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Oct 31 2011
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Oct 31 2011
You're an Ego-Maniac! Mrs. Grinch
Tea Party tells Bachmann, "Time to GTFO" The Tea Party has had enough of Michele Bachman according to the "American Majority", a Tea Party activist group that operates in seven states and has over 370,000 followers on facebook. "It's time for Michelle [sic] Bachmann to go."- American Majority President Ned Ryun.
Oct 30 2011
Investigation Under Way in Scott Olsen Shooting
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Oct 30 2011
More Islamaphobia and Anti-Liberalism in Texas
This is why we can't have nice things Like many gun store owners, Crockett Keller offers concealed handgun classes at his store and is licensed to do so by the Texas Department of Public Safety. He will gladly teach you how to properly carry your weapon, unless of course you are a Muslim or Liberal, …
Oct 30 2011
God Save The Queen
The U.K. rewrites succession laws The U.K. has changed it succession policy for the first time in over three hundred years. Now, the first born royal child, regardless of gender, will be heir to the throne. Huzzah. Mandates from Heaven have never looked so sexy.
Oct 30 2011
Cop Versus Cop
Awesome in action A Florida Highway Patrol Officer pulled over Fausto Lopez after she had observed the man weaving in and out of traffic at speeds in excess of 102 mph. The kicker is that Fausto Lopez is a City of Miami Cop and was driving a patrol car. The heroic highway patrolwoman pulled the …
Oct 29 2011
Sign This and SSSD
If you agree with ending discrimination against non-religious Soldiers, please sign this petition. Last time I checked there were just a handful more signatures remaining, so let's push this over the edge. Other than that, long day here so SSSD is in effect. See you all tomorrow.
Oct 28 2011
Conservative "Family Values" Politician Pedophilia Case #128,731.5
At least there is a twist of sorts… completely crazy, but a twist. These days, before one runs for office, you take the time to get vetted. Lest political scandals arise as your opponent digs into you. So when Linda Wall, a republican candidate for the Virginia House of Delegates, decided to run, she knew …
Oct 28 2011
Beck Mocks War Veteran
Of course he doesn't check his facts…It's Glenn! A few weeks ago, Iraq War veteran SGT Shamar Thomas was featured on a viral video chastising the NYPD for unwarranted acts of previous police brutality at OWS. "There is no honor in this! This is not a warzone!" – SGT Thomas Beck, took the opportunity …
Oct 28 2011
Scott Olsen Made It Through Two Tours and Gets Shot By American Cops
Because the natural reaction of getting pelted with paint is to shoot someone in the face I have previously blogged about the dangers inherent in less than lethal munitions (read rubber bullets). Shooting someone is the head with one is as good as using real bullets when it comes to killing capability. It is one …


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Following a color guard entry by the U.S. Naval Sea Cadet Corps, the National Anthem and Pledge of Allegiance, Lieutenant Colonel Kenneth Alford gave an invocation.
Mayor Keith McGlashan welcomed the approximately 200 people attending before speeches on Veterans Day by Shorewood students Malik Drammeh and Hazel Navarro.
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Shoreline resident Dwight Stevens, chairman of the Shoreline Veterans Day committee, and an Air Force veteran from World War II introduced three veterans who live in Shoreline who were singled out for special recognition: Manfred Wolfensteine who served in the Army during World War II including landing in Normandy on D-Day; Sonny Alvarez, who served in the Army in Vietnam and later in the National Guard and State Guard; and finally Coffey who served in both the Army and Navy, including stints in Vietnam, Desert Storm and Desert Shield.


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After 30 years of giving Christmas to needy children all across Grady County, Santa has found himself homeless.
Santa's Workshop, a local organization which makes it possible for parents to give their children gifts for Christmas, has lost their building.
Their building was donated by Richard Adams for six years, but unfortunately the location is now for sale.
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OKLAHOMA CITY — The state of Oklahoma is strong and Gov. Mary Fallin asked legislators to continue making it stronger at the governor's annual State of the State address Monday at the state Capitol.
Oklahoma state government has helped the state's economy flourish, she said. State government has set the stage for job creation and personal income growth and has restored the state's economy to 2008 pre-recession job levels, Fallin said.
"We have achieved those results by prioritizing our spending, promoting pro-business policy and lowering taxes," Fallin said.
Fallin asked legislators to reduce the top income tax bracket from 5.25 percent to 5 percent. This reduction would result after the first $8,700 of income made by every Oklahoma taxpayer, she said.
The fourth highest job growth rate belongs to Oklahoma with more than 62,400 new jobs created in two years, Fallin said.
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"All children deserve a world-class education, regardless of their ZIP code. We believe great schools make great students, which make great communities and a stronger state," Fallin said.
One way to further strengthen Oklahoma's work force is by emphasizing science, technology, engineering and math at all levels of public education, Fallin said. Jobs in these fields are growing three times faster than other jobs, Fallin continued.
"Unemployment in Oklahoma has been reduced by 30 percent from a high of 7 percent at the end of 2010 to an enviable 5.7 percent today — one of the lowest unemployment rates in the nation," Fallin said.
Fallin proposed a $13.5 million increase to education to fund recently enacted reforms, as well as an $8.5 million supplemental funding request to pay for teachers' health benefits.
Families are the strength of Oklahoma, Fallin said. Oklahoma's median family household income has risen by $4,000 since 2011 to place the state No. 1 in the U.S. for per capita income growth for families, she said.
Fiscal responsibility has been restored to state government, Fallin said. A record high of nearly $600 million has increased the state's Rainy Day Fund from $2 since January 2011.
Frivolous malpractice lawsuits are at a 10-year low for the state, and recent workers compensation reforms have reduced the total cost of claims, Fallin said.
She called for more conversion from state gasoline-powered vehicles to compressed natural gas vehicles. Using CNG cars and trucks will save taxpayers millions of dollars in fuel costs, support energy jobs and grow our state's revenue, Fallin said.
Fallin praised legislators for consolidating the IT resources of 50 agencies for a savings of $84 million. The state will add another 30 agencies to its list for a potential savings to approach $239 million over seven years, Fallin said.
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MOORE — Joplin, Mo., knows the devastation a tornado can create and Shelter Distribution has seen the destruction from the powerful storms first hand. Shelter Distribution and the people of Joplin, with the help of the Salvation Army, answered the call for help in Moore.
Peter Lippert, Shelter Distribution regional manager, said his company had trucks and equipment on site from the first day after the storms, moving supplies and unloading trucks with forklifts designed to be used off-road.
"There were trucks rolling in (with supplies) but no way to get the stuff off the truck," Lippert said. "We have fork-trucks made to do that, so we took them down there. One of our (truck) driver's wife is with the Red Cross, so we've been able to be involved from Day 1."
Lippert decided to call Lt. James Curry of the Joplin Salvation Army with his idea. He wanted to use one of his trucks to bring needed items given by the people of Joplin to the victims of the tornadic storms in central Oklahoma in May. Curry was delighted by the idea.
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Shelter Distribution collected donations from residents of the Joplin area with the help of the Salvation Army at their Joplin branch and sent the truck to Stillwater to pick up cleaning supplies from an associated company to donate in Oklahoma City. The Salvation Army set up a distribution point in the west end of Crossroads Mall and received the truck there.
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Bassist Trevor Bolder, who played with David Bowie's Spiders From Mars, Uriah Heep and Wishbone Ash, died yesterday after a long fight with pancreatic cancer. He was 62. Uriah Heep announced Bolder's death on their website.
Bolder joined Bowie's backing band in 1971, replacing Tony Visconti on bass in time to play on four of Bowie's studio albums, including Hunky Dory in 1971, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars in 1972 and Aladdin Sane in 1973.
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"Trevor was a wonderful musician and a major inspiration for whichever band he was working with," Bowie said in a statement. "But he was foremostly a tremendous guy, a great man."
Bowie parted ways with the Spiders From Mars ways after Pin Ups in 1973, and the bassist joined Uriah Heep in 1976, playing on four albums including Firefly, Innocent Victim and Conquest before the band fractured in 1981. After a short stint with the hard-rockers Wishbone Ash, Bolder joined a new lineup of Uriah Heep, the band he stayed with until his declining health forced him to quit earlier this year.
"Trevor was an all time great, one of the outstanding musicians of his generation, and one of the finest and most influential bass players that Britain ever produced," Uriah Heep said in a statement.
Born in June 9, 1950, in Kingston Upon Hull in Yorkshire, England, Hull came up on the local R&B scene before joining guitarist Mick Ronson in the band Ronno in 1970.
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Chapter 1: Overview of Open Atrium
Chapter 2: Setting up a Web Server
Chapter 3: Installation
Chapter 4: User Administration
Chapter 5: Dashboard
Chapter 6: Groups
Chapter 7: Document Library
Chapter 8: Blogs
Chapter 9: Case Tracker
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Chapter 11: Customization
Chapter 12: Open Atrium and Drupal Maintenance
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Appendix B: Features & Theming
- Chapter 1: Overview of Open Atrium
- What is Drupal?
- What is Open Atrium?
- Intranet in a box
- Team spaces
- Blogs
- Calendar
- Group dashboard
- Document library
- Shoutbox
- Case Tracker
- Summary of features
- Who should use Open Atrium?
- Summary
- Chapter 2: Setting up a Web Server
- System requirements
- Web server
- Browsers
- Web server platform
- Hosted web server
- Local web server
- Mac installation—MAMP setup
- Windows installation—WAMP setup
- Summary
- Chapter 3: Installation
- Part 1: Creating a database
- Step 1: Launching phpMyAdmin
- Mac (MAMP)
- Windows (WAMP)
- Step 2: Creating a database—Mac (MAMP) and Windows (WAMP)
- Step 3: Creating a database user
- Part II: Drupal and Open Atrium installation
- Installing Open Atrium distribution
- Step 1: Setting up your site
- Step 2: Downloading
- Step 3: Open Atrium browser installation
- Part III: Drupal administration
- Open Atrium home page
- Administration menu
- Summary
- Chapter 4: User Administration
- User management
- Adding a user
- User two
- User three
- Member directory
- All users
- Blocked users
- User admin tasks
- Profile
- Account settings
- Profile
- Picture
- OpenID
- Dashboard
- Features
- Notifications
- User roles
- Summary
- Chapter 5: Dashboard
- Main dashboard
- Group dashboard
- Spaces
- Group spaces
- User spaces
- Modifying the dashboard
- Layout
- Block items
- Calendar
- Message of the day
- Summary
- Chapter 6: Groups
- Importance of groups
- Organic groups
- Creating new groups
- Private group
- Public group
- Group settings
- Customize features
- Reorder menu
- Archive
- Members
- Joining a public group
- Summary
- Chapter 7: Document Library
- Creating a new book
- Adding a child page
- Revisions
- Highlight changes
- Revisions tab
- Attachments
- Printing book pages
- Reference this via Blog entry
- Summary
- Chapter 8: Blogs
- Enabling the blog feature
- Attaching a file to a blog entry
- Editing blog entries
- Revisions
- Summary
- Chapter 9: Case Tracker
- Anatomy of a bug
- Enabling the Case Tracker feature
- Creating a new project
- Entering new cases
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- Title
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- Body
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- My cases
- Projects
- Moving a case between projects
- Identifying a project
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- Reactivation
- Viewing cases
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- The Calendar page
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- Appendix A: Resources
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- Documentation
- Download
- Other sections
- General Drupal resources
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- What is a Feature?
- Contributed features
- Locating the community contributed features
- Writing your own Feature
- Theming
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What you will learn from this book
- Add all the major features of an intranet to your site with Open Atrium
- Get to grips with Open Atrium's interface and its features
- Install Open Atrium and customize it for your organization or company
- Create sub-sites (spaces) for each of your teams, departments, or workgroups
- Manage users and create a member directory
- Add core features packaged with Open Atrium such as Blog, Calendar, and Issue Tracker
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- Maintain your intranet by performing routine maintenance tasks
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In Detail
In today's global society, online collaboration has gained tremendous importance as businesses look for ways to share ideas and collaborate easily. Open Atrium is a powerful and flexible Drupal installation that provides intranet solutions to businesses and organizations for sharing ideas. It is used to create intranets where co-workers or teams can collaborate easily. But Open Atrium is filled with so many powerful features that you may need some help to use it to its full potential.
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This book starts off with explaining how to set up a web server on a Windows or Mac computer and install Drupal with the Open Atrium distribution. After installing Open Atrium you will learn how to add and maintain users. The book also covers some exciting topics such as the different "spaces" or "workgroup" micro-sites that can be created to match your organization's structure. Reading each of these sections, you will understand and become familiar with managing the Open Atrium interface. Once you comprehend the Open Atrium interface, you will learn how to create a blog, document library, and issue tracker for each group's dashboard or site page. The book covers everything from editing a single piece of content to arranging the layout of that content on each page.
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PORTLAND, Oregon (KGW) -- An Astoria mother faces big fines because her toddler accidentally dialed 911 a total of 16 times.
Police said if this had been a one-time mistake, they would not have cited Jessica May, but dispatchers said they received seven calls from her phone last Thursday and nine others before that, dating back to January.
May says she was in the bathroom when her 1-year-old daughter Ayla found her phone and started playing with it.
"It was an honest mistake," May said.
Her phone was in the "locked" mode at the time, May said, but it's still possible to dial emergency numbers without unlocking it.
After the sixth call, an officer gave May a warning, but when it happened again, she was cited for abusing 911.Do not war for peace. If you must war, war for justice. For without justice there is no peace. -me
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What drives our dispatchers nuts is that people give their children old cell phones to play with but they are still charged and will call 911 even though the service is terminated. We get "disconnected cell" calls all day long, many times a child is on the other end, babbling away. Tracking them or determining who/where the call is coming from is next to impossible. E911 does not show the incoming number of a disconnected cell and you cannot call it back.
My first LE job was as a dispatcher. My last job was running the Communications Center and Detention Division so Communications holds a special place with me. I agree with charging mom if she can't put the cell phone up out of the way of the child. A call or two is understandable, 16 calls over a period of days shows apathy on mom's part. Dispatchers have a hard job anyway and constant false calls are an irritation and they can busy up a dispatcher when a real emergency is coming in.*************************"It wouldn't take much for me to up and run...to another life somewhere in the sun."*************************"There's something inherently wrong with having to put on a bullet-proof vest and a gun to go to work."-(An old friend)
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I was once patrolling in my home town when I overheard the local dispatcher broadcast a call to attend a silent 999(911 or 112 if your a European) call.
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turned out my then 1 yr old had managed to get hold of the phone. It didn't happen again.the sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.
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On May 19, voters in Malawi will go to the polls to elect their next president. The Democratic Progressive Party has been in power for the last four years and is fielding President Bingu wa Mutharika as its candidate once again.
Despite facing a strong alliance of the main opposition leader and a former president, the incumbent is expected to win on the back of an economic boom.
Though critics accuse Mutharika of rigging his way into office, he is credited with helping to improve Malawi's economy. Since he took over, the country has experienced an average economic growth of 7 percent.
"He inherited a very politically and economically mismanaged legacy … and it was a very tall order to get the country running, to try to get the confidence of very important external players in Malawi," said Dimpho Motsamai, a political analyst at the Institute for Global Dialogue in South Africa who specializes on Malawi.


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A Haunting Reverence: Meditations on a Northern Land
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Citing a need for a contemplative reckoning between humankind and nature, author Kent Nerburn invites readers to leave the banter abd laughter of daily discourse behind and to tune into a quieter voice--that of God within the land. In this volume, he guides the willing toward nature's lessons and the emotions nature provokes.
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Opposing viewpoint: On Bolts recovering from loss & more Seguin
Throughout the Bruins-Lightning Eastern Conference Final, TheBruinsBlog.net will collaborate on Q&A features before every game with Jon Jordan 0f Beasts of the Southeast over at Kukla's Korner. Here's the latest installment, where Jon responds to questions about the Lightning's adjustment, their response to a rare loss and talks about how to stop Tyler Seguin.
MK: Well, it looks like the score is James Bond 1, Dr. Evil Guy Boucher 1. In the movies, once Bond foils the sinister plot, the story ends. But Boucher and the Lightning get a real-life opportunity to get back at it, and on home ice. So what does the mastermind have in store? What adjustments will be made? Could we see any sort of a lineup change?
JJ: The focus – and perhaps the singular focus – will be on returning to the structure of their system for the Lightning, who were as freewheelin' as you'll ever see them in game two, a recipe that helps make for an exciting game maybe, as we saw last night, but not so much for a Tampa Bay win. In November, the Bolts actually managed an 8-7 victory in Philadelphia over the Flyers but Boucher was none too pleased, despite the two points. Last night, had the Lightning prevailed, you still wouldn't have seen a happy head coach afterwards. About 99% of that first period, in particular, was unacceptable, as compared to what has brought Tampa Bay its biggest successes this season.
I don't expect anything to be pulled from any bag of tricks. Instead, the Bolts will dance with the girl that brought 'em – and hope their two-step turns out better than Boston's in game three. I also wouldn't expect anything in the way of a lineup change, as there isn't exactly a murderer's row of impact players at Tampa's disposal among the Black Aces bunch.
MK: It's been a long time since the Lightning lost a game. How do you think they'll respond emotionally to a defeat, especially one that was so uncharacteristic of the way they play?
JJ : One of this club's strongest assets – another direct influence of the attitude of their head coach – has been their ability to move on to the next task at hand, regardless of the most recent result. That is, win or lose, Boucher's Bolts are often already looking ahead to their next tilt when plenty of others would either be hanging their hands at an unsatisfying effort or overjoyed at a positive result. The Lightning don't seem to have that in them so, even if last night had ended up 8-3 Boston (as I actually expected it might, on several occasions), I wouldn't have much in the way of concern for any kind of carry-over.
Instead, by and large, the game two loss is already forgotten and the focus has shifted to regaining the series lead in game three. We knew from the onset that this had the makings of a long series and the Bolts got an apparently necessary reminder of just that last night.
For a team that has showed such resiliency and composure, however, I couldn't help but wonder intermittently during game two whether or not the relative ease with which they handled Boston in game one, paired with a stunning 2-1 lead after a very poorly executed first period last night, might have had a negative effect on Tampa Bay, collectively. Ordinarily, I'd never accuse this team of looking a gift horse in the mouth, based on the intangibles they've shown all year but, at times, as I said, I allowed my brain to wonder if just maybe things had come a bit too easily for them in the first four periods of this series.
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Hairstyles, Habits, and Holiness
Parts of me, unlike my thinning hair, are going to last for eternity. I don't want them to stay the way they are.
BY: Terry Mattingly
When I was a teenager, it took forever to get my hair right. There was this one place that was really bad, behind my right ear. My hair wanted to flip out. I wanted it to flip under.
Every morning, with a freshly-washed head of hair, I'd try to get the flip behind my right ear under control using one of the crude early forms of male hair-drying technology.
I did this year after year after year. The ritual became a part of me. Three or four years ago, I noticed that it no longer took nearly as long to carry out this duty. In fact, I rarely have to curl that flip under any more. It meekly does the right thing, pretty much on its own.
For better, or for worse, I have won that battle.
The flip behind my right ear is still there. But it has been brought under control, through years of training.
I guess if you do something long enough, it changes you.
There are many, many parts of me that are not under control yet. Believe me, I know that. I need to confess that, over and over and over, year after year after year.
When I became an Orthodox Christian, I didn't mention this hair ritual thing in my first confession. Perhaps I should have. I am sure that this tale says a lot about me.
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Miami is a playground for the rich and famous. Celebrities flock to parties at South Beach clubs and then return to their $10 million mansions in Miami Beach and Key Biscayne. It's a leading city in culture, finance and international trade. But away from the glitz and glamor, many ordinary Miamians are struggling.
A crippling housing crisis has cost multitudes of residents their homes and jobs. The metro area has one of the highest violent crime rates in the country and workers face lengthy daily commutes. Add it all up and Miami takes the top spot in our ranking of America's Most Miserable Cities.
The most famous way to gauge misery is the Misery Index developed by economist Arthur Okun in the 1960s, which combines unemployment and inflation. Our take on misery is based on the things that people complain about on a regular basis.
We looked at 10 factors for the 200 largest metro areas and divisions in the U.S. Some are serious, like violent crime, unemployment rates, foreclosures, taxes (income and property), home prices and political corruption. Other factors we included are less weighty, like commute times, weather and how the area's pro sports teams did. While sports, commuting and weather can be considered trivial by many, they can be the determining factor in the level of misery for a significant number of people. One tweak to this year's list: we swapped out sales tax rates for property tax rates. Miami would have finished No. 1 under the old methodology as well (click here for more details about the criteria for the list).
In Miami there is a growing divide between the top 1% and the rest of the metro area. Life is good for the likes of LeBron James and Latin pop crooner Enrique Iglesias, who's building a $20 million compound on a private island with girlfriend Anna Kournikova, but if you're among the 75% of households with an annual income under $75,000, it can be a hard place. The median home price is down 41% the past three years, sixth worst in the country, to $169,000. It's great news for first-time homebuyers; not so great for the 47% of homeowners in Miami sitting on underwater mortgages.
A whopping 364,000 properties in the Miami area have entered the foreclosure process since 2008, according to RealtyTrac. The number of foreclosure filings slowed in Miami and across the country last year, but the housing market is far from a comeback.
Miami voters are fed up. Last year 88% voted to throw Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Alvarez out of office in the biggest recall ever of a municipal government official. They were dissatisfied with property tax hikes he pushed though during Miami's real estate meltdown, while doling out raises to staffers at the same time. Miami residents were further outraged by the city and county covering 80% of the cost of the Florida Marlins $634 million stadium set to open in April despite the Marlins turning fat profits in recent years.
To replace Alvarez, Miamians selected retired firefighter Carlos Gimenez in an election that featured Luther Campbell of 2 Live Crew fame, who famously was brought up on public obscenity charges for performing songs from his album "As Nasty As They Wanna Be." The controversial rapper, who promoted an exotic dancer tax during his mayoral campaign, finished fourth with 11% of the vote. Consider: 11% of voters thought "Uncle Luke" would be the best choice to run the eighth most populous county in the U.S.
Gimenez's office took issue with Forbes' use of some data from 2010 for our ranking. "We've completed a number of initiatives and infrastructure projects during the past two years, which if used in the measurement criteria for your report, would dramatically change its result towards a much more positive position for Miami-Dade county," the mayor's office said in a statement. "In addition, our crime rate has been moving downward steadily, our property taxes were dramatically reduced last year by over $200 million, and our unemployment rate has been reduced by around 30% since last summer and continues to move downward."
What we need to do is be much more smart about the wars in which we get involved. Spending hundreds of billions of dollars on wars which accomplish little is a huge mistake and a mistake we can no longer afford.
you are right, they live better in Europe, more humanitarian society, America needs a kind of real postcapitalism with american dream for middele class. Respect Miami 's worse city is not true, wrong message. Any guetto in New York or L.A. is worse, go to Detroit suburbs, go to border cities.. Miami is a peacefull city with a lot of senior enjoying the life, misery is a questions of meaning
your listing of detroit suburbs is completely false. they have some of the best suburbs in the nation, including the grosse pointes, bloomfield and birmingham. all very wealthy. also, the grosse pointes are located on the greatest boating lake in the world.
Socialism works great in Europe??? You don't read the news do you? Everyone's happy because they don't have jobs and everyone gets wasted every night without a care in the world. If being poor with no future is "working" then I guess you are right.
Britain is the only exception in Europe.
Yes, but which ones are still on the road?
I'm not going to do your research for you but; I challenge any "liberal" or "Democrat" to "Bing" or "Google" each and every one of these cities and ask yourself, "How many are run by Democrats and, like my hometown of Detroit – have been for years, if not decades?"
I will be blunt; the only cities in the nation run by leftists ("Democrats" is an arcane and useless term. These people are not the heirs of Jefferson but rather the heirs of Marx, Engels and Ayers) that aren't hellholes are those like Madison, WI that rely on government and university jobs for most of their employment.
Scratch the scab that is America's most miserable cities and, you will find the left, erstwhile "Democrats" under the scab.
And yet, the most miserable, abused and exploited people in America will trudge back to the polls in November and vote to re-elect representatives of the party of lies and destruction.
The left destroys everything it touches and; there is no clearer evidence than this catalogue of misery.
@ tominmichigan, watch this video (if you haven't) and spread it around to those afflicted with the delusional, twisted logic harbored by extreme leftists. This is not a jab at leftists but the ultra progressives who have nary a strand of logic left in their DNA:
"Former KGB agent Yuri Bezmenov explains how Jewish Marxist ideology is destabilizing the economy and purposefully pushing the US into numerous crises so that a Big Brother tyranny can be put into place in Washington, how most Americans dont even realize that they are under attack, and that normal parliamentary procedures will not alter the federal governments direction."
Tom…I agree…
But you have to remember…the only leftists' that can read, write, and do basic math are the politicians, educators, and media.
The rest are functionally illiterate drones. They can't think beyond today's emotion of the moment.
In effect the functional leftists have provided a permanent slave class for corporate.
The reference to "Jewish Marxist ideology" means I absolutely will NOT watch this video and "spread it around."
There is NO place for anti-Semitism in this world. No real conservative is also an anti-Semite.
If one takes the time to look into the issue of the financial condition of these cities, one finds the housing bubble, the financial crisis, the Great Recession and the resulting unemployment and loss of tax revenue is one of the major reasons these cities are in bad financial shape. Many of these cities over the years have had economies which were major contributors to industrial engine of the United States, but globalization with it's outsourcing of manufacturing jobs has continually eaten away at these cities' industrial bases by sending more and more of the jobs overseas. In addition, several of these cities had economies, which because of the industries and businesses composing their economies, were simply more vulnerable to the effects of the Great Recession. As for the Great Recession caused high unemployment in some of the cities, several states including Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee, ranked right up near the top with some these cities in percentage of unemployed.


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The puck drops here.
At least that's what the Johnstown Tomahawks have in mind for former Stanley Cup-winning Pittsburgh Penguins forward Bill Guerin.
Guerin will drop the ceremonial first puck and help the Tomahawks face off their second North American Hockey League Tier II Junior A season at Cambria County War Memorial Arena on Sept. 14.
"We couldn't have found a better person to do this," said Tomahawks President Richard Bouchard after Thursday's announcement. "With Bill's character, he's a great influence to young men who are trying to move on in their hockey careers."
Last season, the Tomahawks played their first home game in front of a sellout crowd as Penguins Hall of Fame owner Mario Lemieux dropped the ceremonial first puck.
The Tomahawks' ownership group and Penguins have a solid relationship that resulted in multiple cooperative efforts. Penguins Matt Cooke and Chris Kuntiz signed autographs for hours during a Tomahawks game. Pens mascot Iceburgh made an appearance. Former Pittsburgh player and current broadcaster Phil Bourque was at a meet-and-greet event prior to last season.
A group of locked out Penguins players had agreed to participate in a charity game at the War Memorial, but plans were scrapped days before the sold-out event when the NHL lockout ended.
"The relationship between the Penguins and Tomahawks and our ownership group is very strong," Bouchard said. "When we talked to Bill about doing this he was more than happy to come and show his support of what the Tomahawks are doing with hockey in western Pennsylvania."
Guerin, 42, joined the Penguins late during the 2008-09 season and helped the Sidney Crosby-led team win its first Stanley Cup in 17 years and third overall. The right wing retired a year later after an 18-year career that included two Stanley Cup wins. He is in his third season as a player development coach for the Penguins.
"The idea has always been to bring an entertainment value to our hockey fans in Johnstown," Tomahawks General Manager Rick Boyd said. "A guy like Bill Guerin exemplifies what Johnstown hockey is all about with his demeanor and his style. It's another exciting time for the Tomahawks and their fans."
Boyd said Guerin brought intangibles to the Pittsburgh lineup and helped the team take the next step after losing to Detroit in the 2008 Cup Final.
"The key word to Bill Guerin is leadership," Boyd said. "When the Penguins made a move to bring him in, it was to solidify their leadership in the locker room. Obviously he could play the game and he played a tough, gritty style. The passion and leadership he brought to the Penguins was the most important thing."
The home portion of the Tomahawks' season will once again begin at 5 p.m. Sept. 14 with a HockeyFest on Napoleon Street adjacent to the War Memorial. Last year, 2,000 fans participated in the pregame event, which included food, music and other activities.
The Tomahawks will face the Port Huron Fighting Falcons at 7:30 p.m., following an indoor fireworks display.
"The exciting part is that our entire organization did a fabulous job of recruiting," Boyd said. "Not only do we have some good veterans coming back, but we also have some really exciting young guys coming into their first year of Junior and you're going to see some of these guys on the first or second line in their first year."
Boyd listed new forwards Shane Bernard, Collin Finkhouse, Joe Drabin and Trevor Recktenwald as potential scorers. Defensemen Alex Jaeckle, Brady Bender and Ryan Bittner are top additions as well as experienced goaltender Alex O'Kicki from the former Kalamazoo team.
"One of the things we wanted to improve in the offseason was getting guys who can score goals," Boyd said. "We potentially have four power-play lines dressing every night. Some teams in the league they have guys they have to hide in the lineup. We have four lines, six defensemen and two goalies we can dress every night and we don't have to hide."
The Tomahawks continue to be community oriented. The team is in the middle of a 30-day stretch in which players interact with the community through visits to hospitals, schools, festivals or by personally delivering season tickets.
"It's been fantastic. I couldn't be more pleased," Bouchard said. "We promised from the very first day that we'd be out in the community and promoting youth hockey and doing what we can in schools and hospitals. From our veterans to our rookies, they're more than willing to be involved. It shows what class that these young men have at such a young age."
Bouchard believes the commitment and passion will carry over to the ice.
"We're really looking forward to the second season," Bouchard said. "We want to take our hockey to the next level and try to win the Robertson Cup. We think we've put together a real strong squad and I think the people of Johnstown are going to be happy."
Mike Mastovich is a sports writer for The Tribune-Democrat. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/masty81.


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Saturday, December 07, 2002The Valparaiso women's swim team finished the Mid-Continent Conference Championships with a strong showing by earning a third place finish, just 18 points shy of a runner-up position.
Oakland won the meet with 1,017 points, followed by Western Illinois (622 pts.), the Crusaders (604 pts.), and IUPUI (562 pts.).
The Brown and Gold began the final day with a third place finish in the 200 medley relay as Lauren Bambach (Dublin, Ohio/Dublin Coffman H.S.), Ashley Seale (Maryville, Tenn./Maryville H.S.), Katie Urbas (Ballwin, Mo./Marquette H.S.), and Leah Schneider (Sussex, Wis./Arrowhead H.S.) touched the wall in 1:54.54.
Bambach came back in the next event to earn an eighth place finish in the 200 backstroke with a time of 2:16.85. Britt Nelson (Cortland, N.Y./Homer H.S.) followed with the fourth fastest time in Valpo history in the 500 freestyle (5:17.05), placing fourth in the event. Urbas finished fifth in the same event (5:23.58), while Maggie Kroemer (Brown Deer, Wis./Milwaukee Lutheran H.S.) finished seventh (5:28.14), and Daniella Trombatore was eighth (Redding, Calif./Shasta H.S.) (5:38.02) giving the Crusaders four swimmers in the top-eight.
Seale turned in a big performance in the 100 butterfly, finishing second with a time of 59.50 seconds, the second fastest mark in school history. Urbas finished fifth in the event with a time of 1:00.89.
Amanda Banholzer (Sammamish, Wash./Skyline H.S.) was Valpo's lone top-eight finisher in the 200 breaststroke, placing fifth with a mark of 2:36.46.
A trio of Crusaders finished in the top-eight in the 100 free. Daniella Trombatore (Redding, Calif./Shasta H.S.) led the group with an sixth place finish with a time of 56.10 seconds, while Bambach (56.29) and Laura Sadowski (Brookfield, Wis./Brookfield East H.S.) (56.48) were seventh and eighth respectively.
In the 200 individual medley, Schneider placed fourth with a 2:16.64, while Julie Fisher (Valparaiso, Ind./Valparaiso H.S.) finished eighth, touching the wall in 2:21.37.
The Crusaders concluded the meet with a fourth place finish in the 400 free relay as Seale, Trombatore, Nelson, and Schneider touched the wall in 3:42.50.
The Brown and Gold will return to action on January 9 when they host Hope in a 5 p.m. meet at the Athletics-Recreation Center.
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FRANKFORT — A retired U.S. Army officer from Brandenburg plans to seek the Democratic Party nomination to challenge Republican Second District Congressman Brett Guthrie.
Ron Leach, who will turn 49 this Friday, is a southern Ohio native and a retired 29-year career military officer who now lives in Brandenburg.
Leach will likely make the elimination of a brigade combat team at Ft. Knox an issue, according to his campaign manager Lacey Connelly. Leach was stationed at Ft. Knox when he retired.
Leach recently penned a letter-to-the editor to newspapers around Ft. Knox criticizing "federal representatives" for being taken by surprise by the announcement of the Ft. Knox cutbacks which will likely cost the area as many as 10,000 jobs. The letter did not mention Guthrie by name.
Like Leach, Guthrie is a former military officer, having graduated from West Point before earning a Master's Degree from Yale.
But in a brief telephone interview Monday, Leach said he couldn't understand the apparent surprise by Guthrie about the Ft. Knox announcement following more than a year of discussion about downsizing the military.
He said Guthrie should have been aware of the possibility of cutbacks at Ft. Knox and "pushed back against it" because the brigade had only come to Ft. Knox in 2009 after significant investments in infrastructure and by the local communities.
Connelly said Leach will promote policies to "grow the middle class with broader equality and opportunity."
"I've been a farmer, teacher, medical professional and a soldier but never a politician," Leach said in a press release announcing his candidacy. "I can't sit by when Congress cares more about satisfying lobbyists and special interests than helping working families. That has to change, and I'm running to change it."
Guthrie, an Alabama native who now lives in Bowling Green, was first elected in 2008 when he defeated Owensboro state Democratic Sen. David Boswell after incumbent Republican Ron Lewis decided not to run for re-election. In 2010, Guthrie easily defeated Owensboro contractor Ed Marksberry.
Scott Jennings, a spokesman for Guthrie's campaign issued the following statement after Leach's announcement.
"Representative Guthrie is focused on balancing the federal budget, repealing and replacing Obamacare with health care solutions that bring down costs for working families, and passing legislation that makes it easier for Kentuckians to find good paying jobs. Brett looks forward to continuing to fight for conservative values in the weeks and months ahead."
Leach didn't shy away from distinguishing his views on the economy and the middle class from Republican positions.
"For 20 years they've abandoned the middle class, attacked workers and enriched the few," Leach said.
Asked how he might respond to Republican attempts to link him to Democratic President Barack Obama's policies, Leach said, "I'm siding with the Kentuckians of the Second District who have not been represented in Congress since the passing of Congressman (William) Natcher."
Natcher was a Democrat from Bowling Green who represented the district for nearly 40 years before his death. Republicans have held the seat since then.
Leach's biography on his campaign website (www.ronleach4ky.com) indicates he has a BS in agriculture and education from Ohio State University and a BS in Medical Science. He served in the Army as an enlisted man and non-commissioned officer before becoming a commissioned officer and eventually attaining the rank of Major and serving as a physician's assistant.
He served four combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, including the final time with Third Brigade Combat Team from Ft. Knox.
Leach said his campaign will file a Federal Election Campaign report by July 15. He said the campaign is still crunching numbers and declined to say how much he's raised.
Connelly, his campaign manager is a West Virginia native who previously worked on John Edwards' presidential campaign in Iowa and for the Iowa Democratic Party's coordinated campaign for Heidi Heitkamp's successful U.S. Senate race.
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As far as Melissa Lazzari is concerned, her Farmington family would not have had a Christmas if it wasn't for the surge of help and donations from the community after a Dec. 20 basement fire destroyed nearly all their Christmas presents and displaced them from their 48 Harold Rd. home.
"Our kids unwrapped amazing amounts of toys these people gave us," said Lazzari, the mother of four boys, Andrew and Johnathan, a preschooler and kindergartener, respectively, at the University of Hartford Magnet School, Nicholas, a fifth-grade student at in Farmington, and Alexander, a seventh-grade student at Irving A. Robbins Middle School in Farmington. "It took a long time."
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Avon Board of Education Chairwoman Peggy Roell, whose husband, Bill is scout master for Avon Boy Scout Troop 274, and Peter Kawa, assistant cub master for Avon Pack 122, .
"I can't even put it into words," Melissa Lazzari said. "They gave us hope and support. They saved our Christmas."
Kawa obtained the list of Christmas presents Lazzari had bought for the boys, along with a list of some basic necessities, on Dec. 21. Alexander Lazzari is in Avon Boy Scout Troop 274 and Nicholas is in Pack 122, as they used to live in Avon.
"There are so many instances where families needed help and the pack and troop pulled together to help," Lazzari said. "They're so close and amazing when it comes to support."
More than 50 families pitched in something, Roell said. That included backpacks filled with paper and crayons, board games, remote control cars, coloring books, a soccer ball, books, hats and clothes, to name a few. Kawa's son, Alex, even donated the $40 card he won as a reward for another Pack 122 fundraiser.
"I got fuzzy socks," Melissa Lazzari said. "I was so excited."
Farmington Social Services Department workers, who the Lazzaris got to know at Farmington's emergency shelter during the power outages following the October nor'easter, also gave the Lazzaris "two garbage bags full of gifts," a Highland Park Market gift card and holiday basket. They also paid for the Lazzaris to stay at the on Route 6 in Farmington over the weekend, so they'd have a place to sleep on Christmas.
"It's funny how it just circles right back around," Lazzari said.
The Lazzaris were able to salvage a Christmas tree that decorated the outside of their home, so they brought it to the apartment-style hotel room. Tuesday, the boys played with some of their toys, which were stored under and around the ornament-laden and angel-topped tree.
The Lazzaris also spent the holidays with family in West Hartford, Newington and Rocky Hill.
The nurse and principal at the University of Hartford Magnet School donated $300 in Walmart gift cards for basic necessities such as medicine and toothbrushes. The "coffee club moms" that Lazzari has coffee with on a weekly basis gave them a $100 Target gift card.
Nicholas Lazzari's teacher at West Woods, Kate Campbell, also gave the family some gift cards.
"I have never seen anything like this in my life," Melissa Lazzari said. "From the bottom of our hearts, thank you to each and everyone."
The Fire
On Tuesday, Dec. 20, it was a different picture.
It was the first day of the "four days of Yule," a tradition the Lazzaris do annually leading up to Christmas, each son getting a day devoted to him. The kids make each other and their parents gifts. Each boy gets to pick the meal for his "Yule" day. Lazzari left the house at 1:30 p.m. that Tuesday and brought Andrew, Nicholas and Alexander to the doctor before going to Stop & Shop to get food for their family holiday. She and the boys returned to their home around 4:15 p.m. Nicholas went inside to use the bathroom and quickly bounded out yelling to his mom to call 9-1-1 after seeing some smoke.
Lazzari searched the house and initially found no sign of fire, until she saw that one of her kitchen vents was melted. Her first reaction was that the oil tank in her basement would explode. She and the kids rounded up their two huskies, Diamond and Sunshine, and their tabby cat, Shadow, and quickly drove to a neighbor's to call 9-1-1.
Four fire trucks came, but no flames were found because the fire went out on its own. Lazzari and her husband, Tony stood outside for over three-and-a-half hours as the firefighters and fire marshal were at work.
The cause of the fire is still undetermined.
The basement was completely destroyed, as was about 30 percent of the first floor. There was no sheet rock between the ceiling and insulation, which Lazzari said was flammable, so the fire spread there, but stopped a foot short of a cabinet full of paint thinners.
"The rest [of the house] was unbelievably smoke damaged," Lazzari said, who said an electrician visited the house on Tuesday to assist with the investigation of the cause of the fire.
It could take three-to-six months to repair the damage to the house, Lazzari said. The basement will need to be gutted and the home will also require new insulation and electrical wiring.
"We're hoping to save the framing of the walls," Lazzari said.
The Lazzaris have rented the single-family home for two years and now the concern is finding a place to stay until the home is habitable again. Finding a short-term lease will be a challenge, Lazzari said, and staying at the hotel on their dime is costly.
The family's cat is staying with them and the huskies are at in Canton in the meantime.


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The Scales of War Adventure Path concludes the heroic tier of play with "The Temple Between." The PCs return to the city of Overlook, its saviors now on multiple occasions. But as the city marshals for a war with an as-yet-unknown foe, the PCs' attempts to aid the city are rebuffed, strangely, at every turn. As they seek to discover the forces at play, they learn of a new threat to the safety of Overlook, Elsir Vale, and possibly more. Can they act in time to prevent the city's fall? Can they secure an important alliance to aid their efforts? And can they fend off the force of the latest threat to the vale as a new enemy reveals itself?
The western end of Elsir Vale has been greatly troubled in recent days. The threat of the orc hordes from beyond the Stonehome Mountains, though turned back at Bordrin's Watch, still lingers in the people's minds. Peculiar and hostile creatures of shadow lurk in the caverns and caves below. Political squabbling grows among the city's powerful dwarf clans.
All this makes the city particularly vulnerable to an enemy nobody saw coming -- that nobody even imagined. This enemy has goals and objectives far beyond the ultimately unimportant Elsir Vale, but the first step is the utter subjugation of Overlook.
An enemy who, at least in part, is already here.
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