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BENNINGTON -- Local police, after finding 77 cats in two separate vehicles, issued civil citations for animal cruelty to two Troy, N.Y., women Friday afternoon that could be upgraded to criminal charges following a review by the Bennington County State’s Attorney’s office.
Regina Millard, 54, and Bertha Ryan, 61, both of Troy, were issued civil citations that carry $300 fines. Bennington Police Chief Paul Doucette said a criminal affidavit will be filed by police and reviewed Monday by prosecutors, who may choose to upgrade the charges to a criminal act.
A total of 77 cats were found inside the two vehicles, including one found dead in a trunk. Doucette said police originally thought 50 cats were in the cars -- 27 in one car and 23 in the other. The cats were of varying ages, he said. Each car had two passengers, Doucette said, and one contained a litter box. Both vehicles had a strong odor emanating from windows opened by police to provide the cats with air.
"The stench is nauseating," Doucette said.
Plates of food were in the vehicles. Some of the cats had fecal matter matted to their fur, according to Doucette. Police began investigating the cars after a complaint was made from the Aldi grocery store around 1 p.m. Bennington Police Sgt. Lloyd Dean said someone reported people sleeping in the vehicles with the cats.
Police had both vehicles towed to the town’s highway garage on Depot Street. Officers used plastic suits and air packs to perform a cursory search of the vehicles while awaiting a search warrant. "They refused to voluntarily relinquish ownership of the cats," Dean said.
It took police until 9 p.m. to remove all of the animals, according to Dean.
Doucette said just two of the cats are owned by occupants in the vehicles. The rest, including stray and feral cats, were picked up in various places, he said. Millard and Ryan were apparently looking for homes for the animals, Doucette said. "They were driving from shelter to shelter trying to give some of the cats away for adoption," he said.
Doucette said the town’s animal control officer would seek shelters to house the cats while the case is pending. | positive |
Story highlights Escambia County Sheriff says all inmates accounted for
Authorities said the explosion killed two inmates
The jail will likely be a "total loss," Sheriff David Morgan says
The explosion may have been the result of a natural gas leak
Everyone was accounted for after a powerful explosion ripped through the Escambia County Jail in Florida's Panhandle and killed two inmates, Sheriff David Morgan said Thursday.
Morgan said a "be on the lookout" message was issued after an original head count because officials thought three people were missing. He said authorities conducted a recount and realized all were accounted for.
The building was rocked Wednesday night by what may have been a natural gas explosion, he said. Deputies were having a difficult time searching the structurally unsound building.
"It's pretty much complete destruction inside this facility. It was a huge explosion," he said.
The building sustained flooding damage last week and in this week's recent torrential rains, Morgan said.
But it is unclear if that damage could have contributed to the accident, officials said.
Morgan said officials hope to begin exploring the jail soon and provide an update Thursday evening.
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Morgan's statements contradicted earlier word from county spokeswoman Kathleen Castro, who told reporters that deputies had made two sweeps through the building.
The explosion in the medium-security facility happened near the jail's booking area, Castro told reporters shortly after the incident.
It appeared the ceiling and part of a wall had collapsed, she said.
About 600 inmates were in the jail at the time, Castro said. Officials with nearby hospitals reported treating 155 patients, most of them with minor injuries. None of the injuries were life-threatening, they said.
The building, however will likely be a total loss, Morgan said Thursday.
It's unclear what caused the explosion, but people in the area reported a strong smell of natural gas before the blast.
The state Fire Marshal's office and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are investigating, Morgan said. The federal agency's involvement is routine and doesn't suggest investigators believe the explosion was anything other than an accident, the sheriff added.
Inmates who do not remain in the hospital have been taken to other nearby jails, officials said.
One angry woman who said she had been unable to learn the fate of her son in the jail confronted Morgan Thursday, accusing his deputies and jail staff of being insensitive.
Morgan said officials were doing the best they can.
Another woman told CNN affiliate WALA of her anger over the situation. | positive |
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Pricey parking meter rates and the modern ease of dummying up fake documents are driving a new scam in downtown Chicago: counterfeit receipts left on dashboards of unsuspecting visitors who’ve paid a valet to stow their cars.
City law requires valet services to park cars in an off-street lot or garage, but unscrupulous operators are making counterfeit receipts en masse and using them to park cars in metered spaces. It’s an illegal way to lower their costs, and if a ticket gets written, the valet can just toss it in the trash.
As a result, people who thought their parking was covered as they ate dinner, went to a museum or took in a show sometimes get an unwanted surprise in the mail — a fine from City Hall for not paying a parking ticket they never knew they received.
To combat the scam, the alderman who represents much of downtown has proposed raising the fine for parking a car that displays a counterfeit meter receipt nearly eightfold — to $500 from $65.
“It’s so pervasive that we believe the fine needs to be dramatically increased to be a deterrent,” said Ald. Brendan Reilly, 42nd.
Reilly said the issue came to his attention late last year, when parking meter compliance officers and the company that maintains the meters detected the practice. “It’s bad enough that valet parking services are hogging spots on city streets, but it’s even worse when they’re not paying for it,” said Reilly, who indicated that hundreds of fake receipts have been circulated.
The fake receipts are typically made using a computer, off-the-shelf software and a standard printer, said Scott Burnham, spokesman for Chicago Parking Meters, the firm that holds the controversial long-term lease on the city’s meters. It’s a new twist on an old scam. Before, some valet parkers would simply ignore meters and get rid of the resulting tickets.
Burnham declined to reveal how forgeries are detected for fear of tipping off the scammers. Cracking down on the practice would likely involve undercover enforcement details, Reilly said.
Reilly’s proposal does not boost the fine for non-payment. Instead, it raises the fine for parking the car with a “stolen, altered, defaced or otherwise tampered with or counterfeited” receipt. Such a citation could only be issued if someone is caught in the act of parking a car with a fake receipt or with fake receipts in his possession, Reilly said.
City and CPM parking enforcement aides can only write tickets for non-payment of meter fees, not for using counterfeit receipts. Citations for the fake receipts must be issued by either city inspectors or police officers. The number of tickets, if any, that city inspectors and police have written for doing that was not immediately available, city officials said.
The owners of a few larger, longtime valet parking companies said they were unaware of the scam and suggested it was being used by less reputable companies.
“They make it hard for legitimate valet companies to make it,” said Michael Munao, president of Five Star Valet. “These fly-by-night companies cut every corner they can.”
Munao said he supports Reilly’s initiative. “He should make it $1,000,” Munao said. “I think he should quadruple it. Suspend them. Put them out of business. . . . I’m 100 percent for that. I hope he does it.”
A spokeswoman for Mayor Rahm Emanuel indicated city officials are looking at Reilly’s proposal, which the alderman said he had yet to discuss with the administration.
“We support cracking down on parking abuse, particularly if it affects unsuspecting motorists, and will work with aldermen on the ordinance,” city finance spokeswoman Kelley Quinn said. The parking meter company “supports efforts to curb these abuses,” Burnham said.
Reilly said his proposed ordinance, which he introduced at last week’s City Council meeting, would only apply to downtown. “We’ve seen the problem in the central core, and I’m looking to legislate where I know the problem exists,” said Reilly, who added he’s not aware of individuals using fake receipts to park their own cars.
In metered areas inside the Loop, motorists pay at a box with cash or credit card at the rate of $6.50 an hour during the day and into the evening. In the surrounding downtown area, known as the central business district, the rate is $4 an hour. Downtown Chicago downtown has the highest hourly meter rates of any big city in the U.S. or Canada, according to a study released in December by SFpark, an arm of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency.
The fine for non-payment of parking fees or letting your meter expire would remain at $65 under Reilly’s plan.
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After a very successful trip to 4 Hands Brewing (where I had their Reprise Centennial Red Ale, Divided Sky Rye IPA, and Bona Fide Russian Imperial Stout), we headed over to the International Tap House in Soulard (near downtown St. Louis, MO) to watch Missouri play in the NCAA tournament and enjoy a few beers. My friend Joe said he had enjoyed 2nd Shift’s beers after he went to their 2nd Shift and Friends Festival last year, so I thought I’d give this one a try.
Location: Enjoyed in a large tulip shaped glass at the International Tap House (ITAP) in the Soulard area of St. Louis, MO.
Numbers: 7.6% ABV, 62IBUs, ~ 247 Calories
Ingredients: Hops include Columbus, Amarillo, and Citra.
Appearance & Aroma: It was slightly hazy and had a copper/orange/amber color with a very thin head. The aroma was a big floral hop aroma with hints of citrus and caramel malts.
Taste & Feel: The body was medium and the mouthfeel was a bit crisp from the carbonation and hops. The flavor up front was a bit sweet, malty/bready with a hint of caramel, along with a bit of floral and piney bitterness. The bitterness picked up a bit in the middle and it finished slightly dry and bitter with citrus and floral hop flavors.
Food Pairing: Perhaps it was the mix of floral and citrus bitterness, combined with sweet breadiness, but I think this would go very nicely with a bleu cheese burger. I think the bitterness and sweetness would help to balance the bleu cheese flavors, and the bready and caramel flavors would go nicely with the juicy beef.
Overall Impression: I enjoyed the complex mix of hop flavors, which seemed to shift between floral, citrusy, and piney, along with the sweet bready and light caramel flavors. The malt backbone was definitely there, competing with the hoppy bitterness, but true to style, the bitterness slightly won out. Overall, it was a pretty good American IPA, that I’d definitely try again.
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It seems my view on the subject can change with my mood, and I think this has a lot to do with the fact that many of us are still unsure of what to think about the tragedy. What we know is that it was done by an individual who was deeply disturbed and had a number of issues with other individuals and society itself. The question we ask ourselves is, what could have been done to prevent this? Most of the time our answers come up short, leaving us feeling incomplete and unsatisfied with the helpless thought that this may occur again, and probably will. And we are shocked every time. Somehow though, the shock begins to feel familiar; shootings at Columbine, shootings in Montreal, shootings at Virginia Tech and last Wednesday, the fatal shooting that occurred in a Toronto high school. Will it ever stop? Unfortunately, I believe it will happen again. Perhaps not in the same manner or for the same reasons, but an individual attempting to kill people will happen again. I do not write these words lightly, as I realize that they have a very real impact on people’s feelings and emotional state. You may no longer feel secure in your daily lives because of this incident, or you may feel no different at all. To feel the latter, however, is a mistake. If we ignore this tragedy and chalk it up as another tragic isolated incident, it will simply keep happening again and again. The debate so far has touched on whether anything could have been done to prevent Virginia Tech, whether violence in media and society affected the shooter, whether gun control should be stricter. Many people are now claiming their course of action will resolve this ‘crisis’ in our culture. And while we debate, the problems still exist. How do we as a society deal with tragedies that we inflict on ourselves and are preventable? Disasters like the tsunami and Hurricane Katrina we can blame on nature and God. But how do we respond when it seems like the cause of a societal tragedy is society itself? Do we have an opportunity to change or influence society so it doesn’t happen again? Doing something for the sake of action is not the answer. We have had memorials; we have had discussions. Soon we need to have actions. We cannot simply accept these shootings as a part of life that we, as students, must learn to live with. Every time something like Virginia Tech happens we are reminded of how little we have progressed. If we need better gun control to deny access to disturbed individuals from taking advantage of a lenient system, then we should have it. If we think it should be easier to alert authorities about potential problem individuals, then it should become easier. But we need to come together and decide. I understand that many of these things are easier said than done, but what disturbs me is that I believe authorities are more concerned with working towards what to do in response to when these incidents occur, instead of what we should do to ensure that preventative programs are in place and that incidents like this will happen far less frequently. Change, however, comes in steps, and those steps need to begin somewhere. As “the leaders of tomorrow” it is our job to play a role in how these events are addressed today, and in the future. It starts here at Queen’s, in your residence, your faculty, your classrooms. We are responsible for our society and how it treats its members. We need to be asking our administration to implement solutions, we need to be asking our student government to lobby for what we believe to be appropriate measures, we need to be making a difference, and we needed to have done it yesterday. 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Warren Mayor Jim Fouts used the n-word, compared black people to “chimps” and called old women “dried-up cunts” in new audio recordings obtained exclusively by Motor City Muckraker.
Fouts, who is holding a Martin Luther King Jr. celebration in Warren this afternoon, didn’t respond to our questions for comment.
In previous recordings, Fouts made crude statements about disabled people, prompting calls for his resignation. He also was fired from his weekly radio show on 910AM Radio Superstation.
Fouts, a Democrat, has denied making the statements, saying the recordings were engineered to sound like him. But audio experts disagree.
In the latest batch of recordings, Fouts compared black people to chimpanzees.
“Blacks do look like chimpanzees,” Fouts said. “I was watching this black woman with her daughter and they looked like two chimps.”
Fouts also relayed a story in which he used the n-word:
In other recordings, Fouts, who is in his 70s, explains why he doesn’t like to date older women.
“Think I want to date a fucking 60-year-old hag?” Fouts said. “Fuck that shit. I’m not interested in any old ugly hag. I think after a certain age they are dried up, washed up burned out.”
In another recording, Fouts makes more vile statements about women.
“They are pussies when they are young, and when they get older, they’re just mean, hateful dried-up cunts.”
Residents have called for Mayor Fouts to resign after he said disabled people “aren’t even human beings.” He suggested the media had “a pretty brutal negative agenda” against him.
As someone who has interviewed Fouts numerous times in the past, some of these comments aren’t surprising. When I worked for the Detroit Free Press, Fouts talked to me often about his preference for younger women.
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Fallen Heroes: April 2007 Fallen Heroes A Tribute to Our Fallen Heroes. May we never forget! “Not for fame or reward, not lured by ambition or goaded by necessity, but in simple obedience to duty.” --Inscription at Arlington Cemetary "Each of these heroes stands in the unbroken line of patriots who have dared to die that freedom might live and grow and increase in its blessings." -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Sunday, April 29, 2007 Marine 1st Lt. Travis L. Manion Remember Our Heroes Marine 1st Lt. Travis L. Manion, 26, of Doylestown, Pa. 1st. Lt. Manion was assigned to 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.; died April 29 while conducting combat operations in Anbar province, Iraq. Doylestown Marine killed in combat in Iraq The Associated Press DOYLESTOWN, Pa. — A Marine officer from Doylestown who was killed in combat in Iraq was a dedicated supporter of the troops’ mission, his family said April 30. First Lt. Travis L. Manion, 26, died April 29 in combat in Anbar province. He was serving his second tour in Iraq, embedded with an Iraqi army unit that he was leading and training. “He was so sure what he was doing over there was right,” said his mother, Jannette Manion. “He called the night Bush made his speech about the troop surge and told us, ‘That’s exactly what we need.’ His biggest concern was that the politicians over here were giving life to the insurgents by putting the military and president down.” His father, Tom Manion, said he was proud of how his son would “give his all” in life and in the military. “He was a kid with a big heart, never had a bad word for anyone. He was all heart; that is who he was,” Tom Manion said. “We’ve had calls from all over the country, from people who said they loved him like a brother; he really touched people like that.” Marine 1st Lt. Travis L. Manion was killed in action on 4/29/07. Posted by Terri Rager at 3:37 PM No comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Saturday, April 28, 2007 Army Sgt. Glenn D. Hicks Jr. Remember Our Heroes Army Sgt. Glenn D. Hicks Jr., 24, of College Station, Texas Sgt. Hicks was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Benning, Ga.; died April 28, 2007 in Salman Pak, Iraq, of wounds suffered when his vehicle was struck with an improvised explosive device and small arms fire during combat operations. Also killed were Pfc. Jay-D H. Ornsby-Adkins and Pvt. Cole E. Spencer. The Eagle -- Former College Station resident Glenn Dale Hicks Jr. stood bravely in front of an American flag with a stoic expression - the classic photo of a soldier taken after a graduation of some sort. The image of the one-time Blinn College student was captured in a photograph released Wednesday by Fort Benning, Ga., just days after the soldier's death. Officials at Fort Benning said Wednesday that they have little information about the explosion that killed Hicks, 24, and two fellow soldiers, 21-year-olds Pfc. Jay-D Ornsby-Adkins of Ione, Calif., and Pvt. Cole Spencer of Gays, Ill. The three died Saturday in Salman Pak, Iraq, which is about 15 miles south of Baghdad. Hicks had been at Fort Benning since July 2004, according to records. Attempts to reach the soldier's family have been unsuccessful. Although he listed a College Station address when he joined the military, he doesn't seem to have lived in the area in recent years. He attended Blinn College in fall 2002 and spring 2003, said a Blinn spokeswoman, but his permanent address on file at the college was in Tarrant County. A newspaper in Ione reported that a candlelight vigil was held Tuesday evening for Ornsby-Adkins, who emigrated from Australia with his mother when he was 5 years old. Ornsby-Adkins had been married since December, the paper reported. Spencer was engaged to be married and had been in Iraq for about a month when the bomb hit the Humvee in which he, Hicks and Ornsby-Adkins were riding, an Illinois TV station reported earlier this week. The three young men were assigned to the 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division. Chaplain Marvin Luckie, an active duty major who counsels families at Fort Hood's Darnall Army Community Hospital near Killeen, said soldiers never are fully prepared to lose one of their own. "Soldiers are people just like you and me," he said. "They care for and love their fellow soldiers. They live with that person day in and day out, and when they lose that person, they grieve like any other human being would. This is their brother, their battle buddy. [Glenn Hicks] was part of someone's heart and someone's life." Officials at Fort Hood have been asked to provide "casualty assistance" to the Hicks family because of Killeen's proximity to the Hicks' home in Tarrant County, a spokeswoman at Fort Benning in Georgia said Wednesday. The men and women enlisted in the U.S. Army know that death is a real possibility while fighting in a war, Luckie said. "We all have to prepare for our own death," he said. "The bottom line is, check yourself. Do you have a will? Do you have a funeral planned? Do you have faith? Before I leave on deployment, I make sure my bride of 30 years won't have to worry about those things." Faith is of great importance as a young person enters combat, Luckie said, explaining that the Bible verse he most often shares with soldiers is Psalm 138:8. The Scripture reads, "The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me." "We're going to experience dangers as we defend freedom," he said. "These are the sacrifices that our young warriors are making to ensure our freedom. "We have to go into this with faith. We have to give each other a hug, offer a prayer and tell these soldiers to do their duty and watch out for each other." Army Sgt. Glenn D. Hicks Jr. was killed in action on 4/28/07. Posted by Terri Rager at 10:44 AM No comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Army Pfc. Jay-D H. Ornsby-Adkins Remember Our Heroes Army Pfc. Jay-D H. Ornsby-Adkins, 21, of Lone, Calif. Pfc. Ornsby-Adkins was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Benning, Ga.; died April 28 in Salman Pak, Iraq, of wounds suffered when his vehicle was struck with an improvised explosive device and small arms fire during combat operations. Also killed were Sgt. Glenn D. Hicks Jr. and Pvt. Cole E. Spencer. News10.net -- 21-year-old infantryman, Pfc. Jay-D Ornsby-Adkins moved to the United States from Australia when he was five years old. His family says he loved his adopted country, volunteered for the Army last year, and volunteered to go to Iraq. The Army informed his family Saturday that he had been killed by an improvised explosive device on April 28th in Salman Pak, Iraq. He had served in Iraq for just six weeks. In Ione, his mother, Robyn Ornsby said he was proud of his dual heritage, adding, "We're Australian citizens. He served the American Army with pride and respect. He died with pride and respect." On Tuesday, residents of Ione and surrounding communities came to the Main Street hair salon owned by Ornsby's mother to pay their respects with notes and cards. Family friend Richard Gonzales says he understands how the young soldier felt. "He went because he wanted to. I'm a Vietman veteran. I know what he's talking about. Because of him, people can write their editorials against the war." A friend described Ornsby-Adkins as, "Always moving a million miles an hour, with a devilish grin on his face and a twinkle in his eye." Ornsby-Adkins married 19-year old Ashley Ornsby in December when he was finished with boot camp. She says she is moved by the community's response, adding, "It's beautiful. Let's him know it's time to come home and it's ok to." Ornsby-Adkins was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Benning, Georgia. A memorial mass is planned for this Saturday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Ione. The funeral is scheduled for Wednesday May 9th at Sunset Cemetary in the nearby town of Martell. Army Pfc. Jay-D H. Ornsby-Adkins was killed in action on 4/28/07. Posted by Terri Rager at 10:40 AM No comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Army Pvt. Cole E. Spencer Remember Our Heroes Army Pvt. Cole E. Spencer, 21, of Gays, Ill. Pvt. Spencer was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Benning, Ga.; died April 28, 2007 in Salman Pak, Iraq, of wounds sustained when his vehicle was struck with an improvised explosive device and small-arms fire during combat operations. Also killed were Sgt. Glenn D. Hicks Jr. and Pfc. Jay-D H. Ornsby-Adkins. Herald & Review -- GAYS - The Army said on Tuesday that Pvt. Cole Spencer of Gays was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq on Saturday. According to the official Web site of the Multi-National Corps in Iraq, Spencer was part of a patrol that was attacked. "Three Task Force Marne soldiers were killed and one was wounded when their patrol was struck by a roadside bomb southeast of Baghdad." The Department of Defense Web site– said the soldiers died in Salman Pak, Iraq, of wounds suffered when their vehicle was struck with an improvised explosive device and small arms fire during combat operations.–;They were assigned to the 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Benning, Ga. Also killed were Sgt. Glenn D. Hicks Jr., 24, of College Station, Texas; and Pfc. Jay-D H. Ornsby-Adkins, 21, of Ione, Calif. Spencer's family also issued a brief statement Tuesday through the office of Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn. The statement, e-mailed to media, said: "Army Pvt. Cole Spencer of Gays, Illinois, was killed Saturday, April 28, 2007, in Iraq. He was 21 years old. "Pvt. Spencer attended Heritage Baptist Academy. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorials are made to the school in Pvt. Spencer's name. "Pvt. Spencer is survived by his parents Mark and Candy Spencer and his brother Brian. "The family requests that members of the media respect their privacy during this difficult time." According to a family friend, Spencer had been in Iraq about a month. Army Pvt. Cole E. Spencer was killed in action on 4/28/07. Posted by Terri Rager at 10:33 AM No comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Monday, April 23, 2007 Army Sgt. Randell T. Marshall Remember Our Heroes Army Sgt. Randell T. Marshall, 22, of Fitzgerald, Ga. Sgt. Marshall was assigned to the 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C.; died April 23 in Sadah, Iraq, of wounds suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated near his location. Also killed were 1st Lt. Kevin J. Gaspers, Staff Sgt. Kenneth E. Locker Jr., Staff Sgt. William C. Moore, Sgt. Brice A. Pearson, Sgt. Michael L. Vaughan, Spc. Jerry R. King, Spc. Michael J. Rodriguez and Pfc. Garrett C. Knoll. Stars and Stripes -- Sgt. Randell T. Marshall was a 22-year-old from Fitzgerald, Ga., and a former rodeo bull rider. Marshall also was called “9/11-er” who enlisted after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, saying he wanted to serve his country. He was described as a “hard-core paratrooper” by one of his friends, Sgt. Josh Meismer, according to The Associated Press. Marshall is survived by his father, mother and sister. “We are trying to help the Iraqi Army out with helping the communities out,” Marshall said in a military news story released late last year. “So when we leave, the Iraqi army will be able to go out and do these kinds of missions on their own.” Army Sgt. Randell T. Marshall was killed in action on 4/23/07. Posted by Terri Rager at 3:54 PM No comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Army Staff Sgt. Kenneth E. Locker Jr. Remember Our Heroes Army Staff Sgt. Kenneth E. Locker Jr., 28, of Wakefield, Neb. SSgt. Locker was assigned to the 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C.; died April 23 in Sadah, Iraq, of wounds suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated near his location. Also killed were 1st Lt. Kevin J. Gaspers, Staff Sgt. William C. Moore, Sgt. Randell T. Marshall, Sgt. Brice A. Pearson, Sgt. Michael L. Vaughan, Spc. Jerry R. King, Spc. Michael J. Rodriguez and Pfc. Garrett C. Knoll. Nebraska.tv -- Ten years in service, a lifetime commitment. 28-year-old Ken Locker, Jr., was killed Monday in a suicide attack in Iraq. "Kenneth likes to tell people, life is but a dream, make it whatever you wish," reads a 1997 edition of the Burwell Tribune. Those words were spoken by Ken Locker Jr., nearly 10 years ago. Ken, better known as Kenny, wanted his classmates at Burwell High, to know he was living his dream. A dream to serve our country. He enlisted in the military in 1997 while he was still in high school. "At that point in his life, he was a pretty unfocused individual. He went into the military. I visited with him several year later, and there was a 180 degree change in demeanor, posture, outlook on life and focus," remembers Bob Lee, his math teacher. It was that focus and determination that residents teachers and friends will remember most. "It was an extreme honor for him to serve our country. I am thankful for people like Kenny, who serve our country. That have fought and died for our daily lives, so we can go on with our daily lives and do what it is we do," says English teacher Candace Cain. "My last phone call with him, was moving, inspiring, uplifting. When the phone call ended, I said wow. And my wife remembered that I had said that. His focus and his dedication to his country and his pride were just inspiring," says Lee. World War II was the last time Burwell residents have had a soldier die in combat. It's a reality that for some is hard to swallow. "These generations of students who haven't grown up in an environment where there is war, this is a lesson. And it's a hard lesson. But it's the price for what we have in our lives with democracy," says Cain. "It makes the war in Iraq even more real. In Burwell, we've seen the price for freedom, one of our hometown boys who've payed the ultimate price." The ultimate price for our freedom. It's a price that won't soon be forgotten. "I think people should be very proud. Our community should be very proud of Kenny," says teacher Tim Hulburt. "I was saddened by his death, by at the same time, proud of him, knowing that he gave his life for something he truly believed in," says Lee. "His final last words are you live and you die. Make the best of it." Army Staff Sgt. Kenneth E. Locker Jr. was killed in action on 4/23/07. Posted by Terri Rager at 3:51 PM No comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Army Sgt. Brice A. Pearson Remember Our Heroes Army Sgt. Brice A. Pearson, 32, of Phoenix, Arizona. Sgt. Pearson was assigned to the 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C.; died April 23 in Sadah, Iraq, of wounds suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated near his location. Also killed were Sgt. Randell T. Marshall, 1st Lt. Kevin J. Gaspers, Staff Sgt. Kenneth E. Locker Jr., Staff Sgt. William C. Moore, Sgt. Michael L. Vaughan, Spc. Jerry R. King, Spc. Michael J. Rodriguez and Pfc. Garrett C. Knoll. Arizona Central -- A Phoenix paratrooper was killed Sunday in Iraq when two truck bombs detonated near a building he was in, the Department of Defense said Thursday. Sgt. Brice A. Pearson, 32, was assigned to the 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C. Eight other paratroopers from Pearson's unit were also killed in the blast in As Sadah, Iraq. Most of the casualties were caused when one of the bombs ruptured a building wall, collapsing its second floor. Sgt. William Fleming, a team leader who served with Pearson, said the fallen soldier cared deeply about his comrades. "Brice didn't talk about work much off-duty, but he always wanted to know how his guys were doing," Fleming was quoted as saying in a statement issued by Fort Bragg officials. "I've lost friends before, but nothing like this. It's very overwhelming." The group had been in Iraq since August. Pearson was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star medal and the Purple Heart. He is survived by his parents. Friends remember fallen AZ soldier By Rebecca Taylor / 3TV A Valley soldier was among nine U.S. troops killed by a suicide bomber. Sgt. Brice Pearson from Phoenix died Monday. Longtime friends can't believe he's gone. Friends say Sgt. Pearson was home on leave just three weeks ago. At the time, they had no idea their quick goodbyes meant forever. “Definitely a good guy to have on your side,” Mark Eshelman said. Eshelman is talking about his longtime friend Brice Pearson, a guy who at the age of 30 decided to join the army. “I don't want to say he wasn't military material before he went in, but once the war went on he knew he wanted to go,” he said Sgt. Pearson, nicknamed "Old Man" by his army buddies was a confident leader who moved up in the ranks quickly. His first tour of duty took him to Afganistan. “He said you know as much as it sucks over there, we're doing the right thing,” Eshelman said. Sadly, just three weeks after returning home for a brief visit Sgt. Pearson was killed. “Hopefully he didn't see it coming and it just happened,” he said. He was one of nine paratroopers killed by a suicide bomber Monday in a town north of Baghdad. “That is such a bad way to go, that's the brutality of these enemies, they don't have any shame,” he said. Grieving friends and loved ones are now leaving heartfelt message on Brice's MySpace page. They read, “you will always be in our thoughts! I love you. I will never forget you.” Sgt. Pearson and his nine comrades who died were awarded a Bronze Star and Purple Heart. Army Sgt. Brice A. Pearson was killed in action on 4/23/07. Posted by Terri Rager at 3:47 PM No comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Army Pfc. Garrett C. Knoll Remember Our Heroes Army Pfc. Garrett C. Knoll, 23, of Bad Axe, Mich. Pfc. Knoll was assigned to the 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C.; died April 23 in Sadah, Iraq, of wounds suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated near his location. Also killed were Spc. Michael J. Rodriguez, Spc. Jerry R. King, Sgt. Michael L. Vaughan, Sgt. Brice A. Pearson, Sgt. Randell T. Marshall, 1st Lt. Kevin J. Gaspers, Staff Sgt. Kenneth E. Locker Jr. and Staff Sgt. William C. Moore. Michigan soldier killed in Iraq was athletic, popular The Associated Press VERONA TOWNSHIP, Mich. — A 23-year-old Army medic from Michigan’s Thumb who was killed in Iraq attended a rural one-room school through eighth grade but jumped right into the social whirl and sports scene at Bad Axe High School, his former principal says. Garrett Knoll of Huron County’s Verona Township was killed when a truck bomb exploded next to his patrol base near Baghdad, grandmother Ruth Knoll told WLEW-AM in Bad Axe. Nine members of the 82nd Airborne Division were killed and 20 were wounded April 23. It was the single greatest loss of life for American ground forces in Iraq since Dec. 1, 2005, when a roadside bomb killed 10 Marines and wounded 11 in an abandoned building near Fallujah. The soldiers were members of the 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, at Fort Bragg, N.C. A civilian interpreter also was wounded. Knoll, a 2001 graduate of Bad Axe High, lived with his grandparents near Verona, about 100 miles north of Detroit. He had been serving as a medic in Iraq for two months. Ruth Knoll said military officials notified her April 24. The Pentagon had not yet announced his death by midmorning April 25. Knoll attended the one-room Verona Mills school from kindergarten through eighth grade, said Bad Axe High Principal Wayne Brady. Knoll “fit right in” when he moved on to the high school, Brady told The Saginaw News. The freshman joined the cross country, track and wrestling teams. “He was a happy-go-lucky kid,” Brady said. “He was very friendly. One thing I remember is his sense of humor. He was very sharp, very witty. And he had a nice circle of friends.” Lee Kahler, Knoll’s track and cross country coach and his biology teacher, described him as “happy, joyful, enthusiastic, eager, always adventuresome.” “He was a guy who was always full of energy,” Kahler told the Huron Daily Tribune of Bad Axe. “He was a really neat kid.” “Our thoughts and sympathies go out to his family, and we will honor his, and their, sacrifice,” said Bad Axe Mayor Herbert Williams. “As a community, we will do whatever we can to help them heal.” Army Pfc. Garrett C. Knoll was killed in action on 4/23/07. Posted by Terri Rager at 3:33 PM 1 comment: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Army 1st Lt. Kevin J. Gaspers Remember Our Heroes Army 1st Lt. Kevin J. Gaspers, 26, of Hastings, Neb. Lt. Gaspers was assigned to the 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C.; died April 23 in Sadah, Iraq, of wounds suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated near his location. Also killed were Staff Sgt. Kenneth E. Locker Jr., Staff Sgt. William C. Moore, Sgt. Randell T. Marshall, Sgt. Brice A. Pearson, Sgt. Michael L. Vaughan, Spc. Jerry R. King, Spc. Michael J. Rodriguez and Pfc. Garrett C. Knoll. Hastings native killed in Iraq By Josh Funk The Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. — A Hastings, Neb., man died in Iraq this week while serving in the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, officials at his alma mater confirmed April 24. Lt. Kevin Gaspers, 26, died April 23, said Marie Butler, principal of St. Cecilia Catholic High School. Officials at the school learned about Gaspers’ death this morning after his family asked that a priest be sent to their house. One of Gaspers’ sisters said April 23 that family members did not want to be interviewed. Pam Gaspers told the Hastings Tribune newspaper that she and her husband, John, were notified April 24 of Kevin’s death April 23. “I’m just numb right now,” she said. Saint Cecilia’s 203 high school students and 174 middle school students remembered Gaspers on April 24 at their daily Mass. “We offered our prayers up for the Kevin and the family,” Butler said. Gaspers played football and wrestled for St. Cecilia, and his football coach, Carl Tesmer, remembers his perseverance and dedication. Tesmer said Gaspers was a tough, hard-nosed linebacker who probably didn’t weigh 145 pounds when he started playing. Gaspers lifted weights to become stronger, and he improved. One of the things Tesmer remembers most about Gaspers is what a gentleman he was. “America’s just lost one of its finest citizens,” said Tesmer, who corresponded regularly with Gaspers while he was in Iraq. Gaspers was just back in Hastings a few weeks ago for a visit around Easter, Tesmer said. OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- A 26-year-old Hastings man died in Iraq Monday while serving in the Army's 82nd Airborne Division, family members said Tuesday. Katie Gaspers of Omaha struggled Tuesday evening to talk about her older brother, First Lt. Kevin Gaspers, who she said was "probably the best person ever." Family members say they were told Tuesday morning that Gaspers died when a suicide bomber attacked his base and the roof of a building collapsed. The military had not confirmed Gaspers' death as of Tuesday evening. Katie Gaspers said the family couldn't yet confirm whether he was one of nine soldiers killed in a Monday suicide truck bombing in Iraq, the single deadliest attack for the 82nd Airborne Division in nearly 40 years. At Gaspers' alma mater, St. Cecilia Catholic High School, 203 high school students and 174 middle school students remembered Gaspers Tuesday at their daily Mass. "We offered our prayers up for the Kevin and the family," said principal Marie Butler. Officials at the school learned about Gaspers' death Tuesday morning after his family asked that a priest be sent to their house. Gaspers played football and wrestled for St. Cecelia before he graduated in 2000, and went on to attend the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and participate in the ROTC program. His football coach, Carl Tesmer, remembers his perseverance, dedication and manners. Tesmer said Gaspers was a tough, hard-nosed linebacker who probably didn't weigh 145 pounds when he started playing. Gaspers lifted weights to become stronger, and he improved. "You always remember the kids who give you everything they've got," Tesmer said, and Gaspers was one of those. One of the things Tesmer remembers most about Gaspers is what a gentleman he was. "America's just lost one of its finest citizens," said Tesmer, who corresponded regularly with Gaspers while he was in Iraq. Gaspers was just back in Hastings a few weeks ago for a visit around Easter, Tesmer said. "The military was what he wanted," Tesmer said. "He was proud to be part of it and what he was doing." Gaspers had been stationed in Fort Bragg, N.C., before he was deployed to Iraq last August. Gaspers is the 42nd U.S. service member with Nebraska connections killed in Iraq or Afghanistan since the beginning of military operations following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. And Tesmer said Gaspers is the first St. Cecelia graduate to be killed in the Iraq war. "It's a tough day with lots of tears," Tesmer said Tuesday. Gaspers is survived by his parents, Pam and John Gaspers, and two sisters, 23-year-old Katie and 15-year-old Audrey. Army 1st Lt. Kevin J. Gaspers was killed in action on 4/23/07. Posted by Terri Rager at 3:28 PM No comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Army Sgt. Michael L. Vaughan Remember Our Heroes Army Sgt. Michael L. Vaughan, 20, of Otis, Ore. Sgt. Vaughan was assigned to the 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C.; died April 23 in Sadah, Iraq, of wounds suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated near his location. Also killed were Sgt. Brice A. Pearson, Sgt. Randell T. Marshall, 1st Lt. Kevin J. Gaspers, Staff Sgt. Kenneth E. Locker Jr., Staff Sgt. William C. Moore, Spc. Jerry R. King, Spc. Michael J. Rodriguez and Pfc. Garrett C. Knoll. Fayetville Observer -- Sgt. Michael Vaughan’s father, George Vaughan, said his son was home on leave through the first week of April and was nervous about returning to Iraq. “We all knew how serious it was after talking to him, and what he had been through,” George Vaughan said. Vaughan said he told his son that he didn’t have to go back, that the family would find a way to keep him out of the conflict, but the soldier declined. “He said, ‘No, Dad. I will go. My comrades are over there. I made a commitment, and I will finish it,’” George Vaughan said. George Vaughan, who was disabled in the first Gulf War, said his son came to him while he was still in high school and said he wanted to join the Army. Michael Vaughan was 17 then and needed his parents’ permission to enlist. George Vaughan said he felt apprehensive about the request, but said he had to support his son. “I’d do it all over again,” George Vaughan said. “I just wish there was a different outcome.” Michael Vaughan, who was a cavalry scout, was a top wrestler at his high school and in Oregon. He loved hiking, camping and riding his four-wheeler, George Vaughan said. He made his parents proud. He was close with several of the soldiers who were killed Monday, his father said. His family is grieving, his father said, not only for their son but for the families of all the men who died. And, he said, their thoughts are with those who survived. “We pray for all the soldiers daily,” George Vaughan said. “As Michael would want us to.” Army Sgt. Michael L. Vaughan was killed in action on 04/23/07 Posted by Terri Rager at 3:16 PM No comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Army Specialist Michael J. Rodriguez Remember Our Heroes Army Specialist Michael J. Rodriguez, 20, of Sanford, N.C. Spc. Rodriguez was assigned to the 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C.; died April 23, 2007 in Sadah, Iraq, of wounds suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated near his location. Also killed were Spc. Jerry R. King, Sgt. Michael L. Vaughan, Sgt. Brice A. Pearson, Sgt. Randell T. Marshall, 1st Lt. Kevin J. Gaspers, Staff Sgt. Kenneth E. Locker Jr., Staff Sgt. William C. Moore and Pfc. Garrett C. Knoll. Family says soldier with Knoxville ties among 9 killed in Iraq The Associated Press KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A soldier who grew up in Knoxville is one of nine 82nd Airborne Division paratroopers killed in a suicide truck bombing in Iraq, his family says. The Department of Defense had yet to confirm the identity of the Fort Bragg, N.C.-based soldiers who were killed in the blast April 23 in Iraq’s Diyala province northeast of Baghdad. But Caitlin Stone of Knoxville told The Knoxville News Sentinel and WATE-TV that one of them was her fiancé, Pfc. Michael Rodriguez, 20, who lived in Knoxville as a boy and attended Central High School in the city. He was “very purpose-driven, very respectful, very loving,” she told the television station. Rodriguez had been in Iraq since August. He came back to Knoxville on leave in January and proposed. “He could have had a very full life ... cut short,” Stone said. The couple had kept their engagement secret until Rodriguez could ask her father for permission, Stone said. She learned of his death April 24 after her mother talked to his mother in North Carolina. He was a “good student. A real bright kid. Voracious reader. One of our best student leaders,” said retired Marine Warrant Officer David Johnston, his high school ROTC instructor. Stone said Rodriguez’s family planned a memorial service April 27 in Sanford, N.C. Paratrooper killed in Iraq to be buried in Tennessee The Associated Press KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A paratrooper killed in Iraq lived many places while growing up in a military family, but he will be buried in the place he called home. Services for Army Spc. Michael Joel Rodriguez, 20, will be May 11 at Chilhowee Hills Baptist Church in Knoxville, which he attended as a teenager. Rodriguez and eight other paratroopers with the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division died April 23 in a double suicide bombing northeast of Baghdad. A service for all the soldiers was held at Fort Bragg, N.C., the unit’s headquarters. But his stepmother, Dona Drake of Greensboro, N.C., who raised him, said Rodriguez always thought of Knoxville as his home. Born in Syracuse, N.Y., Rodriguez moved around the country with his family. He came to Knoxville as a boy and stayed until his senior year at Central High School. He left to join the 82nd Airborne after turning 18. A fourth-generation soldier, he deployed to Iraq in August. The military listed his hometown as Sanford, N.C., but Drake said he talked of coming back to East Tennessee after finishing his military career. His last visit to Knoxville was in January, when he proposed to his fiancee, Cailtin Stone. “That’s why I’m bringing him home. I know that’s what he would have wanted,” Drake said. Army Specialist Michael J. Rodriguez was killed in action on 4/23/07. Posted by Terri Rager at 9:18 AM No comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Army Specialist Jerry R. King Remember Our Heroes Army Specialist Jerry R. King, 19, of Browersville, Ga. Spc. King was assigned to the 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C.; died April 23, 2007 in Sadah, Iraq, of wounds suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated near his location. Also killed were Sgt. Michael L. Vaughan, Sgt. Brice A. Pearson, Sgt. Randell T. Marshall, 1st Lt. Kevin J. Gaspers, Staff Sgt. Kenneth E. Locker Jr., Staff Sgt. William C. Moore, Spc. Michael J. Rodriguez and Pfc. Garrett C. Knoll. Trent Roling said that when he heard of Jerry R. King's death, he realized he'd lost "the friend of a lifetime." "We were like brothers," Roling said. "I grew up with him — playing baseball, hunting, fishing and just hanging out. A friend like that only comes around once in a lifetime. I just feel lucky I knew him." King, 19, of Browersville, Ga., was killed April 23, 2007 in a suicide car bombing in As Sadah. He was a 2005 high school graduate and was assigned to Fort Bragg. Evan Beasley, a classmate, said he remembers that King was a strong, protective person who went out of his way to help people. "He was always singing that song, 'Don't Worry Be Happy,'" Beasley said. "That song embodies how he lived his life." "He always told you the truth. It didn't matter if it was going to get him in trouble," said baseball coach Derrick Davis. "He'd say, 'I did it.' Even if 10 other kids had done it and wouldn't say so." He is survived by his father, Jerry King, and mother, Carmen Jordan. "He was an extraordinary young man," said Beasley's father, John Beasley, a social studies teacher. Army Specialist Jerry R. King was killed in action on 4/23/07. Posted by Terri Rager at 9:11 AM No comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Army Staff Sgt. William C. Moore Remember Our Heroes Army Staff Sgt. William C. Moore, 27, of Benson, N.C. SSgt. Moore was assigned to the 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C.; died April 23 in Sadah, Iraq, of wounds suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated near his location. Also killed were1st Lt. Kevin J. Gaspers, Staff Sgt. Kenneth E. Locker Jr., Sgt. Randell T. Marshall, Sgt. Brice A. Pearson, Sgt. Michael L. Vaughan, Spc. Jerry R. King, Spc. Michael J. Rodriguez and Pfc. Garrett C. Knoll. Clint Moore Remembered As One Great Guy By STEVE REED and REECE MURPHY Record Staff There is shock and dismay both at the home base of the 82nd Airborne Division and in Benson, as people mourned the deadliest day of combat in the division's history since the Vietnam War. Nine paratroopers, including Staff Sgt. Clint Moore, 27, of Benson, died and 20 others were injured Monday when two explosives-laden trucks blew up near a patrol base in Iraq's Diyala province. One of the two suicide-bomber trucks blew up a wall on a building on base, collapsing its second floor and causing most of the soldier casualties, a U.S. military statement said Wednesday. A civilian house was destroyed and several smaller structures collapsed in a nearby neighborhood, the Associated Press reported. A civilian hospital and a mosque about 200 yards from the patrol base also were damaged. The deaths marked the division's largest one-day combat loss since June 1969, when 12 paratroopers were ambushed and killed in Vietnam, division spokesman Maj. Tom Earnhardt said Tuesday. But those lives are more than numbers and Sgt. Moore, but by all accounts, was an all-around great guy. Sgt. Moore's sister, Leanne Benson of Benson, described him as charismatic and said people were drawn to him. "He was such a sociable, outgoing guy," Mrs. Benson said. "He loved music, he loved life. He lived his life to the fullest." Mrs. Benson said all her brother ever talked about was joining the military and believed in its mission in Iraq. "I want everybody to know he believed in what he was doing," Mrs. Benson said. "He was very dedicated." Sgt. Moore's aunt, Bobbie Parrish of Benson, said are were no words to describe what it felt like to hear her nephew had been killed. "When Clint was home he said, 'Aunt Bobbie, I won't come back,'" Mrs. Parrish said. "He knew he was heading into the worst of the fighting and felt like things were so bad over there he wouldn't make it. We're proud of him and have been all the time." Another relative talked about Sgt. Moore's kindness. "He was one of the best boys in the world," Sgt. Moore's aunt, Jean Barefoot of Benson, said. "I loved him as much as one of my boys. He was good to everybody and had a good heart." Sgt. Moore returned to Iraq for his second tour of duty last August. He was scheduled to return home in January, Mrs. Barefoot said. Cora Godwin, an English teacher at South Johnston High School, remembered Sgt. Moore as a very outgoing, well-rounded student. He graduated from South Johnston in 1998. "He was a young man who knew even as a high school senior that he wanted a military career," Ms. Godwin said. "During his senior year, the Army band performed at the school and Clint and several other boys who planned to enter the military were recognized in the assembly." Ms. Godwin, who lives in the Meadow community where Sgt. Moore's family lives, said everyone has been touched by his death. "There are family members and friends of the family here at South Johnston," Ms. Godwin said. "The entire student body is aware of the importance of what he's done. South Johnston is one of the great rural, wholesome schools left where we're aware of his patriotism and appreciative of the sacrifice he made." It will be seven to 10 days before Sgt. Moore's body arrives in Benson, Mrs. Barefoot said. Ms. Godwin said the time lapse makes the experience surreal. "It's hard to put closure on something you've not experienced yet," Ms. Godwin said. "In the Meadow community, where Clint lived, family and friends have been rallying around." Army Staff Sgt. William C. Moore was killed in action on 4/23/07. Posted by Terri Rager at 9:06 AM 1 comment: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Saturday, April 21, 2007 Army Staff Sgt. Steven R. Tudor Remember Our Heroes Army Staff Sgt. Steven R. Tudor, 36, of Dunmore, Pa. SSgt. Tudor was assigned to the 210th Brigade Support Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, Fort Drum, N.Y.; died April 21 in Baghdad of wounds sustained when his unit came in contact with enemy forces using indirect fire during combat operations. The Times-Tribune -- A Dunmore High School graduate killed in Iraq on Saturday was a quiet, shy professional who let his work speak for him, his mother said. “He just did his job,” Mary Ann Jones said Monday by telephone from her home in Yucca Valley, Calif. “He didn’t say whether the war was wrong or right; he just did what he had to do.” Army Staff Sgt. Steven Tudor, 36, of Watertown, N.Y., was killed Saturday in a rocket-propelled grenade attack in Baghdad, Mrs. Jones said. He leaves behind a wife, Wanda, and two stepchildren, she said. As of Monday, the Defense Department had not released the details of the career soldier’s death. After 18 years in the military, he was looking forward to retirement in two years, his mother said. Sgt. Tudor was serving his second tour in Iraq, Mrs. Jones said. He served in Saudi Arabia in 1991, driving fuel trucks to service tanks and other military vehicles on the front lines of Operation Desert Storm. Sgt. Tudor’s tour was scheduled to end in August, but he recently learned it would be extended through November, Mrs. Jones said. After graduating from Dunmore in 1989, Sgt. Tudor immediately joined the army, she said. Although he only spent his senior year at Dunmore, some teachers remembered him Monday. “The teachers that are still here remember Sgt. Tudor as a respectful student who cared about academics,” high school Principal James Forgione said. “He was a quiet boy who didn’t get involved in many things here at our school, but he was a good student.” And a good soldier, Mrs. Jones said. “He was proud to serve his country,” she said. “And I’m proud of him.” Army Staff Sgt. Steven R. Tudor was killed in action on 4/21/07. Posted by Terri Rager at 3:41 PM 1 comment: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Army Pfc. Christopher M. North Remember Our Heroes Army Pfc. Christopher M. North, 21, of Sarasota, Fla. Pfc. North was assigned to the 1st Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kan.; died April 21 in Baghdad of wounds sustained when his unit came in contact with enemy forces using an improvised explosive device and small-arms fire during combat operations. 'Everyone's basically devastated' by death of local soldier in Iraq By DOUG SWORD Chris North joined the Army in 2005, hoping he would never be sent to Iraq. However, Baghdad was where the 21-year-old Lakewood Ranch High graduate was when he was killed in action Saturday. Described by family as a sort of joyful daredevil, North at times lacked focus in his life, but never friends. Searching for discipline, he joined the Army nearly two years ago on a deferred entry program thinking that the war was winding down, family and his best friend say. Instead, he was sent to Baghdad in February as part of a troop surge aimed at improving security in the violent city. "I'm one of the 20,000," his mother, Cheryl Riedler, remembers him saying when he informed her of his deployment. North, a member of the 1st Infantry Division, became the ninth member of the military from Sarasota, Manatee and Charlotte counties to die in the war, which has claimed the lives of more than 3,300 American soldiers. In a release Monday, the U.S. Department of Defense said North died of wounds suffered "when his unit came in contact with enemy forces using an improvised explosive device and small arms fire." The homemade bomb apparently disabled North's Humvee. Army officials haven't provided details yet about whether North died from the explosion or from the ambush, his mother said. Friends share memories Family and friends found out about North's death Saturday night. They describe him as headstrong, fun, a very fast driver of cars and motorcycles. North could almost instantly connect with people, friends say, and word of his death spread fast through cell calls and text messages. "Everyone's basically devastated; he was a popular kid at Lakewood Ranch," said Ryan McPherson, North's best friend. About 20 friends quickly gathered at a Sarasota bar to hoist a beer and tell their favorite stories about North. There were a lot of them. McPherson's favorite was of how it was impossible to talk his headstrong friend out of something once he had made up his mind. After making friends with a vacationing girl from Indiana on Siesta Key beach, North decided to hop on his motorcycle and visit her even though it was still winter. "I said, 'Dude, that's not such a good idea,' " McPherson said. Halfway there, a frozen North called him complaining of the weather. But there was more to the story, said Mark North, Chris' father. After a cold motorcycle ride, Chris North found out the beach romance had faded as had the girl's interest. "So, what did he do? He met a lot of other people up there and had a great time." McPherson didn't have any more success at talking North out of joining the Army. "Once he decided he was going to do something you had no chance of talking him out of it." A winning personality The 6-foot 2-inch, 200 pound, blond, blue-eyed North joined the Army looking for focus and discipline in his life, hoping to eventually parlay the experience into a law enforcement career. "He really kind of had his goal set high, the FBI," said his father, Mark North, whose Lakewood Ranch home was adorned with flowers and flags Monday. In fact, neighbors had planted small American flags along the sidewalks for several hundred feet on either side of North's house. Whether he made it in law enforcement or not, Chris' personality would have made him successful. "He would have been a great sales guy," said his father, who sells concrete block. "He would have gained everyone's trust and made a million." Chris' parents divorced when he was two and he always acted as a bridge between his two families, which produced four later children, said his father. The father remarried and has two children, Dalton, 14, and Blair, 10. His mother also remarried and her children are Nevin, 14, and Delaney, 12. A memorial service is not settled, but will probably be held either Saturday or Sunday at Concordia Lutheran Church in Sarasota, Riedler said. Burial will be at Sarasota Gardens. When Chris signed up for the Army, he kept it from his father for a couple of weeks. When he finally told him, Mark North was chilled by the news. "Premonitions," he said, shaking his head, unable to describe them. "When I found out he joined, I cried harder than I am now." Army Pfc. Christopher M. North was killed in action on 4/21/07. Posted by Terri Rager at 3:32 PM No comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Army Staff Sgt. Marlon B. Harper Remember Our Heroes Army Staff Sgt. Marlon B. Harper, 34, of Baltimore SSgt Harper was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas; died April 21, 2007 in Baghdad of wounds sustained when he came in contact with enemy forces using a rocket-propelled grenade and small-arms fire during combat operations. Baltimore soldier killed in Iraq The Associated Press BALTIMORE — A soldier from Baltimore was killed in Iraq over the weekend, the Pentagon said April 23. Staff Sgt. Marlon B. Harper, 34, died in Baghdad on April 21 of injuries sustained during combat when enemy forces using a rocket-propelled grenade and small-arms fire attacked. Harper was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas. Harper joined the military in January 1993 as an armor crew member and was assigned to Fort Hood since January 2006, a division spokesman said. He was deployed to Iraq in October. Harper’s military awards include the Bronze Star Medal and Purple Heart. Harper was the father of three, his wife, Stacy, told The Washington Post on April 23. Harper was originally scheduled to return home in October, but then his tour was extended until January 2008, she said. “He was a great, great person,” Stacy Harper said. “He died doing what he loved.” She and the couple’s children — son Dominic, 12, and twin daughters Jessica and Jennifer, 10 — live in Florida near her parents while Harper was in Iraq. He kept in touch with letters, e-mails and, when possible, telephone calls. Army Staff Sgt. Marlon B. Harper was killed in action on 04/21/07. Posted by Terri Rager-Campbell at 9:38 AM No comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Friday, April 20, 2007 Army Sgt. Alexander Van Aalten Remember Our Heroes Army Sgt. Alexander Van Aalten, 21, of Monterey, Tenn. Sgt. Van Aalten was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C.; died April 20 in Sangin, Afghanistan, of wounds sustained when a land mine detonated near his unit during combat operations. A former Monterey resident was killed during a second tour in Afghanistan after he stepped on a mine, according to his family. The family of Sgt. Alex Van Aalten, 21, with the 82nd Airborne Division, was notified Friday of the incident in the Kandahar Region of Afghanistan where he was stationed. Van Aalten's mother, Susan, said the family was at work when they learned what happened. She said her son had been in Afghanistan since January and was scheduled to be there for 15 months. He wasn't able to give many details about what he was doing, but she said she believes he was involved in a large ongoing offensive operation. Van Aalten also served in Iraq in 2005 as a gunner on a Humvee, his mother said. Van Aalten, who attended Cookeville High School, was born in Orlando, Fla., but spent much of his life in Monterey, about 75 miles west of Knoxville. His mother and father, Ed Van Aalten, live in Cumberland Cove, and his wife, Shana, lives in Sparta. He and his wife had been married for about two years, his mother said. Van Aalten's mother said he signed up for the Army after graduating from high school and went to basic training at Fort Benning in Georgia. He then was assigned to the 82nd Airborne at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. June would have marked his third year in the Army, and two weeks ago, Van Aalten signed up to serve for another six years, his mother said. "He loved serving his country," she said. "He just was a really good person. He loved being in the Army. He believed in what he was doing." Army Sgt. Alexander Van Aalten was killed in action on 4/20/07 Posted by Terri Rager at 3:44 PM 1 comment: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Wednesday, April 18, 2007 Army Cpl. Wade J. Oglesby Remember Our Heroes Army Cpl. Wade J. Oglesby, 27, of Grand Junction, Colo. Cpl. Oglesby was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 37th Field Artillery Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, Fort Lewis, Wash.; died April 18 in Taji, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle during combat operations. Also killed was Cpl. Michael M. Rojas. Grand Junction Daily Sentinel -- Wade Oglesby spent his life putting others before himself. When he was a sophomore at Grand Junction High School, he dropped out to take care of his ill mother full-time. He didn’t learn to drive until he was 22 years old and delayed his education and career to look after his family, including his younger sister, Samantha. On Wednesday, Oglesby was killed instantly when the Humvee he was driving rolled over an improvised explosive device north of Baghdad, according to his family. At 6-foot-3, the 27-year-old U.S. Army corporal was tall and skinny. He was attached to the 2nd Infantry Division’s Fourth “Stryker” Brigade. His mom, Linda, died in September 2003 of heart failure and, after taking care of her for nearly 10 years, he moved in with his stepparents Gary, whom Oglesby called dad, and Sheila Decocq. “He was one of the most unbelievably nurturing men I’d ever met,” Sheila said. “I don’t think he ever once thought, ‘Well gee, I don’t get to do this, or I don’t get to do that.’ ” Oglesby’s Humvee was leading a convoy on a road he had driven often. He told Sheila no one had been hit on that road. “It’s just like driving back home here,” he told her. The Associated Press reported Thursday two soldiers were killed in an explosion north of Baghdad on Wednesday, but the Department of Defense has yet to identify those soldiers. Wade would be the second soldier from Grand Junction killed in Iraq and the 45th from Colorado, according to Associated Press Iraq casualty counts. ‘...I haven’t gotten a scratch’ Oglesby called home a week ago, and he and Sheila were afforded an hour to talk, which is unusual because there are usually other soldiers waiting to use the phone, she said. “Don’t worry, I haven’t gotten a scratch,” he told her on Saturday. “We just get a slight concussion here and there.” As she sat outside playing with her cats and enjoying the spring day, Sheila told Oglesby how much they loved him and how proud of him they were. “His first questions were always, ‘How’s Gary, how’s grandpa, how’s everybody doing?’ ” Sheila said. “Wade’s first thoughts were always, ‘How’s everybody else doing?’ ” Oglesby told her it was starting to get hot there, and he was ready to be out of Iraq and back on U.S. soil. Sheila’s father, L.W. St. John, whom Wade called grandpa, was in the Navy serving in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Her brothers also served in the military. One made a career of the Navy, and the other served in the Army during Vietnam. Wade’s stepbrother, Chris Walker, is also in the Army and returned in December from a year-long tour of Iraq. When Walker, who is stationed at Fort Hood, Texas, heard the news, he burst into tears, Sheila said. Both Oglesby and Walker enlisted in the Army in 2004. The year between his mother dying and starting basic training was the first time in his life when Oglesby had time for himself, she said. “We needed something to do,” said Walker, who came home on a two-week, emergency leave. “It seemed like a logical step.” Spending most of his teenage years caring for his mother left Oglesby somewhat socially awkward. Sheila said he was painfully shy to the point where he wouldn’t look strangers in the eye when talking to them. Gary said Oglesby finally decided to take a chance and choose a direction in his life after his mom died. They encouraged him to join the Air Force, but, after speaking with a recruiter, Oglesby joined the Army. “He wanted to make a difference,” Gary said. “He wanted to get an education, and he had nothing going on here.” Before he left for basic training in August 2004, the family had a going-away party for Walker and Oglesby, who was surprised they would throw a party for him. “He never expected anybody to make a fuss,” Sheila said. Walker remembers posing with Oglesby for a photo at the party with a cake in the shape of an American flag. “Here he is, this tall, beanpole of a guy, and here I am, this short, little troll of a guy,” he said. Oglesby called home as often as he could during basic training at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., but eventually made friends and gained confidence in the Army, Sheila said. “He really came into his own,” she said. ‘This is Wade’ The Decocqs said they received the bad news early Thursday morning from Oglesby’s older brother, Richard. Sheila, while grateful for the Army’s support, said the news was less harsh coming from family. “My biggest fear with both of the boys being over there was watching a couple of military suits come down the walkway to the door,” she said. Oglesby made many friends in the Army, and a lot of them have called the Decocqs from Iraq to offer condolences and tell them how nice and courageous Oglesby was. Services are pending at Veterans Memorial Cemetery. In 2001 Oglesby earned his GED with flying colors. The certificate now sits in a neat pile with his birth certificate, his mother’s death certificate and other documents. “This is Wade,” Sheila said. “Everything’s right here where I need it.” His family remembers Oglesby as always being upbeat and having a dry wit about him. “He had a British sense of humor,” Walker said. “That kid would bend over backwards and go to the ends of the earth if you needed anything.” Walker said he lost two of his teammates when an IED exploded underneath their Humvee on April 28, 2006. Before that, his team had encountered eight other IEDs while patrolling and escorting command officers in southern Baghdad. Walker said he knew what to expect when he got the news about Oglesby, but it still was hard to take. He said he was hoping to sit down with Oglesby when he returned stateside and “talk ... to each other and drink a beer.” Walker’s sergeant major sent a coin with the 8-10 Cavalry logo to give to Gary and Sheila. Walker said being coined was a great honor in the Army, especially when a cavalry officer is awarding a member of the artillery staff. Oglesby had been in Iraq since last summer and his tour had recently been extended until October. He was based out of Fort Lewis, Wash. While he trained for artillery, he was assigned to infantry in Iraq. One of Oglesby’s first assignments was driving officials in Mosul, northern Iraq. He was able to jump curbs and run red lights during those missions. “He got a kick out of legally disobeying traffic laws,” Sheila said. She said he recently had been assigned to security details and had been conducting raids around Baghdad. Gary said Oglesby wanted to become a cop after he was discharged from the Army. During his last leave he looked into some of the local police academies. He had the patience of Job and was a kind, serene person, which would have made him a good cop, Sheila said. “We were hoping to meet him at the airport,” she said. “I guess we still will, but in a different way.” Army Cpl. Wade J. Oglesby was killed in action on 4/18/07. Posted by Terri Rager at 3:36 PM No comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Army Cpl. Michael M. Rojas Remember Our Heroes Army Cpl. Michael M. Rojas, 21, of Fresno, Calif. Cpl. Rojas was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 37th Field Artillery Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, Fort Lewis, Wash.; died April 18 in Taji, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle during combat operations. Also killed was Cpl. Wade J. Oglesby. Clovis soldier dies in Baghdad The Associated Press CLOVIS, Calif. — A former high school football player who was scheduled to return from Iraq over the summer was killed in Baghdad, his family said. Army Spc. Michael Rojas, 21, died April 17, according to his father David Esquivil. The Department of Defense could not immediately confirm Rojas’ death. Rojas enlisted after graduating in 2004 from Clovis East High School, where he played football for four years. He deployed to Iraq in June 2006, family members said. “I got a letter from him recently saying he was in Baghdad, and it was dangerous,” Esquivil said. “He was looking forward to being back home, but was proud to be serving.” Officials at Rojas’ alma mater held a moment of silence for the soldier April 19. “He was a pretty good kid and a better-than-average athlete,” Clovis East football coach Tim Murphy said. “He went out the most honorable way you could go out.” Rojas is survived by his parents and four sisters. KOMOTV.com -- FORT LEWIS - The newlywed widow of a Stryker soldier killed in Iraq says she doesn't want people to forget about the sacrifices being made. Cpl. Michael Rojas and his fellow Stryker Cpl. Wade Oglesby were both killed by a roadside bomb. She's only 21, but Katrina Rojas is wise beyond her years. "I appreciate all of the support and everything. I understand with the last week in the media with Virginia (Tech) it's hard," she said. "But I just want people to remember we still have these boys (and women) over there fighting for us and dying for us and I just want people to know that and remember that about my husband and Cpl. Wade Oglesby and everyone who's lost their life." Her love for Mike Rojas is boundless. They got married last September when Mike came home from Iraq for a few days of R&R. "We just wanted to be man and wife. We just wanted to be together," she said. "We wanted to have that bond, that forever." The two got to spend only 11 days together as a married couple before the Fresno, California native had to return to his Stryker Brigade in Iraq. Then came word that Mike was killed by a roadside bomb. "Mike deployed in June and we were on the countdown for him to come home," she said. "Unfortunately, then just two weeks ago we find out there's an extension. Okay, that's okay I can deal with this. And now my countdown will continue forever." Army Cpl. Michael M. Rojas was killed in action on 4/18/07. Posted by Terri Rager at 3:24 PM No comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Monday, April 16, 2007 Marine Lance Cpl. Daniel R. Scherry Remember Our Heroes Marine Lance Cpl. Daniel R. Scherry, 20, of Rocky River, Ohio Lance Cpl. Scherry was assigned to 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.; died April 16, 2007 from a nonhostile accident in Anbar province. Cleveland Plain Dealer -- Joining the Marines was a lifelong dream for Lance Cpl. Daniel Scherry, who was a star football player at Rocky River High School. But the realization of his dream was short-lived. Scherry, who became a Marine after graduating from high school in 2005, died Monday in Iraq. Scherry, 20, was killed in a nonhostile incident in Anbar province in western Iraq, according to the U.S. Department of Defense. Scherry, 20, had been in Iraq for a short period, the Pentagon said, but there were no further details on his death. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C. Kacie, Scherry's sister, said the news was shocking, and asked that the family be given privacy during a difficult period. In a written statement the family said "Danny" loved football and the Marines. He played on the football team for four years at Rocky River High School, including three years as a varsity starter, the family said. Before joining the Marines, Scherry graduated from the Fire Training Academy at Cuyahoga Community College, the family statement said. "Service in the Marines was his lifelong dream," the family stated. "In his short tenure with the Marines, he re ceived two promotions and was looked up to by members of his battalion." Ron Lewis, head football coach for the Rocky River High School Pirates, said Scherry was passionate about the gridiron and could have played at the college level. Scherry's main position was strong safety on defense. He also played running back. While in high school, he won the school's Heart of a Teammate award, which recognizes excellence on the field and respect from coaches and players. "He was a standout player . . . tough and straightforward. You always knew where he stood," Lewis said. "But if you scratched the surface a little, you would find he would do anything for you. He would be there for you." Despite his love for sports, Scherry was destined to become a Marine. "He was always clear about going into the military," Lewis said. "He looked like a Marine. He acted like a Marine." Marine Lance Cpl. Daniel R. Scherry was killed in action on 4/16/07. Posted by Terri Rager at 10:23 AM No comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Army Pfc. Aaron M. Genevie Remember Our Heroes Army Pfc. Aaron M. Genevie, 22, of Chambersburg, Pa. Pfc. Genevie was assigned to the 1st Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kansas; died April 16 in Baghdad of wounds sustained when his vehicle struck an improvised explosive device. Chambersburg Public Opinion -- Pfc. Aaron Genevie was a young man who loved the Army, and as of his last MySpace posting, did not regret enlisting, even though he was not always particularly crazy about his first post at Fort Riley, Kansas. On Monday, the 22-year-old Chambersburg soldier died from injuries suffered when his Army vehicle hit an improvised explosive device in Baghdad, Iraq. The Department of Defense confirmed Genevie's death Tuesday. "I'm one of those crazy people who actually DON'T regret joining the Army," he wrote on his MySpace Web site. In a later posting, he wrote almost as if he had a premonition, or perhaps those who serve in a war zone are only too aware of how close death follows them around. "It's the soldier who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag and whose coffin is draped by the flag," he wrote on his site. In his MySpace posting, he described himself as someone who liked to read, take classes "to make myself smarter" and enjoyed doing the Army's physical training, known as PT, "because it's healthy." At presstime Tuesday night, little was known about Genevie aside from his Web posting on MySpace, other than that he was officially listed as being from Chambersburg by the Army and had played junior varsity basketball in 2002 at McConnellsburg. His family was in seclusion Tuesday night at their Chambersburg home. One Fort Riley friend, Aurora Selbe, remembers him as a "beautiful person" who was always respectful and continued to call her "Mrs. Selbe" even after she assured him it was OK to call her by her first name. "He was a very smart guy who loved being a soldier," she said in an e-mail to Public Opinion Tuesday night. "He will be greatly missed." Aurora Selbe's husband is a staff sergeant with Bravo Company, the company to which Genevie was assigned, and she first met him on Thanksgiving when he and two other of the company's single soldiers were invited to the Selbe home for dinner. "I liked him immediately," she said. The Selbes had Genevie and other single soldiers for dinner again a few weeks before the unit was deployed and everyone talked about getting together for a "huge" barbecue when they got home, she said. "My husband, Staff Sgt. Selbe, and the rest of Bravo troop are very saddened by his death because they are a very close knit group of guys who are good at what they do," she said in her e-mail to Public Opinion. She said Genevie will be "greatly missed" by his unit and fellow soldiers at Fort Riley. According to one of his MySpace postings two years ago, Genevie was a 6-foot tall Virgo whose long-term goal was to customize his 1999 Nissan Ultima. Whether he still had the Nissan when he was deployed is unknown. Army Pfc. Aaron M. Genevie was killed in action on 4/16/07. Posted by Terri Rager at 10:20 AM No comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Saturday, April 14, 2007 Army SSgt. Brandon L. Wallace Remember Our Heroes Army SSgt. Brandon L. Wallace, 27, of St. Louis, Mo. SSgt. Wallace was assigned to the 1451st Transportation Company, 13th Support Command, Iraq.; died April 14, 2007 in Fallujah, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle. Also killed was Sgt. Joshua A. Schmit. Suburban Journals -- Brandon Wallace was almost home. Just two weeks away from the end of combat duty, the Jefferson County native and U.S. Army staff sergeant was killed last week by a roadside bomb in Fallujah, Iraq. He was 27. Monday, his family gathered to remember his life, passing around photos of the smiling soldier. They also had a chance to hear his words one final time. Following his death, his mother, Robin Wallace, discovered letters Brandon had written to his sisters and parents prior to his deployment. The family had never read them before. In the letters, Wallace prays for his sisters, Rachael Tucker and Sarah Beth Wallace, and appeals for the strength to serve his country. "I can do it because God is with me," he wrote. "God has given me not the spirit of fear but of power." His family received news of his death Saturday. After receiving a call on his cell phone, Brandon's father, Rick Wallace, was asked to leave immediately for Robin Wallace's Festus home. The men identified themselves as police. While en route Wallace realized the men were military police calling about his son. "It started hitting me at the Pevely exit that it had something to do with Brandon," he said. "It was the longest drive. We didn't want to get out of the car. We knew by the look on their face before they said anything." "You feel detached from your body," Robin Wallace said. "You're in disbelief." His family said they have been told Wallace has been posthumously awarded the Purple Heart and has qualified to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Wallace was engaged to a fellow soldier, Army Spc. Dawn Urbina. The pair served in the same unit. Urbina is expected to travel back to Crystal City with Wallace's body, when she will meet his family for the first time. Wallace, who graduated from the St. Charles Police Academy in 2005, put his career on hold after being recalled into the army in August of last year. Though he had previously served in Kosovo, his family was shaken by his impending departure. On the day he left, Robin Wallace bade him a tearful goodbye. "She said come back home to your mama," Tucker said. "But this time he didn't say OK. He went out the door crying." Rick Wallace said he felt apprehensive about his son's departure. "When I took him to the airport I knew," he said. "I had taken him when he was (deployed) to Kosovo but it was different this time." Rick Wallace said his son had a terrifying nightmare about being killed by a roadside bomb shortly before his death. "He had a dream that he was on a road in Fallujah and felt like he was going to die," Rick Wallace said. Shaken by the dream, Wallace woke his fiancee. "She told him it was just a coincidence," Tucker said. "But it was his destiny to be a hero." Jeff Klos taught Brandon at Crystal City High School. "We called him and his friends 'The Cowboys,'" Klos said. "They always had cowboy hats, buckles and lassoes. If they couldn't lasso another kid they'd lasso a truck. "Brandon was exceptional and everybody was very proud of what he turned out to be." Bryan Smyth, a minister and friend, recalled Wallace's generosity. "When my father died Brandon stayed with me until I buried my dad," he said. "He pressed my suits, he made me dinner, he prayed with me. He did a lot of neat things like that. That was just Brandon." A funeral for Wallace is expected to be held sometime next week at Living Faith Church in Festus. Army SSgt. Brandon L. Wallace was killed in action on 4/14/07. Posted by Terri Rager at 10:27 AM No comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Friday, April 13, 2007 Army Sgt. Larry R. Bowman Remember Our Heroes Army Sgt. Larry R. Bowman, 29, of Granite Falls, N.C. Sgt. Bowman was assigned to the 513th Transportation Company, 57th Transportation Battalion, 593rd Corps Support Group, Fort Lewis, Wash.; died April 13 in Baghdad, of wounds sustained when his vehicle struck an improvised explosive device. Family remembers N.C. man killed in Iraq The Associated Press GRANITE FALLS, N.C. — The mother of an Army sergeant killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq says her son was “just a joy,” while a lifelong friend was impressed by how much he matured in the military. “He was just a joy to watch grow up,” Barbara Braswell said. “I’m very proud of him. I loved him so much.” Larry “Robby” Bowman, 29, of Granite Falls was killed April 13 in Baghdad. He was returning to Kuwait after dropping off supplies when his vehicle struck a roadside bomb, said his sister, Angela Sigmon. Bowman was assigned to the 513th Transportation Company, 57th Transportation Battalion, 593rd Corps Support Group, at Fort Lewis, Wash. He was on his second tour of duty in the Middle East. His friend, Richard Steer, remembered Bowman as being adventurous from the age of 5. “He was always exploring in every direction,” Steer said. “He would come up with new and creative ways [for us] to entertain ourselves.” Steer, 29, and Bowman lost touch as they reached high school, but that changed when Bowman returned from Tikrit and asked Steer to be in his wedding. Bowman and his wife, Michelle, eloped in April 2005 but had a formal ceremony a year later. Steer was a groomsman at that wedding. The Bowmans met at the Skylite Skating Rink in Hudson 14 years ago. She fell for him right away. “From the second I saw him from across the room, I knew he was the one,” Michelle Bowman said. “It just took me a while to reel him in.” Bowman excelled during his four-year Army career, family and friends said. “I was amazed at the level of maturity he reached,” Steer said. “He was talking about having a family.” N.C. soldier killed in Iraq buried near home The Associated Press GRANITE FALLS, N.C. — Hundreds of mourners paid respects April 22 to Army Sgt. Larry “Robby” Bowman, 29, who was killed April 13 in Baghdad when his vehicle struck a roadside bomb as he returned to a base in Kuwait. Friends and relatives from Caldwell County said Bowman was the life of the party and a man who drew a crowd. His widow, Michelle Bowman, said she met him when she was 15 and said “he just took my breath away. He had such a wonderful presence and spirit. Everyone who knew him loved him.” Bowman was assigned to the 513th Transportation Company, 57th Transportation Battalion, 593rd Corps Support Group, at Fort Lewis, Wash. He was on his second tour of duty in the Middle East. After the funeral service at Dudley Shoals Baptist Church, Bowman was buried less than three miles from his boyhood home. He was awarded the Bronze Star and Purple Heart medals posthumously. Army Sgt. Larry R. Bowman was killed in action on 4/13/07. Posted by Terri Rager at 3:22 PM No comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Thursday, April 12, 2007 Army Sgt. David A. Stephens Remember Our Heroes Army Sgt. David A. Stephens, 28, of Tullahoma, Tenn. Sgt. Stephens was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C.; died April 12 in Miri, Afghanistan, when his vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device during combat operations. Also killed was Staff Sgt. Casey D. Combs. Two paratroopers — one a Tullahoman — from the 82nd Airborne Division have died from a roadside bombing in Afghanistan, bringing the number from the division killed in a week to six. Sgt. David Stephens, 28, of Tullahoma, and Staff Sgt. Casey Combs, 28, of Auburn, Wash., were wounded Thursday in the bombing near Miri, Afghanistan, the division said Saturday. The 3,700 members of their task force observed a moment of silence to honor them. Four other paratroopers from the Fort Bragg-based division died Sunday in Iraq following a bombing. Stephens was a combat medic and was assigned to the 2nd Battalion of the 4th Brigade Combat Team. He joined the Army in March 2005, came to the 82nd in February 2006 and was a 2002 graduate of the University of Tennessee Chattanooga, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in abnormal psychology. "Sgt. Stephens was an inspiration to all the paratroopers of his unit," said 1st Lt. Dennis Curry, 2-508th Rear Detachment commander. "He always volunteered to help others." Stephens is survived by his wife, Megan Stephens, and his 3-month-old daughter, Sienna Stephens, both of Spring Lake, N.C.; and his father Charles Stephens of Tullahoma, Tenn. Megan Stephens said her husband was a Bob Dylan fan and took an iPod filled with Dillon songs on the deployment. He had been selected for officer candidate school but turned it down to train as a medic because his mother had died of a heart attack and he wanted to help people, she said. Army Sgt. David A. Stephens was killed in action on 4/12/07. Posted by Terri Rager at 10:13 AM No comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Army Cpl. Jason J. Beadles Remember Our Heroes Army Cpl. Jason J. Beadles, 22, of LaPorte, Ind. Cpl. Beadles was assigned to the 887th Engineer Company, 326th Engineer Battalion, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Ky.; died April 12 in Baghdad of a non-combat-related injury. The incident is under investigation. Herald Argus -- LA PORTE — It has been two days since U.S. Army Spc. Jason Beadles, 22, of La Porte died in Iraq, and his family is still awaiting details. It is believed Beadles, a heavy equipment operator, died as a result of eloctrocution, although his family doesn’t know if that occurred in combat or by accident. The Herald-Argus spoke with Beadles’s mother, Delona Beadles, this morning and the family has no new information about their son’s death, although she was anticipating a call from a U.S. Army representative sometime today. On Thursday, there were people inside the boyhood home of Beadles who would have otherwise never had a reason to be there. When the La Porte High School 2003 graduate died in Iraq from an apparent electrocution Thursday, Sgt. First Class Henry Cox of the Hobart Reserve Unit came to the Monroe Street home, along with Rev. Bill Fine, pastor of United Church of Christ in Michigan City. Only one other time in 2005 has Cox had to visit the family of a dead soldier to help with the funeral arrangements and explain the financial benefits. It’s not something he looked forward to doing Thursday, but it’s a responsibility that comes with the vocation. “On one hand it’s an honor to be able to talk with the family of a fallen soldier, but it’s tough because you don’t want to see them break down. You try and provide what comfort you can. It’s tough,” he said. “It can be rewarding after everything is done in explaining the benefits, but in spite of all the things they are getting it doesn’t replace the child.” A family friend called Fine and asked him to come over to the home Thursday. It’s not something he thought twice about, especially considering the fact that Jason, 22, dated his daughter Rachel while in high school. Fine was present for the family through the early grieving process, sharing stories about Jason and revealing the importance of God at such a difficult time. “God is in charge of all life and we need to be seeking God’s strength at this time. When our lives get out of control it’s the God of life we can turn to,” he said. While Sue Knop didn’t visit the home of the Beadles, the La Porte High School guidance counselor spoke highly of Jason. “He was a wonderful student, and what a caring person. He was real affable, enthusiastic. He was the kind of son who would make a mother proud and the kind of student who would make a teacher proud,” she said. Hervey Parker, welding instructor at A.K. Smith Career Center, became familiar with Jason the student who later earned his entry-level welding certification. For two years, Jason was a student of Parker’s. “He was always happy. He was always concerned about other people,” Parker said. “He would always say, ‘Good Morning.’” While the funeral arrangements are not complete, it’s likely late next week or early the following that people will say good-bye to Jason at his funeral in La Porte. Army Cpl. Jason J. Beadles died in Baghdad, Iraq from non-combat related injuries on 4/12/07. Posted by Terri Rager at 9:45 AM No comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Monday, April 09, 2007 Army Pfc. Brian L. Holden Remember Our Heroes Army Pfc. Brian L. Holden, 20, of Claremont, N.C. Pfc. Holden was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 17th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, Fort Carson, Colo.; died April 9, 2007 in Baghdad when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle. Also killed were Spc. Ismael G. Solorio and Pvt. Brett A. Walton. Outdoorsman, loving husband, new father lost Gazette, The (Colorado Springs), by CARY LEIDER VOGRIN One was a sergeant who had survived a sniper attack and a roadside bomb in two combat tours in Iraq. Another was a private was counting down the days to May, when he and his wife would go on the honeymoon trip they never had the chance to take. The third was a Montana ranchhand who had bought a ranch but would never get to settle on it. The three Fort Carson soldiers with the 2nd Brigade Combat Team died this week in combat in Iraq. It was unclear Thursday if they were killed in the same attack. Sgt. Ismael Solorio, 21, of San Luis, Ariz., died Monday during his third Iraq deployment, said his older sister, Elvira Solorio. She did not know how he died, and the Department of Defense had not released details Thursday. Pfc. Brian Lee Holden, 20, of Claremont, N.C., a gunner with the brigade's 17th Field Artillery Regiment, was killed by a roadside bomb, his family said. Pfc. Kyle G. Bohrnsen, 22, of Philipsburg, Mont., of the brigade's 12th Infantry Regiment, died Tuesday after being wounded by a roadside bomb, the Pentagon reported. "I'm not sure what I'm going to do," Brian Holden's widow, Amanda Holden, 19, said Thursday from their North Carolina home. "It's really hard to be so young and have to go through this." The couple had been married 13 months and had been saving money to buy a house, she said. "He told me the other day he was ready to come home, buy a house, settle down and have kids," she said. Planning honeymoon Gene Delozier had been looking at hundreds of pictures of his stepson, Brian Lee Holden, who was killed Monday by a roadside bomb in Baghdad. "In every picture, he was smiling. Brian was so cheerful all the time," Delozier said. "Brian was in our prayers a lot. We would pray for him every time they went out on a mission," he said. The 20-year-old from Claremont, N.C., had been married for 13 months. Delozier said the couple was planning a trip to Myrtle Beach, S.C. for a honeymoon they never took after they got married in March 2006. "I'm not sure what I'm going to do," Holden's widow, Amanda Holden, 19, told The Associated Press Thursday from their North Carolina home. "It's really hard to be so young and have to go through this." Delozier said the couple spent plenty of time at Fort Carson together, where they both enjoyed the outdoors. Born in Jacksonville, Fla., and raised in North Carolina, Holden graduated from Newton-Conover High School in 2005. He enlisted in the Army immediately after graduation. Holden is survived by his parents, Bill Holden, of Cornelius, N.C., and Leasa Delozier, of Claremont, N.C.; stepparents Gene Delozier, of Claremont, and Helen Holden, of Cornelius; a brother, Billy Holden, of Mooresville, N.C.; paternal grandmother, Lilly Holden, of Jacksonville, Fla.; and maternal grandfather, Darrell Shrewsberry, of Conover, N.C. Army Pfc. Brian L. Holden was killed in action on 4/9/07. Posted by Terri Rager at 6:08 PM No comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Army Spc. Clifford A. Spohn III Remember Our Heroes Army Spc. Clifford A. Spohn III, 21, of Albuquerque, N.M. Spc. Spohn was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Fort Richardson, Alaska; died April 9 in Karmah, Iraq, of wounds sustained when the enemy attacked his location with indirect fire. Albuquerque Tribune -- A 2004 Cibola High School graduate who joined the Army five months after receiving his diploma was killed at an Iraqi police station in Karmah. Spc. Clifford A. Spohn III, 21, a paratrooper assigned to Fort Richardson, Alaska, was hit with indirect fire Monday while working at the Iraqi station with his unit, according to an Army news release. Three other paratroopers were injured. Spohn, who went by Adam, lived in Alaska with his wife, Amanda, and their daughter, a spokesman for the family said. Spohn was assigned to Bravo Company, 3rd Battalion, 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division. He joined the Army in October 2004. Cibola Principal Grace Brown said Spohn was the eldest of four Spohn children to attend the West Side school. Two sisters currently attend Cibola, and a brother graduated last year. Brown remembered Spohn was active in music and drama, and characterized his family as "very strong spiritually," said Rigo Chavez, spokesman for Albuquerque Public Schools. Chavez said Brown spoke with Spohn's parents after learning of his death. "They are very proud of him, she said. He died doing something he believed in," Chavez said. Spohn's parents are Clifford and Sandy Spohn, said the family spokesman, Dever Langholf. Langholf said the family would release a statement after more details were available. A service of prayer and remembrance is scheduled at Fort Richardson but funeral information was not available, the Army said in its release. Army Spc. Clifford A. Spohn III was killed in action on 4/9/07. Posted by Terri Rager at 9:49 AM No comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Sunday, April 08, 2007 Army Staff Sgt. Harrison Brown Remember Our Heroes Army Staff Sgt. Harrison Brown, 31, of Prichard, Ala. SSgt Brown was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 69th Armor Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Benning, Ga.; died April 8, 2007 in Baghdad when his unit came in contact with enemy forces using an improvised explosive device and small-arms fire. Also killed was Pfc. David N. Simmons. Soldier from Prichard, Alabama, killed in Iraq The Associated Press MOBILE, Ala. — A soldier from Prichard was killed by a roadside bomb while riding in an Army Humvee in Iraq, family members said. Family and friends said Army Staff Sgt. Harrison “Duck” Brown, 31, was killed April 8 while on either his third or fourth tour of duty in Iraq. Brown’s sister, Mary Dozier of Mobile, said the married father of three was a 1994 graduate of Blount High School and had recently visited Mobile for Mardi Gras while on leave before returning to Iraq. Brown was a wide receiver on a Blount football team that won a Class 5A state championship. Brown had “a great attitude and was a good student,” Blount coach Ben Harris said. “If you want a son, you want one like him.” Harris said Brown received a scholarship to play football for Tuskegee University. Dozier said her brother was married to Delisha Brown, who also graduated from Blount in 1994. She currently lives at Fort Benning, Ga., where her husband was based. Dozier said her brother played one year of college football at Tuskegee but left to join the Army, where he served for about 13 years. Brown’s longtime friend Jabari Dotch described him as a hero. “He’s my hero. Everybody needs to know he was a hero,” Dotch said Alabama soldier killed in Iraq eulogized as hero, role model By Garry Mitchell The Associated Press PRICHARD, Ala. — A Ft. Benning, Ga.-based solider killed in Iraq was eulogized April 20 at his funeral as a “gentle giant” hero and a role model growing up in his hometown of Prichard. More than 1,000 mourners filled the Nazaree Full Gospel Church in Mobile to bid farewell to Army Staff Sgt. Harrison “Duck” Brown, 31, who was killed April 8 in a bomb blast that hit his Humvee. Brown, assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 69th Armor Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, at Fort Benning, was on his third tour of duty in Iraq. “This young man is a hero. He died as a hero and from what we’ve heard today, he lived as a hero,” said the Rev. Dr. Ralph Huling, pastor of St. James Missionary Baptist Church in Columbus, Ga., where Brown, his wife, Delisha, and three daughters — 9, 12 and 14 — worshipped. A small musical ensemble played “When the Saints Go Marching In” as the 1,200-seat church in Mobile filled. A soloist sang “Amazing Grace.” The service swelled into a hand-clapping celebration of Brown’s life. Among those exchanging upbeat memories of Brown before his flag-draped coffin was his uncle, Hezekiah Brown of Elizabeth City, N.C., who described his nephew as a “gentle giant who never wanted to hurt anybody.” Others remembered how Brown influenced their lives with his admirable behavior. Blount High School coach Ben Harris recalled Brown as a wide receiver on his team from 1991 until his graduation in 1994. “He was a fine person all around,” Harris said. Alvin Daniels, a former Blount classmate, said it’s a sad time, but Brown liked being in the Army. “He was a good fellow, real quiet, laid-back,” Daniels said. Brown also played on the school’s baseball and basketball teams before enrolling at Tuskegee University, where he played football for one year on a scholarship. Brown left Tuskegee after his freshman year and enlisted in the Army to support his growing family. Brig. Gen. William Forrester of Fort Rucker, Ala., represented the Army at the service, with an Honor Guard also from Rucker. Brown was posthumously awarded a Bronze Star for valor and a Purple Heart. Scores of veterans on motorcycles from the Patriot Guard escorted the funeral procession with police. Prichard officials announced plans to name a street for Brow. Resolutions honoring Brown from the Alabama Legislature and the city of Mobile also were delivered to Brown’s family. Burial was in the National Cemetery in Mobile. Army Staff Sgt. Harrison Brown was killed in action on 4/08/07. Posted by Terri Rager-Campbell at 10:23 AM No comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Saturday, April 07, 2007 Pfc. Rodney L. McCandless Remember Our Heroes Pfc. Rodney L. McCandless, 21, of Camden, Ark. Pfc. McCandless was assigned to the 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C.; died April 7 in Zaganiyah, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his unit. Also killed were Capt. Jonathan D. Grassbaugh, Spc. Ebe F. Emolo and Spc. Levi K. Hoover. KTRE9 -- American flags and yellow ribbons cover the outside of the McCandless home. All signs of a family proud of the sacrifice made by 22-year-old Rodney McCandless. A soldier killed in combat while serving his country in Iraq on Easter Sunday. "He was courageous. He was brave. He wasn't scared of anything. He wouldn't back down from a fight. He loved what he did. He did it for his country and he didn't mind," said his uncle, Joe McCandless. "I just want god to bring him back to me. It's not fair. It's not fair," said his mother, Rhonda McCandless Inside, family and friends rely on one another for support, and try to remember the good times they shared with Rodney. "When he was just a year old, we dressed him up as a Cabbage Patch baby and he won first place in a Halloween contest. And I've always told him that all of his life, so that he's always known that he's my little Cabbage Patch baby," Rodney's mother fondly recalled. "Growing up as we were kids, I'd ask my mother if I could go to a friend's house. She'd always tell me, 'Take Rodney with you!' So everyday, I've always had my little brother with me and from this day on, he'll still be with me," his older brother, James Sumner, told us. "He had to be a role model for kids younger than him. He didn't do drugs and he didn't drink, he didn't smoke. Because if one of those kids saw him do it, and those kids were looking up to him, then he felt that he would be responsible for them doing that," his aunt, Sharla Parker, said. Dealing with Rodney's death is hard for them, but his family and friends know he wouldn't want them to grieve for long. "His message would be, "rock on!" He wanted everybody to just keep going pretty much. He wanted us all to keep going forward," said his Uncle Joe. A final wish Rodney's family and friends say they're doing their best to fulfill. Pfc. Rodney L. McCandless was killed in action on 4/7/07. Posted by Terri Rager at 10:08 AM No comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Army Specialist Levi K. Hoover Remember Our Heroes Army Specialist Levi K. Hoover, 23, of Midland, Mich. Spc. Hoover was assigned to the 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C.; died April 7 in Zaganiyah, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his unit. Also killed were Capt. Jonathan D. Grassbaugh, Spc. Ebe F. Emolo and Pfc. Rodney L. McCandless. Bay City Times -- MIDLAND - Friends and co-workers at the Meijer store in Midland, where Levi K. Hoover worked before joining the U.S. Army, have placed a memorial in the store for the fallen soldier. ''He left a couple of years ago, but he's still considered an employee,'' said Emily Bolander, administrative assistant at the store. ''He was on military leave.'' Bolander was to place Hoover's photo and a sympathy card for customers to sign at the store's main entrance. A private first class with the Army's 82nd Airborne Division based at Fort Bragg, N.C., Hoover, 23, died Saturday. He was one of four soldiers killed when an improvised explosive device detonated near their unit in Zaganiyah, Iraq, the Pentagon said Tuesday. Hoover; Capt. Jonathan D. Grassbaugh, 25, of East Hampstead, N.H.; Spc. Ebe F. Emolo, 33, of Greensboro, N.C., and Pfc. Rodney L. McCandless, 21, of Camden, Ark., were with the 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team. Hoover, a 2002 Dow High School graduate, worked in the meat and seafood department at Meijer. ''He was really friendly, good natured and interested in a lot of different things,'' Bolander said. Hoover was engaged and hoped to become a police officer, relatives said. 'He was a good person,'' said his mother, Belinda Brewster. ''We were proud of him.'' Brewster talked with Hoover two days before his death, when he described a deadly roadside bomb explosion. ''I think he was worried,'' Brewster said. ''It was a dangerous place to be.'' Hoover received a criminal justice degree from Delta College before heading to Alaska to work as a ranger's assistant. He enlisted in the Army in 2005 and deployed to Iraq the next year. He got engaged Christmas Day to a woman he met in Alaska. In high school, Hoover wrestled and was a member of the steering committee that set policy for the school, Brewster said. Adam San Miguel, his wrestling coach all four years, said Hoover was a good youngster who was well liked by his teammates. While a student, he often talked about traveling to Alaska and having a career in law enforcement, San Miguel said. When he finally made it to Alaska, he gave his old coach a call, he said. ''The kid loved to go fishing and had a passion for the outdoors,'' San Miguel said. ''When he made his way to Alaska, he had reached one of his dreams.'' Army Specialist Levi K. Hoover was killed in action on 4/7/07. Posted by Terri Rager at 10:01 AM No comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Army Specialist Ebe F. Emolo Remember Our Heroes Army Specialist Ebe F. Emolo, 33, of Greensboro, N.C. Spc. Emolo was assigned to the 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C.; died April 7 in Zaganiyah, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his unit. Also killed were Capt. Jonathan D. Grassbaugh, Spc. Levi K. Hoover and Pfc. Rodney L. McCandless. News-Record -- GREENSBORO -- A paratrooper from Greensboro died over the weekend in Iraq, the U.S. Department of Defense said Tuesday. Spc. Ebe F. Emolo, 33, was killed when a bomb exploded near his unit. Emolo was a vehicle driver with the 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg. Emolo's commander praised his service and sacrifice, saying his death would strengthen his fellow soldiers' resolve to accomplish their mission. "Specialist Emolo was an inspiration to all who knew him," Capt. John Carson said in a news release. "The success and achievements our squadron has endured over the past few weeks has not been easy or cheap, and we stand indebted to this great man who gave up his life in the service of his country." Attempts to reach Emolo's family Tuesday evening were unsuccessful. Among his survivors are wife Charlotte Brown and sister Sanwoa Wiggins, both of Greensboro, according to the military. Emolo was a decorated soldier whose awards included the Bronze Star Medal, the Purple Heart with one oak leaf cluster, the National Defense Service Medal, the Iraqi Campaign Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, the Army Service Ribbon, the Combat Action Badge and the Parachutist's Badge, according to the military. Emolo joined the Army in February 2005, the 82nd Airborne said. He completed vehicle driver advanced individual training and the basic airborne course that November and was assigned to his squad the following month. The bombing also killed Capt. Jonathan D. Grassbaugh, 25, of East Hampstead, N.H.; Spc. Levi K. Hoover, 23, of Midland, Mich.; and Spc. Rodney L. McCandless, 21, of Camden, Ark. Army Specialist Ebe F. Emolo was killed in action on 4/7/07. Posted by Terri Rager at 9:57 AM No comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Army Capt. Jonathan D. Grassbaugh Remember Our Heroes Army Capt. Jonathan D. Grassbaugh, 25, of East Hampstead, N.H. Capt. Grassbaugh was assigned to the 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C.; died April 7 in Zaganiyah, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his unit. Also killed were Spc. Ebe F. Emolo, Spc. Levi K. Hoover and Pfc. Rodney L. McCandless. SeaCoastOnline -- EXETER (AP) — A U.S. Army Ranger and former Phillips Exeter Academy student was killed by a roadside bomb while serving in Iraq. Jonathan Grassbaugh, 26, who was the son of Hampstead Middle School's principal, was killed late last week and Patti Grassbaugh learned of his death on Saturday. He was her youngest son. Students at Hampstead Middle School were notified of the death. "Mrs. Grassbaugh has requested that the family be given the time to mourn and to just keep her family in your thoughts and prayers," a letter from Owen Harrington, assistant principal, said on the school's Web site. The letter also was sent home with students. Jonathan Grassbaugh was sent to Iraq for the second time earlier this winter after a brief visit with his family. His father, Mark Grassbaugh, who was also a Ranger, was away on business when his mother received the news. Jonathan Grassbaugh attended Hampstead Central School and graduated from Hampstead Middle School. He went on to Phillips Exeter and then to Johns Hopkins University, where he was a member of the ROTC and graduated as an Army officer, the to The Eagle-Tribune reported. He was married last summer. His wife is also an ROTC officer. "Jonathan was a really great kid," said Dillard Collins, Central School principal. "I've dealt with a lot of kids in my years, and Jonathan was in the top 1 percent. Not only was he smart and an extremely nice kid, he was highly motivated and fully understood the concept of duty and honor, as does his entire family." Hampstead School Board chairman Natalie Gallo said she cried when she heard of the death. "It is such a shame, such a waste of such a very intelligent and lovely young man," she said. "I am heartbroken for Patti and Mark." Army Capt. Jonathan D. 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An isolated outbreak of a deadly disease known as acute hemorrhagic fever, which killed two people and left one gravely ill in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the summer of 2009, was probably caused by a novel virus scientists have never seen before.
Described this week in the open-access journal PLoS Pathogens, the new microbe has been named Bas-Congo virus (BASV) after the province in the southwest corner of the Congo where the three people lived.
It was discovered by an international research consortium that included the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and University of California, Davis (UCD), Global Viral, the Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville in Gabon, the Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Metabiota and others.
“Known viruses, such as Ebola, HIV and influenza, represent just the tip of the microbial iceberg,” said Joseph Fair, PhD, a co-author and vice president of Metabiota. “Identifying deadly unknown viruses, such as Bas-Congo virus, gives us a leg up in controlling future outbreaks.”
“These are the only three cases known to have occurred, although there could be additional outbreaks from this virus in the future,” said Charles Chiu, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of laboratory medicine at UCSF and director of the UCSF-Abbott Viral Diagnostics and Discovery Center, who spearheaded the UCSF effort to identify the virus. Chiu and his team continue to work on new diagnostics to detect the virus so that health officials in Congo and elsewhere can quickly identify it should it emerge again.
One odd characteristic of the Bas-Congo virus, Chiu said, is that while a number of other viruses in Africa also cause deadly outbreaks of acute hemorrhagic fever—Ebola virus, Lassa virus and Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever virus to name a few —the new virus is unlike any of them.
Genetically it is more closely related to the types of viruses that cause rabies, which are known to infect people with a very different sort of disease—a neurological illness that is uniformly fatal if untreated but may take months to develop.
An antibody test developed in this study was applied to the one patient who survived and to others who had come into contact with him. It suggested that the disease may be spread from person to person but likely originated from some other source, such as an insect or rodent.
The identity of this animal “reservoir” and the precise mode of transmission for the virus remain unclear and are currently being investigated by Metabiota and the central African members of the consortium through the PREDICT Project of USAID’s Emerging Pandemic Threats Program.
How the New Virus Emerged
In the summer of 2009, a 15-year old boy in a small rural community called Mangala village suddenly fell ill and developed a bleeding nose, bleeding gums and bloody vomit. He rapidly worsened, dying within three days of the first signs of illness.
A week later, a 13-year old girl who attended the same school and lived in the same neighborhood as the boy came down with a similar, serious illness. She declined just as rapidly and also died within three days. One week after that, the male nurse who cared for this girl began showing the same symptoms, and he was transferred to a hospital in Boma, a nearby port city that sits along the Congo River upstream from Africa’s Atlantic coast.
Members of the consortium, who had initiated a project to diagnose unusual cases of severe hemorrhagic fever, obtained blood samples collected from the nurse by the Congolese doctors and sent them to the laboratory of Eric Leroy, PhD, doctor of veterinary medicine at the Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville in Gabon. There the samples were tested for traces of any known virus, but nothing was found. The Metabiota scientists then solicited the expertise of Chiu at UCSF and Eric Delwart at the Blood Systems Research Institute (BSRI) in San Francisco to aid in the diagnosis.
The researchers ultimately identified a completely new virus as the cause of the mysterious illness through a powerful strategy for identifying novel pathogens known as “deep sequencing,” in which millions of DNA sequences are generated from a clinical sample and then pieced together using computer algorithms combined with human analysis.
Distinct Attributes of Bas-Congo
The Bas-Congo virus belongs to a family of viruses known as the rhabdoviruses, a large family of viruses that infect plants, insects and mammals, including humans. The most famous member of this family is the virus that causes rabies. But even among the rhabdoviruses, Bas-Congo is something of an outlier, being very genetically distinct from other members of the family.
What’s most unusual about this virus, though, said Chiu, is what it does to people.
No other rhabdoviruses are known to cause the acute, rapid and deadly hemorrhagic fever seen in the three cases in the Congo. Rabies, for instance, can be a deadly disease if untreated, but the course of rabies in humans is nothing like the rapid and deadly onset seen with the Bas-Congo virus. There is some precedent, however, for hemorrhagic disease from rhabdoviruses in the animal kingdom: fish rhabdoviruses are known to cause hemorrhagic septicemia—acute bleeding and death—in affected fish.
The third patient had enormous amounts of BASV in his bloodstream just two days after he fell ill—more than a million copies in every milliliter of blood.
The BASV sequence was also used to design an antibody test for the virus, an effort led by Graham Simmons at the BSRI, another member of the consortium. Antibodies are blood immune proteins produced in response to an infection. The antibody test allowed the researchers to screen both the third patient with acute hemorrhagic fever and other people who had come into contact with the third patient, including the nurse who cared for him in the Boma hospital. High levels of BASV-specific antibodies were found in the third patient, establishing that he indeed had been infected with Bas-Congo virus. The same antibodies were also found in the second nurse, even though he never actually became sick.
“What this suggests is that the disease may be transmissible from person to person—though it’s most likely to have originated from some other source,” said Nathan Wolfe, PhD, founder and chairman of Global Viral, and a co-author on the paper. “The fact that it belongs to a family of viruses known to infect a wide variety of mammals, insects and other animals means that it may perpetually exist in insect or other ‘host’ species and was accidentally passed to humans through insect bites or some other means.” | positive |
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Organometallic complexes, which consist of centrally located metals and peripheral organic compounds called ligands, are the workhorses of organometallic chemistry. Just like organic intermediates, understanding something about the structure of these molecules tells us a great deal about their expected reactivity. Some we would expect to be stable, and others definitely not! A big part of our early explorations will involve describing, systematically, the principles that govern the stability of organometallic complexes. From the outset, I will say that these principles are not set in stone and are best applied to well controlled comparisons. Nonetheless the principles are definitely worth talking about, because they form the foundation of everything else we’ll discuss. Let’s begin by exploring the general characteristics of organometallic complexes and identifying three key classes of organic ligands.
When we think of metals we usually think of electropositive atoms or even positively charged ions, and many of the metals of OM chemistry fit this mold. In general, it is useful to imagine organic ligands as electron donors and metals as electron acceptors. When looking at a pair of electrons shared between a transition metal and main-group atom (or hydrogen), I imagine the cationic metal center and anionic main-group atom racing toward one another from oblivion like star-crossed lovers. In the opposite direction (with an important caveat that we’ll address soon), we can imagine ripping apart metal–R covalent bonds and giving both electrons of the bond to the organic atom. This heterolytic bond cleavage method reproduces the starting charges on the metal and ligand. Unsurprisingly, the metal is positive and the ligand negative.
Of course, things get pretty crazy when you start pulling apart multiple covalent bonds at metal centers in this way. Take, for instance, this complex of palladium surrounded by three fluorine atoms, a carbon atom, and two nitrogens. Does the 4+ charge make sense?!
Turns out that it does, as long as you remember that using this heuristic is best for relative comparisons. +4 charges, from nature’s perspective, are nonsense and are rarely, if ever, encountered. They don’t exist except in the fanciful world where we can toss electrons around to our heart’s desire, so don’t go tell your professors that some blog on the Intertubes told you that +4 charges are real. However, these mental gymnastics featuring large charge values are still useful! For instance, we would expect a palladium atom that ends up with a charge of +4 after applying this method to be more positively charged than an analogous palladium atom that ends up with a smaller charge. Practically speaking, I think of these charges as scale factors more than anything else;* i.e., an atom with a formal charge of +3 has roughly three times the positive charge of the same atom with a formal charge of +1.
Now that we understand how to deconstruct M–R covalent bonds and assign formal charges to metal centers, let’s address that little caveat about ripping apart M–R bonds that I mentioned before. Let’s play a little game of Lights Out and flip the lights on the complex in the second figure. You may notice that there is something a bit off about the palladium-nitrogen bonds.
Each nitrogen atom is associated with four bonds total, but the atoms are drawn as neutral. Why is this so, when conventional organic wisdom tells us that those nitrogens should be positively charged? Let’s follow our previous procedure and give both electrons of the Pd–N bond to nitrogen. After doing this, notably, the nitrogen becomes neutral, not anionic. Should we increase the charge on palladium by two at this point?
Nope! The palladium atom is also considered neutral. Think of it this way: as the “star-crossed lovers” approached, the nitrogens never really gave up their electrons to become positive, so palladium never really received them to become negative. The blue arrows are called dative or dipolar bonds because both electrons of each bond are—in a very real sense—derived from a single atom (nitrogen, here). We can certainly draw the nitrogen atom as positive and palladium as negative and imagine an electron-sharing situation (consider the adduct of ammonia and boron trifluoride here, and note the charges). However, this practice is never seen in organometallic chemistry, because the charges would clutter things up, and chemists are lazy and prefer to be cryptic. In fact, the arrows are rarely drawn and solid lines are used instead because, as John Hartwig so eloquently puts it, “otherwise there would be too many arrows.”
Truth is, you can draw dative bonds in OM complexes using any of the three equivalent formulations above. We will encounter situations where even the polar form on the far right is useful. I prefer the arrow form myself. And now hear this: any ligand atom that remains neutral after our bond cleavage procedure can be thought of in this way. We’ll refer to these formally neutral ligands as L ligands, and formally negative ligands (like –CH 3 ) as X or X– ligands. For reasons that will soon become clear, it is critical to recognize the difference between these ligand types. For one thing, we must correctly distinguish L– and X-type ligands to correctly assign formal charge to the metal center.
A discussion of ligand types would not be complete without a nod to the third, less common ligand type: another metal center! How do we think about M–M bonds? Usually, it is most useful to imagine these as coming from the sharing of one electron from each metal center. Instead of giving both electrons of the M–M bond to one metal center, we imagine giving one electron to each M to deconstruct the bond. Since we don’t mess with electron pairs, charges on the metal centers do not develop during this homolytic bond cleavage process. In a future post, we’ll discuss why metal-metal bonding in organometallic complexes can be important; for now, note that metal-metal bonding can change the number of electrons around a metal center without altering its formal charge.
Here’s a summary outlining how to deconstruct the Pd(2+) complex we’ve worked with so far.
FYI, you might see the blue bipyridine referred to as an L 2 ligand elsewhere; this just means that a single bipyridine molecule possesses two L-type binding points. Ligands with multiple binding points are also known as chelating or polydentate ligands. Chelating ligands may feature mixed binding modes; for instance, the allyl ligand is of the LX-type. Chelating ligands can also bind to two different metal centers; when they act in this way, they’re called bridging ligands. But don’t let all this jargon throw you! Deconstruct complexes one binding point at a time, and you cannot go wrong.
Next, we’ll take a closer look at the metal center and expand on the purpose of the deconstruction process described here.
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Sort by rowid Sort by longitude Sort by latitude Sort by Unique Squirrel ID Sort by Hectare Sort by Shift Sort by Date Sort by Hectare Squirrel Number Sort by Age Sort by Primary Fur Color Sort by Highlight Fur Color Sort by Combination of Primary and Highlight Color Sort by Color notes Sort by Location Sort by Above Ground Sighter Measurement Sort by Specific Location Sort by Running Sort by Chasing Sort by Climbing Sort by Eating Sort by Foraging Sort by Other Activities Sort by Kuks Sort by Quaas Sort by Moans Sort by Tail flags Sort by Tail twitches Sort by Approaches Sort by Indifferent Sort by Runs from Sort by Other Interactions Sort by Lat/Long descending ✎ View and edit SQL This data as json, CSV (advanced) Suggested facets: Hectare, Shift, Age, Highlight Fur Color, Combination of Primary and Highlight Color, Location, Above Ground Sighter Measurement, Running, Chasing, Climbing, Foraging, Approaches, Indifferent Date ✖ 10082018 3 10062018 1 10072018 1 10102018 1 10122018 1 10142018 1 10172018 1 10192018 1 Runs from ✖ 0 9 1 1 Eating ✖ 0 5 1 5 Hectare Squirrel Number ✖ 15 · 10 ✖ Link rowid longitude latitude Unique Squirrel ID Hectare Shift Date ▼ Hectare Squirrel Number Age Primary Fur Color Highlight Fur Color Combination of Primary and Highlight Color Color notes Location Above Ground Sighter Measurement Specific Location Running Chasing Climbing Eating Foraging Other Activities Kuks Quaas Moans Tail flags Tail twitches Approaches Indifferent Runs from Other Interactions Lat/Long 472 472 -73.9702721244652 40.7701011774207 7H-AM-1006-15 07H AM 10062018 15 Adult Gray Cinnamon Gray+Cinnamon Ground Plane FALSE 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 POINT (-73.9702721244652 40.7701011774207) 2579 2579 -73.96981304525809 40.7745000645436 12F-PM-1007-15 12F PM 10072018 15 Adult Gray Cinnamon, White Gray+Cinnamon, White Ground Plane FALSE 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 POINT (-73.9698130452581 40.7745000645436) 1257 1257 -73.97672475936541 40.772620005419704 7B-AM-1008-15 07B AM 10082018 15 Adult Gray Cinnamon Gray+Cinnamon Ground Plane FALSE 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 POINT (-73.9767247593654 40.7726200054197) 1470 1470 -73.97248065806379 40.771007720613206 7F-AM-1008-15 07F AM 10082018 15 Juvenile Gray Gray+ Ground Plane FALSE 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 POINT (-73.9724806580638 40.7710077206132) 2269 2269 -73.9695518341907 40.776214599393704 14E-AM-1008-15 14E AM 10082018 15 Adult Gray Gray+ Ground Plane FALSE 0 0 0 1 1 walking 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 POINT (-73.9695518341907 40.7762145993937) 729 729 -73.97760445784459 40.7697607308033 4C-PM-1010-15 04C PM 10102018 15 Juvenile Gray Cinnamon Gray+Cinnamon Above Ground on tree 0 1 0 0 0 chasing #14 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 POINT (-73.9776044578446 40.7697607308033) 1841 1841 -73.98063779675729 40.7681097168268 1B-AM-1012-15 01B AM 10122018 15 Adult Gray Gray+ Above Ground 5 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 POINT (-73.9806377967573 40.7681097168268) 1295 1295 -73.9709534894049 40.7765964740768 14D-AM-1014-15 14D AM 10142018 15 Adult Gray Cinnamon, White Gray+Cinnamon, White Ground Plane FALSE 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 POINT (-73.9709534894049 40.7765964740768) 1746 1746 -73.96034711618691 40.7906003311747 32E-PM-1017-15 32E PM 10172018 15 Adult Gray Gray+ Ground Plane FALSE 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 POINT (-73.9603471161869 40.7906003311747) 1642 1642 -73.97088608794591 40.77683766561189 14D-PM-1019-15 14D PM 10192018 15 Adult Gray Gray+ Ground Plane FALSE 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 POINT (-73.9708860879459 40.7768376656119) Advanced export JSON shape: default, array, newline-delimited CSV options: download file CREATE TABLE "2018_Central_Park_Squirrel_Census_-_Squirrel_Data" ( "longitude" REAL, "latitude" REAL, "Unique Squirrel ID" TEXT, "Hectare" TEXT, "Shift" TEXT, "Date" INTEGER, "Hectare Squirrel Number" INTEGER, "Age" TEXT, "Primary Fur Color" TEXT, "Highlight Fur Color" TEXT, "Combination of Primary and Highlight Color" TEXT, "Color notes" TEXT, "Location" TEXT, "Above Ground Sighter Measurement" TEXT, "Specific Location" TEXT, "Running" INTEGER, "Chasing" INTEGER, "Climbing" INTEGER, "Eating" INTEGER, "Foraging" INTEGER, "Other Activities" TEXT, "Kuks" INTEGER, "Quaas" INTEGER, "Moans" INTEGER, "Tail flags" INTEGER, "Tail twitches" INTEGER, "Approaches" INTEGER, "Indifferent" INTEGER, "Runs from" INTEGER, "Other Interactions" TEXT, "Lat/Long" TEXT ); Powered by Datasette · Query took 150.335ms | negative |
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"The efficiency of care" by Frederick Lippman Home Search Browse Collections My Account About Digital Commons Network™ Skip to main content My Account FAQ About Home < Previous Next > Home > Health Professions Division > Dateline Health > 108 Dateline Health Title The efficiency of care Host Frederick Lippman, Nova Southeastern UniversityFollow Guest Speaker(s) Kebin Nugent, Maureen Campbell Air Date 2001 Abstract Presented by Nova Southeastern University; hosted by Fred Lippman, Executive Vice Chancellor Health Professions Division; with guests Kevin Nugent, REMT-P, Nova Southeastern University; and Maureen Campbell, D.O., Nova Southeastern University. Collection Part of the Lippman Collection at the Nova Southeastern University Libraries; Alvin Sherman Library, Research, and Information Technology Center. Chronology/Place Broadcast on BECON TV (Broward Education Communication Network) December 2001 Description 1 videodisc (29 min) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in Library of Congress Subject Headings Medical economics, evidence-based medicine Publisher Ft. Lauderdale, FL : Nova Southeastern University Producer Sara Brenner Production Produced at the Office of Information Technologies and Media Services Document Type DVD Call Number DVD 610 DATELINE HEALTH no.95 NSUWorks Citation Lippman, Frederick, "The efficiency of care" (2001). Dateline Health. 108. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/dateline_health/108 Link to Full Text DOWNLOADS Since June 25, 2015 Share COinS Enter search terms: Select context to search: in this series in this repository across all repositories Advanced Search Notify me via email or RSS Browse Collections Disciplines Authors Author Corner Author FAQ Links Dateline Health website NSU Libraries Connect with NSU Facebook Twitter Instagram Pinterest YouTube LinkedIn Google+ Digital Commons Home | About | FAQ | My Account | Accessibility Statement | Privacy | Copyright | negative |
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Jason Getz-USA TODAY Sports
The road to April 27's 2017 NFL draft starts now for many fans. There is no better way to get acquainted with this class than by checking out a list of the top 350 players.
The upcoming crop of prospects features an astounding amount of talent at several key positions: running back, tight end, edge-rusher, linebacker, cornerback and safety. The running back class in particular might be the deepest I've seen.
At tight end and safety, we're seeing more top-end talent than any class in recent memory, which may lead NFL teams to prioritize those positions early in Round 1, since they are not traditionally strong areas in the draft. Getting O.J. Howard or Jamal Adams early in the first round will be on the minds of every general manager.
The weaknesses of this class are at quarterback and offensive tackle—two positions we normally see featured heavily in the early portions of the draft. That doesn't mean we won't see teams reach for these positions early, but it means franchises will be overdrafting players who don't rank there on pure talent. | positive |
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- Idaho is one of the most Republican states, but the state Democratic Party has seen participation in its presidential caucuses grow exponentially over the past few campaigns.
Party leaders hope that surge continues Tuesday, and so far the number of people reserving caucus seats online has some counties scrambling to add locations or find bigger venues.
In 2004, the Democratic caucuses drew 5,000 people statewide. In 2008, that number jumped to more than 21,000. Idaho Democratic Party spokesman Dean Ferguson says he expects that many people or more this year.
Caucuses will be held in each county starting at 7 p.m. Tuesday.
Democratic Party leaders recommend caucus-goers arrive at least an hour early to check in.
Participants will listen to debate as they decide among four options: Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, California businessman Rocky De La Fuente and uncommitted. | positive |
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Did you know that 50% of people make less than $2000 a year? Did you know that 1 in 9 people didn’t eat breakfast this morning? If you’d like to learn more, a Hunger Banquet will be held on Tuesday, May 16th from 7:00-8:30pm in the MHS cafeteria. The Hunger Banquet is a great opportunity to better understand what global poverty looks like first-hand. When you arrive at the event, you’ll find yourself placed in the low-, middle-, or high-class group with a meal that matches your socioeconomic status. MHS Student Council will be hosting a Middle School Formal on May 12th at the High School from 8pm to 10pm. Formal attire is recommended and there will be a $5.00 admission at the door 8th graders that are interested in MHS Student Council next year can pick up an application packet in the main office. 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Maine's First Case of Coronavirus Confirmed Skip to main contentSkip to site footer What's Hot: WOKQ Cash Cow Acoustic Country by the Sea Register for Apple Pie Contest Monarch Guitar Contest Concerts Year of Service 2022 On Demand WOKQ Sessions Townsquare Talent WOKQ App WOKQ on Alexa WOKQ Newsletter Station Merch Home On-Air All DJs WOKQ Schedule Kira Logan Ginny Jadd Taste of Country Nights Listen Listen Live WOKQ App WOKQ on Alexa WOKQ on Google Home WOKQ On Demand Recently Played App Download iOS Download Android Win Stuff Contests Sign Up Contest Rules Contest Support Events WOKQ Sessions Acoustic Country by the Sea Station Merch Seize the Deal Community Year of Service 2022 Contact Us Help & Contact Info Send Feedback Advertise Job Opportunities Apply to Be a Content Creator Apply to Work on the Sales Team Apply to Work in Digital Sales More Home On-Air All DJs WOKQ Schedule Kira Logan Ginny Jadd Taste of Country Nights Listen Listen Live WOKQ App WOKQ on Alexa WOKQ on Google Home WOKQ On Demand Recently Played App Download iOS Download Android Win Stuff Contests Sign Up Contest Rules Contest Support Events WOKQ Sessions Acoustic Country by the Sea Station Merch Seize the Deal Community Year of Service 2022 Contact Us Help & Contact Info Send Feedback Advertise Job Opportunities Apply to Be a Content Creator Apply to Work on the Sales Team Apply to Work in Digital Sales Visit us on Youtube Visit us on Facebook Visit us on Twitter Visit us on Instagram INSTAGRAM Maine’s First Case of Coronavirus Confirmed Kwame Kwame Published: March 12, 2020 Getty Images Share on Facebook Share on Twitter On Thursday, Maine Governor Janet Mills held a press conference to discuss the coronavirus, including the confirmation of the first presumptive case of the virus in the state, according to WGME. This makes Maine the last state in New England to have a confirmed coronavirus case, the Bangor Daily News stated. Mills stated that COVID-19 was found in a woman in her 50s in Androscoggin County, the BDN reported, and that she has been quarantined. The governor has suggested that gatherings of more than 250 people be postponed until the virus is under control. WGME stated that "the Maine CDC says 65 people in Maine have tested negative for coronavirus," but there are other results pending. Here are just a few of the things the CDC is recommending to protect yourself from the coronavirus at this time: The CDC is offering these steps to protect yourself: Wash your hands for at least 20 seconds. Avoid touching your face. Clean and disinfect surfaces used often every day. You can get more info from the CDC here. Source: Maine’s First Case of Coronavirus Confirmed Categories: Articles, Local News, News Comments Leave A Comment More From 97.5 WOKQ New Englanders Reveal 19 Things That Should Be on Your New England Bucket List New Englanders Reveal 19 Things That Should Be on Your New England Bucket List All Aboard: Polar Express Train Ride in Portland, Maine, Returns This November All Aboard: Polar Express Train Ride in Portland, Maine, Returns This November Remembering New Hampshire Native and ‘Saturday Night Live’ Star Charles Rocket Remembering New Hampshire Native and ‘Saturday Night Live’ Star Charles Rocket 25 of the Best Names for Cannabis Shops in Maine, Ranked 25 of the Best Names for Cannabis Shops in Maine, Ranked Massachusetts’ Own Movie and Wrestling Superstar John Cena Made the Guinness World Records Massachusetts’ Own Movie and Wrestling Superstar John Cena Made the Guinness World Records Enjoy Maine’s Natural Beauty Away From Everyone on Your Own Private Island Enjoy Maine’s Natural Beauty Away From Everyone on Your Own Private Island Winter Prediction From Two Almanacs is Not Looking Pretty for New England Winter Prediction From Two Almanacs is Not Looking Pretty for New England 5 Things New Englanders Need in Their Car for the Colder Months 5 Things New Englanders Need in Their Car for the Colder Months New England States Shock the Country With Vaccination Rates New England States Shock the Country With Vaccination Rates Information EEO Marketing and Advertising Solutions Public File Need Assistance FCC Applications Report an Inaccuracy Terms Contest Rules Privacy Policy Accessibility Statement Exercise My Data Rights Contact Business Listings Follow Us Visit us on Youtube Visit us on Facebook Visit us on Twitter Visit us on Instagram 2022 97.5 WOKQ, Townsquare Media, Inc. All rights reserved. | negative |
SYDNEY, Australia — An Australian businessman who was jailed in China after a dispute over his company there has been granted early release from a prison in Australia, 19 months after being returned to his home country to complete his sentence, under a treaty between the two countries.
The businessman, Matthew Ng, was released from a Sydney prison on Wednesday afternoon, said Tom Lennox, a lawyer who had campaigned for his release. “It is very good news,” Mr. Lennox said by telephone. “He’s out. It’s just great.”
Mr. Ng was sentenced by a Chinese court in 2011 to more than 12 years in prison on bribery and fraud charges. Mr. Lennox has said the case was fabricated to allow a Chinese state-owned company to confiscate Mr. Ng’s travel business.
Australia’s justice minister, Michael Keenan, said in a statement on Wednesday that he had approved Mr. Ng’s early release “based on his exceptional family circumstances.” Since his arrest, Mr. Ng’s eldest daughter has died and his wife learned she had cancer. | positive |
The day has finally come… Tobias Forge has publicly revealed himself as Ghost frontman Papa Emeritus. Forge did so via a 90-minute Swedish radio broadcast, and thanks to the magic of Reddit, we’ve got a translation of the many interesting parts.
Ghost captured the imagination of metalheads in 2010 with the band’s debut album, Opus Eponymous . Throughout the decade, Ghost continued to release acclaimed music, cementing themselves as one of metal’s most important acts of the 2010s. Hardcore fans have long known the identity of Papa Emeritus, but the mystique of Ghost was too much fun to ruin, giving Forge and his bandmates a lengthy period of anonymity even during the internet age.
After former guitarist Martin Persner outed himself and legal action was taken against Ghost by multiple former members earlier this year, Forge made the decision to unmask for the public. “My name is Tobias Forge. I'm the man behind the mask in Ghost,” he said at the end of the broadcast.
Forge shared lots of interesting information about himself during the Radio P1 Sverige show. “I lived with my mother in Linköping, and my father was living with his new family outside Norrköping, as a child and teenager I was often very upset about this situation, and felt robbed of a normal childhood, safety and, well.. money, normality, parents who loves each other,” Forge said. “I hated that I, every other weekend, was forced away, and it felt every time like being picked away from my own life where I had full freedom to dream away - I was instead to be forced into their new world, where they have chosen each other, they loved each other.. Where I was not only subordinate my new younger brother, who I was to play with, but also where I was to participate socially in their reality.”
He continued, “I stopped going there when I was 10. Now afterwards I just want to point out that I, nowadays are fine with my somewhat messy childhood. Partly because me, right now, as a grown-up know that it was as I experienced it, and not necessarily exactly as it happened, and nowadays I have a really good relation with my father. I also have a good relation with my beloved younger siblings, who are not that small anymore … The devil became my companion, we went unconditionally hand in hand throughout my puberty and teenage, he was exactly the pointed finger in the air I needed when I was the most angry. And also now in less agitated days are we still great friends.”
Forge also revealed that his brother Sebastian passed away right after he posted Ghost’s first songs onto MySpace. After his brother’s funeral, Tobias opened his computer to find Ghost’s initial tracks were resonating with music lovers.
“I opened the screen and visited MySpace - a MySpace that by this time absolutely had exploded with energy, 10 times more than the previous night,” Forge recalled. “Thousands of people had been in an listening to the songs and it was more mail than I could answer. Mail from people from all around the world. Mail from record labels - record labels who wanted to check the possibility of collaboration. Mail from members of famous bands - mail that was absolutely filled with praise.”
Forge sobbed as he continued to speak about his brother, “I yet haven't stopped, since that day. I'm not going to do so either, until it's for real is has reached an end - Do you hear me, Sebastian? I did it at last.. It took some time.. and it was very sad that we didn't get to experience this thing together. It would be great if you could've come out on some tour and visit.. But, sometimes it actually feels like we meet, on different locations around the world.”
For the full Reddit translation of Tobias Forge’s broadcast, click here .
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The Burden of Being “Unfuckable”
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Can I say something? Can you actually listen to me when I’m speaking? Can you at least remember my name? I have left many a meeting, interview, and social function, inwardly begging various men I’ve had to interact with to do these simple things for me. These are the basic requirements of human interaction, and yet, with certain men, they’re shockingly hard to achieve.
It has always been hard for me to explain exactly what this kind of sexism is, and even harder to prove. It’s the feeling of invisibility. Men who treat me like I’m not even there, because they essentially don’t consider me fuckable. I try to get a word in, to start a conversation, to engage the way normal fucking human beings do, but I am quickly disregarded. His responses to me will be curt, or nonexistent. He’ll glance at me, acknowledging something just came out of my mouth, but that gaze will swiftly readjust itself back onto the other person in the conversation. That other person usually being a “hotter” woman, or another man. The conversation continues to be a struggle, to the point where I just want to shout at the top of my lungs, “Hey asshole, I don’t want to fuck you either!”
In my social life, it doesn’t affect me too much. I’m not going to lie and say it doesn’t at all bruise my self-esteem, but it’s a tiny bruise. One of those miniscule bruises you get after hitting your elbow against a hard surface. The pain goes away in minutes, usually after looking at my phone and seeing the long list of men in there who have been happy to fuck me. Men who broke up with me for my character flaws, which they seem to think I have, rather than my appearance.
I know I’m not ugly. I have never once in my left felt like an ugly person. In fact, as I get older and fatter, I only feel hotter. I call it self-confidence, but you can go ahead and call it delusion, or ego. I don’t care. I’m still aware of the reality of my situation, however. I’m five feet tall and weigh over 170 pounds. I know that not everyone is going to find me and my body as attractive as I find me and my body to be. Especially men in media, many of whom let power get to their heads in destructive ways. These are men who base their entire self-worth off of the digits in their bank account and the level of conventional attractiveness in the women they fuck and interact with. In my professional life, invisibility has been a curse more than a minor annoyance. It’s harder to shrug off the disregard when it’s hurting my career and my chances of success. All because some shitty, shallow dudes who hold more power than I do, don’t want to have sex with me.
It shouldn’t have to matter, but it does. It makes no sense that it’s even an issue, but it is, and it hurts. It hurts to pitch good ideas, and to know that you have talent and the ability to make something of quality, but to be rejected for reasons that are completely irrational.
Take my struggles as a stand up comedian to find a manager. Meeting after meeting I would sit with potential managers — all of whom were male — and they’d immediately want writing samples. They’d ask right off the bat, where’s your pilot? Show me scripts. This is mostly fine, especially considering the fact that I want to write scripts, but it always seemed odd to me that the immediate assumption was that I was a comedian-slash-writer, as opposed to a comedian-slash-actress. On sight, before even speaking about my goals and aspirations, I was not registered as someone who could “work” on-camera. I’d ask my female comedian friends, who I knew had representation, if they had scripts written before their managers decided to represent them. The answer was almost always, no. They were signed without any writing samples, and I couldn’t help but notice that all of these women were in fact thinner than me. In other words, more conventionally attractive.
That one particular example I just gave might not seem like that big of a deal. My obstacle isn’t really that much of an obstacle. I have to write my pilot before getting repped. Totally doable. However, these “little” obstacles add up. They show up in almost every facet of my career, in so many small and hard to describe ways. The accumulation of all this seemingly “minor” sexism, becomes huge. It transforms into a burden. The burden of being unfuckable.
I want to drive home the fact that this isn’t me throwing a pity party. The last thing I want is pity. I really don’t need it. I work hard and am extremely confident in my abilities. I’m just trying to speak honestly and candidly about something so many women in media experience, but find difficult to address. It’s hard to talk about feeling invisible without feeling like a whiny brat. We are pressured to feel like it’s all in our heads, or a pathetic excuse, but it’s not. As a cis, straight, white woman, who is often described by others as “chubby” more so than “fat”, I know that my invisibility is less severe than the invisibility other women receive. As difficult as I’ve had it, I acknowledge that there are women who have to work even harder than I do. The beautiful thing out of all of this is that we do. If anything good has come out of invisibility, it’s the realization that we are stronger and more resilient than the current men in power, which is why we will eventually replace them (get ready boys).
So many heterosexual men in media right now are acting as if they are our allies. They tweet and post about how much they believe women, and don’t stand for sexual harassment. I don’t think this is disingenuous, and it’s definitely uplifting to see so many men rallying against such violent and gross misconduct. However, many of these men are the ones who treat women they don’t want to fuck with complete disregard. If you truly consider yourself an ally, you have to get it in your head that all women are worthy of being heard, and are worthy of being paid attention to. Not just the ones who give you and your extremely narrow sense of what is considered a sexually viable woman, a boner. You must work harder towards viewing your female peers the same way you view your male peers. When it comes to the men you work with, you don’t select which ones to acknowledge based on their fuckability, do you? Treat us this way too, and don’t touch us in the process. | positive |
SALT LAKE CITY — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has launched an initiative that they expect to reach millions of people around the globe, and the message they are sending is: “A Savior is Born.”
The YouTube video above forms the centerpiece of the initiative, which has its home at a new Christmas web page from the LDS Church.
According to a press release from the LDS Church, the video “A Savior Is Born–Christmas Video” is available in 29 different languages and was shot in locations including Israel, Los Angeles, New York and Utah. Various children from around the world quote passages from Isaiah as well as from Handel’s “Messiah” relating to the story of Jesus Christ’s birth.
“We live in a world where the power and influence of God in our daily lives are downplayed and dismissed and where the need for a Savior is ignored and even mocked,” said Elder Dallin H. Oaks of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in the December issue of the LDS Church’s Ensign and New Era magazines. “For those who are devoted to the Lord Jesus Christ, there has never been a greater need for us to profess our faith in our Savior, privately and publicly.”
Another video released as part of the campaign is titled “Why we need a Savior — A Christmas message about our Savior Jesus Christ. #ASaviorIsBorn” The video asks the viewer to, “Imagine a world without a savior.”
The LDS Church states the campaign will also include content built for sharing on various social media sites, like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google+ and Instagram. There will be 25 animated .GIFs creating a countdown until Christmas, and those participating are encouraged to use the hashtag #ASaviorIsBorn.
There will also be billboards in New York City’s Times Square as well as in cities like Salt Lake City, St. George, Idaho Falls, Los Angeles and Mexico City. LDS Church visitors’ centers in the United States and select locations worldwide will feature special “A Savior Is Born” displays.
The month-long initiative is the work of the LDS Church’s Missionary Department, and LDS Church missionaries will be distributing “pass-along” cards in 29 languages.
Elder Brent H. Nielson, executive director of the Missionary Department stated: “During the Christmas season, the thoughts of millions of people around the world are turned to the birth of Jesus Christ. We have a special opportunity to declare our belief in Christ, celebrate His birth, and invite others to come unto Him at this time of year.”
Click here for the press release announcing the initiative, and click here to visit the Christmas website. | positive |
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Ironhead exhuast questions... | Jockey Journal Forum in this thread in this sub-forum in the entire site Advanced Search Cancel Login / Join What's New Forum Listing Marketplace Showcase Gallery Advanced Search Members FAQ Dark Mode Menu Log in Register Home Forums General Discussion The Board Ironhead exhuast questions... Jump to Latest Follow JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. 1 - 17 of 17 Posts sinks88 · Registered Joined Jul 25, 2011 · 250 Posts Discussion Starter · #1 · Sep 6, 2011 Only show this user I have a 77 xl with swing arm and stock oil tank, with forward controls. Im having some issues finding some decent pipes to fit this combo....What are you guys running and where did you get them (if you didnt make em) pics would be sweet! 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Save Share Reply Quote sinks88 · Registered Joined Jul 25, 2011 · 250 Posts Discussion Starter · #5 · Sep 6, 2011 Only show this user ya thats ok I have 2 sets of stockers Save Share Reply Quote wild04goat · Registered Joined Apr 25, 2010 · 451 Posts #6 · Sep 6, 2011 Only show this user You can always go with Nash.....They have some cool pipes for sale. Save Share Reply Quote sinks88 · Registered Joined Jul 25, 2011 · 250 Posts Discussion Starter · #7 · Sep 7, 2011 Only show this user Awe, I've looked and looked and I think Im just gonna make some.... http://www.speedwaymotors.com/,11302.html?baseNo=91013872#tabcontent speedway as some very reasonable "make your own kits" even if its 18ga.... but now, the question is, what is/are the best performance for a set of pipes....2 into 1's? 40" drags....shotguns? I'm not going to baffle or muffler or any of that, but want to get some decent back pressure any suggestions or time tested know-hows? Save Share Reply Quote G GaryC. · Registered Joined Oct 23, 2010 · 133 Posts #8 · Sep 7, 2011 Only show this user Put a lollipop in the ends. Save Share Reply Quote ckunsman89 · Registered Joined Mar 23, 2009 · 689 Posts #9 · Sep 7, 2011 Only show this user 2 into 1 with some sort of baffle or muffler for best rideabailty. drag pipes if you want to go to the drag strip. Work Harder, Millions on Welfare depend on you! Save Share Reply Quote B bobscogin · Registered Joined Nov 25, 2007 · 1,740 Posts #10 · Sep 7, 2011 Only show this user sinks88 said: but now, the question is, what is/are the best performance for a set of pipes....2 into 1's? 40" drags....shotguns? Click to expand... Stock motor on the street, no particular type has a distinct advantage. It'll be all about the style you prefer and the noise that bothers you the least. Bob Save Share Reply Quote Jtw79 · Registered Joined Sep 2, 2011 · 270 Posts #11 · Sep 7, 2011 Only show this user Yeah I tried drag pipes. They look cool but don't perform for everyday riding. I am in the middle of building a 2 into 1 with SuperTrapp discs. I will post some pics soon. Save Share Reply Quote sinks88 · Registered Joined Jul 25, 2011 · 250 Posts Discussion Starter · #12 · Sep 7, 2011 Only show this user what is the preferred length to get to the "1" from 2....farther away or closer? Save Share Reply Quote sinks88 · Registered Joined Jul 25, 2011 · 250 Posts Discussion Starter · #13 · Sep 7, 2011 Only show this user Come on Mr. Wizard, Drop me some science! Save Share Reply Quote B bobscogin · Registered Joined Nov 25, 2007 · 1,740 Posts #14 · Sep 7, 2011 Only show this user sinks88 said: what is the preferred length to get to the "1" from 2....farther away or closer? Click to expand... You're over thinking this. Just put the collector where it looks right to your eye and clears the controls. On a highly tuned motor with lots of cam overlap and a narrow power band the correct pipe length (or primary pipe length on a 2 into 1), diameter, and configuration can be critical. On a stock or lightly modified motor--- not so much. There isn't any pipe set up that's going to change the power, plus or minus, enough to worry about. It's an 'ol Ironhead, not a Hyabusa. Bob Save Share Reply Quote DopeDog · Registered Joined Jul 27, 2009 · 364 Posts #15 · Sep 7, 2011 Only show this user A 2-into-1 system, with some kind of baffling, will give you good overall street performance & rideability. As far as length goes --- the headers, whether side-by-side or one stacked atop another, just need to clear all of your foot controls & kicker (if you've got one). Mine slip into the collector just past the sprocket cover. If you're gonna be dumb, you'd better be tough. Viva los Bastardos Originales! Save Share Reply Quote sinks88 · Registered Joined Jul 25, 2011 · 250 Posts Discussion Starter · #16 · Sep 7, 2011 Only show this user bobscogin said: You're over thinking this. Just put the collector where it looks right to your eye and clears the controls. On a highly tuned motor with lots of cam overlap and a narrow power band the correct pipe length (or primary pipe length on a 2 into 1), diameter, and configuration can be critical. On a stock or lightly modified motor--- not so much. There isn't any pipe set up that's going to change the power, plus or minus, enough to worry about. It's an 'ol Ironhead, not a Hyabusa. Bob Click to expand... Ha! wurd~ Im just livin ina a dream and the Ironhead is the magic carpet. Save Share Reply Quote B bobscogin · Registered Joined Nov 25, 2007 · 1,740 Posts #17 · Sep 7, 2011 Only show this user sinks88 said: Ha! wurd~ Im just livin ina a dream and the Ironhead is the magic carpet. Click to expand... Nothin' wrong with that. Been there myself! 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Chopper 4 footage of a tipped truck at the helix outside the Lincoln Tunnel on Wednesday, June 15. (Published Thursday, June 16, 2016)
Drivers headed into New York City faced hour-long delays at least after a tractor-trailer overturned near the Lincoln Tunnel in New Jersey Wednesday, snarling traffic as the peak of the morning commute got underway.
The roadway's New Jersey-bound lanes were detoured for hours after the tractor-trailer overturned at the helix on New Jersey route 495 at about 6 a.m., according to 511NJ and the Port Authority.
The tunnel's westbound lanes reopened at about 9:30 a.m., hours after the roadway closed to all traffic except buses leaving the Port Authority Bus Terminal.
New York-bound traffic in the tunnel, meanwhile, was delayed by about 15 minutes due to the crash. Earlier in the morning, delays topped 1 hour.
Later Wednesday, a man had a panic attack in the tunnel's center New York-bound tube, abandoned his vehicle and walked out of the tunnel on the New Jersey side, authorities said. Delays topped 80 minutes at about 10:45 a.m. The center tube was shut down as authorities investigated; it reopened shortly before 11:30 a.m. Drivers were advised to expect residual delays.
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TemplateCloud - the design marketplace Printers add online design to their sites without requiring heavy investment Manchester, United Kingdom (PRWEB UK) 24 March 2013 A new service for print entrepreneurs was launched today in 12 countries and 9 languages. The TemplateCloud API allows online print shops and entrepreneurs to add thousands of designer templates to their existing website without requiring heavy investment. Printers choose which designs to sell from a library of over 10,000 designs across a range of printed items like business cards, flyers, brochures and invitations. By embedding the TemplateCloud advanced editor into the printer's website, their clients can personalise the design, upload photos or browse 14 million free images. Designs are available in English, French, Dutch, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Swedish, Italian and American English. 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They say that octopi are masters of disguise. They can change their appearance to blend in better with their environment, hiding themselves from both predators and prey! But hiding isn’t the only thing they know how to do well!
The octopus cyanea, or big blue octopus, is quite adept at camouflage and not only can change colour frequently, but also can change the patterns on and texture of its skin. One researcher observed it change its appearance a thousand times in seven hours. As it moves across the seabed it makes changes in its colouring and appearance to match the substrate beneath.
The color changes are momentary and made by chromatophores (pigment-containing and light-reflecting cells) under direct control of the brain. This octopus sometimes produces a "passing clouds" display when stationary near prey such as a crab; this mimics a dark shadow passing across its surface and may encourage the crab to move incautiously.
The texture, on the other hand, is being changed by tiny muscles in the skin itself.
When the times comes for an octopus to go looking for a meal, hunting crustaceans and mollusks, they use their suckers to literally testa everything they touch. As soon as they sense a prey, their tentacles form a tent around the hole and the prey can no longer escape.
Check out all the incredible things this octopus can do. What an amazing animal! Filmed in Zanzibar. | positive |
Apple Plum Pie | About Kate Flour Quick Cheats Recipes Sugar High Friday: Sweet Comforts Chocolate Cinnamon Squares Fantastic Fruity Flapjack rockabyebaby Flourless Cocoa-Almond Genoise Iced Butter Biscuits Raspberry Fluff Let Them Eat Chicken Chicken Satay Creamy Chicken Tagliatelle Moroccan Stuffed Chicken Poached Chicken “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” Apple Plum Pie I’ve had several requests for my apple and plum pie recipe, so here it is (perhaps it should really be Apple Plum Pear Pie, but that sounds a bit of a mouthful). Oh – and the Catalan quote …? Let’s look down the coast, not up; it doesn’t rain fish. Apple Plum Pie (an unseasonal pie for a rainy day in summer) For the pastry 7 oz oz plain flour 3 oz self-raising flour 6 oz butter water For the filling 2 Bramley apples 6 ripe plums 3 small pears 1 tbsp lemon juice 2 oz light muscovado sugar 2 oz caster sugar 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon 1/4 tsp salt 1 oz butter 1 tbsp cornflour Rub the butter into the flour and stir in just enough water to form a dough. Divide into two pieces, one for the bottom crust and one for the top crust of the pie. Wrap each piece in cling film and leave to rest in the fridge. Peel and dice the apples and pears. Dice the plums. Toss all together in a large bowl with the lemon juice, sugars and cinnamon. Leave to macerate for at room temperature for at least an hour. Strain the juices from the fruit and sugar mix into a small saucepan. Reserve the fruit (obviously – or it would just be a jam pie!). Add the butter to the juices and bring them to the boil. Simmer gently until the juices are syrupy and reduced to about 1/3 cup. Sprinkle the cornflour over the reserved fruit and toss to combine thoroughly. Pour the syrupy jam over the fruit and toss again to mix everything together evenly. Roll out the pastry for the bottom crust and use it to line a 9″ pie dish. Scrape the fruit mixture into the pie. Roll out the pastry for the top crust and use it to cover the fruit. Seal and crimp the edges. Make four or five slashes in the top, or prod it several times with a fork. Cover the pie loosely with clingfilm and leave it to rest in the fridge for an hour or so. Preheat the oven to 190 degrees C. Bake the pie for 45 to 55 minutes until the pastry is golden and the juices are bubbly. Allow to cool slightly before eating … Share this: Twitter Facebook Like this: Like Loading... Related 10 Comments by amerrierworld on July 10, 2012 • Permalink Posted in fruit, pies and pastry Tagged baking, cooking, dessert, food, recipes Posted by amerrierworld on July 10, 2012 https://amerrierworld.com/2012/07/10/apple-plum-pie/ Previous Post De Peixos, No En Plouen Next Post Raspberry Crumb Bars Leave a comment 10 Comments Emily Cooks Vegan / July 10, 2012 Ooh it looks like such a lovely recipe – your photography is amazing as well 🙂 x Reply amerrierworld / July 10, 2012 Thanks 🙂 And ooo, you have some lovely things on your blog too. I must try that pilau musteen – it sounds delicious. Reply Emily Cooks Vegan / July 10, 2012 Thank you very much 🙂 I devoured it all, you should definitely try it! x Reply Keeping Up With The Holsbys / July 10, 2012 That is a fine looking pah! Great image… Reply amerrierworld / July 10, 2012 It’s a shame it’s all gone now! And I’m discovering so many great blogs out there today – thanks for leaving a comment on mine so I could find my way to yours 🙂 Reply Villy / July 10, 2012 Mmm, I can have a piece of that even if it’s not raining.. Reply amerrierworld / July 10, 2012 I wonder which comes first – the chicken or the egg … 😉 Either way – this pie turned out to be good comfort food. Reply frugalfeeding / July 10, 2012 Absolutely gorgeous. Nice twist on the classic apple pie. I’d like a large slice please. Reply Leaf Cutters / July 10, 2012 That looks gorgeous, please can I have a slice it’s very rainy in Yorkshire today. Reply amerrierworld / July 11, 2012 Looks like I need to bake bigger pies … I’d send you slices if there were any left, frugalfeeding and Leaf Cutters. Honestly, I would … Reply Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here... 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Looks like Bugatti is finally getting a handle on this YouTube phenomenon. The French supercar firm has uploaded a trio of videos showing off its current and future cars; namely, the Veyron coupe and the 16C Galibier What Bugatti has clearly not figured out, on the other hand, is the definition of a teaser. While the slowly drawn out shots showing the upcoming super sedan from just about every angle are pretty impressive, aren't teasers just supposed to whet the appetite? And if we're honest, the narrative that goes with it is a bit... disarming. Finally, while most teaser videos are done and over with in a minute or less, this one is more than four times that length.Oh well... nobody ever accused Bugatti of being subtle.You can see the new Galibier teaser video by scrolling down below, and if that's not enough, we've also included two new videos showcasing the Bugatti Veyron and its most impressive bits and pieces. | positive |
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Past president and general counsel of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the premier bar association of immigration lawyers and professors in the U.S., Leopold chairs the Immigration Law Group at Cleveland-based Ulmer & Berne. The firm acquired Leopold’s independent law practice, where he had distinguished himself as one of the nation’s leading immigration attorneys, last year. When he is not on the national stage speaking out about what he sees as the inequities and unfairness in current U.S. immigration policies, Leopold is representing individuals and businesses struggling to navigate through the thicket of visa and compliance issues that bedevil companies and families alike. The Detroit native has chosen to do all this in Ohio, and he feels that Ohio citizens—and particularly its business and political leaders—need to understand and appreciate the stake they personally have in the adoption of immigration policies that serve the public good. He passionately argues that sensible immigration rules and enforcement are good for the state’s economy. And he warns businesses that they need to be vigilant in remaining compliant with the rules that currently exist. 4 FA L L 2 0 18 . w w w.ohiobusinessmag.com We talked about the current state of affairs, his concerns about immigration misperceptions and why he believes Ohio is a great place to be. Q: What’s the status of family separations at the U.S. border? DL: There are 528 children still missing as of this morning [August 24]. Many of the parents have been deported. Many of them will never see their children again. Q: How long does the reunification process normally take? DL: The process has never involved tearing children away from their parents. This is a unique horror. It’s never happened before. Q: Are any of the children in Ohio? DL: There are children in Ohio, but they are not locked up here. They are in situations similar to foster care. are plenty of areas where we could use more workers. What most people don’t understand is that competition for jobs is really a bell curve. On the one end you have jobs requiring a high level of education—people who are involved in cutting-edge research in, let’s say, congenital heart failure. On the other end are people who are doing critical work but who don’t have the same level of education—for example, someone who is picking lettuce in the field—respectable backbreaking work but it doesn’t require the same level of education. Most Americans are in the middle. We are not competing with those at either end of the spectrum. Immigrants tend to come in at one of those two levels. So to say they are taking jobs from U.S. workers is a specious way to frame the issue. It just doesn’t work. We need a government that is going to respect that and also respect that the system needs to be updated. Q: What is the fix? Q: Another article in this issue focuses on agriculture in Ohio. It mentions recent immigration raids at farms in Erie County. Is current immigration policy serving or disserving business in Ohio? DL: Disserving. The raids are one thing but you have the most anti-immigrant administration in the history of the country. To get and retain global talent in shortage occupations, we need these folks. They create jobs here. Q: Shortage occupations? DL: An occupation where there are not enough U.S. workers. The best example of that would be registered nurses. We simply don’t have enough registered nurses. Also pediatricians. We don’t have enough sub-specialty pediatricians to service the children. Various other health care occupations and IT and scientific fields, engineering, STEM occupations. There DL: The system is outdated and the law needs to be updated. We’re dealing with a system that was essentially put together in the ‘60s. Which one of us still uses a typewriter at work? The law needs to change with the technology and the times. Q: Do you think our perceptions of immigration have become too narrow because of the border issues happening right now? DL: Yes, of course. We have a president who uses racist imagery and rhetoric to frame the immigration issue. He talks in terms of a wall, in terms that conflate crime and immigration. But he’s also making this broader claim that U.S. workers are hurt by immigration so let’s not let in people who are doing critical research, people who are going to be innovators, people who are going to be investors in this country. All that creates jobs. All the credible studies show that an David W. Leopold w w w.ohiobusinessmag.com . FA L L 2 0 18 5 CONVERSATION updated immigration policy won’t hurt the economy. Restrictions on immigration are hurting the economy. Sensible immigration polices actually help create jobs. Q: Your firm represents some of the biggest companies not only in Ohio but across the United States. From that perspective, you say that sensible immigration policies are good for business. DL: Of course. Because, look, the economy is global. Thirty and 40 years ago, if you were a business owner in Ohio it was likely your biggest competitor was the man or woman across the street or down the block. Now your biggest competitor is likely to be in Tokyo or Paris or Beijing. We can’t isolate ourselves economically. Part of being in the global economy means having an immigration law that permits the transfer of highly competent executives and managers and specialized knowledge personnel, and that means having a robust immigration program as well as a welldesignated temporary worker program. We don’t have any of that right now. Plus we have a government that wants to shut down the very few aspects of immigration law that do work for business. Q: Do Ohio government and business leaders have a role in fixing what’s wrong? DL: Yes. For example, the attorney general’s office has the power to issue opinions. And in Ohio we have to drive, so there is the matter of license requirements. I’d rather know who is on the road than not. The states have to take more responsibility. For business, it’s a work in progress. Corporations are under attack as never before. They should use their position to take a leadership role to advocate for common-sense immigration—not policies where government is going after grandmothers the way they go after convicted felons. Business has a moral responsibility to make sure that everybody is treated fairly. Q: When I mentioned to an Ohio business executive that I was going to be writing about immigration, he said: “Why should I care?” So: Why should he care? DL: Corporate executives need to be 6 FA L L 2 0 18 . w w w.ohiobusinessmag.com “All the credible studies show than an updated immigration policy won’t hurt the economy … Sensible immigration polices actually help create jobs.” — David W. Leopold involved now more than ever. Not just because of ICE raids. They need to be in compliance, visa compliance, even if they are not hiring immigrant talent. Even if they never hired a non-citizen, they may be looking at serious fines if they are not in compliance. You could be looking at hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines if you are not compliant. Q: What led you to the field of immigration law? DL: It goes back to my father being a Holocaust survivor. My family had been in Germany for generations and they fled. So I’ve always been interested in fundamental rights, the concept of a safe haven. And that led to asylum law and immigration. Q: Given your national—and even international—prominence in the field, it might be argued that you could more easily practice out of Washington or New York. Why here? DL: Well, I do work out of Washington as well. I have clients there. I work with DHS Watch, which identifies policies that are unfair to immigrants. But to your larger question, I love the state of Ohio. It’s a great location. It’s a gorgeous place and I love the cultural tapestry. I love Cleveland and Columbus and Cincinnati. Just don’t ask me about it in January or February. n CELEBRATING MANUFACTURING J U NE/J U LY 2 0 17 11th ANNUAL MANNY AWARDS WHAT’S NEXT FOR THE GOP? THE MAGAZINE FOR BUSINESS PROFESSIONALS ARTS • BUSINESS • CULTURE TOP COMMUNITIES PLUS: First-rate Schools Safest Neighborhoods Best Property Values VOLUME 14 I S S UE 4 COOL TECH AWARDS AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2017 A Problem in our Parks? 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DATELINE: BRECKSVILLE All In The FAMILY AHOLA OFFERS A UNIQUE PERSPECTIVE ON HUMAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT BY JORDYN GRZELEWSKI E ntering the lobby of the Ahola Corporation’s Brecksville headquarters, visitors can’t miss the mural of a baby-blue 1967 Ford Fairlane 500 on a wall opposite the reception area. Painted next to it are the computers used in the business’s early days and a portrait of the company’s namesake: Chet and Rheta Ahola, along with their four children—sons Mark, Jeff and Scott and daughter Marja—who carry on the family payroll business more than 50 years later. Another tribute to the company’s history is the Ohio Historical Marker recognizing Ahola’s status as the world’s longest continuously operating family-focused payroll service provider. The company recently wrapped up celebrating 50 years in business and prides itself on what it’s accomplished in those five decades. “We’re the oldest in Ohio. We’re the thirdoldest overall. And we’re the most experienced privately held, family-owned business in our industry,” says CEO Jeff Ahola. “It’s a pretty proud thing to have the kind of distinction, to be that kind of pioneer.” To date, Ahola has provided automated payroll services to more than 10,000 corporations and issued nearly 40 million paychecks. The company currently serves more than 2,700 clients and their 45,000 employees, and employs about 70 people. It all started out of the trunk of the Ford now immortalized on the office wall. Chet Ahola, an IBMtrained computer programmer, founded the company in 1967 when he started providing computer services to clients. In the beginning, he would leave the famFounders Chet and Rheta Ahola stand with their family (from left) Mark, Marja and Jeff with Scott in front. ily’s Avon Lake home about 11 p.m. and drive to Cleveland, where he bought computer time at a dis- logical innovations. He bought two used counted late-night rate from the downtown IBM 1401 mainframes, using one for work banks. After he was done working, he’d put and harvesting the other for parts when the payroll checks in his trunk, drive home he needed to make repairs. Then came the and sleep, then get up the next day and advent of personal computers. As technoldeliver the checks to his clients. ogy changed rapidly in the 1970s and 1980s, “If you owned a business and you had Ahola was at the forefront. an inventory problem, he’d do your inven“We licensed Microsoft software. We tory. If you owned a business and you had were one of Michael Dell’s first costumpayroll, he’d do your payroll,” says Jeff. ers,” Jeff says. “We’re customer No. 14,000 “And that’s basically how he created the or something, and Dell has sold millions vision for the company.” and millions of computers.” The payroll services end of the business The second generation of Aholas joined took off in the late 1960s when Chet inher- the business in the 1970s. Chet’s wife, ited the clients of a bookkeeping firm that Rheta, had gotten involved early on workhad hired him to write enhanced payroll ing as a data analyst. When Jeff came on in the 1980s, he helped steer Ahola to focus software. “That’s how, in 1969, exclusively on payroll services. Ahola was he had 200 automated among the first companies in the country payrolls before anybody to do automated tax filing. else did in the United “ADP, Ceridian and Ahola pioneered Tax States,” says Jeff. “It Link, which was the first automated tax filwas such a pioneering ing processing software, and our software thing.” developers had quite a few interactions As the business grew, with others in the space to help the IRS test Employees celebrate the 50th anniversary of Ahola in August of so did Chet’s techno- federal payments, to test processes,” Jeff last year. 8 FA L L 2 0 18 . w w w.ohiobusinessmag.com says. “Electronic tax was a key part of the growth of the industry and the business.” As technology transformed the industry, Ahola changed, too. A company that started out delivering paychecks from Chet’s trunk now takes care of all its clients’ employee-related needs. “Here we sit in 2018, where we call the industry ‘human capital management,’” says Mark Strippy, Ahola’s vice president of sales and service. “It’s much more than payroll and tax. It’s helping employers onboard the right employee. Helping them manage their talent from a new-hire perspective. Helping them take care of employees’ IRAs and 401(k)s and benefits. It’s benefits, wellness programs, onboarding, time and attendance, alternative-payment mechanisms.” Ahola has carved out a niche for itself in the human capital management space by focusing on private, family-owned companies, a market that Ahola’s leaders say has potential that has yet to be realized industrywide. “We’re at the very beginning of a very huge tsunami of family business research and studying, and we’re on the front edge of this whole thing,” says Jeff. “It’s really exciting, but it’s sometimes hard to communicate, because some people don’t realize that the family-business industry is out there percolating and growing extremely rapidly around us.” As a family-owned business itself, Ahola has a unique perspective to offer clients. “I think the culture of being a family company is so different from the culture of a publicly traded competitor of ours, so I think we have a big advantage if we can translate that culture to the customer experience,” Jeff says. “It’s not corporate America. It certainly is family business.” Looking forward, Ahola will remain committed to Northeast Ohio as it also looks at growth opportunities in other areas, says communication and brand strategist Sonya Ahola, Jeff’s daughter. “We see a lot of success and opportunity in Columbus with the growth of a lot of businesses there, so that’s a huge initiative for us,” she says. A member of the third generation to work in the family business, she has her eyes set on the future of the company her grandfather founded. “Fifty years has just hit, and we’re ready for the next 50,” she says. “We don’t want to slow down at all. We want to speed up.” n Jeff Ahola and daughter Sonya Ahola w w w.ohiobusinessmag.com . FA L L 2 0 18 9 DATELINE: COLUMBUS Big Lots’ new 300,000-squarefeet corporate headquarters in northeast Columbus Big Plans WITH NEW HQ AND CEO, BIG LOTS TO STAY IN COLUMBUS FOR “MANY YEARS TO COME” BY GAIL BURKHARDT D iscount retailer Big Lots has been a staple in the Columbus community since its foundation, and with its new headquarters in the city, the company plans to stay for many more years. In late August, the retailer named Bruce K. Thorn as its new CEO, replacing former CEO David Campisi, who retired in April. Thorn comes to Big Lots from Tailored Brands, a Texas-based retailer of men’s clothing that operates store brands that include Men’s Wearhouse. In May, about 800 corporate employees moved from the former headquarters on Phillipi Road on the city’s west side to the new 300,000-square-foot facility in northeast Columbus. “The building over on Phillipi was over 50 years old and we frankly just outgrew it. We needed to have a space that could accommodate the growth that we’ve seen and really provide a much better work environment for our associates,” says Andrew Regrut, vice president of Investor Relations for Big Lots. The new facility near state Route 161 and 10 FA L L 2 0 18 . w w w.ohiobusinessmag.com Hamilton Road boasts many amenities including a high-end fitness center, a café and a presentation studio set up like a Big Lots store. The studio allows employees to try out displays and merchandise assortments before they head to the stores. “Our new Corporate Headquarters offers our associates amenities and a more efficient use of space, which has been expressed as the No. 1 concern by our team in our annual cultural engagement survey. We are very proud of our new work environment and believe it paves the way for Big Lots to continue to attract and retain world-class talent to better serve [our clients],” Tim Johnson, executive vice president, chief administrative officer and financial officer, said in a statement. ADAPTING TO CHANGE The headquarters move is among several recent changes to the company as it adapts to an evolving retail climate. In April of 2016, Big Lots began selling products online including some furniture, seasonal and home goods. Adjusting to the current atmosphere also involves steadily closing stores to deal with an oversaturation of retail markets and the national increase of online shopping. Since 2014, Big Lots has closed between 1 to 2 percent of its about 1,400 stores each year, Regrut says. Regrut credits the company’s leadership to foreseeing market saturation and closing stores when other retailers were opening new ones. Sales companywide have been fairly flat recently with increases in comparable store sales offset by a smaller number of stores, Regrut says. “We’ve had the good fortune of not opening stores when we didn’t need to and focusing on the shopping experience in existing stores,” he says. In September 2017, Big Lots rolled out its new store layouts to make them more inviting and easier to shop. The “Store of the Future,” as the company calls it, features furniture in the middle with seasonal items and home goods on either side plus food and other consumables in the back. The layout includes a low-to-high profile, so it is easy to see everything that is offered, as well as more welcoming signage, Regrut says. Customers have given the layouts good reviews and are buying more on each visit. Big Lots plans to redesign about 45 percent of its stores by 2020. The first redesigns were at 10 stores in Columbus so executives could easily monitor the process. COLUMBUS CONNECTIONS Big Lots has had ties with Central Ohio since 1967, when Sol Shenk founded a company that made closeout deals mostly on vehicles and auto parts. The company began operating as Consolidated International in 1970 and launched the Odd Lots/ Big Lots chain in 1982. The City of Columbus worked diligently to keep the company’s headquarters within its borders. The city gave Big Lots a 10-year property tax abatement, which adds up to between $8,480,018 and $12,720,026 in estimated savings over a decade. City officials wanted to keep the company’s income tax base, says Steven Schoeny, the director of Columbus’ Department of Development. The city looked at “what really is right for the business and what does [Big Lots] need to do to make this huge investment in the city of Columbus?” Schoeny says. Columbus officials worked with developers to come up with a master plan for the area on state Route 161, he says. Big Lots’ new “Store of the Future” layout Big Lots supports many national and local nonprofits, including Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Pelotonia and Feeding America. The property is fairly isolated right now, but other businesses have shown interest in building near it. The site is also about 5 miles from the shopping and business hub, Easton Town Center. “Big Lots has been a member of the Central Ohio community for over 50 years and as we looked to move into a new, modern facility, it was important to the leader- ship team to continue this partnership for many years to come,” said Johnson in a statement. In addition to staying in the city limits, Big Lots connects with Columbus by working with local charities including Nationwide Children’s Hospital and Pelotonia, an annual bicycle ride supporting cancer research. Nationally, the company supports many other programs including Feeding America and local charities. Big Lots plans to donate $50 million over 10 years to help Nationwide Children’s Hospital build a behavioral health pavilion. The hospital has an ambitious and expensive plan for behavioral health services, and it could not complete the project without Big Lots’ support, says Stephen Testa, the president of Nationwide Children’s Hospital Foundation. Testa and his team have met with many Big Lots employees from corporate leadership through store associates, and Testa is impressed by the commitment and passion the employees have for helping others. “It’s tough to put into words how passionate they are,” he says. “I think it speaks a lot about the culture of the company and their desire to give back and [Big Lots] being a tremendous philanthropic force here in Columbus.” n w w w.ohiobusinessmag.com . FA L L 2 0 18 11 DATELINE: CINCINNATI A Zeal for Branding STACY KOENIG AND NICOLE FARIELLO ARE USING THEIR CREATIVE SKILLS TO HELP CLIENTS OF ALL SIZES BY SCOTT UNGER Z eal is defined as “great energy or enthusiasm in pursuit of a cause or an objective,” and for Stacy Koenig and Nicole Fariello’s creative agency Zeal 40, the title couldn’t be more apt. Working from the second floor of a remodeled space on Reedy Street in downtown Cincinnati, the pair’s enthusiasm for helping clients reach their design and branding goals is instantly evident. “Zeal is an awesome power, it motivates you to move forward through the day and through life,” Fariello says. “And I think working with clients is where our zeal really comes out.” The office’s blend of old and new, with exposed brick walls meshing with contemporary furniture and a blackboard with the message “We can and we will,” illustrates this isn’t some big corporate ad agency and that’s exactly how they want it. “Small is the new big,” Fariello says, referring to the personal touch Zeal 40 is able to give its clients. “Small isn’t good for some and that’s OK, but we know we aren’t going to compete with the larger agencies just yet.” Offering a range of services under the umbrella of design, branding and strategy, Zeal 40 assists clients through graphic design, content specialization, photography Example of pamphlet for the University of Oregon created by Zeal 40 12 FA L L 2 0 18 . w w w.ohiobusinessmag.com and videography and social media and website management. Fariello and Koenig started Zeal 40 in 2015, after leaving their former employer, which had ceased offering marketing services. The pair branched out to continue marketing for clients, which began mostly as recruiting campaigns for colleges and universities. The company has worked with a wide range of schools including the University of Oregon, Iowa State University, Bloomfield College and the University of Minnesota Rochester. Three years later higher education still makes up the bulk of their clients, but the agency has grown by more than 25 percent through adding local clients, building Cincinnati business brands from the ground up. Their portfolio of clients is broad, from construction to cosmetic and technology companies and the agency prides itself on research skills and the ability to identify a company’s goals and values and create a brand that promotes those traits. “Everything we do is custom, it’s not cookie cutter,” Fariello says. “What is right for you?” When Albert Fedders left his company to start a new construction firm, he knew branding would play a critical role in his success. He needed to show big clients Nicole Fariello (left) and Stacy Koenig he was a player in the game while being personal enough to not scare away small clients. The Zeal 40 team got to work on everything from a logo to company colors to event marketing strategies. A year later, Fedders business is booming and he credits the work of Zeal 40 for helping the rapid expansion. “I’m turning away more work than I’m taking,” Fedders says. The personal touch is huge for Fedders, who says he routinely contacts the agency at odd hours and always gets a response. “They stay on top of me,” he says. “It’s tremendous.” Being a small business means always being “on” and having that personal connection with clients goes a long way toward achieving goals, Koenig says. “We know a lot of our clients personally and because we’re small,” she says. “If we’re not hearing back from a client, we’ll text them. We have that relationship where we can do that.” E nt repreneu r Br ya n Gr uber t approached Zeal 40 for help expanding his Catalyst Communications answering service and to help launch a new tech start-up and says he was initially confused when conference calls with the agency talked more about personal interests than nuts and bolts business topics. “They would ask us a series of questions that had nothing to do with anything we were talking about but it kind of gave them a sense of who we were, what we liked,” he says. From there Zeal 40 was able to identify the true goals and vision of the company and soon a brand image came together. “They know what they want, it’s getting out of them the little hints,” Koenig says of the process. Fariello likens the branding process to a funnel, starting out with a broad range of interests and ideas and narrowing them down until you have a vision for the company. “They nailed exactly what we were looking for, nailed it,” Grubert says of the process. Starting with four employees in 2015, Zeal 40 now has a staff of 12 full and parttime workers and is looking to expand further in the coming years while also maintaining its personal touch. The three-year plan will focus on keeping higher education clients, expanding its base of local companies and reach into the K-12 education market in Cincinnati, which features many prominent private schools. “It’s been very important to us to start to build a culture but only expand when we know we can,” Koenig says. “We don’t want to be this massive huge company with thousands of employees, but we definitely want to get bigger.” n w w w.ohiobusinessmag.com . FA L L 2 0 18 13 Bret Davis, a Delaware County Soybean farmer, serves on the board of the Ohio Soybean Association and the nine-member Board of Governors for the American Soybean Association. Bittersweet Harvest BY TERRY TROY 14 FA L L 2 0 18 . w w w.ohiobusinessmag.com ARE NEW POLICIES IMPACTING FARMERS? THEY SUPPORT ONE IN EIGHT OHIO JOBS. D rive along our state’s highways and it’s pretty hard to miss the factories, steel mills, auto plants and other manufacturing facilities that immediately bring to mind visions of big industry. What a lot of people miss, in between those monuments to business success, are the endless fields of soybeans and corn and the other farms that are the backbone of our state’s economy. AgriBusiness in Ohio is by far and away our state’s largest industry, responsible for a total economic output that is in excess of $100 billion a year. It’s also incredibly diverse in terms of both its production chain and demographic scope. “We produce large commodity crops like corn, wheat and soybeans as well as animal proteins such as beef, pork, sheep, poultry and dairy products,” says Joe Cornely, senior director of corporate communications at the Ohio Farm Bureau, who has been working with farmers for more than 40 years. “But we also produce a lot of niche crops like fruits, vegetables and nuts.” “It is Ohio’s No. 1 industry,” adds Chris Henney, president and CEO of the Ohio AgriBusiness Association (OABA). “One in eight jobs in Ohio are related to food and agriculture.” When you actually think about it, the one in eight number might be conservative. In a larger sense, the industry not only includes the farmer and their employees that produce the crops, but everyone from the person who makes tires for a combine to the person selling the combine to the truck driver that hauls the grain up to Toledo to the crew that helps load the grain on a vessel bound for European markets and everything in between. “There is also a very wide diversity when it comes to the scale of farming in Ohio,” Cornely adds. “We have farmers who run multi-generational farms growing five, six or eight thousand acres of crops down to the young couple in their mid-20s who decide to chuck their office jobs and become small-scale farmers.” Farmers in Ohio do enjoy distinct advantages over their competitors in other states, simply because of our state’s location. We sit at the western edge of the East Coast population, right on the eastern edge of the Corn Belt. “Our geographic location is very advantageous,” says Cornely. “We can access Lake Erie. We have short-haul trucking access to many East Coast markets. And we have a tremendous rail system that gets us easily into the livestock areas of the southeast. Then we have the Ohio River that takes us down the Mississippi that takes us all the way down to the Gulf of Mexico.” Indeed, our state has more than 15 million acres of prime farm ground, literally right next door to more than 11.5 million people, putting us in a prime position in terms of getting product to market from a logistics standpoint. But that also creates challenges. “Having people right next door can be a challenge because sometimes agriculture makes noise, creates odors and kicks up some dust,” says Cornely. “People who live right next door might not appreciate that, which is a day-to-day challenge.” But Ohio farmers face other challenges as well, some caused by their own success, others from outside forces beyond their control and still others that may be caused by new governmental policies. THE ECONOMY Like any other industry, agriculture is subject to the basic laws of supply and demand. And Ohio farmers have become a victim of their own success, becoming so efficient at raising crops, especially large commodity crops like soybeans, corn and wheat, that world prices have been kept down. This has put a squeeze on farming operations, says Cornely. “We have worked more than 30 years in foreign countries to grow our business by gaining access to markets and by finding new uses for soybeans.” —Bret Davis, Ohio Soybean Association “In fact, we are currently in the greatest drop in the farm economy since the Great Depression,” he says. “Ohio farmers have consistently out produced demand, so prices are dropping just as the cost of production is going up.” But Ohio farmers have also consistently offset the laws of supply and demand in domestic markets by exporting crops to other countries. Realizing that only one in five consumers of agricultural products actually live in the United States, Ohio’s farmers have sought mouths to feed outside of our nation’s borders. Decades ago, Ohio’s farmers began to develop markets around the world, setting up offices, creating personal relationships and fostering business deals to the point where Ohio is the preferred supplier of a wide variety of farm products across the globe. “Over the past three decades, we’ve had about 30 different countries that we have either visited, or that have come to Ohio to see how we are growing crops,” says Brad Reynolds, communications director for the Ohio Corn and Wheat Growers Association. “They are interested in what we are doing and how we are doing it. They like Ohio corn.” “We have worked more than 30 years in foreign countries to grow our business by gaining access to markets and by finding new uses for soybeans,” adds Bret Davis, a Delaware County Soybean farmer who serves on the board of the Ohio Soybean Association and was elected for a third term on the nine-member Board of Governors for the American Soybean Association. “We have had a 40 percent drop in our income over the last five years because of world economic issues,” adds Davis. “There have been good crops worldwide, so prices have come down. But we have also built demand.” In addition to myriad food products such as tofu and cooking sauces, soybeans today are used in everything from cooking oils, to soy meal and even soy ink, “which is an ink that is not only environmentally friendly, but it doesn’t smear,” says Davis. “And if you’re sitting in a Ford car, there’s a good chance that you’re sitting on soy foam. “Ohio is the sixth largest producer of soybeans in the United States and the No. 1 agriculture business in Ohio,” adds Davis. “But it is estimated that one out of every three rows of soybeans grown in our country is exported to China.” w w w.ohiobusinessmag.com . FA L L 2 0 18 15 Ohio’s $1.8 billion in soybean exports in 2017 accounted for more than 3.5 percent of all Ohio commodity exports. However, soybean futures are dropping thanks to China’s announcement of a proposed 25 percent retaliatory tariff on imported U.S. soybeans. Which, of course, brings us to the second major issue facing Ohio farmers today. TRADE AND TARIFF ISSUES Scattered across the economy, there is some evidence that the retaliatory tariffs imposed by China and others are biting, according to a recent economic update from David Wessell, senior fellow and director of the Brookings Institution’s Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy. Europeans are cancelling orders for blue jeans from a firm in North Carolina. Local newspapers are curtailing publication dates thanks to tariffs on Canadian newsprint. In our own state, Tusco Display, a maker of custom store fixtures and precision metal fabrications in Gnadenhutten in Tuscarawas County, laid off or furloughed 30 employees that it credited to the rising cost of both domestic and imported steel and aluminum. Even New England lobstermen say they are getting squeezed because China has doubled the tariff on lobsters coming in from the United States, while lowering the tariff on lobsters coming from Canadian waters. But the impact of China’s tariff on Ohio’s farmers is much more immediate and profound. AgriBusiness in Ohio One in 8 jobs in Ohio are related to food and agriculture. AgriBusiness Industries contribute more than $100 billion annually to Ohio’s economy. There are 75,000 Ohio farms and 14 million acres of cropland. Ohio is 10th in the nation in terms of its farm economy. 1,000 or more farms have been in the same family for more than 100 years. (SOURCES: OHIO AGRIBUSINESS ASSOCIATION AND THE OHIO FARM BUREAU) 16 FA L L 2 0 18 . w w w.ohiobusinessmag.com New trade policy and the resulting retaliatory Chinese tariffs, have brought down the price of soybeans by $2 a bushel, which for Davis’ farm translates into a loss of $200,000 over the last two months. The suffering of farmers has not gone unnoticed by the current administration. Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced $12 billion in federal “temporary relief” to farmers who have been hurt by retaliatory tariffs, a move derided by many liberal media outlets as “whack-a-mole” economics. But the international soybean market is not a kid’s game and the impact on farmers is very real.
“What the president has done with the $12 billion to help us this year is greatly appreciated, and we thank him for that,” says Davis. “But farmers don’t want a hand out. What we want is free trade.” The future is not all doom and gloom. There appears to be an easing of tensions among NAFTA partners Mex ico and Canada, as well as the European Union. According to Davis, sales to the E.U. have increased almost three fold over the last three months, and the president is talking about going back to the principle countries involved in the Trans-Pacific Partnership. “But all of these things are really miniscule when compared to what China means to us,” he says. However, trade and retaliatory tariffs are only one issue brought about by the current administration. IMMIGRATION, GUEST WORKERS AND WORKFORCE While production of commodity crops like soybeans, corn and wheat is basically automated at the farm level, farmers growing other crops need workers. And the government’s stricter enforcement of immigration and guest worker programs is causing more than just concern. Earlier this year, immigration agents swarmed two locations of Corso’s Flower and Gardening Center in Sandusky and nearby Castalia, arresting more than 100 workers as a part of the Trump Administration’s crackdown on immigration enforcement. While Corso’s was back up and running in a matter of days, the arrests did send shockwaves through an industry that is very dependent on immigrants and guest workers. Belinda Jones is a legislative consultant for the Ohio Nursery and Landscape Association as well as the Ohio AgriBusiness Association and other green associations and coalitions of farmers and manufacturers in green industries across our state. “Nationwide, Ohio is known for its robust nursery industry,” she says. “We bounce around in the top 10 nationwide for production and extremely high quality of nursery stock. I like to say that we are the Napa Valley for nursery stock in the Midwest. “Lack of true immigration reform dialogue is restricting the entire Ohio business channel. Ohio growers can’t sell plants because the landscapers do not have enough employees to install and maintain them. There are thousands of jobs that are not being filled—not just in the fields but also management, payroll, etc. For every job in ag there are three other related jobs that need to be filled.” According to Jones, it’s not just illegal immigration enforcement, but also new restrictions on visas that are impacting legal seasonal workers and are hurting farmers and businesses in the nursery and landscape industry. “Our industry is not in favor of illegal immigration,” stresses Jones. “However, much needed are more practical and responsive temporary visa programs and a status adjustment for workers who are here, working and paying taxes, and contributing to Ohio’s and the nation’s economy.” The H2A and H2B programs (programs that allow industries with a labor shortage to tap into seasonal migrant labor) have restrictions that handicapped the industry’s ability to hire and meet the needs that farmers and businesses are demanding, adds Jones. The preference is to always hire domestic workers. “But no matter how hard we try, we are unable to find enough domestic workers that want to do this kind of work,” she adds. It’s also noteworthy that many of the jobs are well above minimum wage, roughly in the $12 to $14 an hour range, she says. Ironically, the Trump Administration, which is committed to reducing and cutting through regulation for most industries, may actually be adding some extra steps as a part of its efforts to enforce immigration and guest worker policies. “There are programs that allow farmers and guest workers to come together on an interim basis to do the farm work,” says Cornely from the Ohio Farm Bureau. “But the red tape associated with those programs is very difficult and expensive. If you need a crop picked in two weeks, and your workers are waiting at the border because of a paperwork snag, it’s not like The nursery industry in Ohio generates approximately $4 billion. The turfgrass industry is approximately $4.6 billion. The green industries economic contribution to Ohio is $5.14 billion. All green sectors combined support 77,664 full- and part-time jobs. that crop will sit there until the paperwork gets done. We need to streamline the system that allows willing workers to get into the country, and do what farmers need them to do.” THE ENVIRONMENT While last on our list, the environment is certainly not least, according to farmers, workers in the AgriBusiness industries and consumers in general. In our state, the issue takes on a very real, tangible and identifiable result in the form of the algal blooms at the western end of Lake Erie. It is perhaps one of the most frustrating issues for Ohio’s farmers today, according to the resources contacted for this article. “The typical narrative on the Lake algae blooms is that farmers don’t care, and the government lets them get away with it,” says Cornely. “The only solution is piling on massive amounts of regulation and then the water will be pristine in a week. “That is an exaggeration, of course. But there is a very active community of agricultural critics who are sometimes flat out incorrect in their description of what is going on. When 400,000 people in Toledo are told not to drink the water, it becomes a priority—as it should be. And we, as farmers, want to help fix the problem as quickly as possible. But we need actionable information on a very complex issue.” Farmers in Ohio have been working in partnerships to help address the problem. “OABA and our members have been (SOURCES: THE OHIO NURSERY AND LANDSCAPE ASSOCIATION AND THE “ECONOMIC CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE GREEN INDUSTRY IN THE UNITED STATES” STUDY.) proactively engaged on this issue since the summer of 2011,” says Henney. “In March of 2014, five months prior to the Toledo water crisis, OABA, in partnership with The Nature Conservancy, state and national non-government organizations, academic institutions, and government entities, launched the 4R Nutrient Stewardship Certification Program with a goal of reducing nutrient run-off to improve water quality.” T his volunta r y prog ra m prov ides guidelines and independently certifies nutrient service providers, also known as agricultural retailers, on their adoption of proven best practices through the 4Rs, which refers to using the Right Source of nutrients at the Right Rate and Right Time w w w.ohiobusinessmag.com . FA L L 2 0 18 17 in the Right Place. Since 2014, 47 ag retail facilities have been certified, 37 of which are in the Western Lake Erie watershed. Certified agricultural retailers work with over 6,000 farmers in Ohio covering 2.89 million acres of farmland. Of that, 1.9 million acres are located in the Western Lake Erie Basin, nearly half of the farmable land there. The farmers do have valid points. Certainly, increased use of fertilizers on suburban lawns and the subsequent run off have caused greater nutrients to enter the Lake Erie watershed. There have also been the unplanned releases of raw sewage from water treatment plants overwhelmed by rain events, which was recently witnessed in the Greater Cleveland area. And the problem is not just caused by Ohio agriculture or suburban fertilizer runoffs in our state. As a part of the St. Lawrence Seaway, the water in western Lake Erie not only comes from Western Ohio, but also Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota and Ontario. “Most people don’t understand the international and multi-state facet to what is a very complex issue,” says Cornely. For their part, farmers are economically motivated to take part in the programs that help conserve nutrients, says Davis. “Remember that phosphorus and other nutrients cost money, so as farmers, we want to make sure those nutrients stay on our fields,” he says. “To that end, we have spent millions in experimental stations all over our state to make sure we keep the nutrients on our field where they belong.” n Soybeans are Ohio’s No. 1 agricultural product. Ohio is ranked sixth in soybean production in the United States. The annual economic impact from soybean production in Ohio is $5.3 billion. There are 26,000 soybean farmers in Ohio. 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Within the following pages, you’ll get advice for students starting to look at colleges, learn about the scholarship opportunities offered by the Ohio Federation of Independent Colleges and find contact information for the state’s colleges, universities, career centers and more. Read on to learn more about what Ohio has to offer. INSIDE: 23 What You Need to Know Before Starting a College Search 29 Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges 33 OFIC Member Directory 34 Infographics 37 College and University Listings w w w.ohiobusinessmag.com . FA L L 2 0 18 21 EDUCATION PROFILE Mount Vernon Nazarene University 800 Martinsburg Road • Mount Vernon, OH 43050 740-397-9000 • mvnu.edu M ount Vernon Nazarene University’s Graduate and Professional Studies programs will bring your strongest skills and abilities to light. You lead a busy life—work, family, friends, community and other responsibilities. Our programs were built with that in mind. With MVNU, you don’t have to pause your life to get a quality education. Our courses are offered one at a time, with onsite classes one night a week in New Albany, Mansfield, Newark and Mount Vernon. Plus, many programs can be completed en- tirely online! Mount Vernon Nazarene University offers programs in business administration, nursing, education, ministry, health care administration, social work, public administration and leadership. Experience continually updated curriculum, stimulating classroom and online learning environments, and professors who care about your personal and professional growth. Online programs are available and there is a fast-track MBA option, as well as a Ministry and MBS Dual Degree option. Mount Vernon Nazarene Univer- sity offers a supportive network of peers that extends beyond graduation, a tuition guarantee and a Christian emphasis in all disciplines Education is valuable, and at MVNU it’s affordable, too. One you have enrolled, your course-by-course tuition is locked-in, and will not increase! MVNU also offers a convenient pay-per-course option. A bright future awaits you. What are you waiting for? Ohio’s Guide to Colleges & Universities What You Need to Know Before Starting a College Search BY TERRY TROY B efore a young student embarks on a search for a post-secondary education, most counselors and educators offer the same advice Polonius offered his son Laertes in Hamlet: “To thine own self be true.” With myriad post-secondary educational opportunities available upon graduation from high school in our state, the sooner the search starts, the better. “Earlier is always better,” says Bruce Joh nson, president a nd CEO of t he Inter-Universit y Council of Ohio, an organization that represents Ohio’s 14 public universities. “If you are inclined to go to a technical school, you should take a technical high school curriculum. But if you are inclined to go to a private or public university, you need to take a college preparatory curriculum. Those are two very different pathways.” Even in their freshman year of high school, students need to start thinking about where they see themselves in 10 or 15 years, says Johnson. But at that tender young age, it’s not always possible to identify an educational path, let alone what a student may be doing on the job in a decade or more. “Typically, you’re talking about someone with a limited life experience,” says Dr. Scott Markland, vice president of student development, regional centers for Sinclair Community College, a major community college headquartered in Dayton. “So the most important piece of advice I give to high school students is to do things to get to know yourself; to get to know what your interests are, what you are curious about, and what you are really good at. It’s all about passion.” While you can tell a student to follow their passion, sometimes they won’t know what their passion is. Markland’s advice? “Take advantage of your time in high school,” he says. “There are a lot of opportunities to get involved with extra curricular activities. Get employed. Travel. Be active and pursue your curiosity. That way you can engage in the college selection process and identify the academic programs that are going to get you where you want to go.” Expect some dangerous detours on this “Regardless of where they come from I’m confident that almost any student can find what they want in our state.” —Bruce Johnson, president and CEO of the Inter-University Council of Ohio journey of self-discovery—with some coming from the most well-meaning of sources. “One that tends to get students into trouble is following exactly what mom and dad want them to do,” says Markland. “Often times moms and dads will have good advice, but it’s not necessarily what the student wants to do. Mom and dad have to be patient, supportive and guiding, but they also have to let the young person figure it out for themselves.” Which makes the case for high school counselors, who do not have an agenda, but are simply trying to help a young student find their way. Gunnar Olson is director of college counseling at Western Reserve Academy, a college prep school in Hudson, Ohio. The advice coming from parents or relatives could be dated, he says. “So when someone says something about an educational institution, you have to ask, ‘Where are they getting their information? Is it the same college that it was 20 or 25 w w w.ohiobusinessmag.com . FA L L 2 0 18 23 Ohio’s Guide to Colleges & Universities years ago?’ Because more likely, it could be a totally different type of institution.” “Friends may offer advice as well, but remember that advice is based on their own experiences,” adds Markland. “It may be good for them, but it may not be the best advice for another person. You get all kinds of college advice when you are a young student: good, bad and indifferent. The challenge is sorting out the flurry of information that is hitting you, which can be a little overwhelming.” There are some students whose internal compass has always been pointed toward a four-year college. However, the same basic rules apply when traveling down an educational path even at this level. “We are a college prep school, so the idea of going off to college has already been made when a student enrolls here in their freshman year,” says Olson. “However, we still meet with our students very early on to talk with them about gaining the most out of their experience here at Western Reserve Academy. They need to build the habits of being a good student, and also a good person. It makes it easier to show students how to be academically 24 FA L L 2 0 18 . w w w.ohiobusinessmag.com challenged and succeed.” Like other students, those in college prep schools must be able to draw on their passion. But since their path has been a little more defined, they need to refine and further develop their passion toward a more singular goal. Many of Western Reserve Academy’s students attend Ivy League Schools as well as other selective colleges and universities across the country and around the globe, says Olson. “Most selective educational institutions are interested in students who have a deep passion in one or two activities as opposed to a minimal interest in 20 different activities,” says Olson. “They are looking to enroll a well-rounded class, but it is a class of students who have a singular angle, an area where they have shown one clear interest.” Of course, the path of least resistance is to allow past grades dictate future learning. “Most students, if they haven’t performed particularly well in the past, can perform well in the future, if they focus,” says Johnson. “Someone who may not have done well in one subject, may have not done well for reasons other than aptitude,” adds Markland. “It may because they weren’t going to class, or simply weren’t applying themselves. So there is a certain level of maturity and motivation that can play into past grades. “But grades can also be a signal of one’s engagement with a topic. If you hated a chemistry class you took back in high school, it may be a signal for something you may not want to pursue later on.” While most educators and counselors agree that it’s best to start a search for a post-secondary institution early, they also agree that it’s never too late to start the journey. “A lot of people assume that our students come to our public universities right out of high school, and they are right,” says Johnson. “I’d say between 65 and 70 percent of our students come right out of high school. “But the other 30 percent are non-traditional students, such as students coming back here from out of state, or adults who are coming back to school. Regardless of where they come from I’m confident that almost any student can find what they want in our state.” n EDUCATION PROFILE Lourdes University 6832 Convent Blvd. • Sylvania, OH 43560 800-878-3210 • lourdes.edu A university that responds to the needs of students and employers, Lourdes has successfully provided an education to adult learners for several decades. Whether students enroll looking to begin their career or enhance it, Lourdes offers a personalized education second to none. A Catholic University in the Franciscan tradition, Lourdes delivers an exceptional life changing education. A Lourdes graduate possesses the skills to succeed professionally and personally. In fact, 99 percent of our most current graduates have secured employment in their career or successfully gained acceptance to graduate school. For several decades, Lourdes graduates have been the candidates of choice of employers. Our alumni are successful nurses, educators, business professionals, social workers, and highly respected individuals in the for-profit, non-profit and government sectors. Currently, more than 5,700 alumni live and work in Ohio. Lourdes faculty continue to offer academic programs that are innovative and responsive to the needs of the workforce. Most recently, students have enrolled in the Doctor of Nursing Practice Program as well as a graduate program in Special Education. The university offers programs on ground, online and in a hybrid format. Students can also choose to complete select bachelor degree programs in just three years. With a solid reputation for preparing nurses, Lourdes offers a Flexible BSN program allowing individuals the freedom to complete the degree in two, three, four or five years. The Nurse Anesthesia graduate program has drawn registered nurses from around the nation and boasts a 100 percent job placement rate. To provide the best learning opportunities for students, Lourdes has also expanded its programs through strategic partnerships. FCA Fiat Chrysler and The Andersons offer the Lourdes Master of Business Adminis- tration and Master of Organizational Leadership degrees onsite. Several companies and non-profit organizations are also providing a 15 percent tuition discount thanks to the innovative Lourdes Advantage program. The University continues to explore every opportunity to keep study at Lourdes affordable and accessible. One of the newest programs is a Bachelor of Science in Craft Beverages which prepares students to master the art, business and science of winemaking, brewing and distilling. Lourdes is the only university in the country to offer such a comprehensive bachelor’s degree program. Another new program is a bachelor’s degree in Exercise Science. These and many Lourdes initiatives were created in response to industry needs at the regional, state and national levels. WRITING MY OWN SCI-FI THRILLER. WHAT WILL YOUR MARIETTA COLLEGE ADVENTURE BE? Looking at old rocks. (I’m a geology major.) Brainstorming sessions with advertising professors. WEEKLY COFFEE “CHARLAS” WITH MY SPANISH PROFESSOR. Winning the flag football championship, twice. REACHING THE TOP OF THE CLIMBING WALL FOR THE FIRST TIME. Taking the mound in the NCAA regional. MARIETTA.EDU/VISIT Road-tripping home with my roommate to meet her family. RECEIVING THE BID TO JOIN SIGMA KAPPA. CELEBRATING MY FIFTH-GRADE MENTEEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S FIRST A IN MATH. Walking on set at my MTV internship. TWILIGHT JOGS ALONG THE RIVER. Meeting my best friend on move-in day. STEPPING OFF THE PLANE IN IRELAND TO STUDY ABROAD. TRIVIA NIGHT WITH THE DREAM TEAM. Calling my parents when I get the job at Intel. 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That’s one of the reasons Twitchell says Reliant Capital recently decided to make a donation to The Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges to fund three renewable scholarships for students attending one of 33 independent colleges and universities in Ohio. The only stipulation for the scholarship is that students preferably live in Franklin County and contiguous counties, since that’s where Reliant Capital is located; they should major in business, communication, finance or marketing; and must meet the academic standards of The Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges and demonstrate financial need, says Twitchell. “We just kind of feel that as our company grows it’s our responsibility as a corporate citizen to give back to the community,” Twitchell says. “And since we support the higher-education industry it just kind of made sense for us to get involved and w w w.ohiobusinessmag.com . FA L L 2 0 18 29 Ohio’s Guide to Colleges & Universities support their work.” Reliant Capital helps colleges by managing their outstanding debt, he says. “We treat our borrowers with dignity and respect,” says Twitchell. “The institutions we support are extremely important to us and expect us to treat their alumni and former students well and we pride ourselves on doing that.” He says Reliant Capital does everything possible to help people resolve their distressed loans so they can get back on with their life. “We just want to make sure that we participate in every phase of this by offering scholarships and helping people make it more affordable and hopefully people don’t end up as our customers,” Twitchell says. Making a donation for scholarships is important to Reliant Capital because the money is being used to make a difference in students’ lives, he says. “I’m personally a big fan of a liberal arts education and I’ve seen the value of it in my own life. “I realize that there are some people that might be on the edge of being able Scholarships through The Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges gives companies access to the state’s future workforce. to afford attending one of these schools,” Twitchell says. 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CCU has partnered with Point University to deliver over 45 online programs giving CCU students access to 100 percent online associate, bachelor’s and master’s degrees in a wide range of high-demand fields. EDUCATION PROFILE 30 FA L L 2 0 18 . w w w.ohiobusinessmag.com to Ohio’s independent colleges and universities since its founding in 1950 to now, says Bill Spiker, president of the organization. Until 1986 the group raised money through corporate donations for general expenses at its member institutions, he says. But The Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges started raising money from corporate donors specifically for student scholarships at member institutions in 1986. “I like to say we dipped our toe in the water in 1986 and then today we’re up about chest high,” says Spiker. Today, about three-fourths of the money the group raises is distributed back to its member schools in the form of scholarships, he says. The scholarships have been successful because corporate officials like to know where their gift is going and what their money is supporting, Spiker says. Twitchell agrees with that assessment. “I really can’t stress enough that the money for The [Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges] goes right to the student so we’re getting the money right to the point of need, which I think is pretty critical,” Twitchell says. Corporate officials can even get introduced to a scholarship recipient and that may lead to a new employee upon graduation, he says. “Students may have a choice as to where they want to start their career and if a company has stepped forward with a contribution to help reduce the cost of attending a member school then that student may look more favorably on joining that company,” says Spiker. “So it’s a way of establishing that relationship,” he says. That relationship creates a “campus to career connection,” Spiker says. “That’s what we’re saying to corporate Ohio, we’ve got something to return to you,” he says. “It’s not just, ‘Give us money and we’ll do a good job with it.’ It’s really saying to them we can potentially give you a return on your investment, especially if you’re hiring.” The scholarships provided by The Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges are creating a talent pipeline for corporate Ohio, says Spiker. “The reason we exist is to raise money from corporate Ohio, return it to the students who are attending the member campuses, making their education affordable and creating a future workforce for Ohio,” he says. That, in turn, may help keep Ohio’s economy strong and growing. Twitchell says it’s well documented that Ohio is going to face a shortfall of qualified workers in the very new future. By providing scholarships to students with financial needs businesses are making it possible to address that shortfall of qualified workers, he says. Spiker agrees that keeping qualified workers in Ohio is important to t he economy and says the scholarships offered by his organization are creating a talent pipeline for Ohio business. Twitchell succinctly sums up the scholarship program and its importance to the state’s economy. “I think by participating in this [scholarship program] we’re making the Ohio economy better, which benefits us all,” says Twitchell. n Seminary education stirs your imagination, launching you on a journey of transformation. In addition to the MDiv and MA, Bethany offers four specialized graduate certicates that will expand knowledge and provde theological application for any profession. • Intercultural Biblical Interpretation • Just Peace and Conict Transformation • Theopoetics and Theological Imagination • Theology and Science Many courses offered online Let’s talk. bethanyseminary.edu Richmond, IN 765-983-1800 So that the world w w w.ohiobusinessmag.com . FA L L 2 0 18 31 EDUCATION PROFILE Cedarville University 251 N. Main St., Cedarville, OH 45314 1-800-CEDARVILLE (233-2784) • cedarville.edu - Employees do not feel secure enough to make mistakes. This can be deadly for an organization. The culture needs to reward people for taking risks and generating ideas. The great inventors practiced these principles, yet most of them wouldn’t be able to hold a job in a modern organization! - Good ideas get injected into bad processes. When you plant a new patch of grass, it requires extra watering, and it needs a barrier to keep people from trampling it. This is exactly how new, experimental ideas need to be treated. - People are not equipped to manage innovation. Too often managers are set up for failure because they do not have the thinking and tool sets to manage innovation. A t my first job out of university, I distinctly remember a cartoon that was posted in my supervisor’s cubical. The scene was of a medieval king in armor, ready for battle. His assistant was tapping his shoulder from behind. The caption from the king said, “Not now, I don’t have time for any salespeople.” Standing next to the assistant was a salesperson with a machine gun, but the king did not have time to turn around and see an innovation that would have been a game changer! Theoretically, if nothing ever changed, there would never be a need for innovation. But there is little in business that has not recently changed, and yet companies are still resisting innovation. Amazon, Uber, Airbnb, and Netflix have disrupted sleepy, stoic industries that were not intentionally focused on building customer value, and by neglecting innovation allowed these alternative value propositions into their spaces. This need is not new. In 2010, IBM surveyed 1,500 CEOs from 60 countries in 33 industries asking about the most critical activities needed to manage the rapidly changing and increasingly complex marketplace. Creativity was the No. 1 factor for future success, even above management discipline and vision. Then why are enterprises still resisting organized and funded innovation practices? At our think tank, the International Center for Creativity (ICC), we’ve seen several key factors that stunt innovation. - Misunderstanding what innovation is. It is largely about intentionality and being willing to generate possibilities, whether they fit the current models or not. That’s why the ICC is partnering with Cedarville University to create an innovation concentration inside of its existing M.B.A. program to better equip managers and leaders. (Learn more about this unique program at cedarville.edu/MBAinnovation.) Intentionally seek problems, fall in love with them, and turn them into opportunities to add value and differentiation. Make sure to build new ventures around customers’ needs first, and be willing to fail early and often! - Leadership wants to be the origin and owners of new ideas. This is a mistake. Great ideas can come from anywhere, and the closer they are to the consumer the better. - Confusing strategic planning with innovation. Strategic planning is organizing what is already known into executable and measurable activities. Innovation is turning problems, complaints, and gaps into opportunities to create value and differentiate from the competition. - Seth Hamman, Ph.D., Director for the Advancement of Cybersecurity Ohioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Guide to Colleges & Universities SERVING THE STATE OFIC Members 15 29 16 KEY 13 Main Campus 22 2 6 12 23 Satellite Campus 8 28 11 3 1 25 32 33 17 19 20 14 26 27 10 24 4 30 7 9 21 5 31 18 (#) Indicates number of satellite campuses 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Ashland University (7) Baldwin Wallace University (2) Bluffton University (2) Capital University Cedarville University Defiance College Denison University University of Findlay Franciscan University of Steubenville 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. Franklin University (20) Heidelberg University Hiram College John Carroll University Kenyon College Lake Erie College Lourdes University Malone University Marietta College 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. University of Mount Union Mount Vernon Nazarene University (4) Muskingum University Notre Dame College Oberlin College Ohio Dominican University (1) Ohio Northern University Ohio Wesleyan University Otterbein University OFIC solicits corporate donations and distributes funds to member colleges and universities to help students in need â&#x20AC;&#x201D; impacting local economies and providing opportunities for corporations to boost their 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. Tiffin University (6) Ursuline College Walsh University (2) Wilmington College (3) Wittenberg University The College of Wooster [email protected] w w w.ohiobusinessmag.com . FA L L 2 0 18 614.469.1950 33 CELEBRATING STUDENT SUCCESS Ohio’s Guide to Colleges & Universities at Ohio Independent Colleges and Universities CELEBRATING STUDENT SUCCESS at Ohio Independent Colleges and Universities ELEVATED GRADUATION RATES 50% 42% 54% 35% 30% Graduation Rate Graduation Rate 40% 40% 20% 30% 10% 20% 10% Graduation Rate Rate Graduation 54% 50%RATES ELEVATED GRADUATION 50% 42% 35% 18% 18% 4 Year 5 Year 4 Year 5 Year First-Generation Students experience higher levels First-Generation of graduation rates Students at:1 experience higher levels Independent Colleges and Universities of graduation rates at:1 Public Universities Independent Colleges and Universities Public Universities 53% 40% 41% 50% 53% 36% 30% 40% 41% 20% 36% 30% 10% 13% 20% 10% 13% 4 Year 5 Year 4 Year 5 Year Low-Income Students experience higher levels Low-Income Students of graduation rates at:2 experience higher levels Independent Colleges and Universities of graduation rates at:2 Public Universities Independent Colleges and Universities Public Universities STUDENTS OF COLOR AT OHIO’S INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES STUDENTS OF COLOR AT OHIO’S INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES 62% 62% 40% 32%% 40% 32 53% 53% 67% 67% GRADUATION RATES GRADUATION RATES colleges Ohio’s independent Ohio’s independent collegespublic and universities out-pace and universities out-pace public universities for graduation rates.4 universities for graduation rates.4 STUDENTS AND GRADUATES STUDENTS AND GRADUATES 32%32% of the undergraduates of the undergraduatesofof color in the state of of Ohio color in the state Ohioare are attending independent colleges attending independent colleges 3 andand universities. universities.3 Students of Color Students of Color White Students White Students Independent Colleges and Universities Independent Colleges and Universities Public PublicUniversities Universities 34 “Over the pastsixty sixtyyears, years,Fifth FifthThird Third Bank Bank has toto help change thethe lives of of “Over the past has partnered partneredwith withOFIC OFIC help change lives Ohio’s independent college students. We continue to be impressed with the communication Ohio’s independent college students. We continue to be impressed with the communication and problem-solvingskills skillsof ofthe the career-ready career-ready students OFIC member colleges andand and problem-solving studentsattending attending OFIC member colleges FA L L 2 0 18 . w w w.ohiobusinessmag.com universities. Beginning in 1995, we have provided 159 scholarships for OFIC students, which universities. Beginning in 1995, we have provided 159 scholarships for OFIC students, which enables us the opportunity to give back to the communities where we have a banking presence. enables us the opportunity to give back to the communities where we have a banking presence. These students represent the future of Ohio for all of us.” A BRIGHTER FUTURE IS AT YOUR FINGERTIPS. RANKED ONE OF THE BEST ONLINE MBA PROGRAMS IN THE U.S. bestvalueschools.org Fast track 11-MONTH completion available Fully ONLINE MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Finance Human Resource Management Human and Social Services Leadership Organizational Management MBAâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATION mvnu.edu/gps Lake Erie College 391 West Washington St. • Painesville, OH 44077 440-375-7075 • lec.edu/parkermba T he Lake Erie College Parker MBA equips business professionals for challenging managerial roles. When they graduate, the Lifelong Learning Guarantee ensures tuition-free access to even more professional development, indefinitely. Face-to-face evening courses are available at locations on the east and west sides of Cleveland, while a 100 percent online option is available for those who prefer more flexibility. Admission to the program is determined on the basis of demonstrated professionalism, intellectual capability for successful completion of the program and the potential for leadership. The program requires 36 total credit hours, which consists of nine required courses and three electives. Students can take courses 100 percent online or face-to-face at Lorain County Community College in Lorain, Ohio, or Lakeland Community College in Kirtland, Ohio. Lake Erie College’s Parker MBA program is accredited by the International Assembly for College Business Education (IACBE). Fewer than 10 percent of business programs have achieved the quality assurance that IACBE accreditation provides. EDUCATION PROFILE With 100% online options and convenient evening classes, Lake Erie College makes it easy to earn your master's degree on your terms. As a graduate of the Parker MBA program, you can take advantage of our Lifelong Learning Guarantee to take additional courses for the rest of your life - at no cost. 36 FA L L 2 0 18 . w w w.ohiobusinessmag.com Ohio’s Guide to Colleges & Universities Ohio is full to the brim with educational opportunities. From public colleges and universities to private religious schools, there is no shortage of options. With assistance from the Ohio Department of Higher Education, we compiled a list of public and private colleges, universities and career and technical schools in the state to help you find the best one for you and your family. Visit ohiobusinessmag.com for a digital directory. Did we miss one? Please let us know by emailing us at eharmon@ ohiobusinessmag.com so we can add the school to our list next year. Allegheny Wesleyan College 2161 Woodsdale Road, Salem, OH 44460 330-337-6403 • awc.edu • Private Associates Degree, Bachelor’s Degree Baldwin Wallace University 275 Eastland Road, Berea, OH 44017 440-826-2900 • bw.edu • Private Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s Degree Antioch College 1 Morgan Place, Yellow Springs, OH 45387 937-767-1286 • antiochcollege.edu • Private Bachelor’s Degree Belmont College 68094 Hammond Road, St Clairsville, OH 43950 800-423-1188 • belmontcollege.edu • Public Associates Degree, Less than one year certificate, One but less than two years certificate Antioch University Midwest 900 Dayton St., Yellow Springs, OH 45387 937-769-1814 • antioch.edu/midwest • Private Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s Degree Art Academy of Cincinnati 1212 Jackson St., Cincinnati, OH 45202 513-562-6262 • artacademy.edu • Private Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s Degree Ashland University 401 College Ave., Ashland, OH 44805 419-289-4142 • ashland.edu • Private Bachelor’s Degree, Doctoral Degree, Master’s Degree Athenaeum of Ohio 6616 Beechmont Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45230 513-231-2223 • athenaeum.edu • Private Master’s Degree Aultman College 2600 Sixth St. SW, Canton, OH 44710 330-363-6347 • aultmancollege.edu • Private Associates Degree, Bachelor’s Degree Bluffton University 1 University Drive, Bluffton, OH 45817 419-358-3000 • bluffton.edu • Private Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s Degree Bowling Green State University Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403 419-372-2531 • bgsu.edu • Public Bachelor’s Degree, Doctoral Degree - research/scholarship, Master’s Degree, Post-master’s Degree Capital University 1 College and Main, Columbus, OH 43209 614-236-6011 • capital.edu • Private Bachelor’s Degree, Doctoral Degree, Master’s Degree Case Western Reserve University 10900 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44106 216-368-2000 • case.edu • Private Bachelor’s Degree, Doctoral Degree, Master’s Degree Miami University Regionals 1601 University Blvd. • Hamilton, OH 45011 | 4200 N. University Blvd. • Middletown, OH 45042 513-727-3000 (Hamilton Campus) • miamioh.edu/regionals • 513-727-3200 (Middletown Campus) A s the regional system of Miami University, a highly regarded public university with a national reputation, Miami University Regionals is an open access four-year institution offering Miami University bachelor’s and associate degrees on two campuses and 100 percent online through our E-Campus. Join over 500 Small Business Management majors on campus or online and earn your Bachelor of Science in Commerce degree to start, advance in or change your career! Our students are looking to start their own business, operate a franchise or manage a department. Engage in classes designed and taught by Miami University faculty in business, accounting, marketing, and in our renowned Miami University liberal arts education courses. Our Small Business Management major accommodates students directly from high school, adult learners, transfer students, associate degree holders and veterans. Miami University Regionals offers 17 Miami University bachelor’s degrees, 13 associate degrees, and six degrees online. Visit MiamiOH.edu/Regionals/YouChooseSBM to learn more. EDUCATION PROFILE w w w.ohiobusinessmag.com . FA L L 2 0 18 37 Ohio’s Guide to Colleges & Universities Cedarville University 251 N. Main St., Cedarville, OH 45314 800-233-2784 • cedarville.edu • Private Bachelor’s Degree, Doctoral Degree, Master’s Degree Central Ohio Technical College Newark Campus, 1179 University Drive, Newark, OH 43055 740-366-9494 • cotc.edu • Public Associates Degree, One but less than two years certificate Cincinnati State Technical & Community College 3520 Central Parkway, Cincinnati, OH 45223 513-569-1500 • cincinnatistate.edu • Public Associates Degree, Less than one year certificate, One but less than two years certificate Clark State Community College 570 East Leffel Lane, Springfield, OH 45505 937-328-6028 • clarkstate.edu • Public Associates Degree, One but less than two years certificate Central State University 1400 Brush Row Road, PO Box 1004, Wilberforce, OH 45384 800-388-2781 • centralstate.edu • Public Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s Degree Cleveland Institute of Art 11610 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44106 800-223-4700 • cia.edu • Private Bachelor’s Degree Chatfield College 20918 State Route 251, St. Martin, OH 45118 513-875-3344 • chatfield.edu • Private Associates Degree, Certificate Cleveland Institute of Music 11021 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44106 216-791-5000 • cim.edu • Private Bachelor’s Degree, Doctoral Degree, Master’s Degree Christ College of Nursing and Health Sciences 2139 Auburn Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219 513-585-2401 • thechristcollege.edu • Private Associates Degree, Certificate Cleveland State University 2121 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44115 216-687-2000 • csuohio.edu • Public Bachelor’s Degree, Doctoral Degree - professional practice, Doctoral Degree - research/scholarship, Master’s Degree, Post Baccalaureate Degree, Post-master’s Degree Cincinnati Christian University 2700 Glenway Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45204 800-949-4228 • ccuniversity.edu • Private Associates Degree, Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s Degree Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science 645 W. North Bend Road, Cincinnati, OH 45224 513-761-2020 • ccms.edu • Private Associates Degree, Certificate, Bachelor’s Degree College of Wooster 1189 Beall Ave., Wooster, OH 44691 330-263-2000 • wooster.edu • Private Bachelor’s Degree Visit midwesterntraveler.com to plan your next getaway 38 FA L L 2 0 18 . w w w.ohiobusinessmag.com Columbus College of Art and Design 60 Cleveland Ave., Columbus, OH 43215 614-224-9101 • ccad.edu • Private Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s Degree Columbus State Community College 550 E. Spring St., Columbus, OH 43215 614-287-5353 • cscc.edu • Public Associates Degree, Less than one year certificate, One but less than two years certificate, Two but less than 4 year certificate Cuyahoga Community College 700 Carnegie Ave., Cleveland, OH 44115 216-987-4000 • tri-c.edu • Public Associates Degree, One but less than two years certificate Defiance College 701 N. Clinton St., Defiance, OH 43512 419-784-4010 • defiance.edu • Private Associates Degree, Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s Degree Denison University 100 W. College St., Granville, OH 43023 740-587-0810 • denison.edu • Private Bachelor’s Degree Eastern Gateway Community College 4000 Sunset Blvd., Steubenville, OH 43952 800-682-6553 • egcc.edu • Public Associates Degree, Less than one year certificate, One but less than two years certificate EDUCATION PROFILE Marietta College 215 Fifth Street • Marietta, OH 45750 1-800-331-7896 • marietta.edu I ndustry leaders, educated citizens, difference makers — Pioneers. For nearly two centuries, Marietta College has stood as the beacon on the hill for young adults seeking to better their lives and to turn their life’s passions into actionable good in the world. One of the finest liberal arts colleges in the nation, Marietta offers nearly 50 undergraduate programs, including the best liberal arts-based Petroleum Engineering curriculum in the nation and an Education program that boasts a 100 percent job placement for its graduates. The College also offers graduate programs in Physician Assistant Studies, Psychology and Athletic Training. At Marietta, students learn from talented faculty members who are respected in their fields and wholly dedicated to teaching the next generation of leaders. These professors share their knowledge with students and challenge them to develop their skillsets through serious research, experiential opportunities and internships. Every student completes Marietta’s rigorous General Education Curriculum, which builds strong communication skills and exposes students to new ideas and interests. Our varsity athletic teams compete in NCAA Division III and against some of the best in the nation as a member of the Ohio Athletic Conference. Marietta has won six national championships and 61 conference titles, including an OAC-record four consecutive men’s basketball titles (2014-18). More than 25,000 living members of The Long Blue Line proudly support their alma mater and help current students gain internships and connections into their chosen industries. This support, in addition to the vibrant growth on campus, is one of the reasons why The Chronicle of Higher Education named Marietta College one of the Great Colleges to Work For. Marietta’s timeless education began in 1797, when descendants of pioneers of the Northwest Territory established the Muskingum Academy. The institution was chartered in 1835 by the state of Ohio, making Marietta College one of 37 Revolutionary Colleges and home to the 16th oldest chapter of the most prestigious academic honorary, Phi Beta Kappa. From its earliest moments until well into the future, Marietta College cherishes its role in educating individuals and inspiring them to Bring Forth a Pioneer! Ohio’s Guide to Colleges & Universities Edison State Community College 1973 Edison Drive, Piqua, OH 45356 937-778-8600 • edisonohio.edu • Public Associates Degree, Less than one year certificate, One but less than two years certificate, Post Baccalaureate Degree Franciscan University of Steubenville 1235 University Blvd., Steubenville, OH 43952 740-283-3771 • franciscan.edu • Private Associates Degree, Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s Degree Franklin University 201 S. Grant Ave., Columbus, OH 43215 614-797-4700 • franklin.edu • Private Associates Degree, Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s Degree God’s Bible School and College 1810 Young St., Cincinnati, OH 45202 513-721-7944 • gbs.edu • Private Associates Degree, Bachelor’s Degree Good Samaritan College of Nursing and Health Science 375 Dixmyth Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220 513-862-2631 • gscollege.edu • Private Associates Degree, Certificate, Bachelor’s Degree, Heidelberg University 310 E. Market St., Tiffin, OH 44883 800-434-3352 • heidelberg.edu • Private Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s Degree Hiram College 11715 Garfield Road, Hiram, OH 44234 330-569-3211 • hiram.edu • Private Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s Degree Lake Erie College 391 W. Washington St., Painesville, OH 44077 855-467-8676 • lec.edu • Private Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s Degree Hocking College 3301 Hocking Parkway Nelsonville, OH 45764 740-753-3591 • hocking.edu • Public Associates Degree, Less than one year certificate, One but less than two years certificate, Two but less than 4 year certificate Lakeland Community College 7700 Clocktower Drive, Kirtland, OH 44094 440-525-7000 • lakelandcc.edu • Public Associates Degree, Less than one year certificate, One but less than two years certificate John Carroll University 1 John Carroll Blvd., University Heights, OH 44118 888-388-2977 • sites.jcu.edu • Private Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s Degree Kent State University 800 E. Summit St., Kent, OH 44242 330-672-3000 • kent.edu • Public Bachelor’s Degree, Doctoral Degree - research/scholarship, Less than one year certificate, Master’s Degree, Post Baccalaureate Degree, Post-master’s Degree Kenyon College 106 College Park Drive, Gambier, OH 43022 740-427-5000 • kenyon.edu • Private Bachelor’s Degree Kettering College 3737 Southern Blvd., Kettering, OH 45429 937-395-8601 • kc.edu • Private Associates Degree, Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s Degree Lorain County Community College 1005 N. Abbe Road, Elyria, OH 44035 800-995-5222 • lorainccc.edu • Public Associates Degree, One but less than two years certificate Lourdes University 6832 Convent Blvd., Sylvania, OH 43560 800-878-3210 • lourdes.edu • Private Associates Degree, Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s Degree Malone University 2600 Cleveland Ave. NW, Canton, OH 44709 800-521-1146 • malone.edu • Private Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s Degree Marietta College 215 Fifth St., Marietta, OH 45750 800-331-7896 • marietta.edu • Private Associates Degree, Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s Degree Malone University 2600 Cleveland Ave • NW, Canton, OH 44709 330-471-8539 • malone.edu M alone graduates get jobs. It’s really that simple. A recent survey of alumni taken six months after graduation showed that 99 percent were employed in their field or a field of their choosing. Malone is routinely recognized for alumni outcomes. Immersion in a nationally respected academic program and the opportunity to work with the master teachers on the Malone faculty allows students to follow any path they choose. With more than 50 majors, students find a home here for their academic interests. Standout programs include zoo/wildlife biology, education, nursing and business. Located in Northeast Ohio with access to three major metropolitan areas, coupled with a vibrant and active campus activity schedule, Malone provides an environment where students always have plenty to do to have fun. Malone excels at the integration of faith and learning. No matter where students are on their faith journey, they are welcome at Malone. It is why the university is considered one of the best values in higher education. EDUCATION PROFILE 40 FA L L 2 0 18 . w w w.ohiobusinessmag.com Marion Technical College 1467 Mt Vernon Ave., Marion, OH 43302 740-389-4636 • mtc.edu • Public Associates Degree, Less than one year certificate, One but less than two years certificate Mercy College of Ohio 2221 Madison Ave., Toledo, OH 43604 419-251-1313 • mercycollege.edu • Private Associates Degree, Certificate, Bachelor’s Degree, Methodist Theological School in Ohio 3081 Columbus Pike, Delaware, OH 43015 740-363-1146 • mtso.edu • Private Doctoral Degree, Master’s Degree Miami University 501 E. High St., Oxford, OH 45056 513-529-2531 • miami.miamioh.edu • Public Associates Degree, Bachelor’s Degree, Doctoral Degree research/scholarship, Master’s Degree, One but less than two years certificate, Post-master’s Degree Mount Carmel College of Nursing 127 S. Davis Ave., Columbus, OH 43222 614-234-4266 • mccn.edu • Private Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s Degree Mount Saint Joseph University 5701 Delhi Road, Cincinnati, OH 45233 800-654-9314 • msj.edu • Private Associates Degree, Bachelor’s Degree, Doctoral Degree, Master’s Degree MUOhioGuideAd18_p2_082118.indd 1 Mount Vernon Nazarene University 800 Martinsburg Road, Mount Vernon, OH 43050 740-397-9000 • mvnu.edu • Private Associates Degree, Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s Degree Oberlin College 38 E. College St., Oberlin, OH 44074 800-622-6243 • oberlin.edu • Private Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s Degree Muskingum University 163 Stormont St., New Concord, OH 43762 740-826-8211 • muskingum.edu • Private Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s Degree Ohio Christian University 1476 Lancaster Pike, Circleville, OH 43113 844-726-7937• ohiochristian.edu • Private Associates Degree, Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s Degree North Central State College 2441 Kenwood Circle, Mansfield, OH 44906 419-755-4800 • ncstatecollege.edu • Public Associates Degree, Less than one year certificate, One but less than two years certificate Ohio Dominican University 1216 Sunbury Road, Columbus, OH 43219 614-251-4500 • ohiodominican.edu • Private Associates Degree, Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s Degree Northeast Ohio Medical University 4209 State Route 44, Rootstown, OH 44272 800-686-2511 • neomed.edu • Public Doctoral Degree - professional practice Northwest State Community College 22600 State Route 34, Archbold, OH 43502 855-267-5511 • northweststate.edu • Public Associates Degree, One but less than two years certificate Notre Dame College 4545 College Road, South Euclid, OH 44121 877-632-6446 • notredamecollege.edu • Private Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s Degree Ohio Northern University 525 S. Main St., Ada, OH 45810 419-772-2000 • onu.edu • Private Bachelor’s Degree, Doctoral Degree, Master’s Degree Ohio University 1 Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701 740-593-1000 • ohio.edu • Public Associates Degree, Bachelor’s Degree, Doctoral Degree - professional practice, Doctoral Degree - research/scholarship,, Less than one year certificate, Master’s Degree, Online, Post Baccalaureate Degree Ohio Wesleyan University 61 S. Sandusky St., Delaware, OH 43015 800-922-8953 • owu.edu • Private Bachelor’s Degree 8/21/18 11:0441 AM w w w.ohiobusinessmag.com . FA L L 2 0 18 Ohio’s Guide to Colleges & Universities Shawnee State University 940 Second St., Portsmouth, OH 45662 740-347-1732 • shawnee.edu • Public Associates Degree, Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s Degree, One but less than two years certificate Otterbein University 1 S. Grove St., Westerville, OH 43081 614-890-3000 • otterbein.edu • Private Bachelor’s Degree, Doctoral Degree, Master’s Degree Owens Community College 30335 Oregon Road, Perrysburg, OH 43551 567-661-7000 • owens.edu • Public Associates Degree, Less than one year certificate, One but less than two years certificate Payne Theological Seminary 1230 Wilberforce-Clifton Road, Wilberforce, OH 45384 937-376-2946 • payne.edu • Private Master’s Degree Rhodes State College 4240 Campus Drive, Lima, OH 45804 419-995-8320 • rhodesstate.edu • Public Associates Degree, Less than one year certificate, One but less than two years certificate Rio Grande Community College 218 N. College Ave., Rio Grande, OH 45674 740-245-7208 • rio.edu • Public Associates Degree, Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s Degree, One but less than two years certificate Sinclair Community College 444 W. Third St., Dayton, OH 45402 800-315-3000 • sinclair.edu • Public Associates Degree, Less than one year certificate, One but less than two years certificate Southern State Community College 100 Hobart Drive, Hillsboro, OH 45133 937-393-3431 • sscc.edu • Public Associates Degree, Less than one year certificate, One but less than two years certificate Stark State College 6200 Frank Ave. NW, North Canton, OH 44720 330-494-6170 • starkstate.edu • Public Associates Degree, One but less than two years certificate Terra State Community College 2830 Napoleon Road, Fremont, OH 43420 419-334-8400 • terra.edu • Public Associates Degree, Less than one year certificate, One but less than two years certificate Rosedale Bible College 2270 Rosedale Road, Irwin, OH 43029 740-857-1311 • rosedale.edu • Private Associates Degree, Certificate The Ohio State University Student Academic Services Building, 281 W. Lane Ave., Columbus, OH 43210 614-292-6446 • osu.edu • Public Associates Degree, Bachelor’s Degree, Doctoral Degree - professional practice, Doctoral Degree - research/ scholarship, Master’s Degree, Post Baccalaureate Degree, Post-master’s Degree The University of Akron University of Akron, Office of Admissions, Simmons Hall 109, Akron, OH 44325 330-972-7111 • uakron.edu • Public Associates Degree, Bachelor’s Degree, Doctoral Degree - professional practice, Doctoral Degree - research/scholarship, Less than one year certificate, Master’s Degree, Post Baccalaureate Degree, Post-master’s Degree The University of Toledo 2801 W. Bancroft, Toledo, OH 43606 800-586-5336 • utoledo.edu • Public Associates Degree, Bachelor’s Degree, Doctoral Degree other, Doctoral Degree - professional practice, Doctoral Degree - research/scholarship, Less than one year certificate, Master’s Degree, One but less than two years certificate, Post Baccalaureate Degree, Post-master’s Degree Tiffin University 155 Miami St., Tiffin, OH 44883 800-968-6446 • tiffin.edu • Private Associates Degree, Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s Degree Bluffton University 1 University Drive • Bluffton, OH 45817-2104 800-488-3257 • bluffton.edu A t Bluffton University, our sense of a greater purpose develops students of exceptional character and expansive vision. Since 1899, we’ve been learning, experiencing and bettering the world together. With nationally accredited programs in dietetics, education, music and social work, Bluffton University offers an exceptional education that prepares students for impactful careers. A Bluffton education features numerous opportunities for experiential learning including internships, practicums and research experience. Starting in 2020, all sophomore students will take Learning in Community, a new course to prepare students for both life and vocation. With nationally accredited programs and champion volleyball and women’s basketball teams, our faculty and staff push students to greatness. And our Christian values guide students as they develop the confidence and skills needed to become leaders in the world. This is why 99 percent of our graduates are employed or in graduate school or long-term service within six months of graduation. EDUCATION PROFILE 42 FA L L 2 0 18 . w w w.ohiobusinessmag.com Trinity Lutheran Seminary 2199 E. Main St., Columbus, OH 43209 614-236-6856 • tlsohio.edu • Private Master’s Degree Tri-State Bible College 506 Margaret St., South Point, OH 45680 740-377-2520 • tsbc.edu • Private Associates Degree, Bachelor’s Degree Union Institute & University 440 E. McMillan St., Cincinnati, OH 45206 800-861-6400 • myunion.edu • Private Bachelor’s Degree, Doctoral Degree, Master’s Degree United Theological Seminary 4501 Denlinger Road, Dayton, OH 45426 937-529-2201 • united.edu • Private Doctoral Degree, Master’s Degree University of Cincinnati 2600 Clifton Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45221 513-556-0000 • uc.edu • Public Associates Degree, Bachelor’s Degree, Doctoral Degree - professional practice, Doctoral Degree - research/scholarship, Less than one year certificate, Master’s Degree, One but less than two years certificate, Online, Post Baccalaureate Degree, Post-master’s Degree, Two but less than 4 year certificate University of Dayton 300 College Park, Dayton, OH 45469 937-229-1000 • udayton.edu • Private Bachelor’s Degree, Doctoral Degree, Master’s Degree University of Findlay 1000 N. Main St., Findlay, OH 45840 800-472-9502 • findlay.edu • Private Associates Degree, Bachelor’s Degree, Doctoral Degree, Master’s Degree Washington State Community College 710 Colegate Drive , Marietta, OH 45750 740-374-8716 • wscc.edu • Public Associates Degree, Less than one year certificate, One but less than two years certificate University of Mount Union 1972 Clark Ave., Alliance, OH 44601 800-992-6682 • mountunion.edu • Private Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s Degree Wilberforce University 1055 N. Bickett Road, PO Box 1001, Wilberforce, OH 45384 937-376-2911 • wilberforce.edu • Private Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s Degree University of Northwestern Ohio 1441 N. Cable Road, Lima, OH 45805 419-998-3120 • unoh.edu • Private Associates Degree, Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s Degree Wilmington College 1870 Quaker Way, Wilmington, OH 45177 937-382-6661 • wilmington.edu • Private Bachelor’s Degree University of Rio Grande 218 N. 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That restful retreat may be harboring adversaries as concerning as your most ruthless competitor, even if it’s a suite in a five-star property. Doctors recommend taking a few preventive steps to protect yourself against them before you settle in. The first is to check for bedbugs. The apple-seed-sized parasites, brown to reddish-brown in color (young bedbugs are smaller and translucent or whitish-yellow, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency), have become increasingly common in even high-end accommodations, a consequence of a developed resistance to pesticides and human mobility—a factor that facilitates their transport in bags and belongings. According to Dr. Neha Vyas, a staff physician in the Cleveland Clinic’s family medicine department, the insects aren’t known to transmit disease. But the threat of incurring their red, itchy bites was enough for her to vacate a hotel last year after finding a couple under her pillow. She recommends checking bed linens, mattresses, bed frames and headboards, even pictures on walls behind beds. “I in general take away any decorative pillows or comforters because I know those don’t get washed,” she adds. She also advises packing a pair of flip-flops to wear after taking off your shoes. “The big concern is, obviously, fungal infections that can occur when you walk around barefoot [on] carpet that other people have also walked around.” Dr. Lori Creadon Wright, a family physician at ProMedica Health and Wellness Center in suburban Toledo, won’t drink from a hotel-room glass or cup unless it’s sealed in plastic for fear it’s been handled or used by a previous guest. She also refuses to fill an ice bucket without a plastic liner. “People use the ice buckets for so many things that they weren’t designed for,” she points out—a bedside bucket for a sick child or a vessel for soaking injured fingers and toes, for example. Vyas says the germ-phobic will want to clean doorknobs, faucet and toilet handles, and television remote controls—typically the items that collect the most germs—with disinfectant wipes kept in a carry-on. Wright suggests slipping the remote into a plastic storage bag, then sealing it and washing your hands. “You don’t have to worry about all those crevices that you may not have completely disinfected,” she says. Neither Vyas nor Wright advocates turning every check-in into a healthdepartment-style inspection. Vyas notes that she’s actually encountered very few problems as an experienced world traveler. “You need to say, ‘What is the most expeditious way that I can kind of do a once-over on this room?’ and then be done,” Wright says. to make or pick up before heading out of town, along with meals to order at a fast/ casual chain restaurant. DIETITIAN SNACKS AND MEALS The biggest challenge for road warriors may be maintaining a healthful diet, particularly while en route to or from a destination. A missed, delayed or cancelled flight, a late start or traffic jam, can put them in a place where the only food available is a vending-machine candy bar. The best defense: a healthful snack stashed in a bag. Following are six dietitians’ favorites Meghann Featherstun, clinical dietitian and wellness coach, University Hospitals, Cleveland To make: a snack mix of 2 cups plain Skinny Pop popcorn, 1/4 cup each of nuts and dried fruit, and 2 tablespoons chocolate chips or M&Ms (1 serving = 1 to 1 1/2 cups). “The popcorn is a great source of complex carbohydrates. Nuts are a good source of protein and healthy fats. You’re getting some good antioxidants and some other healthy carbs from your dried fruit. And then you’re getting a little pleasure from your chocolate.” To grab: RXBAR Peanut Butter & Berries Protein Bar. The sugar-free, egg-white- protein-based bar is “an amazing balance of whole foods that are also high in protein, high in healthy carbohydrates, high in healthy fats.” To order: Panera Whole Green Goddess Salad. Featherstun singles it out for the protein it delivers in the chicken and hard-boiled egg, along with the healthful fat supplied by the avocado. She gets some sort of side, if only the free whole-wheat baguette that comes with it. “When we’re traveling, we need to stay full until we get to that next meal.” Sonal Hill, clinical dietitian, University of Cincinnati Health Weight Loss Center To make: a wrap featuring 1 to 3 ounces roast turkey swaddled in butter-leaf or Boston lettuce leaves (if traveling by car with a cooler w w w.ohiobusinessmag.com . FA L L 2 0 18 47 MY HEALTH and ice pack). When it comes to condiments, “I love to do things like the spiced hummus, spicy mustards, avocado mayo.” To grab: seasoned tuna pouches requiring no refrigeration. Hill substitutes her cucumber slices, carrot and/or celery sticks for the usual cracker accompaniment. “I try to practice what I preach—we’re always talking about covering protein first and plants second.” To order: grilled chicken on a salad or sandwich; a small bowl of chili. Hill notes that chili is a great source of protein and fiber when ordered sans the cheeses and sour cream. “As long as we limit all of the extras, we’ll be OK.” Kristin Kirkpatrick, manager of wellness nutrition services, Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute To make: a bento box (a compartmentalized box with ice pack) containing wholegrain crackers, a few cheese cubes, and black beans seasoned with a sprinkle of salt and squeeze of lime. “Beans are a great protein source. [And] they’re much easier than carting around hummus.” To grab: EPIC Smoked Salmon Maple Bar. The fish-based protein bar “is filling, satisfying, non-perishable.” To order: Starbucks Egg White & Red Pepper Sous Vide Egg Bites. Kirkpatrick calls the serving of two mini-muffin-sized bites “my one go-to” for traveling executives because of its high protein content. Amy Patton, registered dietitian, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus To make: a peanut- or almond-butter sandwich. Patton constructs it while in transit with Justin’s single-serving nutbutter packets and a whole-grain tortilla or flatbread. “They pack really nicely in a suitcase.” To grab: a tangerine or banana. The peel-and-eat fruits require no washing and “generally have a few days’ worth of shelf life.” To order: a kid’s meal. Patton swaps the fries for fruit and beefs up a cheese-less sandwich with extra lettuce and tomato. “You can always order a side salad to bulk it up.” Gretchen Reeb, lead clinical dietitian, Mercy Health Fairfield Hospital To make: a snack mix of 1 cup each unsweetened Rice Chex or Corn Chex, Honey 48 FA L L 2 0 18 . w w w.ohiobusinessmag.com FIRST-AID KIT Avoid making a drugstore run in a strange city—put together a first-aid kit to keep in your bag. Dr. Chris Peluso, an emergency medicine resident at University Hospitals in Cleveland with a background in wilderness search and rescue, recommends packing the following for a trip to the urban jungle and beyond. - Assorted sizes of waterproof blister bandages. While they’re made to cover and protect blisters and “hot spots,” their angry red precursors—a consequence of walking blocks in less-than-comfortable shoes—“you can use them on anything.” - Sterile gauze pads, paper tape and roll of cotton gauze (for dressing larger wounds). “All of that packs down to basically nothing.” - Two to three Ace elastic bandages (for wrapping a sprained ankle). - Over-the-counter pain reliever (acetaminophen or ibuprofen). - Over-the-counter antacid in capsule, pill or tablet form. - Over-the-counter antidiarrheal in capsule, pill or tablet form (for short-term emergency use only). “When we talk about infectious diarrhea, whether it’s viral or bacterial, we don’t typically like to stop the diarrhea because the diarrhea is flushing the system out.” - Benadryl over-the-counter antihistamine (to control a skin rash or outbreak of hives.) - Blunt scissors (to cut gauze and tape) and tweezers (to remove splinters and insect stingers). Peluso packs them in a checked bag when flying. Nut Cheerios, mini pretzels and unsalted peanuts and 1/2 cup each raisins and M&Ms (1 serving = 1/2 cup). “You get that satiety from the fat and the protein versus just eating a little bit of Cheerios.” To grab: a single-serving bag of Skinny Pop popcorn and 1- to 2-ounce bag of raw unsalted almonds. “When you can buy snacks that are already pre-portioned, you limit yourself.” To order: Panera cup of black bean or chicken noodle soup and half a Turkey Bacon Bravo sandwich minus the bacon. Reeb always requests an apple when offered the choice of a free baguette or bag of potato chips. “They don’t always offer the apple,” she says. “But it is an option.” Liz Satterthwaite, wellness dietitian, ProMedica Health System, Toledo To make: a simple single-serving trail mix of 1/4 cup granola and 1/4 cup mixed nuts combined in a sandwich bag to accompany a piece of fruit. “Trail mix is a good highprotein snack,”—one that also contains fiber to help maintain regularity. “When we’re traveling, digestion gets messed up.” To grab: QuestBar Double Chocolate Chunk Protein Bar. “[It is] pretty high in protein and low in sugar, which is what I look for in a bar.” To order: Subway egg-white flatbread. “I put every vegetable that exists on it—tomato, onion, cucumber, green pepper.” n OUR EXPERTS Meghann Featherstun clinical dietitian and wellness coach, University Hospitals, Cleveland Sonal Hill clinical dietitian, University of Cincinnati Health Weight Loss Center, West Chester Kristin Kirkpatrick manager of wellness nutrition services, Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute, Lyndhurst Amy Patton registered dietitian, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus Dr. Chris Peluso emergency medicine resident, University Hospitals, Cleveland Gretchen Reeb lead clinical dietitian, Mercy Health Fairfield Hospital Liz Satterthwaite wellness dietitian, ProMedica Health System, Toledo Dr. Neha Vyas staff physician, Family Medicine Department, Cleveland Clinic Lori Creadon Wright family physician, ProMedica Health and Wellness Center, Sylvania LIVE CincyLive is the home of all Cincy and NKY Magazine events, as well as our partners. 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The numbers are trickling in regarding the contracts signed by the players selected three weeks ago in the draft. In the top 10, half have signed their deals. Only one has avoided the oft-contentious offset language.
The Jaguars gave running back Leonard Fournette, the fourth pick in round one, a fully-guaranteed contract with no offset language. At this point, it’s no longer about the selection slot; whether offset language will appear in the contract depends on the team. The Jaguars, even with new-boss-old-boss Tom Coughlin running the show, are one of the few to not worry about how the worst-case scenario of a top-10 picking being cut within the first four years will be cleaned up financially. If it all goes to hell in a handwarmer, the player gets his money from the Jaguars, along with whatever someone else will pay him.
The Browns do worry about the worst case; the deal signed by defensive end Myles Garrett, the first overall pick, includes offset language. Ditto for the other top-10 picks who have signed: Chargers receiver Mike Williams (No. 7); Panthers running back Christian McCaffrey (No. 8); and Bengals receiver John Ross (No. 9).
For Williams, who is represented by the same firm (CAA) that held out Chargers defensive end Joey Bosa last year in part due to the offset issue, the compromise came from guaranteed roster bonuses due on the fifth day of training camp in 2018, 2019, and 2020. (The Texans applied the same approach to quarterback DeShaun Watson, the twelfth overall pick, paying fifth-day-of-camp roster bonuses in lieu of removing offset language.)
This approach gives the player a sliver of protection by paying out a significant chunk of cash roughly a month before final roster cuts. Offsets aren’t an issue as to money that already has been paid; by pushing compensation from base salary into an early-camp roster bonus, the player can essentially double dip.
The only risk from this technique arises from the potential voiding of the guarantee by a suspension coupled with the possible placement of the player on the Non-Football Injury/Illness list to start training camp. While in theory a rare combination of events, it happened last year to former Dolphins defensive end Dion Jordan, wiping out $1.7 million.
UPDATE 12:05 p.m. ET: Per a source with knowledge of the various contracts, the Bosa and Williams deals include language guaranteeing payment of the training-camp roster bonuses even if the players are on active/NFI. Watson’s deal does not contain that same language. | positive |
In the summer of 2015, a large group of citizens came to the Collier County Board of Commissioners with an urgent problem: Rising seas, caused by global warming, are threatening their community. The southwest Florida county is almost entirely surrounded by water. Miles of white sandy beach and luxury mansions line its shores; the Everglades — popularly thought of as a swamp but in fact a wide, glassy river — dominates its eastern half. Tidal gauges and satellite measurements show the ocean is rising one-eighth of an inch per year, and getting faster. Experts say the ocean is likely to rise between one and three feet in Florida by the end of the century. That would put much of Collier County, including most of its main city, Naples, underwater.
But instead of engaging with their citizens’ concerns, the commissioners were mostly annoyed at their constituents’ requests to speak. Collier, one of Florida’s wealthiest counties, is also one of its most staunchly Republican. And for decades, American conservatives have made denying the threat of climate change a core political belief. For ten minutes, the commissioners debated whether the constituents — local retirees volunteering with groups like the Audubon Society and Conservancy of Southwest Florida — should be given time at all. Several commissioners then interrupted and bickered with them as they spoke. The last speaking slot went to a local doctor who accused his neighbors of taking part in a United Nations plot to enslave Americans, a conspiracy theory then popularized by Fox News host Glenn Beck. He added, “If nature and God are going to reclaim this area in the next 50 years we can’t defy that, OK?”
Two years later, on Oct. 17, 2017, Collier County citizens filled the same gray-carpeted boardroom again. Once again, the topic was sea level rise. But this time, there was no debate. People all along the Gulf Coast are now seeing the effects of climate change with their own eyes. Mangroves and coral reefs are dying. Oyster stocks are disappearing. Daily tides turn into dangerous floods.
Then, in September, Hurricane Irma blasted through the county and buzz-sawed its way up Florida’s spine. The storm flooded streets, ripped down construction cranes and left 6.7 million homes and businesses without electricity. At least 82 Floridians died. Collier County’s most powerful homeowner, Gov. Rick Scott, was forced to flee his $15.3 million beach estate—an ironic turn of events for a Republican politician who once tried to ban officials from saying the words “climate change.” | positive |
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Why is this Bank Stockpiling Silver Like There’s No Tomorrow?
Why is this Bank Stockpiling Silver Like There’s No Tomorrow?
Snatching Those Bars Up
Another day, another completely expected gold and silver Comex smackdown!
While we stacking warriors have done some of our best fighting during these past few months/years, some of our critics have only grown louder on days like today. That’s ok. Let them preen and squawk all they want to. It makes no difference to me. After all, there is so much going on behind the scenes, which continues to point to silver being the place to be, that the evidence is overwhelming at this stage..
Case in point, last week, you’ll remember that I mentioned over 11 million ounces of silver moved either in or out of the Comex system, within just 5 business days. A record, to be sure, but there’s more to the story than just the mere tonnage of silver that was transferred.
What I didn’t make mention of at that time, was that a certain party was “forcing the issue”, by raking in most of that 11 million ounce total.
You see, a very prominent bank certainly agrees with stackers that silver is more important than ever.
They’re baaaaack. Yes, “old faithful” is back at it again!
Of course, they never really left silver, and have been rigging it non-stop in the futures market, but for awhile there, there were at least no admissions of newly-stacked silver being made in their Comex warehousing facilities.
Yet, after a 16 month period of “dormancy” within their Comex warehouse vaults, these guys have returned with a vengeance.
In fact, our old buddies at JP Morgan Chase, not only see value in silver here, but they’re currently standing for delivery in their own house account in such strong numbers, that it commands our attention. Let me show you what I mean.
Here’s a breakdown of the Comex’s most recent silver deliveries to JP Morgan:
April 7th: 1,110,000 ounces
April 8th: 1,280,000 ounces
April 9th: 893,037 ounces
April 10th: 1,200,224 ounces
April 14th: 1,073,000 ounces
April 15th: 1,191,275 ounces
April 16th: 1,183,777.295 ounces
This is a huge bout of deliveries in such a short space of time. In fact, within the realm of Comex world, it’s such an exceptionally large amount, that it even creates quite a spike on the long-term chart of JP Morgan’s vault stockpile:
All in all, JP Morgan has added over 8.3 million ounces of additional silver in just the past 2 weeks alone. Ted Butler has said that he believes most of it is silver owed to JP Morgan, after they stood for delivery last month. This is no isolated incident, either, but part of an ongoing trend by this bank to acquire the single, largest silver stockpile within the banking world.
In fact, Mr. Butler also believes that JP Morgan has spent the last 4 years acquiring one of the largest hordes of silver in modern times. He believes this so strongly, that he has put the possible, current number of ounces in JPM’s coffers at several hundred million.
Now, we can’t know for sure if JP Morgan is the largest silver short in the SLV, or whether or not they’re the “Mr. Big”(as he calls them) buying up many government silver coins, but if they are indeed active within the SLV shenanigans, and if their accumulation there matches the same trendline in their Comex vaults…
Then he could well be right that they currently have the largest commercial stockpile of silver on earth.
Why though?
Why, after extricating itself from much of its silver shorts, is JP Morgan Chase still bothering with buying tens(or hundreds) of millions of ounces of silver?
Why after nearly 18 months of calm, would JP Morgan suddenly rush to take delivery of the maximum, allowable silver ounces in a delivery month?
Think about it: if silver is so “plentiful”, and available in quantities that would allow the Comex to give every investor a good delivery bar for a personal doorstop, with silver to spare…then why would JP Morgan bother with such accumulation in the first place?
Why bother creating such a vast stockpile, if silver is so oversupplied?
This is the question that no critic can answer.
If silver was destined to go back to years of further losses, then why would the world’s biggest “insider” continue to acquire a sure loser at such “high prices”?
They wouldn’t.
A Reminder
Ted Butler, a man whom I greatly respect, has said that he believes JP Morgan has acquired silver all this time for the “motherload”, the ultimate payout…as he believes they know that silver’s price explosion is an eventual inevitability.
That part I agree with him on. However, I disagree that JPM’s end game(as well as the Fed’s and US Treasury’s) all along was to simply score big on a silver explosion.
I mean, these guys in DC issue trillions of dollars of bonds per year!
JP Morgan, in their secret money room, moves around trillions of dollars…per day! Per day!
Do you really think that they care whether or not they make 10 billion, 20 billion, or 50 billion dollars on a silver trade? Is that really why JP Morgan had to take on Bear Sterns’ short position, in a shotgun wedding arranged by Fed and the Treasury?
Not hardly, brothers!
Remember, silver is the banking dragon’s vulnerable spot, it is the ‘pressure point knockout’, and thusly, it has always been my belief that JP Morgan and the banking cartel doesn’t rig silver and gold to “make dollars”. Rather, they rig silver and gold “to make dollars possible”. Without the rigging of silver and gold’s price, the price rocket that would take place would torpedo world confidence in debt instruments, in inflation figures, and in the state of the global market’s health.
Mr. Butler has wondered for several years now, why JPM hasn’t just “let silver rip” once they had their short position as low as 8,000 to 10,000 contracts?
The answer to that is the same reason why JP Morgan didn’t run up gold’s price after they’d acquired a Comex long contract corner. Some folks thought that when JP Morgan had acquired a long-market corner in gold of roughly 8 million paper ounces….that surely, they’d simply let gold skyrocket, and pocket billions of dollars. Those same folks were perplexed when JP Morgan not only did not let gold skyrocket, but also continued to exit that long contract position, with almost no profits to speak of. The real money to be made was never in the rigging of the price itself, but in the global monetary system that these banks own, lock, stock, and barrel.
The reason why I think Mr. Butler misses this point, is because he doesn’t understand silver’s true importance as a monetary asset. Ted is, by his own admission, not a hard money advocate. He doesn’t believe in necessarily having gold and silver as money. To him, silver is just another commodity, just a crime in progress that he discovered and wants to bring to light. Nothing more.
What Dimon Said
Why though has JP Morgan’s pace of silver stacking quickened as of late?
Perhaps it’s because they know that the system(the real source of profit) is not long for this world. Recently, in a communication to JP Morgan’s shareholders, Jamie Dimon personally expressed that he felt it likely that there will be a future crash “in the world’s most liquid instruments”:
“The items mentioned above (low inventory, reluctance to extend credit, etc.) make it more likely that a crisis will cause more volatile market movements with a rapid decline in valuations even in what are very liquid markets. It will be harder for banks either as lenders or market-makers to “stand against the tide.”
There already is far less liquidity in the general marketplace…Liquidity in the marketplace is of value to both issuers of securities and investors in securities. For issuers, it reduces their cost of issuance, and for investors, it reduces their cost when they buy or sell. Liquidity can be even more important in a stressed time because investors need to sell quickly, and without liquidity, prices can gap, fear can grow and illiquidity can quickly spread – even in supposedly the most liquid markets. “
it is now only a matter of time before Dimon’s prophetic words come to pass. Brothers, it simply doesn’t get spelled out in any plainer language than that, from a true insider. JP Morgan knows there will be a liquidity shock, because the banks and governments are the ones who decide when the money flow gets turned off…and since Brotherjohn has also recently demonstrated that those same suspects have now turned off the “money spigot”…
I contend this is likely the real reason why JP Morgan is taking no prisoners in the Comex delivery space: the plug has been pulled on the system, and it’s every bank for themselves. A “grab what you can, while you can” scenario could now be in the early stages of playing out. Time will tell if this is true or not.
Conclusion
JP Morgan was tapped by the government to criminally rig the silver and gold prices, but not to simply “make some profits”, but rather to literally sustain the system itself.
Since April 2011, JP Morgan has been one of physical silver’s “biggest fan”…as it has been probably the world’s largest stacker, behind only the nation of India.
This bank, having established its own Comex system vaults, has now built the single, largest stockpile of silver on the Comex warehouse system’s books. The dormancy period, of roughly 16 months, where the bank took in almost no new silver, is now over.
Remember, that a profit on a silver spike would be a short-sighted, one-time thing, as the ensuing spike will literally kill their global, debt ponzi system. It would “kill the goose that lays the golden eggs”.
So, it stands to reason…
That IF JP Morgan has reached the point where it’s looking to “score big” on a silver run-up, then it’s only because the system itself has run its course, and there is nothing left to steal. As I have long stated, I expect the big “escape” of silver’s price to only occur once their system is done.
From their renewed, substantial silver stacking, and from Jamie Dimon’s own admissions that he expects some market turbulence in “the world’s most liquid markets”, I think it’s possible that the global economy’s situation has reached the critically-terminal phase.
The Banking Dragon always goes for the most crucial “choke-points” on the field of battle. They “occupy” silver, gold, bitcoin etc…..because these choke-points are simply too important for them not to control.
Butler has said that JP Morgan is the ultimate insider, and that silver is as close as anything to following an “insider trade”, as you’ll ever have. I completely agree.
I also believe that JP Morgan understands that the next time silver’s short supply reaches critical levels, it will be in the midst of the greatest financial crisis that any living person will have witnessed.
This renewed stacking in silver by this financial behemoth is a reminder that silver is of the utmost importance to the powers that be, and if JP Morgan Chase:
The most well-connected, financial crooks on planet earth…
The “insider of insiders”…
The very market execution arm of the Federal Reserve itself…
Finds it utterly necessary to take delivery of every last ounce of silver that it can get its hands on…
Then so do I.
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December 14, 2012 at 3:01 am | Reply LoganWon You know the punk would look like obongo's son. December 14, 2012 at 3:58 am | Reply Missy Not true! Not true AT all!!!!! December 14, 2012 at 4:25 am | Dude I love the irony of someone wearing a "Don't snitch" tee shirt complaining that the police don't solve crimes. December 14, 2012 at 4:22 am | Reply leo I am willing to bet that this thompson character is a street tough.funny thing is,he dosent have the parts to go and serve overseas like the MOH soldier he assaulted, thompson has a long hard life ahead of him,but he will never be a contender. December 14, 2012 at 7:38 am | Reply bribarian Is Obongo sporting wood in that photo? December 14, 2012 at 2:51 am | Reply ArmyCSM All the wood you imagine is between your ears. December 14, 2012 at 3:55 am | Reply cscann BILLY FOOL..18 year older? Really Billy Fool... looks like your key board kicked your ass. 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An ordinary person or victim who reports information to police for the purpose of assisting them in apprehending a criminal is just a concerned citizen doing their jobs, which is commendable. Marines are trained to help protect American lives, and helping get a violent criminal off the street is in the same spirit of service. Why there are so many silly people who misuse the word snitch and have no idea what it means is a mystery, but I have to attribute it to mass ignorance spread by the hip-hop culture, as that seems to be where the word is used most often. December 14, 2012 at 5:57 am | Reply dave Snitch has evolved into "anyone co-operating with police". December 14, 2012 at 7:46 am | Kevin Yo mama is a snitch. December 16, 2012 at 11:11 pm | Reply HK Billy Fool! You are helpless. Feel sorry for you. 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December 13, 2012 at 11:35 pm | MakoTen He is a hero and there are so many others like him, most of which will never receive a medal, but should. However I must say Marines like to start fights, seen it and read it a hundred times. December 13, 2012 at 7:32 pm | Reply mskatfud The police didn't arrest or charge Meyer, they arrested and charged his opponent. So we need to wait until actual facts are released. Right now, we only have a great media-grabbing knee-jerk going on – MOH winner attacked! Oh noes! Unless we can find a way to glue a MOH to his forehead, most people will not know they're dealing with a national treasure. I agree that Marines like to start fights, that why they make great servicemembers, but so do young punks. I've seen that a hundred times too. And young punks have zero respect except for those more violent then themselves, and have no clue what a MOH is and what it takes to win one. I think Thompson will be getting schooled on that very very soon, likely by THE JUDGE. December 13, 2012 at 8:00 pm | Reply Terry Don't start them but certainty finish them. December 13, 2012 at 8:54 pm | Reply redneck This kid is a coward doing this to an american hero. Something needs to be done about this the government needs to step deport this little B!#<#. More respect is needed for our armed forces. December 13, 2012 at 7:27 pm | Reply TomNPitt So little respect for America in Kentucky. No matter what color you are. December 13, 2012 at 8:37 pm | Reply dean You are right, look at Senator Mitch McCONNELL. The folks in Kentucky keep sending this Vietnam draft dodger back to Congress term after tern. How dumb is that. December 13, 2012 at 8:52 pm | Veteran Uh. He is stupid. But not a coward. Not if he attacked a MOH winner. December 13, 2012 at 9:05 pm | Reply I Am God Now that is just sad. Hopefully the fight had nothing to do with him receiving the Medal of Honor. December 13, 2012 at 7:07 pm | Reply California Gary Anyone can get sucker-punched. But in a life and death fight, put your money on the Marine. Semper Fi........ December 13, 2012 at 7:03 pm | Reply CAL USA The Medal of Honor is awarded for extraordinary courage in the face of the enemy. It has nothing to do with physical prowess or fighting abilities, but with whether or not you have the guts to do what others won't. I had the distinct honor of serving under one, and I am still in awe of what this very (physically) small man did when the chips were down. December 13, 2012 at 6:46 pm | Reply jamessavik There are punks out there that go after pro-athletes to try to earn a reputation. I'm thinking this is like that. December 13, 2012 at 6:44 pm | Reply Joe Tinykhan- Dakota is a marine. He has discipline and definitely held back because he would probably have killed the punk if he didnt December 13, 2012 at 6:38 pm | Reply Army Mom Bet Dakota has seen more fighting than he really wanted in his life already and has the common sense to know what is worth fighting for. Thanks to Dakota and many other true, good American's for their service. December 14, 2012 at 7:29 am | Reply Juliemac Catch a black belt off guard and you can get them down too. December 13, 2012 at 6:38 pm | Reply Steven Brown Put the Fort Hood shooter on trial already. December 13, 2012 at 6:37 pm | Reply asdrel What does that have to do with this article? December 13, 2012 at 6:57 pm | Reply Jerry An 18 year old kicked a Marines ass? December 13, 2012 at 6:35 pm | Reply JLV You ever think that maybe he hit him with a bottle or sucker punched him from behind or some other tactic so that he could catch him off guard. Or where you come from everyone fights fair? December 13, 2012 at 6:58 pm | Reply Cando It can certainly happen when they hit you from behind. December 13, 2012 at 6:35 pm | Reply Nagrad What kind of a name is Kanissa'a? December 13, 2012 at 6:32 pm | Reply Dennis It sounds like an ignorant name given to him by an ignorant parent.What was it again?..Kaniggra'a? December 13, 2012 at 11:41 pm | Reply tinykhan A Marine Medal of Honor recipient got his @ss kicked by an 18 yr old? Embarassing.... December 13, 2012 at 6:31 pm | Reply JLV No your post is embarrasing. You can always sucker punch the best of them. December 13, 2012 at 6:56 pm | Reply Michael well said. December 13, 2012 at 9:28 pm | Chris in Seoul No, the embarrassing part is having a name like Kanissa'a... Just because someone receives the Medal of Honor doesn't mean they're MMA fighters who can kick anyone's ass. It means they did something "Above and Beyond the Call of Duty at great risk to one's life". December 13, 2012 at 7:29 pm | Reply midnitejax I don't think you quite understand how the real world is, so I will make a futile attempt to explain it to you anyway. The Marine you are embarrassed about served gallantly above and beyond the call of duty to save lives of his fellow Marines and Afghan troops while engaged in a heavy firefight.That my friend is courage.That does not mean he is invincible, nor is he superhuman in strength. What it makes him is a man of character and courage. My question to you is...do you think the punk he was assaulted by will have the courage to sign up in the Marines and put his boots in the sand? Would you? I doubt it. December 13, 2012 at 7:36 pm | Reply zero "My question to you is...do you think the punk he was assaulted by will have the courage to sign up in the Marines and put his boots in the sand? Would you? I doubt it." -midnitejax Do you really believe that all it takes is courage? It also takes ignorance. Going across the globe to fight people they don't even know on behalf of special interest is very ignorant. So when short sighted and ignorant people say that our soldiers are fighting for their country it is insulting to those in our country who don't want out youth or tax dollars to be invested in propping up dictators and butalizing other people across the globe. Besides he is a marine after all he should be tough enough to take an ass whipping. No shame in getting whipped, happens to us all. This kid should get a slap on the wrist for an assault which is what assaults warrant. December 13, 2012 at 8:03 pm | JPMADD Zero...good name. It fits. December 13, 2012 at 8:22 pm | Margaret This is America, he should not have to be prepared to fight at every moment. Unfortunately we have a lot of stupid young men who want to "prove" something. Sgt. Meyer has nothing to prove, he proved what kind of man he is. December 13, 2012 at 8:33 pm | F111ECM Active Duty Retired USAF NCO here. You are sorely mistaken my ignorant friend. Torture is sometimes justified in getting information. Just not wholesale the way it has been used the last few years and definitely not the way it was employed or publicized at Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq. Any idiot should know that you don't take pictures in a prison and you don't publicize the ways or from whom you get information, legally or illegally. It's called Operational Security. And I am never happy when a war is started–it means diplomacy has failed and hotter heads have prevailed. Personally, I'm just happy this nation got these B**S**T*RD(s)!!. There's still a lot more work to do in the defense of our freedoms and there always will be!! My Dad's funeral was on September 11, 2001 in Los Angeles California at 10:AM Pacific time. This was the time all hell was breaking loose in New York, Washington DC, & Pennsylvania. LA/California (my home area of my home state) was the destination city and/or state of all of 4 aircraft hijacked as populated missiles and destroyed on that disastrous day 11 years ago. For me and my family the day was already a sh**ty day. I feel for all of those who lost loved ones that day: Whether In the aircraft, In the towers, or On the ground no matter where it happened. BTW I'm a retired USAF NCO who finished his career with a USAF Special Operations Squadron overseas in NorthEast Asia. My units went to war a few times between 1978-1998 and I'm always sorry when it happens because it means diplomacy has failed and sometimes rash decisions have brought us to the brink again. In my 20 years plus of active duty I attended memorial services for around 30 USAF Airmen: Some pilots & Some ground crew, Some related to combat & Some related to training, & Some just dead because they were in the wrong place at the right time & it was their time. I never want to see someone dead, no matter their religious beliefs, but the world is better off without some people in it. People like Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, & Moammar Khaddafy. God Bless all of our troops past, present and future. Hurrah and Aim High!! December 14, 2012 at 12:42 am | Bert No highly decorated marine would lose in a fair fight moron December 13, 2012 at 9:11 pm | Reply John Hmmmm I'm pretty sure that going above and beyond the call of duty does not make him a super marine nor does it mean he can't get his @ss beat! Plain and simple I am friends with marines and alot of Spec ops, know what I can beat some and some I can't. I happen to be trained in more fighting "skills" then the marines I know. They know this and choose not to spar or fight with me because I have more hand to hand skill then they do. I still have the highest amount of respect for them, but they are by no means a super hero. 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Champion purchasing... cost 2500 gold, that's not much, here I though it was gonna be 10,000 like weapon skins.
And looks like they're removing account level cap, tho all exp after level 30 will be the same amount of level 30 to 31, around 4 hours of gameplay estimated.
Maybe I can finally get some of those Skins...
NEW CARDS and SYSTEMS!!!
Champion Decks only, Common Decks removed
Points on different rarity of Cards
12 points max per Deck
You can basically mix and match any rarity of cards until you reach 12, but you must have all 5 card slots filled
IE: 2 Legendary is max for a Deck because you must fill all 5 Card Slots, you can not have something like 3 Legendary and 2 empty Card Slots. (Legendary means 4 pt cards)
But looks like Cards also have their own "Rank" so less or more points you can use to build your Deck.
Also, looks like there's no longer "talent/rank" for in-mid-game play leveling.
Pre-Built Decks and Custom Decks
Custom is basically the same we have now.
Pre-Built is suggested Decks made by Hi-Rez
These cards STAY throughout all match
Burn Cards, cards you can activate in mid game
something like "Relics" with high cooldown
(active cards is the former Common Cards, which is now gone)
(Bear card as a joke, where you turn into a Bear... also other animal cards, lol)
Beacon is now a 5 min CD portal (no idea how long it lasts)
And New Cards for Champions.
DoubleMegaTurret build eh?... sounds interesting.
Also, Fireball Fernando's back...
Dr.Pip's self healing is added in, someone wanted that, there you go, granted.
And Ying, nvm, turns out she was not suppose to move, that wasn't a bug, lol.
And I was right on the Ultimate, it spawns crystals that damage enemies. | positive |
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The plight of Syrian refugees — and Canada’s response to the crisis — blew up on the campaign trail Thursday with a report that Conservatives delayed the intake of vulnerable refugees from war-torn Syria in the spring as the prime minister’s office got directly involved in processing immigration files.
OTTAWA—Conservative Leader Stephen Harper says his government ordered an audit of Syrian refugees admitted to Canada to ensure security concerns were being addressed but has denied a report that his political staff were involved in vetting and approving applications.
CTV News, quoting Citizenship and Immigration insiders, reported Thursday night that the PMO went through Syrian refugee applications to ensure that religious minorities such as Christians were being accepted over applications from Shia and Sunni Muslims.
Such files are normally handled by Citizenship and Immigration officials.
The Globe and Mail reported that the Prime Minister’s Office intervened in the processing of Syrian refugees and declared that all applicants referred by the United Nations would require Harper’s approval.
The Globe and Mail also reported that the intake of Syrian refugees was paused as the government did an audit of the initial batch of 1,300 refugees accepted into the country.
“Political staff are never involved in approving refugee applications. Such decisions are made by officials in the Department of Citizenship and Immigration,” Harper said at the start of a speech to a Vancouver-area audience.
Earlier Thursday, Harper strenuously denied the suggestion that his staff were involved, saying they had no role in approving applications.
CTV reported that PMO staff reviewed the files to ensure the right refugees were accepted, such as those with established communities in Canada, which Conservatives could hopefully attract into their fold.
The Conservatives told CTV that potential security threats prompted the delay of applications. But Citizenship and Immigration sources told the network that politics were also an influencing factor.
Only UN-referred refugee files were audited as the government knows less about those cases when they arrive for processing than they do about refugees being brought to Canada by private groups, said a government source speaking on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the system, Canadian Press reported.
Harper confirmed his office asked for an audit to confirm the government’s goals were being met.
“Our government has adopted a generous approach to the admission of refugees while ensuring the selection of the most vulnerable people and keeping our country safe and secure,” Harper said.
Harper said his office asked for an audit to ensure “these policy objectives are being met.
An official told the Star Thursday that the audit was sparked in part by open reports and intelligence reports raised concerns that Islamic State fighters were “actively” trying to infiltrate the flood of migrants and make their way to western countries.
“That is a very real concern,” said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The audit meant a pause of the intake of government-sponsored refugees for several weeks, but private sponsorships continued uninterrupted, the official said.
He said the audit was a “look at the process, not the worthiness of any particular file.”
Still, Harper’s political rivals were quick to jump on reports of his alleged involvement, warning that it may have delayed help to desperate refugees.
“Now, we learn it was Stephen Harper, himself, who prevented the arrival of Syrian families into Canada in the worst Syrian refugee crisis since World War II,” NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair said during a morning campaign stop in Toronto.
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau said the news report was further proof of Harper’s meddling instincts and said it was another reason to toss the Conservatives out of government in the coming election.
Loly Rico, president of the Canadian Council of Refugees, said the latest news could explain why Canada has been slow to accept refugees fleeing the civil war-torn country.
“Now, it’s understandable how low numbers on the resettlement will come in this year, because they delayed the process of selection, and also they’re selecting what type of refugees they (want),” Rico told the Star.
Lorne Waldman of the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers said the PMO’s alleged intervention strongly suggested that it was the Conservative government’s plan to only take in Christian minorities from war-torn Syria.
“Canada’s response to the crisis had been pathetic because we’d been preventing people from coming,” Waldman said.
According to Waldman, all refugee applicants have to undergo security checks and some are then referred to an “enhanced security check,” if they fall under certain profiles, based on age or personal history.
Hanna Al-Khoulani of Mississauga have been waiting for 18 months on her refugee sponsorship for her nephew now stranded in Ivory Coast; she said she was surprised to learn Ottawa had put a hold on the government-assisted refugee program amid the PMO audit.
“The government has to do what it has to do, but they should have informed the public about it instead of keeping it a secret. That said, they should have continued the processing while they were doing the audit,” she said. “Any delay is unacceptable because so many people’s lives are in their hands.”
Ratna Omidvar, of Lifeline Syria and Global Diversity Exchange, said that political interference on individual files would be “highly unusual” especially since the United Nations refugee agency has already vetted the cases.
She said the cases referred to Canada for settlement are usually “highly vulnerable.”
“So a family in some gravity of danger is being left in limbo when it should be in safety,” Omidvar said. “The real issue is how fast we can bring refugees in fear of their lives to safety.”
Brian Dyck, chair of the Council of The Canadian Refugee Sponsorship Agreement Holders Association, said his group had been asking immigration officials since last year why there were so few profiles of Syrians in the selected pool for resettlement.
“We had no idea they had stopped processing UNHCR referred cases. There was no hint of a concern about security in our conversations,” Dyck told the Star.
Immigration Minister Chris Alexander said that the intake of refugees was paused so the government could ensure that “appropriate referral and screening procedures” were in place.
“Starting a new refugee resettlement program in a volatile conflict zone poses particular challenges,” Alexander said in a statement provided to the Star.
He called it a “prudent” step to ensure the integrity of the refugee system.
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Colby Keller is a porn star, self-described communist and a Master of Fine Art - which must make for an interesting CV.
He has raised $45,385 in order to buy a van and drive around America and film himself having sex with someone in 50 US states, as well as some provinces in Canada.
His fans get in touch with him online, and then he chooses which ones to make his videos with, all in the name of art.
Keller describes himself as a communist, and having sold all of his possessions prior to undertaking his trip around America, he wants to change the way people think about porn stars.
I've filmed a few videos so far," he told ArtsMic's Scott Bixby.
"The first state was Maryland, with a friend who lives in Baltimore. I filmed another in L.A. with a friend. I've filmed in Maine, West Virginia, D.C., and I'm filming in Florida next."
(Image: Twitter)
But when does porn become art?
Colby claims that he had an offer for a 'significant amount' of money from a porn studio to licence his trip around America and turn it into a blue movie.
But he turned the offer down, he wants to create art, not porn.
"They wanted a very specific product, that was a porn product, and not the kind of product I'm interested in making. It wouldn't be making art; it would be making porn."
The end product doesn't yet exist, which currently makes it neither porn nor art. But eventually the art community will decide.
How does he find people to collaborate with?
"Usually I'll put out a call, but I didn't put out a call for New York — it was people who approached me. I mean, the point of the project is to collaborate with people, so I really want to build relationships with different artists around the country.
"People have responded saying that they want to be models, but I don't know if the sexual chemistry would be right to film with them."
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“Stranger Things” star Charlie Heaton has apologized to his fans for missing the show’s premiere but clarified that he was not arrested or charged with a crime.
Heaton, a British citizen, was denied entry to the U.S. last week after trace amounts of cocaine were allegedly found in his luggage when he arrived at Los Angeles International Airport.
‘STRANGER THINGS’ STAR CHARLIE HEATON DENIED ENTRY INTO US AFTER COCAINE FOUND IN BAGGAGE
The 23-year-old actor released a statement to People saying: “My planned travel to the U.S. last week was affected by an issue at U.S. immigration, and I am working to rectify it as soon as possible. I do want to clarify that I was not arrested or charged with a crime, and cooperated fully with the U.S. officials at LAX. I’m sorry to all the fans and my ‘Stranger Things’ family for missing the premiere. We are all so proud of this season and I would never want this story to negatively impact the show.”
An airport official said last week the actor was not arrested because the amount of cocaine found was not enough to warrant any charges.
‘STRANGER THINGS’ SEASON 2 BREAKS RECORD FOR MOST TWEETED ABOUT SHOW
Heaton stars as Jonathan Byers in the Netflix supernatural drama. The show’s highly-anticipated second season was released on Friday.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | positive |
Ignacio Zoco - a key component in Real Madrid's domestic dominance during the 1960s - has died aged 76, the Spanish club have confirmed.
Zoco, born in the Navarre region of Spain in 1939, played for Madrid between 1962 and 1974 and won a European Cup as well as seven La Liga titles and two Spanish Cups.
Part of Madrid's dominant 'Ye-ye' sides alongside Alfredo Di Stefano, Zoco made 434 competitive appearances for the club and scored 17 times, while also winning the 1964 European Championship with Spain.
Zoco went on to serve Madrid as a first-team match delegate and was later president of the club's association of former players.
First-team coach Rafael Benitez informed his squad of the news during training on Monday.
"With the session already underway, Rafa Benitez was given the sad news immediately out on the pitch, and paused training to inform the players of the club legend's passing," Madrid explained. | positive |
A mother whose son was killed in the San Bernardino, California, shooting last year is siding with Apple in its battle to protect consumer’s privacy rights by refusing the FBI’s demands for new software to break into the iPhone of her son’s killer.
Carole Adams, the mother of Robert Adams — a 40-year-old environmental health specialist who was shot dead by Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife in December — told the New York Post Thursday that the constitutional right to privacy “is what makes America great to begin with.”
She stood by Apple’s decision to fight a federal court order to create software that would allow federal authorities to access the shooter’s password-blocked iPhone. The software would allow authorities to retrieve personal banking passwords, photos and other information.
Apple CEO Tim Cook has argued that such software could be used in the future and would create a dangerous precedent for cell phone evidence in court cases.
“The government suggests this tool could only be used once, on one phone. But that’s simply not true,” Mr. Cook said. “Once created, the technique could be used over and over again, on any number of devices.”
Ms. Adams said such software could undermine the Constitution.
“This is what separates us from communism, isn’t it? The fact we have the right to privacy,” she told the New York Post. “I think Apple is definitely within their rights to protect the privacy of all Americans.
“This is what makes America great to begin with, that we abide by a Constitution that gives us the right of privacy, the right to bear arms, and the right to vote.”
Federal authorities want to hack into Farook’s phone to retrace the Islamic State sympathizer’s steps on Dec. 2 when he and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, shot and killed 14 people at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino.
California US Magistrate Judge Sheri Pym has ordered Apple to create a back door for the FBI to bypass an iPhone feature that destroys data after 10 consecutive unsuccessful unlock attempts.
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It’s been clear that Apple has been looking to expand into the world of original content, and now The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the company has struck a deal to revive the Steven Spielberg anthology series Amazing Stories. The filmmaker’s Amblin Entertainment production company will be producing 10 episodes of the new series with NBCUniversal’s television production unit, with a budget of $5 million earmarked per episode. No details about Spielberg’s specific involvement as a director are mentioned, but according to the report, he will likely serve as an executive producer on the new series. Hannibal’s Bryan Fuller will serve as showrunner.
The original Amazing Stories, which ran from 1985 to 1987, was Spielberg’s attempt to create an updated Twilight Zone or The Outer Limits. Each of the episodes would tell a different story focused on the scary, magical, or horrific, from directors like Robert Zemeckis, Tobe Hooper, a young Brad Bird, and Spielberg himself. The series went on to win five Emmys over its two-year run, though it was canceled by NBC after its second season.
For Apple, this represents the first big move in what is reported to be a $1 billion investment in original content over the coming year. This past June, the company hired former Sony Pictures Television heads Jamie Erlicht and Zack Van Amburg to spearhead the effort. While at Sony, the duo oversaw shows like Breaking Bad, so bringing them into the fold can be seen as a sign that Apple understands the type of industry relationships and creative dynamics that are required to develop a robust and diverse slate of television.
The biggest question, however, remains distribution itself. With streaming services like Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu moving so boldy into original programming, it’s clear that exclusive and original content will be as vital to those services as hit shows have traditionally been to legacy networks. As of yet, Apple doesn’t really have a Netflix equivalent in place. Some of the company’s tentative first efforts like Carpool Karaoke are available as part of Apple Music, but it’s hard to imagine someone like Spielberg closing a deal for Amazing Stories to be nothing more than a value-add to Apple’s music ambitions.
The intent is no doubt for something much grander in scope. If the trend toward exclusivity with streaming music and programming has demonstrated anything, it’s that customers are all too willing to buy into service ecosystems to get the content they’re eager for. In that sense, creating a library of programming that is only available from Apple services (and likely only on Apple devices) wouldn’t just make sense — it may represent the most comprehensive expression of Cupertino’s larger vision. | positive |
Posted March 6, 2011 by flouncel in General, Useful Stuff. Tagged: bath, beer, cider, food, pub, uk, vegan, vegetarian. Leave a Comment
Some good news for residents of Bath in the UK – you guys are set to have a new vegan pub soon enough! Vegetarian and vegan friendly pubs are a fairly rare breed at the moment, with only a few up and down the country, and even fewer that are specifically vegetarian. However, specifically vegan pubs are even rarer. Even in my hometown of Brighton, I can’t think of any pubs which are exclusively vegan (if anyone can, please let me know!), and after doing a quick search it seems like this will be only the third vegan pub in the UK (the only others being The Globe near Manchester, and The 78 in Glasgow, of all places). Again, if you can think of any others, please do let us know!
Anyway, this is a pretty exciting venture and I wish all the best to the future of the pub. This highlights again that veganism is a growing trend, and that step-by-step it is gaining recognition. Pub food is not traditionally vegan-friendly at all, so it’s pretty exciting to see innovations like this occurring, and I’m sure that if I’m ever in Bath I will gladly pop-in for some proper Somerset cider and some vegan pub grub.
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BriefingsDirect Transcripts: How Agile Enterprise Architecture Builds Agile Business Advantage skip to main | skip to sidebar BriefingsDirect Transcripts Verbatim discussions from Dana Gardner's BriefingsDirect podcasts. Monday, December 16, 2019 How Agile Enterprise Architecture Builds Agile Business Advantage Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Transcript of a discussion on how Enterprise Architecture defines and supports more agile business methods and builds competitive advantages for enterprises and governments. Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes. Download the transcript. Sponsor: The Open Group. Dana Gardner: Hi, this is Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions, and you’re listening to BriefingsDirect. Our next digital business trends discussion explores how Enterprise Architecture (EA) defines and supports more agile business methods and outcomes. Gardner We will now learn how Enterprise Architects can embrace agile approaches to build competitive advantages for enterprises and governments, as well as to keep those organizations more secure and compliant. To learn more about attaining agility by the latest EA approach, we are now joined by our panel, Mats Gejnevall, Enterprise Architect at minnovate and Member of The Open Group Agile Architecture Work Group. Welcome, Mats. Mats Gejnevall: Thanks, Dana. Gardner: We are also here with Sonia Gonzalez, Forum Director of the Architecture Forum at The Open Group. Welcome, Sonia. Sonia Gonzalez: Thank you very much, Dana. Gardner: And we are here as well with Walters Obenson, Director of the Agile Architecture Framework at The Open Group. Welcome, Walters. Walters Obenson: Thank you, Dana. Gardner: And lastly, we are also here with Łukasz Wrześniewski, Enterprise Architect and Agile Transformation Consultant. Welcome, Łukasz. Łukasz Wrześniewski: Welcome all. Gardner: Mats, what trends are driving the choice and motivation behind a career in EA? What are some of the motivations these days that are driving people into this very important role? EA’s holistic point of view Gejnevall Gejnevall: Most people are going into EA because they want to have a holistic view of the problem at hand. I do think that EA is a mindset that you can use to apply to any type of issue or problem you have. You look at an issue from many different perspectives and try to understand the fit between the issue or the problem and potential solutions. That’s human nature to want to do, to look at things from a holistic point of view. It’s such an interesting area to be in, because you can apply it to just about everything. Particularly, a general EA application, where you look at the business, how it works, and how that will affect the IT part of it. So looking at that holistic view I think is the important part -- and that’s the motivation. Gardner: Łukasz, why do you think agility particularly is well addressed by EA? Wrześniewski: I agree with Mats that EA provides a holistic view to understand how organizations work and can enable agility. As one of the main enablers for agility, EA changes the organization in terms of value. Nowadays agility is the trend, the new way of working and how the organization transforms itself for scaling the enterprise. EA is one of the critical success factors. Gardner: It’s one thing to be a member of this noble profession; it’s another for organizations to use them well. Mats, how should organizations leverage architects to better sustain an agile approach and environment? It takes a receptive culture. How do organizations need to adjust? Gejnevall: First of all, we need to distinguish between being agile doing EA and EA supporting an Agile approach. They are two very different things. Let’s discuss being agile doing EA. To create a true agile EA, the whole organization needs to be agile, it’s not just the IT part. EA needs to be agile and loosely coupled, one of the key concepts, applied both to the business and the IT side. But to become agile doing EA, means adopting the agile mindset, too. We talked earlier about EA being the mindset. Agile is also a mindset – how you think about things, how to do things in different ways than you have been doing before, and to look at all the different agile practices out there. For instance, you have sprints, iterations, demos, and these kinds of things. You need to take them into your EA way of working and create an agile way of working. You also need to connect your EA with the solution development in agile ways. So EA and solution development in an agile way needs to connect in the long-term. Gardner: Mats, it sounds a little bit like the chicken and the egg. Which comes first, the EA or the agile environment? Where do you begin? Change your mind for enterprise agility Wrześniewski: Wrześniewski: Everything is about achieving the agility in the enterprise. It’s not about doing the architecture. Doing the architecture in an agile way is the one thing, but our main goal is to achieve enterprise agility. EA is just a means to do that. So we can do the architecture in a really agile way. We can do the sprints, iterations, and apply the different agile methodologies to deliver architecture. But also, we can do architecture in more traditional way, the understanding of how a system is complex and how to transform the system in a proper way, the organization as a system, and we can achieve agility. That’s a very important factor when it comes to people’s mentality and how the people work in the organization. That’s a very big challenge to an organization, to change the way of working, to change the mindset, and really the Enterprise Architect has to sometimes take the shoes of the psychologist. Gonzalez: Like Łukasz said, it’s the mindset and to change your mind. At first, organizations need to be agile based on Agile principles, such as delivering value frequently and aligning with the business strategy. And when you do that, you also have to change your EA capability to become more agile, starting with the process and the way that you do EA. For example, using sprints, like Łukasz said, and also to be aware of how EA governance can support agile. As you know, it’s important to deliver value frequently, but it has to be aligned with the organization view and strategy, like Mats said at the beginning, to have the overall view of the organization, but also to be aware, to handle risk, and also addressing compliance. You may go through an agile effort without considering the whole enterprise, and you are facing the risk of different teams doing things in an agile way, but not connected to each other. It’s a change of mindset that will automatically make you change the way you are doing EA. Value stream helps express the value that an organization produces for its stakeholders, the outcomes it produces, and the different stages needed to produce that value. It provides a concept that's less detailed than looking at your individual business processes. Gejnevall: As Łukasz was saying, I think it’s very much connected to the entire organization becoming agile. It’s a challenge. If you want to do EA for an agile organization, that’s something that probably needs to be done. You need to plan, but also open up the change process so it can change in a correct and slower way, because you can’t just come at it top-down, to make an organization agile top-down, it has to come both from top-down and bottom-up. Gardner: I also hear people asking, “I have heard of Agile development, and now I am hearing about agile enterprise. Is this something different than DevOps, is it more than DevOps?” My impression is that it is much more than DevOps, but maybe we can address that. Mats, how does DevOps fit into this for those people that are thinking of agile only in terms of development? Gejnevall: It depends on the normal way of doing Agile development, doing something in short iterations. And then you have some demos at the end, retrospectives, and some planning for the next iteration. And there is some discussion ongoing right now whether or not the demo needs to be something executable, that it’s used quickly in the organization. Or it could be just an architecture piece, a couple of models that are showing some aspect of things. In my view, it doesn’t have to be something executable. And also when you look at DevOps as well, there are a lot of discussions now about industrial DevOps, where you actually produce not software but other technical stuff in an agile way, with iterations, and you do it incrementally. Wrześniewski: EA and architecture work as an enabler that allow for increasing complexity. We have many distributed teams that are working on the one product in DevOps, not run on Agile, and the complexity of the product, of the environment will be growing. Architecture can put it in a proper direction. And I mean intentional architecture that is not like big upfront design, like in traditional waterfall, but intentional architecture that enables the iterations and drives DevOps into the proper direction to reduce complexity -- and reduces the possibility of failure in product development. Gardner: I have also heard that architecture is about shifting from building to assembly, that it becomes repeatable and crosses organizational boundaries. Does anyone have a response to this idea of shifting from building to assembly and why it’s important? Strong building blocks bring success Wrześniewski: The use of microservices, containers, and similar technologies will mean components that you can assemble into entire products. These components are replaceable. It’s like the basic elements of EA when talking about the architecture and the building blocks, and good composition of the building blocks to deliver products. Architecture perfectly addresses this problem and shift. We have already had this concept for years in EA. Gardner: Anyone else on this topic of moving toward assembly, repeatability, and standardization? Gejnevall: On the IT side, I think that’s quite common. It’s been common for many years in different ways and then new things happen. We talked about service-orientation for quite a while and then we started talking about microservices. These are all types of loosely coupled systems that become much more agile in certain ways. The interesting thing is to look at the business side of things. How can you make the business side become more agile? We have done a lot of workshops around service-orienting the business, making it capability-based and sustainable. The business consists of a bunch of services, so capabilities, and you can connect these capabilities to value streams and change the value streams in reaction to changes in the business side. That’s much easier than the old way of having strict boundaries between business units and business services that are developed. We are now trying to move the thinking from the IT side up into the business side to enable the business to become much more componentized as you put different business services that the organization produces together in new ways and allow the management to come up with new and innovative ideas. Gardner: That gets to the heart of what we are trying to accomplish here. But what are some of the common challenges to attaining such agility, when we move both IT and the business to an agile perspective of being able to react and move, but without being brittle or having processes that can be extended -- without chaos and complexity? One of the challenges for the business architecture is the proper partitioning the architecture to distinguish the capabilities across the organizational silos.That means keeping the proper level of detail that is connected to the organizational strategy, and to be able to understand the system. Wrześniewski: One of the challenges for the business architecture is the proper partitioning of the architecture to distinguish the capabilities across the organizational silos. That means keeping the proper level of detail that is connected to the organizational strategy, and to be able to understand the system. Another big challenge is also to get the proper sponsorship for such activity and so to proceed with the transformation across the organization. Gejnevall: Change is always hard for a lot of people. And we are trying to change, and to have people live in a more changeable world than they have been in before. That’s going to be very hard. Because people don’t like change, we are going to have to motivate people much more and have them understand why we need to change. But change is going to be happening quicker and quicker, and if we create a much more agile enterprise, changes will keep rolling in faster and faster all of the time. Wrześniewski: One of the areas where I ran into a problem when creating an architecture in an agile way was that if you have lots and lots of agile projects ongoing, or agile teams ongoing, you have to have a lot of stakeholders that come and watch these demos and have relevant opinions about them. From my past experiences of doing EA, it’s always hard to get the correct stakeholders’ involvement. And that’s going to be even harder, because now the stakeholders are looking at hundreds of different agile sprints at the same time. Will there be enough stakeholders for all of that? Gardner: Right, of course you have to address the people, the process, and the technology, so the people, maybe even the most important part nowadays. Customer journey from finish to start Gonzalez Gonzalez: With all of those agile digital trends, what is more important now is to have two things in mind, a product-centric view and the customer journey. In order to do that the different layers that aren’t traditional architecture are blurry, because now it’s not about business and IT anymore -- it’s about the organization as a whole that needs to be agile. And in that regard, for example, like Mats and Łukasz have said, the right stakeholder needs to be in for the whole process. So it’s no longer saying, “I am the business, I am giving this request.” And then the IT people need to solve it. It’s not about that anymore. It’s having in mind that the product has services included, has an IT component, and also a business component. When you are building your customer journey, just start from the very end, the connection with the customer, and move back all the way to the background and platform that are delivering the IT capabilities. So it’s about having a more cross view of doing architecture, which is important. Gardner: How does modeling and a standardized approach to modeling help overcome some of these challenges? What is it about what EA that allows for agility to become a common thread across an organization? Wrześniewski: When it comes to the modeling, the models are different, so different viewpoints are just the tools for EA. Enterprise Architects should choose proper means to define the architecture that should enable the change that the organization needs. So the common understanding -- or maybe some stereotype of the Enterprise Architect -- is they are the guys that draw the lines and boxes and deliver only big documentation, but then nobody uses it. The challenge here is to deliver the MVPs in terms of modeling that the development teams and business will consider as something valuable and that can guide them. It’s not about making nice documentation, depositories in the tools, even if somebody is happy with some nice sketch on paper. It’s good architecture for the architect, because the architecture is about enabling the change in the organization and supporting the business and IT to deliver value, it’s not about only documenting every component. This is my opinion about what is the role of the architect and the model. And, of course, we many different methods and conventions and the architect should choose the proper one for the organization. Model collaborations create solutions Gejnevall: I don’t think that the architects should sit around and model on their own, it should be a collaboration between the solution architect and the solution developers in some ways. It’s a collaborative effort, where you actually work on the architecture together. So you don’t have to hand over a bunch of papers to the solution developers later on, they already know the whole stuff. So you are working in a continuous way of moving the material over to them, and you send it over to them in pieces, start with the most important pieces first or the slices of the architecture that is the most important and is most valuable, that’s sort of the whole Minimum Viable Architecture (MVA) approach. You can create lots of small MVAs, and then together with the solution teams allow them to work on that. It continuously creates new MVAs and the solution team continuously develops new MVPs. And that will go on for the entire length of a project, if that’s what you are working on, or for a product. Gonzalez: In terms of modeling, there are at least two ways to see this. One of them is the fact that you need to model your high-level landscape for the enterprise in order to have this strategic view. You have some tools to identify which items you should have priorities for, going into your backlog and then going into the iteration, you need to be aligned with that. Also, for example, you can model high-level value streams, identify key capabilities and then try to define which one would be the item you would be delivering, in that you don’t need to do a lot of modeling, just high-level modeling which you are going to depict that. Having lots of corporate architecture allows you to facilitate these different building blocks for changing. And there are lots of tools in the market now that will allow you to have automation in the things you are doing. On the other hand, we have other models that are more solution-level-oriented and in that case, one of the challenges that architects have now in relationship to modeling is how to deal with the fact that models are changing – and should change faster now because trends are changing and the market is changing. So there are different techniques that can be used for that. For example, test-driven design, domain design, domain-driven design, refactoring, and some others that support agile modeling. Also, like Mats mentioned, having lots of corporate architecture that would allow you to facilitate these different building blocks for changing. And there are a lot of tools in the market now that will allow you to have automation in the things you are doing. For example, to automate testing, which is something that we should do. It’s actually one of the key components of DevOps to automate the testing, to view how this facility really continues with the integration, the development, and finally, the delivery. Gardner: Sonia, you mentioned automation, but a lot of organizations, enterprises and governments are saddled with legacy systems. That can be quite complex, having older back end systems that require a lot of manual support. How do we move past the restraints, if you will, of back-end systems, legacy systems, and still become agile? Combine old and new Gonzalez: That’s a very good question, Dana. That’s precisely one of the stronger things of our EA. Łukasz mentioned that is the fact that you can use it in different ways and adapt it to different uses. So, you can, for example, if you have a bank where you usually have a lot of systems, you have legacy systems that are very difficult to change and risky to change. So, what a company should do is to have this combined approach saying, “Okay, I have a more traditional EA to handle my background systems because they are more stable and perhaps require fewer changes.” Obenson But on the other hand, if you have your end-user platform, such as online banking or mobile banking, that development should be faster. You can have an agile view on that. So you can have a combined view. However, we also depend on the background. One of the things that companies are doing right now is to try to go over components and services, microservices, and outsourcing to build a corporate architecture for customer services platforms without having to change all the background systems at once because that’s very risky. So it’s some kind of like a combined effort that it can be used in these cases. Gardner: Anyone else have some insights on how to make agile EA backward compatible? Wrześniewski: What Sonia said is really important, that we have some sort of combined or hybrid approach for EA. You will always have some projects that run in the agile part, some projects that have a more traditional approach that are longer, and that the delivery of architecture will take a longer time to reduce the risk when we are replacing some, for example, core banking system. The role of the EA is to know how to combine these different approaches and how to find the silver bullets to solve all the different situations. So, we wouldn’t be always looking for the organization on the one perspective that we are agile and everything that was before is a batch practice. We try to combine, and this is the evolution of organization’s new approach. So we will have to step by step improve the organization to get the best results if we are completely agile. Gardner: Walters brought up the important issue of governance. How can agile EA allow organizations to be faster, focused on business outcomes, and also be more secure and more compliant? How does EA and agile EA help an organization attain both a secure and compliant environment? Security architecture essential Gejnevall: You need to have a security architecture, and that has to be set up in a very loosely coupled way so you can select the security features that are needed for your specific project. You need to have that security architecture as a reference model at the bottom of your architecture. That is something you need to follow. But then the security architecture is not just the IT part of it, it’s also the business side of things, because security has got a lot to do with the processes and the way a company works. All of that needs to be taken into consideration when we do the architecture and it needs to be known by all the solution development teams, these are the rules around security. I think you can’t let go early in that, but security architecture needs to be flexible as well, and it needs to be adapting continuously, because it needs to handle new threats all the time. You can’t do one security architecture and think it’s going to live there forever; it’s going to have the same type of renewal and refactoring things happening to it as anything else. Wrześniewski: I would like to add that, in general, the agile approaches are more transparent and the testing of the security requirements often is done in an interactive way, so this approach can ensure higher security. Also, the governance should be adapted to the agile governance and some governance body that works in an agile way and you have different level of enterprise; I mean portfolio management, project management and teams. So, there is also some organizational change that needs to be done. Gardner: Many times when I speak with business leaders, they are concerned about mounting complexity, and one of the ways that they are very attracted to trying to combat complexity is to move towards minimum viable products and minimum viable services. How does the concept of an MVA help agility, but at the same time combat complexity? MVA moves product from plan to value Wrześniewski: MVA is the architecture of minimum viable products that can enable the development of the product. This can help you to solve the complexity issues with the minimum viable product to focus on this functionality, the capabilities that are mandatory for the organization and can deliver the highest percentage of value in the software. And also if the minimum viable product fails, we don’t invest too much for the entire product development. Gejnevall: Inherently, organizations are complex. You have to start very much higher up than the IT side of it to take away complexity. You need to start at the business level, on the organizational level, on the process level, on how you actually do work. If that’s complex, the IT solutions for that will still be complex, so it needs to have a good EA and MVA can test out new things and new ways of organizing yourself, because everything doesn’t have to be an IT project in the end. You do an MVA and that’s a process change or an organization will change, you test it out and you say, did it actually minimize our complexity or did it actually increase our complexity, at least you can stop the project very quickly and go in another direction instead. Gonzalez: Handling complexities is challenging, especially for big organizations that have been in the market for a long time. You will need to focus on the minimum viable product for leveraging the MVA, and go by slices, like taking smaller pieces to avoid going into much modeling. Handling complexity is challenging, especially for big organizations that have been in the market for a long time.You will need to focus on the minimum viable product for leveraging the MVA, and go by slices, like taking smaller pieces to avoid going into much modeling. However, at the end, even though you are not conceding things to be only IT, at the end you have a platform which is the one that is providing your IT capabilities. In that case, my view is use of architecture is important. So you may have a more traditional EA for keeping the maintenance of your complex landscape. That’s already there. You cannot avoid that or ignore that, but you need to identify which components are there. So, whenever you are deciding a new problem with MVA, you can also be aware of the dependencies there at the platform level, which is where most of the time the complexities rely on. So that’s in my view a combined use again of both of them. And the other key thing here is having the good integration and automation tooling, because sometimes you need to do things manually and that’s where it takes a lot of time, so you just make some automations of that, then it will be easier to maintain and to allow you to handle that complexity without going against an agile view. Gardner: And before we start to wrap up, I wanted to ask you what an organization will experience when they do leverage agile EA and become more adaptive in their business in total, holistically. What do you get when you do agile EA? What do you recognize as metrics of success if this is going well? Deliver value and value delivery Gejnevall: Each one of these MVAs and minimum viable products is actually supposed to leave us some business value at the end. If you look a the framework like the TOGAF® standard, a standard of The Open Group, there is a phase at the end where you actually look at to see, “Did we really achieve this value that we expected to?” This a part of most product management frameworks as well. So we need to measure before we do something and then we need to measure afterward, did we get this business value that we expected, because just running a project at the demo, we can’t really tell if we got the value or not. We need to put it out in operations and measure it that way. So getting that feedback loop much quicker than we did in the past when it took a couple of years to develop a new product and at the end of it we have changed and we didn’t get the value, even though we spent many million dollars to do that. Now we might spend a lot less money, but we can actually prove that we are getting some business value out of this and actually measure it appropriately as well. Wrześniewski: I agree fully with Mats that the value is quicker delivery. Also, the product quality should be much higher and all the people should be much more satisfied. I mean the team that delivers the service or product changes the business, the stakeholders, and direct clients. This really impacts the clients and team’s satisfaction. This is one of the important benefits of agile EA as well. Gejnevall: Just because you have a term called minimum viable product and you think it always needs to be IT that’s doing that, I think you can do a minimum viable product in many other ways. Like I was saying before, process changes, organizational changes and other things. So it doesn’t always have to be IT that is doing the minimum viable product that gives you the best business value. Gardner: How about the role of The Open Group? You have a number of certification programs, standards, workgroups, and you are talking with folks in the EA field all the time. What is it that The Open Group is bringing to the table nowadays to help foster agile EA and therefore better, more secure, more business-oriented companies and governments? Open Group EA and Agile offerings abound Gonzalez: We have a series of standards from The Open Group. One of the subsets of that is the architecture portfolio. We have several activities going on. We have the Agile Architecture Framework snapshot, product of The Open Group Board Members’ activity which is already in the market for test and comments, but it’s not yet an approved standard. The Agile Architecture Framework™ (O-AAF) covers both Digital Transformation of the enterprise, together with Agile Transformation of the enterprise considering concepts like Lean and DevOps among others. On the other hand, we have the Architecture or the Agile EA one at the level of the Architecture Forum, which is the one Mats and Łukasz are dealing with, of how to have an agile EA practice. There is a very good white paper published, and other deliverables, like a guide about how to use or make the TOGAF framework an agile sprint using the Architecture Development Method (ADM), so that’s another paper that is under construction, and there are also several that are on the way. We also have in the ArchiMate® Forum, we have Agile Modeling Activity, which is precisely dealing with the modeling part of this, so the three activities are connected. And into a separate working group, even though it is related, we have Digital Practitioners Work Group, aimed to address the digital enterprise. Also there is connection with the Agile Architecture Framework and we just started looking for some harmonization also with EA and the TOGAF standard. In the security space, we recently started the Zero Trust Architecture product, which is precisely trained to address this part of Zero Trust Architecture, which is securing the resources instead of securing the network. That’s a joint activity between Security Forum and the Architecture Forum. So, some of those are the things that are going on. And also at the level of the Agile Architecture Framework, there is also conversation about how to handle security and cloud in an agile environment, so you see we have several moving things at the table at the moment. Gejnevall: Long-term, I think we need to look into agile enterprise much more, but I think that all these efforts sort of are converging up to that point sooner or later that we need to look to see what would an agile enterprise looks like and create reference architectures and ideas for that. And I think that that will be sort of the end result somewhere, but we are not there yet, but we are going in that direction with all these different projects. Gardner: And, of course, more information is available at The Open Group website. They have many global events and conferences that people can go to and learn about these issues and contribute to these issues as well. I’m afraid we will have to leave it there. You have been listening to a sponsored BriefingsDirect discussion on how EA defines and supports more agile business methods and outcomes. And we have learned how agile EA can embrace approaches to build competitive advantages for both enterprises and governments as well keep those organizations more secure and compliant. So a big thank you to our panel, Mats Gejnevall, Enterprise Architect at minnovate and Member of The Open Group Agile Enterprise Architecture Work Group. Thank you, Mats. Gejnevall: Thank you, Dana. Gardner: We have also been here with Sonia Gonzalez, Forum Director for the Architecture Forum at The Open Group. Thank you, Sonia. Gonzalez: Thank you very much, Dana. Gardner: We have been joined by Walters Obenson, Director of the Agile Architecture Framework at The Open Group. Thank you, Walters. Obenson: Thank you, Dana. Gardner: And lastly, a big thank you to Łukasz Wrześniewski, the Enterprise Architect and Agile Transformation Consultant. Thank you, Łukasz. Wrześniewski: I am also a Member of The Open Group. Thank you, Dana. Gardner: And a big thank you as well to our audience for joining this BriefingsDirect agile business innovation discussion. I’m Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions, your host throughout this series of BriefingsDirect discussions sponsored by The Open Group. Thanks again for listening, please pass this along to your IT community, and do come back next time. Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes. Download the transcript. Sponsor: The Open Group. Transcript of a discussion on how Enterprise Architecture defines and supports more agile business methods and builds competitive advantages for enterprises and governments. Copyright Interarbor Solutions, LLC and The Open Group, 2005-2019. All rights reserved. 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[Luke 1:26-35; John 1:18; Isaiah 7:14; 9:16; Romans 10:9-13] CHRIST’S DEATH AND RESURRECTION We believe that Christ died for our sins, was buried, and rose again on the third day. He personally appeared to His disciples and more than 500 people after He arose. [I Corinthians 15:14; Romans 4:25] JESUS CHRIST’S BODILY ASCENSION We believe in the bodily ascension of Jesus to heaven, His exaltation at the right hand of God, and we believe in His personal, literal, and bodily return for a second time to rapture the church. He will put an end to the Enemy, set up His millennial kingdom, and reign forever in the New Jerusalem with us at His side! [John 14:2-3; I Thessalonians 4:13-18; Revelation 19-22] SALVATION BY GRACE THROUGH FAITH We believe in the salvation of sinners by grace, through repentance and faith in the perfect and all- sufficient finished work of the cross at Calvary by which we obtain remission of our sins. 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BENGALURU: India may be home to 15% of the global livestock population, but its contribution to the global methane emissions by the domesticated animals is only 10.63%, a study by the National Institute of Animal Nutrition and Physiology (NIANP) has revealed.Cows, buffaloes, sheep and goats are the huge contributors to methane emissions. Methane, released primarily by livestock, paddy cultivation, decay of organic waste in landfill sites and handling of fossil fuels, is estimated to be 25 times more harmful for environment over 100 years than carbon dioxide, the primary greenhouse gas responsible for global warming.After 10 years of research, scientists from NIANP and the National Institute of Veterinary Epidemiology and Disease Informatics have prepared a national census that not only records each state's contribution to methane emission by livestock but has also identified hotspots of emissions and amelioration strategies to combat emission.Dr Raghavendra Bhatta , director of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)-NIANP, and the lead researcher on the project when it was first started, said lacuna in the database available then, as well as the need to refute the West's claim of India being a huge emitter of enteric methane was the catalyst behind preparing such a national inventory. “There were several issues with the way the data was computed earlier, including adoption of the countrywide default value of the intergovernmental panel for climate change ( IPCC ). Various agencies have computed our emission at 12 teragram or 12 million tonnes per year but this is inaccurate as it does not consider the variations of feed, diet and environment within countries and instead chooses to assign a single figure to the whole country,“ Dr Bhatta said.The national census of 2012 has put India's livestock population at 512 million. The study used the 19th livestock census as well as feeding patterns from an existing national project to analyse 1,500 feed samples and diet combinations for their methane production potential from across India. “Our enteric methane emission is closer to 9.56tg per year,“ said Dr Bhatta.The project titled `Outreach methane project on estimation of methane emission under different feeding systems and development of mitigation strategies' has identified certain changes that can be made in the diet to minimize the emission.'Emission can't be stopped fully'According to Dr Pradeep Kumar Malik, senior scientist at NIANP, the emission can't be stopped completely because it is an inherent process to dispose of fermentative gases; the goal then is to find the balance. The belching out of methane is essential as the accumulation of gases like carbon dioxide and hydrogen could be fatal for the animal. When these two gases are reduced together in the rumen (the first compartment in the animal's stomach) through methanogenesis, methane is produced. The production results in a 6-12% energy loss for the animal as well.“We know that we can inhibit 25 30% of the emission without affecting the health of the animal.Through extensive in-vitro and invivo trials, we have identified four agents which, if added to the feed in certain proportions, will help tackle methane emission to an extent,“ he said.Biotechnologist Dr Atul Kolte investigates the correlaton between rumen microbes and methanogenesis.Using the assistance of Dr K P Suresh, a principal scientist and biostatistician working at the National Institute of Veterinary Epidemiology and Disease Informatics, the team has also been able to identify eight hotspots in the country where the methane emission is the highest.“Using the animal body weight and dry matter intake from the 2012 census, we were able to calculate the methane emission of each animal.They are organized into different categories on the basis of age, species etc and we had to write programs in R, a computer language, which took the data and produced results right down to the village level. While the IPCC used approximations to come up with their figures, it is important to exercise granularity by starting from the bottom down and going from village to taluk to district,“ he said. | positive |
Image copyright MOD Image caption The aircraft were identified as Russian "Bear" strategic bombers (library photo)
RAF Typhoon fighter jets were scrambled after two Russian military aircraft were seen flying towards UK airspace, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has said.
The British jets were launched from RAF Lossiemouth after the Russian planes were spotted north of Scotland.
An MoD spokesman said: "At no time did the Russian military aircraft cross into UK sovereign airspace."
The Russian bombers were not deemed to be a threat, he added.
The aircraft were identified as Russian "Bear" strategic bombers.
It is the latest of several similar incidents involving Russian military aircraft flying close to UK airspace.
It also came as Nato pledged to counter "hybrid warfare" from Russia at a meeting of defence ministers in Turkey.
'Flexing military might'
BBC defence correspondent Jonathan Beale says the RAF is "pretty used to this now" and seems to be intercepting Russian planes "about once a month".
He said: "There has been a dramatic increase in Russian encroachments - this year there have been three times as many [RAF] intercepts as previous years.
"The worry is when these Russian bombers come, there's no signal - they don't have their transponder, they are not 'squawking' - so in other words, only military radar pick them up."
With the Russians investing heavily in their military, he said it was "another example of Russia flexing its military might".
Warfare exercise
Russian officials have consistently denied any wrongdoing and said their planes have been complying with international rules.
Tensions between Nato countries and Russia have risen in recent months over Moscow's role in the conflict in Ukraine and its annexation of Crimea.
At a defence conference on Thursday, Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg said that a more assertive Russia had been using force to change borders and intimidate its neighbours.
Though Russia denies Nato's claim that it is backing rebels in Ukraine, Mr Stoltenberg said the alliance needed to adapt to meet the changing world.
"We will ensure that the strategies we are developing are complementary, so that we can work together quickly and effectively in the case of a hybrid threat against any of our members," said Mr Stoltenberg.
In the North Sea, off the coast of Norway, Nato has been conducting its largest ever anti-submarine warfare exercise.
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Now there's always an element of guesswork when analysing spy shots. Without any official information, you have to infer everything from bodywork alterations, where the car is in its lifecycle and, if there's some video, noise as well.
Hang on, this isn't a normal M4... Hang on, this isn't a normal M4...
But with this, we're stumped. For the large part it appears a roadgoing car, using the standard wheels, Michelin Pilot Super Sport tyres and even the steel brakes. But it won't take you long to spot where this car is drastically different from even an, leave alone a stock M4.
From the front there's a jutting chin spoiler, so prominent it needs to be tethered to the bumper. The tape on the bonnet doesn't appear to be too important, certainly not compared to the tarmac scraping side skirts. Not only do they make even those skirts on the Elise Cup 250 look a little apologetic, they even make the 19-inch wheels appear rather small.
That odd stance is no doubt helped by what's going on at the back. There's an incredibly aggressive diffuser just a few centimetres from the ground, combined with a gigantic rear wing as well. It's bigger than you'll find on a GTS but not quite DTM-esque, so could it perhaps be a test mule for the upcoming M4 GT4?
Whatever it is, we're intrigued by what the final result could be. Any further guesses, educated or otherwise, most certainly welcome!
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Just hours after attending church, Albert Peterson shot his wife and two sons before turning the gun on himself. According to a source close to the family ‘he just did not want his kids inheriting this mess,’ Maggie L, who did not wish to reveal her last name, told MailOnline. ‘Sometimes we thought he might take his own life when he was so depressed. We never thought he would take Kathie’s.’
A history of mental illness, the loss of a dear uncle, and a growing fear of Obama winning a second term in the White House took its toll on the mind of Mr Peterson, a wealthy defense contractor, the friend said. A friend of the family says that Albert suffered from debilitating paranoia, exacerbated by the upcoming election.
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Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus for a white passenger Dec. 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Ala. (Photo: AP) Story Highlights Civil rights icon Rosa Parks becomes the first black woman with a statue in the U.S. Capitol
The statue was commissioned in 2005 by President Bush
Parks was the first woman to lie in honor in the U.S. Capitol upon her death in 2005
Rosa Parks became a civil rights icon for refusing to give up her bus seat, and now she will stand forever in the U.S. Capitol. She will become the first African-American woman to be honored with a statue in Statuary Hall in a ceremony Feb. 27.
President George W. Bush signed a law in 2005 directing Congress to commission a Parks statue for inclusion in the Capitol's sculpture collection. Statuary Hall commemorates notable citizens from each state. The National Endowment for the Arts oversaw the design competition for a $250,000 prize to complete a bronze statue and pedestal.
Last week marked the centennial of Parks' birthday, which was also honored by the U.S. Postal Service with a commemorative stamp.
The statue will not be the first time Parks has been honored in the U.S. Capitol. When she died in 2005, she became the first woman to lie in honor in the U.S. Capitol rotunda.
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You asked, we listened, we improved. We’ve been working hard behind the scenes on Viveport and wanted to share news of some fixes, updates and changes we have made to our Viveport desktop client since launch.
First, some context. Viveport is a brand-new software platform that has been live for less than a year. With all new software projects there are going to be bugs, and Viveport has been no exception. There are other digital software sales platforms that have been available a lot longer than Viveport, so we expect it will take a while for Viveport to catch up to them in terms of features and performance. Our goal hasn’t changed, though – to build Viveport into a great VR platform.
When we launched Viveport in 2016, we had 75 titles. Today we have grown to 1,000 titles in all our regions and we have processed millions of transactions. We have also added some unique features like Viveport Subscription.
While our product and engineering teams work continually to improve Viveport, other teams are monitoring and asking for direct feedback from you. With your help, we believe we’ve significantly improved Viveport. Recently we’ve shifted our development focus from adding a lot of new features, to optimization and stability.
While there have been thousands of changes to Viveport (and you can find highlights here), let’s discuss some of the biggest issues reported during Viveport’s first year of operations – and what we’ve done about them.
TOP ISSUE: “Viveport content download speeds”
No-one wants to wait longer than they must for the latest VR content. While we originally had a basic CDN backed download system at Viveport’s launch, it didn’t match expectations. We rebuilt it and launched the new download system this summer, increasing Viveport’s download speeds to rival and even exceed the download speeds provided by other leading content platforms.
The new download backend not only uses multiple CDNs, but it also provides multiple levels of redundancy, as we have incorporated new technology from third parties that are specialized in download optimization. When you download content now, you should see faster download speeds, no matter where you are in the world.
TOP ISSUE: “Viveport takes up too many system resources”
Virtual reality is a challenging task for almost any PC, so having a desktop client occupy more resources than necessary isn’t ideal. You told us that Viveport took up too many PC resources, so we have worked hard to reduce the resource footprint.
The latest version of Viveport now uses significantly less CPU and memory (RAM) while running. This is mostly due to a new and improved client framework launched earlier this summer, letting us reduce the footprint while still adding new features. There are more optimizations coming, but for the moment we are much happier with the performance of client versions 1.1 and later.
TOP ISSUE: “Viveport crashes too much”
This was an early issue that we have focused extensively on in the last few months. No software crash is ever ‘fun’ but it is even more frustrating if it happens while wearing a VR headset. One of our top priorities has been to dramatically improve stability and lower the frequency of ‘crash events.’ In June, we replaced the original crash reporting system with a much better third party system, which has provided far better near-realtime stability info to the team. We can now monitor individual crash traces and determine if issues are with the software, or with specific user systems. As of release 1.1 we have seen dramatic improvements in software stability, though this is still a core focus area for the development team.
TOP ISSUE: “Viveport doesn’t have enough content, and Subscription has a non-intuitive re-selection system”
We have grown our VR library from 75 to over 1,000 titles in all our regions, in less than a year. However, now our focus is to help you discover great VR content. A brand-new search system is coming in Q4, which will improve your ability to find content.
In addition to more titles and better search functions, we have also launched Viveport Subscription to provide a low-cost, no obligation way to explore new VR experiences. It’s critical to let people experiment in VR since each user can experience different effects from the same VR title.
Given VR is a whole new content type, we felt a subscription option provided the best way to explore new and previously unknown developers’ work. Initially launched with 50 games, Viveport Subscription now features close to 250 titles, and we are adding new titles daily.
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Many eyes are on the Colorado River hoping that water in the basin won’t be developed past the carrying capacity of the river. Here’s an article about the concerns over oil shale exploration and production from Dennis Webb writing for the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel:
The county that’s home to Las Vegas, Nev., is supporting a proposed downscaling of federal land available for possible oil shale leasing and calling for thorough analysis of potential water impacts of commercial oil shale and tar sands development. Clark County’s recent, unanimously passed resolution comes as several other elected officials in Nevada and Arizona also have been sending letters to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar regarding oil shale, expressing concerns about the need to protect Colorado River water quality and quantity. The officials also back a Bureau of Land Management proposal to sharply reduce acreage available for possible leasing in Colorado, Wyoming and Utah.
“We believe that a comprehensive study of the cumulative impacts of oil shale development to the Colorado River basin should be conducted before the BLM considers commercial leasing of public lands,” says a letter signed by Nevada state lawmakers Peggy Pierce and Tick Segerblom, Arizona House Minority Whip Anna Tovar and Commissioner Paul Newman of the Arizona Corporate Commission, which oversees utility and transportation matters. The writers, all Democrats, also cited a Government Accountability Office estimate that industrial-scale oil shale development could require water equivalent to that used by 750,000 households.
Arizona’s House Minority Leader, Democrat Chad Campbell, sent a similar letter, as did Democratic Nevada lawmaker Maggie Carlton, Democratic Nevada state Sen. Mark Manendo and Las Vegas City Council member Bob Coffin. The writers generally urge Salazar to take a balanced approach to oil shale development. In an archived video on Clark County’s website, commissioners there indicated they weren’t trying to tell Colorado what to do or interfere with its economy. Commissioner Chris Giunchigliani said the county simply wants to make sure that due diligence to protect water quality from any oil shale development occurs, to ensure “that what’s coming downstream is appropriate for the valley.”
The Colorado River provides water to 2.5 million people in the county. The commissioners also indicated they were trying to adopt a resolution that wouldn’t interfere with sensitive, ongoing interstate negotiations over Colorado River water.
Chris Treese, a spokesman for western Colorado’s Colorado River Water Conservation District, said if Clark County’s concerns are about water quality, that’s “curious.”
“They’re not going to see any change in their water quality — none,” said Treese, citing the pollution-control regulations that would apply to the industry and amount of dilution that would occur by the time water reaches Las Vegas.
Front Range water entities that rely on Colorado River water also have raised concerns about oil shale’s potential impacts on water quality and the resource’s future availability. The Front Range Water Council sent a letter to the BLM regarding its draft environmental impact statement analyzing a range of alternatives for how much land should be made available for possible leasing. The council said that study’s “analysis of impacts to water supply, water quality, and water development is inadequate, in part because it does not analyze the range of impacts associated with various technologies used by oil shale developers.” The council represents utilities for Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo, Aurora and other communities collectively meeting the water demands of about 80 percent of the state’s population.
The council says increased population and energy use related to oil shale development would have water ramifications, and the BLM also needs to assess how such development would affect efforts to protect endangered fish in the Colorado River in Colorado. The BLM says the fish impacts would be analyzed for individual leasing authorizations.
Jeremy Boak, director of the Center for Oil Shale Technology and Research at the Colorado School of Mines, said some companies pursuing efforts to develop oil shale in place underground by means such as heating are working in geological zones isolated from groundwater, minimizing chances of contamination. Shell, which has been researching the use of a freeze-wall to protect surrounding groundwater, has shown the ability to use a steam process to clean groundwater within the freezewall before the wall is removed, he said.
As for water consumption, Boak believes an oil shale industry might use 2 percent of Colorado’s water, compared to about 80 percent currently for agriculture. “The water use for oil shale is quite modest,” he said. | positive |
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September 28, 2011 10:04 am ET by Carlos Maza
It makes sense to assume that News Corp. – Fox News’ parent company – isn't exactly a friend of the LGBT community. For years, Fox News has been a reliable source of anti-LGBT misinformation and animosity: promoting right-wing talking points, hosting the leaders of anti-gay hate groups, and refusing to cover stories that reflect positively on the LGBT community.
Over the past few years, however, News Corp. has also been working to position itself as an ally to the LGBT community. The company has been a longtime supporter of the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association and is launching a magazine on Thursday aimed at celebrating (and capitalizing off of) the advent of marriage equality in New York. While Fox panders to the homophobia of its conservative audience, News Corp. continues look for opportunities to tap into the LGBT market.
In reality, News Corp.’s two-faced approach to dealing with the LGBT people – using Fox News to smear and attack them while simultaneously profiting off of appearing LGBT-friendly – is representative of the company’s broader strategy when dealing with issues typically scorned by right-wing conservatives.
News Corp.’s Support For “Fair And Balanced” LGBT Reporting
For the past several years, News Corp. has supported the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA), which describes itself as “an organization of journalists, media professionals, educators and students working from within the news industry to foster fair and accurate coverage of LGBT issues.” Last year, NLGJA managing director Michael Tune wrote an email to Media Matters explaining his organization’s relationship with Fox’s parent company:
We try to have as expansive a network as possible in order to reach into every newsroom to accomplish our mission. News Corp. is a major employer of journalists nationwide, and NLGJA has had a very open and supportive dialog with them over the years regarding fair and accurate coverage of the LGBT community.
In fact, News Corp. proudly sponsors the NLGJA’s annual LGBT Media Summit. In 2009, Media Matters acquired a copy of the summit's program, which included a one-page ad explicitly mentioning the Fox News network:
This August, Equality Matters found that News Corp. had once again taken out a full-page ad in the summit’s program, though any mention of the Fox News network had been scrubbed:
News Corp.’s support for the NLGJA has not gone unnoticed by anti-gay groups. In 1999, the conservative Accuracy in Media criticized Fox for sponsoring the NLGJA’s conference, writing:
Media organizations which underwrote the convention included NBC News, Times Inc., Turner Broadcasting, Knight-Ridder, the Washington Post and Fox News Network. That’s right – Fox News. This is supposed to be a conservative network.
In 2006, Peter LaBarbera, president of Americans For Truth About Homosexuality, demanded that Fox News make a $10,000 donation to an anti-gay group in order to match its support for the NLGJA and prove that it isn’t “taking sides in the Culture War.”
In the substance of its rhetoric, however, Fox News’ position in the ‘culture war’ is crystal clear. For years, Fox News has been the go-to news network for anti-LGBT misinformation, stigmatization, and hate. In the past several months alone, Fox has:
Fox executives aren’t exactly oblivious to where they stand with the gay community, either. A recent Rolling Stone article revealed that Fox chairman Roger Ailes had “bombproof glass” installed in his office, in part to protect him from “those gays.”
News Corp.’s sponsorship of the NLGJA may be a novel way to attract LGBT-friendly advertisers, but it does little to make up for Fox News’ ongoing campaign against the LGBT community. News Corp. claims to support “fair and balanced reporting” on LGBT issues, but when it comes to Fox, it rarely practices what it preaches.
Opposing Marriage Equality, Releasing A Gay Wedding Magazine
On the issue of marriage equality, News Corps.’s attempts to walk the line are even more striking.
Over the past several months, a number of anti-gay groups have complained about Fox News’ relative neutrality in the same-sex marriage debate. Maggie Gallagher, former chairwoman of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), criticized Fox for its silence following New York’s decision to embrace marriage equality:
[T]here is little “echo” effect. Conservative networks, not just liberal networks, have been shut down on this. Fox News doesn’t cover it. Even talk-show hosts who are with us hesitate to speak — why? Every one has a different reason, but it’s always a reason not to speak.
Fox News was noticeably quiet during both the vote to legalize same-sex marriage in New York and the official beginning of same-sex weddings a month later.
Fox’s silence may have something to do with the fact that, for months, News Corp. has been preparing for the launch of “Wedding Pride,” a magazine aimed at catering to newlywed gay and lesbian couples in New York. The magazine, which will have a starting distribution of 35,000, is scheduled to launch this Thursday:
[via Wedding Pride’s Facebook page, accessed 9/26/11]
According to Gay City News, the magazine will provide News Corp. with thousands of dollars of ad revenue:
CNG Publications, a unit of the Community Newspaper Group, which is owned by News Corporation, is selling ad space in “Wedding Pride” at prices ranging from $850 for a quarter page ad to $5,400 for the first spread, or the first page after the cover.
The magazine has already provoked the ire of anti-gay activists like LaBarbera, who called it an example that Fox is "promoting bad morality.”
It’s also drawn the outrage of some in the gay community who’ve pointed to News Corp.'s long history of opposing marriage equality. Less than two weeks before the New York Senate voted to adopt marriage equality the New York Post – also owned by News Corp. – published an editorial opposing the bill:
[I]f we had a vote, it would be no. Marriage as an institution has fallen on hard times in recent years. But that's no excuse for weakening it further.
The editorial even cited the writings of NOM's Chairman Emeritus, Prof. Robert George.
Long before announcing its formal opposition to same-sex marriage, the New York Post was acting as a reliable source of anti-LGBT animus. In recent years, the News Corp. publication has come under intense criticism for its transphobia, opposition to same-sex parenting, and tendency to treat same-sex relationships as jokes.
News Corp.’s opposition to marriage equality comes straight from the top. In 2006, News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch made his position clear:
As for gay marriage: "I believe it is wrong. I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children - is fundamental to our civilisation."
Nationally, Fox News has been doing its part to carry out Murdoch’s message.
Fox’s Bill O’Reilly has compared same-sex marriage to a person marrying a duck, a turtle, and a dolphin. O’Reilly and Glenn Beck have both used Fox to promote the argument that marriage equality will pave the road to polygamy. And earlier this year, O’Reilly referred to marriage equality as a “secular left cause.”
When the Obama administration announced in February that it would no longer be defending the constitutionality of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), Fox was quick to accuse Obama of failing to do his job and refusing to enforce the law.
When a U.S. immigration judge decided to halt the separation of a same-sex bi-national couple under DOMA, Fox Nation’s headline read “Judge Won’t Deport Venezuelan Man Because He’s Gay?”
And, when a U.S. law firm withdrew its offer to defend DOMA in federal court, Fox’s Glenn Beck criticized the firm for caving to pro-equality “bullies” and compared Paul Clement, the attorney who left his firm to continue defending DOMA, to several American civil rights heroes.
On television and in print, News Corp. remains complicit with the promotion of anti-equality talking points, even as it prepares to profit from the advancement of that equality.
News Corp.’s History Of Internal Inconsistency
News Corp.’s two-faced approach to dealing with controversial political issues isn’t limited to LGBT equality. When it comes to climate change and immigration reform, the company has found itself straddling between Fox’s right-wing talking points and Murdoch’s moderate – if not progressive – personal agenda.
News Corp. consistently cashes in on both sides of the fight against climate change. In 2007, Murdoch announced a new climate initiative for News Corp., pledging to reduce the company’s carbon footprint and motivate audiences to alter their environmentally destructive behavior.
Murdoch and his son James have both worked to depict themselves as environmentally-savvy businessmen, understanding that a pro-environment image is a good way to attract potential advertisers.
At the same time, Fox News has done more than any other major news outlet in the U.S. to promote misinformation about climate change. Last year, Fox News Washington managing editor Bill Sammon issued a directive ordering his network’s journalists to actively raise doubts about widely accepted climate science. Fox has relied on ExxonMobil to sponsor a number of its products, including the “Planet Earth” section of FoxNews.com.
News Corp.’s relationship with immigration reform and the Latino community has been similar. Murdoch has revealed himself to be a strong supporter of immigration reform, including a path to legal status for undocumented immigrants currently in the U.S.:
"We're just going to keep the pressure on the congressmen," Murdoch said. "I think we can show to the public the benefits of having migrants and the jobs that go with them."
Fox also launched Fox News Latino last year, looking to tap into the growing population (and market) of Hispanics in America.
On Fox News, however, the tone has been very different. Fox has a long history of promoting anti-immigrant rhetoric, misinformation, and fear mongering, including ginning up horror stories about “anchor babies” and repeatedly referring to undocumented immigrants as “illegals.” Although Fox employees tend to clean up their act when Murdoch’s around, the network’s anti-immigrant viewpoint is painfully obvious.
In both of these cases, as in the case of LGBT equality, News Corp. has demonstrated its willingness to play both sides of an issue if doing so is likely to enhance its bottom line.
In an effort to tap into LGBT-friendly markets and advertisers, News Corp. has once again put itself in the uncomfortable position of having to balance two wildly incompatible ideological positions: capitalizing on new markets by promoting equality through wedding magazines and conference sponsorships, and appeasing its conservative audience by fighting against LGBT equality through its news channels, newspapers and websites.
If News Corp. was actually interested in supporting LGBT equality, it would take responsibility for the dehumanizing and disparaging ways that Fox News depicts members of the LGBT community. Until that happens, however, it’s hard to see its olive branches as anything other than profit-driven and disingenuous.
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Canadian fighter jets taking part in the air campaign against the ISIS have had a busy start to 2016.
The Canadian Forces says two CF-18 Hornets took to the skies on New Year's Day to attack ISIS fighting positions in Ramadi in support of Iraqi security forces.
Canadian warplanes were also kept busy on Saturday with two separate missions.
A pair of fighters pounded an ISIS compound near the community of Bartallah, east of Mosul, while a second pair hit an ISIL base near Kudilah, southeast of Mosul.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said he intends to withdraw the Canadian fighter jets from the air campaign sometime this year, but he hasn't announced the exact time.
The former Conservative government committed to keeping the warplanes involved in coalition air strikes until March. | positive |
We've been documenting Donald Trump's scary authoritarian tendencies since he announced his run for president but it doesn't seem to be something that's really sunk in. One suspects that if he were to be elected some people would come to regret not taking seriously. A president can summon a lot of power in this regard if he chooses, particularly if he can create a sense of urgent danger among the population, something for which Donald Trump has a demonstrated talent.
From the very first week, he's talked about forced deportation of millions of people and building the Great Wall of Trump both of which evoke images of totalitarian states. This has not been something that anyone in American politics seriously discussed until this campaign but it's now a mainstream Republican policy proposal opposed by many, to be sure, but mostly on practical grounds. When asked how we would know who to deport, Trump routinely says, "the police know who they are." Over the weekend he said "we are going to get rid of the criminals and it's going to happen within one hour after I take office, we start, okay?" His campaign manager says the details are "to be determined."
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It doesn't end there, of course. There's the promise to institute surveillance on Mosques, ban Muslims (recently changed to something he calls "extreme, extreme vetting) "take out" or otherwise use the families of terrorist suspects to extract information, reinstitute waterboarding and "much worse" (possibly even "chopping off heads" to fight fire with fire) summary executions, (sometimes with bullets dipped in pigs blood to scare the Muslims) and more. In a presidential debate he said he would order the military to torture and they would follow his orders. Days later he was forced by someone, we still don't know who, to admit that he could not unilaterally order troops to commit war crimes. (We also know that there is some recent precedent for getting around that ...)
You really don't need to know anything more than this to understand what a dangerous authoritarian Trump is:
Would I approve waterboarding? You bet your ass I would. In a heartbeat. I would approve more than that. It works. And if it doesn’t work, they deserve it anyway for what they do to us.
His obsession with police authority and intention to let them take off the gloves is well known going all the way back to the 1980s: "Let our politicians give back our police department the power to keep us safe. Unshackle them from the constant chant of "police brutality" which every petty criminal hurls immediately at an officer who has just risked his or her life to save an other's." He has not changed his view even slightly since then.
However, there is yet another dimension to Trump's authoritarianism that's just as chilling and perhaps even more sinister when you consider how much secrecy surrounds the programs he's talking about. Daniel Marans at the Huffington Post reported:
“I hear the NSA maybe has the emails,” Trump said in a phone interview on Fox News’ “On The Record.” “A lot of people say the NSA would have the emails if they really wanted to get them.”
“Obviously they don’t want to get them,” he added. “They’re protecting her, they’re coddling her. And it’s the only way she could even consider running.”
“She knows what was on those emails and it was very, very bad,” he said. “And maybe somebody should, in fact, ask the NSA whether or not they have the emails.”
There were many reasons why civil libertarians were apoplectic at the revelation the NSA was storing all emails of American citizens when the Edward Snowden documents were published. Aside from general privacy concerns, the possibility of government authorities accessing the information without probable cause to suspect terrorism was alarming. But nothing was more threatening to the fundamental health of our democracy than the possibility of government officials accessing this information for political purposes. And here we have the Republican nominee for president in 2016 saying that the NSA is coddling his rival by failing to release copies of her personal emails to the public, emails he darkly insinuates must contain something "very, very bad." Indeed, he claims she couldn't possibly even run for office if they weren't protecting her. The mind boggles.
But then Trump's mentor in life was Joseph McCarthy's chief henchman Roy Cohn, a man Trump once called his most loyal friend, "a man who would brutalize for you." Trump obviously also admired his friend's use of government power to investigate people's personal lives for evidence of espionage and treason as well as personal sexual history and anything else worth blackmailing them over. He and McCarthy were best known for the smearing of people for alleged Communist sympathies which may have inspired Trump's own personal character assassination of President Obama back in 2011 when he stoked the birther movement into a full-fledged crusade. The result of that insane smear is that according to a recent NBC poll, a shocking 72% of Republicans still doubt that the president was born in the US.
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And Trump has long had an affinity for Richard Nixon, the original "law and order" president who was disgraced and run from office for, among other things, using the power of the presidency to punish his political enemies. In fact, before Trump started suggesting that the NSA is covering for Clinton by failing to release their copies of all her personal emails to public, Trump also insisted that the Russian government must have them as well and he made his bizarre invitation to them to release them to the press which ,combined with his pleasure at the DNC hacking, had some disquieting echoes of the Watergate break-in itself.
This is a man who promises to arrest his opponent if he wins the presidency: "I will say this, Hillary Clinton has got to go to jail. Folks, honestly, she's guilty as hell." I'm not positive but I suspect that may be unprecedented in presidential campaign history. These are the rantings of an authoritarian dictator.
If he loses we will probably chalk up his candidacy to some sort of tear in the electoral matrix. But shouldn't it be just a bit troubling that these anti-democratic ideas are so enthusiastically supported by tens of millions of our fellow Americans? | positive |
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Marvel's Iron Man 3 added $72.5 million domestically its second weekend and $89.3 million internationally its third weekend! The third installment has now earned $284.9 million in North America and $664.1 million overseas for a worldwide total of $949 million.
Some of the box office highlights include:
- Iron Man 3 has passed the total global box office of Captain America ($369M), Thor ($449M), Iron Man ($585M), Iron Man 2 ($624M), The Amazing Spider-Man ($752M), Spider-Man 2 ($784M), Spider-Man ($822M) and Spider-Man 3 ($891M).
- Iron Man 3 posted the second-highest domestic opening of all time ($174.1M), behind only Marvel's The Avengers.
- Internationally, Iron Man 3 has passed the total international box office of Captain America ($192M), Iron Man ($267M), Thor ($268M), Iron Man 2 ($312M), Spider-Man 2 ($410M), Spider-Man ($418M), The Dark Knight ($470M), The Amazing Spider-Man ($490M) and Spider-Man 3 ($554M).
- Biggest opening day of all time in China, Russia, Taiwan, Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Ukraine, Singapore, South Africa, Vietnam.
- Biggest opening weekend of all time in Asia Pacific and Latin America regions.
- Biggest opening weekend of all time in China, Ukraine, Thailand, South Africa, Argentina, Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Taiwan, Philippines, Malaysia, UAE.
- Biggest Marvel opening weekend in China, Australia, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, Finland, Hungary, Romania, New Zealand, Argentina, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Vietnam, Taiwan, Philippines, Malaysia.
- Iron Man 3 has surpassed the total gross of Marvel's The Avengers in China, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia.
- Biggest grossing film of all time in Indonesia and Malaysia.
Performances to date in key territories:
China - $95.3M
Korea - $54.1M
UK - $48.3M
Mexico - $42.2M
Brazil - $37.6M
Russia - $37.4M
France - $34.8M
Australia - $33.0M
Japan - $20.7M
Italy - $19.2M
Taiwan - $17.9M
Germany - $17.4M
Indonesia - $14.5M
Philippines - $13.8M
HK - $12.7M
Malaysia - $12.7M
India - $11.4M
Spain - $10.6M
Argentina - $10.5M
Other - $120.0M
Total - $664.1M | positive |
Stevens says Australia not just the lucky country
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Glenn Stevens says Australia's passage through the financial crisis relatively unscathed is not just down to luck, and there is every reason to believe the nation's record run of economic growth can continue.
Speaking at the annual Anika Foundation luncheon hosted by Australian Business Economists, the Reserve Bank governor said Australia's solid banking system, strong public finances and flexible exchange rate leading into the financial crisis stood it in good stead to withstand the global downturn.
Glenn Stevens says the aggressive interest rate cuts and Federal Government stimulus measures also helped maintain Australia's economy.
"In both the monetary and fiscal areas, of course, having used the scope we had so aggressively, it was also necessary, as I argued in 2009, to re-invest in building further scope, by returning settings to normal once the emergency had passed," he observed.
Mr Stevens also maintains a much more positive view of China than many market economists.
"The recent data suggest that, so far, this is a normal cyclical slowing, not a sudden slump of the kind that occurred in late 2008," he argued.
"The data are quite consistent with Chinese growth in industrial output of something like 10 per cent, and GDP growth in the 7 to 8 per cent range."
The Reserve Bank governor again also played down concerns about an Australian property crash, while at the same time urging caution to those who believe prices will soon resume an upward trajectory.
"It is a very dangerous idea to think that dwelling prices cannot fall. They can, and they have," Mr Stevens said.
"The point is simply that historical or international comparisons, to the extent they can be made, do not constitute definitive evidence of an imminent slump."
The nation's head central banker pointed to a graph showing that while the Australian house price to income ratio is more than double that of the US, it is comparable to Belgium, New Zealand, the UK, Canada and post-housing crash Ireland.
Mr Stevens says housing affordability has "improved significantly" over recent years due to rising incomes and declining home values, and 99 per cent of bank mortgages are being serviced fully.
"It has to be said that the housing market bubble, if that’s what it is, seems to be taking quite a long time to pop – if that’s what it is going to do," he commented.
"The ingredients we would look for as signalling an imminent crash seem, if anything, less in evidence now than five years ago."
However, while presenting an upbeat picture of Australia's economic outlook, Mr Stevens sounded a note of caution and reserved an important place for the doomsayers
"We should always be wary of the conventional wisdom being too easily accepted. We should never, ever, assume that ‘it couldn’t happen here’."
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, economic-trends, money-and-monetary-policy, australia
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, who gained global notoriety for admitting he smoked crack cocaine, dropped his re-election bid on Friday, citing a health crisis, but his older brother took his place in the race to run Canada’s largest city.
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford walks through a busy media scrum as he walks to his office during a break in a Capital and Operating Budgets meeting at City Hall in Toronto, January 22, 2014. REUTERS/Mark Blinch
In drama worthy of Shakespeare, the family switch was made minutes before a deadline for changes to the city election ballot, which also saw a Ford nephew withdraw to allow his uncle, the mayor, to run for a city council seat in his place.
The Oct. 27 election is seen as a referendum on Ford’s four tumultuous years leading Toronto. Recent polls had shown him in second place in a tight three-way race for mayor of Canada’s financial capital and largest city with a population of 6 million.
Doug Ford, the mayor’s older brother and campaign manager, is regarded as less charismatic but less volatile than his larger-than-life sibling, who steadfastly refused to resign even as he admitted buying illegal drugs while in office and checked himself into rehab.
“My heart is heavy when I tell you I am unable to continue my campaign for re-election as your mayor,” Rob Ford said in a statement, adding that he could be “facing the battle of my lifetime.”
“I’ve asked Doug to finish what we started together so that all we’ve accomplished isn’t washed away. I’ve asked Doug to run to become the next mayor of Toronto because we need him.”
The 45-year-old mayor was hospitalized on Wednesday after complaining of unbearable abdominal pains and was diagnosed with a tumor. He is undergoing a battery of tests, with biopsy results expected in a week.
At a press conference Friday evening, an emotional Doug Ford said that it had been a difficult few days for his “close-knit” family and in particular for his brother, who did not take the decision to step down from the mayoral race lightly.
“This is more than a job for Rob, it’s his life’s work and his passion to fight for this city, and for each and every one you,” Doug Ford told reporters and supporters gathered outside his mother’s home in suburban Toronto. “He told me that he needed me to take the torch while he focuses on getting better.”
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A 49-year-old businessman, Doug Ford was elected as a city councillor in 2010 when his younger brother became mayor.
“He’s a Machiavellian figure and he’s been called many things but not necessarily a gifted politician or someone with the gift of charisma,” Phil Triadafilopoulos, a political science professor at the University of Toronto, said before Doug Ford’s nomination for mayor was filed.
“The question is whether, if there is a welling of sympathy, if it goes over and helps a potential Doug Ford candidacy so that he can survive his innate lack of charisma ... by taking advantage of the sympathy that people are feeling for his brother,” the professor said.
Doug Ford announced last year that he would not run for re-election as councillor, saying that he wanted to focus on his brother’s re-election.
Michael Ford, the nephew who withdrew from a city council race to allow Rob Ford to run in his place, is now running for the city school board.
The Fords’ politician father, Doug Ford Sr., died of colon cancer less than three months after being diagnosed in 2006.
In 2009, doctors removed a tumor from Rob Ford’s appendix, and the then-city councillor returned to work in good health.
Medical experts said Ford will likely require surgery regardless of whether the tumor is cancerous or benign, and said the biopsy is typically quick and uncomplicated.
In May and June, the mayor underwent rehab for drug and alcohol abuse. He emerged noticeably thinner though still obese. Ford said he regretted not getting treatment “years ago” to treat his alcohol addiction.
Dr. Zane Cohen, colorectal surgeon and director of the Zane Cohen Centre for Digestive Diseases, gives an update on the medical condition of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto September 11, 2014. REUTERS/Brett Gundlock
Ford, who came to power in 2010 pledging to cut waste at city hall and keep a lid on taxes, has a core base of suburban support known as “Ford Nation.”
A poll released on Wednesday showed Rob Ford running in second place with 28 percent of the vote, behind conservative front-runner John Tory, who had 40 percent of voter support. Left-leaning candidate Olivia Chow was in third place with 21 percent of the vote. | positive |
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It’s been his dream for 15 years, nearly half his life, and it’s kicking off with an accident. Local director Michael Maxxis starts shooting his first feature film Friday — cameras rolling on a 1987 Dodge Daytona rolling over on the highway east of Edmonton.
“You wouldn’t believe how hard it is to find these things,” bright-eyed Maxxis laughs over chocolate milk at Albert’s restaurant on 124 Street. “My mom found two — we were checking Kijiji every day. And we’re going to destroy them!”
The $3-million production — executive produced by Edmontonian Sam Osman of Film Alberta Studios on Allard Way, with help from Alberta Media Fund tax credits — is called Puppy Love. It’s an updated descendent of Forrest Gump, a feature-length dramatic comedy based on the true-life story of Maxxis’ cousin Morgan Williams … and his adventures and dysfunctional relationship with a woman spinning out of control.
The budget is at an impressive scale for an Edmonton production.
Maxxis notes matter-of-factly, “The budget went up after affixing a few key creatives in the cast and crew.”
For example, Puppy Love stars Hopper Penn, 23, the agency-signed model son of movie stars Sean Penn and Robin Wright. Co-starring is Choke and Boardwalk Empire’s Paz del Pal Huerta.
Then there’s Larry Smith, who shot Bronson and Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut, as cinematographer. Lon Bender, who worked on The Revenant, The Hunger Games and Drive, is doing sound design. American indie rocker Kurt Vile is down for the score. Impressive, but there’s more.
In backup acting roles are Rosanna Arquette, rapper Mickey Avalon, singer Elle King and, for real, Wayne Newton. “The size of a cast to fill 100 minutes,” Maxxis laughs. “Sure you can do it with one person, but it’s actually really, really big. And all my first choices said yes. I couldn’t believe it.”
Maxxis is co-designer and part owner of El Cortez and Have Mercy off Whyte Avenue, responsible for the mural on the restaurants’ brick flank painted by internationally acclaimed artist Cleon Peterson.
The 34-year-old filmmaker, who’s directed videos for Lindi Ortega, the Sheepdogs and Elle King (plus the much-lauded new Oilers game-opening video), wrote the script between launching restaurants over the last few years. “It’s a true story about my cousin,” he explains. I mention I’d just seen him outside.
“Morgan was here?” Maxxis laughs, craning his neck around the booths. “He is always in his own little universe. That’s what’s so fascinating about him. I have an interesting, bold, unique family. I’ve always known Morgan had a number of stories worthy of a film.
“Write what you know, I guess.”
Maxxis had earlier penned a script about Morgan’s brother, Danny — an ex-kickboxing champion played in Puppy Love by UFC competitor Donald (Cowboy) Cerrone. But agents thought it was too big of a budget for a first feature — so he hopes to make that film as a sequel.
Before describing Morgan Williams, the director pauses. “Best to say he’s just a unique character with his very own point of view of the world. He lives a simpler life.”
To get to the narrative marrow, Maxxis flew Williams to Hawaii. Here, the filmmaker and his girlfriend Melanie Swerdan wrote down Williams’ wild, sometimes “dirty” stories, which flowed freely. “And he openly tells them to people he doesn’t know. In hot tubs. At McDonald’s. On bus benches.
“And that’s when I realized that’s how the story should be framed. It’s entirely told from the hot tub at Mill Woods pool.”
Penn, 23, plays Williams. Maxxis decided the young actor needed to get to know his cousin for the role, so, for the last month, Penn lived with Williams in a downtown apartment by the new arena — hanging out, playing Call of Duty. This method-training included Penn working, for real, as a dishwasher at Albert’s so he’d move easily when the cameras roll — including in a kitchen fight scene.
In the booth, Penn says of his character, “He’s an odd duck. He got bullied a lot, didn’t have a lot of friends. He’s a super sweet guy, but when he says something it’ll just come out rude. Everywhere you’d go right, he’d go left. He calls himself stupid, but I think he’s really, really smart.”
Penn is enjoying the stretch, asserting Morgan is “100 per cent different than me.”
In their apartment, “He pretty much just talks shit about me all day, calls me a Yankee. Our relationship is awesome. He’s one of my best friends. He makes me laugh, all day. What I’m learning from him is the willingness to let go of everything.
“Boundaries, manners, everything.”
As for imparted wisdom from Albert’s? Penn laughs. “Albert’s is teaching me how to do dishwashing. That’s pretty much it.”
Growing up with famous parents, Penn says, “I always got shit talked about me, ‘Rich bitch,’ all that. But I f—ing work at a pizza place still. I don’t have a trust fund.”
Wright and the more famous Penn, who were on-again-off-again throughout Hopper’s childhood, are now divorced. They “didn’t tell me to stay away (from acting). But for the longest time I was like, I’ll never, ever be on camera. I hate getting pictures taken,” he says, just as our photographer grabs a hummingbird flurry of high-speed shots of his ruggedly handsome face. “Runs in the family,” I joke.
He laughs, “Yeah, exactly.
“The weird part would be when I was on vacation (as a kid), the paparazzi. But I always had fun because my dad would get super mad and I thought it was funny. I do that too, now,” he says woefully. We go back to the craft.
“I never wanted to act. And then my dad offered me a part in one of his films (The Last Face). I said no. He said, ‘You’ll be able to learn how to fly helicopters.” And I was like, ‘I’m f—ing in.’ After that, I knew that’s I wanted to do. I was working with my dad and we’d butted heads in the past, but it was a f—ing blast.
“On set, we were best friends.”
He, who will appear alongside Brad Pitt and Tilda Swinton in David Michael’s War Machine later this year, beams unreservedly about his mom, who you might remember from Princess Bride, if not House of Cards.
Wright’s career is on fire right now, Penn notes. “I went on set for Wonder Woman, she’s pretty ripped. She teaches Wonder Woman how to fight. I’m jealous.
“My mom is one of the best actresses in the world. When I go to the set of House of Cards, it’s a complete transformation. She’s the sweetest woman, and (on TV) she’ll be f—ing backstabbing somebody.
“And Blade Runner 2049’s going to be awesome. She’s a cop.”
Here, Penn notes more about her and Ryan Gosling’s characters — but we’re not going to spoil anything about that if that’s cool with you.
Instead, back to Edmonton, to Puppy Love. So how does Williams feel about all this?
“It’s totally awesome. I never expected my life to get to the point for maybe other people to see.”
Williams is also helping out on set during production. And of Penn, he says, “he’s like my little brother now.”
After the month-long shoot, Maxxis is aiming for a cut by September. Then, hopefully, film festivals. “Fingers crossed,” say the writer-director.
While Maxxis knew he wanted to make his first feature in Edmonton, there were challenges — from costs other cities might write off to finding a seasoned crew. “Because not a lot of stuff is shot here, I had to bring a lot of people in. Even younger crew leave because they can’t find full-time employment here.”
But, he stresses, “It’s a unique backdrop. Everywhere I go is a fresh location I don’t see in other films.
“Part of my style is I love real-people casting — I’ve been having the best time casting in West Edmonton Mall, Value Village, local bars — to really create an authentic world. There isn’t one extra I didn’t cast, even in the tables in the background.”
For obvious reasons, Maxxis thinks the city should do everything it can to turn up local film production. “What needs to happen here is what happened in Austin and Portland and Philadelphia. We need to generate our own, local industry here.”
He can’t be accused of turning away, despite an uphill climb.
Looking at it, though — Maxxis making a Hollywood film here in Edmonton — the whole idea actually resonates with some advice Penn says his parents gave him. “Bring yourself into it — make it your own,” they told him.
“If it’s not you, it’s not yours.”
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It’s a dilemma college football teams have faced before: who gets left out when there are more bowl eligible teams than bowl slots. This year’s bowl lineup — did we mention you can keep track of ’em all HERE? — features 35 games. Do the math and, well, you get it.
There are, however, 72 bowl eligible teams.
So who got snubbed this year?
Ball State (6-6) out of the MAC and Western Kentucky (7-5) out of the Sun Belt. While there probably aren’t too many people upset over these snubs (relatively speaking), Pete Lembo and Willie Taggart have done outstanding jobs at BSU and WKU, respectively.
It’s a bummer for them and their players that their work won’t be rewarded.
Although, with the way so many schools lose money going to bowl games, this might be blessing in disguise.
Keep in mind that UCLA was able to grab a bowl waiver and will go to the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl on Dec. 31 against Illinois with a 6-7 regular season record. That’s one team I think most of us can agree shouldn’t be participating in the postseason. | positive |
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INPEX ENERGY TRADING SINGAPORE PTE. LTD. selects ENTRADE® for ETRM | ETRM CTRM Solutions: Enuit English I 简体中文 I 日本語 All Posts News & PR Resources and White Papers Blogs Upcoming events Open Positions 全てのニュース 所有新闻 What makes a Great ETRM / CTRM? Search Nov 25, 2020 3 min read INPEX ENERGY TRADING SINGAPORE PTE. LTD. selects ENTRADE® for ETRM Singapore (November 2020) — Enuit, LLC announced today that INPEX ENERGY TRADING SINGAPORE PTE. LTD. (IETS) has begun implementing its flagship product, ENTRADE® to manage their trading risk and derivatives for crude oil. INPEX CORPORATION (INPEX), the ultimate parent company of IETS, is a leading energy company that proactively undertakes oil & gas exploration, development and production activities to contribute to a stable and efficient supply of energy. INPEX is currently involved in projects globally in about 20 countries, including the Ichthys LNG Project in Australia and the Abadi LNG Project in Indonesia as operator. In the last few years, IETS has had phenomenal success in crude oil marketing and trading are expecting an increase in crude oil transaction volume from 2021 onward including derivatives transactions. Due to this growth, IETS realized that they need a new system, which is sufficient to manage this new type of business. In Q2 of 2020, they reached out to several ETRM vendors to participate in an RFP process and after a vigorous selection process eventually decided to select ENTRADE® to help them manage their front, middle and back end operations, including deal capture, operations, risk management and settlements for crude oil. Also noteworthy is ENTRADE’s fully automated SAP interface and its workflow processes implemented for trade and invoice approval and control processes. Mr. Genta Okamoto, Executive Director of IETS, said, “When we decided to look for a new system, we wanted to work with a partner we could trust, with a world class system, a good support team and great functionality to support us as we grow. We have found this in Enuit.” ### About INPEX CORPORATION INPEX CORPORATION is Japan’s largest exploration and production company, and a mid-tier E&P player just behind the world’s oil majors. INPEX is currently engaged in projects globally in about 20 countries, including the Ichthys LNG Project in Australia and Abadi LNG Project in Indonesia as operator as well as onshore and offshore oil fields in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates and one of the largest natural gas supply infrastructures in Japan. Through sustainably growing its oil and gas development business, developing a global gas value chain business and reinforcing its renewable energy initiatives, INPEX aims to become a leading energy company and continue providing a stable and efficient supply of energy to its customers. Visit: https://www.inpex.co.jp/english/ to learn more. ### About Enuit Enuit LLC provides enterprise risk management solutions, also known as ETRM/CTRM solution, for energy and commodities trading companies worldwide. We give our customers complete visibility, insights, control and management over their business operations helping them to have peace of mind to make quick and informed decisions that affect the bottom line. Enuit, LLC is headquartered in Houston, Texas, USA, with offices located in Beijing, China, London, Singapore, and Tokyo to serve markets in China, Asia-Pacific, Middle East, Europe, and North America. Enuit’s platform, ENTRADE®, supports Every commodity, every feature, and every user in one place. There’s no Third Party or Legacy System to integrate. We call it One Platform. Visit https://www.enuit.com to learn more ABOUT ENTRADE FOR ETRM / CTRM Introduction Front Office Middle Office Back Office Commodity Management Features Why Entrade? COMMODITIES COVERED LNG NGLs Metals Power Natural Gas Crude Cargo Refined Oil Products Agriculture SERVICES AND SUPPORT Training and Consulting Managment Training and Consulting Trading and Risk Management Consulting Product Implementation Project Management On-Site or Cloud Installation Custom Development News News & PR Recent Posts See All Enuit Successfully Completes SOC® 2 Type 2 Examination, reinforcing it's commitment to Data Security Enuit listed as Category Winners for “Integrated CTRM platform” and “Renewable Fuels” Enuit LLC wins Risk Market Technology Award – for Pricing and analytics: Commodities How useful was this post?How useful was this post? | negative |
Story highlights Sally Kohn: Conservatives feign shock that White House knew some plans would be canceled
Kohn: It's because they don't meet Obamacare's higher bar of quality benefits
If you lose your plan, she says, you'll have access to better and often cheaper plans
Kohn: Most get insurance from jobs; millions who don't will get affordable plans
Conservatives are expressing shock and outrage that the Obama administration knew that many people in the individual insurance market would not be able to keep their plans once the Affordable Care Act took effect. Such shock is not surprising; overblown outrage is the stock and trade of conservative politics these days.
But here's what conservatives won't tell you, lest it undermine their theatrics: Many insurance plans are shutting down because they don't meet the higher bar of quality benefits required under Obamacare, and of those people who lose access to their plans, many will pay less and all will have better and more comprehensive options.
Also, with a few exceptions, no one is really noting that this point isn't quite news. In 2010, the fact that certain insurance plans would not be grandfathered into Obamacare because of their inadequate coverage was widely covered by the press. It was a given, after all that, if standards for health insurance were going to be raised in America -- a good thing -- then some plans that don't meet the bar would no longer be available. One could blame this on the Affordable Care Act, or alternatively, one could blame this on insurance companies for providing such substandard care in the first place.
Here's what this boils down to:
Sally Kohn
Will some people lose their current insurance? Yes.
Will these same folks lose health insurance coverage? No.
They will all have access to better plans and in many cases pay less because of expanded options and tax credits.
This whole kerfuffle ignores that insurance plans were changing all the time and premiums were skyrocketing pre-Obamacare. Suddenly, a whole range of bad behavior on the part of insurance companies is blamed on the Affordable Care Act. It's just like employers trying to shaft their workers by cutting hours and benefits and blaming it on the Affordable Care Act , even though employer mandate provisions don't take effect for another year.
Trying to blame Obamacare for every problem in the private insurance market is paradoxical: The whole reason for passing the Affordable Care Act was to fix what's broken with private insurance
If we as a nation object to the inherent and deeper flaws within the private health insurance system in America, then we should embrace a single-payer system. But instead, because conservatives were so wed to propping up the private insurance market, we got Obamacare. It's disingenuous to turn around and point fingers at Obamacare for faults that have always been -- and will always be -- pervasive in private health insurance.
The Affordable Care Act prevents some of the worst abuses of the private insurance market and makes coverage overall more inclusive and affordable. It doesn't fundamentally alter the private market equation -- and incentives to cut corners and care.
I know Republicans love their manufactured outrage, as much as they loved it back in September 2010, when Republican Sen. Mike Enzi cited the same 40% to 67% numbers for those expected to lose plans that NBC now reports as "new news." But the fact remains that about 80% of Americans get their health insurance either from their employers or from a program like Medicare, and that won't change at all under the Affordable Care Act.
Millions more are uninsured and will be thrilled to have access to affordable insurance at subsidized rates. This saves us all money, because the cost of their emergency room care isn't offloaded onto the rest of us in rising premiums. What we're focused on now is the small sliver of Americans who, like myself, get insurance through the individual market. Some of us will see our current plans disappear, but all of us will see our plans upgraded -- with many becoming more affordable.
When it comes to President Obama and his policies, conservatives have a steady supply of manufactured shock. But improving the quality and affordability of health insurance for all Americans and providing real facts along the way, that's an important accomplishment.
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As a teenager during the environmentalist, prison industrial complex and anti-sweatshop movements that built up to the crescendo that was the Counter Globalization movement, I got my first taste of horizontalist process. It was empowering and stifling. It was inefficient and radical. It stuck with me.
For years after, I had sometimes incredibly wonderful experiences and often trying ones with what is essentially an anti-authoritarian style that tries to get us accustomed to the kind of world we want to build over the ashes of the old. Some people call it democratic, direct and participatory democracy, but politically its early proponents tended to shy away from such language. We weren’t trying to let a majority vote dominate. We wanted everyone to place down stones to build a road together towards each destination.
It is elemental to the space-occupying global uprising we now find ourselves in. And while some of the participants who have spread horizontalism continue to be so, most of its users are no longer anti-authoritarians, anarchists, autonomists, or libertarian marxists. They’re liberals. Amid these progressives there are those who fear a world that is based at large on the horizontalism they are participating in today, but there are many more progressives that are beginning to experience how we are running our people power as the seeds of a new way of decision making and administration.
But we don’t grow without honesty. There is a mythos that rejects the terms of leadership in Liberty Plaza and across the uprising. Just because you deny something in word doesn’t mean it seizes to exist in deed.
When I arrived in Madrid, two weeks into the four week occupation of Plaza del Sol by thousands of indignados, there was a sense of centralization. All media voices were controlled by the Media Commission. Indignados privately mumbled to me about the increasing degree to which some core people who had been there from the start were an inner circle. Assemblies were somewhat controlled. For better, to get over repeititous concerns by newcomers or speakers not in their right minds. For worse, preventing an easy conduit through which the uninitiated could participate and shutting out some proposals. But the assemblies were efficient, got a lot if shit done, and were still a consensus-based model of direct democracy.
Julius Nyerere, the first president of independent Tanzania and by his own admission a failed builder of African socialism, argued that “leaders must not be masters.” It’s a potent claim. There is a distinction. Leadership does not have to indicate permanence, unquestionability, domination. It can be very temporary. I can accept your lead to the train station. You can lead a workshop. Some people with flags and drums can lead a march. Anyone can be a leader.
Horizontalism, at its weakest, rejects such language without admitting that every structure requires at least temporary instances of leadership and respect for experience. You bottom-line rather than lead. You’re a facilitator, not a leader or a teacher. You form a working group, not a committee. But in point of fact, these distinctions are tenuous.
Without admitting that some of these terms are simply temporizing ways to say leadership, we fall into a trap. We are disingenuous with ourselves and those around us. Inner circles and cliques arise. Workaholics at best, and opportunists at worst, take on too many responsibilities without fostering those skills in enough people around them and stepping back. People become defensive and feel accused if anyone dare suggest they are too central a figure in this or that, or doing too much work.
If we are honest, on the other hand, you or I might not get defensive. If someone is particularly good at what they have focused on, and there is no need to ask them to lessen their control, then we don’t need to do so. If we accept that some people have leadership roles, in the spirit of horizontalism, we then give them the responsibility of all good leaders and organizers: the responsibility of making more leaders and organizers. Of imparting their capacities upon the willing and capable. If we are all leaders, none can be our master.
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Approaching Storm | Cyntada | Art & Design Cyntada | Art & Design Graphic Design · Production Design · Illustration and More Menu Skip to content Portfolio Science Art Illustration Graphic Design Production Photography Fine Art & DIY Sketchbook Journal Experience Hire Me Shop Now Approaching Storm July 3, 2013 February 11, 2016 - [email protected] This sketch started around Christmas as an exercise in painting water, and was supposed to be a boulder in a wild running stream. I put down the boulder and the Kyanite (the silvery-gray color) then got bored and moved on. This week I decided that I was never going to paint the riverbank above the rock, so used the blank top half to practice a cerulean sky. This made the water look like the sea, except it needed a reason to be reflecting all that gray! That led to a storm moving in. A Monthly Challenge on WetCanvas.com, plus a film I’d seen, got me thinking about lighthouses. There was no reason why the boulder couldn’t be a small rocky island, so made a few adjustments, and there we are. This is just a wee bit brighter IRL, but not much… there’s sort of cool haze to it, as if the light is weak and watery and all but snuffed out by the incoming weather. Funny experience, I was laying in the bottom of the clouds and the line looked more like the top of a mountain, and I actually thought, “Oh, look! A land mass!” 6″ x 9″ Arches 140lb rough, in my sketchbook. Paints mostly WN PB35 Cerulean, DS Bloodstone Genuine and Kyanite Genuine. There’s a touch of DS Sodalite Genuine for the darkest darks, and I can’t promise there isn’t a dash of DS Piemontite in the rocks as well. The scene is entirely made up, although I did check a few lighthouse refs to make sure the details were at least reasonably close to reality. Posted in Projects, Sketches - Tagged 2013, Arches, Bloodstone, blue, Cerulean, Clouds, Kyanite, Lighthouse, Nature, Ocean, PB35, Piemontite, Primatek, Rocks, Rough Paper, Scenes in my Head, Sky, Sodalite, Storms, Water (picture of), Watercolor Share on: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Google + Post navigation ← California Door Vintage Cigar Tin Palette → Leave a Reply Cancel reply Search for: Posts About: #Inktober 3-color Palette 2014 2015 2016 Beach Birds blue Burnt Sienna Burnt Umber Clouds cobalt blue cold press Corporate DIY earth En Plein Aire From A Photo green apatite Hot Press Inktober 2016 Jadeite Jane's Gray Kuretake #40 Limited Palette Live and Learn Nature Ocean PB27 PB28 PB29 PBr7 Pen & Ink PO62 PO73 PR101 raw sienna raw umber Scenes in my Head Sky Small Paintings Ultramarine Water (picture of) Watercolor Wildlife Artist’s Bio I’m a graphic designer, science illustrator, watercolorist, itinerant sketcher, and maker of many things. Creative energy comes from the heady rush of breaking roadblocks, and/or a good first flush Darjeeling. Hire me for commissions and design/production services. Read More Proudly powered by WordPress | Theme: booky by pankogut. | negative |
For eight years, Republicans blasted President Obama and the Democrats for runaway spending. For eight years, Republicans said “vote for us” to end the madness.
They lied.
Last night, the Republican-controlled U.S. Senate passed exactly the kind of massive spending bill they used to rail against–a gargantuan $1.3 trillion Omnibus that has more devilishly reckless details than anyone could possibly count.
One Republican tried.
Sen. Rand Paul got through 600 pages of this 2,232 page monstrosity, sharing many of the details, before learning enough to know he would vote against it.
Imagine that: a U.S. Senator had the radical idea he should actually know what he’s about to vote on.
Here’s what Sen. Paul found and shared via Twitter:
You can read the rest by continuing on Twitter, but Paul’s following tweets are included here.
Page 348 of terrible, rotten, no-good budget busting bill, a nugget that I wish we obeyed sec. 8103: none of the funds may be used in contravention of the War Powers Act — Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 22, 2018
hmm . . . that would mean we shouldn’t be spending $ in undeclared wars in Yemen, Libya, Niger, Somalia, Afghanistan wonder why the party that talks about the rule of law, doesn’t obey the rule of law? — Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 22, 2018
and I’m STILL reading. This bill is no @bradthor thriller. Page 365: Overseas contingency operations. aka military slush fund that circumvents budget caps. All told, we’ve spent over a trillion dollars in this budget busting category. — Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 22, 2018
Page 376 of terrible, rotten, no-good budget busting bill: I found it! I found it! Border security, what President Trump wanted! no . . .wait a minute section says Defense can spend what funds it determines to enhance the border security of Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, and Tunisia — Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 22, 2018
eyes getting tired but really someone should read this beast. Page 392 sec 9007: no $ shall be spent “for the permanent stationing of US forces in Afghanistan” Wonder what they meant by permanent? Some might argue that after 16 years we approaching the definition of permanent. — Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 22, 2018
Page 430 of “crumni-bus:” Good news. The government is going to “earn” $350 million by selling oil from Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Bad news is the $ won’t go to reduce the $21 trillion debt. The $ will be instead be spent elsewhere by the Federal government. — Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 22, 2018
Page 447: a little over $30 billion for Dept of Energy Wonder if anyone would notice if we had no Dept of Energy Put oversight of nuclear waste in DOD and let supply & demand be our Energy policy — Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 22, 2018
Page 485: No $ used by the IRS to target citizens for exercising 1st amendment rights. Do you think Lois Lerner knew about this part of the law before she targeted Tea Party groups? pic.twitter.com/t41kZ63oD8 — Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 22, 2018
Ordered some pizza to help me get through. Still going… pic.twitter.com/FKDO3DkRHe — Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 22, 2018
page 550: $9 billion for Govt Services Admin that oversees federal properties Fed government spends $1.7 billion a year to maintain 770,000 empty buildings while continuing to buy new properties. — Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 23, 2018
Page 580: Post Office gets $58 million but only if it promises not to close down small, underutilized, money-losing post offices. — Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 23, 2018
Page 587: No $ for the President to request FBI background report on any individual. If we had amendments, this would be a good place to add no $ for partisan hacks in the Intel community to unmask any American without a judicial warrant. — Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 23, 2018
Page 594 sec 626: No $ to require disclosure of content of an electronic communication. Good amendment here. It would be to also protect forced disclosure of metadata, ie phone #’s and identities of the phone callers. — Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 23, 2018
I shared 600 pages tonight. I’m done tweeting them for the evening. If they insist on voting, I will vote no because it spends to much and there’s just too little time to read the bill and let everyone know what’s actually in it. Thanks for sticking with me. — Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 23, 2018
“I voted against this deficit-spending bill because I believe our promises to change Washington matter.” Paul said in a press release released early Friday morning. “I will keep fighting to hold our party to the conservative principles we had no problem proclaiming during the Obama years.”
Paul would later add:
Victory for conservatives today is that all of America now knows what a budget busting bomb this bill is. Hopefully, today’s battle will embolden conservatives to descend on Congress and demand Constitutional government. — Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 23, 2018
Disclosure: I co-authored the 2011 book The Tea Party Goes to Washington with Sen. Rand Paul. | positive |
Lehigh University Elevates its Campus Experience by Installing Smart Lockers | Higher Ed Dive Skip to main content Deep Dive Opinion Library Events Topics Menu Search Sign up Search Online Learning Policy & Legal Leadership Student Success Enrollment ← Press Releases Lehigh University Elevates its Campus Experience by Installing Smart Lockers PRESS RELEASE FROM PARCEL PENDING March 12, 2021 New smart parcel lockers provide safe, secure and convenient way for students to retrieve their online orders and packages Bethlehem, Pa. (March 12, 2021) – Lehigh University, one of the nation's premier research universities, today announced that it has installed an automated locker system in an effort to provide a safe, secure and convenient way for students, residing in Hitch, Maida and Singleton Houses, to retrieve their online orders and packages. Provided by North America’s leading smart locker company Parcel Pending by Quadient, the new smart lockers will help to reduce Mail Center foot traffic by allowing these residents to pick-up their online orders and goods at their convenience. “Creating a safe environment for students - especially in light of COVID-19 - and providing overall exceptional customer service is our priority, and we’re always seeking new innovations to enhance the student experience,” stated Mark Ironside, assistant vice president of business services at Lehigh University. “We’re excited to bring Parcel Pending’s smart parcel lockers to our university to give the students of Maida, Hitch, and Singleton Houses a convenient, safe option for them to retrieve their packages and other deliveries. These lockers will help us modernize our package pick-up experience for students during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.” “We are honored to partner with Lehigh University to provide their students with a convenient, reliable and secure package delivery system,” stated Lori A. Torres, CEO and founder of Parcel Pending. “We know the students of the newly built residence halls will enjoy being able to pick-up their packages 24/7 without having to come in contact with anyone or worry that their items will be lost or stolen.” About Lehigh University Recognized among the nation's premier research universities, Lehigh University offers a rigorous academic community for more than 7,000 students. Located in Pennsylvania's beautiful Lehigh Valley, Lehigh University is one of the nation's most distinguished private universities. Through academic rigor, an entrepreneurial mindset and collaborative opportunities, Lehigh challenges its students to become the leaders of the future. To learn more, visit www.lehigh.edu. About Parcel Pending by Quadient Parcel Pending by Quadient is the leading provider of smart locker solutions for residential, commercial, retail, and university properties in the United States and Canada. With as many as 4 million packages successfully delivered monthly, Parcel Pending by Quadient offers a wide range of solutions that ensure the simple and secure delivery and retrieval of packages and online orders. With the strength of its combined power, reach, and offerings, Parcel Pending by Quadient provides state-of-the-art solutions and world-class customer service to solve the last-mile delivery challenge. To learn more, visit parcelpending.com. Parcel Pending by Quadient Media Contact: Melissa Penn [email protected] post share tweet print email Explore About Editorial Team Contact Us Newsletter Article Reprints Press Releases What We're Reading Reach our audience Advertising Post a press release Submit an opinion piece Related Publications K-12 Dive © 2022 Industry Dive. All rights reserved. | View our other publications | Privacy policy | Terms of use | Take down policy. Cookie Preferences / Do Not Sell Search Home Topics Online Learning Policy & Legal Leadership Student Success Enrollment Deep Dive Opinion Library Events Get Higher Ed Dive in your inbox The free newsletter covering the top industry headlines Email: Select user consent: By signing up to receive our newsletter, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. You can unsubscribe at anytime. Sign up A valid email address is required. Please select at least one newsletter. | negative |
An elderly woman's kind gesture to an agitated man on a subway train has warmed the hearts of thousands online.
Ehab Taha, a 26-year-old British Columbia resident was riding the SkyTrain from Vancouver to his home in Surrey on January 28 when he witnessed an incredibly touching moment between the most unlikely pair.
A man on the train had begun acting erratically, swearing and shouting and generally acting in an aggressive manner.
Pure kindness: The moment an elderly woman held an agitated and erratic man's hand on the train in British Columbia to calm him down has touched thousands online
Telling the tale: Ehab Taha, a 26-year-old BC resident was riding the SkyTrain from Vancouver to his home in Surrey on January 28 when he witnessed the scene
The passengers on the train, Ehab included felt increasingly uncomfortable as the situation continued, with the man's behavior appearing to be the result of substance abuse or mental health problems.
But just as Ehab was thinking about moving away from the man, who was intimidating in size on top of his concerning behavior, he witnessed another passenger do something extraordinary.
'While everyone was scared, this one seventy year old woman reached out her hand, tightly gripping his hand until he calmed down, sat down silently, with eventual tears in his eyes,' Ehab later shared on Facebook.
Ehab later told Today.com that after 20 minutes of sitting in silence, gripping her hand, the man eventually got off the train and said 'Thanks, grandma' to the woman as he left.
Observer: Ehab (pictured) explained that after 20 minutes in silence, the man left the train, saying 'Thanks grandma' to the woman as he left
Moved: Ehab shared the story on his Facebook, where it has since been reposted more than 31,000 times
'I spoke to the woman after this incident and she simply said, "I'm a mother and he needed someone to touch." And she started to cry.'
He added: 'Don't fear or judge the stranger on the bus: life does not provide equal welfare for all its residents.'
He later posted a photo of the moment on Facebook, showing the bald man in a leather jacket slumped on the floor of the car looking down as he gripped the seated woman's hand.
The story he shared with the photo quickly began being reposted - and to date has been shared over 31,000 times.
'I was hesitant to take their photo at first because I wanted to respect their privacy, but I decided to go through with it because I want to remember the moment for my memory,' Ehab told Today.com. | positive |
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Below is a schedule of June theater organized chronologically by opening date. Each show title is linked to a relevant website.
Elise Kibler and Owen Campbell
Keep in mind that some of the hottest theater this month is at the summer theater festivals (which I’m not listing below.)
Color key: Broadway: Red. Off Broadway: Purple, blue or black. Off Off Broadway: Green.
June 1
“David Huntington is losing his grip on reality. In pursuit of answers, David suddenly finds himself preoccupied with a mysterious phenomenon that’s plaguing the world’s elephant population. “
June 2
The first-ever revival of “I’ll Say She Is,” the Marx Brothers’ first-ever Broadway musical — the only one not made into a movie. My review of it at the Fringe two years ago.
June 6
— a musical about James Joyce and his wife.
Sean Hayes replaces Jim Parsons in this reprise of a joke-filled show about the Almight, inspired by an irreverent Twitter account
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ drama about family forced to deal with the ghosts of its past. “Tensions escalate between Tate and Joanne after their mother has a stroke. As they attack each other in their mother’s hospital room, they are ambushed by two strangers who make a shocking claim about their grandfather during WWII.”
June 7
A Funny Thing Happend on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center of New York City (MCC at Lucille Lortel Theatre)
Halley Feiffer’s play about a foul-mouthed twenty-something comedian and a middle-aged man embroiled in a nasty divorce who are brought together unexpectedly when their cancer-stricken mothers become roommates in the hospital.
June 8
Indian Summer (Playwrights Horizons)
In this romantic comedy by Gregory S. Moss, two 16-year-olds forge an unlikely friendship amidst the class warfare in a small Rhode Island town.
June 9
In this revival of Conor McPherson’s thriller, which ran on Broadway in 2006, Matthew Broderick portrays John, who is seeks counseling after the unexpected death of his wife. “Though shaken by the loss, John is troubled by more than just grief; he has begun to see his wife’s ghost in their home.”
June 11
An encore run of an hour-long family show based on four of Eric Carle’s children’s tales: ‘The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse,’ ‘Mister Seahorse,’ ‘The Very Lonely Firefly,’ and ‘The Very Hungry Caterpilla
June 12
Tony Awards broadcast
June 14
All-female cast, starring Janet McTeer as Petruchio, and Cush Jumbo as Katherina.
June 19
A new comedy by Israel Horovitz about four women and the 100-year-old man who loved them. Starring Judith Ivey and Estelle Parsons.
June 23
A young journalist is assigned to write about sexual assault on college campuses and must find a unique angle that will sell the article. During her investigation, she encounters a student with a horrific story to tell. Determined to bring the events to light, this ambitious reporter refuses to let anything stop her— including the truth.
June 28
Based on true stories, Living Lotus Project’s new play explores the lives of teenage girls and their triumphs over adversity.
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