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Spiroflow Systems, a leader in the powder handling and conveying industries, recently worked with Access Security Products Ltd to resolve a powder handling problem with a proprietary cement mixture used in its manufacturing process.
Access Security is a leading manufacturer and supplier of burglary and fire resistant safes, vaults, and physical security equipment. The company uses an expensive proprietary cement mixture in the walls of their safes and vaults rendering them almost impenetrable to thieves and fire. This castable material has an extremely high compressive strength and provides maximum burglary resistance. It also happens to be a very difficult product to handle. The material is a fine powder that arrives by container quite compacted, has poor flow characteristics, bridges easily, is abrasive, and readily absorbs moisture.
About once each month a single container holding 20 tons of cement arrives from Europe. The cement is packaged in twenty 2000-lb single-trip, single-loop, lined bulk bags that must be emptied into a large outdoor storage silo. The entire load of material must be emptied into the silo as quickly as possible to minimize moisture absorption. The company's goal was to empty a single bulk bag in 30 minutes and all 20 bulk bags within 10 hours. It needed a robust and reliable powder handling solution to accomplish the task.
Access Security had initially purchased a $40,000 pneumatic conveying system from another supplier but the cement material accumulated within the conveying tube rendering the conveyor completely inoperable. After working with the vendor for some time without resolution, Access Security ultimately had to scrap the equipment and find an alternative conveying solution. The company was without a powder handling system for about a year, and was emptying the bulk bags directly into the storage silo with a crane - an expensive and labor intensive process.
President, Peter Gauthier, considered his options and turned to Spiroflow Systems. The requirements for a new system were:
• Provide a completely closed robust system that could reliably convey cement material without material build up and excessive wear on equipment
• Accommodate bulk bag unloading inside the company's warehouse but convey the product through the roof, outside the building, and into a large outdoor storage silo approximately 40 ft away
• Operate reliably and consistently in temperature and weather extremes typical in the Ontario Canada region
• Provide a dust-free solution to minimize exposure to moisture in the environment and to provide a clean and safe work environment for employees
• Successfully unload the 2000-lb single-loop, lined, single-trip bulk bags within 30 minutes or less
• Incorporate appropriate discharge aids (side massage, bottom massage, and agitation) to encourage material flow
• Minimize product loss
• Offer proof that the recommended solution will work before purchase
• Provide a solution guarantee
Due to the characteristics of the particular cement mixture and the frustration the customer had previously experienced, Spiroflow Systems experts recommended that it be tested in the company's test lab. "Having our cement powder thoroughly tested was a vital step in the process," said Gauthier. "It gave us confidence that Spiroflow's recommended solution would work as specified."
Additionally, Spiroflow Systems has long guaranteed any powder handling solution tested in their lab. "The company's performance guarantee also gave us piece of mind," added Gauthier.
Based on Access Security's requirements, Spiroflow Systems recommended its T4 single trip bulk bag unloader, a combination of flexible screw and aero mechanical conveyors, and a control panel.
The T4 bulk bag unloader has a pneumatic bag piercing knife to cut open the bottom of each single trip bulk bag. It also has a dust evacuation frame supplied with a rubber dust seal membrane located inside the support dish for optimal dust control. The unloader was supplied with four corner massage and vibration to encourage material flow. Additionally the pneumatic bag piercing knife serves to encourage material flow by breaking up compacted material in the bottom of the bulk bag.
Dual flexible screw conveyors, only three feet in length and positioned at a 45° angle, are fitted to the bottom of the bulk bag unloader. These conveyors utilize Proscrews to move the material out of the discharge hopper. Proscrews have a beveled profile ideal for conveying poor flowing material and their semi-rigid construction enables steep conveying angles without bends.
The dual flexible screw conveyors deliver the fine cement powder out of the bulk bag unloader into a vertical aero mechanical conveyor that is 4 in. in diameter, 13 ft long, and positioned vertically. a second aeromechanical conveyor, 38 ft long and positioned at a 33° incline, moves the cement material from the vertical conveyor, through the roof, and outside the building into the outdoor storage silo.
A NEMA 4 Certified control panel was provided and operates the entire system. Specific controls include:
• VFDs for the flexible screw conveyors
• Motor starters for the agitators and aero mechanical conveyors
• A low-level probe in the hopper of the bulk bag unloader
• Four-corner massage
• Vibration
Given the physical properties of the cement powder Spiroflow engineers recommended that the company completely clean the equipment after each container of material is conveyed into the outdoor storage silo. This prevents any potential material build up from interfering with equipment operation.
Once installed and commissioned, operators at Access Security report that the new powder handling system works beautifully. The system is reliable, operates just as promised, and performs at twice the required rate - all without material build up. The closed system keeps the cement powder dry and contained resulting in minimal product waste and a clean, safe environment for employees.
"Spiroflow's equipment handles our cement powder quite well and actually empties each bulk bag in only 15 minutes," reports Gauthier. "Our goal was to empty each 20-ton container in 10 hours, and we have cut that time in half!"
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- Founder of the Galloway Marathon Training Program.
- Coach to over 200,000 runners and walkers.
- Author of North America's best selling running book: Galloway's Book on Running. See "Publications" section for a complete listing of his published works.
- Monthly columnist for Runner's World magazine.
- Motivational speaker giving over 200 talks per year across the country.
- Experienced race director having conducted over 500 fitness events, including the annual Kaiser Permanente Corporate Run/Walk in Atlanta, Ga.
- A consultant to dozens of races of all sizes including the Crescent City Classic, Midland Run, Grand Bahama 5000, Chicago Marathon, Vancouver International Marathon and Portland Marathon.
- Race Director for the National Marathon to Fight Breast Cancer, the only marathon dedicated solely to raising funds for breast cancer research.
- Owner of Phidippides Running Stores, one of the first running specialty stores in the US, since 1974.
- Galloway's Book on Running (1984) - the best-selling running book in North America.
- Marathon! (1996) - state-of-the-art marathon book.
- Return of the Tribes to Peachtree Street (1995).
- Jeff Galloway's Training Journal (1998) - "a log book with a mission".
- Marathon You Can Do It (2002).
- Galloway's Book on Running, 2ND ed. (2002).
- Running – Getting Started (2005).
- Running – Testing Yourself (2005).
- Running – A Year-Round Plan (2006).
- Walking – The Complete Book (2006).
- Fit Kids – Smarter Kids (2006).
- Running Until You're 100 (2006).
- Half Marathon – You Can Do It (2006).
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- Women's Complete Guide to Running (2007 with Barbara Galloway).
- Women's Complete Guide to Walking (2007 with Barbara Galloway).
- Galloways 5K/10K Running (2008)
- Running and Fat Burning for Women (2008 with Barbara Galloway).
- Monthly column in Runner's World Magazine.
- Named to the Hall of Fame for the Road Runners Club of America and The Westminster School.
- Listed as one of 18 Runner's World Experts in the magazine's 40th anniversary edition.
- Recipient of the Wellstone's Dallas White Rock Marathon 2006 Victory Award.
- Named to the Association of Independent Sports Stores Hall of Fame
- Nike Walk of Fame Member (Bronze Bust at Nike Headquarters)
Over 120 marathons: "My first marathon was an accident. Arriving home from my freshman year at Christmas break, I enrolled in the first annual Atlanta Marathon because of the size of the trophy. I made a lot of mistakes in training and hit a big bad wall at 19 miles. Since there were only four others left in the race at that point, and I was leading, I struggled in to win-but it took two years before I could think of running another marathon. I currently run about 60 slow, endorphin-filled miles a week, and 3-4 marathons a year. I've not found any experience which bestows the high level of satisfaction, accomplishment and self-respect as one receives from finishing a marathon--at any speed."
Jeff's quest for the injury-free marathon training program led him to develop group training programs in 1978, and to author Runner's World articles which have been used by hundreds of thousands of runners of all abilities. His training schedules have inspired the second wave of marathoners who follow the Galloway run-walk, low mileage, three-day, suggestions to an over 98% success rate.
On to the Olympics: "In the fall of 1970 I enrolled in graduate school at Florida State University with two missions: to get a masters degree and to qualify for the Olympic Trials. My friends on the Florida Track Club, Frank Shorter and Jack Bacheler, talked me into joining them for high altitude training at Vail for two months prior to the 1972 Olympic trials. Qualifying for the Olympic team was fulfilling beyond words, but my greatest thrill was pacing Jack through the marathon trial and then dropping back at the finish so that he could take the remaining spot on the marathon team." Jeff qualified for the 1972 Olympics in the 10,000 meters and as an alternate for the marathon.
Jeff's first business experience, in 1973, was a store for runners called Phidippides. Knowledgeable staff members continue to help customers with their exercise programs and are trained to match up shoes with the function and shape of the feet of each person. They stay on top of the ever-changing market, the different factories used, how the shoes actually work, and the many little devices which may reduce injury-or are pure advertising hype. He still owns two Phidippides stores in Atlanta.
Jeff now supervises Galloway Productions, which conducts dozens of fitness seminars throughout North America, fitness vacations to Greece and Lake Tahoe, and training groups in 40-50 cities a year.
As a race director, Jeff helped to organize the Peachtree Road Race as it grew from 1200 to 12,000 in three years. He organized the first Avon Marathon for women which contributed greatly to the inclusion of the marathon in the Olympics. His main Atlanta event, today, is the Kaiser Permanente Corporate Run/Walk, which enters more than 20,000 each year.
"This past year, my 42nd year of running, was the best of my life. It is my mission in each of my talks to help others avoid the aches and pains, while experiencing all of accomplishment and attitude enhancement which running bestows better than anything in life."
"Jeff Galloway is perhaps the one individual in the American running community who can combine a superior knowledge of our sport with the highest level of achievement - making the Olympic team." Bill Rodgers, 4-time winner of the Boston Marathon
" Certainly Jeff Galloway has both the knowledge and the physical ability to speak from experience. His book is an outstanding contribution to competitive running." Kenneth H. Cooper, M.D. Author of Aerobics
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Nearly every Sunday morning, Thanksgiving and Christmas for almost three decades, the man they called Father Dollar Bill, Father Dollar or just D.B. for Dollar Bill showed up on a skid row sidewalk. He was a white-haired man in a red sweater and a Notre Dame cap, his pockets jammed with crisp green bills, which he patiently handed out until the money was gone.
Father Maurice Chase didn't mind what name the destitute men, penniless mothers, people in wheelchairs, drug addicts, winos and ex-cons called him. He didn't care how they planned to spend the money. Nor was he bothered by the criticisms other skid row service providers sometimes voiced: that he was a self-promoting attention hound whose hit-and-run assistance had little, if any, enduring effect on the desperate individuals who gathered for his handouts, blessings and hugs.
"I'm out here to tell people I love them and God loves them," he told the Los Angeles Times several years ago. "I met Mother Teresa in Mexico City once, and she told me to touch the poor. Do you hear that? Touch the poor."
Today he would have been preparing for another Thanksgiving on skid row, but Chase, 92, died Sunday at his Los Angeles home. The cause was cancer, said his nephew, Robert Boyd.
In an era of multimillion-dollar agencies for the homeless, Chase was an anomaly.
"Maury Chase just planted his feet right on the sidewalk, the last place on earth where the poorest of the poor can live," Alice Callaghan, founder of the skid row advocacy center Las Familias del Pueblo, said Tuesday. "He didn't attempt to single out the undeserving poor from the deserving poor; I'm sure he handed money out to thieves. But it wasn't the dollar that mattered. It was the gift of human love."
Boyd said he did not know how much money his uncle distributed since the mid-1980s, when he began soliciting donations from wealthy benefactors such as Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, Jackie Autry, Merv Griffin and Vin Scully, but the amount reached hundreds of thousands of dollars. Each Sunday Chase usually handed out $2,000 to $2,500. On Thanksgiving and Christmas, he gave out more, as much as $15,000.
He began his direct charity when he was a fundraising assistant to the president of Loyola Marymount University. His job was to loosen the purse strings of potential donors and persuade them to write checks to the Catholic university. Through his friendship with actress Irene Dunne, he hit the Los Angeles party circuit and became known as "the society priest," a description that was not entirely complimentary. He took press kits about his fundraising to parties and was frequently mentioned in society columns. To make sure his accomplishments were duly recorded, he sent news clippings and photographs of himself to the obituary editor of The Times to help the newspaper prepare its write-up.
He came up with his skid row charity after contemplating the instructions of Loyola Marymount's president, Father Donald P. Merrifield, who hired him in 1985. Merrifield told him: "I'm sending you out among the rich and famous. You better have a balance in your life."
So, after every high society event, Chase would send letters to potential donors he'd met, telling them how wonderful their party was. Then he pointed out that many people were less fortunate and needed their help. The society mavens usually wrote back and included a check for the priest's nonprofit skid row ministry.
This wasn't the life his lawyer father had envisioned for him. Born in Dinuba, Calif., on March 17, 1919, Chase had intended to follow his father's career path. After graduating from UCLA, he studied law at UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall and was president of his class but left after two years to enter the priesthood. In 1953, after completing his studies at St. Paul's College in Washington, D.C., he was ordained by Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, one of the first televangelists.
After seminary, he worked at Sacred Heart Church in Palm Desert, where he met the Eisenhowers and other famous retirees. Seeking a more cosmopolitan experience, he moved to Los Angeles in the mid-1960s.
He began every trip to skid row with a prayer about serving the poor: "When you have done it to the least of men, you have done it to me." Then he prepared the stacks of new dollar bills he had withdrawn from the bank earlier. "Everything is so dirty on skid row," he told the Los Angeles Daily News in 2004. "I want to give them something fresh and new."
He drove a small white Toyota, sometimes festooned with American flags. When he arrived outside the Fred Jordan Mission on Towne Avenue, a long line of people would be waiting.
He had a system: women with children and the disabled first, then everyone else. Most people got a dollar, but if they had special needs, Chase gave more — $5, $20, sometimes $100. He found several trustworthy men to keep the line orderly and act as his guards. He said he once fended off a knife attack and was punched in the stomach, but such acts of aggression were rare.
When he reached his 80s, he began to agonize about who could continue his work after he died. "Every priest I know has to be in church on Sunday," he said several years ago.
He had no successor. Those who observed his street ministry said he had no peers. "He was a true man of God," said Willie Jordan of the Fred Jordan Missions; the sidewalk outside their skid row facility was where Chase's beneficiaries gathered every week. In his honor, Jordan plans to hand out dollar bills to the 700 or 800 homeless people expected Thursday for the annual Thanksgiving meal.
"We want everyone to remember him," Jordan said. "I dare say we will not see his kind again."
Chase is survived by two sisters and 14 nieces and nephews.
A memorial service in Los Angeles is being planned.
Nearly every Sunday morning, Thanksgiving and Christmas for almost three decades, the man they called Father Dollar Bill, Father Dollar or just D.B. for Dollar Bill showed up on a skid row sidewalk. He was a white-haired man in a red sweater and a Notre Dame cap, his pockets jammed with crisp green bills, which he patiently handed out until the money was gone.


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TNT Doubleheader! W00t!
Amare Stoudemire is the MVP leader so far this season...
I wish they would have shown a replay of Ammo's foul on Bron. I'm not saying he didn't foul him, but there was a chance it was a clean block. Not a matchup I want to see often.
Maybe Morrison should have cut his hair sooner. He is looking solid.
Tracy McGrady on Ron Artest's "other side": "I don't see it!" That's because you won't see it until it's crawling up your spine, Mac.
Barkley just made a comparison to how people say serial killers are such nice guys and how that's crap, there's a pattern. So Ron Artest has been compared to a mass murderer.
Matt said...
Artest has no fluidity of movement. It's as if each part works independtly of one another.
Matt said...
Josh Howard came to bring the pain.
Matt said....
We have our first player to go Nova of 08-09. Say hello to Josh Howard.
Matt said...
I look a lot at potential for teams. This Rockets team? Their potential is a championship. Artest gives them just enough breathing room to let them do what they want.
Annnnnd the Bobcats promptly make me look like an idiot by predicting them to be reasonably decent this season. Is it too late for takesies backsies?
Josh Howard is the definition of apeshit right now.
I just finished my application to Cornell. Basketball time.
Ron Artest is way too excited about beating the Mavs.
Rob - you feel like an idiot? I cheer for them. Tonight was a great kickoff to the Larry Brown era.
Mr T's real name is Laurence Tureaud. Just thought everyone should know.
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January 13, 2014
Woman rescued from cliff fall by former pro surfer
By Shanna Mccord
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — Longtime Santa Cruz resident Vince Collier was getting his fishing gear ready on some tide pools along West Cliff Drive when he heard a cry that sounded like a baby otter.
The cry came and went for a few minutes until Collier, a former professional surfer who grew up in a house on West Cliff Drive, realized the sound was an injured woman stuck on a rock ledge about 100 feet from his fishing spot.
Collier, a strong, barrel-chested man who knows the area well, scrambled through the surf line and over some rocks to reach the woman who had fallen 30 feet from the cliff.
The fall happened about 7:42 p.m. on Jan. 3. The darkness of night didn't help matters, said Collier, who had a LED light with him for fishing.
The woman, who wore denim from top to bottom, was hard to spot on the rocks, he said.
"I put my pole down because it sounds like someone is screaming for help," Collier, 53, said on Sunday as he described his role in helping the Los Gatos woman. "She was in and out of consciousness."
Collier said he climbed back up to West Cliff Drive to direct folks gathered in a parking lot near Merced Street to call 911 while he returned to help stabilize the woman until rescuers from the Santa Cruz Fire Department arrived.
Fire officials said the tide was close to cresting on the rocks when they found the woman.
Collier said the tide was rising fast and he feared the woman would be swept out to sea.
"I'm sure she wouldn't survive if I weren't there," he said. "In another 45 minutes she would have been washed out and drowned."
Three rescue swimmers were deployed down the cliff to protect the woman from large waves.
Additional crews set up a retrieval system with ropes and a ladder to bring the woman up to the street.
It took firefighters about 30 minutes to bring the woman up the cliff. She was flown to a trauma hospital with numerous injuries, including broken teeth and busted ribs.
Collier kept the woman's head and neck from moving and covered her with his jacket.
"If I hadn't of been there, she would of died," he said. "No question in my mind."
Collier said he helped to rescue a couple of boogie boarders in the early 1980s from the ocean along West Cliff Drive. He and a friend pulled the boarders in after they got stuck in the ocean and couldn't find their way back through the darkness.


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SILVER SPRING, Md., Feb. 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- United Therapeutics Corporation (NASDAQ : UTHR ) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has acknowledged the resubmission of the new drug application (NDA) for treprostinil diolamine extended release tablets (oral treprostinil) for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension. The FDA classified the resubmission as a complete, class 1 response to FDA's October 23, 2012 complete response letter and the FDA set a user fee goal date of March 31, 2013.
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United Therapeutics Corporation is a biotechnology company focused on the development and commercialization of unique medicinal products.
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Statements included in this press release that are not historical in nature are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include, among others, statements regarding the FDA's user fee goal date of March 31, 2013. These forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, such as those described in our periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, that could cause actual results to differ materially from anticipated results. Consequently, such forward-looking statements are qualified by the cautionary statements, cautionary language and risk factors set forth in our periodic reports and documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, and Current Reports on Form 8-K. We claim the protection of the safe harbor contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 for forward-looking statements. We are providing this information as of February 14, 2013, and assume no obligation to update or revise the information contained in this press release whether as a result of new information, future events or any other reason. [uthr-g]
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American Passage (Hardcover)
The History of Ellis Island
Harper, 9780060742737, 496pp.
Publication Date: June 9, 2009
"By bringing us the inspiring and sometimes unsettling tales of Ellis Island, Vincent Cannato's American Passage helps us understand who we are as a nation."
— Walter Isaacson
"Never before has Ellis Island been written about with such scholarly care and historical wisdom. Highly recommended!"
—Douglas Brinkley, bestselling author of The Wilderness Warrior
The remarkable saga of America's landmark port of entry, from immigration post to deportation center to mythical icon.
About the Author
Vincent J. Cannato teaches history at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He is the author of The Ungovernable City: John Lindsay and His Struggle to Save New York and has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.
Praise For American Passage: The History of Ellis Island…
— The Wall Street Journal
"Historian Vincent Cannato appears to have overlooked nothing in telling the tale of the historic island, now a national monument. . . . Cannato is not only a meticulous researcher and historian, he's also a lively storyteller. A rare combination."
— USA Today
"Cannato does a masterful job of weaving together a slew of singular immigrant stories with the larger issues that surrounded newcomers. He gives us the politics, the health scares and epidemics, the crowding, the corruption and the public policy."
— The New York Post
"Cannato navigates the crosscurrents of immigration since the 1700s, illustrating his tale generously with odd facts and highly readable stories."
— Associated Press
"The story of America is one of immigration. By bringing us the inspiring and sometimes unsettling tales of Ellis Island, Vincent Cannato's American Passage helps us understand who we are as a nation."
— Walter Isaacson, author of Einstein
"Reading Vincent Cannato's American Passage was an amazing journey into our nation's immigrant past. Never before has Ellis Island been written about with such scholarly care and historical wisdom. Highly recommended!"
— Douglas Brinkley, author of The Great Deluge
"Immigration has long been a critical slice of the American narrative, and here, in American Passage, Vincent Cannato tells its story with great brio. From landing point to national Monument, from immigrants to interpreters, we see the veritable Babel of Ellis Island play out across the years."
— Jay Winik, author of The Great Upheaval and April 1865
"To his great credit Cannato does not pretend to answer our tough questions about immigration, nor to find a 'usable past' in the history of Ellis Island. He just tells one heck of a story that oozes with relevance."
— Walter A. McDougall, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of Throes of Democracy
"Although Ellis Island is about immigrants from far-away places, it is in fact as American as Thanksgiving and apple pie. This amazing story is recounted beautifully in Vincent Cannato's well-written and evocative book, which will bring pleasure and profit to readers."
— Kenneth T. Jackson, editor in chief, Encyclopedia of New York City
"Cannato resists the temptation to setimentalize Ellis Island. He understands that, now as then, immigration is an issue that leaves Americans uncomfortable and contentious, even as it continues to bring new blood and energy into the country."
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Thursday, June 14, 2012
An Ace in the Hole
Today's Belmont feature is a non-winners of 3-optional claimer that could well pass as a small stakes anywhere else.
Kiaran McLaughlin is the favorite in Yankee Fourtune (2-1) who's won half his 10 turf starts, has excellent Equiform performance figures and is nicely drawn inside with tactical speed; seems like the perfect setup.
Instead, we'll take any value offered on Philly Ace (6-1), who looks to repeat for Christophe Clement, a profitable 25% in that scenario. A 4 time winner in 9 starts, 4-year-old gelding owns laudably versatile style and picks up Julien Leparoux for his course return, over which he has won.
Late developer figures to improve with age and his inside post insures that Leparoux will have options playing this one off the break. The price should be square.
Taking Philly Ace to win at 4-1 or greater and key boxing him first and second with the favorite and Souper Spectacular (8-1) who goes second off the layup and reunites with Johnny V.
Running Totals: (1096) 338-212-165 Total Dollar Return: $2,320.50 [win selections only]
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Playing LED - Randy's Electrical CornerPosted in How To: Electrical on February 21, 2014
You guys know I like LEDs. Even though I don't know all the big words, I still really dig them. They pull less power and last longer than halogen lights, and they run cooler and are simpler than HIDs. So when I heard that Trasborg was doing an LED story in this issue (page TK), I had to give him hell about it. I'm not really good at busting cojones though, so when he replied to my email, I saw that I didn't get my point across. Heh, email…so funny. Whoever thought that we'd stop sending letters in the mail?
Anyway, Trasborg replied to my email about his big LED story as if I was being serious when I asked how ever would he handle the pressure of a big LED shootout. And I guess when I said "good luck getting it done" he thought I really meant it. So a few emails later, he admitted he was a bit over his head with how many lights he had to install and test and asked me if I could help.
So, of course, I thought he wanted me to help test lights. I said sure, thinking I would get to play with some new LEDs after all. That will teach me to think. No, I wasn't going to get to play with lights at all. He just wanted me to point out certain things about them and maybe explain some of the technical things in words you guys could easily get. Greaaaaat…. Teach me to just jump in and say "sure."
So even though I had to get intimate with a dusty old dictionary that kicked up my allergies and made me sneeze a lot, I fought my way through for you guys. I hope what I've put together here helps you understand LEDs a bit more so that Trasborg's highfalutin story makes some kind of sense to you.
Effective Lumens: The amount of light an LED light actually puts out. Kind of like Watts for a normal light.
Efficacy: The comparison of how many Watts a light uses with the light it actually puts out. A much better indicator than "efficiency"
Efficiency: Many companies use this to brag on their lights. But all they are telling you is the comparison of Watts in to Watts out… or how much power is wasted as heat.
Gore-Tex: It's a man-made fabric with microscopic holes that can let air out but doesn't let water in. Often used as a vent in LED lights. Sometimes just called Gore vent. It has nothing to do with the Algoreweb.
Kelvin: When talking lights it measures how white the light is. Ranges from 1 to over 10,000. A candle is about 1,000, and the clear blue sky is about 10,000. Most LED lights clock in around 6,000 to 7,000, which is supposed to be the easiest on the human eye.
Lumen: Measure of power output. But comparing Lumens to Effective Lumens is like comparing horsepower at the flywheel to power at the ground. Most companies will only talk about Lumens which, like the power numbers of the '70s, isn't a really good measuring stick. A Lumen is a mathematically calculated number. An effective Lumen is the actual measured light output from the light, kind of like strapping your Jeep to a dyno.
Polycarbonate: A fancy plastic used for bulletproof glass. And LED light lenses.
Watt: A measure of electrical power


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Association between alcohol consumption and symptom severity and quality of life in patients with fibromyalgia.
– Source: Arthritis Research and Therapy, March 15, 2013
By Chul H. Kim, et al.
INTRODUCTION: Although alcohol consumption is a common lifestyle behavior with previous studies reporting positive effects of alcohol on chronic pain and rheumatoid arthritis, no studies to this date have examined alcohol consumption in patients with fibromyalgia. We examined the association between alcohol consumption and symptom severity and quality of life (QOL) in patients with fibromyalgia.
METHODS: Data on self-reported alcohol consumption from 946 patients were analyzed. Subjects were grouped by level of alcohol consumption (number of drinks/week): none, low ([less than or equal to]3), moderate (>3 to 7), and heavy (>7). Univariate analyses were used to find potential confounders, and analysis of covariance was used to adjust for these confounders. Tukey HSD pairwise comparisons were used to determine differences between alcohol groups.
Five hundred and forty-six subjects (58%) did not consume alcohol.
Low, moderate, and heavy levels of alcohol consumption were reported for 338 (36%), 31 (3%), and 31 patients (3%), respectively.
Employment status (P <0.001), education level (P = 0.009), body mass index (P = 0.002) and opioid use (P = 0.002) differed significantly among groups with drinkers having higher education, a lower BMI, and a lower frequency of unemployment and opioid use than nondrinkers.
After adjusting for these differences, the measures including the number of tender points (P = 0.01), FIQ total score (P = 0.01), physical function (P <0.001), work missed (P = 0.005), job ability (P = 0.03), and pain (P = 0.001) differed across groups, as did the SF-36 subscales of physical functioning (P <0.001), pain index (P = 0.002), general health perception (P = 0.02), social functioning (P = 0.02), and the physical component summary (P <0.001).
Pairwise comparison among the 4 groups showed that the moderate and low alcohol drinkers had lower severity of fibromyalgia symptoms and better physical QOL than nondrinkers.
CONCLUSIONS: Our study demonstrates that low and moderate alcohol consumption was associated with lower fibromyalgia symptoms and better QOL compared to no alcohol consumption. The reasons for these results are unclear. Since recent studies have demonstrated that gamma-Aminobutyric Acid (GABA) levels are low in fibromyalgia, and alcohol is known to be a GABA-agonist, future studies should examine whether alcohol could have a salutary effect on pain and other symptoms in fibromyalgia.
Source: Arthritis Research and Therapy, March 15, 2013. Chul H Kim, Ann Vincent, Daniel J Clauw, Connie A Luedtke, Jeffrey M Thompson, Terry D Schneekloth and Terry H Oh. Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA. Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Kyungpook National University Hospital, Daegu, 700721 Korea. Division of General Internal Medicine Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA. Department of Anesthesiology, Medicine, and Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA. Department of Nursing Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA. Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA. E-mail: email@example.com
Editor's Comment: It is notable that 58% of the study participants did not drink alcohol at all. Also notable was the fact that the 3% rate of heavy drinkers in the study is significantly lower than the 7% rate for U.S. women in general. The study authors speculated that this "might be related to
1) decreased social functioning due to chronic pain and therefore, fewer occasions to drink alcohol socially;
2) self-perceived chronic health concerns and lower QOL, leading to different drinking habits;
3) concerns of alcohol interacting with medications such as sedatives or narcotics, and
4) possible under-reporting of drinking."
Another possible reason for the low rate of drinkers which was not mentioned is that many people with fibromyalgia report having an undesirable reaction to alcohol. Common complaints include increased nausea, increased fatigue, sleep disturbance and exacerbated hangovers. Some FM patients say one drink can trigger a flare of symptoms that may last for days or even weeks.


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Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru (1-30 September 1959)
Second series, Vol. 52
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Monsanto officials plan to unveil the Woodland research facility's $31 million expansion at its grand opening in August.
Beginning at 10 a.m., Thursday, Aug. 16, participants will have an opportunity to tour the new building, explore the fields and partake in a luncheon.
Construction began in April 2012 in the new 90,000-square-foot space at 37437 Highway 16, which will be home to Monsanto's seed health and trait development work. Having doubled in size, the facility is the company's flagship location for vegetable seed research in the world.
"On behalf of all our employees who live and work in Yolo County, we want to thank the community, the local county planning department, the board of supervisors and the Woodland City Council members for the outstanding support we received throughout the process," said Communications Manager Carly Scaduto in an email to The Democrat. "We look forward to celebrating this milestone for both Monsanto and Yolo County on August 15."
Monsanto has been at the present Woodland location since acquiring Seminis, a seed research facility, in 2005.
In addition to expanding research capabilities, the Woodland campus' enlargement was spurred on by the rapid growth of five years of steady hiring, pushing scientists and laboratories into portable buildings.
The campus employs around 250 full-time workers, the majority of whom focus on research and development. No immediate hiring is planned now that the expansion is complete, Scaduto said, though there will be space available in the new building to accommodate future growth.
Plant breeding is the heart of Monsanto's vegetable seed and row crop research, ranging from conventional breeding, to the use of cutting-edge molecular science that precisely identifies and locates genetic markers that correspond with desirable characteristics such as disease resistance, according to Monsanto officials.
Monsanto conducts vegetable seed research in 19 countries, with other development activities in more than 30 countries, for a total of 50 research sites.
Upward to 30 seed research companies are planted in Yolo County. This concentrated area is fast becoming known as "Seed Central."
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Intended audience: XHTML/HTML coders (using editors or scripting), script developers (PHP, JSP, etc.), CSS coders, and anyone who is new to character encoding terminology and wants to understand the basics.
This article introduces a number of basic concepts needed to understand other articles that deal with characters and character encodings.
Unicode is a universal character set, ie. a standard that defines, in one place, all the characters needed for writing the majority of living languages in use on computers. It aims to be, and to a large extent already is, a superset of all other character sets that have been encoded.
Text in a computer or on the Web is composed of characters. Characters represent letters of the alphabet, punctuation, or other symbols.
In the past, different organizations have assembled different sets of characters and created encodings for them – one set may cover just Latin-based Western European languages (excluding EU countries such as Bulgaria or Greece), another may cover a particular Far Eastern language (such as Japanese), others may be one of many sets devised in a rather ad hoc way for representing another language somewhere in the world.
Unfortunately, you can't guarantee that your application will support all encodings, nor that a given encoding will support all your needs for representing a given language. In addition, it is usually impossible to combine different encodings on the same Web page or in a database, so it is usually very difficult to support multilingual pages using 'legacy' approaches to encoding.
The Unicode Consortium provides a large, single character set that aims to include all the characters needed for any writing system in the world, including ancient scripts (such as Cuneiform, Gothic and Egyptian Hieroglyphs). It is now fundamental to the architecture of the Web and operating systems, and is supported by all major web browsers and applications. The Unicode Standard also describes properties and algorithms for working with characters.
This approach makes it much easier to deal with multilingual pages or systems, and provides much better coverage of your needs than most traditional encoding systems.
The following shows Unicode script blocks as of Unicode version 5.2:
The first 65,536 code point positions in the Unicode character set are said to constitute the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP). The BMP includes most of the more commonly used characters.
The number 65,536 is 2 to the power of 16. In other words, the maximum number of bit permutations you can get in two bytes.
The Unicode character set also contains space for around a million additional code point positions. Characters in this latter range are referred to as supplementary characters.
For more information about Unicode, see the Unicode Home Page, or read the tutorial An Introduction to Writing Systems & Unicode.
It is important to clearly distinguish between the concepts of a character set versus a character encoding.
A character set or repertoire comprises the set of characters one might use for a particular purpose – be it those required to support Western European languages in computers, or those a Chinese child will learn at school in the third grade (nothing to do with computers).
A coded character set is a set of characters for which a unique number has been assigned to each character. Units of a coded character set are known as code points. A code point value represents the position of a character in the coded character set. For example, the code point for the letter á in the Unicode coded character set is 225 in decimal, or E1 in hexadecimal notation. (Note that hexadecimal notation is commonly used for referring to code points, and will be used here.)
Coded character sets are sometimes called code pages.
The character encoding reflects the way the coded character set is mapped to bytes for manipulation in a computer. The picture below shows how characters and code points in the Tifinagh (Berber) script are mapped to sequences of bytes in memory using the UTF-8 encoding. The code point values for each character are listed immediately below the glyph (ie. the visual representation) for that character at the top of the diagram. The arrows show how those are mapped to sequences of bytes, where each byte is represented by a two-digit hexadecimal number. Note how the Tifinagh code points map to three bytes, but the exclamation mark maps to a single byte.
This explanation glosses over some of the detailed nomenclature related to encoding. More detail can be found in Unicode Technical Report #17.
One character set, multiple encodings. Many character encoding standards, such as those in the ISO 8859 series, use a single byte for a given character and the encoding is a straightforward mapping to the scalar position of the characters in the coded character set. For example, the letter A in the ISO 8859-1 coded character set is in the 65th character position (starting from zero), and is encoded for representation in the computer using a byte with the value of 65. For ISO 8859-1 this never changes.
For Unicode, however, things are not so straightforward. Although the code point for the letter á in the Unicode coded character set is always 225 (in decimal), in UTF-8 it is represented in the computer by two bytes. In other words there isn't a trivial, one-to-one mapping between the coded character set value and the encoded value for this character.
In addition, in Unicode there are a number of ways of encoding the same character. For example, the letter á can be represented by two bytes in one encoding and four bytes in another. The encoding forms that can be used with Unicode are called UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32.
UTF-8 uses 1 byte to represent characters in the ASCII set, two bytes for characters in several more alphabetic blocks, and three bytes for the rest of the BMP. Supplementary characters use 4 bytes.
UTF-16 uses 2 bytes for any character in the BMP, and 4 bytes for supplementary characters.
UTF-32 uses 4 bytes for all characters.
In the following chart, the first line of numbers represents the position of a character in the Unicode coded character set. The other lines show the byte values used to represent that character in a particular character encoding.
|Code point
|00 41
|00 00 00 41
For more information about characters and encodings see Introducing Character Sets and Encodings, or read the tutorial Handling character encodings in HTML and CSS .
For XML and HTML (from version 4.0 onwards) the document character set is defined to be the Universal Character Set (UCS) as defined by both ISO/IEC 10646 and Unicode standards. (For simplicity and in line with common practice, we will refer to the UCS here simply as Unicode.)
What this means is that the logical model describing how XML and HTML are processed is described in terms of the set of characters defined by Unicode. (In practical terms, this means that browsers usually convert all text to Unicode internally.)
Note that this does not mean that all HTML and XML documents have to use a Unicode encoding! It does mean, however, that documents can only contain characters defined by Unicode. Any encoding can be used for your document as long as it is properly declared and represents a subset of the Unicode repertoire.
For more information about the document character set see the article Document character set.
A character escape is a way of representing a character without actually using the character itself.
For example, there is no way of directly representing the Hebrew character א in your document if you are using an ISO 8859-1 encoding (which covers Western European languages). One way to indicate that you want to include that character in HTML is to use the escape א. Because the document character set is Unicode, the user agent should recognize that this represents a Hebrew aleph character.
Examples of escapes in HTML / XHTML and CSS, and advice on when and how to use them, can be found in the article Using character escapes in markup and CSS.
When you retrieve a document from a server, the server normally sends some additional information with the document. This is called the HTTP header. Here is an example of the kind of information about the document that is passed by HTTP header with a document as it travels from the server to the client.
The second line from the bottom in this example carries information about the character encoding for the document.
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 10:46:04 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.28 (Unix) PHP/4.2.3
Content-Location: CSS2-REC.en.html
Vary: negotiate,accept-language,accept-charset
TCN: choice
P3P: policyref=http://www.w3.org/2001/05/P3P/p3p.xml
Cache-Control: max-age=21600
Expires: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 16:46:04 GMT
Last-Modified: Tue, 12 May 1998 22:18:49 GMT
ETag: "3558cac9;36f99e2b"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 10734
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Content-Language: en
If your document is dynamically created using scripting, you may be able to explicitly add this information to the HTTP header. If you are serving static files, the server may associate this information with the files. The method of setting up a server to pass character encoding information in this way will vary from server to server. You should check with the server administrator.
As an example, Apache servers typically provide a default encoding, which can usually be overridden by directory-specific settings. For example, a webmaster might add the following line to a .htaccess file to serve all files with a .html extension as UTF-8 in this and all child directories:
AddType 'text/html; charset=UTF-8' html
For more information on changing the encoding in the HTTP header, see Setting the HTTP charset parameter
See Serving HTML & XHTML for information about related concepts, including MIME types, standards vs quirks modes, and DOCTYPEs.
Getting started? Introducing Character Sets and Encodings
Related links, Authoring HTML & CSS
Related links, Setting up a server


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These ribbon mics have been reduced to $79 at a major online retailer. At that price, a Premium ribbon microphone modification from OktavaMod is a must-have upgrade (especially given the ribbon tension problem that some of these mics have right from the factory - see below).
Ribbon mics are simple devices, but a big part of their sound is the output transformer. The OktavaMod Premium modification swaps in my custom designed, made in America transformer for better time and frequency domain performance across the audio spectrum.
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In addition to the Lundahl transformer installation, the inner headbasket screens are removed to reduce standing wave reflections and smooth frequency response. Next, I replace the stock 6 micron ribbon with a lighter, 1.8 micron, more responsive 99.9% pure aluminum ribbon.
Stock Ribbon Sag
About 50% of the eight hundred or so mics of this type I've seen have come from the overseas manufacturer with improperly tensioned ribbons - often with 80% of the ribbon length sagging out of the magnetic gap (below).
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The head of a company survived 9/11 because
His son started kindergarten.
Another fellow was alive because it was
His turn to bring donuts.
One woman was late because her
Alarm clock didn't go off in time.
One was late because of being stuck on the NJ Turnpike
Because of an auto accident.
One of them
Missed his bus.
One spilled food on her clothes and had to take
Time to change.
Car wouldn't start.
One couldn't
Get a taxi.
The one that struck me was the man
Who put on a new pair of shoes that morning,
Took the various means to get to work but before.
He got there, he developed a blister on his foot.
He stopped at a drugstore to buy a Band-Aid.
That is why he is alive today..
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Miss an elevator,
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All the little things that annoy me,
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The Free State of Bavaria
The free state of Bavaria is located in south Germany. With a gross domestic product of 446 billion euros, it surpasses 19 of the 28 EU member states. The economic performance of 36.865 euros per inhabitant is also well above the German and European average (as of 2012).
Bavaria enjoys an outstanding position in many fields:
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The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said warplanes were hitting towns and villages around the capital, while regime forces targeted other neighborhoods with artillery and mortars. At least nine people were killed when a shell hit eastern Ghouta district, the group said.
Also Sunday, Turkish state media said Assad's fighter jets bombed the Syrian town of Azaz near the Turkish border.
At least 34 Syrians wounded in the airstrikes were brought across the border to the Turkish province of Kilis for treatment, the state-run Anadolu agency said. Seven died of the injuries, the report said.
The Observatory said troops were battling rebels in the suburb of Daraya a day after government officials claimed the army had taken much of the strategic area, which lies on the edge of a major military air base southwest of the capital.
In northern Syria, government forces were fighting rebels over an air base and the international airport of the city of Aleppo. The airport includes a military base.
Syrian troops have been pushing since November to regain Daraya, which had a population of about 200,000 before the fighting. Thousands have fled the relentless violence, among more than 2 million Syrians who have been internally displaced during the civil war. At least half a million Syrians have fled to neighboring countries like Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan.
Because of its strategic location, rebel control of the Daraya poses a particularly grave threat to the capital.
The suburb is flanked by the key districts of Mazzeh, home to a military air base, and Kfar Sousseh, where the government headquarters, the General Security intelligence agency head office and the Interior Ministry are located.
While Assad's loyalists appear to have an upper hand on the Damascus front due to the regime's air power, the rebels dealt the government a major blow in the north by capturing a sprawling air base in Idlib province on Friday.
Rebels retained control of the Taftanaz base Sunday and intensified their assault on the Mannagh air base and the international airport in Aleppo, Syria's largest city, activists said.
Among the rebels taking part in the battle are fighters from Jabhat al-Nustra, an Islamist group that the U.S. has branded a terrorist organization. Washington said the group, among the most organized and effective rebel forces on the ground, is affiliated with al-Qaida.
Syrian official statements regularly play up the role of Islamist militants in the civil war and refer to the rebels as terrorists.
More than 60,000 people have been killed since the revolt started almost two years ago.
Heavy fighting was reported Sunday in the northern province of Deir el-Zour, involving attacks by warplanes, activists said.
Last month an international aid group, Doctors Without Borders, said tens of thousands of Syrians, many of them wounded, are trapped in Deir el-Zour.
In Aleppo, where rebels fought troops to a stalemate last year, the two sides clashed near the air force intelligence building in the Zahra neighborhood.
The state-run SANA news agency said an army unit killed "a number of terrorists and destroyed a convoy of cars that was transporting weapons, ammunition and terrorists" in Deir el-Zour.
Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi formed a ministerial committee to conduct dialogue with opposition groups, SANA reported. The dialogue is part of efforts to implement a peace plan Assad outlined in a speech a week ago.
In his first address to the nation in six months, Assad rejected international calls to step down and offered to oversee a national reconciliation conference, while rejecting any talks with the armed opposition and vowing to continue fighting them.
The speech was condemned by the U.S. and its Western and Gulf Arab allies, while Assad's backers in Russia and Iran said his proposal should be considered.
In a rare demonstration in Damascus, dozens of protesters staged a sit-in at the Justice Ministry on Sunday, demanding the minister move against merchants who activists claim are trying to profit from the crisis by raising prices of cooking gas, flour and bread.
Food prices have soared in the past year in Syria, as the value of the local currency plummeted because of the conflict and an international ban on oil exports.
Associated Press writer Albert Aji in Damascus, Syria, and Suzan Fraser in Ankara, Turkey, contributed to this report.


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Tuesday, 10 February 2009
Are You Satisfied with Public Transport in London?
23 comments:
- Letters From A Tory said...
After last week's debacle, now probably isn't a good time to ask if people are satisfied with TfL!
- 10 February 2009 at 10:23
- AdamB said...
What are you talking about LfaT? Boris's masterful handling of municipal emergencies and employee relations has made it stronger than ever!
- 10 February 2009 at 10:28
Wot no pedestrians?
- 10 February 2009 at 10:42
- AdamB said...
- 10 February 2009 at 10:53
I would say that passengers are only more satisfied with the DLR and the riverboats because they're still relatively new and are not used that often. They've still got the novelty factor and people don't have a lifetime of delayed journeys to look back on.
- 10 February 2009 at 11:12
- AdamB said...
I would agree with you about the river service Bryan, but there are plenty of people in my part of London for whom the DLR is one of if not the main means of travel. It's main routes are into the City so it's not really for tourists as such. It's just good to use.
- 10 February 2009 at 11:14
I think people do habitually moan about public transport (it's the British way), but on the whole it's generally pretty good. Try using transport in any other city, and you generally find yourself thinking "Actually, London's not too shabby"
It will be interesting to see how Boris's policies affect the ratings in the long term...
- 10 February 2009 at 11:44
So Andrew Gilligan hasn't used a train or bus for years?! There goes the Evening Standard's transport expert!
- 10 February 2009 at 11:54
- Jujupiter said...
79% for the Underground? Are you kidding me?! The Tube is way too expensive for what it is.
- 10 February 2009 at 12:19
- AdamB said...
Well Boris hasn't helped much there. I usually try to walk or get a bus if I can.
- 10 February 2009 at 12:22
- Tom said...
The tube in the suburbs is a bargain, although less of a bargain at £1.10 than it was at a quid. Into town it does sting the Oyster a bit, although the new off-peak fares are worth looking at if you need to get in during the day.
Overground is solely London Overground, not national rail. That's just the Richmond-Stratford, Watford-Euston, Gospel Oak-Barkin and Clapham Junction-Willesden Junction routes.
These only became TfL operations in November 2007 and immediately saw an upsurge in ridership, which led to overcrowding, plus the trains are crap and unsuitable to the route now. The new trains and four-carriage extensions will help, but there's a lot of disruption to get through first.
DLR is 22 years old, with extensions at periodic intervals since, so some of it is still new but the core is quite well established now. It's an integrated part of the transport system, so holding up that well is a good sign, considering recent issues. It also scores highest on safety and security surveys.
TfL also have a puff piece up about Tramlink, which is a little embarrassing considering it's not going to get the relatively minor but useful Crystal Palace extension.
- 10 February 2009 at 15:30
- AdamB said...
Unfortunately there's no tube in my particular suburb (apart from the Jubilee line touching the top of the Greenwich Peninsula) so it's usually only really an option for me once I get into the centre, by which point I've already given over a fiver to Connex for a 15 minute journey.
- 10 February 2009 at 15:41
Velib news: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7881079.stm?lss
- 10 February 2009 at 17:18
- AdamB said...
- 10 February 2009 at 17:42
- Rog T said...
Mark Lee,
What a load of cobblers. 50 years ago, London was a shining example of civic. The sad truth is that it's been criminally neglected since then. I lived in Stockholm for a while and people would pace up & down if a train was 2 minutes late. Moscow has a fantastic system as well. I suspect that your experiences are not based on living in Modern European cities.
There are schemes that are complete no brainers such as Cross River Tram, Brent Cross Railway etc and what do the Tory Mayor and Tory Barnet Council do - Absolutely nothing.
As for the DLR, if the Thatcher Government had done a proper job, that would be properly integrated with the rest of the network into central London. How you could build a terminus with no easy tube link - Tower Hill is complete madness.
Then there is the Thameslink program. This was called Thameslink 2000 until we got to 2007. Never mind, should be ready for 2015. Ken proposed the scheme in 1985 or so. Thatcher & Major scuppered it, even though it was dirt cheap, as they did with Crossrail.
No matter how rubbish Blair & Brown have been, at least there has been some action. Thatcher built nothing. Major's idea of a sensible transport policy was to privatise BR. That worked well.
The only Tory policies are completely regressive. I suspect that the only reason they've stuck with the entral congestion zone is to allow Brian Coleman and his mates to be driven from free lunch to free dinner in taxi's without too much delay from us plebs.
- 10 February 2009 at 19:05
- Tom said...
"50 years ago, London was a shining example of civic"
Bet? Bit further back than that, by 50 years ago we were in the grip of the highwaymen - Cromwell Road Extension/Chiswick Flyover was around then. Meanwhile National Rail was static and the Underground was desperately in need of investment - we should have built about one tube line per decade since the war, but only got two plus the DLR in 50 years. Christian Wolmar suggests the heyday was immediately pre-war, and since then it took until 2000 for both power and competence to coincide again.
You forgot, in your otherwise excellent frothing round up of why you shouldn't let Conservatives get their hands on transport policy, the original GLC. This was set up (against Labour opposition) without any responsibiliy for public transport. Therefore the only transport people they employed were road engineers, and amazingly enough almost on GLC Day One there was a fully fledged plan to strangle the city with urban motorways. For about twenty years from the late 1940s this was the only plan on the table important enough to be considered by those in power, so it's not surprising we lost sight of what was actually important.
Labour put London Transport into GLC control in the late 60s and opposition from various residents and road protester groups operating via the Labour Party in the early 1970s won power via the GLC and killed the full scheme, although there was an effort under Thatcher to reanimate them, which petered out with the 1990s recession, when it does have to be said that Cecil Parkinson briefly talked sense, although they didn't follow through - things like JLE, Marylebone resignalling and the original Crossrail plans dated from then.
I've got a side bet with myself that someone in Team Boris will get the plans out again, but so far he's actually killed one of the three remaining bits of the scheme in the Thames Gateway Bridge, and the other two he's kept but they were thoroughly Livingstoned (as wast he TGB, if truth be told - remember Oxleas Wood?). These are the A406 Ealing Bridges and the A406 Bounds Green dualling schemes, both of which were scheduled to be six lane motorways in living memory (1980s/1990s). Boris actually approved the Bounds Green one within days of coming in, roughly at the same time as canning Parliament Square.
- 10 February 2009 at 23:25
- angelneptunestar said...
River travel is amazing.... beautiful views of London and comfortable seats.
London cabbies and care hire firms also score highly with me, you get their pithy political views if you strike up a conversation and they are all 99% efficient and helpful.
My local buses, the 24, the 46 and the 168 are pretty good. Usually on time, and the drivers are friendly. The local No. 29 bendy bus is checked very regularly by inspectors, to make sure that everyone has a ticket. I have never liked the tube. All in all, I have very few complaints about my London travel.
- 11 February 2009 at 07:29
- Tom said...
Angela, you must live in the Hampstead-Camden area and therefore your need for river transport must be fairly remote, as it is for most of us. Although I'm certainly not opposed to greater use of the river, it's only really an option on a couple of stretches (and I live really near the river, too).
Do you ever take the Overground, though?
- 11 February 2009 at 08:18
- Rog T said...
Tom, I guess the point at which public Transport in London was put on the back burner was September 3rd 1939. WW2 stopped a few schemes in their tracks. After the war we were skint and things like the NHS became priorities. From 1951 we had a long period of Tory rule, where roads were most definately the priority. I think that building a motorway network was a good thing on balance, but the neglect of public transport most certainly wasn't.
I think that the one thing which is blindingly obvious is that the post war Conservative party is rabidly anti public transport. As a Londoner this means that they are rabidly anti London as most Londoners use public transport. The BorisBus is a typical Tory policy. They pick on a single issue and flog it to death (probably to abandon when no one is looking). If it was being launched as part of a reinvigorated transport strategy, then maybe we could view it as progressive.
It really never occurs to these numpties to look at a map of traffic hotspots and then try and devise a public transport solution to fix it. For example, take the North/South Circular. There isn't an equivalent rail line. We have the North London Line, but how many rail/tube lines does that cross with no easy (& dry when it is raining) interchange. It amazes me that there is no thought given to this. Take West Hampstead. There are 4 rail/tube lines there. There are three different stations with a big walk between them. One line doesn't even stop. How hard is it to see what's wrong?
Another example - St Pancras Thameslink. A brand new station with a 7 minute walk to the tube. It's all been done to save a couple of million quid on something which will be an assett for a hundred years. Mind you, I suspect that the Tories wouldn't even have bothered to rebuild St Pancras. I suspect they'd rather shut the Channel tunnel and pretend Europe didn't exist.
Another example of Tory stupidty to Transport policy - The Heathrow transport hub - high speed rail links. Don't they ever drive to Heathrow on the M4. If it was a hub, there would be even more car journeys to pick up trains as well. It's already a bottleneck. I'm all for a high speed link to the north, but from Heathrow? It needs good local access and a spur to the main network. With their plans they'll transform the M25 into a car park. They'd be far better having a high speed link from Reading with flight check in facilities on the train. That would take cars off the M4.
In short, if you want to know if a transport scheme is stupid, just check to see whether a Tory wrote it
- 11 February 2009 at 09:44
- Tom said...
The St. Pancras/Tube issue gets *slightly* better when the Northern Ticket Hall opens next year, since the main tube entrance will then be pretty much between the KX suburban station and the Eurostar check-in.
There's the other silly Tory ideas where they assume that any scheme rejected by Labour as being silly is therefore worthy of study. Clue: it may actually be silly.
The converse is that any scheme *supported* by Labour must therefore be devoid of merit. This is also wrong.
- 11 February 2009 at 13:02
Hmm, didn't mean to start quite such a row. You're absolutely right Rog that compared to global cities, parts of London's transport network are left in the dust. But you do have to cherry pick a bit; Delhi has a wonderful metro, as is DC's, which runs until 3am at the weekends, (despite only being twin-tracked), but try getting a bus in either city and you'll struggle. No personal experience with Stockholm or Moscow, but in European cities such as Paris and Berlin, I've found the metro to be functional but pretty crowded and dirty.
I'm not a Tory apologist by any stretch of the imagination (read my other comments here if you have any doubts) - my comment is simply that for all people's grumbles, public transport in London is not that bad. It gets people from A to B reasonably efficiently with pretty good coverage. Yes, it could be better, it could be less crowded, but it tends to do what it says on the tin. I have gripes (it would be nice to not be squashed against a tube door on the Northern Line in the morning), but in all honesty I'd say that I'm pretty satisfied on the whole as:
- I always get on the first train in the morning
- The trains are always frequent
- I can always get to where I want to go, even if one mode of transport (e.g. tube) is stuffed.
As for cost - try getting the bus anywhere else in this country. I was charged £1.60 for a four stop journey in Bristol recently. Which included a five minute wait at each stop en route whilst people fished in their pockets for change.
Grumble if you wish, but for all its sins, transport in London is massively better than any other city in the UK. It's just a shame that Boris seems to have no ambition to sustain the investment that's been going in over recent years.
- 11 February 2009 at 13:55
- Rog T said...
Mark Lee,
Depends what the journey is. I live in Mill Hill NW7. If I want to get to Central london, great (if crowded). When they shut Edgware General Hospital, our local Hospital became Barnet General. 15 minutes by car. Over an hour by bus each way. Had a girlfriend lived in Muswell Hill. 15 mins in car, nearly impossible by public transport.
Getting into London - OK, getting around London - nightmare
- 11 February 2009 at 15:31
- Pakistan travel said...
Nice post on this topic and i think people are now satisfied.
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I want to talk about those workouts that we have that, well, the ones that suck. You know, the ones that you dread going to from the minute you wake up, the ones that you try and find every excuse to get out of, the ones that make you feel like you have not exercised in months, the ones that as soon as you start you know you should have listened to your gut and not even shown up too.
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A goal I have for this year, is to clean up my database. In March, I spent a lot of time getting ready for 9:00 AM, Monday, April 2, 2012 to have access to them. I focused on the documentation for the information I had from the 1930 Census, including Citation material. I blogged about that earlier.
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