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CLEVELAND — John R. "Bob" Kangas, 74, of W. Main Road, passed away Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013, at UH-Case Medical Center.
Funeral services will be held 11 a.m., Friday, Feb. 8th, at Conneaut Church of God, 5327 Center Road (Rte. 7), Conneaut, with Pastor Carson Robson officiating. Burial will follow at Kelloggsville Cemetery.
Calling hours will be from 5 to 8 p.m., today, Feb. 7th, at Thompson-Smith Funeral Home, 345 Main St., Conneaut, Ohio, and from 10 a.m. until time of service, Friday, at the church.
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Houston County Habitat for Humanity Golf Tournament
The 11th annual tournament will be held Friday at The Waterford Golf Club in Bonaire. Lunch will be at 11 a.m., and the shotgun start will be at 1 p.m. The format is a traditional four-player scramble with A and B flights. The cost is $60, which includes lunch. Sponsorships from $100 to $5,000 are available. For more information or to register, visit www.hocohabitat.org or call 328-3388.
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A four-person scramble will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at The Landings Golf Club in Warner Robins. The cost is $300 per team. Proceeds benefit Warner Robins First United Methodist Churchs youth ministry. Register online at www.fumcwrga.org.
A Day in the Sun Charity Golf Tournament
Houston Healthcare is holding a golf tournament May 4 to benefit the Volunteer Medical Clinic of Houston County. Lunch is at noon, and the shotgun start is at 1 p.m. at The Landings Golf Club in Warner Robins. The cost is $60 per player, which includes lunch. Sponsorships are available ranging from $100 to $2,500. For more information, call 319-8819 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
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A couple of years ago, my friend and fellow Metro Pulse film reviewer Nick Huinker asked an interesting question in this very column space: "Are we ready yet to be grown up at the movies?" Nick was writing about Shame, director Steve McQueen's grim take on sex addiction, but he could just as easily have been referring to Blue Is the Warmest Color, which rolled into Knoxville on a wave of controversy thanks to its notoriously graphic lesbian sex scenes. The sequences account for less than 15 percent of the film's three-hour running time—far more screen time and creative energy are devoted to the movie's many dinner scenes and even classroom discussions—but it seems the answer to Nick's question is "sorry, no."
And it's not just those with delicate sensibilities who are fretting over it what is ultimately a very small part of a very ambitious film. Queer outlets have been just as wrong-headed; one magazine even assembled a panel of lesbians to watch the sex scenes and hold forth on how accurate they are. Please tell me that sounds creepy and weird to you, because it sounds very creepy and weird to me.
Anyway, it's a childishly reductive approach to discussing a sophisticated and remarkably perceptive film. If any movie has cataloged the birth and death of first love so insightfully, so genuinely, and so completely devastatingly, I don't think I want to see it.
The film turns on a love affair, but it's really a character study of one young woman. When we first meet Adèle (Adèle Exarchopoulos), she's a 15-year-old high-school student in Lille, France. She begins dating a kind, handsome boy and sleeps with him, but can't figure out why she's bored with him. A chance encounter triggers a slow awakening; Adèle passes a blue-haired girl on the street one day and can't stop thinking—and fantasizing—about her. She eventually tracks down Emma (Léa Seydoux), an art student who is several years her senior, in a lesbian bar, and the two begin a courtship that soon blossoms into a fierce and lengthy love affair that will define much of Adèle's life.
It's not much of a spoiler to say the film eventually becomes an autopsy of sorts. Anyone old enough to be legally admitted to the theater will know the kind of breathless, breakneck passion that exists between Adèle and Emma really can't last. Since the film spans a decade of the women's lives, we're there for both the initial fall—hopeful, thrilling, ecstatic—and the final, fatal moment of impact when it finally hits the ground and shatters. We see the cracks form. They're hairline fractures at first: small concerns born of the girls' radically different backgrounds and aspirations; the first time their electric passion for another begins to flicker. The movie isn't as grim as the book upon which it's based—in Julie Maroh's 2010 graphic novel, the break-up drives Adèle to a fatal drug addiction—but it's no less devastating in its ability to conjure so thoroughly those memories of an ill-fated first love. If the film doesn't leave you feeling a little bit broken, you've either been very lucky or very lonely. And yet, there's not the slightest inkling of contrived, Hollywood-style manipulation. The emotions on display here, and the memories they evoke, feel like the real thing.
Also unlike the book, where the story is told from Emma's perspective, director Abdellatif Kechiche and screenwriter Ghalia Lacroix keep the older girl at arm's length. The film's French title, which translates to The Life of Adèle – Chapters 1 & 2, is more telling. Adèle's relationship with Emma doesn't begin in earnest until a full hour into the movie, and we follow her for a considerable length of time after the relationship has come unraveled. It might be one of the most intimate and perceptive character studies ever committed to film, thanks in large part to a remarkable turn by newcomer Exarchopoulos, whose performance deserves every ounce of the praise it's reaping.
As for the lesbian-sex elephant: Yes, those scenes are every bit as graphic as you've heard, and they go on for what seems like a very long time. The film's NC-17 rating is entirely earned, at least according to the standards set forth by the MPAA. I'm not sure the scenes are entirely necessary, but I'm just as reluctant to deem them gratuitous. If this age of restorations and director's cuts has taught us anything, it's that great movies can be undone by relatively minor changes, so perhaps the scenes are exactly as long and as explicit as they need to be. Honestly, I don't care, because Blue Is the Warmest Color is a great movie and it will continue to be a great movie whether knickers are twisted or left relatively unbothered.
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President Obama is in Cushing, Okla., where he issued a specific memorandum to federal agencies, not just to build, but to expedite the approval of the southern leg of the Keystone XL tar-sands pipeline.
Many concerned citizens are also in Cushing today. Indigenous communities, landowners, environmentalists, and Occupy activists showed up strong in spirit in opposition to the pipeline.
But they weren't at the pipe yard from which President Obama trumpeted his plan to expedite the southern segment -- a pipe yard owned by TransCanada, the Canadian oil company backing Keystone XL. These concerned citizens were fenced into a "free speech zone" six miles away from where President Obama stood, threatened with arrest if they attempted to leave the designated area.
Why does this concern me? I am David Daniel, a carpenter and landowner living in Winnsboro, a small community of 3,000 in East Texas. The southern leg of the pipeline, if approved, would cut straight through my property and the heart of my community. This pipeline would carry tar-sands oil -- the world's dirtiest oil -- from Cushing, Okla., past my home to refineries in Texas.


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By Katie Dahlstrom Herald Assistant Editor
The Clinton Herald
---- — DAVENPORT — After nearly 12 days of testimony, closing arguments started Wednesday in the city of Clinton's legal malpractice suit against the attorney who represented it in a 2009 federal False Claims Act lawsuit.
The city is suing Michael Walker and his law firm Hopkins and Huebner, claiming they were negligent in their representation of the city in a lawsuit brought by former Clinton firefighter Timothy Schultheis that alleged the city knowingly submitted false ambulance claims to Medicare and Medicaid.
In 2010, the city settled that case for $4.5 million, which leaders now claim was too much, too soon and the result of Walker's negligence. The city is seeking $4.67 million to recoup the costs of the settlement as well as attorney and expert fees.
Two questions need to be answered, the city's attorney, Mike Hannafan, told jurors as he delivered his closing arguments Wednesday afternoon. First, would the city have won the False Claims Act case either by getting it dismissed or in trial if it had been represented by a competent attorney? Second, did Walker and his law firm commit legal malpractice?
The city's False Claims Act case was Walker's "guinea pig," Hannafan said.
Walker has testified he had not heard of the False Claims Act before accepting the city's case, practicing mainly in litigation, municipal law and insurance. Hannafan likened Walker's work on the case to a family doctor trying to perform brain surgery.
"He saw a chance to make the big time and make a lot of money for his firm," Hannafan said.
Hannafan criticized Walker's handling of the case, using the testimony from the False Claims Act expert the city retained, Ronald Clark.
The defense's legal expert, Guy Cook, wasn't believable, Hannafan said. Cook was recently chastised by U.S. District Chief Judge Linda Reade for violating a rule that prevents attorneys or anyone working for them from contacting jurors after a case has been decided. Cook also, by his own admission, was not a False Claims Act expert and did not read the settlement agreement when forming his opinion that Walker was not negligent. Hannafan also contended that Cook was biased towards Walker and his attorney Bob Waterman because Cook had represented the senior partner from Walker's firm in a case several years ago.
Walker's first breach of the standard of care was accepting the case, Hannafan said. He went on to tell the jury that not filing motions to dismiss the case at an early stage, not talking to paramedics besides EMS Director Andy McGovern, not calling a representative of Firehouse software about the duplicate reports that were discovered and not deposing Schultheis also showed Walker's negligence.
Hannafan later turned his criticism to Schultheis, calling him a "know-it-all" with "an ax to grind."
"I think he's a liar, but that's for you to decide for yourself," Hannafan told the jury.
Schultheis filed the False Claims Act case on behalf of the U.S. government under seal in September 2008, a little more than a year after he joined the department and three months before he worked his last shift as a firefighter. The case was unsealed in September 2009 after the government decided not to intervene, which is when the city retained Walker.
When he testified in the first week of trial, Walker detailed several obstacles he saw in the city's potential to prove it didn't knowingly submit false claims and in turn defend itself against the allegation of Medicare fraud.
Walker testified he saw the city's practice of budgeting for 100 percent of its ambulance calls at the higher advanced life support level as a red flag, but he did not ask former fire chief Mark Regenwether about the budgeting process, which Hannfan cited as another negligent act.
The Schultheis complaint alleged the city knowingly, deliberately or recklessly submitted the false claims under the direction of the EMS director and fire chief, McGovern and Regenwether, respectively. McGovern was subject to undeserved abuse, Hannafan told the jury.
McGovern was in charge of training paramedics on coding ambulance runs, which were ultimately billed through accounting specialist Sarah Nolan in the city's finance department.
In a 2009 meeting with a federal prosecutor and Medicare fraud investigator, the city was told to add a second code to claims and informed the feds didn't see any fraud, Hannafan said. Following the meeting, they applied the second code as instructed.
Further, firefighters believed they were following the ALS assessment rule correctly, Hannafan said, asserting that Walker testified Schultheis' understanding of the ALS assessment rule was incorrect.
"They had no intention of cheating the federal government," Hannfan said. "They thought (they were) doing it right."
If McGovern thought he was defrauding the government, why would he recommend Walker contact Douglas Wolfberg to be used as an expert witness, Hannafan asked.
Moving on to Walker's interactions with Wolfberg, Hannafan said Walker should have kept track of Wolfberg. According to Wolfberg's bills, he didn't start reviewing records until July 12, 2010. The date on which Wolfberg signed a document allowing him to accept records for review also was contrary to Walker's testimony that Wolfberg mentioned duplicate reports on a March 15, 2010 conference call, Hannafan said.
Walker's misrepresentation of Wolfberg's 60 percent advanced life support and 40 percent basic life support ratio as a national standard rather than an off the cuff remark also came under fire during Hannafan's closing. In a closed session meeting with the city council on April 13, 2010, Walker told the council the city had a real problem based on its 99 percent ALS rate when compared to the 60 percent touted as the national average. Council members during that meeting authorized Walker to offer a $1 million settlement.
At that point, Walker had already contacted Schultheis' attorney about a settlement, e-mails show.
Hannafan pointed out several times in his closing argument that mistakes are not actionable under the False Claims Act and the claims have to be knowingly or intentionally false. In the 12 days the jury has been hearing testimony, jurors did not see a single claim that was knowingly prepared as false, Hannafan said.
Waterman was expected to deliver his closing arguments this morning, followed by Hannafan's rebuttal. After closing arguments, it will be up to the jury to decide if Walker and his firm were negligent, if that negligence caused the city damages and if so, how much the city should receive.


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My first sight of stone crabs could have been when my mother and father took us to Joe's Stone Crab in Miami Beach when I was very young. I'm not even sure we went to Joe's. But it's likely. My parents loved the lifestyle of the island back in the 1950s, while they were still young and still in love.
I remember some of the restaurants, but I was merely a boy. I'm sure I was not likely to be digging into the claws of crabs as much as I might have sought French toast with a river of maple syrup.
When I first came to Florida to live, I went clear down to Key West. I was 21. It was much more of a working fishing town than it is today. In the 1970s, the shrimp, lobster and stone crab boats still worked the harbor at Land's End Village.
The first place I cooked in was a barbecue place, the Midget. We lived at a former saloon named the Red Doors. I met a guy with long blonde hair and fair skin known by the name of Yellow Bird. Many folks had nicknames in Key West then -- Monkey Tom, Buckets, Sideways.
I met Yellow Bird behind the Half Shell Raw Bar. He had just gotten out of jail and was eager to get back his job stone crabbing. I was curious to know about life at sea, and Yellow Bird was a great guide. We drank from cold aluminum cans and enjoyed a smoke, too. He got a kick out of the fact that I was cooking. I couldn't understand why -- I was just a low-paid grunt laborer.
I came to a barter relationship with Yellow Bird. My boss let me take home the ribs at the end of the night that hadn't sold and had sat on the grill too long to be of use. Yellow Bird was allowed to take home a few pounds of crab after each trip out. He had his fill of crabs and I'd burned out on ribs. So we swapped.
I asked him if he could bring me some greenies (crabs not yet cooked) sometime. The crabs were always fully cooked and iced on board the boats. I was curious to see what could be done if I made a flavored broth and steamed them in that. Though he seemed intrigued at the notion, I never did get my greenies. But I did get a lesson.
He told me how the crabs reproduced. He said the male crab has to wait for the woman crab to molt (another way of saying lose her hard shell) before the male can make it with her. It's amazing to see that the male will stick around for hours, or even days, to protect her.
He added, "Too bad we don't see more of that up in our world." He also told me of the creatures that eat stone crabs: "Stone crabs get eaten by more than humans, bro. Grouper and cobia love 'em. It's a trip to see a turtle snappin' one in his jaws."
I confessed that I didn't think I could handle being out in the dark water with no land in sight for nights on end like he could. He finished a fragrant smoke and slowly replied, "I thought you were smart, Norm. The ocean is our mother."
One afternoon I went to visit him on the boat. I had not realized he played the drums. His drums were the plastic buckets that were used to deliver the stone crabs to the restaurants in Key West. He played them with a fervor. He was covered head to toe in sweat, sitting shirtless out on the deck in the open sunlight.
I went down to Key West the other day, just before Thursday's end of stone crab season. I ran into my old friend. He had gotten skin cancer from the life he lived. He was still going out on the water, but he had to protect himself with a hat and goggles. In fact, every inch of skin was covered.
He carried on with his work. When I looked at him scuttling back and forth across the deck, all I could see of Yellow Bird were his eyes -- like a crab -- wreathed in its protective shell, evading life's predators.
Chef Norman Van Aken began his cooking career in Key West in the 1970s and once oversaw the kitchen at Tavern 'N Town at the Marriott Beachside. In 2012, he co-wrote "My Key West Kitchen" with his son Justin. He is considered the creator of what's called new-world cuisine. This is reprinted from the Miami Herald.


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Huevos Rancheros
Huevos Rancheros make a tasty brunch item after a late night like New Years Eve. The salsa, refried beans, the toasted tortilla shells and the lime crema all can be made the day before so putting them together New Years Day is easy and stress free. It is just a matter of re-heating the salsa and floating the eggs on top then pop it in the oven for 10 minutes. Reheat the refried beans while the eggs are in the oven, then it is just a matter of putting them together. This works well for a crowd. If you double the recipe, just use a 9 x 13 baking dish instead of a sauté pan to cook the salsa eggs. You can go mild or hot depending on your guests. I left one half of a jalapeno with seeds which made my salsa just slightly spicy. Cooked jalapenos are much milder than fresh so keep that in mind when you decide on how much seed should be left in the jalapenos. These are a big hit with my teenagers who love Mexican food.
Toasted Tortilla Shells
8 each 6" flour tortillas
Cooking Spray
Salt to taste
Inverted muffin pan
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Spray and salt both sides of the tortillas. Place them between the muffin cups on the back side of a muffin pan. See picture. Bake for 8-10 minutes or until lightly brown. Let cool for a few minutes then remove from muffin pan. When completely cooled, store in an airtight container until ready to use.
Roasted Salsa
8 large Roma tomatoes, cored
1 medium Spanish onion, peeled and quartered
2 large jalapenos, stemmed, cut in half with some seeds
3 large garlic cloves, peeled
Kosher salt to taste
½ cup of cilantro, finely chopped
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. On a sheet pan lined with foil spray with cooking spray. Add the tomatoes, onion quarters, jalapeno halves and garlic cloves. Roast for 45 minutes turning them over half way through. Remove from oven and let cool slightly. Add the roasted tomatoes, onion, jalapeno, and garlic cloves to a blender and coarsely chop. Salt to taste and fold in the cilantro. Can be made ahead and stored in the refrigerator. Reheat on low heat in a sauté pan.
Refried Beans
15oz can of Pinto Beans seasoned with pork (Luck's brand)
½ large jalapeno with seeds, finely chopped
½ cup of onion, finely chopped
½ teaspoon of chili powder
3 Tablespoons of bacon grease
In a large sauté pan, heat the bacon grease on medium heat. Add the onions, jalapenos, and chili powder. Sauté until the onions are translucent, about 5 minutes. Add the pinto beans and mash with a potato masher until coarsely mashed. Cook until heated through. Can be made ahead and stored in the refrigerator. Reheat on low heat in a sauté pan.
Lime Crema
½ cup of sour cream
½ lime juiced
In small bowl stir the sour cream and lime together. Pour into a small Ziploc bag and store in the refrigerator. When ready to use snip a very small hole in the corner with a pair of scissors. Squeeze the bag and zig zag the crema over the cooked eggs.
Huevos Rancheros Assembly
8 large eggs
1 recipe of salsa
1 recipe of refried beans
1 recipe of toasted tortilla shells
1 recipe of lime crema
2 Tablespooons of chopped cilantro
Black Pepper
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. In a large sauté pan heat the salsa on medium heat. Once the salsa is hot, crack the eggs over the top and place in the oven for 8-10 minutes or until desired doneness. While the eggs are in the oven, reheat the refried beans in a large sauté pan on medium heat. If it is too thick add a little chicken stock. Once the eggs are cooked, remove from the oven. Spoon about 2 tablespoons of refried beans in each toasted tortilla shell. Using a large serving spoon, scoop out each egg with salsa and place on each tortilla shell. Top with the lime crema, chopped cilantro and black pepper. Serve immediately.
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I've been watching episodes on FEARnet and I can't believe it only has 1 season. I'm going to purchase the DVD asap but I'd still prefer it if the show were revived somehow.
How come this show was canceled?
How come this show was canceled?
hoe comes the show was cancelled!?thecarpenter666 on Sunday, December 12, 2010 - 6:42pm
sorry mate i aint got a clue, ! maybe everyone jus died, !!
Re: How come this show was canceled?Buffyhotep on Sunday, December 19, 2010 - 2:04pm
Which show? SorrY DUH brain freeze!
I have no clue
Re: How come this show was canceled?HeadlessHessian on Thursday, January 6, 2011 - 9:19pm
I watched a few episodes and I really, really wanted to like it, but the stories were just kinda bad. Things were to cliched and just the same old stuff.
That is just my opinion.
Re: How come this show was canceled?HELLFIGHTER on Thursday, January 6, 2011 - 10:21pm
Maybe if you got 50gazillion people and marched them up to the studio to protest. . . MAYBE. . . But NO. Got canceled cause of bad ratings. I watched it. . . . . every episode. . . . didnt see you. So yeah, ratings. My favorite were SKIN AND BONES and EATER. But except for those and one other was KINDA nice, the others were nothing great. I thought SKIN AND BONES should get an award it was frikken GREAT. Moody, creepy and frightening.
Re: How come this show was canceled?madman321 on Wednesday, February 16, 2011 - 12:01am
any one ever watch that show the gates on abc i like that show but it was canceled,,but i dont no what show your talking about
Re: How come this show was canceled?HELLFIGHTER on Wednesday, February 16, 2011 - 1:31am
The message board "category" is FEAR ITSELF, thats the show.
Re: How come this show was canceled?Dead_EMT on Tuesday, March 22, 2011 - 2:40am
They never said it was canceled , I would love to see season two somewhere down the line though .
How Depressing.MidnightDrew on Saturday, August 27, 2011 - 11:41pm
Man, this show seemed to deliver scares every now and then. I just thought they may be looking for more Directors or something like that.
Perhaps it will return...same with Masters of Horror...
its like they show up to scare you and then they disappear...
I'm standing hear waiting for a pycho to jump out and scare me and nothings happen.
Come on...Bring the series back for one more round.


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Kelly Phillips Erb, Contributor
I cover tax: paying tax is painful but reading about it shouldn't be.
Are you ready for some football?
Preseason is in full swing already for the NFL and yet all anyone can talk about in the football world is college football. Specifically, the chatter is centered on the University of Miami. Yes, Miami.
Unfortunately for the Hurricanes, the talk focusing on Miami has little to do with the current season or the current players. Instead, it's about Nevin Shapiro, a 42 year old former University of Miami football booster, who is currently serving a 20 year sentence in federal prison for running a Ponzi scheme (a la Bernie Madoff) worth nearly a billion dollars. That kind of money can buy you a lot of friends. And allegedly, while Shapiro was a University of Miami booster, he bought a lot of friends – up to 72 of them in the way of University of Miami athletes including such names as Jon Beason (now a Carolina Panther), Devin Hester (now a Chicago Bear), Willis McGahee (now a Denver Bronco), Antrel Rolle (now a New York Giant) and Vince Wilfork (now a New England Patriot). Shapiro allegedly bankrolled the lifestyles of these young athletes by giving them cash and jewelry and entertaining them with hookers; he is said to have even purchased a yacht to hold sex parties for the athletes.
The allegations are pretty serious.
The worst part? They're also not totally unbelievable.
The NCAA has been dodging a number of charges lately about questionable conduct from boosters and supporters. Most famously, after a lengthy and disturbingly quiet investigation, the NCAA found that Reggie Bush (now with the New Orleans Saints) received improper benefits while at USC, leading to sanctions against the university. Last year, Bush also gave up his Heisman Trophy
to keep his endorsements to make people like him as a public display of regret.
Shortly thereafter, Ohio State Coach Jim Tressel was forced to resign among allegations that his players received free tattoos and other perks from a local tattoo parlor.
Other football teams have been investigated for similar charges, including Auburn (where players admitted accepting money from boosters) and LSU (where a coach paid a player to transfer). Scouting and recruiting scandals involving cash and other perks have also been reported at Oregon and Georgia Tech.
With that, the University of Miami scandal just seems like the next notch on the NCAA's dirty bedpost.
It used to be different. College ball used to feel like it was all about the love of the game. College athletics seemed like an opportunity for some kids go to school, play a little ball and get an education.
How about the property tax exemption for the stadiums and various training spots for this business?
Athletics are an integral part of the University experience. Can anyone imagine Notre Dame without football? Or UCLA without basketball? A handful of major programs make money, but the vast majority are subsidized. I don't think the issue should be just about whether the activity makes money, but is the activity part of the nature of a university – part of its soul.
Wrong. It's about the current season and 15 current players, as well as the former players. Here's someone worse than Madoff. Read then forward this link to everyone you know, so they don't get scammed: http://texsquixtarblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/who-is-worse-bernie-madoff-or-rich.html
Is this gigantic complex of interlocking enterprises – football, hoops, bowl games, playoffs, and the new money spigot, Sports networks – a business? Yes, for sure. Should they be taxed on their profits, and on their consumption of public services? For sure.
But the amazing thing is how delusional the whole business is. Most schools outside the top 20 or so football powers lose money on their operations. All too many tax their student bodies – through mandatory fees – for the privilege of having sports on campus. So for federal tax purposes, there might not be as much to collect there as you might think. However, local taxes on stadiums might bring in a few bucks.
The entire charade would be less cynical if they just started to pay their athletes some small consideration for the billions they bring in. It makes no sense to admit a student with limited means and not provide some support for their realistic living expenses, much less a fair buck for the work that they do.
Finally, I would like to throw the flag on one bit you wrote: "while SAT scores now range from 600 to 2400 for college students, the NCAA allows athletes who score 820 (downloads as pdf) to participate in Division II programs so long as they maintain a C average. "
The required SAT minimum of 820 is based on the classic two parts (reasoning, math) of the SAT; thus the relevant comparative range would be 400 to 1600. To be sure, a score of 820 on a test where you get 200 points per part for just showing up (400 total for the two parts) is nothing to write home about. If the prospective student can even write, that is; apparently the NCAA does not examine a students performance on the Writing portion of the test in the examination of academic eligibility.
I agree with you on taxes but I believe there is a far greater issue and that is the American public's obsession with football and basketball to the detriment of receiving a quality education and it starts in elementary grades all the way through grad school doctorate programs. Even Dr. Michio Kaku says the U.S. has the worst educational system in the world. We have far to many people with college degrees and high school diplomas that can't read write or spell but clearly understand the x and o's in a play book.
a very controversy article.
I get where you're coming from, Kelly. But I don't think that profit is every collegiate athletic program's primary motive. With that being said, I wonder about the practicality of actually policing the tax-exempt status of college athletics. Would be interested to hear your thoughts re: actual implementation of some sort of system to police these tax-exempt programs.


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Keck Medicine magazine
Keck News & NotesKeck/USC Dean's Report
Bookmark this page for the latest news, events and links of interest for and about faculty and staff of the Keck School of Medicine.
Newly appointed associate vice president for USC Health Sciences Public Relations and Marketing and senior associate dean of the Keck School of Medicine will provide leadership to help grow and strengthen the visibility and reputation of the entire Keck Medicine enterprise.
As part of a multinational, collaborative effort, researchers from Keck Medicine of USC have helped identify more than 100 locations in the human genome associated with the risk of developing schizophrenia. In what is the largest genomic study published on any psychiatric disorder to date, the findings, which are published online in Nature, point to biological mechanisms and pathways that may underlie schizophrenia. These pathways could lead to new approaches to treating the disorder, which has seen little innovation in drug development in more than 60 years.
Highly regarded infectious disease specialist Brad Spellberg, M.D., has been appointed chief medical officer of the Los Angeles County+University of Southern California (LAC+USC) Medical Center and professor of medicine and associate dean for clinical affairs at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, effective July 1.
Molecular microbiologists from the Keck School of Medicine of USC have discovered that mice lacking a specific component of the immune system are completely resistant to sepsis, a potentially fatal complication of infection. The discovery suggests that blocking this immune system component may help reduce inflammation in human autoimmune and hyper-inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and Type 2 diabetes.
Continuing its tradition of excellence and innovation in the clinical neurosciences, Keck Medicine of USC has established the USC Neurorestoration Center, a multi-institution collaboration for breakthrough discoveries that, for the first time, bring together neural engineering, neuroscience and neurorehabilitation to restore neurological function in the human brain.
Scott Evans, PharmD, MHA, CEO of Keck Hospital of USC and USC Norris Cancer Hospital, was named Hospital CEO of the year at the Los Angeles Business Journal's annual Healthcare Leadership Awards event held at the Millenium Biltmore Hotel on April 23.
Alia Tutor, wife of USC trustee Ronald Tutor, both longtime supporters of the university, is providing a gift to establish the Alia Tutor Chair in Reproductive Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. The new chair will be housed in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Nearly 4,800 children in the United States are born with profound hearing loss each year, and another 5,000 will develop it by age 5, according to John Niparko, MD, chair of the Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery.


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British Columbia
(Lake Louise, Banff)
Monsterous snow-capped peaks, caniferous forests of pine and spruce, and meandering rivers; it's hard to imagine a more majestic backdrop in North America than that of the expansive Rocky Mountains. Travel in comfort by rail, round-trip from Vancouver, host of the recent 2010 Winter Games, inward through the incredible wilderness of British Columbia and Alberta's Rocky Mountains. With overnight pauses in your journey to explore the lovely resort towns of Banff, Jasper and Lake Louise, you'll get a panoramic sense of the beauty that Canada has kept a relative secret from the rest of the world.
Enjoy a private airport transfer with professional driver.
Enjoy a half day (6hr) private city tour of Vancouver as well as the North Shore in the company of a knowledgeable, Driver-Guide. Throughout the tour you will have the chance to visit B.C. Place, G.M. Place, Science World (Olympic Sites), Gastown - Historical area of Vancouver, Canada Place, Alaska Cruise ship terminal and home of the new convention centre as well as visiting Grouse Mountain Skyride in an enclosed gondola (admission included) and Cross Lion's Gate Bridge. At the end of the tour, you will be brought back to your hotel. (Hotel pick up is also included).
Explore the 'Sea-to-Sky' highway, also known as the road to the 2010 Winter Olympics, on your way to Whistler Village. Marvel at the second largest granite monolith in the world as you travel amidst the 2133 metre high majestic peaks of the Coastal Mountains. Stops en route include Shannon Falls – the 3rd highest waterfall in British Columbia, several view points to take in the glaciers and glacier fjord (Britannia Beach) and admission to the Squamish Lil'wat Cultural Centre and Museum. Your guide provides historical anecdotes and practical information to maximize your four hours of free time to explore Whistler.
The remainder of your day today is spent at leisure.
A coach transfer from the hotel will bring you to the train station today.
Travel onboard the Rocky Mountaineer from the coastal city of Vancouver to Kamloops, in the heart of British Columbia's interior. On today's journey you will see dramatic changes in scenery, from the lush green fields of the Fraser Valley, through forests and winding river canyons surrounded by the peaks of the Coast and Cascade Mountains, to the desert-like environment of theBC Interior. Highlights include the rushing waters of Hell's Gate in the Fraser Canyon and the steep slopes and rock sheds along the Thompson River. Your day concludes as the Rocky Mountaineer travels along the shores ofKamloops Lake into Kamloops.
A coach will be waiting at the train station to transfer you to your hotel.
The remainder of your day is at leisure.
Your journey continues north and east to the mighty Canadian Rockies and the province of Alberta. Once again you will be surrounded by dramatic scenery as you follow the banks of the North Thompson River through the Monashee and Cariboo Mountains, climbing ever nearer to the high peaks of the Continental Divide. Today's highlights include Mount Robson, at 3,954 metres (12,972 feet) the highest peak in the Canadian Rockies, Pyramid Falls, and the climb over the Yellowhead Pass into Jasper National Park.
Your rail journey ends this evening on arrival in the resort town of Jasper. A coach will be waiting at the train station to transfer you to your hotel.
Spend the remainder of today at leisure.
With a pickup from the hotel, travel by coach to Lake Louise via one of the most scenic highways in the world, the Icefields Parkway. A stop will be made at Athabasca Falls before arriving at the Columbia Icefield. Here you will ride on an Ice Explorer to the middle of the Athabasca Glacier to learn more about its geological features. Your driver/guide will explain how glaciers are formed and point out some interesting geological features. Time will be available for lunch (not included). Afterwards, a brief stop will be made at Bow Lake before arriving in Lake Louise this afternoon.
Spend the remainder of today at leisure.
This morning you are free to explore beautiful Lake Louise on your own.
After lunch, a half-day tour takes you into Yoho National Park to view some of its natural wonders. Among the attractions are the Spiral Tunnels, Emerald Lake and a natural rock bridge that spans the Kicking Horse River. At the end of the tour you will be transferred to Banff. Please note: While departure from your hotel will be approximately 2:00 p.m., scheduled checkout time is normally 12:00 p.m. Your luggage will be stored upon checkout and you are free to enjoy the amenities of the hotel before the tour departs.
Today you will enjoy a sightseeing tour of Banff. Among the highlights are visits to Bow Falls, the Banff Gondola (admission included), Lake Minnewanka, Surprise Corner and the Hoodoos. Continue on to Kananaskis for the highlight of today's adventure, a 12-minute Summit Helicopter Tour over the remarkable landscape of the Rockies.
The rest of the day is free for you to spend at your leisure in Banff. Overnight in Banff.
Meet the coach at the hotel and take a transfer to the train station this morning.
Travel onboard the Rocky Mountaineer from the mountain town of Banff to Kamloops, in the heart of the British Columbia Interior. Your journey takes you through a spectacular array of scenery as you travel between the glacier and snow-capped peaks of the Canadian Rockies, over mountain passes and through remarkable tunnels, along rocky lakeshores and across the ranchlands of the Interior. Today's highlights include the Continental Divide, the Spiral Tunnels, Kicking Horse Canyon, Rogers Pass and Craigellachie, where the last spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway was driven.
Upon arrival to Kamloops, join a coach transfer to your hotel. The remainder of your day is at leisure.
You'll be transfered from your hotel to the train station.
Your journey continues west towards the Pacific Ocean and the coastal city of Vancouver. On today's journey you will again see dramatic changes in scenery, from the desert-like environment of the Interior, through winding river canyons and pristine forests, to the Coast and Cascade Mountains and the lush green fields of the Fraser Valley. Highlights include the steep slopes and rock sheds along the Thompson River and the rushing waters of Hell's Gate in the Fraser Canyon.
Your rail journey ends on arrival in Vancouver this evening, where you will be transfered to your hotel.
The Hampton Inn and Suites Hotel by Hilton in Downtown Vancouver BC is conveniently located on Robson Street in the heart of Vancouver's entertainment district. A member of the Hilton Family of Hotels, the Hampton Inn and Suites by Hilton Downtown Vancouver Hotel offers the corporate and leisure guest, award-winning service, accommodations and lodging at affordable prices. From welcoming marble lobby, warmly decorated with a fireplace and comfortable seating, to cozy second floor mezzanine where you can enjoy your "On the House" Hot Breakfast, The Hampton Inn & Suites features a range of facilities all designed to make you feel instantly at home.
The Hampton Inn and Suites Hotel by Hilton in Downtown Vancouver BC is conveniently located on Robson Street in the heart of Vancouver's entertainment district. The Hampton Inn and Suites in Downtown Vancouver is within close proximity to many of Vancouver's most famous attractions. Take a short walk to get to one of Vancouver's award winning restaurants or hop in a taxi to reach most local attractions within minutes. All spacious guest rooms have been decorated in a naturally soothing "West Coast" tapestry.
Overnight in comfortable accommodations in Kamloops. Exact hotel will be advised prior to embarking the train.
Conveniently located on the main street of Jasper, Marmot Lodge offers 107 well appointed rooms. The lodge is nestled in the trees and visitors can often catch a glance of wildlife from their rooms. Standard Room features Air conditioning, fridge, hair dryer, complimentary in-room coffee and kettle for tea.
The Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise is the only property located right on the lake itself in the heart of Banff National Park. It is one of Canada's most recognized hotels that have all the lodging and amenities to fulfill your every desire. Satisfy your culinary cravings with their exquisite selection of dining rooms. Pamper both body and soul with a facial, massage, manicure or pedicure in their newly renovated spa. Keep in shape on their trails and ski slopes or in their fully equipped Health Club. Take advantage of all that this treasured Alberta destination has to offer.
With chalet accents, the cabin-style Banff Caribou Lodge and Spa is located in the Canadian Rockies, at Banff National Park, and approximately 90 miles from Calgary International Airport. This location is also a 10-minute walk from the town center, three miles from the Upper Hot Springs and Sulpher Mountain Gondola, and four miles from ski lifts. The property's amenities include the individual ski lockers, wax and tuning room, convenience store, Keg Steakhouse and Bar, and fieldstone fireplace in the lobby. The full-service Red Earth Spa offers massages, Vichy treatments, manicures, pedicures, waxing, facial treatments, a jetted hot pool, steam room, and separate workout room.
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Jenna Goudreau, Forbes Staff
I write about business and women's leadership.
Do not underestimate a first impression. According to 2011 research by Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, people assess your competence and trustworthiness in a quarter of a second (250 milliseconds)–based solely on how you look.
"Appearance is extraordinarily powerful because it's the first filter," says Sylvia Ann Hewlett, an economist and the founding president of the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) in New York. "So how do you look the part?"
According to her new year-long study of over 4,000 college-educated professionals and 268 senior executives, conducted by CTI and in partnership with Marie Claire magazine, looking like a leader is the first step to becoming one. In order to portray "executive presence," superiors must perceive you as having gravitas, excellent communication skills and a polished appearance.
While appearance was deemed less important than gravitas and communication skills, it's the very first thing people see. So a major grooming mistake can instantly undermine your chances of showing just how good you really are. From the CTI researchers' interviews with high-level leaders, these emerged as the top seven physical traits that you're being judged on.
No. 1: Grooming
According to the research, good grooming habits—looking "polished" or "pulled together"—is a professional's most important physical asset. Women are judged more harshly here. While 83% of senior executives said "unkempt attire" (including wrinkled or too-tight clothing and visible lingerie) detracts from a woman's executive presence, a slightly smaller percentage (76%) said it undermines a man's. Moreover, women's professional polish includes tasteful accessories, manicured nails and a hairstyle versus a haircut. Whereas, a man's polished look is based on clean nails, shiny shoes, a clean shave and manicured facial hair, according to the report.
No. 2: Posture
Sitting and standing tall is considered the second-most important leadership signifier, no matter what type of office environment you work in. Good posture—meaning planted feet, shoulders back and head straight—reflects confidence and authority. On the other hand, shuffly feet and shifty eyes or a slumped-over torso are often perceived as a lack of respect, energy or engagement.
No. 3: Physical Attractiveness
Studies show that attractive people are more likely to be viewed as smart, happy, interesting and successful. Among the executives surveyed, 16% said physical attractiveness contributes to a woman's executive presence and 14% said the same for men. Moreover, those working in formal business cultures ranked it slightly more important than those in causal work environments. The researchers note, however, that it's "less about being stereotypically pretty and more about consciously highlighting your best attributes and features and taking the time to appear well groomed."
No. 4: Slimness
Being fit may help you climb the ladder—in more ways than one. In the study, 21% of executives said being overweight looks bad for a woman and 17% said it hurts a man. Those numbers more than doubled when it came to obesity (45% and 43%, respectively). In her book The Beauty Bias, Deborah Rhode outlines several studies that link extra weight with negative stereotypes like low self-confidence, lack of discipline and emotional volatility. Additionally, several executives interviewed said that being in good physical shape implies you know how to take care of yourself and, by extension, important projects—regardless of whether it's true or not.
No. 5: Height
While women are judged more critically by their weight, men are more likely to be sized up by their height. Of those surveyed, 16% said it's important for men to be tall, compared to just 6% for women. According to leadership book Management by Chuck Williams, although only 14.5% of American men are six feet tall, 58% of male CEOs running the 500 largest U.S. companies stand six feet or taller—four times the average. Real estate executive Tim Melville-Ross told the CTI researchers that being 6'6" has been "a huge advantage" in his career.
No. 6: Expensive Clothing
Perhaps unsurprisingly, wearing expensive, or at least expensive-looking, clothing was rated as more important for those who work in formal business cultures. However, looking chic but not trendy proves to be more difficult for women, the researchers found, who have infinitely more style choices than men. Executives said that signature accessories—a great shoe or nice watch—go a long way, but flashy jewelry undermines your appearance. Similarly, they said brand names suggest stature, but too many labels are distracting. It's a narrow balance beam to walk. Style experts recommend aiming for "conservative chic" with tailored clothing and tasteful accessories that add a pop of personality.
No. 7: Youthful Appearance
Ironically, women are judged for looking too young and for looking too old, but more critically for the latter. Junior women confided that they secretly hoped for a couple gray hairs to look more experienced, and women in focus groups agreed there is only a small window for not looking too old or too young. "If reminding a client of his grandmother or mother can make you seem outdated or tired, reminding a client of his granddaughter or daughter also has pitfalls," write the researchers.
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Perhaps you are also familiar with the phrase, to many chiefs and not enough indians in your line of work. Which might I add is a lot more stimulating than proof reading a Telephone Directory. it does however seem to be the case that within this snapshot of persons who are more attached their calibre and social status. That they do in fact have a whale of a time at the flagship superstore that inadvertently slams in to the rocks on the shore, just before the baby boom of the next product release. Equality in the workplace has been a productive asset for decades. Though when you are drawing a battle line between both sexes. Is it the Man or the Woman who can easily adapt to sharing the new burden of these additional social workloads.
What is looking "too young" or "too old" exactly? Is this something one who is over 40 or under, I don't know, 22, can mitigate through style choices? Or is it age discrimination?
Thank you, Jenna. At least better clothes and a new hairstyle can help one look older. But what's the remedy for looking too old if you're well dressed and coiffed already? I guess it's starting your own company.
Sure. Sadly, a lot of them can't get jobs.
Thank you for the article. Yes, unfortunately, looks do matter.
The most interesting statistic of your article IMHO was this one, which is surely true elsewhere too: "14.5% of American men are six feet tall but 58% of male CEOs running the 500 largest U.S. companies stand six feet or taller".
Check out "The Loafer Principle" on Amazon.com. It delves into the subconscious decision making that people use to size us up, even without realizing it.


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A plan to revamp Jeffersonville's waterfront marina was voted down by the Jeffersonville City Council on Monday, before approving its own resolution to ensure the marina plan doesn't die.
Two amendments that would allow the city to pay out of its Tax Increment Finance funds to construct a new downtown marina along Riverside Drive were voted down by the council 5-3 with Councilmen Bryan Glover, Zach Payne and Matt Owen voting in favor of amending the TIF plan.
An ongoing process to get approval to build the project had cleared a hurdle with a public notice that had been issued with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which has jurisdiction over the whole project. Public comment on the plan was open until Dec. 2 and Jorge Lanz, president of Jacobi, Toombs and Lanz, Inc., who presented the details on the marina plan to the council, said it would be about 30 days after the public comment period closed before a permit could be issued.
But with the denial, he said the corps will probably pull the permit that was submitted.
Lanz said that the corps has been very clear in seeking the permits to carry out the plan that if the city does not intend to move forward with the project, the permits would not be granted.
He added it would take six months to a year to resubmit for the permits to construct the docks, if the corps would accept them.
"It's dead," said Jeffersonville Mayor Mike Moore. "They've killed it. I'm extremely disappointed some of the council members are anti-progress. The council has had this in front of them for seven months [and] they refuse to move forward."
But the council argued that the actual plans, rather than renderings, were only presented to them on Monday.
"Basically, we're fully supportive of the project," said City Councilman Nathan Samuel. "All we saw was a rendering with no detail."
He said the council wasn't comfortable with the plan being presented Monday, and wasn't willing to commit the funding — yet.
"This is an issue that had whole-hearted support," Moore said. "Nobody is happy with what we have down there now. We had a plan to do it, we had the money to do it."
But the council did take a step, shortly before the meeting adjourned, that it hoped would keep the Corps from pulling the project permit and show that the city was in support of moving forward with a plan to revamp the waterfront.
A resolution was passed — with Glover, Payne and Owen voting against — that authorized the Redevelopment Commission to continue with the marina plans, seek the required permits, but stop short of beginning actual construction on the plan until a full detailed proposal is delivered to the council. But no funding was dedicated to the plan in the resolution.
The plan presented by Lanz on Monday called for 54 individual fixed-boat docks to be constructed, in addition to a 200-foot floating fishing pier in favor of a previously planned jetty. Other improvements included sewer connections, new lighting and a new road with a turnaround along the marina. The engineer's estimate for the project was $2.2 million.
Proposed costs would charge boats up to 24 feet in length $1,200 for a season —April to November — and $600 for winter mooring. For each foot beyond 24 feet, the boat owner would be charged $50 for each additional foot during the season, $25 per foot in the winter.
Current fees are about $1,125 annually.
Boat renters were not pleased with the cost of the rent per year and said that the amenities and exposure and risks of being on the Ohio River were too high.
"What they're proposing doesn't change anything for us except for raising the price," said Chuck Whittaker, a Jeffersonville boat owner. "The way they were approaching it, we're pleased they turned it down."
Whittaker added, as it stands, the boat owners are saving the city money by doing their own maintenance to their own docks.
"We save the city thousands of dollars a year by washing [away] mud and debris," he said.
But they did agree something needs to be done.
"The docks are in disarray," said Carolyn Gordon, a Jeffersonville boat owner. "The docks that are owned by us are not. The docks that are rented are maintained, and they're nice, but the derelict docks that nobody's using are horrible and that's the city's fault."
Gordon said she has been on the river for 34 years and has invested $16,000 in her dock. She suggested offering longer-term leases to encourage more boat owners to invest in building docks on the riverfront.
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I focus on the tax issues of individuals, businesses & more
If you google "Kent Hovind IRS persecution" you will find things like this:
Kent Hovind's followers, however, contend he was prosecuted because of his religious convictions – and because he was so effective in exposing what he calls "the big lie of evolution."
Is that true ?
What Got Me Into This
The recent Tax Court decision in the case of Jo Delia Hovind was followed, probably coincidentally, with the honoring of her husband, Kent Hovind, a federal inmate, by the Creation Science Hall of Fame. CSHF has been refining its discussion of Mr. Hovind's unfortunate circumstances but throughout, Nick Lally, the chairman, has maintained that Mr. Hovind is in prison "out of principle and not deceit".
I at least look at every Tax Court decision and actually read most of them. I look for items of practical value, matter for reflection and humor in deciding which ones to write about. Mainly, I like the cases that have interesting stories to them which made Ms. Hovind's case practically irresistible. If there is interest in the story, I will follow other aspects of it. That accounts for the two posts I have so far done on the Hovinds. This third and possible final one will seek to address one of the many questions that have been raised. Basically has the government been picking on the Hovinds out of hostility to "creation science" ?
Creation Science
I have seen at least one comment on another site to the effect that I obviously don't know much about creation science. Guilty. The explanations that I put in the previous posts were meant just to alert readers to the general nature of the argument. Let me try it again. If you are a Christian who accepts the concept of "scriptural inerrancy" and you adopt a literal interpretation of Genesis, which not all Christians, even all conservative Christians do, you will conclude that the earth is about 6,000 years old. If you go into the geology or biology departments of most colleges and universities, you will have a really hard time finding a lot of support for that view. Hence the need for creation scientists to expose the errors of establishment science, which, since it contradicts Genesis, must be wrong.
OK. Here's the deal. I'm not taking a public position on that issue, but I welcome commenters who wish to use the space below as a forum to talk about things like helium in zircons, radioactive half-lives and people running around with dinosaurs. I'll probably call your comments out and I won't delete them unless you violate my entirely arbitrary and constantly changing standards of decorum. Generally speaking, try to be kind to the poor deluded people who hold the view opposite yours and I'll be glad to have you here.
Is The Federal Government Persecuting Creationists ?
If the Federal Government is persecuting creationists, it is doing a very poor job of it. According to Gallup 46% of Americans believe that God created humans, as they are now, less than 10,000 years ago. The percentage has not changed much in the last thirty years. Of course lack of progress does not prove lack of intent, but there is other evidence that, they are not even trying.
Check out the Form 990 of Answers in Genesis, Inc which grossed nearly 25 million dollars in the fiscal year ended 6/30/11. The people of the Creation Science Hall of Fame hope that when their hall takes tangible form it will be a neighbor of AiG's Creation Museum. AiG is working on an Ark Encounter theme park. There is talk of it being a public private partnership with state economic aid because of its development impact. AiG is merely one of the largests exempt organizations collecting tax deductible contributions to spread the word.
Another example is Creation, Evoloution and Science Ministries which will take you on a tour of the Grand Canyon where you will be shown original CREATION rock, Pre-flood strata and Judgment layers which were laid down during the flood. The Grand Canyon is under the supervision of the National Park Service, by the way, and I can say from personal experience well worth seeing.
Bottom line, it seems rather unlikely that when federal agents went into Kent Hovind's Dinosaur Adventure Land, it had anything to do with what was being taught there.
Corporation Sole
"Corporation Sole" is a way to vest title to property in the holder of an office. It makes sense for hierarchical organizations where the office holder is subject to appointment and removal. It does not make sense for individual led ministries particularly those that do not have an independent board. There is no way to distinguish between the property of the ministry and the individual controlling the ministry. From reading the Tax Court decision in Jo Hovind's case, it is pretty clear that "Corporation Sole" and the associated bells and whistles are at the root of the Hovinds tax problems.
On May 12, 2003, Mr. Hovind created a personal ministry using the CSE Foundation Trust package Mr. Stoll provided. Mr. Hovind executed formal written trust agreements for two trusts, Creation Science Evangelism Ministry and the Creation Science Evanglism Foundation. Mr. Hovind named the Director of Ecclesiastical Enterprises and the Firm Foundation, corporations sole established by Mr. Stoll, as trustees. In the trust package both the Director of Ecclesiastical Enterprises and the Firm Foundation are identified as being under the jurisdiction of the "Kingdom of Heaven". Mr. Hovind is listed as the "CEO Manager" of Creation Science Evangelism Ministry. Petitioner is listed as the "First Position Successor".
Mr. Hovind's Defense
You can find extensive documentation of Mr. Hovind's defense on this site. I have corresponded with him a bit and he places particular emphais on this document. It is a memorandum of law to vacate, set aside or correct his sentence. It is focused on the defects he preceives in his original indictment. To kick off our discussion he wanted me to give him an opinion on it (To be fair I should mention that he offered to discuss numerous things that I alluded to in my post. One of his messages to me is on his facebook page labelled how to debate an evolutionist.) He specified one at a time. I may hear more from him, but at the present time, when it comes to discussions about the federal government, he seems to be focused on the legal flaws in the government's prosecution of him. The Eleventh Circuit did uphold his conviction, but apparently he still thinks there is hope.
If you study the documents and agree with him or think he should be free for some other reason, you can sign a petition for his release here. And of course:
You can follow me on twitter @peterreillycpa.
lol. I was able to watch Kent Hovind from behind in his 'debate' with Mike Shermer. Hovind had a huge power-point slide set, and as Shermer spoke, Hovind was selecting slides for his rebuttal. As soon as Shermer spoke, Hovind was ready to rebut.
Frankly, I was disappointed that night that Shermer hadn't bothered to prepare. All of Hovind's slides were originally in his videos, and all were on-line, and all were B.S.
I ended up surrounded at the end of the talk with angry young men. I had from the audience softly commented, "that isn't true," or "he just lied," every time Hovind lied. Since he lies constantly, a few people got upset.
Kent and a few others are good showmen.
If the opposition isn't careful enough to negotiate for a proper confrontation, the better showman is bound to "win" and, as history shows, young-earth creation-science promoters have had some pretty good showmen.
I take a little pride in the successes I have had with them; most recently in my personal exchange with inmate Kent Hovind.
Too many university professors think they are competent public speakers, and that creationists like Hovind are stupid.
Some may recall that Ed Umpervitch was a FaceBook apologist of sorts for Kent Hovind; had this thing about whether or not we were "public" or "private" persons, but I never could get him to really open up about that and what relevance he thought it had to the Hovind cases.
He was all over Kent's various FaceBook pages.
I just happened to check his FaceBook address and got the following:
> The page you requested was not found.
The messages he posted using that FaceBook page ID also just up and disappeared. Where our paths crossed and we engaged each other, only my part of the conversation remains.
In my latest meet-up with Ed he was promoting Kent's promotion of that bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives that would allow for early release of older inmates who had behaved and served at least half of their sentences.
In response to Ed's promotion of that, I posted the actual text of the bill.
And then Ed disappeared.
I would like to mention a 'third' position to the 'Creationism' debate that I ran across not too long ago, in contrast to 'Young Earth' and 'Old Earth' Creationists, this is called 'CEC' or 'Changing Earth Creationists' and is distince from either prior 'Camp' and I hope that this web site and Blog will be of interest in your research/knowledge of the subject.
The 'discussion' on the web site is not only about 'Creationism' but more than that the whole idea of 'Western Science' and it's meaning in use/misuse of Science in a 'Christian Interpretation' of 'Origons'.
I think you will find this a unique 'perspective' that you have not run across before… But to see that you will have to spend some time doing a 'Close Reading' of the site and see that it might not be as you would initally think if the site is read with some 'prior assumptions' instead of what the site it's self 'brings to the table'. If so I think that you will be rewarded.
(Go down to the sections in Green and those will be more to the point, maybe more understandable, depending what the preceding 'means' to you…)
I don't suppose Peter has run across Victor before, but I and many others have.
He's quite a popular guy on various discussion lists such as:
When it comes to his speculations about science, I think he's quite like Kent Hovind; just gotta have it his way, and he so loves to tell people they just gotta read all of his stuff.
From what I have observed, those in the know know that Victor is somewhat of a kook when it comes to his scientific speculations.
As for me, I try to keep things simple and found that Victor was not willing to deal with me on even the simplest matters in an appropriate, step by reasonable step manner.
Victor stumbled as many before and after him when faced with my "Goliath of GRAS" exercise in critical thinking with emphasis on young-earth creation-science promoters.
You can search the archives of my own list for the details of my dealings with Victor. Here's the link to one message where I note Victor's hypocrisy in thinking he could criticize the "construct" of my "Goliath of GRAS" argument:
Others can quibble with Victor on the details if they are so inclined. I've tried Victor and found him wanting.
Here's something that might summarize where he's at, fundamentally:
> Can Christians defend the biblical version
> of a universe that is about 6,000 years old?
> Yes we can!
The SN1987A issue discussed there is a favorite topic of discussion when the age of stuff comes up in dealing with young-earth creation-science promoters.
Victor thinks he's got the answer; as do many of his fellows who think they've got answers but not Victor's answer.
Victor writes in the above article:
> I suggest that the answer to the conflicts
> between science and the Bible is this: The
> Bible denies the conceptual basis of science
> by denying its first principle.
> Dear Christian, instead of fighting for our
> versions of science, we should simply state
> what the Bible predicted: that the assumption
> upon which science is founded is false.
You are welcome to and encouraged to try and figure out Victor's "first principle" claim and let us know what you think of it as it relates to showing that "nothing is more than a few thousand years old".
Victor McAllister gets some heat from his adversaries on the "creationism" YAHOO! discussion list. I posted an advertisement there in an effort to get folks to come here in response to Joe's promotion of Vic and his hobby.
Vic replied to my ad over there, but I don't know if my further entreaty will result in his appearance here. We will see. Here's the references for those who may want to go look at how that has played out over there.
My ad:
Vic's reply:
Reply to Vic by Kurt:
My reply to Vic:
I see that you seem to have corresponded with Victor with unsatisfying results…
Why attack him that is call him a 'hypocrite' when he is stating his position? I doubt that he returns such 'in kind' to what he receives.
Seems to me that a better approach would be to take his assertion(s) in 'bite size' pieces and discuss them and see if what he is asserting is really understood, and if so, to lay out the differences between his position and that of 'young earth' and 'old earth' 'Creationists', but more importantly to examine his 'baseline contention' that the '1st Principle' that Science is based on is inimical to that of Christianity or at least to Christianity's use of Science to bolster it's 'belief system' in 'defending Christianity'?
It comes to mind that others in the history of science such as Isaac Newton, Boyle, Blaise Pascal and others had no trouble with their Faith and Science, at least the view of both was much different than what we find today.
I pretty much fully agree with Victor's position and just think that sometimes his post's do not present his position in the best understandable way for understanding/acceptance by 'Joe Sixpack' all the time, that is, that his assertions, particularly at the end of his posts may seem 'condescending' or just 'pedantic', but I think that his web site if 'well read' gives his position quite clearly.
I do think that when 'it's all said and done' that the Bible's God will triumph over Science in His explanation of the world and the universes origin, what we can 'dig out' (of the Bible) that is, if we are 'rational' about it… but that's just me…


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