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KATIE CLIFTON: A mother's prayer for the first day of school
Dear First Day of School,
I cannot believe you are back so soon. I mean, didn't we just end our last school year?! I can't really decide if I am happy to see you or if I want you to stay away a bit longer. But since you are rapidly approaching, in spite of my preparations (or lack thereof, whatever) there are some things we need to talk about. I think it is time for you and I to have a heart to heart.
First, you need to know I am praying for you. I am praying for the district administration, the principal, the teachers, the janitors, the cafeteria staff, the bus drivers, the tech support, the campus police officers, the students, the parents and their families. I don't know if you have done the math, but I have - And the way I see it, you get the honor of having more quality time with my kids than I do. I am so jealous of that. You better treat them well. That isn't a threat, it's a whole hearted plea from the heart of a parent. You need to protect them. Those 2 growing kids I will be dropping off every morning and kissing good bye, they are world changers. This world needs them and this momma needs them. I know your intentions are to protect them at all cost, but sometimes we fail, this fractured world collides with our hopes...I get that. So I am dousing you in prayers of protection. I am drenching you in the prayers of a momma who is asking Jesus to watch over you closely. I went to your address and stood at your doorway alone. I prayed and asked the Lord to protect my babies - all of our babies. I heard Him remind me that they aren't actually mine, so I cried for a bit. Please, please protect them and be good to them.
Second, I am sending my kids to you knowing there will never be another year like this year. This year I feel like my babies are becoming big kids and I need you to know that I am not resting easy in the changes that are approaching. I want my kids to be servants and you may encourage first place over last place. We are trying to raise our kids with this awesome thought process (we totally stole it from Jesus) where the first is actually last and we come to serve rather than be served. I am perfectly ok with our children not fitting into a mold of "normal". I am praying they are gentle with their words to others. I am praying they offer help and encouragement when another lamb is falling behind or feeling down. I am praying that the brutality of friendships, cliques and bullies is shielded from my kids, all of our kids. I pray they don't laugh at the expense of others or kick someone while they are down. Instead, I hope these little people possess enough integrity to walk across the lines this world creates and that they lift up the hurting and lonely and outcast.
I remember you all too well, Mr. First Day of School. Everyone wore their new shoes and clothes and came with fresh pencils and haircuts. Your hallways and classrooms are polished, painted and cleaned each year and they are perfectly tidy and organized when we see you. As great as you appear, some of your characteristics are simply just for image and first impressions. Some of your beauty is masking the imperfections. You dress up - just like the students who line your halls and hurry to your classes. Behind the new clothes and clean shoes and smiling faces are kids with hurts and baggage, pain and fears. I am prayerfully preparing for your arrival. I am begging you to be gentle with these kids whose home lives we can't imagine; the ones who will begin to come to you hungry or dirty. The sweet students who will talk about the chaos of their lives. I want you to bless them and love them. Be their refuge and source of safety and comfort.
And then, we have the staff who embraces you each year. What treasures they are. They are unsung heroes who pour themselves into you and their students. Please be a happy place for them. Let your doors be the path that leads them to their purpose. Let their classrooms be a platform for their passions and callings. Please allow them to be courageous. Please allow them for be full of mercy and patience.
Dear First Day of School, this will not be our last encounter. I have many more years to love you and hate you. I have many more tears to shed, and hopes to hope and prayers to pray for you. I will have a fortune more spent on you before our final farewell. But for now, I am buying pencils and paper, locker shelves and calculators, backpacks and tissues. I will wake up early before we see you. I will pray with my kids and plaster a smile across my face as I blink back tears and recall headlines and news stories of aching parents who won't be confronting you this year. We will pull up to greet you, amidst the long line of cars and parents doing the same song and dance as I. I will kiss my kids goodbye and watch them embrace you with bright eyes and expectations. Do not crush them or any of those dear children. Be a place of comfort and safety for them all. Please. I will see you again at 3:00 and breathe a sigh of relief and say prayers of thanks for you.
And we will meet again.
Same time.
Possibly a different place.
But we will meet.
And I will have fears.
And I will pray for you fiercely.
The heart of a momma


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PITTSBURGH, May 23, 2012 – In one of the most comprehensive analyses to date of the cost of robotic-assisted, laparoscopic surgery for prostate cancer, researchers at UPMC found that this now-dominant surgical approach is significantly more costly than standard open surgery, despite little scientific evidence of long-term improved patient outcomes. The results of the study are available online and will appear in the July issue of the journal Urology.
In one of the first studies based on actual direct and indirect costs at a single institution—rather than computer models that evaluate theoretical costs—the researchers found that the mean total cost per case of robotic-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (RARP) exceeded by 62 percent the cost of open radical retropubic prostatectomy (RRP). There was no significant difference in the mean length of stay for patients undergoing RARP vs. RRP, 1.2 and 1.4 days, respectively.
Since payment to the hospital was nearly equivalent for both types of procedures, the hospital lost $4,013 on average for each RARP case, while the payments exceeded costs by $1,325 for the standard open approach. Most of the cost difference, researchers found, was attributable to the robotic equipment and supplies.
"Nearly 240,000 new cases of prostate cancer are diagnosed annually, and radical prostatectomy is the most common treatment," said Joel B. Nelson, M.D., senior author of the study and chairman of the Department of Urology at UPMC and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. "The value of that care for patients is of particular concern to a nation struggling to control health care costs while improving outcomes." During the past decade, he noted, RARP has become the dominant surgical approach in the treatment of prostate cancer, with a surgeon controlling a robot's arms remotely to remove cancerous organs through small incisions in the patient's abdomen. Yet there is limited data to show that this technological innovation has produced better long-term patient results. "It is reasonable to question whether the increased costs of this robotic-assisted approach are justified," said Dr. Nelson, who is also co-director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute's Prostate Cancer Program.
For their cost analysis, the researchers looked at the treatment of 473 consecutive patients from July 2009 to October 2010 at UPMC Shadyside hospital. Four urologic oncologists with considerable experience in RARP and RRP operated on these patients, using RARP for 115 and RRP for 358.
The overall cost per case for RARP exceeded the cost for RRP by almost $5,300. The major contributors to the cost gap were greater operating room supply costs and indirect costs associated with the purchase and maintenance of the robotic equipment. Operating room supply costs were almost seven times greater for RARP, while ancillary, cardiology, imaging, administrative, laboratory and pharmacy costs were not significantly different between the two approaches.
Several previous studies also have demonstrated a cost advantage for the standard open surgical approach. However, those studies sometimes excluded certain costs or involved hospitals with lower surgical volumes or surgeons who were less experienced with the robotic-assisted technology, potentially skewing the cost per case.
Dr. Nelson noted that randomized clinical trials—the gold standard in scientific research—comparing RRP and RARP are lacking. But a recent review of 37 comparative prostatectomy studies found no superiority for one approach vs. the other in terms of functional (such as post-operative continence and potency) and oncologic outcomes for patients.
"While further studies are needed to compare the long-term outcomes of RRP vs. RARP, our study suggests that our society may be paying too high a price for what has been widely perceived as a medical advance," said Dr. Nelson.
Besides Dr. Nelson, the study authors are Jeffrey J. Tomaszewski, M.D., Benjamin J. Davies, M.D., Stephen V. Jackman, M.D., and Ronald L. Hrebinko, M.D., all of UPMC's Department of Urology, and Jarred C. Matchett, UPMC finance.
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I am in such pain and misery in my life and I do not know who to turn to for answers. I must start from the beginning for you to understand my problems. In August 2008 I met a man on the internet that was Muslim from Egypt. I was Catholic and I tried to convince him that he was on the wrong path in life. In October he convinced me to go and get a Qur'an to read and learn from. I started reading but still could not accept Islam as being the truth. I was married for 22 years to a man that I didn't love and in January 2009 this man convinced me that if I truly believed in God that I could divorce this other man in my heart and I would not have to be with him any longer. I did this and then he told me that he wanted to marry me. He had me say that I such and such take this man such and such as my husband. I believed truly in my heart that he was now my husband in the eyes of God. I divided my first husband's house in two. His house is very large and we could live under the same roof and not see each other. I have a daughter with him and I thought that I could have my house in two apartments so that she could still have a stable life. We talked as husband and wife and he talked with me still about Islam. I asked my first husband for a divorce and then I decided that I would say the shahada on June 2, 2009 for this man that I took as my husband in the eyes of God. At that time I really don't think I truly believed in Islam but I did this for my new husband. After I said the shahada something in me changed. I had to find out more about Islam and I started to feel that Islam is the right path for me. I started to feel that what this man and I had was not a real marriage and I talked to him about this and he said he would send me a marriage contract and I must have it signed by two Muslim men. In January 2010 he sent me a marriage contract signed by him and I searched for two Muslim men that would sign it. I live in the United States in what is known as the Bible belt of America. It took me a long time to find two Muslim men that were willing to sign this paper. My entire family has turned their backs to me for choosing Islam. My brother calls me a Muslim terrorist and will not speak with me. My oldest sister calls me a sand monkey lover and my other sister says that I worship Satan because I pray in a strange language and have a ritual prayer as she calls it. My own mother will not allow me in her house wearing hijab and puts me down always. The only reason any of my family still talks with me is because of my daughter. I have lost all of my family and all of my friends except one friend who we have been friends for more than thirty years. She is the only one to accept me for me. My husband in Islam told me a long time ago not to go to the mosque for prayer, (there is a mosque in my city, and it is a very long ways from me). So I have always prayed at home in my bedroom. Everyday I pray and do duas. Everyday I read my Qur'an and hadiths. I am trying to learn Arabic so that I can read and pray in Arabic. I have joined a women's class online to learn Tajweed, fiqh, and the history of Islam. I am trying to be the best Muslim woman, but everything seems so hard for me to deal with. My Muslim husband does wrong and I do cover his sins by not saying what he does. But the things he does hurt me very much. I feel lost in this world filled of hate. I live in constant pain from an injury from long ago and now I am having emotional pain as well. I have three questions and I do not know if you will answer all three, but all are very important to me. First, do I need to resay the shahada? Second am I truly married to this man from Egypt? Third what duas do I need to say to take this physical and emotional pain away from me?.
We praise Allah for opening your heart to Islam and filling it with faith; we ask Him to make you steadfast and to help and guide you.
You are a Muslim now and you do not need to repeat the Shahaadah. Even if we assume that the first time you said it, it was not with full conviction of Islam, there is no doubt that you have said it many times after you became fully convinced and accepted this great religion.
Your marriage that was done in January 2010 is a valid marriage.
We advise you to pray a great deal and read Qur'aan, because these are among the greatest means of finding peace of mind. You should also try to convince your husband of the importance of going to the mosque and meeting Muslim women and looking for righteous friends who can help you in righteousness and good. The husband does not have the right to prevent his wife if she asks him for permission to go to the mosque, so long as she goes out observing proper etiquette and shar'i rulings, and her going out does not result in any negative consequences or fitnah (temptation). That is because of the report narrated by al-Bukhaari (900) and Muslim (442), according to which the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) said: "Do not prevent the female slaves of Allah from going to the mosques of Allah."
For more details concerning that please see the answer to question no. 49898.
You have done well to join a class on the Internet to study tajweed, fiqh and Islamic history. This is making good use of time and acquiring knowledge by means of which Allah raises people in status and makes their deeds weigh heavily in the Balance.
You should remember that the believer will not be free of trials which will erase his sins and raise him in status. So be patient and seek reward with Allah, because what is with Allah of joy and blessing is worth that and more.
We ask Allah to take away your pain and relieve you of distress, and to grant you happiness in this world and the Hereafter.
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Jennifer Aniston Has A Baby Bump???
Jennifer Aniston fuels rumors that she's expecting as she makes a stop at her mother's house on Tuesday afternoon in West Hollywood, Calif.
Australia's News Weekly reported that the 39-year-old actress has reunited with rocker John Mayer and is reportedly expecting his child!
Jennifer and John, 30, claiming to have committment-phobia, reportedly reunited over a romantic dinner in New York just over a week ago.
UPDATE: Aniston's rep tells Entertainment Tonight, "Give me a break. She is NOT pregnant."


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High Line Gardener Johnny Linville test-drives one of the new maintenance trikes.
Because of the High Line's narrow pathways and relatively long distances, it can take a member of our maintenance and operations team 30 minutes to walk from the trailers at 20th Street, down to the Gansevoort end, and back. To save time and help with heavy loads, we've just added two High Line operations trikes, from Brooklyn-based Worksman (America's oldest bicycle manufacturer), to our arsenal of operations tools. Pedal power will be a quick and environmentally friendly way to get from Point A to Point B – especially when Section 2 opens and doubles the length of the High Line.
Rear View: Johnny shows off the new High Line/Parks Maintenance decal and
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Hearts & Minds is a half-hour program produced by Idaho Public Television in cooperation with the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare. The program profiles four different teens with different mental illnesses, showing the challenges they faced and how they have learned to live with their diagnosis. You can watch the show in our online video player.
Holly, 18, has a form of obsessive-compulsive disorder that manifests in hair-pulling. Jennifer, 19, started hearing voices and was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Brandon, 16, became deeply depressed when his home life deteriorated. Amy, 16, began "acting out" and was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
By talking about their illnesses, as well as their treatment, these young people show that brain disorders can affect anyone. They also illustrate that there is hope and help for people with mental illness. View the teacher resources.
The documentary was first broadcast in 1999, and garnered a George Foster Peabody Award, one of the highest honors in broadcast television.
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For so many of us, the kitchen is the hub of our family gatherings and a place to entertain friends. A kitchen face lift may be just what you need to put some life back into this integral room in your home. In a matter of a couple of days, your kitchen can be transformed without the fuss of tear out and reinstall to have a fully updated look and spend $1,000's less than new cabinets.
During a re-facing, all doors and drawer fronts are removed and the face frame of the cabinet is prepped to receive a wood on wood veneer treatment that adheres to the surface with a 3M bond that will cure to the cabinet frame. The exposed sides of the cabinets will receive wood panels and the existing trim details are replaced with new trim in new color. New solid wood drawer fronts and new solid wood doors are then installed in place of old doors. Old hinges are replaced with upgraded hidden euro hinges. Drawer boxes and glides can also be replaced; many different accessories like slide out shelves or pull out trash cans be added.
As you consider the possibility of a re-facing, ask yourself these questions:
Are your existing cabinets structurally sound?
The majority of the cabinets we work on in homes in Arizona are structurally sound, with all interiors and shelving in sound working condition.
Are you happy with your existing kitchen layout?
If you are generally pleased with the overall layout of your kitchen and are looking to make only minor changes, cabinet re-facing is probably a good option for you.
Is the primary problem with your cabinets a cosmetic one–unsightly color, outdated door styling, or worn out finish?
Why replace the entire cabinet when the only part that needs to be fixed is the part you see? The problem of ugly cabinets can easily be remedied by using a cost effective technique borrowed from the custom furniture industry – veneering. After covering your cabinets with new wood veneer, and using European hinges to install brand new solid wood doors that match the veneer, attaching new drawer fronts, finished off by matching molding and new handles, your existing kitchen cabinets look just like new expensive custom cabinets.
Do you want to make minor changes or add some accessories to your kitchen cabinets?
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Jack London Inn features a restaurant.. The property provides room service during limited hours. Recreational amenities at Jack London Inn include a fitness facility and a seasonal outdoor pool. This business property provides complimentary wireless Internet access. Meeting facilities include conference rooms, a ballroom, banquet facilities, and meeting rooms for small groups. Transportation options at this 2.0-star property include an airport shuttle (surcharge) and an area shuttle (surcharge). Jack London Inn also offers a bar/lounge, a nightclub, and wireless Internet access.
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== Release Notes ==
== Release Notes ==
== Comments and Discussion ==
== Comments and Discussion ==
Revision as of 12:45, 26 April 2012
Usermode Migration
Access control of privileged operations for ordinary users should be handled exclusively by a centrally managed authority.
Usermode/consolehelper should be phased out and be replaced entirely by PolicyKit.
- Name: Harald Hoyer
- Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
- Name: Kay Sievers
- Email: email@example.com
- Name: Bill Nottingham
- Email: email@example.com
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 18
- Last updated: 2012-04-03
- Percentage of completion: 20%
Detailed Description
The usermode/consolehelper program is a setuid-root wrapper around a couple of system tools, providing superuser privileges to ordinary users. Its policy is controlled by text files in /etc.
These days, most privileged system operations are already controlled by PolicyKit, a well-established, fine-grained, (possibly) network-transparent service for managing privileged operations by ordinary users. Enterprise environments need to be able to centrally define access control policy for the organization, and automatically apply it to all connected workstations.
- PolicyKit can be used by privileged processes to decide if it should execute privileged operations on behalf of the requesting user. For directly executed tools, PolicyKit provides a setuid-root helper program called ''pkexec''.The hooks to ask the user for authorizations are well-integrated into text environments, and native in all major graphical environments.
- The concept of a console user (that usermode/consolehelper implements) is no longer a sufficient concept to derive privileges from. OTOH PolicyKit authorizations can properly distinguish between multiple active sessions and seats: e.g. an untrusted user's reboot request is only granted if only a single user session runs at that time.
Benefit to Fedora
- Consistency of system configuration.
- Centralization of policy.
- Cleaner system integration; no implicit interception of tools residing in sbin/ with symlinks in bin/, which is less dependent on $PATH ordering.
- No difference regarding the hookup between tools installed in bin/ or sbin/.
- Document how to convert consolehelper to PolicyKit:
- python: put a pkexec invocation in the wrapping shell script
- C tools: re-exec with pkexec in C code
- C tools: move original to /usr/lib/<pkg>/<tool>, and wrap /usr/bin/<tool> with a pkexec shell script (ugly!)
- File bugs against all individual packages, and add them to tracker bug 502765
- Convert all packages where it makes sense to use polkit to pkexec.
- For the unconverted rest, drop the usermode part and recommend to use pkexec on the command line, similar to the usual usage of sudo.
How to Convert
A quick and easy way to convert a former consolehelper program is the use of pkexec.
As an example we convert system-config-date to PolicyKit:
# ls -l /usr/bin/system-config-date lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 5. Feb 02:34 /usr/bin/system-config-date -> consolehelper # rm /usr/bin/system-config-date # cat /etc/security/console.apps/system-config-date . config-util PROGRAM=/usr/share/system-config-date/system-config-date.py SESSION=true
OK, running /usr/bin/system-config-date would have executed /usr/share/system-config-date/system-config-date.py, so we create /usr/bin/system-config-date like the following:
# cat /usr/bin/system-config-date #!/bin/sh exec /usr/bin/pkexec /usr/share/system-config-date/system-config-date.py
This will not export the DISPLAY variable, so we have to add a policy file, although starting a GUI as root is not encouraged. The important part is: <annotate key="org.freedesktop.policykit.exec.allow_gui">true</annotate>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE policyconfig PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD PolicyKit Policy Configuration 1.0//EN" "http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/PolicyKit/1/policyconfig.dtd"> <policyconfig> <vendor>System Config Date</vendor> <vendor_url>http://fedorahosted.org/system-config-date</vendor_url> <action id="org.fedoraproject.config.date.pkexec.run"> <description>Run System Config Date</description> <message>Authentication is required to run system-config-date</message> <icon_name>system-config-date</icon_name> <defaults> <allow_any>no</allow_any> <allow_inactive>no</allow_inactive> <allow_active>auth_self_keep</allow_active> </defaults> <annotate key="org.freedesktop.policykit.exec.path">/usr/share/system-config-date/system-config-date.py</annotate> <annotate key="org.freedesktop.policykit.exec.allow_gui">true</annotate> </action> </policyconfig>
How To Test
# yum remove usermode usermode-gtk
should succeed for an installation with all Fedora packages installed.
# repoquery --whatrequires usermode --whatrequires usermode-gtk usermode-gtk-....
should not output a single package, except the usermode-gtk package.
Make sure you can call all the tools which used to use usermode and are asked the appropriate authentication.
User Experience
The user should experience no noticeable changes.
- anaconda
- audit-viewer
- authconfig-gtk
- backintime-gnome
- backintime-kde
- beesu
- bootconf-gui
- chkrootkit
- driftnet
- drobo-utils-gui
- eclipse-oprofile
- ejabberd
- fwfstab
- galternatives
- gsmartcontrol
- hddtemp
- kdenetwork-kppp
- kismet
- liveusb-creator
- livna-config-display
- lshw-gui
- mock
- mtr-gtk
- netgo
- nmap-frontend
- ntfs-config
- policycoreutils-gui
- preupgrade
- pure-ftpd
- qtparted
- realcrypt
- revisor-cli
- rhn-setup
- rhn-setup-gnome
- sabayon
- setools-gui
- setuptool
- smart-gui
- subscription-manager-gnome
- synaptic
- system-config-audit
- system-config-bind
- system-config-boot
- system-config-date
- system-config-httpd
- system-config-kdump
- system-config-keyboard
- system-config-language
- system-config-lvm
- system-config-network
- system-config-network-tui
- system-config-nfs
- system-config-rootpassword
- system-config-users
- system-switch-displaymanager
- system-switch-java
- system-switch-mail
- system-switch-mail-gnome
- tuned
- usermode-gtk
- vpnc-consoleuser
- wifi-radar
- wlassistant
- xawtv
- yumex
- zyx-liveinstaller
Contingency Plan
Even if we cannot drop usermode for F18 (because not all packages have been converted) the changes in the packages do not have to be reverted.
Release Notes
- The following packages now use the PolicyKit policy configuration instead of the usermode/consolehelper configuration. Please migrate any policy, which you have created for those packages.
<list of packages>


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Fido & Me Breaking Trail
"I'm breaking trail!"
Fido was exuberant. Elated. Jubilant.
"Look at ME! I am almost beyond words!"
"That'll be the day, Fido. There hasn't been a moment when you were without words. Even in your sleep, you're one big, red chatterbox."
"Let's go over here," he said, plowing through the snow. "No, let's go over here!"
"Trying to follow your trail is making me a little bit dizzy," I said to Fido. "Where do you think you're going, anyway?"
"It doesn't matter-doesn't matter," Fido cried. "I am living the dream!"
That was true enough. Fido has a double coat of red fur. He suffers in the warm months. This—a winter with chest-deep snow—is when he's on his game.
"I'm having a little bit of trouble keeping up with you," I grunted, planting one snowshoe in front of the other. "Don't you ever wear out?"
"Sure I do! In summer!"
"So maybe you want to take a break? Enjoy the day from a standstill?"
"No time," Fido replied. "Summer will be here soon. Gotta get while the gittin's good, is what I say."
"Summer is a long, long way away," I said, "not that you'd know or care."
And so we trod forth, Fido porpoising through the snow, me and my snowshoes and snow poles right behind, more or less. But I followed his trail. It is good, sometimes, to follow the trail of a big dog.
"Humans have a peculiar obsession with straight lines," Fido said out of nowhere.
"I have to say, you make it easy on me, Fido. I am a human, and therefore oriented toward making straight lines. It's good to get all twisty-turny now and then. This reminds me of marriage. Lots of twists, turns, about-faces, and following trail."
"It's a metaphor, Fido, just a metaphor. Never mind."
"Twisty-turny is what it's all about, man," Fido called from way up ahead. "Let's go over HERE! Hey hey hey hey!"
And then he stopped. Dead in his tracks. Another set of tracks lay in front of him, going perpendicular, more or less to his crazy Etch-a-Snow-Sketch. He pressed his face into the snow track.
"It's FATHEAD!" Fido yelped.
"Gosh, Fido, that didn't take long. How do you know?"
"First of all, Reorge," Fido intoned in that know-it-all way he sometimes has, "just look at the trail!"
"To me, it looks like a snowplow moved through here."
"Zactly," Fido said. "But no snowplow can make turns like this! Hey hey hey hey!"
Fido is a secret admirer of Fathead, I know that much. Fathead is a St. Bernard, and he's as big as a three-story house.
"Plus," Fido said, "it doesn't take much of a nose to confirm that Fathead has been here, no disrespect intended."
And so it went, on and on, through the new-fallen snow, until the sun began to sink behind the mountains.
"This," Fido said, "is the best dog walk EVER."


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text: How P3 Shaped VancouverVancouver ranks among the most livable cities in the world — an enviable status owing in no small part to the city's P3-driven transit expansion.Aug 25, 2017by Sandra Rubin 2017 Lexpert Special Edition - Infrastructure Tweet IF THERE WAS EVER A CITY in need of successful public transit Infrastructure, it's Vancouver. Landlocked by mountains to the north and the Pacific to the west, urban sprawl has for decades been pushed to the south and east. Burnaby, Richmond, New Westminster, Port Coquitlam, Surrey. Port Moody and Langley are just some of the bedroom communities that have sprung up as density, space and cost force people farther from downtown. Traffic has become a blood sport with no signs of a slowdown. Eighteen years ago, there were 745,000 licensed vehicles operating in the lower mainland, according to statistics from the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia. Today the number is close to 1.7 million and growing. "You have to get people out of their cars. You can't just keep building bigger roads," says Maria McKenzie, a partner at Farris, Vaughan, Wills & Murphy LLP in Vancouver. The city got its first Light Rapid Transit Line, the Expo Line, linking Vancouver with New Westminster roughly 20 kilometres away, for Expo 1986. But after that, busses and SeaBusses were the only public transit available until 2002 when the Millennium Line opened, connecting Coquitlam to Vancouver's downtown. Like the Expo Line, it's a driverless SkyTrain funded entirely by governments and taxpayers. But if Vancouver has become a leader in public-transit Infrastructure in Canada in more recent years, one of the reasons is necessity, plus "a champion going back to the early 2000s when our premier, Gordon Campbell, was actively invested in making public Infrastructure successful using a P3 model," McKenzie says. Governments have been very alive to the issue, says Ross MacDonald, managing partner of Stikeman Elliott LLP's Vancouver office. Yet even at that, these kinds of projects can take a decade or more to get from conception to operation. "Public transit in Vancouver is a different head space than it is for some other big cities," says Linda Brown, co-head of the Infrastructure practice group at McCarthy Tétrault LLP. Vancouver, she explains, does not have a subway system to move people around. The burgeoning population and subsequent gridlock required for more public transit quickly. That led to the Canada Line, which runs from Vancouver to Richmond and also connects to the Vancouver airport, which was one of the first public-private partnerships in Canada. Constructed with SNC-Lavalin as the concessionaire, it helped build Canada's reputation as a P3 expert and finally sell many Vancouverites on the advantages of using public transit. McKenzie — who takes the Canada Line to and from work every day — says it is so successful that entire communities are developing around its 16 stops. "The thing that's the most amazing if you drive in Vancouver is, all the way along the Canada Line corridor, there's been this massive development going on around the stations," she says. "It's taken what was light industrial or single-family residential areas and is transforming a lot of it." She points to Marine Drive, the last station before you get into Vancouver proper, as an example of the impact these kinds of public transit projects can have. "The whole time I was growing up — I'm from Vancouver — a lot of this was low-rise, two-storey dodgy old commercial buildings with a few apartments on top." Now there are condos and mixed-use towers, shopping centres, grocery stores, cinemas, pharmacies and plenty of cranes indicating more is being built. "There are also streetscapes and some cool public art," she says. "It's really become a neighbourhood. It's transformed that area in just eight years. It really has." One thing that makes the Canada Line different from its predecessors — and most other light rail systems in Canada — is the innovation in its construction, says Karen Martin, a partner at Dentons Canada LLP. The line had many challenges, not the least of which came from its multiple owners including the federal government, the cities of Vancouver and Richmond, and the airport authority. During the procurement process, it was made clear by the owners' entity formed to run the project that they wanted innovative ideas, a new way to do things. The successful bidder came up with the idea of what's called "cut and cover," says Martin. This involves cutting out existing roads and rights of way from the top, digging down deep enough to build the train line, covering it over and replacing the road, instead of having to tunnel under residential areas — which is much cheaper and requires significantly less home expropriation. Martin says it's tough to overstate the impact the Canada Line has had. Before it was built, on the streets leading to the two bridges going to False Creek, an inlet that separates downtown Vancouver from the rest of the city, "there was gridlock for several hours a day and there was no room for any new lanes because we're talking downtown." The Canada Line, which went under the inlet instead of going over it, "had the effect of giving us 10 new lanes. It's location, location, location." MacDonald says, "I don't think people realized how good public transit could be until the Canada Line," which he worked on for 10 years. He calls it "a showcase piece of rapid transit" and Marine its poster child. "I think the idea is, you could live around the station and not own a car because everything you need is either where you live or somewhere along the rapid transit line. So it actually all starts to make sense both economically and in terms of viability." The regional busses all feed into at least one line, and the lines all feed into one another, forming a giant web that moves people not only downtown or to the airport, but throughout Metro Vancouver and the Lower Mainland. In December, Vancouver opened the Evergreen Line, an 11-kilometre extension of the Millennium Line linking East Vancouver to Coquitlam via Burnaby and Port Moody — and even more is planned with new projects coming from TransLink, the agency responsible for Metro Vancouver's regional transportation network, and the Mayors' Council, a body of 23 mayors formed in 2014. A common vision released in 2015 involves $7.5 billion in new capital spending, and is expected to reduce traffic congestion by 20 per cent and allow many drivers to save 20 to 30 minutes a day. The federal government announced in its budget it was committing $2.2 billion for transit improvements in Metro Vancouver. Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson called it a "game changer," but looking at what's in the pipeline, that's a drop in the bucket compared to what's needed. One key project that has been through consultations is a Surrey-Newton-Guildford LRT. With an average of 10,000 people a year moving into Surrey, the city's population — already BC's second largest — will surpass Vancouver by 2041. Yet, when it comes to rapid transit, Surrey is served only by the 31-year-old Expo Line and hasn't seen any rapid-transit capital improvements in over 20 years. It's predicted the new line, with construction expected to start in 2018, will put 200,000 people within five minutes of getting onto a rapid transit system. Another project worth noting is the planned extension of the Millennium Line along the Broadway Corridor, a major east-west corridor in Vancouver that ultimately leads to UBC. MacDonald says many were disappointed to see that Phase One doesn't go all the way to the university because "tens of thousands of people commute to UBC every day, and there are fairly few arterial routes feeding into it." The Surrey line and Broadway extension are both entirely government and taxpayer funded, MacDonald notes, unlike the Canada Line, which was done as a P3. So given the funding shortfall, why aren't the new public-transit Infrastructure improvements being done as public-private partnerships? MacDonald calls it "a good question. You should ask the City of Vancouver … There's a sense of urgency that public Infrastructure is the way to go, and every day delayed is a day lost. So let's get on with it."Lawyer(s):Maria K. McKenzie,Ross A. MacDonald,Linda G. Brown,Karen MartinFirm(s):Farris, Vaughan, Wills & Murphy LLP,Stikeman Elliott LLP,McCarthy Tétrault LLP,Dentons Canada LLPPractice Area(s):Infrastructure Law


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