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Urbano Desprini (Deleted) gave props (14 Nov 2011):
Great composition !! like it
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Charles Rushton said (14 Nov 2011):
Very mysterious and ambiquious. Well composed and difficult to read.
John Linton gave props (23 Nov 2011):
Rockin' JPG's Theme Park (most communicatively).
Michele Randell gave props (23 Jan 2012):
Great to see an image that speaks of communication that goes beyond the obvious..Creative and mysterious.
Carl Kuntze gave props (20 Feb 2012):
Is that a nude? Really mystical.
Brendan Kelly (Deleted) gave props (5 Mar 2012):
Very interesting, I like it!
Alwyn Scott Turner said (6 Mar 2012):
Outstanding grayscale composition, highlights and shadows composed with a depth of aerial perception that renders an emotional atmosphere to the abstraction...skillful composite image that merges surreal substance with reality....nice work, Cristina.
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Very nice !
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Also by Cristina Pascu
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Bruce Springsteen wants his name off a lawsuit demanding licensing fees from a Manhattan bar where a band played his songs.
A statement on Springsteen's Web site Thursday said he didn't know about the lawsuit that was filed Wednesday in federal court and wouldn't have agreed to be a plaintiff if he had been asked.
It says Springsteen's representatives demanded the immediate removal of his name Thursday morning after learning about the lawsuit filed by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. ASCAP didn't immediately return a telephone call seeking comment Thursday night.
The suit claims Connolly's Pub violated Springsteen's copyrights by letting an unidentified band perform two of his songs for profit.
A man who answered the phone at Connolly's said the pub had no comment.
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This hotel list is NOT a comprehensive list of all hotels that may be received through Priceline. It is only a summary of the hotels that have been received in winning bids posted on this board.* You may receive a hotel through Priceline that is not on this list; we see new hotels appear all the time.
If you don't see a particular quality level or zone on this list, that only means that someone has not posted a winning bid for that quality level and/or zone. It does NOT mean that Priceline does not offer hotels within that quality level or zone. If Priceline offers a zone or quality level on their website, it is safest to assume that they do in fact offer hotels in that zone.
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San Juan - Condado
5 Star
Possible: Condado Vanderbilt Hotel
4 Star
Condado Plaza Hilton (formerly Conrad San Juan Condado Plaza, Condado Plaza Hotel & Casino and Wyndham) [reviews]
Condado Lagoon Villas at Caribe Hilton
Doubletree San Juan
Hilton Caribe San Juan [reviews]
La Concha, a Renaissance Resort [reviews]
Marriott San Juan Resort & Stellaris Casino [reviews]
Sheraton Puerto Rico Convention Center Hotel and Casino
3.5 Star
Radisson Ambassador Hotel & Casino [reviews]
3 Star
Best Western Plus Condado Palm Inn
Courtyard San Juan Miramar [reviews] (formerly Hotel Excelsior)
Possible: Holiday Inn Express
Possible: Hyatt Place San Juan/City Center
2.5 Star
Normandie Hotel (now closed)
Possible: At Wind Chimes Boutique Hotel
Possible: Quality Inn El Portal
2 Star
San Juan Beach Hotel
Possible: Comfort Inn San Juan
Possible: Atlantic Beach Hotel
Old San Juan
4 Star
Sheraton Old San Juan Hotel (former Wyndham Old San Juan Hotel & Casino) [reviews]
3 Star
Possible: Chateau Cervantes
Isla Verde - San Juan Airport - Carolina
4 Star
El San Juan Hotel and Casino
InterContinental San Juan [reviews]
The San Juan Water & Beach Club [reviews]
3.5 Star
Embassy Suites San Juan - Hotel & Casino
Verdanza Hotel (formerly Holiday Inn San Juan (Isla Verde))
Possible: Courtyard San Juan Isla Verde
3 Star
Possible: Hampton Inn San Juan
2 Star
Possible: Howard Johnson - Carolina San Juan
Agauadilla - Isabella - Hatillo
3.5 Star
Villa Montana Beach Resort
3 Star
Possible: Courtyard Aguadilla
Cabo Rojo - La Parguera
3 Star
Possible: Parador Combate Beach
3 Star
Possible: Four Points Caguas Real Hotel and Casino
3.5 Star
Possible: Embassy Suites Dorado Del Mar Beach and Golf Resort
3 Star
Possible: Wyndham Garden at Palmas Del Mar
3.5 Star
Possible: Hyatt Place Manati
3.5 Star
Possible: Mayaguez Resort and Casino
3 Star
Possible: Holiday Inn Mayaguez and El Tropico Casino
2 Star
Possible: Howard Johnson Downtown Mayaguez
Ponce - Guanica
4 Star
Hilton Ponce Golf & Casino Resort [reviews]
3 Star
Holiday Inn Ponce & Tropical Casino
3 Star
Possible: Rincon Beach Resort
Rio Grande - Fajardo - El Yunque
5 Star
Possible: St. Regis Bahia Beach Resort
4.5 Star
Possible: La Casitas Village, a Waldorf Astoria Resort
4 Star
El Conquistador Resort, a Waldorf Astoria Resort [reviews]
Gran Melia Puerto Rico
Wyndham Rio Mar Beach Resort (formerly Westin Rio Mar) [reviews]
San Juan Metro - Suburbs
3 Star
Hyatt Place San Juan/Bayamon
2 Star
Possible: Comfort Inn Levittown
Saint Croix
3.5 Star
Possible: Renaissance St. Croix Carambola Beach Resort and Spa
St. John
4 Star
Westin Resort St. John [reviews]
St. Thomas
4 Star
Frenchman's Reef and Morning Star Marriott Beach Resort [reviews]
Sugar Bay Resort and Spa
3 Star
Windward Passage Hotel (formerly Holiday Inn; current Priceline rating unknown)
Possible: Best Western Carib Beach Resort
Possible: Best Western Plus Emerald Beach Resort
2.5 Star
Possible: Point Pleasant Resort
3 Star
Possible: Long Bay Beach Resort and Villas
Isla Verde - San Juan Airport - Carolina
3.5* Verdanza Hotel
Guest Rating: 7
Amenities: Pets Allowed, Business Center, Restaurant, Free Internet, Pool, Fitness Center
Bed Choice: Room Assigned At Check-in - Sleeps Two Adults - 2 Beds Requested, Room Assigned At Check-in - Sleeps Two Adults - 1 Bed Requested.
San Juan - Condado
4* Caribe Hilton
Guest Rating: 8
Amenities: Pool, Business Center, Fitness Center
4* DoubleTree San Juan
Guest Rating: 8
Amenities: Pool, Fitness Center, Free Internet, Business Center
Bed Choice: Room Assigned At Check-in - Sleeps Two Adults - 1 Bed Requested., Room Assigned At Check-in - Sleeps Two Adults
3* Best Western Plus Condado Palm Inn
Guest Rating: 8
Amenities: Business Center, Free Internet, Free Breakfast, Pool, Fitness Center
Bed Choice: Room Assigned At Check-in - Sleeps Two Adults - 2 Beds Requested, Room Assigned At Check-in - Sleeps Two Adults - 1 Bed Requested.
Metropolitan Area
3* Hyatt Place San Juan/Bayamon
Guest Rating: 9
Amenities: Pool, Pets Allowed, Casino, Fitness Center, Free Internet, Free Breakfast, Business Center
Mandatory Fee: This hotel charges an additional 10.50% per room per night.
Pets Policy: Pet Policy - 1-6 nights, a 75 non-refundable fee; 7-30 nights, a 75 non-refundable plus a 100. cleaning fee will be administered -inclusive of taxes. Max. 2 pets per rm, weight limit is 50 lbs or less for 1 pet or max. 75 lbs for 2 pets. Fees are in USD
Rio Grande - Fajardo - El Yunque
4* Gran Melia Puerto Rico
Guest Rating: 7
Amenities: Outdoor Pool, Restaurant, Business Center, Fitness Center
Bed Choice: Deluxe Garden View Junior Suite 520 Sqft Private Balcony


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New Mexico's small population stretches over a big state, so we have taken higher education to the students, with 32 colleges and universities. Nearly every sizable community has a branch or an independent institution.
For our students, who tend to be older and need to hold a job while they take classes, this is a good thing.
But one of the bigger arguments in the recent legislative special session was how much to cut higher education. The institutions skated with relatively small cuts, but probably not for long. We're not out of the hole, and come January, lawmakers will put everything back on the table.
Recently, Higher Education Secretary Barbara Damron announced that the state's system is unsustainable. Each institution has its own board, and they're more dependent on state funding than experts say is healthy. New Mexico Junior College in Hobbs is lowest, at 20 percent, while Mesalands Community College in Tucumcari is highest, at 61 percent. The three biggest institutions get 35 to 40 percent of their funding from the state.
As state revenues have tanked, so have enrollments, which had risen during the early part of the recession. Also, our population is shrinking as people leave the state. Graduation rates are poor (35 percent, compared with 40 percent nationally).
The two chile plants were big enough that the restaurant staffer carried one in each hand. He hung the plants upside down, each on a hook on the restaurant wall. Dirt clung to the roots. The chiles, each about six inches long and a pure red, were slightly shriveled. A very New Mexican image, except that the restaurant, Rafele, is in Greenwich Village in New York City. An owner of the restaurant grew the chiles on a farm upstate, I was told.
Roasting and processing chile is another fall image, but one not seen so much outside the state.
Since 1997 University of New Mexico alumni chapter members have gathered for group chile processing by the ton.
I can't imagine a ton of green chile. My images stop at a bag or two or the bushel we've done the past few years. My daughter's 2016 chile image was the ten pounds that arrived in New Hampshire as a birthday present the night before she, husband and baby were set to fly to Albuquerque. But there were the chiles and process they did.
UNM's Washington, D.C., alumni group processed two tons of chile last year, says the alumni office. Maybe they were the bureaucrats who have fled Santa Fe for Washington the past 15 or 20 years as state government competence has eroded.
Six other chapters gathered processing crews. Total production was six tons.
One item on your ballot this November is bail reform, an issue with so much support and study it's a no-brainer. But House decisions muddled by campaign donations came close to killing reform in the last legislative session.
The issue: Everyone has a right to get out of jail by paying a bond, but over time it's given us a turnstile system in which the most dangerous criminals get out if they have the money, while many who pose no risk remain behind bars because they can't afford bail – at a cost of $100 a day to the county.
"We often release high-risk people who commit new crimes and hold people who are no threat to us at all," said Supreme Court Chief Justice Charles Daniels in a talk before New Mexico Press Women. "We're releasing boomerang thugs and packing jails with people who don't belong there. They've become debtors' prisons."
It explains why some of our worst crimes have been committed by people who had been in jail but bonded out.
"How did we end up with a system where money decides who gets out?" Daniels asked.
We inherited it. The system is so old it goes back to the earliest laws in England. The commercial bail-bond industry has grown steadily since 1900, and, judging by the number of bondsmen stationed near courthouses, is a booming business. Judge for yourself whether that growth is benign or malignant.
Guest Columnist
Republican candidate for House District 43
Regulatory engineering, as the forms of it evolve, ultimately will prevail in the world. For some five years, these columns have pictured ways of using current technology to do better, faster and cheaper regulating. New "smart" tools are very good at inspecting, reporting and assessing what they find.
Farther on lies the frontier of engineering that bypasses regulation. There begins the next generation of smart tools that do better things than merely instruct.
Over time, such remedies will slow the growth of rules. Competing interests will begin to see that smart tools take care of problems more reliably than politicking does. In due course, it will seem normal to look for a smart tool instead of a regulation.
A leading example turns up in an unlikely place – today's mining industry.
A persistent problem in mining is the loss that results when drivers of heavy equipment fall asleep at the wheel. The same problem plagues airlines, trucking companies and all who share the road.
Dist. 59, House of Representatives, Candidate for Secretary of State
Candidate for Secretary of State
I am voting for county Question No. 1, to eliminate the office of sheriff in Los Alamos. I encourage everyone who believes in good government, strong public safety, and reduction of unnecessary risk, to do the same.
Typically, a sheriff provides law enforcement in county, or rural, areas. The sheriff position in Los Alamos has no law enforcement duties, and Los Alamos has no county – only, or rural, land. All of the county land in Los Alamos is incorporated into the municipality of Los Alamos. There is not a square inch of just-county land for a sheriff in Los Alamos to stand on.
Los Alamos became a municipal government in the 1960s. The County of Los Alamos had already been created as a legal entity in 1949. When the Federal Government decided to no longer run Los Alamos as a Federal scientific base, in the 1960s, all of the county land was wholly incorporated into the municipality of Los Alamos. Los Alamos remains the only city-county entity in New Mexico.
While debating their preferred from of government, Los Alamos citizens got to choose who would provide law enforcement - a professional law enforcement agency (a police department), an elected sheriff, or both.
Before you bite into your next green chile cheeseburger, pause for a moment to consider the importance of that chunk of cheese, not just to the taste of your burger but to our local economy.
With 150 dairies averaging more than 2,000 cows each, New Mexico ranks ninth in the nation for milk production and fifth for cheese. The average New Mexico dairy ships 44 million pounds of milk a year worth nearly $6 million. Much of it goes to Southwest Cheeses in Clovis, which employs 300 people to turn 3.8 billion pounds of milk into 388 million pounds of cheese annually.
According to NMSU's Ag Science Center, dairy is the number one agricultural employer in the state, providing 12,524 jobs paying $600 million a year in wages. In 2014, the average dairy farm worker earned $47,811, compared to the state's average mean wage of $42,230. At $1.5 billion, dairy is about tied with beef cattle for economic impact and together the two rival the oil and gas industry.
But while it's a big business, it's not a particularly lucrative one. A milk cow eats 100 pounds of hay and grain every day. In return she produces six to seven gallons of milk. Dairy farmers live on the difference between the cost of her feed and the price of her milk, usually expressed as the cost vs. price per hundredweight of milk.
Research Director, Rio Grande Foundation
By BOB HAGAN
Montgomery & Andrews PA, Employment Law Group
Finance New Mexico
Wonder why we're poor? Here's the type of thing that happens here.
In 2014, the biggest thing in tourism and historic preservation was the purchase of the derelict Castañeda Hotel in Las Vegas by veteran developer Allan Affeldt, who successfully restored La Posada Hotel in Winslow, Arizona.
The Castañeda, like much of Las Vegas, is a rundown remnant of yesteryear that's been the object of hopes and what ifs. In 1898 it was Fred Harvey's first hotel; it closed in 1948. This is a project only "an eccentric investor like me" would want, Affeldt says.
In the hospitality business, you need a certain size to make the investment worthwhile.
"The Castañeda was kind of an enticing project," he says, but bathrooms are down the hall. To provide modern amenities, a restoration would reduce 45 rooms to 25. "It was hard to justify the investment given the size."
Also in 2014, Affeldt bought a second historic Las Vegas property, the Plaza Hotel, out of foreclosure. He made improvements and turned it around. (I stayed there before and after. His team worked wonders.)
"I figured maybe by putting the two together, I could make it work," he says. He needed New Markets Tax Credits and began negotiating with the New Mexico Finance Authority.
New Mexico State Senate, Majority Whip
In the summer saga of state finances, this week brings a general look at the economy and its prospects. Our principal source is the more than 100 pages of background material provided for the Aug. 24 meeting of the Legislative Finance Committee.
Wage jobs provide the starting point. In July, 825,300 people claimed jobs, among the lowest proportions of population in the nation. Metro Albuquerque was home to 384,500 jobs, or 47 percent of the total. Another 184,300 jobs were scattered among Santa Fe, Las Cruces and Farmington. For all the state's distance and emptiness, 69 percent of our jobs are in the seven metro counties.
"Employment has continued to grow at a depressed pace," observed the LFC. For the July 2015 to July 2016 year, jobs in the state grew 1.2 percent, tied for 35th among the states. For depressing perspective, Utah's growth was second nationally. Colorado and Arizona tied for sixth. New Mexico's income growth is also depressed.
I am really tired of paying off loan sharks for other people's debts. Aren't you?
You're wondering what I'm talking about? The social cost of predatory lending.
We've all heard about this, the payday loans and the car title loans, the astronomical interest rates and the low-income people who take these loans, probably not understanding they're getting themselves into a tangle of ever-increasing borrowing and perhaps believing they have no choice.
We haven't heard enough about how much this is costing us as taxpayers, as donors to charities and as residents of a state where poverty depresses the standard of living for all of us.
When a low income person spends $500 to pay off $100 loans, year after year, that affects you and me. When my taxes support that person's access to Medicaid, I'm paying off the loan shark. When I write a check to Roadrunner Food Bank or put cans of tuna fish in a donation box, I'm paying off the loan shark again.
Here we are back in a sad, familiar place. We've lost another child to a brutal, unthinkable murder. Her face has been inside our heads since it first appeared in the newspaper, just like all the other faces of little ones lost to vile criminal acts.
After the flowers, balloons and stuffed animals, come the hearings and task forces and inquiries and ordinances and laws and speeches.
And then we turn to other matters until the next time, which comes too soon.
But maybe this time we can begin the change, which starts with the truth, heard in frank testimony recently before Albuquerque city councilors and Bernalillo County commissioners.
Sgt. Amy Dudewicz, who works in the Sheriff's Office special victims unit, said they get more child-abuse and neglect calls than they can respond to. Two UNM pediatricians said that for every child who makes the news, hundreds more are hurt. Albuquerque police have just three child-abuse liaisons reviewing more than 900 cases a month.
And this is in our largest city. Imagine the situation in rural areas.
Two politicians made sense.
U. S. Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham observed that we have many programs to address successive family crises.
The day my newspaper brought a front page report about state government's ugly financial situation, an insert offered a small-scale government extravagance, a 32-page full-color, tabloid touting the wonders of the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish. The insert, an issue of the department's "New Mexico Wildlife" publication placed in newspapers statewide, sported additional elements that increased the cost.
The cover was a photograph of a hummingbird.
Outside the budget mess but contributing to the overall national sense of New Mexico lies the killing of 10-year-old Victoria Martens in Albuquerque. Her memorial service provided the CNN.com headline the afternoon of Aug. 28.
Some context is needed before moving to specifics during the next week or two.
Solvency is back as the principal focus of state government, as in, how will the state decide to be able to pay its bills? This isn't the usual meaning of solvency, which is the question of whether the organization can pay its bills. The state will rebalance the budget. The constitution requires it.
Relationship figures big in six-year journey to start pet-care business
By Finance New Mexico
By the time they had adopted seven dogs from friends and neighbors, David and Juliana Garcia concluded that Las Cruces sorely needed a business that served animals and the people who love them.
The couple bought a van with their savings to start a mobile grooming business for large pets. By the time they were ready to buy a second van to accommodate their growing client base, the Garcias were thinking about opening a hotel and day camp, with spa services on the side, for dogs and cats.
In the challenging years between conception and creation of Pet Planet (http://www.petplanetcomplex.com) in 2014 — years that coincided with the deepest recession in nearly a century — the young entrepreneurs drew on their passion for animals and their financial partnership with The Loan Fund to sustain them.
Timing is everything
In 2008, the Garcias purchased the land on which they planned to build Pet Planet and lined up a construction loan through a traditional lender. Then the real-estate market crashed, and the bank withdrew its loan offer
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Cancer Survivorship Summit: Speaker news and updates
This national annual summit took a practical approach to improving practice and outcomes for those living with and beyond cancer, moving from surviving to thriving.
Through national updates and practical case studies the conference aimed to support delegates to deliver on the priorities outlined by NHS England and develop effective cancer survivorship support and services.
The Summit had an extended focus on meeting the unmet needs of people living with and beyond cancer, accelerating the roll-out of stratified follow up pathways and the commissioning of holistic packages of support, and ensuring every person with cancer will have access to relevant elements of the Recovery Package.
The summit also updated delegates on the NEW of national metric for long term quality of life for cancer patients published in September 2017.
Speaker News and Presentations
National Update: Living With and Beyond Cancer
Becky Clack Programme Manager (LWBC) NHS England
- meeting the unmet needs of people living with and beyond cancer
- accelerate the roll-out of stratified follow up pathways and the commissioning of holistic packages of support
- ensuring every person with cancer will have access to relevant elements of the Recovery Package and that stratified follow-up pathways should be in place for the common cancers
- the NEW national quality of life metric to ensure that we monitor and learn lessons to support people better in living well after treatment has ended
- moving forward
In her presentation Becky stated:
"In the early 1970's cancer survivorship rate was on average just one year after diagnosis. Now it is 10 years - This means we now have more people living with cancer"
"1 in 4 people face poor health or disabilities after surviving cancer"
"Everyone diagnosed with cancer is to have access to the 4 elements of the recovery package by 2020 – which are –
- Holistic needs assessment & careplan
- Treatment & Summary
- Cancer care review
- Health & wellbeing event/course"
"We need to focus that the person is a whole person and not just defined by their illness"
Becky Clack Biography:
Becky has extensive experience throughout her professional career working for a range of NHS organisations – from public health to commissioning and contract management.
Before working for the National Cancer Programme, Becky worked for St. Luke's Cancer Alliance (now part of the Surrey & Sussex Cancer Alliance) on peer review and service improvement across various tumour groups.
She currently works as a Programme Manager in the Living With and Beyond Cancer workstream of the National Cancer Programme at NHS England, where her focus is on quality of life and ensuring people with cancer have the support and services they need to live as well as possible.
As part of the national programme, Becky plays a key role supporting Cancer Alliances as they roll out the recommendations of the Cancer Taskforce report.
Long term Recovery and improved outcomes supported by delivery of an effective Recovery Package
Dany Bell, Specialist Advisor Treatment & Recovery, Specialist Advisory Division, Policy and Impact, Macmillan Cancer Support
- National evaluation and learning around delivery
- Delivering the suite of interventions to achieve maximum benefit
- Practical support and not reinventing the wheel
- Sustaining and embedding in practice
Dany comments:'The reason people fall off a cliff after treatment is because they then go home and are in the community and they are not getting the support they were whilst they were having treatment'
'We empower people during their treatment of how they can cope – This needs to be done post treatment too'
'We want patients to be able to be better at self management of their cancer care'
'We know that peoples needs constantly evolve and change throughout their treatment'
'We need to find different channels that work for different people' 'People are going through different things and we need to treat each as an individual'
'If you talk to someone who has cancer they may say to you that life is never the same again – they have to move forward and adjust their lives'
Dany Bell Biography:
Dany started her career in Suffolk working as a nurse in acute care within surgical oncology, then becoming a ward manager in 1990 caring for people having surgery for urological, colorectal and upper GI cancers. During this time, she developed a passion for palliation in cancer care and went on to achieve a Diploma in Palliative Care. Subsequently took up post as a hospice ward manager in Wales. Achieved a Master of Science Degree in Pain Management at University of Wales College of Medicine.
In 1997, she took up post as clinical lead nurse in an acute trust in Bristol leading a specialist palliative care team, having a clinical case load as well as managing the team and developing the service. Subsequently this led to becoming the Lead Cancer Nurse and Cancer Manager in the same acute trust, where she was involved in redesigning and improving cancer services, managing the clinical nurse specialists in cancer and being the head of nursing responsible for cancer and end of life care.
In 2012 Dany undertook a secondment as Head of Operations for the trust and whilst still strategically responsible for cancer delivery also became responsible for the 4-hour emergency access delivery and day to day management of patient flow.
In 2014 wanting to return to her passion within the field of cancer, and with a physical move from living in the South West to Yorkshire, took up a UK wide post as programme lead for treatment and recovery at Macmillan. Within this role Dany was responsible for the Recovery Package and Consequences of treatment teams and programmes.
In May 2017 was successful in becoming Specialist Advisor for Treatment and Recovery responsible for being Macmillan's subject matter expert in the field of Cancer Treatment & Recovery, driving work in this area.
She is passionate about improving care and services for people with cancer and their families; and lives in North Yorkshire with her husband, son and lovable golden retriever.
Future events of Interest:
Non Medical Prescribing in Cancer Care
Friday 15 December
De Vere West One Conference Centre, London
25 September 2017


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I've been meaning to post this for a while, but never got to writing the blog post around it. So here's Chomet's short "The Old Lady and the Pigeons" without any of my rambling to go alongside of it. Oh, and it should be noted that Nicolas de Crecy had a big hand in the final look of the short.
La vieille dame et les pigeons
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and a commercial Chomet directed...
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Manila Light Rail Transit System
An LRT-1 train at Blumentritt station
|Light Rail Transit Authority
|Manila, Philippines
|Transit type
|Rapid transit
|Number of lines
|Number of stations
|Daily ridership
|roughly 760,000 (2015)[1]
|Light Rail Transit Authority
|Began operation
December 1, 1984 (LRT-1)
April 5, 2003 (LRT-2)
Line 1 (LRT-1):
Light Rail Manila Corporation
Line 2 (LRT-2):
Light Rail Transit Authority
|Number of vehicles
Line 1 (LRT-1):
Hyundai Precision/Adtranz
Kinki Sharyo/Nippon Sharyo
Line 2 (LRT-2):
Hyundai Rotem
|System length
33.4 km (20.8 mi) (total)
LRT-1: 19.65 km (12.2 mi)
LRT-2: 13.8 km (8.6 mi)
|Track gauge
|1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) standard gauge
|Overhead line
|Average speed
|40 km/h (25 mph)
|Top speed
|80 km/h (50 mph)
The Manila Light Rail Transit System (Filipino: Sistema ng Magaang Riles Panlulan ng Maynila), popularly and informally known as the LRT, is a metropolitan rail system serving the Metro Manila area in the Philippines. Although referred to as a light rail system because it originally used light rail vehicles, it has characteristics that make it more akin to a rapid transit (metro) system, such as high passenger throughput, exclusive right-of-way and later use of full metro rolling stock. The system is operated by the Light Rail Transit Authority (LRTA), a government-owned and controlled corporation under the authority of the Department of Transportation (DOTr). Along with the Manila Metro Rail Transit System (MRT-3, also called the new Yellow Line), and Philippine National Railways's commuter line, the system makes up Metro Manila's rail infrastructure.
The LRT-1 serves 500,000 passengers daily while the LRT-2 serves 200,000 passengers.[1] Its 33.4 kilometers (20.8 mi) of mostly elevated route form two lines which serve 31 stations in total. LRT Line 1 (LRT-1), also called the Green Line (formerly known as Yellow Line), opened in 1984 and travels a north–south route. LRT Line 2 (LRT-2), the Blue Line (formerly known as Purple Line), was completed in 2004 and runs east–west. The original LRT-1 was built as a no-frills means of public transport and lacks some features and comforts, but the new LRT-2 has been built with additional standards and criteria in mind like barrier-free access. Security guards at each station conduct inspections and provide assistance. A reusable plastic magnetic ticketing system has replaced the previous token-based system in 2001, and the Flash Pass introduced as a step towards a more integrated transportation system. In 2015, the plastic magnetic tickets were replaced with the Beep, a contactless smart card, was introduced to provide a common ticketing to 3 rail lines and some bus lines.
Many passengers who ride the system also take various forms of road-based public transport, such as buses, to and from a station to reach their intended destination. Although it aims to reduce traffic congestion and travel times in the metropolis, the transportation system has only been partially successful due to the rising number of motor vehicles and rapid urbanization. The network's expansion is set on tackling this problem.
- 1 Network
- 2 History
- 3 Stations
- 4 Rolling stock
- 5 Safety and security
- 6 Fares
- 7 Future expansion
- 8 See also
- 9 References
- 10 Further reading
- 11 External links
The network consists of two lines: the original LRT Line 1 (LRT-1) or Green Line, and the more modern LRT Line 2 (LRT-2), or Blue Line. The LRT-1 is aligned in a general north–south direction along over 17.2 kilometers (10.7 mi) of fully elevated track. From Monumento it runs south above the hustle and bustle of Rizal and Taft Avenues along grade-separated concrete viaducts allowing exclusive right-of-way before ending in Baclaran.[2][3] A four-station east–west extension along Epifanio de los Santos Avenue that will connect Monumento to the North Avenue station was opened in 2010, although the common station is not yet constructed. Including the extension's two recently opened stations, Balintawak and Roosevelt, the LRT-1 has twenty stations.[4][5] The LRT-2 or Line 2 consists of eleven stations in a general east–west direction over 13.8 kilometers (8.57 mi) of mostly elevated track, with one station lying underground. Commencing in Recto, the line follows a corridor defined by Claro M. Recto and Legarda Avenues, Ramon Magsaysay and Aurora Boulevards, and the Marikina-Infanta Highway before reaching the other end of the line at Santolan.[6] The system passes through the cities of Caloocan, Manila, Marikina, Pasay, Pasig, Quezon City, and San Juan.
Every day around 430,000 passengers board the LRT-1, and 175,000 ride the LRT-2.[7][8] During peak hours, the LRT-1 fields 29 trains; the time interval between the departure of one and the arrival of another, called headway, is a minimum of 4 minutes. The LRT-2 runs 12 trains with a minimum headway of 5 minutes.[9] With the proper upgrades, the Yellow Line is designed to potentially run with headway as low as 1.5 minutes.[10] The LRT-2 can run with headway as low as 2 minutes with throughput of up to 60,000 passengers per hour per direction (pphpd).[11]
In conjunction with the MRT-3—also known as the new Yellow Line, a similar but separate metro rail system operated by the private Metro Rail Transit Corporation (MRTC)—the system provides the platform for the vast majority of rail travel in the Metro Manila area. Together with the PNR, the three constitute the SRTS.[12] Recto and Doroteo Jose serve as the sole interchange between both lines of the LRTA. Araneta Center-Cubao and EDSA stations serve as interchanges between the LRTA and the MRTC networks. To transfer lines, passengers will need to exit from the station they are in then pass through covered walkways connecting the stations.[13] Blumentritt station meanwhile is immediately above its PNR counterpart.
Baclaran, Central Terminal, and Monumento are the LRT-1's three terminal stations; Recto, Araneta Center-Cubao, and Santolan are the terminal stations on the LRT-2. All of them are located on or near major transport routes where passengers can take other forms of transportation such as privately run buses and jeepneys to reach their ultimate destination both within Metro Manila and in neighboring provinces. The system has two depots: the LRT-1 uses the Pasay Depot at LRTA headquarters in Pasay, near Baclaran station, while the LRT-2 uses the Santolan Depot built by Sumitomo in Pasig.[2][6][11][14]
The LRT-1 and LRT-2 are open every day of the year from 4:30 am PST (UTC+8) until 10:15 pm on weekdays, and from 5:00 am until 9:50 pm on weekends, except when changes have been announced. Notice of special schedules is given through press releases, via the public address system in every station, and on the LRTA website.[15]
The system's roots date back to 1878, when an official from Spain's Department of Public Works for the Philippines submitted a proposal for a Manila streetcar system. The system proposed was a five-line network emanating from Plaza San Gabriel in Binondo, running to Intramuros, Malate, Malacañan Palace, Sampaloc and Tondo. The project was approved and in 1882, Spanish German businessman Jacobo Zóbel de Zangroniz, Spanish engineer Luciano M. Bremon, and Spanish banker Adolfo Bayo, founded the Compañia de los Tranvias de Filipinas to operate the concession granted by the Spanish colonial government. The Malacañan Palace line was later replaced with a line linking Manila to Malabon, and construction began in 1885. Four German-made steam-operated locomotives and eight coaches for nine passengers each, composed the initial assets of the company. The Manila-Malabon line was the first line of the new system to be finished, opening to the public on October 20, 1888, with the rest of the network opening in 1889.[16] From the beginning it proved to be a very popular line, with services originating from Tondo as early as 5:30 a.m. and ending at 7:30 p.m., while trips from Malabon were from 6:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m., every hour on the hour in the mornings, and every half-hour beginning at 1:30 p.m. in the afternoon.[17]
With the American takeover of the Philippines, the Philippine Commission allowed the Manila Electric Railroad and Light Company (MERALCO) to take over the properties of the Compañia de los Tranvias de Filipinas,[18] with the first of twelve mandated electric tranvia (tram) lines operated by MERALCO opening in Manila in 1905.[19] At the end of the first year around 63 kilometers (39 mi) of track had been laid.[20] A five-year reconstruction program was initiated in 1920, and by 1924, 170 cars serviced many parts of the city and its outskirts.[20] Although it was an efficient system for the city's 220,000 inhabitants, by the 1930s the streetcar network had stopped expanding.[19][20][21]
The system was closed during World War II. By the war's end, the tram network was damaged beyond repair amid a city that lay in ruins. It was dismantled and jeepneys became the city's primary form of transportation, plying the routes once served by the tram lines.[19] With the return of buses and cars to the streets, traffic congestion became a problem. In 1966, the Philippine government granted a franchise to Philippine Monorail Transport Systems (PMTS) for the operation of an inner-city monorail.[22] The monorail's feasibility was still being evaluated when the government asked the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to conduct a separate transport study.[21] Prepared between 1971 and 1973, the JICA study proposed a series of circumferential and radial roads, an inner-city rapid transit system, a commuter railway, and an expressway with three branches.[21] After further examination, many recommendations were adopted; however, none of them involved rapid transit and the monorail was never built. PMTS' franchise subsequently expired in 1974.[23]
Another study was performed between 1976 and 1977, this time by Freeman Fox and Associates and funded by the World Bank. It originally suggested a street-level railway, but its recommendations were revised by the newly formed Ministry of Transportation and Communications (now the DOTC). The ministry instead called for an elevated system because of the city's many intersections.[19] However, the revisions increased the price of the project from ₱1.5 billion to ₱2 billion. A supplementary study was conducted and completed within three months.
President Ferdinand Marcos created the Light Rail Transit Authority (LRTA) on July 12, 1980, by virtue of Executive Order No. 603[24] giving birth to what was then dubbed the "Metrorail". First Lady Imelda Marcos, then governor of Metro Manila and minister of human settlements, became its first chairman. Although responsible for the operations of the LRT-1 and LRT-2, the LRTA primarily confined itself to setting and regulating fares, planning extensions and determining rules and policies, leaving the day-to-day operations to a sister company of Meralco called the Meralco Transit Organization (METRO Inc.).[25] Initial assistance for the project came in the form of a ₱300 million soft loan from the Belgian government, with an additional ₱700 million coming from a consortium of companies comprising SA Ateliers de Constructions Electriques de Charleroi (ACEC) and BN Constructions Ferroviaires et Métalliques (today both part of Bombardier Transportation), Tractionnel Engineering International (TEI) and Transurb Consult (TC).[25][26] Although expected to pay for itself from revenues within twenty years of the start of operation, it was initially estimated that the system would lose money until at least 1993. For the first year of operation, despite a projected ₱365 million in gross revenue, losses of ₱216 million were thought likely.[21]
Construction of the LRT Line 1 started in September 1981 with the Construction and Development Corporation of the Philippines (now the Philippine National Construction Corporation) as the contractor with assistance from Losinger & Cie, a Swiss firm (today Losinger Marazzi), and the Philippine subsidiary of the U.S.-based Dravo Corporation. The government appointed Electrowatt Engineering Services of Zürich to oversee construction and eventually became responsible for the extension studies of future expansion projects.[21] The line was test-run in March 1984, and the first half of LRT-1, from Baclaran to Central Terminal, was opened on December 1, 1984. The second half, from Central Terminal to Monumento, was opened on May 12, 1985.[2] Overcrowding and poor maintenance took its toll a few years after opening. In 1990, the LRT-1 fell so far into disrepair due to premature wear and tear that trains headed to Central Terminal station had to slow to a crawl to avoid further damage to the support beams below as cracks reportedly began to appear.[19] The premature ageing of LRT-1 led to an extensive refurbishing and structural capacity expansion program with a help of Japan's ODA.[27]
For the next few years LRT-1 operations ran smoothly. In 2000, however, employees of METRO Inc. went on strike, paralyzing LRT-1 operations from July 25 to August 2, 2000. Consequently, the LRTA did not renew its operating contract with METRO Inc. that expired on July 31, 2000, and assumed all operational responsibility.[2] At around 12:15 pm on December 30, 2000, a bomb—later learned to have been planted by Islamic terrorists—went off in the front coach of a LRT-1 train pulling into Blumentritt station, killing 11 and injuring over 60 people in the most devastating of a series of attacks that day, now known as the Rizal Day bombings.[28][29]
With Japan's ODA amounting to 75 billion yen in total, the construction of the LRT Line 2 began in the 1990s, and the first section of the line, from Santolan to Araneta Center-Cubao, was opened on April 5, 2003.[30] The second section, from Araneta Center-Cubao to Legarda, was opened exactly a year later, with the entire line being fully operational by October 29, 2004.[31] During that time the LRT-1 was modernized. Automated fare collection systems using magnetic stripe plastic tickets were installed; air-conditioned trains added; pedestrian walkways between Lines 1, 2, and MRT-3 Lines completed.[13] In 2005, the LRTA made a profit of ₱68 million, the first time the agency made a profit since the LRT-1 became operational in 1984.[32]
On September 12, 2015, Light Rail Manila Corporation (LRMC), a joint venture company of Metro Pacific's Metro Pacific Light Rail Corporation (MPLRC), Ayala Corporation's AC Infrastructure Holdings Corporation (AC Infra), and the Philippine Investment Alliance for Infrastructure's Macquarie Infrastructure Holdings (Philippines) PTE Ltd. (MIHPL), started a 32-year concession for the operation and maintenance of LRT Line 1 and the construction of a ₱65 billion extension project to Bacoor, Cavite.[33]
With the exception of Katipunan (which is underground), the LRTA's 31 stations are elevated.[2][4][6] They follow one of two different layouts. Most LRT-1 stations are composed of only one level, accessible from the street below by stairway, containing the station's concourse and platform areas separated by fare gates.[34] The boarding platforms measure 100 meters (328 ft 1 in) long and 3.5 meters (11 ft 6 in) wide.[3] Baclaran, Central Terminal, Carriedo, Balintawak, Roosevelt and North Avenue stations on the LRT-1, and all LRT-2 stations are composed of two levels: a lower concourse level and an upper platform level (reversed in the case of Katipunan). Fare gates separate the concourse level from the stairs and escalators that provide access to the platform level. All stations have side platforms except for Baclaran, which has one side and one island platform, and Santolan, which has an island platform.
The concourse area at LRTA stations typically contain a passenger assistance office (PAO), ticket purchasing areas (ticket counters and/or ticket machines), and at least one stall that sells food and drinks.[35] Terminal stations also have a public relations office.[36] Stores and ATMs are usually found at street level outside the station, although there are instances where they can be found within the concourse.[11] Some stations, such as Monumento, Libertad and Araneta Center-Cubao, are directly connected to shopping malls.[13] LRT-2 stations have two restrooms, but LRT-1 restrooms have been the subject of criticism not only because of the provisioning of a single washroom at each station expected to serve all passengers (whether male, female, disabled or otherwise), but also because of the impression that the lavatories are poorly maintained and unsanitary.[37]
Originally, the LRT Line 1 was not built with accessibility in mind. This is reflected in the LRT-1's lack of barrier-free facilities such as escalators and elevators. It is also inconvenient in other ways: for one, because of the use of side platforms, passengers wishing to access the other platform for the train bound in the opposite direction at single-level LRT-1 stations need to exit the station (and by extension, the system) and pay a new fare. The newer LRT Line 2, unlike its counterpart, is designed to be barrier-free and allows seamless transfer between platforms. Built by a joint venture between Hanjin and Itochu, LRT-2 stations have wheelchair ramps, braille markings, and pathfinding embossed flooring leading to and from the boarding platforms in addition to escalators and elevators.[6][11][38]
In cooperation with the Philippine Daily Inquirer, copies of the Inquirer Libre—a free, tabloid-size, Tagalog version of the Inquirer broadsheet—are available at selected LRTA stations from 6:00 am until the supply runs out.[36]
Rolling stock[edit]
Four types of rolling stock run on the system, with three types used on the LRT Line 1 and another used on the LRT Line 2. The LRT Line 1 railway cars were made either in Belgium by La Bruggeoise et Nivelle, South Korea by Hyundai Precision and Adtranz (La bruggeoise et Nivelle and Adtranz are now part of Bombardier Transportation), or Japan by Kinki Sharyo and Nippon Sharyo.[6][25][39] The LRT Line 2, unlike the LRT Line 1, runs heavy rail metro cars made in South Korea by Hyundai Rotem and provided by the Asia-Europe MRT Consortium led by Marubeni Corporation that have higher passenger capacity and maximum speed.[40] All four types of rolling stock are powered by electricity supplied through overhead wires.
Of the two LRTA lines, the LRT Line 2 prominently employs wrap advertising in its rolling stock. The LRT Line 1 have begun using wrap advertising as well initially for their second-generation trains, followed by their third-generation trains.
LRT Line 1[edit]
The LRT Line 1 at various stages in its history has used a two-car, three-car, and four-car train. The two-car trains are the original first-generation BN trains (railway cars numbered from 1000). Most were transformed into three-car trains, although a lot of two-car trains remain in service. The four-car trains are the more modern second-generation Hyundai Precision and Adtranz (numbered from 1100) and third-generation Kinki Sharyo / Nippon Sharyo (1200) trains.[41][42] There are 139 railway cars grouped into 40 trains serving the line: 63 of these are first-generation cars, 28 second-generation, and 48 third-generation. One train car (1037) was severely damaged in the Rizal Day bombings and was subsequently decommissioned.[9] The maximum speed of these cars is 80 kilometers per hour (50 mph).[25][39]
As part of the second phase of expansion on the Yellow Line, 12 new trains made in Japan by Kinki Sharyo and provided by the Manila Tren Consortium were shipped in the third quarter of 2006 and went into service in the first quarter of 2007. The new air-conditioned trains have boosted the capacity of the line from 27,000 to 40,000 passengers per hour per direction.[42][43][44]
LRT Line 2[edit]
The LRT Line 2 fleet runs eighteen heavy rail four-car trains with lightweight stainless car bodies and 1,500 volt electric motors. They have a top speed of 80 kilometers per hour (50 mph) and usually take around thirty minutes to journey from one end of the line to the other.[45] Each train measures 3.2 meters (10 ft 6 in) wide and 92.6 meters (303 ft 10 in) long allowing a capacity of 1,628 passengers: 232 seated and 1,396 standing.[6] Twenty sliding doors per side facilitate quick entry and exit. The line's trains also feature air conditioning, driverless automatic train operation from the Operations Control Center (OCC) in Santolan, low-noise control, enabled electric and regenerative braking, and closed-circuit television inside the trains.[46][47] Special open spaces and seats are designated for wheelchair users and elderly passengers, and automatic next station announcements are made for the convenience of passengers, especially for the blind.[6][38]
Safety and security[edit]
The system has always presented itself as a safe system to travel on, and despite some incidents a World Bank paper prepared by Halcrow deemed the running of metro rail transit operations overall as "good".[48] Safety notices in both English and Tagalog are a common sight at the stations and inside the trains. Security guards with megaphones can be seen at boarding areas asking crowds to move back from the warning tiles at the edge of platforms to avoid falling onto the tracks.[9] In the event of emergencies or unexpected events aboard the train, alerts are used to inform passengers about the current state of the operations. The LRTA uses three alerts: Codes Blue, Yellow, and Red.
|Code Blue
|Increased interval time between train arrivals
|Code Yellow
|Slight delay in the departure and arrival of trains from stations
|Code Red
|Temporary suspension of all train services due to technical problems
Smoking, previously banned only at station platforms and inside trains, has been banned at station concourse areas since June 24, 2008.[49] Hazardous chemicals, such as paint and gasoline, as well as sharp pointed objects that could be used as weapons, are forbidden.[50] Full-sized bicycles and skateboards are also not allowed on board the train, although the ban on folding bicycles was lifted on November 8, 2009.[51][52] Those under the influence of alcohol may be denied entry into the stations.[50]
In response to the Rizal Day bombings, a series of attacks on December 30, 2000 that included the bombing of a LRT-1 train among other targets, and in the wake of greater awareness of terrorism following the September 11 attacks, security has been stepped up on board the system. The Philippine National Police has a special police force assigned at LRT-1 and LRT-2 [53] and security police provided by private companies are assigned to all stations with each having a designated head guard. Closed-circuit televisions have been installed to monitor stations and keep track of suspicious activities.[6] To better prepare for and improve response to any adverse incidents, drills simulating terror attacks and earthquakes have been conducted.[9][54] It is standard practice for bags to be inspected upon entry into stations by guards equipped with hand-held metal detectors. Those who refuse to submit to such inspection may be denied entry.[55] Since May 1, 2007, the LRTA has enforced a policy against making false bomb threats, a policy already enforced at airports nationwide. Those who make such threats can face penalties in violation of Presidential Decree No. 1727, as well as face legal action.[56] Posted notices on station walls and inside trains remind passengers to be careful and be wary of criminals who may take advantage of the crowding aboard the trains. To address concerns of inappropriate contact on crowded trains, the first coach of Yellow Line trains have been designated for females only.[36]
The Manila Light Rail Transit System is one of the least expensive rapid transit systems in Southeast Asia, costing significantly less to ride than other systems in the region.[57][58] Fares are distance-based, ranging from 15 to 30 Philippine pesos (₱), or about 28 to 55 U.S. cents (at US$1 = ₱54.12 as of October 2018), depending on the number of stations traveled to reach the destination.[59][60] Unlike other transportation systems, in which transfer to another line occurs within a station's paid area, passengers have to exit and then pay a new fare for the line they are entering. This is also the case on the Yellow Line when changing boarding platforms to catch trains going in the opposite direction.
The Line 1 uses two different fare structures: one for single journey cards and another for stored value (Beep) cards. Passengers are charged ₱11 upon entering the paid area. Passengers using single journey cards are charged ₱15 for travelling 0 to 4.00 kilometers; ₱20 for 4.01 to 9.00 kilometers; or ₱30 for distances more than 9.00 kilometers. Stored value (Beep) cards are also charged depending on the distance traveled in kilometers, but on a more finely graduated basis. Beep card users are charged ₱1 for every kilometer traveled, plus the ₱11 boarding charge. The Line 2 uses the same fare matrix with the Line 1, but passengers are charged ₱25 for travelling a distance more than 9.00 kilometers.
Before 2001, passengers on the LRT Line 1 would purchase a token to enter the station. Subsequent upgrades in the fare collection system eventually transitioned the Yellow Line from a token-based system to a ticket-based system, with full conversion to a ticket-based system achieved on September 9, 2001.[61] Starting September 2015, the old magnetic tickets were decommissioned and replaced by contactless-based smart card technology. Passengers can enter the system paid areas with either a single journey or stored value Beep Card. The Beep Card can be used on all LRT and MRT lines. Tickets can be sold from ticket booths manned by station agents or on ticket machine/s.
Beep card[edit]
Beep is a reloadable contactless smart card aimed to be a replacement for the magnetic card-based system in paying rail based rapid transit transportation fares in and around Metro Manila. Beep is also aimed to be used in lieu of cash in some convenience stores and other businesses. The Beep system is implemented and operated by AF Payments Incorporated, which is primarily owned by Ayala Corporation and Metro Pacific Investments Corporation.
Magnetic ticket[edit]
Previously, the system uses two types of tickets: a single journey (one-way) ticket whose cost is dependent on the destination, and a stored value (multiple-use) ticket available for ₱100.[60] Senior citizens and disabled passengers can receive fare discounts as mandated by law. Tickets would normally bear a picture of the incumbent president, though some ticket designs have done away with this practice.
Single journey tickets are only valid on the day of purchase and will be unusable afterward. They expire if not used to exit the same station after 30 minutes from entry or if not used to exit the system after 120 minutes from entry. If the ticket expires, the passenger will be required to buy a new one.
Stored value tickets are usable on either the LRT-1 or LRT-2 lines although a new fare will be charged when transferring from one line to the other. To reduce ticket queues, the LRTA is promoting the use of stored value tickets. Aside from benefitting from a lower fare structure on the LRT-1, stored value ticket users can avail of a scheme called the Last Ride Bonus that grants the use of any residual amount in a stored value ticket less than the usual minimum ₱12 fare, or the appropriate fare for the station of arrival from the station of departure, as a full fare.[58] Stored value tickets are not reloadable and are captured by the fare gate after the last use. They expire six months after the date of first use.[60]
Tickets are used both to enter and exit the paid area of the system. A ticket inserted into a fare gate at the station of origin is processed and then ejected allowing a passenger through the turnstile. The ejected ticket is then retrieved while passing through so that it can be used at the exit turnstile at the destination station to leave the premises. Tickets are captured by the exit turnstiles to be reused by the system if they no longer have any value. If it is a stored value ticket with some value remaining, however, it is once again ejected by the fare gate to be taken by the passenger for future use.[34]
Flash Pass[edit]
To better integrate the LRTA and MRTC networks, a unified ticketing system utilizing contactless smart cards, similar to the Octopus card in Hong Kong and the EZ-Link card in Singapore, was made a goal of the SRTS.[62][63] In a transitional move towards such a unified ticketing system, the Flash Pass was implemented on April 19, 2004, as a stopgap measure.[64] However, plans for a unified ticketing system using smart cards have languished,[65] leaving the Flash Pass to fill the role for the foreseeable future. Originally sold by both the LRTA and the Metro Rail Transit Corporation, the Blue Line operator, the pass was discontinued with the election of Benigno Aquino III as President of the Philippines in 2010.
The pass consisted of two parts: the Flash Pass card and the Flash Pass coupon.[66] A nontransferable Flash Pass card used for validation had to be acquired before a Flash Pass coupon can be purchased. To obtain a card, a passenger needed to visit a designated station and fill out an application form. Although the card is issued free of charge and contains no expiry date, it is expected to be issued only once. Should it be lost, an affidavit of loss had to be submitted before a replacement can be issued. The Flash Pass coupon, which served as a ticket, was linked to the passenger's Flash Pass card through the card number printed on the coupon. Coupons were sold for ₱250 and were valid for unlimited rides on all three lines of the LRTA and MRTC for one week.[66] The card and coupon were used by showing them to a security guard at an opening along the fare gates, who after checking their validity allowed the holder to pass through.[64]
Future expansion[edit]
Plans for expanding the LRTA network have been formulated throughout its history and successive administrations have touted trains as one of the keys to relieving Metro Manila of its long-standing traffic problems.[67] Expansion of the system was one of the main projects mentioned in a ten-point agenda laid out by former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in 2005.[68]
A south extension of LRT-1 is planned. The envisioned line would have 8 stations over 11.7 kilometers (7.3 mi) ending in Bacoor in the province of Cavite. It will be the second line extending outside the Metro Manila area after the planned MRT-7 that starts in North Avenue, Quezon City and it will end in San Jose Del Monte, Bulacan. An unsolicited bid to build and operate this project from Canada's SNC-Lavalin was rejected by the Philippine government in 2005. The government is working with advisers (International Finance Corporation, White & Case, Halcrow, and others) to conduct an open-market invitation to tender for the construction of the extension and a 30-year concession to run it. An additional extension from Bacoor to Imus and from there a further extension to Dasmariñas, both in Cavite, are also being considered.[69][70][71]
As of March 2012, the government announced that the P60 billion LRT-1 south extension project has already been approved by the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) with the bidding expected to take place by the end of March or early April 2012.[72]
The LRTA is also currently conducting studies on the feasibility of a 6.2-kilometer (3.9 mi), four-station LRT-1 spur from Baclaran towards Terminal 3 of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport, with a projected daily capacity of 40,000 passengers. Funding for the project could be sourced from either official development assistance or a public-private partnership.[73]
Meanwhile, the LRT Line 2 is being extended by 4-kilometers (2.5 mi) eastward from Marikina up to Masinag, Antipolo in the province of Rizal. The East Extension Project could be extended as far as Cogeo, Antipolo. Line 2 will also be extended westward from Recto up to the Manila North Harbor in Tondo.[74] The construction of the eastern extension to Masinag was approved by the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) in September 2012.[75]
New lines[edit]
LRT-4, or the Ortigas–Taytay LRT Line, is a proposed 11-kilometre (6.8 mi) line, crossing through the eastern parts of Metro Manila to the southern parts of the province of Rizal. Six stations would be built along Ortigas Avenue and Taytay Diversion Road from the Ortigas station on EDSA to SM City Taytay in Taytay. This project was approved last June 2015 and will be implemented as a public-private partnership project.[76]
The Mega Manila Subway is the first underground metro planned for Metro Manila. It is a north-south subway line that will connect Mindanao Avenue in Quezon City in the north to the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Pasay in the south. The 25-kilometre (16 mi) subway line will have thirteen stations and will also link the major financial districts of Ortigas Center, Makati CBD and Bonifacio Global City. It was approved in 2016 as a priority rail project of the Rodrigo Duterte presidential administration.
A second extension of the LRT-1 from Bacoor to Dasmariñas in Cavite has been proposed. It is planned to be a separate line to be known as LRT-6 which would run for an additional 19 kilometres (12 mi) from the future LRT-1 terminus at Niog station to Governor's Drive in Dasmariñas along the Aguinaldo Highway. It would have 7 stations namely, Niog Station, Tirona Station, Imus Station, Daang Hari Station, Salitran Station, Congressional Avenue Station and Governor's Drive Station.[77]
MRT-7 is a planned 14-station, 22.8-kilometer (13 mi) line that starts in Quezon City and traverses Commonwealth Avenue, passing through Caloocan City and ending in the city of San Jose del Monte in Bulacan. This line finished the bidding stage and has been approved by the Department of Justice and the Department of Transportation and Communications.[78] As of August 2010 the MRT-7 project is under review due to various concerns from several local governments where the rail project is proposed to run through, and may undergo major changes from the original. In May 2012, the consortium of Marubeni-DMCI won the contract to build MRT-7 for around $1 billion and would take an estimated 42 months to build starting early 2013.[79]
Transfer of line operations[edit]
DOTC Undersecretary for Public Information Dante Velasco has unveiled a study being conducted by the DOTC looking at the possibility of transferring operations of Line 3 (MRT 3) from Metro Rail Transit Corporation (MRTC) to LRTA thus uniting Lines 1, 2, and 3 under one operator to improve maintenance costs and to form a more integrated transportation system. According to DOTC Undersecretary For Rails Glicerio Sicat, the transfer is set by the government in June 2011.[80]
As of January 13, 2011, Light Rail Transit Authority Chief Rafael S. Rodriguez took over as officer-in-charge of MRT-3 in preparation for the integration of operations of LRT-1, LRT-2, and MRT-3 Lines.[81]
See also[edit]
- Metro Manila Rapid Transit
- List of rail transit stations in the Greater Manila Area
- Manila Light Rail Transit System
- Metro Rail Transit Corporation
- Philippine National Railways
- Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC)
- Transportation in the Philippines
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Further reading[edit]
- Allport, R. J. (1986). Appropriate mass transit for developing cities. Transport Reviews: A Transnational Transdisciplinary Journal, 6(4), 365–384. doi:10.1080/01441648608716636
- Asia Pacific Energy Research Centre (APERC). Institute of Energy Economics, Japan. (2008). Urban Transport Energy Use in the APEC Region – Benefits and Costs (PDF). Tokyo: Author. ISBN 978-4-931482-39-5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-22.
- Dans, Jose P. Jr. (1990). "The Metro Manila LRT system: its future". In Institution of Civil Engineers. Rail Mass Transit Systems for Developing Countries. London: Thomas Telford. ISBN 0-7277-1560-7.
- Midgley, Peter. (1994-03-31). Urban Transport in Asia : An Operational Agenda for the 1990s (World Bank technical paper no. 224). Washington D.C.: World Bank. ISBN 0-8213-2624-4.
- Thomson, J.M., R.J. Allport and P.R. Fouracre. (1990). "Rail mass transit in developing cities – the Transport and Road Research Laboratory study". In Institution of Civil Engineers. Rail Mass Transit Systems for Developing Countries. London: Thomas Telford. ISBN 0-7277-1560-7.
- United States Agency for International Development. (June 2005). Integrated Environmental Strategies – Philippines Project Report – Metropolitan Manila. Author. (With United States Environmental Protection Agency, NREL, and the Manila Observatory).
- Uranza, Rogelio. (2002). The Role of Traffic Engineering and Management in Metro Manila. Workshop paper presented in the Regional Workshop: Transport Planning, Demand Management and Air Quality, February 2002, Manila, Philippines. Asian Development Bank (ADB). Archived from the original on 2009-12-29.
- World Bank. (2001-05-23). "Project Appraisal Document for the Metro Manila Urban Transport Integration Project" (PDF). Author.
External links[edit]
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The countdown to the next El Paso Community College Reaffirmation of Accreditation has begun. This reaffirmation differs from past reaffirmations because the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) now has nearly 80 Principles addressing the required standards versus the 400 must statements under the Criteria of the last reaffirmation. To see the Principles, click on this SACSCOC link http://www.sacscoc.org/pdf/2010principlesofacreditation.pdf.
In addition, the reaffirmation process includes a new document called the Quality Enhancement Plan. For more information about this requirement and document, click on the Quality Enhancement Plan link to the left.
Also, this time the College will be reviewed by two committees of peers selected by SACSCOC. The first committee is an off-site group that will review the Compliance Certification Report (formerly called the Self-Study). This review will be done remotely through the Internet between mid-March and May 2012. The second committee is an on-site visiting team that will again review some components of the Compliance Certification Report and will look at the Quality Enhancement Plan. That visit will be in fall 2012.
Please return to this site routinely for updates and information regarding the process and visits. EPCC's Reaffirmation of Accreditation is important to everyone at the College and the El Paso Community.


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Samsung has announced an updated version of the Gear VR headset with Galaxy Note 7. It features a new touchpad and supports USB Type-C.
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text: Ok... this might sound strange but bear with me. I want to deliberately try and heat up a MBP at my local apple store as much as possible. Here's why: My major at school requires windows only software so I was forced to buy a non-apple notebook. Obviously it doesnt run OS X and Im sick of windows, so Im (hopefully) going to upgrade to a MBP this summer now that I can dual boot. My only concern is heat. Currently I have an Asus laptop. Its similar to the MBP in that it is as powerful as most of the desktop replacement laptops while being significantly thinner. Mine is less then an inch thick and weighs a little under 5 pounds. They seem to have managed to save weight by using extensive amounts of carbon fiber throughout the case. It also has the fastest centrino that was available at the time (I think 2 ghz). Thinness, combined with Carbon Fiber not absorbing much heat, and a fairly powerful processor mean that this laptop gets hot. Really really hot, and I dont think Im exaggerating (but I'm not sure... that's why I'm asking). As Im typing this its at 66 C. It usually idles around 62, and when actually working peaks at around 80. Thats hot enough that it becomes uncomfortable to leave your hands on it to type, and my finger actually starts to hurt when using the track pad for extended amounts of time. The fan runs constantly. Ive heard that the MBP runs hot also. Is it anywhere near as my current computer? I went to the apple store today and they seemed relatively cool. They werent doing too much though, so I want to try and get them to heat up. How should I do this? They dont seem to have any really processor intensive apps (like photoshop) installed. What should I do?


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Two R.I.P posts on a blog created for laughs seems a bit much. Sorry kids, Jondrama, Phil and I are Yankee fans. Adios Bobby Murcer.
He never won a ring with the Yanks. He played his ass off though. Batted a career .277 with 252 homers and 1,043 RBI's. Not too shabby. As a Yankee fan who began his journey through the wonder of the pinstripes during the 80's, I missed his time on the squad. He played his last year the year I was born though, so I feel that I was around for the Murcer years. I knew of Murcer through his wonderful commentary. His back woods, small town, hicky slang mingled with and burned in the bright lights of the big apple. The kid from Oklahoma was more a New Yorker than half of the guys on the grand squad from the Bronx these days. He bled baseball, and more importantly, he bled pinstripes. Love the Yanks or hate them, no one can say they didn't have a soft spot in their hearts for Bobby.
Allen is a story we hear from our grandparents, Rizzuto is a fond memory, Sterling is a great alternative to watching the Bombers on the tube, and Bobby is a player/announcer Yankee legend. From his, "doggoneit's" to his, "that's a fine play right there" and finally to his, "ahhh, well... that's baseball" s <----if you know that one, you're a Yankee fan.. we are going to miss Bobby and his re-assuring voice. On the field, the scrappy outfielder never said die, and against cancer, he fought it tooth and nail, but even legends are human beings. Bobby, we hope you're in a better place, playing ball on perfect green fields, catching balls on great hops in short center, giving you great chances at nailing the opposition's speedster at the plate. We're going to miss your voice, your presence and your love for the game, and for the pinstripes. Rest in peace Bobby... have a round with Gherig, Ruth, DiMaggio and Mantle on us down here. I for one can't wait to meet you one day.
R. I. P Bobby Murcer


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The NATO-led air campaign in Libya needed luck to overcome its initially haphazard command, complex new international partnerships and the withdrawal of the United States from a leading role, a top military think tank says.
The London-based Royal United Services Institute said in a report published Friday that the "curious operation" _ which was unlike recent troop-heavy combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, and involved a broad cluster of nations _ succeeded only through a mix of "improvisation, innovation, and good luck."
NATO took over control of the mission from the U.S. several days after airstrikes began March 19, working alongside nations including Qatar, Jordan and the UAE under a United Nations resolution to protect Libyan civilians from attack by strongman Moammar Gadhafi's forces.
Russia and other nations have been heavily critical of how Britain and France and interpreted the U.N. resolution, accusing them of using the authorization to help Libya's rebels topple Gadhafi.
"Whether saving civilian lives automatically meant fighting to remove Gadhafi was a difficult political line to maintain," Michael Clarke, the director of RUSI, said in the report. "This made the military objectives more ambiguous than they might otherwise have been."
The decision by President Barack Obama to limit the role of the U.S. in the campaign and to hand leadership duties to NATO saw Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Nicolas Sarkozy unexpectedly take a diplomatic and military lead.
Praising the men, who were greeted by jubilant crowds on a joint visit to Tripoli and the eastern city of Benghazi last week, Clarke said they had been the "accidental heroes" of Libya's civil war.
"There can be no doubting that the allied air operation was critical to saving many innocent lives and removing a dictatorial regime," Clarke wrote. "Britain and France, almost alone among the international community, took a consistent and robust line from the beginning and have now seen it through to the verge of military success."
The RUSI report predicted the relationship between the United States and its other NATO allies would be strained by the campaign, with the alliance more likely to rely on European leadership in the future. Working alongside a cluster of non-NATO nations _ who needed to be integrated into a command structure _ will likely also become more common.
Most analysts predict that future conflicts will also frequently see nations come together in short-term alliances to fight specific campaigns, rather than act as established blocs, such as NATO.
RUSI's examination also concluded that special forces had played a key role in the Libya conflict, despite the fact the U.N. resolution ruled out the deployment of foreign ground troops.
European and former U.S. officials confirmed special forces from Western and Middle Eastern nations carried out operations, though Britain and France have declined to confirm publicly that their troops were involved.
"The high profile air campaign in support of rebels was not undertaken in isolation of efforts on the ground, nor could it have guaranteed the success of rebel attempts to advance. Special forces activity was a vital enabler," Mark Phillips, RUSI's military and intelligence research fellow, wrote in the report.
RUSI estimates France and Britain each had between 10 and 40 special force soldiers in Libya to help liaise with rebels and guide airstrikes, while Egypt deployed around 100 and Qatar and Jordan both supplied 20. Italy sent about 10 elite troops and Bulgaria about 12, it claimed.
Britain's defense secretary Liam Fox said Friday that 16 British Tornado jets and two attack helicopters were continuing operations in Libya, where the ousted Gadhafi remains at large and fighting still rages in some areas.
"The work is not yet over, and the U.K. will maintain its commitment for as long as it is required," he said.


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National AgriCare Youngsun Mfg
National AgriCare & Youngsun Manufacturing Corp. Ltd is one of the sister concern of National Agricare Group. Our factory is situated at the BSIC, Bogra. We have two full fledged individual factories (Carton & Plastic factory). All machineries and bottle moulds were imported from China and other Developed countries. We produce different types of quality carton and plastic bottles (both Pet & HDPE) in these factories.
- Sesame & Groundnut Export Business
National AgriCare & Youngsun Manufacturing Corp. Ltd. is dealing export business of sesame & groundnut for different countries since 2008.We purchase sesame & groundnut from local market, process these as per the requirement of the customers for different markets throughout the world. To ensure the quality of sesame and groundnut, we have set drying and screening machine in our factory at the BSIC, Bogra. The capacity of this machine is 20MT/day.
- Feed mill:
National AgriCare & Youngsun Manufacturing Corp. Ltd is going to start poultry and fish feed business from the year of 2013. Now it is under process. It will be situated at Kahalu, Bogra. We will produce both sinking & floating type of feeds at international standard to be the local leader and for international market as well.