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The Alamo Fire hasnt just displacedpeople and pets from their homes, but livestock as well.

Evacuation orders in the Tepusquet Canyon area resulted in stressed livestock and owners.

Fifteen hogs, some cattle, and someturkeys that were to beshowcased at the upcoming Santa Barbara County Fair were taken to the Santa Maria Fairpark ahead of schedule for safe keeping.

We brought in six pigs earlyon Saturday morning. The fairgrounds allowed us to do this which helped us a lot since the pigs had to be evacuated from Tepusquet Canyon and then got evacuated a second time from Santa Maria Mesa, said Trudy Shank, Swine Leader for Cinco Campanas 4-H.

Although all the animals made it out of the evacuation zonesafely, the sudden change of location and temperature took a toll on a few of them.

Soon to be 4-H President Emma Cosma planned to auction off her hog, Luna, at the upcoming fairbut the outcome changed due to the fire. Luna, along with two other pigs were evacuated from Cosma's property.

"All three of them had to be evacuated and we took them to our friends at the end of the mesa by the vineyards, and then not24 hours laterand they got evacuated again with their pigs and my pig ended up not making weight," she said.

Its really hard on the pig when you take and you move them multiple times. They lose weight really easy,Shank said.

Another 4-H member, Collin Callaway, faced the challenge of having to move his cattle in a three-hour road trip in which his cow, Lily, faced several temperature changes.

If we keep on going they get a breeze from the trailer so they stay cool, and if we need, we have ice in the ice chest and if we need we can pour ice water on them, he explained.

The 4-H members have been raising their animals for months, but the real challenge came when evacuations were ordered. Thanks to the Santa Maria Fairpark, all of the animals have a new safe place to stay.

With thousands of people making their way to the fair this week and several fires still burning in the area, it's important to know if the air quality is safe for your health. To check the hour-by-hour conditions of the air quality in Santa Barbara County, click here.

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DELPHOS A Delphos couple were injured in a home invasion assault that occurred Saturday morning.

David and Dianna Allemeier of 209 S. Pierce St. in Delphos were both taken to St. Ritas Medical Center in Lima for treatment of injuries received when a man gained entry to their home and reportedly assaulted them.

Delphos Police were first called out at 6:05 a.m. Saturday on a report of a suspicious person in the 300 block of Jackson Street who was knocking on doors and then walking away. However, while en route to that call, officers were informed that a man had been injured and was bleeding in the 200 block of Pierce Street.

When officers arrived on the scene, they found Allemeier bleeding from an injury to his neck. The Delphos resident said he received the injury from a man who had gained entry into his home.

Officers approached the residence and found the back door unlocked and a lot of blood at the scene. The home was secured and a K-9 and Crime Scene Unit sought from the Allen County Sheriffs Office.

Allemeier then said his wife was still in the house and officers then entered and found Mrs. Allemeier, who was also injured, in the bedroom area of the residence.

After the Allemeiers were transported to the hospital, a K-9 search was made of the area, and the house was processed by an Allen County sheriffs deputy.

No information was released on whether items were taken from the Allemeier house.

Police are currently seeking a young, skinny white male with black hair, possibly wearing cutoff shorts. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Delphos Police Department or Allen County Sheriffs Office.

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DELPHOS A Delphos couple were injured in a home invasion assault that occurred Saturday morning.

David and Dianna Allemeier of 209 S. Pierce St. in Delphos were both taken to St. Ritas Medical Center in Lima for treatment of injuries received when a man gained entry to their home and reportedly assaulted them.

Delphos Police were first called out at 6:05 a.m. Saturday on a report of a suspicious person in the 300 block of Jackson Street who was knocking on doors and then walking away. However, while en route to that call, officers were informed that a man had been injured and was bleeding in the 200 block of Pierce Street.

When officers arrived on the scene, they found Allemeier bleeding from an injury to his neck. The Delphos resident said he received the injury from a man who had gained entry into his home.

Officers approached the residence and found the back door unlocked and a lot of blood at the scene. The home was secured and a K-9 and Crime Scene Unit sought from the Allen County Sheriffs Office.

Allemeier then said his wife was still in the house and officers then entered and found Mrs. Allemeier, who was also injured, in the bedroom area of the residence.

After the Allemeiers were transported to the hospital, a K-9 search was made of the area, and the house was processed by an Allen County sheriffs deputy.

No information was released on whether items were taken from the Allemeier house.

Police are currently seeking a young, skinny white male with black hair, possibly wearing cutoff shorts. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Delphos Police Department or Allen County Sheriffs Office.

The investigation is continuing, with no further information forthcoming at this time.

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The Antioch Police Department is excited to announce the 82nd installment of the Neighborhood Cleanup Program. This is a collaborative community effort which involves active participation from The Antioch Police Department Crime Prevention Commission; Neighborhood Watch Program; Volunteers in Police Service; community volunteers and the Public Works Department.

Collectively, We, everyone who works and lives in the City Antioch, can make a difference and improve the quality of life. Its our community and its our chance to make a difference.

The City of Antioch Neighborhood Clean Up program is not just for residential neighborhoods. It is a program that will change venues, on a monthly basis and it will include business and commercial areas as well. Neighborhoods that are free of trash and refuse are inviting, and a clean community instills a sense of community pride.

The 82nd Neighborhood Cleanup event will occur on Saturday, July 1 2017 from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. We will be cleaning the neighborhoods from 16th St. to Merrill Dr. between Marie Ave. and A Street (see map). Volunteers will meet at Kimball Elementary School on August Way.

Volunteers will receive instructions and the equipment necessary to accomplish the goal. The targeted area is within walking distance. Excluding inclement weather, future Neighborhood Cleanup events are scheduled for the first Saturday of every month and the locations will be announced in advance.

Remember, cleaning up your neighborhood can make life better for your family, your neighbors and your community!

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By Sergeant Rick Smith, Antioch Police Community Policing Bureau

On Wednesday, June 28, 2017 at approximately 12:38 p.m., Antioch officers responded to a reported shooting that occurred in the 1700 block of Sycamore Drive. On arrival, a male victim was located and transported to an area hospital for treatment. Officers are currently investigating this incident and no further information will be released, at this time.

This investigation is ongoing and anyone with information regarding this incident is encouraged to call the Antioch Police at (925) 778-2441. You may also text a tip to 274637 (CRIMES) using key word ANTIOCH.

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Classic video games are now at Kangazoom.

Adds classic video games

By Jesus Cano

With the summer coming up, Kangazoom has loaded up their business with more amenities for their customers.

After years of being vacant due to Golf N Games going out of business, the establishment was open in August of 2016, and is described by many of the residents of Antioch to be a hot spot for fun. They already have a 36-hole mini-golf course, and have added a plethora of arcade games that date back to the 80s.

Many of the games include classics such as Pacman, Donkey Kong, and Streetfighter. People have stated that these arcade game provide a unique spot for Kangazoom, as these gems are slowly starting to be left in the dust for the new era of technology

The main intention of adding these games is to bring back a blast from the past, Owner Marcus Jefferson said.

Kangazoom also has two party rooms, but with beautiful Bay Area summer weather rolling their way, they decided to open up a Barbeque area.

Jefferson also hopes to put good usage the available race track they have which is located at the end of their parking lot. He also seeks to bring friendly competition by hosting multiple mini-golf tournaments for people of all ages, along with more activities and additions this summer

Kangazoom also has a special deal going on for youth baseball and softball players, where you pay regular price for rounds and get double.

Baseball & Softball Team Specials

2 Tokens for $5

4 Tokens for $9

6 Tokens for $13

1 Hour Batting Cage Rental $25

Major League Baseball Hall of Famer Rickey Henderson and former Los ngeles Dodger Aaron Miles used these batting cages back when the place was known as Golf N Games.

Kangazoom is open every day. Monday- Thursday from 3-8pm, Friday from 12-9pm, Saturday 11am-9pm and Sunday from 11am-7pm.

To book a party or any general business inquires contact them at (925)776-4386, or visit their website at Kangazoom-Antioch.com.

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Shoppers enjoy the variety of items at Rivertown Treasure Chest.

By Allen Payton

Another new store has opened in Antiochs historic, downtown Rivertown, incorporating the area in its name: Rivertown Treasure Chest. Its a co-op thats co-owned by three ladies, Debbie Blaisure, Toni Lincks and Earlene Lanter and a portion of the sale of some items will benefit three local non-profit organizations.

Blaisure and Lincks bring their retail experience from owning Oddly Unique, just down the street. But, this store was a result of a dream.

I had a dream of mixing the new and old in a co-op, Blaisure said. Johnny Depp came to me in a dream and said to have a treasure chest theme, she joked.

The tag line says it all Something for all ages from all decades, Blaisure added.

They rent out space in their store to other retailers, who offer a wide variety of items, including clothing, candy and other sweets, plants including carnivorous types, greeting cards, and gifts.

The three non-profits that the store benefits are Celebrate Antioch Foundation which runs Antiochs July 4th Celebration and the Holiday Delites in December; An Elderly Wish Foundation which grants wishes to seniors; and Special Haven, also located on G Street, which provides a multi-sensory environment for the benefit and development of children and adults with Special Needs.

Folks can donate their used wood furniture, art, statures, vases and vinyl records and half of the proceeds from the sale of the item will be donated to the charity of the donors choice.

Two of the ladies who help manage the store, Naomi Paul and Mary Freeman said the reason they like the store, is it brings something that downtown Antioch deserves.

A little kid just bought something and an adult bought something, Mary added, supporting the slogan of something for all ages.

Stop by Rivertown Treasure Chest at 306 G St. in Antioch and browse through all the sections to see the interesting items from all decades. Learn more by calling 925-238-0090 or visiting http://www.facebook.com/RivertownTreasureChest.

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Jose Cansecowith a young fan during an autograph signing at Winter Chevrolet on Friday, June 23, 2017.

By Jesus Cano

Americas favorite pastime is alive and well in Eastern Contra Costa County. The Pittsburg Diamonds have played at City Park since 2014, and this week welcomed back to the Bay Area, former Major League slugger Jose Canseco, as he spent the weekend of June 23rd with the independent professional baseball team.

Canseco is best known for his tenure with the Oakland Athletics from 1982-1992, where nailed 209 homeruns and 647 RBIs. He and Athletics first baseman Mark McGwire formed the Bash Brothers. Along with that, he captured a World Series ring in the 1989 Battle of the Bay that was overshadowed by the infamous Loma Prieta Earthquake.

Canseco is no stranger to the city of Pittsburg, as this is his third year suiting up for the Diamonds. He states that his favorite part of being back in the East Bay is being able to be around the young players the Diamonds house.

I try to help them out with all aspects of the game, Canseco said. A lot of players actually recommend coming out to Pittsburg to play so Im really excited for this weekend.

The Diamonds have been part of the Pacific Association of Professional Baseball Clubs since their inaugural season in 2014 when they were named the Pittsburg Mettle. In 2015 when ownership switched to hands of Khurram Shah, they commenced under the Diamonds brand paying homage to the team that played in the same area back in the 60s.

Shah wants everyone to be aware that Pittsburg is home to a minor league baseball team. Even if he brings Canseco out for a couple games, he hopes to generate life-long fans after this unique experience.

Were trying to build a fan base, Shah said. We want to see a repeat of people coming to ballpark consistently.

Pittsburg took two out of the three game series against the Vallejo Admirals during Cansecos weekend with the team, where the Diamonds improved to 11-9 on the season.

Shah highlights infielder Vinny Guglietti to be one of the top guys on the team. The Connecticut native is batting .420 with five homeruns and 27 RBIs. Wes Wallace is another player that makes a huge impact according to Shah as he is hitting .364 and five homeruns. Shah states Tyler Stirewalt is starting to showcase his pitching ability. Stirewalt has 1.92 ERA so far, this season.

The Diamondsnext home game is Tuesday night, June 27 at 6:30 p.m., to begin another three-game series also against the Admirals. To learn more about the Diamonds visit http://www.diamondsproball.com.

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The train that moved through downtown Council Bluffs late last month on a bright Saturday morning didnt seem extraordinary at first glance just another Union Pacific freighter with different types of cargo and railcars slowly crossing the railroad tracks in a town crisscrossed with railroad tracks.

But it was notable in one respect: It was 142 cars long. And for a manifest train the industry term for trains with mixed cargoes and car types it was 45 percent longer than the average Union Pacific manifest train in 2016.

The extra length was no accident. Trains are getting longer, as the nations freight railroads seek out greater efficiency lower expenses mean higher profits by grouping more railcars into fewer trains.

The railroads say their crews are well-equipped to handle longer trains, and that they spur a more flexible and productive transportation system, the cost of which ultimately gets passed on in the price of everything that gets moved on the nations rails, from auto parts to zinc.

Union Pacifics professional train crews receive detailed information for each train they operate, including train length and weight, and receive ongoing training to ensure they are prepared for unique train-handling situations, said Calli Hite, a spokeswoman for Omaha-based Union Pacific, the second-largest U.S. freight railroad.

But safety concerns have been raised, so far mostly by the labor unions representing the engineers, conductors and other rail workers who toil on, in and around the steel behemoths. Some industry watchers say longer trains might mean less need for railroad labor, as more freight gets moved with fewer trains which would be a negative for employees.

Railway labor groups still say their complaints are valid, ranging from the sheer physics of starting, stopping and handling a longer and heavier train to the amount of time that road-level crossings are blocked to emergency-response vehicles.

The various railroads are running ever-longer trains, some as long as three miles, said John Risch, national legislative director for the Sheet Metal, Air and Rail Transportation union, or SMART, which represents about 90,000 rail-industry workers. Long trains create both safety and operational concerns, and we have asked the Federal Railroad Administration to investigate the problem of long trains, he said of the government regulator.

Risch said longer trains spend more time blocking road-level crossings than shorter ones; the one in Council Bluffs late last month blocked traffic for about 11 minutes at the intersection of Second Avenue and South 12th Street.

The longer the train, the more crossings you block, and they are blocked for a longer period of time, said Risch, who spent about 30 years as a locomotive engineer for BNSF Railway. This doesnt just mean blocking people like you and me, but blocking emergency vehicles as well.

Not all of the Class I railroads disclose train length information to investors (all are publicly traded or part of a publicly traded parent company). And among those that do, some do so by number of cars, others by overall length. Industry insiders say trains of 8,000 feet, or about 1.5 miles, are common, and anything longer is somewhat atypical.

But each of the seven Class I railroads the largest freight carriers operating in the United States has its own guidelines on making up trains into their final configurations.

And the Federal Railroad Administration, the nations train-safety regulator, doesnt collect train-length data on a routine basis. Precise details on train length are part of accident investigations, spokeswoman Tiffany Lindemann said, such as after a derailment. But notably, there are no rules on length. It seems freight trains can be about as long as they want.

Train length data is not collected by FRA regularly, and there are not regulations over the length of Class I freight trains, Lindemann said.

What is known is that length has been increasing, albeit slowly, in some freight categories on an average basis, and on a trial basis in others.

At Union Pacific, the average grain train last year was five cars longer than in 2013, at 101 cars; coal trains rose by two cars to 130. The manifest trains, which accounted for almost one-third of the companys freight volume last year, climbed by nine cars to 98 cars. (Railcars come in varying lengths, from about 40 feet to about 80 feet.) Train length hit an all-time record in four of the six major freight categories last year, according to the 2016 Investor Fact Book published by Union Pacific, which employs about 8,000 in Nebraska, 42,000 people overall and operates 32,100 miles of track west of the Mississippi River.

In August 2016, Florida-based Class I freight railroad CSX announced the average length of CSX trains would increase on a route in Indiana due to track and signal improvements. In September, CSX said 14,000-foot trains would begin running between Louisville, Kentucky, and Seymour, Indiana. For comparison, 14,000 feet is about 2.7 miles, or the distance via roads from TD Ameritrade Park in downtown Omaha to Eppley Airfield.

At Texas-based BNSF Railway, owned by Omahas Berkshire Hathaway and the largest U.S. railroad by ton-miles, longer trains are being tried out on an experimental basis, spokeswoman Amy Casas said. She said the railway is still exploring what types of productivity and efficiency gains can be achieved.

The trains of BNSF, which employs about 5,000 in Nebraska, remain about 8,000 feet long on average, and longer ones arent something that we are looking at strategically for our railroad, Casas said. According to the SMART union, BNSF ran a train in April from Superior, Wisconsin, that had 246 cars and was almost 14,000 feet long.

At Canadian Pacific Railway, train length has risen more than 1,000 feet since 2011, to 7,143 feet this year. The railroad, once considered one of North Americas least efficient, has garnered investor approbation for turning things around via such productivity maneuvers.

Virginia-based Class I Norfolk Southern said in January 2016 train length rose 2.2 percent from a year earlier, and reached a corporate all-time record.

Risch said all the talk and statistics are one thing, and what his union members see on the ground is another: trains of up to three miles long, sometimes with hazardous materials, such as chlorine or ammonia. This year, the SMART union sent a letter to the Federal Railroad Administration asking for an investigation and an order ending excessive train length.

The letter cited what the union said was higher likelihood of mechanical failure, difficulty maintaining brake pressure when a trains exceed three miles and communications problems. A loss of brake pressure, the letter said, would require the conductor to inspect the entire length of the train a six-mile round trip.

If a conductor must walk to the rear of the train that is two-and-a-half miles long, he is oftentimes no longer able to communicate via portable radio with the locomotive engineer due to the long distance, reads the April letter from SMART to the federal regulator. Portable radios regularly lose communications beyond a mile-and-a-half, depending on the terrain.

That communications gap, the letter states, has led railroad managers to order crews to use their personal cellphones to supplement the portable radios, orders SMART says are at odds with company policies banning mobile phones that are set higher up in the management chain.

The SMART union isnt alone in its objections. As long ago as 2014, the Railroad Workers United, a coalition of union-represented train employees from many different unions, passed a resolution condemning long trains for many of the same reasons cited by SMART.

There are so many ways that trains of greater size are more hazardous than one of lesser size that it would be like writing a novel to try to categorize all the issues with long, heavy trains, said Jeff Kurtz, a recently retired BNSF engineer working with Railroad Workers United. What is truly amazing to me is that the FRA has never really addressed the size issue.

The Federal Railroad Administration has taken no position on train length amid the objections by the labor groups, spokeswoman Lindemann said.

And even though it is only inching up at Union Pacific in some freight categories, the company talks a lot about train size. Spokeswoman Hite said in response to World-Herald inquiries about train length that increases improve productivity because more cars can be moved with fewer individual trains.

For example, it is more efficient to add a few railcars to every train rather than holding all of those same railcars to build an additional train, Hite said. This has a networkwide impact by adding capacity and increasing velocity. In short, longer trains equals fewer trains and allow us to provide better service for our customers.

It also adds to the bottom line, a topic Union Pacific executives have often mentioned to analysts and investors at conferences and on quarterly earnings teleconferences. One reason is the companys goal of achieving a 55 percent operating ratio, a cost-control benchmark closely watched by Wall Street.

Operating ratio measures a companys operating expenses as a percentage of revenue. Said another way, an operating ratio of 70 percent would mean 70 percent of the companys revenues were used for operating expenses so the lower, the better.

Union Pacific is currently one of the leaders in the field among the seven Class I railroads operating in the United States, with an operating ratio of 63 percent last quarter, trailing only Canadian Pacific and Canadian National, which are the leaders at both just under 60 percent.

But the drive now is for a 55 percent ratio at Union Pacific, and increasing train size appears to be one path to the destination.

There is plenty of headroom inside our network, almost across the board between our three regions, for more train size opportunities, and we will, on a case-by-case, line-by-line basis, take advantage of that, Union Pacific Chief Operating Officer Cameron Scott said on a conference call with investors and analysts in May.

Scott also said on the call discussing first-quarter earnings that Union Pacific continued realizing gains in other key productivity initiatives such as train size, with records attained for the length of trains carrying grain, mixed cargoes and vehicles and vehicle parts.

Union Pacific Chief Financial Officer Rob Knight told an investor conference in June that the companys efficiency ratio has improved 24 points in the past 13 years, to 63 percent, good for the industrys top tier. Productivity, or getting more done with less, has been the way forward, Knight said.

For example, if we can find ways, which is usually not just our own decision its working closely with our customer base to run longer trains, Knight told attendees at a conference sponsored by Deutsche Bank in Chicago last month.

The motivation behind rail-network efficiency drives is perfectly rational, said Daniel Sherman, a transportation industry analyst for St. Louis-based wealth adviser Edward Jones who follows Union Pacific and other railroads. He said longer trains mean more cargo can be handled by fewer people and less time railcars full of valuable freight spend idling about in terminals and yards.

That does not mean that train is actually going at higher speeds or that crews are working faster, Sherman said. Instead, it means better planning and physical changes to the network, such as longer sidings, or subsidiary tracks where long trains can pull over and let other trains pass.

He said the guts of the system is car planning, or grouping railcars into trains, cargoes and destinations that maximize each train trip. Rail companies are now attempting to get it down to a cold science, like FedEx and UPS do with packages.

Better car planning means physically reworking yards and using more technology in tracking and planning routes, Sherman said. The end result of the changes should be shipping more freight on fewer trains, meaning fewer crews are needed.

A lot of it just common sense, said Larry Gross, a consultant at FTR Transportation Intelligence. He said the cost of staffing a freight train is the same regardless of how many cars are in it. So, the bigger the train, the lower the crew-cost per car, Gross said.

Managing costs is something the railroads excelled at during the recent freight slump quarterly shipments at the seven Class I railroads fell for two straight years, a skein that ended only last quarter. Though shipments fell, trains got longer, productivity was boosted and profits remained as the companies furloughed workers, mothballed locomotives and raised prices to remain in the black.

Union Pacific, for example, remained solidly profitable throughout 2015 and 2016, when volumes fell 6 percent and 7 percent, respectively. Despite the slack demand, in 2015, the company had net income of $4.8 billion, and $4.2 billion last year. At BNSF, 2015 net income was $4.2 billion, on shipments that were little-changed from a year earlier, while 2016 profit was $3.6 billion on a 5 percent drop in volume.

But the law of diminishing returns is important when it comes to train size, Gross said: Going from 10 cars to 11 reduces the per-car cost by 10 percent, but going from 100 cars to 101 cars reduces the per-car cost by only 1 percent, he said. Longer trains are often slower trains, Gross added, because they take longer to move through curves and other areas where speed limits are lower than on open track.

But Gross said he sees no inherent safety dangers to longer trains. Unmanned, radio-controlled locomotives in the middle or rear of trains can supply power as needed, reducing the physical forces bearing on longer trains and improving braking over what can be provided without them.

Big trains can be operated safely, Gross said. But at the risk of stating the obvious, mega-trains are generally unpopular with the towns that they pass through to the extent that there are highway-grade crossings as they take considerably longer to clear.

And as with train length, there is no federal limit as to how long trains are permitted to block traffic crossings. Cities and states often have statutes prohibiting trains from blocking a crossing for more than 10 minutes, but they are considered to be unenforceable as the matter is considered to be one of federal jurisdiction that pre-empts state law.

The issue of a states authority to legislate or regulate blocked crossings is highly contentious and still being defined in the courts, is how the Federal Railroad Administration sums it up in a Q&A on its website.

As for emergency response as in if a blocked crossing prevents a firetruck from crossing the tracks the new trend toward longer trains hasnt posed a problem so far. That is according to Council Bluffs Fire Chief Justin James, whose city is festooned with railroad tracks on the surface streets operated by Union Pacific and BNSF.

James said that while the department works closely with the railroads on responding to accidents involving hazardous materials, there hasnt been any discussion on train length. He said planning and training are an emergency crews best response to a blocked crossing.

Obviously, being in a city where train tracks basically divide our territory both north to south and east to west, we have become accustomed to dealing with them during an emergency response, James said. We spend a lot of time with our personnel on understanding both the streets and rail layouts in an effort to ensure we are not delayed.

Likewise, the issue of longer trains doesnt seem to have percolated throughout the emergency response community. The International Association of Fire Chiefs, based in Washington, hasnt developed a position on the matter, a spokesman said.

The Association of American Railroads represents the seven Class I freight carriers operating in the U.S., and speaks for the industry on many topics. Spokeswoman Jessica Kahanek provided the following as the Washington-based trade groups response to inquiries by The World-Herald about the objections to long trains raised by the SMART labor union.

The distance of the train as it relates to braking is an operational issue, not a safety one. Distance in no way impacts the safe application of brakes. The relationship between distance and maintaining pipe pressure pertains to releasing brakes after the train has stopped. Getting the train moving again after it has stopped is fundamentally an operational matter. There are a number of ways to improve train air and train handling that railroads use based upon their models such as locomotive power distribution, which improves brake control.

The question of communications pertains to the specific radios in use by a railroad. There are handheld radios available that have sufficient wattage for longer distances. In terms of what specific radios are in use, that is a better question for individual railroads, as the AAR is not involved in their day-to-day operations.

Warning devices at crossings activate about 25 seconds before the train occupies the crossing. Combining two trains will allow the passage of the train with one crossing start instead of two. A train that is one mile long moving at 60 mph would occupy a crossing for approximately one minute, plus the crossing start time of 25 seconds. A two-mile-long train at 60 mph will block the crossing for two minutes and 25 seconds. This means that running one two-mile train through the crossing rather than two one-mile trains through reduces the total time the crossing is occupied by 25 seconds.

The Omaha World-Herald is owned by Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

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Hurricane season started June 1 in Hawaii. But disasters here could also include tsunami, power outages and even an earthquake.

Preparation for a disaster involvespreparing and practicing a disaster planandstocking and maintaining a disaster supply kit.

Caregivers and kupuna need to come up with a detailed disaster plan that involves creating a support network of neighbors and friends. Family caregivers may not be able to reach a loved one in an emergency, especially during an evacuation. Caregivers of people with dementia will also need more than one person to watch over a loved one to help keep them calm and to make sure they dont wander away.

State Emergency Management officials are recommending you keep a 14-day supply of food for each person in the disaster supply kit. Thats significantly increased from whats suggested for the mainland and previous recommendations in Hawaii of three to seven days of supplies. The concern is that harbors could become unusable in a disaster and Oahu could run out of food before the ports can be reopened.

If you need to evacuate your home, dont assume that the nearest school will opened as an emergency shelter. Toby Clairmont, executive officer of the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, said that some facilities, especially older sites that had been designated as emergency shelters in the past, are being re-evaluated to see if they would safely survive a disaster. See if a relative or friends home in a safe area can be used as a back-up shelter and its a good idea to line up more than one back-up shelter in case the first one is not available.

Check your home to see if it is engineered to survive a severe storm and to see if it isoutside tsunami and flood zones. If you live in a concrete building on an upper floor, you may be better off to shelter in place during a storm or tsunami.

Here are other disaster preparation tips for kupuna and caregivers.

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See the article here:
Caregivers, Kupuna Must Plan Ahead to Survive a Disaster - Hawaii News Now

Aye moti/u! Kam kha, moti/a horahi/a hain. Size dekha hain? Haathi lag raha hain!

How many times do you chance upon such comments on your social feed, in a day? I am safely assuming, quite a lot. Thats because there are people who sit behind the HD screens and enjoying taking a dig at someones body shape/size. And, we fondly (or not-so-fondly) call these people fat-shamers, body-shamers or trolls.

But, my question is, how did one gain such authority or even a nerve to comment about someone elses features or body structures? Are they SO perfect themselves that they get the right to find or point out flaws in others? Oh, wait! Even that doesnt give anyone any right.

Still, our timelines are filled with such dark souls who go ninja-typing while commenting on someones photo, status or message them personally. Sometimes it is none other than our very own relatives. And, something similar happened with Sejal Pradhan.

Random jerk of a relative on Facebook (whos never even spoken to me before in person) messages this out of nowhere. Looks like social media hasnt given them enough doses about body shaming already. But Im ready to offer my two pennies worth to people like him in need.

Heres some help: My weight, whether I gain it, lose it or keep it the same is in no way asking for your opinion. Have I ever asked for one? No. Do I look disheartened about my body and am I seeking sympathy? No.

So please keep your downright crass and judgmental opinions to yourself.

To start with, scrutinise your mother/girlfriend/wifes weight gain/loss trend over the years and conduct a thorough analysis. This way, youll end up being a little less ignorant about the factors triggering it. That might surely help. And only after youve successfully cleared this stage of your investigation, wrack your pea-sized brain some more and think before you speak or type, to the rest of the world. Because every single person out there knows their own struggle, or probably theyre completely content with the body they have and arent struggling at all!

Oh, and just in case you were thinking that you cracked a good joke here by pointing out to my weight, Im sorry you were not even close. Maybe I could point out to that belly of yours that you could occasionally use as a table to have a good laugh but no, I dont class it as humour. Because nobody is obliged to look a certain size/shape/colour just to please your eyes. And most importantly, kindly get a life. Im sure there are ample real issues around you that would require your valuable perusal, rather than pondering over how Im miraculously gaining weight with every passing hour.

Thank you!

Ooh, gurl! Thats how its done! Kudos!

P.S. This makes me crack this: When Troll Met Sejal #SorryNotSorry

You can read her entire post, here.

This post is published after taking due permission from the author.

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Girl Shuts Down Her 'Dur-Ka-Relative' Body-Shamer With A Reply He Would NEVER Forget - Storypick

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