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12th Street Amusements’ Ghost Hole is smack dab in the path of the City’s proposed extension of Wonder Wheel Way. October 11, 2015. Photo © Tricia Vita
At Monday’s public hearing on the City’s controversial plan to use eminent domain to acquire six privately owned lots for “the revitalization of Coney Island,” drawings show 12th Street Amusements’ Ghost Hole ride on “Block 8696, parts of lot 140” destined for condemnation. The land to the right of the ride, where a longtime Mom and Pop sublease property to operate a High Striker, is also on the part of the lot to be seized by the City. “There are no proposed alternative locations,” the public notice for the hearing published in the NY Post sternly warns.
Block 8696, parts of lot 140. the area marked in red is to be taken by eminent domain. October 19, 2015
The reason for the acquisitions was revealed: “Certain replacement parkland” is needed because of “the de-mapping of existing parkland,” stated the Parks Department attorney who ran the hearing. He did not explicitly say which parkland would be demapped, and since “this is not a question and answer forum” (he said twice), no questions were answered. However, it is published information and old news dating back to the Coney Island Rezoning of 2009, except that most people either forgot or never knew that the MCU parking lot, which is parkland owned by the City, is to be de-mapped and sold to a developer. What for? The construction of residential towers with height limits in the range of the Parachute Jump.
Among those who spoke out against it at those long ago rezoning hearings was preservationist Christabel Gough of the Society for the Architecture of the City, who said “In Paris, the Eiffel Tower is framed by parkland. Why is that impossible here?” Refresh your memory by looking at the City’s renderings from 2007. In order to de-map parkland, the State requires that it be replaced with parkland of equal acreage and the City must apply to the State for alienation legislation. However, with the Bloomberg administration’s zoning nearly 6 years ago and a new Mayor who ran as the anti-Bloomberg in place who knew the plan was still a go?
Coney Island Aerial: Detail of Conceptual Rendering Shows Residential Towers West and North of Keyspan Park, now MCU Park. CIDC Press Kit, 2007
As we wrote in “Steeplechase Pool, Zip Coaster Sites to Be De-Mapped for Housing” (January 11, 2010)
It’s a shame that part of the City’s Steeplechase property is set to become a residential enclave with million dollar views instead of additional acreage for Coney Island’s new amusement park.The fact that the Giuliani administration paved over Paradise–part of the Steeplechase Park site–to allow parkland to be turned into the Keyspan parking lot is bad enough (nod to Joni Mitchell’s “Big Yellow Taxi”). Now the Bloomberg administration is asking the state legislature to “alienate” and de-map the parkland/parking lot so it can be sold to a private developer to build 1,900 units of housing.
The Brooklyn Cyclones ballpark was built on the site of Steeplechase’s Pavilion of Fun, but the ballpark is a recreational use and helped revitalize Coney Island when it opened in 2001. A mass of apartment towers on the edge of a dwarfed amusement area is another story, though the City insists 5,000 units of housing is a necessary component of their plan to revitalize Coney Island.
Detail of CIDC Map of of Coney Island Redevelopment Plan. Salmon and cream color denote residential and residential towers north and west of MCU Park, 2007
News reports prior to Monday’s hearing focused on the acquisition of long vacant land such as the former Thunderbolt lot, but the land grab is not about punishing property owners for keeping their holdings vacant. If it were, Thor Equities’ blighted lot on Surf Avenue and West 12th Street, among others, and Bullard’s Shore Theater, vacant for 40 years, would also be on the list of properties to be taken by condemnation.
As we already noted, the proposed acquisition includes property currently and historically used for amusement attractions. “Block 8696, parts of lot 140” is owned by the Murray family and has been used for amusement rides for over 100 years, Carol Murray said in her comments at the hearing. The taking of the land constituted “abuse,” she added. In negotiations with the City’s Economic Development Corporation, she said she is being asked to sell the property to the City, which will then lease a portion of it back to her to operate the amusements that already exist on the spot. “It fails to meet the standards of eminent domain,” she said.
Carol Murray, whose family owns a lot leased to 12th St Amusements that is set to be taken by eminent domain by the City, calls the procedure “abuse” at public hearing. October 19, 2015. Photo © Tricia Vita
While many of our Coney friends have said they’re in the dark about what the City is up to, eminent domain in Coney Island is nothing new. Remember Robert Moses? (ICYMI Read Chapter 5 of Charles Denson’s Coney Island: Lost and Found). Remember the behind the scenes bargaining leading up to the Coney Island Rezoning of 2009? (ICYMI See Amy Nicholson’s film Zipper: Coney Island’s Last Wild Ride). In fact, why write new text when we can recycle old ATZ blog posts that are pertinent once again. As we wrote in “Eminent Domain in Coney Island? Fuhgeddaboutit!” (July 31, 2012):
The Bloomberg administration was right to back off from the idea of taking land by condemnation from Thor Equities and other Coney Island property owners during the rezoning hearings in 2009. Under sharp questioning by City Council land use committee members, the EDC’s Seth Pinsky was forced to admit, “I’m not saying we will use eminent domain, but in fairness to your question, I’m not saying we won’t.” In order to get Council members to agree to vote for the zoning, the EDC instead had to negotiate an agreement to buy property from Thor Equities. At the same time, other property owners were no longer threatened by E.D.
We attended that land use committee hearing too, and left with the impression ED was off the table. But that was the Bloomberg administration. A new administration doesn’t have to follow the playbook of the previous one. Back in the ’60s Fred Trump destroyed Steeplechase Park, one of Coney Island’s most famous amusement parks, confident that he would get to develop the “south side” of Surf. That effort failed. The City rejected Trump’s proposed zoning change to develop Miami-style apartments on the beachfront where they approved them in the rezoning of 2009.
Fred’s son Donald Trump has been in the news recently for saying “eminent domain is wonderful.” No one suggested anything like that at Monday’s hearing. The support was tepid with the exception of Dick Zigun, Coney Island’s self-proclaimed Mayor, who jumped on the ED bandwagon by saying “Finish the job.”
Pamela Pettyjohn of the Coney Island Beautification Project said, “Once you open the door for eminent domain, you can’t close it back. It can be abused. Everyone can be in jeopardy.” Ironically the Supreme Court case of Kelo v the City of New London that makes it possible for the City to condemn privately owned property so that it could be used as part of a “comprehensive redevelopment plan” did not turn out to be for the public good in New London. The seized property is a vacant lot ten years after the court’s decision.
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Seeing Red Template MashUp Challenge
February is Valentine month which means there’s lots of red in the stores. This inspired me to look for some templates with red elements to use for this week’s Template MashUp Challenge. I found these two great ones with lots of possibilities:
Somebody Loves You Layered Template
Layer Works No 770 Layered Template
Our Creative Team has put together a bonanza of mashing inspiration for you this time! Valerie (nanavg) rearranged the photo spots and added some adorable photos for her page. She added a lovely blush pink background and topped it all off with a red border!
Kathy selected some of her favorite parts of the chosen templates and rearranged them into this sweet and creative page. I love her cutie pie black and white and color photos side by side. The gray background really makes those red bits pop!
Rachael (myssp) went a whole different direction and added a doggone cute theme to her page! I can totally understand why she loves that sweet face!
Stephanie’s inspiration page keeps the circular design of the first template and adds in the grids and border from the second template along with those absolutely adorable photos!
I decided to show off our Valentine’s Day heart shaped pizza on my page. I chose a few elements from each template and my page went together easily.
If you don’t already have these two red themed templates in your stash, they are on sale this week. I hope you will take some inspiration from the Creative Team’s great pages and create your own Seeing Red mashed up masterpiece. Be sure to post it in the Template Challenge gallery for everyone to enjoy. And, don’t forget to post a link to your page on the February Challenges Sign In page to earn a valuable coupon code to the KPD store!

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Sulawesi Utara (province)
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
A view showing people on a road in Manado with a background of jungle foliage. Manado lies near the tip of the north eastern arm of this strangely shaped island.
A view looking along a tree-shaded street in Manado with an umbrella-carrying pedestrian walking in the foreground.
A view looking along a street in Manado with houses on either side of the roadway and passers by watching the camera.
A view from the sea looking towards houses lining the waterfront at Manado.

domain: geography


F3 Robot System
Thermo Scientific* F3 robot system is designed for light payload applications and provides an articulated robot arm with six degrees of freedom, plus a powerful, multitasking controller. The Thermo Scientific F3 Robot System sets a new standard for "human-scale" robots, delivering a powerful combination of high speed, reliability, ease of use, and value. It dramatically increases walk-away tim...read more
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Thermo Scientific* F3 robot system is designed for light payload applications and provides an articulated robot arm with six degrees of freedom, plus a powerful, multitasking controller.
The Thermo Scientific F3 Robot System sets a new standard for "human-scale" robots, delivering a powerful combination of high speed, reliability, ease of use, and value. It dramatically increases walk-away time and reduces human error by automating container handling for a wide variety of instruments and devices. The F3 can carry payloads up to 3kg, enabling it to carry multiple containers at once.
The arm of the Thermo Scientific F3 Robot System communicates with its external controller, sensors and other devices along a dedicated communication network, eliminating the masses of wires required by traditional robots. The F3 arm can store position data for up to eight weeks, even if the robot and controller are disconnected. The Thermo Scientific C500C controller features include a true multitasking operating system, a sophisticated trajectory planner, 16 digital inputs, 12 digital outputs, one analog input, four relay outputs, two serial ports, an emergency stop button, and support for an optional Thermo Scientific Teach Pendant.
- Six degrees of freedom allow you to accurately position the tool flange at any point within the workspace, from any orientation
- Absolute encoders in each joint allow precise positioning of the robot arm and retain homing information during power shutdown, eliminating the need to home the robot on power-up
- Arm-mounted amplifiers perform diagnostic functions and reduce susceptibility to electromagnetic interference
- Dual-acting pneumatic solenoid prevents the optional Thermo Scientific Pneumatic Gripper from dropping an object when power is removed
- Releasable brakes on joints one, two, and three prevent the joints from moving or falling under the influence of gravity or inertia when power is removed, yet allow the operator to manually move the joints to reposition the arm
- ISO standard tool flange allows a wide range of end of arm tools to be used
- Safety beacon alerts operators when the robot arm is powered and is capable of moving
- Uses brushless motors built directly into the robotic arm to improve heat flow characteristics and to decrease the overall size of the arm
- Thermo Scientific CROS multitasking operating system provides powerful, flexible control for total work cell automation
- Easy to learn, yet sophisticated Thermo Scientific RAPL-3 programming language speeds development of controller-based applications
- 16 digital inputs and 12 digital outputs enable the controller to monitor or control external hardware
- Two serial ports enable the controller to communicate with other devices in the workcell, such as vision systems


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Gen Z is the up-and-coming generation comprised of young people who are eagerly earning more and spending more as they enter their late teens and early adulthood. This makes their buying habits, interests, values, and trends some of the biggest areas of interest for brands looking to grow, especially when it comes to earning the brand loyalty of Gen Z early in their lives.
Travel companies are looking to Gen Z to grow revenue and market share. Young, adventurous individuals with disposable income are prime customers for travel products and services.
But there’s one big question that underlines this idea — what travel trends are emerging among Gen Z?
As part of our omnichannel generational study, an online quantitative study that was conducted among 2,000 participants who are 18+, we discovered three big answers to this question:
- 75% like to explore and experience new things when traveling
- 73% are willing to spend money when it comes to travel
- 67% like to travel somewhere at least once a year
Now, let’s jump into the data.
1. Exploring & Experiencing New Things
The majority of Gen Z say they like to explore and experience new things when they travel.
Considering the age range of Gen Z — late teens to mid-20s — individuals in this generation may have lost some of their most social and adventurous years to the COVID pandemic, including the ability to try new things and experience new locations.
Now, as the generation enters the workforce and builds its overall economic spending power, this sense of wanderlust is showing itself in more and more places in 2022, including the concept of revenge travel where people are trying to “make up” for travel time they lost during COVID restrictions.
It’s also important to note the word “explore” in this context as well. While “experiencing new things” could account for a wide variety of activities from eating a new food to snowboarding for the first time, the concept of “exploration” is much more open-ended.
Some in Gen Z may prioritize urban exploration. Others may take to the rural countryside to explore areas that have little to no human impact. Still others might consider meeting new groups of people from different cultures to be it’s own form of exploration.
Regardless, it’s important to note these possibilities from the perspective of the travel industry. It could point to the idea that travelers — especially young travelers — are seeking more organic experiences than the guided tours of the past.
Gen Z is looking to spread their wings and see what the world has to offer.
2. Spending to Travel & When Traveling
Second, three-quarters said they were willing to spend money when it comes to travel.
“Spend money” is a key phrase in this statement because it’s generally understood that travel of any kind will cost money at some point. This points to the idea that Gen Z is not only prepared to “spend money” to travel — because they know they would have to do that anyway — but that they’re also prepared to spend more than usual.
Again, this idea aligns with the concept of revenge travel, where 2022’s travelers are looking forward to their travel so much that they’re willing to spend more than they usually would.
This makes Gen Z an excellent demographic of travelers overall. Not only are they looking to experience new things, but they’re also willing to spend more for those experiences.
3. Traveling at Least Once Every Year
Finally, 67% said they liked to travel at least once per year.
Insider Intelligence estimates that Gen Z comprises about 67.8 million Americans. Combined with our research, this would give the travel industry a promising pool of 45.4 million potential customers who plan to travel at least once per year — if not more. This discovery also aligns with our findings in a brief revenge travel study where we saw that half said they planned to travel two or more times in 2022.
As Gen Z continues to start their careers and claim their share of the economy, their positive sentiment toward travel (and spending during travel) paints an optimistic future for the industry as a whole, especially as COVID restrictions fall away.
Whether they take one trip per year or 10, Gen Z is in a prime position to help the travel industry recover from COVID hardships and supporting it in the future.
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These three statistics are just snapshots of a much larger study we conducted across Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, and Boomers+ to understand how they buy.
In addition to learning how Gen Z values travel, we also investigated ideas like how Millennials view wellness and how Gen X likes to learn product information.

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- Connectivity and new infotainment systems with up to 9.2-inch displays
- New seat upholstery, optional ambient lighting with ten selectable colours, newly designed instrument panel and operating controls
- New ‘Simply Clever’ features such as folding tables and LED lamps
- Comfort options: heated steering wheel, customizable keys
Mladá Boleslav, 7 November 2016 – ŠKODA is expanding the equipment range of its bestseller for even greater comfort. The comprehensive upgrade brings new design elements and improved operating solutions to the interior. The infotainment systems, which come from a new generation of devices, have screen sizes of up to 9.2 inches.
The interior of the upgraded ŠKODA Octavia is characterized by an exceptionally generous amount of space and simple elegance. Its horizontally oriented design emphasizes the spaciousness of the width; the lines, surfaces and volumes are geometrically clear. On the dashboard, the round instruments are large and easy to read and their new graphics give them an even finer appearance.
ŠKODA presents several innovations in terms of the materials and colours for the interior: The Ambition equipment line features a new black/brown combination; the instrument panel is entirely in black. The other equipment lines are enhanced with the inclusion of new patterns.
In addition, the inlays have been revised. For the equipment lines Style and Laurin & Klement, ŠKODA completes the decorative strips in the doors with ambient lighting as standard. Narrow light guides create subtle lighting that can be regulated in ten colours.
In the compact class, the upgraded ŠKODA Octavia continues to set the benchmark for interior space. Both the hatch and combi versions have 73 millimetres of knee room in the rear. The hatch and Estate models have boot volumes of 590 litres (1580 litres with rear seats folded) and 610/1740 litres respectively. If the backrest of the passenger seat (option for Ambition and Style) is folded down, objects of up to 2.92 meters in length fit into the vehicle.
For the combi, ŠKODA can supply an electric boot door as an option. In addition, there are numerous ‘Simply Clever’ solutions for the luggage compartment, including the variable loading floor (from Ambition up, excluding G-TEC), the multi-function shelf and the luggage net partition. Four bag hooks come as standard.
The interior of the ŠKODA Octavia also features numerous ‘Simply Clever’ solutions and new details have been added to the upgraded model. The bottle holders in the centre tunnel console are shaped so that they interlock with the bottom of PET bottles – which allows them to be opened with one hand. In the boot of the combi there is a removable LED flashlight, which is held in place by a magnet on the body. The front seat backrests can be fitted with folding tables.
There are also two major innovations in the comfort package: the heated steering wheel and three customizable keys. As soon as one driver unlocks the vehicle, their personal settings are initiated. These cover a wide range of operating areas, including driving profile selection, assistance systems, indoor and outdoor lighting, Climatronic, infotainment systems and electrically adjustable seats.
The infotainment program includes the sound systems Swing (series standard) and Bolero, as well as the navigation systems Amundsen and Columbus. All four systems belong to the latest generation of devices with impressively fast operation and easy operation. Typically ŠKODA, their basic functions can be adjusted using physical buttons and controls. The touch displays react to a light touch of the finger rather than pressure. For the Bolero, Amundsen and Columbus systems, the display features a new high-quality glass design.
The Swing sound system provides extensive connectivity, including to the SmartLink+ platform. This is compatible with the standards MirrorLink, Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. This enables many smartphone apps to be displayed and used through the car’s infotainment system. In addition, the optional SmartGate feature allows you to retrieve vehicle data from your smartphone and to use it intelligently with specific apps. The Bolero sound system (series standard in the Laurin & Klement equipment line) has a high-resolution 8.0-inch touch-screen in glass design with proximity sensors: When a finger approaches, the operating mode is activated, which allows swiping, scrolling and character input.
The Amundsen navigation system can be used to set up a Wi-Fi hotspot, giving passengers free access to the Internet to surf, stream and access email with their smartphones and tablets. The top navigation system Columbus features integrated Wi-Fi hotspot and a 9.2-inch, 1,280×640-pixel monitor. On request, an LTE module provides the ŠKODA Octavia with high-speed Internet access with download speeds of up to 150 Mbit per second.
Additional components round off the hardware range: Phonebox (from the Ambition line up) that charges your smartphone wirelessly and connects it to the roof antenna. The CANTON sound system (also from Ambition up) integrates eight speakers, including centre speaker on the dashboard and subwoofer in the boot. Table holders, another option, can be attached to the front seats. 230 volt and USB ports can be fitted in the rear if required.


PenTeleData (PTD) is a leading provider of voice, video, data, security, and internet services with more than 60 points of presence across Pennsylvania and New Jersey. As Pennsylvania’s largest privately-owned fiber optic network, spanning nearly 10,000+ miles, PTD delivers a robust suite of cutting-edge connectivity and technology solutions to residential, educational, financial, government, healthcare, and commercial customers. With many critical community-anchor institutions relying on their fiber network and managed IT services, maintaining reliable and trustworthy connectivity services is PTD’s core mission. PTD, in turn, has relied on Kentik’s network observability since 2016 to fulfill its mission with best-in-class traffic analysis and, more recently, network monitoring.
As a regional ISP, PTD has distinct network observability needs that typical network monitoring systems (NMS) built for the enterprise don’t support. For example, ISPs need to monitor devices using MPLS and IGP protocols, and report to customers on downstream SLA-bound activity. Just as for enterprises, for ISPs, networking monitoring really matters to staying competitive. ISPs undergo constant pressure to serve more customers with higher performance and more reliable services without increasing the size of networking teams. They must continually improve service without increasing costs.
As a result, many NMS systems don’t justify their cost to companies like ISPs that operate huge, complex networks with niche needs. Additionally, no two ISP networks look exactly the same – diverse SLAs, different routing protocols, suites of services offered, and multiple customer types all further complicate the task of serving ISP monitoring demands.
Given these requirements, PTD has always tailor-made its own NMS tools, but over the years, the downsides to this approach have multiplied. Like most companies, PTD can’t devote infinite cycles to updating a homegrown monitoring system as software methodologies and networks evolve. By 2023, this left the network team ready to make some changes. They were unable to augment their NMS to monitor the aggressively modernizing network that makes PTD a market leader.
“We’ve been monitoring our network with a 20-year-old system that’s beyond its life expectancy. There is a lot more to do than write network monitoring software. If we can remove those cycles from our software development team, they can work on higher priority things in the pipeline,” remarks Dylan Mendes, PTD’s backbone engineering supervisor.
PTD is operating a next-generation network, and needed a flexible monitoring system that can accommodate their custom metrics and unique monitoring specifications without tasking the team with operations and customization.
Whether they run a high-scale, high-bandwidth Fortune 100 enterprise network, or a vast, complex distributed ISP network, network teams love Kentik because it allows them to quickly apply their expertise to challenging problems and understand how to act. For years, PTD has relied on the Kentik platform to deliver high-quality customer experiences, using the platform to investigate real-time traffic flows and mitigate DDoS attacks automatically. “We really loved Kentik from day one. It has always been good at presenting data and allowing us to manipulate and query it. The future is here already — you put forth a great product for seeing the metrics you’re bringing in for us,” says Mendes. Since his team already trusts the fast, flexible data visualization and analysis capabilities they get from Kentik, leveraging those same tools for network metrics is a no-brainer.
Given the monitoring flexibility and extensibility that ISPs demand, available market alternatives to homegrown solutions were slim before the release of Kentik NMS. “This is the first time we’ve seen a software company become interested in ISP network monitoring,” remarks Dylan Mendes. A few solutions offer valuable features for service providers, but rigid compatibility requirements, such as the need to adopt outsourced NOC services along with NMS, render those solutions costly or impractical. Other options include open source software, but these come with high TCO and drain engineering cycles with the burden of augmenting systems to meet requirements.
Continuing Kentik’s ongoing commitment to developing top-tier network observability solutions for service providers as well as the enterprise, the Kentik NMS team took time to understand PTD’s metrics, how their network works, and how they monitor it. Part of an early release program, this partnership helped shape the flexibility and extensibility that Kentik NMS delivers for complex and evolving network monitoring use cases, including flexible device support and custom metrics.
“Everything we’ve given, we’ve gotten back tenfold from the Kentik team. We want to bring our own devices, our own metrics, and our own endpoints into our NMS. That level of support is very important to us and other service providers. We have high confidence that this can be the network monitoring suite we have envisioned.”
For PTD, a high-performance monitoring system means greater team efficiency and better customer experiences. Among the many benefits that have PTD excited about Kentik NMS are faster detection of network issues that allow the network team to act much more quickly to address issues.
Kentik offers PTD relief from an archaic system. Kentik NMS defaults to 1-minute polling intervals to provide fresh, detailed data that equips the team in real-time with a critical understanding of problems that put SLAs and revenue at risk. Kentik NMS delivers the faster alert detection the team has always wanted, so they can fix customer issues quickly.
More frequent data refreshes also aid in the detection and investigation of transient issues. With slower monitoring systems, problems that come and go within five or ten minutes show up as blips; the problem may impact customers, but the NMS won’t alert the team or allow for later analysis in the case of recurrence.
Based on their previous experience with Kentik’s reliable, SaaS-based observability, the PTD team knows they can expect the same from Kentik NMS. “Another thing about Kentik that has always excited us is performance,” says Mendes. “We want to know when something’s broken faster, so we can act on it faster.”
Thanks to its high performance, adding Kentik NMS to PTD’s Kentik suite translates to cost-cutting efficiency gains:
PTD has long used Kentik’s traffic flow analysis to not only understand root causes, but also plan capacity, and quickly evaluate partnership opportunities based on potential costs and ROI. Thanks to Kentik NMS, the team will gain a competitive advantage as they consolidate metrics and flow monitoring into one platform. Correlating traffic data to metrics offers a powerful edge that PTD is just beginning to explore as they begin using NMS to monitor events like routing protocol changes:
“We can do things like correlate a routing change alert to a shift in traffic. Seeing a change in routing is one thing, but that doesn’t tell you how the traffic is moving. You’re not going to get that data without flow. That’s just one use case for using the two products together.”
To add to that competitive edge, PTD’s network team will continue to drive customer experience improvements in the future by leveraging Kentik’s command of its telemetry.
To deliver similar insights based on real-time network metrics, PTD plans to add shared links to Kentik NMS queries and visualizations to their account portal. Mendes recognizes that “it’s already built into Kentik.” Kentik makes it easy to give partner companies and customers a window into the metrics and traffic for their assets, so they can view, monitor, alert on, and explore them any time of day with the world-class UX of the Kentik platform.
The PTD team needs fast insights into network traffic and metrics to continue elevating their performance and reliability in response to customer demand. The Kentik Network Observability Platform delivers. With Kentik NMS as part of their Kentik portfolio, they can consolidate network metrics and flow monitoring into the same platform, reduce MTTR, and put telemetry to work for their customers and across the organization. This next-generation monitoring helps them to improve service quality without increasing costs or growing the team.


Last July I made a trip across the Alps, starting from the French Jura region, to rejoin my family who was vacationing in the Pustertal/Val Pusteria, in the German-Speaking Italian region of Sud Tirol/Alto Adige. It was a long, complex trip that involved multiple legs over 3 days. But, as soon as I was in Switzerland, it became smooth and effortless. The last leg of the trip, from Zurich to Olang/Valdaora involved taking five different trains and one bus across the border. Despite so many connections, I spent most of the time travelling and very little waiting for a connecting trip. Despite taking the scenic but circuitous route via the Albula Tunnel on quite a slow train, my trip was only slightly longer than driving along the same route. How so? Many of you already know the answer: the Swiss transit network has been redesigned over the years around the idea of seamlessness, based on a country-wide integrated timetable (integraler taktfahrplan), achieved through regular interval schedule (takt) and timed transfers at designated connection nodes (knoten).
The main goal is to minimize waiting times at connections in order to make trips involving multiple transfers less onerous. In a complex regional transit system, especially in polycentric regions, it’s impossible to provide frequent one-seat rides from any point to any point. However, a system designed around the principle of timed transfer can make the trips between most if not all Origin-Destination (O-D) pairs almost as smooth as one-seat direct services.
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But how does this work on the planning side and what are the trade-offs that need to be considered? How should planners proceed to design a timed transfer-based regional transit system? What are the main principles and how do planners can better engage with inevitable trade-offs? These are some of the questions I will try to answer in a series of posts dedicated to some of the principles of integrated timetable planning that are seldom covered in the available online sources in English.
This first post will briefly cover the core notions of regular-interval (clockface) and symmetric schedule and how these apply to the hierarchy of services within a wider region.
Two guiding principles: Clockface and Symmetry
There are two fundamental closely related planning principles underpinning the implementation of a fully integrated regional timetable a la Suisse:
1. Clockface or regular interval schedules (taktfahrplan in German, orario cadenzato in Italian). As the term suggests, trains and buses run at fixed intervals that are a fraction of the hour (commonly every 15, 20, 30 or 60 minutes), departing at the same minute(s) past the hour from each stop along a given line.
2. Symmetric schedules. That means that trains and buses running in opposite directions meet each other at designated stations that become the “nodes of symmetry”. The minute(s) past each hour when they meet is called the symmetrieminute(n), that is the time of symmetry.
The best way to explain this plainly is through a simple real-life example. In this twitter thread, I tried to illustrate in a concise way these two principles using the Pustertal/Val Pusteria line. Thanks to a clockface and symmetric timetable, connections between all Origin-Destinations are ensured at the nodes of symmetry. This animated image summarizes how the Pustertal line works (sorry for the typo).
Hierarchy of services
Now let’s make things a bit more complex. Let’s apply these principles to a large region with multiple rail lines connecting at different nodes. Let’s imagine there is a main trunk rail line that connects the most important urban centres of that region. How do we organize service in that theoretical region in order to optimize the service around timed transfer? What is the relationship between the tiering of service patterns and their specialization, between the number of nodes, the optimal number of Symmetrieminuten and service frequency? Let’s dive into it.
Here is our theoretical region: a few urban centers of various size along a main rail line, with various connecting lines and a network of intercity buses linking towns and villages not served by rail.
First, for a logically organized construction of a region-wide integrated timetable, there must be a clear hierarchy of lines, and, furthermore, a hierarchy of services within some of those lines. In other words, there are hierarchically superior services dictating the schedule pattern of hierarchically subordinated services.
In our theoretical region, we can imagine having 3 types of lines:
A trunk rail line, connecting all the major urban centres;
Feeder local rail lines, connecting with the trunk line at major stations;
Feeder interurban (rural) bus lines connecting either with the trunk line or with the local rail lines.
N.B.: planning of urban and suburban transit in and around the major centres is somehow unlinked from our exercise, as probably in the more urban cores transit is frequent enough (< 15 minutes) that its coordination with the rest of the regional network doesn’t really matter.
Multiple levels of service on the trunk line.
It is important to plan for a tiered service pattern along the main regional spine, with both faster expresses and slower locals and/or suburban trains, while the service on local feeder rail lines and bus ones can be essentially made of local “omnibus”, that is services calling at all stops. A tiered service on the trunk line is necessary because when one’s trip is longer than 30-40 km, it is critical to have a service that reaches a higher average speed to achieve competitive travel times; and the trunk lines are where longer regional trips will pass through.
The regional trunk line of our example has 2 (or 3) levels of service:
Local service, calling at all stops. It can be an R - Regio train (stops every 3-5 km) and/or, in case of larger metro areas, also an S - Suburban train, that is an S-Bahn like service stopping every 1.5 – 3 km and reaching out some 30-40 km around the major urban area. Beware: the differences between these two types of local service can be blurred depending on the local human geography and in some cases it’s purely about branding. They can also coexist, with the R- Regio acting as an outer local + inner express within the area served by the S - Suburban, as it happens around Milan and Munich, for example
Internode express service, stopping at major centres with high demand and also in nodes where local feeder lines connect. That is an express regional service with maximum speeds of 140-160 km/h and an average speed of 70-90 km/h.
The Internode (hereinafter RV) service is the Structuring Service, that is the service around which the timetables of other, hierarchically subordinated services must be built around as to ensure timed connections along most O/D pairs at major nodes. It’s the service that determines the rhythm (that is, the takt) of the region-wide pulse, a sort of “master takt to rule them all”. Hierarchically, the timetable of the trunk line is what determines the feeding lines’ timetables. Hence, it is more important to devise first the timetable and identify the nodes of symmetry and the symmetrieminute(n) of the trunk internode “master” service and then, only in a second time, organize the other lines’ timetable around it.
In Switzerland, the structuring services are the IC (Inter City) and the RE (Regio Express). In Northern Italy, that role is (or, better, should be) covered by the RV (Regionali Veloci). In Austria, it’s mostly the Interregio (IR). Regardless of the name and of the variations in the real-life examples, we are talking about an express regional service that, in the real-world’s available examples, stops every 15-25 km or every ~15 minutes. Why 15 minutes? Because in a 30-minute clockface-based system, 15 minutes and its multiples are the “magical numbers” of symmetry.
This is not a normative rule. The currently planned nation-wide Deutschlandtakt in Germany is supposed to be built around an hourly ICE service, and Italian planners have briefly floated the idea of a nationally integrated timetable coordinated around long-distance HSR + Intercity service dubbed “Alta Velocità di Rete”. But for the sake of simplicity, this post will focus of the RE/RV type of regional-scale structuring service, at the scale of a region spanning a few hundred kilometers.
Choosing between a 30’ or a 60’ RV takt. The relationship between “symmetrieminuten” and frequency.
First, it’s important to remember that frequency is not only freedom for the user, but also for the planners. Frequency is the single most important factor determining how many “nodes of symmetry” there can be along a line and whether they are “simple” or “double”, that is, whether they have one or two symmetrieminuten per hour. Thus, the frequency of the structuring service matters a lot for how flexible planners can be in organizing the hierarchically subordinated services. Let’s see why and how by seeing the difference between running an hourly vs and half-hourly clockface service on the structuring RV service of our hypothetical region.
If we plan to run the RV internode service hourly, it means that the RVs running in opposite directions will meet at a node of symmetry every 30 minutes. Assuming a top speed of 160 km/h, we will have a symmetry node every 60-70 km. In our theoretical region of closely knitted medium-sized cities this means missing some points of symmetry (B, D, F). Moreover, all our nodes of symmetry (A, C, E) will be “simple”, that is, they will offer only one minute of symmetry (symmetrieminute) per hour.
If the connecting R - trains or bus services run half-hourly, half of them will miss the timed connection. That means that the frequency of the hierarchically superior RV determines the frequencies of the hierarchically subordinated connecting services. For example, that is the situation at the nodes A and E, where the symmetry minute of the hourly RV is set at around :15.
If we plan to run our RV internode service half-hourly, we have the opportunity to create nodes of symmetry much more closely spaced, some 15 minutes apart. In our model, it means all the the stops served by the RV (A,B,C,D,E,F). Assuming again a top speed of 160 km/h, there can be a node every 25-30 km. Moreover, we are not only getting more closely spaced nodes of symmetry, we are also getting them as "double" nodes of symmetry, each having two symmetry minutes per hour.
Deciding between 30- or 60-minute headways does not only depend on the expected demand for the trunk internode service, but probably more importantly on the will of creating more or less opportunities for all O-D timed connections along our regional trunk line. Running an hourly service means that we only get bidirectional timed-transfer once an hour in only half of the nodes in our hypothetical model. Instead, running a half-hourly takt means that we get two bidirectional timed transfer-windows per hour in all of relevant nodes. It’s a difference between 3 minutes of symmetry per hour across 3 out of 6 potential nodes for the hourly service versus 12 minutes of symmetry per hour for the half-hourly one. The increase in seamless connectivity opportunity going from an hourly to an half-hourly takt is fourfold, even if the amount of service is only the double. Of course this proportion depends on the geography of the region. But as a general rule, the closer the relevant nodes are, the shorter the headways need to be to increase regional connectivity.
There is also room for compromise solutions: planners, for example, can opt for a combination of hourly long-run RV services stretching along the whole trunk line alternated with hourly “short-run” services, covering the sections where demand is greater and opportunities for timed-transfer are higher. This will ensure a 30 minutes clockface on the “core” section of the trunk line and, in our theoretical example, add two more double symmetry nodes. The trade-off (there is always one) is that some timed-transfer connections will be assured only in one direction at the nodes where the short-run hourly service terminates (B,E) while others get no symmetry at all (F) or just a simple one (A).
Where does this model could be applied?
The ideal setting for an integrated regional transit system are polycentric regions. It is not by chance that the idea has been initially developed and thoroughly applied in Switzerland, a country with many medium-sized and closely knitted cities and towns. Yet, the same model is now being applied in Austria, a country with a dominant capital and only a few medium-sized centres lined along two main corridors. The Po Valley, the Tuscan plain and Medioetruria region, Puglia, Campania are all ideal candidates for an integrated regional timetable, if only Italian authorities were remotely interested in pursuing a consistent approach, putting service planning before infrastructure.
But that planning approach could be useful also outside of the Old Continent specifically in some regions of North America. The Northeast Corridor is obviously the most promising place to implement an integraler taktfahrplan. The Keystone, and the Empire Corridor services already have the spacing and average speed of an RV Internode Structuring Service (see chart below). Along the NEC, the Acela Northeast Regional can be used as a faster Internode Structuring Service for the broader region (similar to the ICE in the proposed Deutschlandtakt), while additional shorter RV-like services along some sections of the route can act as the Structuring Service within shorter subsections of the corridor, such as NYC to Philadelphia and Philadelphia to DC, assuring timed-connections with local suburban and regional service. The potential for seamless regional integration is immense across the NEC, if only States, Amtrak and local transit agencies could make an effort toward integrated planning.
Similarly, the Golden Horseshoe region could definitely plan its own regional network around the same principles. Metrolinx’s RER GO plan falls short of fully understanding the potential of better tiering its regional rail service based on a clearer distinction between S-Bahn-like Suburbans and Regional Expresses (RE/RV). The proposed Trillium Rail Network by TRBOT, on the contrary, stresses the importance of having a tiered service along some trunk lines radiating from Toronto. This express service, especially if progressively extended to the entire Southern Ontario, can become the backbone of a fully integrated regional transit system spanning between Toronto, Hamilton, Kitchener, London, etc. covering the region with a web of RV Structuring Services giving the rhythm to the whole regional transit.
In a future post I will focus on a related topic: how planners can approach conflicting needs for multiple types of timed connections across complex metropolitan nodes, using Bologna as a case study. Here is a sneak peak:
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Was a fascinating read! Thanks for the thorough breakdown Marco.


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Mumbai, Oct 13 (UNI) Both ferrous and non-ferrous metals recovered today following speculative demand from industrial users along with strong global advice, traders at the Bombay Metal Exchange (BME) said.
After Saturday's crash, an improvement was seen in both ferrous and non-ferrous metals today.
In ferrous metals, copper heavy and brass utensils rose by Rs 300 and Rs 200 per quintal respectively on brisk buying support from stockists.
Brass cutting also edged up by Rs 100 per quintal on lesser stock supply by bulk consumers.
After rising by Rs 100, brass cuttings ended at Rs 24,500 per quintal.
Sole, copper utensils fell by Rs 100 to finish at Rs 29,000 on sustained heavy selling pressure by stockists while aluminium remained unaltered on scattered buying by stockists, traders said.
In non-ferrous metals too, a positive movement was observed as copper wire bars and zinc slab advanced by Rs 400 and Rs 500 per quintal respectively following better buying support.
Finally, copper wire bars and zinc slab closed at Rs 34,300 and Rs 9,900 per quintal respectively.
Nickel cathode also strengthened by Rs 70 per kg on improved demand by bulk conumers.
Tin slab fell by Rs 40 per kg on sluggish demand by stockists.
No change was seen in aluminium ingot and lead ingot respectively because of moderate demand, traders added.
Following were the spot metal prices per quintal: Ferrous metals: copper heavy - Rs 31,000, copper utensils - Rs 29,000, brass utensils - Rs 23,200, brass cuttings - Rs 24,500 and aluminium utensils - Rs 10,400.
Non-ferrous metals: copper wire bars - Rs 34,300, aluminium ingots - Rs 12,800, zinc slab - Rs 9,900, lead ingots - Rs 9,700, tin slab - Rs 810 per kg and nickel cathode - Rs 840 per kg.
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Researchers from Linköping University and the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden have proposed a new device concept that can efficiently transfer the information carried by electron spin to light at room temperature—a stepping stone toward future information technology. They present their approach in an article in Nature Communications.
Light and electron charge are the main media for information processing and transfer. In the search for information technology that is even faster, smaller and more energy-efficient, scientists around the globe are exploring another property of electrons—their spin. Electronics that exploit both the spin and the charge of the electron are called “spintronics.”
[…]“The main problem is that electrons easily lose their spin orientations when the temperature rises. A key element for future spin-light applications is efficient quantum information transfer at room temperature, but at room temperature, the electron spin orientation is nearly randomized.[…]
Now, researchers from Linköping University and the Royal Institute of Technology have devised an efficient spin-light interface.
“This interface can not only maintain and even enhance the electron spin signals at room temperature. It can also convert these spin signals to corresponding chiral light signals travelling in a desired direction,” says Weimin Chen.
The key element of the device is extremely small disks of gallium nitrogen arsenide, GaNAs. The disks are only a couple of nanometres high and stacked on top of each other with a thin layer of gallium arsenide (GaAs) between to form chimney-shaped nanopillars. For comparison, the diameter of a human hair is about a thousand times larger than the diameter of the nanopillars.
The unique ability of the proposed device to enhance spin signals is due to minimal defects introduced into the material by the researchers. Fewer than one out of a million gallium atoms are displaced from their designated lattice sites in the material. The resulting defects in the material act as efficient spin filters that can drain electrons with an unwanted spin orientation and preserve those with the desired spin orientation.
“An important advantage of the nanopillar design is that light can be guided easily and more efficiently coupled in and out,” says Shula Chen, first author of the article.


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-Formal name is "Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann Crimson Volume" (天元突破グレンラガン紅蓮編)
-This movie is Part 1
-The dubbing will all be newly recorded
-There will be new scenes
-It will open in theaters on September 6, 2008
-The theme song will be by Shouko Nakagawa again

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Publisher : Elsevier - Science Direct (الزویر - ساینس دایرکت)
Journal : Social Science & Medicine, Volume 60, Issue 10, May 2005, Pages 2383–2391
Increasing evidence suggests that implementation intentions are effective in moving people towards achieving health behaviour goals. However, the type of health behaviours for which they work best is unclear. Furthermore, implementation intentions appear to be less effective when studied in clinical rather than student populations. This prospective study tested implementation intentions with a complex, repeated health behaviour in a patient sample. A total of 120 cardiac patients in the UK were asked to increase their daily fruit and vegetable consumption by two portions and to maintain this over 3 months. Participants were randomly assigned to three groups (control, Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) questionnaire, TPB questionnaire+implementation intention) and telephoned at 7, 28 and 90 days follow-up to record daily consumption (24-h recall measure); 94 participants completed the study. Daily fruit and vegetable consumption increased from 2.88 portions (SD=1.67) at recruitment to 4.28 portions (SD=2.25) at 90 days. A 4×3 (time by group) mixed design ANCOVA was computed with daily fruit and vegetable consumption at recruitment entered as a covariate. This revealed a significant time effect (F (3, 270)=29.79, p<0.001p<0.001) (η2=0.25)(η2=0.25) but non-significant group (F (2, 90)=0.32, p=0.73p=0.73) (η2=0.07)η2=0.07) and time by group effects (F (6, 270)=0.48, p=0.82p=0.82) (η2=0.01)(η2=0.01). There was also a significant main effect of the covariate (F (1, 90)=48.51, p<0.001p<0.001) (η2=0.35)(η2=0.35) and a significant time by covariate effect (F (3, 270)=12.14, p<0.001p<0.001) (η2=0.12)(η2=0.12). Substantial increases in fruit and vegetable consumption were achieved particularly by participants who were eating low levels at recruitment. Consumption was not improved by implementation intentions. These findings are discussed in the context of the targeted health behaviour and sample.

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Paintings - Acrylic on Paper, Framed
All winter I have been painting flowers. Flowers are indicative of rebirth, new beginnings and eternal life. Flowers also symbolize unrequited love, joy and happiness, innocence and purity. The flowers I created this winter gave me all of that and more.
All artwork displayed in this gallery is the exclusive property of the artist and may not be copied or reproduced in any form.


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In March we were privileged to be accepted into the AngelLoft Entrepreneur in Residence program. In summary, AngelLoft’s mission is to provide angel investors and entrepreneurs with the ideal environment within which to have a meeting of the minds. The group is based in Sydney and is open, by invitation, to angel members and entrepreneur pitches from anywhere in the world.
We’re ecstatic to part of AngelLoft and the Entrepreneur in Residence program.
We attended our first Angel Loft dinner in late March and introduced ourselves and BrixHQ to the group which included a seriously impressive range of angels and other entrepreneurs.
The evening was a fantastic opportunity to meet the angels, understand their backgrounds and start to build a relationship with some of the angels, even if only for feedback at this early stage. The feedback and comments that we’ve received from a range of angels & VC’s that we’ve spoken to since the first dinner include the following;
* Who are you competitors?
* How are you different to your competitors?
* What’s your business model (i.e. how do you make money)?
* How are you currently funded? and so on.
There are always two sides to these conversations however and some of the key questions that we’ve sought to understand from the angels are;
*What types of businesses do you typically invest in?
* What are the key things you look for when you are considering investing in a business?
* Do you have any feedback or comments for us?
The first question is crucial, it is important to firstly qualify what sort of businesses the angels are interested in. Plus, if you are time poor and want to have a meaningful conversation and future relationship then it is best to get off on the right foot or you can be wasting everyones time.
From our experience the top 5 key things angels are looking to invest in are;
1. a solid business idea that is being executed on,
2. the business has to be scalable (i.e. how big can it become?),
3. revenue – the business has to be on the right trajectory with revenue and growth, it’s great to have a lot of customers but if you dont have revenue then you don’t have a business.
4. management team – who are they, what experience do they have and have they done this before.
5. how long can you keep funding yourself through current funding sources.
The great thing about angels is that they will have feedback and comments for you, it might just be that it’s not for them and they’ll explain why or give specific comments or advice or direction that can help to move your business forward.
There’s nothing new or different in these 5 points above, but all serve as a fantastic litmus test for any business which is in start up mode or looking to raise funding in the future.
Also know your business intimately, be able to speak at a high level about your vision and your market, but be prepared to dive deep into the detail when appropriate.

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Another name has been added to the Rock Jam 2009 roster.
Monday, organizers confirmed rock group Los Lonely Boys will take the stage during the two day festival that will take place September 11 -September 12.
Best known for their hit single "Heaven," the trio from Texas join a lineup that includes Huey Lewis & The News, 38 Special, and The Marshall Tucker Band.
Organizers have not said which day Los Lonely Boys will perform.
Rock Jam tickets are now on sale online at www.countryjam.com and at all Stop N' Save convenience stores.
11 News is a proud sponsor of Jack Daniels Presents Pinnacle Homes Rock Jam 2009.
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“Let’s be clear, the injustices that happen in this country are a direct result of systemic and structural inequities. Black and brown people disproportionately experience poverty, limited access to safe and affordable nutritious food, excessive access to fast and processed foods, bias in healthcare settings, extended time to diagnosis and proper treatment, limited affordable housing diabetes, cardiovascular disease and systemic illnesses.
The world of nutrition and wellness can do better. We work within a biased system and have to make conscious choices not to replicate hate or provide care from preconceived notions. When black and brown boys like my son walk into healthcare offices for care I know they will experience micro and macroagressions. They deserve better – much better.
This is a time of uncertainty and as I’ve reached out to the women in my circle, they remind me to find ways to ground myself. To take time to “not ok” while seeking out the support of cherished people who can hold space for you. Sisters, you are not in this alone & you don’t have to do it all”.
Thanks for stopping by #FHgirlchat Maya ♥. We are more than a brand. We are a community sharing our stories, uplifting & inspiring each other to live well and to live whole on this journey. This is our space.

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It took 10 weeks, but the Dodgers finally lost a series.
Seventy days after last falling short in a three-game set in Pittsburgh, the Dodgers lost a series again, this time following an 8-1 rubber game loss to the Boston Red Sox on Sunday night at Dodger Stadium.
The Dodgers had been undefeated for 18 straight series.
Sunday, Dodger starter Chris Capuano (4-7) induced a double play to get out of a bases-loaded, one-out situation in the first inning, but otherwise failed to keep Boston off the basepaths.
He posted his fourth straight non-quality start by allowing three runs in just five innings.
In relief of Capuano, right-handers Chris Withrow and Brandon League both struggled, giving up three home runs between them, including a monstrous Mike Napoli two-run shot off League in the ninth inning.
Boston right-hander Jake Peavy (10-5) was dominant in a complete-game effort, allowing XX hits and walking one Dodger.
His lone mistake was a fourth-inning fastball to Adrian Gonzalez, which the Dodger first baseman deposited past the center-field fence for a solo home run.
The Dodgers (76-54) still haven’t lost a series to a below-.500 team since May 31-June 2 against the Colorado Rockies.
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TTMCast this Week – January 30
Boston Celtics super collector Jarrett Leahy joins TTM Cast this week. Jarrett has been collecting since he was a kid and has some incredible Celtics stuff.
Hobby veteran Les Wolff joins me to answers some more lister mail and we get his take on new Hall of Famer Scott Rolen and the recent Panini Babe Ruth autograph mix up.
Our new TTMCast 1-on-1 show debuts Wednesday with Scott Wright, founder of the Next Gem app and I sitting down to discuss what his free collecting tool is all about. There’s plenty of general hobby talk along the way.
TTM Successes this Week
Autograph returns last week included a cool return from a very reluctant baseball signer, a few stars of the 80’s, and a former NHL goalie. In addition we remember a couple of former players who passed away last week.
Every so often the mailman brings a surprise. Andy Messersmith has been an historically reluctant signer and rarely signs through the mail. Some players have a window when they decide they will answer requests. Over the years, Messersmith’s window has been almost non-existent.
I was pleasantly surprised the other day when I opened my envelope and found my 1978 Topps card signed by the reclusive former pitcher.
Messersmith pitched 12 seasons in the Majors from 1968-1979 with the Angles, Dodgers, Braves and Yankees. He was a 4x All-Star, won two Gold Gloves and lead the NL in wins in 1974 with the Dodgers. He won 130 games and posted an impressive 2.86 career ERA. Messersmith was one of baseball’s first free agents when he signed a three-year $1 million dollar contract with the Braves in 1976.
Kennedy was a four-time All-Star catcher who played for the Cardinals, Padres, Orioles and Giants from 1978-1991. He won the Silver Slugger in 1983 as a member of the Padres. He appeared in the 1984 and 1989 World Series. He and his father Bob became the first father and son duo to drive in runs in a World Series when Terry drove in two runs against the Tigers in 1984 in his first at bat.
Kennedy signed his 1980 Topps card and 1987 Topps card in about two weeks.
Roger Mason pitched for seven different teams in ten seasons from 1984-1994 including the Tigers, Giants, Pirates and Phillies. He was a September call-up for the Tigers who won the World Series in 1984 and pitched for the Phillies in the 1993 World Series vs Toronto. He was used primarily as a relief pitcher during his career. He won 22 games and struck out 286 batters in ten seasons.
He signed his 1986 Topps Update card and 1987 Topps card in less than 10 days.
File this one under “Big Dummy” move. I accidently sent Jeff Reed two Jerry Reed (pitcher with Cleveland, Seattle and Boston) cards to sign by accident. Jeff must have opened the envelope, shook his head, and laughed (I hope). He was nice enough to send me this 1988 Topps card of him which I am happy to add to my collection.
Reed played 17 seasons catching for six different teams including the Reds, Rockies, Twins and Giants. He played in over 1,200 games slugging 61 home runs and knocking in 323. He played in four playoff games with the Reds in 1990 but did not play in the World Series vs Oakland which the Reds won.
The pride of Lynn, MA, Hill won 117 games for seven different club during his 14- year career from 1988-2001. He won 16 games in two different seasons, going 16-5 for Montreal in 1994 and 16-10 for Texas in 1996. He won two playoff games for Cleveland in 1995. He was named to the All Star game in 1994.
Hill required a $5 donation per signature. He signed his 1992 Topps card for me in less than two weeks.
Hughes played three season in the majors from 1970-1974 with the Cubs, Cardinals and Red Sox. He played in 54 games amassing 18 hits and a .209 batting average. He was acquired by Boston along with Reggie Cleveland and Diego Segui in a trade with St. Louis for Lynn McGlothen, John Curtis and Mike Garman. He hit his only home run off Cleveland’s Milt Wilcox as a member of the Red Sox in 1974. Despite being featured as a Red Sox in 1975 he spent the entire season in Triple A with Pawtucket.
He signed his1974 Topps rookie card and 1975 Topps card for me in less than two weeks.
Andy Moog is a three-time Stanley Cup champion (with Edmonton) winning the Cup in 1984, 1985 and 1987. He played with four NHL teams from 1980-1998 including Edmonton, Boston, Dallas and Montreal. He won the William M Jennings Trophy in 1989-90 along with Reggie Lemelin for allowing the fewest goals against in the regular season. Moog played in four All-Star games. He won 372 games during his career, the most by any goalie not in the Hall of Fame.
Moog signed his 1990-91 Pro Set card in about three weeks.
Ellard stared at wide receiver for three NFL teams from 1983-1998 including the Rams, Redskins and Patriots. Ellard best season was 1988 when he led the NFL in receiving yards with 1,414 yards and grabbed 10 touchdowns. He was a 3X Pro Bowler as a member of the Rams being named in 1984, 1988 and 1989. He finished his career with 13, 777 receiving yards and 65 touchdowns. He has been a semifinalist for the Pro Football Hall of Fame but has not gained induction.
Ellard is a consistent signer through the mail. He signed and personalized his 1986 Topps card in about a month.
Former Oakland A’s and Milwaukee Brewers third baseman Sal Bando passed away last week at the age of 78 after several years battling cancer. Bando was a four-time All-Star and three-time World Series champion with Oakland. He was captain of the great A’s teams of the 70’s, then signed as a free agent with the Brewers, where he would spent eight more years as the team’s GM. He was inducted into the National College Baseball Hall of Fame in 2013 and the A’s Hall of Fame in 2022.
Bando was a guest on my podcast in 2021. Click here to listen to our interview (9:50 mark). Sal was a regular signer through the mail, autographing his 1970 card for me that year.
Pitcher Gary Peters died last week at the age of 85. Peters was named AL Rookie of The Year in 1963 when he won 19 games and fashioned a 2.13 ERA for the White Sox. He led the league again in ERA and wins again a few years later. He was a two-time All-Star with Chicago before finishing his career with the Red Sox from 1970-72. He was a very accomplished hitter as well slugging 15 home runs and knocking in 71 runs during his career. Peters was traded to Boston along with catcher Don Pavletich for Syd O’Brien, Billy Famer, and cash after the 1969 season.
A reliable TTMer over the years, he signed his 1971 Topps card for me last year.
Here are some others who are currently signing for free. I have had success with all of them in the past:
- Michael Cuddyer – Outfielder Twins
- Steve Watson – Wide Receiver Denver Broncos
- Joe Washington – Running back Chargers and Colts
- Cliff Levingston – Forward Cleveland Cavs
- George Foster – Outfielder Reds and Mets
- Ed Kranepool – !st baseman NY Mets
Have a TTM success story you would like to share with me? Please, send it me at [email protected]. If I use it in my column, I’ll send you a prize.

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— Chapter 9 —
Seattle Times staff reporter
As aiding-the-enemy theories founder, even minor charges evaporate in confusion over evidence.
FORT BENNING, Ga.
Dec. 8, 2003
In a small military courtroom, a crush of journalists expected to finally get some clues about the case against Capt. James Yee.
How had the West Point graduate become an espionage suspect in the first place?
Was the case really falling apart, or were prosecutors going to spring new evidence of treason?
The most serious counts Yee faced so far were of mishandling classified documents. Today's preliminary hearing was to determine whether there was enough evidence to go to trial on those and other charges of lying to a Guantánamo official, adultery and downloading pornography.
But military investigators still hoped to find evidence of something more serious: aiding the enemy.
In an adjoining room, the two men most responsible for launching the Yee investigation waited to testify. Capts. Theo Polet and Jason Orlich remained convinced that Yee's sympathy for the detainees had gone too far.
The hearing began and, to the surprise of many in the room, the government's first witness was a 36-year-old woman who was there to talk not about secret documents, but a secret affair.
Karyn Wallace, a Navy lieutenant who had been ordered to testify under grant of immunity, told the court that she and Yee had been friends at Guantánamo in the summer of 2003. They soon became lovers.
Yee sat in his dress-green uniform at the defense table. His parents were behind him, next to his wife, Huda Suboh. She began to cry as she held their 3-year-old daughter, Sarah.
The affair lasted two months, Wallace testified. They had sex in his quarters and hers, she said, and once they took a trip together to Orlando, Fla.
Capt. James Yee was brought to Fort Benning for preliminary hearings.
After Wallace finished testifying, Yee's wife confronted her in the hallway. You've broken our family apart, Suboh told her as reporters looked on. Wallace touched her on the shoulder and replied: You need to talk to your husband.
The hearing, known as an Article 32, continued.
An Army computer analyst told how Yee had used his government computer to search for Internet pornography. A Customs inspector testified about the documents found on Yee the day of his arrest, including a typewritten list with names of prisoners being held at Guantánamo.
Orlich and Polet still waited. They were there to explain why Yee's documents were considered classified and why they could be a threat to national security.
But as the first day came to a close, prosecutors still had not called them.
Prosecutors had a problem. They had no proof the documents were classified. Not one was stamped "secret." Up to that point they had relied on Polet to tell them which documents were classified, but they were beginning to doubt his judgment, two sources close to the government's case recalled.
If prosecutors couldn't show the documents were classified, they might have to present them in open court.
They went to Orlich, wanting to know the consequences of baring the evidence in a courtroom full of reporters.
Would you want this stuff on the front page of The New York Times, they asked.
"Hell no," Orlich replied.
The confusion over classified documents already had caused delays in the case, as well as an embarrassing incident for prosecutors. Over Thanksgiving weekend, prosecutors had hand-delivered a manila envelope stuffed with documents to Yee's lawyer, Eugene Fidell.
A few days later, Polet informed lead prosecutor Michael Mulligan that some of those documents were classified. And Fidell did not have the proper security clearance.
"In essence, prosecutors had done the same things Yee had done," Polet said later, "which was mishandle classified information."
As Yee's hearing was set to resume for a second day, prosecutors asked for another delay to thoroughly review the documents. The hearing was postponed until Jan. 19.
The case was at a critical juncture. Prosecutors already were doubting they could get Yee on making a false official statement. That charge rested on an allegation that Yee had given a CD laced with radical Islamic sermons to a hospitalized detainee, and then lied about it to a guard who asked if it had been cleared by camp security.
Defense lawyers wanted access to the prisoner as a material witness, but Pentagon policy strictly prohibited it. Prosecutors knew that without access to the detainee, the defense had a strong claim to have the charge dropped.
Prosecutors' best hope for a conviction was on the two counts of mishandling classified documents, which carried a maximum of two years each. But first, they had to prove they were secret.
Polet and Orlich were sent to Southern Command headquarters in Miami, where they joined four other officers. They called themselves a "classification tiger team."
They had nearly 700 documents to review, gathered in searches of Yee's residence in Guantánamo and from his luggage the day of his arrest. They included personal log books, literature downloaded from the Internet and notebooks and lists containing references to detainees, their cell locations and the names of their interrogators, according to investigators.
Not one document by itself was classified. But the team was working on what was called the "compilation theory" of classification: One document with a detainee serial number might not be secret, another with a detainee name or cell number might not be, but put them together and they were.
Page by page, the investigators spent the next four weeks scrutinizing every line, looking for sensitive material that could threaten the prison, or the country, if it got into the wrong hands.
The Army, meanwhile, had not given up on trying to charge Yee with aiding the enemy.
Counterintelligence agents with the 902nd Military Intelligence Group continued to chase the government's last major theory: that Yee and the "Muslim clique" were using the prison library to help the prisoners run a secret communication network.
Intelligence officers worried that detainees returning from interrogations were sharing their questioners' tactics with other prisoners through secret messages written in the margins of books and literature. And that Yee, who had virtually unlimited access to the prisoners, was shuttling books back and forth between them, along with radical Islamic literature.
The theory formed after investigators searching the prison library found a "Cleared by U.S. Forces" stamp, used to clear literature that could then be given to prisoners. They also found hundreds of photocopied pieces of paper, including blank sheets, that had been pre-stamped.
Orlich insisted that only his intelligence section had such a stamp and the authority to clear material for detainee use. Investigators soon learned, though, that Orlich's predecessor at Camp Delta had authorized the library to stamp its own materials.
Quinn Henderson, a former intelligence officer who is now a private attorney in Miami, told investigators he had purchased the stamp off the Internet after Army supply channels proved too slow.
"You had to have a way to stamp the books that had been cleared," he said, and the only people who could clear the books were the linguists who could read them. "You had to trust them."
Nonetheless, investigators pursued their theory.
At a secret location in Virginia, analysts at a national intelligence lab examined hand-scribbled notes and commentary in the margins of thousands of pages of books and documents swept up from Camp Delta in October. Linguists from Guantánamo were flown in to help.
They found hints about how the detainees organized and who their leaders were. But they found no evidence that Yee was helping them. "A lot of it didn't pan out," Orlich said.
Counterintelligence agents realized their last major theory, what many close to the case had called "80 percent of the investigation," was going nowhere.
By early January, Polet and the "tiger" team in Miami had completed their review. They had found dozens of documents that they considered to be classified.
But their report stalled as Southern Command continued to review it. Prosecutors were forced to ask for another delay. And another, still waiting for the report.
Then came damning news.
They were shown a memo written by Carol Haave, deputy undersecretary of defense for counterintelligence and security. It explained that the Southern Command had never approved the classification guidelines for the prison at Guantánamo.
The guidelines were still considered drafts — not usable in court. Prosecutors came to a stark realization. An investigation that had begun on allegations of sedition, espionage and aiding the enemy had come down to minor charges of mishandling classified documents — a security infraction that had been rampant at Guantánamo. And now they couldn't even prove Yee had done that.
Time was running out. It was now March. Prosecutors already had stretched the case out two months beyond the 120 days required by military law to bring a person to trial after an arrest. All they had was pornography and adultery.
They broke the news to Guantánamo commander Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller, the man who had once accused Yee of spying. How are such charges usually tried, Miller asked.
Administratively, not criminally, prosecutors said.
Then it would be unfair to treat Yee any differently, Miller replied.
The statement from Southern Command came March 19: "Citing national security concerns that would arise from the release of the evidence," Miller dropped all criminal charges against Chaplain Yee.
His military career was ruined. His reputation was smeared. But James Yee was a free man.
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Descriptions of the hallway confrontation between Huda Suboh and Karyn Wallace were drawn from news accounts at the time, including those from The New York Times and Knight Ridder Newspapers.


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It is the ordinary snack that turned him into the high priest of pop art. Now Andy Warhol's first painting of a Campbell's soup can is expected to fetch up to £1m when it is sold by the family of his chicken-farming brother, Paul Warhola.
Warhol, who dropped the "a" from his Slovakian surname when he moved to New York from his home town of Pittsburgh, painted Campbell's Soup Can (Pepper Pot) in 1961 and gave it to Paul to celebrate the birth of his son, Marty.
Over the years, each of Paul's seven children took the 20in by 15in canvas to school to show off the talents of their uncle, who rightly predicted that it would "one day be worth millions". Only one other similar-sized Warhol painting of a Campbell's soup can exists. But it is unfinished and belongs to the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, making the picture being auctioned at Christie's in New York on 13 November the only one ever likely to be offered for sale.
The iconic painting, which has never been out of the hands of the Warhola family, is believed to have been the inspiration behind Warhol's famous silkscreen "multiples", images of everyday objects such as soup cans and Coke bottles that he printed in different colours. Larger versions now fetch six-figure sums.
But when he painted that first humble tin of soup he had yet to employ the silkscreen process now so closely linked with his work. Instead, he drew the picture by hand from a magazine photograph, labouring for hours to mimic the can's machine-printed precision.
Determined to leave as little trace of brushwork as possible, Warhol, who began his career designing advertisements for women's shoes, meticulously added the bold hues of red, white and yellow on the soup can and used hand-carved stamps to create the small fleur-de-lis decoration.
A Christie's spokeswoman said yesterday: "No image is more American than the Campbell's soup can. It has remained essentially the same in its design since the early 1900s and has been a staple of American pantries for just as long. Warhol's serial images perfectly reflect the consumer-driven society and this painting is one of the earliest examples of his master subject."
Warhol – who survived being shot in 1968 by the fanatical Valerie Solanas, who had once worked at the Factory, his celebrated New York studio – died in 1987 after suffering complications from a gall bladder operation. He was 60.


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InfoWave has won a contract to equip over 5,000 Singapore taxis with in-vehicle touch-screen devices. A key component of a new transport management system for Singapore’s CityCab, the InfoWave 728 devices provide in-built GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) data and voice communications, coupled with GPS satellite tracking. Specially designed with super-bright and large 7-inch TFT glare-resistant displays, the devices provide easy and user-friendly viewing for taxi drivers. The InfoWave 728s are being supplied as part of a EUR12 million (Singapore $23 million) contract awarded to CET Technologies by CityCab. CET will design, develop and implement CityCab’s new generation Integrated Transport Management System, which will be based on wireless GPRS technology.
The system will feature a comprehensive wireless data transmission network and GPS positioning to enhance CityCab’s automatic fleet management and dispatch system. With access to location information, taxi drivers will be able to locate passenger pick-up points more easily and quickly. In addition, they can also accept e-payment options, log onto CityCab’s Drivers’ Management Portal, and even make GSM voice calls. Upon completion in 2005, the system will enable CityCab to cater for greater flexibility and improved operational efficiency, incorporating new features such as customer management, service provider management and billing and settlement modules.
InfoWave is a joint-venture between CET Technologies, Trek 2000 and Melodeon. InfoWave is a provider in the design and supply of mobile and wireless information devices, focusing on Telematics and Bio-Medical Electronics. Headquartered in Singapore, InfoWave’s global market channels include US, Europe, Middle-East and Asia-Pacific. InfoWave’s telematics products range include ruggedised handheld PDAs, in-vehicle terminals and industrial grade PC Tablets.