Arriva North East held a unique and innovative marketing publicity launch on October 14th 2014 to mark the £1.3 million investment into Jesmond's 306 service, which operates between Whitley Bay, Tynemouth, North Shields, Coast Road and Newcastle. Sand artists created a marvellous image in the sand - taking just under five hours to construct - which attracted the attention of many passers-by. The brand new vehicles were also in attendance, with the doors being opened to allow members of the public to be some of the very first people to look around the new buses. A small picnic was also had on-board one of the buses, with coffee also being handed out to warm everyone up.

 

Eight brand new Wright Streetlite DF/Wright Streetlite Micro-Hybrid vehicles have been purchased by Arriva for their 306 service which is based at Jesmond depot. The vehicles all have comfortable e-leather seating, and are Wi-Fi enabled. These vehicle are a Micro-Hybrid version of the Wright Streetlite, which is 11.5m in length. The Micro Hybrid recovers energy lost from braking to power the vehicle electrics and compressed air systems, saving up to 10% in fuel costs. The buses therefore carry a special livery to mark this, and are also branded "Coastliner" to integrate service 306 with service 308, which is allocated similar liveried environmentally-friendly Volvo B5LH/Wright Eclipse Gemini vehicles.

 

All eight vehicles are shown here in this (admittedly slightly poor quality) photograph, which was taken from a distance. Parked in fleet number order, from top to bottom, the vehicles were as follows:

- 1582 (NK64 EEV)

- 1583 (NK64 EEW)

- 1584 (NK64 EEX)

- 1585 (NK64 EEY)

- 1586 (NK64 EEZ)

- 1587 (NK64 EFA)

- 1588 (NK64 EEF)

- 1589 (NK64 EEG)

Arriva North East's Jesmond-based "Coastliner" branded Wright Streetlite DF/Wright Streetlite Micro-Hybrid 1582 (NK64 EEV), which carries a special 'green' livery to promote more environmentally-friendly public transport, with sub-branding also applied for service 306, is pictured here at Tynemouth, whilst attending a publicity event to launch the new vehicles which are due to enter service on the 306 route. 14/10/14

 

Arriva North East held a unique and innovative marketing publicity launch on October 14th 2014 to mark the £1.3 million investment into Jesmond's 306 service, which operates between Whitley Bay, Tynemouth, North Shields, Coast Road and Newcastle. Sand artists created a marvellous image in the sand - taking just under five hours to construct - which attracted the attention of many passers-by. The brand new vehicles were also in attendance, with the doors being opened to allow members of the public to be some of the very first people to look around the new buses. A small picnic was also had on-board one of the buses, with coffee also being handed out to warm everyone up.

 

Eight brand new Wright Streetlite DF/Wright Streetlite Micro-Hybrid vehicles have been purchased by Arriva for their 306 service which is based at Jesmond depot. The vehicles all have comfortable e-leather seating, and are Wi-Fi enabled. These vehicle are a Micro-Hybrid version of the Wright Streetlite, which is 11.5m in length. The Micro Hybrid recovers energy lost from braking to power the vehicle electrics and compressed air systems, saving up to 10% in fuel costs. The buses therefore carry a special livery to mark this, and are also branded "Coastliner" to integrate service 306 with service 308, which is allocated similar liveried environmentally-friendly Volvo B5LH/Wright Eclipse Gemini vehicles.

Arriva North East held a unique and innovative marketing publicity launch on October 14th 2014 to mark the £1.3 million investment into Jesmond's 306 service, which operates between Whitley Bay, Tynemouth, North Shields, Coast Road and Newcastle. Sand artists created a marvellous image in the sand - taking just under five hours to construct - which attracted the attention of many passers-by. The brand new vehicles were also in attendance, with the doors being opened to allow members of the public to be some of the very first people to look around the new buses. A small picnic was also had on-board one of the buses, with coffee also being handed out to warm everyone up.

 

Eight brand new Wright Streetlite DF/Wright Streetlite Micro-Hybrid vehicles have been purchased by Arriva for their 306 service which is based at Jesmond depot. The vehicles all have comfortable e-leather seating, and are Wi-Fi enabled. These vehicle are a Micro-Hybrid version of the Wright Streetlite, which is 11.5m in length. The Micro Hybrid recovers energy lost from braking to power the vehicle electrics and compressed air systems, saving up to 10% in fuel costs. The buses therefore carry a special livery to mark this, and are also branded "Coastliner" to integrate service 306 with service 308, which is allocated similar liveried environmentally-friendly Volvo B5LH/Wright Eclipse Gemini vehicles.

Arriva North East's Jesmond-based "Coastliner" branded Wright Streetlite DF/Wright Streetlite Micro-Hybrid 1582 (NK64 EEV), which carries a special 'green' livery to promote more environmentally-friendly public transport, with sub-branding also applied for service 306, is pictured here at Tynemouth, whilst attending a publicity event to launch the new vehicles which are due to enter service on the 306 route. 14/10/14

 

Arriva North East held a unique and innovative marketing publicity launch on October 14th 2014 to mark the £1.3 million investment into Jesmond's 306 service, which operates between Whitley Bay, Tynemouth, North Shields, Coast Road and Newcastle. Sand artists created a marvellous image in the sand - taking just under five hours to construct - which attracted the attention of many passers-by. The brand new vehicles were also in attendance, with the doors being opened to allow members of the public to be some of the very first people to look around the new buses. A small picnic was also had on-board one of the buses, with coffee also being handed out to warm everyone up.

 

Eight brand new Wright Streetlite DF/Wright Streetlite Micro-Hybrid vehicles have been purchased by Arriva for their 306 service which is based at Jesmond depot. The vehicles all have comfortable e-leather seating, and are Wi-Fi enabled. These vehicle are a Micro-Hybrid version of the Wright Streetlite, which is 11.5m in length. The Micro Hybrid recovers energy lost from braking to power the vehicle electrics and compressed air systems, saving up to 10% in fuel costs. The buses therefore carry a special livery to mark this, and are also branded "Coastliner" to integrate service 306 with service 308, which is allocated similar liveried environmentally-friendly Volvo B5LH/Wright Eclipse Gemini vehicles.

Arriva North East held a unique and innovative marketing publicity launch on October 14th 2014 to mark the £1.3 million investment into Jesmond's 306 service, which operates between Whitley Bay, Tynemouth, North Shields, Coast Road and Newcastle. Sand artists created a marvellous image in the sand - taking just under five hours to construct - which attracted the attention of many passers-by. The brand new vehicles were also in attendance, with the doors being opened to allow members of the public to be some of the very first people to look around the new buses. A small picnic was also had on-board one of the buses, with coffee also being handed out to warm everyone up.

 

Eight brand new Wright Streetlite DF/Wright Streetlite Micro-Hybrid vehicles have been purchased by Arriva for their 306 service which is based at Jesmond depot. The vehicles all have comfortable e-leather seating, and are Wi-Fi enabled. These vehicle are a Micro-Hybrid version of the Wright Streetlite, which is 11.5m in length. The Micro Hybrid recovers energy lost from braking to power the vehicle electrics and compressed air systems, saving up to 10% in fuel costs. The buses therefore carry a special livery to mark this, and are also branded "Coastliner" to integrate service 306 with service 308, which is allocated similar liveried environmentally-friendly Volvo B5LH/Wright Eclipse Gemini vehicles.

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“Anna has made the trip to Rikers hundreds of times in the nearly six years her son has been awaiting trial. Each time, a friend picks her up early in the morning near her apartment in Manhattan’s Lower East Side and drives her out through the city, past the brick houses and manicured lawns of northwestern Queens. They park near the Q100 bus stop and sit silently in the car until the bus pulls up.

 

On weekends, there’s always a line pushing to get on the bus — almost all women, many with small children, most black or Hispanic. Anna doesn’t rush to the doors like the rest; she has made this trip often enough to know that if you get on last you’ll be the first off when the bus reaches its destination. It’s only one stop, anyway.

 

The bus runs fast down a narrow bridge, passing the city’s fading skyline on the left and the tarmacs of LaGuardia Airport on the right. Within minutes it stops again and several uniformed men approach with guns and dogs. A large officer gets on the bus and asks attorneys and jail staff to get off. Then he reminds everyone else that this is the end of their “amnesty” — their last chance to get rid of any contraband without risking arrest.

 

“Happy Sunday,” he ends flatly but loudly. “Welcome to Rikers.”

 

In October 2010, Anna’s son Jairo Pastoressa was arrested for stabbing and killing a young man during a dispute. He was charged with murder and denied bail and has been sitting in jail for 67 months, waiting for a trial that keeps being postponed. Eighty-five percent of Rikers’s nearly 10,000 detainees have not yet been tried. Although many are released within a week, some remain in the jail for years as their cases drag through New York’s chronically slow court system. As of March 2016, 75 percent of Rikers detainees had been awaiting trial for less than a year, but there were 109 whose cases had been pending for more than three years and another 209 who had been waiting for more than two years, according to a spokesperson with the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice. Jairo believes he is the longest-serving detainee currently on the island. “This system keeps those that have been accused of committing crimes out of sight and out of mind,” City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito said in her 2016 State of the City address, in which she announced an independent commission to review whether the population at Rikers can be reduced enough to make its closure possible. “Rikers Island has come to represent our worst tendencies and our biggest failures.”

 

An officer with a dog walks along the lined-up group twice, the dog sniffing everyone, including small children in strollers.

 

Anna has been coming here one to three times a week since Jairo was arrested; she knows by heart the steps that precede any visit. She moves fast to the front of the line into the first building, stands against the wall holding a small plastic bag with a few bare necessities in her left hand before more uniformed officers yell at the rest of the group to do the same, speaking curtly to anyone moving too slowly or falling out of line. An officer with a dog walks along the lined-up group twice, the dog sniffing everyone, including small children in strollers, as another officer lists a long series of forbidden items: drugs, tobacco, perfume, chapstick. When officers usher the group out, Anna again steps briskly to the front of the line and moves through an open-air locker room where she stores her phone and keys — potential weapons.

 

Anna always carries extra quarters for the lockers that she hands out to other visitors, who invariably show up without any. She walks quickly by two more guards checking IDs, waiting until the last minute to take off her shoes before an airport-style metal detector. “This place is filthy,” she complains without stopping. She goes by a teller to deposit a R1562.03 bill into her son’s commissary account. Not more, because whenever he goes to buy instant noodles or coffee, the balance in his account flashes over a screen for other inmates to see, and too much money can lead to a beating. It’s one of many things that can get you beaten up here.

 

Anna walks up to a registration desk where an officer takes her photo and fingerprints and hands her a pass that she mustn’t lose. The fingerprint machine looks old — like most things here — but she knows exactly how to tap her fingers to get through faster. Others stumble. Anna boards another bus that drives through parking lots and multiple gates before pulling up by the building that holds her son, the Anna M. Kross Center. “Anna, like me,” she scoffs. Once there, she goes through two more ID checks, again taking off her shoes, and passes through a metal detector into a room where she leaves her money, jacket, and anything else she hasn’t already locked up. She tries five different lockers before finding a functioning one. Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg installed new lockers, she snorts, but they’re already broken. Current Mayor Bill de Blasio once spoke of reforming Rikers, “but he only put in new metal detectors,” she says. Some visitors are mysteriously pulled out of line to skip the screening — not that Anna really cares, and it’s mostly guards who smuggle contraband onto the island, anyway, she says. She has taken to calling it the “Department of Corruptions.”

 

Next is a thorough pat-down. Before the visit, Anna gave me a long list of things I shouldn’t wear — no bra with wiring, no pockets, no zippers, no hoods, no tights, no shorts, no ripped jeans, no jewelry, nothing too revealing, shoes that you can take off and put on quickly, and don’t bother wearing anything clean. Some items are officially prohibited; others aren’t but will get you stopped anyway. A couple of women presumably deemed too sexy for the visit, and another whose pregnant belly fills her clothes perhaps too provocatively, receive bright green sack-like tunics to wear. All the guards know Anna, so the pat-down goes smoothly, but she told me stories of being stripped naked and touched aggressively by officers. Other women have filed a lawsuit over invasive strip and body-cavity searches. After the last check, Anna enters a waiting room with plastic chairs and a small TV set, on which Diane Sawyer happens to be promoting her exclusive reportage from inside Rikers Island.

 

Over the years, Anna has spent countless hours in this room, waiting for her son’s name to be called out by an officer who usually mispronounces it. Some days the wait lasts hours, and she has collected endless stories from other waiting relatives. Today she tells me about a woman she met who used to visit her son with his young daughter and kept telling the child they were visiting dad “at college.” Anna thought the little girl didn’t buy it.

 

When Jairo’s name is finally called, after what feels like hours, we walk through a metal gate, through one last ID checkpoint, and into an unheated room that looks like a sadder version of a kindergarten cafeteria, with low metal tables and chairs — red, blue, and yellow for the visiting families, gray for the inmates, so as not to suggest any gang affiliation. They come out wearing flip-flops and gray jumpsuits, and for the next 60 minutes the room buzzes with dozens of conversations, babies crying, and every few minutes, the loud engines of planes taking off from LaGuardia and flying directly over our heads.

 

Jairo and Anna stretch over the table trying to hear each other. He speaks in her native Italian because he’s afraid other inmates will listen. Jairo is visibly unwell. And a lot of what he says doesn’t make much sense. He talks about a dream he had, something involving dogs, then about astrology and zodiac signs, and about how the Illuminati killed Prince. He shifts restlessly on the metal chair anchored to the ground, his eyes unable to stop for a moment as he jumps from one topic to the next. Sometimes he laughs, or gets angry; other times he just looks terrified, mumbling, “I have to get out of here.”

 

Days after he killed a fellow graffiti artist with a kitchen knife — in self-defense, he told the police when he turned himself in at the local precinct — Jairo was found unfit to stand trial and sent to a psychiatric ward where he was initially diagnosed with bipolar disorder. After several weeks he was sent back to Rikers. Anna told me Jairo had no prior history of mental illness and that nearly six years at Rikers had left him deeply damaged. Unrecognizable, she said. For years he was put on medication that turned him into “a zombie.” He was sexually assaulted by female guards, she said, and often attacked by other inmates. He’s half white and half Afro-Brazilian, and in a violent environment like Rikers, where turf affiliation often falls along racial lines, his ethnic background makes him even more vulnerable.

 

“His reality is so distorted that sometimes he says things that sound absurd,” said Anna. “Sometimes I ask him if he’s crazy, but then I realize, that’s actually his reality. He’s not talking nonsense, it’s that the reality in there is so distorted. Things happen that don’t make sense. I’ll tell him, this isn’t possible, but it is possible.”At Rikers, Anna was stoic. She dispensed advice to women who haven’t been coming for as long as she has, and she joked with some guards — the nicer ones. At a café, hours later, Jairo called to tell her that the inmates serving dinner picked a fight with him, refused to give him food, and threatened to kill him. This had happened before. At a recent court date, he showed up with a cut on his brow and a swollen eye, she said, finally breaking down.

 

“If they sentence you, you know they sentenced you to however many years, you get used to the idea, and you do your time,” said Anna, exasperated. “But when they don’t sentence you and they throw you in there — he’s losing his mind.”

 

According to the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, nearly 40 percent of Rikers inmates have a “mental health designation.” The Department of Correction declined to comment on the specifics of Jairo’s case, but said that “Commissioner [Joseph] Ponte has zero tolerance for sexual assaults of inmates, and we take these allegations seriously.”

 

Anna remortgaged her apartment to pay nearly R1562030.00 in legal fees. But the trial, which has been on the court calendar since April 2011, has been adjourned over and over. Last June, Anna said, the prosecutor wasn’t ready, so they postponed the trial. Then it was summer, and people were on vacation, so they postponed again. In November, neither the prosecutor nor the judge showed up. A day later, the prosecutor said he wasn’t ready because Jairo’s attorney hadn’t formally declared if he was going to pursue a psychiatric defense. In January, the defense attorney was away. In February, the prosecutor’s witness was out of town. A week later, the prosecutor and Jairo’s new defense attorney were not ready because Anna had just fired the first lawyer. “I can’t do this anymore,” she said.

 

A spokesperson for the Manhattan district attorney’s office said,“While this case has required multiple extended adjournments — largely not in the People’s control — none are related to the strength of the evidence.”

 

Anna has lobbied local officials for help. She regularly travels to Albany with a group of advocates demanding speedy trials for countless New Yorkers stuck in a legal backlog that’s making their cases move at glacial pace. In May, lawyers representing Bronx defendants filed a federal lawsuit claiming that court delays there have “fatally undermined the right to trial.” The Bronx courts are notoriously slow, but they are hardly unique; case delay is the single biggest driver of the city’s jail population, and officials say they are working to drastically cut processing times. So far, that hasn’t helped Jairo.

 

While he waits for his next court date, Jairo spends his days drawing, using mostly food as color.

 

“Where’s the right to a speedy trial?” Anna asked. “When I got U.S. citizenship, I had to study the Constitution, the Sixth Amendment. Back in England, the king and queen threw people in jail and threw the keys out, so when the founding fathers got here they decided that one of the principles of the Constitution would be the right to a speedy trial. So why don’t they do it?”

 

While he waits for his next court date, Jairo spends his days drawing, using mostly food as color. He is also due to appear in court in the Bronx, which has jurisdiction over Rikers, because guards said that some tea he was using as ink was contraband tobacco. He uses pink Kool-Aid to color toilet paper that he skillfully arranges into bouquets of roses. He somehow managed to bring me one, hiding it inside his jumpsuit, because no exchanges are allowed during visits.

 

Jairo made another rose for President Obama and asked Akeem Browder to give it to him at an upcoming White House event on criminal justice reform. Browder, who himself was detained at Rikers in the ’90s, when he was only 13, is the older brother of Kalief Browder, who last year committed suicide after being held without trial for three years.

 

Kalief Browder’s incarceration, abuse, and eventual suicide was only the most recent Rikers scandal. In the last few years, countless stories have emerged of violence on the island, between inmates, but also, regularly, by guards. In 2014, an inmate died in a 101-degree cell, and a correction officer pleaded guilty to trying to cover up the incident. That year the Department of Justice concluded a multi-year investigation with a report on the brutal treatment of adolescent boys at Rikers, condemning the jail’s systemic use of force by staff, inmate-on-inmate violence, and the use of punitive segregation. Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara called Rikers a “broken institution” and “a place where brute force is the first impulse rather than the last resort.” Months later, the DOJ went a step further and sued the city. Last year, the city spent R205 million settling claims of abuse in detention, mostly at Rikers, and the number of claims is growing steadily, city Comptroller Scott Stringer warned earlier this year.

 

For a moment, it seemed as though things at Rikers had gotten so bad, so publicly, that they might actually change.

 

De Blasio promised sweeping reform, and for a moment, it seemed as though things at Rikers had gotten so bad, so publicly, that they might actually change. He appointed a new correction commissioner, Joseph Ponte, who had overhauled the Maine prison system, reducing the use of solitary and boosting mental health care. In 2015, the city banned solitary confinement for juveniles, though a new “Enhanced Security Housing” unit meant to partially replace punitive segregation soon turned violent. Ponte and de Blasio also announced a 14-point “anti-violence agenda” meant to address the jail’s chronic violence, though advocates remained skeptical of the initiative, which they said did little to address the Correction Department’s own abuses.As pressure began to increase to shut down Rikers altogether, de Blasio pledged to reduce the jail’s population to about 7,500 inmates. The city is currently pursuing a two-tier approach to the issue: reducing the length of detention by attempting to clear court backlogs, and reducing the number of people ending up in jail in the first place through a simplification of the bail process and the introduction of alternatives to incarceration like supervised release. The city passed legislation strengthening reporting requirements on the Correction Department in an effort to increase transparency. It gave McKinsey & Company a R109 million contract — after an earlier R26.5 million one — to figure out how to reduce violence on the island, a move met with scorn by advocates, correction officers, and those with a more direct understanding of jail life.

 

The mayor called the proposal to close Rikers “noble” but unrealistic. “We must make sure that in calls for Rikers’s closure, our city does not become more focused on shutting down the facility than ending the culture that gave rise to its infamy,” he wrote in an op-ed last month. “We must focus on strategies to reduce violence, use the tools at our disposal to reduce recidivism, and safely decrease the jail population — and we must do this now, no matter where we house our jails in the future.”

 

De Blasio denied media reports that city officials are looking into possible alternatives to the island jail (even though evidence to support those reports was later leaked). Monica Klein, a spokesperson for the mayor’s office, reiterated to The Intercept that “there is no comprehensive plan to close Rikers or any active effort to look for sites.” Instead, the mayor recently announced the city will spend R265 billion on building a new jail for adolescents. He also said it plans to hire hundreds more correction officers, making Rikers, which already has a 1-1 guard-to-prisoner ratio, the only jail in the country with more guards than inmates.But whether or not Kalief Browder’s tragedy marked a turning point for Rikers, little seems to have changed on the island. “Our cries are not reaching anyone, our begging is not reaching anyone, procedure is not helping,” Akeem Browder told The Intercept, upset that his brother’s name is mentioned so often in vain. “For what, if you’re not going to do anything about it? When is enough enough?” he asked. “They’re actually only talking about change, but we can clearly see that it’s just talk.”

 

Browder was hardly surprised when he learned from Anna that Jairo had spent almost six years at Rikers, where he was beaten and denied food and where his mental health quickly deteriorated. He had seen the same thing happen to his brother. “Kalief is how the world heard of it,” he said. “But Kalief represents the thousands of other individuals just like him. Just humans, still on Rikers, sitting there for years, wasting their life away, fighting for their right to stay alive while they’re innocent, or waiting to be proven guilty.”

 

With other activists, Browder launched the “Campaign to Shut Down Rikers” — part of a growing chorus arguing that Rikers is too broken to be fixed. Last week, on what would have been Kalief Browder’s 23rd birthday, activists rallied outside the Bronx courts, smashing piñatas resembling de Blasio, Ponte, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

 

Some elected officials, like Mark-Viverito, have joined in. The New York Times’s editorial board suggested that Rikers Island be left “to the seagulls.” Others have said it should be turned into parks, housing, educational campuses, or a much needed extension of LaGuardia Airport. Last month, a coalition of grassroots organizations rallied on the steps of City Hall, calling for Rikers to be closed. They held signs that said “send them to school” and compared tuition at Harvard — R937000 a year — with the cost of incarcerating one person at Rikers — R2,6 million.

 

“Closing Rikers is not just about shutting down a facility, it’s about how do you create a jail system in New York City that lines up with our declared values? Because the one we currently have doesn’t,” said Glenn Martin, a criminal justice advocate, former Rikers inmate, and one of the foremost proponents of closing the jail. “We cannot reform this place; it is beyond reform.”

 

Advocates for Rikers’s closure are calling for a network of smaller, safer jails across the five boroughs, connected to local services and the communities where inmates and their families live. But they are also demanding a radical overhaul to the Correction Department’s abusive practices and greater accountability for that behavior. “I don’t just want to shut the facility,” said Martin. “I don’t want the culture exported to local jails.”

 

The idea of decentralizing Rikers by breaking it up into smaller jails is not new. Construction on the island boomed with the war on drugs of the ’70s and ’80s, when many structures meant to be temporary were thrown up, boosting the jail’s capacity to 20,000. Over the years, the temporary structures turned permanent. As crime declined and the nation began to look at its incarceration obsession more critically, under the leadership of Correction Commissioner Martin Horn the city made plans to revamp existing borough jails, to keep pre-trial detainees next to the courts and closer to attorneys and families. But when the next commissioner — Dora Schriro — came in, she switched gears. A plan to turn the Brooklyn detention center into a modern facility integrating services and keeping inmates a corridor away from their trials was shelved. Today, daily buses shuttle detainees from the island into the city, at a cost of R390 billion a year.

 

“One of the issues with Rikers is that most of the inmates are going back and forth between Rikers and the courts, which is obviously very inconvenient for inmates, attorneys, families, and costly in terms of energy consumption and air quality, with all these buses going back and forth, and expensive,” said David Burney, an urban planner who worked with the Bloomberg administration. “There are lots of reasons why Rikers is extremely inefficient.”

 

Rikers’s remoteness is not only impractical — it also enables its corrupt and violent culture. “I think the island itself creates a mentality that is not accountable, not connected to communities, not visible; it’s a place that is basically the Department of Correction’s turf; you enter into their world and you’re subject to a culture that’s in an alternate universe,” said Frank Greene, a jail architect who has worked at Rikers, as well as on the shelved Brooklyn project and other jails across the country. “If you decentralize the jail system, by nature, the whole system becomes that much more accountable and connected to the community.”

 

“One of the principles of corrections planning is that environment cues behavior,” he continued, noting an often forgotten constitutional principle that posits that the only punishment should be the deprivation of freedom, not the physical conditions of detention. “If you want people to act like human beings, the first step is to put them in an environment that supports their human dignity.”

 

Greene and others recommend transformations that go beyond the buildings — including correction officers trained “more like social workers than a quasi-military force,” better equipped to deal with the staggering number of inmates with mental health problems. All agreed that New York’s jail culture has to change.

 

“When the National Institute of Corrections came to Rikers, they told them, ‘When are you going to get with the rest of the country?’” Greene recalled. “You guys are 50 years behind.”

 

The city has recognized that much -— but so far, progress has been marginal. Martin, who sits on the independent committee to reform Rikers, said the group’s first meetings were “promising” and that officials are taking “conservative steps in the right direction,” scrutinizing systemic problems with the courts and studying how to reduce Rikers’s population through a more streamlined bail system and alternatives for juveniles.

 

But he expressed frustration with what he and others called a “lack of urgency,” which he said is paramount to acceptance of the harm Rikers continues to inflict on detainees. “Their incremental, piecemeal approach to reform gets us nowhere near what we believe is what communities are calling for, which is the shuttering of Rikers Island in its totality,” he said. “Even if there were only one person on Rikers, the ‘close Rikers’ campaign would still exist because it’s such an abusive place.”

 

The main obstacle to closing Rikers is political, many agree. When reports emerged that the city was eyeing alternative locations, some elected officials made their opposition clear. Critics say the administration is reluctant to give up political capital to make a decision that will be inevitably controversial. But a growing number of people believe that Rikers will eventually close.

 

Until that happens, life on the island continues to be a struggle. And the impact Rikers has had on thousands of people who have left the jail damaged beyond repair remains unquantifiable. Jairo is due back in court on June 6 — a year to the day when Rikers killed Kalief Browder.

 

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Interior cab shot of Arriva North East's Jesmond-based "Coastliner" branded Wright Streetlite DF/Wright Streetlite Micro-Hybrid 1583 (NK64 EEW), which carries a special 'green' livery to promote more environmentally-friendly public transport, with sub-branding also applied for service 306, is pictured here at Tynemouth, whilst attending a publicity event to launch the new vehicles which are due to enter service on the 306 route. 14/10/14

 

Arriva North East held a unique and innovative marketing publicity launch on October 14th 2014 to mark the £1.3 million investment into Jesmond's 306 service, which operates between Whitley Bay, Tynemouth, North Shields, Coast Road and Newcastle. Sand artists created a marvellous image in the sand - taking just under five hours to construct - which attracted the attention of many passers-by. The brand new vehicles were also in attendance, with the doors being opened to allow members of the public to be some of the very first people to look around the new buses. A small picnic was also had on-board one of the buses, with coffee also being handed out to warm everyone up.

 

Eight brand new Wright Streetlite DF/Wright Streetlite Micro-Hybrid vehicles have been purchased by Arriva for their 306 service which is based at Jesmond depot. The vehicles all have comfortable e-leather seating, and are Wi-Fi enabled. These vehicle are a Micro-Hybrid version of the Wright Streetlite, which is 11.5m in length. The Micro Hybrid recovers energy lost from braking to power the vehicle electrics and compressed air systems, saving up to 10% in fuel costs. The buses therefore carry a special livery to mark this, and are also branded "Coastliner" to integrate service 306 with service 308, which is allocated similar liveried environmentally-friendly Volvo B5LH/Wright Eclipse Gemini vehicles.

Another worthy cause is this bomb for Paws and Stripes. Paws and Stripes is a nonprofit​​​​​​​​​ organization providing service dogs​​​​​​​​​​ for wounded military veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury through integrating service dog training and education with mental health support.

Artist is Albuquerque native Aaron Mitchell Johnson and 3d generation New Mexican is a fine artist and product designer whose complex works cross multiple media and visual vernaculars. His work draws inspiration from the stark beauty of New Mexico’s canyon lands, mountains and deserts.

Arriva North East's Jesmond-based "Coastliner" branded Wright Streetlite DF/Wright Streetlite Micro-Hybrid 1589 (NK64 EEG), which carries a special 'green' livery to promote more environmentally-friendly public transport, with sub-branding also applied for service 306, is pictured here at Tynemouth, whilst attending a publicity event to launch the new vehicles which are due to enter service on the 306 route. 14/10/14

 

Arriva North East held a unique and innovative marketing publicity launch on October 14th 2014 to mark the £1.3 million investment into Jesmond's 306 service, which operates between Whitley Bay, Tynemouth, North Shields, Coast Road and Newcastle. Sand artists created a marvellous image in the sand - taking just under five hours to construct - which attracted the attention of many passers-by. The brand new vehicles were also in attendance, with the doors being opened to allow members of the public to be some of the very first people to look around the new buses. A small picnic was also had on-board one of the buses, with coffee also being handed out to warm everyone up.

 

Eight brand new Wright Streetlite DF/Wright Streetlite Micro-Hybrid vehicles have been purchased by Arriva for their 306 service which is based at Jesmond depot. The vehicles all have comfortable e-leather seating, and are Wi-Fi enabled. These vehicle are a Micro-Hybrid version of the Wright Streetlite, which is 11.5m in length. The Micro Hybrid recovers energy lost from braking to power the vehicle electrics and compressed air systems, saving up to 10% in fuel costs. The buses therefore carry a special livery to mark this, and are also branded "Coastliner" to integrate service 306 with service 308, which is allocated similar liveried environmentally-friendly Volvo B5LH/Wright Eclipse Gemini vehicles.

Borne out of a design excellence competition, 5 Murray Rose is a 13,300sqm commercial building with associated retail and basement parking, and is the first in a family of commercial, residential and retail buildings as part of a masterplan for the site.

The desire to create a strong connection and dialogue with the public domain has strongly influenced the form and character of the building.

The solid base holds the building to the street, sculptured to respond to the changing ground plane condition and movement patterns around the site. Floating above the ground plane, separated by a change in façade articulation the upper levels have been ‘split’ into two bar forms. Taking on the hues of the geological profiles found on the site, terracotta façade panels provide horizontal bands of varying colours between clear vision panels.

Fundamental to the development of the building has been the integration of a clear environmental strategy to ensure that a robust framework is setup to successfully integrate services, environmental and amenity initiatives within the architectural design from an early stage. The development is one of the first

6-star Green Star rated commercial buildings in Sydney.

The building was completed in mid 2012.

 

Source: Turner Studio

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Interior shot of Arriva North East's Jesmond-based "Coastliner" branded Wright Streetlite DF/Wright Streetlite Micro-Hybrid 1583 (NK64 EEW), which carries a special 'green' livery to promote more environmentally-friendly public transport, with sub-branding also applied for service 306, is pictured here at Tynemouth, whilst attending a publicity event to launch the new vehicles which are due to enter service on the 306 route. 14/10/14

 

Arriva North East held a unique and innovative marketing publicity launch on October 14th 2014 to mark the £1.3 million investment into Jesmond's 306 service, which operates between Whitley Bay, Tynemouth, North Shields, Coast Road and Newcastle. Sand artists created a marvellous image in the sand - taking just under five hours to construct - which attracted the attention of many passers-by. The brand new vehicles were also in attendance, with the doors being opened to allow members of the public to be some of the very first people to look around the new buses. A small picnic was also had on-board one of the buses, with coffee also being handed out to warm everyone up.

 

Eight brand new Wright Streetlite DF/Wright Streetlite Micro-Hybrid vehicles have been purchased by Arriva for their 306 service which is based at Jesmond depot. The vehicles all have comfortable e-leather seating, and are Wi-Fi enabled. These vehicle are a Micro-Hybrid version of the Wright Streetlite, which is 11.5m in length. The Micro Hybrid recovers energy lost from braking to power the vehicle electrics and compressed air systems, saving up to 10% in fuel costs. The buses therefore carry a special livery to mark this, and are also branded "Coastliner" to integrate service 306 with service 308, which is allocated similar liveried environmentally-friendly Volvo B5LH/Wright Eclipse Gemini vehicles.

Interior shot of Arriva North East's Jesmond-based "Coastliner" branded Wright Streetlite DF/Wright Streetlite Micro-Hybrid 1583 (NK64 EEW), which carries a special 'green' livery to promote more environmentally-friendly public transport, with sub-branding also applied for service 306, is pictured here at Tynemouth, whilst attending a publicity event to launch the new vehicles which are due to enter service on the 306 route. 14/10/14

 

Arriva North East held a unique and innovative marketing publicity launch on October 14th 2014 to mark the £1.3 million investment into Jesmond's 306 service, which operates between Whitley Bay, Tynemouth, North Shields, Coast Road and Newcastle. Sand artists created a marvellous image in the sand - taking just under five hours to construct - which attracted the attention of many passers-by. The brand new vehicles were also in attendance, with the doors being opened to allow members of the public to be some of the very first people to look around the new buses. A small picnic was also had on-board one of the buses, with coffee also being handed out to warm everyone up.

 

Eight brand new Wright Streetlite DF/Wright Streetlite Micro-Hybrid vehicles have been purchased by Arriva for their 306 service which is based at Jesmond depot. The vehicles all have comfortable e-leather seating, and are Wi-Fi enabled. These vehicle are a Micro-Hybrid version of the Wright Streetlite, which is 11.5m in length. The Micro Hybrid recovers energy lost from braking to power the vehicle electrics and compressed air systems, saving up to 10% in fuel costs. The buses therefore carry a special livery to mark this, and are also branded "Coastliner" to integrate service 306 with service 308, which is allocated similar liveried environmentally-friendly Volvo B5LH/Wright Eclipse Gemini vehicles.

Another worthy cause is this bomb for Paws and Stripes. Paws and Stripes is a nonprofit​​​​​​​​​ organization providing service dogs​​​​​​​​​​ for wounded military veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury through integrating service dog training and education with mental health support.

Artist is Albuquerque native Aaron Mitchell Johnson and 3d generation New Mexican is a fine artist and product designer whose complex works cross multiple media and visual vernaculars. His work draws inspiration from the stark beauty of New Mexico’s canyon lands, mountains and deserts.

Arriva North East's Jesmond-based "Coastliner" branded Wright Streetlite DF/Wright Streetlite Micro-Hybrid 1587 (NK64 EFA), which carries a special 'green' livery to promote more environmentally-friendly public transport, with sub-branding also applied for service 306, is pictured here at St. Mary's Way, Newcastle upon Tyne, whilst working "Coastliner" service 306 to Newcastle. 07/02/15

 

Eight brand new Wright Streetlite DF/Wright Streetlite Micro-Hybrid vehicles were purchased by Arriva for their 306 service which is based at Jesmond depot last year. The vehicles all have comfortable e-leather seating, and are Wi-Fi enabled. These vehicle are a Micro-Hybrid version of the Wright Streetlite, which is 11.5m in length. The Micro Hybrid recovers energy lost from braking to power the vehicle electrics and compressed air systems, saving up to 10% in fuel costs. The buses therefore carry a special livery to mark this, and are also branded "Coastliner" to integrate service 306 with service 308, which is allocated similar liveried environmentally-friendly Volvo B5LH/Wright Eclipse Gemini vehicles. To depict this, Blyth's Volvo B5LH/Wright Eclipse Gemini 7810 (NK13 AZO) is pictured behind, on an inbound 308 service.

In 1968, with its Transport Act, Britain's Labour Government fulfilled its long held ambition to restructure public transport provision. Passenger Transport Authorities and Executives were created to control and integrate service provision in their areas.

One of the first to be formed in 1969 was South East Lancashire and North East Cheshire PTA/E. Ashton-under-Lyne Corporation was one of the many constituents, and among its contributions was 229YTB, this 1962 Leyland Titan PD2/40 with Roe H37/28R body. It was still in Ashton colours when this picture was taken at Manchester's Piccadilly Gardens in May 1970.

Arriva North East's Jesmond-based "Coastliner" branded Wright Streetlite DF/Wright Streetlite Micro-Hybrid 1582 (NK64 EEV), which carries a special 'green' livery to promote more environmentally-friendly public transport, with sub-branding also applied for service 306, is pictured here at St. Mary's Way, Newcastle upon Tyne, whilst working "Coastliner" service 306 to Newcastle. 19/10/14

 

Eight brand new Wright Streetlite DF/Wright Streetlite Micro-Hybrid vehicles have been purchased by Arriva for their 306 service which is based at Jesmond depot. The vehicles all have comfortable e-leather seating, and are Wi-Fi enabled. These vehicle are a Micro-Hybrid version of the Wright Streetlite, which is 11.5m in length. The Micro Hybrid recovers energy lost from braking to power the vehicle electrics and compressed air systems, saving up to 10% in fuel costs. The buses therefore carry a special livery to mark this, and are also branded "Coastliner" to integrate service 306 with service 308, which is allocated similar liveried environmentally-friendly Volvo B5LH/Wright Eclipse Gemini vehicles.

617 'Wally Swift' sets off for Southwell on 2.10.20

 

I think the lilac line version of the 2017 livery, although passable (if not great) on the E400 Cities, looks incredibly dull on these Pathfinder buses.

 

I get that NCT would want to integrate services into their line colours, but out of the city area the 'lilac line' integration becomes redundant since the 100 (I mean 26...) is the only Nottingham > Southwell bus and the tickets are different once you get out of the city boundary.

 

I used to consider the Pathfinder 100 fairly equal with the South Notts 1, as while both brands carried the same 'network' livery as the rest of NCT's services, both retained their original route numbers and both had the colour branding associated with the traditional colours (navy for South Notts and white for Pathfinder, with a tiny bit of red and blue). The South Notts service remains a navy bus with the number 1 on the front to this day, but somehow Pathfinder has gone from a white bus with a 100 on the front to a lilac bus with a 26 on the front (via a maroon bus with a 100 on the front, weirdly). It doesn't even say lilac line on it, it's just lilac because it leaves the city a similar way to the lilac line routes.

 

So I don't know what it's all about really, or why the people of Southwell would need to catch the randomly numbered and drab looking lilac bus to Nottingham as opposed to a bus that was the same colour it always used to be and was numbered 100 because it went all the way to the City.

 

Also, unlike with the Omnidekkas and the Versas (but not the Omnilinks for some reason) there isn't a 26 vehicle named Richard Whitehead.

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Borne out of a design excellence competition, 5 Murray Rose is a 13,300sqm commercial building with associated retail and basement parking, and is the first in a family of commercial, residential and retail buildings as part of a masterplan for the site.

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6-star Green Star rated commercial buildings in Sydney.

The building was completed in mid 2012.

 

Source: Turner Studio

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the two Johns (who will be performing a duet at PC Forum) embody their own message: They are more productive as a team. Brown, former chief scientist of Xerox and long-time leader of Xerox PARC, has more of a philosophical, scientific bent, while Hagel, a long-time McKinsey consultant now working on his own, has a closer-to-the-metal appreciation of business realities and strategies. Both have written several books and, more significantly, each has written for Release 1.0. Now they have just published an "emergent" book, which emerged from articles they have worked on together.

 

I would have liked to call it "Rethinking Adam Smith and Ronald Coase for the 21st Century", says Brown, "but the publisher [Harvard Business School Press] would have none of it." Instead, it's called The Only Sustainable Edge.

 

The book covers a confluence of ideas, just a few in a steady stream arising from both Hagel and Brown. Every few years they coalesce into a phrase or two that captures a moment. Currently, it's that friction can be good and that we're about to enter a new era in corporate structure. It sounds grandiose, but of course it is already happening. We just don't quite see it yet.

 

Brown does see it: "For more than a hundred years we've been driving towards efficiency, creating larger and larger organizations with replicated processes and automation, but we're approaching the end of the efficiencies that can give us for most firms. The pursuit of friction-free commerce may turn out to be a dead-end. It gives us efficiency, but it doesn't add any value."

 

Hagel picks up: "Most companies are an unnatural bundle of three different kinds of businesses - customer relationship, product or service innovation and commer- cialization, and infrastructure management," says Hagel. "The economics, culture and the competences for each of them are entirely different, and it no longer makes sense for them to stay together. The kinds of dislocations and shifts we're seeing now - outsourcing and offshoring, partnerships that don't work, diminishing returns on efficiency - are all signs of these shifts."

 

You're already seeing this happening, says Hagel. Call centers, the rapid rise of contract manufacturing, the outsourcing of logistics and SCM to UPS and FedEx, back office financial service processing operations to companies such as State Street Bank or of retail presence to Amazon...all these are signs of the impending reorganization of the business world."

 

It's not that the world is going to fragment into nothing, says Brown. "The digerati all talk about e-lance and the lone operator. But it may be that the most productive unit - in itself and as a structure - is the transient project team or the more stable community of practice. And the rationale for the firm may not be as a way to reduce transaction costs, but as a learning environment that accelerates capability building."

 

Brown and Hagel are turning a lot of traditional management theory inside out. The same interpersonal dynamics apply in a fluid world as in a corporate hierarchy, but the constraints are different. Within a corporation, prices aren't considered and reporting relationships are (temporarily) fixed, but business happens because people work together. In the friction-free world, prices are everything and contracts determine relationships, yet business happens because people work together through and around routine or automated processes. We have spent a century getting good at those routine and automated processes. Now we need loosely coupled systems to get better at handling the exceptions, since the routine things are becoming vanishingly efficient (and any competitive advantages quickly competed away).

 

Hagel and Brown suggest that the real opportunity is to integrate service-oriented architectures with social software so that relevant technology resources and people can be flexibly and quickly mobilized to handle exceptions. "Exception handling is a fertile ground for rapid business innovation - but you need to bring people back into the equation," says Brown. In short, the players need to be loosely coupled, but they need to be embedded in a fabric of shared meaning and trust, where transactions create reputations and people work together to come up with innovations in products and processes.

Dell is officially acquiring digital storage company EMC Corporation for approximately $67 billion, marking one of the biggest technology mergers in history.

Hopkinton, Mass.-based EMC, a 36-year-old industry fixture that makes data, and storage products for businesses, has a market value of about $50 billion. Round Rock, Texas-based Dell, which rose to prominence in the 1990s thanks to its cheap, customizable laptops, went private in 2013 for $24.4 billion.

Both companies were darlings of the first big technology boom in the 1990s: Dell sold PCs; EMC sold corporate storage systems. As the computing market shifted, both companies expanded into new areas. While Dell still sells laptops, displays, and servers, it also sells security services, cloud management software, and business integration services. Investment in those areas has accelerated since 2010, the year Dell bought Boomi, a company that manages services between clouds. Since taking the company private in 2013, Dell has struck partnerships with a host of cloud providers, talked up so-called converged architectures, and created private clouds for its own customers.

EMC meanwhile has focused on high-end enterprise storage equipment that’s less threatened by the cloud computing revolution. It has also made key investments in new business areas, such as its 2004 acquisition of VMware, which makes the virtualization software that gave rise to cloud computing in the mid-2000s, its 2010 acquisition of Greenplum, which made data warehouse software, and the 2013 launch of Pivotal, which makes data analytics software. EMC’s “federation” business model—traditional EMC at its center; VMware (which went public in 2007 and now has a market cap of about $34 billion), RSA and Pivotal orbiting it—has been applauded for allowing the parent company to reap the benefits of the newer companies’ success without impeding their innovation. In more recent years investors such as Elliot Management have looked to break it up in the interest of extracting more value.

So why pair Dell and EMC?

For EMC’s part, Dell is simply an attractive buyer—especially if Hewlett-Packard didn’t bite and Cisco is unlikely to. In the world of big IT equipment providers, Dell is the last man standing, one reason that the company may appeal to EMC and its bankers.

For Dell’s part, EMC offers additional assets in storage, security, and data analytics, thanks to Pivotal. Dell lacks EMC’s clout in the enterprise storage business, a credit to EMC’s VNX enterprise storage arrays, and that is desirous to the folks in Round Rock. EMC’s storage products are an additional boon to Dell’s strategy if the latter company decides that it wants to become what people in the industry call a “converged infrastructure provider”—in other words, a provider of all-in-one boxes that offer networking, storage and computing. Cisco pioneered the concept with its Unified Computing System servers; HP followed suit. Here, Dell has put a toe in the water with last year’s deal with Nutanix, but there otherwise hasn’t been much progress on that front.

There’s one catch for Dell, though: VMware. The company’s growth has been slowing as its customers increasingly choose “open source” alternatives that promise to be cheaper and more versatile than proprietary options. And one of the companies pushing open networking happens to be Dell, making VMware integration at odds with the Texas company’s ethos.

So if you’re Dell, and you’re in the market to buy EMC, there’s a lot to like in that company’s portfolio. (And we haven’t even mentioned the computer security company RSA.) But does it all add up enough to justify tens of billions of dollars for the entire package? Probably not. And nothing about such a deal addresses the existential plight of both companies: a future where their core businesses (and profit centers) are under attack and facing almost certain decline.

And that’s why technologists are still scratching their heads.

  

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This presentation describes SQL Server Data Mining (SSDM) for SQL Server Professionals. Starting with SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), the demo includes the interfaces important for professional development, including Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS), highlighting Integration Services, and PowerShell. The interactive demos are based on Microsoft's Contoso Retail sample data. Finally we will evaluate where Microsoft data mining can help you in a practical business environment, which may include Oracle and SAS.

      

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Held at DeVry University - Addison Campus

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