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May we share together in a word of prayer. Our gracious Father, as we come to a time of communion with You, fellowship with You, as well as with each other, we ask that Your Spirit would cleanse our hearts...that we might partake worthily of this, Thy table. We would pray for any in our midst who do not really know the Lord Jesus Christ...that they might come to true faith in Him...and share this table with us. For those of us who do know the Lord...that we might examine ourselves...and know that all is right between us and Thee. Be with us as we look to the Word. May it speak to our hearts...as the very voice that comes from Thee. For the glory of the Savior, we ask. Amen. One of the very important aspects of coming to the Lord's table, as you well know, is the matter of self-examination. That is an issue for the Apostle Paul in two separate passages of Scripture. The familiar one to us is in 1 Corinthians chapter 11, where he calls upon believers to examine themselves...to be sure that, as they come to the Lord's table to celebrate His death, they do not harbor sin in their life, which is to mock that table. The other passage of Scripture which calls for self-examination is in his second letter to the Corinthians chapter 13 and verse 5. In that, he says, "Examine yourselves whether you be in the faith." So on the one hand, we who are Christians, who know we are in the faith, are to examine ourselves to see that our lives are right before God, that all sin is confessed...And, also, there may be some among us who need, as well, to examine themselves to see, in fact, if they are even in the faith. I want you to open your Bible with me, because I want to call us to that second kind of self-examination in preparation for the Lord's table tonight...by looking at James chapter 2 as just a beginning Scripture reading. James chapter 2 verses 14 through 20. The writer of Scripture under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit says, "What doth...doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he has faith, and has not works? Can faith save him? If a brother or sister be naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto them, 'Depart in peace; be ye warmed and filled,' notwithstanding, you give them not those things which are needful to the body, what doth it profit? Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. Yea, a man may say, 'Thou has faith, and I have works.' Show me thy faith without thy works, and I will show thee my faith by my works. Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well. The demons also believe - and tremble. But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?"
If that passage teaches anything...if it teaches anything at all...it surely teaches that there is such a thing as non-saving faith. Faith that does not save. And I believe that it is not the only passage that points this to us. It is obvious from many portions of Scripture that there is a faith that saves and a faith that does not save. Scripture is filled with that fact. We learn about it in our Lord's parable of the wheat and the tares. That in some cases are so much alike that only God in judgment can distinguish them. One has a faith that saves, and one a faith that does not save. That same dichotomy is indicated by our Lord in the parable of the soils. There are three bad soils, which do not produce fruit. Two of the three look as if they should and will, but do not. And then there are three types of good soil that bring forth fruit thirty-fold, sixty-fold, and one-hundred-fold. There is a faith that has appearance, but does not save. We learn from the disciples who followed Jesus for a little while, who remained with Him for a little while, who listened for a little while, and then defected, leaving Him, that there is a discipleship that is not genuine. We remember the teaching of our Lord in the 15th chapter of John's Gospel about branches that abide and bear fruit, and branches that do not bear fruit, and are cut off and cast into the fire and burned...James talks about the sayers and the doers, those who make claims and those who know reality. In Hebrews chapter 10, two verses come to mind. Verses 38 and 39, "Now the just shall live by faith; but if anyone draw back...that is from true faith...My soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition, but of them that believe to the saving of the soul." There is a believing that draws back and is damned. There is a believing that moves ahead and is saved.
Now this matter of saving and non-saving faith is very aptly illustrated in a very special chapter in the book of Acts, and I'd like you to turn to that, and I'd like our attention to be drawn to that chapter. It is the 8th chapter of Acts. And here I believe we have in bold relief the distinction between non-saving faith and saving faith. We're going to meet in this chapter two people who believed. One named Simon, another who is nameless to us, though he is identified. Each of them, it is said, believe. One of them has a faith that does not save. One of them a faith that does. Now, the main character in the 8th chapter of Acts is really the evangelist by the name of Philip. We first met him in chapter 6 where, because of the godliness of his life, the strength of his character, the integrity of his devotion to God, he was chosen to be a deacon in the church to carry out a very specific task. He has since been given an even wider responsibility than that of distributing food to the widows, which was his portion in Acts 6. He is now called upon to preach the Gospel. And we meet this man in verse 5, and the text says, "Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them. And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spoke, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did." His message was confirmed by miraculous signs and wonders...namely, that, "unclean spirits...verse 7...crying with a loud voice came out of many that were possessed with them; and many taken with palsies and that were lame, were healed. And there was great joy in that city." Samaria had a revival under the evangelism of Philip. The persecuted church we meet in verses 1 to 3 is scattered out of Jerusalem. That's not bad. That's good. It sends them with the Gospel into Samaria, just as the pattern of the book was established in Acts 1:8, Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and then the uttermost part of the earth. And so the persecuted church moves out. Philip is the key in the 8th chapter, as he preaches the Gospel. Now, into the life of Philip, in this adventure of evangelism, come two people. One is a man by the name of Simon. The other is an Ethiopian eunuch who is attached to the court of Candace, who is the queen of the Ethiopians. He is nameless to us, but identified in that way. First, we wanna meet Simon, and then we wanna meet the eunuch, and we wanna see the distinction between saving faith and non-saving faith. Now, let me say at the very outset that, simply stated, up to this point in the Gospel narrative, and even in the flow of the book of Acts. It seems that we could identify three necessary ingredients to saving faith...three necessary ingredients to genuine belief...believing, obeying, and continuing. In John 8, for example, the Lord said, "If you hear My Word, and if you continue in My Word, then are you My true disciple." Believing, obeying, and continuing mark out true faith. We saw that also in the 2nd chapter, where those people who heard, believed, were baptized, and continued in the Apostle's doctrine, prayers, fellowship, and, of course, the ministry of that early church.
So those are the elements. But as we look at Simon, and we look at the eunuch, it seems as though we see those elements, and so we must look even more closely to discern the nature of true saving faith. Now, to begin with, let me say that Simon is an illustration of the faith that does not save...and I'll show you as we look at the text. I wanna give you characteristics of non-saving faith. Let's begin at verse 9. "There was a certain man called Simon, who previously, in the same city...that is in the city of Samaria...used sorcery and bewitched the people of Samaria giving out that himself was some great one, to whom they all gave heed from the least to the greatest saying, 'This man is the great power of God.' And to him they had regard, because that for a long time he had bewitched them with sorceries."
Now, here I find the first ingredient of non-saving faith. The first element, a wrong view of self...a wrong view of self. Simon was very egotistical. There are some people who think they are good, who have a very high opinion of themselves. Simon was such a person. He thought himself to be some great one, it says at the end of verse 9. He was involved, it says, in sorcery. The word is maguown. We get the word magic from it. He was a magician. A magician in the black sense, not somebody who goes down to the local trick store and comes off with a few slight of hand tricks. This man was a man who was neck deep in the occult, involved in things like astrology and soothsaying and sorcery, who dealt with incantations and charms, who dealt with divinations, astrologies, horoscopes...who plied his trade with demon beings, mediums, and spirits from the supernatural world of Satan. He was a demonic sorcerer, attached to the kingdom of darkness. And the kingdom of darkness is, after all, a supernatural kingdom, and, therefore, there were some rather astounding sorceries that he was able to perpetrate to the degree that the people were bewitched. If you want another word for that, they were duped. They were deceived. And he announced himself to be a great miracle worker from God. He was an egotist. The very opposite of the right heart preparation for true reception of the Gospel. And he made his point very well. People all believed him. He had, it tells us, power. In fact, in verse 10, "This man is the great power of God." Now what did they mean by that word, the great power? It's very likely that what they had in mind, if we'd set a cultural context for that word was that he is some kind of an aon, some kind of an angelic creature. Some kind of an emanation descending from God. He is a sort of deity...and his basic personality trait was that of pride.
Someone once said pride is a weed that grows in every man's garden, but in the garden of Simon, it was a tree. He was a man who was devoted to his own aggrandizement. And we are reminded, aren't we, of James 4:6, which says, "God resists the proud and gives His Grace to...what?...to the humble." He is very unlike the publican of Luke 18, who beats upon his breast and cries out, "God, be merciful to me, a sinner who will not so much as lift his eyes toward Heaven," because he is so filled with shame over his sin. And I think it's fair to say that the man who comes to true faith in the Lord Jesus Christ has a prepared heart, which is the heart that sees itself as sinful...and worthy only of judgment. Again, I'm reminded of James 4:10, "Humble yourselves in the sight of God, and He will lift you up." And I'm reminded of the Lord's Words in John 5:44, "How can you believe who receive honor, one from another, and seek not the honor that comes from God alone? How can you believe when you live for the honor that you can receive?" So the first thing that marks this man as one whose faith is not legitimate is he had a wrong view of self. Secondly, he had a wrong view of supernatural power. He had a wrong view of supernatural power. Verse 12, "And to him they had regard, because that for a long time he has bewitched them with sorceries. He was convincing to the people. But when they believed Philip, preaching the things concerning the Kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women." Now, Simon just lost all his converts. Everybody had fallen in to the message of Philip, and God had moved with great power, and the people believed and were baptized when they heard the full word of the Kingdom.
By the way, it tells us in verse 12, "He preached the things concerning the Kingdom of God, that is all the truths related to salvation and entrance into that Kingdom. He preached the central message of the name of Jesus Christ." And back in Acts 4:12, we were reminded that there is no other name given among men under Heaven whereby we must be saved but the name of Jesus Christ. So he preached entrance into the Kingdom through the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. And when they heard the full word of the Kingdom and how to come in, and they understood fully the work of Jesus Christ, they believed, were baptized, both men and women. They were delivered from the bondage of Satan and also delivered from the bondage of Simon. Now, when Simon saw this, I suppose his attitude was, "If you can't lick 'em, join 'em." He was impressed by Philip's preaching, and he wanted that power so that he could hold the people. If Philip had a power that surpassed his, he wanted that power. And so we see he had a wrong view of supernatural power. He saw supernatural power as a way to fulfill his own ambition, rather than as a way to transform his sinful life. And he sought Christ for his own gain and his own good and his own purposes. So many like that. So many want Jesus for what He can do for them. Wrong motive. A wrong motive. But it looked awfully good, though, at verse 13. Simon himself believed. There it is. It says he believed. Now what kind of faith is this? He believed, and "When he was baptized, he believed to the point of obedience."
So we said three things. Believe, obey, and continue. He believed. He was obediently baptized, and he continued with Philip. Boy, looks good. It's like all the parts are there, and he was amazed, "beholding the miracles and signs which were done." But the problem was he wanted miracle power. He wanted all the goodies that could possibly be gained to him personally. There was no sense of self-sacrifice, no sense of giving up his sin. There was no legitimate perception of spiritual power, supernatural power. True salvation does not come to those who grab at the things that God offers, who grab at the power of God with a self-indulgent sentiment, with the goal of self-fulfillment. The third thing is, he not only had a wrong view of self and a wrong view of supernatural power, but he had a wrong view of the Spirit. Notice this...he thought he could buy the Holy Spirit, verse 14. "Now when the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the Word of God, they sent to them Peter and John, who, when they were come down, prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit." The giving of the Holy Spirit throughout the book of Acts was done, first of all to the Jews, then the Samaritans, and then the Gentiles. And, in each case, when the Spirit of God came, apostles were present so that everyone would know that the Gentiles and the half-breed Samaritans had received the same Spirit and the same power as the Jews had on the day of Pentecost. And so it was for the apostles to be present. Thus, when this faith came to the Samaritans, Peter and John came in order to be there for the receiving of the Spirit. "For, as yet, He was fallen on none of them, only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus." They had to wait for the Spirit in that early time in order that it might be confirmed to them and to the whole world through the apostles that they had received the same thing that the Jews had received, so there would be no dichotomy in the church. "They laid their hands on them. They received the Holy Spirit." Now, there must have been some attendant miracles. We don't know what they were. Perhaps there was even a display as the cloven tongues of fire that appeared in Acts 2. perhaps there was the speaking in...languages unknown to them. The display was obvious enough, it says in verse 18 that Simon saw it. When he saw that through laying on of the apostle's hands, the Holy Spirit was given, he offered them money. Now, he must have seen some supernatural display. And he said, "That's what I want. How much is it? How much do I pay for that?" "Saying, 'Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Spirit. I want that magic. I want that ability." He just flipped out when he saw the power that was demonstrated through Peter and John. And Simon wanted that miracle power, and so he treats Peter like he's some kind of a...of a snake oil salesman, dispensing supernatural goodies, and he wanted to know what the price was. He didn't want the sanctifying grace of the Spirit. He only wanted the power of the Spirit. And he thought he could buy it.
I'll never forget a man that I met who was very wealthy, and I was talking to him, I think it was in about October or November of the year, and he told me that he was convinced Jesus was coming on December 31st at midnight. And that was the Rapture of the church, and he was dead serious. He was a realtor in the south Orange County area, and he said, "In order for me to be ready to meet God and be sure I'm going in the Rapture, between now and then, I'm going to liquidate all of my assets." Which came to a little over $500,000. And so, literally, within the next six weeks, this man liquidated half a million dollars. He bought Bibles and shipped them...the...the Vietnam War was going on...he shipped them over to Vietnam. I think something like 20 or 40,000 Bibles. He bought thousands upon thousands of praying hands, plastic praying hands that glow in the dark, and sent boxes of 'em to churches all over the country and all around the world. He bought plaques. He had holy hardware. He bought everything in sight and shipped it all over everywhere and got himself ready for the Rapture, feeling he could buy his way in by doing these kind of good deeds. He wanted to be sure he paid the price. To buy into grace in time for the Rapture. That man had to be disappointed a lot of ways. One, the Rapture didn't happen. Two, in his heart, he knew he didn't purchase salvation. Three, he didn't have any more assets...
Well, Simon had such a skewed view of grace, and thought he could buy into the power of the Holy Spirit. And Peter exposed him. Peter said to him, "Thy money perish with thee, because thou has thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money!" Holy indignation. "Thy money perish with thee. Thou has neither part nor lot in this matter, for thy heart is not right in the sight of God. Whatever kind of faith you have that led you to baptism, whatever kind of faith you had that led you from baptism to continuing following Philip is not saving faith. You will perish." He speaks of destruction and eternal hell. He's no Christian. God saw his defiled heart and Peter could see it, too. His faith could not save. He had a wrong view of self. He had a wrong view of salvation. He had a wrong view of the Spirit. And then, fourthly, he had a wrong view of sin. He had a wrong view of sin. Watch his response. Peter says, "Repent therefore of this thy wickedness." It is so wicked to think that any work can earn salvation. So wicked to think of God only as the dispenser of supernatural goodies. "Repent of it, and pray God if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee." Now, Peter had a right view of sin. He said, "Repent of this wickedness, and pray that God might forgive." You know, it's an interesting little perspective here, but men are not to repent just to get forgiveness. "Boy, I want forgiveness. I better...I better repent." No, men are...are to repent, not to get forgiveness as if it's mechanical. But men are to repent...mark this...because their heart is so burdened with their sin and so overwrought with their wickedness and evil, that they cry out to be delivered whether God forgives them or not. See the difference. That's the penitent heart. It's not mechanical. "Oh, if I wanna get conversion, I better...I better repent." It's the crying out of repentance and pleading for God to please forgive and, bless His name, He will forgive. But Peter puts true repentance in perspective here in the way that he phrases his statement. In verse 23, he says, "I perceive that you are in the bile...the word is bile here...you are in the bile of bitterness, and you are in the chains of iniquity." This is no Christian. Now what's gonna be his view of sin? Notice verse 24. "Then answered Simon and said, 'Pray to the Lord for me that none of these things which you have spoken come upon me.'" What was his response? He was scared. He was fearful. He was afraid. He was terror-stricken. Some Western texts even say he was sobbing. He shook. He trembled. But he did not, what? Repent. No confession, no repentance, no self-condemnation, no acknowledgement of sin, no seeking forgiveness. Only fear of the consequence of his evil. He was scared, but never saved. Scared but never saved. Because he never faced the reality of his own sin. Wrong view of self. Wrong view of supernatural power. Wrong view of the work of the Spirit. Wrong view of sin. He had a faith that doesn't save.
And I would ask you tonight to examine your heart...to see if you have that kind of faith. That kind of shallow faith that seeks the goodies...and the signs and the wonders and the miracles and the power, and seeks to be preserved from judgment, but there's no repentance, and there's no confession, and there's no crying out acknowledging sin, and no seeking forgiveness...
Now let's turn the table, and let's meet a second man. An Ethiopian eunuch who is a marvelous illustration of the faith that does save. And if I may, I'd like to point to the characteristics of saving faith, elements that accompany true faith. First of all, notice verse 26. Verse 25 just tells about the fact that they went on preaching the Word and returned to Jerusalem, preached the Gospel in many villages of the Samaritans. "And an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying...the Lord sent him a divine messenger...'Arise, Philip, and go to the south to the way that goes down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert.'" Now, an angelic minister comes along, finds Philip, and, believe me, Philip knows something important is up. He hasn't had an angelic messenger to this point that we know of. And he is sent to Gaza. Gaza was one of the ancient cities of the Philistines. It is on the road from Jerusalem to Egypt, if you go to Egypt via Bethlehem and Hebron, you would go through Gaza. We know it today as the Gaza Strip, that same region. Now it is God, through an angel, who commands him to go. Verse 29, "Then the Spirit said to Philip, 'Go near, join thyself to this chariot.'" Now lemme give you the first characteristic of genuine saving faith. One, it is the sovereign work of the Spirit. The preparation is so different...so different. The work of the Spirit begins in the heart and begins, not only in the one who is to receive the message, but the one who is to give it, as well. The faith that saves begins with a divine preparation. It begins with a divine preparation. The sovereign work of the Spirit. Secondly, it involves the submissive will of the servant. Verse 27, after the angel gave him the message, look at verse 27. it says, "And he arose and went." No wasted time. He knew he was on a divine mission. "And behold, a man of Ethiopia," and, by the way, the Ethiopia of that day was a much larger territory than we know Ethiopia to be in this time, covering a great expanse of the northern part of Africa. And so here was this "man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure." He was the chamberlain or the treasurer of the queen. "And had come to Jerusalem to worship."
The point I want you to note is that Philip arose and went. He went. It seemed illogical. He was having great, great results where he was. He was preaching and people were listening and believing, being baptized. Why should he pack all this aside and take off to Gaza to talk to one person? He didn't even know what was going to happen when he was there. But the Lord had prepared everything. I love the fact that in verse 30, it says that when the Spirit said go to the guy in the chariot, verse 30 says, "And Philip"...did what? Moseyed over? What did he do? He ran. He knew he was on a divine mission.
So we see then that where there is saving faith, it begins with the sovereign work of the Spirit and then the submissive will of the servant. The third thing I noted in this is the searching heart of the sinner...the searching heart of the sinner. Look at verse 27. This man of Ethiopia...Ethiopia, as I said, covered all the way from the Red Sea clear across to the deserts of Libya in the west. This man was attached to the king of Ethiopia. You might be interested to know that the king of Ethiopia was worshipped. In fact, they believed that the king was so sacred that he couldn't do any normal duties. In other words, he just sat. And so the queen mother came alongside the king, and she had to do all the royal duties. So Candace, which, by the way, is not a proper name, but a title like pharaoh, or like Caesar, or like czar, or something like that, an emperor, king. Was the queen mother who cared for all of the issues related to the royalty of Ethiopia. This eunuch...a eunuch because, traditionally, they were castrated in order to serve in the palace and in the harem, was her trusted, honored treasurer. Now, it says that he had been to Jerusalem. He had come to Jerusalem. You know, we've got to estimate that that's probably somewhere between a thousand and 1300 mile walk. That is a long trip. This is a searching sinner, friends. He's weary of the gods of his own culture. He has come to seek out the true God. And when he went to Jerusalem to seek the true God, there's little doubt in my mind that he found only ceremony, ritual, cold formality, and nothing for his heart. He hungered for...for salvation, if we can put it in those terms. He hungered for God, and he was returning and sitting in his chariot reading the Isaiah, the prophet. Still hungry. Still trying to figure it out. But here you have the searching sinner, and saving faith comes to the searching sinner. The fourth thing that I would point out where you have genuine saving faith is the Scriptural Word. The Scriptural Word comes by revelation. He's reading Isaiah. The Spirit says, "Philip, go and get into the chariot." Philip ran, verse 30, heard him read the Prophet Isaiah and said, "Do you understand what you're reading?" He was reading the right book, wasn't he? He was reading Isaiah, and he was even reading Isaiah 53. Now do you know the Holy Spirit's prepared everything? Here is a guy in the desert leaving Jerusalem, dissatisfied, hasn't found the God he sought. He's got the Old Testament in his hand, in some scroll form, and he's reading the 53rd chapter of Isaiah, and all of a sudden, an angel drops the evangelist Philip alongside the chariot. He runs over. Everything is prepared. Look at his response. "Do you understand what you read?" Verse 31, he said, "How can I except some man should guide me?" Don't you love that? "I need some help." Here is a meek, teachable, humble spirit open to the truth. And I remember Psalm 25, I think it's verse 9, "The meek shall He teach His way." The place in the Scripture which he read was this. "He was led as a sheep to the slaughter, and like a lamb, dumb before his shearer, so opening not His mouth in His humiliation, His judgment was taken away. And who shall declare His generation, for his life is taken from the earth." In other words, he was reading Isaiah 53 verses 7 and 8. Wow, what ready heart. But he didn't have the way to unlock it. He...he didn't understand of whom the prophet spoke. So in verse 34, the eunuch answered Philip and said, "I pray you, of whom speaks the prophet this? Of himself, or of some other man? Who is this person? Who is this person who is the Savior? Who is this who will bear sin. Who will die? All our iniquities are laid on Him." He read all of that. Who is this who will take away our sin? Here is truly a seeking sinner who wants a deliverer, and the issue with him is not where do I get spiritual power. The issue with him is where do I get salvation? And the faith that saves, fifthly, also involves a presentation of Jesus, verse 35, "And Philip opened his mouth and began at the same Scripture, and preached unto him...what?...Jesus." Jesus. And anyone who comes to true saving faith must hear the message of Jesus Christ. That's why Trumbull, who used to write books...I love the things that he wrote...used to write books on evangelism, said that he made a vow one time. I've shared it with you past years. He said this. "Every time I have the opportunity to introduce the topic of conversation, it will always be of Jesus." Well, Philip spoke of Jesus. All that encompasses the doctrine of salvation is bound up in Jesus. Philip gave it all to him, including teaching him about baptism. His response was the right response. And as they went on their way, he was just so thrilled and so excited. All that he had sought had come to pass. "And as they're going along, they came to a certain water. And the eunuch said, 'See, here's water! What hinders me to be baptized?'" I mean, he believed, and he knew no reason not to be baptized.
Verse 37 probably was added by a scribe, and so we would go to verse 38 in the original text. "And Philip commanded the chariot to stand still, and they both went down into the water, Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him." I love that. "Look, water," he says, "why can't I be baptized right now?" You know he's already put his faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Philip takes him down into the water, immerses him in the water. Verse 39 says, "And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip." He was gone as fast as he had arrived. "And the eunuch saw him no more, and he went on his way confused...is that what it says?...no...he went on his way....what?...rejoicing." The ordeal of Simon ended with fear. The wonderful story of the Ethiopian ended with joy. Simon had a faith that wanted to take from God. The eunuch had a faith that wanted forgiveness of sins. What kind of faith do you have? What kind of faith is your faith as you come to the Lord's table?
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A highly touted computer system designed by the Los Angeles Police Department to identify inappropriate behavior routinely flags officers who appear to pose no problem while failing to catch many of those who do, a new report has found.
The report by the Police Commission's inspector general, Alex Bustamante, scrutinized an early warning computer program that the LAPD has used since 2007 to track patterns of excessive force and other misconduct by its roughly 10,000 officers. The analysis casts doubt on the usefulness of the computer system, which federal officials forced the LAPD to build after years of corruption and abuse.
In light of similar concerns raised internally, department officials have asked an outside research group to conduct a comprehensive review of an entire network of databases that contain information on officers' performance and are used to trigger the early warnings. That review, officials said, began last month and will determine what changes, if any, should be made to more effectively focus on potentially trouble-prone officers. It will also examine whether the system has had any effect on improving officers' conduct.
The Police Commission, which oversees the LAPD, will discuss the inspector general's report at a meeting Tuesday. Commissioner Robert Saltzman said the department's current tracking system appears to be "providing limited predictive capabilities," adding that Bustamante's report raises "significant questions."
"I look forward to understanding how the department is responding to correct the issues," he said.
In his report, Bustamante examined nearly 750 warnings about officers generated over a recent four-month period. In 70% of the cases, supervisors took no action after determining that the conduct flagged by the computer system did not point to any problems, the report found.
The lack of action after so many red flag notifications raises questions about the criteria being used to trigger warnings — called "action items" in LAPD jargon. Currently, the system attempts to compare several aspects of an officer's conduct to that of other officers in similar assignments. A warning is triggered when an officer exceeds acceptable limits for each benchmark. The various benchmarks include the number of times an officer uses force on a suspect, as well as complaints and lawsuits filed against the officer.
Maggie Goodrich, the LAPD's chief information officer, said it could be that the system currently is too quick to issue a warning. The risk, she said, is that the department might narrow its assessment of officers too much and, in doing so, miss some misconduct.
"The challenge is finding a balance," she said.
However, the inspector general's report also found that the early warning system has been relatively useless in making early identifications of officers who went on to commit serious misconduct.
Of 40 officers who were fired from the department over a recent two-year period, 30 of them had never been flagged by the computer system or had only one warning over the five years the system had been in place, Bustamante found.
In general, he concluded, the warning system flagged behavior that was unrelated to conduct that resulted in the officer being fired.
The findings call into question what was a cornerstone of the department's effort to reform itself in the wake of the Rampart scandal and other episodes that pointed to widespread abuses. As part of a federal monitoring program, the department began in the early 2000s to implement a sweeping set of safeguards, including the computer monitoring system.
Major technological problems delayed the completion of the so-called TEAMS II — Training, Evaluation and Management System. For years, city officials were critical of the department's slow pace, as well as the many millions of dollars that contractors were charging to build the computer system, which went online in 2007. At one hearing, a high-ranking LAPD official rebuffed criticisms from City Council members, telling them that something so important could not be rushed.
"The key for us is it needs to be accurate and done right," he said.
The eventual completion of TEAMS II was a major factor in the decision by a judge to free the LAPD from the federal monitoring.
Since the program was implemented, the department has not conducted any meaningful evaluation of the warning system's effectiveness.
Under the current system, supervisors are notified whenever a warning is issued about an officer under their command. After reviewing the issue, a supervisor can choose from a range of options, including dismissing the warning as unfounded, ordering retraining or restricting the officer's work duties. The supervisor's decision must then be reviewed and approved by several higher-ranking officials.
Along with the cases the supervisors dismissed, Bustamante found that about a quarter of the warnings were resolved with an "informal meeting" between the officer and supervisor. Such meetings are typically called when something inappropriate about the officer's behavior is identified, but the supervisor decides it is not serious enough to warrant a more formal response, Goodrich said.
In only about 25 of the nearly 750 cases, officers were ordered to undergo retraining, were reprimanded or had some other action as a result of the warning system.
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Gabrielle Giffords spoke for just over a minute at Wednesday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing with a plea for Congress to get its act together on gun violence.
With her focused delivery and simple message, she set the tone for what came next: a four-hour hearing marked by a distinct lack of drama, fighting or a conclusion.
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Neither side seemed like it was playing to win. For Republicans, especially, this was a hearing to survive. No YouTube moments or arguments with Mark Kelly, Giffords's husband. For Democrats, this was about avoiding unforced errors and not doing anything that would stall whatever momentum there is for action on gun control.
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Senators on both sides were very careful to avoid saying anything that could be seen as personally insulting the victims of gun violence — some of whom were in the room. And there were fewer of the long-winded speeches like those at last week's hearings with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Benghazi.
Time after time, the senators and witnesses seemed to back down from confrontation.
Every head in the packed hearing room — the one used for Supreme Court nominations — perked up when it came time for Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) to question the witnesses, anticipating a clash with the National Rifle Association's Wayne LaPierre.
A staunch advocate of gun control who has authored a renewal of the assault weapons ban, Feinstein greeted all of the panelists.
"Even you Mr. LaPierre," Feinstein joked. "We tangled, what was it? Eighteen years ago. You look pretty good, actually."
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The line drew laughter from the audience, but that was the last time Feinstein would engage with LaPierre. The clash most were expecting between the two never materialized.
Instead, she focused her questions on Baltimore County Police Chief James Johnson, who was speaking in his capacity as chairman of the National Law Enforcement Partnership to Prevent Gun Violence. Feinstein bore down on the various issues, mental health, background checks and finally the assault weapons ban, concluding by asking the police chief why he endorsed her proposal to ban those firearms.
Wednesday morning, the hearing was the hottest ticket in town; hundreds of people waited outside in a line that snaked down the stairs and onto another floor. Dozens of members of the news media occupied rows of folding tables set up in the middle of the room. Cameras crammed the balconies. The NRA posted regular updates on Twitter about what LaPierre said.
Most of the earliest arrivals were members of the One Million Moms for Gun Control advocacy group, who wore bright yellow stickers advocating for action "now." And many of those waiting in line before the hearing began were directed to an overflow room where the hearing was being broadcast. But after more than three hours of testimony, the room was only half full.
Several members on the panel noted the presence of families of victims of various shootings, including Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), who drew attention to the family of a Newtown victim.
Giffords's appearance at the start of the hearing caused a hush to fall across the room as she had a bipartisan escort to her seat from Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy of Vermont and ranking member Chuck Grassley of Iowa. During their remarks, each member made note of her. She left after speaking and spent the rest of the hearing watching on TV, said Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), formerly a member of the Arizona House delegation with Giffords.


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Based on the lesson plans and handouts for Program 4, think about how you might adapt these lessons in your own teaching and write some notes in your journal. If possible, introduce the concept of the classic journey to your students and use it as a tool for analyzing the structure of a piece of literature you currently are studying.
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The Cathay Dragon Aviation Certificate Programme (CDACP), the newly renamed flagship initiative under the Cathay Dragon Youth Aviation Academy, is stepping into its 12th year, with an inaugural ceremony held on Friday to launch the 2017 programme. A total of 30 young people, shortlisted from nearly 600 applicants – a record-breaking number – are now ready to embark on an inspiring aviation journey.
Established in 2005, the CDACP offers young people a comprehensive nine-month aviation programme that aims to deepen their knowledge of aviation and boost their interest in developing an aviation career. Close to 40 per cent of the programme's 200-plus alumni have already joined the aviation family, in jobs ranging from pilots and air traffic controllers to load controllers.
Speaking at the inaugural ceremony, Cathay Dragon's Director Flight Operations, Captain Peter Sanderson, said: "CDACP aims to nurture the next generation of aviation talent by offering exciting insights into our world. What makes the programme so special is that each participant will be guided by a Cathay Dragon pilot mentor, who will offer personal guidance and inspiration throughout to help their professional and personal development."
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Hockey: U.S. plays Canada for gold
The on-ice rivalry between the United States and Canada has crossed gender lines and is one of the most highly anticipated storylines of the Winter Olympics.
The men's gold medal game at the 2010 Games in Vancouver was one of the greatest games ever played (dare we say better than the "Miracle on Ice" performance of 1980?). Sydney Crosby's overtime goal gave Canada a thrilling victory in front of his home fans — will the Americans get revenge in Sochi?
Women's hockey has become another must-see event, with the Americans and Canadians getting into all-out brawls in recent memory. The intensity level will be through the roof in Sochi.
Figure skating: Evan Lysacek, Yevgeny Plushenko renew rivalry
These two men bring the term Cold War to another level. Lysacek, of Los Angeles, beat the Russian for gold in Vancouver by a little more than a point. Thing is, Plushenko skated a more difficult program because it included two quad jumps. Lysacek did not attempt a quad and was ruled to have skated better, despite the lower difficulty of his performance. A controversy ensued and Plushenko was incensed. Plushenko, who won silver in 2002 and gold in 2006, is trying to qualify for Sochi after undergoing back surgery in January. Lysacek is also fighting for a spot in the Olympics. Neither would likely be considered a gold-medal favorite, but their rivalry is the best in the sport.
Speed skating: Sven Kramer, coach make up for Vancouver blunder
It was one of the most heartbreaking moments of Vancouver: watching Gerard Kemkers during Kramer's 10,000m race. The coach mistakenly waved his charge to the inside lane midway through the race, which had a disastrous result. Kramer kept skating, and a fixed camera on Kemkers showed the moment he realized what he had done. The Dutchman would have won the gold medal but instead was disqualified. He's been the world's best distance skater for years and will be favored to win gold in Sochi. Here's hoping for no lane-changing gaffes.
Bobsled: Lolo Jones finally gets her medal
Jones has a tumultuous relationship with the Olympics. In 2008, she was seconds away from winning the 100m hurdles before clipping a hurdle and finishing seventh. A year later, she fell during the U.S. Championships and did not qualify for the World Championships.
At the London Games, Jones performed well but ultimately took fourth. There was plenty of attention off the track, too, as she gave a tearful interview where she discussed criticism she faced. Jones made the switch to bobsled later in 2012 and found immediate success — she finished second, along with driver Jazmine Fenlator, in her first World Cup race. She capped her season by winning a gold medal at the world championships in the mixed team event.
If Jones makes the Sochi squad and earns a spot on the podium, it will be one of the more memorable moments of the 2014 Games.
Figure skating: Gracie Gold makes good on her name
This U.S. figure skater, who calls Chicago home, is a headline writer's dream. And if she wins the ladies title in Sochi, admittedly a long shot, editors across the world will have a field day with her name.
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In the centenary year of Stravinsky's 'The Rite of Spring', London is witnessing revivals of several works that caused riots. Now, as part of its excellent Dancing around Duchamp season, the Barbican presents Cheek By Jowl's French language version of 'Ubu Roi', the 1893 play by Alfred Jarry that caused a ruckus on its debut.
The scatological and the avant-garde have always had a close connection – two and a half decades later Duchamp would celebrate this with his infamous 'Fountain'. But in 'Ubu Roi' it is marked simply by the opening word, 'Merdre'.
At first there's no suggestion of 'shit' in the obscenely tasteful symphony of beige that greets us in Nick Ormerod's design of a simultaneously minimalist yet opulent petit bourgeois drawing room.
Christophe Grégoire's Père Ubu is the sophisticated gent, awaiting the arrival of his guests for the dinner-party he is hosting with Camille Cayol's flirtatiously elegant Mère Ubu. Yet hunched on the sofa, like some Oedipal parasite, is their teenage son. He has opened the action by taking us on a video tour of the home, entertaining us with close-ups of the household's hidden dirty secrets (the stain on the bedsheet, the speck of shit on the loo seat).
With a shift of light, we see the household through his eyes: suddenly the sophisticated dinner party hosts metamorphose into the grotesque power-grabbing Père et Mère Ubu, nineteenth-century heirs to Shakespeare's tyrants.
From Seneca's 'Thyestes' to Luis Buñuel's 'The Exterminating Angel', the dinner party has always been a rich context in which to examine civilisation's underlying savagery. The brilliance of Declan Donnellan's production is to use it to remind us of the bourgeois complacence against which Jarry (himself a teenager when he first developed the idea) was rebelling.
The ensuing use of kitchen and other household implements to act out the executions and massacres that Ubu instigates is nothing short of ingenious. And a warning – if you like ice-cream boules, after the eye-gouging scene, it might be a while till you can eat them again. Rachel Halliburton
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The Supreme Court's ruling on the Defense of Marriage Act expanded the retirement benefits available to many gay and lesbian couples, striking down rules that prohibited same-sex couples in legally recognized marriages from receiving federal spousal benefits under Social Security and Medicare. But as commentators are noting this week, there's still a great deal of uncertainty surrounding what happens to those couples if they move to a state that doesn't honor their marriages. And that's an issue of particular interest to retirement-age couples, since some of the most popular states among relocating retirees – including Arizona, New Mexico, Florida and the Carolinas – don't recognize same-sex marriages.
As Sheryl Gay Stolberg reports in the New York Times, federal law bases Social Security spousal payments on a married couple's "state of domicile," not the "state of celebration." President Obama said after the ruling that he believed rights to federal benefits should be transportable from state to state, but added that he was speaking "as a president, not a lawyer." Many legal experts say that the "state of domicile" rule can't be changed without an act of Congress – a difficult hurdle to clear, given the strength of social conservatives in the House of Representatives in particular.
Some other experts cited by Stolberg say they believe that states that already allow same-sex civil unions and domestic partnerships, but not marriage, are likely to allow same-sex spousal benefits. On federal estate taxes, the heart of the DOMA case, it looks as though same-sex couples will be entitled to spousal exemptions regardless of where they live; the outlook is murkier on the broader issue of filing joint married tax returns. Needless to say, it's an issue that bears watching; see our recent piece, "Same sex couples: Celebrate, then call a CPA."
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Vegas wasn't the only thing going on lately. During the past few weeks several other Rogue Valley Runners took it upon themselves to travel to races far from home.
John Leuthold
John Leuthold made the trip to Eugene to battle it out in a large masters' field at the Pre's Trail Cross-Country Challenge. John took the lead early in the Five Kilometer Masters/Seniors Race and won in a commanding 17:02; 22 seconds ahead of his closet rival.
Joe Griffin
Joe Griffin made his way a little further north to Corvallis and the Peavy Arboretum for the MacDonald Forest 15 Kilometer Trail Run. Joe placed 17th out of 275 runners in 1:06:05. That time placed Joe third in the masters division.
New Rogue Valley Runner store employee, Kyle Skaggs, travelled further than anyone else this past weekend. Kyle jumped a plane to Springfield, MO for the Dogwood Canyon 50 Kilometer Trail Race. Kyle tied for first with his good friend Tony Krupicka in 3:48:58. They happily split the $1000 in prize money.
Here a photo of Kyle (wearing green and looking down) and Tony (wearing black) from Travis Liles Blog report of the race.
And though it wasn't a race Jenn Shelton, after her win at the World of Hurt 50 Kilometer Trail Race, celebrated at the equinoctial epicenter of geology; The Grand Canyon. Here's a good picture of her performing the infamous Grand Canyon Leap as she traveled from the Colorado River and back.
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- Neil said...
Jen's a little more dynamic in front of the camera than Kyle.
Nice job everyone!
- Thursday, October 30, 2008 9:30:00 PM
- trail.nerd said...
It was great to see Kyle and Tony at the race, and entertaining to watch them sign autographs, but you should check your sources before posting results. There was a three-way tie for 1st in the 50K - Kyle, Tony and Matt Laye all crossed the finish at the same time and they split the prize money three ways.
- Friday, October 31, 2008 8:54:00 AM
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I am pleased to be here today to discuss the Social Security Administration's (SSA's) experience with electronic funds transfer (EFT), and our efforts to implement the mandatory electronic funds transfer provi sions of P.L. 104-134, the Omnibus Consolidated Rescissions and Appropriations Act of 1996 which was passed by the Congress and signed by the President last year.
SSA has offered the safety, convenience and reliability of EFT, also known as direct deposit, to those receiving Social Security and Supplemental Security Income benefits for more than 20 years. Today, more than 30 million of the 50 million beneficiaries receiving Social Security and S5I use this method of payment. Our beneficiaries who use direct deposit have an overwhelmingly positive view of the service.
All Social Security and SSI benefits are issueed by the Department of the Treasury, which is our disbursing agent. From the inception of the Social Security program through the mid-1970s, all benefits were issued by check. By the early 1970s, the volume of paper checks, coupled with related nonreceipt complaints and forgery workloads, threatened the Department of the Treasury's ability to adequately provide check disbursement services to program agencies like SSA and, more important, to the public. To meet this challenge, Treasury developed an electronic payment alternative which it called the direct deposit program. Because Social Security payments are Treasury's largest workload, SSA supported the development of this new electronic service. Social Security and SSI beneficiaries were the first to be offered direct deposit in 1976.
In the late 1980's, SSA began to focus on the distinct service delivery advantages of direct deposit and looked for ways to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of this program. Our Agency took a more proactive position in encouraging beneficiaries to use EFT. Steps were taken to better inform the public about the distinct advantages associated with direct deposit and to simplify the sign up process for those who wanted to begin using use this service. As a result of SSA's efforts, more than 61 percent of all monthly benefits generated by SSA today (i.e., 30 million out of 50 million payments) are delivered by means of direct deposit.
Advantages of EFT
Direct deposit significantly improves payment delivery services. It is a safer, more reliable method of payment. This is particularly important since the incidence of check thefts have doubled over the past 10 years. In contrast, in the 21 years it has been available to Social Security beneficiaries, nor one direct payment has ever been lost. With direct deposit, there is an electronic audit trail to ensure that the payment can always be located. Payments can be traced through the banking system, and beneficiaries have a permanent record of their payments through their bank records.
There are economic advantages of EFT for beneficiaries as well. Benefits are credited to accounts at opening of business on the scheduled payment date. Beneficiaries can write checks to pay bills or use automated teller machine cards to obtain money immediately without the inconvenience of first having to cash a check. Direct deposit to interest bearing accounts earns the most interest on beneficiaries' and recipients' money because their payments will be in the accounts at the earliest possible moment. Direct deposit avoids check cashing fees. If direct deposit to a checking account is used, fees for money orders and similar charges are avoided. Many financial institutions offer free services for customers who use direct deposit.
Direct deposit is also more convenient. With direct deposit, beneficiaries are not required to be home to receive their payment. They do not have to arrange vacation schedules around check delivery dates, nor do they have to be concerned about their check during an unexpected absence from home, such as a medical emergency. Beneficiaries can write checks payable to themselves to obtain cash immediately and thus are in no different a position than if they are paid by check.
Equally important is the fact that direct deposit saves taxpayers a substantial amount of money. It costs approximately $0.42 per item to issue Federal payments by check versus only $0.02 when the payment is directly deposited into a beneficiary's account. If all remaining check receivers would convert to direct deposit immediately, it would save the Social Security trust funds approximately $500 million in the first five years.
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Public Law 104-134, the Omnibus Consolidated Rescissions and Appropriations Act of 1996, enacted on April 26, 1996, included a provision that expanded the use of direct deposit for those receiving Federal payments. SSA implemented the initial phase of the new requirement effective August 1, 1996. Anyone applying for benefits as of this date must receive them by direct deposit if they indicate at the time of the application that they have a relationship with a financial institution. This requirement is waived if the individual certifies in writing that he or she does not have an account with a financial institution.
Anyone who had established entitlement to Social Security benefits prior to August 1, 1996, is not required to use direct deposit at this time. However, by January 1, 1999, the law requires anyone receiving Federal payments, including Social Security and SSI, to be paid by direct deposit or some other form of electronic funds transfer, unless they fall within one of the exception categories designated in final regulations to be issued by the Department of the Treasury.
SSA faces the challenge of converting to direct deposit or some other form of electronic payment the 20 million Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipients who still receive monthly checks. The conversion must take place in less than 19 months. While all Federal payments are affected, Social Security is likely to be the most visible program affected by this legislation. Of the remaining 19.7 million beneficiaries who are still paid by check, approximately 13.2 million curre ntly have a relationship with a financial institution and could by paid by direct deposit without imposing any hardship. Of the estimated 6.5 million Social Security and SSI recipients without bank: accounts, one-third (i.e., 2 million) are expected to be able to establish an account at a financial institution without difficulty.
Of course, one of the most significant issues to be addressed by the Department of the Treasu ry and SSA is how we go about meeting the requirement of law to provide electronic payment services to unbanked recipients at a reasonable cost. This has been an issue both our agencies have been studying for a number of years. Unbanked individuals often have limited resources. They also may be unfamiliar with how to go about maintaining an account at a financial institution.
SSA volunteered to participate in two pilot programs developed by the Department of the Treasury that were designed to test the feasibility of establishing special types of electronic payment accounts for unbanked Social Security and SSI recipients. The first program, called the SecureCard program took place in Baltimore, Maryland in 1989 and 1990. A similar program, called the Direct Payment Card program, was established in the State of Texas in April 1992. The program in Texas is still operating and now serves more than 20,000 beneficiaries.
Under the Texas program, beneficiaries are assigned special debit-only accounts at a designated financial institution (Citibank). Participants are provided a debit card that can be used at automated teller machines (ATM) or point-of-service (POS) terminals. In Texas, participants are assessed an account maintenance fee of $3.00 per month. The fee includes one free ATM withdrawal per month, unlimited free withdrawals through POS terminals, and the ability to obtain account balance information by calling a special toll free 800 number established by the financial institution provider.
Beneficiaries participating in the Direct Payment Card program in Texas seem to like it. They enjoy the convenience and safety of having their monthly benefits delivered to them electronically. The monthly account fees associated with the program have not been an issue because it appears to be comparable to or less than similar fees encountered by the partic ipants previou sly when cashing their benefit checks.
The Maryland and Texas experience were models for two actions now being taken by the Department of the Treasury to meet the needs of the unbanked. The first action is a program Treasury calls Direct Deposit Too which appeals to the entire financial community to establish basic banking/EFT services for Federal recipients of limited means. Treasury expects financial institutions to compete for this market and, by doing so, keep costs to an affordable minimum. For the remaining portion of the unbanked population. Treasury and other benefit-paying agencies are working towards a national electronic benefits transfer (EBT) program in partnership with the States. EBT is a service comparable to the programs operated in Maryland and Texas and will be provided by a designated financial institution(s) selected by Treasury. In fact, the new Federal EBT program is operating now in the State of Alabama under the name Benefit Security Card. Debit card accounts are made available to unbanked Federal recipients. The service fee in the Alabama program is $1.92 per month which includes one free ATM withdrawal per month, unlimited POS withdrawals and the availability of account balance information through a special toll free 800 number.
SSA endorses the Federal EBT program and will work closely with the Department of Treasury to ensure it is made available nationally as quickly as possible. The fees associated with the program appear to be reasonable and, therefore, meet the definition required in the mandatory EFT legislation. Based on our experience with these programs to date, we do not anticipate that our unbanked population will have any significant problems with the proposed Federal EBT program. Of course, SSA will do all it can, working with the Department of the Treasury, to monitor this area to ensure the program operates as intended. To make it as convenient as possible for all remaining check recipients to sign up for direct deposit or EBT, SSA has taken the extraordinary step of sponsoring a new electronic banking standard that allows financial institutions to provide Federal agencies with enrollment information electronically through the Federal Reserve. The program is called the Quick$tart service. To date, almost 500,000 enrollments have been received using this new method.
Our current implementation plans are for SSA to announce the mandatory EFT requirements in inserts included with the September benefit checks. Inserts will also be included with checks periodically through the end of 1997. SSA will also mail notices to remaining check receivers homes throughout 1998. The notices will provide specific information and instructions on what is expected of the individual. Beneficiaries with accounts--and the unbanked who can open accounts-will be encouraged to contact their financial institution to sign up for EFT. Unbanked recipients will be provided with special instructions on how to sign up for the Federal EBT program in their area. All beneficiaries will be advised of exceptions to mandatory EFT requirements set forth by the Secretary of the Treasury in regulations. Individuals who believe they may qualify for an exception will be asked to contact SSA for assistance.
We believe EFT is distinctly superior in that it provides Social Security recipients who use it with a service that is safer, more reliable and more convenient than any other payment method, including check deliveries. SSA is confident that we can meet the mandatory EFT requirements set forth in law. Most of the remaining Social Security check receivers currently have a relationship with a financial institution and can use direct deposit immediately without imposing any hardships. Special care will be taken to ensure the needs of the unbanked population are met. SSA pledges to work closely with the Secretary of the Treasury as he develops regulations and programs ensuring that unbanked recipients of Federal payments are provided with safe, affordable electronic payment alternatives. We will monitor Direct Deposit Too programs established by the private sector as well as the roll out of the Federal EBT program to ensure they conform to the spirit of the mandatory EFT legislation. If, at any time, SSA and the Department of the Treasury determine that adequate EFT services are not available to the unbanked population or that these services cannot be provided at a reasonable cost, we will work with the Secretary of the Treasury, who has broad authority to continue to provide payments by check until an acceptable EFT program is in place.


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I recently did a career consultation for a classically trained Shakespearean stage actor with 24 years of experience. He could easily act circles around me but although television production was exploding in his area and he desperately wanted to transition into that market, he was having very little success doing so. I helped him realize that there are several key differences between a stage- and camera-oriented career. He was so impressed with what I had to say that he offered to create an event where I could share this information with actors from all over Georgia. I was flattered, but all it took was a simple explanation of how performing and promoting stage and screen acting were different and the changes he needed to make because of these differences. This week we will examine the main differences between in performing on stage and performing on screen
1. Audience Location. The biggest difference between performing on stage and performing for the camera is the location of your audience. On stage, the audience can easily be 100 feet or more from the performers. Since the audience must see and hear a performance to enjoy it, stage performers must act for the back row. The result is a larger than life performance since the other actors are only a fraction of that distance from you.
Since the camera can always see you and the microphone can always hear you, you only have to move and speak so the person or people in the scene can see and hear you in television and film acting. If someone is three feet away, speak as though they are three feet away. If they are 50 yards away, speak to them in that manner. Reality is less enhanced when a camera and microphone become involved. In fact, due to camera-work, score, lighting, and other effects, it is sometimes better to do less than you would in real life because so many things are augmenting your performance. So the main responsibility of television and film actors is that they behave naturally. No exaggerated sound or movement is required.
2. Material. The second major difference between stage and camera acting is the familiarity of the material. Theater is by its very nature repetitive and therefore familiar. When a play takes hold and becomes popular, it is put on by company after company, night after night, all over the world. That repetition creates an iconoclastic image of the story. When people think they know the material, they want to hear it exactly the way it was written and they know when it is changed because it is so familiar to them. The words of the play become iconic and any errors of dialogue will sound like fingernails on a chalkboard. Imagine if Richard III chose instead to say, "A horse, a horse...or maybe a camel?"
Television and film is different because the audience has never seen the writing. It is fresh and largely written on the fly. Words are being changed right up until shoot times in many cases. Therefore, at a TV/film audition, an actor can make mistakes or small changes without consequence. An original and believable performance is king.
3. Characters. The third difference between stage and TV/Film is the iconic nature of the characters and celebrated performances of those characters. The audience and critics will compare you to past versions of the same show. Because many stage characters have been played over and over, there is only so much leeway an audience will accept before they start to complain. People often go to the theater to see something familiar so you better give them what they want or the rotten fruit will start flying.
In TV/film, you will almost certainly be the only person to ever play any given character so what the producers are looking for is some version you. They are looking for the person who fits the world they are creating. No one has played it before so there is no reference point. It is up to you to show them what your part of the story looks like, and if they agree with you, you will get the part. So there is generally far more leeway in developing (or not developing) a TV/Film character than there is in the performance of an iconic stage character.
These are the three main differences in performing on stage versus doing on-camera work. Next time we will look at the differences in promoting and preparing one's self for TV/film roles.
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I'm fortunate to count as friends some of the top consultants in the industry. These folks stay booked all year, doing individual consults, speaking to packed houses, and getting to "correct" the business sins of the masses. They help draw the "straight line" to success, dodging much pain and misfortune, while collecting worthwhile and hefty fees. They would not be busy unless every dime was worth it.
Over the past few years, some of their wisdom has rubbed off on me. Okay, not really. But I can occasionally act like I know what I'm talking about by writing articles like this one.
One thing I've learned is this: no company becomes a failure overnight. Failure takes effort. It takes a series of actions and decisions – most of which could have been avoided.
So, now that I have your attention, let me put the contractor's "path to failure" into easy-to-follow terms:
• Pour most of your marketing money in the Yellow Pages. The YP is a source to millions in consumer traffic and purchases every day, but contractors incorrectly believe that this traffic translates to sales success. It doesn't. The sad news is that only 13.4% of HVAC sales result from this significant expenditure. Even sadder, nearly 75% of contractors spend over half their marketing budgets in there.
• Let your salespeople quote on price. This puts your company in the dangerous position of chasing the lowest prices in town. Success in HVAC sales rests on selling value – not equipment, not price breaks, not even your charming smile. Never present the price apart from presenting the value of doing business with you and your company.
• Don't have a customer retention program. The formula here is also effortless and it goes like this. 1) Get a call. 2) Service it when you feel like it. 3) Submit invoice. 4) End all contact, except to ask them to buy something when you mail to the rest of the known universe. Your customers should be viewed differently and contacted differently. Since they are your very best source of future business from their own purchases, as well as their referrals, don't they deserve a little extra attention?
• Refuse to add a Maintenance Agreement program. After all, offering maintenance agreements can make a dramatic difference in a contracting company's bottom line – typically adding thousands of dollars of predictable profit. So why would you want to do that? The contractor gets loyal customers who pay for that loyalty, and the customer gets a higher level of service. It's a win-win situation.
Beware: many of your competitors are headed straight down this path to failure. Don't follow them. Don't imitate them right out of business. Instead, do the opposite and watch your business take off in the other direction.
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If we would not allow drop-shadow in the filter chain, developers will just surround the content with the filter by a new div and apply the filter there. The situation gets worst if drop-shadow would be in the middle of the filter chain. User would have to surround the filtered content with two div's and apply three different filters. I assume that it is better to deal with it in the implementation. Even eliminating drop-shadow would rarely make the situation better. Dirk On Jan 18, 2012, at 2:28 PM, Dean Jackson wrote: > > On 19/01/2012, at 9:03 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Chris Marrin <email@example.com> wrote: >>> I've been implementing hardware accelerated filters in WebKit and the drop-shadow filter is a real stumbling block. All of the hardware accelerated ways we have to implement it are problematic. It's a pretty complex filter, requiring two separate input paths, color channel swizzling, blur and blending of the inputs. All that is possible, but integrating it into a chain of other filters is difficult and has performance issues. For hardware, doing drop-shadow as a single operation after the filter chain is way easier. This is a small problem on desktop hardware, but a much bigger one on mobile hardware where resources are much more scarce. >>> >>> So I got to thinking about why we have a drop-shadow filter at all. Drop shadow is a great feature for CSS and has been discussed a lot. But it seems like it could just as easily be done as a separate property that is applied after filtering. Then it would be like box-filter, but would use the alpha of the element rather than its bounds. >>> >>> Most of the current CSS filters don't even affect the alpha channel, so there would be no way to tell where in the chain the drop-shadow appeared. So in most cases having a separate drop-shadow property would be functionally equivalent. I think the only time it would matter is with blur and another drop-shadow filter. In those two cases you'd get different results depending on whether or not you put the drop-shadow before of after the filter. I'm sure someone could come up with a use case where you could see the difference between a drop-shadow filter vs a property. But are such use cases essential? >>> >>> I want to make sure these filters can be efficiently hardware accelerated. For Apple hardware at least (and I'm assuming other platforms have the same issues), doing drop shadow as a separate function after filters is easily hardware accelerated. But a drop shadow filter is very resource intensive. >>> >>> Dean told me that this issue was discussed at a recent meeting that I didn't attend, but I haven't found any notes from that meeting. Can someone recap the rationale for wanting a drop-shadow filter rather than a property? >> >> The immediate reason to want a drop-shadow filter is that drop shadows >> are very common, and it currently takes six filters to implement. >> Making a shortcut filter for it is just good sense. >> >> I'm not sure if forcing it to always be after the rest of the filters >> would be acceptable or not - we'd have to look at existing usage of >> drop shadows. > > It could also apply before the filter effect (the way box-shadow and text-shadow do already). > > I agree that drop shadows are important, and this is the only way to put a shadow on the opaque parts of a partially transparent image. > > Dean > >Received on Friday, 20 January 2012 17:31:53 UTC
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Before you look for comedian and actor Sinbad, right, on one of those "Where Are They Now?" shows, we've found him. He's where he started before movie and TV roles took his career soaring: the stand-up stage. As the philosophy goes, "There are no new jokes," so add Sinbad to the list of comedians to whom current stand-ups should be sending royalty checks for versions of his jokes that are making them famous.
Why go: The son of a minister, Sinbad manages to make his comedy funny and relatable without profanity.
Reconsider: Maybe a few F-bombs would distract from some of Sinbad's punch lines that don't quite hit the mark.
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