For the past two years, thousands of taxi drivers overcharged passengers a total of more than $8 million by switching the meter to double the rate, the Taxi and Limousine Commission said Friday afternoon. Using G.P.S. technology installed in cabs, the commission discovered more than 1.8 million trips where passengers were charged the higher rate. The total amount of the overcharge was $8,330,155, or an average of $4.45 per trip, the agency said. The agency said that drivers manually switched the meter from the standard rate of 40 cents per fifth of a mile to the 80-cents-per-fifth-of-a-mile rate that cabbies are allowed to charge in Westchester and Nassau Counties, but not in New York City.
For the past two years, thousands of taxi drivers overcharged passengers a total of more than $8 million by switching the meter to double the rate, the Taxi and Limousine Commission said Friday afternoon.
Using G.P.S. technology installed in cabs, the commission discovered more than 1.8 million trips where passengers were charged the higher rate. The total amount of the overcharge was $8,330,155, or an average of $4.45 per trip, the agency said.
The agency said that drivers manually switched the meter from the standard rate of 40 cents per fifth of a mile to the 80-cents-per-fifth-of-a-mile rate that cabbies are allowed to charge in Westchester and Nassau Counties, but not in New York City.
Hadrian's Wall has being lit from end to end by a team of 500 volunteers holding flaming torches.The "line of light" is following an 84-mile (135km) national walking trail, which shadows the route of the Roman wall spanning northern England. Volunteers, each holding a gas-powered beacon, stood at 820ft (250m) intervals. The first torch was lit at Segedunum Roman Fort in Wallsend, North Tyneside, at about 1800 GMT.
Hadrian's Wall has being lit from end to end by a team of 500 volunteers holding flaming torches.
The "line of light" is following an 84-mile (135km) national walking trail, which shadows the route of the Roman wall spanning northern England.
Volunteers, each holding a gas-powered beacon, stood at 820ft (250m) intervals.
The first torch was lit at Segedunum Roman Fort in Wallsend, North Tyneside, at about 1800 GMT.
PARIS (Reuters) - Jean Ferrat, a left-wing French singer and songwriter whose communist convictions went along with a talent for poetic love songs that were some of the best loved in France, died on Saturday at the age of 79. Ferrat, born Jean Tenenbaum in 1930, saw his father sent to Auschwitz during World War Two and commemorated the deportation in one of his earliest successes, "Nuit et brouillard" (Night and Fog). He began his career in the cabarets of the postwar Left Bank before making his name in the 1960s and 70s with a succession of lyrical love songs and political chansons, one of which was banned from French television. Among his best-known songs were "La Montagne" (The Mountain), "Potemkine," "Ma France" and "La femme est l'avenir de l'homme" (Woman is the future of man). He was also known for his adaptations of works by the communist poet Louis Aragon.
PARIS (Reuters) - Jean Ferrat, a left-wing French singer and songwriter whose communist convictions went along with a talent for poetic love songs that were some of the best loved in France, died on Saturday at the age of 79.
Ferrat, born Jean Tenenbaum in 1930, saw his father sent to Auschwitz during World War Two and commemorated the deportation in one of his earliest successes, "Nuit et brouillard" (Night and Fog).
He began his career in the cabarets of the postwar Left Bank before making his name in the 1960s and 70s with a succession of lyrical love songs and political chansons, one of which was banned from French television.
Among his best-known songs were "La Montagne" (The Mountain), "Potemkine," "Ma France" and "La femme est l'avenir de l'homme" (Woman is the future of man). He was also known for his adaptations of works by the communist poet Louis Aragon.
Toby Elles, 22, made the discovery after burning the food when he fell asleep while cooking. After lifting off the scorched bacon Mr Elles, from Salford, Lancs, could not believe his eyes when the Christlike image stared back at him. The face is complete with eyes, nose, a beard and is framed by long flowing hair.
After lifting off the scorched bacon Mr Elles, from Salford, Lancs, could not believe his eyes when the Christlike image stared back at him.
The face is complete with eyes, nose, a beard and is framed by long flowing hair.
it's the turin tureen. ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
LAist: Angels Flight Will Resume Service This Monday
he quirky, and sometimes questionable, funicular transport known as the world's shortest railway, Downtown's Angel's Flight, has been poised to re-open for what seems like ages. It was just this past Thursday when its operating foundation said they had passed the necessary safety inspection and had the green light to resume moving people up and down Bunker Hill, though would not give a date. Today, however, came word that Angel's Flight will begin service on Monday March 15th--much sooner than many anticipated.
Today, however, came word that Angel's Flight will begin service on Monday March 15th--much sooner than many anticipated.
gk is a mathy type already, by the way... The brainless should not be in banking -- Willem Buiter
And don't we have to wait until 2016? The brainless should not be in banking -- Willem Buiter
