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India's NTPC Awards 250 MW For Ultra Mega Solar Power Project Tender
Smiti
A tender issued late last year by India's largest power generators for allocation of project development rights has seen fruition.
NTPC Limited has issued a tender for the development of 250 MW solar PV power capacity late last year. The tender represents the first phase of the 1 GW solar power park planned for Anantapur in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh. The tender was open only for India companies.
NTPC has allocated this 250 MW capacity among 4 project developers; One of India's leading solar equipment manufacturers and project developers Tata Power Solar has been awarded 100 MW while BHEL (a power generation equipment manufacturer), Sterling Wilson (an engineering, procurement, and construction company), and Lanco Solar Energy (solar equipment manufacturer and project developer) have been awarded 50 MW each.
All these project developers are believed to have been mandated to use Indian-made solar PV modules only. This should not be an issue for at least 3 of them as they either have module manufacturing units operating or under construction. The entire 250 MW capacity is expected to be commissioned within 12 months.
The power generation from the this solar project will be purchased by state power utilities at a levelised rate of around ¢9.5 per kWh (1 US$ = ~Rs 65).
NTPC has already floated follow-up tenders for the second phase implementation of this project. The new tender, bidding for which closed last month, is for the implementation of 500 MW capacity in blocks of 125 MW each. This tender was open to international companies as well. The company has also issued 3 more tenders of 250 MW capacity each for similar solar power parks in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Telangana. These 3 tenders are open only to Indian companies.
NTPC has at least 3 GW of solar power capacity in pipeline which it needs to allocate for implementation through such tenders. It has signed agreements with several state governments to set up ultra mega solar power projects. NTPC plans to invest $10 billion to set up 10 GW of renewable energy capacity over the next 5 years.
While it is not clear yet, these projects could be part of Indian government's program to set up 20 GW solar power capacity through ultra mega solar power projects across various states.
In this article:BHEL, India, India Solar Power, NTPC, NTPC Anantapur Solar Power Park, NTPC Solar Power, Sterling & Wilson, Tata Power Solar, Ultra Mega Solar Power Projects
Written By Smiti
Smiti works as a senior solar engineer at a reputed engineering and management consultancy. She has conducted due diligence of several solar PV projects in India and Southeast Asia. She has keen interest in renewable energy, green buildings, environmental sustainability, and biofuels. She currently resides in New Delhi, India.
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Chinese regulator takes over Anbang: Massive insurer made example of in wider effort to keep money at home
Posted in Financial Services
President Xi Jinping has plenty of motivation to take action on Anbang Insurance Group. Not only had the company come to symbolize debt-ridden conglomerates through a series of lavish overseas purchases, but the speed at which the company had expanded raised concerns as to the wider impact failure could have. So far it would appear policy revisions have been successful in halting the flow of money out of the country. The messages many businesses in China will have deduced very swiftly is the President, now rated among the most powerful to ever lead the country in the Communist era, is operating from a position of strength and is not to be tested. Recent events very much point towards Anbang being made an example of to provoke other companies into action suiting government needs.
The decision by the China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC) to take control of Anbang, following charges of fraud and embezzlement for the former chairman and general manager, was actioned due to concerns the company had broken regulations and harmed the capacity to pay claims. A very public takeover was about the wider potential impact. What the future holds for Anbang remains unknown, but the most likely outcome is the insertion of new handpicked management armed with a clear message as to how things are to be done.
A key motivating factor in the takeover of Anbang was a clear desire on behalf of the government to insulate the economy from the adverse consequences of risky investments. The message to other companies that have sent large amounts of money overseas is clear: bring money home and reduce risk. Between them, Wanda, HNA and Anbang spent tens of billions of dollars around the world during 2016, but during 2017 spending plummeted in line with overseas spending by the whole economy. The billionaire chairman of Wanda, Wang Jianjin, has been selling numerous properties outside of China and seeking to heap attention on domestic investments. These and other companies should take note of the tone Beijing has set by taking over Anbang in such a public manor.
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Older people are becoming the victims of 'institutionalised ageism' in the NHS because targets to cut disease focus on the under 70s, it has been claimed.
Public Health experts at the University of East Anglia and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine warn that the concept of premature mortality needs to be abandoned so that doctors concentrate on cutting illness for all ages.
Under new UN health targets member states must cut the number of premature deaths from diseases like cancer, stroke, diabetes and dementia by one third by 2030.
However because those who succumb to those diseases from the age of 70 are not deemed to have died prematurely they are not prioritised for health interventions, argue the experts.
They call on the World Health Organisation (WHO), which led the development of the new goals, to rethink the mortality target, saying that its use of premature mortality discourages research and data collection for older people.
Peter Lloyd-Sherlock, professor of social policy and international development at UEA's School of International Development, said: "The implications for all countries, the UK included, is that resources allocated to conditions such as cancer, cardiovascular disease and dementia should be diverted from older people in order to comply with this global target.
"The World Health Organisation cannot continue to take this unethical and discriminatory approach. We must jettison this ageist approach.
Asked how it could be achieved Prof Lloyd-Sherlock added: "Take out the word premature. Set a target to deaths for people of all ages. Many deaths for all ages could be cheaply averted.
The UN's Sustainable Development Goals, which came into effect this year, replace the Millennium Development Goals which ran up to 2015 and include ambitions for climate change, health care, development and policy.
If the target was met, around 42,000 lives would be saved each year in Britain for the under 70s in Britain. However if older people were included in the target an extra 130,000 lives would be saved.
Prof Martin McKee and Prof Shah Ebrahim, from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, also said the premature mortality target "sends a strong signal in favour of discriminating against older people".
Chris Roles, managing director of the charity Age International, said: "There is a need to rethink how we measure progress on tackling non-communicable diseases in all parts of the world.
However charities said that premature mortality provided a useful a benchmark for spotting where health interventions would be more effective.
Emma Greenwood, Cancer Research UK's head of policy, said: "Focusing on reducing premature mortality can be useful to help identify where the health community needs to focus – especially for preventing cancer.


The first negative divergence led to sideways trading in the housing index. The second? So far, a sharp reversal.
A popular putdown in 2003 was to taunt "Who's your daddy?" College basketball fans were chided in the media for taunting a basketball player with a troubled family background with this remark. And baseball pitcher Pedro Martinez, in a strange act of self-deprecation, referred to the rival New York Yankees as "his daddy." Of course, by late 2004, "Who's your daddy?" had gone from mean-spirited taunt to reality show--but then again, what social trend hasn't made that transition in the past 300-odd days?
So, who's the market's daddy? To whom does the market ask "How high?" when told to jump? To whose tune does the market dance? For a while, it appeared that interest rates were the primary candidate for paternity. Then it seemed as if crude oil was in control of stocks. But since the sharp rally that began in October 2004, the only papa I see is the housing market.
Figure 1: The housing index. Has the housing market been calling the tune for the S&P 500? Stochastic divergences in both have been responded to almost identically--first a sideways correction, then a sharper correction.
The path that the housing market has traveled over the past several months is fascinatingly similar to the one traveled by the broader stock market--particularly the Standard & Poor's 500. These similarities extend even to the divergences with the 7,10 stochastic--divergences that anticipated a sideways market from mid-November to mid-December, as well as the sharp break in the first few days of January.
As someone who pays a great deal of attention to divergences, I think the action in the housing market has been particularly instructive. Generally, the tendency when encountering a negative divergence is to think that the market in question should not just be sold, but should be sold short. Increasingly, however, it seems like a wiser posture would be to regard negative divergences as creating the opportunity for a short-term bear market--one that might move down sharply (and thus could be profitably sold short), or one that might move sideways as many bear markets do. Suffice it to say that this later type of reaction to a negative divergence often provides a painful experience for short-sellers.
Is there any way to tell the difference, to know whether a given negative divergence is more likely to create a sharp reaction as opposed to a sideways reaction? At this point, I don't believe so. However, as I noted in my latest Working-Money.com article, "Confirming Divergences," there are techniques that can help a trader or investor move from spotting a divergence to profitably trading one. I won't rehash the entirety of that discussion here. But consider the October-November negative stochastic divergence. Even as prices in the $HGX broke down, they never traded below the low of the day that the stochastic made its high.
In other words, a negative divergence is created when the stochastic fails to make a higher high, even as prices do. If the negative divergence is at all sellable, then prices should retreat to at least the low of the day when the higher stochastic high was made. Yes, in the case of $HGX, that would have made for a significant drop; with the stochastic higher low occurring on a day when the low of the $HGX was about 424, the $HGX would have had to fall to at least 386 for the negative divergence to be confirmed.
The December negative divergence was quite a different animal altogether in this regard. Here, all the $HGX needed to do in order to confirm the negative divergence was take out the low of December 15 at 452 and change. This, the $HGX did on an intraday basis on January 4. If there is followthrough to the downside--so as to provide a close below 452--then that should be all that traders require in order to make a reasonable bet that the $HGX is headed lower. Should that be the case, likely levels of near-term support loom between the 430/420 area--the range of the sideways bear market anticipated by the previous October-November negative stochastic divergence.


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Most expensive cat wedding in the world held in Thailand – $88,000
January 12, 2014 /in Blog, Thailand /by Duke Language School
The groom came by Rolls-Royce, the bride in a helicopter. Hundreds of VIP guests attended to get a closer look at the starry-eyed couple: a pair of bewildered cats.
Any celebrity would have been proud of the sumptuous $28,000 wedding. After the ceremony, the clearly monogamy-loving cats, Phet and Ploy, were sent on a honeymoon river cruise – to be followed by visits to the vet.
You may be curious who played as the groom's (Phet) best man. Luckily, a parrot agreed to act the part. As for the bride's (Ploy) maid of honour, an iguana embodied the role eagerly. Having more than 500 guests, the cat couple garnered over $60,000 worth of cash and gifts.
Their owner, Vicharn Jarat-archa, staged the wedding because business started booming at his cosmetics company right after he found Phet along the Burmese border.
The male, part-Siamese cat had a "diamond eye," which Thais regard as a lucky omen.
The condition is a type of glaucoma. A hard, blue coloured film that develops over the eye, leaving the cat blind, unless treated in its early stages.
Vicharn later returned to the same area and found Ploy, a female with the same eye condition, and began planning a love match because the two disease-stricken cats were obviously in love.
"We are not doing this for publicity, but to show that animals also have their rights, and that we love them," Vicharn said.
And so he gave them the "right" to mate in hopes of increasing his luck with a litter of blind glaucoma kittens.
Animal activists protested, and urged Vicharn to have the cats treated rather than used for profit and publicity.
Vichard promised to have their eyes looked after and to donate wedding gifts to animal welfare charities, though it was not certain who would get the $60,000 dowry.
At the wedding, Phet, aged about 3, wore a custom made pink tuxedo with lacy cuffs while Ploy, aged 4, was attired in a matching pink satin wedding gown. Rings were made to fit their paws.
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Backgammon is a HTML5 Board Game. Move all your checkers around the board and bear off all your pieces from the board before your opponent! Two game's mode: Play against a friend locally Challenge the computer This game has been developed in HTML5/js and third-party library CreateJs.
Master Chess is a HTML5 Board Game Enjoy this stylish version of the classic Chess Game. Two Game's Mode: Play against the pc Challenge a friend playing locally This game has been developed in HTML5/js and third-party library CreateJs – http://createjs.com/ (not Construct2 or other framework).


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Director: Hector Babenco Cast: William Hurt, Raul Julia, Sonia Braga, José Lewgoy, Milton Gonçalves, Míriam Pires, Nuno Leal Maia, Fernando Torres, Patricio Bisso, Herson Capri, Denise Dumont, Nildo Parente, Antônio Petrin, Wilson Grey, Miguel Falabella
Academy Awards: Best Actor in a Leading Role (William Hurt)
Also Nominated For: Best Picture; Best Director (Hector Babenco); Best Adapted Screenplay (Leonard Schrader)
Synopsis: Luis Molina and Valentin Arregui are cell mates in a South American prison. Luis, a trans individual, is found guilty of immoral behavior and Valentin is a political prisoner. To escape reality Luis invents romantic movies, while Valentin tries to keep his mind on the situation he's in. During the time they spend together, the two men come to understand and respect one another.
Did You Know? This was the first independent film to receive an Oscar nomination for Best Picture.
Quotables: LUIS MOLINA: Like a what? Say it: like a woman. What's wrong with being a woman? Why do only women get to be sensitive? Why not a man, a dog, or a faggot? If more men "acted like women", there wouldn't be so much violence: like that.
For being a liberal, independent film, this is infuriatingly ignorant. It's a prime example of why straight, cis people should not play gay and/or transgender characters. Rather than playing a trans woman, William Hurt clearly portrayed Luis Molina with a man's perception of how women act: submissive, emotional, yearning to find a man, and to have that man govern her as head of the household. Much of its flagrant ignorance can be attributed to the time it was made. But 1985 really wasn't that long ago, and though we've made strides in the way of LGBTQAI and women's rights, we still have a very long way to go.


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from discord.ext import commands

from bot.botbase import BotBase

class Cog(commands.Cog):
    def __init__(self, bot: BotBase):
        super().__init__()
        self._bot = bot

        # Add all commands to cmdstats db table
        cmds = set()
        for cmd in self.walk_commands():
            cmds.add(cmd)

        data = []
        for cmd in cmds:
            entries = []
            command = cmd
            while command.parent is not None:
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                entries.append(command.name)
            entries = list(reversed(entries))
            entries.append(cmd.name)
            data.append((entries[0], ' '.join(entries[1:]) or ""))

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Q: getting the values of an Enum type in the web interface I have implemented an enum class.This is the code:
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         this.daoField = daoField;
}

      public static OfferType getEnum(String daoField) {
          if (NO_OFFER.daoField.equals(daoField)){
            return NO_OFFER;
    }
         if (LOCAL.daoField.equals(daoField)){
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    }
         if (NATIONAL.daoField.equals(daoField)){
             return  NATIONAL;
    }

      //logger.error("Unknown enum value: " + daoField);
        throw new IllegalArgumentException("No Enum specified for this    string:"+daoField);

  }
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I have a class Order defined with an attribute with the type "OfferType".
I should instantiate an object "order" and set this property to the object, like the following:
order.setOfferType(OfferType.getEnum((rs.getString("offerType"))));

The problem is that with this setting I will have the value with uppercase of the enum.I want to retrieve the first value of the enum instead.How can I do it ?
Thanks in advance

A: Spring uses default jackson serializer. Thus in order to have custom serialization you should annotate your field:
@JsonSerialize(using = OfferTypeSerializer.class)
private OfferType offerType;

and create OfferTypeSerializer.class:
public class OfferTypeSerializer extends JsonSerializer<OfferType> {

     @Override
     public void serialize(OrderType value, JsonGenerator jgen,
         SerializerProvider provider) throws IOException, JsonProcessingException {
         jgen.writeString(value.frontLabel);
     }
 }

Another way is to get value calling offerType.frontLabel and setting it as String or implementing toString() method which is not the best solution:
@Override
public String toString() {
    return this.frontLabel;
}

If you're calling getEnum(String daoField) to get data you should write it in the next form:
  public static String getEnumFrontLabel(String daoField) {
      if (NO_OFFER.daoField.equals(daoField)){
        return NO_OFFER.frontLabel;
}
     if (LOCAL.daoField.equals(daoField)){
         return LOCAL.frontLabel;
}
     if (NATIONAL.daoField.equals(daoField)){
         return  NATIONAL.frontLabel;
}

And actually better to use next form of returning enum:
public static String getEnumFrontLabel(String daoField) {
    OfferType t = getType(field);
    if (t != null) {
         return t.frontLabel;
    }
    return null;

}
public static OfferType getType(String field) {
    for (OfferType type : values()) {
        if (type.equals(field)) {
            return type;
        }
    }
    return null;
}

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Opština Karbinci je jednou z 11 opštin Východního regionu a také současně jednou z 80 opštin v Severní Makedonii. Rozkládá se zhruba uprostřed regionu. Rozloha je 229,7 km² a v roce 2002 zde žilo 4012 obyvatel. Správním centrem opštiny je vesnice Karbinci.

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Opštinu tvoří celkem 29 vesnic, jimiž jsou:
V opštině není žádné město.

Sousedními opštinami jsou:

Probištip, Češinovo-Obleševo a Zrnovci na severu, Radoviš na východě a Štip na jihu a na západě.

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Území opštiny je úzké a protáhlé ve směru zhruba od severozápadu k jihovýchodu. Největší část území na západě se rozkládá v nížině při řece Bregalnica, s nadmořskou výškou od 300 do 500 m. Jihovýchodní část ale leží na úpatí a v pohoří Plačkovica, kde nadmořská výška dosahuje až 1650 m.

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Podle posledního sčítání lidu z roku 2021 žije v opštině 3 920 obyvatel. Etnickými skupinami jsou:

 Makedonci - 2 159 (63,13 %)
 Turci - 857 (25,06 %)
 ostatní - 404 (11,81 %)

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V západní části opštiny prochází zhruba od severu k jihu hlavní silnice s označením A3, která umožňuje spojení s městy Kočani a Štip. K jihozápadu opštiny vede jen jediná silnice s označením R 2431, která končí vysoko v horách.

Územím opštiny prochází železniční trať, v podstatě souběžně s hlavní silnicí A3. Na trati je v opštině jediná železniční stanice ve vesnici Dolni Balvan.

Související články
 Statistické regiony v Severní Makedonii

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2019 Election - Labor promises $1Billion for 'bullet train' land acquisition
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News article: Labor promises $1 billion for high-speed rail corridor between Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne
Labor will attempt again to revive a long-held ambition to build a high-speed rail network linking Canberra to the east coast capitals, by committing $1 billion to secure land for a corridor to make it happen if elected on May 18.
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We haven't lost the skills, if that was true, nothing new would ever happen here again. Ironically we are dealing with a list of Australia companies which a world leaders in their field, a field that didn't exist 4-5 years ago.
Yes we have lost the skills in Sydney. Most of the engineering for these new projects in sydney are using foreign companies. Why do you think the NSW government has been contracting spanish, french, italian and other foreign companies to build these projects.
simstrain
By and large it contracts to who ever gives the best price and doesn't care if domestic or foreign, including importing rail over buying local.
In the US and many other countries for example they open domestic bidders first and fully evaluate, if then they find they are unsuitable or expensive, then they look at foreign, depending on the contract.
There is another thread in RP talking about promoting buy Australian first, the reality is the Australia buyer doesn't give a crap where its made and neither does our govt. We grow what we sow!
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I never said rail jobs were gone because of high wages. I will agree that the DD rolling stock should have been made here but because we have lost the skills to do so in NSW it can no longer happen. People forget that around the time of the mining boom and the millenium train there was a great loss of the technical skill sets from this state.
While Victoria had auto manufacturing during that time Sydney was importing more and more and warehousing replaced manufacturing. The skills required to do this are nearly all gone and so for NSW we have to import everything now. So we go for the best bang for our buck and Victoria can not compete because they aren't innovative. The X05 LRV and the new regional rolling stock are much more modern then anything bombardier in Victoria is producing and so the contracts went to the new technology.
If we've lost the skills, I can't imagine it would be too difficult to find people who are willing to learn them.
Because it's cheaper to do it that way, our government doesn't want to pay Aussie workers if they don't have to.
It's just shameful that we can order suburban trains from China, metro trains from India, intercity trains from Korea, regional trains from Spain, light rail vehicles from France, and buses from Malaysia/Germany - yet they can't even raise the Newstart Allowance.
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The average Aussie votes with their wallet, most of the time, it's cheapest to get whatever they can from Aldi or Kmart, either their pay is too low or the cost of living is too high for them to go out of their way to buy Australian made products.
The differences is that the government can change that by providing more jobs and lowering the cost of living.
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Location: Ballan, Victoria on the Ballarat RFR Line
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Similar to Coles and Safeway/Woolworths, Aldi has many locally sourced products, particularly in fresh produce, meats, cheese, alcohol (wine) etc.
Unfortunately the wine prices in particular are so low and the quality so high that one has to be careful not to become an alcoholic.
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arctic Deputy Commissioner
Location: Zurich
Try reading the report again. An alignment is shown that is better than "straight lines on a map", including the city approaches.
I don't need to, the average speed for the quoted Syd-Mel express as stated in the table is ~310km/h.
The current fasest HSR line in the world, talking average speed is a 930km long line in China (name escapes me right now, I'll find later). With no stops it was around 313km/h, topping 350km/h. It has since been reduced to around 300km/h with an extra stop and to save money.
So do the sums for a train from Syd to Mel travelling the alignment in the report, averaging 310km/h, how close do you need to get to both Syd and Mel at 350km/h to achieve the published times? Noting that for the entire route the train must hold nearly 350km/h inbetween. If the Chinese are struggling, then what hope does Australia have? Also note the average Chinese citizen won't complain when the govt builds a 900km long viaduct across the country side, the average Australian will be up in arms if they tried to do the same thing.
A typo? That calc is 301km/h not 310. For the record, the generally accepted requirement of a 3 hr transit, the average is 275km/h.
Chinese no longer struggling. There is a existing service which runs at an average of 317km/h and a list of others (not only in China) that run around the average of 275 km/h we need for 3hrs and have been doing so for years, so not unusual in the world of HSR. All averages here a start to stop point to point.
As to your last question, such a calc gets complex depending in what you assume for speed in or around the city and acceleration speed. However in reading the report it says that in tunnel it will be 250km/h (plenty do this) not all the lower speed stuff will be in tunnel but I used that value. Also assumed 20km of 115km/h average running close in. The report alignment supports such assumptions.
Therefore a 3 hr trip needs 350km/h cruise for 370km and for a 2hr 44m trip for 650km.
So my amateur answer to your question "how close do you need to get to both Syd and Mel at 350km/h to achieve the published times"
- for a 3 hr trip is 230km from the city
- for a 2hr 44m trip 90km from the city
As for the Albury- CBR and Albury-Mel trips these require averages of 289 km/h and 247km/h respectively. Not really sure why you think this is impossible for an HSR?
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The fastest commercial train service measured by average train speed is the CRH express service on the Beijing–Shanghai high-speed railway, which reach a top speed of 350 km/h (220 mph) and complete the 1,302 km (809 mi) journey between Shanghai Hongqiao and Beijing South, with two stops, in 4 hours and 24 min for an average speed of 291.9 km/h (181.4 mph), the fastest train service measured by average trip speed in the world
So do I believe without the political strength and power of China, Australia can build a railway with an alignment to exceed the fastest average speed HSR train in the world, No!
For 350km/h you need bends of minimum curvature is >5500m.
Wagga Wagga or even Junee to Broadmeadows (Vic) is probably 300 to 350km/h running due to favorable terrain, but it won't be through the existing towns, rather by-passing them.
Junee to Campbelltown is alot more of a challenge due to development and terrain.
Mel to Can won't have a direct service, they will change. The frequency would be too poor to justify a direct service.
To maintain +100km to Sydney CBD, you need tunneling through at least the last 15-25km, Mel similar.
All up, the report has used the top end most favorable data and generally exceeds anything running today. Which considering its planned for 20 years is better. Then is no room for any local objection for development of eco sensitive areas.
Now heading north, good luck! May as well get a TBD at Central and come out north of Raymond Terrace.
It will still be heavily subsidized from day one, burning money for every fare sold. It is not essential to develop the country, nor to deal with rising housing prices. There are far cheaper more practical ways to help regional areas and even indeed spread the commutable distance to the big cities.
Dont think you read Bevans original post or my post properly, nor have you read the report either . For someone who posts a negative reply on every post on HSR, this is honestly surprising.
As one point, my reference for highest point to point speeds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_speed_record. Towards the end, Clearly shows 317km/h and the other references. Reproduced below.
If you need further proof that the 317km/h service exists (if you dont like Wiki) then here is a provisional booking I made on it -1018km in 3hrs and 13 minutes:
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You See Comrade, We Are all equal but some of us Are not members of the party thus 1st class is for Party members not the Bourgeoisie while second is for everyone. 3rd not exists as there is Defiantly no poverty in china
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Thanks for this, I found references that both the first two were slowed with extra stops but also speed to save operating cost. Average speeds now around 300km/h, I am not sure if this is still existing.
But again, the plan is to build a HSR at the top end of the technologies limitation. Have you been to China and seen how they build the HSR (I have and its the same all over China, its mostly on Viaducts), could you imagine the Australian public response to building a HSR in a similar manner across the country side to get the alignment, speed and grade separation. There is no way in hell the residents of the North Coast of NSW will allow this.
However as I've stated before, on cost for the population is where the real challenge lies. IF you read the details of the Chinese HSR, they talk in some cases 70+ trains a day each way no less. We will be struggling for 1/h.
And again, what is the point of throwing our resources at one line when there is so much to do with the commuter networks and doing something about regional rail and freight. Yes they are not mutually exclusive of each other. Focus on MSR, at least the one pair of tracks ticks all the boxes, commuter, regional and freight. HSR ignores all but regional just to try and match air between Syd and Mel and fail to do this Syd to Brisbane. Thus we fall back into the trap that it will take someone less time to travel Wagga to Sydney than it will take a commuter from Mittagong or even Picton. Most of the countries going down the HSR route had most of these basics.
And if HSR so good, let the private sector do it with the bulk of their own money, they provide the air services that HSR will compete with.
Basically I don't see or believe Steel Wheel on rail technology as it stands today and likely in next 10-20 years is going to be the answer for faster land based transport between Brisbane and Melbourne.
- Syd - Mel -> on par with air in timing, just, volumes are at the lower end
- Syd - Can -> distance wise well suited to HSR, but unlikely to have the demand to justify the cost with building to Mel and would MSR be suited?
- Syd - BNE -> will not be competitive with air any time soon and will suffer from construction opposition and costly terrain, although larger intermediate popular will help justify a decent frequency, but unlikely the cost.
Steel wheel on rail technology appears to be hitting a number of technical glass ceilings for increases in speed beyond 350km/h. It can be done sure, but the pace to commericalise it appears very slow. The Chinese have shown that operating costs are reason enough to slow down 10-20km/h and retain averages around 300km/h a few months after opening to save face and money.
I strongly suspect by the 2030's any notion to build HSR as refereed to as steel on rail will be a blast from the past and the focus maybe on Maglev or Hyperloop or something else that is actually advantageous against air in travel time, not just at best on par.
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Come on Shane, you're surely more rational than to mention Hyperloop when your case is that steel-wheel's operating costs are too high!
The proposition that maintaining a vacuum tube sufficiently airtight to safely accelerate several tons of passenger vehicle to high speed is going to be affordable is simply ludicrous. On this site, of all places, people should know what it takes (and what it costs) to maintain two sufficiently parallel rails over any distance - let alone a continuous tube structure and hundreds of fan stacks.
I'm not doubting that other technological solutions might emerge, but it's also worth noticing that steel-wheel has been the fastest commercially viable large-scale ground transport available ever since its introduction, despite vast technological advances in other fields. I struggle to think of any other technologies from the beginning of the Industrial Revolution that are fundamentally unchanged since. I would argue it is far more likely that steel-wheel continues to advance, gradually, as it has done now for nearly 2 centuries.
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Come on Shane, you're surely more rational than to mention Hyperloop when your case is that steel-wheel's operating costs are too high!....
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Yeah, I know what you are saying about Hyperloop and don't disagree. It would however my country of residence govt is however convinced and plan on building a freight only test system between the two Dubai Airports.
The problem with steel wheel on rail works wheel at lower speeds, but at higher and higher speeds other issues come into play exponentially. ie heat, energy, vibration, dynamics...
simstrain Chief Commissioner
The jet airliner is only going to get more economical as technology advances. Nasa and Honda along with Caltech have just announced their new battery tech which is significantly safer then lithium ion. It has the possibility to make electric planes viable and at the very least they will make electric cars safer, cheaper and more environmentally friendly.
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Outside of Sydney, public transport looks like this:
How can anyone honestly advocate for high speed rail? This topic has gone in a million different directions than I'm sure the original poster would have ever thought of.
Our current issues in Australia are:
-Very high rates of unemployment outside of capital cities
-Government flat out refuses to build public transport infrastructure outside of capital cities
-Local manufacturing disappearing constantly
Is High Speed Rail going to fix any of this?
Focus on MSR, at least the one pair of tracks ticks all the boxes, commuter, regional and freight. HSR ignores all but regional just to try and match air between Syd and Mel and fail to do this Syd to Brisbane.
This truly is common sense, as I've said before, MSR can still be competitive with air travel if the price is right.
It would however my country of residence govt is however convinced and plan on building a freight only test system between the two Dubai Airports.
If it gets that far, I suspect it'll end up being like the maglev - promising in small doses but ultimately so challenging to maintain it's limited to urban areas near engineering facilities.
I don't doubt either that the UAE authorities will be able to set it up and get it running over a short distance with their vast sums of money and ready access to a large pool of engineers, if they so desire.
I'm not totally pessimistic about it, but the real test will be how it would deal with problems. Could you run a reduced service while fixing a leak for example? Or would you have to isolate an entire section, stopping service for hours or days on end? I know these are difficult questions to answer given the stage the tech is at, but you'd have to get it to a point where the relationship between fault frequency and the difficulty of fixing the fault (in terms of manpower, parts, passenger disruption, and so on) was comparable to rail, before you even considered implementing it over any real distance.
People get Dubai and the UAE mixed up. Dubai is a semi-autonomous emirate. It does not have access to the Abu Dhabi oil wealth, no longer has oil reserves of significance, does not have the cash flows like western countries due to a lack of taxes and relies very much on private investment to support major projects including expo 2020.
While the Abu Dhabi govt has nearly $1T in oil wealth in the bank, its use is limited to investments that must show positive rates of return and typically as a check they get 40-60% foreign funding via loans to provide the backstop check on the project (basically how my employer was set up with 60% Duestch Bank funding + investment from the USA OS investment board for the power station). They have become increasingly cautious about throwing money at projects that are likely to fail, do not meet govt objectives in Nationalisation workforce targets as well as political requirements. This is mostly due to the financial drain the conflict in Yemen is doing and a long period of low oil prices.
So, they will encourage and support the various Hyperloop projects, but there will not be large sums of cash thrown at them to make them get up.
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Likely HSR to Mel come 2030, "if" they crack it, wheel on rail HSR will have hit its peak, "if" they crack it.
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A new floating bullet train capable of hitting speeds of 600 kilometers per hour (about 372 miles/hour) is one step closer to reality in China.
On Thursday, the body prototype for the country's latest high-speed magnetic-levitation (maglev) train project rolled off the assembly line in the eastern Chinese city of Qingdao. Developed by the state-owned China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation (CRRC) -- the world's largest supplier of rail transit equipment -- the sleek-looking train is scheduled to go into commercial production in 2021 following extensive tests.
Japan tests world's fastest bullet train
Those involved with the project are optimistic it will completely transform China's travel landscape, filling the gap between high-speed rail and air transportation. "Take Beijing to Shanghai as an example -- counting preparation time for the journey, it takes about 4.5 hours by plane, about 5.5 hours by high-speed rail, and [would only take] about 3.5 hours with [the new] high-speed maglev," said CRRC deputy chief engineer Ding Sansan, head of the train's research and development team, in a statement. While the cruising speed of an aircraft is 800-900 km/h, at present trains on the Beijing-Shanghai line have a maximum operating speed of 350 km/h.
Maglev trains use magnetic repulsion both to levitate the train up from the ground, which reduces friction, and to propel it forward.
After nearly three years of technical research, Ding said the team had developed a lightweight and high-strength train body that lays the technical foundation for the development of five sets of maglev engineering prototypes. So what comes next? CRRC Qingdao Sifang -- a subsidiary of the CRRC -- is currently constructing an experimental center and a high-speed maglev trial production center, which are expected to begin operating the second half of this year.
Japan's maglev ambitions
In the 1960s Japan revolutionized train technology with the bullet train. Japan's newest Maglev promises to break world records.
China's new prototype won't be the first train to surpass the 600-kilometer mark when it hits the testing track.
A Japan Railway maglev train achieved a top spot of 603 km/hour on an experimental track in Yamanashi in 2015, setting a new world record. Japan is now developing a new Chuo Shinkansen maglev line, with trains set to hit top speeds of about 500 kph.
The first phase of the project, connecting Tokyo and Nagoya, is scheduled to be completed in 2027 and is expected to cut traveling time between those cities by half.
The train has to evolve but building the biggest and baddest rail system isn't necessarily the answer. So much money is needed for the vhst and there is new technology incoming in cars, planes, trucks and even trains to make that investment wasteful. Links provided below for your browsing pleasure. Some line straightening is necessary but should follow the roads that have already been built to reduce environmental impacts.
A vhst train can never be considered clean until the black and brown bars in this link drop down to almost 0% and not near the 80-90% they currently are at or unless the vhst company itself generates it's own renewable energy. The required land clearing is another negative to any vhst project against it's green credentials and will affect wildlife. The VHST is a huge waste of money and needs to be forgotten about because private industry is going to make it null and void in the very near future.
https://www.machines4u.com.au/mag/meanwhilein-australia-electric-trucks-are-already-a-thing/
https://reneweconomy.com.au/latrobe-valley-electric-truck-maker-gets-multiple-orders-from-us-81577/
https://www.greenbiz.com/article/big-truck-makers-are-starting-take-electric-trucks-seriously
Electric Plane
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1g1JrRRkY&t=2s
Hydrogen Train
https://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/News/fuel-cell-train-passes-first-test
New battery technology
https://www.assemblymag.com/articles/94724-new-battery-breakthrough-could-replace-lithium-ion
https://www.saftbatteries.com/media-resources/our-stories/three-battery-technologies-could-power-future
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The brand has evolved over the years and achieved its status by delivering services that led to word of mouth publicity. Serving its clientele of institutional clients and private clients that approached K 'n' J Partners through references, the brand believes that it is on the right path to serving the purpose of its clients.
"In the legal field, a person is always evolving. It is not like you have studied once and then you became the master of law. In law school, majorly we are taught only 30 acts and there are more than 30000 acts in India. In these 30000 acts, there are amendments, judgements which are always evolving. This field is ever-changing, exciting and there is always something new to do, this evolving nature of the field inspired me to be a lawyer in the first place," shared Sarul Jain
As a legal consultancy minimises the risks factors and liabilities for its clients and makes sure that they maximize the client's profits, for companies it is always the right time to invest in a legal consulting to ensure strong transactions backed by strong documents to avoid any situation of litigation.
"There are mid-cap companies today, with a turnover of 200 to 400 crore annually which do not believe in investing in a legal consultancy as their legal partners and save costs, which I believe is a mistake in the long run because the charges which they save by not consulting a lawyer or a consultancy firm while or before getting into a transaction results in bigger dispute later on," Sarul shared his views on the need for demand of legal consultancies.
He further added, "As the companies aspire to be like major players in the market with transactions over 1000cr, I believe, it is essential to adopt the habits of having a legal budget and consult with lawyers before getting into any agreement to avoid loss of money and hassle."
Competitive Market and Technology
With the focus on providing the clients with remarkable services and assisting them in legal transactions and agreements, K 'n' J Partners has built an edge over its competition in the market. The brand believes competency has nothing to do with age as it continues to deliver services to its vast clientele.
Advancement of technology has eased a few things. However, the cons that it presents cannot be ignored as the tech-based legal resolutions available in the market based on 0-1 principle are not an effective solution to every case with its unique facts. The brand has adopted technology to support its legal startup as it replaced the traditional library with the new software to simplify the search related to any case.
Advice to an Entrepreneur in the Current Scenario
Being an equity partner of a novel firm himself, the visionary Sarul Jain shares his views on being an entrepreneur today. He said, "One can be an entrepreneur in an industry today with a startup based on a unique concept. In case one is presenting a service that already exists in the market, one should adopt a cost-effective approach as a USP in order to gain an edge over its competitors."
He further shares, "I believe, despite the economic slowdown, the new and innovative concepts will never suffer from any economic slowdown. The market slowdown is a good time to enter business for a new entrepreneur."
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Hi I'm Rory, and I created Roam Free Campers because I know just how difficult it is to find budget campervans in BC. It was one fateful trip to Burning Man where I had to learn the hard way. On a chef's wage in Whistler, I simply couldn't afford the silly prices on offer to hire a campervan locally, so I asked my chef-friend Brian if I could borrow his 1978 Ford Chateau and then the inevitable happened. 10 miles from Burning Man, the engine blew up. Sitting in the middle of the desert with coolant gushing from the air vents, I knew there had to be a better way.
Thankfully the story has a happy ending. Not only did Brian forgive me, but he became my partner in Roam Free Campers! Both of us are absolutely committed to making sure your road trip is an adventure, not a nightmare. As seasoned travellers ourselves, we know exactly what you need from a campervan rental. We'll walk you through all the essential features and accessories, and we can even give you advice on what to cook.
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Jackett: Frontline Workers Deserve Our Gratitude
Boss provides update on how his squad are training during the lockdown
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by Neil Weld
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The current lockdown has limited the amount of training that Pompey's squad can partake in.
But Kenny Jackett expects his players to still be working hard to maintain their physical and mental wellbeing.
When the football season is eventually able to resume, they will need to be ready to compete as quickly as possible.
And Jackett does not want to complain about this frustrating period while there are so many key workers providing essential services.
The Blues boss said: "If we're bored or kicking our heels a bit, then that's nothing compared to those on the frontline who deserve our support and gratitude.
"But I think there's a real community spirit there to rally around the key workers, like all those great people in the NHS.
"All of our players have got individual programmes and are given a fresh one by Jack Hughes (physio) and Jeff Lewis (head of sports science) every Monday.
"They still need to live the life of an athlete because whenever we do get the nod to start up again – which is down to the powers that be – we need to be ready."
Kenny Jackett
"There's a combination of long and short-distance running, as well as some stuff with a ball when possible.
"We also give them revised gym work and everyone has a smart watch, so we can track their training through that.
"Whether you're a footballer or not, physical and mental fitness go hand-in-hand – that's why the government have allowed people to go out and get some exercise. It's so important.
"Our guys also have to take responsibility for themselves and be disciplined with things like their diet.
"They still need to live the life of an athlete because whenever we do get the nod to start up again – which is down to the powers that be – we need to be ready."
Five members of the Pompey squad tested positive for coronavirus and Jackett revealed that they are recovering well.
He said: "They're all fine and nobody has any symptoms, but are following the instructions to self-isolate.
"When that's over with they'll want to get outside and have a bit of fresh air, while returning to some form of training."


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Q: Limiting public api gateway to specific IP I have an api gateway that is going to be accessed by a front end javascript application. With that in mind we can't feasibly limit access to an api key (I don't think?), so I'd really like to limit it by IP address...but I can't find a way to do that. Is that even possible as it's not actually coming from a server?
So the site is hosted on S3 with Cloudfront in Front. The API gateway accepts couple of keys and that hits a lambda script and gets saved to dynamodb. If someone wanted to they could just spam the hell out of it with values. I only want the web app to be able to talk to it. I'm still learning a lot of AWS! I hoped I could use Shield or WAF but it seems a no go. Any suggestions?

A: Of course, it is not a good idea to hard-code any credential or API key in your app, and most of the time, you'll find articles that explain how to use Web federated identity providers to authorize your API calls through API Gateway (see Setting Credentials in a Web Browser), but since you're using CloudFront, there is another workaround for that.
You can store your API key (or even IAM credentials) in a separate file on S3 but limit its access to a specific IP address so that your script can get the key and make the API call. All other IP addresses cannot retrieve the API key. Thus, cannot call the API method.

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*Require your users to access your content only through CloudFront. See: Using an Origin Access Identity to Restrict Access to Your Amazon S3 Content. This way, the API key cannot be retreived using S3 URLs.

*Specify the AWS account that you want to use to create the signed URL. See: Specifying the AWS Accounts That Can Create Signed URLs and Signed Cookies (Trusted Signers).

*Create a signed URL using a custom policy with a long-term expiry date. See: Creating a Signed URL Using a Custom Policy. Using a custom policy (as opposed to a canned policy) allows you to specify the IP address or range of IP addresses of the users who can access your content. This generated signed URL will be used whenever you want to call the API method.

*Select your distribution in CloudFront and add a Behavior with a Path Pattern that points to your API key file, e.g., api-key.json. Make sure that Restrict Viewer Access is set to Yes for the behavior. Make sure that this bahavior has precedence over the Default behavior by placing it top in the list, i.e., precedence is 0.

*Make sure that Restrict Viewer Access is set to No for the Default cache behavior, which will make all of your content public EXCEPT for the API key file above.

NOTE: If you're certain your signed URL is stored securely and nobody has access to it, you can remove the IP address requirement from your custom policy since it would be redundant to check for the IP address in this case. Of course, this will allow you to use a canned policy instead.


- a significant, Brazilian equestrian event, taking place in Germany for the first time!
Up to now more than 700 riders and their horses joined the "Sela de Ouro" (golden saddle) qualifying rides in Brazil. This year 100 riders achieved already the qualification for the finals. These qualifying rides started 4 years ago and are part of the social project "Caminhos Gerais" (General trails). The first competition ride in Germany with Mangalarga Marchador horsestook place between June 12 to 13/2010; all participants got the chance to join the Brazilian National Championship, riding horses, which was made availablefree of charge.
The competition event was organized by the Kreiswald stud farm, located in the "Odenwald" area. A delegation of 14 Brazilians arrived already 2 days before, including Lucio Flavio Baioneta, President of the "Caminhos Gerais" organization, the judge Mauricio Ribeiro and 3 riders, selected by draw during the National Championship 2009in Brazil.
It was agreed uponconnecting this event with a social project as well. The society TRAB e. V. (therapeutic riding asa bridge)was selected and participated with a demonstration show;the financial net of the event has been donated to this society, which gives support to mentally and physically handicapped children.
Saturday morning at 08:00 o`clock all participating riders met on the oval track to start for the 25 km cross-country course, the extent was marked on trees. A group of 25 riders started at a time with an interval of 5 minutes. The complete starting group was made of seven riders from Brazil, 5 from the Netherlands,1 from Iceland and 13 from Germany. 3 riders with non gaited horses joined as well, however they were not allowed to qualify for Brazil.
The first group started together with the judge, who exchanged his horse with each participant during the course. This process made the group moving slower, so the next group could close up. While the first group continued their way, the horses of the second group were exchanged and so on. Time was not a criterion, but most of the time the horses moved in the Marcha withan average speed of 14 km/h.
The track began at "Kreiswald", crossed a beautiful, vast and varied forest and ended at the castle of "Starkenburg", part of the city of "Heppenheim a.d. Bergstrasse". Everything went well. The horses moved lively, the mood among the riders was cheerfuldespite of short rains and the exchange of the horses occurred without any problems. At the end of the first stage the landscape changed from forest to a path through vineyards with a breathtaking view over the Rhine valley. Having the castle in view, the group had to overcome only a short climb on cobblestones.
After arriving at the castle, the horses were watered and tethered. The riders then went to the castle restaurant for refreshment, while the horses were looked after. The break lasted about 1 hour and the restaurant was filled with a mixture of languages such as Brazilian, Dutch, English and German. An international mix of equestrian enthusiasts, who understood each other very well despite of language barriers.
Start of the second stage: a new path led the group back to "Kreiswald", this time with sunny weather. Riding with quite a high speed on the way back, the groups met between 12:30 and 13:15 o`clock at the finish. Each horse had to pass the vet check, after 30 min resting time. To all surprise each horse passed the check - even some recovered to the normal heart rate - and consequently all riders got qualified. The veterinarian, Dr. Alexandra Köster, was very happy with this good result.
A good reason to celebrate; Saturday night the party started in the marquee with frisky dances, lots of conversation, new friendships and many invitations to visit Brazil.
The program continued Sunday, 12:00 o`clock.
The "Evaluation" (valuation of the horses moving in the Marcha on the oval track) took place at "Kreiswald" stud farm, in front of a large fan-audience of gaited horses; a part of audiencecame to see the "IGV-Cup" (IGV - International Association of Gaited Horses) tournament, which took place at "Kreiswald" during the same weekend.
The riding skills and the quality of the Marcha wereevaluated and ranked.
Although the"Sela de Ouro" riders did not compete for bows and cups, butfor a good cause, everybody was excited and interested in how a judge from the country of origin would rate their horses.
Stallions started first, followed by mares and finally the geldings. Each category took about 10 minutes moving in the Marcha. Riders and horses differed very much in training level and experience. Also horse/rider pairs did join, whichcame together the first time this weekend; that means, to some riders were made available completely unknown horses. But everything went along without any major incident.
Horses and riders were not yet released, they still had to compete in the "Prova de Acao" (obstacle track) The course consisted of a gate that had to be opened, passed through and closed again. Ideally, one hand continuously touching the gate. Then pass through 2 posts, stop and pass through backwards again. Then start moving with the Marcha gaitand meander through 5 pylons, round the last one and meander the pylons back again. Change the gait to left hand galloping, rounding 3 barrels, jumping over a low obstacle, stopping at a given point and finally release the reins and keep the horse motionless.
The riders could choose the paceand the omission of obstacles according to their own skill and the ability of the horse.Safety was first priority and of course the slogan "taking part is everything". All riders completed the course accordingly and there was a lot of applause for the most skilled riders as well as for completely inexperienced riders, who even though accepted this challenge.
Subsequently, all participants were honored by the Brazilian delegation andreceived their medals "Sela de Ouro Germany 2010". During this ceremony those present have been informed, that the President of "Caminhos Gerais" - Lucio Flavio Baioneta, the President of the Brazilian Breeders Association "ABCCMM" - Magdi Shaat and the President of the European Association "EAMM" - Astrid Oberniedermayr, had made the decisionalready the day before, to organize an European "Sela de Ouro" event again in 2011.
At "Sela de Ouro" riding tests neither trot nor amble is desired (MM`s showing the amble gait are excluded from breeding in Brazil). The "Marcha" gait has to be regular with little suspension, smooth, comfortable and with little vertical movement of the rider.The rider`s sensitive use of bridle and reins will be observed and the horse`s temperament and the willingness to perform arean important criterion as well.
Finally he talked about the appearance of the Brazilian MM-rider, sportingbrimmed hat, chaps, jeans etc andusing special saddles. He personally would appreciate, if the Europeans showed up dressed identically. Then he congratulated all participants for the qualification they passed and announced the ratings. While doing this,strong applause was given for each participant - some of them shed tears of joy.
"Sela de Ouro" 2010 ended without medal winners and without losers. All participants did enjoy it, had a great time and promised to start again in 2011. EAMM will be sure to be able to double the number of participants in 2011. The benefit for each individual of the"Sela de Ouro" eventwas a great weekend, making many new friends, having the chance joining the final in Brazil, having done a good deed by donating and feeling being part of a community of Mangalarga Marchador enthusiasts.


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All County CFL's team grows more and more each day such as our lovely Florida does too. We luckily had the chance to visit the beautiful Mead Botanical Garden in Winter Park, Florida for one of our Team Builders.
Here are some photos from our fantastic and relaxing picnic at the botanical gardens.


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