a lower un sprung weight is like wearing lighter shoes. It is supposed to benefit the handling of the bike.
But according to me, it also enhances the looks of the bike giving it a beefy look.
6. Monoshock Rear Suspensions
Examples of other Indian bikes with monoshock rear suspension. The YZF R15, FZ-16/S/Fazer, CB Unicorn and CB Unicorn Dazzler.
Monoshock rear suspension help in centralizing the mass of the bike and hence aids in better handling. Also since the travel of the spring is lesser over a conventional twin spring suspension, the damping fluid in such a suspension doesn't foam that much under heavy action like on a conventional suspension.
Benefit: Better handling and comfort
7. 320 mm petal shaped front disc brake
At 320 mm, these are the largest front disc brakes on any Indian bike. Petal shaped disc brakes were first incorporated by Kawasaki, later other manufacturers also started to adopt them. TVS does it on the Apache RTR bikes.
Benefit: Apart from looking cool, these brakes are supposed to dissipate heat generated while braking. Which improves braking by lessening brake fade. These brakes are also supposed to be self cleaning (well I am not too sure how..).
8. Double Barrelled Exoframe / Exposed frame running along the sides of the tank
Actually the frame / chassis of the Mojo is a conventional single downtube with engine as a stressed member. The exoframe in a way mimics a perimeter / beam frame and the twin/double tubes also give it a trellis frame like appearance.
Benefit: Apart from improving the aesthetics of the bike, such a frame should also help in improving the handling of the bike.
9. India's widest rear tubeless radial tyre
At 140 mm, the widest rear tyre on an Indian bike was that of the Yamaha FZ. But the Mojo now comes with a 150 mm rear tyre which is also of the radial tubeless variety. Plus the tyres are of Pirelli make..!!
Benefit: Unlike the FZ which has a flat shape, the one on the Mojo is rounded, like the ones found on Super Sport bikes. This should improve fuel efficiency apart from hugging the road during cornering. Fat tyres also look good from the back.
Radials help the tyre maintain its shape also makes the tyre lighter. Tubeless tech. makes the tyres safe as there is no sudden loss of tyre pressure even during a puncture.
10. Twin Headlamps with pilot LED's
The Mojo comes with two retro styled headlamps. The pilot lamps on top of the headlamps are fitted with LEDs, which is another first on an Indian bike.
Benefit: LED's are the in fashion lighting devices these days. Apart from looking retro with the twin headlamps the LED's lend a touch of modernity.
11. Digital display
The Mojo comes with a LCD with a Blue Backlit color. It displays speed, fuel gauge readings, rpm, time etc. In fact, it even tells you when to shift gears.
Benefit: Accurate and easy to read display, plus it also looks cool.
12. LED tail lights
The Tail lights of the Mojo are fitted with LED's in place of a conventional filament bulb.
Benefit: Apart from appearing attractive, LED's consume comparatively lesser power and are less prone to failure than incandescent bulbs.
13. Mirror mounted indicators
This is another first in India feature. Mostly premium cars have turn indicators on their rear view mirrors (RVMs). There are also a couple of foreign bikes which have a similar arrangement.
Benefit: Mostly an aesthetic feature, according to me.
14. Back lit switches
These are like the ones which are seen on our Pulsars.
Benefit: For a rider new to the bike, it is a useful feature in the dark. But apart from that, it just imparts a cool, premium look to the bike.
15. LED on the rear brake caliper
Correction: This LED is actually not a Rear Brake Light indicator as earlier stated. This LED actually comes on along with the other lights on the bike and is just an aesthetic feature.
By the way, the Speed sensor on the Mojo is actually mounted on the rear wheel where this LED is mounted.
Benefits: Extra lighting always helps in providing better visibility. Also gives the bike a pimped up/customized look.
Mahindra Mojo Specifications
[Note: The specs has been taken from what was posted on the Mahindra website on 29'th Sep, 2010]
Engine Type:
Single Cylinder, Liquid Cooled, 4 Valves, DOHC
Displacement: 292 cc
Bore x Stroke: 78 mm x 61.2 mm
Compression Ratio: 11 : 1
Maximum Power: 26.3 Ps @ 8500 rpm
Maximum Torque: 24 Nm @ 7000 rpm
Transmission / Gear Box: Constant Mesh, 6 speed
Overall length x width x height (mm): 2100 x 830 x 1270
Seat Height (mm): 820
Wheelbase, (mm): 1450
Minimum ground clearance (mm): 150
Kerb Weight (Kgs): 160
Fuel Tank Capacity in liters: 15.5
Frame Type: Twin Tube Exposed frame in Steel; Diamond Frame
Wheel Type: Alloy Wheel
Tyres: Tubeless 100/80 – 17" (Front) 150/60 -17" (Rear)- radial
Brakes: Disc 320 mm (Front); Disc 220 mm (Rear);
Inverted fork Telescopic hydraulic-damped (Front);
120 mm stroke Horizontally mounted Mono Shox (Rear)
Battery: 12V, 9 AH; Maintenance Free
Head Lamp: 35W / 35W X 2; Halogen Bulb (Multi Reflector Type)
Pilot Lamps: 4 LED's each side, above twin beam Head Lights
Tail Lamp: LED (with 12 LED's)
The quality of components used on the Mojo was really impressive.
After all with all the parts from foreign vendor like Pirelli Tyres, Piaoli Suspension, the finish on most of the bike was quite good.
A few small bits like the quality of the switches, brake and clutch levers etc. could improve though. But Considering this was just a prototype, I hope that these parts gets the quality treatment as well when the production begins.
Click at the thumbnails for a larger image
[Note: Photo credits to MG_Biker1806 from xBhp.com and Myself]
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- Mahindra new motorcycles, Mojo 300 cc & Stallio 110 cc
- Mahindra Motorcyle to be launched soon..!! Teaser Video
- Auto Expo 2010 Coverage: Mahindra 2 Wheelers
This is to remind that the Views or Opinions in the blog are entirely mine unless explicitly stated. The Views and Opinions published in this blog should in no way be related to any other person or organization associated -- directly or indirectly -- with me.


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There's been a break in transmission recently. I've not been on here for while because I've been working on several projects over the past few weeks including setting up the current show at Manchester's Chinese Arts Centre, The Living Room project. I worked as support co-ordinator for this show which features the work of New York based artist Lee Mingwei!
A living room has been set up in the gallery space where local artists and collectors have been invited to 'host' by bringing along their personal collections to showcase in the lounge setting. Members of the public are encouraged to pop in and share a chat a brew and even some cake with the hosts as they riffle through the belongings and artifacts to explore personal stories and shared memories. It has been fascinating to witness the conversations topics and relationships that have sparked because of this project. It runs until the 27th of July and features a different host every 1-3 days. You can view the whole list of hosts on the project's website HERE. It's well worth a visit.
An outside view of The living Room Project in full swing!
I've also been volunteering for Manchester International Festival and worked as a project producer in sourcing an artist from the USA for Cornerhouse's upcoming film noir exhibition and events. More info on this to follow... Plus I'm in the middle of getting a new card design printed based on my paper doll work. It really has been all go!
Mock up of the back of my paper doll card design (rough)
I've not forgotten my project with the divine Grace Oni Smith! A Pre-Raphaelite dream waiting to happen, this work will continue in the coming weeks but had to be put on hold due to both her and my own schedule. Grace has been busy performing at nights including, Cha Cha Boudoir, Bollox, Mother's Ruin and recently compered the opening night of MIF at Drunk at Vogue.
Gorgeous Grace Oni Smith and I enjoy a spot of cosmetics
I will be offline next week due to personal circumstances but be sure to drop by and keep an eye on my Facebook page as I pick up where I left off in the not too distant future... I'll knock on ; )
Post Script: I forgot to mention I am also working on a private painting commission at the moment. If you are interested in getting a piece of art created email me: firstname.lastname@example.com
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I remember a child who had difficulty talking: he stammered whenever he spoke and his eyes will flutter (like a trussed up bird) and face will break into weird spasms, and his speech? that would sound like nothing on earth! That would shock other children. And put them off.
This child would often spend time with a book at the edge of the play ground. Getting lost in a world of adventure and fancy was a lot easier than holding a sustained conversation with others and dealing with their prejudices. The child slowly fell in love with words and their power to conjure up things unseen. So much so, that he began using big ostentatious words in his essays and other school assignments- often eliciting a frown from the teacher.
Many years later, the child made peace with his stammering; accepted openly that he stammered; rose above shame, fear and self loathing. He also became free of the need to prove anything- his subconscious need to use big words and complex sentences. He discovered the beauty of writing simply. He discovered the joy of being who he was, instead of trying to fit into some notion of who he should be. This is my story.
Many years ago, I read that if a covert stutterer could accept his stammering, he will be able to come out of the deep denial and shame. Writing seemed safest and most practical way of doing it. I decided to write a blog. After postponing it for many years, I wrote my first post when I was about 47. I did not just write as a reporter but as some one reliving those moments- a very expressive kind of writing.
It worked. My perception of my stammering and feelings towards it, changed radically. I felt lighter. I began talking to others: other stutterers. They too were facing the same issues. They too began writing on this blog- the first of its kind in India. A self help community slowly sprang up.
My writing benefited a lot by my reading habits. I had started reading Enid Blyton as a reclusive child; then, gradually I covered authors like Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Mark Twain, Emile Zola, Walter Scott, Agatha Christie etc. In recent times, I read too many modern writers to recall their names. But some have stuck in my head for different reasons: For example, Boris Pasternack, for writing a very complex but a truly memorable love story (Dr Zhivago) and Ruskin Bond, for writing simple but touching stories about children in Indian Himalayas.
In the meantime, I came across a website: Veils of Stuttering. It helped me understand how the experince of being "different" can warp our thinking, feeling, acting and even writing. Once I became aware of it, I treid to write in a simple and direct fashion rather than beat around the bush.
So, what have I learned from these experiences and writers? Dont be ashamed of emotions- Life is much more than just events. And secondly- be simple and straightforward. Just tell, what you want to tell- rather than spinning out a yarn.
I was trained as a doctor in 1970's but only now 40 years later, I was beginning to realize that all the healing and wholeness actually resides inside us- never outside. And writing, honest expressive writing – can bring it out of you. It can put you in touch with your inner larger Self. Writing for a stutterer is like a bridge between his social self and his true inner self. Talking was always difficult- even if I were to talk to myself. But writing bypassed that clogged channel as if it were- and I was communicating freely with my inner self through writing. In the process of writing, I was reliving my experinces, examining them and making sense of them. Day after day, posting on the blog, I began to see the larger patterns and the deeper meaning behind the suffering, my so called "speech impediment".
Some years later, I contributed a paper on this theme to an online conference organsied by a well known professor of Communication disorders. I received some encouraging feedback. More than that, I read papers by others in the same conference and it broadened my horizon. I got in touch with others who were working on the theme of self help and the role of expressive writing.
In brief- I think, reading, writing, thinking and speaking- are all inter-related and inter-dependent. One helps the other. And they all influence how you feel about yourself.
Have you ever felt "different"? If so, pick up your pen. Your sharing might help others out there. It might help you too..


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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: RE: button?
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Date: 2004-01-13
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NEW LONDON, Conn.-All nine starters recorded a hit and scored a run as the Coast Guard baseball team tallied a come-from-behind win against cross-town rival Mitchell College today in non-conference action. Eleven different players recorded hits on the day for Coast Guard (13-8) as they defeated Mitchell (10-8) for the fifth consecutive time, dating back to 2008.
With Coast Guard leading 11-9 entering the seventh, senior Riley Beecher (3-1) came on to pitch but surrendered a pair of runs in the top of the seventh that allowed the Mariners to tie the game at 11. In the bottom half, sophomore Blake Thompson lined a single to right that scored one run before Mitchell's freshman right fielder Neftali Arroyo booted the ball allowing a second run to cross, this time giving Coast Guard the lead for good.
The Bears put themselves behind the proverbial eight ball early on by spotting Mitchell four unearned runs in the top of the first inning on just one hit. This came courtesy of three errors, a walk, and a hit batsman. The responded quickly though as back-to-back one out doubles by freshman Mark Behne and senior Nolan Gallagher got Coast Guard on the scoreboard. The Bears would use three more hits in the inning to knot the game at 4-4.
The tie would be short-lived, however, as Mitchell used two more Coast Guard errors and two hits to put up yet another four spot in the top of the second for an 8-4 lead.
The pitching would settle in a bit from there, as neither team scored again until Mitchell scored an unearned run in the top of the fourth Coast Guard pushed across two runs of their own in the bottom half on a Gallagher sac fly and an RBI-single by senior Mike Massaro.
The Bears would tie things up at 9-9 in the fifth with a 2-run single to left by Lukas Laplante and a bases loaded walk by Massaro. Coast Guard would take their first lead of the game in the next inning as senior Cameron Carroll came in to score from third on a wild pitch with classmate Joe Petry at the dish. Petry followed that run up with a double to left before coming in to score on another base-hit by Laplante.
After reclaiming the lead in the seventh, seniors Curt Barrett and Tyler Vieira came on to work a pair of scoreless innings to secure the victory, with Vieira recording his sixth save of the season.
The Coast Guard bullpen had a solid day as freshman Kyle Wood, senior Nate Toll, Beecher, Barrett, and Vieira combined to work seven innings, allowing three runs (two earned) and four hits while recording five strikeouts and a trio of 1-2-3 innings.
The Bears return to action on Friday, April 5th against nationally-ranked Wheaton (Mass.) College (12-5) at 3:30. Coast Guard will return home for a double header against Wheaton on Saturday, April 6th at noon.
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For those of you who dance naked I have some advice.
Exercise Caution!
Just remember when you're home alone to be extra careful when you dance naked, if you fall and kill yourself its gonna look kinda funny when your family finds you lying naked at the bottom of the stairs.
Since you'll be dead there is no way for you to try to explain what happened. example: I was in the shower and heard a noise so I went to check it out and slipped.
No! they are automatically gonna think that you were dancing naked and thats what is going to be in the newspaper.


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Since 2010, ILSC's New Delhi school has been running a language and life-skills training program for underprivileged young women in India called Learn to Earn. The program is funded by private sponsors, business partners, and fundraising initiatives at ILSC's global campuses, and reflects ILSC's CSR mission to to positively contribute to the sustainable growth & development of people & communities, at the school, locally, and around the world.
As part of our 25th year celebration, $1 from every registration at an ILSC school will go towards supporting women in this important program.
In 25 years, we know that we've played an important role in the lives of the many students who've come through our doors; however, for our Learn to Earn graduates, the program can have far reaching ripple effects that change the economic status of our students, their families and even their communities.
Read some of our Learn to Earn student stories on the ILSC blog.
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The West Side Line, also called the West Side Freight Line, is a railroad line on the west side of the New York City borough of Manhattan. North of Penn Station, from 34th Street, the line is used by Amtrak passenger service heading north via Albany to Toronto; Montreal; Niagara Falls and Buffalo, New York; Rutland, Vermont; and Chicago. South of Penn Station, a 1.45-mile (2.33 km) elevated section of the line abandoned since 1980 has been transformed into an elevated park called the High Line. The south section of the park from Gansevoort Street to 20th Street opened in 2009 and the second section up to 30th Street opened in 2011, while the final section to 34th Street opened in 2014.
Hudson River Railroad
The West Side Line was built by the Hudson River Railroad, which completed the forty miles (64 km) to Peekskill on September 29, 1849, opened to Poughkeepsie by the end of that year, and extended to Albany in 1851. The city terminus was at the junction of Chambers and Hudson Streets; the track was laid along Hudson, Canal, and West Streets, to Tenth Avenue, which it followed to the upper city station at 34th Street. Over this part of the right-of-way, the rails were laid at grade along the streets, and since by the corporation regulations locomotives were not allowed, the cars were drawn by a dummy engine, which, according to an 1851 description, consumed its own smoke. While passing through the city the train of cars was preceded by a man on horseback known as a "West Side cowboy" or "Tenth Avenue cowboy" who gave notice of its approach by blowing a horn.[1][2]
At 34th Street the right-of-way curved into Eleventh Avenue, the dummy engine was detached, and the regular locomotive took the train. As far as 60th Street, the track was at street level. The first cut was at Fort Washington Point. The railroad crossed Spuyten Duyvil Creek on a drawbridge; a fatal wreck occurred there January 13, 1882 when the Atlantic Express, stopped on the line, was rear-ended by a local train, telescoping the last two palace cars, where the stoves and lamps were upset and ignited the woodwork and upholstery.[3]
In 1867 the New York Central Railroad and Hudson River Railroad were united by Cornelius Vanderbilt, being merged in 1869 to form the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad. The railroad acquired the former Episcopal church's St. John's Park property and built a large freight depot at Beach and Varick streets which opened in 1868. The tracks south to Chambers Street were then removed.[4] In 1871, the Spuyten Duyvil and Port Morris Railroad (Hudson Line) opened, and most passenger trains were rerouted into the new Grand Central Depot via that line along the northeast bank of the Harlem River and the New York and Harlem Railroad (Harlem Line), also part of the New York Central system. The old line south of Spuyten Duyvil remained for freight to the docks along Manhattan's west side and minimal passenger service to the West Side station on Chambers Street (used until 1916).
Grade separation
As the city grew, congestion worsened on the west side. Eventually plans were drawn up for a grade-separated line. The West Side Elevated Highway was built with the line's grade separation in the 1930s. Work on the highway – named for Manhattan Borough President Julius Miller, who championed it – began in 1925, and the first section was dedicated June 28, 1934. This included a new elevated eight-track freight terminal at St. John's Park, located several blocks north of the old one, with a south edge at Spring Street. North of there, an elevated structure (the present-day High Line) carried two tracks north on the west side of Washington Street, curving onto the east side of Tenth Avenue at 14th Street, then crossing Tenth Avenue at 17th Street and heading north along its west side. Just south of the Pennsylvania Station rail yard at 31st–33rd Streets, the line turned west on the north side of 30th Street, then north just east of the West Side Highway. The northernmost bridge crossed 34th Street, and a ramp took it back to Eleventh Avenue south of 35th Street. The elevated line was built through the second or third floors of several buildings along the route; others were served directly by elevated sidings.[5][6]
In 1937 the tracks along Eleventh Avenue were bypassed by a below-grade line, passing under the 35th Street intersection and running north just west of Tenth Avenue before slowly curving northwest, passing under Eleventh Avenue at 59th Street and rejoining the original alignment.[5][6]
Around the same time, New York City parks commissioner Robert Moses covered the line from 72nd Street north to 120th Street with an expansion of Riverside Park. His project, called the West Side Improvement, was twice as expensive as the Hoover Dam and created the Henry Hudson Parkway, as well as a railroad tunnel through the park. The large 60th Street Yard served as the dividing point between the two-track realignment and a wider four-track line to the north. North of 123rd Street, the line became elevated between the Henry Hudson Parkway and Riverside Drive before returning to the surface and crossing under the Parkway to its west side near 159th Street. It continues along the shore of the Hudson River to the Spuyten Duyvil Bridge, a swing bridge across the Harlem Ship Canal (Spuyten Duyvil Creek), before merging with the Hudson Line just north of the bridge.[6]
In addition to serving the industrial and dock areas of the Lower West Side, the line was the primary route for produce and meat into New York, serving warehouses in the West Village, Chelsea, and the Meatpacking District, as well as serving the James Farley Post Office and private freight services.[7]
Donald Trump and Riverside South
The New York Central Railroad was merged into Penn Central in 1968 and Conrail in 1976. Conrail continued to operate freight along the West Side Line until the 1980s.
Donald Trump optioned the 60th Street Yard in 1974.[8] Riverside South, the development project he ultimately began there, was then the city's biggest private residential development; it faced opposition from many people living on the Upper West Side.[9] To obtain approval of his project, Trump agreed to substantially reduce the size of his ambitions,[10] build Riverside Park South on 23 acres (9.3 ha) of the yard,[11] and donate the park and the right-of-way for a relocated highway to the city.[12]
The line north of 31st Street was acquired by Amtrak. The southernmost part of the High Line (south of Bank Street) had been removed in the 1960s;[13] the structure from Bank to Gansevoort Streets was removed some 20 years later.[14] The northernmost block of the High Line viaduct, between 34th and 35th Streets, was rerouted to the south of 34th Street in the 1980s because the ramp to 35th Street was demolished as part of the Javits Center's construction. However, the realigned ramp was never used.[15] By mid-2005, the rest of the High Line was owned by CSX, which acquired it after the 1999 breakup of Conrail.[16]
Empire Connection
The Empire Connection allows Amtrak's passenger trains traveling on the Empire Corridor from Albany in upstate New York, and beyond, to enter Penn Station. Before its construction, Empire Corridor trains came into Grand Central Terminal, requiring passengers bound for Northeast Corridor trains to transfer to Penn Station via shuttle bus, taxicab, subway or on foot.[17] This was a legacy of the fact that the Empire Corridor lines had previously been part of the New York Central Railroad, longtime owner of Grand Central, while Penn Station was owned by the Pennsylvania Railroad. The two stations have never been connected, even after the PRR and New York Central merged as Penn Central in 1968 and after Amtrak took over intercity rail service in 1971.
When the West Side Yard for the Long Island Rail Road was built on the west side of Manhattan in 1986, a tunnel was built under it connecting Penn Station to the West Side Line just west of Eleventh Avenue, near the Javits Center. The project severed the southernmost part of the West Side Line, the High Line viaduct, from the rest of the West Side Line.[18] When additional funding later became available, one track along the northern part of the West Side Line was rebuilt for passenger service and named the Empire Connection. A short section of single track into Penn Station was electrified using third rail and overhead catenary, since diesel locomotives are not allowed in Penn Station's tunnels. North of 41st Street, the single track expands into two tracks and electrification on the line ends. A wye was constructed next to Track 2 (the westernmost track) to allow diesels to turn around. South of 49th Street, there is a crossover from Track 1 (the easternmost track) to Track 2, and another siding splits off Track 2 at 49th Street. The Empire Connection was double-tracked north of 39th Street to south of the Spuyten Duyvil Bridge in the mid-1990s.
On April 7, 1991, all of Amtrak's trains departing for or arriving from Albany and points north began using the Empire Connection into Penn Station, ending service to Grand Central.[19] Transportation planners had long envisioned consolidating all intercity service to New York at Penn Station, but those efforts never got beyond the planning stages until the 1980s. Besides being more convenient for passengers, many of whom had balked at taking the train to New York City due to the difficulty of transferring between stations, this saved Amtrak the expense of operating two stations in New York City. Additionally, Amtrak had to pay $600,000 per year to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, operator of Grand Central, to use that station's tracks.[20][21]
Under the Penn Station Access project, Metro-North Railroad is studying ways it could also serve Penn Station. One alternative being studied would run some Hudson Line commuter trains into Penn Station via the Empire Connection, possibly with new station stops at West 125th and West 62nd Streets.
High Line park
In the early 1980s, as the connections to Penn Station were created, the line south of 34th Street was disconnected from the rest of the U.S. railway system. This portion of the line, entirely on an elevated viaduct, stood dormant for over thirty years. This viaduct, now called the High Line, has been turned into an elevated park which opened in phases from June 2009 to fall 2014.[22][23][24][25][26]
See also
- East Side Access, companion project to Penn Station Access
- Freedom Tunnel
- ^ Hudson River and the Hudson River Rail-Road. Boston: Bradbury & Guild. 1851. p. 12. Retrieved September 18, 2015.
- ^ Highline Photo of the Week West Side Cowboy
- ^ "Fatal Disaster on the Hudson River Railroad". Frank Leslie's Weekly. January 21, 1882. Retrieved April 10, 2010.
- ^ Joint Report of the New York, New Jersey Port and Harbor development Commission, 1917
- ^ a b L.H. Robbins, "Transforming the West Side: A Huge Project Marches On," New York Times, June 3, 1934
- ^ a b c "NYC West Side Improvement". railroad.net. Archived from the original on March 1, 2000. Retrieved May 17, 2016.
- ^ "RAILROAD.NET - New York Central's 1934 West Side Improvement". railroad.net.
- ^ Bagli, Charles V. (June 1, 2005). "Trump Group Selling West Side Parcel for $1.8 Billion". The New York Times. Retrieved May 17, 2016.
- ^ Bruce Weber, "Debate on Trump's West Side Proposal," New York Times, July 22, 1992
- ^ Todd S. Purdum, "Trump Revises Project Plan for West Side", New York Times, March 6, 1991.
- ^ Vitullo-Martin, Julia (January 19, 2004). "The West Side Rethinks Donald Trump's Riverside South". home.jps.net. Retrieved May 17, 2016.
- ^ Alan Finder, "Trump Yields to Demands on Housing," New York Times, October 22, 1992.
- ^ "The High Line". NYC Architecture.
- ^ Amateau, Albert (April 30 – May 6, 2008). "Newspaper was there at High Line's birth and now its rebirth". The Villager. 77 (48). Retrieved August 12, 2011.
- ^ Greenstein, J (April 1, 2002). "WEST SIDE STORY : THE RISE AND FALL OF MANHATTAN'S HIGH LINE". Trains. 62 (3). ISSN 0041-0934. Retrieved July 10, 2018.
- ^ Doyle, Chesney; Spann, Susan (2014). "Elevated Thinking: The High Line in New York City". Great Museums.
- ^ Penn Station could be reached from the Empire Corridor, but only via an impractical route from the Bronx, via the New Haven Line, that then backtracked several miles to the north, to Pelham Manor, to the Northeast Corridor line.
- ^ Voboril, Mary (March 26, 2005). "The Air Above Rail Yards Still Free". Newsday. New York.
- ^ "Travel Advisory; Grand Central Trains Rerouted To Penn Station". The New York Times. April 7, 1991. Retrieved February 7, 2010.
- ^ Johnson, Kirk (July 7, 1988). "Amtrak Trains To Stop Using Grand Central". The New York Times. Retrieved November 10, 2015.
- ^ Barron, James (April 8, 1991). "Riding the Past From Grand Central". The New York Times. Retrieved December 11, 2018.
- ^ Marritz, Ilya (June 7, 2011). "As the High Line Grows, Business Falls in Love with a Public Park". WNYC. Retrieved June 8, 2011.
- ^ Browne, Alex (June 7, 2011). "High Notes - New Art on the High Line". The New York Times. Retrieved June 7, 2011.
- ^ Pesce, Nicole Lyn (June 7, 2011). "Hotly anticipated second section of the High Line opens, adding 10 blocks of elevated park space". Daily News. Retrieved June 7, 2011.
- ^ Battaglia, Andy (May 11, 2014). "Artist's 'Ruins' Rise on the High Line - WSJ.com". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved May 12, 2014.
- ^ "High Line at the Rail Yards". Friends of the High Line. Retrieved May 12, 2014.
- Scull, Theodore W. (August 1991). "Change at Penn Station: an opportunity". Trains.
- Johnston, Bob (June 1995). "New Amtrak cuts signal a long siege". Trains.
External links
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- New York Central's 1934 West Side Improvement (1934 pamphlet)
- Abandoned Stations - Bronx Railroad Stations (includes the West Side Line in Manhattan)


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36 comments:
- sharonlei said...
Looks like you had an amazing trip.. :) Did you get a little tan? I love your vacay look... comfy, but still very stylish. :)
xx Love & Aloha
- March 16, 2010 at 2:27 AM
- Pingu said...
Jealoooous!! ;) The pics are great. Want warm weather soooo bad!
Your look is very laid back, and your stylish hair is catching the eye.
- March 16, 2010 at 3:09 AM
- Caleb Poling said...
The pastel houses are so pretty!
- March 16, 2010 at 4:41 AM
cool pics! looks like you've had a great time. i wonder , what type of camera do you use?
- March 16, 2010 at 6:23 AM
- em.me.ma said...
haha your funny; but so true; he looks like he was stuck in a prison suit of hawaii haha.
like Your outfit ;)
- March 16, 2010 at 6:40 AM
- Nicole Jarecz said...
just wow. beautiful!
- March 16, 2010 at 8:08 AM
- Kristy said...
hahaha... love the "street style" photo of that guy. can't believe he's wearing matching hawaiian shirt and shorts (didn't even know they existed!)
- March 16, 2010 at 8:36 AM
- The Style Revolution said...
Absolutely Beautiful!
- March 16, 2010 at 8:40 AM
- Diane said...
These pictures are amazing, I love them! And yes, that guy is a fashion disaster!!
- March 16, 2010 at 9:01 AM
- TheFashionAve said...
WOW, what a paradise! :)
How long will you stay there??
Here in Germany it's so f** cold and raining all the time :(
- March 16, 2010 at 11:26 AM
- Jersey and the Monkey said...
Get me on that beach RIGHT NOW!!
and take these horrific essays away from me!
- March 16, 2010 at 1:03 PM
- kim said...
The Hawaiian shirt and shorts has left me speechless lol
The photos are gorgeous, love the one of the sleeping dog.
clothes are cute
clothes are cute
- March 16, 2010 at 1:11 PM
- The Starving Stylist said...
Loving all the pictures babe! Sooo jealous of your fab trip while the rest of us were soaking in vancouver!
- March 16, 2010 at 1:37 PM
- Cafe Fashionista said...
Oh please, please, please...next time take me with you - I need a vacation and this one looks like the vacation of a lifetime! So glad that you had a great time, darling!! :)
- March 16, 2010 at 2:39 PM
- Nicole Jarecz said...
adding you to my blogroll as well :)
- March 16, 2010 at 3:30 PM
- For The Fierce said...
ughhh, looks like you enjoyed your vacation, HATE YOUUUU. lol I need a vacation asap.
& wordd, that guy is nuts.... where the fuck did he find that horrid ensemble?!
- March 16, 2010 at 7:34 PM
- Ash said...
I need more vacations... I need summer. This is where I start to cry like a baby comparing vacation time to the day I look forward to tomorrow... a full day of work, followed by 1 hour over time at work, followed by 20 minutes to eat, followed by 5 more hours of work, followed by 6 hours sleep. Repeat for two more days. You look great! Vacation style has to be effortless chic. Anything else looks over done! I can't wait for summer!
- March 16, 2010 at 9:52 PM
ok! YUCK to the guy in the tropical two-piece, do all middle-aged men pack the most obnoxious volmating shirts when vactioning on the beach? but on a brigther more pleasent note I like your outfitt. Lucky you, i'm in desperate need of tropical water ;)
- March 16, 2010 at 9:58 PM
- ellinelle said...
..wonderful pictures of neverending sun and hot weather ...ehhh..who actually loves the cold? noone I guess..
socks in sandals made me laugh : )
there is few walking around; ))
- March 17, 2010 at 5:37 AM
- anonymous girl said...
I am so jealous!! You got to go somewhere warm and to one of my dream destinations ;-) I hope you came back with a Haute Tan.
- March 17, 2010 at 6:50 AM
- The Fancier said...
Amazing photos! Makes me want to go to Cuba all the sooner. Damn US embargos!
- March 17, 2010 at 8:25 AM
- Glam Girl said...
OMG! I adore these photos!I hope I'll be there in the summer...Nice post!Congratulation for your blog: it's amazing!
- March 17, 2010 at 12:45 PM
- Froso said...
I am so F**king jealous, paradise must look like that! You are a great photographer by the way. Kisses, I can't get enough of your style.
- March 17, 2010 at 1:36 PM
- Draft of Vintage said...
Wow- those photos make me want to pack up my bag and head to Cuba (is it weird that I would always envision that trip with Marlon Brando circa Guys and Dolls?)
I feel like that man should be in a Chevy Chase movie. He loves himself, it's great. So glad you were able to share. yikes. You, whether in comparison to him or not, look very chic. Very nice vacation style.
- March 17, 2010 at 1:57 PM
- hia said...
oh my god i love the photos. awesome :-))
- March 17, 2010 at 2:45 PM
- Niki B. said...
hahaha total stalker. u know i be crazy like that.
your pics turned out so well, they are GORGEOUS. and i'm glad you went with the what not to wear on vacation pic, thats hilarious.
love you long time. xx
- March 17, 2010 at 10:44 PM
- mel said...
love theses pics! fabbity blog:)
- March 18, 2010 at 1:14 AM
- Sinner Diamond said...
I LOOOOVE your blog
I'll follow you
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- March 18, 2010 at 8:38 AM
- Mery Elle said...
wow! amazing your pics ♥
i will follow.please also follow mine.
- March 18, 2010 at 10:26 AM
- LF said...
Gorgeous pictures!
Hope you had fun ,and will have fun in Vegas!!
- March 18, 2010 at 3:06 PM
- Aleisha-Rose said...
WOW! That place is AMAZZZZING!
You look so great in causal wear! The laid back style really suits you!
- March 21, 2010 at 4:36 AM
- monica said...
amazing shots! now i neeed to go to cuba
- March 21, 2010 at 9:50 AM
- Original Sophie said...
Hey! Thanks for stopping by my blog. Love yours!
These pictures are amaaaazing, so jealous! Haha and I love your comments on that guys outfit, so true!!
Sophie x
- March 24, 2010 at 12:20 AM
- JBriggs said...
grr jelous you have my coveted ray bans!
- March 25, 2010 at 7:08 PM
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- EGO TRIP AND FASHION said...
it smells like holidays here!! lovely pics
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text: Hi Dianne,> > Most of these questions related to the fact that I don't think an> > interface like this just slips into the kernel as a driver. Since it's> > IPC, it's totally generic, and it's not part of a standard (i.e. POSIX),> > we need to have some better and more specific information about it (or> > atleast I do).> > Hi, sorry I have been slow to respond. I can give a summary of how> binder is used in the Android platform and the associated feature set.> I won't try to address other options, especially D-Bus, because> honestly I haven't been following it for the last 3 or so years so> don't really know its current state of art.let see how we can compare it to D-Bus right now.> In the Android platform, the binder is used for nearly everything that> happens across processes in the core platform. Some examples of this,> illustrating key features are:> > - The window manager and clients talk with each other through Binder.> When a client starts up, it does a binder IPC into the window manager> to create a new binder connection dedicated to that client. This is a> common use of the capability model of the binder, where secure> connections are given to clients which they can use for communication> with the system.That is exactly what D-Bus is used for by any other Linux system. Andembedded examples are the Nokia N810 and Palm Pre. To name only twosince there are more.> - The window manager and lower-level surface compositor talk with each> other through Binder. There is as simple binder-based API that is> used to allocate a surface for a window. This takes advantage of the> Binder's fd passing and object identity facilities to allow the> surface compositor to allocate area in a shared heap it manages: the> window manager makes this request on behalf of a client application,> and then passes that binder object over to the client process (it will> retrieve the associated fd and map it for each unique heap it> receives) for it to draw directly into the associated surface memory.> The binder's object identity rules (an object has a single identity as> it travels across processes, no matter how many times it does so or> where it goes) are very convenient for managing this.Patches for D-Bus with file descriptor passing have been posted. So thatfeature is available.> - Separate components, like the window manager or surface flinger, may> be switched between running in the same process or different processes> with no change to their code. For example, in the current android> platform these two components run in the same process, but we also> have had run them in other processes and would like to do so on> higher-end systems where there is more memory. This is not strictly a> feature of the kernel part of the binder, but the IPC semantics it> provides greatly ease its implementation: dispatching transactions to> thread pools, synchronous calls with recursion across processes, etc.D-Bus provides namespacing based on service name, interface names andobject paths. So you can combine applications into one binary if youwant to.> - The activity (or really application/process) manager also uses the> binder for launching and managing components in a process. For> applications, it creates a simple binder object for use as a "token"> for the application. It gives this token to both the application and> the window manager, and the application gives its token to the window> manager when it adds windows. 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As mentioned above the Bluetooth subsystem makesmassive use of this feature.> - The Input Method Manager is probably one of the better> representative examples of how the binder facilities are used in the> system: it is a relatively small component, but makes extensive use of> binder object identities, capabilities, death links, and other> features to arbitrate between N applications and M IMEs securely> interacting with each other in a controlled way. A taste of this can> be seen in the "Security" section of> http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/inputmethod/InputMethodManager.html> . One particular feature it relies on is allowing an application to> hand it a binder object for an interface (here an InputConnection),> which it can then send to an IME running in another process. That IME> can now make direct calls on the InputConnection for just that> application (it has been granted that capability) without having to go> through the Input Method Manager intermediary process.The Linux desktop systems use D-Bus a lot. Some use more features thanother. Feel free to look at it.> One part of the binder protocol that is really nice but doesn't yet> have a user space implementation is weak references. This allows a> process to maintain knowledge of a remote object, without forcing it> to stay around. At any point it can try to promote that to a strong> reference (to actively call on the object), which will either succeed> or fail based on whether the original object is still around or is not> around because all of the strong references (either in-proc or remote)> are gone. We never re-implemented the user space code for this> because we didn't do weak references in the Java layer, but for native> C and C++ code it is a very nice facility for managing object> lifetimes.I am not sure what this is good for. Especially since you didn't exposeit in the Java layer anyway.D-Bus has system and session activation which can be used to start/stopapplication based on service names. A D-Bus service name can also bepending and waiting for the previous owner to terminate and then it willtake over. Some sort of failsafe if you want.> For a rough idea of the scope of the binder's use in Android, here is> a list of the basic system services that are implemented on top of it:> package manager, telephony manager, app widgets, audio services,> search manager, location manager, notification manager, accessibility> manager, connectivity manager, wifi manager, input method manager,> clipboard, status bar, window manager, sensor service, alarm manager,> content service, activity manager, power manager, surface compositor.I am not doing the Linux list since that would take me longer than a dayto compile and would forgot some of the apps ;)> > If for instance the main reason for Google using this interface is cause> > a large number of android people once worked at Palm or BeOS, that's not> > reason enough for it to go into the kernel. Or if this binder interface> > really fits well with Java or C++ people and they just love it, that's> > not really acceptable either..> > It is true that a lot of the ideas of the binder came from previous> work on BeOS and Palm's Cobalt. However, that is mostly inspiration:> we started with the Open Binder code for very intial bringup, but> entirely rewrote both the user space and driver code to address our> needs for Android and to better fit with the Linux-centric design of> the platform.> > I'm not sure what the relevance is of Java or C++ people liking it.> Does this mean that the important thing is that C people love it and> other languages don't matter? :) Anyway whether or not you "love" it> I don't think is a matter of programming language but just design> style, personal preference, and who knows what else. It has been> extremely useful in our implementation of Android, as can be seen in> just how much of the system sits on top of it, but that's all.> > Finally as far as someone else's comment of Open Binder being dead --> well it's an interesting situation. That particular code is no longer> being developed, but basically the active development switched over to> the fork/rewrite of it we have now in Android. You could maybe say> that Open Binder was a research project, and Android is the shipping> implementation. Though really, the main difference between them is> that Android has a much simpler user-space implementation (because we> didn't need the full features of Open Binder); there isn't any reason> the full Open Binder environment couldn't be put back on top of the> current binder. The binder shell is certainly a fun toy. :) See> http://www.open-binder.org/docs/html/BinderShellTutorial.html for> example. But a lot of the stuff there is just not hugely interesting> for Linux/Android.The thing that I don't understand is why you bothered to re-write Binderand not just use D-Bus. Especially since D-Bus is part of Androidanyway, because of BlueZ.To me it seems everything that you want from Binder is already possiblewith D-Bus. Seems the only missing piece is to create dbus-daemon as akernel subsystem so it is available for all userspace processes from thebeginning (including init/upstart).RegardsMarcel


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Video games are full of action and adventure, but the stocks of the companies that make look surprisingly safe to Kaufman Brothers cable and satellite analyst Todd Mitchell.
"This is a discretionary item that is bought by a demographic that typically is not that economic-sensitive," Mitchell told CNBC from the Game Developers' Conference in San Francisco. "There's other things that go first. I don't think this sector's going to be that impacted by any sort of economic slowdown."


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Big River Clean sees volunteers clear up the Cleddau catchment
Black Friday campaign raises over £9,000 for the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Trust's Make More Meadows appeal
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Castell Henllys Iron Age Village and Carew Castle and Tidal Mill are sites run by the National Park Authority to help visitors enjoy and learn about our past. They are also important havens for wildlife.
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Castell Henllys and Carew Castle offer an exciting range of activities and events for visitors between just before Easter and the end of October when they are open daily. There are usually guided tours available daily from friendly and knowledgeable staff. A network of public footpaths and rights of way are accessible from the sites from which the surrounding countryside can be enjoyed.
Castell Henllys and Carew Castle offer their own specially designed schools programmes aimed principally at Key Stage II of the national curriculum in Wales. Between them the sites cater for up to ten thousand school children per year from across Wales and England who learn about Iron Age Celtic society at Castell Henllys and the Tudors at Carew Castle.
Carew Castle and Tidal Mill
Both sites offer outstanding opportunities for lifelong learning through links to courses at local universities, original research and access, through the University of York, to the annual archaeological excavation at Castell Henllys and nearby sites.
Castell Henllys Iron Age Village and Carew Castle and Tidal Mill are holders of numerous awards including the prestigious Sanford Award, through the Heritage Education Trust, and are Star Attractions through the Wales Tourist Board's Visitor Attraction Quality Assurance Scheme.


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A Caravan-Serai was a resting spot for travelers traversing the world's continents, from China to the Middle East, and beyond. Here, travelers took a break from their journey to refresh themselves and their animals, and to meet new people and exchange news, trade and travel tips, ideas and experiences.
Our aim at Caravan-Serai Tours is to create tours that reflect the spirit of the travelers from long ago, who looked forward to the hospitality and the opportunity to learn from others that they would find at the next Caravan-Serai. At Caravan-Serai Tours, not only do we really know our destinations, but we understand them. We have lived, worked, and traveled throughout the Middle East and North Africa, and are proud of our heritage. Our multi-cultural office staff in Seattle hail from Jordan, Egypt, Iran, and the US, and have traveled all over the world, looking forward to those opportunities to meet new people and learn about their culture and traditions.
This is not just a business for us; it is a life's work to unveil a part of the world that is a mystery to so many.
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In order to give our clients a more personal experience, we keep our groups small – no more than about 15 or 16 people on each tour. This allows for more interaction with your guides and the people you will meet while traveling in the Middle East, and more opportunity to experience Arab hospitality. The Arab tradition of hospitality is central to the culture of the people of the Middle East and a source of great pride. At Caravan-Serai Tours we operate with that same sense of pride that comes from showing you a region of the world we love.
We select hotels based on our personal knowledge of the rooms, services offered, cleanliness, location, and price. We don't just take a hotel's word that they are a five star hotel without checking it out first. Many hotels in the Middle East and North Africa say they are four or five star hotels when they are more comparable to a two or three star hotel in the US. We know the best places to stay and also know which hotels to avoid.
The guides we use in many of our destinations are personally known to us so we know they have the experience and knowledge, as well as disposition, to work well with our clients.
Caravan-Serai Tours is in constant communication with our in-country operators to ensure your tour is going as planned. Even though you are "over there" and we are still here in Seattle, we are with you 100% of the time while you are on your tour.
Relationships are everything to us. We develop relationships with many our clients that last a lifetime, and quite often our clients come home from one of our tours having made several new friends, both in the country they visited and from the group they traveled with. These relationships, and those we maintain with our in-country offices, are vitally important to us. Without any of these, we would be a very generic and not very successful tour company!
Our tours are for people who want to enjoy themselves, experience new cultures, and learn about a vast array of countries. We do this by blending unique cultural and educational programs with fun and adventure.
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Why is Visa listening to an Illinois sheriff about Backpage?
Did Visa CEO Charles Scharf lose a bet to Tom Dart?
Why else would the leader of the San Francisco payments giant unconditionally capitulate to the demands of a sheriff whose jurisdiction extends no farther than Cook County, Ill.?
Last month, Dart successfully pressured Visa, along with MasterCard and American Express, to stop processing payments connected to Backpage.com because the website refused to stop running "adult services" ads that Dart equates with sex trafficking.
If all this sounds familiar, it should. Dart went after a similar type of site, Craigslist in San Francisco, a few years ago for the same reason and lost in court. And he's likely to lose again: A federal judge granted Backpage's request for a temporary restraining order last month.
"Backpage has established a more-than-negligible likelihood of success on the merits of its claim that Dart's informal lobbying of the credit card companies violated the First Amendment by imposing an informal prior restraint on the advertisements hosted by Backpage.com," U.S. District Judge John Tharp wrote in his ruling.
Dart is certainly this case's star attraction. But the disturbing behavior comes from Visa, which used its financial dominance to help Dart censor and effectively shut down a lawful business.
"I find it very alarming that a local county sheriff can dictate what is or is not permissible on the Internet globally," Liz McDougall, Backpage's general counsel, said in an interview. New York law firm Paul Hastings also represents Backpage.
Silicon Valley — and indeed all e-commerce companies — should pay attention to Backpage, as this case demonstrates the disproportionate power Visa can wield over the Internet to serve the government.
What makes Visa's actions even more head-scratching is that even Dart knew he had no real leverage on the company, which generated $12 billion in revenue last year. Visa could have easily just ignored him.
"When the merits of this case are resolved, Backpage will have to contend with the sheriff's candid, and somewhat surprising, admission on the record that there is no investigatory or prosecutorial action within his jurisdiction that he could take vis-à-vis the credit card companies," Judge Tharp wrote.
Visa did not respond to multiple requests for comment. In a recent statement to USA Today, spokesman John Earnhardt noted that the company has often cooperated with law enforcement officials to "safeguard the integrity of the payment system."
"Visa's rules prohibit our network from being used for illegal activity," he said.
Illegal activity? If that was Visa's standard, the company better stop doing business with every media outlet in the country that sells classified advertising. What about dating services or porn sites? I'm sure nothing bad ever happens there.
A website called 18 and Abused, full of hard-core pictures and videos of women who appear to be teenagers, gladly accepts Visa cards.
Are some adult ads fronts for sex trafficking? Sure. But adult content makes up less than 10 percent of Backpage's total content. Shutting down an entire company seems like a grossly disproportionate response to the alleged criminal activity.
I asked McDougall about the reasons Visa gave Backpage to justify its decision.
"It's something I can't discuss right now," she said cryptically.
McDougall has unique expertise. She served as outside counsel to Craigslist when Dart and state attorneys general pressured the company in 2010 to eliminate its "adult services" section. Though Craigslist ultimately prevailed in court, the company eventually dropped the content.
McDougall said she could not comment on Craigslist's decision. But she seemed unhappy with it.
When Backpage wanted to hire her, McDougall said she would take the job only if the company promised not to succumb to censorship.
Remember WikiLeaks? In 2013, Visa, along with MasterCard, PayPal and Western Union, blocked donations to the website after the activist organization began publishing classified U.S. diplomatic cables. But at least with WikiLeaks, the feds pressured Visa in the name of national security.
With Backpage, we're talking about a county sheriff and escort ads.
In any case, "payment processors and banks shouldn't be in the position of deciding what type of online content is criminal or enforcing morality for the rest of society," Rainey Reitman, director of the activism team at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, wrote in a recent blog post about Backpage.
"For one thing, their businesses haven't been designed to analyze the legal and societal issues at play in various forms of online expression," she said. "That's why courts, not companies, should determine what type of speech is legal on the Internet."
Even if Visa restores services to Backpage, the website is aware that its fate ultimately rests on the whims of a multibillion-dollar giant that scares easily.
"They can still do anything they want," McDougall said. "What's next? It's terrifying. I'm not sure how we got to a situation where there is such a monopoly that can censor speech and e-commerce."
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For those in the Sandusky, Erie County area, please join us this Sunday for a joint service on BULLYING between the First Congregational Church of Christ and the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Erie County. Come as you are!
10AM – Service upstairs led by the Rev. Lenore Kure & UU Program Chair Lisa Dewey
11:15AM – POTLUCK Downstairs!
1:00PM The Film, Bullied First, presented by Equality Ohio


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Vintage UK MORTAR CASE Hard Green Plastic, Strap, Cap! - eBay (item 310076424032 end time Aug-23-08 18:46:49 PDT)
This vintage 81mm mortar case of tough dark green plastic with a screw-on lid and sturdy strap is marked, "C868, 1 Cartridge, 81mm Mortar M821, FUZ MOF-M734, For Mortar M252, Lot RFG88F009-028, UN 0321" and "UK Military Explosive 1.2E" and some little numbers I can't read.
It's empty, no mortar shell in it now, and ought to make a great storage container for something or other. Maps? Arrows? What do you think?
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Biscione means "snake" in Italian. It also means "Alfa Romeo" to auto buffs worldwide, as a biscione has been part of Alfa Romeo's coat of arms since the company was founded in 1910.
The automaker's commercial fortunes have been twisting, biscione-like, over the years, but its reputation as a maker of pulse-pounding sports cars has never faded. So when Sergio Marchionne, CEO of what is now the FCA Group, which owns Alfa Romeo, decided in 2013 to relaunch the brand, he had more than a century's worth of DNA to tap.
Marchionne also had an ambitious goal: to bring Alfa Romeo's sales from 74,000 cars in 2013 to 400,000 cars by 2018. The target and the time allotted to achieve it made this "a Don Quixote quest," notes Valerio Bisogno of Alfa Romeo.
By starting with the top-end performance, we produced better performance down the line, regardless of horsepower.
Valerio Bisogno, Alfa Romeo
Bisogno is chief engineer for the Giulia, the first model introduced by the company in this new program.
The initiative was code-named Project Giorgio to keep its existence secret. The engineers hired for it were sequestered from the rest of the Fiat group in a skunkworks setup, which was so effective that no information leaked out prior to the introduction of the Giulia on June 24, 2015.


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Welcome to The Young Bengal Brigade
Research into Ancient Knowledge
The Young Bengal Brigade bursts upon the firmament at a time when the world is struck by violence and strife, and society is beset with a loss of values. Perhaps we have forgotten the value of researched knowledge and ancient systems which aided us in understanding the wisdom of our forefathers. Sometimes we lose ourselves in trying to be too rational and in other instances our faith may turn to superstition. The YBB seeks to quest for knowledge in a balanced way without losing perspective. The subjects we deal with are many and varied. We delve into mythology, history, psychology and the esoteric and most of all, the human mind. We believe there is much more beyond our tangible selves – if we only can decode the mysteries of the Ancients. Not only do we deal with the academics but we make it a part of our lives. We try to live the knowledge in order to understand it.
It has been my life's quest to decode ancient knowledge. Each life has a purpose- perhaps this was mine. Be it Wicca, or the new physics, be it Taoism or the String Theory, be it Egyptian mythology or the theories of Carl Jung, I have researched without bias or prejudice and with an openness of vision.
Ipsita Roy Chakraverti at the 64 Yogini Temple
The YBB seeks individuality in the midst of discipline. It seeks a return to values. I feel this this is the burning need for our country at this hour. Our identity however is of Bengal. I have always begun any landmark work from Kolkata and propose to do so in the future as well. Bengal has a glorious history of freethinking and daring pioneers. In the intellectual arena, Bengal has always been in the forefront. That does not mean that we are not looking to the rest of the country. We are proud Indians, ever aware of the rich Indian tradition and culture around us. We are aware of its glorious idealism and its men and women who have lent richness to its spiritual and ethical values.
Unfortunately today those values are crumbling. Women and children are no longer safe. We can no longer look up to our leaders for protection and guidance. We can only look to the wisdom of the past. That is what we propose to do.
We believe in the holistic system of keeping mind, body and spirit healthy. We believe that the journey ever goes on. We are optimists and yes, we adventure. We are the standard bearers into a new freethinking and idealistic tomorrow. We break the old as we stride forth.
I congratulate those who join me on this journey forward. This is the Young Bengal Brigade.


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Vintage croquet vasesNovember 6th, 2012 in member junk
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Use croquet pieces, add holes for test tubes to sit in. Great vases.
Pattern or design used: My own design
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LloydsLandingofSears writes: The combination of the aged wood of the mallets and the glass of the tubes is nice - like this lots! ~Mary~ Posted: 5:54 pm on November 7th
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Naked Ashton Kutcher's Alleged Vodka-Fueled Hot Tub Romp With Four Nude Women — Watch Out, Demi Moore!
New allegations accuse Ashton of partying in the buff on the eve of his wedding anniversary — the same night Sarah Leal claims she had a fling with the 'Two and A Half Men' star!
Ashton Kutcher's marriage to Demi Moore has been rocked by an alleged scandal, but shocking alleged details of his night with hot blonde reported mistress Sara Leal have emerged — and they're wild!
Ashton, 33, showed little modesty while partying on Sept. 23 in the Diamond Suite at San Diego's Hard Rock Hotel, an eyewitness named Jacques Du Toit told his friend Gavin Naumoff, who told the Daily Mail.
"He found Ashton in a hot tub on the balcony with Alexis, Sara, a girl called Katie and another girl called Marta," the friend said. "They were all naked. Ashton invited Jacques to join them in the tub. Apparently, Ashton said, 'Yo, where's the vodka at?' and Jacques was like, 'It's over there but I'm not going to get it.' So Ashton gets out to get the vodka and that's when Jacques saw he was butt naked."
What do you think, HollywoodLifers — is Ashton the sleaziest dude in Hollywood?
— William Earl
More Ashton & Demi Stories:
- Ashton Stopped Following Demi On Twitter! Are They Done?
- Ashton & Demi's Age Difference Could Be The Catalyst For His Cheating!
- Ashton's Alleged Mistress Is Demanding $250K!


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