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Infrastructure Funding Might be in Next Legislation to Address COVID-19 Pandemic
Congress is eyeing a fourth bill to deal with the coronavirus pandemic and it might address infrastructure funding.
President Donald Trump has signaled that he would support a $2 trillion infrastructure package as part of that legislation.
Other congressional leaders have also identified areas they would like to see funded but some observers think that whatever bill makes it through the House and Senate will be limited to health care matters.
Congress most recently approved a stimulus bill providing $2.2 trillion in funding, which is several hundred billion dollars more than the federal budget for one fiscal year.
Lawmakers are hoping that the stimulus bill will benefit the economy by as much as an additional $4 trillion.
The $1.018 billion that the stimulus bill provided for Amtrak was intended in part to limit the funding states must pay for services they support.
In an unrelated development, the American Association of Private Railroad Car Owners reported that several moves of private cars via Amtrak that had been planned in March were canceled by their owners as a result of the pandemic.
AAPRCO also posted its mid-term meeting from March 23 to late July.
Tags:American Association of Private Railroad Car Owners, Amtrak, Amtrak funding, Congress, coronarivus, COVID-19, infrastructure, infrastructure funding, pandemic
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AAPRCO Move Through NE Ohio Set in September
Private car trains are making somewhat of a comeback on Amtrak.
The passenger carrier has given the Association of American Private Car Owners preliminary approval to operate a private car special from Chicago to Vermont in September.
The train will pass through Northeast Ohio on Sept 22 but probably in darkness as it will depart from Chicago at 8:30 p.m. the previous day.
The special will also operate on the Mohawk Adirondack Northern Railroad and the Vermont Rail System.
In announcing the special to its members, AAPRCO said Itinerary is subject to railroad approvals, but the group said it has contingency routings.
The announcement did not say what route the train would take between Chicago and Cleveland, but it likely would be the Norfolk Southern line used by Amtrak.
Nor did it say which route would be taken between Cleveland and Buffalo, New York.
In September 2014, an AAPRO special traveled on NS east of Cleveland.
The train has been named the American Autumn Explorer.
The announcement said the train would operate overnight through Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania and expects to pass the former Buffalo Central Terminal during breakfast hours.
The train will continue to Niagara Falls, New York, where passengers will be able to disembark and spend time there.
The train will depart Niagara Falls on Sept. 23 and use the former New York Central Water Level Route to Utica, New York, where it will drop its Amtrak locomotives and operate as a special train on the Mohawk Adirondack Northern Railroad.
The destination will be Thendara, New York, where the train will park overnight.
Departing Thendara on Sept. 24, the special will go back to Utica, pick up the Amtrak locomotives and use former Delaware and Hudson Railroad tracks (now owned by Canadian Pacific) to travel to Saratoga Springs, New York.
The special will leave Saratoga Springs on Sept. 26 and en route to near Plattsburgh, New York, where it will reverse direction and run to Albany-Rensselaer, New York, to pick up additional private cars.
Departure from Albany-Rensselaer will be on Sept. 27 for Whitehall, New York, and then east to Rutland, Vermont.
At Rutland the Amtrak locomotives will be dropped off and the train will continue on the Vermont Rail System to Burlington where it will be parked downtown for three days.
The annual AAPRCO convention will be held in Burlington.
The special will depart Burlington on Oct. 1 and return to Albany-Rensselaer where the special will terminate and its cars forwarded back home on regularly scheduled Amtrak trains starting on Oct. 2.
Tags:American Association of Private Railroad Car Owners, Amtrak, Canadian Pacific, CSX, Delaware & Hudson, Mohawk Adirondack Northern Railroad, Norfolk Southern, private cars, Vermont Rail System
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Groups Fear Amtrak Killing Long-Distance Trains
Two organizations that represent private railroad car owners are accusing Amtrak of lacking commitment to support the passenger carrier's national network.
The letter was sent to Amtrak CEO Richard Anderson and signed by Robert G. Donnelley, president of the American Association of Private Railroad Car Owners and W. Roger Fuehring, president of the Railroad Passenger Car Alliance.
It cited what it described as "recent, abrupt, negative changes in Amtrak's policies toward special trains and private cars."
The changes, the groups say, have imposed "unreasonable economic costs on Amtrak, car owners, their employees and vendors, and the communities these cars and trains visit." The letter is seeking a review of current policies.
Last month Amtrak announced new fees and rules for the handling of private rail cars that had the effect of making them more expensive to operate and limiting where and how often they can run.
Amtrak in March also revealed other policy changes that sharply curtailed specials and charter movements, some of which use private rail cars.
Among other issues, the letter offered as evidence comments made by Anderson at a California conference of passenger rail officials that described as high the costs of long-distance trains and their per-passenger subsidies.
These figures, the letter said, "are particularly alarming because heretofore they have been talking points for Amtrak's critics."
If the long-distance network was removed, the private rail car groups said, it would result in the loss of Amtrak service to 29 states and a Balkanized network of four isolated pieces.
Such a network, the letter predicted, would lead to a drop in federal support far exceeding the costs of the long-distance network.
"Amtrak cannot afford to continue to act as if it doesn't need friends," the letter said.
It predicted that Amtrak's [fiscal year] 2020 funding will be very tight, citing one congressman as saying that "funding will drop off a cliff' after the two-year budget deal expires."
Tags:American Association of Private Railroad Car Owners, Amtrak, Amtrak long-distance trains, Railroad Passenger Car Alliance
Some Private Car Owners Disappointed With Amtrak Changes
In the aftermath of a change in Amtrak policy for handling of private rail cars, some car owners told Trains magazine they are disappointed in the new policy and how the passenger carrier is jacking up the fees it charges to haul and service their cars.
Amtrak's new policy restricts where private rail cars will be handled and in particular limits where the cars can be added or removed from Amtrak trains at intermediate stations.
Some car owners said the higher tariffs and operating restrictions will make their business more challenging and expensive.
Some car owners are trying to be philosophical with Altiplano Railtours owner Adam Auxier telling Trains it is better to have bad news you know than good news you don't know.
Auxier said private car owners need to be able to plan their trips nearly a year in advance.
Many private car owners sell tickets to the public to ride in their cars on set dates.
Railroad Passenger Car Alliance President Roger W. Fuehring told Trains that some changes in how Amtrak handled private cars is disappointing.
In particular he cited the inability to store cars near Washington Union Station, the ending of some mechanical services, and a sudden increase in fees.
Fuehring said Amtrak had increased its tariffs every October, but now has warned private car owners that those fees can be increased at anytime at Amtrak's discretion.
"How can anyone plan their business with such small margins when we don't know what the tariff rates will be day to day?" Fuehring said. "What does the tariff matter if Amtrak has the ability to adjust the rates again?"
Burt Hermey owns four original California Zephyr cars that he stores in Los Angeles.
He said the fee increases are putting him into the difficult position of having to tell his customers they need to pay more for upcoming trips.
Hermey said he created fares based on the October 2017 tariffs.
He explained that Amtrak will now only do what is necessary to bring a car that is in the middle of a trip back into FRA compliance.
"A strict reading of that would seem to indicate that defects identified during an annual inspection would need to be repaired elsewhere," Hermey said.
Hermey believes that the rule changes show that, "Amtrak management wants us off the property despite the multiple millions of dollars we pay each year, most of which flows to their bottom line. It's also clear how little they value that segment of their business."
Tags:American Association of Private Railroad Car Owners, Amtrak, Private rail cars, Private railroad cars
Private Car Owner Defends Amtrak Policy Changes
In the wake of recent Amtrak policy changes that all but banned special and charter movements and a policy review pertaining to the carriage of private rail cars, reports have surfaced that bad behavior by private rail car owners is one underlying issue motivating Amtrak.
Now a private car owner has come forward to contend that there is some truth to those reports.
Bennett Levin, who owns former Pennsylvania Railroad office car No. 120 and two E8A locomotives painted in a PRR livery, told Trains magazine that the trade groups representing the interests of private rail car owners and operators have failed to address that.
"Things have spiraled out of control. Neither of the private varnish organizations have taken positive steps to address these issues, so now Amtrak has said, 'Enough,' " Levin said. "What Amtrak has done is not draconian. It is prudent."
Saying the issue of safety is paramount, Levin accused the American Association of Private Railroad Car Owners and the Rail Passenger Car Alliance of doing a poor job of self-policing their members and instilling a culture of safety first.
That brought a retort from both groups, which issued a joint statement denying the assertions.
RPCA President W. Roger Fuehring, and AAPRCO President Robert G. Donnelley said their groups each have safety committees that have provided safety manuals to members.
Furthermore, there have been no incidents or accidents that have been reportable to the Federal Railroad Administration.
The two group presidents noted that they have denied membership to car owners who have a poor safety record and that not all private car owners are members of AAPRCO or RPCA.
"Both organizations have investigated and taken action on the occasional violations of our membership," the statement said.
The groups also took issue with Levin's call for rail car owners and railfans to curtail contacting elected officials to urge them to take action in response to the Amtrak policy changes.
Levin argued in a letter to the National Railway Historical Society that such lobbying may do more harm than good.
"I would urge everyone who claims to have an interest in this matter, from those who own the equipment to those who stand trackside and record its passing for history, to use reason and restraint, and not add fuel to an already raging fire being fed by ineptness, poor judgment, and short sightedness," Levin wrote in the letter addressed to NRHS President Al Weber.
Levin told Trains that the reaction of rail car owners and railfans is ill-timed and nearing "hysteria."
In their joint statement, the presidents of AAPRCO and RPCA said the lobbying has been in response to a policy change that caught many by surprise, particularly in its severity.
"[I]t is not surprising that some tourist railroad organizations, charterers, private car owners, and car owner associations have sought help from their legislators in view of the fact that Amtrak is a government approved monopoly receiving aid from the legislature," the statement said.
"Despite the extreme hardship that the policy entailed, we continue to respect and understand that, with new leadership, Amtrak is analyzing and reviewing all aspects of train operations. In light of the most recent developments, we have asked formally to meet with Amtrak's President and CEO, Richard Anderson, in order to see how we can be better partners and support Amtrak where it would be beneficial to both parties."
The two groups have made suggestions to Amtrak as to how to streamline the process of adding and removing private cars from Amtrak trains, particularly at intermediate stations.
Amtrak's policy toward special movements and charters allows for exceptions in narrowly defined circumstances.
An Amtrak representative told Trains that the carrier's policy in regards to hauling private cars continues to evolve and should be announced in the near future.
However, in its communications with rail cars owners, Amtrak has signaled that it wants to restrict the number of trains and routes that carry private cars and limit carriage on others to certain days of the week.
Amtrak also has indicated that it wants to primarily move cars from endpoint to endpoint and avoid adding and removing cars at intermediate stations with scheduled dwell times of less than 30 minutes.
For his part, Levin believes the policy changes pertaining to private cars and special movements is "a matter to be thoroughly considered in the context of the railroad's regular operations."
Levin said he fears that Congressional intervention may result in "something far worse than a decrease in the frequency of private passenger car trips on the national rail network."
In their statement, AAPRCO and RPCA cited some of the hardships that private car owners have endured.
This has included cars stored in formerly permitted locations being "frozen in place" and cars already en route being forced to change their schedules at significantly higher costs.
"Cars on the California Zephyr, for example, were not allowed to transfer to the Coast Starlight and were forced to return to Chicago," the statement said.
Because the Amtrak policy change in regards to special moves was effective immediately, the groups said this resulted in major costs of disruption.
Tags:American Association of Private Railroad Car Owners, Amtrak, Amtrak specials, Bennett Levin, private cars, Private passenger cars, Private railroad cars, private varnish, Railroad Passenger Car Alliance, Richard Anderson
New River Train Will Still Run
West Virginia public officials say that Amtrak has committed to operating the New River Train this fall despite a recent policy change that banned such special moves.
Gov. Jim Justice and U.S. Rep. Evan Jenkins said Amtrak CEO Richard Anderson agreed after a telephone conversation to allow the train to operate for its 52nd season.
During that conversation, Jenkins and Mike Hall, the governor's chief of staff, discussed with Anderson the importance of the 300-mile passenger excursion that runs the third and fourth weekends of October between Huntington and Hinton.
"I am very encouraged after our call with Richard Anderson that we have a commitment to resolving issues with the New River Train," said Jenkins, whose district includes much of the route of the train over the former Chesapeake & Ohio mainline used by Amtrak's tri-weekly Chicago-Washington Cardinal.
Jenkins said Anderson indicated that the passenger carrier is receptive to making "some limited exemptions to its ban on charter trains."
Amtrak has not yet said what criteria it will follow for allowing special train and charter moves.
Even before the policy change was revealed last month, owners of private rail cars had reported that Amtrak was increasingly rejecting their requests to have their cars attached to scheduled trains on some routes.
Amtrak also declined to operate a special for the American Association of Private Railroad Car Owners between Nebraska and Denver.
Tags:American Association of Private Railroad Car Owners, Amtrak, Amtrak specials, Evan Jenkins, Jim Justice, New River Train, Private rail cars, Private railroad cars, Richard Anderson
Private Car Owners Talk with Amtrak About Policy Changes for Handling of PVs
At least they are talking. Amtrak executives spoke on Tuesday on a conference call with representatives of private railroad passenger cars who have decried a policy change by the nation's passenger carrier that has banned charter trains and specials, and made it more difficult for car owners to move their cars on Amtrak trains.
Amtrak management told the car owners that the policy change followed a review of carrying private rail cars on Amtrak trains and how that affects the on-time performance of the trains as well as the passenger company's finances.
During the call, Amtrak officials reportedly reiterated their intent to cease adding and removing private cars at most intermediate points.
"If you want cars switched at every station, we can't do that," an Amtrak representative said during Tuesday's call. "We are interested in your thoughts about what you think is reasonable and consistent with the mission of not delaying trains."
Amtrak officials didn't rule out carrying private cars, but seemed to suggest that it would prefer to do that at route endpoints because en route switching can delay a train.
The private car groups made suggestions that could improve on-time performance, but preserve midpoint pickups, such as requiring private car operators to have their own qualified mechanical personnel to help facilitate midpoint switching, or to add private cars to front of trains to eliminate extra switching moves.
The private car owners also suggested having their cars operate on a generator until reaching a station with sufficient dwell time to allow head-end power to be connected.
The meeting notes were distributed to members of the American Association of Private Railroad Car Owners and the Railroad Passenger Car Alliance.
Among the mid-point Amtrak stops at which private cars are sometimes added or removed are Lamy, New Mexico; Huntington, West Virginia; Denver; St. Paul, Minnesota; Whitefish, Montana; Charlotte, North Carolina; Savannah, Georgia; Tucson, Arizona; Albuquerque, New Mexico; Jacksonville, Florida; Orlando, Florida; Milwaukee; Cleveland; St. Louis; San Antonio, Texas; Omaha, Nebraska; and Kansas City, Missouri.
Amtrak indicated during the call that it is reviewing the fees it charges private car owners to haul their cars.
The private car owners said that in particular they want Amtrak to better explain what CEO Richard Anderson meant when he wrote in a memo to Amtrak employees that specials and charters were not meeting Amtrak's expectations of "fully allocated profitable margin[s]."
At one point the private car owners expressed a willingness to pay double the actual cost of moving private cars on Amtrak.
The conference call did not discuss special trains, but Amtrak has refused to handle a planned AAPRCO train, the Black Hills Special, that was to have operated from Lincoln, Nebraska, to Denver on May 17-22.
Tags:American Association of Private Railroad Car Owners, Amtrak, Amtrak private car rules, Railroad Passenger Car Alliance, Railroad passenger cars
They Sky is Falling, The Sky is Falling. Well, Maybe Not
The sky is falling, the sky is falling.
Or so some railroad enthusiasts would have you believe in the wake of a report that Amtrak has decided to ban charters and special moves.
The policy change was announced by Amtrak CEO Richard Anderson in a memo to employees that was leaked to Trains magazine and also posted on railfan chat lists.
In tandem with that, owners of private passenger cars are reporting that Amtrak has been rejecting many requests to move passenger cars.
This particularly has affected car owners who store their cars in the middle of a route because Amtrak has decreed that it will not accept a private car at a station in which the scheduled dwell time is less than 30 minutes.
The implications of this policy change are, indeed, ominous.
It means that such longstanding traditions as the fall New River Train in West Virginia will end.
It means no more Amtrak fall foliage, railfan or rare mileage specials.
It means mainline steam moves are in jeopardy because they operate in cooperation with Amtrak and its liability insurance and use private passenger cars ferried by Amtrak.
It means private car owners who have sunk thousands of dollars into making and/or keeping their cars Amtrak compatible have few, if any, options to run their cars. Seeing a private passenger car or two on the back of an Amtrak train will become an even rarer sight.
Two groups representing private car owners, the American Association of Private Railroad Car Owners, and the Railroad Passenger Car Alliance have urged their members to contact public officials and opinion leaders to protest the policy change.
It is unclear how much effect that lobbying will have. Owning and operating a private railroad car is a rich man's game.
Because they tend to be affluent, private car owners might have better political connections than the typical railroad enthusiast or passenger train advocate.
But it is unlikely that public officials will view the Amtrak policy change as a pressing matter of public interest.
Some might see it as rich boys throwing a tantrum because they can't play with their toys.
Some passenger advocates have applauded Amtrak, which has sought to frame the change as an effort to improve the on-time performance of its trains.
Anderson's memo referenced trains being delayed due to switching cars and described special moves as a distraction.
He also suggested that specials and hauling private cars hasn't been all that profitable, but the memo was clumsily worded on this point.
When he wrote that the moves "failed to capture fully allocated profitable margins," I wonder if he really meant "failed to cover their fully allocated costs."
The latter was a term railroads used a lot in the 1960s when they wanted to discontinue passenger trains. Using that standard could make a train appear to be losing far more money than the "above the rail" standard which meant that a train earned enough revenue to cover its direct costs.
Some of what Anderson said in his memo few people would dispute. Who would be opposed to Amtrak running on time, operating safely, having clean passenger cars, providing friendly service and offering "great customer-facing technology?" Anderson would have you believe that running special trains are hindering Amtrak's efforts to do those things.
There is likely more behind this policy change even if Anderson's memo hints at what that might be when it speaks of focusing on Amtrak's core mission.
Amid all of the chaff that I read on railfan chat list about the policy change was a thoughtful observation by someone who has seen Anderson use this playbook before.
The poster contended that when Anderson was CEO of Northwest Airlines, it was struggling financially and he discontinued most of the charter flights.
Northwest was devoting seven aircraft to this service, which accommodated professional sports teams among others. Anderson apparently feared that the liability if one of those charters had a catastrophe might wreck the airline.
But the move didn't turn out to be permanent. After Anderson felt he had sufficiently turned things around the charters returned.
Northwest was later acquired by Delta Air Line, which Anderson also headed. Today Delta is one of the most prominent operators of charter flights for professional sports teams.
The Cleveland Cavaliers, for example, are a regular customer as are many NBA teams.
So the Amtrak policy change might not be permanent, although you never know. One of the first moves that former Amtrak president David Gunn made after taking office was to get the passenger carrier out of the business of hauling mail and express.
Gunn used some of the same arguments that Anderson made to justify banning special moves and charters.
That was more than a decade ago and Amtrak trains still don't carry any mail. It sold its fleet of express cars.
Anderson may have philosophical reasons for banning special move, believing that Amtrak needs to do more to focus on its core mission.
Yet it is not clear if ending special moves was even his idea. He might have heard from field-level supervisors who have always disliked having to do something that is a non-standard operation.
And Anderson must answer to a board of directors and we don't know what "direction" they have given him.
There is some thought that Class 1 railroads will follow Amtrak's lead and impose even more stringent standards on the movement of passenger cars and passenger trains.
We've seen how the Wheeling & Lake Erie has banned all excursion trains and with a few limited exceptions won't move passenger cars in ferry moves.
But I'm reminded of something that W&LE chief Larry Parsons said when I interviewed him for an article I did several years ago for Trains magazine.
The Wheeling had just lost some iron ore traffic and in asking him about it I used the word "forever" as in the business was lost forever.
Parsons responded that "forever is a very long time."
Management changes and so do situations. People change their minds about how they view things. Some have described the Amtrak policy change as a work in progress and we haven't heard the last word on the new policy.
Anderson's memo left an opening for some special moves if they meet the railroad's strategic goals. Those can be defined broadly or defined narrowly.
We are entering an era in which special moves and mainline steam will be rarer than they are now. But not necessarily nonexistent. Forever is, after all, a very long time.
Tags:American Association of Private Railroad Car Owners, Amtrak, Amtrak charter trains, Amtrak chartered trains, Amtrak specials, private cars, Private passenger cars, Private railroad cars, private varnish, Richard Anderson
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Private Car Owners Scramble in Wake of Amtrak Policy Change
Amtrak's recent decision to cease running charter trains and specials as well as to curtail carriage of privately-owned passenger cars on its trains has sent a trade organization scrambling to rally its members to seek to apply political pressure on the passenger carrier to reverse the decision.
The American Association of Private Railroad Car Owners sent a memorandum to its members this week urging them to contact lawmakers and opinion leaders about the significance of private cars but acknowledged that there is little it can do to attack Amtrak's decision in court.
AAPRCO told its members in the memo that it is "working to get the most accurate information about the full extent of Amtrak's policy, which may not yet be firmly in place, and to mount the strongest possible effort to push back against it."
In the meantime, Amtrak's decision has prompted the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society to delay selling tickets for a planned trip in Chicago in September behind its 2-8-4 Nickel Plate Road No. 765.
The steam locomotive is to pull excursions between Chicago and Joliet, Illinois, on track owned by commuter railroad Metra.
However, the Fort Wayne group relies on privately-owned cars that would use Amtrak trains and facilities to reach Chicago.
Several private car owners have reported in recent weeks that Amtrak has rejected some of their requests to move their cars.
Amtrak's new policy pertaining to the carriage of private passenger cars will prohibit attaching and detaching those cars to Amtrak trains at points where an Amtrak train is scheduled to dwell for less than 30 minutes.
However, the carrier has yet to spell out in detail how it will handle private cars going forward.
"At this time, we feel it would be imprudent to open ticket sales as previously scheduled before we have more clarity on the situation," said a Fort Wayne Society news release. "As such, this policy will force us to revisit our contractual agreements with car owners, re-confirm both their availability and costs, and confirm Amtrak's ability to transport them to our venue. Amtrak's participation was critical to last year's Joliet Rocket trips."
It is not known yet if these development will affect a planned visit of the NKP 765 to the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad in late September.
For those excursions, the FtWRHS uses CVSR's own passenger fleet and does not need to bring in private passenger cars.
As for Amtrak's policy change pertaining to charter trains and special trains, AAPRCO President Robert Donnelley told his members that the association's annual convention and mid-year special trains are at risk.
"Amtrak's stated rationale for these changes is that private varnish has the potential to worsen on-time performance, which is a major concern of President and CEO Richard Anderson," Donnelley wrote. However, he took issue with that.
Another private car owner trade group, the Railroad Passenger Car Alliance said it has contacted Amtrak to express its concerns but it also has told its members that the implications of the Amtrak policy change are ominous.
"The policy as officially released on March 28, 2018, will have drastic effects on many private car owners, excursion operators, private companies, and tourism in many communities that utilize Amtrak's service," RPCA President W. Roger Fuehring told Trains magazine.
"As we move forward, we hope to have an open dialogue with Amtrak in regards to discussing this policy. We look forward to returning not only the revenue stream to Amtrak that we produce with our clientele, but the goodwill that we generate on behalf of Amtrak with every trip."
One point of contention in talks with Amtrak and the private car owners will be how much revenue the national passenger carrier receives from fees charged to handle the cars.
AAPRCO contends that the private car business adds $10 million in gross revenues to Amtrak, but a recent Wall Street Journal article said it was $4 million.
The memo written by Amtrak President Anderson and sent to employees that announced the ban on most special moves and charters suggested that Amtrak has not been recovering its fully allocated costs for those trains and that they have become a distraction.
AAPRCO's Donnelley has instructed his group's members to talk up the importance of private passenger cars and the number of jobs associated with the industry.
His memo said this would include employment at shops and other vendor facilities that support private passenger cars.
The railroad preservation community has launched an online petition to protest Amtrak's decision at the website change.org. The petition has received more than 450 signatures with a goal of 500.
Tags:American Association of Private Railroad Car Owners, Amtrak, Amtrak chartered trains, Amtrak specials, Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society, Nickel Plate 765, Nickel Plate Road 765, Nickel Plate Road No. 765, NKP 765 excursions, NKP 765 on CVSR, Railroad Passenger Car Alliance, Richard Anderson
AAPRCO Special Rolls Through Cleveland
On Sunday morning a seven-car American Association of Private Railroad Car Owners special went west through Cleveland.
The special consisted of Amtrak P42DC's 134 and 190; Pennsylvania 120; Juniata Terminal's Warrior Ridge; Morristown and Erie's Alexander Hamilton; former New York Central 43, Mount Vernon; former Pullman Pacific Home; and former NYC Babbling Brook.
I caught the special going through Berea and thought it looked somewhat like the Great Steel Fleet that the New York Central ran in the postwar era.
I probably should have gone to a more representative location such as Olmsted Falls with the depot but sometimes you take what you can get.
Article and Photographs by Todd Dillon
Tags:AAPRCO charter trains, American Association of Private Railroad Car Owners, Amtrak P42DC, passenger train, Private rail cars, Private railroad cars, Railroad passenger cars, Todd Dillon photography
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César Villanueva Arévalo (born 5 August 1946) is a Peruvian politician who was the prime minister of Peru from April 2018 to March 2019, and previously served as prime minister from October 2013 to February 2014. In 2007, he became governor of the San Martín Region. He was sworn in as prime minister by President Ollanta Humala on 31 October 2013, and is affiliated with centre-left parties. In the 2016 general elections, he was elected congressman representing San Martin under the Alliance for the Progress of Peru of César Acuña.

Early life
Villanueva was born on August 5, 1946, in Tarapoto city. He studied administration at the National University Federico Villarreal (UNFV).

Political career

Governor of San Martín
In January 2007, he became governor of San Martín after winning the election in November 2006 and was re-elected for a second term in the 2010 regional elections and served until he was appointed Prime Minister in 2013. During his term as governor, he served as president of the National Assembly of Regional Governments for two terms, between 2008 and 2009 and 2012 and 2013.

Prime Minister of Peru

First tenure
He became Prime Minister of Peru on October 31, 2013. On February 24, 2014, he resigned from the position of Premier, after the Minister of Economy Luis Miguel Castilla Rubio denied him on a television program his claim that he had spoken with him about a possible increase in the minimum wage. Days before, the first lady Nadine Heredia had also said that the issue of the minimum wage was not on the government's agenda. Faced with this series of denials, the opposition severely criticized the minister, describing me as just a "decorative figure." 7 Years later, before the Congressional Oversight Commission, Villanueva confirmed that he had resigned as a protest against the constant interference of Nadine Heredia in State issues, despite not having any position of public representation.

Second tenure
He became Prime Minister for a second time in April 2018, under President Martín Vizcarra. He presented his resignation in March 2019. He was replaced by Salvador del Solar.

Congressman
In the 2016 general elections, he was elected congressman representing the San Martin region under the Alliance for Progress of César Acuña.

Controversies

Arrest
On 26 November 2019, he was arrested preventatively, while being investigated for alleged influence peddling in a bribery case linked to Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht. His arrest was a request of the First Supreme Prosecutor's Office Specialized in crimes of Corruption of Officials, this under the orders of the prosecutor Jesús Fernández Alarcón, who requested a preliminary arrest warrant for seven days against him.

References

External links
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1946 births
Living people
Prime Ministers of Peru
Members of the Congress of the Republic of Peru
People from Tarapoto
Alliance for Progress (Peru) politicians
We Are Peru politicians

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UFO researcher Chase Kloetzke discussed sightings and investigative techniques. Open Lines occupied the latter half.
Joshua P. Warren reported on what he believes are organic living UFOs. Open Lines followed.


I was speaking to a few technology experts this week at conference I was attending on computer technology and stress.
I asked a few of the attendees what they thought of the present presidential campaign in the USA and they all pretty much shrugged their shoulders.
After speaking to them further to became clear to me that though technology experts have taken over pop culture there's one area they haven't mastered, politics.
It seems as if much of what happens in politics seems to be completely disconnected from the web-media demands for speed, volume, and topicality.
In my work as a leadership coach, content rich motivational speaker and trainer on game based thinking it has always amused me how the most brilliant leaders, software designers, and computer scientists are ignorant of the basic concepts of political science.
To understand politics one must begin with generally accepted facts, and the ability to discard assumptions. This requires that one give up political labels such as progressive liberal, tea party, conservative or libertarian. Then one must have a knowledge of games that allows one to contextualize new political information.
This is a highly politicized issue, but my blog post here has no political agenda. I'm not political because nothing could ever possibly be more annoying than American politics. I think both parties have good points, both also have a bunch of dumb people saying dumb things, and I want nothing to do with it. So I approached this post—like I try to with every post—from a standpoint of rationality and what I think makes sense.
Techies often have a distaste for government and politics which often motivates them to define themselves as ideological libertarians. When pressed to define what this "libertarian ideal" is they are unable to respond.
Here is a video of Bob Dylan singing about politics.
Ask Lewis Q. Do you speak about suffering and if so what determines how intense a person's suffering would be?
Lewis Answers: I speak a lot about it. A person may be a successful business person or sales person and still suffer.
The origin and cause of the suffering, its processes, the meaning it presents to the individual who is suffering, its related social, personal, and cultural behaviors, the knowledge of how to manage, reduce or eliminate the suffering and the benefits one might accrue for having suffered all influence the intensity of suffering. Add to this the frequency of each occurrence, the concurrence of mental, emotional, psychological, and spiritual, factors, combined with the duration of the suffering and you have a very wide range of experiences related to suffering. Buddhism, Landmark education, a slaes training or any other mental approach can't transcend this easily.
I have spoken of suffering in other newsletters but I think it is important to revisit the subjects. The 2015 holiday season is upon us and this is a time for great joy and suffering. Suffering can contribute to the organization of meaning in an individual's psychological and emotional world. It is a mistake to assume that suffering is all negative. Suffering is merely an expression of natural law and a tool for survival. For the unaware individual, it is often a very negative experience, especially when the result of poor choices one may have made in the recent or distant past.
Suffering is the disruptive, necessary mental, emotional, psychological, and spiritual experience of unpleasantness and aversion associated with harm or threat of harm. There is some suffering which is necessary. All other suffering is a self created illusion.
Compassion, one of the most worthy, desired, and admired of human qualities, comes from our recognition of the suffering of others. The suffering of others may give meaning and direction to our own lives and may motivate and inspire us to serve those in need. This service, in turn, creates a larger sense of community.
There are many variables that might increase or decrease a person's suffering. The main factor is a person's attitude about the suffering combined with their emotional response and personal beliefs about such things as whether the suffering was undeserved or deserved, unavoidable or avoidable, useless or useful.
At times ones suffering can be so expansive as to possess mental, emotional, psychological or spiritual elements. Which is worse? It all depends on a person's perspective on life pain and pleasure. The Wisdom Path is a way to dissolve unnecessary suffering.
Lewis Harrison offers stress management programs throughout the United States. Part of this company offers chair massage company, through eventschairmassage.com. It provides seated and chair massage for stress management seminars and trainings as well to special events for meeting planners and meeting professionals in New York City, New Jersey Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Cleveland, Greensboro NC, Florida and other major meeting and conventions venues.
Recently we held a conference on stress management at the Catskills Bed and Breakfast – www.TheCatskillsBedandBreakfast.com -. We had speakers, training sessions and offered corporate on-site chair massage during the breaks. During the conference the question of "What is "Truth" kept arising.
Fundamentally, logic is concerned with the patterns in reason that can help tell us if a proposition or statement is true or not. However, there is a concept of truth in an absolute sense that logic cannot effectively. address. How for instance would you use logic to address an emotional feeling, intuition or a metaphysics? Logicians can use formal languages to express the truths which they are concerned with, but this would be a type of truth as under some interpretation within some logical system. The question is, " Is there such a thing possible as an absolute logical truth (also called an analytic truth or a necessary truth)?" For this type of truth to exist it would need to be true in all possible worlds or under all possible interpretations. The mathematician Kurt Godel, a major influence in the creation of LHAGT does not support the idea that such a truth is possible. There will always be some exception.
One of the things that creates confusion for seekers of the truth is that they lack a distinction between something being "true" and something being a "fact". In logically based approaches to truth a fact and a truth are different. A fact, though a specific and accurate statement is only specific and accurate in this world and has only become a fact through time and the unfolding of history. However, the truth is specific and accurate not only in this world but in all worlds and all realities. Some philosophers call facts synthetic claims or contingencies because they are only so based and where they happen to exist.
Lewis Harrison is a motivational speaker specializing in game based thinking and applied game theory. He is a seminar leader, futurist, entrepreneur, NPR affiliated radio talk show (WIOXRadio.org) host, success and life coach and a best-selling author.
He is the creator of a web site – www.askLewis.com. that focuses on the application of gamification, decision science, positive psychology, happiness, and visionary thinking to solve basic, complex and extreme problems. He is the creator of a free course on personal growth and human potential.
Lewis also owns a company that offers stress management programs throughout the United States. Part of this company is his corporate chair massage company, eventschairmassage.com provides seated and chair massage for stress management seminars and trainings as well to special events for meeting planners and meeting professionals in New York City, New Jersey Las Veges, Dallas, Los Angeles, Cleveland, Greensboro NC, Florida and other major meeting and conventions venues.


CC Jerome doesn't need an introduction. Having played all over the world & lived in the USA for 10 years, he played with artists like Lee Rocker, Pep Torres, Levi Dexter, The Specials. He's also played backup with a number of rockabilly legends, such as Chuck Berry, Billy Lee Ray, Larry Donn, Joe Houston and Mac Curtis. CC Jerome returned to Holland in 2007 where he started The Jetsetters, a blues and soul injected rock'n'roll / rockabilly band.


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ok, the con starts July 17th or so this year. Neil is showing up this year, so I'll ask now, a full half year beforehand, who plans on going?
I do not plan on going...but you never know, a lot could happen in 6 months!
"Brody: Oh yes, the Bible speaks of the Ark leveling mountains and laying waste entire regions. An Amy who carries the Ark before her is invincible."
I'm definitely planning on going to Con. So many good comic creators! It should be lots of fun.
I have the heart of a child.
I keep it in a jar on my desk.
and hopefully every day, since i got the full-membership. i basically got it just so that i don't miss the opportunity of maybe shaking neil gaiman's hand.
Right on. The more, the merrier. Any idea what hotel you're in, GM?
We should all go somewhere and cause havoc on a slow day, though.
As for wreckin havoc, I should note that Zoe is also going to the con, so no bars or adult ent. for me!
Ooh! I'll be going all days, I believe, but does anyone know when Mr Gaiman is going to be there? I will take my decrepit copy of Neverwhere for him to sign.
There is no custom member title here.
I very much doubt I could go to the con. If i can go, I will.
http://lon.blogspot.com -- Its a slightly less eloquent me.
Those are just the official ones. Lots and lotsa people show up who aren't scheduled that just want to hang out or promote stuff... I think last year, Arnold Schwartzenegger and James Cameron were both there and showed a clip from T3, but it wasn't on the schedule or anything. And Kevin Smith usually comes the whole time just wandering around and generally basking in geekiness. My dad hung out with Matt Groening all day one day.
I'll be there. [Like that's a freaking surprise to anyone. I've only been there the last 24 times.] Poor Neil. It's gonna be even worse than the last time he showed up and needed a bodyguard.
i shook his hand, he signed my volume one with "diana, sweet dreams... neil gaiman." i also had my picture taken with him. then he and a woman sitting next to him ogled at my shirt, wondering about its origins. it was a Sandman shirt they'd never seen. it has the quote "we do what we do because of who we are. if we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves." it pictures the image of Dream clasping his hands together, fingers interlaced, and looking semi-evil. a mike dringenberg, i think. the lady asked if it was a hot topic shirt, to which i grimaced and said "yes, unfortunately." then neil was pointing out instances in the drawing of Dream that he said he had never even noticed before. "oh my god! i never even saw that! his hands look funny!" they must have stared at my shirt for like half a minute. it was funny and a bit awkward! haha. but he was really awesome. before meeting him, and just knowing what i knew of him from the few images i'd seen of him, and the few descriptions of him as not being a big fan of large gatherings based on his work, or doing signings, i figured he'd be introverted and shy. but he wasn't. he seemed warm and pleasantly outgoing. also, from his pictures, he didn't seem so british to me, but upon meeting him and studying his face, i made up my mind that he looked totally british! actually, the instant i saw him approaching the table, i thought, "that's him! oh my god! he is totally british." he was wearing his black leather jacket and some cool blue tinted shades. he reminded me of john lennon.
on sunday, when i attended his and dave mckean's (this guy was shy) panel discussion, he even told us about a time he went to a sushi restaurant with a friend. he had a doll of himself with him; an artist had made it for him and had just given it to him. his waitress asked if it was of him, to which he said yes. she was amazed. "are you... john lennon?" we all laughed. he had told he wasn't. but afterwards, she asked for his autograph and said, "don't worry, i don't tell anybody." he still signed his own name. the story was cool.
he also elaborated on some great subjects within the sandman. and how he had originally thought of Death as an ice blond woman. but when dringenberg gave him the first sketch of death as the death we all know and love, he wasn't sure. dringenberg borrowed the image of death from one of his friends, by the way, in case you guys didn't already know. anyway, later, gaiman was at a cafe with a friend, and they were discussing the dream sketch, when they realized their waitress was exactly like dringenberg's description of his friend. the black garb, black hair and stylish facial make-up, and the ankh. gaiman turned to his friend and said "that's her." they never asked her, but from that moment on, he adopted that rendition of death. i just thought that was a great story; i didn't know that. it was so exciting!
he also talked about his story on wolves in the walls being spawned from an idea his daughter planted in his mind. can't wait to read that. gotta read coraline too!
i wrote too much. talk to you guys later!
Wednesday - Zoe & I flew into town. Zoe hadn't been on a plane since the 1999 comicon and had forgotten what it was like, so she was psyked. She loved it. We got in early enough to make it to preview night (yay!), and we got to see some cool people. A few of the people there recognize Zoe & I just because Zoe's been coming since she was born and they've seen her grow up, so we walked around and said hi. We got to see Jill, and Brian Froud, and at Charles Vess's booth, they had fairy dust, so Zoe got sprinkled with that. My first dollars were spent at the CBLDF booth, and I resigned up Zoe & myself. We went back to the hotel and swam, which Zoe had been looking foward to. For the past while, the AZ fires have made it too smokey to swim here afterall.
On Thursday, we had breakfast at the Mariott because last year they let us have a piece of bread to feed the ducks just outside the restaurant. This year there were ducklings even (so cute!) but they wouldn't give us bread because of a change of rules! And a few minutes later some other kid came by with bread! Grr!
One of our traditions at the con is Zoe getting so tired that I put her on my shoulders where she takes a nap with her head atop mine. We fulfilled the tradition. She slept through Neil's showing of A Short Film About John Bolton, which was very good, though I wish I hadn't known about some things I knew from reading Neil's journal.
And at the hotel we swam.
I promised Zoe that if she behaved she could get some fairy wings they were selling at Vess's booth, so we began the day buying those. Zoe got some more sketches, and I bought her a stuffed Catbus. Bumped into my mother at the con (I tell you, the con has everything!). We saw the premiere of the Scary Godmother animated cartoon (woo!) and afterwards, Jill had 3 prizes to give out - a piece of art and two bowls painted like jack-o-lanterns. Zoe won one of the bowls After that was the Mirrormask panel, and the movie looks BLOODY AWESOME. Later on, Zoe spotted the guy dressed up as Pikachu and followed him around hugging him.
On Saturday, Zoe spent the day with my mum and I went to the con alone. Saw several people I knew including my Tucson friend Miko who's been hanging at NBM, and Walker who introduced me to some thingies. He also intoduced me to Holly, who has been to my Holly website and I had her sign a bunch of stuff, including some she's never seen. Saw a Neil panel. The lady Noles, who was watching over Gaiman, was expecting Beatlemania I think, so she had us make a red rover line to make an unhampered passage for Neil to walk through. The line was half thingies, half klingon. odd. That night was the CBLDF auction, where I spent a fair chunk of coin for a good cause. Afterwards was Neil's reading, which was very nice indeed. Happiest moment of the con was hanging around after the reading, around midnight, talking to people like Holly (very nice individual that), being thanked by Charles Brownstein, who appears to have recognized me from the CBLDF ebay auction winners a year before, and thanked by Neil for doing board stuff followed by him signing a copy of Wolves in the Walls he had for Zoe. A fine day.
Sunday. Zoe was with me again. I bumped into a girl I hadn't seen for a year who was going to be in Tucson this past week and claimed to have my number, ...but she didn't (so she tried to call me through a friend through a friend through a friend, but failed, ah well). Zoe got a ty beanie baby Mothra. At one point we turned around and saw Hulk Hogan, I swear! (comicon has everything) Zoe got a last few sketches from people. Jill, who wasn't doing sketches for anyone because she had a brace on due to tendinitis, did a left-handed Bug-A-Boo for Zoe. Then we left.
We did more as well, but I ain't telling everything.
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Does anyone know when ComicCon 2010 will be held? The exact dates?
This would really help me plan my summer in [and again]San Diego[/url].
Comic-Con starts next week, July 22-25. If you go to the website right now, they are, somehow, still selling four day passes but those will probably go really fast.


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The Student's Profile
Activity Groups
Primary School Teaching Staff
Enrolment and Transfers
More about Primary School
Foreword from the Head of School
School Leaving Exams
Acceptance Procedure
School Successes
Grammar School Teaching Staff
More about Grammar School
We Encourage Independence
Life in the Dormitories
Education outside of School Hours
All-Day Catering
Dormitories Team
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Primary School Services
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We offer several types of scholarship opportunities to grammar school students, including need-based scholarships from The Kellner Family Foundation, which have been awarded to 333 grammar school students thus far. Other students can lower their tuition fees through an academic scholarship or a scholarship for outstanding contribution to society and the school community.
Need-based
For outstanding contributions
Need-based scholarship from The Kellner Family Foundation
Who is this scholarship intended for?
Academically gifted children who pass the entrance exam to our grammar school, but whose parents/guardians are not able to pay tuition fees. They are mainly awarded to children from children's homes or children enrolled in foster care. The scholarship also applies to children from low-income families.
The need-based scholarship can be awarded to students enrolled in the first year, ie the prima, as well as to students who are transferring to our school in a higher year.
The need-based scholarship has been awarded to 333 grammar school students so far, which is approximately half of all of our students since the grammar school opened in 2005.
The value of the scholarship
The value of the scholarship is considered by the Foundation's Board of Trustees for each child individually. It depends on each student's income and economic background. Some students receive a full scholarship, covering all study expenses, including textbooks and teaching aids, accommodation, meals, school uniforms, excursions in the Czech Republic and abroad, exchange stays, leisure activities, medical and psychological care, laundry, library access, swimming pool, and other leisure activities on campus. The Foundation may also award students a partial scholarship, one that is lower than the tuition fee, and partially covers costs.
Where to find application forms and more information
You can find more detailed information about the need-based scholarship on The Kellner Family Foundation's website. It is crucial to adhere to the deadlines for submitting scholarship applications as well as the application's requirements.
Deadline for submitting applications
Necessary forms
You can read more about the scholarship's target applicants
grammar school students have received need-based scholarships between 2005 and 2018
million crowns have been paid out for need-based scholarships (2005 - 2018)
Who is awarded this scholarship?
Students with excellent academic results, and who are deeply rooted in the Open Gate philosophy and mission. These students set the best examples for their classmates. They are actively involved in our community service and project day programmes, they pose questions at school both inside and outside of the classroom and they take on academic challenges. In short, they have taken their education into their own hands and are rising to their full potential.
Students from the first year through to the seventh years (prima to septima) can apply for this scholarship and the scholarship can be awarded repeatedly – as many times as the student deserves. This means students are constantly motivated to repeat their excellent performance each year.
A student's academic scholarship covers 25%, 50%, or 75% of the total annual tuition fee. The number of scholarships awarded and the amount awarded always depends on the individuals financial situation and every school year may be different.
How to apply for the scholarship
The student must write an essay in Czech or English in which they detail why they deserve the scholarship. They should evaluate their learning progress, their efforts, and their contributions to school and community life. The essay will be accompanied by a letter of recommendation from a member of the teaching staff.
The student will send the essay along with the letter of recommendation via email to schramlova@opengate.cz. The deadline is 15 March of each year.
How we decide to award the scholarships
Every year, scholarship applications are assessed by a committee consisting of the school's Director, Deputy Director, Community Activity Coordinator(s), and the Head of the Counselling Services. Naturally, the Board can also ask any one of the members of the teaching staff to consult an application.
The committee will then select the students from the scholarship applicants who will progress through to the second round and take part in an interview. In the second round, students present their academic portfolio to the committee. The portfolio includes materials showcasing their academic successes.
Students are informed of the decision regarding their application by 15 May of the same year.
Scholarship for outstanding contribution to society and the school's community
Students who make a true contribution to the life of the school, and who represent Open Gate's social values and ethical principles. They are students who are aware of their social and global responsibility, who participate in our community programmes or other projects, and who serve as proud ambassadors for the school. At the same time, they are students who are seen to enrich the school community.
Students from the first year through the seventh years (prima to septima) can apply for the scholarship for outstanding contribution to society and the school's community. Of course, this scholarship can be awarded repeatedly – as many times as the student deserves. Students are motivated to participate in long-term social projects.
A scholarship for outstanding contribution covers 25% of the total annual tuition fee. The number of awarded scholarships and the amounts always depend on the finances available for this cause. Every school year may be different.
The student must write an essay in Czech or English in which they detail why they deserve the scholarship. They will evaluate their contributions to the school community and participation in socially beneficial projects. The essay will be accompanied by a letter of recommendation from a member of the teaching staff.
Every year, scholarship applications are assessed by a committee consisting of the school's director, deputy director, community activity coordinator(s), and the head of the counselling centre. Naturally, the board can also ask any one of the members of the teaching staff to consult an application.
From among the scholarship applicants, the committee will select students for the second round, who will take part in an interview. In the second round, students present their portfolio to the committee. The portfolio includes materials showcasing their contributions to the school and society.
Open Gate
Foreword from the Headmistress
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Primary School | Enrolment and Transfers
Grammar School | Admissions
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When you have a dreamy beach picnic set up, you just have to share it with the world! I travelled down to Miami Beach for Miami Swim Week with my girls Nubiana, Kat, and Nikki! While we were down in Miami, we teamed up with some fabulous local companies to create this beautiful and tasty beach picnic! The wonderful South Pointe Tavern delivered the most delish spread of food and Janett and Co. made perfect macarons! The gorgeous handmade blanket is by Goldfinch.
The food was absolutely delish, I just couldn't get enough! If you are ever in the Miami Beach area I highly recommend stopping by South Pointe Tavern for a drink and amazing food, then run by Janett and Co. for a sweet treat!
If you're planning a beach picnic in the summer, I would highly, highly recommend bringing 1. a portable fan, and 2. and umbrella. The summer heat, especially in Miami is excruciatingly hot. The other option is to wait it out and do a winter beach picnic. Everything was amazing, and we had a blast, even if we did sweat a bit.
Yumm making me hungry all over again haha!!


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Expected mayhem in Baku ends up being a yawn
by The F1 Blogger · June 20, 2016
Formula 1 had been braced for crashes and mayhem in Azerbaijan's grand prix debut but instead the drivers defied all expectations and barely put a wheel out of place.
But in the end what was expected to be a thriller on in Baku – a challenging street circuit admired by all the drivers – ended up being a yawn for race fans.
The safety car never left the pit lane, there were no accidents and none of the four cars that failed to finish hit anything. It was all a bit of an anti-climax, if also a relief that nobody got hurt.
"It was a bit unexpected. I got everyone's hopes up by saying it could be the race of the season, It was, however, pretty uneventful," said Red Bull's Australian Daniel Ricciardo.
Maybe, as some suggested, watching the earlier GP2 support series turn into a demolition derby had influenced their behaviour.
"I think all the drivers probably watched the GP2 race, scared themselves witless and behaved impeccably throughout the grand prix," said Red Bull team principal Christian Horner with his tongue somewhat in cheek.
"To not even have a virtual safety car, I don't think anybody could have predicted that before the race. Especially with how many offs we've seen in all the sessions leading up to the race."
Horner said the need to save tyres to make a one-stop strategy work had played a part. But so too had simple skill.
"We're all much more experienced and we're able to avoid the incidents better and we also learned a lot from what was going on in the GP2, for sure," said Mercedes' race winner Nico Rosberg.
"I think it speaks for the quality," said four times world champion Sebastian Vettel, who was second for Ferrari. "I think we've talked a lot about this track being high-risk, dangerous.
"I think we had some corners here where you don't want to think about what's happening if you get it wrong, very little room for mistakes and error. But then it definitely makes you more alert…"
Vettel said he did not think anyone was taking it easy, but neither were they about to take "any stupid approaches to risk".
Track designer Hermann Tilke saw strategy at play, with some drivers expecting a high rate of attrition and believing they could score points just by being there at the finish.
"They did a very conservative strategy, all the drivers," said the German. "And of course the drivers, and team managers maybe, saw the GP2 race and said: If you finish maybe you are in the points'. But this was not the case."
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Scrooge, 1935
Published by PublicDomainMovies on March 13, 2018
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Scrooge is a 1935 British fantasy film directed by Henry Edwards and starring Seymour Hicks, Donald Calthrop and Robert Cochran. Hicks appears as Ebenezer Scrooge, the miser who hates Christmas. It was the first sound version of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, not counting a 1928 short subject that now appears to be lost. Hicks had previously played the role of Scrooge on the stage many times beginning in 1901, and again in a 1913 British silent film version.
On Christmas Eve in 1843 Ebenezer Scrooge (Sir Seymour Hicks) a cold-hearted and greedy elderly money-lender is seen working in his freezing counting house along with his suffering, under-paid clerk Bob Cratchit (Donald Calthrop). Two fellow business men arrive at the counting house to collect a donation for the poor from Scrooge but the old man instead supports the prisons and workhouses and goes as far to say if the poor would rather die then they 'better do it and decrease the surplus population'. Scrooge catches Bob trying to take some coal but warns him he will be out of a job if he does not go back to work. Scrooge then refuses to dine with his only relative Fred his nephew and claims Christmas is 'Humbug!'.
That night after work Bob goes home to celebrate the holidays with his family while Scrooge dines alone at a seedy pub while the lords and ladies of London celebrate Christmas with the Lord Mayor of London. At his house Scrooge encounters the ghost of his seven-year dead partner Jacob Marley (Who is invisible in this version) who wears a chain he 'forged in life' from his own wicked career. He tells Scrooge he will be haunted by three spirits in order to escape his fate.
That night as Marley warned Scrooge is haunted by the Ghost of Christmas Past (Marie Ney) who shows Scrooge when he lost his fiancée due to his greedy nature towards others including a debt-ridden couple. Scrooge then sees that his ex-fiancée is now married and has many children.
The next sprit the Ghost of Christmas Present (Oscar Asche) shows Scrooge just how poor Bob and his family are as they have a meager Christmas dinner of goose and pudding. The spirit threatens that unless the future changes Tiny Tim (Philip Frost) the youngest son who is ill will die. Scrooge then sees how others keep Christmas before seeing Fred celebrate with his wife and friends.
The Ghost of Christmas of yet to Come (C.V. France) shows Scrooge what lies in store the following year. Scrooge discovers Tim is dead and that the man that was robbed and spoken of by some businessmen was himself after seeing his grave.
Scrooge returns home a changed man and becomes a generous person. He orders a turkey for Bob and his family, gives a healthy donation to the two men from the day before and dines with Fred. The film then ends with Scrooge raising Bob's wages and that he will be a stepfather to Tim before the two attend church together.
By Henry Edwards and Julius Hagen (Scrooge (1935) at Internet Archive) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Posted in Fantasy films Tagged 1935, Charles Dickens, Donald Calthrop, Henry Edwards, Robert Cochran, Seymour Hicks


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// Copyright 2014 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
// found in the LICENSE file.

package org.chromium.chromecast.shell;

import android.net.http.AndroidHttpClient;
import android.util.Log;

import org.apache.http.HttpHost;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.HttpStatus;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
import org.apache.http.entity.InputStreamEntity;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.SequenceInputStream;
import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException;
import java.util.concurrent.Executors;
import java.util.concurrent.Future;
import java.util.concurrent.ScheduledExecutorService;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

/**
 * Crash crashdump uploader. Scans the crash dump location provided by CastCrashReporterClient
 * for dump files, attempting to upload all crash dumps to the crash server.
 *
 * Uploading is intended to happen in a background thread, and this method will likely be called
 * on startup, looking for crash dumps from previous runs, since Chromium's crash code
 * explicitly blocks any post-dump hooks or uploading for Android builds.
 */
public final class CastCrashUploader {
    private static final String TAG = "CastCrashUploader";
    private static final String CRASH_REPORT_HOST = "clients2.google.com";
    private static final String CAST_SHELL_USER_AGENT = android.os.Build.MODEL + "/CastShell";
    // Multipart dump filename has format "[random string].dmp[pid]", e.g.
    // 20597a65-b822-008e-31f8fc8e-02bb45c0.dmp18169
    private static final String DUMP_FILE_REGEX = ".*\\.dmp\\d*";

    private final ScheduledExecutorService mExecutorService;
    private final String mCrashDumpPath;
    private final String mCrashReportUploadUrl;

    public CastCrashUploader(String crashDumpPath, boolean uploadCrashToStaging) {
        this.mCrashDumpPath = crashDumpPath;
        mCrashReportUploadUrl = uploadCrashToStaging
                ? "http://clients2.google.com/cr/staging_report"
                : "http://clients2.google.com/cr/report";
        mExecutorService = Executors.newScheduledThreadPool(1);
    }

    /**
     * Sets up a periodic uploader, that checks for new dumps to upload every 20 minutes
     */
    public void startPeriodicUpload() {
        mExecutorService.scheduleWithFixedDelay(
                new Runnable() {
                    @Override
                    public void run() {
                        queueAllCrashDumpUploads(false /* synchronous */, null);
                    }
                },
                0,  // Do first run immediately
                20, // Run once every 20 minutes
                TimeUnit.MINUTES);
    }

    public void uploadCrashDumps(final String logFilePath) {
        queueAllCrashDumpUploads(true /* synchronous */, logFilePath);
    }

    public void removeCrashDumps() {
        File crashDumpDirectory = new File(mCrashDumpPath);
        for (File potentialDump : crashDumpDirectory.listFiles()) {
            if (potentialDump.getName().matches(DUMP_FILE_REGEX)) {
                potentialDump.delete();
            }
        }
    }

    /**
     * Searches for files matching the given regex in the crash dump folder, queueing each
     * one for upload.
     * @param synchronous Whether or not this function should block on queued uploads
     * @param logFile Log file to include, if any
     */
    private void queueAllCrashDumpUploads(boolean synchronous, String logFile) {
        if (mCrashDumpPath == null) return;
        Log.d(TAG, "Checking for crash dumps");

        LinkedList<Future> tasks = new LinkedList<Future>();
        final AndroidHttpClient httpClient = AndroidHttpClient.newInstance(CAST_SHELL_USER_AGENT);
        File crashDumpDirectory = new File(mCrashDumpPath);
        for (File potentialDump : crashDumpDirectory.listFiles()) {
            String dumpName = potentialDump.getName();
            if (dumpName.matches(DUMP_FILE_REGEX)) {
                int dumpPid;
                try {
                    dumpPid = Integer.parseInt(
                        dumpName.substring(dumpName.lastIndexOf(".dmp") + 4));
                } catch (NumberFormatException e) {
                    // Likely resulting from failing to parse an empty string, set value to 0
                    dumpPid = 0;
                }
                // Check if the dump we found has pid matching this process, and if so include
                // this process's log.
                // TODO(kjoswiak): Currently, logs are lost if dump cannot be uploaded right away.
                if (dumpPid == android.os.Process.myPid()) {
                    tasks.add(queueCrashDumpUpload(httpClient, potentialDump, new File(logFile)));
                } else {
                    tasks.add(queueCrashDumpUpload(httpClient, potentialDump, null));
                }
            }
        }

        // When finished uploading all of the queued dumps, release httpClient
        tasks.add(mExecutorService.submit(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                httpClient.close();
            }
        }));

        // Wait on tasks, if necessary.
        if (synchronous) {
            for (Future task : tasks) {
                // Wait on task. If thread received interrupt and should stop waiting, return.
                if (!waitOnTask(task)) {
                    return;
                }
            }
        }
    }

    /**
     * Enqueues a background task to upload a single crash dump file.
     */
    private Future queueCrashDumpUpload(final AndroidHttpClient httpClient, final File dumpFile,
            final File logFile) {
        return mExecutorService.submit(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                Log.d(TAG, "Uploading dump crash log: " + dumpFile.getName());

                try {
                    InputStream uploadCrashDumpStream = new FileInputStream(dumpFile);
                    InputStream logFileStream = null;

                    // Dump file is already in multipart MIME format and has a boundary throughout.
                    // Scrape the first line, remove two dashes, call that the "boundary" and add it
                    // to the content-type.
                    FileInputStream dumpFileStream = new FileInputStream(dumpFile);
                    String dumpFirstLine = getFirstLine(dumpFileStream);
                    String mimeBoundary = dumpFirstLine.substring(2);

                    if (logFile != null) {
                        Log.d(TAG, "Including log file: " + logFile.getName());
                        StringBuffer logHeader = new StringBuffer();
                        logHeader.append(dumpFirstLine);
                        logHeader.append("\n");
                        logHeader.append(
                                "Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"log\"; filename=\"log\"\n");
                        logHeader.append("Content-Type: text/plain\n\n");
                        InputStream logHeaderStream =
                                new ByteArrayInputStream(logHeader.toString().getBytes());
                        logFileStream = new FileInputStream(logFile);

                        // Upload: prepend the log file for uploading
                        uploadCrashDumpStream = new SequenceInputStream(
                                new SequenceInputStream(logHeaderStream, logFileStream),
                                uploadCrashDumpStream);
                    }

                    InputStreamEntity entity = new InputStreamEntity(uploadCrashDumpStream, -1);
                    entity.setContentType("multipart/form-data; boundary=" + mimeBoundary);

                    HttpPost uploadRequest = new HttpPost(mCrashReportUploadUrl);
                    uploadRequest.setEntity(entity);
                    HttpResponse response =
                            httpClient.execute(new HttpHost(CRASH_REPORT_HOST), uploadRequest);

                    // Expect a report ID as the entire response
                    String responseLine = getFirstLine(response.getEntity().getContent());

                    int statusCode = response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();
                    if (statusCode == HttpStatus.SC_OK) {
                        Log.d(TAG, "Successfully uploaded to " + mCrashReportUploadUrl
                                + ", report ID: " + responseLine);
                    } else {
                        Log.e(TAG, "Failed response (" + statusCode + "): " + responseLine);

                        // 400 Bad Request is returned if the dump file is malformed. If requeset
                        // is not malformed, shortcircuit before clean up to avoid deletion and
                        // retry later, otherwise pass through and delete malformed file
                        if (statusCode != HttpStatus.SC_BAD_REQUEST) {
                            return;
                        }
                    }

                    // Delete the file so we don't re-upload it next time.
                    uploadCrashDumpStream.close();
                    dumpFileStream.close();
                    dumpFile.delete();

                    if (logFile != null && logFile.exists()) {
                        logFileStream.close();
                        logFile.delete();
                    }
                } catch (IOException e) {
                    Log.e(TAG, "File I/O error trying to upload crash dump", e);
                }
            }
        });
    }

    /**
     * Gets the first line from an input stream, opening and closing readers to do so.
     * We're targeting Java 6, so this is still tedious to do.
     * @return First line of the input stream.
     * @throws IOException
     */
    private String getFirstLine(InputStream inputStream) throws IOException {
        InputStreamReader streamReader = null;
        BufferedReader reader = null;
        try {
            streamReader = new InputStreamReader(inputStream);
            reader = new BufferedReader(streamReader);
            return reader.readLine();
        } finally {
            if (reader != null) {
                reader.close();
            }
            if (streamReader != null) {
                streamReader.close();
            }
        }
    }

    /**
     * Waits until Future is propagated
     * @return Whether thread should continue waiting
     */
    private boolean waitOnTask(Future task) {
        try {
            task.get();
            return true;
        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
            // Was interrupted while waiting, tell caller to cancel waiting
            return false;
        } catch (ExecutionException e) {
            // Task execution may have failed, but this is fine as long as it finished
            // executing
            return true;
        }
    }
}

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More than 7,000 listeners tuned in to our webcast on improving root cause analyses—a clear indication that health professionals and organizations want help with their RCA process.
Root cause analyses have been used in health care for a long time, but the success of these investigations has been variable across organizations and the industry. As discussed at a July 15 webcast hosted by NPSF there has been a lack of standardization in the process, failure to identify systems-level causes, and, too many times, the solutions put in place after the event are not strong enough to fix the problem that caused it. On top of that, it is not unusual for busy health professionals to fail in following up to make sure the solutions they put in place are working as intended.
More than 7,000 listeners tuned in to the webcast, RCA2: Improving Root Cause Analyses and Actions to Prevent Harm, which provided an overview of the report of the same name that NPSF released in June. The high number of attendees for this session is a clear indication that health professionals and organizations want help with their RCA process.
Speakers Jim Bagian, MD, PE, and Doug Bonacum, CSP, CPPS, NPSF board members who led the panel that drafted the new guidelines, began with an explanation of the report's name. "RCA squared" refers to the fact that there are two As: root cause analyses and actions.
Root cause analysis, said Bagian, is a misnomer, because seldom is there only one root cause. Moreover, analysis does not solve anything by itself; more important is the fact that actions need to be taken to prevent future harm.
So what do the guidelines recommend? First of all, Bagian pointed out that RCA2 was put together to provide much-needed standardization and a road map for how to conduct a successful RCA that would result in effective and sustainable action that would prevent future harm to patients. The report received endorsement by a number of organizations from across the country in recognition of its value in enabling users to achieve greater impact for improving patient safety.
The purpose of an RCA2 is to find out what happened, why it happened, and what you are going to do to prevent it from happening in the future.
Use a risk-based prioritization scheme to determine what warrants an RCA2. A risk-based approach includes weighing the severity and likelihood of an event along with the actual or potential harm is poses. Risk-based prioritization allows examination of close calls, which can be a harbinger of an event.
Involve patients and families. Those directly involved in the event should be interviewed to share their perspectives of what happened, but they should not be a part of the RCA2 team. The RCA2 team should include a patient/family representative—for example, a member of the hospital's Patient and Family Advisory Council.
Use an action hierarchy. The actions taken in the wake of an event and an RCA2 are the most important component, because strong actions will prevent the event from recurring. Warnings and increased training, for example, have historically been shown to be relatively weak in preventing a recurrence, while actions such as forcing functions or a simplified process that removes unnecessary steps is more likely to yield success.
Involve the organization's leadership and board. For the process to be successful, Bonacum said, it is critical that it be embraced at all levels of the organization, including the CEO and board of directors. This would involve, for example, the allocation of resources to conduct RCAs, but also the CEO's review and approval of all actions recommended by the RCA2 team. Actions that are not approved should be documented so that the team knows why and can create another action that will be accepted. The report includes warning signs of an ineffective RCA, to help CEOs in their review.
NPSF thanks The Doctors Company Foundation for support of the production of the report and webcast. If you have not had a chance to read the report—or listen to the webcast replay—visit the web page.
James P. Bagian, MD, PE, is the director of the Center for Health Engineering and Patient Safety at the University of Michigan.
Doug Bonacum, CSP, CPPS, is vice president for Quality, Safety, and Resource Management at Kaiser Permanente.


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RAISE, acrónimo inglés de Rigorous Approach to Industrial Software Engineering, en español «Enfoque Riguroso para Ingeniería de Software Industrial», fue desarrollado como parte del proyecto europeo ESPRIT II LaCoS de los años 1990, dirigido por Dines Bjørner. Consiste en un conjunto de herramientas en torno al lenguaje de especificación (RSL) para el desarrollo de software. Cuenta con el apoyo especial de UNU-IIST en Macau, que imparte cursos allí y en el resto del mundo, especialmente en países en vías de desarrollo.

Véase también
 Método formal
 Especificación formal

Enlaces externos
 RAISE Virtual Library entry
 RAISE – Rigorous Approach to Industrial Software Engineering
 RAISE information de Dines Bjørner

Lenguajes de especificación
Ingeniería de software


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