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The Planning Process Next
Long-range plans frame the State's long-range transportation
goals and objectives for the State (i.e., "California Transportation
Plan") and or region. Projects should be identified and programmed on
the State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP), the State Highway
Operations Protection Program (SHOPP), the California Transportation
Plan (CTP), the Interregional Transportation Strategic Plan (ITSP),
the District System Management Plans (DSMP) and Regional Transportation
Plans (RTP) and ultimately implemented. The projects implemented from
the STIP should be consistent with the goals and objectives identified
in the long-range plan. The STIP projects are developed in a multi-year
It is important for the Department and the transportation
planning agencies to provide opportunity for active involvement of Tribal
Governments, minority, low-income, elderly and disabled populations
in statewide and metropolitan transportation planning and programming.
It is important to recognize and be sensitive to tribal customs and
to the nationally recognized sovereignty of Tribal Governments. Tribal
Governments are independent government bodies rather than a minority
group. Refer to the appendix on Native Americans for additional guidance
on working with Native American Communities.
Potential Title VI Issues
Plans and programs have the potential of being discriminatory
in more subtle ways than projects. The major area of impact by plans
and programs is through decisions that identify one or more planned
improvements over other options. This consequence may result from procedures
and processes that unintentionally exclude a group from the process
or from the failure to consider the impacts of various transportation
system alternatives and programs of projects on one or more identified
To the extent that plans and programs include proposed
improvements with disproportionate beneficial impacts or reflect decision
making processes that exclude certain groups, the long-term agenda for
transportation improvements may be inappropriately biased. This could
lead to project implementation that is inconsistent with nondiscrimination
requirements. The actual impacts may only be experienced as projects
are implemented. The planning process represents a comprehensive perspective
from which transportation agencies assess the potential consequences
of developing and
operating the transportation system. The planning process
should consider, as applicable,: whether:
1. There is effective public involvement/participation
based on the use of Performance Measures and demographic analysis.
2. Input from minority groups/persons is seriously being
3. There is consultation with Tribal Governments in statewide
and metropolitan transportation planning.
4. Data collection and analysis is sufficient to support
5. Social, economic and environmental effects and impacts
have been identified and described.
6. Minorities, women, community based organizations and
Tribal Governments have been provided an opportunity to successfully
compete for planning studies, corridor studies or other work.
7. Title VI requirements have been included in contract
and grant language.
8. When awarding a contract or grant, whether the contractor
or applicant has any unresolved Title VI violations.
9. Alternative languages, other than English, are needed
to effectively communicate with the eligible population.
10. The Program Area Administrator and/or District Title
VI Liaison have reviewed and commented on policies and plans from a
Title VI perspective.
Recommended Good Practices and Mitigation Measures
1. Incorporate Title VI requirements into policies and procedures.
2. Encourage and seek participation from those most directly
3. Contact minority community leaders, organizations and
media. Develop a contact database.
4. Conduct adequate number of meetings and hearings.
5. Establish and participate on civic advisory committees.
6. Set appropriate meeting location, time, day of week,
language needs and atmosphere to reach the target group.
7. Demonstrate consideration of community input via newsletters,
letters, leaflets or other printed medium that will potentially reach
the target group/audience.
8. Establish effective relationships with Tribal Governments
and non-federally recognized tribal groups and organizations.
9. Conduct training on American Indian customs and laws
that govern their various sovereign nations.
10. Develop data collection methods designed to obtain the
following information:
· Description of community boundaries,
· Demographic composition, including racial/ethnic makeup,
income levels and age (seniors/youths),
· Tax base,
· Populations with disabilities and
· Community services, schools, hospitals, shopping centers,
public safety.
11. Focus on outreach so that minority, disabled and women-owned
firms have an opportunity to compete for work.
12. When giving presentations at community workshops, put
graphics, slides, etc. in applicable languages. Attempt to include and
describe processes and community interactions in ways that translated
words cannot.
13. Communicate with other transportation entities to determine
what outreach methods are being used and consider alternative methods
to enhance attendance at meetings.
14. In cooperation with other transportation entities, provide
technical assistance.
15. Treat everyone equitably.
16. To ensure opportunity for full participation and accommodation
for persons with disabilities, every meeting or notice of a meeting
a. Be held in a totally accessible facility;
b. Contain a statement on how to request alternative format
documents and assistive services, if you are an individual with a disability
requiring such services;
c. Give consideration to accessible alternatives such as
videos, if captioning is not included on the tape, such as using interpreters;
or a script of the video in Braille for those who are deaf and blind,
for example upon request.
17. Insure that persons with hearing impairments are accommodated
in the most effective manner possible, whether that is via sign language
interpreter, real-time captioning or not using the video if they would
not be able to participate in receipt of the information via that method.
18. Develop glossaries of planning terms in other languages
for limited English proficient purposes.
19. Public service announcements to be closed captioned
as required by Americans with Disabilities Act.
20. Contact minority businesses annually and inform them
of the procurement process.
Possible Compliance Review Questions
Recent regulations on metropolitan and statewide planning
draws attention to overall
strategies and goals, service equity and public involvement.
The questions below are
adapted from the Policy Guidance Concerning Application
of Title VI of the Civil
Rights Act of 1964 to Metropolitan and Statewide Planning,
23CFR Parts 450 and 771
and 49CFR Parts 619 and 622. These questions focus on public
involvement strategies
for minority and low-income populations, assessment of the
distribution of benefits
and adverse environmental impacts at the planning and project
stages. Programs will
be expected to provide a written response to these questions
in advance of the Title
VI Program Compliance Review.
A. Strategies and Goals
1. What strategies and efforts has your planning process
developed for ensuring, demonstrating and substantiating compliance
with Title VI?
2. What measures have been used to verify that the multi-modal
system access and mobility performance improvements, included in the
plan and Transportation Improvement Program (TIP), Regional Transportation
Improvement Program (RTIP), Interregional Improvement Program (ITIP)
and the underlying planning process, comply with Title VI?
3. Has your planning process developed a demographic profile
of the State that includes identification of the locations of socioeconomic
groups, including low-income and minority populations as covered by
the Executive Order on Environmental Justice and Title VI provisions?
Describe how.
4. Does your planning process seek to identify the needs
of low-income and minority populations? Describe how.
5. Does your planning process seek to make use of demographic
information to examine the distributions across these groups of the
benefits and burdens of the transportation investments included in the
plan and TIP?
6. What methods are used to identify imbalances?
B. Service Equity
1. Does your planning process have an analytical process
in place for assessing the regional benefits and burdens of transportation
system investments for different socioeconomic groups?
2. How does the planning process respond to the analysis
C. Public Involvement
1. Provide a copy of your public involvement process policy.
Is there at least a 45-day public comment period before the process
or revision is adopted?
2. Is information about transportation issues and processes
provided timely to citizens, public agencies, transportation agency
employees, private sector transportation providers and others affected
by transportation plans, programs and projects?
Describe how.
3. Does the public have access to technical and policy information
used to develop plans and the TIP and to public meetings where Federal-aid
highway and transit programs are considered? Describe how.
4. Is advance public notice given, at least 30 days, for
public review and comment on key decisions, including approval of plans,
TIPS and amendments? Describe how.
5. Are explicit considerations and responses offered to
public input received during the planning and program development stages?
Describe how.
6. Are the needs of low-income and minority households taken
into account? Describe how.
7. Does the public outreach effort use media such as print,
television, radio, etc. targeted to low-income or minority populations?
8. Has your program made funds available to local organizations
that represent low-income and minority populations to enable their participation
in the planning process?
9. Are Tribal Governments and related public agencies on
public or tribal land involved in the development of transportation
plans and programs? Describe how Tribal Governments are involved in
the planning process, and what considerations are given to Indian reservation
10. When significant written or oral comments are received
on the draft transportation plan, financial plan or TIP, as a result
of the public involvement process, is a summary analysis and report
of the disposition of the comments made part of the final plan and TIP?
11. What changes have occurred as a result of input by public
involvement, specifically low-income and minority populations?
12. Is the public involvement process reviewed periodically
to determine the effectiveness of full and open access to all? Describe
13. Is the district public involvement process coordinated
with the statewide public involvement processes wherever possible to
enhance the consideration of public issues, plans and programs and to
reduce redundancies of costs? Describe how.
14. Describe the types of assurances utilized to assure
that no one has been excluded from participation in or denied benefit
of or otherwise subjected to discrimination on the basis of race, color,
sex, national origin or physical handicap for any program receiving
assistance from the USDOT.
15. Describe actions taken to comply with the Americans
with Disabilities Act.
16. Are traffic, ridesharing, transportation safety and
enforcement agencies including the County Transportation Commissions,
commuter rail operators, airport authorities, private sector transportation
providers and city officials involved in your planning?
Describe how.
17. Are local, State and Federal environmental, resource
and permit agencies involved in your planning? Describe how.
18. Have there been any changes in your public involvement
processes since your last review?
If so, what are they?
19. Were there any planning studies undertaken during the
last two years, which specifically addressed the needs of minority and
or low-income populations?
If so, identify.
20. Describe what kinds of demographic data, including race
and income, is collected.
E. Contracts
1. Does your division/district advertise? Describe the process.
2. How does your program promote the participation of Disadvantaged
Business Enterprises (DBE) contracts?
3. Are DBE goals set and do you meet those goals?
4. Who in the program monitors the contractor's adherence with the
Title VI requirements?
5. Provide a copy of your approved DBE plan.
6. Provide the number, dollar values and types of contracts and funding
sources used during the last two fiscal years. Identify if there were any
DBEs on the contracts.
A. Management Staff Composition
1. Provide a staffing composition listing by position, race and gender.
Include an organizational chart.
2. Policy and Advisory Committees – Provide a staffing composition
listing of committees and their respective members by position, race and
3. Describe, in summary, the programs administered by the Transportation
Planning Program.
B. Complaint Procedure
1. What process do you follow when handling Title VI complaints and
how are your customers made aware of this process?
2. How many Title VI related complaints have you received in the
past two years?
3. What was the outcome of those complaints?
C. Training
1. Has staff received formal or informal training regarding Title
VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and/or Environmental Justice Executive
Orders? Please describe.
2. What is your schedule for Title VI training this year and who
will attend?
D. Status of Title VI Program with the FTA
1. Provide a copy of your most recent FTA Title VI program submission.
What date was it approved and what date does it expire?
2. Did FTA make changes, comments or additions prior to approval?
If so, in what areas?
Self Monitoring
1. What office or section within the planning function has lead
responsibility for Title VI matters?
2. What process has been implemented to ensure Title VI issues
are addressed in the planning process?
3. How do MPOs obtain representation in their membership reflecting
the diversity of the population they serve?
4. How does your program ensure that MPOs solicit and consider
the views of all groups within the population in the planning of highway
FTA Triennial Reports 23 CFR 450.334, 200.13; 49 CFR 21;
NDA; UMTA Cir.4702.1
The Division of Transportation Planning, Office of Regional and Interagency
Planning administers Federal pass through planning funds. These funds are available
to both MPOs and regional planning agencies. Pursuant to Urban Mass Transportation
Act circular 4702.1, all recipients of planning funds must meet either General
Program Requirements or Emphasis Programs requirements once every three years.
In addition, MPOs within service areas with populations over 200,000 must comply
with both the General and Emphasis Programs requirements. The Office of Regional
and Interagency Planning compiles the responses from the MPOs and regional transportation
planning agencies and submits a report to the FTA with a copy to the Title VI
The term project development process refers to the process of a highway or
transit project in which the environmental study necessary for the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) compliance is performed. During this process,
data and information on project alternatives and related environmental effects
are collected and analyzed. The goal of this process is to develop a complete
understanding of the existing and future environmental conditions and the possible
effects of a proposed project in order to make the best project decision in
terms of meeting the intended transportation need, the goals of an area or community
and for protection and enhancement of the environment.
The project development process includes environmental, right
of way, construction and research. Narrative discussion on these programs
include: Potential Title VI Issues, Recommended Good Practices and Mitigation
Measures, Possible Compliance Review Questions and Self Monitoring.


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Flying the flag
Date published: 19 June 2014
FOOTBALL fever has swept the borough as fans get behind England's World Cup campaign with flags and bunting.
Michael Brady joined forces with other residents on Top Street, Greenacres, in a bid to roar the Three Lions to victory in the crucial clash with Uruguay tonight (8pm kick-off).
Elsewhere, Lignum Avenue in Chadderton is a sea of red and white after residents decked out the street with St George flags.
Gillian Wild, who lives on the street, said celebrating the World Cup with such pride has really brought the community together: "We have all come together for the football. Every evening we are outside decorating and working on each other's homes.Come on England!"
Micky Bleach, an Oldham Sunday League committee member, has covered his home in Willow Grove, Chadderton, with flags.
And football fans in Delph caught World Cup fever by decorating their house to get behind England's campaign. Ryan McCallion and Jamie Robinson, of Delph Lane, joined fellow residents in draping flags and bunting on their homes in support of their country.
if only the supporters passion could be adopted by the England players.
No worries Ernie, they'll all soon be back home in their gated ivory towers.
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UMass had the bulk of the opportunities in the first half, out-shooting UAlbany, 10-3, while holding the Great Danes without a shot on goal in the period. Sophomore Moa Mattsson nearly put the Minutewomen on the board in the 17th minute, but her header attempt was grabbed by Jackie Ubert in net for UAlbany.
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This debate comes down to what is a "bad deal" with Iran on its nuclear weapons program, since everyone agrees that, as US President Obama has repeatedly said, "No deal is better than a bad deal."
Netanyahu argued that the deal being negotiated between Iranian negotiators and the US-led P5+1 (US, Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany) is a "very bad deal". He particularly objected to two aspects reportedly agreed upon:
1. The proposed deal does not substantively roll back Iran's industrial-sized nuclear enrichment complex, neither dismantling nuclear facilities, nor even centrifuges. It allows Iran to continue to run thousands of centrifuges, and to keep but disconnect the rest of the 19,000 that it has. Further, it allows Iran to continue to research more advanced centrifuges which will vastly cut down the breakout time to a nuclear bomb when constructed. Finally, he said that Israel estimates that if Iran decided to stage a "breakout" into bomb construction under the agreement's reported terms, it would take much less than the year that the US administration estimates.
2. The deal reportedly includes a 10-year sunset clause, after which all sanctions and restrictions on Iranian nuclear infrastructure will be lifted. While technically, Iran would still not be legally allowed to build nuclear weapons under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, it could be a screw-turn away without breaking the treaty.
The US administration and others dismissive of Netanyahu's concerns largely do not essentially dispute his facts or analysis. Their argument amounts to "it's this or nothing". Without this deal, they say, Iran will either sprint for a bomb or we will have to use force. Since both those options are worse, and Iran will refuse to make any further concessions, they say, this is by definition a "good deal" because it is better than any alternatives. It's pretty intellectually convenient – "No deal is better than a bad deal" but virtually any deal we reach, no matter how generous to Iran, is by definition a "good deal".
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Yet this improbable hope appears to be the linchpin of Western strategy. Moreover, even if the deal is observed, it will make Iran a de facto nuclear threshold state.
This will not only provide Iran with cover to greatly increase its support of terrorism and other efforts to subvert its neighbours, but will almost certainly start a frighteningly dangerous nuclear arms race in the world's most volatile region –as the Saudis, Egyptians, and Turks race to match Iran's nuclear weapons capabilities.
Thus, the proposed deal only looks likely to work if Tehran indeed has the change of heart that the US administration is hoping for. It appears to be an enormous gamble, at very long odds, and the consequences of losing that bet are potentially catastrophic.
Colin Rubenstein is executive director of the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council. Previously, he lectured in Middle East Politics at Monash University.


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Deal names Public Defender Standards Council leader
Gov. Nathan Deal today named attorney Bryan Tyson as executive director of the Georgia Public Defender Standards Council. The Georgia Public Defender Standards Council ensures that public defenders work effectively, promptly and ethically to assist clients. Tyson's hiring takes effect Monday.
Bryan Tyson
Tyson previously worked as an attorney with Strickland Brockington Lewis LLP. He is the 2014-2015 Section Chair of the Appellate Practice Section of the State Bar of Georgia and represented the State of Georgia as a Special Assistant Attorney General for the 2011 redistricting process. Prior to admission to the bar, Tyson worked in the Georgia General Assembly and for Rep. Lynn Westmoreland in Washington, D.C. Tyson earned his law degree magna cum laude from the Oak Brook College of Law. Tyson and his wife, Shelley, live in Marietta with their three children.


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Ask Dr. BleedingheartJuly 20, 2010 • No Comments • category: Guest Authors
Dear Dr. Bleedingheart,
I've leaving in a few weeks for a vacation with extended family at a beach house that we've rented for a week. Do you have any tips for surviving the week with family while still having fun?
Beach Mom
Dear Beach Mom,
What you need is a project. Fathers, fathers-in-law, and grandfathers in particular need some handy little project they can complete together over a case of beer. They'll be out there for hours and they won't speak, except to ask whether there's an extra charger for the cordless drill, but somehow they'll have a great time and feel like they've bonded like never before.
Pick something non-essential so it doesn't feel like too much of a chore. For instance, can you pour concrete paving stones and have the kids embed seashells in them? That'll get the guys working on mixing concrete and the kids collecting shells. (This assumes, of course, that you're not going home by train and could actually bring some heavy paving stones back with you.)
Or get everyone involved in building a sculpture of found art. There's something about driftwood that brings out the sculptor in all of us. Somebody will have to be handy with a glue gun, a drill, or rolls of wire. A spot of bright sea-green paint might be in order. Be sure to incorporate "found" garbage into it, so that you're leaving the beach cleaner than you found it. (Here's a hint: Start one of these projects by yourself, and take the Tom Sawyer/Aunt Polly approach of being highly skeptical about whether anyone else is really qualified to help. That'll get them begging to participate.)
If you can't bring your sculpture home with you, perhaps the owners of the beach cottage would appreciate a piece of yard art. Failing that, take inspiration from Andy Goldsworthy and create an art project out of natural materials that will simply wash away with the next high tide.
Amy Stewart is the author of From the Ground Up: The Story of a First Garden, The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms, and the New York Times bestsellers Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful in the Business of Flowers and Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother & Other Botanical Atrocities. Find more from her at Garden Rant.
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New Zealand's First Lighthouse
Sitting out at the entrance to Wellington's harbour, along what's known as the Storm Coast, is New Zealand's first permanent light house.
Pencarrow Lighthouse
As early as 1842 a temporary beacon was erected on Pencarrow Head. As shipwrecks continued to occur, New Zealand's first light house was erected on 1 January 1859. The keeper was New Zealand's only woman light house keeper.
Despite the precautions, the coast remained dangerous to shipping and up to 21 wrecks have been recorded on the Pencarrow coast with the most recent in 1981.
The remains of a ship lay on the beach just past the lighthouse.
Near Burdans Gate at the start of the track is a memorial to the Wahine disaster; a ferry grounding which in the rough seas had passengers washed up on this coast line.
Not far past the lighthouse are the nationally important lakes Kohangapiripiri and Kohangatera which were once tidal inlets. Over time earthquakes have raised the foreshore and created a barrier to the sea. The lakes now support wetland vegetation.
There is a public bus service to Burdans Gate, Eastbourne or you can park your own vehicle there or ride your bike straight on through. A great way to arrive on the coast is by ferry from Wellington.
- A return walk to the lighthouses - 4 hours
- A return walk to the lakes - 5 hours
While this is an easy walk, plenty of food, water, warm clothes and sun protection are required as there are no facilities and little shelter on the way.
Any dogs must be on a leash for the entire walk to protect birdlife and stock on the neighbouring farm. No dogs are allowed in the lakes block or south of the sea level light house.
For more information on bus and ferry services or bike hire, maps or general information, talk to an i-SITE Visitor Centre.
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Gigi Gaston is a writer and director who makes her home in Los Angeles, California. Gigi sold her first screenplay LIKE A LADY to Drew Barrymore and Harvey Weinstein. She went on to sell several other scripts including the Sci-Fi script MOCKINGBIRD based on a Walter Tevis novel. The screenplay was sold to producer Steve Tisch and New Line Cinema. Gigi also sold a pitch to director Ron Howard and Universal Pictures titled MADAME LEPESCUE.
Gigi garnered critical acclaim and numerous awards for her directorial debut for the documentary, THE CREAM WILL RISE. This Sundance Channel documentary showcases the elusive multiple Grammy nominated singer, songwriter Sophie B. Hawkins.
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Barclays Libor scandal: Cameron and co know all the scandalous practices that go on in banking but pretend otherwise
Changes: Prime Minister David Cameron said the Government would ensure 'the criminal law can go wherever it needs to'
David Cameron says crooked bankers could face criminal charges for rigging interest rates.
Could face charges? Yes, he has to have a 'review' this week to see if it can become a criminal offence.
If they do so decide, it will all take time. And, of course, any new law won't apply to those who most recently rigged the interest rates — and so adversely affected the lives of millions and (it is now claimed) caused the recession. New laws are not applied retrospectively.
In any case, those with the most to lose will fight any changes, arguing that they'll 'throw the baby out with the bath water' and damage Britain's competitive banking edge.
Others will say such a change is pointless until all nations harmonise their laws, which is never going to happen.
The truth is that Cameron and his colleagues know all the scandalous practices that go on in banking but have to pretend otherwise. They socialise with bankers and rely on their donations. No 10 has an open-door policy for them. They're called upon to advise on policy. The Prime Minister's late father was a stockbroker, for goodness' sake.
Business Secretary Vince Cable calls British banking 'a moral quagmire of almost Biblical proportions,' says that shareholders should oust bent banking bosses. As if shareholders fretted about moral quagmires.
Liberal Democrat Cable has been in his grace-and-favour Coalition joblet for two years. Time enough surely to have found out about shady banking practices and blown the whistle on them?
He says he's bringing in legislation to strengthen shareholder control of pay and bonuses — 'shareholders have to get a stronger grip on weak boards and out-of-control executives'. You have to wonder if Cable is able to distinguish between a typical shareholder and a reader of The Guardian.
Under pressure: Barclays chairman Marcus Agius (right) and chief executive Bob Diamond (centre), pictured with former chief executive John Varley, have faced calls to quit
Governor of the Bank of England Sir Mervyn King is another curious figure in this black comedy.
Following the latest outrage involving Barclays, he calls bankers 'shoddy' and 'deceitful', and demands 'a real change' in their culture. Shouldn't he, too, have known what was going on?
Our leaders are trying to use the 'heads you lose, tails he loses' argument against Barclays's fiend, Bob Diamond. If he knew what was going on, he must be sacked. And if he didn't know what was going on, he also deserves sacking. Last night it was reported that Barclays chairman Marcus Agius was about to fall on his sword.
Shouldn't this rule also be applied to Cameron and Co, and to the Governor of the Bank of England?
They have the power and the authority to scrutinise our financial institutions. If they fail to do so, shouldn't we fling them out on their ears?
The melancholy truth is that the Government is controlled by banks in the same way drug addicts are dependent on their pushers.
They need a vibrant economy — and firing-on-all-cylinders banking system — so they can distribute cash bribes to the electorate. The reckless lending which led to the 2008 crash is deplored by Cameron and Co now, but they know that — prior to the ordure hitting the fan — our economy did very well in that period.
'Conspiracy': Vince Cable said the public could not understand why those responsible were allowed to 'just walk away'
An acquaintance of Bob Diamond told me: 'Also, never forget, he made a lot of people very rich — not just himself.'
Torrents of cash were flowing into the Treasury from the banking sector.
That's why the likes of RBS chief executive Fred 'The Shred' Goodwin got his knighthood.
When young banking bloods drank £100 cocktails called Flaming Ferraris, or Chateau Petrus straight from the bottle at rowdy restaurant parties, some deplored them but others bought into the theory that, somehow, we were all better off because of them, that the largesse trickled down.
Most of us, in theory at least, would like to see errant bankers carted off to chokey, or hung by their ankles from lamp-posts, but we know it isn't going to happen, at least not on the industrial scale necessary.
If we can't use the criminal law to deter interest rate-rigging cheats, and other Square Mile low-life, civil law will have to be deployed more effectively to deprive them of their ill-gotten gains.
The present hue and cry — with Bob Diamond playing the villainous Bill Sikes character from Oliver Twist — will run out of steam.
Another 'we are being robbed' horror will take its place. Bankers and politicians will become chummy again. Their unholy romance will resume, as will the illicit exchange of cash for favours.
Whichever course we take before then — outside straightforward citizen terrorism, aimed at the main culprits — lawyers will be rolling in the mire like pigs in ordure.
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Steven Smith played 12 "spaz" minutes, diving all over the place, drawing a charge and adding three fouls of his own. Iguodala scored a quiet 20 points, which would be news in and of itself, had he not needed 18 shots to do it. The player of the game was Samuel Dalembert, pictured below. Dalembert had 16 points, 13 boards, 3 blocks, 6 fouls and 1 accidental assist. The Sixers play at Boston Friday night.
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Kids tend to be attracted to good news and hopeful information and it was soon apparent that the students at Richardsville reveled in the innovations that have made their school so special. Pay a visit today and you may be greeted by a student eager to conduct a tour, pointing out all of the energy-saving components and underlining how technology can have such a positive impact on everyday life.
"We believe that the bridge to the future begins with the successful education of our children," says principal architect, Kenny Stanfield at the Louisville location of Sherman, Carter, Barnhart Architects. "So it's appropriate that this building of the future be a public school. A net-zero achievable school, as defined by the federal government, must use 25 kBtus or less per square foot annually, whereas the typical school today consumes 73 kBtus of energy."
So what materials and methods should we be using in future buildings and in our new homes?
To answer this, a student tour guide at Richardsville will first point out that the construction team needed to make many strategic decisions regarding walls, windows, roofing, water management, ventilation, indoor climate control, and kitchen utilities.
"The key to designing and achieving an affordable net-zero building is a focus on strategies that reduce energy consumption," Stanfield explains. "We always begin those design strategies with a high performance building envelope, and for those walls, it is insulated concrete forms that work admirably with this number one goal."
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Richardsville kids would probably also show you: the 40,000 solar panels on the rooftop that convert solar power to electricity and deliver clean, renewable energy back to the community; the geothermal heating and cooling system; the north-south positioning of the school for effective daylight; the wireless computers; and all of the energy-efficient food preparation because "a standard school kitchen typically accounts for 25 percent of the building's energy drain."


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Well, in memory corruption of xfs data structures should not be triggerable by losing an interrupt, I would like to track it down some more. Forget kdb if you10/01/02 21:10, Stephen Lord wrote:Pascal Haakmat wrote:I don't think fs corruption would have much to do with this one, it is a purely in memory circular list. So far as I can see it is always manipulated under the correct locking. I have a box running a debug kernel sitting in a loop doing the test which Adrian says makes10/01/02 16:36, Steve Lord wrote:On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 15:57, Pascal Haakmat wrote:ASSERT(ipointer_in == B_FALSE); ip = ip->i_mnext; c01ccb34: 8b 4c 24 70 mov 0x70(%esp,1),%ecx c01ccb38: 8b 76 08 mov 0x8(%esi),%esi c01ccb3b: 8b 91 14 01 00 00 mov 0x114(%ecx),%edx } while (ip->i_mnext != mp->m_inodes); [*ksymoops disassembly matches here*]ip->i_mnext is NULL which is never supposed to happen, next question is why?FWIW, this happened just after rebooting using the XFS 1.01/RedHat boot CD and running xfs_repair on the filesystem, which hopefully rules out an inconsistent filesystem/filesystem errors.this happen for him. It has been going for a few hours, so far no problems.Well, I've been doing the same, and after 68 iterations of his script I got this pair of messages, repeating every three seconds or so (no Oops or anything else): ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_lostirq func only: 13 hdc: lost interrupt Looks like a kernel problem or bad hardware?Would you be willing turn on kdb? It only really makes sense if you are able to setup a serial console. There is a debugger command which will walk the complete list ofinodes in the filesystem.The serial console won't happen, but I think it's no longer necessaryeither. This is probably not an XFS bug, right?
cannot do the console - we were talking a lot of output here. I may ask you to run some sanity check code in the sync path - you said your oops was repeatable, correct? Stevep.s. can you send me the script, I could look back in the xfs maillist, but I am feeling lazy, I am currently using something I wrote based on the brief description in this
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Volume 14 - Article 10 | Pages 179-216
Race/Ethnic differences and age-variation in the effects of birth outcomes on infant mortality in the U.S.
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This paper investigates the effects of birth outcomes on infant mortality for non-Hispanic white, black, and Mexican-American females in the U.S. (1995-1998). Proportional hazard models with age-varying effects of continuous birth outcome measures reveal larger birth outcome effects on neonatal mortality, smaller effects on postneonatal mortality, and moderate age-variation within the neonatal period. Unlike static models, age-varying effect models of early and late gestational age and small birth weight statistically adjust for the black neonatal mortality disadvantage relative to whites.
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Daniel A. Powers - University of Texas at Austin, United States of America
W. Parker Frisbie - University of Texas at Austin, United States of America
Robert Hummer - University of Texas at Austin, United States of America
Starling G. Pullum - University of Texas at Austin, United States of America
Patricio Solis - El Colegio de México, Mexico
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by Aaron Levitt | February 18, 2014 9:52 am
When former integrated giant ConocoPhillips (COP[1]) first spun off its refiner arm as Phillips 66 (PSX[2]), the world was a vastly different place. The basic idea was that the slower and erratic profits produced by refining petroleum was hurting overall earnings for COP stock. Conoco was essentially being dragged down by PSX.
Once free of PSX stock and its refining units, COP would be able to trade at a much higher multiple. Meanwhile, Phillips 66 would be a plodding dinosaur churning out dividend income and slow share price growth.
Well, it seems like the joke is on COP stock.
Phillips 66 has turned out to be quite an exciting growth element for its shareholders. Perhaps more importantly, recent moves by the refining firm have only strengthened the appeal of owning PSX stock. For investors, turning their attention towards the transitioning "plodding" refiner could be one of the best long-term bets for their portfolios.
When COP spun-off Phillips 66 back in 2012, no one would have guessed that shares of PSX stock would have returned about 117% since its IPO. That performance managed to beat both the S&P 500 and PSX's former parent in the returns category. But, there could be even more in store for refining stock.
That's because PSX isn't really just a "Plain-Jane" refining company anymore.
The firm has undergone a mass transformation into a more of a complete energy logistics and processing firm rather than being a straight petroleum refiner like rivals Western Refining (WNR[3]) and HollyFrontier (HFC[4]). The key is that more than 40% of PSX stock earnings come from non-standard refining businesses — namely chemicals processing and pipelines/storage.
And recent decisions[5] by PSX will help those businesses grow by leaps and bounds.
Nearly 70% of Phillips 66's recent capex spending budget of $4.6 billion will be plowed back into both its chemicals and logistics segments. This includes a brand new liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) terminal as well as a new fractionator facility. That facility will "crack" natural gas liquids (NGLs) — like ethane — for end use by petrochemical companies.
Those petrochemical firms include PSX's own joint ventured with Chevron (CVX[6]) plants. That means PSX can take advantage of its own cheap ethane production in order to make base chemicals for plastics, paints and other end-users.
And considering that both NGL midstream and these chemical processes already have higher margins than traditional gasoline and diesel refining, PSX is setting itself up for some sweet profits down the line.
Overall, the top brass at PSX stock expects that these non-refining businesses will grow to nearly two-thirds of the firm's value in about four years. The company's chemicals capacity will increase by roughly 33% in that time. Taken as a whole, this will boost profitability at Phillips 66 by around 50%.
And it's still getting sweeter for PSX stock. That's because it's starting to use its new master limited partnership (MLPs) subsidiary — Phillips 66 Partners LP (PSXP[7]) — in an effective manner.
PSX stock has finally begun to "drop down"[8] assets into PSXP and take advantage of the tax savings. PSXP has agreed to purchase a 680-mile refined products pipeline system as well as two refinery-grade propylene storage systems from Phillips 66 for around $700 million.
The deal is expected to instantly accreditive to PSXP's cash flows, which will flow back to PSX stock in the form of tax advantaged distribution payments. Meanwhile, the cash payment will be plowed back into more logistics and chemicals projects that it will drop-down into PSXP.
With Phillips 66 focusing more of its attention towards higher-margined chemicals and midstream assets[9], investors should treat PSX stock like one of those companies. And that means a higher multiple and stock gains ahead.
When looking at PSX versus chemically focused rivals, Phillips 66 is still quite cheap. PSX stock currently trades for a forward P/E of less than 10. Meanwhile, both Dow (DOW[10]) and DuPont (DD[11]) are in the 12 to 13 range. Yet, PSX's chemical earnings and margins are increasing at much faster rate than both DOW and DD.
Based on similar metrics, PSX stock could be worth as much as $90 per share. That's nearly a 20% gain from today's selling price and doesn't including PSX's growing 2.2% dividend.
In the longer term, the situation is still rosy for Phillips 66 shareholders as the firm continues to plow more capex spending into chemicals/NGL processing capacity and drop-down assets in PSXP. These assets will ultimately cushion the volatility in traditional gasoline refining and provide plenty of growth/profits for shares.
While COP's spin-off of PSX was originally done to free its former parent from the plodding refining sector, it looks like Phillips 66 is becoming a true portfolio growth engine. Investors should snag PSX stock now.
As of this writing, Aaron Levitt did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities.
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Congratulation to Etienne Buys who has been promoted to the General Manager and Managing Partner of Vrede en Lust!
Etienne has been a partner in the partnership since 1998 with specific responsibility for all the farming activities including the vineyards and viticulture. He oversaw the construction of the new winery in 2001, the expansion of the winery in 2010 and all of the vineyard development over the past 14 years. Etienne, his wife Tracey and children Monique and Danie live on Vrede en Lust.
Etienne is well versed in all aspects of the Vrede en Lust business and has worked closely with the winemakers as well as the hospitality division over the years. He has attended a few of the international trade shows, especially to China, which is our key investment market at this time.
Etienne takes over the day to day responsibilities from his brother Dana Buys, who will become chairman and remain involved with the strategic decision making and overall review of the business.
Dana feels that the foundation is well in place to achieve the company's growth objectives with a strong team under Etienne. He will focus his time and energy on a new technology company, TallOrder Solutions, that he co-founded in 2010 with long time business partner Ferdi Ladeira.
TallOrder is now at launch stage following 24 months of software development. The TallOrder technology uses the so-called 'Cloud' and mobile devices to bring new levels of service and self-service to the hospitality industry. TallOrder was actually inspired by the frustration of trying to improve service at the restaurant on the farm, using handheld, mobile ordering devices.


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Classroom culture: Democratic classrooms
By Beverly Logas Koopman
The culture of a classroom has a lot of impact on how a classroom operates minute by minute. Entire programs, like Responsive Classroom, have been built around this one reality. For more than a decade, I've been using a democratic approach to my classroom's daily meeting.
Here is how it works:
Student "jobs" are clustered into five committees. Each committee has responsibilities to collaboratively accomplish during the week. Two committees run our daily meeting. The Morning Messengers launch the morning meeting and are responsible for leading it through the component parts. The Administrative Council is the leadership arm.
The Morning Messengers' responsibilities include determining and leading a greeting that launches our circle time and a game that often closes the circle. They also read aloud the daily letter that I write and post, leading any discussion points that I have set up in the letter.
Our Administrative Council is the classroom go-to group. They field minor student complaints. They watch the goings-on of the day and look for ways to make our classroom a more efficient, happier place to learn. Each morning, the Administrative Council has a chance to share with the class during circle time.
First, however, they set the tone by asking students if they have any appreciations to share with the class. Students typically give a brief, "thank you, so-and-so, for doing such-and-such." Occasionally a heartfelt story is recounted about someone who had done something remarkable.
The Administrative Council then moves to the suggestions portion of the meeting. During this phase, the council shares its observations and their suggestions for improvements. This requires background work, so it is only included in one meeting a week. The council's observations and suggestions need to be briefly run past me, since I do have veto power (which I rarely enact). If the suggestion requires a change in routine, the council must write a motion. Once presented, the class has an opportunity to discuss the motion that was drafted. This discussion will often include wordsmithing the proposed motion. Once discussion is complete, the council calls for a voice vote, and the motion is either carried or defeated by a call of "yeas and nays." Yep, eight-year-olds are using Roberts Rules of Order!
Once the business of the meeting is over, I am finally given the floor. During this portion of the meeting, I make announcements and decide whether we need to move into instruction, or have time for a game which the Morning Messengers teach and lead until meeting closing time.
Of all the many attempts I have made to positively affect the culture of my classroom, this one has been truly transformative in the most positive ways. I suspect that it might have a ripple effect outside the classroom, too, since these children are practicing skills that are used by all citizens who are engaged in democratic society. Isn't this one of the end-goals of public education?
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Is there more detailed information on implementing your classroom meeting, it's members, their roles, and more details about how the process works.
Mark, I will pull together an outline and post it in the next week. I'd love for you (and others) to experience this approach to learning. It is beyond cool to get to work in such an environment!
Stay tuned.
Great post Beverly!
Mark,I would recommend starting with The Morning Meeting Book and other resources available at the Responsive Classroom website http://bit.ly/GYyptL
Good suggestion, Richard. These books: "The Morning Meeting Book," "Learning Through Academic Choice," and "Choice Theory in the Classroom," by William Glasser, gave me the tools to build a classroom culture that allows for high levels of independence, interdependence and autonomy coupled with a high degree of responsibility and academic expectation.
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WHEN Trent Robinson arrived at the Roosters to take over from Brian Smith almost everyone outside the club's inner sanctum thought the youngest coach in the NRL was only keeping the seat warm until someone better came along.
Twelve months on Trent Who is today the most talked about coach in the game heading into Thursday night's season opening blockbuster between Robinson's Roosters and the Rabbitohs.
The 36-year-old has transformed a rugby league rabble into the reigning premiers with a subtle mix of cutting-edge sports science and good old fashioned hard work.
So you put the question to Nick Politis: What is the secret to Robinson's instant secret?
"You know the thing I love about him, the secret to his success?" Politis explains.
"He's normal.
"You know what I mean?
"He's just normal."
In his 25 years at the Roosters Politis has seen some of the greatest coaches come and go.
From Jack Gibson to Phil Gould. Ricky Stuart to Brian Smith.
"Normal" is not a word you might use to describe all of the above, like most top football coaches.
But, as Politis continues about Robinson: "There are no mind games.
"He eyeballs a player and they know where they stand and they love it.
"We have got the happiest club I have ever seen in the 25 years I have been involved here.
"That is the guts of it."
A former student at the rugby league nursery of St Gregorys College at Campbelltown, Robinson played a grand total of three first grade games for the Wests Tigers off the bench and one for Parramatta before his playing career overseas when his knees gave way.
So Robinson took to coaching.
Shane Millard, one of Robinson's great mates coming through the grades, takes up the story from there.
"When I was playing in England he was coaching Toulouse and they were playing the Challenge Cup against us at Widnes and they actually beat us," Millard says.
"It would be like Wentworthville beating Parramatta's NRL team.
"And not the Wenty NSW Cup team, the Jim Beam Cup team.
"And they were a part-time team.
"Frank Endacott was coaching us and Robbo had taken over from Justin Morgan and they beat us.
"And he just sort of went from there. He came over after that and did an interview with Brian Smith to go to Newcastle with him as an assistant. He would have only been 25, 26."
And from that moment on his cards were marked.
When he was assistant under Smith at Newcastle Robinson was having a beer with Joey Johns one night when the game's greatest ever player put the young coach on the spot.
Johns asked Robinson what he stood for?
The story goes Robinson bluffed his way through the answer but later admitted the following day he sat down and really analysed the question.
And he told himself that if he was going to be a coach he had to have a clear understanding of how he wanted his football teams to play.
He wanted them tough. He wanted them to defend.
Then you look at the Roosters last year and how they played their way into the rugby league's record books.
How Robinson transformed the NRL's party central into the most committed defensive unit in the competition.
When you are clear in your own identity you always have something to fall back on and the Roosters last year were very clear on what they stood for as a team.
Which goes to the core of this coach.
Politis continues: "When he was with us (as an assistant to Smith in 2010) you could see he had a lot of ability and talent and that he was intelligent.
"Really intelligent.
"You know he went to St Gregorys and he was dux of the school.
"That's what I heard and I think it was pretty right.
"He was no dope."
When Robinson finished his first media conference at the start of last year he stood around with the reporters afterwards wondering aloud how well he had handled his debut performance under the NRL microscope.
He said at the time that was one part of being a head coach he didn't really feel comfortable about.
But 12 months on and there are few coaches who appear as confident.
You ask him a question and almost always it is as though he has already dissected the topic and come up with an intelligent answer.
"He is a good mate of mine and he is a great fella so it's hard because I'm talking about a bloke I have known for a long time," Millard adds.
"But I don't see him any different now to how he has always been.
"He loved to suck people for information and if he doesn't know something he will source out.
"As a player he was a thinker.
"He was a personal trainer and he studied sports science.
"I remember he was working at Kerry Packer's gym in Park St when he was playing.
"And the other thing about him was that nothing ever rattled him.
"Even now, he has a fair Roosters team but putting that all together is probably a bigger job than a lot of people give him credit for.
"Coaching any team is hard work, dealing with the egos, and how he has done it with the squad he has now has been an amazing job.
"To manage so many superstars all at different levels of their footy isn't as easy as it looks.
"You have young stars starting out, superstars that have been there for many years.
"Sonny Bill.
"He's is doing boxing, football, union … mate, Robbo is definitely doing a terrific job."
And while he is still the youngest coach in the NRL you get the feeling he is going to be around for a long time to come.


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The Axis Communications Q1604-E Day/Night Outdoor Network Camera is housed in a casing that is strong enough to withstand up to 20 Joules, which is equivalent to a 5 kg weight being dropped on the camera from a height of 40 cm. Furthermore, the camera's aluminum casing is IP66- and NEMA 4X-rated. This means that camera is well-protected against corrosion, windblown dust and rain, splashing water, hose-directed water, and damage from external ice formation. The Arctic Temperature Control ensures that the camera can function in adverse weather conditions as low as -40°F (-40°C) and also to start up at that temperature following a power failure. Additionally, the Q1604-E camera with an integrated dehumidifying membrane eliminates any humidity caught in the camera casing during installation.
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DC-iris, IR corrected, CS-mount
2.8 - 8 mm varifocal lens at F/1.2; 80 - 34° horizontal angle of view
Support for P-Iris lens
|Automatically removable infrared-cut filter
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Color: 0.4 lux at F/1.2
B&W: 0.06 lux at F/1.2 with dynamic capture
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H.264 baseline and main profile (MPEG-4 Part 10/AVC)
Motion JPEG
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WDR: Up to 120dB (0.4 - 400,000 lux) depending on scene
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AAC LC 8/16 kHz
G.711 PCM 8 kHz
G.726 ADPCM 8 kHz
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Open API for software integration, including the ONVIF
Application Platform from Axis Communication
Support for Axis Video Hosting System (AVHS) with One-Click Camera connection
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Support for Axis Camera Application Platform enabling installation of additional applications
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File upload via FTP, HTTP and email
Notification via email, HTTP and TCP
External output activation
Video and audio recording to local storage
Pre- and post-alarm video buffering
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Terminal block for 1 alarm input and 1 output
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SD/SDHC memory card slot (card not included)
Support for recording to network share (Network Attached Storage or file server)
Edge storage is a technology that allows a network video device to create, control, and manage recordings either locally to an SD/SDHC card, or to network shares such as Network Attached Storage (NAS)
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|6.8 lb (3.1 kg)
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