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Mumbai's killer trains: 9 people still die on tracks every day
The city's lifeline continues to claim lives at nearly the same pace as seen a few years ago; 1,668 have died till June, with Kalyan recording the most deaths, and Kurla and Thane close at its heels
Despite the authorities' efforts to curb deaths on tracks, the city's railway system continues to claim lives at a constant rate. As per data with the Government Railway Police (GRP), nine people have died on the railway tracks every day this year.
Also Read: 3,431 lives lost in rail accidents in Mumbai last year
In the first six months of 2015 (January to June), 1,668 people have lost their lives 1,484 men, 183 women and one other. This works out to nine deaths a day, nearly the same rate as last year's, when 3,429 people died on the railway tracks.
Kalyan, Kurla, Thane, Borivli, and Vasai are the railway stations, which have recorded the most fatalities near them. These people were found dead after falling from a train, committing suicide, or having been pushed by someone.
The cops managed to trace the family members of 1,131 victims, but failed to reach the family members of 537 people and had to, hence, dispose of the bodies. "The toughest job in the railways is to trace the family members of the deceased. For this purpose, we have launched our website Shodh.
Around 30 per cent of victims' bodies have to be disposed of by the cops; the families approach much later or the bodies remain unclaimed," said Rupali Ambure, deputy commissioner of police, GRP, Central Railway.
She further added, "We have been creating awareness among commuters to not cross tracks, not travel on footboards, and to take precautions while travelling. We have also written to railways to close all unauthorised entry points that bring one to railway tracks," said Ambure. 1,679 people were injured this year on the railway tracks.
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"Most of the deaths on tracks occur at stations like Kalyan where three lines come together the Badlapur line, Kasara line, and also the Konkan line. Many people board trains here and there are several access points for people to get onto the tracks.
Also Read: Over 2,000 deaths on train tracks in Mumbai in less than 8 months
One needs to build big walls to stop people from walking on tracks. People also fall off the footboard when trains are overcrowded," said a police officer from the GRP, adding that Kurla and Thane, too, have a similar scenario, with the Central Main and Harbour line and Central Main and Trans Harbour line coming together respectively.
Railway activist Sameer Zaveri, who was also a railway victim once, said overcrowding is the biggest problem at hand. "People buy tickets but still have to stand on footboards. There are no safety measures for them. Moreover the High Court has asked the railways to build fences near the tracks to prevent people from entering, but the railways don't do anything," he said.
Also Read: 7,000 people died taking a shortcut across the train tracks in Mumbai
There are also many slum pockets around stations like Borivli, Kalyan, and Thane junction and some victims are from these shanties. Many people alight from trains for the first time in the city and fail to understand what to do, and end up being victims of the railways.
In 2014, around 3,429 people died on tracks, with 851 deaths and serious injuries in Kalyan, 681 in Kurla and 665 in Thane. In 2013, 3,513 people died on tracks, with 815 deaths and serious injuries in Kalyan, 747 in Kurla and 644 in Thane.


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Halo 3 Gets Exclusive Content And Negative Review
Halo 3 mania is at its peak and Microsoft is pushing it further. The Redmond company announced that exclusive Halo 3 content is on its way to Xbox Live. In the mean time, someone overlooks the hype and speaks his mind regarding the game.
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The new content will include a Halo 3 theme and exclusive gamer pic at first, followed by "Inside Bungie: Halo 3 -The Story," (a series of interviews with the development team) on September 27 and "Inside Bungie: Halo 3 - New Features" one day later. The new content will be available until September 30.
There is a catch with this new offer. Microsoft plans to make this offer available only for Xbox Live Gold members. Basically, the move aims to lure more gamers to join the paid tier of the service, given the game's current popularity.
But let's put aside the Halo 3 hype for the moment and take a look at one review that forgets to praise the game, and with good reason. Tom Chick has been shooting his way through the single player campaign and his conclusion is far from what the regular Halo fan would expect:
"For instance, what happens to the the rest of the world. Earth, you know? That place we live that could have given this game some sort of emotional hook? Cutscenes opt instead to show people planning something, or talking about what's going to happen if this lever isn't pulled, or mentioning what presumably must have happened in the previous games.
It's hard to look past the blatant corridor level design. I use the term quite literally. Bungie gets a lot of mileage out of reusing entire areas. You'll get a few instances of "go here and do this", followed by "now go back where you were before through respawned monsters, which will save our level designers some time". At one point, you have to revisit a copy of an area. Bungie makes no bones about it. Three teams split up, each to pull a lever in an identical area. What do you know? One of the teams couldn't make it so you get to replay exactly the same area to pull exactly the same lever!"
"Finally, the BioShock factor can't be overlooked. Irrational's "masterpiece of the art form" (if ever there was a game deserving that phrase...) raised the bar for what we can expect not only from our shooters, but from our games at large. Halo 3 is five years behind in terms of clearing that bar."


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NZ's Lyttelton Port Recommends Offer, to Pay Special Dividend
The board of New Zealand's Lyttelton Port Co. Ltd recommended minority shareholders accept an offer of NZ$3.95 a share offer from the commercial arm of the Christchurch city council.
The board backed the offer from Christchurch City Holdings Ltd, which controls 95.1 percent of the port company, after it secured the stake of the second biggest shareholder early last month. The port company's board said it would pay a special dividend of 20 cents a share.
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Lancaster's balanced approach impresses Schmidt
Joe Schmidt believes England boast "a nice balance" to their World Cup midfield options, despite question marks still hanging over Stuart Lancaster's strongest inside-back division.
Ireland boss Schmidt hailed England counterpart Lancaster for balancing power and finesse across his selections at centre and fly-half as the two coaches prepare to lock horns at Twickenham today.
Fleet-footed Jonathan Joseph has vowed to forge a formidable centre partnership with blunt-force specialist Brad Barritt against Ireland, while Owen Farrell and George Ford are still battling it out for the starting fly-half berth.
Schmidt appeared nonplussed when quizzed on England's midfield conundrum, claiming that by including Sam Burgess and Exeter's Henry Slade Lancaster has rounded out his squad in style.
"Jonathan Joseph was saying in the week that they will be a really good combination because Barritt's the direct strongman and he'll use footwork and acceleration," said Schmidt.
"I think if you slotted Sam Burgess in there instead you could say that he's the direct powerhouse and that Joseph still has the footwork.
"Where Joseph's got the footwork I think Henry Slade's got class, his ability to distribute.
"He's still got a good change-up to carry, but he's got good kicking skills as well, so they can vary up their midfield as they need to.
"I'm just happy they are not in our pool."
England will launch their World Cup bid on home soil by taking on Fiji at Twickenham on Friday, September 18.
Ireland will open their Pool D account against Canada in Cardiff the following day, with Schmidt and Lancaster's men contesting the final warm-up battle this weekend.
Rugby League convert Burgess has been pitched in despite playing just half a season of union with Bath, with Exeter's fast-developing playmaker Slade also sneaking into the final England 31.
Schmidt has backed the English to threaten across the fast-approaching World Cup, as much thanks to their midfield blend as anything else.
"They've put together some really nice plays, particularly from set-piece," said Schmidt.
"Then you throw in a guy like Alex Goode who has got so many skills, where he put in the little cross-kick for Jonny May.
"So I really do think it's a nice balance for them.
"They've got enough guys who are ball-players and they've got enough guys who can get you over the gain-line.
"Sometimes if it's all ball-players and there's just a wall in front of you, you play away and go nowhere.
"So sometimes you just need someone who will win you a collision and put you back on the front foot.
"I think they've got a really good mix of that."
Elsewhere today Wales play host to Italy (5.00pm) while Scotland will face a touch test when they travel to take on France (8.00pm).
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Curse of Choir Camp, or Soggy Riding once again 〜 合宿の呪か?
Kamogawa to Iwai, 82 km, 8 hours. 鴨川から岩井、82キロ、8時間 I'm beginning to wonder if riding to choir camp isn't an activity banned by the gods. This is the third time I've done it, and the third time I've ridden in day-long … Continue reading
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Day 2, or Riding & Religion 〜 二日目、宗教とサイクリング
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50 days later… 50日ぶりに
It has been exactly 50 days since I last rode a bike. This seemed like a good point to resume cycling, so this morning I hopped out of bed a 5 am and did a bit of pre-dawn riding. I … Continue reading
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How to spend a free day – 中日の過ごし方
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A short trip to Hakone 〜 箱根への短い旅
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Chrysler's introduction last year of yet another large SUV to an already crowded market might have seemed a little like arriving at a party just as was breaking up. But before the idea of four dollar a gallon gasoline and an economy on the fritz, the rationale seemed logical. While Chrysler felt it was necessary to have a player in this segment the future of the Aspen and other SUV's like it now hangs precariously in the balance. If your budget allows it, 2009 may be the best time to go shopping because there are deals to be made on full-size trucks and SUVS. Despite its less than stellar operating costs, the 2009 Chrysler Aspen is an elegant addition to the large SUV landscape, one that features a hybrid version to help ease fuel economy worries and give buyers a way to remain in the Chrysler family when their own families outgrow the Town & Country minivan.
If your lifestyle regularly requires a vehicle with room for six or seven people, or lots of cargo, or you tow a trailer, or your travels or your climate make four-wheel drive more a necessity than a nicety, you now have another quality choice for your shopping list.
Perhaps higher fuel prices took you out of the large SUV market, or perhaps you never really needed one in the first place. If so, you may find that a midsize SUV, or a station wagon-like crossover, makes more sense and will use less gas, too.
Although it sounds like a contradiction in logic, the Aspen HEMI Hybrid offers improved city fuel economy with the towing and passing power of a 5.7-liter engine. It also provides a 40-percent improvement in city fuel economy over the non- hybrid V8.
On the road, the 2009 Chrysler Aspen has a well-cushioned ride fit for the longest road trip. Too big to be agile, the Aspen nonetheless handles with sure stability, and...
... that includes during towing. Rearward visibility to the sides is hindered by wide C- and D-pillars. Four-wheel-drive models with the 4.7-liter V8 get a single-speed transfer case, while 5.7-liter powered four-wheel-drive models pack a two-speed unit, with all-wheel-drive and four-wheel-drive high and low modes. Few Aspens are likely to be called upon to venture off-road, but for such situations there is an optional skid plate package that provides protection for the transfer case and fuel tank (standard on J Package four-wheel-drive models).
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The Aspen has a roomy, refined interior and seats seven to eight people in three rows. Getting in or out of the third row doesn't demand the nimbleness of a gymnast, and those consigned to the third row won't feel slighted. With the maximum number of passengers on board, minimum cargo capacity is 20 cubic feet. Both second- and third-row seats fold nearly flat, and storage space increases accordingly from big (68.4 cubic feet) to bigger (102.4 cubic feet). Lift-over height in back is low, and the opening is usefully wide, but those over six feet tall will need to duck under the liftgate door when loading luggage or lumber.
The latest editions of the Cadillac Escalade and Lincoln Navigator sport enough brightwork on their front ends to make a 1950s car blush but, by comparison, the 2009 Chrysler Aspen's face comes off as conservative – which isn't necessarily a bad thing. The four-bar grille is capped by a winged, heritage badge, and hood strakes are similar to those on Chrysler's Crossfire sports car. Buyers who want to boost Aspen's bling factor can opt for the 20-inch, 10-spoke chrome rims. The Aspen otherwise strikes a traditional SUV profile, with beefy, squared-shoulder styling.
The 2009 Chrysler Aspen is available in two trim levels; E Package and up-level J Package. Both versions are offered in two- or four-wheel drive. Standard equipment in the Aspen Limited E includes an E85-compatible 4.7-liter V8, Electronic Stability Program, light-emitting-diode (LED) interior lighting, stain-resistant interior fabric, power driver's seat, reclining second-row seats, 60/40-split third-row seat, AM/FM stereo with MP3 compatible CD, side-curtain airbags, roof rails and 18-inch aluminum rims. The J Package includes the HEMI V8, 20-inch chromed wheels, Premium audio with a 20-inch subwoofer, heated leather power front seats, power liftgate with ParkSense, SIRIUS Satellite Radio and automatic temperature control.
The Aspen can be optioned with a variety of information and entertainment features, including a navigation system, SIRIUS Satellite Radio (standard on J Package) and a rear-seat DVD entertainment system. Aspen J models are also equipped with a number of features that can be added as stand-alone options on E versions, including the 5.7-liter HEMI V8 and running boards.
The standard powertrain in the Aspen is a 4.7-liter V8 matched to a five-speed automatic. The 4.7-liter is E85-compatible, and thus able to run on gasoline, ethanol or a mixture of the two. Optional is Chrysler's 5.7-liter HEMI V8; somewhat surprisingly, the bigger engine provides significantly more power and torque with fuel economy that's actually a little better. The 4.7-liter works well in the Aspen platform, but if you can swing the extra money ($990), there's really no incentive not to buy the HEMI, as it offers more "go," more "tow" and better fuel economy than the smaller engine.
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King's Landing Guest House is a spacious 4 bedroom / 2 bathroom house that is a perfect place for a weekend away, or long stay family holiday rental, in the beautiful coastal town of Jurien Bay which is located ~220 km north of Perth. The guest house is a 5 minute walk to the beach, jetty, IGA grocery store, cafes, shops, bakery, Jurien Bay Hotel and 24 hour Caltex petrol station. This is a fantastic location in the original part of Jurien Bay townsite on a large block. Check out our reviews people love the large backyard.
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The indoor living areas are comprised of a dining room with a 6 seater table, breakfast bar adjoining kitchen, lounge room with large 50" screen TV and dvd/blu-ray player and ipod dock station stereo. Kitchen is well equipped with good quality crockery and has modern appliances such as gas cooktop, electric oven, new large fridge/freezer, microwave, dishwasher, coffee plunger, rice cooker and toasted sandwich press. Reverse cycle airconditioner in living room - note picture of dining room shows wood heater however this is not in operation.
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Kinabalu National Park is one of the most popular destinations to head to when on a visit to Kota Kinabalu. Nestled in the Crocker Range, this park is the gateway to Mount Kinabalu, and is Malaysia's first UNESCO World Heritage Site. At 4,095.2 meters, Mount Kinabalu is […]0 Read More


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Because cupcakes are ALWAYS a good idea (have you seen my 4TH OF JULY DIY CUPCAKE TOPPERS, BACK TO SCHOOL CUPCAKES or DR. SEUSS DAY CUPCAKES), I have a fun Easter cupcake tutorial for you today. In brainstorming Easter craft ideas, I got to thinking, why not turn my typical printable cupcake wrappers into Cupcake Baskets?! I wasn't sure how they would turn out, but think they are absolutely darling. How fun will these be gifted to your children or neighbors? It's like a personal Easter basket of sweetness! Make sure to add sprinkles and Cadbury Eggs for a little extra flair.
As always, if you create a Love The Day craft or use a Love The Day printable, post an image to social media using hashtags #LTDcrafts, #LTDprintables, #LTDbakes for a chance to be featured.
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Frank Spotnitz might not be a part of the series anymore, but Amazon knows there's still much more Nazis versus Japanese Empire versus resistance to tell, giving The Man in the High Castle a third season.
To help shape the future of Philip K. Dick-based series, Amazon also named Eric Overmyer High Castle's new showrunner to replace Spotnitz, according to The Hollywood Reporter, who departed the show midway through the second season.
Overmyer is a prolific writer and producer for television, behind shows like the HBO series Treme that earned him two of his four overall Emmy nominations. He also worked as an executive producer on another Amazon series, Bosch, as well as a co-executive producer for a short time on HBO's Boardwalk Empire.
Amazon released the second season of High Castle last month, which earned the subscription streaming service not only critical praise, but also a bump in viewership for Amazon, which typically trails both Netflix and Hulu by quite a bit in the streaming market.
High Castle has become Amazon's most-watched original program, however, surpassing Overmyer's Bosch, which already was renewed for a fourth season.
Amazon programming executive Joe Lewis told the trade publication that it would be impossible to ignore not only the viewership numbers – which Amazon doesn't release – but also a show that is currently "as timely as ever."
"Eric and his team are doing an incredible job crafting stories about the inner lives of those who struggle to do good in a world that is not. We couldn't be more excited to bring Season 3 to customers in 2017."
Spotnitz left the series in May after a decision was made to move production of High Castle to the west coast – a move the producer best known for his work on The X-Files was not willing to follow. He remains an executive producer on the series, however.
It's not that Spotnitz is now left with nothing to do. His upcoming series for Netflix, Medici: Masters of Florence, stars Richard Madden of Game of Thrones fame as well as Oscar-winning actor Dustin Hoffman. That series already has aired on Italy's Rai 1, pulling in a record 7.6 million viewers, according to Variety.
Man in the High Castle stars Alexa Davalos, Rupert Evans, Luke Kleintank, Joel de la Fuente and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa. The third season is expected in December.
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Jim Wagner DVD Trailer – Knowledge DomainMonday, March 21st, 2011
Jim Wagner introduced the term "reality-based" to the martial arts world through Black Belt in 1998. Knowledge Domain is everything you need to know about reality-based personal protection. As one New York instructor put it, "This is the 'missing link' of the martial arts." Concepts include the Jim Wagner Use-of-Force Ladder, the O.O.D.A. process, training-environment
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A COAL seam gas company seeking approval for a $16 billion extraction project warned the Bligh government in 2010 it would simply walk away if it did not get approval within two months.
A May 2010 email to then-treasurer Andrew Fraser from his director-general, Ian Fletcher, recounted the warning, made in a conversation with QGC's senior vice-president David Maxwell.
The approval was granted weeks later.
The revelation adds weight to claims that there was a rush to approve the projects, even though critical information was not available.
The Courier-Mail on Monday revealed one public servant said he was given three days to draft hundreds of conditions on the QGC project.
In the email to Mr Fraser, Mr Fletcher said he was told by Mr Maxwell there was a "drop-dead date" of June 2010 for the approval of the QGC LNG project.
"After that customers will begin to go away and the company will not continue its investment," Mr Fletcher said.
"One or two weeks tidying up is possible but six months or anything like it is not."
Landowners in the Surat Basin demanded an assurance from the government that it could stop the CSG projects if they were an unacceptable risk.
The Basin Sustainability Alliance chairman David Hamilton said his group had been saying for years that the pace of the rollout was alarming and major CSG projects were being approved when there was still a serious lack of understanding of the long-term impacts.
The approvals process now appears to be headed to the Crime and Misconduct Commission after Premier Campbell Newman backed calls for an inquiry.
Originally published as CSG firm's $16b walk-away threat


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Yesterday the Russian Spaceship "Buran" passed Koblenz right in front of my flat. The spaceship was on his way to the Technik Museum Speyer. The Name "Buran" means Snowstorm. The weather yesterday was nearly the same (more rain then snow). The whole thing was not really that spectacular but nice to watch 😉
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Over a year ago, shortly after I had moved here, I came down with various things. It was more like a mental illness and I had no idea how to control it! I was confused and had so many other emotions running through me every single day! I had no idea what to do!
I had found my home gym, 24 hour fitness, and started going to some awesome classes! I was on track. I lost my last 20 pounds when I moved here. I was at my BEST ever!
Then from one moment to another I lost it all. I started gaining weight slowly, and my fitness level went down big time! Not only did my fitness level all but disappear, a bit before that I was ready to give God up in my life. Then all this mental stuff happened.
I was put on medication for depression and anxiety because that is how bad it had gotten. I had gone to 2-3 different therapists trying to see what was truly wrong with me.
I had started making a lot of friends, yes. I had no problems being myself. I stopped exercising like before but I was still going to a few classes each week. I started eating garbage again. But I still had been making friends. I'm a social butterfly. I've finally come out of my shell and was able to be myself around others. I figured if they really don't like who I truly am, then that is their problem and not mine. I still think this way.
I've slowly been discovering myself! I don't even know what to type right now as I sit here! Where to start???
Point is, I truly believe the enemy really really had a tight grip on me over a year ago. And it lasted for quite awhile!!! Being put on meds and slowly getting better because of them. But somehow I took the right turn. Somewhere along my journey I came to a fork in the road but I decided to go the right way this time because I figured "God wouldn't hurt me more than I have been hurt the past year, right?" ... I couldn't see what was ahead of me but somehow I knew that if I had enough faith, everything would definitely be OK! I know God isn't out to hurt me. Sure, he teaches us lessons and some are harder than others but He definitely knows what He is doing!
It started one day when I decided to go back to church but I hadn't been for so long and had a "thing" about going to church by myself. So a friend had invited me. That night I found out that God had helped me lose weight in the first place! Oh my gosh! I cried!! Right THEN I knew that He had a plan for me. But I needed to just HANG in there!!! I could still feel the enemy surrounding me, talking to me every single day!
I hung in there. I let God lead my way. I gave it ALL to Him!! He took the worry off my shoulders! He took my depression and anxiety and I'm on a lower dosage of medication right now and hopefully with time I'll be completely off of it! I have to be patient though.
I have kept the enemy at a distance lately. I recognize the different spirits that come into my life now. Thanks to an awesome Bible study that I go to once a week! And there's a story to it there too!
A friend that I had met in church invited me to this bible study she started going to. I went, and right away I knew I was meant to be there! I have also been going to the church counselor and talking to her about my problems because I knew they were more spiritual than anything else! I knew that once I got that part of my life in order, everything else would fall into place!! Including my fitness!!!
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I'll present this paper in a week or so at the Water Forum, Wodonga. Comments more than usually welcome.
Drought, Uncertainty and Water Supply Planning
Harry Clarke
Visiting Fellow, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne, Parkville 3052.
October 2015.
Abstract. Water supply planning when there is a threat of uncertain drought is discussed in terms of anticipatory and adaptive policies as well as the links between these classes of policy. Sound anticipatory policies tend to be low cost and to have complementary effects in enhancing the productivity of adaptive policies as well as in promoting policy flexibility.
Droughts occur as a core part of Australia's climate. The problem of addressing drought by means of pre-drought anticipatory and post-drought adaptation (including recovery) policies takes broadly the same form for both urban and agricultural sectors. The core forecasting issues for both sectors is for public and private sectors to cost-effectively minimize the impacts of uncertain drought events which have uncertain strength and duration. Anthropogenic climate change is likely to increase the frequency of droughts as well as their duration and intensity. This is a crucial, medium-term issue. But many core policy problems stem from high pre-existing Australian climatic uncertainty even without invoking climate change. Some climate change evidence suggests we may be moving towards a drier environment and perhaps an environment when a regime shift in the character of water supplies occurs: Internalising such thinking increases the benefits obtainable from sound policy but sound policy design involves "no regrets" options whose benefits increase as climate change occurs but which involve important economies even without it. Indeed it is clear that the evidence itself is mixed and regionally specific with some finding limited drying trends from 1950-2000 mainly in south eastern Australia but evidence of decreasing dryness in northern Australia. The recent report by Steffen (2015) confirms this picture – the major future impacts of drought will occur in south-western Australia and the country's south east.
It is important to understand also that several Australian megadroughts – droughts lasting two decades or more – have been reported in the paleoclimatic record over the last millennium (IPCC, 2012, p. 170-171). The possibility for such events is not new.
Risk and uncertainty are intrinsic to the drought management question. It is not enough to simulate various possible future scenarios and to devise policies that are appropriate to each. When deciding on drought policies it is imperative to account for the fact that both anticipatory and adaptation options might get it wrong and hence on the need for caution in devising policy and for retaining policy flexibility. It is important also to understand that the effectiveness of adaptation options is impacted on by the effectiveness of anticipatory actions, an issue pursued in the economics of disaster relief literature (Clarke, 2015), and also discussed below.
Both anticipatory and adaptation policies must deal with risk and uncertainty. For anticipatory policies this risk and uncertainty arises from the likely incidence and duration of future droughts. For adaptation (including drought recovery) policies, risk and uncertainty arises from need to be forward looking and to anticipate the likely duration of a pre-existing drought as well as future droughts and water supply situations.
Both classes of policy can involve the determination of appropriate triggers to modify the way long-tailed events are incorporated into reliability assessments for standard large-scale, water infrastructure investments.
In political economy terms it is easier to gain support for accessing financial resources to address a drought once it has occurred rather than ex ante when it merely might plausibly occur. However there are substantial economies possible from initiating policy responses early. Clearly the productivity of ex post measures will be impacted on by policies taken ex ante.
Strongly risk-averse policy makers face restricted policy choices if they rely exclusively on ex post measures. Sound anticipatory policies deliver policy makers greater adaptation flexibility given that they would otherwise be forced to make choices under the pressures imposed by urgent post-drought political realities and policy myopia. A contribution of economic analysis can be to devise policies that relax the constraints that present themselves when a drought has arrived.
Anticipatory policies
One class of anticipatory water supply policies are large, lumpy and irreversible infrastructure investments. With respect to such investments it is bad practice to deal with policy risk in a cost-benefit appraisal of options simply by replacing random climatic and policy payoffs by their expected values. Certainty equivalence procedures make no sense here. The irreversible character of certain anticipatory policies is crucial – desalination plants, water recycling schemes and dams (and indeed many public investments!) cannot be turned into amusement parks! Once such large-scale investments are undertaken they often (not always) have low-valued alternative uses outside their specific water management roles. Given risk, the possibility of future learning about commercial viability and risk-neutral policy preferences, creates a quasi-option value that provides arguments for delaying construction beyond the date that suggested by standard expected cost-benefit analysis. Indeed the requirement that expected benefits merely exceed expected costs needs to be strengthened so that quasi-option value is included as a component of costs. This is the "real options" viewpoint of, for example, Dixit and Pindyck (1994).
A key assumption here is that decision-makers are risk neutral. This can be motivated by the Arrow-and Lind (1970) theorem applied to public investments: If there are many small investment projects being assessed and their probability distributions are independent then it makes sense to maximise expected payoffs since losses and gains will "average out".
The assumption of "independence" is questionable when thinking about drought risks. El Niño phenomena create patterns of drought that cover large parts of Australia at the same time. For drought management policy-makers the underlying assumption of risk-neutrality required to implement both certainty equivalence and "real options" approaches, is inapplicable since they will place extra weight on very bad policy outcomes. Such risk-averse preferences imply policy makers will pay an insurance premium to avoid large social and economic stresses created by extreme droughts. Therefore, from the viewpoint of policy preferences, projects may be initiated earlier than would those selected using expected values in situations where expected benefits may even fall short of expected costs inclusive of a quasi-option value by a risk-premium. This is the "insurance viewpoint" that to many policy makers makes as much sense as views based on "risk-neutrality".
The implications of the alternative "risk neutral – real options" and "risk-averse" insurance viewpoints drive the cost benefit case for large infrastructure projects policies in opposite directions. They create a numerical tug-of-war that determines which policy direction wins. Thus the case for capital-hungry desalination technologies is constrained by the scale of such large risky investments and by the prospect of learning more in the future about their viability and need. Given risk neutrality it suggests caution. However, risk-averse policy preferences are likely to favour early anticipatory responses and a willingness to proceed with projects that are not yet commercially viable in an expected return sense. Then projects should be implemented when expected benefits exceed expected costs (inclusive of quasi-option value) less the optimal insurance premium policy makers will pay.
How empirically important are the factors supporting the "real options" and "insurance" viewpoints? Revealed preference would suggest that insurance effects dominated in formulating actual policies decisions on desalination in Australia – the "go ahead" on such projects was implemented in all Australian capital cities while the "real options" approaches endorsed by groups such as the Productivity Commission (2011) suggested, if anything, the case for more policy restraint. Can the factors bearing on the theoretical indeterminacy here be narrowed down?
A key issue motivating the real options approach is the existence of learning so that a key issue is how much we can expect to learn about the determinants of drought severity and the length of their duration is crucial. Such knowledge drives our ability to forecast droughts. A constraint on our ability to learn about the key severe lengthy droughts that we are most interested in forecasting is that past experience provides few clues. These events are "long-tail" events that incur relatively infrequently so statistical evidence on their determinants is almost inevitably going to be poor. Pressures arise because such events are high cost so there are substantial pressures to act on poor information. The same too is true of attempting to forecast a regime switch, perhaps as a consequence of climate change, toward more frequent and more severe and lengthy droughts. There is no evidence that such a shift has yet occurred and only limited evidence that climate change is having such pervasive long-term effects perhaps through strengthened El Niño Southern Oscillations.
If waiting for a decade or more is unlikely to yield extra knowledge that strengthens our ability to forecast droughts and their duration then the "real option" viewpoint is redundant as is any case for waiting to improve our knowledge. The best policy prescription is to make decisions now on the basis of expected values and, if action is deemed inappropriate, to revisit the case for an active response over time.
The role of risk aversion in driving the demand for water supply insurance is also constrained by limitations in our current forecasting abilities and by scepticism over likely improvements in such abilities. We can certainly make contingent valuation estimates of how much citizens – and even politicians – would be willing-to-pay to insure against future water supply insecurity but, even then, unless we know the probability distributions of likely future droughts of different severities it is important to pose the right question that will pin down any precise measure of water supply security. Providing rainfall independent sources of water, such as desalination, does ensure adequate urban water supplies over time horizons that are long enough to allow eventual system expansion. It is important when considering such expansions to think about other risks that may impact on project viability such as higher future energy prices.
Before we switch to discuss adaptation policies that assist in dealing with drought once it occurs it is important to understand that such adaptation policies can (or should) be driven by prior anticipatory policies. Rational water pricing and policies that encourage demand management and water conservation are important in both urban and rural sectors. Drought preparation policies are specifically important in rural settings. These are substitute policies for ex post drought relief policies.
A specifically important class of anticipatory actions lies in providing information and developing management skills.
One issue is forecasting rainfall and drought outcomes. This is a low cost research option that has complementary effects in improving the productivity of other anticipatory policies.
Anticipatory policies also include information gathering and preliminary investments that would be essential prerequisites to larger scale policy actions were a severe drought situation to develop. Melbourne's desalination plant at Wonthaggi took as long to plan and to assign contracts as it took to build. Many of the requirements for such a project can be undertaken prior to doing it – making engineering and economic choices among available options, securing land purchases, obtaining environmental approvals and so on. This increases option flexibility ex post and overall can reduce policy costs at the expensive of relatively low upfront costs.
Finally, it should also be recognized that private anticipatory decisions can forestall the potentially disastrous impacts of drought. Specifically if farmers anticipate the prospects of drought by constructing dams, limiting stocking levels and by selecting crops that, if threatened by drought, bring about only transitional losses, then again policy flexibility for policy makers ex post improves. The Productivity Commission (2011) (largely following the arguments of Freebairn (1983)) emphasised that drought assistance policy should primarily be directed towards improving the ability of farmers to themselves anticipate and improve their adaptation capabilities in relation to drought. These capabilities will depend on business and other skills that can be fostered on an ongoing basis.
Adaptation Responses
The advent of drought creates a need for adaptation responses. The key forecasting issue is to take actions appropriate to the scale and expected duration of the drought. Not much is known about the latter although improved knowledge of the evolving scale of El Niño events and the autoregressive character of drought events provide some guidance. If policy-makers have no basis for forecasting the duration of a drought then it is likely that the appropriate policy will involve a desired sequencing of policies as well as their mix.
A key issue in assessing adaptation responses is the flexibility with which a range of options can be pursued. It can be predicted that almost any measure irrespective of its costs will be advanced by politicians – and perhaps civil servants – if a crisis situation is envisaged. Politicians face short term possible costs that might stem from drought events and face undue incentives to take inefficient actions whose costs get masked in overall tax/expenditure programs or distributed as interest costs on debt that are distributed over decades.
Drought relief policies have conventionally been used to assist farmers facing drought largely as a consequence of political pressures imposed by the farm lobby and by the short-term incentives politicians face. Financial assistance via drought assistance and low interest loans provide no incentives for farmers to take anticipatory actions and encourage farmers to remain in business and maintain such things as stocking densities even when climatic circumstances are adverse. The intention of drought assistance policies in Australia to encourage self-reliance are not being advanced by policies which improve the capabilities of adapting to drought – indeed incentives for self-reliance are thwarted by such policies . In 2007-08, during the Millennium drought, 23 per cent of farmers received public assistance totally over $1b (Productivity Commission, 2009). This assistance did not encourage self-reliance and encouraged environmentally unsound farm management practices.
Given self-reliance objectives the Productivity Commission opposed all such assistance on the grounds that it was not incentive compatible. If assistance was to be awarded it should at least be paid conditional on farmer's undertaking their own private anticipatory policies to deal with drought via a "Mutual Responsibility Contract" which required of farmers an appropriate degree of anticipatory response. The "Exceptional Circumstances" (EC) criterion governing the award of drought assistance never makes sense since, apart from the fact that it was more generously interpreted than was planned, it did nothing to improve the self-reliance of farmers in preparing for, adapting to and recovering from drought. Under EC those who make preparations were unlikely to qualify for assistance so the incentives were to overgraze and overspend in good times and to then receive assistance when times were bad.
Other sound anticipatory policies are "no regrets" options that make sense without the prospect of drought but whose effectiveness increases substantially if drought occurs.
"Scarcity pricing" of water means charging more for water as it becomes scarcer. (It is interesting to note that water resource economics has developed its own jargon to cover common sense ideas in economics). As an efficiency-directed tool this is the best way of addressing supply demand imbalances in general but specifically for growing water shortages that stem from drought. The pricing can either be directed to clearing the water market or of efficiently allocating a stock of water with low renewal prospects over time. In the latter case the marginal cost of water from whatever backstop technologies are available – for example, dams, a desalination plants or water from recycling or aquifers – provide a terminal price that existing water prices should converge to at a rate reflecting the social discount rate.
Such scarcity pricing rather than pricing scarce resources cheaply facilitates postponement of expensive irreversible infrastructure investments thereby saving present value and increasing the prospect that such investments will become unnecessary because the drought breaks.
In rural settings freely tradeable sustainable water allocation permits along with steeply rising prices during periods of drought effectively mimic scarcity pricing initiatives.
Scarcity pricing is routinely rejected in urban settings because of the "special" character of water as an "essential good". This ambiguous idea partly reflects the legitimate distributional concern that high water prices impact adversely on low-income households. Multi-part tariffs can address such distributional concerns but these pose efficiency issues because then a uniform water price is not being be charged to all.
The alternative to scarcity pricing is water rationing and water restriction policies. These have been widely used in Australia and to meet short-term and medium-term shortage issues. Economists routinely dismiss restriction policies as having high deadweight losses in the order of hundreds of millions of dollars but, as policies, sharing-the-burden schemes have a high measure of community acceptability and effectiveness.
The deadweight losses imposed by such schemes need to be assessed against the savings they create in terms of reducing the quasi-option value losses imposed by pre-mature infrastructure development.
Integrated Plans
The ideal is to devise a comprehensive package of drought policies that recognise links between anticipatory and adaptive policies. Adaptation decisions taken when the pressure of drought bears on decision making by those with short-term policy horizons can lead to hasty and costly policy responses that disadvantage the community.
Compared to infrastructure costs there are relatively low costs of R&D into the determinants of droughts and their character. Such R&D efforts can also be directed towards researching drought policy – though workshops such as the present one – and for improving understanding of candidate technological responses. Such efforts should be ongoing.
The productivity and effectiveness of drought relief adaptation responses, taken once a drought has occurred, will be improved if farmers are incentivized to themselves prepare for drought by making relief contingent on such preparation.
The economics of substantial infrastructure projects (desalination, dams, water recycling, use of aquifers, pipeline construction) can be substantially improved if they can be delayed using anticipatory policy. This gains option value. This can be achieved without sacrificing social insurance objectives if scarcity pricing of urban water supplies and water trading among rural users is set in place before a drought crisis. Triggers can be relaxed with effective demand management since the availability of extant supplies will be stretched out further if water becomes more expensive. Measures such as water supply restrictions and rationing remain viable medium term options if market-based controls are ruled out on ideological or distributional grounds. The efficiency costs of such policies needs to be assessed against their high social acceptability and their ability to deliver gains in terms of option value.
- Arrow and R. Lind, "Uncertainty and the Evaluation of Public Investment Decisions", American Economic Review, 60, 1970, 364-378.
- Clarke, "Economics of Disaster Preparedness and Relief", mimeographed, October 2015.
- Clarke, "Planning Urban Water Investments with an Uncertain Climate", Economic Papers: A Journal of Applied Economics and Policy, 32, 4, December 2013, 426-439.
- Clarke, "Real Option and Insurance Approaches to Evaluating Infrastructure Projects under Risk and Uncertainty: A Checklist of Issues", Australian Economic Review, 47, 1, 2014, 147-156.
- Freebairn, "Drought Assistance Policies", Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 27, 3, 1983, 185-199.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2012.
- Dixit & R. Pindyck, Investment Under Uncertainty, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1994.
Productivity Commission, Government Drought Support, Final Inquiry Report, Report No. 46, Melbourne, 2009.
Productivity Commission, Australia's Urban Water Sector, Final Inquiry Report, Report No. 55, Canberra, 2011.
- Steffen, Thirsty Country: Climate Change and Drought in Australia, Climate Council of Australia, 2015.


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Mary Lanning Healthcare Names New President/CEO
The Mary Lanning Healthcare Board of Trustees has announced a new president and CEO to lead the Hastings healthcare system.
The board named Eric Barber to the position in an announcement Friday. Barber is coming from Kirksville, Mo., where he had served as Northeast Regional Medical Center's COO, and most recently, its CEO.
"Mr. Barber's extensive background in healthcare will provide positive leadership for Mary Lanning in the future," shared Jeff Anderson, Board of Trustees president . "He seems to be the right fit as we navigate the challenges of remaining a strong, independent hospital in a changing healthcare environment."
Barber will oversee all clinical and fiscal operations of Mary Lanning, the acute-care hospital and medical clinics, including Hastings Family Practice, Moscati Health Center, the Community Health Center, Hastings Imaging Center, the Blue Hill and Edgar Medical Clinics and The Lanning Center for Behavioral Services.
Barber is known for his success in establishing collaborative relationships with physicians leading to strong satisfaction and retention. He also has extensive experience in quality and safety improvement.
Becker's Hospital Review named Barber as one of the "291 Hospital and Health System Leaders to Know" in 2011 and recognized the hospital in Kirksville as one of America's 50 Best Hospitals in 2011 while under Barber's leadership.
Barber earned a Bachelor's Degree for Kansas State University and a Master of Healthcare Administration Degree from the University of Kansas.
Barber will begin his new position on August 19.


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Those of you who have been following for a while will know that we are slowly restoring and updating an ancient, crumbling yet beautiful Georgian house in England; working our way as quickly as inspiration and budget will allow (very slowly, in the case of the latter). It's a battle against the elements; even as one coat of paint dries in a room, a strange and ominous water stain will seep through the ceiling of another. A sense of intimacy is created quickly with new guests who soon realise that every toilet flush clangs and reverberates around the house for a good 10 minutes; there are no secrets here. The house will be something of a life's work, and is frustrating and wonderful – often in equal measure. We moved here two years ago this Christmas, and have so far tackled much of the downstairs; the kitchen, playroom and hallway have all appeared here on the blog.
Our next project was the overhaul of our bedroom and its en suite bathroom. We moved out of it more than two months ago for a job that we thought would take two weeks… we (and our builders) should definitely have known better by now! Having been camping out in the spare room since September, we finally reclaimed our own bed yesterday, with great relief and general giddiness. As we put the finishing touches to our bedroom, here's a peek at the bathroom, which we've completely overhauled. I've interspersed the before and after pictures so that you get a sense of the layout and evolution.
Let's start view into the bathroom from our bedroom before;
And after…
The bathroom had a very strange false step buried beneath dark green carpet (seen below), which was presumably crafted as a way of improving drainage at some point in the 70s or 80s. It had to go; beyond being a complete hazard in the middle of the night, it also reduced the floor space significantly. Oh, and the drainage thing obviously didn't work; our en suite had no actual toilet; for that you needed to head down the corridor.
We took out the step, removed half of the wall-to-wall cupboards (which the step had been cut into, making them look a bit odd), and stripped out the old shower, replacing it with a hidden-cistern WC instead. An old armchair has been moved from the spare bedroom and has quickly settled into the corner here instead. Underfloor heating warms the new travertine stone which we laid instead of the carpet.
We think that the room is likely to have originally been a nursery bedroom, and contains a chimney breast (boxed in behind the sinks) and alcoves. The alcove to the right of the sinks used to house a built-in wardrobe, but one which we seldom used, being in a bathroom and far away from our other storage. It also had a weird half-wall which further bisected the space, and which we took down.
We replaced it with a huge walk-in shower…
For the main sink area, we stripped out the old, stained green marble top and inset basins, and chipped off the tiles to reveal the chimney breast and fireplace; incredibly, it hadn't been boarded up so also contained several fossilised birds (eek!) and - more interestingly – a time capsule from the previous owners, and a newspaper that was more than 50 years old. I'll share that in a future post; it makes for wonderful reading. After properly stabilising the chimney breast and wall, we had it re-plastered and tiled before choosing simple washbowl sinks with inset taps. The eagle-eyed will recognise that they are now mounted on our former hall table; we thought it would look beautiful in the space, so after sealing the wooden surface we asked our joiner to plumb the washbowls through it.
For aesthetically-pleasing storage of the things we use all the time, we found these poured-concrete planters at our local garden centre (a bargain at £15), which easily hold bits and bobs like hairbrushes, toothpaste and so forth. Hand towels are stored in the vintage dough bowl which again you may recognise from our apple-picking and other adventures – so much of this bathroom is recycled from other parts of the house.
An old French milking stool (a flea market find last year) acts as a stand for shower essentials;
'That's all very well', I hear you cry; 'but where do you store all your un-beautiful bathroom products, hmm?' I can imagine you saying it, because that was exactly my husband's question when I described to him my vision for a bathroom with nothing in it (or near as dammit). Well. Not that I am going to confess to owning anything unsavoury like haemorrhoid cream, waxing supplies, dandruff shampoo etc, but IF I did, they would surely all be housed in the magnificently huge cupboards we retained and which hide all manner of sins. Believe me, it's like the episode of Friends where Monica's secret closet full of junk is discovered.
We've only been able to use the bathroom for 24hrs so far, so we're still pondering where to place things and wall decor. We've moved a huge picture up from downstairs which we love and are living with to see how it all works together. We're hoping that we'll be able to turn the old cupboard doors from the units we removed into window shutters, by stripping them and adding hinges to produce period, fold-back shutters…we shall see.
There are gremlins and small irritations, of course; the limitations of ancient plumbing and old houses means we have had to site the heated towel rail on the opposite side of the room to the sink, for example. We knew that we would have to plan this room somewhat on the fly, as we wouldn't know what was underneath and behind the old bathroom until everything had been stripped away. All told though, we are very, very happy – not least because we'll have no more midnight sprints along a cold corridor to the bathroom, stubbing toes and shivering as we go.
Here's a quick overview of some of the colours we chose and fittings we used, for any bathroom fetishists or if you're about to start a similar project yourself…
Now, time for a shower. Only my third today; the thrill of the new, eh?


text: I bought it last Thursday but when I got home, I only noticed the trimming of the interior left pocket(Left when carrying it).. I flew out for Xmas the following early morning so I didn't manage to go back to exchange it. So I'm doing it today. I don't know how to explain the flaw but I hope these pics helps.. The right pocket trimming is fine but not the left one.. I could only manage to zoom in frm the front with my camera phone since it's smaller to put it in the bag and take the pic. The rest are taken with my camera from the top. Would I look like a fussy customer to ask for an exchange over this interior trimming? And do let me know what you ladies find of this bag as well..is the beige caviar nice? Or should I change the colour as well since I'm changing? Thank you!


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941 N Sweetgrass Lane, Shelton, Washington
941 N Sweetgrass Lane, Shelton, Washington 98584 - Amazing opportunity to own 40 Acres with 13 acres as your private homesite in the sustainable farm community Skokomish Farms! Secure, peaceful, and quiet with grazing elk and soaring eagles. Olympic Mountains to the north, and the Skokomish River bordering the south. This is the only parcel available - the rest have sold out. Excellent roads, a new bridge, and community ponds. Skokomish Farms is a 720 acre paradise with natural sources of water, fertile plains, and terrain. Your oasis awaits!
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Report: MARTA one of country's least affordable transit systems
MARTA announced that there will no fare increase in 2017, but the transit service remains one of the most expensive in the nation, according to one report.
A comparison between Georgia's minimum wage and MARTA's transit fare makes Atlanta's transit system one of the nation's most expensive.
The current fare is $2.50 one way, with free transfers between rail and bus. Special fares are offered for students, senior citizens and persons with disabilities.
Data from the Atlanta Regional Commission and Neighborhood Nexus shows that a worker making minimum wage would have to work a total of 41 minutes to make up for the cost of transportation in Atlanta.
MARTA shares the no. 1 spot with Dallas' DART and Salt Lake City's UTA. Georgia, Texas and Utah all mandate the federal minimum wage.
The report only looks at bus fare, not metro fare. MARTA is one of the country's transit services that has a flat fare and offers free transfers between rail and bus if riders use a Breeze Card.
In comparison, the Washington, D.C. transit authority WMATA, which ranks as the most affordable on the report, calculates metrorail fare by distance between stations and by time of day. A one-way metrorail fare in the nation's capital can range from $1.75 to $5.90.
MARTA last increased its fare in 2011 and 2009. Fare for a single trip rose from $2 to $2.50 and a cost for a monthly pass rose from $52.50 to $95 in 2011. MARTA received backlash from customers for raising prices during the economic recovery period.
In January, MARTA unveiled a new silver Breeze Card with a new price: $2, not including fare. The silver card will be good for three years. The previous Breeze Card, which is scheduled to be phased out by mid-2017, was blue and cost $1.
Georgia is somewhat unusual in that the state's minimum wage — $5.15 an hour — is actually lower than the $7.25-an-hour federal one, which takes precedence in most situations.
Read more:
- No car? No problem if you live in these Atlanta neighborhoods
- MARTA fares to jump to $2.50, among highest in nation
- MARTA to discuss Breeze Card changes with public
- Again? Fresh push on for Georgia $15-an-hour minimum wage
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marta is an embarrassment to big city metro systems---they never improve---what gives??
The fare went from $13 dollars a week to $23.75 in a matter of five years .
When the Atlanta Braves move to Cobb Co., getting to the games will make you wish for Marta!
The people that ride it should pay more. Raise the rates, then raise the service.
stop complaining, you have to pay for coruption and crime, it ain't cheap. lavish partys , fancy trips for business, wink wink. ain't cheap.
When you live in a state that hates public transit, this is what you get. Marta is a private company that is top heavy. Those excec's gotta have their bank. So many praise Marta's ceo for creating a surplus. That may be true but the service mean while is going to haitties. Lets not even began to discuss weekend service. I think fare should be based on level of service. M-F seems to be there main focus(lately been sorry too). So week day service should pay current fare. The weekend should be cheaper due to the countless delays and single tracking that goes on.
DC metro is much worse
Duh I could've told y'all that it's a a $1 there and back and $1.10 for a transfer where I'm from
Somebody's gotta pay for all those pensions and benefits.
@ajc Most likely due to graft and corruption within.
No doubt about it.
@ajc one of the only (if not the only) system that's not publicly subsidized.
And, I suppose you think it should be "publicly" (read: taxpayer) subsidized?
Meet me at 5points ..
Seniors in Boston pay 25cents to ride the T.I have ridden for that miniscule amount.
i used to ride MARTA nearly daily in the '80s and into the '90s. More recently only to and from Hartsfield. The biggest problem I always saw were the 5th rate MARTA employees, even more so than some of the riders. Most were idiots with no clue about customer service. I even once sent a letter to the head of MARTA. No response and no surprise. Rotten from top to bottom
When I lived in Atlanta I love Marta way better than Dart in Texas
Well, brain child, one can't have a MARTA stop next to his or her door...Or, maybe in your world, he or she should...
@ajc Report does not include WMATA's peak time fares which can more than double price or cities with farezones.
@ajc Report also uses minimum wage not per capita wage, skews numbers towards cities with the 'better' laws not better economies.
"MARTA is also the only system not receiving state subsidies for continued operations and expansion." .
@Georji Good. Believe it or not this state doesn't revolve around a few counties that have MARTA.
@consumedconsumer @PJ25 @Georji for the entire state* The metro Atlanta region produces 2/3rds of the economic activity in GA. Most people would think that the State would do a little bit to support the vitality and expansion of its economic engine.
And they should receive "State subsidies" (read: taxpayer) for continued operations and expansion?
Consumed...you are beginning to disappoint me - I know you are better educated than to believe that hogwash.
Again...to do that requires TAXPAYER monies, and the other 1/3 aren't to happy to be subsidizing a rail system that can't satisfy the majority of the 2/3 population you are crowing about.
Hey Duluth. You got it man. The head of the FBI in a moment of honesty has recently said that cops are now backing off of arresting people due to all the Liberal sideshow after they arrest a thug. Freddie Grey for example. He says that violent crime is really spiking because of this apprehension. Riding Marta late at night travel in large groups or drive your own car.
As traffic gets worse and worse, the conservative talking points about transit continue to hurt the state and its workers.
And it still loses money
With all the rude, jive-talking panhandlers, urine-scented ne'er-do-wells, and shiftless Atlanta 0bamaSupporters a paying rider frequently encounters while riding MARTA, particularly in off-peak hours, the service could not possibly be considered a "bargain" even if it were free.
We won't even go into how the trains frequently breakdown when you are trying to head to a time-sensitive concert or sporting event.
Any word on the relevance of this study?
How many people making minimum wage are riding MARTA?
MARTA is definitely expensive proportional to the size and ability of its services. Unfortunately that's the result of decades of hostility from various municipal governments around the Metro area as well as the Georgia state assembly regarding funding for MARTA. Regional transit agencies like New York's MTA and Boston's MBTA have substantially stronger financial backing through fares, state sales tax, real estate and municipal assets assessments, etc. As such, they're substantially more economically beneficial for daily riders as well as providing better services, despite the fact that both systems are over a century old and in need of heavy infrastructure investment. MARTA on other hand is fairly new transit system, as it's only 44 years old, and yet it's stunted in size and depth, compared to both older and newer public mass transit systems.
Those other municipalities don't want "those people" in their municipalities. Just call it what it is.
Do you know how much tax they collect in NYC for those subsidies? It cost me nearly $40 in tolls just to drive into Manhattan a couple years ago.
Well, that's how you have fund public mass transit adequately, otherwise you get MARTA as a result. I'd gladly pay more in taxes or fees if it meant that I didn't have drive everywhere, everyday just to get basic errands done.
I think Marta is great, it can be pricey but I think it's priced appropriately. When your on a budget you have to buy the weekly pass. I had to do that for a few months until I got back on my feet
That's you're not your.
Anthony Terrell I fat fingered and messed up the auto correct and got busy and forgot to change it lol \U0001f60b
Marta will never show a profit. State, County, and Federal dollars pay the cost. The only good side is loses less than Amtrak and the worst ever transit boondoggle the Bullet Train in California. It has already lost Billions. The clowns out there are looking to expand this stupidy. Pull the plug on the Atlanta Street Car. Another stupid Liberal brainxxxx.
@BetterDog I mean, roads never make a profit either. They're money drains just like any other transit project. You don't make roads to make a profit, you make them to move people around, and the same goes for mass transit.
@BetterDog Leave it to the liberals to screw up everything they touch. They sure know how to waste money. The MARTA has been a joke for decades. How about cleaning up the criminals on it, and maybe the good folks can ride it in peace.
Sport, you are completely brain dead. Roads and highways are not "transit projects," nor are they paved or paced in areas to make a profit. they are there because they have gasoline taxes, etc., that pay the freight. And, roads are not provided "to move people around."
Well, I know that many transit companies charge "zone fares", and if they did that here, it would cost about $8.50 or more to go from Doraville to the Airport, each way, and probably only .75 cents to jump one or two stations, though. If where you are and where you want to go are convenient to a rail station, it's still more affordable than maintaining a car. The problem is, while you can live in Atlanta without a car, it's really not that practical because there just isn't enough stuff next to the rail stations for quality choices in shopping, groceries, entertainment, etc.
this article doesn't give enough attention to how cheap the rail really is compared to other places. in san fran fares to the airport can be as much as 35 bucks per, depending on how far out you are. can you imagine 70 bucks round trip from north springs to the airport? i cant speak to the buses but i ride the trains at least twice a month... and every time i think how cheap it is! i do not follow this article. and no, i am not rich, and i also grew up in rural central georgia. i am no "city folk", trust. but like 5 bucks to get in and out of midtown? i will take that. now, yeah some of the time i cant cause i aint gonna walk like a mile... but given the option i will walk a block or 2 cause midtown street traffic is a waste of time... :). if you need the rails for work: 22 working days a month at 5 bucks a day is $110, that doesn't seem too outlandish...


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A new birthing pool will be available to expectant mums before the end of next month.
The facility is part of a revamp of the maternity unit at South Tyneside District Hospital. It will give mums-to-be the opportunity to give birth in the comfort of water, and midwives have been undergoing specialist training in preparation for its installation.
Anne Hill said: "We can't guarantee its use, particularly if we have three women in labour at the same time, but it is an important new addition to the services we provide."


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As grateful as I am for the life I have now, for the person I have been, for the person I have become and am becoming, for the way I've always landed on my feet, and the way things always work out for me, for the friends I have who have become family, for the experiences I've lived – and the ones I've survived – for the courage I've shown and the things I've taught myself.
As grateful as I am for all of my life – I still feel the absence of that family behind me.
Not my family of friends, I know they are my family forever. They are the people with whom I will share the journey of life for the rest of our lives and I'm so, so grateful. Still, they are my peers; they are my age.
What I miss sometimes, is the presence of "adults" in my life, older people – people who are the age that my parents would be, or the age my grandparents would be. Continue reading Adoption – Absence of Adults


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By J Nastranis
NEW YORK | VIENNA (IDN) - "Africa is by no means destined to lag behind the rest of the world economy. On the contrary, it could easily become a global economic powerhouse – and within the next decade. But, to fulfil its economic potential, Africa must industrialize," says Director General LI Yong of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO).
This has been stressed repeatedly at recent international forums, including the Sixth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD VI) in August 2016, and the G20 summit in Hangzhou, China, the following month, he adds. For the first time, the G20 placed industrialization in Africa – and all of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) – on its agenda. The African Union's Agenda 2063 also supports this drive.


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Expected publication: August 2014 by Anti-Oedipus Press
A semi-sequel to the visionary Anti-Twitter: 150 50-Word Stories, Induced Coma: 50 & 100 Word Stories once again features Harold Jaffe writing to the Nth power, taking as his subject no less than the benighted globe. Including published mainstream narratives and "news" articles from the US and abroad, the collection covers an extraordinary range of subjects—activist art, global warming, revolution, the entertainment industry, and the freakishly banal happenings of our day-to-day lives—all of which the author deconstructs to expose their ideological subtexts in uncanny ways. Satirical, critical, tragic and ruminative, Jaffe works every register masterfully. Induced Coma is a singular tour de force composed by one of the most innovative writers of our generation.
A surreal twist on news around the world. Some of these short news pieces are weird and disturbing at times.
Jaffe takes Doctor amputating the wrong limbs, A pet girl culture, and Gluteoplasty and gives stories that could happen in your neighborhood. Or maybe it did, with some of the highlighted parts from these weird news trips.
Some of the disturbing pieces such as Her Mangled, Machete, Severed, Cucumber Coffin and Grits will have give you chills and you'll say "ahhh man."
Kinda reminds me of Alex Boese's work, but his work being true facts. Harold Jaffe does an Induced Coma with only 50 to 100 weird shorts. Check it out. The rest of his docufictions are on my reading list.
(as posted by Donald on Goodreads)


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Wenham, located just 22 miles north of Boston, is an old New England town that has retained much of its unique historic character and peaceful rural scenery including nearly 300 acres of parks, playgrounds and recreational lands. Wenham shares its school system with Hamilton and is home to Gordon College, one of the top Christian colleges in the nation and the Wenham Tea House, the oldest Tea House in the country. The commuter rail station in the neighboring town of Hamilton or a short ride to access Route 128 makes commuting into Boston a breeze.
In 2010, Boston Magazine noted the community of Hamilton-Wenham as one of the "Best Places to Live" on the North Shore and in 2015 ranked the Hamilton-Wenham Public School as 23rd in the state. Wenham is 8 square miles and in 2014 had a population of 4,892.
The 2015 Property Tax in Wenham is $16.25 per $1000 of assessed value.
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text: Some stores leave SO much stuffing in the MJ bags that they look like they've been filled with helium! I was mentioning this to my SA at Nordstrom, and she commented that she does find that once people take some or all the stuffing out and try their own things in the bag, they are more likely to buy. In fact, I've noticed they now display the bags at my local Nordies with about half as much stuffing, and I think it's so much smarter; you get a better idea of what the bag really looks like! Anyone with me on this? Case in point... I recently saw a woman with a fab MJ bag, and it turned out to be a bag I'd seen in person, but NEVER would have purchased because it looked too formed. I didn't even recognize it (it was the Ursula Quilted Hobo). But IRL on her shoulder, it had a nice slouchy hobo look. I bought one a week later.


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