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Missy Smith talked before Senate panel
The mother of an 18-year-old woman murdered in Kansas has come to Rhode Island to urge lawmakers to pass a law making it easier for police to track the location of a missing person's cellphone.
Missy Smith, of Overland Park, Kan., told a Senate panel Thursday that cellphone providers often resist giving police information about a person's phone for fear of lawsuits.
The legislation would require cellphone companies to provide information on a phone's whereabouts if police determine the owner is in danger.
Following Smiths' testimony the Senate committee voted to forward the bill to the full Senate.
Smith's daughter Kelsey was abducted and murdered in 2007. Her cellphone provider initially refused to give police information about her phone, information that ultimately led officers to her body.
Eight states now have similar laws.


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Duration: 365 days
Failure and Success: One Test Today: Success
For we are not, as so many, peddling the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as from God, we speak in the sight of God in Christ.—2 Corinthians 2:17
Much that passes for Christianity today is the brief bright effort of the severed branch to bring forth its fruit in its season. But the deep laws of life are against it. Preoccupation with appearances and a corresponding neglect of the out-of-sight root of the true spiritual life are prophetic signs which go unheeded. Immediate 'results' are all that matter, quick proofs of present success without a thought of next week or next year. Religious pragmatism is running wild among the orthodox. Truth is whatever works. If it gets results it is good. There is but one test for the religious leader: success. Everything is forgiven him except failure.
A tree can weather almost any storm if its root is sound, but when the fig tree which our Lord cursed "dried up from the roots" it immediately "withered away." A church that is soundly rooted cannot be destroyed, but nothing can save a church whose root is dried up. No stimulation, no advertising campaigns, no gifts of money and no beautiful edifice can bring back life to the rootless tree. The Root of the Righteous, 4-5.
"Lord, give us solid roots. Forgive us for our preoccupation with success and move in Your church today to restore to us a proper perspective. Begin in my life and church, I pray. Amen."
Reprinted from Tozer on Christian Leadership by A.W. Tozer, copyright © 2001 by Zur Ltd. Used by permission of WingSpread Publishers, a division of Zur Ltd.
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April 24, 2006
Connectivity Theme for Opera Conference 2006 In Theory and Practice
Web Broadcasts and Blogging Demonstrate New Media Application for the Opera Field
New York , NY – April 26, 2006: When 500 opera administrators and artists assemble in Seattle May 3-7 for Opera Conference 2006: Connectivity , the means by which opera connects with audiences will be explored in many ways, including new media. Embracing the theme through sessions and practical application, OPERA America will make available on its newly designed Web site www.operaamerica.org three new features, all accessible from links on the home page on Wednesday, April 26th.
* Insider and Outsider Perspectives on the Conference
Two conference participants have been selected to create blogs during the conference. Postings will begin on Wednesday, May 3 at 9:00 a.m. PDT and continue through Wednesday, May 10 at 5:00 p.m. EDT. The bloggers were chosen for the different perspectives they will bring to the conference. Susan Ashbaker was until recently the Director of Artistic Administration for the Opera Company of Philadelphia. Frank Grebowski is a businessman with a master's degree in management from MIT and a volunteer for the Chattanooga Symphony and Opera. (http://operaamerica.blogspot.org)
Peter Gelb , newly appointed general manager of the Metropolitan Opera , will deliver the Keynote Speech on Thursday morning. He will speak about his vision for the Met and some of the innovations he proposes to advance. Video of his speech will be available for download or real-time viewing as of noon, Friday, May 5.
To expand the audience for the content-rich concurrent sessions held at the conference, audio of two Friday sessions will be posted to the Web site by 7 p.m. PDT on Friday, May 5.
"New technology has such great potential to engage and expand the audience for opera," said OPERA America President and CEO Marc A. Scorca, "Yet adaptation of this technology is happening very slowing in the opera field. We hope that by both discussing new means for connectivity and demonstrating their use, we will encourage opera companies to move boldly into experimenting with technology."
OPERA America has also used the Internet to connect with audiences through its distance learning program, which was begun in 2000. Most recently, a course on Verdi's Macbeth has been conducted during April, in anticipation of the Seattle Opera's production of that opera during the conference.
The OPERA America Web site offers a spectrum of resources for the public, including a searchable database of operas performed by member companies (the Season Schedule of Performances), a graphic interface allowing for quick searches for lists of opera companies by state, and a wealth of background information on the most popular operas. For members, OPERA America 's Web site focuses on professional development for opera company staff and opera artists.
OPERA America leads and serves the entire opera community, supporting the creation, presentation and enjoyment of opera.
Artistic services help opera companies and creative and performing artists to improve the quality of productions and increase the creation and presentation of North American works.
Information, technical, and administrative services to opera companies reflect the need for strengthened leadership among staff, trustees and volunteers.
Education, audience development and community services are designed to enhance all forms of opera appreciation.
Founded in 1970, OPERA America's worldwide membership network includes nearly 200 Company Members, 300 Associate and Business Members, 2,000 Individual Members and more than 16,000 subscribers to the association's electronic news service. In 2005, OPERA America relocated from Washington, D.C. to New York as the first step in creating the first-ever National Opera Center. With a wide range of artistic and administrative services in a purpose-built facility, the Opera Center is dedicated to increasing the level of excellence, creativity and effectiveness across the field.
OPERA America's long tradition of supporting and nurturing the creation and development of new works led to the formation of
The Opera Fund
, a growing endowment which allows OPERA America to make a direct impact on the ongoing creation and presentation of new opera and music-theater works. Since its inception, OPERA America has made grants of nearly $11 million to assist companies with the expenses associated with the creation and development of new works.


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Playing a wide variety of classical music from opera overtures, symphonies, laments, ballets and so forth, the Orchestra made sure to touch upon all the greats of classical music such as Rossini, Mozart, Chopin, Sibelius and Dawidziak.
"I thought it was a lovely performance," said audience member Miriam Acosta. "There was so much synchronized energy and emotion behind the playing! You can tell from watching that the musicians are very much into it, and I think there's something to be said for those who practice music when it's not their profession."
The 40-member Orchestra was quite diverse in their instruments and performers as they kept the standard orchestra set up and split performers between violin I, violin II, violas, cellos, flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, French horns, trumpets and tympani.
The community group, in their 50th year, practices every Tuesday to prepare for three annual performances with musicians were from all around the New York City boroughs.
All in their older ages with the oldest performer in their 90s, the group is made up of first-timers, some who have played with the Orchestra since the 80s and they are constantly looking for new performers.
"The great thing about this is that it doesn't matter how old you are, it makes you younger, literally" said Franklin Verbsky, the music director and conductor in his 45th year with the orchestra. "As one of the performers said, 'Before the program I watch you walking around, but once you're up there you're up there with the music, you're twenty years younger!' And that's the whole thing."
The performance left audience members in ferocious applause, excited and a bit sad to anticipate and wait for the next performance of the year.


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Total Church: A Radical Reshaping around Gospel and Community
- Tim Chester and Steve Timmis Authors
- 2008 2 Oct
EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is an excerpt from Total Church: A Radical Reshaping around Gospel and Community by Tim Chester and Steve Timmis (Crossway).
Alan is the leader of a small Baptist church. He moved to lead his suburban congregation five years ago after several years working in industry and three years studying in a theological college. He has seen a number of people join the church, but not as many as he had hoped. They have a thriving mothers-and-toddlers' group, a solid youth work program, and an accomplished music group. And yet Alan can't help feeling that the church is only scratching the surface. Truth be told, it feels as if ministry has become a production line: churning out sermons, putting on events, trying to generate another wave of enthusiasm for evangelism. If only there were a different way of doing church.
Bob was converted as a teenager in a lively Anglican church, then became a youth group leader. Now he no longer goes to church. It had just become a burden, a set of responsibilities. He was always being asked to do things. If he didn't show up at meetings, questions were asked and eyebrows raised. Conflict among church members was the last straw. "I don't need this," he told his wife the day he stopped going. He still reads his Bible, still prays, still tells unbelievers about Jesus if it comes up in conversation. "I'm just taking a break from church," he says. He can sense the disapproval when he runs into other Christians. He feels it himself. He knows
Christians should be part of a church. But he can't face going back. If only there were a different way of doing church.
Cathy became a Christian in her first year at university. It was great. She spent hours hanging out with her Christian friends, talking through their faith, praying together, sharing the gospel with other students. But two years after graduation she feels spiritually
flat. She goes to church each Sunday and attends a home group on Wednesday evenings. But she misses the intimacy of the relationships she had at university. She misses the discussions, the enthusiasm, and the late-night prayers. She laughs to herself at how immature they were sometimes. But she can't help wondering whether "grown-up" Christianity is any better. If only there were a different way of doing church.
Denzel was one of the founders of Elevate. Elevate grew out of a common desire to explore new ways of doing church. They were inspired by the alternative worship scene and some people within the emerging church movement. It started as a monthly gathering with images, incense, and meditations. From that came a weekly meeting in a pub. It was all very exciting at first. It still is. Denzel enjoys the energy that comes from doing something different. But he has some concerns. He suspects the Bible is not as central as it should be. Plus, although a number of other disaffected Christians have joined them, they don't seem to be impacting unbelievers. And then last week several members questioned whether adherents of other religions really need evangelizing. They talked about a safe place to ask questions, but Denzel felt uneasy. He thinks they're really on to something, and he certainly doesn't want to go back to a hymn sandwich and a sermon. But increasingly he worries about what is being sacrificed. If only there were a different way of doing church.
These people are fictional, but their stories are all based on real conversations and real experiences.
The Authors' Stories
Maybe you can relate to Steve's story. Steve was the minister of a church in a working-class community in northern England. It was his first "charge," and it was something of a baptism by fire! The church was welcoming and caring, small and intimate. Looking back, despite all the early difficulties, it is hard to imagine a better place for a young man to be nurtured in ministry. The people loved the Lord and showed it in their love for his word and his people. Over time, the church grew as lives were changed by grace.
But for all that was good, Steve had a nagging sense of unease. The building was nearly full, but there were thousands outside. It was difficult to put his finger on it, but somehow so much of their life together as a church was inaccessible and irrelevant to those around. They loved each other, and the Bible was being taught, but he was growing increasingly aware of the almost impenetrable wall between the church and the world. It impacted traffic in both directions.
As Steve reflected, he saw two issues. First, for all the attempts at preaching God's word in a faithful and contemporary way, there was little opportunity for non-Christians to hear it. Second, although Steve was convinced that theirs was a believing community loving one other, there was little opportunity for non-Christians to be exposed to it. If only there were a different way of doing church.
Tim's story is different. He was brought up as a "pastor's kid." In his late teens his father was asking big questions about what it meant to be the church. Tim remembers long conversations as people shared their dreams about what church could be. At university he got the chance to make something of those dreams. He lived in a house with other Christians—eating together, worshipping together, offering hospitality, sharing lives. He has vivid memories of sitting around a large, battered, old table with the remnants of a meal and celebrating Communion together.
But life was very different after graduation when Tim and his wife, Helen, moved to north London. Tim still remembers the first time they were invited out for a meal. They assumed it would be that evening or maybe the next day. But a date three weeks away was suggested. It turned out to be their first experience of a "dinner party." It certainly wasn't sharing lives. If only there were a different way of doing church.
Key Principles
This book argues that two key principles should shape the way we "do church": gospel and community. Christians are called to a dual fidelity: fidelity to the core content of the gospel and fidelity to the primary context of a believing community. Whether we are thinking about evangelism, social involvement, pastoral care, apologetics, discipleship, or teaching, the content is consistently the Christian gospel, and the context is consistently the Christian community. What we do is always defined by the gospel, and the context is always our belonging in the church. Our identity as Christians is defined by the gospel and the community.
Being gospel-centered actually involves two things. First, it means being word-centered because the gospel is a word—the gospel is news, a message. Second, it means being mission-centered because the gospel is a word to be proclaimed—the gospel is good news, a missionary message.
So maybe we really have three principles. Christian practice must be (1) gospel-centered in the sense of being word-centered, (2) gospel-centered in the sense of being mission-centered, and (3) community-centered.
1. gospel-centered
1a. word-centered
1b. mission-centered
2. community-centered
You may think this sounds like a statement of the obvious. We hope you do. But let us make two points by way of introduction.
1. In practice, conservative evangelicals place a proper emphasis on the gospel or on the word. Meanwhile others, like those who belong to the so-called emerging church, emphasize the importance of community. The emerging church is a loose movement of people who are exploring new forms of church. Each group suspects the other is weak where it is strong. Conservatives worry that the emerging church is soft on truth, too influenced by postmodernism. The emerging church accuses traditional churches of being too institutional, too program-oriented, often loveless and sometimes harsh.
Let us as authors nail our colors to the mast from the outset. We agree with the conservatives that the emerging church is too often soft on truth. But we do not think the answer is to be suspicious of community. Indeed, we think that conservatives often do not "do truth" well because they neglect community. Because people are not sharing their lives, truth is not applied and lived out.
We also agree with the emerging church movement that conservative evangelicals are often bad at community. The emerging church is a broad category and an "emerging" one at that, with no agreed-upon theology or methodology. This means that generalizations about the emerging church are far from straightforward. But many within the movement seem to downplay the central importance of objective, divinely revealed, absolute truth. This may not be a hard conviction, but it is a trajectory. Others argue that more visual media (images, symbols, alternative worship) should complement or replace an emphasis on the word. We do not think this is the answer. Indeed, we think emerging church can sometimes be bad at community because it neglects the truth. If Christian community is not governed by truth as it should be, it can be whimsical or indulgent. There is a danger of community becoming me and my acquaintances talking about God—church for the Friends generation—middle-class twenty-and thirty-somethings' church. This certainly is not true of all that calls itself emerging church, but it is a danger. Only the truth of the gospel reaches across barriers of age, race, and class.
We often meet people reacting against an experience of conservative churches that has been institutional, inauthentic, and rigidly programmed. For them the emerging church appears to be the only other option. We meet people within more traditional churches who recognize the need for change but fear the relativism they see in the emerging church. For them existing models seem to be the only option. We also meet people within the emerging church movement who want to "do church" in a different way but do not want to buy into postmodern or post-evangelical notions of truth. We believe there is an alternative. We need to be enthusiastic about truth and mission and we need to be enthusiastic about relationships and community.
2. Rigorously applying these principles has the potential to lead to some fundamental and thoroughgoing changes in the way we do church. The theology that matters is not the theology we profess but the theology we practice. As John Stott says, "Our static, inflexible, self-centered structures are 'heretical structures' because they embody a heretical doctrine of the church." If "our structure has become an end in itself, not a means of saving the world," it is "a heretical structure."1 Being both gospel-centered and community-centered might mean:
Seeing church as an identity instead of a responsibility to be juggled alongside other commitments
- Celebrating ordinary life as the context in which the word of God is proclaimed with "God-talk" as a normal feature of everyday conservation
- Running fewer evangelistic events, youth clubs, and social projects and spending more time sharing our lives with unbelievers
- Starting new congregations instead of growing existing ones
- Preparing Bible talks with other people instead of just studying alone at a desk.
- Adopting a 24-7 approach to mission and pastoral care instead of starting ministry programs
- Switching the emphasis from Bible teaching to Bible learning and action
- Spending more time with people on the margins of society
- Learning to disciple one another—and to be discipled—day by day
- Having churches that are messy instead of churches that pretend
We have called this book Total Church. Church is not a meeting you attend or a place you enter. It is an identity that is ours in Christ. It is an identity that shapes the whole of life so that life and mission become "total church."
Is this "gospel plus" (requiring something—in this case, Christian community—in addition to the gospel, which thereby robs the gospel of its saving power)? The answer is, it depends how you tell the gospel story. It depends whether you see the gospel simply as the story of God saving individuals or as the story of God creating a new humanity.
Part 1, "Gospel and Community in Principle," outlines the biblical case for making gospel and community central principles for Christian life and mission. Part 2, "Gospel and Community in Practice," applies this double focus to various areas of church life.
Activists may be tempted to skip Part 1 and go straight to Part 2, but the applications in Part 2 are integrally linked to the convictions outlined in Part 1. We are trying to do more than assemble a collection of "good ideas" for church life. We have tried to explore the contemporary implications of the preoccupation with the gospel word and gospel community in the Bible story.
Who We Are
It might be helpful to include a brief word about the ministry in which we, Steve and Tim, are involved. The Crowded House is a network of missionary congregations, most of which meet in homes. We are trying to "do church" in a way that is welcoming for unchurched people. We place a big emphasis on sharing our lives with one another and welcoming unbelievers into the network of relationships that make up the church. It also means we grow by planting new congregations rather than acquiring bigger premises.
This book, however, is not an argument for household church. Not all our congregations meet in homes. It is our conviction that the principles we outline can and should be applied to all congregations. Nor is this book an account of The Crowded House. We do not think the way we do mission and church is the "right way" or the "only way." It is not an off-the-shelf model that people can fit to their context without alterations. Most of what we say in the book is what we aspire to, but sadly not yet what we do! It is a book of principles, vision, and hopes, not a description of practice.
Where we have included stories, we are seeking to encourage readers to respond imaginatively. We often find that people conceive principles simply in terms of their current practice. At the other extreme, some people see such a vast gulf between principles and current practice that they think the pursuit of principles is futile. This failure of imagination can prevent us from applying the Bible as we should. We hear it speak to us but either find it too far removed from current experience to feel it possible or squeeze it into our current experience. We need Spirit-inspired imagination to reconfigure church and mission around the gospel word and the gospel community.
Total Church: A Radical Reshaping around Gospel and Community
Copyright © Tim Chester and Steve Timmis
Published by Crossway Books, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers
1300 Crescent Street Wheaton, Illinois 60187
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher, except as provided for by USA copyright law.


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Last week we mentioned that Sunday Comics would be getting a redesign in the coming weeks. We're going to bring some new strips to the feature. But first, we want to hear which of the old ones are worth saving.
Here it is: The Incumbent portion of Kotaku's Sunday Comics Deathmatch. Tell us, if you were editing this feature, which ones you'd keep. Everyone's up for re-election, except for two, which we have removed from consideration in the redesign for these reasons:
• Ctrl-Alt-Del. Its "Sillies" has not updated in a month. The main CAD comic is often continuity based, which doesn't lend itself to a one comic per week publication schedule.
• Digital Unrest. It is being dropped for infrequent updates.
Below you will see galleries of three recent strips for each webcomic. After the galleries, you will see a ballot. Check the names of the webcomics you think should stay in Kotaku's Sunday Comics. You may vote for as many as you like. Voting for these features will end Oct. 30, 2010 at 4 p.m. U.S. Mountain Time. By all means, bring your friends, family and domesticated pets to vote on this, via Facebook or Twitter. We really want to see a strong voter turnout here.
Inclusion in the Sunday Comics remake will depend on more than just voting. For any new comics, we must get the creators' permission to republish their strips (we'll be contacting the new winners after voting ends). We've also yet to establish the final feature count. We're going to look at how many strips generate an enthusiastic response, and we reserve the right to exercise final editorial judgment. But rest assured, readership voting will weigh heavily in our decision.
Thanks for your well considered feedback. Now get voting!
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Brown County decided to give the kids the day off , from school, for Martin Luther King, Jr., day. Apparently, we have not used up our snow day allotment, so JCountry is sound asleep, where he prefers to be at 10 a.m. He is one of those kids who does well on the two-hour delay days, but not so well when he has to catch a bus at 7:30 a.m.
Not to give away my age or anything, but I was a teen in the 60s. I still have a copy of my letter from President Eisenhower in response to my complaint that it is just stupid that people hated other people because of the color of their skin and he needed to do something about it. I'm sure I was very polite though, as children of the 50's were always very polite. Sometimes, overly polite, like Eddie Haskell polite. And, if you don't know who Eddie Haskell is, well, I guess you weren't there.
I attended a fairly large school, address Gary, Indiana, called Calumet High School. I do not know what the facts or figures are, but it ranged from Doctor's children to children who barely had a home. It also had a good number of African Americans and Latinos. This is unlike the school JCountry attends, which (I am guessing here) has less than five non-Anglos in attendance.
My lab partner was an African American girl and I will never forget the day I sat down at our lab table and looked over to see her, head on crossed arms, crying. That was the first I knew that we were going to have riots. She told me that some of the kids hated her because she was black. I was appalled. I mean, out of all the things in life that you have a choice of, the color of your skin is not one of them. I comforted her, as best as someone who has not walked in her skin could.
At lunch, I was hit and yelled at by a black student, who I did not know. By the time we went home on the bus, school was closed. I think we had three days off to let things settle down and probably let the teacher's regroup.
I have never understood how people can hold so much hate in their hearts as to hate another person for such a dumb reason. Nor, how the same people who honor and revere someone like Michael Jordan, can turn around and hate everyone else whose skin is darker than theirs.
This blog post does not circle back around to the opening. It has no answers for the question. I wish I did. I have learned though, that you cannot change people's minds much. If they want to hate someone because they are black, they will. If they want to hate their President, they will. If they want to believe every stupid rumor they will. I just wonder — what can make a person learn to think for themselves and not believe every stupid rumor they hear, no matter how illogical it is.


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TORONTO - An anti-Muslim American pastor who earned an international reputation after burning copies of the Islamic holy text has been denied entry into Canada hours before he was to speak at a free speech rally in Toronto, organizers said Thursday.
Allan Einstoss said Terry Jones was turned back at the Michigan-Ontario border after being held there for several hours.
Einstoss decried the decision to keep Jones from attending a multifaith debate on freedom of speech, which was slated to take place in front of the Ontario legislature on Thursday evening.
He poured scorn on the official reason for the denial, saying it defied logic.
"In terms of checking for criminal records, I would make the assumption that's what they do on a daily basis," Einstoss said in a telephone interview.
Jones issued a statement Thursday night expressing "shock" at being refused entry.
"We consider this to be a grievous blow to freedom of speech. We hope that this is a lesson for the Canadians and the Americans for us to stand up, unite together, and protect our freedom of speech," the statement said.
According to Jones's statement, the rental car he was travelling in was thoroughly searched and protest placards were confiscated.
The statement said Jones and a travelling companion were refused entry based on an arrest in Michigan last year for refusing to pay a peace bond as well as a fine by the German government for using the title Doctor based on an honorary doctorate he received from a California university in 1993. Jones said he appealed both disputes and won but the statement indicated that border officials told him they needed more documentation in order to allow him to enter.
The Canada Border Services Agency declined to discuss Jones' case, saying it was against their policy to share details of any individual efforts to enter the country.
"Admissibility of all travellers seeking to enter Canada is considered on a case-by-case basis based on the specific facts presented by the applicant at the time of entry," the agency said in a statement.
Word that Jones had been turned back at the border spread rapidly through social media, drawing a slew of wide-ranging reactions.
Some touted the decision as an attack on freedom of expression, while others celebrated the fact that a man who commemorated the ninth anniversary of 9/11 by burning copies of the Qur'an at his church in Gainesville, Fla. would not have the opportunity to bring his message to Canadian soil.
"Yeah, Canada for standing up to hate & racism," read one Twitter post.
"I would've loved to check out the debate! But I'm glad Terry Jones isn't being let in," wrote another.
Others took a more nuanced position, arguing his hateful views of Muslims are not reason enough to bar him from the country.
Amin Elshorbagy, president of the Canadian Islamic Congress, said Jones ought to have been allowed to air his views regardless of how extreme they may be.
"Personally I'm not really in favour of blocking or banning anybody," he said. "People have to be responsible for their own actions, but I definitely disagree with what he says and does."
Jones was scheduled to be the primary attraction at a multifaith debate on the film "Innocence of Muslims," whose negative portrayal of the Islamic prophet Mohammad has incited violent riots around the world. One skirmish claimed the life of the U.S. ambassador to Libya, along with three members of his staff.
Jones was slated to square off against Toronto imam Steve Rockwell, U.S.-based Muslim author Masud Ansari, and Sikh community leader Bikram Lamba. The event was also to feature a memorial to Cpl. Christopher Speer, a U.S. a medic killed in Afghanistan by Canadian war criminal Omar Khadr.
Einstoss said the event will go ahead as planned, but lamented Jones' absence from the proceedings. Interference from border officials, he said, has quashed an opportunity for a meaningful dialog on free speech.
"That's the government's choice, that's what they wanted," Einstoss said. "We could have had a nice civil evening, but that's their decision."
Jones is not the first public figure to be barred from the country because of his controversial views.
British member of parliament George Galloway, an outspoken supporter of the Palestinian people, was planning to visit Canada to make a series of speeches about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in March 2009.
Immigration Minister Jason Kenney pulled the welcome mat on him because of Galloway's alleged financial support to the Palestinian group Hamas, which the federal government considers a terrorist organization.
Galloway has said that Kenney's allegations caused him "18 months of hell'' and threatened his personal security. He lost his parliamentary seat in the 2010 election, only to be returned to office in a byelection earlier this year.
He has since sued the minister for $1.5 million.
Cases like Galloway's and Jones' seem poised to become more prevalent in the wake of a new immigration bill tabled in the House of Commons earlier this week.
Kenney's proposed legislation would give the government the right to turn people back from the border for public policy reasons, as well as the power to crack down on permanent residents and visitors for serious criminality.
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"ACM PRESENTS: TIM McGRAW'S SUPERSTAR SUMMER NIGHT," AN ALL-STAR CONCERT SPECIAL, WILL BE TAPED MONDAY, APRIL 8 AT THE MGM GRAND GARDEN ARENA IN LAS VEGAS, TO BE BROADCAST AT A LATER DATE ON THE CBS TELEVISION NETWORK
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During the Two-Hour Star-Studded Concert Event
ACM PRESENTS: TIM McGRAW'S SUPERSTAR SUMMER NIGHT, an all-star concert special produced by dick clark productions, will be taped on Monday, April 8 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas and will be broadcast at a later date on the CBS Television Network.
Fifteen-time ACM Award winner, acclaimed actor and entertainer Tim McGraw is hand-picking the hottest music of summer and calling on his friends to help kick off the 2013 touring season. The two-hour star-studded concert event will feature performances and collaborations from country, pop, rock and more, as well as a few surprise special guests from the worlds of film and television. All proceeds will benefit ACM Lifting Lives, the charitable arm of the Academy, and an organization that McGraw was closely affiliated with over his last tour.
"I hope I can help turn the fans on to some of the best live music that will be on the road this summer and really put a spotlight on the ones I know they won't want to miss," said McGraw. "I also feel a responsibility to help raise some money and awareness for ACM Lifting Lives and all the good work they do. They supported me last summer with our HomeFront program and helped me give away a house to a veteran in need in every market we played in, so I'm excited to get some of my friends together and repay the favor."


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Our family lives less than a block from an elementary school. What a plus for a family with five kids under the age of twelve! I highly recommend it. I digress...
Our two that attend that school ride their bikes or walk everyday, so I only take our middle-schooler to school in the mornings. We actually only live about a mile from that school, and she wants to ride her bike, but, it's so busy with cars and buses that I just don't let her.
Every day, and I mean every day, we see the same sight - a mom and daughter walking to school together. The mom carries the backpack and the daughter walks beside her. I also see the mom walking home alone while I am exiting the school. Every day.
Rachel (11) commented on this sight this morning. She said, "Mom, you would never do that." She's absolutely right. I wouldn't, and I don't. I think it's wonderful that this mom dotes on her daughter. I think it's wonderful that they have that time together every day. I can only assume that she does the same in the afternoons (I wouldn't know, though, because I make my daughter ride the bus home).
After I dropped Rae at the door of her school, she walked in with a friend she saw and they were busy chatting about whatever middle school girls chat about. She's fine; she's independent and she's secure. Should I be doting on her more? Does she understand why I don't dote on her the way she sees that other mom doting on her daughter? Will she raise secure, independent daughters?
I will see that mom again tomorrow, walking her daughter to school, carrying her backpack for her daughter and wonder. Maybe, I think, this mom is there to remind me that she can raise her daughter her way and I can raise mine my way. We all know our children and our capabilities the best. I cannot second guess her, and I should not doubt myself. Neither should you.
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Our family lives less than a block from an elementary school. What a plus for a family with five kids under the age of twelve! I highly recommend it. I digress...
4 screams from the fans...:
- Casey said...
I'm like you, I would NEVER carry the back pack. Maybe it's too much experience of ALWAYS being asked to carry stuff. I want my kids to be independent also. You are right, it is nice to see a mother and daughter together. That is a nice moment for them to share. I loved this post. Thanks.
- 21 May, 2009
- Chelsie said...
I loved this post as well. It makes me think...
- 21 May, 2009
- Days Into Nights said...
Hehe. Walking to school with your daughter is one thing. Carrying the backpack? Not a chance. You carried yours, she can carry hers. ;)
- 29 May, 2009
- Becca & Joel said...
Oh man... It's been way too long since I've read up on people's blogs! I've been missing out on your posts! This one, I just want you to know... the girl you see walking in the mornings may be watching you drive past her every day and saying to her mom "you would never do that, mom." And that mom might be thinking - yup! You're right kid! I'd never drive you to school when we live so close! You can learn to get up early enough for the walk, and if you're late, tough! I'm not letting you off easy with a ride to school! We just never know reasons behind the reasons... and may I remind you that you ARE having time with your daughter each day on the way to school too! It's just not walking, it's riding together! You're a great mom, Tina! We all know it!
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I Have Chronic Pain, And Restorative Sleep Is A Big Problem. Any Suggestions?
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-- Question: I'm Ellen, and I've suffered in chronic pain for over 25 years. And restorative sleep is my biggest problem. Do you have any suggestions?
Answer: Hi, Ellen. Thank you for your question. This is a very common problem for patients with chronic pain. Getting to sleep at night, staying asleep, and feeling as if you had a restorative sleep, is very difficult to achieve. There are several things that get in the way of reaching this goal.
The first thing to think about is what medicines are you taking? Many of the medicines given for insomnia, for chronic pain, muscle spasms, other symptoms that patients with chronic pain experience, actually cause your sleep to be worse rather than better -- particularly if you take them over time and develop tolerance to them. So, look for medicines that you can actually get rid of. Look for the medicines that aren't helping you anymore and that might be creating a problem.
The next thing to think about is your sleep hygiene. In other words, what happens at night when you're trying to go to bed? You should try to go to bed at a consistent time every night. You should use the bed only for sleeping so that if you're unable to fall asleep, don't sit up and watch TV, read, go on the computer -- take yourself out of the bedroom, go do a limited activity, prepare yourself again for going to sleep, and then come back to the bed and make it a comfortable place where you can sleep restfully.
Now, you should also get up at a particular consistent time as well. And that sets us up for the third issue, which is structure you day in away that will promote sleep at night. Think about when you will have your meals; think about when you will engage in certain activities. Make sure that you're not napping throughout the day. And if at all possible do some limited amount of aerobic exercise, because all of these things will then come together so that when your bedtime occurs, you're ready to go to sleep, and you're more likely to set yourself up for a good night's sleep.
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The July 1 compliance date for the Department of Labor's (DOL) final 408(b)(2) fee disclosure rule has finally arrived, and even though the final rule was a long time coming, covered service providers have been ramping up their compliance efforts for months.
The final rule on 401(k) fee disclosures requires service providers to furnish information that will enable pension plan fiduciaries to determine both the reasonableness of compensation paid to service providers and any conflicts of interest that may affect a service provider's performance under a service contract or arrangement.
When the final rule was released on March 1, Phyllis Borzi, assistant secretary for DOL's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), said that with the final 408(b)(2) rule, businesses that sponsor retirement plans as well as the workers who participate in those plans will now be able to "get better information on associated fees and expenses," allowing them "to shop around and make informed decisions that will lead to cost savings and a larger nest egg at retirement."
Borzi warned, however, that service providers not in compliance as of July 1 will be in violation of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act's (ERISA) prohibited transaction rules and subject to penalties under the Internal Revenue Code.
The 408(b)(2) regulation applies to "covered plans," that is, all ERISA-governed retirement plans other than SEP IRAs and SIMPLE IRAs. Individual retirement accounts are also excluded. All 401(k) plans, ERISA-covered 403(b) plans, defined benefit pension plans and profit sharing plans are subject to the regulation.
"408(b)(2) imposes a legal obligation on service providers that was always expected to be met since ERISA was passed," says David Witz, managing director of Fiduciary Risk Assessment (FRA)/PlanTools. However, "failure to meet the historic expectation [under 408(b)(2)] is due in large part [to] a lack of enforcement."
Under 408(b)(2), Witz explains in a recent PlanTools white paper on the topic, covered service providers (CSP) will be required to deliver a written disclosure to the responsible plan fiduciary of their status as a fiduciary, the services they will render, fees charged for services rendered and a description of the arrangement between the payer and the CSP.
Once this information is received, the fiduciary has an obligation to:
- Read the disclosures
- Determine if there are conflicts of interest
- Determine if fees are reasonable
- Determine if the disclosures meet the 408(b)(2) regulatory requirements
All may go smoothly come July 2. However, Witz points to three reasons why a fiduciary may find that on July 2 they are busy preparing three written requests for information from their CSP. They include:
- The CSP failed to provide any disclosures.
- The CSP provided incomplete disclosures.
- Additional information is necessary to determine if the contract or arrangement is prudent and conflict free.
To clarify areas where plan administrators and service providers needed help, EBSA issued in early May guidance to help them comply with the requirements of new rules 408(b)2 and 404(a)5, EBSA's final regulation on conflicted investment advice to plan participants, which becomes effective in September.
The guidance—Field Assistance Bulletin No. 2012-02—included a set of frequently asked questions and answers. At press time in late May, a DOL spokesman told Investment Advisor that another set of guidance—which would focus more closely on just 408(b)(2)—would be out before the July 1 compliance date.
Craig Hoffman, general counsel and director of regulatory affairs for the American Society of Pension Professionals and Actuaries (ASPPA), told DOL in a recent comment letter that the Department needed to clarify the proper treatment of asset allocation strategies under the new rules—408(b)(2) and 404(a)—and a transitional period of relief was needed for practitioners and plan sponsors as they move forward with the implementation process.
Some transitional relief was provided in the guidance DOL issued in its early May Field Assistance Bulletin, Hoffman says, however ASPPA would have liked it to be "stronger." DOL said in its Bulletin that while "further broad-based extensions" for compliance with both rules are not needed, for enforcement purposes, the Department will take into account whether covered service providers and plan administrators "have acted in good faith based on a reasonable interpretation of the new regulations. If they have acted in good faith based on a reasonable interpretation of the new regulations, enforcement actions generally would be unnecessary if the covered service provider or plan administrator, as applicable, also establishes a plan for complying with the requirements of this Bulletin in future disclosures."
Hoffman questions what the DOL means by stating that "enforcement actions generally would be unnecessary" if the provider or plan administrator has acted in good faith. "There's a lot of equivocation in that sentence," he says. "What does 'generally' mean?"
While the guidance provided much needed assistance, to the surprise of many it also ushered in a new requirement involving brokerage windows. "The DOL has chartered some very new ground on brokerage windows that nobody expected," Hoffman says. What the DOL essentially says in its Field Assistance Bulletin is that if a "plan offers only a brokerage window or similar arrangement then the plan fiduciary may be obligated to monitor the investments that are selected through the brokerage window by participants and beneficiaries and potentially treat it as a designated investment alternative."
Indeed, while industry officials applaud DOL's fee disclosure rules, they also cite the myriad challenges that the rules bring.
Witz with PlanTools says that 408(b)(2) creates the biggest challenge for BDs that receive non-monetary compensation. "Many [BDs] are struggling with the ability to capture all the data to allocate the non-monetary [compensation] accurately to retirement plan assets," he says. "Few BDs have the technology in place to address this and will most likely fail to be ready by July 1. At best, they can disclose what they have and make a correction to it within 90 days to avoid being reported to the DOL."
Fred Reish, partner and chair of the financial services ERISA team at Drinker Biddle & Reath in Los Angeles, issued several alerts with his colleagues regarding potential impacts of the fee disclosure rules. In an alert focusing on registered investment advisors, Reish and his partners note that the final 408(b)(2) rule raises two issues which may come as a surprise to RIAs.
First is that asset allocation models may be treated as designated investment alternatives (DIAs), resulting in a number of disclosure requirements (both under 408(b)(2) and the participant disclosure regulation), he says.
Second, Reish says, is that DOL has interpreted "indirect compensation" very broadly in a way that could require additional disclosures from RIAs. "That would apply, for example, where investment providers (like mutual funds) or service providers (like independent recordkeepers or bundled providers) provide financial assistance to RIAs," he says. "One specific example would be a conference put on by an RIA for its plan sponsor clients. Another example would be where an investment provider or a service provider offers 'free' services to RIAs for their plan sponsor clients."
Reish and his colleagues note in other alerts on 408(b)(2) their concern about the lack of awareness of discretionary investment managers concerning 408(b)(2) disclosures, and 408(b)(2) disclosures by advisors who refer investment managers and receive solicitor's fees.
As Reish explains, it's common that when an advisor refers an investment manager to an ERISA plan, the advisor will receive a referral fee, which is called a solicitor's fee. In most cases, he says, "the advisor will receive a fee for the referral that often continues so long as the plan uses the investment manager. Under the securities laws, the advisor provides a solicitor's fee disclosure statement to the investors."
From an ERISA perspective, Reish continues, "the advisor has provided a service to the plan and, interpreting the 408(b)(2) regulation, the advisor has become a 'covered service provider' for two reasons."
First, "in making the referral, the advisor, both the firm and the individual, are acting as a registered investment advisor and as a representative of the RIA, respectively," he says. "An RIA that provides services directly to a plan is a covered service provider."
In addition, he says, "it appears that the advisor has provided consulting services (that is, consulting on the selection of service providers) and has received indirect compensation from the investment manager (that is, the solicitor's fee). If that is the case, the advisor is considered to be a covered service provider."
No doubt service providers and plan administrators can expect other compliance-related issues concerning 408(b)(2) and 404(a) to surface long past the rules' compliance dates. Reish with Drinker Biddle says he worries about some types of services providers' non-compliance more than others.
While 408(b)2 primarily impacts 401(k) recordkeepers, broker-dealers and registered investment advisors, Reish says, the business model of RIAs is more straightforward than the other two because generally there is no indirect compensation. As a result, he says, "advisors who are focused on retirement plans and, therefore, are aware of the 408(b)(2) requirements, have by and large completed their preparation of the documents and disclosures and will be distributing them" before July 1. However, Reish says he worries that "the 'occasional' RIA who provides services to a limited number of plans may not be aware of these new requirements and may, therefore, inadvertently have their relationships with ERISA plans converted to prohibited transactions on July 1."
The disclosures for recordkeepers, Reish explains, are complex, because of the indirect compensation and because of the services that they provide to ERISA plans. However, he says, "recordkeepers are, by definition, focused on ERISA retirement plans. As a result, they—more than any other type of service provider—have been working on these disclosures for years. I expect that recordkeepers will universally be in compliance by July 1."
For broker-dealers, Reish says, the issues are more complex. "For example, they receive the greatest variety of forms of indirect compensation […] and some of those are difficult to identify and quantify." Also, "some broker-dealers have difficulty even identifying all of their ERISA plan customers. As a result, I am concerned that some broker-dealers—and particularly the smaller ones—will inadvertently fail to make the disclosures to some of their ERISA plan customers."
Another concern, he says, is that "some of the less obvious forms of compensation will not be disclosed. That could include, for example, transactional compensation paid to subcontractors and indirect compensation, such as revenue sharing from other service providers [or] investments."


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Many confused by constantly changing weather
You couldn't tell Thursday was the first full day of spring by looking outside. What made the cold snap even more surprising was that it came just a few days after our area hit 80 degrees!
Nearly everyone 40/29 News spoke with used the word "crazy" to describe the weather.
No one seemed to like the back-and-forth pattern, and even those who have lived here for years said you never get used to it.
"I actually was at the safari on Saturday, and I was sweating a little bit. It was so warm outside, and now it's freezing. Back to jackets and hats all again," Sonya King said.
"I don't like it at all. I was so ready for the spring," Irma Dart said.
For some, it's not that they hate the cold; they just hate the inconsistency of the unpredictable weather.
"I'm from up north, and you never know what you're going to get around here," Kelly Alexander said.
"I'm not used to it. I think that's why everybody seems to have cold symptoms: Stuffy nose and sore throat," Crystal Smith said.
Most of the people we spoke with thought we were done with this sort of weather, but Mother Nature had other plans. Now, many are wishing for a change.
"I prefer the perfect springtime weather, about 75 and just warm out, not the coldness," King said.
"Warm like spring, but not hot like our summers get, like 60s" Smith said.


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- yes, if you want them to be able to download, why not? I am fine with that. I have bandwidth to spare.
- we can agree on a better naming scheme for the mirror just prior to launching it.
I will send you a PM where we can talk in my chat rather than cluttering this topic with our good intentions!
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All noted. Thank you. I can only reply very briefly due to my Internet being non-existent (I am using a mobile phone for the uplink right now).
I have a suggestion: you could get yourself an account on one of my servers where you can freely upload any material you think could be worth saving. What do you think about that?
We could even make it immediately available through an address such as "hektor.mirror.k0nsl.org".
Best wishes,
Thanks, sounds like an idea. But I think we need to look at some points:
- any legal or regulatory restrictions, except the usual no porn, no scams, no threats type? One may consider this to be self-evident, but nowadays one got to say.
- Will members of the public be able to download and will it be searchable via google?!
- books, video, audio I think the sub-domain name should be of that type books.mirror.k0nsl.org, we'd to agree on one. My reasoning is that the right name may be able to draw more visitors via search engines
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Undeniably one of the most magnificent California wineries, the white monastic buildings rise from a bluff to overlook the Napa Valley. As our guest, you will travel by aerial Sky Tram arriving to our hilltop winery. When arriving, you'll begin a fascinating self-paced tour of our winery while enjoying award winning wines.
Our Visitor's Center offers a wide selection of unique gifts and wine accessories. On display throughout the tasting rooms is an impressive collection of wine art and artifacts spanning 500 years.
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Plan a trip to Sterling Vineyards on our interactive winery map:
Sterling Vineyards in Calistoga has been long held as one of Napa Valley's landmark, "must-see" wineries. Arrive at the hilltop winery via a serene aerial tram, then at your own pace, follow a self-guided tour with informative displays, enhanced by a winemaker's video tour, concluding with a wine tastings with sit-down table service. The Sterling staff is known for their gracious hospitality and extensive wine knowledge. Founded in 1969, Sterling has been a pioneer producer of fine red Bordeaux wines and the first winery in America to produce a vintage-dated Merlot ('69). The New York Times notes that Sterling Vineyards is "one of the most spectacular wineries in Napa Valley…"View from Tasting Room: Stunning 360 degree panorama of the upper Napa Valley Agricultural Preserve
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The course below is applicable toward NATMI's nationally recognized, university accredited Certified Driver Trainer (CDT) program. Taking the course is the first step toward earning a credential that will help you become a more competent professional, earn industry recognition and credibility in court testimony. If you have the job experience, you can pay one lump sum that covers all fees for certification, and complete the process within a 60-day time frame – or less.
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Job Experience Required: 2 years in driver training
NATMI Accelerated Certification School Format
Certification Category:
On your own prior to courses:
Review certification kit
Course requirement:
Essential Instructional Skills for Professional Driver Trainers
Certification Exam:
Certification examination taken immediately following course
On your own following courses:
Submit certification application within 60 days of classroom training and exam
Fees for Professional Certification Applicants:
All-inclusive tuition for Accelerated Certification School Program (includes both course fees, NATMI membership fee, certification kit and certification application fee):
Instructional Skills Course Benefits:
1. Understand the four-step teaching/learning process.
2. Understand how adults learn so that you can provide the most effective training delivery.
3. Learn how to develop effective lesson plans.
4. Learn the characteristics of a good instructor and how to incorporate them into your own teaching.
5. Learn how to effectively prepare for a presentation.
6. Identify and develop the skills necessary to become a dynamic speaker and effective educator.
7. Teach your own lesson and receive a supportive and constructive evaluation of your presentation.
8. Learn to develop and conduct in-house training programs, as well as effective on-the-job training.
9. Integrate the skills developed in this course with your daily supervision responsibilities.
Course Description
This train-the-trainer course is for professionals responsible for the development and implementation of professional driver training programs. Students learn teaching skills and their practical application. In addition, students will have the opportunity to present their own lesson plans with critique following. The following topics are covered:
· The Instructional Process - Phases of the teaching-learning process.
· Principles of Learning - Effective training based upon motivation, participation, knowledge of results and reinforcement.
· How to Prepare Performance Objectives - Determining desired results for specific learning experiences.
· Teaching Assignments & Instructor Demonstration - Teaching topics for class presentation; instructor demonstration of a teaching topic.
· Evaluation of Training Effectiveness - How to analyze performance.
· Lesson Plans - Components; development; importance.
· Instructional Techniques - Selecting and using instructional techniques and aids.
· The Role of the Trainer - Tools for efficient administration.
· Practice Teaching - Presenting your own lesson & critique.
· Organization of an Effective Training Program - Developing the company-training program; how to evaluate results.
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Lessons of Mianus River Bridge collapse not yet learned
Thirty years after a 100-foot piece of the Mianus River bridge fell into the water and shocked the state into setting aside funds for bridge repair and maintenance, Connecticut still struggles to find the money to perform the work.
Even though a new law that goes into effect in 2015 will prevent that money from being diverted, the number of bridges that need repairs is growing so fast that the state's 25-cents-per-gallon gas tax and another tax on petroleum product distributors may not be enough to cover the work that is needed. The state has $16 billion worth of unfunded transportation projects scheduled over the next 20 years,
"We can't take for granted the gas tax is going to cut it anymore," state Rep. Tony Guerrera, D-29, said. "I don't want something bad to happen before we realize we need to do something to get the substantial revenue we need for our infrastructure."
On June 28, 1983, when the deck fell out of the Mianus River bridge, since renamed the Michael L. Morano Bridge, the Fairfield County section of Interstate 95 saw 90,000 vehicles pass through every day. Today it's more like 130,000 to 200,000.
The accident happened at 1:30 a.m., or more people might have been killed or hurt. Two tractor-trailers and one car fell with the bridge deck, and another car drove off into the void. Three people died, and three others were seriously injured.
Truck and car traffic had to be detoured off I-95 into Greenwich and neighboring Port Chester, N.Y., creating a massive blockage in one of the nation's biggest arteries of commerce for months. A temporary span was established over the gaping hole in the bridge, allowing cars to go over, but trucks had to use U.S. Route 1 until the permanent repairs were made.
The disaster put a spotlight on Connecticut's neglected bridge maintenance when federal investigators found the state had delayed critical repairs to the rusted superstructure of the bridge because of a lack of funding.
After that, Gov. William A. O'Neill and state officials created the Special Transportation Fund to set aside money to maintain and repair the state's bridges. It is funded by a 25-cent gas tax and the petroleum products gross receipts tax.
The state has collected billions from these taxes. But frequently the fund is not used for bridge maintenance and repair. Just over 50 percent of it has gone to its intended use. The rest has paid for other projects or helped plug holes in the budget.
Even once the new law kicks in and money in the fund is preserved, there is another concern: The tax revenue representing the money for maintenance and repairs is expected to drop precipitously as new federal mileage standards push car makers to produce more efficient vehicles and people drive more hybrids and electric cars.
Yet the need for bridge repairs is growing fast. Last week, the Washington, D.C., group Transportation 4 America released a report that stating that more than 400 bridges in Connecticut are structurally deficient, including 100 bridges in Fairfield County.
The preferred options for increasing the Special Transportation Fund are raising taxes and bringing tolls back, both of which are political hot potatoes.
This week, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy told reporter that a new strategic planning effort will consider new revenue sources such as tolls to offset the expected crash in gas-tax revenue.
"You can put your head in the sand about that," Malloy said. "(That) is something a lot of people in politics, particularly Connecticut, like to do. They like to pretend something that is a year away is a century away."
Last winter, the state hired a consulting firm to study so-called value-pricing tolls, which would charge different prices based on the time of day a trip is taken, and their effectiveness in producing funding for transportation projects.
Connecticut has been down this road before.
Early in the last decade, the state's Transportation Strategy Board recommended raising the state's Motor Fuel Tax to 35 cents or higher, placing a half-penny surcharge on the state's sales tax and aggressively evaluating the reinstitution of tolls on state roads.
"We evaluated the eventual introduction of better mileage and hybrids and the need to identify new sources of revenue," said Oz Greibel, the chairman of the group. "The recommendations made some people irate."
Federal funding for repairing and maintaining interstate highways is facing a similar problem. The money in the Federal Highway Trust Fund is also supported by gas-tax revenue, and the money in it also is diverted to other projects.
"The federal picture is really murky going forward, and it's really unclear what Congress is going to do," said Steve Higashide, senior planner of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign, an advocacy group which analyzes transportation issues in Connecticut.
All this is going on at a time when the need for better public transportation is growing, and public transit systems have shown they too are suffering from lack of maintenance and repairs. Most notably, the Metro-North derailment and crash last month highlighted the need for maintenance and repair on the area's rail system.
In light of these competing needs for upkeep of infrastructure, Malloy's decisions on how to spend the remaining money in the Special Transportation Fund, along with his decision to continue diverting funds out of it until the new law takes effect, have been questioned by some.
State Rep. Gail Lavielle, R-Wilton, said Malloy's decision to back spending $112 million to build the New Britain-Hartford busway, and to a lesser extent the $880 million New Haven-Hartford-Springfield line, are both questionable investments when weighed against the state's other maintenance and upgrade needs, especially for the Metro-North New Haven Line.
"My biggest question is why the state would continue to spend so much money on speculative projects when we can't even make sure what we have is safe," Lavielle said. "Safety is the highest priority, and we're having these problems with bridges, roads and rail on Metro-North, all three which have usage that is very high. Why aren't we addressing it?"
Connecticut Rail Commuter Council Chairman Jim Cameron said failing to designate all of the petroleum receipts tax to transportation needs over the past decade was in some sense a betrayal of the drivers who paid the tax expecting it would be used for infrastructure.
Cameron also said the state's gas taxes are better spent on $4.5 billion in needed repairs to the New Haven Line, including the replacement of four swing bridges between Greenwich and New Haven and other equipment in recognition of its economic importance.
Cameron said he takes at face value the state's assurances officials are in better control of safety problems than they were before the Mianus River bridge collapse, even as he worries about the economic toll of badly maintained infrastructure.
"We need to get over the idea that roads are free and accept that they need to be maintained," Cameron said. "The Legislature is going to have to do something because they are obviously not coming up with the billions that are needed."
One bright spot in all of this is that technology and engineering knowledge have advanced considerably, allowing the state to put off repairs to bridges that aren't an immediate risk to public safety, Department of Transportation spokesman Kevin Nursick said.
Advances in monitoring equipment and analysis for potential trouble spots make the chances of a highway bridge collapse much less likely than they were in the early 1980s.
On bridges over water where rapid currents can erode concrete piers or other underwater parts of a bridge, the DOT uses a software program called Scourwatch, which evaluates current weather conditions such as rainfall and the flow of rivers to deploy inspectors to a list of spans that should be checked immediately to confirm that a bridge's condition is not worsening.
"In the 30 years since Mianus, a lot has been learned when it comes to the engineering field to understand how bridges age and how they deteriorate and what forces act upon them," Nursick said.
But that's little solace to Guerrera, who said that deferring projects might result in bigger and costlier fixes later on.
"We tend to fix things with Band-Aids rather than repairing them the right way, and we don't want when all is said in done for something terrible to happen and to ask, `Why didn't we do it the right way?' " Guerrera said.


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Visibilità nel cloud pubblico e risposta alle minacce
Include l'intelligenza artificiale per il blocco di minacce avanzate quali virus, malware, exploit e ransomware.
Incrementare il fatturato dei prodotti Sophos, tutto in un unico sito.
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For less common and technical acronyms, write them in capitals (e.g., CD-ROM, WYSIWYG interface, GNOME environment).
You can make abbreviations plural by adding a lowercase "s" without an apostrophe, (e.g., PDFs, CD-ROMs). For indefinite articles ("a" or "an") before an acronym, choose the one you would use when pronouncing the acronym. Examples: an FTP server ("an eff-tee-pee server"), an OS ("an oh-ess"); a UTM ("a yoo-tee-em").
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after the "s" (e.g., the customers' complaints, the companies' future, etc.). If the plural doesn't end in an "s," treat it as a singular (e.g., the women's committee, the people's choice).
Two situations can cause problems:
Ordinary plurals (plurals of a single word) don't need apostrophes. We sell apple's and pear's is wrong.
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Example: Sophos is trusted by 100 million users.
Never say Sophos are.
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For advertising and marketing communications, you can omit the 'www.' to save space.
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Example: We are changing the way people think about digital security worldwide.
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MESA, Ariz. -- Scott Baker threw about 40 pitches at 70 percent effort on Tuesday, the first workout day for Cubs pitchers and catchers, but the right-hander will be "babied" this spring in his comeback from Tommy John surgery, manager Dale Sveum said.
Baker has been encouraged by how his arm feels heading into camp in his first season with the Cubs.
"I feel I'm much farther along than I was at this point last year," he said. "It was such a battle to get ready for last year's Spring Training. Sometimes I think when you're healthy, you're healthy, and it's allowed me to prepare for the season at a much greater capacity than I've had in the past couple years and it's exciting."
Last April, Baker had been scheduled to have surgery on his flexor pronator tendon but when doctors did the surgery, they decided to repair the ligament, and the pitcher underwent reconstructive elbow surgery. Pitchers normally take 12 to 18 months to recover from Tommy John surgery. Sveum would not commit to whether Baker will be ready for the first week of the regular season.
"We're not going to put a timetable on it," Sveum said Tuesday. "We're going to ease him into it and see how it works."
The Cubs do have depth, so they can afford to give Baker more time. He has been throwing since mid January and was looking forward to re-establishing himself following the surgery.
"It's just a matter of getting back into the routine and getting back into the 'pitch ability' part of it and getting back to facing hitters," he said. "That's the biggest test for me because I haven't done it for so long. As far as health, I feel great."
But he's not quite 100 percent.
"I'm as far along as I'm supposed to be right now," Baker said. "I would say '100 percent' would be pitching in games, and obviously, there are no games to pitch in. That's part of the process is using Spring Training to prepare for the season."


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Independent Study/Research
In every case it is the student's responsibility to find a supervisor for the research or study undertaken. The student must file a Course VI Independent Study Approval Form by the Add Date of every term for which he or she registers for any of the numbers except UROP and the M.Eng. thesis.
6.UR Undergraduate Research Opportunities and SuperUROP
The online UROP application must be completed by the UROP deadline each term. A short report (around two pages) is required at the end of each term for a final grade to be awarded.
For more general information, visit the MIT Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program and see the EECS Undergraduate Office Insights on finding a UROP. For more information and application for the "Super UROP" visit the site (MIT certificates required).
6.100 Independent Research Project
6.100 is the appropriate number for work that is a coherent laboratory project suitable for letter grade credit. It is always taken for a letter grade, and the same project should not continue for more than one term. A proposal must be submitted by Add Date. It is almost always supervised by department faculty or senior research staff. The intent is that it should be more structured (a defined laboratory project) than a UROP (which may be more vague) and that it must be a limited, one-term project. A final report of at least ten pages must be submitted, accompanied by an Independent Study Grade Form and Cover Sheet. 6.100 is administered by the Course VI Undergraduate Office in 38-476. No more than 12 units of 6.100 may be taken in one term. It may be repeated for credit.
6.910 Independent Reading Course
6.910 is to be used for independent study which does not involve laboratory work or research. It should be used only when a subject in the desired area does not exist at MIT. A short bibliography must be submitted; an annotated bibliography must be submitted at the conclusion. This is to be a one-term subject. See Forms.
6.920 Practical Work Experience
The student must register for the work in the term in which it is performed, except in the case of summer work, which should be registered in the fall term. To receive credit, a substantive final report (approximately two pages), a letter from the company stating that the work was completed satisfactorily, and a 6.920 Practical Work Experience Final Grade Sheet signed by the MIT supervisor must be submitted to the Undergraduate Office within 30 days after the final date of employment.
6.920 may not normally be used for work arranged through the IAP Externship Program; and VI-A students are not eligible for 6.920 internships. 6.920 may be used for no more than three summers and one IAP (before graduation), for very temporary work, or for work done during a semester when the student is registered as a full-time MIT student.