Way back when, almost nine years ago in fact, at a time when Rosemania and Henmania merged during a heady English sporting summer, Justin Rose was asked if he would like the media to leave him alone.
"Please do... but come back," the then 17-year-old replied after all the hullabaloo surrounding his fourth place finish as an amateur in the Open Championship was petering out. Tim Henman had earlier that month reached the semi-final of Wimbledon only to lose to Pete Sampras.
The Rose story has been revisited over the years and his progress towards becoming one of the finest professional golfers in the world has been dutifully monitored.
But there has been no need to attach the suffix 'mania' to his most English of names.
Were he to tee off in the final round at Carnoustie this July in the second last pairing, one stroke out of the lead and level with Tiger Woods, as he did at Augusta, madness would surely return.
It was crazy enough at Royal Birkdale in 1998.
Young girls wandered around the links with white T-shirts emblazoned with such encouraging messages as 'Come on, Rosie' and 'Justin Rose Is Bloomin' Brilliant'.
And then, of course, the teenager pitched in from 50 yards at the 72nd hole, over rough and bunker, in front of the massed grandstands and a huge TV audience, and not just lovecrazed adolescents and golf spectators went nuts.
There were chat show appearances with the likes of with Sampras and Michael Johnson and interview requests from all over the world.
His glorious final shot in The Open was his last as an amateur. The Rose roadshow rolled that week to Holland where he made his professional debut.
As it happened, I was there for that - he nearly missed his opening tee shot - and there for many of a sequence of missed cuts which eventually reached 21; there for his failure to win his Tour card at Qualifying School, forcing a reliance of sponsors' invitations; there at Slaley Hall, near Newcastle when, after 11 months as a professional, he survived to the weekend to earn his first cheque.
There again in Johannesburg in January 2002 when he won his first professional tournament, just a few miles from where he was born and lived until moving to England at the age of five.
"This is for Dad," he said referring to Ken, who was back home in England receiving treatment for leukaemia.
At least his South African-based, Scottish-born grandfather, Dondy (short for Donald) White, was present, as he has been at Augusta this week, his first time in the United States and at the grand old age of 85.
Rose drove off in a very hot sports car that day, roof off, music blaring, looking as if he was speeding off towards the next stage of his career.
His victory, and subsequent ones, including in Australia last January, could be attributed not to one distant week at Birkdale but to the months and years of pitching up daily to the school of hard knocks. Disappointment and despair forged Justin Rose both as a splendid golfer and an even more impressive human being.
Through his extended period of adversity and faced with continuing interest in his plight, he remained unfailingly polite to the circling vultures.
Spectators were greeted always with a smile and a wave, manifestations of a sunny disposition in contrast to some of the more sour-faced members of the profession.
Rose had been just a kid in 1998, ill-equipped either in terms of ability or experience to become a national hero. He had embarked on a pro career with the advantage of celebrity (including being the darling of sponsors) and all the disadvantage of unrealistic expectation.
"I always knew the weight of expectation would return to my shoulders," he said recently. "I'm ready for it now. I'm a much more mature person, strengthened by my experiences."
That showed on Sunday. He will have many more days like that ahead.


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Drake Says Trump Doesn't Have The Power To Tear The World Apart
February 7, 2017 8:30am
While Drake is never afraid to take on an opponent in hip-hop, the Views artist usually minds his business when it comes to politics. However, with the election of Donald Trump, many have chosen to voice their opinion of the polarizing G.O.P president and it appears as if Mr. Graham is hopping on the bandwagon.
Drake Links Up With Wizkid For "Hush Up The Silence"
During his final London show for his Boy Meets World tour, Drake congratulated the crowd for putting their differences to the side all in the name of music.
"For some reason in my room, they have the TV set to CNN. Every day I wake up and see all this bullsh*t going in the world, people trying to tear us apart, people trying to make us turn against each other," Drake said. "So tonight, my proudest moment isn't selling tickets or having people singing songs. My proudest moment, if you take a look around at this room, you'll see people from all races and all places, and all we did tonight was come inside this building, show love, celebrate life, more life and more music."
The Gag Is… Keke Palmer Is The Soul Author Of Her Truest Gospel
While on its face Drake's comment speaks more to unity than politics, the "One Dance" artist didn't end his spiel there. Although he didn't name Trump, it was quite obvious who he was addressing his message to.
"If you think one man can tear this world apart, you're out of your mother f**king mind. It's on us to keep this shit together. F**k that man," Drake said.
Drizzy didn't go any further into his disdain towards Trump, but we get the picture, however, speaking on Trump and politics in general isn't something Drake or Young Money really does. Do you think it's an artist's duty to use their platform to discuss social issues? Or should they just stay in their lane and entertain? Sound off in the comments.
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Площадь Венесуэлы () расположена в географическом центре города Каракас, столицы Венесуэлы. Площадь была образована и открыта для публики в 1940 году. На площади располагается множество достопримечательностей Каракаса: фонтан с подсветкой, памятник Христофора Колумба работы Мануэля де ла Ковы, скульптурные композиции «Фисиокромия в честь Андреса Бельо» Карлоса Крус-Диеса и «Открытое солнце» работы Алехандро Отеро.

Кроме того, в непосредственной близости от площади располагаются Университетский городок и Ботанический сад Каракаса, небоскрёбы Парк Сентраль, бульвар Сабана Гранде и Центр культуры и искусств.

Фонтан, украшающий площадь, 5 раз претерпевал изменения. В первое время он был даже музыкальным, а последняя реконструкция была произведена в 2009 году.

Поблизости от площади расположен вход на одноимённую станцию метрополитена Каракаса.

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High-Speed Rail in India
India's economic development lags China's by about 15 years, so it shouldn't be surprising that it's beginning to construct a high-speed rail network. The first line, connecting Mumbai and Ahmedabad via Surat, began construction at the end of last year, with completion targeted within four years; the two states served, Maharashtra and Gujarat, are more or less India's two richest large states, and are also both deeply right-wing, with nearly every constituency backing Modi. There are some severe problems with the system, stemming from its use of turnkey Japanese technology. But more broadly, India's geography is just difficult for high-speed rail, especially by comparison with other high-population density countries at similar level of development, like Pakistan and Indonesia.
The Mumbai-Ahmedabad corridor is to use imported Shinkansen technology, with Japanese financing. India has a vast railway network using broad gauge, with extensive regional rail (the Mumbai Suburban Railway has 2.6 billion riders per year) as well as legacy intercity rail.
However, to maintain Shinkansen compatibility, India has chosen to use standard gauge. This is based on a misunderstanding of why HSR uses standard gauge. Spain uses near-Indian gauge on its legacy network but standard gauge on HSR to maintain compatibility with the French TGV network, and Japan has narrow gauge on the legacy network and standard gauge on Shinkansen because narrow-gauge trains can't run as fast. Neither of these justifications applies to India, and evidently, in another country where they don't apply, Russia, HSR is to use broad gauge. With standard gauge, India will not be able to run HSR through to the legacy network, connecting to cities beyond the initial line, such as Delhi, nor will it be able to stage future construction to build lines in phases, the way France did, with through-service to lower-speed territory.
Even worse, alone in the world, India is using the Shinkansen's loading gauge on HSR: trains are 3.35 meters wide, enough for 5-abreast seating. Indian Railways has a loading gauge allowing 3.66 meter trains, enough for 6-abreast seating with the same compromises on comfort familiar to every airline economy passenger. I don't know what the standards for track centers are to be on India's HSR: Indian Railways' manual says 5.3 meters, which is wide enough for everything, but Shinkansen standards specify 4.3 meters, which is tight enough that a future widening of the track and loading gauges may pose difficulties for passing at high speed (at low speed it's easy, India's legacy track centers are 4.265 meters, and standard-gauge America's are 3.7 meters on the slower parts of the Northeast Corridor).
During construction, the decision to use the wrong-size trains is fixable. Even after service opens, if the track centers are not too narrow, it's possible to add a third rail to permit a transition to broad gauge. If the track centers are as narrow as the Shinkansen then might still be possible, if the third rails are on the outside (it would widen the track centers by the difference between the gauges, or 23.3 cm), but then the platforms would need to be shaved for wider trains. In the medium and long runs, such gauge widening is critical as India builds out its network.
But today, so complete is India's reliance on Japanese technology that the training for drivers will be conducted in Japan, in Japanese; train drivers will be required to speak Japanese, as the Shinkansen trainers will not all speak English. It goes without saying that without a large body of Japanese speakers, India will be forced to pay first-world or near-first-world wages, forgoing its advantage in having low labor costs.
The projected construction cost of the 508-kilometer line is 1.1 trillion ("lakh crore") rupees, which is $15 billion in exchange rate terms and about $55 billion in PPP terms. Per Wikipedia, the route includes only one tunnel, a 21-km approach to Mumbai with suburban and underwater tunneling (even if the gauges were compatible, using existing tracks like TGVs is impossible due to the use of every approach track by overcrowded Suburban Railway trains). The rest of the route is predominantly elevated, but the decision to runs the trains elevated rather than at-grade is only responsible for about 10% of its cost.
Despite the complexity of such a tunnel, there is no excuse for the high construction cost. In exchange rate terms it's reasonable. Japan's domestic Shin-Aomori extension of the Shinkansen cost about $55 million per kilometer, including a 26 km tunnel consisting of a third of the route and additional tunnels totaling a majority of the route. More recently, Japan's new bout of Shinkansen construction costs about $30 billion for 389 km, but tunneling is extensive, with the Hokkaido route planned to be 76% in tunnel.
With India's complete reliance on Japanese technology, paying the same as Japan in exchange rate terms is not surprising. It's a disaster for India, which has to pay in depreciated rupees instead of leveraging its low-cost labor, but as far as Japan is concerned, it's a perfect copy of the domestic Shinkansen system. Similar high costs can be observed for some Asian metro projects using Japanese financing, namely Dhaka (the world's highest-cost elevated metro, even worse than in the US) and Jakarta.
In contrast, where India improves its rail network by tapping into Indian Railways' own expertise, costs are low. Nearly half of India's rail network is electrified, and to save money on expensive fuel, the country is rapidly electrifying the system, targeting 100% electrification. A plan to electrify 13,675 route-km in the next four years is to cost 12,134 crore rupees, about $123,000/km in exchange rate terms or $450,000/km in PPP terms. In the developed world, $1-1.5 million/km for electrification is reasonable, and the unreasonably expensive UK, US, and Canada go up to $5-10 million/km. Left to its own devices, Indian Railways can build things cheaply.
Network structure
India's geography for high-speed rail is not easy. Mumbai, Surat, and Ahmedabad are the only three cities in the top 20 that lie on a straight line at easy HSR range. Delhi-Mumbai, Delhi-Kolkata, and Mumbai-Chennai are all just outside the best range for HSR (and Kolkata-Chennai is well outside it), having to rely on intermediate cities like Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, and Kanpur for ridership. Within Uttar Pradesh, Kanpur and Lucknow are both large cities, but the line connecting them is almost perpendicular to that connecting Delhi and Kolkata, so that only one can be served on the main line. In the South, there is a similar situation with Mumbai-Chennai, via either Bangalore or Hyderabad (and there, both routes should be built as Bangalore and Hyderabad are both near-megacities). Mumbai itself requires extensive tunneling in all directions: north toward Gujarat and Delhi, south toward Pune, and possibly also northeast toward the interior cities of Maharashtra.
I drew a possible map for a nationwide network. The total length is 17,700 double-track-km. It's about the same length as most American proposals, and less than half as much as what China aims to build by 2025, but India has four times the population of the US and far higher population density, and its density is also several times that of China. For a better comparison, consider Pakistan: it is slightly less dense than India and has about 15% India's population, and yet two spines totaling about 1,800 km, Karachi-Lahore and Lahore-Islamabad-Peshawar, would connect nearly every major city. Lying on the Indus, much of Pakistan has a linear population distribution, facilitating rail connections.
With a difficult urban geography for HSR, India has to take especial care to reduce construction costs. This means, in turn, that it needs to rely on indigenous expertise and standards whenever possible. When imported technology is unavoidable, it needs to provide its own financing (with an annual budget of 29 trillion rupees, it can afford to do so) and force Japanese, Korean, and European vendors to compete. A Chinese-style tech transfer (read: theft) is not possible – the vendors got burned once and won't agree to the same again – but domestic driver training, with the foreign role restricted to the rolling stock (built to Indian standards) and engineering, is essential and unlikely to bother the global industry.
Written by Alon Levy Posted in Construction Costs, High-Speed Rail, Incompetence, Transportation
2018-09-15 - 13:33 smooth indian
Thank You Alon Levy! I am of the strong opinion that the Mumbai-Ahmedabad HSR line and other upcoming HSR lines in India should have Indian broad gauge tracks. The interoperability of trains across the HSR lines and the conventional lines is necessary for better reach and viability of high speed trains.
Point to be noted is that India's loading gauge of 3.66 meters only applies to suburban trains (lines in Mumbai,Delhi,Kolkata,Chennai,Pune, Hyderabad). Non-suburban trains including the intercity express trains and semi-urban/regional main line electric multiple unit trains (MEMUs) are restricted to a maximum width of 3.25 meters (approx). 3×3 seating is found in the basic second class of daytime express trains (Mumbai-Ahmedabad; Mumbai-Pune) while the upper classes in the same trains offer 3×2 seating. So for HSR tracks it may be possible to maintain a narrower loading gauge (even if Indian Broad gauge tracks are used) to maintain compatibility with the conventional network.
Do you know if the loading gauge is 3.25 meters too, so that there's not enough clearance for 3.66? What I saw in the Indian Railways standards is that everything's supposed to be built to handle 3.66 (and probably even more given how generous the track centers are).
All tracks can accomodate 3.66 wide suburban trains.These trains are routinely transported behind locomotives from their manufacturers to the cities. However, the wide suburban trains are not permitted to operate commercially in non-suburban sections. When non-suburban sections are converted for suburban operation the tracks are slightly realigned to allow for safe enough gap between two passing trains. The non-suburban rolling stock doesn't exceed 3.25 meters in width.
They probably need to widen the track centers for higher-speed operation anyway. In Germany the standard for track center spacing is if I remember correctly 4 meters up to 160 km/h and 4.5 meters above 160.
Sir! I feel your map of possible HSR routes probably included routes which may not be necessary as 300 kmph+ HSR lines. Connections like Hyderabad-Raipur-Gaya, Nasik-Dhule-Indore-Gwalior, Ahmedabad-Indore-Jabalpur-Dhanbad, Mangluru-Mysuru-Bengaluru, Belgaum-Goa-Mangluru-Ernakulam, Raipur-Cuttack, Chennai-Madurai-Thiruvanthapuram don't need end-to new high speed tracks. These routes can be cobbled up by upgrading and optimizing conventional railway lines (may be 200-250 mph) and constructing a few new sections to bypass Mountain passes (Ghats as they are called in India) and filling in any missing links. The remaining lines pretty much makes up the diamond quadrilateral as proposed by Indian govt.
Kindly read 200-250 mph as 200-250 km/h in the second post. Auto correct is to be blamed for that.
2018-09-17 - 21:09 Michael James
This reinforces my belief that any and every blog or news site that purports to be part of any kind of technical discussion (ie. anything in the known universe) should have a metric-only policy, and if necessary have an auto-conversion for their sites. I'm looking at you Benjamin Turon–your long post is a horror of mixed imperial units that are meaningless, or at the least headache-inducing, to 99.99% of anyone with any kind of technical training, including those in the US–it may be the sole remaining hold-out on imperial measures but in reality all of its technicians do their day-to-day work in metric. Yesterday while channel surfing I chanced upon Star Trek TNG (already >30 years old?) and even it was using metric for everything so one can assume it is a given that even the most backward of advanced countries converts eventually; but Alon let's not wait for the 26th century! Don't you think being in the 21st century is enough? Be part of the solution, not part of the problem, please.
2018-09-18 - 06:45 Untangled
When was in India, I was quite surprised at the semi-frequent use of British imperial units here and there. Homes there are sold by sq ft for example. I would have thought they would have smashed those units, like Oz, NZ and CA (maybe?), but that was not the case. Still wondering why this is, especially for a country that likes to be seen as "independent".
They are independent. They aren't submitting to the tyranny of the SI system for everything. How many lakh are there in a crore?
To be honest, apartment measuring to 500 sq.ft,1000 sq.ft, 1200 sq.ft translates to 46, 92 and 111 sq meters. So the public uses the unit with round figures. For decades after the Indian rupee was made metric (1 rupee = 100 paise), the public was still counting in 'annas' from the older system (1 rupee = 16 annas = 96 paise); 25 paise was called 4 annas (actually 24 paise) and 50 paise was called 8 annas (48 paise).
Isn't that proof that continued use of Imperial measure is itself a measure of reactionary forces/mindset and perhaps a vastly misplaced fawning over the British ruling class? (A version of cultural cringe?) Much like in the UK itself which "went metric" by law about 40 years ago yet (IIRC it was 1977), yet has never managed to implement it in all that time. Thanks of course to Maggie T.
Contrary to adirondacker, I think 99% of the world knows who is being tyranicized by what. OK, 'dacker I want to terrorize you: how many crore nanometres are in one inch?
2.54 with a really big number after it, has been for a really long time too. 1860s in the U.S.? I'm not gonna look it up. I suspect the concept of nanometer comes somewhat after the inch was defined as 2.54 centimeters. I don't have to measure things that small.
adirondacker12800, 2018/09/19 – 14:16
2.54 with a really big number after it
Hmm, so close but no cigar. The answer to the question is "2.54 crore" (of nanometres). Crore is the "really big number", in fact 10 million. The calculation is easy: one inch is 2.54 cm as you knew, which is 25.4 mm. One converts to mm because in the metric system it makes thinking/calculating so easy: a mm is one thousandth of a metre or one thousand times a micrometre, and a million times a nanometre.
So you were closish but a miss by a nanometre is as good as a crore of nanometres …
It's 2.54 followed by a really big number. I don't have the instruments or the skills to use devices capable of measuring things small. Those concepts are somewhat disconnected from an inch being commonly defined as 2.54 centimeters. I didn't check with the Bureau of Standards, it's probably legally defined as 0.0254 meters. I get the concept that alls ya gotta do is shift the decimal. I'm an old fart and learned how to use log tables and slide rule. Still can too.
I can do tricks with hexadecimal that get kiddies who have had a calculator clutched in their hand all their lives wondering what kind of voodoo I have. It's 16 inch centers. The conversations about bit masks can be in hex or octal depending on the context. Yard and third by two and two thirds sheets of building materials comes in handy once in a while too. So does the stuff that is a meter and third or a meter and half or three meters wide. I can think in thirds and not .33333333333333 going on forever. Quarters are half a half not 0.25. Circumference of a circle being close to 22/7th is handy now and then too. Half of a gross too.
A bear can be taught, or tortured, to ride a unicycle … but it doesn't serve any function, especially for the bear.
There are times to let old things go to the grave where they belong. You speak as if metric is some new fangled thing, instead of the two centuries old rationalisation in which measurements are precisely defined in relation to fundamentals of the physical universe (the two countries that still hang on to imperial units can't even agree on what they 'mean'). I wonder if you would have fought against the introduction to mathematics of the notion of zero?
I too learnt the slide rule (and like most such people I still have my original one–it is a wonderful artefact to gaze at now and then) but moved on–for about 45 years now I have preferred my Reverse-Polish-Notation HP calculator; I bought my HP-35, the first truly revolutionary handheld digital device, in maybe 1972. As a mere biochemist (still undergrad then) I didn't really need such a thing but, like that first '84 Mac, once you read about it and saw it , you had to have it even as it cost >$400. As it happened I got mine for free because first, I organised a group purchase on campus for which HP gave a big discount and second, long after delivery and distribution and my collection of their purchase cost, HP (or their agent) took sooo long to bill me that I had the collective dosh in an interest bearing account for maybe 6 months! (I often think it was a sign that I should have pursued that impulse and become a mini-Michael Dell instead of impoverished scientist!)
By the way, the "calculation" of how many crores of nanometres in an inch was entirely in the head, neither HP-35 or slide-rule or pen & paper required, just an understanding of those terms. One of metric's huge benefits is clearing space in the old brain for more important things than working in fractions. If you want to keep your brain nimble there are lots of more useful and rewarding things to exercise it with, like music or chess or Go or learning Mandarin (or even Klingon).
I don't struggle with fractions, I understand how they work.
2018-09-21 - 08:53 Thomas Graves
The metric system's real but sole advantage is that it is divisible by 10. Apart from that, it is as arbitrary as the imperial system in its crude attempts to link measurement standards to physical objects. Amusing that you take such progressive pride in its righteousness and 'modernity'. An antique point of view, to say the least…
Thomas Graves, 2018/09/21 – 08:53
sole advantage is that it is divisible by 10.
If that were its sole advantage, wouldn't that be more than enough? But further … (Wiki):
The metric system was designed to have properties that make it easy to use and widely applicable, including units based on the natural world, decimal ratios, prefixes for multiples and sub-multiples, and a structure of base and derived units. It is also a coherent system, which means that its units do not introduce conversion factors not already present in equations relating quantities. It has a property called rationalisation that eliminates certain constants of proportionality in equations of physics.
The units of the metric system, originally taken from observable features of nature, are now realised by synthetic phenomena such as the microwave frequency of a caesium atomic clock which accurately measures seconds. One unit, the kilogram, remains defined in terms of a man-made artefact.
Though other currently or formerly widespread systems of weights and measures continue to exist, such as the British imperial system and the US customary system of weights and measures, in those systems some or all of the units are now defined in terms of the metric system, such as the US foot which is now a defined decimal fraction of a metre.
Antique, huh?
Somehow I can't help but think the same underlying denialism leads to both Brexit and Trump.
2018-09-23 - 02:01 Matt Hutton
It's not that it's divsible by 10 it's that the divisions are consistent.
2018-09-16 - 05:16 Comradefrana
"Nasik-Dhule-Indore-Gwalior"
I don't know, Nashik-Indore is pretty circuitous. Even if you could raise the speed of the old line enough to achieve a reasonable the Mumbai-Indore trip time it would seriously reduce its capacity. At which point you would need to build more tracks. And when you're doing that, why not build a new line that's much faster and easily 100 km shorter? For a corridor such as Mumbai-Indore that shouldn't be hard to justify, especially not in 10-20 years time.
The line between Nasik and Gwalior runs via Bhusaval and Bhopal and is part of the Mumbai-Delhi trunk line. There is a new railway line planned between Manmad (north of Nasik) and MHOW (south of Indore).
"There is a new railway line planned between Manmad (north of Nasik) and MHOW (south of Indore)."
Well, that's basically what I had in mind.
2018-09-15 - 14:37 Benjamin Turon
If the Japanese can export high-speed trains to the UK it seems they could build trains based on existing designs to run on India's Broad Gauge network, including new HSR lines. My understanding is that a Spanish TALGO train is now operating in revenue service in India as a demonstration. And Siemens ICE train-sets where built to run in Russia with its wider gauge. I don't see what the problem is with adopting existing Shinkansen technology and rollingstock to the Broad Gauge.
This reminds me a bit of the problems in Malaysia with the two now in "limbo" Chinese backed Standard Gauge railway projects.
Lost in the debate over the build or not o build a new HSR line seems to be the fact that Malaysia has done a very good job virtually rebuilding their West Coast Main Line from a British Colonial Era single track line to a modern double-track, electrified, grade-separated railway. With intercity train travel times and frequencies equivalent to Japan's narrow gauge "limited-express" services like JR Kyushu's 'Sonic' and 'Kamome' — or NYC-Albany on Amtrak's 'Empire Service'.
They are now finishing the last segment between Gemas and Johor Bahru from what I have read from online sources. Travel time Kuala Lumpur- Johor Bahru is estimated to be 4 hours compared to the current 6-7 hours today with diesel trains on a single-track line.
The Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High Speed Rail Project would have delivered a 90-minute travel time Singapore-Kuala Lumpur, but at the cost of over $20 billion USD. In contrast the Gemas-Johor Bahru EDTP will cost just over $2 billion and is already underway. It builds on and completes the successful effort of modernizing the West Coast Line. And being of the same gauge as the rest of the network intercity trains from Singapore/Johor Bahru will be able to travel beyond Kuala Lumpur on the fully upgraded network to other destinations, including several major tourist destinations.
As best as I can work out there is roughly about 240 miles of track between Kuala Lumpur and Johor Bahru, so a travel time of 4 hours works out to about an average speed of 60-mph. That's better than Amtrak today NYC-Albany (56-mph average) and Albany-Buffalo (54-mph) and almost as good as the Acela NYC-Boston (66-mph). And this would be an improvement from the 40-mph of today's service Singapore-Kuala Lumpur, although that's about what Amtrak does now on many lines in the USA!
This project completes the "Electrified Double Track Project (EDTP)" along the county's West Coast Line that the national railway KTM has undertaken over the last two decades, building on the electrified commuter service it started in 1995 in Kuala Lumpur. To date this has resulted in 477 miles being electrified and double-tracked of KTM's 1,139-mile national rail network. Extensive grade separation has also been done. Viewed on Google Street View the modernized section of the West Coast Line look likes the Shinkansen!
A new fleet of "high speed" EMU train-sets has been procured, with commercial speeds of 87 (top design speed is 100-110 mph) making them some of the fastest narrow-gauge trains in the world. While ridership and revenue have fallen for the traditional rail passenger services, the new KTM ETS (Electric Train Service) is the bright spot with rising ridership and revenue. The trains have been nicknamed "pocket bullet" trains by the public.
ETS ridership increased by nearly tenfold, from 215,000 in 2010 to 2.06 million passengers in 2015 and then to 3.57 million passengers in 2016 as services were expanded to Butterworth (Padang Besar) in the north and to Gemas in the south.
Given this history it seems that upgrading Malaysia's existing Meter Gauge network is "good enough" compare to spending many tens of billions on new Standard Gauge railways. If new a new Standard Gauge high-speed line is to be built I would agree with one of the ministers of the new government in Malaysia who said it should be built to carry both freight and passengers, like the first new HSR lines in Germany.
Singapore is reportedly very unhappy with the decision to "delay" the HSR Project because a big HSR Station was to be the anchor of a new business district that the city-state had is working on. My solution is simple: Build the new station to accommodate mixed-gauge trains so it can serve the new Meter Gauge KTM ETS intercity trains today and at some future Standard Gauge high-speed trains.
Back to India — would they not be better off build new lines that could handle both passenger and freight trains? Perhaps even just intermodal. It might require a lower top speed, but like the lines in Germany, UK, or the NEC — 240 to 260 kph is plenty fast!
KTM West Coast railway line
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTM_West_Coast_railway_line#Double-tracking_and_electrification
KTM ETS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTM_ETS
The NEC carries small amounts of local freight. The frequent freight has moved over to the competing lines that have little or no passenger traffic that were gonna out compete the Pennsylvania railroad or the the NY Central.
"Back to India — would they not be better off build new lines that could handle both passenger and freight trains?"
India is already building 2 long dedicated freight corridors linking northern India to the east and west coast ports. Further freight corridors in the southern part of the country have also been proposed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedicated_Freight_Corridor_Corporation_of_India
I feel for faster passenger trains along the delhi-mumbai-chennai-kolkata quad and some other sections the need is for separate right-of way which is segregated from the conventional lines but is aligned close to them and connects to the legacy railway lines at regular intervals. The ROW can be tailored in different areas to accomodate different speed limits and types of trains as per the requirements.
Germany's mixed lines are a maintenance nightmare. They run HSR in the daytime and freight at night, so there are no regular maintenance windows.
Nor is 250 km/h sufficient for India. Delhi-Mumbai and Mumbai-Kolkata are about 1,300 km each; every km/h of top speed matters, and German average speed (which is at most 193 km/h, on Berlin-Hamburg) just wouldn't cut it.
Looks vaguely like the transit foamers wet dreams of sending half the New York City subway lines to the swamp in Secaucus and getting rid of those confusing local and express trains. Or a bus grid map instead those pesky things that aim at local destinations. Things that are along a line tend to lineal maps and things that are spread out equidistantly on a grid have a grid like map. It's a pity everything in the world isn't the Tokaido but that pesky geography goes and rears it's ugly head.
2018-09-15 - 16:50 Olivier
How did something as bonkers as this Shinkansen deal happen?
Japanese cheap financing. It's a direct flow-on of the $1 trillion QE of Abenomics, to create local (Japanese) jobs by exporting tech. China does the same but in this case India historically is not BFF of China …
And they won't have to start the loan repayments until 2032. Cheap financing they don't have to service until 10 years after it opens, that's a great deal. And by the time they have to start making repayments in 2032, the country will probably be a lot more developed. Also, I don't think China's deals are that generous financially but they seem to have fewer strings attached.
Is it possible that the Indian government decided that a domestic HSR project would get mired in corruption and never get finished (at least not at the sticker price), while that was not a danger with a fully Japanese-run project?
Surely one of the reasons.
I doubt it? The articles I've read about the electrification project do not mention cost overruns, even one piece quoting the government hitting the previous administration for only electrifying 4,000 km rather than 13,000. If there were big cost overruns under Congress, I would have expected the Modi administration to mention them in the media instead of just the quantity of electrification.
More than corruption is the fear of the project stalling due to inexperience of Indian Railways and the accompanying negativity which could derail everything, Even with Japanese controlling many aspects of the projects, there is tremendous naysaying about this project. Some of it has come from the BJP's own regional allies who tried to instigate landowners on the planned route. A project of this cost has not been attempted in India. The criticisms have come with the usual references to India's poverty which serves as an excuse against even considering something as profligate as 'bullet trains' or 'the space program'. One has to understand that in India planning anything with ambitious goals comes with a lot of negativity, vested interests, opposition for opposing sake. India also has a history of voting out goverments with good economic performance.
If the "good economic performance" of Inida is of the same vein as in much of the West, i.e., benefiting only the 10%, no wonder the government gets voted out.
And one may indeed ask whether pharaonic HSR projects are a good use of public monies. In the West we have a situation, largely because of HSR, whereby now expensive long-distance rail has become the province of business travelers while the hoi polloi fly budget. The world upside down, in other words: flying was supposed to be the expensive option. But Modi is just the sort of politician who would have the eyes of Chimène for the moneyed city elites and offer them HSR.
"benefiting only the 10%"
That's a Western only phenomenon. Read up on the elephant curve.
"And one may indeed ask whether pharaonic HSR projects are a good use of public monies."
In not too long India, like China, will not have the airspace to accommodate the demand for long distance travel, and HSR will be a necessity.
We don't on the East Coast of the U.S. either. There's been capacity increases that make the projections of 1965 obsolete but people have been saying "Yer gonna run out of airport" since late 50s.
In France the hoi polloi travel by TGV between Paris and the rest of the country, same as the rich. People fly budget to Nice regardless of social class, but on Paris-Lyon, Paris-Marseille, etc., the TGV mode share is way too high for it to be just the rich.
I am not so bothered by the incompatibility with legacy rail. India's cities are populated enough that the line will eventually be 100% full and they will need to build another HSR line. The second line can run through to broad gauge lines.
2018-09-19 - 12:04 Reedman Bassoon
I think Chennai (7 million) to Bangalore (10 million) (350 km/220 mi) would be a winner. [One argument in favor of HSR in India (in general, and in spite of the costs) is that India has significant pollution problems, and more electric rail transport is needed for that reason alone (in 2016, the US EPA called New Delhi the most polluted city on earth).]
2018-09-25 - 22:41 Lake401
How is a Chinese-style tech transfer theft? It's just taking advantage of your power as a nation to make your own rules to take advantage of foreign companies and decrease your reliance on them. Taking technology (copying) is only consodered theft by those who make the technology, not those who use it.
Because the people who make the technology need to consent to any tech transfer agreement.
2018-11-03 - 20:42 Nathanael
In the ultra long run, assuming civilization survives that long, India is gonna want to convert their entire network to standard gauge, for compatibility with Iran and China. And they can because Indian broad gauge is big enough to do three-rail with standard gauge tracks. So I'm not bothered by using standard gauge tracks.
It's always better to use wide loading gauges, however.
And having the workers learn Japanese falls under the truly bizarre category. The "pay nothing for over a decade" aspect of the deal was obviously the key.
On another topic, when will the US catch up with India, let alone China?
Using the same gauge mattered in 1888, a lot less today when the crane can lift the container and put it on a different flatbed or well car in a few moments.
Bogie exchange is really slow for a long train. At the Mongolian/Chinese border it takes hours.
Yes, I've done it on the Siberian Express. Took maybe 2 hours. Interestingly they lock all the pax in the trains while they do it. And they elevate the entire train in one go–into the air (by chain hoists from above in a very long shed) while the bogies are swapped out underneath the train.
But for freight I'd guess they would do as adirondacker says: move the containers to a new train. In fact that is probably what happens:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/14/china-silk-road-trade-train-rolls-london
Silk Road route back in business as China train rolls into London
After 16 days and 7,456 miles, the locomotive's arrival heralds the dawn of a new commercial era
Tracy McVeigh, 15 January 2017
When the East Wind locomotive rumbles into east London this week, it will be at the head of 34 carriages full of socks, bags and wallets for London's tourist souvenir shops, as well as the dust and grime accumulated through eight countries and 7,456 miles.
The train will be the first to make the 16-day journey from Yiwu in west China to Britain, reviving the ancient trading Silk Road route and shunting in a new era of UK-China relations.
Due to arrive on Wednesday, the train will have passed through China, Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Poland, Germany, Belgium and France before crossing under the Channel and arriving in the east end of London at Barking rail freight terminal.
Faster than a ship, cheaper than a plane, the East Wind won't be quite the same train that left Yiwu on 2 January. Differing rail gauges in countries along the route mean a single locomotive cannot travel the whole route. But the journey still marks a new departure in the 21st-century global economy. The new train, which will start to run weekly while demand is tested, is part of China's One Belt, One Road policy – designed to open up the old Silk Road routes and bring new trade opportunities, said Prof Magnus Marsden, an anthropologist at Sussex University's School of Global Studies, who has been studying the trading patterns in Yiwu. China Railway has already begun rail services to 14 European cities, including Madrid and Hamburg. As a result, Yiwu's markets are now loaded with hams, cheese and wine from Spain and German beer is available on every corner.
Except for the once a week land cruise it's gonna be freight. Containers can be craned off one car and put on another in moments. Happens all over the world with some yards specializing in making up the double stacks from the line that doesn't have clearance for double stacks and vice versa.
You'd think, but China is building HSR to Urumqi.
Wait, why would India want to convert away from Indian gauge? Iran is a tail wagging the Indian dog (and in between there's Pakistan, which is going to stop being a failed state any decade now), and China's border with South Asia is the Himalayas. If there's a conventional rail tunnel across the Himalayas, then just figure out a gauge change train. It's not thaaaaat hard; Spanish gauge change trains go at 10 km/h along the boundary, which is 2.4 minutes for a 400-meter train and 6 minutes for a kilometer-long freight train.
As for the US catching up with India, on some topics (i.e. transgender rights) it's moving further away…
As it happens I watched the movie Lion last night. [warning spoilers] A true story, about a very young kid in rural India who falls asleep in an empty train (waiting for his brother to return for him) and gets locked into the decommissioned train that travels about 1500 km to Calcutta where he eventually gets adopted by an Australian couple in Tasmania where he grows up but increasingly obsessed with his origins. He was too young to remember much detail of his home but with GoogleEarth and Indian Train websites he trawls and trawls until finally finds it, travels back as a adult and ….
Anyway, the final shot is of him and his (mother?) walking along the original train line in his rural home. Except that some trainspotter on IMDB pointed out a disparity: they were walking on a 3ft gauge track instead of the broad gauge featured in the rest of the movie; presumably a tea-train relic (that are still run in the hill towns/tea plantations as tourist rides).
2020-07-19 - 09:46 Vishek
The distances are too far to travel by high speed train. Only Mag-Lev would be able to cover the distances from India to the population centers in China. There's virtually no international connections to be made in standard gauge.
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I agree with most of what you said. It's diabolical that the Indian government has allowed for the construction of the new high speed railway live to be in standard gauge, even when the feasibility reports by the French and Germans stated that broad gauge would be superior. It would cause a large amount of hardship to many Indian rail travelers because it would force people to change trains many times and may make many existing services unprofitable as urban travelers use high speed services. Furthermore, it could turn the railways into a white elephant as point-to-point travel by buses and planes (and cars) beats the mess caused by standard gauge high speed rail.
In terms of your high speed railway map, much of the routes don't need to be high speed but just semi-high speed. For South India, the line from Chennai to Bengaluru should ideally be in high speed (or at least all the way to Vellore), but the routes from there to various destinations (Kasaragod, Coimbatore, etc…) should be in semi high speed. A train should be able to travel all the way from Madurai via Coimbatore, Bengaluru and Vellore to Chennai using semi high speed and high speed tracks. The distances to any standard gauge high speed railway are simply to far for high speed trains and would need to be done using Mag Lev tech to be possible.
I'd also add that Sri Lanka and Kerala probably have the geography similar to Japan's that would support a single high speed railway similar to the Shinkansen. As with Taiwan most of the population live on the western coast in a long thin strip which would make the Shinkansen philosophy work.
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Microsoft Office 16 Screenshots Leak Online
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By Vivek
| Published: Friday, September 19, 2014, 16:50 [IST]
Microsoft has a lot going on under its shelter. While the company is due to launch the new Windows OS later this month on September 30, a new leak that shows the UI of the upgraded Office software fro the software giant has leaked online. On the other hand, Microsoft has also sacked 2,100 more employees, today.
Talking about the leaked screenshots of the Office 16, which is supposedly the new version of Office, it looks like the company will be bringing a Clippy-like features to it. The tool already exists in the online version of Office. It's located on the right side of the Office ribbon, and is a text box next to a light bulb.
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Before you type in it, the text in the box reads "Tell me what you want to do." Basically, what the 'Tell me' option does is helps you with your queries. So, if you type in your question, just below the box you'll see links to what you are looking to accomplish.
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They link directly to menu items or other ways to solve the problem. So you won't have to wade through an explanation of how to accomplish what you want to do. Instead, you'll be able to solve the problem right there.
Also, couple of other new features which will be featured in the Office 16 are the automatic image rotation and new sync options for Outlook that can sync a single day, three days, a week or two weeks worth of e-mails at once have been hinted. As of now, the current version of Outlook only lets you download a month of e-mails at a time.
Other than that new syncing options for the Outlook email client to support devices with lower storage capacities as well.
It is yet to be revealed when the new version of the Office will become available. However, the company might announce it on the September 30th event.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures Volume 3 (Paperback)
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Check out these simple and tasty morsels that are both nutritious and super easy to just grab and go!
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Smash some avocado and a few sprinkles of salt and pepper on to a rice cake - great for that extra Omega boost.
Simple, tried and true, and also something you can vary daily. Grab separate bags of nuts next time you go grocery shopping and make your own mix daily to keep by your side.
Simply eat 'em like chips. Yum! Yes you could add dried cranberries, or dress it if you want, but it's also scrummy all by its self.
It's like lettuce wraps but stronger (so less mess). Mix up some tuna, capers, dill and Greek yogurt to keep in the fridge. Scoop it into a massaged kale leaf next time you have a hankering for a snack.
Cut an avocado in half and remove the pit. Cut checkers into the fruit and massage the skin with the palm of your hand to loosen it all up. Add 1 teaspoon of apple cider vinegar and let it swim between the cracks. Then gobble it up!
Make a stack of tofu and turmeric pancakes by blending these two ingredients together with a little olive oil, salt and pepper. Keep them wrapped up in the fridge and grab one and wrap it around your favorite raw vegetable when the hunger monkey knocks.
Shaved coconut bits, dark chocolate chips, walnuts and pine nuts all mixed up together. It's a bitter, salty, sweet delicious treat and a dash of cayenne pepper to spice things up!
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How did the design of Darth Vader come about?
Deak vs Vader
Who designed the original Darth Vader costume?
It's now the stuff of legend that graphic artist RalphMcQuarrie designs have shaped the Star Wars universe and it's true that he designed the original look of Darth Vader.
The official Star Wars blog shares some insight:
"Perhaps the most popular of Ralph's paintings to appear in the portfolio, the laser duel, as he referred to it, was completed in February of 1975.
While the portfolio, and nearly everyone who has discussed this painting in the past 35 years, describes it as "Luke versus Vader," at the time it was painted, the protagonist would have been Deak Starkiller from the second draft screenplay of the film that Ralph was working from.
Deak Starkiller.
That's a long way from Luke Skywalker!
It was because of this scene that Darth Vader came to have the look that he does.
Ralph, concerned that Vader was jumping from ship to ship through the vacuum of space, felt that he would require some sort of breathing apparatus. George agreed, and the look of the masked villain was born."
Remember at that stage of the production, the script wasn't the final version of the film that became A New Hope so it's cool to see how the development process lead to the design of one of the greatest villains ever devised for film.
So what are the elements of design that made Vader as a whole come about?
Creation of the character by George Lucas
Design by Ralph McQuarrie
Voice by James Earl Jones
Acting by David Prowse
Breathing sound designed by Ben Burtt
It's also pretty cool to see that the design concept above is not actually Luke Skywalker versus Vader but is actually Deak Starkiller taking on the Sith Lord in a saber duel!
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Thieves steal rare £50,000 whiskey collection from lockup in West Sussex
The victim told Sky News the theft left him feeling "sick to his stomach".
By Lara Keay, news reporter
Tuesday 26 May 2020 17:00, UK
Image: Thieves broke into the storage facility in West Sussex overnight on World Whiskey Day - 16 May
Thieves have stolen a collection of more than 1,000 rare whiskeys worth at least £50,000 from a lockup in West Sussex.
Burglars broke into the storage facility near Chichester on the night of 16 May and stole more than 1,000 bottles of whiskey, rum, vodka and other spirits, Sussex Police said.
The owner had spent 10 years and more than £50,000 building up his collection, which contained liquors from Japan, India, Taiwan and beyond.
The victim, 35, told Sky News: "My initial reaction was shock. But then there was this overwhelming sense of panic and loss, I felt sick to my stomach."
Image: One bottle of whisky was given to the owner by his father on his 12th birthday
Several of the bottles have huge sentimental value, including a 1973 Bowmore Single Malt given to the collector by his father on a trip to a distillery for his 12th birthday.
He said: "My father and I visited the Scottish isles when I was younger and we went to lots of distilleries.
"When I was old enough to drink I started to get into it more, but in the past 10 years I've really started to develop my palette and understand the industry.
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"It was my investment - my retirement fund. It's ruined it for me, because if I don't get them back I'm not going to start again."
The most expensive bottle in the collection would be worth more than £1,000 at auction and many others are irreplaceable as they are no longer in production, he added.
Image: The collection included other rare spirits from all over the world
The break-in, which happened on World Whiskey Day, also caused £3,000 of damage.
A family member had checked on the collection earlier that day, but it was not until the owner went back for himself the following afternoon that he realised what had happened.
There is a £5,000 reward being offered for any information that leads to an arrest or recovery of the stolen bottles.
The victim is also compiling a list of items that were taken in case they appear illegally at auction.
Anyone with any information is asked to contact Sussex Police on 101, quoting crime reference number 47200080936


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Council Wrestles with How to Protect Mobile Homeowners from Rent Gouging
By Jesse La Tour on July 24, 2019 • ( 1 Comment )
In an effort to protect 155 residents of Rancho La Paz mobile home park in Fullerton from the extreme rent increases imposed by the park's new owner, Fullerton city council voted at their July 16 meeting to agendize a temporary rent hike moratorium and a tenant-based rent assistance program.
The council chambers were filled with senior residents of Rancho La Paz, many of whom are facing an uncertain future, following an agreement with John Saunders, who bought the park earlier this year, and has proposed rent increases of over 80% over the next six years.
Residents of Rancho La Paz urge council to protect them from rent-gouging.
Residents, industry lobbyists, representatives of Mr. Saunders, an economist, a lawyer, and others weighed in on the discussion of how to best protect these residents, most of whom are on social security and fixed incomes.
Before public discussion of the issue, Fullerton's Neighborhood Services Manager Rebecca Leifkes gave an overview of some of the tools council may consider to address this issue.
Among these options was rent stabilization (aka rent control), which council discussed but took no action on, and to bring back a federally-funded Tenant-Based Rental Assistance Program.
Saunders has also offered a "safety net rent subsidy program" to be offered to homeowners within the park who cannot afford to pay some or all of the rent increases, which has received a lukewarm response from residents, who say that the requirements are unrealistic and would not apply to many of them.
Rancho La Paz resident June Perez said she went door to door to do a survey for the number of people who would not be able to make their house payment without help. Of the 30 on her street, 20 of them said yes.
Rancho La Paz resident June Perez.
She said that Saunders' subsidy program "is not adequate or fair" and it is only for two years.
Ruth Ann Markyna, a resident of Rancho La Paz, said that Saunders' rent subsidy program asks homeowners for their children's names and employers, to determine if they can help pay the rent increases, as part of the eligibility process.
She said there's been "a lot of talk about the owner's investment and the profit he's making. I didn't hear any comments about the residents' investment. What about our investment? Every time the rent is raised, we lose equity in our investment."
Todd Harrison, another resident of Rancho La Paz, urged council to enact rent stabilization.
"Unless you act before our 45 days are up (October 1), I and many others at Rancho La Paz will have to sign long-term leases with a 55% rent increase in the first three years. Those of us on fixed incomes cannot survive this increase. There is just enough time for you to save us if you start taking action tonight," Harrison said.
Rancho La Paz resident Rose Mary McLeod pointed out that, unlike traditional renters, mobile homeowners actually own their homes and pay rent for the land on which it sits.
"There's nothing mobile about our home. It would cost many thousands of dollars to move it," she said.
Council member Jan Flory asked McLeod if she had applied for Saunders' subsidy program.
"Not yet, because we're about 3 years away from needing it. We don't qualify yet," she replied, "If God is merciful to me, maybe my husband and I won't live until we need it."
Rose Mary's husband Don, a 90-year old veteran with a service dog, said, "I never thought that I'd become another homeless veteran…I had hoped and thought that having this place in the manner that we did in Fullerton would give me some personal contentment in my final years. And I see that now being whisked away from me."
Don McLeod, a 90-year old resident of Rancho La Paz, and his service dog.
Joan Banks said that three weeks after she and her husband bought their home in Rancho La Paz, they got the letter that the park had been sold, and were faced with extreme rent increases.
"This is not the way we intended to spend our golden years. I'm kind of curious about what kind of a man buys a senior park knowing he has to destroy the lives of residents to make a profit," she said.
Mary Jo Baretich, Vice President of the local area of the Golden State Manufactured Homeowners League (GSMOL) urged council to adopt rent stabilization.
"The fragile and vulnerable seniors are being threatened with economic eviction and outlandish rent increases causing the loss of their homes and everything they have saved for all their lives," she said. "A temporary moratorium on rent increases is one option that has worked successfully throughout the state while the final rent stabilization ordinance is prepared and reviewed."
Baretich pointed out that there are currently 110 cities and counties in the state that have rent stabilization ordinances.
"A fair rent stabilization ordinance still allows the park owners a fair return on their investment and enables the homeowners to be able to afford the homes they spent their life savings on," she said.
Julie Paule, a representative of the Western Manufactured Housing Communities Association (an industry lobbyist), said that her organization is against "rent control" which she called "price fixing of housing costs" that is expensive to enact and opens the city up to lawsuits.
Mayor Silva asked her, "In your industry, when someone buys a mobile home park, are these types of increases typical?"
She responded that "the initial increase was atypical" but that the revised 19% increase in the first year "is more typical because usually it includes the property tax reassessment to be front-loaded."
Julie Paule, a representative of the Western Manufactured Housing Communities Association (an industry lobbyist).
Clay Haig, manager of Country Place Mobile Home Park in Fullerton, spoke against rent control, citing the concept of a "fair rate of return" on property owners' investments.
"There is no free market anymore when there is a rent control ordinance because government is imposing a public policy on limiting income, but not limiting expenses," he said.
Dr. Craig McLaren, an economist from UC Riverside, said that the current situation at Rancho La Paz is not a "free market."
"Generally, under a free market, what you have is many sellers and many buyers, but what's even more important is that all parties have the ability to negotiate and change negotiations any time they wish," he explained. "When you do not have a free market condition, you can very often have a parasitic situation called 'rent-seeking'…you have a speculator, I call him a parasite, who is able to extract more revenue or more resources without having to provide any additional product…Whatever policy you take, I would strongly encourage you to make a clear statement that the way to make money in the city of Fullerton is to earn it."
Ben Eilenberg, Fullerton real estate attorney whose mother-in-law lives at Rancho la Paz, argued that rent control would actually generate more money for the city because, when seniors sell and move out of their homes to affordable housing (like mobile homes), the property tax for their homes is reassessed, resulting in more revenue for the city.
A representative of John Saunders, who was not present at the meeting.
Susan James, owner of Rancho Fullerton Mobile Home Estates, said that their rental increases occurs once a year and are based on the consumer price index (CPI), and that over the past 5 years, their annual increase has been between $10 to $30. She spoke against rent control, and supported instead the tenant-based rental assistance program.
A representative of Saunders said that "As a result of the subsidy, no resident will lose his/her home due to an inability to pay the increased rent."
Council Member Flory expressed concern that the rent subsidy program will not be part of the lease agreement, thus residents would not have a guarantee.
Val Donna, a Rancho La Paz resident, said, "I'd like to know the percentage of people who would qualify for the assistance program…I have cancer so my medical bills are high, about a quarter of my income…With the rent increases, we're just putting the inevitable off."
Lonny Markyna, another Rancho La Paz resident, echoed this sentiment that, without a guarantee of assistance in the lease agreement, "We're all gonna be back here in another year."
Left to right: Todd Harrison, June Perez, Rose Mary McLeod, Don McLeod–residents of Rancho La Paz.
Young Shin, resident of Rancho La Paz, said that for the last 8 years, her annual rent increase was $5, and the initial proposed increase under Saunders was almost $400.
"We're not talking about no increases, but we're talking about reasonable increases. Be reasonable. At lease give us room to breathe," she said, "We don't want to create another homeless situation—taxpayers money goes to that. It's not worth it. Please help these elderly people."
Bobbie Magnussen, a representative of GSMOL, urged council to pass rent stabilization. She said that every time a person's rent goes up $100 in a mobile home park, they lose $10,000 of their property value.
She also questioned Saunders claim that, under the subsidy program, no one would lose their home.
"This was said in Huntington Shorecliffs [another Saunders-owned mobile home park]. Shortly thereafter you had 150 people leave their mobile homes because they could not afford the rent that Saunders was charging them. So please please consider rent stabilization," she said.
After members of the public weighed in, each council member explained their position in the issue, and what solutions they found acceptable.
Left to right: Council member Ahmad Zahra and Mayor Protem Jennifer Fitzgerald.
Mayor Protem Fitzgerald proposed taking no action. She said that, although she was "astounded and disgusted by the ownership's immediate actions…I think that the current deal that was mediated provides a fairer, longer amount of time to phase these things in. I find the private subsidy program that the ownership is offering to be reasonable and in fact generous." She said she does not believe in rent control.
Council member Whitaker initially supported Fitzgerald's motion to "receive and file" the item and take no action, because he does not believe in government intervening in "a market-based private transaction."
He said his heart goes out to the Rancho La Paz residents, but "I'm a big fan of the free marketplace and of our power as consumers in deciding where we're going to make our investments…and the idea of now wanting to create a web of government intervention, I've seen that the track record of such is not good at all, and very often that cure does more harm than good in the longer term."
Council Member Zahra said, "While I feel there are some times where government cannot intervene in the free market, there are times when it should to protect people."
Zahra said he was concerned, however, about how a rent stabilization ordinance would affect other mobile home parks in Fullerton, as well as the Anaheim side of Rancho La Paz, and that "we need more data" to make an informed decision.
He proposed bringing back the city's federally-funded tenant-based rental assistance program, and seeing if this could work in conjunction with Saunders' private subsidy program. He also proposed creating an ad hoc committee to further study the issue.
Left to right: Mayor Jesus Silva and Council member Bruce Whitaker.
Council member Flory made a substitute motion to establish a six-month moratorium on any rent increase in any mobile home parks within the city of Fullerton, and appointing an ad hoc committee in the meantime to "brainstorm what a decent resolution to this problem would be."
Flory called the proposed rent increases "absolutely obscene" and said, "I very much agree with [Whitaker's] sentiments of not wanting to interfere in market processes, but at the same time, we have to balance people vs. profit."
"This will be my hope—that the message is sent to Mr. Saunders that there will be a moratorium for six months and during that time he needs to get realistic about the timeline for the return on his investment, and he needs to be realistic about offering long term leases to tenants who have been in this park for so long. And I would keep my fingers crossed that he's enough of a businessman that he could see the efficacy of talking turkey with the tenants instead of being as dismissive as he has been heretofore," Flory said.
Mayor Silva seconded this motion.
Zahra cited concern that, if the city enacts a moratorium, Saunders will take away the subsidy program and the mediated lease agreement.
Fitzgerald dismissed the idea of of a moratorium, asking sarcastically, "Why do we limit it to mobile home parks? Why don't we canvas every renter in the city and ask them what they can afford in three years, to make sure that they continue to be guaranteed the housing they have right now?"
Flory responded earnestly, "The distinction that I am drawing between mobile home parks and apartments is that the mobile home owners have a stake in the purchase of their homes. It is a distinctly different class."
"My plea is that at least you make the solution proportionate to the problem," Fitzgerald said, "So now you are interfering with the private property rights and business operation of six mobile home parks because you're not satisfied with the actions of one mobile home park owner."
"I take responsibility for that," Flory said.
Zahra expressed concern that a moratorium would only affect the Fullerton side of Rancho La Paz, and that Saunders may retaliate by raising rents on the Anaheim side.
At this point, the city attorney interjected that, because a rent hike moratorium was not on the current agenda, it would have to be placed on the agenda for the next meeting. Same for creating the ad hoc committee.
Thus, Flory amended her motion to ask that a rent hike moratorium be placed on the next meeting's agenda.
This motion passed 4-1 (Fitzgerald "no")
Zahra's motion to bring back more info on the tenant-based rental assistance program also passed, and will be on the next agenda.
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