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Authorities called nearby residents to be aware of what was going on and to call for help if the fire moves closer to them.
The fire started after 1 p.m. near the local hangout and landmark called TZ Rock.
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Grand Theft Auto IV
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Let's get this one out the way now: Grand Theft Auto IV will be a runaway success. It's been four years since San Andreas, and legions of button mashers everywhere reserved copies of Rockstar's next big game as soon as they possibly could. Still, open-world games have come a long way, and other titles -- Crackdown comes to mind -- have proven they can deliver compelling takes on branching, free-roaming gameplay in sprawling game worlds.
There's a special formula that only Rockstar can deliver, though. The GTA franchise sports the crudest NPC chatter anywhere, features media landscapes full of cutting satire, and gives you protagonists that seem out of a lost Hunter S. Thompson/James Ellroy collaboration, and although Rockstar's keeping mum on the story and single-player aspects right now, all of the above is still in effect in the multiplayer game. GTA IV looks great, too; it's running on the Rockstar Advanced Graphics Engine (RAGE), which made its debut with Rockstar Games Presents Table Tennis. Under the hood, it's also using Natural Motion's Euphoria technology to drive the artificial intelligence behaviors in the ersatz New York City of Liberty City.
So, consider some of the fears surrounding the game allayed. Rockstar still has something to prove, on two fronts, actually. First, the exclusive episodic content for which Microsoft supposedly shelled out big bucks needs to hook Xbox Live users in a big way. Second, they're delivering multiplayer content to a GTA console game for the first time.
In typical Rockstar fashion, they're not spilling any beans on the downloadable stuff yet. After a hands-on session with four of the game's multiplayer modes, it seems like the chaotic fun players expect out the GTA series' single-player modes will show online as well. Players will be able to customize their ne'er-do-well's look before jumping online, which is done in-game by accessing a menu on lead character Nico's cell phone. It was pretty seamless, reminiscent of the quick drop-in seen in Burnout Paradise. Rockstar reps say multiplayer will accommodate somewhere between 10 and 20 participants in adversarial modes and four players in co-op. Our play-through with Team Deathmatch included two other journalists and members of the dev team. The goal in this mode was to snatch up the most dollars, which you get by eliminating enemies on the opposite team. You can get your whole team together in a vehicle and head straight for your opponents drive-by style, or play cat-and-mouse through the city. With weapons and armor littered over the map, this mode wasn't too different from what it is in other games. The thing that struck us, though, was the map itself. There weren't separate maps from which to choose; instead, the same cityscape from the single-player mode serves as the battlefield for multiplayer and the player hosting the game can set the borders.
Next, we jumped into Cops 'N' Crooks, where two teams of four compete across both sides of the law across the whole city. On the Crooks team, one player becomes the Mob Boss and his soldiers have to shepherd him to an extraction point before the Cops find them and take them out. If it sounds too straightforward, it isn't. Rockstar's thrown some nice tweaks to make C&C a uniquely balanced and more tense affair than a standard escort mission. The Cops team can always track on the Crooks on the in-game radar. Crooks don't have the same advantage, but that team's the only one that knows where the extraction point is. The round ends when the Boss either escapes or gets capped and then teams switch sides. Like Team Deathmatch, cash plays a role and more money is earned for more people escaping with the Boss.
Another co-op mode called Hangman's NOOSE followed the run-and-gun of Cops 'N' Crooks. This mission pits players against NOOSE, Liberty City's AI-driven police tactical squad. After a short cut scene that shows visiting mob boss Kenny Petrovich landing at a local airport, a team of players must fend off hordes of NOOSE officers and clear a path to a pre-established haven on the map. The team can split up into different vehicles, but the computer AI throws everything in its arsenal -- including multiple helicopters -- to thwart Kenny's safe passage.
Lastly, journos and devs revved their engines against each other in the GTA Race mode. One player hosts the race and determines the vehicle type, number of laps and time limit. It's a simple point A-to-point B race, but still allows for the freedom associated with all things GTA. You can set up roadblocks by abandoning cars in the middle of the street, shoot your opponents while on foot or hijack an altogether new vehicle.
It'd be a stretch to say that these modes are totally new ideas, but they do deliver tweaks that feel franchise-appropriate and not like content re-skinned with GTA textures. Impressively, they played glitch-free and kept up the same graphical fidelity. Best of all, these four modes aren't the only multiplayer tricks GTA IV's holding up its sleeve. We spied a few more while navigating the menus, so stay tuned for updates on Liberty City's various mayhem orgies.
This preview was based on a publisher-driven demo at the Rockstar NYC offices.
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NBA Preseason Power Rankings: Who Can Stop The Heat?
October is here, and so is NBA basketball, and the speculation is rampant and it is apparent that basketball fans are waiting in anticipation as the season nears its start.
A lot of noise echoed throughout the off-season for most teams as marquee coaches and players were dealt; franchises tore down their rosters to start anew.
The 76ers and the Celtics are two teams that have crippled their roster in order to try and attain a powerhouse player in a superstar-infested 2014 off-season, in addition to tanking the entirety of the season in order to to receive a high lottery pick for a stacked draft next season.
Oh, it's true, Danny Ainge, you're 'Riggin' for Wiggins,' and you know it. I make reference to Andrew Wiggins of course, who is projected to be the top pick in next June's NBA Draft.
Superstars such as Brandon Jennings and Jrue Holiday, have been dealt left and right in surprising fashion this off-season, while others have returned to former teams, like Michael Beasley and Mike Miller, and ultimately others have decided to leave teams off their own accord.
Yes, Dwight Howard, we're talking about you.
As players have yet to truly showcase their interactions and cohesiveness with one another in on-court action, it is difficult to gauge where teams truly rank among the 30 teams in the NBA.
As time passes, one will get a better feel for how teams truly rank, but for now, here are the preseasons power rankings for the NBA season.
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|Andre Iguodala, Evan Turner, Elton Brand and Holiday were among the many players who were on the verge of giving the Celtics a run for their money a couple years ago in the playoffs with the 76ers, nearly edging the team out in the conference semifinals.
Fast forward to today and you see nothing of what once was.
The team took a gamble and traded Iguodala for Andrew Bynum, who would not once don the Philadelphia uniform throughout the season.
It is apparent that the 76ers have given up hope after a surprising trade of Holiday to the Pelicans, but the objective clearly is to build for next season.
|The Phoenix Suns are a team who are showing no intent to hide their intentions of losing this season.
Shedding players off of the roster such as Beasley, Luis Scola and Caron Butler, who never touched a Phoenix jersey, the objective of the Suns is to lose, plain and simple.
New addition Eric Bledsoe provides a nice look for the Suns in the future, in addition to Goran Dragic showing promise at point guard, so if this whole tanking thing works out, look for the Suns to climb a few spots ahead in a few years.
|Victor Oladipo was the biggest highlight for the Orlando Magic during the offseason, which leads one to consider if the team truly even cares at this point.
Oladipo will have to make an adjustment toward the guard position, a spot he is not comfortable with. Even further adjustments are needed for a team that cannot afford any more.
Like many others, tanking is clearly an objective, and it would be no surprise if the team's pep talk centered around how to make it seem like it isn't trying to lose.
|Paul Millsap and Al Jefferson, two prominent players and the primary focus for offense and defense for the Jazz the previous season both left for the Hawks and Bobcats, respectively.
Tough blow, but it gives the likes of Derrick Favors and Enes Kanter to shine, in addition to Gordon Hayward who is a decent player for the Jazz.
|'Fear the deer,' a moniker attached to the Bucks when the team was in playoffs contention back in 2010.
Now, the team is down at the bottom of the barrel after trading away its superstar Brandon Jennings to the Detroit Pistons and making its goal known to all: time to rebuild.
Butler is a decent pickup for the team, but the team truly needs a facilitator, as Ersan Ilyasova will be a focal point for the team's offense for this season.
|Oh, the Bobcats. Back in the 2010 playoffs, the team showed signs of going in the right direction after Gerald Wallace made a heroic effort of leading the team to the first round, only to get bounced by the Magic.
A few bone-headed deals here and there, not to mention questionable picks in the draft, and you have a team that has been officially labeled as the worst team in NBA history during the 2012 lockout season, and a team that looks no different from last season, aside from the new addition of big man Al Jefferson, of course.
In a attempt to bring relevancy back to Charlotte, a desperate Michael Jordan has instituted a name change back to the Hornets, starting next season.
So, how long until Jordan breaks down and makes that comeback at 50 years old he teased about back in his 2009 Hall of Fame speech?
I'll give it until December.
|Ainge insists that the Celtics are absolutely not tanking this season and are ready to compete and build anew.
Whatever you say, Danny.
The destruction of the 'Big 3 era' with the loss of Doc Rivers, Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce, and the hiring of college head coach Brad Stevens, along with the continuous rumored shopping of Rajon Rondo, are more than enough proof that the Celtics are looking to make some noise next off-season as opposed to this upcoming season.
|With Tyreke Evans leaving Sacramento, it leaves DeMarcus Cousins to lead the charge with a team that was thought to have been leaving Sacramento for a few years now.
Incredible potential is within Cousins, but constant immaturity issues plague his judgment.
Cousins needs to make an adjustment to not only his game, but his personality, in addition to that, the team needs to consider options in a trade in order to improve.
|There is nothing the Raptors have done to improve themselves beside the addition of Tyler Hansbrough this off-season. The team still has Rudy Gay, whose shooting ability leaves a lot to be desired. Yet, the team still might make the playoffs despite most likely having a losing record.
The Eastern Conference, ladies and gentleman.
|John Wall and Bradley Beal are both fitting to have breakout seasons and if Emeka Okafor can stay healthy, the team might just be able to sneak into the playoffs.
Pieces are missing, but with an extension signed by Wall, building off of this squad serves hope for fans.
|How strange it is to have your head coach George Karl win coach of the year and then get rewarded by getting fired. It's even stranger how a team with a bright future and a legitimate western conference presence lost its way so quickly and was quietly replaced by the Warriors as the team to watch.
A team that had 57 wins the previous season might possibly miss the playoffs this season.
|The Pistons have acquired two central pieces this off-season with Jennings and Josh Smith. The only problem is that Smith doesn't fit quite well with a team that needed development in its young big men, especially when Smith adores mid-range shots that he has decent range with.
The team might make the playoffs in a weak Eastern Conference, but if the team wants to truly be competitive, an extra piece is needed and adjustments in the front court need to be made.
|Strangely, the Mavericks still managed to be relatively average in a season where Dirk Nowitzki missed a few games with injury and the team had no true standouts in terms of talent.
Adding Jose Calderon and Monta Ellis, the Mavericks could quietly creep their way into the playoffs this season.
|Trail Blazers
|A weak bench is the biggest factor in the team's woes this past season, and from the looks of it, this season as well.
The Blazers should consider making a deal before the trade deadline in order to get some pieces in return, as the center position is undermanned and LaMarcus Aldridge can't handle all the slack himself.
Making a trade to compliment Damian Lillard and Nicolas Batum will be one step forward for the Blazers.
|The departure of Howard only continues the woes for the Lakers that have carried over from all of the previous season.
An almost surreal season where everything went the exact opposite of what was expected, the Lakers are in a rough patch where Kobe Bryant is in limbo when it comes to his Achilles injury and the uncertainty of not only Mike D'Antoni, but the entire roster's potential, has many fans scratching their heads on what can be expected this season.
|The Timberwolves have been a sad case. The team has constantly acquired talent and the structure to be a competitive, playoff team. Yet, the injury bug continues to plague the team the same way it attacks Portland.
Health is the biggest factor, something each individual on the team has limited control over, so Timberwolves fans will have to pray for the well being of Kevin Love, Ricky Rubio and others if the team will seek to make the playoffs.
|The Cavaliers' woes from the departure of LeBron James may finally be coming to an end as the team has made good additions in the off-season.
The team made the gamble the 76ers did a year ago, but with a limited contract as to not impair the team's financial structure. Jarrett Jack is also a great pickup for the team.
Include top draft pick Anthony Bennett, and you have a team who might just make the playoffs after a four-year hiatus.
|An interesting offseason and a chance for a fresh start for New Orleans after a name change and an abundance of talent to the roster.
But who will handle the ball?
Holiday, Evans and Eric Gordon all require the ball in their hands in order to play the game their accustomed to. This still leaves the structure on offense and how shots are allocated, especially down low with Anthony Davis.
Adjustments will need to be made.
|Millsap provided a nice bolster for the Hawks' roster, but the team still lingers in mediocrity. The team remains in an average plane, right in between good and bad, the worst place to be as an NBA team.
The team still needs to make a few moves, but as of now, the team is truly still in the same spot as last season.
|Metta World Peace and Andrea Bargnani have joined the Knicks in an attempt to provide the roster some depth, yet the team really needs to stay healthy after Amar'e Stoudemire and Iman Shumpert have both been plagued by ongoing injuries.
The Knicks need to be careful, or else another team in New York might dethrone their place.
|The Nets have a new look and feel to it yet again this season as Garnett and Pierce have joined the team, in addition to an interesting hiring in former player Jason Kidd as head coach.
The continued bickering between the Knicks and the Nets have many excited about a potential rivalry in New York, and the Nets might have the edge, but the team is still not as good as it may seem on paper as previous experiences have entailed.
|The return of Derrick Rose has many basketball fans excited about the possibilities for the Bulls, and many even have aspirations for championships.
Do not expect Rose to be the same explosive man he once was, however, as injuries like the one Rose suffered one has a tendency to make one very tender and sore.
The rugged roster of the Bulls remains intact, but the lowered productivity of Luol Deng and the diminished roster in comparison to that of the one Rose last played with in 2012, has the Bulls slightly lower than where they once were when Rose was healthy.
|The addition of Howard has suddenly directed the attention toward Houston, who have high expectations placed upon itself.
A pick and roll combo of James Harden and Howard has exciting possibilities, in addition to the talents of Patrick Beverly, Omer Asik and Jeremy Lin.
The West is not a friendly place to be, however, and Houston's rise in stock has it floating around with Memphis and Golden State.
|A shocking move for Memphis this offseason was the firing of head coach Lionel Hollins. Whether or not this was a wise decision is yet to be decided, but head coach Dave Joerger has plenty to work with in Zach Randolph and Marc Gasol.
The team largely remains unchanged, however, and if it wants to deal with the Spurs, the team who knocked them out in the playoffs, or even Houston or Golden State, then its time to unveil some new strategies.
|That James Harden deal is looking worse and worse for the Thunder as each day goes by.
Kevin Martin has split, while Russell Westbrook will unexpectedly miss an extended period of time during the beginning of the season.
Kevin Durant is a killer, but if the playoffs matchup with the Grizzlies was any indication, the Thunder can only go so far with only Durant leading the forefront.
|The 'lob city' gimmick is no more. Now is the time for a championship.
Los Angeles truly belongs to the Clippers this season as the team has acquired the savvy head coach Doc Rivers and has also made perimeter shooting additions with guards Jared Dudley and J.J. Redick.
If Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan season their talents and hold some go-to post moves to their name this season, both of them and Chris Paul can make a valiant stretch throughout the West this season.
|Incredible coaching efforts from head coach Mark Jackson and the arguably the best shooter in the NBA, Stephen Curry, have propelled the Warriors to a place that not many basketball fans thought they would see.
This is a team that gave the steaming-hot Spurs any real trouble out West during the playoffs.
The loss of Jarrett Jack hurts some, but the addition of Iguodala and productivity from Andrew Bogut and Klay Thompson will truly give teams out there matchup nightmares.
|Game 6 of the 2013 NBA Finals is something the Spurs will never forget. A mere seconds away from a championship slipped away from the veteran team.
One of the greatest shots in NBA history from Ray Allen sealed the deal for the Spurs.
Largely untouched and unscathed from the previous season, the Spurs have done nothing to build off of last season, and this isn't exactly a problem.
Overlooked time and time again, who is one to argue that the Spurs are done for sure this time around? The team can very well be back to compete for a championship and prove doubters wrong again this season.
|The only true threat to the defending champions are the Pacers, who have bolstered and already impressive roster and already posed a threat to begin with.
Scola provides not only an additional and necessary big man for the Pacers off the bench, but this is a big man who has a finishing touch and a nice hint of post moves.
Paul George has yet to reach his potential and Roy Hibbert provides a presence down in the paint. If the Pacers can get efficiency from the likes of Danny Granger and Lance Stephenson, then the Pacers could be a legitimate replacement for the defending champions in June.
|The reigning, defending, back-to-back, NBA champion Heat has proven that the team is the best in the league.
The team has only become better in the off-season.
Aside from Miller, the roster is unchanged from the previous season, but has added the likes of Greg Oden and Beasley.
If Oden has his minutes managed and strengthens his knees and Beasley strays away from his off-court issues, while Dwyane Wade can stay healthy himself, with the addition of an in-his-prime James, the Heat will be major favorites to win three straight come June.
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Islamic Thinking: Beautiful Description of the Prophet (SAW)
Muhammad, peace be upon him, was a shy, reticent man who lived among his people with such high moral character they called him al-Amîn - the Trustworthy.
The Prophet's unique physical appearance, his high character and willingness to sacrifice for others, are often at the essence of any…
"Let's develop this characteristic - Instead of being jealous and envious of others, why don't we try to be happy for them. Happy for their blessings even though we don't have the exact blessings as them.
Jealousy and envy are indications that our heart is sick. One way to combat it is to always make good du'aas for them and be extra kind to them even though you may not like it. Not by justifying
Remember that our Creator is The Most Fair of all. If you want more, be more generous and Allah will give you more. If you want more, be grateful and Allah will increase it for you. And remember that Allah knows what's best for us more than ourselves, so we are where we are because it is best for us.
No need to be jealous of others' blessings and indulge in self pity. What we need to do is work towards righteousness and help each other to achieve our ultimate goal - Jannatul Firdaus.
And Allah knows best" - Maz
"The Telekung Project is a project initiated to help waqaf telekung preserve it cleanliness. The aim is to provide a comfortable and khusyuk prayer for muslimah"
A quick story on this wonderful project is that it started when her daughter asked how dirty the telekungs were at the surau where they stopped while going back to their hometown. At first, she comforts her daughter that they'll come back and change new ones, little that she know her daughter was very persistent in having it all replaced/washed. It finally brought a light bulb moment to her when she heard a scholar said that a good deed should never be dismissed, as the reward is immense, even little ones (MasyaAllah). Hence ever since October 2010, they've started collecting the dirty telekungs and replace it with new ones while they wash/sow the ones they've collected before returning it.
So, do support The Telekung Project ;)
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THURSDAY, Dec. 30 (HealthDay News) -- The number of emergency
department visits that involved underage drinking jumped by more
than 250 percent on New Year's Day two years ago, compared with
other days of the year, a new U.S. study reveals.
Researchers with the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration found that an estimated 1,980 emergency
visits on Jan. 1, 2009, had something to do with underage drinking.
The national average for such visits during the year as a whole was
546 per day.
Compared with other national holidays, the number of admissions
on New Year's Day linked to underage drinking was 191 percent
higher than on Memorial Day and 110 percent higher than on the
Fourth of July, the researchers explained.
"This stunning increase in underage drinking-related emergency room visits on New Year's Day should be a wake-up call to parents, community leaders and all caring adults about the potential risks our young people face for alcohol-related accidents, injuries and death during this time of year," Pamela S. Hyde, the agency's administrator, said in a news release.
"Parents, clergy, coaches, teachers and other role models must do everything they can to positively influence young people -- including talking with them early and often about the many health dangers underage drinking poses to their physical and emotional health and well-being," Hyde urged.
Kenneth R. Warren, acting director of the U.S. National
Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, described the finding as
"very troubling" and said that it was "in line with what we already
know about the increase in alcohol-related problems during the
winter holidays."
"For example, during Christmas and New Year's, two to three times more people die in alcohol-related crashes than during comparable periods the rest of the year," Warren said. "And 40 percent of traffic fatalities during these holidays involve a driver who is alcohol-impaired, compared to 28 percent for the rest of December."
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The U.S. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
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St. Petersburg City Council members decided not to pull the plug on the 22 red light cameras across the city. Council member Wengay Newton made a motion to terminate the contract with ATS, the company that operates city's controversial red light cameras.
Newton put an item on today's agenda to address the latest concerns about the cameras from Clerk of Circuit Court Ken Burke.
Burke said to all municipalities across Pinellas County that, in part, the ticket-issuing program is riddled with "poor communication, insufficient information and... unfair penalties."
Opponents of the program have laid out at least nine problems with it, including yellow light times that are too short.
"It's obvious the system is flawed," said council member Leslie Curran. "It's been flawed from the beginning."
In the meantime, Mayor Bill Foster recently put a moratorium allowing exceptions for those who sign affidavits. That would include people driving rental cars, for example, or car owners who received a ticket after someone else was behind the wheel.
"I decided that it was just patently unfair to not have that ability to issue the notice of violations which is why the city made the decision that it did," Foster said at Thursday's meeting.
He said the city will work with state lawmakers to address the problems the city is seeing. Legally, council members can't make changes in the way the system runs; they can just simply terminate the contract if they see fit, which the majority did not on Thursday.
"This is one of those things that is real simple to fix: Don't run red lights," said council member Jeff Danner.
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Vulcar is most likely the GTA analogue of Volvo, as the Vulcar Ingot is noticeably based on the 90's Volvo 850 and V70 wagons.
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Their name appears to be a play-on of "vulgar", (meaning gross and inappropriate) and "car". This could be another reference to Volvo as their name is similar to the word "Vulva", the outer part of the female genitalia.
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An eyewitness and future colonel in the Israeli military later wrote of the militia members: "They didn't know how to fight, but as murderers they were pretty good."
Some 2,000 Ukrainians have gathered in the capital Kiev to commemorate the 78th anniversary of the Stalin-era famine that killed thousands in the former Soviet Union state.
There is definitely a (corporate) world government depopulation program right now. This documentary prooves for 100% the shocking truth that there are some very sick people out there who don't have the best intentions for humanity on Earth.
The U.K. Border Agency is prohibiting fundamentalist Rabbi Yosef Elitzur, co-author of the controversial book "The King's Torah" ("Torat Hamelech" ), from entering Britain.
A fine short piece exposing the Times' role in running cover for the Jewish terrorists genocide of Ukranians. Malcolm Muggeridge reflects on the obvious lies told by Walter Duranty and the Times. Of course, the Jew, Duranty, received the Pulitzer Prize for his efforts.
US President Barack Obama says the US's relationship with Israel is as strong as it has ever been, but is that really so? Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came to the White House today to make nice, but was the meeting anything more than a photo op? Norman Finkelstein and Morton Klein debate the US-Israel relationship and what it means for America.
The United Nations has warned that the demolition of the Palestinian residences by Israelis has been breaking the record for the past three months.
The prospect of increased settlement building in the West Bank prompted the U.S. State Department to issue a statement Monday saying that "the United States is deeply concerned by continuing Israeli actions with respect to settlement construction."
US congressman says he'll personally ask Ban Ki-moon to retract Goldstone Report.
Jordan stretches to sea in online map by Egypt's largest airline, though it continues to fly to Israel.
Seeger joins a growing roster of international performers who have declined to whitewash, greenwash, or in any way enable Israel's colonial project, including Elvis Costello, Gil Scott-Heron, Roger Waters, Devendra Banhart, and the Pixies.
With Feeling the Hate, we edited an hour of footage into a four-minute video that focused on the hatred many Jewish nationalists in Israel and the United States felt towards President Barack Obama. Our unreleased footage contains statements by the same kids about Palestinians. The political science major who said "I know my shit" but didn't know who the Israeli prime minister was told us that the Palestinians should all be transferred to a small corner in the West Bank and kept there in a virtual cage. The boisterous young man with the mesh hat who remarked, "We don't want any Nazi shit, Obama!" defended Israeli Foreign Minister Avidgor Lieberman's proposal to strip citizenship from "disloyal" Palestinian citizens. These drunk kids in bars had a coherent, if very simplistic, ideological basis for their racism. It is called Jewish nationalism.
Fakhri Abu Diab, a Palestinian political activist and Member of the Silwan Defence Committee, told Gulf News that Israel was taking advantage of the regional turmoil to accelerate Judaising all of occupied Jerusalem. "This is the best time for the Israelis to go forward with their plan to build in East Jerusalem, with the entire world totally engaged in the Middle East's regional turmoil," Abu Diab said.
The growing ranks of the poor and unemployed in the US are receiving offers to sell there blood for home heat and their personal security guns for food.
What an ingenious way to control and manipulate the new class of desperate Americans in the 21st century.
You've got to hand it to the Winnipeg Free Press for exposing the Animal Farm ethics of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights --- some victims are just more equal than others.
Why shouldn't the Holodomor, the official Soviet campaign of starving the Ukrainian people to death, be given equal standing to the Holocaust within the walls of the CMHR?
The former Israeli military officer wanted in Colombia on charges of training right-wing militias landed in Israel Frinday night after Russian authorities released him from prison. Klein, a former Israeli lieutenant colonel, was captured by Interpol in Moscow in August 2007 following a request by the Colombian authorities, who accuse him of training drug barons' private armies and paramilitary groups in the 1980s.
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Russia cannot extradite Klein to Colombia, saying that he may face torture in the country, where he was sentenced to nearly 11 years in prison. Klein has said his extradition would mean a "death sentence."
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Dios Bendiga Israel – God bless Israel. This is not a statement many Israelis hear when traveling abroad. Except in Colombia.
Neve Gordon looks at how an evangelical Christian TV channel with a viewership of nearly half a billion people, including 20 million in the USA and 14 million in Britain, is funding a project to ethnically cleanse Israel's Bedouin citizens from their ancestral land.
"The Jewish National Fund's objective … is … to plant a pine or eucalyptus forest on the desert land so that the Bedouins cannot return to their ancestral homes."
Observers say the situation in Jerusalem is likely to explode in light of a decision by Israeli occupation authorities to demolish hundreds of Palestinian homes in the city...Jerusalem attorney Ahmed Al-Roweidi said in a press release on Thursday that more than 20,000 homes in Jerusalem will be affected by decisions made in Israeli courts, adding that demolition orders against these homes would require 100,000 Palestinians to be ejected from their homes in an attempt to attract more Jewish settlers to reside in new settlements.
Behold 'anti-racist' lecturer and author Tim Wise's true color.
Behold Tim Wise's sneering hate as he rants about "White Right," advocating genocidal policy.
Behold Jewish supremacism, in their never-ending vitriol.
'Your life is more important than that of the enemy', Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira tells students, adding that a soldier should never put himself in danger even for the sake of a civilian.
Passengers aboard Gaza-bound vessel refute IDF claims of non-violent takeover. 'There are no words to describe what we went through,' former pilot Yonatan Shapira says. Holocaust survivor who took part in sail: I can't sleep at night because of what Israel is doing to Gazans
Reuven Moskowitz, an 82-year-old Holocaust survivor who was also aboard the vessel, backed Shapira's claim. "We are people who came with a message of peace and we did not anticipate a burst of violence against us, but the officers acted violently.
Non-Jews are "uncompassionate by nature" and should be killed in order to "curb their evil inclinations." "If we kill a gentile who has has violated one of the seven commandments… there is nothing wrong with the murder," Shapira insisted. Citing Jewish law as his source (or at least a very selective interpretation of it) he declared: "There is justification for killing babies if it is clear that they will grow up to harm us, and in such a situation they may be harmed deliberately, and not only during combat with adults."
Human rights activists reach Hamas-ruled strip by sea, despite Israeli blockade.
Two vessels carrying 46 international human rights activists have reached the Gaza Strip, despite Israel's strict 14-month siege of the Palestinian territory.
The end of the mission to symbolically break the siege came after Israel backed down from an earlier warning to the 'Free Gaza' protest group not to breach the blockade.
Al Jazeera's Ashraf Amritti in Gaza said: "The arrival of these two boats is a very symbolic gesture for the Palestinian cause, to end the siege, end the occupation.
In fact, those phrases are written across the peace boats which carry flags from more than 70 nationalities."
Prof. Donna Shalala, Clinton's secretary of health, arrives in Israel in order to fight academic boycott against Israel, claims she was held at Ben-Gurion Airport just because she has Arab last name.
The toxic trail left by the United States onslaughts on Fallujah in central Iraq is reportedly deadlier than the one besetting Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The findings are part of the study titled "Cancer, Infant Mortality and Birth Sex-Ratio in Fallujah, Iraq 2005-2009," which was also cited in an article last month by award-winning journalist Patrick Cockburn in British newspaper The Independent.
The other day we picked up the news from CNN that when Israeli security forces descended on a Bedouin village in the Negev and destroyed it, uprooting over 200 people, busloads of civilians were there cheering.
The Yids and the Yanks have made an unbreakable alliance. They are like a gay couple who enjoy each others company.
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Shiite leader in Iraq was not aware of agreement between riavl blocs
Iraq's most influential Shiite cleric was not consulted about an accord between rival Shiite political groups that gives him and other senior members of the religious hierarchy the final ward on their disputes, his office said Thursday. According to the AP, an aide of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani said the cleric's office had no prior knowledge of the agreement that sets down conditions for unity between the Shiite political blocs, including the referee role for the marjaiya, the Shiite religious hierarchy.
"We were not consulted," the official said. "The agreement was done among the two blocs and we had no knowledge about it before it was announced."
On Tuesday night, the country's rival Shiite groups agreed to unite to form a coalition, making them front-runners to head the new government after 7 March elections.
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MILWAUKEE, WI (LEARFIELD-WSAU)It's been two weeks since N-B-A teams have negotiated with free agents – and so far, nobody but Milwaukee has expressed an interest in Bucks' point guard Brandon Jennings.
The Bucks were hoping to get Atlanta point guard Jeff Teague, but the Hawks kept the restricted free agent by matching his four-year, 32-million-dollar offer on Saturday.
Jennings was looking in on the Bucks Sunday, as he sent two tweets to N-B-A T-V during its broadcast of Milwaukee's 69-61 Summer League win over New Orleans in Las Vegas. Jennings said quote, "Whatever you hear in the media isn't true – I haven't talked to anybody since the season was over … And I will continue not to talk to anyone."
The Bucks made a one-year, four-point-three-million dollar qualifying offer which gave Milwaukee the chance to match any offer Jennings gets – and G-M John Hammond has said the Bucks would do what's necessary to keep him.


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Nov. 29, 2012
NORMAL, Ill. - Jamie Russell and Candace Sykes each had a double-double to lead Illinois State University past the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee women's basketball team, 75-54, Thursday evening at Redbird Arena.
The Panthers (3-3) led early but went cold from the field in falling behind by 12 at intermission. The Redbirds (4-2) slowly pulled away in the second half, using a decisive 10-0 scoring run after Milwaukee had pulled back within nine points with eight minutes to play.
"This was a great lesson for us," UWM head coach Kyle Rechlicz said. "It was an opportunity for us to come to someone's court and see what it's like to play at that level. Hopefully, we will move forward from here and learn how to compete like they did."
Junior Emily Decorah led the Panthers in scoring with 11 points. Senior Sami Tucker added 10 points and eight rebounds and junior Angela Rodriguez scored nine. Sophomore Janna Swopshire finished with eight points off the bench in just 13 minutes of action.
"Janna has taken steps every game and tonight she really proved she was ready to compete at a very high level and she was focused," Rechlicz said. "For us to have a post player step up in the paint showed that we do have another angle of attack and I think she can build on this and move forward and be a major impact player for us."
In addition to Russell's 17 points and 13 boards and Sykes' 16 and 11, Janae Smith led the way with a game-high 18 points. Illinois State outrebounded UWM by a count of 53-to-30 and also limited it to 32.8 percent (19-of-58) shooting from the floor on the night.
"I want to commend Illinois State - they have an unbelievable team," Rechlicz said. "It's very senior-laden, with a lot of great players. And not only do they have a lot of great players, but they play extremely hard."
After falling down by as many as 17 midway through the second period, the Panthers clawed their way back into it. Rodriguez's jumper with 8:07 to go trimmed the deficit to 11 at 59-48 and gave the team some momentum. But just as quickly, it was gone, as the Redbirds would score 10 unanswered points to build the lead back to 21 and that was it.
Cold shooting from the floor and foul trouble combined to hurt UWM, as it started the second half by missing its first seven shots.
The Panthers jumped out to a 7-4 lead right off the bat, with Tucker scoring five of the first seven points for her squad. Her jumper at the 16:47 mark gave UWM that lead, but the Redbirds would score nine points in a row as part of an 11-2 run that gave them the 15-9 advantage just three minutes later.
Milwaukee went cold from the floor the rest of the half, including a near-eight minute stretch that saw them hit just one of 10 shots from the floor and trail by as many as 16 at the four-minute mark before trimming that to 12 at intermission.
The team remains on the road and heads to Michigan next, taking on Michigan State Saturday in a game scheduled for a 3 p.m. CST tipoff.


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Entries for the competition can be sent via mail to: Nebraska Handwriting Contest, Attention: Julie Agard, University of Nebraska at Kearney, College of Education, Kearney, NE 68849.
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Amtrak and the California High Speed Rail Authority are joining forces this coming week to begin the process of ordering up to 62 sets of high-speed trains for use in both the Northeast Corridor and in the Golden State. Thirty-two of the train sets would be earmarked for the NEC, for use at speeds up to 160 mph, and the others for California.
As of now, the plan is to announce on Thursday, January 17, a request for information (RFI) to get input from builders of such trains, almost all of them headquartered in Europe and Asia. Amtrak President Joe Boardman said earlier this week that Amtrak expects to put the project up for bids by the end of this year.
The surprise in all this is the partnership between Amtrak and CHSRA. The common denominator between the two organizations is Frank Vacca, who left as Amtrak's chief engineer last October to become the California organization's chief program manager, effectively managing the build out of the new bullet train line between the San Francisco and Los Angeles areas. With his ties to Amtrak's Boardman, Vacca is believed to be instrumental in getting Amtrak and CHSRA together to make a combined purchase.
Obviously, the two organizations hope to achieve economies of scale by combining their orders. Amtrak's new train sets would be limited to 160 mph because of safety factors, including intermingling with far slower freight and commuter trains, and the loss of capacity created by overtakes of slower trains at speeds above 160. But the equipment can possibly be configured to run at higher speeds. California has said its trains would operate at up to 220 mph. Amtrak currently limits its Acela Express trains to 135 mph except for two 150 mph sections in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, where modern, constant-tension catenary is in place. A major rebuilding of a 24-mile segment between New Brunswick and Trenton, N.J., is expected to permit 160 mph speeds by 2017.
A drawback of the existing 20 Acela train sets, delivered more than a dozen years ago by Bombardier and Alstom is that they weigh significantly more than high-speed trains in other countries, due to Federal Railroad Administration rules aimed at making them more crashworthy. In fact, some experts question whether it is possible to achieve 220 mph speeds given the weight of this equipment. Amtrak has not formally requested that FRA modify its rules, and it is not likely that FRA will do so before the bidding process begins.
The request for information process is a preliminary step to actually ordering equipment. Amtrak and CHSRA will invite builders to talk with them, explain the state of the art for such train sets, define critical engineering issues, and discuss the possible cost. This week, Amtrak had this to say about the RFI: "In considering options for this equipment, Amtrak will be assessing how high-speed equipment technology has evolved since present Acela equipment was built, how modern equipment can provide an equivalent or better level of safety while also meeting business needs, and opportunities to use this equipment acquisition to serve as a catalyst to encourage expanded domestic manufacturing of high value modern technology."
The Acela equipment has proven a powerful revenue source for Amtrak in recent years. In fiscal 2012, which ended last September 30, Acela service generated $510 million in sales, or almost one-fourth of all Amtrak revenues. Moreover, after deducting fully allocated costs, they contributed $179 million toward Northeast Corridor capital improvements. Therefore, either expanding their size or ordering new-generation train sets became a top priority in 2012. When it was discovered that the plan to add two coaches to each of the existing train sets would be prohibitively expensive—imagine trying to replicate a 1999 model automobile—Amtrak moved up its plan to order new train sets and increase the number of those train sets from 22 to 32. The present Acela train sets would continue in service until approximately 2025, according to Amtrak planning documents. The new train sets would allow Amtrak to begin half-hour instead of hourly headways between New York and Washington.
For the California High Speed Rail Authority, the equipment-buying process being initiated is the most visible sign yet that the controversial project will actually come into being. Last summer the California legislature approved financing for the first 130 miles, between Madera and Bakersfield in the Central Valley, along with funds to electrify the Caltrains commuter territory between San Francisco and San Jose and make improvements on Metrolink rights of way it will use in the Los Angeles area. Construction in the valley could begin this summer. The political perils of this undertaking became easier in 2012 when the authority "rescoped" the project and knocked out $30 billion in estimated costs.—Fred W. Frailey
This has to be viewed as an auspicious development. The more cooperation the better. Now let's see Amtrak begin to plan to bypass the most notorious bottlenecks , i.e. the 70 mile segment of the old New Haven Shore Line between New Haven and Westerly, R.I. This segment is loaded with 60 mph curves and even 25 mph through New London, Conn. Can you imagine that, 25 mph on a so called high speed line between New York and Boston. Also, the Metro North segment between New Rochelle and New Haven is notorious. Given the high degree of development in this populous area perhaps tunneling under New Rochelle Jct., Port Chester N.Y., Norwalk and Bridgeport,Conn. and the speed restrictions at each of these points could be considered as more practical than new construction. Let's hope.
A most interesting blog, Fred, and thoughtful comment by WJM2223. Those of us who are old enough to remember the Budd Co. Metroliners operated by Penn Central on he NE Corridor also know that 150 mph was consistently delivered and 160 mph was in certain locations such as Trenton-New Brunswick. At least one round-trip was to a 2-hour, 29 minute schedule. At that speed, Metroliner actually was competitive with the Eastern Air Lines shuttle by the time you figured in central city to central city time and cost by rail vs. the same standard by air.
Will the cretins in Congress stand for bid solicitation and purchase of trainsets from European or Asian manufacturers? Or, will they posture and pander about "buy American" and other silliness, not even knowing that no U.S. manufacturer is in this business at present. Posturing and pandering is one of the very few things members of Congress seem able to do consistently.
Pundit - Those Metroliners only seemed like they were doing 150! They were really operated at 120 in regular service - even the 2:29 non-stop. In the early Amtrak years, is was reduced to 110.
A great idea to team up for an equipment order. Also a great idea to see about safety vis-a-vis FRA standards. For the NEC and CAHSR, what would be so terrible about just buying the latest ICE or TGV equipment?
I'd also like to know how much of a premium we (us taxpayers) will wind up paying for the "build American" requirement. Why is it so important to try to create a US supply base for this equipment?
Never understood why extending by two coaches the Acela Express trainsets would be 'prohibitely expensive', when (for example) Richard Branson's Virgin is busy extending their Pendolino electric multiple units from 9-car to 11-car sets.
And the majority of the first generation French TGV PSE train sets are still running (in 2011, one set had surpassed 11.7 million km), and now these are preparing for their third interior rebuilding...
oltmannd: Thanks for the comment. As I recall the Penn Central back in the day, it's not at all surprising that Metroliner service had a hard time adhering to published schedules. As I also recall, the original contract between PRR and Budd called for 150 mph capability.
As for "buy America," come on, give the Congress a break! Those clowns cannot do the public's business on the simplest of issues, so they come up with silliness like "buy American" to try to convince the public that they are serving our interests. Sorry if this appears as a political rant, but I hold both Democrats and Republicans in Congress in complete contempt, so while this deals with public policy, it really is not political. I don't know how much of a lug we taxpayers will be forced to absorb, but considering there is no domestic HSR equipment capabaility at present, you can figure that once the lobbyists have earned their bonuses, we will be providing much if not all of the capital to create the domestic capacity, plus the obscenely higher cost of its output since there won't be any competition for the equipment. But, we continue to send our own Congresspersons back year after year, while condemning the other 534. We rationalize irrational behavior by condemning everyone else's senator and represent but giving our own a pass. Recent studies say there were no more than 35 House seats that really were in play this past November. Oligarchy lives.
...because the Talgo folk have been churning out a steady stream of equipment for Europe for quite a while. I'd guess Virgin's pretty much is ordering equipment from a facility has had a fairly full order book over the years. The Acela equipment fairly specialized and was built at a "one and done" factory. You want new cars, you have to re-create the factory, complete with skilled workers.
Now, if Amtrak had just purchase ICE equipment off the shelf, assembled in Europe, they'd be in the same boat as Virgin.
This is good in many ways ---
1. a larger order should reduce unit prices
2. the order will strech out the deliveries to meet demand especially in california
3. even though on the 2 coasts -- spare parts can be interchanged
4. Only one FRA certification at Pubelo will be needed savig a lot of money
5. If one system RIDERSHIP DEMANDS are higher than anticipated then more train sets to the higher demand location.
6. Starts a national standard for other HSR lines ---- VIP IMHO
7. There may be seasonal demands that are different enabling interchange of the train sets.
8. Identical train sets may have some multiplier effect for passengers from other coast.
9. Training schools could be joint as well.
a downer would be that if a major problem is discovered after trains begin service then both systems might have shut downs of the trains at the same time.be will goeso
This was a great post! Mr. Frailey's blog often breaks news in addition to informed commentary, making it a valuable source of rail information.
Today I had a long talk with the Amtrak station master at Saratoga Springs about the Acela, and he told me that he has heard thru the grape vine that President Boardman and Amtrak where moving to ask the FRA to loosen up its safety requirements to allow for overseas "off the shelf" high-speed train-set designs.
An Amtrak news memo he showed me stated that it was proving to be too expensive to reset up the Acela production line for only a small number of coaches.
Virgin Trains has far more Pendolino sets than Amtrak has Acela sets, so it's a much larger car order, and Pendolino is an international design by Alstom that with modifications is used in several European countries including Italy and Switzerland. The Acela design is unique to Amtrak.
It seems that with both the CHSRA and Amtrak aiming for 220-mph (350 km per hr) service in California and the Northeast Corridor, they are both aiming at acquiring a train-set design that is far less modified than the Acela, a light-weight design unlike the Acela.
That's why teaming up makes sense.
However I think that this 220-mph business is a big mistake, there is no railway in the world with a top commercial speed that high, the fastest service is the TGV Est with a top speed of 200-mph.
Some of Spain's newest high-speed lines where design for 220-mph running, but to date they remain at 186-mph, which seems to indicate that there is little to gain commercially from such super high speeds that have the cost of stressing both infrastructure and rolling stock maintenance.
China had a few lines including the new Beijing-Shanghai link at 220-mph, but a new limit of 186-mph was imposed after several problems, including a fatal crash in southern China from a major signal failure.
Unfortunately during construction illegal skimping on the quality of building materials means that the new concrete slab track cannot support the very high speeds due to the use of poor quality concrete. This of course was a major scandal that led to arrest of the railways minster that had become a multimillionaire thru corruption and had a mistress in every city.
But even if all the construction had been up to par, 220-mph running has won plenty of critics in China, the cost of construction and maintenance increases exponential for speed, there comes a point in the relationship between speed, costs, and revenue where the operational costs of additional speed overtake the additional revenue that can be generated from shorter travel times.
Consider the following piece from a Chinese news article…
Speed-obsessed policymakers including Liu (China's ex-rail minister) have been blamed for opaque financing and higher-than-necessary costs. Feasibility studies in 2003 for high-speed lines between Beijing and Tianjin, Wuhan and Guangzhou, and Zhengzhou and Xi'an called for 200 kph (125mph) trains. But after construction began, the ministry ordered boosting each project to accommodate 350 kph (220mph) trains, which "immediately increased costs," said Zhao.
Caixin learned that the National Development and Reform Commission, the government's economic planning agency, originally approved a 12.3 billion yuan investment for the Beijing-Tianjin project. But by the time the 115-kilometer line opened in 2008, the cost had risen to roughly 21.5 billion yuan, or 185 million yuan per kilometer of track – the most expensive in China.
True, the Beijing-Tianjin train can travel up to 350 kph instead of 200 kph as originally planned. But the higher speed saves less than 10 minutes per trip.
From: Caixin Online: All Aboard China's Fast Trains to Trouble
So China tried these super high speeds and fell back to 186-mph (300 km per hr) which seems to be the world's standard from Spain to Korea. The faster a train goes the more problems there are of ride stability, wheel adhesion, energy consumption, and noise; and while these difficulties are not insurmountable technically, they increasingly seemed to be commercially.
Thus if you are for example connecting two city-pairs that are roughly 500-mph apart and you want a 3-hour travel time, then maglev is the way to go from the stand point of technology.
But maglev is expensive and is completely incompatible with existing rail infrastructure, so you have to build the entire line at once, and maglev services can't branch out on to older slower rail lines to reach cities beyond the new infrastructure, as with the TGV and Mini-Shinkansen today.
This likely limits maglev to city pairs of many tens of millions of people, and in many places better commercial airlines may make more sense.
So there you have it, 220 mph seems to be beyond the commercial limits of modern high-speed rail; yet this recent development of a seemingly "maximum commercial speed" for traditional steel wheel on steel rail transport has seeming yet to be noticed by either Amtrak or the CHSRA.
I have recently reread the CHSRA's California High-Speed Rail Program Revised 2012 Business Plan and while a great improvement with its "blended system" plan, it still is troubling to me.
For example it still has the top speed of 220-mph, when I believe that a drop to 186-mph, or even initially to 160-mph would be a better move. One reason why the proposed system costs so much I believe is due to accommodating this super speed, curves must kept to an absolute minimum, really you can't have much of a curve at all.
Legally the bill which authorized the system mandates a 2hr 40min travel time LA-SF which works out for the need of an average speed of 162-mph. This needs to be change. A final travel time of 3hrs 25mins at full system build out would work just as well I believe (have a nicer café car and good comfortable reclining seating) and require a far more realistic average speed of 125-mph.
My other problem is the new plan still delays the start of thru one-seat high-speed service Bay Area to Los Angeles till the completion of step 3 in 2029, even after the next section over the Tehachapi Mountains to Mojave is completed in 2022.
They are apparently upgrading Metrolink's Antelope Valley Line (double tracking, grade separation/improvements, signaling) so that future intercity passengers can transfer to faster commuter trains at Palmdale and then later at San Fernando to reach LA's Union Station.
This is nuts! The goal should be Bay Area-LA service as soon as possible, the extra capacity that upgrading the Antelope Valley Line creates should be reserve for thru high-speed trains (both CHSRA and DesertXpress) to Union Station.
On the northern end the CHSRA talks about upgrading existing Amtrak and Altamont Commuter Express tracks to bring service to San Jose and Sacramento sooner. This is a good move, despite the large amount of single track running, the rail lines have very wide right-of-ways, plenty of room for a second and in some places third mainline track.
I would suggest that the CHSRA/Caltrans work with BNSF and Union Pacific on upgrading the existing rail lines used by Amtrak and the Altamont Commuter Express.
First the Initial Operating Section should be extended northward from Merced to Modesto. From there the existing San Joaquin route thru Stockton to Sacramento and the Altamont Commuter Express route from Stockton to San Jose should be double and tripled-tracked, grade crossings upgraded, and signaling enhanced, with a modest increase in top speeds from 79 to 90-mph.
Electrification should also be done, with the Antelope Valley Line also being electrified to Union Station. A dual mode turbo-electric train-set is a alternative possibility, after the TGV was switch from the turbo prototype to the all-electric final model, the SNCF did consider a dual-mode to reach some cities, but in the end electrification of these older lines was seen as being more economical.
Thus for billions less and a lot sooner, you would have a one-seat ride from LA Union Station to downtown San Jose and Sacramento. For San Francisco and Oakland the planned BART extension south to San Jose provide good access. Perhaps at a short extension of BART to the Pleasanton Rail Station could be undertaken.
After this the next step would be building a new dedicated high-speed line over the coastal mountains from Merced to San Jose. From San Jose the electrification of the Caltrains line to San Francisco gets you to SF's Fourth & King Street Station or the Transbay Terminal.
That's why for future rolling stock I think that the CHSRA should be looking at an "Acela type" heavy-weight high-speed train, perhaps an EMU with a with a tilt system. It's possible that an EMU would have a good enough power-to-weight ratio to allow for a top speed of 186-mph despite all the extra steel it would need to meet FRA crash standards.
A tilt system could further cut travel times over the Altamont Pass and thru the Antelope Valley. The tilt system could also be a 2 or 3-degree passive tilt system like those developed in Japan. For example Nippon Sharyo new design is completely reliant on onboard equipment (no track side transponders) and the maintenance is for more simple than active tilt systems. A 2 degree tilt gets you an extra 25-kph (15mph) around a curve with a radius of radius of 600 meters (2000 ft).
The train won't be a Pendolino (8-degree tilt) but should give performance around curves about equal to the current Acela (4-degree tilt).
As for Amtrak, I believe the same logic applies. What we need is more tunnels into Manhattan and more sections of track where high-speed trains can run over 125-mph, let alone 220-mph. The top commercial speed should be no more than 186-mph, and 160-mph should be acceptable.
Let's learn from others and not repeat their mistakes. A slightly slower high-speed train while be a lot more affordable, and thus more likely to actually be built!
As others noticed already, Talgo has nothing to do with the Virgin Pendolino: en.wikipedia.org/.../British_Rail_Class_390
In Europe, the highest speeds being operated regularly are 320 km/h (205 mph) in France LGV lines, while Spain is slowly rising the top speed above 300 km/h. Officially, the ICE-3 has 330 km/h maximum speed (you can see the UIC numbers on its side), but this is not the typical operating speed, as the energy consumption rises steeply beyond 300 km/h, and the time gained was not worth it.
The train driver has the option of going faster than 300 km/h in order to recover a delay.
Chinese have a different problem, though, than Europe: vast distances (compared to Europe, that is).
One line inaugurated recently has a length of 2200+ km, so speeds like 380 km/h are deemed necessary for extending the train operation radius (see en.wikipedia.org/.../High-speed_rail_in_China , especially the "Track Network" part, and en.wikipedia.org/.../CRH380A ).
Also, I would suggest you study this blog entry regarding China HSR (he has lots of entries in his blog about railroads, but I feel this entry is a good chunk of material):
If they can't figure out how to keep the weight down, we could wind up with HSR trains that are less energy efficient than future airliners and automobiles. CAFE is going to double in the next decade or so, and current Amtrak trains are only about 20% better than driving.
Oops. Point remains, however. Virgin's additional cars won't be constructed in a new facility with new workers. Acela was. And the Acela replacements likely will be too, unless we get smart.
I guess I am a skeptic / cynic. How will CHSRA link the electrification of Caltrain to the Madera - Bakersfield new build section to operate these new trainsets, much less finish a through route between the Bay and L.A.? I hope this doesn't really just end up screwing up Amtrak's N.E. Corridor equipment plan because CHSRA cannot deliver on their part of the deal.
If someone told me Amtrak and the FEC were going together on an RFI / RFP for new trainsets (Talgo anyone?) for the Chicago-St. Louis / Kansas City route and the Chicago - Detroit route and the new Florida trains, I might believe it. But I still think CHSRA is a fantasy, and I worry that it will just hold back progress where real progress is needed on the NE Corridor.
I am happy Amtrak scrapped the notion of expanding the white elephant Acela sets, but I just fear now the evolution of the NE Corridor will be held hostage to a fantasy in California. I would love to see CHSRA build out the California line, but I just don't see how the financing falls together yet. CHSRA has made a lot of progress towards rationality with the decision to use the Antelope Valley Line, but there are still big questions of how the funding ultimately comes together. I think counting on Federal and State funding in the next decade is nothing but a fiscal pipe dream and I have yet to see the private sector offering to fund it based on the current Federal and State seed money.
Amtrak needs the units long before CHSRA will be ready to operate the trains. If they are ready in even five years for Amtrak, they will probably be 10 years old before they ever run in California.


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