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Supporting family advisors to become effective and authentic contributors to your PFAC and to quality improvement in your practice is an intentional process. It requires logistical support for the participants to remove barriers to participation and assist everyone — advisors and staff — to develop the skills to participate with success. Ignoring critical issues can undermine your PFAC and create a sense of frustration and/or failure to achieve your desired outcomes of patient- and family-centered practice improvement.
Some advisory councils report such things as:
As a practice leader who designs, leads, facilitates or manages the work of your PFAC, you have the opportunity to prevent or solve issues like these.
Consider these two key principles:
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Practical Supports to Enhance Effective Involvement
If your practice has come this far in creating a PFAC, you already recognize and appreciate the value that family advisors bring. If you want your patients and families to fully participate — and participate more than once — it's critical to remove the barriers that prevent real engagement. Ensure reasonable accommodations for meeting participants by considering the following.
Give consideration to meeting time, accessible locations, transportation concerns and child care needs. Family advisors have limits on their time and resources which inhibit their ability to participate. For example, family advisors may not have gainful employment outside of their homes or may need to take unpaid time away from their jobs to participate. These types of circumstances need to be anticipated and policies, such as modest stipends, can prevent those obstacles from becoming limiting factors. Practices which chose not to address these issues often find that PFAC members do not represent the diversity of their entire practice or that they cannot sustain engagement over time.
Depending upon the Family Advisors' level of experience, pre- and post-meeting support may be needed. If a family advisor is unfamiliar with the processes of the practice or the PFAC itself, it may be helpful to hold a pre-meeting orientation session to review key concepts and procedures.
Also remember to consider health literacy and the reading level of all PFAC participants. You should assume jargon isn't understood by all members. Consider providing a list of commonly used acronyms and a reference sheet for important medical words and terms to be discussed.
Finally, become familiar with Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and how it relates to auditory and visual presentation of materials. Incorporating some basic principles of UDL can make it easier for all PFAC members to enhance access to your information and materials.
Be sure to create a welcoming space. Have staff present to welcome everyone, then let a family advisor facilitate the meeting. Use an agenda and walk attendees through it at the beginning, then stay on task.
Before opening up the discussion, ask the group to create some guidelines for the meeting. Capture these guidelines on a large poster and display and confirm them at each meeting. Examples of guidelines might include:
When new material is distributed, allow time for review if content is directly relevant to the discussion. You should also take care to structure activities so that everyone has a chance to share their view. For example, when asking a question of the group, give participants paper and pens to write down their ideas, then review them one-by-one as a group.
Finally, end on time and have staff say "thank you!"
|• If your meeting is being conducted like a focus group, see Focus Groups below.
• If you are conducting a more formalized meeting, skip down to Understanding Family Leadership Development.
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Focus Groups
If your practice has decided to conduct a focus group as a way to launch your PFAC, here are some ideas and resources to help.
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Understanding Family Leadership Development
|"The practice of leadership requires, perhaps first and foremost, a sense of purpose — the capacity to find the values that make risk-taking meaningful."
Ron Heifetz, Leadership Without Easy Answers
Family advisors provide a valuable service by contributing their perspectives as consumers of services to the practice. Family advisors deserve respect and appreciation for their willingness to share their personal thoughts. They have an important role to fulfill as leaders in your efforts to improve your practice. Remaining open to the insights of PFAC members will benefit the discussion.
Family Voices and other family groups, through many years of experience working with PFACs, have learned that when respected and listened to as leaders, family advisors can make a profound difference in the quality of services. This is also supported by NICHQ's Powerful Partnerships: A Handbook for Families and Providers Working Together to Improve Care.
A simple survey of expectations of parent leaders provides insight into simple yet profound learning. Parent leaders were asked by Massachusetts' Federation for Children with Special Needs to respond to four questions:
Replies fell into two essential issues:
Family advisors want to understand their role as a leader.
Family advisors want to understand what their involvement will lead to — they want to make a difference. Here are some sample comments from some family advisors. When asked, "Why did you become involved in a family advisory role?" responses included:
This list shows how many themes are on the minds of parents and family leaders as they come together. They focus on their own children, but also have a wider view of the needs of the community. They also are looking for self-development as leaders who will value training and leadership opportunities as they expand into other realms of participation.
This section addresses how to measure the readiness of a group for working together. First we need to define leadership and what roles are particular to parents when engaging in activities as parent leaders. This document lists some of the most important characteristics of effective family advisors.Back to Top
Essential Skills Development for Family Advisors and Practice Staff
In addition to the meeting details and logistics, PFAC facilitators will want to provide opportunities for family advisors and practice staff to develop and practice essential skills, which ensure the highest possible levels of engagement.
Below are some essential skills along with activities you can use within your own PFAC meetings to support both families and staff. The learning modules/resources will help PFAC participants expand on fundamental skill development in four crucial areas: storytelling; self awareness and identification; deep listening and respectful conversations; and conflict resolution and cultural collaboration.
Family advisors are first and foremost story tellers of their own experiences. PFAC advisors are called upon to reflect and report on their personal experiences with access to healthcare and of the quality of services. Learning to tell a personal story in such a manner that creates change without embarrassment or over exposure is a critical skill.
Storytelling to Make a Difference
This learning exercise brings to awareness the potential power of a story as well as the many ways the listeners might hear it.
Self awareness greatly enhances leadership in many settings. Understanding and appreciating who we are and how we differ from others makes it easier to work collaboratively without sacrificing one's own unique vantage point.
Resource: True Colors
True Colors is a highly regarded, commercially developed tool which is an adapted version of a Myers-Briggs inventory. It is accessible, non-threatening and simple to use. Users complete a self-inventory tool to identify to which of four color types they belong. By identifying their type and gaining a deeper understanding of how personality impacts preferences and behaviors, it becomes easier to collaborate with others.
True Colors and similar tools provide an increased understanding of self and others by expanding the appreciation for the differences among individuals. It offers a universal language that accelerates problem solving, increases trust, and reduces conflict.
True Colors has been used successfully with many family-professional partnership teams to help them work collaboratively. If your practice is associated with a larger organization or health system, check with your human resources or professional development departments to see if your organization uses a validated self awareness program that can be adapted to the needs of your PFAC.
Improving communication skills around deep listening and respectful conversations allows diverse, and perhaps controversial, perspectives of team members to all be given consideration. Discussions, regardless of the topic sensitivity, should occur respectfully, leading to better working relationships and greater understanding of the perspective of all PFAC members.
Here are a number of short exercises you can use with your PFAC to cultivate skills for deep listening and respectful conversations.
Deep Listening
Understanding Difficult Conversations
The Feelings Conversation
The "What I Really Want" Conversation Method
The ORID Conversation Technique
Resource: Technology of Participation (ToP)®
Technology of Participation (ToP)® is a framework offered by the Institute for Cultural Affairs in the USA, which teaches team members how to collaborate on projects and teaches group facilitators how to effectively lead their teams.
At its core, the function of the PFAC is to bring together a variety of experiences to generate new ideas which improve patient care. An effective PFAC will bring together a variety of perspectives, voices and essentially cultures. From this variety, conflict will likely occur.
Conflict can be both positive and negative. Conflict can be positive when it helps open up the discussion of an issue, results in problems being solved or new ideas being generated, and releases emotions that have been stored up. It can be negative when it diverts people from dealing with the really important issues, creates feelings of dissatisfaction among the people involved, or leads to individuals and groups becoming insular and uncooperative.
Supporting the development of the PFAC in this regard involves helping members to develop skills which will allow them to leverage the beneficial aspects of conflict while still treating each other with mutual respect.
At an individual level, this requires an understanding of one's own worldview (culture) and how it is reflected in one's own attitudes and behavior. It also necessitates that one acquires values, principles, areas of knowledge, attributes and skills in order to work in cross cultural situations in a sensitive and effective manner. These skills are sometimes referred to as cultural competence or intercultural collaboration.
The following learning modules will help PFAC members develop some necessary skills for intercultural collaboration.
Early Memories
The purpose of this exercise is to understand the role of reciprocal relationships to help PFAC members empathize and support people from other cultures and backgrounds. Early memories reflect our experiences that have shaped our views of differences.
The Brick Wall and the Gateway
This exercise is intended to help individuals reflect on the experience of respectful conversations and identify best practices. It may also result in a set of meeting guidelines.
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OKLAHOMA CITY — They say tradition never goes on vacation, so maybe the Oklahoma women can't count on being overlooked today.
Tennessee is the Yankees, Steelers and Manchester United of women's college basketball, only better.
One year removed from the legendary reign of coach Pat Summitt and her 1,098 victories and nine national championships, longtime assistant and first-year head coach Holly Warlick has every reason to believe the Lady Vols can hang another title banner in the rafters of Thompson-Boling Arena or, at least, corral the program's record 19th trip to the Final Four.
The Sooners have a little history of their own. Comparatively, very little.
Six days ago they played far and away their best game of the season to stop UCLA 85-72 and advance to the program's 10th Sweet 16 and ninth since 2000. And, 50 months ago, on the same court in the same building, the Sooners stopped the Lady Vols 80-70.
It's not much, but you take what you can get.
"That's the beautiful thing about sports," OU coach Sherri Coale said. "If you look hard enough, you can draw a correlation to make it feel like it's all in your favor, no matter what."
Mostly what the Sooners have going for them is themselves. It hasn't been enough to create a dominant season or to challenge for a conference or conference tourney crown. The regular season, it may be hard to remember now, was a bumpy ride.
Still, it was only bumpy on the outside, on the court where they watched so many teammates suffer season-ending injuries and, also on the court, where they'd get a good thing going before being dropped by 21 points at Iowa State, by 19 at West Virginia, by 10 at Kansas, 21 at Oklahoma State and 19 again, to Iowa State at the Big 12 tournament.

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The Dining Hall (cafeteria) provides 19 meals per week. Only breakfast on Saturday and Sunday are not served. Unlimited selection from the standard cafeteria line to specialties such as a pizza bar, deli, short-order line, salad bar, ethnic option and regular specials are available in the Dining Hall. Guests may also have unlimited seconds. Diners must observe the following policies:
The Food Court featuring national franchise, fast-food vendors is located on the ground floor of the University Center. These facilities are open for more extended hours than the Dining Hall and are an excellent place for snacks or meals.
Students, staff and faculty may purchase an advance declining balance credit that is entered on their ID cards and which may be used in the Dining Hall or the Food Court. Additional deposits may be made to this account when the balance is used. This provides a convenient and more rapid method than paying cash at each meal. However, meals in the Dining Hall or Food Court may be purchased on a cash basis also. The declining balance credit should be purchased directly from the Bookstore in the University Center in an amount of no less than $25 per purchase.
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"Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the measures we are bringing to the floor this week aimed at stopping government abuse.
"With millions of working middle class Americans struggling, House Republicans have chosen to lead on the issues that matter to them. We've focused on creating jobs, lowering energy prices, offering children a better education, and lessening the burden of regulations and red tape on their lives. And this week, we are holding government accountable to them by increasing transparency, cutting waste, and giving them new protections from an out-of-control bureaucracy.
"Our plan is to stop the reckless waste of taxpayer dollars with new controls for federal agency spending, and to give new powers to our citizens so that government bureaucrats can be held accountable for any political intimidation or poor customer service that may occur.
"These reforms are reforms that our country needs because many in Washington have simply forgotten the most important principle – that the federal government works for the people and not the other way around.
"I am surprised that Democratic leaders have urged opposition to several of these commonsense measures. Why do they want to forbid citizens from transparently recording conversations with federal regulators? You have to ask: Why do they want to keep paying out hefty bonuses to well-compensated executives in these times of fiscal stress and economic restraint? Why is it that the opposition leaders want to keep paying senior federal officials who are under investigation for serious ethical wrongdoing? Why do they want to use taxpayer dollars to do that? It just defies logic, Mr. Speaker.
"The package of bills being brought to the floor this week are commonsense and they should easily garner bi-partisan support. There is simply no reason for members of either party to support mega bonuses, expensive paid vacations, and zero accountability measures for Washington bureaucrats. We are here to represent the people, not the government.
"Working families in America want to trust their government and they want to rebuild their faith in our economy. These bills are a much needed step in the right direction toward accomplishing this goal. I urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to support this common sense legislation. And I urge the Senate to join us in this effort, and not waste time while these abuses continue. Thank you."


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A yearly event featuring exciting rodeo action and cowboys and cowgirls which benefits a local school group is back this Saturday night.
The eighth annual Bulls and Barrels Rodeo, benefiting the Little Cypress-Mauriceville High School Honey Bears Drill Team, will take place starting at 7 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 26 at the Cowboy Church of Orange County Arena, located at 673 FM 1078 in Orange. The gates open at 5 p.m. and admission is $5 per person.
"This is a wonderful family event," said Lynda Newman, president of the Honey Bears Booster Club. "That is what makes it such a positive attraction for the community each year. It has lots of great rodeo events and fun things for the kids to enjoy too."
The always popular event, which is being held at the Cowboy Church arena for the second consecutive year, includes many of the traditional rodeo events people know and expect each year, including bull riding, barrel racing, as well as junior bull riding and junior barrel racing, plus events for the little buckaroos such as mutton bustin' and a calf scramble.
Members of the Honey Bears are heavily involved with the rodeo operations. The girls not only handle duties with concessions, but also work other areas of the rodeo including registration and other duties to help make the rodeo run smoothly.
Proceeds from the annual rodeo benefit the Honey Bears Drill Team program greatly.
"We use the proceeds for things like props, new uniforms and new pom-poms," Newman added. "Last year these funds assisted the girls with their trip to Disney World. The funds also help with our senior banquet, our Christmas party and camp costs. The rodeo is just one of the many ways we raise money for the drill team during the year."
Dr. Terri Estes, principal of Little Cypress-Mauriceville High School, will serve as the Honorary Grand Marshal of the rodeo. Also, along with all of the exciting rodeo action, the Honey Bears will perform during the event as well as added entertainment.
Newman also said for those interested in participating in the rodeo there is still time to enter.
"We are still looking for cowboys and cowgirls who want to participate," she stated. "Registration opens at 4 p.m., Saturday. It's not too late to get out there and be part of a really great rodeo event."


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A nine-story hotel with a public parking deck is being proposed for the southeast corner of Maple and Woodward in downtown Birmingham.
Group 10 Management out of Farmington Hills owns the 1.5 acre vacant parcel, which is directly across from the Kroger store on East Maple and located in the heart of the citys Triangle District.
Group 10 is proposing to build an upgraded Hampton Inn & Suites at the corner. Its the same corner where the Barclay Inn was located before closing several years ago.
Project architect Victor Saroki recently talked about the hotel and parking deck in a pre-application discussion with the city planning board.
Its a very exciting project, he told the board. Quite frankly, its probably one of the biggest projects in this city right now.
No formal plans have been submitted, but groundbreaking could take place in 2015. Saroki said Friday the development group is reluctant at this point to share any of the architectural renderings that were presented at the board meeting.
The planning board was clearly excited about the proposal. The building will fill a huge hole at one of the citys busiest corners, and the public deck will provide some sorely-needed parking to the Triangle District, an area of Birmingham thats poised for new commercial development.
The Triangle District is bordered by Woodward, Adams and Maple. Its home to Papa Joes Gourmet Market, the swanky Forest Grill restaurant, the AAA building and the soon-to-open All Seasons of Birmingham senior living apartments.
This project could really serve as a catalyst to the whole Triangle District, said Saroki. Were going to fill up the full nine floors. This is going to make a big statement in town at that corner.
A room with a view
The project calls for two floors of private underground parking and several decks of public parking.
The public deck will accommodate up to 350 cars.
In comparison, the five public decks in downtown Birmingham average about 700 parking spaces.
Saroki said separate and distinct entrances off Woodward Avenue are being planned for the public and private parking areas.
The public deck will also have an entrance off Maple.
The hotel lobby, restaurant and retail will go on the first floor. Roughly 30 surface parking spaces are being proposed along the edges of Woodward and Maple to accommodate the stores.
Three floors of office is planned to go above the lobby. Above that, three hotel floors are planned. Saroki estimates there will be a total of 120 hotel rooms.
The top two floors of the building are being reserved for 25-30 luxury apartments.
As you can imagine, these apartments are very desirable, Saroki said. Theyre going to have a spectacular view.
The building reaches the citys maximum height limit of 114 feet. Saroki told the board the developers will probably seek a variance so they can go a little taller and add a rooftop terrace for weddings and other private parties.
Board member Scott Clein wants to see a little more attention given to the parking plan and how the cars will circulate. Otherwise, the entire board said they were eager to see the project move forward.
When can you start? board member Gillian Lazar asked with a smile.
Group 10 Management (www.group10management.com) is a family-owned company that owns and operates a number of commercial properties around southeast Michigan. The company also owns all the parking lots around Detroit Metropolitan Airport.
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August 2, 2014
Country music legend Willie Nelson is expected to help unveil an 8-foot statue of himself in Austin.
The privately funded monument near a new music hall shows a relaxed Nelson holding a guitar. It will be dedicated on April 20, or 4/20, which happens to be slang for smoking marijuana. Nelson is a well-known advocate of legalizing marijuana and has been arrested several times for possessing it.
Capital Area Statues Inc. raised money for the statue. This is the third large-scale statue from the group, which is made up of prominent Texas writers, producers and musicians.
Lawrence Wright said the date was originally chosen because Nelson was scheduled to perform in Austin that night, but once the counterculture reference became clear, the group embraced it.
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What started as a dream for three Charlottesville moms is becoming a reality.
The play area at the corner of Jefferson and 2nd St. NE will be transformed into a community based park with new playground equipment and an improved design. Friends of McGuffey Park announced the proposed plans on Sunday, May 22 and estimate the cost around $300,000.
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Peter Hagar, Agriculture Educator
---- — I often field questions about common farming practices that are a mystery to those who don't live or work on a farm. With larger farms, larger equipment and farm machinery is required to efficiently till, plant, fertilize and harvest the increasingly larger quantities of feed required.
On top of that, some of the newer methods of crop harvesting are much different from the old days. Large white tubes lining the roadside, huge mounds of black plastic covered with old tires and huge rectangular bales of hay on tractor trailers are common sights on today's modern farms.
For the local dairy farmers who depend on the quality of their crops to make milk, hay harvesting nowadays is usually done by making haylage. Haylage is hay that is mowed and harvested while still at a high enough moisture content to support fermentation. It can be chopped and ensiled in silos, bunks or ag bags; or it can be baled as large round bales that are wrapped in plastic or stuffed into giant tubes.
The purpose of the silos or plastic tubing is to exclude oxygen from the forage to allow for fermentation. Lactobacillus bacteria convert the carbohydrates in the plants into lactic acid. They continue to produce lactic acid and lower the pH of the forage until they can no longer function. At this point, the hay is essentially pickled and can be stored for quite some time without loss of quality.
The silage-making process has several benefits. One of the major advantages is that the hay crop can be harvested when it is ready during almost any weather conditions. In order to harvest high-quality forage, it must be cut early in the spring to maximize the protein, digestibility and palatability of the feed. Without having to wait for three or four days of hot, sunny weather, farmers can cut and harvest their hay crop in 24 to 36 hours or less.
This summer, local farmers took advantage of the early spring and then the warm weather to harvest first-cut hay and haylage in a very timely fashion. However, the dry weather later in the summer reduced yields of subsequent harvests.
Corn silage is similarly harvested and ensiled, most commonly in the huge mounds that are created by piling and packing with large tractors. Most of our area corn is harvested by chopping the entire corn plant, leaving the familiar fields of short stubble. Large wagons or trucks deliver the chopped corn to the farm where it is blown up into silos, packed into long plastic tubes or more commonly piled and packed into bunk silos or mounds.
After packing, the plastic excludes the oxygen and the old tires keep the plastic from blowing away in the wind. Corn silage is popular forage for dairy cattle because it is high in energy and palatability and complements the higher protein alfalfa haylage in a balanced dairy ration. While the slightly pungent, vinegar smell of corn silage may not smell appetizing to you, cows love corn silage and it is a crucial part of most dairy farms' feeding program.
Some farmers are already starting to harvest corn for silage since August's hot, dry weather has accelerated the drying down of the corn. Since silage requires moisture to ferment, corn that is too dry will not have the same quality or produce as much milk. Fortunately, our region was spared the worst of the drought.
Since our North Country growing season is short, dairy farmers depend on these stored feeds to maintain consistent milk production. By timely harvesting and proper ensiling of forages, cows can be fed a consistent diet year round. And while today's cows are less often pastured outside, the forages that are ensiled and fed inside are often more palatable and of higher quality than could be obtained in the more traditional grazing scenario.
The good old days of summer pasture usually ended up providing forage of low quality, low quantity and resulted in low milk production. In today's modern dairy farming, the high-quality stored forages result in ever better diets and increasing milk production.
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STILLWATER — When the game was on the line, and Bedlam bragging rights up for grabs, Oklahoma State's pair of McDonald's All-Americans delivered.
In possibly the biggest Bedlam battle of the last decade, Marcus Smart and Le'Bryan Nash came through in the clutch to deliver the Cowboys a 84-79 overtime victory over rival Oklahoma in front of a crowd of 13,611 at Gallagher-Iba Arena.
"I'm really proud of our basketball team. They're making me greyer and greyer by the day, but very proud of them," OSU coach Travis Ford said after OSU's fourth victory by five points or less in the past six games. "As I told our team, the reason we've been able to win some of these games is we've got good kids and we've got kids that are very close — a very close-knit team that believes in each other.
"They enjoy winning. We don't do it pretty all the time, we've won in a lot of different ways ... and today fell in the category of just playing with a lot of heart."
For Smart, Saturday was a chance to vindicate a poor performance against the Sooners in Norman a month ago.
In that road loss the freshman point guard found himself in foul trouble and never could get in a flow. Saturday, Smart scored a career-high and led all scorers with 28 points — thanks to going 11 for 14 from the free throw line and 3 for 4 from 3-point range.
"That game wasn't a good game for me, I got into foul trouble early and the rest of the game I was frustrated and wasn't able to be there for my team. I felt bad and that's all I was thinking about this week was this game today and OU," Smart said. "I just needed to come out and prove I was a better player, play right and I wasn't going to let them frustrate me this time."
As for the fellow former high school All-American, Nash took a half to finally get going, but did so at the right time for Oklahoma State (19-5, 9-3).
After scoring just 3 points in the first 20 minutes — largely due to playing just nine minutes because of foul trouble — the sophomore from Dallas went on a tare after halftime, scoring 23 points down the final 25 minutes. He was also the catalyst in overtime, scoring 7 of the 11 points put up by OSU in the extra frame.
"I thought he was very aggressive around the rim," Ford said. "... It's just a mentality for him. He got in a little bit of foul trouble, but when LB is locked in, he's not bad."
"Tough loss for sure," OU coach Lon Kruger said. "But it was a really good basketball game. Guys on both teams played their hearts out. It was a big-time battle from start to finish. Guys on both teams made a lot of big-time plays. Defenses were having a tough time getting stops."
Both did, but the Cowboys got the one they had to have with 41 seconds left. OU point guard Sam Grooms, who came off the bench to play the best game of his career, was stripped by OSU's Markel Brown for a steal at midcourt. Michael Cobbins scooped up the ball and turned it into a layup and an 82-79 lead.
OU (16-8, 7-5) never got off another shot.
"As far as the last couple plays, I don't think there's any way to explain it," said Grooms, who scored a career-high 18 points and handed out game-high four assists. "I just lost the basketball, turned it over. I'll remember that."
Oklahoma State got double-digit scoring from Brown, who put up 14 points despite a 5-for-13 shooting night — which included a 1-for-5 performance from behind the arc. Freshman guard Phil Forte also scored 10 points in the victory, which saw the sellout crowd storm the court after the final buzzer.
"The crowd was huge, it made a difference for us. The crowd and the atmosphere was a difference maker for us — especially in a game like this where I didn't think we were playing great," Ford said. "You need that extra and they gave us that extra tonight. It was exciting."
Romero Osby joined Grooms in scoring 18 points and pulled down 15 rebounds. The senior forward was a freight train in the second half, scoring the Sooners' final 10 points in regulation.
The Cowboys, riding a seven-game win streak, will welcome No. 15-ranked Kansas to town Wednesday for a game that will have Big 12 Conference title implications (8 p.m., ESPN2).
"We gave the crowd a lot to look forward to, we're on a nice win streak and we have a big game coming up this week against Kansas," Brown said. "We can use their help any time of the day. We look forward to them being there."
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Looks like the upcoming month of February is turning out to be a great month for anglers and I'm not just talking about the Bassmasters Classic on Grand Lake.
Earlier in February, there will be a two-day workshop for fly fishing at Tenkiller State Park.
Anglers interested in fly fishing can learn the sport Feb. 8-9 at the Illinois River Fly Fishing School. The clinic will be based out of Tenkiller State Park and will feature instructional sessions as well as hands-on practice on the banks of the Illinois River.
Long-time instructor Mark Patton says the clinic lays a good foundation for both amateur and experienced anglers. While he "starts from the ground up," Patton said even those familiar with fly fishing can benefit from the instruction.
The clinic will offer in-depth information on equipment, tackle assembly, knots, flies, casting, and tactics and will include on-stream fishing instruction. According to Patton, participants will leave with a better understanding of fly fishing by learning how the equipment works and why it performs the way it does when operated properly.
Upon completion of the Illinois River Fly Fishing School, Patton said participants will be ready to begin fishing by themselves.
"A guide right now in some places is $400 a day," Patton said. "I try to get people to where they don't need a guide."
The clinic costs $150 and includes orientation on Friday night as well as Saturday morning sessions. Anglers are encouraged to stay and fish Sunday.
Spots are limited, and registration is required by calling (405) 340-1992.
Meals for the event are available for $30, or participants can provide their own. Participants are responsible for their lodging and can book a stay at Tenkiller State Park directly by calling 489-5643 or nearby Greenleaf State Park by calling (918) 487-5196.
Fly rods will be available for loan on Saturday, and participants who own their own gear are encouraged to bring it with them to the clinic.
Participants should dress for outdoor conditions and bring a hat, sunglasses, coat, rain gear and flashlight.
The "welcome session" begins at 8 a.m., Friday, Feb. 8, after cabin check-in, and all indoor sessions and meals will be held in the Community Center located immediately north of the state park office. For more information or to register, call Patton at (405) 340-1992.
God has truly blessed me over the years but one thing I don't have is coordination. My fly fishing buddies are enticing me to give it a try this spring. I'll let you know how it goes.
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By MARK NEWMAN
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---- — OTTUMWA — The public will see a difference at their county courthouse. For the clerks, however, it might just be business as usual.
Currently, all clerk of court offices in the state close to the public on Tuesday and Thursday at 2:30 p.m. In the most recently approved budget, the Iowa Supreme Court authorized more than 40 additional positions for the state's clerk of court offices so all will be open to the public full time again: from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
"Being open full time is a good public service," said Kim Schweiger in the clerk of court's office, Davis County. "I think it'll help the public."
"Clerks' reduced office hours," Annette Scieszinski, 8th District court judge, told the Courier Thursday, "[were] an emergency measure to allow staff to get paperwork done in the wake of budget-driven lay-offs."
To that end, it worked, she said, but there was a cost. She said she and her fellow judges also ran into roadblocks due to the important role the clerks play in getting paperwork moving.
"Some of the greatest hardship occurred in Wapello County where there is a high volume of customer demand for service at all hours. For example, just this week, on Tuesday afternoon, the clerk and I were working on an emergency request for mental commitment but could not complete it because additional information had to be brought in. The clerk's mandatory 2:30 p.m. closure interfered with that, and thus frustrated our ability to get that completed."
Though judges and members of the public may appreciate having more access to court records and other documents in the clerk's office, employees there won't notice too big a change.
"This office did not have reduced hours," explained Deb Littlejohn. "We worked 40 hours, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Tuesday and Thursday, we closed to the public at 2:30 p.m. We're still going to be here. After September 3, we'll be open full time to the public."
When clerk offices around the state "closed early," the staff was still inside, catching up on filing records, putting documents online and doing the other administrative tasks that are set aside each time a member of the public comes in looking for assistance.
"We got a lot of stuff done during those 'closing' times. Now, they are going to be allowed to rehire positions," she said.
That, said Littlejohn, is as it should be.
"We should make ourselves available to the public," she added, "because that's who we're here for."
State Court Administrator David Boyd wrote in a statement to the public that "the Legislature and governor have provided us with the resources we need to focus on delivering accessible, timely and high-quality justice."
Another change for the newly increased judicial budget will be noticed by all court users: fewer postponements of court dates due to the unavailability of a court reporter. This year's budget includes the addition of 13 more of them statewide.
"The layoffs slowed justice down and reduced service for people in critical need of it," said Scieszinski. "[Rehiring] will help judges (and by extension the folks we serve) tremendously to have some of our court-reporter services restored. Just by way of example, I'm without court-reporter help at least one day a week since the budget-driven layoffs. The reason it makes such a difference, is that ... I do what my help would normally do ... which then prevents me from being able to do what I was appointed to do, which is rule on cases. The new funding and re-hiring will solve some of the problem."
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An alleged shoplifter could not fool story security and was arrested as he tried to flee Target in the Westfield Trumbull Mall with clothing and cell phone accessories stuffed under his clothes, police said.
Remember that holiday refrain: '... what are you doin' New Year's Eve'? For one motorist in Greenwich it meant spending it the police lockup. Seems he was allegedly found sleeping behind the wheel of his car in a central Greenwich intersection.
Westport police charged a 57-year-old Milford resident after he allegedly forced his way into a First Night event at Westport Town Hall on New Year's eve and assaulted a police officer.
A Hamden man shoveled an elderly woman's driveway and then snuck into her home and stole her pocketbook off her kitchen table, according to police.
Two Amity High School students were arrested recently -- one for refusing to leave school grounds and the other for making inappropriate comments to a teacher.
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Stamford Police made an arrest this week relating to an incident in which a man resolved a dispute by firing a gun into the ceiling of a restaurant vestibule. The man charged with the alleged crime was in possession of a pistol permit and several guns.
In a crime that would probably only happen in winter, Norwalk police charged a man in an assault incident for allegedly attacking the victim with an ice scraper. The homeless suspect allegedly had an ice scraped covered in the victims blood in his possession at the time of his arrest.
A woman was reportedly struck by a truck as it drove through a drive-thru ATM in Fairfield. According to police, the woman had waited for the truck to move (it was blocking the entrance to the ATM) before she decided to get out of her car and walk up to the window.
A man arrested for allegedly driving under the influence in Fairfield reportedly told that it was bad pizza -- not alcohol -- that caused his poor driving.
A Naugatuck woman faked her own kidnapping in an attempt to get money from her boyfriend and hide the fact that she sold his car for $500 in drug money, police say.
During the New Canaan-Darien high schools annual "Turkey Bowl" football game on Thanksgiving in Darien, someone went into the New Canaan locker room and urinated on the team's equipment. A backpack containing $20 also was reported stolen. Then on New Year's Eve, Darien police announced they'd arrested five former Darien High School students, charging them with the crimes. Two turned out to be the sons of the former first selectwoman and her husband, the present Democratic town chairman.
A woman who used to live in Redding was arrested three times in three days following a domestic struggle with her boyfriend where he had to wrestle a loaded gun away from her. She then subsequently violated two protective orders issued by Redding Police to not show up on his property.
About this column: The week's most unusual arrests from around Fairfield County. The information above was provided by area police departments. Neither arrests nor charges indicate a conviction, and neither means that a person is guilty of what police allege.


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Gregory Collins, 37, a Rock Hill machinist for 15 years until the middle of last year, received a notice last week in the mail. It was not a Christmas card.
It said my unemployment benefits were done, said Collins on Thursday, as he tried for an extension after he was laid off. I know I am not the only one, either. I dont know what I am going to do. All those years I worked and never missed and then it was all gone. And now the benefits are gone, too. I was hoping the new year would bring a new opportunity, but right now it has started worse than last year.
About 1.3 million Americans saw their benefits under the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Program end last week when Congress declined to renew the program that started five years ago during the recession. The program cost $25 billion each year and provided benefits to the unemployed after state unemployment benefits ran out. The program ended as all those in Congress were away from Capitol Hill.
The economy has rebounded some, certainly, and unemployment numbers locally and in the state are down. But still, in South Carolina 12,548 people lost the federal emergency benefits, according to the S.C. Department of Unemployment and Workforce. In York County, 430 people will not get that emergency check anymore.
In Chester County, where unemployment even in a somewhat resurgent economy hovers at close to 10 percent, 59 people lost emergency benefits. Lancaster County now has 221 people who lost the check.
That doesnt mean those are the only unemployed people. In South Carolina, more than 17,000 people getting unemployment benefits from the state are not affected by federal cuts. Yet state benefits dont last forever, either.
And benefits claims dont show the number of unemployed who are on the edge of despair. More than 152,000 people statewide are still unemployed, according to figures from November 2013, the last month analyzed by the employment office. In York County, 7,994 people are classified as unemployed. In Chester County, it was 1,365. In Lancaster County, 2,587.
Even trying to get benefits changed in 2013 in South Carolina. In many places, people can no longer do the paperwork at the employment office which so many people still call the unemployment office. Claims are done now by phone and computer. And to make it worse, Chester County was one of the counties in 2013 where services were cut to the unemployed at the physical office.
Thursday, the first day employment offices re-opened for 2014, was another chance to look for work. Another Rock Hill family Ronnie Brady, his wife, Rene, and two grandchildren left wondering where benefits might come from now after the expiration of the federal emergency program. Brady worked last as a DJ at a nightclub, worked other jobs, from a fence company to manual labor, but hasnt been able to find anything permanent. He spent the morning hours on Thursday at the SC Works office in downtown Rock Hill searching for a job.
My landlord told us New Years Eve we have to be out by Monday, Brady said. I will have nowhere for these two little kids to stay.
Bradys wife, Rene, said it doesnt seem like people who make the decision to stop the benefits know what happens when they do.
What happens is people are left not knowing if their grandbabies will have a place to live or anything to eat, Rene Brady said. We would shovel horse poop out of stables to make a few dollars, it is so desperate.
Charities and nonprofits that help the needy and poor expect the number of people who will need emergency help to go up as the benefits end. When food stamp benefits went down Nov. 1, several food pantries saw larger numbers afterward.
George Kelly at Project Hope in Rock Hill said it is impossible to know for sure what the effects of the cut to federal emergency benefits will be, but he said, Our experience is any time that these programs are gone, the need out there among people goes up.
There has been some discussion by politicians of an attempt to try to re-establish the federal emergency benefits plan.
A guy such as Chris McElroy, 53, who has no more unemployment benefits and went to the SC Works office in Rock Hill on Thursday morning hoping for a miracle, put it this way: Its a new year with the same problems.
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The conventional story of the end of the cold war focuses on the geopolitical power struggle between the United States and the USSR: Ronald Reagan waged an aggressive campaign against communism, outspent the USSR, and forced Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall."In There Is No Freedom Without Bread!, a daring revisionist account of that seminal year, the Russian-born historian Constantine Pleshakov proposes a very different interpretation. The revolutions that took place during this momentous year were infinitely more complex than the archetypal image of the "good" masses overthrowing the "bad" puppet regimes of the Soviet empire. Politicking, tensions between Moscow and local communist governments, compromise between the revolutionary leaders and the communist old-timers, and the will and anger of the people—all had a profound influence in shaping the revolutions as multifaceted movements that brought about one of the greatest transformations in history.In a dramatic narrative culminating in a close examination of the whirlwind year, Pleshakov challenges the received wisdom and argues that 1989 was as much about national civil wars and internal struggles for power as it was about the Eastern Europeans throwing off the yoke of Moscow.
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"Clear and beautifully lyrical . . . Of all the books that mark this anniversary, [There Is No Freedom Without Bread] is one that must be read. Pleshakov writes history with a human face." —Gerard DeGroot, The Washington Post"A savvier, richer take than the usual hymns to national liberation." —Publishers Weekly"Pleshakov embeds original perspectives into a lively narrative . . . The human factor comes out in this readable rendition of the end of communism." —Gilbert Taylor, Booklist
Constantine Pleshakov is the author of several works of history, including Stalin's Folly, The Tsar's Last Armada, The Flight of the Romanovs, and Inside the Kremlin's Cold War. He teaches at Mount Holyoke College and lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.
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Ivan Eland on U.S. Forces Deployed to Jordan
Recorded: Wednesday, October 10, 2012
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Recorded: Saturday, August 25, 2012
Independent Institute Research Fellow and Student Programs Director Anthony Gregory addresses P.A.U.L. Festival 2012 on Government Power and the Road to Liberty.
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Recorded: Friday, August 3, 2012
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Recorded: Monday, February 13, 2012
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Jonathan Bean on the History of Racial Segregation
Recorded: Thursday, January 12, 2012
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I've always wanted to see The Vines.
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Dec: DJ Jazzy Jeff & Skillz, The Roots, Jack Johnson
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May: Kanye West
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Lesli Margherita introduces us to her fascination with googly eyes, her fancy new shoes and the new members of the Matilda cast.March 24, 2014
Footage of the new Broadway musical.February 28, 2012
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe's Catherine Fowles talks about the new stage adaptation of the classic children's book and why this off-Broadway fairy tale is bringing folks back to "the bare essentials of imagination."April 3, 2013
Steven Pasquale sings his 11 o'clock number from The Bridges of Madison County in the recording studio. Get the album now!May 8, 2014
To celebrate the digital release of the cast recording of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, see stars Jefferson Mays and Bryce Pinkham sing "Better with a Man." The CD is available on the Ghostlight label April 1. Bottoms up!
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- Studio: Gkids
- Release Date: Mar 15, 2013
- Starring: Gillian Anderson, Sarah Bolger
- Summary: Set in Yokohama in 1963, this lovingly hand-drawn film centers on Umi and Shun and the budding romance that develops as they join forces to save their high school's ramshackle clubhouse from demolition. [GKIDS]
- Director: Goro Miyazaki
- Genre(s): Drama, Animation, Family
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Positive: 14 out of 20
Mixed: 6 out of 20
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Although simpler and less mysterious than the great Hayao Miyazaki movies, the gently melancholic From Up on Poppy Hill is still a must see at a time when family entertainment is too often synonymous with blandness.
Goro Miyazaki's film is about the point at which we decide not what we want to be when we grow up, but who, and the way the tiniest moments in our lives often have the most far-reaching effect.
The artistry is peaceful and comforting to the eyes but not especially stirring. Given the pictorial extremes that Studio Ghibli has gone to in the past, "Up on Poppy Hill" is weak tea.
Aug 2, 2013It's a light, breezy 1960s-set coming-of-age tale that strives to convey something of how Japan rebuilt itself after the traumas of the second world war.
Mar 11, 2013The story arc is somewhat facile, and its lesson about preserving history instead of demolishing it to make way for new, shiny things is too obvious.
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Positive: 9 out of 9
Mixed: 0 out of 9
Negative: 0 out of 9
Nov 27, 2013From Up on Poppy Hill is a simple-yet nostalgic and sweet story. The characters are likable. The main characters is a realistic and beautiful heroine. The story itself will bring back that sense of nostalgia you get thinking about your first love; or just when you where young and in school. Definitely one of my favorite Hayao Miyazaki films.… Expand
Jul 5, 2013With all of the emotions there with wonderful animation, "From Up on Poppy Hill" is delightful. While it's not as deeply plotted as it could have been, Umi's story is courageous and beautiful, leaving adults more than children to be appealed. It's simply pure Ghibli magic.… Expand
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For Ascifi members
Firstly, I'd like to extend our warmest welcome to the chronicles network.
I'd also like to say that chronicles already has a very friendly SFF community, and you are very welcome to join us in what is now the net's largest general science fiction & fantasy forums.
I appreciate that there's been quite a heady change - Ascifi.com was bought on August 10th, and a backup made on August 13th which was finally merged with chronicles on August 15th.
It wasn't entirely smooth, and there's still a lot of tidying up to do. It's going to take a few more days to smooth everything out - sort out the boards properly so that there's no repetition, and move threads to appropriate boards.
Please do be assured that we haven't deleted anything from the Ascifi forums, and if you find any particular threads or forums are not yet present, please do be assured that I'm in the process of moving them onto the public boards.
Overall, you're more than welcome to post any feedback or general comments - and if any of you are interested in resuming your original moderator positions, then please do feel free to PM me.
In the meantime, please do make yourself comfortable, and if you need help with anything, please do feel free to ask.
In fact, feel free to post something in the Introductions forum, where you can be more personably greeted here.
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ADDED: Just a couple of pointers I need to raise to help clarify any questions you may have:
The forums merger was a difficult process, and it appears that I was unable to import user avatars from Ascifi.com. If you're unable to find a suitable avatar, please do feel free to contact me and I'll do what I can to recover your original avatar, if possible.
The chronicles forum is already set up to *not* add to post counts in the General and Discussion areas. You may find your post count drop because of Ascifi threads being moved to these areas - especially the "General Discussion" and "Post Clubs and Games".
Please don't be disappointed if you lose a few posts from your count - it's nothing personal, and not intended to be a slight on anyone.
The chronicles forum is a very friendly forum, and have a few basic rules. There should be nothing particularly surprising there - the bottom line is just try to be respectful of other people and differing opinions, and try to keep posts family-friendly where possible. I don;t think that should present any particular problems for AScifi members.
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Howdy! and thanks for the Welcome. I look forward to posting and making new friends as well as chating with the old ones. Nice Baords I,B
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I'm shocked that Ascifi is gone. Good thing is there is a thread for SG-1 season 10...I'm re-watching the first 6 episodes right now so i can start posting...thanks for the welcome.
less Wormhole Extreme revisited
All downloads are in...what a nice way to spend Monday morning at work.
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Welcome to chronicles as well, Eway.
We've already had a couple of requests to update a few of the subboards to keep up with existing seasons, so if you feel that something's missing, feel free to suggest it.
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*waves* Hi, Steffi! Just go check out the 'Pic of the Day' thread, it should sooth you soon enough.
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*steps throught the Event Horizon*.....whoa......cool, I am glad to be included in on the move...... I haven't been around much because I am getting ready for Dragon Con.....but after that, I'll be poking around.....alot.....
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I was an Ascifi member a while ago but the forum seemed slow. I only have ten old posts but I will look around here and maybe find a few subforums to contribute to. Thanks for the email.
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I''ll try to do what I can about the aliens.
In fact, believe it out not, I actually dreamt of chronicles last night, and the little aliens were up!
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Sofa Sleeper Mattress: A Fine One
If you don't yet have a sleeper sofa mattress or a sofa bed for that matter, you may be wondering why on the planet the mattress for a sofa bed is named a sleeper sofa mattress anyway. Properly, to be King of the Obvious, it essentially boils down to the truth that you simply sleep on the sofa bed mattress, which is truly what it can be far more commonly referred to as anyway. Call it a sofa bed mattress or just a sofa mattress, or call it a sleeper sofa mattress in case you please, it's merely semantics.
Anyway, now that you simply know that a sleeper sofa mattress is merely a name given to the mattress that goes with your sofa bed, sort of like they call a restroom a bathroom in certain parts of the globe, and in other parts they call it a washroom. A napkin is often a serviette, too. But, I digress…
The sleeper sofa mattress is acquiring just a little bit far more attention just simply because of the truth that you'll find now additional comfortable options on the market. When we as a society went from innerspring mattresses for sofa beds to the quantum leap that's now memory foam sleeper sofa mattress and latex sleeper sofa mattress forms, the Gods must have been truly excited for us. Guests and visitors everywhere slept and do sleep very much better once they get together with loved ones. There is no longer the tossing and turning, and the Bar-in-the-Back Syndrome that the lovely innerspring mattresses gifted us with.
You are going to notice an enormous difference when you sleep upon a sleeper sofa mattress created of either memory foam or latex. These two sleeper sofa mattress selections were pivotal inside the sleeper sofa mattress revolution, mainly because they give the high quality of sleep that commonly it is possible to get only on a really fine and pricey bedroom bed mattress. The manufacturers of the sleeper sofa mattress have gone all out, and quite a few of the best ones will cater to your exacting needs. In case you want a really customized size of sleeper sofa mattress, they will make it to your measurement specs. In case you have to have a particular firmness for your sleeper sofa mattress, you got it. A precise density for your sofa bed mattress, it is yours.
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By BRADEN LAMMERS
Target rates for tolls have been set for about a year, but it will be a bit longer before the public knows what they will actually have to pay to cross the Ohio River.
Indiana officials asked to delay the approval of the toll rates that were expected to be set at a meeting held Thursday morning, which if not acted upon soon could add millions of dollars to Kentucky's financing cost — and would eventually be passed along to toll payers.
Kentucky Transportation Secretary Mike Hancock was caught off-guard when Indiana Finance Authority Director Kendra York requested the removal of the item that dealt with tolling during the first of two meetings held. The tolling resolution was subsequently removed from the second meeting also held Thursday.
"We were prepared to talk about this," Hancock said during the first meeting. "To remove [the resolutions] they are very important pieces of our issues to satisfy the tolling part of this project and to address the financial limitations for Kentucky's sake. We were at least hoping to have a discussion."
He said later that the impact of the delay is a concern, because interest rates could be higher and impact toll rates if the Ohio River Bridges Project Joint Board continue to delay the decision.
"I would like to make sure we as a body understand the importance of moving forward on the tolling body resolution at some point very, very soon because delays in that process could create increases in interest rates for Kentucky's financing," Hancock said. "It could result in potentially higher toll rates if we don't address that very, very soon."
Indiana Department of Transportation Spokesman Will Wingfield said the delay is to allow Indiana to update the development agreement signed last year.
"We had to basically draft these interlocal agreements to sort of set the basis for how everything is working, but that all was done before the procurement, before we had the traffic and revenue study, before a lot of these developments occurred," he said. "Now that we're a year into it, now that we've made a lot of progress, it needs to be updated."
He added Indiana was not able to get the update ironed out in time for Thursday's meeting, hence the delay.
Last week, the Kentucky Public Transportation Infrastructure Authority received the final report for its traffic and revenue study. According to the news release sent out with the study, the information returned, and the initial toll rates, provide the essential information that financial investors will need when Kentucky sells bonds this fall to complete its financing and is also necessary to seek federal Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act —TIFIA— loan financing.
The all-electronic tolling that the project planners will employ would use either an electronic transponder or video camera that takes a picture of the vehicles license plate to collect the toll rate for crossing the bridge.
While the toll rates long-targeted for the project remained the same in the authority's report, changes were made last week to the rates for those drivers who do not have transponders or who have not signed up with a pre-paid account.
In addition to a $1 toll rate each way for frequent commuters, $2 for cars, $5 for box and panel trucks and $10 for tractor trailers remained in effect for those with transponders.
However, the study assumed higher rates for motorists who don't use transponders, but who have pre-paid accounts at $3 for cars, $6 for medium trucks and $11 for heavy trucks. For motorists who don't register and establish accounts, the assumed rates were even higher at $4 for cars, $7 for medium trucks and $12 for heavy trucks.
In addition, "to keep pace with inflation, the study assumed that the rates will increase by 2.5 percent annually," according to the release.
Wingfield said the delay was not a reflection of the changes presented in the traffic and revenue study released last week. He added that there are no changes on the table for revenue collection or the 50-50 split between the two states for tolls collected.
After the two brief meetings, which saw the board ratify its bylaws, approve working with Computer Aid, Inc., who will serve as electronic toll advisor, and set a regular meeting schedule, Hancock again addressed the delay, but assured a tolling agreement would be reached soon.
"We're going to get this done," Hancock said. "It was a bit of a surprise to learn we weren't going through this today. It's a huge deal for all of us really. As interest rates go up, obviously over a 35-year term of a financing deal, that amounts to serious money. Whether that amounts to millions, I'm quite sure it probably is."
He said that "unequivocally" within the next few weeks a tolling resolution should be passed.


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Slices of Japanese business, politics and life
Mortician tale an Oscar surprise
Even the lead actor was surprised when his movie "Departures", about an out-of-work cellist who takes a job as a mortician preparing corpses for cremation, won the Oscar for best foreign language film today.
The film has been a box office hit in Japan but it faced stiff competition and Masahiro Motoki, did not expect to win against the Israeli favourite in the category, "Waltz with Bashir".
"I saw the Israeli movie which I honestly had thought would win as it was wonderful," says Motoki, who instigated the Japanese film and worked on it in a 10-year labour of love.
"So I walked the red carpet as a hanger-on who just observes the ceremony. Now I regret that I did not walk with more confidence."