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Is this a good thing? Doesn't this just create a vacuum to be filled with Islamic Fascists only concerned with invading Israel? I'm guessing, 10-15 years from now, if Egyptian government is replaced with a Muslim leader, we will see another conflict [Egypt] with Israel. The guy might have been a little corrupt with money, and he might have oppressed political rivals to remain in power, but he worked diligently for peace in the Middle East, wiped out their debt and, for the last ten years, the Egyptian economy has been rising. I think this is kind of dark moment in their history, but what do you think?
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I cannot speak for those of you not in the US, but my opinion on Mubarak resigning and the US taking an interest in this:
The people of Egypt have spoken, and they want a new leader and/or type of government. And if that's what they truly want, then that's what they should receive. In the long run, will it be a good thing? Nobody knows. They could end up with some muslim islamic jihadist who wants nothing more than to see the whole world burn. They could end up with a democracy like the US/Canada/Mexico/etc. We'll never know until their new government is installed. Right now there's an equal chance of them getting someone good or bad.
As far as the US interest in this: Not our country. Not our citizens, either. We shouldn't take an active role in "helping" them determine the type of government they want. They elected Mubarak, and now they want him gone. It falls on the shoulders of the Egyptian citizens to figure this one out. By going over there and installing the type of government the US wants installed, all that's going to come of this is that more countries in the middle east will hate us. It isn't our problem, even if it does affect those who we are allied with in that area of the world.
Furthermore, I doubt the resignation is going to stick. He announced yesterday that he was going to resign, only to come out today and say that he never made those comments. And the last I heard on the news was that he was going to delegate the day-to-day stuff to the VP, but was going to retain the power he has. Which means that he could revoke the VP's powers and just continue to rule as he wants to. Until someone new is elected and Mubarak is no longer truly in power, I won't believe it.
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We had a pitcher who kept a bag of sand, a shovel, and a rake in the trunk of his car. On a game night when there'd been just a little rain, or even more than a little, he would get to the ball field early and repair the mound. Then he'd pour sand into the mud around home plate and the bases and rake it in. He would turn an unplayable field into an acceptable surface before the umpires showed up. When they did get there, the umpires would look surprised. Then they would shrug, and we would play.
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|'Group Health Staff Engagement' is a 2 1/2 minute celebration of Group Health employees and the community service they perform outside the office. Group Health Cooperative is a consumer-governed, nonprofit health care system based in Seattle, Washington.
|'Hunted by Ghosts' is a 3 minute music video featuring The Local Strangers, a Seattle acoustic duo featuring Midwestern transplants Aubrey Zoli and Matt Hart. With soulful vocals and intricate harmonies, their poignant, honest, and relatable songwriting has distinguished them in the Americana/alt-country scene.
|'Nick & Katie' is a 37 minute documentary on Nick Horton and Katie Shapiro's courtship and marriage. The piece is a behind-the-scenes look at how they met, their engagement, and the subsequent wedding rehearsal, barn-dance, preparations, ceremony, toasts and reception.
|'Roasted Red Beet Ravioli' is a 12 minute instructional video on how to prepare the classic Italian dish. Founded in 1990 by Carla Leonardi and Jordi Viladas, Cafe Lago prepares its many pasti and doughs fresh by hand, each morning, and bakes its pizza over apple wood fires by night.
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|'The Facts About Freedom' is a 1/2 hour program celebrating the Challenger School and its patriotism. With campuses throughout western United States, the school's mission is to prepare, teach, lead and inspire children to become self-reliant, productive individuals.


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The English Language Institute (ELI) is a semi-intensive language program based in Colorado Springs designed to meet the needs of those individuals who:
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Our ELI sequence chart shows you the required classes for each level of our program and a brief description of each course.
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The English Language Institute offers both daytime and evening classes in the fall and spring semesters. The classes meet twice a week (either on Mondays and Wednesdays or on Tuesdays and Thursdays) and go for 15 weeks. In the summer semester, basic and intermediate classes are offered. They meet in the daytime four days per week, Monday through Thursday, for 10 weeks. Take a look at our current brochure and schedule.
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The ability to open your garage door without stepping out of your car has become a luxury we take for granted and feel is a necessity in today's world. If you do not have a garage door opener, it will seem like a dream of convenience once you install one! You may be worried about the cost of installing a garage door opener, but here are a few factors that can affect the price and help you decide which opener is the best for you.
Types of OpenersThere are a number of different types of garage door openers and each type will be a different price point. Make sure to choose the type that is best for you by weighing certain factors. It doesn't help to save money if you are not getting what you need and want!
Chain-driven OpenersChain driven garage door openers are great option if price is the most important factor. These openers use chain to get the garage door open. They tend to be loud and so not the best choice for garages that also contain a work space or a living space above. But they are the cheapest so if price is the issue, choose this type of opener.
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With production of Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" gearing up to start in two weeks, it looks like the director is making the final additions to his cast with Aussie veteran Jack Thompson now set to reunite with his "Australia" director once again.
No word on what role Thompson -- who boasts a 40 year resume which includes, among others, "The Good German," "Star Wars: Episode II" and "Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark" -- will be taking but we'd imagine it'd be something minor a la his work on "Australia." Candidates are likely narrowed to the elder characters of Fitzgerald novel including the Arnold Rothstein surrogate, Meyer Wolfsheim, or Gatsby's father, Henry C. Gatz. Little known actor Kim Knuckey has also evidently been cast as "a senator" in Luhrmann's $150 million dollar adaptation.
The duo top off an illustrious ensemble which will see Leonardo DiCaprio as the wealthy and mysterious Jay Gatsby; Carey Mulligan as Gatsby's love, Daisy Buchanan; Isla Fisher as Myrtle, a married woman having an affair with Tom Buchanan (Joel Edgerton); Jason Clarke as George Wilson, Myrtle's husband; with Tobey Maguire portraying protagonist Nick Carraway and Australian newcomer Elizabeth Debicki as Carraway's love interest, Jordan Baker.
An assault on the 2012 award season is surely on the cards, but we're mostly just fascinated to see how Luhrmann will manage to bring 1920s jazz-age New York to life in 3D considering the fact he's lensing on the other side of the world. [DailyTelegraph]


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Join us for this artsy day that celebrates the light of the Winter season through visual art and music. Both masters of their art forms, photographer Zion Ozeri and contemporary Jewish musician Rabbi Joe Black will deliver a mixed media performance crafted especially for our program. Artist members of the Mizel Museum will exhibit their fine art, crafts and jewelry, all available for sale–just in time for the winter holidays!
WHEN: Sunday, November 11, 1:00-6:00pm
1:00-4:30pm – Holiday Art Market & Tours of 4,000 Year Road Trip: Gathering Sparks
4:30-5:30pm – Mixed media performance
5:30-6:00pm – Holiday Art Market continues
WHERE: Rodef Shalom, 450 S. Kearney St., Denver
TICKETS: $18 members; $22 non-members
Includes art exhibition and sale, ticket to performance, light snacks and refreshments and admission to 4,000 Year Road Trip: Gathering Sparks
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ZION OZERI is a world-renowned photographer who explores the Jewish experience. In his photographs, Ozeri encounters Jewish communities scattered across the world and in them he finds a sense of home, familiar customs and shared experiences.
RABBI JOE BLACK's superb musicianship, powerful songwriting and sense of spiritual awareness creates an opportunity for the head and the heart to come together. A Rabbi Joe Black performance is an engrossing experience — an extraordinary and unique extension of the rabbinate.
Salon Night: In Photos – Contemporary Jewish Migration, Causes & Effects
Thursday, November 8, 5:30-7:30 pm
Zion will discuss the Jewish diaspora with a close look at migration through his photographs from Yemen, Uzbekistan the former Soviet Union and Latin America, among others.
The Art of Shabbat: In Photos – Abraham Responds
Friday, November 9, 4:15 pm
Join us for this unique shabbat dinner with artist Zion Ozeri. With his photographs, Zion will illustrate this week's torah reading, which deals with issues of tikkun olam (healing the world).
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//of the band, Uh Huh Her (and The L Word fame), performing a set at Pride Toronto 2008.
Today is the last day to catch the "Artwherk!" exhibit at Hotshot Gallery in Toronto's Kensington Market. I'll be taking a break from all these weekend photos to head over at 7pm and take my pieces down.
Upcoming exhibits: Artwherk 2008 Pride Week Exhibit: Jun 23-30, Hotshot Gallery, Kensington Market Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition: July 11-13, Nathan Phillips Square, booth 538 | Port Credit Outdoor Art Show: July 18-20, Credit Village Marina | Cabbagetown Arts & Crafts Sale: Sept 5-7, Riverdale Park West | Queen West Art Crawl: Sept 13-14, Trinity Bellwoods Park
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Defense Minister Vahidi says Kavoshgar-3 launched into space carrying a mouse, turtles and worms; local media report Islamic Republic to unveil three new satellites. US calls rocket launch 'provocative act'
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defense minister said Wednesday that his country has successfully launched a new rocket carrying a mouse, turtles and worms into space for research purposes.
Gen. Ahmad Vahidi did not elaborate on the rocket or its research purposes.
A White House spokesman said later Wednesday that Iran's launch of a rocket capable of carrying a satellite was a "provocative act,"
Asked for a reaction to Iran's announcement, White House spokesman Bill Burton said the United States was still checking to see if the launch had taken place.
"A launch like that is obviously a provocative act," Burton told reporters. "But the president believes that it is not too late for Iran to do the right thing - come to the table with the international community and live up to its international obligations."
Iranian media said earlier the Islamic Republic would on Wednesday unveil three new satellites and another satellite carrier, named Simorgh.
The reports said President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attended an official presentation ceremony in Tehran. It coincides with a 10-day period of national events marking the 31st anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution.
Exactly one year ago, Iran launched a domestically made satellite into orbit for the first time. It has said the launch of the Omid satellite was for peaceful telecommunications and research purposes.
Iran, the world's fifth-largest oil exporter, says its nuclear program is solely to generate electricity, and Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday Iran was ready to send its enriched uranium abroad in exchange for nuclear fuel.
In December, Iran said it test-fired a long-range, upgraded Sejil 2 missile. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown at the time said the launch was of serious concern to the international community and underlined the case for tougher sanctions.


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G.I. Joe: Retaliation Off To Fast Start At Box Office
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Go, Joe! Jon M. Chus G.I. Joe sequel, Retaliation, got off to a fast start heading into the Easter weekend. Numbers shared with Deadline claim that Paramounts popcorn blockbuster banked $10.5 million thanks to a handful of Wednesday night screenings and a full day of Thursday screenings.
The $2.5M earned by Retaliation on Wednesday evening was a little more than we expected, a studio source shared with Deadline, who also pointed at positive tracking in order to summarize, Maybe we do have a shot at $50M in the U.S. Deadline notes that CinemaScores posted by exiting audience members averaged at A- and improvement over the B+ earned by the first G.I. Joe movie, The Rise of Cobra.
But how did Rise of Cobra perform at the box office? Though it opened at the tail end of a busy summer movie season (meaning its not easy to make a fair comparison), Stephen Sommers G.I. Joe film had crossed the $22M mark after one full day of screenings, and earned $54M over its opening weekend. Retaliation will have a head start on its predecessor, having essentially four days to earn its opening number. But at first glance, the addition of Dwayne The Rock Johnson and Bruce Willis was worth its weight in gold for Paramount and the Joe franchise.
Now the key is how much we go up on Good Friday, a Paramount exec told Deadline. Well continue to track Chus sequel throughout the weekend, but tell us: Are youre planning on going? Will you pay for 3D? And tell us what did you think of the new G.I. Joe when you get back.
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The South Fork of Strawberry Creek provides an example of a stream that, like Hearst Creek, has been greatly affected by human activity. The Creek's water was diverted for campus use during the 1800s, and various types of walls were installed to keep the stream from eroding the campus landscape. It quickly became inhospitable to most kinds of fish and insects. In the years that followed, leaked automobile fluids, lawn fertilizers, chemical
waste, sewage overflow, and campus construction projects have variously contributed to the pollution level in the creek.
Because of these problems with water quality, Strawberry Creek was the subject of extensive clean-up and restoration efforts beginning in the 1980s. Native species of fish were reintroduced to the stream in 1989 and newer, more environmentally-friendly types of of technologies were used to control the erosion of Strawberry Creek's banks. Although certain problems remain, including urban pollution, the occasional burst sewer, and ongoing campus construction projects, the creek is much healthier than it was, and students and others in the community continue to monitor it.
Unlike the beheaded Hearst Creek, Strawberry Creek is, at present, only an offset
channel. It is still connected to the watershed from Strawberry Canyon, where it has its source. It is being deformed, however, by plate motion, and there is a large bend as the creek crosses the Hayward Fault, though this is obscured by Memorial Stadium. Over the course of time, it can be expected that Strawberry Creek's current course will be abandoned and that other streambeds or low spots in the topography will catch the flow from Strawberry Canyon and Strawberry Creek will carve a new path. The locations of the channels that cross the fault zone - or more accurately, their dislocations - have been used to determine the slip
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South Dakota State quarterback Zach Lujan threw for a career-high 395 yards and All-America wide receiver Jake Wieneke was on…
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South Dakota State University Head Football Coach John Stiegelmeier says they have landed a very good crop of recruits this year.
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Farmland Premiere a Huge Success
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A local farmer stars in Farmland
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USDA surprises trade with corn numbers.
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Motel Fire Ruled Arson, ATF Asking For Help
A motel fire in Yankton has been ruled as arson, and the ATF is asking the public to help.
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Two people died in a head on collision late Friday afternoon on Highway 81 north of Yankton.
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Area Divers Honored
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South Dakota State's Clark Kocourek and South Dakota's Greysen Hertting were named The Summit League's Divers of the Week for their performances Jan. 10-11.
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Cyclones Suffer Second Setback
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DeAndre Kane had 21 points and eight rebounds but number-10 Iowa State suffered a 77-70 loss to 15th-ranked Kansas last night in Ames.
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This week's Associated Press college basketball poll produced promotions for Iowa State, Iowa and Creighton.
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John Shaw, CEO of the Natural Products Association
Baltimore, MD—At its annual business meeting held during Expo East, the Natural Products Association (NPA) announced that its recommendation to change its membership criteria was voted down. Failing by 11 votes, the change would have allowed for new retailer members that do not have a self-contained store or have less than 75% of their sales coming from natural products to qualify for membership.
Several other amendments to its bylaws passed, however. These include:
"NPA membership gave us clear guidance on where they want us to go," said NPA's executive director and CEO John Shaw about the bylaw votes.
In addition, NPA announced that Ben Henderson of Bare Essentials Natural Market in Boone, NC, and Emil Mahler of Southtown Health Foods in Chicago, IL were elected to its board of directors. New supplier directors include Robert Agnew of Bob's Red Mill; Frank Jaksch of ChromaDex; Michelle Lobo of Presence/Dynamic Presence; and J.R. Rigley of J.R. Watkins. Mark LeDoux of Natural Alternatives International was elected to a second term on the board.
Last, NPA gave out its annual awards during the meeting. Scott Bass of Sidley Austin won the President's Award; Paul M. Coates, Ph.D., of the National Institutes of Health received the Burton Kallman Scientific Award; architect William McDonough took home the Rachel Carson Environmental Award; the Clinician's Award went to herbalist David Winston; the Socially Responsible Retailer Award went to Nature's Bin of Lakewood, Ohio, and the Industry Champion Awards were given to Mark Blumenthal of the American Botanical Council and Pat Sardell of Country Vitamins.
NPA's advocacy efforts continue on many fronts, including the GMO labeling issue, according to Shaw. He says the Farm Bill is a potential avenue for GMO labeling reform that the group is monitoring. Shaw also points to buzzed about changes in the tax code as an area of concern for the industry. NPA is trying to advance the mindset of "first, do no harm" with legislators, in an effort to protect small natural products businesses and suppliers from tax burdens.
Full Expo East 2013 Coverage
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Hand Me Ups {giveaway}
A few weeks ago I participated in a HUGE consignment sale here in Palmer. I really enjoyed
the sale, I made some money and got some great clothes for my kids. While working there to
earn volunteer hours(not mandatory!!) I met Kari. Kari is the owner of Hand Me Ups another
consignment sale held in Anchorage. We got to talking and decided we should get the word out
about the next big consignment sale. So without further adieu here is my interview with Kari and
the details on how you can win 25 dollars in Hand Me Ups credit to their next sale.
so Kari jumping right in, when IS the next big sale?
The next Hand Me Ups Sale is going to be this coming week, Thursday, October 18 through
Sunday, October 21st at The Mall at Sears in Anchorage (Benson side in the newly renovated
entrance). Admission of course is free!
How did Hand Me Ups get started?
Hand Me Ups began as an idea as I traveled in the lower 48 to visit family. My sister introduced
me to a consignment sale in her area. These types of sales are very popular in the lower 48.
She showed me how she was able to sell her kid's items and buy clothes/toys/furniture for
the upcoming season (and sometimes beyond) without even spending a dime. I went to the
sale and was amazed by the organization and cleanliness of it all. It was exciting to be able to
browse through all the deals and know that I was not only getting great bargains on high quality
used items but also helping families within the community out. It was very easy to shop and
it was so nice to have everything I could ever need all in one location. The more I began to
understand about the sale, the stronger my desire became to start a sale in Anchorage. I love
watching the community come together and help each other save money as their kids outgrow
their stuff. It is an even bigger bonus to serve the community and local outreach programs by
being able to connect unsold unwanted items to families and kids in need. I couldn't wait to
get home and start a similar program, blessing the community and families in Anchorage…and
that's how Hand Me Ups was born.
Is it only kids clothes for sale?
No, It's definitely not only kid's clothes. The sale is for anything maternity, baby, or child related
from birth to teen. We accept toys, furniture, clothes, outdoor equipment, sports equipment,
books and everything in between. If it has to do with pregnancy or children, we can accept it at
the sale.
How does this all work? Can anyone sell their clothes?
Basically, Hand Me Ups provides the venue , handles the advertising and marketing, provides
racks, tables and equipment, handles the organization of items by gender, size and equipment
for easy shopping, handles all monetary transactions so sellers don't have to deal with bounced
checks or credit card fees, haggling, meeting with strangers or the hassle of hosting a garage
sale and... we do it for a small percentage of the items that sell! We charge a small percentage
of just 35% for consignors and as little as 25% for volunteers. All someone wanting to sell
their stuff has to do is register, hang &, tag their items by pricing them at what THEY want to
sell them at and we do the rest! Sellers do not have to be present at all during the 4 whole
day event. All the items received from sellers are placed in an organized, clean and fun
environment with lots of exposure by being in front of over 500 families in the community.
Sellers receive a check at the end of the event for all their sold items. EVERYONE that has
stuff relating to kids is welcome to become a consignor.
How much money could I make?
The amount you could make at a sale like this is endless. In the lower 48 there are folks who
make a living by finding really good deals and then reselling them at consignment sales like
Hand Me Ups. If you have 1,000 items to sell or 100, you are welcome to join us. We had
checks cut for $50 up to $1000 at the last sale in April. The money is only limited by the amount
of items you bring in and what you price those items at.
What happens if my clothes don't sell?
If your items don't sell, you have two great options. #1, you can pick up those items at the end
of the sale and try to sell them another way. If it doesn't sell, you don't pay any percentage.
#2, you can choose to donate those unsold items to local community outreach programs and
charities to help families in the Anchorage community that need it most.
So basically I can sell my used kids clothes at your sale, set my own prices and make some
cash without having a garage sale? I love this idea!
If you want a chance to win a 25 dollar gift certificate for use at the upcoming consignment sale (NEXT WEEK!!) you need to hop on over to facebook and like Hand Me Ups (www.facebook.com/handmeupsllc). Then come back here and leave a comment on this post so you
will be entered to win. Already like them on Facebook?? Then simply leave a comment stating that and you'll be entered. Good Luck! Contest ends Wednesday at HIGH NOON winner announced on Thursday and you can pick up your winning certificate at the Hand Me Ups sale when you go.
Peace and Love--
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Umm, yes please! I'll even be in town dropping Peter off at the airport...time to stock up in the next size for my growing girls!ReplyDelete
So excited! Can't wait to shop!ReplyDelete
Such an awesome idea! I've never heard of such a sale! Thanks for the chance to shop for free :)ReplyDelete
Very cool! Can't wait to check it out and I liked Hand Me Ups on FBReplyDelete
So excited for this sale to buy the next sizes for my growing girl and to make some money too;)ReplyDelete
I already liked Hnd Me Ups and I would love to win some money to shop!ReplyDelete
Just found your blog through the Hand Me Ups FB page (which I already like)! I went last year and found some really nice things and I know this year will be great too!ReplyDelete
Already liked the HMUs page and super stoked about doing the sale for the first time this year!ReplyDelete
I like Hand Me Ups on FB! I can't wait for this sale!ReplyDelete
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Monica the theologian
Culture | The Linda Tripp tapes show that the wrong worldview could leave you begging for immunity
The transcripts of the lunch-time conversations between Monica Lewinsky and her wired confidante, Linda Tripp, reveal the two having a theological discussion. As they were discussing lying in a sworn deposition, they contemplated the nature of truth: Tripp: "The truth shall set you free. Yeah." Lewinsky: "But think about the truth-OK? Think about truth. Truth is synonymous with good. Truth is supposed to be good.... OK? ... This is how I have looked at it, and this is from my Christian Scientist, from talking to this woman, and I have talked to her and I've said, 'Well, what about'-you know, I said, 'If truth is synonymous with good, then truth is good and good is God, OK? If all those things are synonymous, then the right thing to do is not hurt someone.' That's true.... So the truth, well, what is truth? I mean, I'm not trying to have an existential conversation with you." Tripp: "I think everybody has a moral code of some sort." Lewinsky: "We do. But to everybody it's different. Do you see what I mean? OK." Later, as reported by Maureen Dowd of The New York Times, who burrowed through the 4,600 pages of documents released by prosecutor Kenneth Starr to find these tidbits, Ms. Lewinsky said, "The truth is-the truth is-what it should be." As for the Higher Power, Ms. Lewinsky's creed is that "God is synonymous with good, truth and kindness and happiness and all sorts of good things." Ms. Lewinsky's point seems to have been that lying for something good-namely, kindness and happiness and not hurting anyone-is not really lying at all. Ms. Tripp began the discussion by rather half-heartedly citing John 8:32 on the liberating power of the truth. In response, Ms. Lewinsky offered the alternative of New Age relativism: She had talked to a Christian Scientist-a member of a sect that believes that evil and the material world are all illusions-and was smooshing together the true, the good, and the divine. The result was a train of thought that leads her to Pilate's question: "What is truth?" (John 18:38). Ms. Tripp, grounded as she is, however uncomfortably, in an older worldview, picked up on the connection of truth to goodness, but saw it pointing to a moral code. In the biblical worldview, the moral principles of God's Law-such as "Thou shalt not bear false witness," not to mention, "Thou shalt not commit adultery"-have the absolute status of objective truth. Ms. Lewinsky came back with the mantra of today's moral relativists: Everybody's moral code is different. Apparently, Ms. Lewinsky is not a flighty, shallow-minded flake, as she's sometimes portrayed. She thought through her multiple adulteries and perjuries. We see a young woman taking counsel from Christian Scientists, confiding in her friends, and agonizing over her every move. Her thinking, though, is clouded by her worldview. She said she did not want "an existential conversation," but she can hardly avoid it. She is an existentialist: There are no absolutes; we create our own meaning; and what we consider true and moral depends on what we choose. Both Ms. Lewinsky and President Clinton are masters of the ancient art of theological legalists known as casuistry. This refers to the practice of parsing definitions, looking for loopholes, and constructing elaborate philosophical justifications as a way to excuse a moral transgression. In other words, rationalizing immorality. In this they are not alone. They are part and parcel of the large percentage of Americans who do not see what all the fuss is about in the impeachment proceedings, who doubtless think the same way as the president and his erstwhile mistress. Muddle-headed theology may be at the heart of many of our cultural problems. The view that God is nothing more than "kindness and happiness and all sorts of good things" may be the underlying heresy of our age. This tolerant, domesticated, safe deity-who never judges or lets loose his wrath-constitutes an idol of niceness. Though worshipped by liberal theologians, alternative lifestyle devotees, and complacent Americans, such a god does not exist. The God of the Bible, in contrast, is not nice, but righteous; not tolerant, but holy; not kindly looking down, but invading his sinful creation-and offering in Jesus Christ a surprising redemption and forgiveness. The lesson here is that ideas still have consequences. It should not be a surprise when moral relativists act on their beliefs by living immorally. It should not be a surprise when intellectual relativists tell lies. Relativists are surprised, however, when they are caught in their own webs. Ms. Lewinsky did not know that her confidante wore a microphone. Mr. Clinton did not know his intern was talking. Neither of them constructed those realities. They might have avoided such things as grand juries and impeachment hearings if only they had a better worldview.


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The Quality Advocates met on February 17, 2006 to discuss approaches to managing departmental budgets in times of constraint. The three panelists included: Caroline Eckhardt, Department Head of Comparative Literature, College of the Liberal Arts; Richard Koubek, Department Head of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, College of Engineering; and, Jacqueline Stefkovich, Department Head of Education Policy Studies, College of Education. These specific panelists were asked to present their experiences because they had found innovative, creative strategies for dealing with budget cuts. This newsletter summarizes some of the major strategies these three and others have taken to manage budget.
Collaboration, both within units or departments and across colleges, is another key to dealing with budget cuts. In the department of Education Policy Studies, staff and students regularly attend faculty meetings and this helps to achieve support for specific projects or changes. Within the department, the Higher Education Program Alumni Council exemplifies the ways that alumni and students can interact in ways that benefit both the student and the alumni since the student association meets regularly with the Alumni Council. Outside of the department, Education Policy Studies has partnered with the Goodling Institute, the Population Research Institute, the University Libraries, and the Children, Youth and Families Consortium, among others, to fund graduate assistantships or share the costs of graduate assistants. Faculty and graduate students in the department support these collaborations because they realize budgets are limited and new methods must be found to fund assistantships, which are considered vital by the department.
The Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering found collaboration with corporate sponsors can benefit both students and the sponsors. Working with Career Services, the department was able to identify which businesses were hiring graduates and several were contacted about their interest in being sponsors of senior projects. Several corporations have given major gifts of $25,000 over five years and they are able to make connections with current students in the program. Corporate gifts now also fund part of the costs of student clubs and corporate representatives gain exposure to students by participating in student exhibitions and projects.
Rethinking target audiences, developing programming for new audiences, and developing new delivery mechanisms can enhance revenue, but this will require collaboration among many colleges and departments. Eckhardt, in the Department of Comparative Literature, suggested that academic units may need to look to new audiences to build revenue and expand academic opportunities. For instance, the University has some residential summer programming for high school students, but to develop ventures such as expanded summer foreign language institutes, a critical mass of students is needed, which requires greater collaboration between academic and support units. Other audiences that might be targeted, if units can work together across the University to offer an attractive mix of courses, residential accommodations, and support services, include retirees or Penn State's 601,000+ alumni base.
Along with different audiences, new models of delivery of education, such as eLearning which allows one course to be delivered at more than one campus, may help to serve students better, increase revenues, and provide cost savings at campus locations that do not have enough local students or a faculty member to teach required courses.
As another step in the cost reduction process, departments can look to new technologies and innovative methods to increase efficiencies and accountability. For instance, according to Eckhardt, the Department of Comparative Literature had trimmed away almost everything, or so it seemed, and had no other routine costs to cut. But by examining how new technologies could be built into routine support services, the department found it could save costs by using voice over IP for their telephone service and new software to control the expense of photocopying and printing, thus preserving funds for other needs such as travel and visitors.
Increasing accountability has helped the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering keep costs in check. One example is in the materials used in student projects: students now request material for their projects through an online submission form, which automatically documents materials, and part of student design lab grades are based not only on the final product, but also on productivity with regard to cost. Another example is a change in the way the department allocated travel monies. The old process involved individual requests for each trip, requiring much paperwork and time for approvals. Under the new system, faculty receive a set amount each year for professional development for use at their discretion, thus lessening the paperwork and approval time. Such changes lessen the time spent by department heads on administrative matters and give faculty more control over decision-making.
Communication within departments is also critical to success in managing budgets. Depending on the culture of the department or unit, summary budget data may be available to faculty, or more detailed information may be shared more widely. Departmental culture and values dictate the depth to which budgets are shared: complete and open access that leads to increased innovation by faculty in one department may lead to demoralized faculty and staff in another. Making faculty and staff aware of the budget and fiscal limitations can help build support for cost-cutting steps or revenue-enhancing strategies. In addition, it may nudge faculty and staff into thinking of innovative strategies for revenue enhancement or cost cutting.
Managing budgets in times of fiscal constraint requires a department to carefully consider its mission and vision, identify its core values and ensure critical functions are carried out, and look for innovative methods to cut costs and increase revenues. Collaborating with other departments, colleges and alumni could be a key step in this process.
The Quality Advocates Network meets several times each semester to share ideas and examples of improvement and change. To join the Quality Advocates Network mailing list or to learn more about the meetings scheduled, contact the staff at email@example.com.
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Fresh Android Games for Mar. 29: Pipi Quest, Baby Baby, Ninja Toss
by Ian Black
Not every day is a top-tier day for fresh games. These are pretty slim pickings on the fun-o-meter but you still might want to douse the toilet paper (Pipi Quest), raise the baby (BABY BABY) or toss the ninjas (Ninja Toss).
Pipi Quest (Free)
Games don't have to make sense to be fun. Take Pipi Quest, for example.
Mysteriously, all the toilet paper is alive, complete with faces and legs. Even more shocking, all the living toilet paper is on fire. Understandably, all the little rolls are upset by this turn of events, so they're running around like crazy.
You control a fire hose that shoots out, rather strangely, yellow water. You must douse the burning rolls before they burn to death. Use your phone's accelerometer to guide the cross hair over the frantic TP to save them.
After that, there's a bunch more fire.
BABY BABY (Free)
Use this game to promote abstinence in teenagers.
It's a virtual pet style game except it's a human baby girl you must care for, not a dog or cat or made up creature. Your success is measured on making the baby happy, healthy, clean, and fed.
Use the seven areas of the house – including dining, living room, bedroom, bathroom, playroom, and strangely, hospital room and office – to increase the gauges that keep the baby alive. Time is of the essence so ask your teen to check back frequently in the game.
Ninja Toss – Sling Shot Game ($1.00)
Ninjas are pretty indestructible. In recent games, you can send them up skyscrapers (NinJump) or run them off cliffs (Ninja Dash) or rooftops (Ninja Rush). Now you can toss them.
These ninjas are skilled at tightrope walking. Unfortunately, at either end of the rope lies a spinning blade of death. Therefore you must slingshot the ninja over the obstacles to maintain their health. It's a little like Angry Birds without the birds and with a lot more blood.
Ninjas can be injured not just by the spinning blades but also by landing on their swords.


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Cleveland's recent upswing is at least partly a result of collaboration between public, private, and non-profit leaders throughout the area. The Greater University Circle Initiative, for example, has drawn together economic powerhouses, area businesses, and community groups to enhance the Circle and its surrounding neighborhoods. Under the leadership of the Cleveland Foundation and University Circle's anchor institutions Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals, and the Cleveland Clinic, the program has worked to embody its "Buy Local, Hire Local, Live Local" mantra.
NOTE: EngagingCities' Editor, Della Rucker, will be covering ICIC's Inner City Economic Summit on October 22-23. If you're going to be there, let us know!
Collaborating with local government is one of the defining criteria of a Brigade. To build the most impactful solutions, both government and citizens must have a seat at the table.
But collaboration isn't always easy. It takes commitment from both parties, time, and a willingness to walk the proverbial mile in one another's shoes.
To help citizens get started in their community, we've put together the guide How To: Collaborate with Government.
by Hannah Young
ollaborating with local government is one of the defining criteria of a Brigade. To build the most impactful solutions, both government and citizens must have a seat at the table.
The power to govern is often asserted, but it may or may not be based on authentic social consent. This is an important issue because open networks are changing the nature of legitimate authority and the consent of the governed. User communities are increasingly asserting their own authority, assigning identities to people, and allocating rights and privileges in the manner of any conventional institution. Anonymous, Five Star Movement, the Pirate Party, Arab Spring, Lulzsec and Occupy are notable examples of such grassroots, network-enabled movements – and there are plenty of other instances in which distributed networks of users work together toward shared goals in loosely coordinated, bottom-up ways. Such "smart mobs" – elementary forms of GFNs – are showing that they have the legitimacy and legal authority and the economic and cultural power to act as "institutions" with a modicum of governance power.
By David Bollier
I recently wrote the following essay with John H. Clippinger as part of the ongoing work ofID3, the Institute for Data-Driven Design, which is building a new open source platform for secure digital identity, user-centric control over personal information and data-driven institutions.
A new simulation tool designed to help local Bolivian communities reduce deforestation and tackle poverty has been developed by academics and conservationists around the world.
The tool, called SimPachamama ('Mother Earth simulation' in local language), is based on extensive scientific research of a real-life Amazonian community and simulates the actions and behaviour of villagers near the agricultural frontier in Bolivia.
We've been informally crowdsourcing the most common 50-ish reasons not to release data that have been heard by those working both inside and out of government on the federal, state, and local level in the US. The reasons, as you can see below, run the gamut from staff training concerns to the ever-looming specters of privacy and security to the persistently optimistic ("It's already public [in a filing cabinet downstairs]."). This list is not comprehensive, but it's an informative start and a useful tool for dissecting the rationale behind and resistance to releasing data -- as well as some of the information gapsthat exist around the benefits of opening data. It also gears us up for the next step in our experiment: responding to these challenges.
Earlier this year, Sunlight was issued a challenge: Collect and refute the most common reasons not to release data.*
We see extraordinary promise in marrying the emerging civic technology and data movement with leading systems-change initiatives to bring about faster, deeper and broader results. Smart cities technologies, open data, predictive analytics and apps for civic engagement have proliferated in recent years, giving cities new and powerful tools to solve tough problems. Collectively, we are now seeing an opportunity to take these precedents to the next level beyond isolated solutions to discrete problems towards fully integrated components of system change efforts.
By connecting these tools, and the innovators who are producing them, to existing system change efforts, we can move from quick fixes to large-scale, needle-moving results.
by Ben Hecht and Abhi Nemani
EDITOR: Excellent article. If you had any questions about how technology can truly and meaningfully move the needle on wicked community issues, read on.
This set of seventeen guidelines is intended to be both an inspiration to those wishing to make their procurement process more transparent, as well as a reflection on what we think is required to allow for distributed oversight, fair competition, and an accessible market in government procurement. With the government workforce shrinking and overall government contracting growing, transparency in procurement is more important than ever.
The state of Texas is anticipating the passage of House Bill 889, which requires that certain governmental bodies make audio and video recordings of open meetings available on the Internet. With over 1,300 government bodies that meet the criteria, this move will single-handedly make Texas the most public-access friendly state in the nation.
EDITOR: This is a pretty interesting development. Is anyone seeing a legislative movement of this type elsewhere? If so, let me know at email@example.com
from granicus.com By Maryann Mooney
Conversations on citizen engagement tend to discuss the proper role of government and explore the proper engagement levels of citizens. Yet, before any of those important conversations can take place, agencies need to focus on setting the proper citizen engagement foundation, which will allow organizations to build new and innovative citizen engagement strategies.
There is no question that social media helps government to govern. Where there is some cause for concern however, is that when using social media applications government decisions are often influenced by or communicated via external web-based platforms or operated by third parties, such as Facebook or Twitter.
NOTE: the recommendations in this post were specificially directed to UK and Commonwealth goverments. Requirements in your country or local government may vary. Always seek appropriate legal advice. This article isn't legal advice.
[C]onverging technologies have changed even basic assumptions about public services -- so much so that it's getting hard to even define the specific purpose of the most advanced of these customer-relationship-management systems. Try this exercise: Is 311 ...
-- A centralized customer service call center?
-- A multimedia hub for residents to communicate in any way they wish -- via a smartphone app, texting, a phone call or a dedicated website -- with their governments?
-- A platform for community engagement that connects residents with others of common interest, "listens" to social media comments and no longer is limited to waiting for a complaining resident to ask government for help?
Youth Map Milwaukee is on a mission to make the dreaded "I'm bored" complaint parents get from their kids obsolete.
The project from the Center for Youth Engagement, 4850 W. Fond Du Lac Ave., aims to map 325 resources in Milwaukee that will direct bored kids to quality activities and agencies near their homes through a website and app, which will be complete by early 2014.
"It should be just as easy for a young person to find something that is positive to do as it is to find some things that are negative," said Reggie Moore, the project's leader and Center for Youth Engagement's founder and senior strategist.
The mapping initiative, launched July 31, comes at a time when Milwaukee has seen a string of shootings.
In the Spanish town of Jun, near Granada, Mayor José Antonio Rodríguez (@JoseantonioJun) makes local government more accessible and more accountable to its citizens through the use of Twitter. All public offices and employees are required to have an official Twitter account, which is prominently displayed on everything from police cars and uniforms to garbage trucks
As a result, innovation offices tend not to focus on internal, less well-publicized solutions that can create greater efficiencies. Department heads should strive for greater efficiency, but innovation offices can do more to assist ongoing efforts at the departmental level. While they may be useful, apps like Adopt-a-Hydrant are an easier sell than transitioning to a new email system or creating a more efficient method for payroll at City Hall.
[D]irectly comparing MOOCs to traditional classrooms may prevent us from realizing the true potential of global online education. Perhaps it's time we stop trying to fit MOOCs into old educational molds and start considering how we can harness their powers in new and exciting ways.
We can use MOOCs as platforms for real-world problem solving.
For the last six years Living Cities has been working to help find a critical mass of leaders from the public, private, philanthropic, and nonprofit sectors who together want to build these new models of collaborative change. The problems are too big and complex for any one sector to actually be able to solve on their own.
"The phenomenon of walking quorums has taken on a new dimension in the digital age," Mike McCabe, executive director of the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign told Wisconsin Reporter this week. He calls such secret get-togethers, inadvertent or sinister, "digital caucuses."
And open government experts say walking quorums are much easier to conduct electronically, given the ubiquitous nature of the Internet and its social networks. They say state open meeting laws haven't kept pace with the evolving technology.
Fond du Lac's seven City Council members have the city's business at the tips of their fingers.
Each council member now comes equipped with a city iPad, on which all local government communications are to be sent.
Dubbed a Liberty Hackathon, the theme of the gathering was "promoting liberty with the use of technology." That's certainly unusual for this kind of competition, but the real source of contention was the event's sponsor, Charles Koch, the CEO of energy company Koch Industries. Among other things, Koch is well known for giving to right-of-center causes.
Lincoln Labs held its first hackathon this past weekend in San Francisco. While most hackathons provoke little notice except by participants, this event was not only noted in the press, but it also generated some controversy.
A new publicly available online tool compares the Corporate Social Responsibility of prominent Australian companies and ranks them head-to-head across a range of social, environmental and governance indicators.
A new publicly available online tool compares the Corporate Social Responsibility of prominent Australian companies and ranks them head-to-head across a range of social, environmental and governance indicators.
Policy network Catalyst, this month released the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Dashboard, which draws on data from an analysis of the CSR reports of 32 companies.
In fact, based on the federal government's FY12 budget actual expenditures of $3.538 trillion, federal IT managers could potentially recognize nearly $500 billion in savings across the federal government via big data initiatives, according to a new study by MeriTalk.
Despite the challenges of the budget sequestration that went into effect on March 1, federal agencies are pressing forward with big data initiatives, hoping to squeeze big savings out of more efficient use of their data.
How a website is built or designed may seem mundane to many people, but when the site in question is focused upon such an important function, what it looks like and how it works matter. Last week, the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) relaunched Healthcare.gov with a new appearance and modern technology that is unusual in federal-government websites.
[H]ere are some easy, "almost-no-budget-needed" steps you can take to ensure your users will be happier (or at least less frustrated):
If you want a better user experience on your government website, there's a simple secret: early planning. Good designers know that it's much more difficult to make changes to something before it's built than after. This is true for designing just about anything, whether it's a website, car, or new kitchen.
Lukensmeyer and her team have tackled some of the wickedest problems in public policy, from how to rebuild Ground Zero after 9/11 to reforming health care in California to rebuilding New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
In New Orleans, for example, more than 4,000 people participated in two "community congresses" that Andy Kopplin, who was then the executive director of the Louisiana Recovery Authority, credits in Lukensmeyer's book with turning the rebuilding efforts around. "There's no doubt that the Unified New Orleans Plan developed by citizens was the foundation for the city's final recovery plan and that it has had a significant, lasting impact on governance ever since," says Kopplin, who now is the city's chief administrative officer and a deputy mayor.
You have two challenges in front of you. The first is that you're leading the charge to something profoundly new, and that's going to scare people who are entrenched in something old. The second is that what you are doing is so local, so fundamentally grassroots-based, so under the radar, that your work is probably going to go unrecognized outside of a small devoted circle for a while.
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Wilbekin to play in Australia
Published: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 at 4:10 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 at 4:10 p.m.
Former Florida standout Scottie Wilbekin will begin his professional career in a country made famous by Crocodile Dundee and Men at Work.
Wilbekin signed with the Australian Basketball League's Cairns Taipans on Tuesday, joining a growing legion of former Gator players overseas.
The Gainesville native and 2014 Southeastern Conference player of the year will take a 20-hour flight on Wednesday. The 6-foot-2 point guard from The Rock School averaged 13.1 points and 3.6 assists his senior season, helping lead UF to its fifth Final Four appearance in school history.
"I'm excited," Wilbekin said. "I just want to try to help them win more games next season. I think they were fifth in the standings last season, so winning obviously is the main goal."
Wilbekin played with both the Memphis Grizzlies and Philadelphia 76ers summer league squads last month. He considered accepting an invite to an NBA camp in October, but was advised by his agents against it.
"I couldn't get a guarantee (for a roster spot)," Wilbekin said. "So my agents felt like this was the best thing for me and my career."
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This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book.You can beat the market by avoiding risk-averse, career-protecting investment managers and index-based strategies that are perfectly satisfied with mediocrity. Fact is, as indexing and quasi-indexing have become more prevalent, the dangers of these strategies have become more pronounced: a bias toward overvalued, overgrown, large-cap stocks likely to hit long periods of underperformance. But there's good news: If you're willing to invest a bit more of your own time, you have a much better chance of beating the pros than they want you to think. In Beating the Indexes, leading trader and Minyanville columnist Bill Feingold shows you how to systematically exploit the biases and mediocrity of index investors, and continuously make winning investments. Writing for individual investors as well as professional advisors and money managers, Feingold introduces a more profitable set of investing strategies based on convertible bonds and related alternative investments. In this surprisingly readable (even fun to read) book, each chapter exposes one index investing myth – and presents a powerful strategy for beating investors who still buy into it. If you're tired of minimal returns that disappear with the slightest market volatility, this is the book you've been searching for.
Foreword xv
Preface xix
Introduction 1
Part I: Our Flawed Institutions
Chapter 1 Indexing and Its Discontents 7
Chapter 2 The Individual's Edge 25
Chapter 3 Delusions and Illusions: Chasing Performance in Our Lost Decade 43
Chapter 4 A Change is Gonna Come 51
Part II: Convertibles, a Better Solution
Chapter 5 The Very Basics 61
Chapter 6 Reminiscences of a Convertible Operator 69
Chapter 7 A Quick Review and Quiz 121
Chapter 8 Enough Already…How Do Convertibles Actually Work? 145
Chapter 9 What to Look for in a Convertible 177
Chapter 10 Convertibles For… 201
I. Individual Investors 201
II. Financial Advisors 213
III. Nontraditional Institutional Investors 217
IV. Corporate Financial Officers 231
V. Students 249
Chapter 11 Introduction to Advanced Topics 257
Suggestions for Further Reading 285
Glossary 287
Index 291


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In Marvin M. Brandt Revocable Trust v. United States the Court held 8-1 that a private party, rather than the federal government, owns an abandoned railroad right-of-way granted by the General Railroad Right-of-Way Act of 1875. When the federal government owns abandoned railroad rights-of-way, state and local governments may convert them into "Rails-to-Trails." The State and Local Legal Center (SLLC) filed an amicus curiae brief in this case.
Here's what should scare anyone concerned about the state of the nation's infrastructure after last week's collapse of the I-5 bridge over the Skagit River north of Seattle: that wasn't even one of the bridges in particularly bad shape and it wasn't in one of the states particularly known for bridges in bad shape. And while that incident—and the subsequent collapse of a highway overpass in Missouri—has once again kick-started the calls for additional funding to shore up crumbling infrastructure, analysts believe they are unlikely to have much impact in prompting policy makers to take action.
Transportation plans in Maryland, Ohio and Virginia are one step closer to becoming a reality this week. For other states though, the debate over how to fund transportation going forward continues. I also have some noteworthy items below on the condition of America's infrastructure and what states are doing about it.
We have several new transportation-related publications here in the Knowledge Center this month. Here are a few updates and additional resources on the topics they address.
Stateline Midwest Vol. 20, No. 7: July/August 2012
After two years of seeking options and legislative support to build a new bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Michigan Republican Gov. Rick Snyder appears to have found a way to make it a reality.
He signed in June what's known as an "interlocal agreement" with the Canadian...
I blogged previously about last week's National Transportation Policy Summit in Washington, D.C. hosted by the University of Virginia's Miller Center. You can read my previous postings on the appearance by House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica and the panel with five former U.S. Secretaries of Transportation here and here. But the forum also featured several other panels with transportation advocates, stakeholders and analysts weighing in on what might be needed to convince the public and their leaders that now is the time to move forward on infrastructure investment. Among the questions they addressed:
Here is some of what the panelists at the Miller Center forum had to say on those issues.
With significant growth expected in freight transportation over the next several decades as a result of the expansion of the Panama Canal and other factors, a number of states have begun to adopt policies that seek to take trucks off the road and make the nation's supply chain more multi-modal. By improving infrastructure at seaports, incentivizing shippers, making greater use of inland waterways, creating partnerships to reduce freight rail bottlenecks and developing state and regional freight plans, these states stand to make significant improvements to freight efficiency and safety as well as to the environment.
In October 2011, CSG hosted an invitation-only Transportation Policy Academy in Washington, D.C. for a group of 11 state legislators from around the country, many of whom serve in leadership positions on transportation-focused committees in their states. In addition to providing an opportunity for these state leaders to meet with their members of Congress about the future of transportation policy, CSG also invited a group of policy experts, public officials, advocates and observers to speak to the group about the policy landscape, what may lie ahead for states in transportation and what some states are doing in the absence of federal action. In the interest of sharing their insights and expertise with a broader CSG audience, this series of blog posts will feature extended excerpts from their remarks on a wide variety of transportation policy issues. Richard Norment is the Executive Directorof the National Council for Public-Private Partnerships (NCPPP), a non-profit organization of representatives of both the public and private sectors, working to promote the use of public-private partnerships for improved delivery of public services and infrastructure. During his remarks to policy academy participants, Norment discussed the reasons states are exploring public-private partnerships to fund transportation projects and his six keys to successful partnerships.