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While the slowing of land acquisition process could be attributed to farmers’ opposition to it — petitions are pending in the Gujarat High Court against the acquisition of land for the project.
While the VVCMC received correspondence regarding the same, farmers met a Japanese delegation on Thursday and told the delegates that they will not give up their land for the high-speed train corridor.
The farmers have stated in their petition that they moved the High Court after they learnt that their land is proposed to be acquired by the state government for the bullet train project.
"We travelled by the bullet train --- the kind of one which is being built between Ahmedabad and Mumbai --- for about 700 kilometers which took us just two hours and the ticket cost was Rs 15000. There nothing is free and nothing is cheap," said Nitin Patel.
The bullet trains will be laced with advanced fire detection system and anti-derailment measures while protecting the structures from earthquake-related incidents.
The farmers have said that their village falls under the Ahmedabad Urban Development Authority (AUDA) as it borders Ahmedabad district, but they have refused to accept the current compensation, which is two times the jantri for urban areas.
A division bench of Chief Justice R Subhash Reddy and Justice V M Pancholi made the Union Rural Development Ministry a respondent, as demanded by the lawyer of the National High Speed Rail Corporation Limited.
The petition has been moved by a Surat-based farmer, whose land is supposed to be acquired for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project.
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. >> Emergency workers around hurricane-scarred Florida worked to make sure elderly residents were safe, evacuating multiple assisted-living facilities, after eight people died in a sweltering nursing home that lost its air conditioning in the storm.
In one of the latest actions to protect older residents, firefighters helped relocate 122 people late Wednesday from two assisted living centers near Orlando that had been without power since Hurricane Irma. Elsewhere, facilities lacking electricity statewide tried to keep residents cool with dampened cloths and urged ...
Stepped-up safety checks came after the eight deaths at the Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills, which shocked Florida’s top leaders even as they surveyed destruction from a storm that spread its punishing effects across the entire state.
“Unfathomable,” Gov. Rick Scott said of the nursing home deaths. “Inexcusable,” U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson added.
Around the state, 81 nursing homes lacked electricity as of Wednesday night, according to the Florida Health Care Association.
In Coral Gables, an apartment building was evacuated after authorities said its lack of power made it unsafe for elderly tenants. And at the 15,000-resident Century Village retirement community in Pembroke Pines, where there were also widespread outages, rescue workers went door to door in the 94-degree heat checking o...
For the elderly outside assisted living facilities, such as 94-year-old Mary Dellaratta, getting help can depend on the attentiveness of neighbors, family and local authorities. The widow evacuated her Naples condominium with the help of police the day before the storm hit. After the hurricane passed, a deputy took her...
But with no family in the area and neighbors who are gone or unwilling to help, the New York native feels cut off from the world.
“I have nobody,” she said.
The electricity is out in her condo, so there’s no television for news. She also can’t raise the electric-powered hurricane shutters that cover her kitchen windows.
Near the point of despair, remembering to take her medicine or locating her cane are almost insurmountable challenges.
“I don’t know what to do. How am I going to last here?” she said, as a tear rolled down her cheek.
Though the number of people with electricity had improved from earlier in the week, some 6.8 million people across the peninsula continued to wait for power, and utility officials warned it could take a week or more for all areas to be back up and running.
As recovery continues, President Donald Trump was due to visit Naples in southwestern Florida on Thursday.
Including the nursing home deaths, at least 25 people in Florida have died under Irma-related circumstances, and six more in South Carolina and Georgia, many of them well after the storm had passed. The death toll across the Caribbean stood at 38.
In Hollywood, the Rehabilitation Center said the hurricane had knocked out a transformer that powered the air conditioning. Broward County said the home alerted officials Tuesday that it had lost power, but when asked if it had any medical needs or emergencies, it did not request help.
Early Wednesday morning, after responding to three calls about patients there in distress, firefighters went through the facility and found three people dead and evacuated more than 150 patients to hospitals, many on stretchers or in wheelchairs, authorities said.
By the afternoon, five more had died. Others were treated for dehydration, breathing difficulties and other heat-related problems.
Hollywood Police Chief Tom Sanchez said investigators believe the deaths at the Rehabilitation Center were heat-related and that a criminal investigation has been launched. The chief said authorities have not ruled anything out in the deaths, including carbon monoxide poisoning from generators. Authorities performed sa...
Glendale Owens, the daughter of one of the men who died, said she visited her father in the nursing home Monday and everything seemed fine. She said Bobby Owens had been at the facility for more than 10 years.
Paulburn Bogle, a member of the housekeeping staff, said after the air conditioning failed, the staff used fans, put cold towels and ice on patients and gave them cold drinks. The medical examiner’s office said the victims were five women and three men, ages 70 to 99.
Calls to the owner and other officials at the Hollywood home were not immediately returned, but the facility’s administrator, Jorge Carballo, said in a statement that it was cooperating fully with authorities.
The governor said he’s directed state officials to issue an emergency moratorium to prevent the facility from admitting new patients.
Nursing homes in Florida are required by law to file an emergency plan that includes evacuation plans for residents. County officials released documents showing that the Hollywood facility was in compliance with that regulation and that it held a hurricane drill with its staff in October.
At another assisted living facility near Miami, the manager said the building lost power Tuesday morning well after the hurricane had passed. Residents had been temporarily evacuated when the storm lashed South Florida, but they came back around the time the facility lost power.
Anne Richards, who manages Sunny Hills Assisted Living Community in Homestead, said she is asking relatives of the facility’s 97 elderly residents if they can come take their loved ones someplace cooler. Her main concern is air conditioning.
At the dining hall on Wednesday, staff members were pressing cold rags on patients’ shoulders and necks. Area temperatures were in the high 80s Wednesday and Thursday.
Resident Barbara Bernstein, 83, said it’s difficult to walk in the dark to the restroom using a flashlight, but her main concern was the lack of AC.
Associated Press writers Jason Dearen on Summerland Key; Brendan Farrington, Gary Fineout and Joe Reedy in Tallahassee; Jay Reeves in Naples; Terrance Harris in Orlando; Claire Galofaro in Jacksonville; and Jennifer Kay, Freida Frisaro, Curt Anderson and David Fischer in Miami contributed to this report.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Serena Williams returns to Arthur Ashe Stadium on Tuesday to face Karolina Pliskova in the U.S. Open quarter-finals, while defending champions Rafael Nadal and Sloane Stephens are also in action.
For six-times champion Williams, who is seeking her first Grand Slam title since becoming a mother last September, this may be her toughest test yet in New York as the Czech eighth seed has rediscovered the form that took her to the 2016 final.
Williams, who is three wins away from securing a record- equalling 24th Grand Slam title, survived a scare in her previous match when she needed three sets to dispatch Kaia Kanepi.
Pliskova has won all her matches here in straight sets, including a round of 16 clash with Ashleigh Barty in which she won all 10 of her service games en route to her third consecutive U.S. Open quarter-final.
Pliskova and Williams, who will kick off the evening session, have split their two career meetings, with the Czech having won their most recent battle in the 2016 U.S. Open semi-finals.
Stephens will kick off the day’s action on centre court when she meets 19th-seeded Latvian Anastasija Sevastova for a spot in the semi-finals against either Williams or Pliskova.
World number three Stephens has settled nicely into her role as defending champion, approaching each match with a new swagger and with plenty of support from the home crowd.
Stephens had a straight sets win over Sevastova last month in a U.S. Open tune-up at Montreal on her way to the final.
Argentine Juan Martin del Potro, the 2009 champion, will cap the day session when he faces John Isner in a battle of towering big-servers.
Del Potro, seeded third, has won 81 percent of his first serves en route to the last eight while 11th-seeded Isner has won a staggering 85 percent of his own.
Holder Nadal will meet Dominic Thiem for the first time since he beat the Austrian in this year’s French Open final.
The re-match caps the evening session and determines who faces the winner of the Del Potro-Isner clash.
There’s much more wizardry backstage at “The Wizard of Oz” at the Pantages in Hollywood than most people realize.
There are 36 flying sets on the show, which are created so both sides can be used. In addition to the array of sets waiting in the wings, many pieces hang in the rafters above the stage, which are dropped into position when the time is right.
A number of the sets have swivel casters so they can be turned in any direction with ease. For instance, the yellow brick road can turn 360 degrees and folds for storage.
And that’s just a few of the show’s secrets production stage manager Michael McGoff shared with the Los Angeles News Group during a recent tour.
There are also eight automation tracks in the stage floor to guide and move the scenery. The automation director sits in a more reclusive area backstage with his computer and a monitor to oversee the action, assuring the safety of the actors and controlling the movements of the set pieces, which he can stop on a dime.
If you are a hard-core “Oz” fan, you will notice the little touches to the show’s props, such as a poppy patterned cushion in a chair, a monkey doll, playing cards and a photo of Dorothy’s mother. The items suggest other elements in the story (SPOILER ALERT), such as Glinda, the good witch, is actually Dorothy’s mom.
There are three scrims in the show that are used in various ways, including use as screens for video during scenes like the tornado and flying monkeys. There is also a blackout drop that helps hide scene changes while the action continues so there is no need for a curtained pause in the play.
The lighting for “Oz” is very important, McGoff said, as it helps create the vivid colors of the show and aids the sets’ hues. It also correlates to the various places Dorothy goes. One interesting fact is that the sepia-toned lighting for the farm in Kansas makes people’s blue eyes appear violet on stage, McGoff said.
There are two dogs who play Toto, Nigel and Loki. Both are rescue animals — and no, they are not siblings — trained by William Berloni. On stage, the spots where they sit have been built to include a soft pad so the pups can easily know their mark and are comfortable sitting still during the show.
There is an 11-piece orchestra for “Oz.” It travels with a conductor and four musicians and the rest of the players are added at each city.
Two walk-in closet sized spaces serve as quick changing rooms for the ensemble. The costumes are neatly hung on long racks with a skinny shelf above for accessories. Jewelry and other pieces are hung in bags nearby so the actors have everything for each outfit in one place.
Watching the show, you should note the various hues of the costumes. In the past, color was an indication of class and religion and L. Frank Baum was well aware of this when he wrote his book, McGoff said. Blue, green and yellow are the colors of oppression, repression and suppression, while purple and red are the colo...
Color also denotes the places Dorothy visits. Drab browns are the hues for her home in Kansas while sparkly greens welcome her in Emerald City.
You will also see the embellishment of the outfits vary according to the characters. Each character has a distinct style and personality indicated by the nuances of their costume.
Former premier William Lai, left, looks on as Internet celebrity Holger Chen talks during a livestream hosted by Chen on Tuesday.
Former premier William Lai (賴清德), who has registered as a candidate for the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) presidential primary, in a livestream hosted by Internet celebrity Holger Chen (陳之漢) on Tuesday talked about the economy, reforms, nuclear energy and the primary.
Lai defined the DPP’s idea of an “independent Taiwan” as “Taiwan being an independent country named the Republic of China [ROC],” adding that there is no need to declare independence, as Taiwan fits every criterion of a sovereign nation.
Former presidents Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) and his son, Chiang Ching-kuo (蔣經國), supported taking back China for the ROC, Lai said, adding that if in the post-Chiang era their disciples were to accept unification, the ROC would cease to exist.
President Tsai Ing-wen’s (蔡英文) New Year’s address was “tough” on national sovereignty issues and it is up to the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) to match her stance, Chen said.
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s (習近平) “five points” are pressuring the pan-blue camp to sign a peace accord, “but any such accord would be fake,” Lai said, adding that had a peace accord been useful, Tibet would not be in its current state.
He was referring to the 1951 Seventeen-Point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet, which promised religious freedom and autonomy for Tibetans.
“Taiwan should not become a second Hong Kong or Tibet,” Lai said.
He said he is running in the primary because pan-green camp supporters are worried that losing next year’s presidential election — along with fewer seats in the legislature — would be detrimental to the promotion of democratic values and the preservation of the nation’s sovereignty.
Responding to the issue of whether to grant a special pardon to former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁), Lai called for judiciary reforms so that everyone can have a fair and just trial, adding that the public should consider the case with more leniency.
Holger Chen said that soldiers, police officers and firefighters should have a pension program different from that for office workers due to the dangerous nature of their professions, and criticized the government’s decision to reduce the military budget, as well as pensions and benefits for retired police and military...
Lai said that reforming the pension fund for civil servants, military personnel and public-school teachers was necessary, as it was facing imminent insolvency.
The reductions would ensure the fund’s survival, Lai said, adding that without the reforms, civil servants, military personnel and public-school teachers would have no pensions.
Commenting on promoting non-partisan politics, Lai praised a collaboration between the pan-green and pan-blue camps.
Holger Chen said that police should be given greater authority.
Protesters from the China Unification Promotion Party often stage protests at the gym he runs, Holger Chen said, adding that such gang-like behavior should not be protected just because they operate under the guise of a political party.
Lai said that amendments last year to the Organized Crime Prevention Act (組織犯罪防制條例) provide greater leeway for police to crack down on gang-related activities.
Following the interview, Holger Chen was asked by reporters whether he supported Tsai or Lai, to which he said it would depend on their policies and stance on Taiwanese sovereignty.
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It’s not every day you get to meet Donald Duck - and certainly not as a guest to your wedding.
But for Fleetwood couple Max Pendlebury and Amy Campbell, the Disney character was VIP on their big day and he dressed for the occasion too.
Amy wasn't having a Disney wedding without Donald Duck being there.
Complete with top hat and tails, Donald made their day when they tied the knot at the Wedding Pavilion at Walt Disney World in Florida.
Amy, senior marketing executive at Rossall School, is a huge Disney fan and when Max got down on one knee at the Magic Kingdom to propose, there was only one place for the wedding.
So they flew out there in October with 34 of their close family and friends for the wedding of their dreams.
Amy and Max, who is a teacher at Rossall School, met in 2011 when Amy was working as a barmaid at the former Jenx nightclub in Blackpool.
She said: “He came in one night and his friends had quite a reputation at the time, so I did my best to avoid serving him all night.
“However, towards the end of the evening, he asked another barmaid if I could serve him and I had no choice. We started talking and the rest is history.
They became engaged in 2012 on their first Disney World holiday. Max had planned everything, even down to a photographer to capture the proposal.
They were engaged for five years before deciding to set a date, one of the main reasons was Amy’s dad was diagnosed with skin cancer and they wanted to do it soon.
“The reason we wanted to get married at Disney was because we both share a love for it,” said Amy, who is 30.
“Max’s dad died in 2008 and it was always one of his favourite places - Max has a tattoo of one of the Disney restaurants, ‘Casey’s Corner’ on his arm, as a tribute to his dad.
They opted for a Disney Fairytale Wishes Wedding and after seeing some of their friends marry at the Wedding Pavilion they knew that was the place for the ceremony. The reception was held at Disney’s Grand Floridian Hotel.
“After breaking the news to our family and friends, we paid our deposit and spent the next year planning the day,” said Amy.
The day went like clockwork. They married at 5pm which meant they had a day to relax and get ready. Despite Orlando being notorious for its rain, they were lucky that it held off all day.
They opted for a short ceremony and Amy asked a guest to live stream it on Facebook so that friend and family who couldn’t be there, were able to watch it.
Afterwards they made the short journey to the reception venue - where they met their special guest.

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