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At the moment a load of beams fell from a crane lifting them up the 48-story Wachovia tower, safety workers had stopped traffic and pedestrians from moving past the construction site at South Tryon and Stonewall streets.
As the beams struck glass panels, shards fell. The safety workers fled, and traffic started moving into the path of falling debris, said project manager Curt Rigney.
Details emerging about Monday's accident raise questions about who is responsible for protecting people and vehicles around construction sites. The mishap is the site's second in less than a week to fling broken glass onto busy uptown streets.
There were no serious injuries reported in either case, although on Monday one beam struck a school bus.
But there is deadly potential in the heavy materials routinely hoisted overhead. State safety officials are investigating Monday's accident.
A Charlotte Department of Transportation handbook includes rules for contractors on such issues as traffic control, notification requirements for road-closures and allowing access to businesses along the road, according to the department's Web site.
The "pedestrian considerations" section of the Work Area Traffic Control Handbook says: "A canopied walkway may be required to protect pedestrians from falling debris." It does not say what circumstances require such a canopy.
Around the Wachovia site, sidewalks are closed, as are street lanes. That's what the general contractor, Batson-Cook Construction, wanted, Rigney said.
"It's safer for the pedestrians and safer for us," he said.
Sidewalks across South Tryon were littered with glass in both accidents. But they're not part of the job site, and Rigney said Batson has no authority or requirement to erect canopies there.
This year, officials in New York and Miami tightened rules governing crane operations following a trio of fatal crane accidents. The crane industry in North Carolina is largely self-regulated.
Rigney said establishing a clear-zone beneath a crane load is up to the contractor. The state safety official leading the investigation of Monday's incident has said rules only mandate that loads not be lifted over employees' heads.
The city transportation department governs the public right-of-way along streets uptown, including those that border construction sites. Construction companies lease space from the city when they operate equipment in the right-of-way, Linda Durrett, a department spokeswoman said in an e-mail. She said she was unable to answer further questions Tuesday about regulating construction sites.
"The City expects lease holders to operate in a safe and proper manner at all times," Durrett wrote.
Rigney characterized the recent incidents as freak accidents. Last week, workers inside the Wachovia tower were installing glass panels, which can weigh up to 250 pounds. They broke one panel, perhaps by bumping it against a wall. The pieces flew to the ground.
Rigney said the company worked with city transportation officials for approval of the sidewalk and lane closures. He said signs and barricades are required if a road is to be blocked for several hours or longer. But he said, that's not the case during the brief periods when a crane is carrying material overhead.
"We get our own game plan together," he said.
That plan, on the Tryon Street side, involves stopping everyone from the intersection with Stonewall to a point just past the site, he said. That procedure was followed on Monday, Rigney said. But it fell apart when a load of seven-foot steel beams came loose from a crane above the 26th floor.
"The guys that were holding traffic back ran as the debris was coming down," Rigney said. "In that instant, the bus driver moved forward. She may have thought, 'Hey, I can go.'"
The falling beams all landed within the job site, but one apparently bounced out, smacking the roof of the bus and leaving a three-foot crease.
Using "spotters" to control traffic is common, said Stewart Burkhammer, a Maryland construction safety consultant. But adding a light-weight barrier could be a good back-up "in case something starts falling and the spotter runs."
Rigney said the company has not determined the cause of the accident and has been interviewing witnesses, the crane operator, its employees and those of a subcontractor that loaded the beams. He didn't know whether the operator had previous accidents but said he has worked for Batson on other projects and has more than 15 years experience.
Rigney, who has about 15 years in the industry, was at the site during Monday's accident.
"Your guts just turn upside down," he said. "You want to make sure everybody is safe."


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Award-winning stage/opera director and author Anne Bogart will address Cornish College of the Arts' centennial class on May 9 at Marion Oliver McCaw Hall in Seattle. Cornish theater majors already know the work of Bogart. Her methods and many books on finding the moment in acting are standard fare in that department. But her wider views on the importance of the creative in everyday life will ring true to the more than 200 graduates receiving diplomas this year.
Bogart is one of the Artistic Directors of SITI Company, which she founded with Japanese director Tadashi Suzuki. Her three books of essays on theater-making: "A Director Prepares," "What's the Story," and And "Then, You Act" are standard reading for theater professionals. She has taught numerous workshops and seminars as well as written on both the Suzuki method and Viewpoints, training methods used throughout contemporary theater.
President Nancy J. Uscher will confer degrees on more than 200 graduating seniors on May 9 at McCaw Hall. Bogart and and choreographer and McArthur "Genius Grant" recipient Liz Lerman will receive honorary degrees. In addition, this year's Distinguished Recent Alumni Awards will go to artistic collaborators Jerick Hoffer (aka Jinkx Monsoon) and Richard Andriessen. The Distinguished Alumni Award will go to Kent Devereaux, president of the New Hampshire Institute of Art.
"As part of our ongoing Centennial celebrations, we're honored to have these notable artists and alumni join us for this joyous event," said Uscher. The college was founded in November 1914. Among the year's special events marking the occasion have been the Centennial Gala at the Paramount Theatre, headlined by Cornish graduate and Grammy nominee Mary Lambert; a current exhibition of recently discovered photos taken by famed photographer Imogen Cunningham at Cornish during the 1930s; and more than 100 student performances and exhibitions throughout the year including May's EXPO 15, a display of work by 98 graduating seniors in art and design.
After graduating from Cornish in 2010, Hoffer's drag queen persona, Jinkx Monsoon, became the season five winner of RuPaul's Drag Race. Hoffer holds a record on the show for being on the top for eight consecutive weeks. The documentary film about Hoffer, Drag Becomes Him, opened this month. During their time at Cornish, and after graduation, Andriessen and Hoffer developed the musical comedy revue that became "The Vaudevillians."This show has played to sold-out houses in New York and Seattle.
Composer and writer, Andriessen also created the off-Broadway solo show, "Major Scales' Minor Breakdown," at the Laurie Beechman Theatre in New York. He also wrote and performed on the Inevitable Album with Hoffer.
"Throughout its history, Cornish has opened its doors to artists with bold dreams and embraced those who wanted to make a difference in the world," said President Uscher. "The artists we honor at Commencement, and the graduates who leave here to become the next generation of distinguished alumni, uphold that tradition. We are very excited to see what they will accomplish next as artists, citizens, and innovators."
Due to other commitments, Hoffer will be unable to attend the event, but his award will be accepted by Andriessen.
The Cornish Centennial Commencement will take place at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, May 9, at Marion Oliver McCaw Hall at Seattle Center. Cornish College of the Arts awards Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Fine Arts in art, dance, design, performance production, and theater as well as a post-graduate Artist Diploma in Early Music.
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Founded in 1914, Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, WA, offers Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees in Art, Dance, Design, Performance Production and Theater, a Bachelor of Music degree and an Artist Diploma in Early Music. Since its beginning, the College's founder Nellie Cornish, and the many teaching artists who followed her, believed in education through exposure to all the arts. This approach continues to inform the College's curriculum and community involvement today. The College is accredited by the Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges, and the National Association of Schools of Art and Design.
The College owns or operates more than a dozen buildings in three Seattle neighborhoods. Its main campus is located at South Lake Union, where the 20-story Cornish Commons will open in 2015. The Art, Design, Film+Media Department, the Theater Department, and the Performance Production Department offices are located on this campus. Cornish also owns the historic Kerry Hall on Capitol Hill, built by the College in the 1920s, where dancer Martha Graham, composer John Cage, and Northwest painter Mark Tobey all instructed students. This building continues to serve today as the home of the Music and Dance departments and houses PONCHO Concert Hall.
In addition, Cornish operates the Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center, originally built for the 1962 World's Fair and former home of the Seattle Rep and Intiman Theatre, respectively. Today the Cornish Playhouse and the Cornish Playhouse Studio, as well as the nearby Scene Shop on Roy St., are used for college programs and student productions as well as serving more than 30 nonprofits annually.
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Noel Lee, founder of video and audio cable maker Monster LLC, filed a complaint in California's San Mateo Superior Court on Tuesday (06Jan15), accusing his former partners of duping him prior to selling trendy headphone manufacturer Beats to Apple for $3 billion last year (14).
Lee once held a five per cent stake in Beats as part of their partnership, which ended in 2012. He alleges in the lawsuit that ever since then, Dre, Iovine and Beats have attempted to erase Monster's contribution to the popular headphones.
Lee later dropped his stake in Beats to only 1.25 per cent, then sold his remaining shares in late 2013, after he was allegedly told by Beats executives that they had no plans to sell the company for at least several years.
So when bosses at Apple bought out Beats last year (14), Lee would have received more than $30 million in the deal, had he kept the 1.25 per cent stake.
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" The 2009 is an incredibly exciting vintage of opulence, power, and richness, yet the better wines have a precision and delicacy that is unprecedented." - Robert Parker, April 2010.
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A dry year, with a consistently fine and bright summer and cool nights. April began wet and cool but this was all the rain there would be - in fact there was almost no rain from 1st May until September. This long drought period benefitted the vines which had to work hard in search of the groundwater reserves built up in the Spring. So from May onwards there followed a seemingly endless phase of dry, sunny days and by contrast, relatively cool nights – the perfect combination to ensure slow even ripening and balance-giving acidity. By the end of August, sugar levels in the grapes were actually higher than in 2000 and 2005. As the warm dry weather continued into September acidity levels began to drop off. The question was whether to pick early to preserve freshness, but with the forecasts looking bright, most decided to wait for the tannins to ripen fully. The harvest period was long and Chateaux were able to wait patiently to harvest plot by plot, throughout September and late into October.
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There are well-made wines in every appellation with plush, ripe Merlot and beautifully balanced Cabernets. This is a winemaker's vintage where timing and gentle treatment were key. The best wines of 2009 are characterised by:
- Exceptional purity and focus to the fruit. Less aromatic complexity and opulence than in 2005 but incredible concentration of direct blue/black fresh fruit - juice vinified.
- Velvet-like tannins. Perfect phenolic maturity in the grapes resulting in incredibly smooth textures where tannins are (initially) almost imperceptible. Huge structure. In some instances, the wines were the most concentrated and structured ever made in Bordeaux, with levels of acidity, tannins (IPT index) and alcohol the highest recorded.
- However, 2009 is far less uniform in quality than either 2005 or 2000.
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The most successful are those that marry their excellent quality Cabernet fruit and Merlot ripeness with superb texture; the least successful hot and over-extracted, finising dry and bitter. The Medoc will offer some excellent wines at all price levels and some cru bourgeois are worth serious attention this year. Second wines (often where all that plump, ripe Merlot ended up) are also set to offer very good, richly fruited wines for early drinking.
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Its pretty easy to pay a little bit of money and have Facebook , twitter, and Instagram followers pretty quickly. Here is why this is a bad idea, especially on Facebook. Having lots of likes and followers is great, as long as they are engaged and interested in your content. Basically, it does not matter if your page has a million followers, if they aren't interested in your message. They won't engage, they won't buy and they won't refer or share with others.
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The 24-Hour Chinese Restaurant is a Chinese restaurant located on Alhambra Drive in Sandy Shores in Grand Theft Auto V.
The restaurant plays no role in the storyline whatsoever and is inaccessible. There is a window on the front which the player can look inside to see some tables, chairs, and a counter, but there is no way of entering. There is a parking lot around the side where vehicles regularly spawn.
Around the back, there is a white fence with large red letters which say "CHINESE RESTAURANT OPEN 10AM - 8PM". This may be a joke by Rockstar as the logo of the restaurant clearly says that it is open 24/7. Beside the fence is a small opening which leads to an open spot of land next to the building.


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A shooting during a home invasion at Cotton Grass Drive and Highway 905 in Longs on Saturday night sent one person to the hospital and the police on a search for a suspect, WPDE reports.
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As a whole, the Batman franchise tends to be a "what have you done for me lately" affair with fans. Unlike the fictional worlds of Star Wars, Masters of the Universe and various others, which maintain a devoted following, Batman fandom seems to ebb and flow depending on what film or cartoon series is making a big splash at the time. Unfortunately for the Caped Crusader, I believe the character's uniqueness is also likely the reason behind its fickle fan base.
Let's face it. The reason why most of us like Batman to begin with is his humanity. Sure, we're not all billionaires that are smart and talented enough to lead a double life and fight crime in the middle of the night. But at its root level, the origin story of Batman is plausible. It's human. When you combine that with the darkness and realism of Gotham City, the stories aren't uplifting or fun. They are closer to reality and therefore not as attractive on an everyday basis to most fans.
Don't get me wrong, Batman is obviously fiction and an entertaining trip through a world that is
absolutely compelling. But unlike the franchises that are fairly predictable and generally enjoyable to escape to, Batman isn't a pillar of light. He's a haunted man with enough skeletons in the closet to fill a graveyard. The world hits too close to home when watching or reading a Batman story and there is only so much reality and seriousness a person can take before they need a break.
Now, I know there are people out there that will vehemently disagree with that explanation. Hey,
I admit, hardcore fans such as myself actually like that element of the character and it is the core
reason why I am a 24/7 Bat-fan. But riddle me this, fellow devotees. When you look at all those
more successful franchises that exist, what is the one thing that 99 percent of them have, that Batman typically doesn't?
Comic relief.
The most successful fictional world toy line (and as we well know, toys are where the money is at) in history is Star Wars. You can argue until you are blue in the face how the action and story is exciting and that is what made you a fan. That's fine. I share that sentiment. But the reason why that toy line and ultimately the franchise has been so successful is the crossover comic-relief of R2D2 and C-3PO. That's what took that story from a sci-fi geek's paradise into the homes of almost every person in the world. It crossed genres by throwing in humor and appealing to a more lighthearted audience.
Batman has none of that. And because it doesn't (and in my opinion, rightfully so), you don't have as large of a crossover base of fans as other franchises. I can hear some of you now saying: "But wait, Superman doesn't have any comic relief. Spiderman really doesn't either. So how does this make sense?" Easy. Those worlds are based on non-realistic characters. As much as a person may love the Man of Steel and Spiderman, there is not an ounce of reality in either of those worlds. Everything, while written as serious, really isn't something that could happen.
Batman is. And while for people such as you and I, who love the serious and gritty tone of Batman, for others, the darkness and realistic bent is too overwhelming. They need to check out of the scene for awhile, content to follow some "less-heavy" stories.
Flashback to 2008. The Dark Knight and Iron Man were released that year. After being asked multiple times what he thought of The Dark Knight, Iron Man star Robert Downey Jr. criticized the film for (and I'm paraphrasing here) not being any "fun," and forgetting what a comic book film should be about – something with lighthearted moments. While I personally laughed at that and chalked it up to Downey clearly not being in touch with the Batman story, in retrospect, he hit the nail on the head in regard to why Batman experiences a degree of fan fickleness.
Obviously, there is nothing to be done about this dynamic. The Bat-Universe is what it is. The success of the Batman character is based off the very factors that keep it from being a crossover smash. But, if it takes Batman throwing out bad one-liners and drinking booze in order to get more attentive mainstream fans and collectors, I'm quite content with things just the way they are.
Brian Heaton is a regular contributor to Legions of Gotham. When not opining on Batman-
related news at LoG, he works as a music journalist and communications professional in Northern California. His work covering the world of hard rock/heavy metal music can be found at The Breakdown Room – www.breakdownroom.net.


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Our Brilliant Club students are now well underway in their studies on the topic of monomer sequence regulation in polymers and its importance in the field of macromolecules.
They have been taking part in weekly tutorials with their tutor, and PhD researcher Nadeema Appukutti, and completing challenging homework tasks to further research and communicate their understanding of aspects of their topic. Nadeema has reported to be very impressed by our students' hard work and enthusiasm and has even awarded university level 1st class judgements to some of the homework tasks produced!
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Reflections on Pope John Paul II's Legacy
June 2005By Tom Bethell
Tom Bethell is a writer who lives in Washington, D.C.
As I write this, Pope John Paul II has died only a few days ago, and the Cardinals are beginning to assemble in Rome. So you know what I dont know the identity of the new pope. Meanwhile, a few words about the interregnum and the obituaries. Most of the news medias preferred reflections on John Pauls papacy tended to go like this (clichés included):
He was a man of dynamism and charisma. He captivated much of humanity by the sheer force of his personality, forged in the twilight struggles with Nazism and Communism. Later, he won universal admiration as he stood up to the ravages of Parkinsons disease. Many around the world were personally moved by this successor to St. Peter, as he crisscrossed the world stage, traveling to 129 countries. His influence extended far beyond his Church, and he evoked strong feelings among the faithful. He was the first truly global pope a world statesman. He was both a man of the people and a pope for the ages.
Nonetheless (the obituaries continued), many Catholics were distressed by his opposition to change. For all his travels, for all his fondness for indigenous people wearing their native costumes, he became increasingly out of touch with the modern world. Women, homosexuals, and even some priests and nuns urged him to be more sensitive to their needs (a mini New York Times editorial within an obit). Once the man of the moment, the Pope in the end was not open to change. A new dawn had seemed imminent at the Second Vatican Council, but those bright hopes were dashed. He centralized authority in his own office. He was rigid. He resisted easy labels, yes, but in the end he was a conservative, even a reactionary pope. And he cloned himself in the College of Cardinals.
He was much involved in politics (the obituaries continued), and with his Polish roots he found a way to prevail over Communism. Like the head of any political body, he was entitled to have his own policies. But policies can be changed (journalists are well aware of that; its the reason many of them became journalists). John Paul had a policy on abortion (against), on contraception (against), on homosexuality (against), on euthanasia (against), on the death penalty (against). Despite grumbling from the faithful in the pews, and polls showing that a majority of American Catholics favor women priests and an end to priestly celibacy, the Pope stubbornly refused to change policies. Not that it mattered in the end, because these days the faithful will follow their own consciences regardless of what any pope tells them. So now there will be a new pope, a new administration in Rome, and a renewed opportunity for change. Enlightened Catholics everywhere are urging the Church to move in a new direction.
And so it went.
Old favorites were trotted out for TV and radio given one more tour of the Quote Circuit. Trusty newsroom Rolodexes rolled around to the same old experts, who hardly seemed to have changed since the time of Paul VI. Once more the lean visage of Thomas Reese, S.J., the Editor of America, who has been heard to say that global warming will be a key issue confronting the new pope. Richard McBrien again, he of Notre Dames Theology Department, who dons his Roman collar for the benefit of the cameras. He may not sound like a priest, but he knows its advantageous to look like one. He is open to the possibility that Jesus was married. McBrien reassured his followers on the matter of women priests: They are on the way; its only a matter of time; they cant be stopped. The priest shortage will see to that.
The irreverent Andrew Greeley, 77, a priest in Chicago and the author of sex novels, said that the Pope had resorted to the old techniques of repression. But they hadnt worked. They had only destabilized the church even more, and polarized it. Chester Gillis, a theology professor at a Jesuit university, said that under John Paul, a disconnect had emerged. Some American Catholics preferred their very own cultural principles to obedience. The cultural principles he had in mind went unspoken, but can be guessed.
Commentators aplenty grumbled that the Pope had failed to modernize the Church. To which, several years ago, Joseph Sobran responded: The old Pope is out of step with modern life! Well, I should hope he is. Complaining that the Pope is out of step with modern life is like accusing Moses of being out of step with the Golden Calf. Mark Steyn of Londons Daily Telegraph said that the root of the popes thinking that there are eternal truths no one can change even if one wanted to is completely incomprehensible to the progressivist mindset.
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I frequently look up how to pretty print JSON in JavaScript. Whether it be for debugging in the console, to display some output to the user, or any other reason.
JSON.stringify() is usually used to simply convert a JSON object to a string
for use elsewhere in the application. It also takes 2 additional parameters:
replacer and
The replacer argument tells JSON.stringify to parse your JSON object in a
custom way -- eg, replace all
"true" and
"false" strings with the
Boolean version
true or
false. You can do a million other things here,
but we're not too concered about this parameter when all we want to do is
pretty print.
space argument, though a little oddly named, tells JSON.stringify() to
add spacing to the string output -- like a newline, tab, or single space.
Using this parameter, we can print out our stringified JSON in a readable format:
JSON.stringify({ a: 1, b:2 }, null, 2)
// "{
// "a": 1,
// "b": 2
// }"
And there we go - a nice, readable JSON object as a string. There's more information on the MDN page about what you can pass to this function - so check those out and start pretty printing!
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My name is Bilgi, I am 23 and I'm a Sociology Graduate from Durham University and a lifestyle, travel and fashion blogger. I love taking photos of things which I'm doing or places I have been and sharing them in the blogger-sphere. I want you to be taken on an adventure when you read or look through my blog and feel inspired, either by the places I have been or the things I have baked. I hope you can take something from what you experience on my blog and start planning your very own trip somewhere wonderful or whisk up something splendid for you friends and fam-a-lam! If you want to ask me a question, please feel free to drop me a message on my blog or via one of my social media platforms.
Here are 5 things you probably don't (yet!) know about me...
1. I was born and lived in London as a small child. I love the city and the seemingly endless possibilities which it holds.
2. Lots of my family live in Cyprus, so naturally, I have a sunny disposition. (that's how it works, right?!)
3. I. Love. Tea. Specifically, Earl Grey tea. I have tried going for weeks without this variety, only sipping the regular kind, but honestly I don't see the point anymore. I love Earl Grey, that is all.
4. I also really quite like Ferrero Roches. When I found out that they have Nutella inside them, well it was an amazing moment to behold. (bet you didn't know that, huh?)
5. I had two rabbits for almost 9 and 10 years respectively. They were the best pets I could've asked for and so adorable. I like things which are cute and fluffy and that don't bite (well, usually anyway...).


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This new funicular railway system in Mumbai that works on a basic mechnanism, is the first of its kind in the country, writes MONISHA RAO.
By September 2014, Mumbaikars will have the pleasure of riding in India's first funicular railway line. Being built near Kalyan, the railway will ferry devotees to the shrine at the Haji Malang Hill and will significantly reduce travel time from a tedious three hours to just 10-15 minute. Built on an elevated incline along a defined alignment, the railway system has been developed on a 1-km single rail track and a double track of 100 m at the centre. At an average slope of 17°, the elevation difference between the lower and upper station is 230 m.
Working mechanism
This mode of transportation stands out because of its efficient and simple design. A funicular railway works on a basic mechanism: two cars are attached to each other by a cable, which runs through a pulley at the top of the slope. It counter balances the two cars, with one going up and the other going down. In this case, the cars are pulled up by means of an electric drive and a mechanical lift. Elaborating on the working mechanism of the system, ZN Shaikh, General Manager-Execution, Supreme Infrastructure India, says, "The funicular drive will be located behind the upper station. It will consist of an electric-driven capstan, motor, gearbox, couplings, normal brake and an emergency brake mounted on a base frame. This will be permanently anchored to the ground with components fitted on the base frame with fasteners." Currently, the drive elements have been designed for a two-car operation; however, extra designs will be made for an upgrade to four-car operations in the future.
Explaining the system's sustainable factor, he highlights, "With a combination of wheeled cars and tracks, funicular is a sustainable mode of transportation as it does not consume fuel. The power requirement for this system is 400 kw."
Further, the project contains civil components such as stations, platforms and rail tracks, mostly laid on elevated steel girders and pylon supports.
The blueprint
The steel girders are 12 m long and each is fabricated from a pair of mild steel (IS2062) parallel beams IPE 600 + 220 + 107.8 kg per m.
The parallel beams are joined by ISMB 150 I beams to form a strong truss. Also, the rails used on the steel girders weigh 125 pound and are of 52 kg per m IU grade. These are clamped on the girders with rail clamps at every 800 mm.
Moreover, the railways have been designed keeping in mind varying dynamic loads. In civil and structural engineering, dynamic or live loads are loads that can change or are applied with motion, such as wind, earthquake, vertical loading, centrifugal force and longitudinal force. M30 grade concrete and TMT bar reinforcement have been used in the RCC pier. "European countries use steel structures to build piers but we have constructed RCC piers for the first time in the world," confirms Shaikh. These pillars also have zero-maintenance cost. "While in India, traditional methods of construction are used to launch girders, we have developed a unique technology by means of a specialised crane on the rough inclined terrain."
Wagon drive
Four fully air-conditioned passenger cabins, each carrying 60 passengers, will move to and fro every 400 seconds to ferry 1,080 passengers per hour, per direction. The cabins on the railway track are connected to opposite ends of a single wire rope, which has six strands with 19 wires each. Moreover, an attached goods cabin to each rake will carry passenger luggage and other goods.
Safe and sound
Safety and security form the most critical element of a funicular system. To ensure a smooth ride, the cabins will have in-built voice and data communication facility along with at least two rail clamp brakes to operate in cases of emergency. Soft brakes have also been provided that ensure a smooth halt during emergencies, leaving no scope for panic. "A number of sensors have been placed at different locations to track movement and prevent accidents," reveals Shaikh.
The cabins have their centre of gravity well centred between the rails. Typically, in a funicular railway, the centre of gravity is never outside 250 mm from the track centreline for a 3-m wide cabin. This ensures reasonably uniform loading on both beams of a girder; hence, a funicular never topples over on the side.
New beginning
The project, which was initially set to commence in 2008, was stuck owing to clearances. However, once the project attained approval from the Forest Ministry, it kick-started its operation in September 2012. The cost of Rs 45 crore at the initial stage has now escalated to Rs 75 crore. "Thirty per cent work of the project is remaining and it will be operational by July-September this year," concludes Shaikh. We can't wait!
Project details:
Completion: September 2014
Cost: Rs 75 crore
Length: 1.1 km
Average slope: 17°
Elevation difference: 230 m
Passenger cabins: 4
Contractor: Supreme Infrastrcuture, Tel: 022-61289700 Website: www.supremeinfra.com


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How far I've come! I'm the same girl and yet not the same. I wonder if it's always like that? Folks keep growing from one person into another all their lives, and life is just a lot of everyday adventures. Well, whatever life is, I like it.
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Work made for BOAT (for Peter) and installation views now online.
Final updates before work made for BOAT (for Peter) goes on show....
In this post:
News about my 'work in progress' micro-exhibition in Sheffield – with installation images;
the four themes emerging from the work for BOAT (for Peter);
and the launch of a booklet of alternative 'Listening Notes' exploring ideas in Peter Grimes and my work.
[This is the third post in a series. See two earlier posts (below) about the background to the project, and images from my studio during the making.]
S E A S C R I P T (Access Space, Sheffield - open 11am-5pm, Wed-Fri until May 31st)
I was given the opportunity to exhibit work related to BOAT (for Peter) this month.
S E A S C R I P T runs Wed-Fri, 11am-5pm, until May 31st at Access Space, Sheffield. The exhibition explores a single aspect of Britten's opera Peter Grimes: the representation of the sea, and the role of scripts and scores in music production. Hugely inspired by Frank Bridge's The Sea, Britten gives the changing character of the sea a role of its own in his opera. Agnes Martin's 1963 work The Wave suggests the sea using minimalist graphic notation. As well as two new works on paper, both 'scores' for the sea, and a film work on loop, I displayed three paper pianola music rolls. Acting as score, and somehow also as a recording, for player pianos, these are fed into the pianola manually. The machine reads the perforations to make the prescribed sound. Despite the physical programming of the paper roll, the pianola (human) 'player' can effect real variation in speed and volume. The rolls, like waves, represent variation possible within repetition and proscription.
The exhibition is silent – there is no sound on the video loop, and my painted and perforated 'scores' (as well as the pianola music rolls) hang inertly against the walls. Sound is suggested and scripted in the exhibition, but not performed or heard.
THEMES within the work made for BOAT (for Peter)
As studio time for BOAT (for Peter) comes to an end, I've begun grouping pieces of work into themes. I'll use these ideas to organise the work in the exhibitions in Snape Maltings and Sheffield.
PLANS If Peter were to be rescued from drowning at sea, would he need a boat? What form would such a boat take? Plans would need to be drawn up and transferred to watertight materials. Materials would need to be selected and then carefully divided and apportioned into necessary and unnecessary, needed and offcut.
SCORES How could a character be 'rescued' from an opera that has already been composed, performed and recorded? An intervention would need to be made into Britten's score – I'd have to hack the libretto. I've drawn on the format of paper music rolls for pianolas and music boxes, in which perforations represent both score and recording.
STARS "Who can decipher / in storm or starlight / the written character / of a friendly fate [?]" Peter asks as the storm rages in Act 1, Scene 2. The ghostly lines of constellations presented here suggest an alternative fate is written for Peter and his apprentices.
(SEA) FLOOR There will be a site-specific installation at floor level in each gallery. The installation will explore the process of using templates, or patterns, to make something, and will stand in for Peter and his apprentice John, the two characters presumed to have come to rest on the sea floor at the end of Britten's Peter Grimes.
Listening Notes
Produced in collaboration with music researcher and presenter Dr Katy Hamilton, this 44-page A5 booklet of alternative 'Listening Notes' explores themes in the opera and my work for BOAT (for Peter). It was designed by Mark Devereux Projects and was printed on 100% recycled paper by RAP Spiderweb.
The booklet is available at both exhibitions or by emailing me – helen [dot] stokes [at] cantab [dot] net (£7 inc. P&P).
BOAT (for Peter)
Pond Gallery, Snape Maltings, IP17 1SP / Thursday 8th – Wednesday 14th June / 11am-7pm
Meet Katy Hamilton in the gallery, Monday 12th June, 2.30-4.30pm
APG Works, Sheffield, S1 4RH / Wednesday 21st June – Saturday 1st July (closed Sundays) / 11am-5pm
Evening Opening, Friday 23rd June, 6-9pm
In conversation with Katy Hamilton, Access Space (opposite APG Works), Saturday 1st July, 2pm (free)
Making plans for Peter...
This post documents some of the experimental work that's come from making a boat for Peter Grimes. The images offer a sneak preview into my studio practice, although these works might not all make it into the exhibition...
Plans are full of potential. Plans are made but not always followed. In Britten's opera, the characters sing about their plans and dreams against a backdrop of harsh working conditions and the small-minded meanness of their community. I toyed with the plans my grandfather used to build a boat, admiring the precision of the hand-drawn lines. I have re-created versions of these lines on a wooden panel with a scalpel, as if marking-out future cuts, and on paper, where lines are divisions before they are cuts.
What size and shape of boat could rescue Peter from his ending? This paper boat was my size - its cocoon-like sides offered privacy and protection, but it was never going to float, let alone hold me above water. I dismantled the boat, marking in chalk where the sides had joined the trunk, as if making notes for a later version, or a dress-maker's pattern. The sections of paper boat that remain have a relation to plans, without following them, and it's unlikely the pieces could be put back together to make the boat a second time.
What materials would a boat to rescue a character in an opera be made from? A survey of the materials mentioned in the libretto brought up a hundred possibilities. Peter and Ellen Orford (Peter's best ally in the Borough) sing of the lives they hope to build for themselves and Peter's young apprentice, John. Ellen sings of the "silk and satin lives" she dreamt about in her childhood. I made these silk plans physical, toying with the formal properties of plans for boats. The final results (in silk) began to look like the sea...
At the end of the opera, Peter is told to sail his boat beyond sight of land and sink it. The presumed fate of the fisherman (though we never see it in the opera) is on the seafloor, boat scuttled and man drowned. I compared boatbuilders' plans to archaeological plans of shipwrecks and found they share lots of similar visual qualities. Some of the markings on plans recur in other types of document, with different symbolism...this brought up ideas about readability: text and context. Here, a roll of pianola music (perforated paper that is played - read - by a mechanical piano) seems to mimic the symbol for (rusting) metal bolts on an archaeological plan of a shipwreck. What would Peter Grimes sound like if played on a pianola? What would the music look like on paper? Could a pianola be made to read the archaeological plan of a shipwreck if its graphic marks were translated into the equivalent perforations..?
Work will be on show at the Pond Gallery, Snape Maltings during the first week of the Aldeburgh Festival, 8th-14th June, 11am-7pm, and then again in Sheffield at APG Works, 21st June to 1st July, 11am-5pm, closed Sundays.
Introduction to the project
This is the first of five posts documenting the production of a body of new work called BOAT (for Peter). The project grew out of a 2015 proposal for a commission. I continued to work on the idea and was supported by Mark Devereux Projects to apply for Arts Council England funding. In November 2016 my application got the green light and the project was up and running. This first blog post comes approximately at the end of the first 6 weeks of studio time.
Point of departure
The work responds to the ending of Benjamin Britten's 1945 opera Peter Grimes. Having art work respond to something is perhaps an overused phrase in contemporary art writing, but in this case I think 'response' is the right term. At the end of the opera (spoiler alert), the anti-hero Peter is sent to sink his fishing boat out at sea, in other words to die, after he is physically rejected by and ostracised from his community. My work is a response to that ultimate rejection: I'm more than just 'inspired by' the opera's ending – I want to answer it somehow… and for my work to invite responses and provoke reactions from others. The idea of responding visually to Grimes has been percolating almost since I heard the opera for the first time.
My opera credentials (!)
I first heard the opera Peter Grimes about 4 or 5 years ago, and have since listened to it hundreds of times. It was the orchestral interludes and the arias which first struck me as being so beautiful, and I'd skip through the recitative (talky-singy parts). But gradually I began to love the work as a whole. My introduction to opera in general came a few years before, whilst I was studying Italian at university. There was a trip to see an ENO production of Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito - but I don't remember it making a big impression. I later moved to Rome and began working as a PA to Andrea Andermann, known for his (BAFTA and Emmy award winning) live opera productions – such as Tosca with Placido Domingo and Catherine Malfitano in the lead roles – which was aired live on TV in 1992. The production was filmed with Steadicams in the actual locations the opera is set, at more or less the times of day of the action, and with the same time-intervals between the acts. I later wrote about Tosca, and more generally about opera in the time of the London riots, during my Masters at the now sadly closed London Consortium. The Britten centenary in 2013 completely passed me by and I didn't really think much more about opera until my partner suggested I might like Peter Grimes. Maybe I can't call myself an opera fan just yet, having seen so few live productions and listened to so few recordings – but Britten's Peter Grimes grabbed me and hasn't yet let me go.
Who's involved
One of the best things to come out of the project so far has been the opportunity in January this year to chat about the opera with Dr Katy Hamilton - music researcher, presenter, academic and fully-fledged Grimes fan. After years of listening to Grimes on my iPod, it was incredible to spend an afternoon talking about the opera with someone who can quote the libretto back to front. We're working on a booklet exploring themes in Grimes, to accompany my work for the exhibitions, and we'll give a talk to contextualise the opera and examine some of the themes as explored in my work.
Initial concept
Initially I planned to build a structure to 'rescue' Peter from his fate at sea (and had originally titled the project 'Rescue Boat'. I saw an opportunity, a 'way-in', in the many cycles in Grimes (for example, the rhythms of the tides, the passage of days into nights). The possibility of renewal within a cycle seems to be implicit in the music and the libretto. I became interested in the idea of making (or drawing) a structure that was both Peter's watery grave, his 'boat-coffin' on the sea-bed, and a vessel that could somehow rescue him, replacing the support of his boat. I started thinking about the relationship between archaeological plans of shipwrecks (big thanks to Sheffield University PhD student Sam Garwood for talking me through some wrecks in the Adriatic!) and boat builders' plans (for new boats). Plans for potential new boats; plans of boats destroyed, lines and shapes overlapping and tentatively pointing outside of a linear time-sequence.
Inspiring from the start was my grandfather's dedication to building a (floating, functioning) boat from plans bought on the internet. I think there is something almost magical about plans; plans are visual instructions, recorded recipes to eke potential out of some raw or inert material. Looking at copies of the plans my grandfather built from, spending time tracing the technical drawing and re-forming the prescribed shapes in paper, has felt like a means of communication across time with someone who, like Peter, has now sadly been lost to sight. Whilst my activity has a sense of coming after (making things from plans that have always already been followed; listening to an opera that has always already been completed, performed and recorded) – I hope the work I'm making will offer a momentary, imaginative return to a time before: a non-linear, cyclical time, in which potentials for alternative outcomes exist and overlap.
Where I'm at
Since the initial concept of a 'rescue boat', following experiments in my studio and interesting discussions with other artists, I've moved away from an obviously boat-y, nautical formal response.
I made a boat from paper, large enough to contain me on my studio floor, but not suitable for water-borne ventures! Now dissected, the work I'm making looks a bit like dress-makers' patterns for a boat, odd shapes of paper with functional 'join' markings on. Paper has been joined in my studio by some interesting materials I've not worked with before – satin and embroidery thread, as well as sheets of hardwood ply and a synthetic paper-like fabric called Tyvek... In my next blog post around mid-April I will document the making stages in more detail.
The completed work will be exhibited at the Pond Gallery, Snape Maltings from 8th -14th June 2017, coinciding with the first week of the Aldeburgh Festival. The show will then move to APG Works in Sheffield, from 21st June to 3rd July, with a free talk event on 1st July with Dr Katy Hamilton and myself in conversation. Timings and further details tbc.
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It is fantastic to think that 50 million years ago, right where we are standing, was a lake filled with fish! These fish died, sank to the bottom and were turned into a fossil. And now we are seeing them today.
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MsTioga has traveled 68 miles today, and she was thinking about staying the nite in the Town of Montpelier. We have made a Day Camp next to a city park.
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Nite Camped in Montpelier, Idaho. MsTioga has blended in with a bunch of U-Haul trucks! It seems that MsTioga fits right in with trucks like these, and she appears to belong there. It was very quiet and peaceful all nite long!
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Back at my desk after attending the NFL game between the Chicago Bears and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Wembley, which was very cool indeed. We were supporting the Bears, and they won! More about that later this week.
But, just a quick announcement for today: in January, I'll be heading back to New York City to give Empire State a "local" launch. It seems too good an opportunity to pass up, given that the whole book is about New York and various versions thereof. I'll post a full event schedule with dates and details as soon as they are finalised!
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Isabel has been introduced to the potty :)
Enjoying lots of outside play time in the beautiful spring weather
I have been growing, and growing, and growing.....only about 3 weeks left!
Putting in a new hedge all the way around the house
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In the mid-fifties the lawyer Luigi Scatturin called Carlo Scarpa (Venice, 1906 - Sendai 1978) to design the interior of his legal department in Santa Maria Formosa, Venice. Shortly after he moved to calle degli Avvocati near Sant'Angelo and, once again, he invited him to take care of his studio and house. Scarpa designed the full 250 square meters located on the top floor of the seventeenth century building, dealing with the architectural interventions as well as the furnishing. This set is one of the most significant examples of Scarpa's works in the field of private clients still visible in their entirety, rare example of a time now lost, the work is the result of the bond of mutual respect that has long united Scatturin and Scarpa, at whose name could be added the artist Tancredi Parmeggiani (Feltre, 1927 - Rome, 1964) linked to Scatturin for family reasons as well as cultural, and here rappresented by some of his paintings. The intellectual exchange and the dialectical relationship are the starting point of the exhibition project LADIES AND GENTLEMEN MAKE YOURSELF COMFORTABLE as well as the eponymous desk designed by Scarpa for Scatturin's studio. The project offers some of the most significant presences of the contemporary creative scene, all invited to relate to the history and the structure of the Home-Studio Scatturin, in each case with different modalities - staying at home, living for few hours, consulting the space and its life, analyzing the documentary sources - in order to create a work inspired by this experience. The result is a visual journey suspended in time and in spatial dimension where the parallelism of past and present moments performs the testimony of the energy produced by the intellectual and emotional encounter between Scarpa, Scatturin and Tancredi, and its unaltered actuality.
Artists involved: YURI ANCARANI (Ravenna, 1972) GIORGIO ANDREOTTA CALÒ (Venice, 1979) HOPE ATHERTON (Warrenton, 1974), PATRIZIO DI MASSIMO (Jesi, 1983) CLAIRE FONTAINE (Paris, 2004), NICOLA MARTINI (Florence, 1984), LILI REYNAUD DEWAR (La Rochelle, 1975), EMANUEL RÖHSS (Gothenburg, 1985), ARCANGELO SASSOLINO (Vicenza, 1967), MORGANE TSCHIEMBER (Brest, 1976), NICO VASCELLARI (Vittorio Veneto, 1976).


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|Differentiate By Adding Real Value.
And just as a coincidence, it also happened that during a conversation, a dear friend of mine asked me if including on his LinkedIn profile a background picture related to his industry and what his company did, would help him differentiate from others who also work on the same area.
I told him there wouldn't be any problem with it, quite the opposite: I said it would add a very nice visual touch to his profile, but also recommended him not to forget that the best strategy to differentiate himself from other professionals within his industry was to provide valuable content across all platforms where he was present, ending up my comment with the phrase that entitles this post.
Never forget that "the suite does not make the man".
Don't make the mistake of thinking that just because you dress fashionably, have a very "cool" haircut, an expensive suit and a brand name watch, you've made your job on taking care of the most important part of your personal brand, because you'll be making a huge mistake .
Obviously creating a professional image is important, but if the way you look on the outside is not synchronized with your most authentic, inner self, then you're simply creating a false image of yourself and people, at any time, will take notice.
Remember that "even though the monkey is all dressed in silk, it's still a monkey." If what people see is not authentic, at some point they will figure you out.
A while ago, I wrote in this blog that a personal brand should be, on top of everything else, a free and consistent expression of your true self, both personal and professional, without impositions from others.
And it's a position I defend and will always do my best in keeping: First of all, the image you project about yourself should be perfectly consistent with your most intimate values and opinions, and can not be any other way.
Differentiate Yourself By The Value Shared Through Your Conversations.
What I definitely think should be your preferred way to really stand out from other professionals in your industry or sector, is the depth of your opinions, they way you add value to other people's lives and businesses, who approach you looking for your advice or recommendations.
And even more through the genuine value you can add to discussions you're participating in. If that does not happen, if you are not able to add value to anyone's life, if your opinion is nothing but a collection of unconnected dots, and what you say goes unnoticed, well then you can certainly dress the way you want, and wear their hair style of your dreams because you're being just one more on the pile.
A professional who brings value to its environment in an authentic way, is the one who always leaves the deepest impression.
I think there is no greater satisfaction than to help others achieve their goals and doing it by helping them grow and become better people and better entrepreneurs, sharing with them the best you have to offer based on your experience and knowledge.
Only then, I think, you'll be able to strongly and certainly differentiate from other professionals who simply have stayed on the surface and do not dare to take deep dives within their industry.
On top of everything else, we are human beings wearing too many hats.
Not at all moments in my daily life I am the professional guy who writes this blog. I'm also a father of two little angels (or better yet, growing angels), I have a wonderful wife, I'm still the son of my mother, thanks God, brother of my brothers and, besides all, I'm still a human being who wants to stay physically fit, who also goes to walk the dog, taking out the trash, and so many other things.
Can you imagine how my life would be if I also had to worry about dressing in the best way possible when I go out for a ride on my bike? Or when taking out the trash? Can you picture yourself going out to walk your dog on suit and tie?
I think it wouldn't make any sense, don't you agree?
Above all, a personal brand should never be a cage that encloses and limits you.
I do agree totally that you have to dress properly and accordingly to the occasion, of course we all do, and it's also true we have to follow the proper etiquette codes when in professional environments and all other situations which require it. There is no single doubt about it and it's something I'll always recommended you as a key thing to consider.
But from there to consider that the most important thing a person or a professional has to do to build its image properly is what comes through the eyes, there is a long way. Thinking this way just limits yourself from having the opportunity to meet amazing people, to learn a little bit more each and every day.
The real way to differentiate yourself as a professional is to add value to people around you, both professionally and personally, and always be willing to continue growing as a person, learning from others as well.
Only then you will be in a favorable position to leave a deep, authentic and lasting image on your environment, whether it's professional or personal.
I recommend you to read the following posts on this blog:
What does a Barbie has to do with your personal brand?
Personal Branding Strategy: A Case Study.