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look: 2.25 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
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My intention was to review only the Big Red IPA but after my wife pointed out that the Raspberry Blonde Ale was made by dumping raspberry syrup into a pint glass and then pouring the regular Blonde Ale into the glass. I decided right there to tick-up the tasting flight by allowing only one line from my steno pad to each beer.
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A) Dull tobacco brown. Small foam, no retention.
S) Tangy fruit, caramel, buttered toast.
T) Floral hops and caramel and bread. Buttered toast and apple jam.
M) Medium body and nippy carbonation.
Serving type: on-tap
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05-29-2012 14:16:36 | More by JimGlonke
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look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
On tap at the Ram.
(A)- Pours a chestnut reddish hue. Some tan froth.
(S)- A richer amber/caramel malt backbone than the big red. Still, a "grassy" dryness to it.
(T)- Better! A good malty rich backbone with caramel malt and an almost graham cracker part to its subtle sweetness.
(M)- A good carbonation level and balance. Malty, but smooth and clean.
(D)- Overall, a solid amber. A good malt profile and feel.
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look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Served in a shaker pint glass at the brewpub.
Where's Dr. Turkleton when you need to mock him? His namesake brew pours a clear amber-copper topped by a half-finger of white micro-foam. The nose comprises light caramel and what seems like a light maple syrup. The taste holds notes of mandarin oranges, caramel, and sourdough. The body is a light medium, with a very light moderate carbonation and a somewhat watery feel. Overall, a decent amber, nothing really that special.
Serving type: on-tap
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look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Drawn into a growler and stored for 2 weeks in the refrigerator. Shared with light drinkers who are convinced they need to give it another try at the brewery.
A dark brown hue with sparks of red and yellow with a medium carbonation, which provides a light head and bubbly coating on the glass.
Smells of dates and grapes, a caramel presence and herby hops.
Tastes began with caramel sweetness, slightly bitter hop presence and slightly sour aftertaste. Quite a fulfilling balance of effects.
Drinkable and delicious. Each taste a little more satisfying than the last.
Serving type: growler
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By MATTHEW NASH
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— One of the side effects of the economic crisis that our country faced beginning back in 2008 is that charitable contributions have dropped off dramatically.
Many people have less money than they did back then and those that do have money are doing there best to hold onto it. I can understand being careful with your money after seeing fortunes disappear nearly overnight when the economy went south.
A study done last year by the group Giving USA showed an 11 percent drop in 2011 charitable donations from the level they were in 2007. The study anticipated that it may take up to another decade to get back to the giving levels from 2007. This comes at a time when more and more people are in need and some depend on the kindness of others just to get by. I believe that that we can do better at fulfilling the needs of our community.
Recently, the city of New Albany banned the practice of collecting money at intersections citing the danger of standing in the middle of the street. At first I thought this was a no-brainer, but was amazed when several people opposed this new ordinance. I can understand that finding new ways to raise money for organizations has gotten difficult, but I think that standing in the street at a busy intersection isn't the best.
I personally drive through the intersection at Spring and Silver streets a couple of times most days. This location has been a favorite for groups collecting donations. It is easily one of the most dangerous places in our city and with all the distracted driving going on it was only a matter of time before there was an accident.
Ultimately, I think the city did the right thing by banning the practice. If just one serious accident would have occurred it would have been devastating, no matter how profitable that corner was to groups that count on those donations.
When the idea to ban the intersection collection some people believed that it was up to the city to help organizations come up with new ways to make up for lost revenue due to the ban. These days with so many people relying on social media to find out information, I believe that it is easier than ever to communicate with a mass audience. It is also much cheaper to get the word out if your group is planning a fundraiser.
Seven years ago, I decided that I would do what I could for a charity. I don't have a lot of money to make much of a difference, but I do have some time and some talents that can be used for good instead of evil. Over the years, I have developed a few different ways to help raise money for the Polar Plunge for Special Olympics. This year was my most successful in collecting donations — I just had to get a little creative.
The Polar Plunge for Special Olympics hosts a "personal page" for each of the plungers that is collecting. I directed people to my page where they were able to offer words of encouragement or a monetary donation over the Internet. I received about 25 percent of my total donations from this process with little effort on my part. I just posted a link on Facebook and Twitter a couple of times in the weeks leading up to the plunge.
While some people rely on the direct approach by just asking people for money, I have come up with a couple of more resourceful ways. I offer a couple of services to people that donate cash in return. For the last few years at work I have cooked lunch for my co-workers. I make a big pot of chili and bring it in for all to enjoy. I don't charge anybody I just ask that they give what they can. Most people would have spent anywhere from $1 to $20 on their lunch that day anyway and were more than willing to give that money to a good cause.
For the last few years, the Polar Plunge has coincided with opening weekend of "Gravity Head" — a beer celebration hosted by the New Albanian Brewing Co. With the help and endorsement of the ownership team, I have been the "designated driver" for the company for the first two nights. I sit around drinking Mr. Pibb and enjoying pizza and breadsticks while others can enjoy their libations with the knowledge that I will get them home safely.
Over the years, I have developed a relationship with a group from Dayton, Ohio, who come down each year. They stay at the Holiday Inn and are happy to make a small donation in exchange for a safe ride home. It is cheaper than what they would pay for a taxi cab and the money all goes for a good cause. I appreciate what they do and would like to thank Patti and Larry and the crew they bring with them.
I believe that everyone should do what they can to support whatever charity they choose. If you can't donate money, offer them your time or energy and do what you can. Hold a bake sale or have your kids start a lemonade stand, get your friends and neighbors involved and do what you can.
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The Danish government has taken a range of initiatives to strengthen entrepreneurship education and analyses show that more pupils and students than earlier now receive entrepreneurship teaching and training.
A recent study from the Foundation for Entrepreneurship – Young Enterprise Denmark show that entrepreneurship education and training has a positive impact on motivation for and inclination for starting business. This means that people who have studied entrepreneurship or been trained in entrepreneurship at some point actually start more businesses than people who have not received this kind of education.
The Danish survey also showed that people who are trained are more inclined to start a business, intend to do so and own or run an established company. Entrepreneurship education also has a positive effect on income. All analyses show a positive correlation between entrepreneurship education and income. People who are trained tend to get considerably higher income than people who are not trained.
A longitudinal study by Charney and Libecap showed that entrepreneurship graduates received an average annual income that was 27 percent higher than the average annual income of non-entrepreneurship graduates. In addition, the GEM survey shows that the more people have been trained the higher income they tend to get, and the increase is considerable.
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Lexus ES 350 Transmission Issues
lw220 Posts: 1I am now among the poor souls with this lemon of a lexus. i have a 2007 ES 350 that has just had the transmission replaced by Lexus. I purchased this car used from a Lexus dealer with 38K on it in 2009 and have had it for two years, 3 months. In that span of time I have taken it in about 5-6 times for various things: transmission surge, brake problems, engine issues. All these items were fixed under the extended warranty that I purchased, though I think the brake issue was a recall. I am EXTREMELY disappointed in Lexus. This is my second and LAST Lexus. The quality has really gone down since my first car and the service is atrocious. I find out today that the transmission they put in the car is REBUILT and only warrantied for 1 yr. I called customer service and escalated my concern because I want to know why they do not use a new transmission to replace a bad transmission. I also would like to know how to invoke the lemon law. If anyone on this forum wants to start a class action suit, please keep me in the loop via this forum or by my email address: el doubleu two twenty at hotmail dot com.
lmn55378 Posts: 1My 2008 ES350 has the same ticking noise from the engine, especially louder when the gas pedal is depressed. A Lexus specialist at Maplewood MN said it is normal and would be gone when the engine is warmed up. The ticking noise is still audible after 15 minutes driving. Lexus doesn't want to admit its design flaws. No such a noise could be detected when the vehicle is new.
BMW fixed the clicking noise (HVAVC) on my '08 BMW 328Xi.
I would probably let go of the Lexus. It is worth paying a little more for a way better service at BMW (Bloomington Motorwerks, MN).
Please share if you have any ideas to deal with Lexus' inferior quality.
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anita20 Posts: 1Have you had any problems with ES350 since the transmission has been replaced? I am considering purchasing a certified 2007 es350. A few of my coworkers own this vehicle and havent had any problems, they love it. I understand there was a problem with the first production of the es350.
kvmona Posts: 1I purchased new 2011 ES350 and just last week I completed 20,000 miles. Last week I noticed my transmission slipping gradually and car jerked very hard and immediately the "Check Engine" light displayed. Next day I took my car to Dealer – Lexus of Carlsbad (San Diego County) and I was told that transmission needed to be replaced.
I am very disappointed that company like Lexus who is known for their "Quality and Reliability" is selling "Lemon" cars to consumer or if they have a transmission problem either they or dealership are not communicating it to us.
Please reply if anyone is having similar problems with ES350. I don't know if there is any kind of Class Action Lawsuit being/been filed against Toyota, but I would definitely want to be a part of it.


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The U.N. General Assembly has elected Jordan to the Security Council seat that Saudi Arabia rejected
Arab and Muslim figures on Friday mourned the death of former South African President Nelson Mandela, noting his cause as an example for the world to follow.
AQAP claims Thursday's attack on the defense ministry in Sanaa that killed 52 and wounded 167 people.
An Al-Qaeda branch in Yemen has claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on the Defense Ministry compound in the capital, Sanaa.
Nelson Mandela, South Africa's anti-apartheid icon, dies aged 95 and Palestinians grieve as twins in Apartheid.
December 5, 2013
The Salafist Nour Party on Thursday called on Egyptians to vote "Yes" in an upcoming referendum on a revised version of Egypt's 2012 constitution.
A U.S. citizen working in an international school in Benghazi was shot and killed by unidentified gunmen in Libya on Thursday.
A suicide car bomber attacked Yemen's Defense Ministry Thursday killing at least twenty and leaving dozens wounded.
Jordan is cracking down on jihadists on hardline Islamists.
Prominent Egyptian youth activists Ahmed Maher and Mohmaed Adel were sentenced to face criminal court late Wednesday. Two other activists, Ahmed Douma and Alaa Abdel-Fattah, were also charged and detained earlier this week.
December 4, 2013
Coalition of Islamists led by Mohamed Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood says rewriting of charter is 'absurd', whilst claiming that the upcoming referendum will be rigged. The group did not say it would boycott the vote, however.
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah ordered authorities this week to consider the Human Rights Commission's recommendations on 72 proposals, including women driving rights.
Since the government launched a nation-wide crackdown on illegal workers exactly one month ago, Saudi Arabia has deported more than 126,000 people from the Kingdom.
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As much as gun control advocates might wish otherwise, their attacks are running out of ammo. With private firearm ownership at an all-time high and violent crime rates plunging, none of the scary scenarios they advanced have materialized. Abuse of responsibility by armed citizens is rare, while successful defensive interventions against assaults on their lives and property are relatively commonplace.
National violent crime rates that soared for 30 years from the early 1960s began to decrease markedly since 1993. Last December the FBI reported that murder and other violent crime rates fell again by 6.4% during the first half of 2011 compared with the same period in 2010. A Gallup poll indicates that "Americans' preference regarding gun laws is generally that the government enforce existing laws more strictly and not pass new laws."
Caroline Brewer of the anti-gun Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence has reported that "The research we've seen indicates fewer and fewer people owning more and more guns." Yet one can only wonder where they are getting that information. In reality, public support for personal gun ownership is growing. According to Steve Sanetti, president of the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a trade group that represents about 7,000 firearms manufacturers and related companies, in 1959 some 70% of the American public favored handgun bans, whereas today that number has flipped. This support is reflected in the marketplace. Sanetti observes that the $4.1 billion gun industry "has had nineteen months of growth in an otherwise anemic economy."
Recognizing these positive trends, most states now issue permits allowing qualified law-abiding people to legally carry handguns outside their homes. Unprecedented numbers are becoming licensed to do so, now totaling an estimated 10 million Americans, contributing, in turn, to a dramatic growth in gun sales.
A record of more than 1.5 million background checks for customers looking to purchase a firearm were requested by gun dealers to the National Instant Background Check (NICS) system last December. About one-third of these occurred during the six weeks before Christmas. They had previously recorded a 49% rise in background checks during the week before President Obama was elected in 2008 compared with the same week one year earlier.
The Brady lobby is upset that there has been no progress in leveraging tighter gun control legislation following the shooting January 8, 2010 rampage that killed 6 people and injured 13, including Democratic Representative Gabrielle Giffords. That tragic incident raised serious questions about background checks after it was determined that the accused shooter, having previously exhibited erratic behavior, legally purchased the weapon he "allegedly" used from a store.
The National Rifle Association clearly agrees that guns should not be sold to individuals found to have serious mental problems, although many states fail to provide mental health records to the federal computerized background check system. According to a November, 2011 report by the Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG), 23 states have shown "major failures" in complying, and four (Alaska, Delaware, Idaho and Rhode Island) submit no records at all. (Although murder has been in decline in New York and other major cities for years, a Pepsi and Honda Super Bowl advertisement spot featured New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Boston's Thomas Menino on a couch calling for stricter government measures to curb illegal gun sales.)
Dennis Henigan, the Brady group's acting president, told Reuters: "Really it is a national disgrace that the only piece of gun-related legislation to come to a vote since Tucson was this legislation that would have enabled dangerous concealed carriers like Jared Loughner to carry their guns across state lines." Referring to a proposed "National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act of 2011″ (H.R. 822) which has passed the House of Representatives but stalled in the Senate, the resolution would require states to recognize one another's concealed carry permits the same way they recognize one another's driver's licenses. The intent is to eliminate confusion and potential legal problems for traveling gun owners.
As pointed out in a recent paper titled "Tough Targets" released by the Cato Institute, "The ostensible purpose of gun control legislation is to reduce firearm deaths and injuries. But authors Clayton E. Cramer and David Burnett believe these restrictions put law-abiding citizens at a distinct disadvantage to criminals who acquire guns from underground markets since it is simply not possible for police officers to get to every scene where intervention is urgently needed. They also document large numbers of crimes…murders, assaults, robberies…that are thwarted each year by ordinary persons with guns.
A widely-known study conducted by Gary Kleck and Marc Gertz in the 1990s found that there were somewhere between 830,000 and 2.45 million U.S. defensive gun uses annually. A National Crime Victimization Study (NCVS) which asked victims if they had used a gun in self-defense found that about 108,000 each year had done so. A big problem with the NCVS line of survey reasoning, however, is that it only includes those uses where a citizen kills a criminal, not when one is only wounded, is held by the intended victim until police arrive, or when brandishing a gun caused a criminal to flee.
For these reasons, the Cato researchers investigated published news reports which much more often reveal how Americans use guns in self-defense. The data set is derived from a collection of nearly 5,000 randomly selected incidents published between October 2003 and November 2011. Still, the authors also recognize limitations with this approach, since many defensive incidents are never reported by victims, or when they are, never get published. In fact, the overwhelming majority of the successful self-defense outcomes are those where the defendants' guns are presented but never fired.
Most of the actual self-defense shootings in the Cato study didn't involve concealed carry licenses, but more typically had to do with responses to residential invasions. Of these, 488 involved home burglaries. In addition, there were 1,227 incidents where intruders were induced to flee the scene by armed inhabitants, circumstances that might otherwise have resulted in injurious assaults including rapes and murders. There were 285 news accounts indicating that the defender had a concealed weapon license, which in the majority of these incidents took place outside a home or place of business. Pizza delivery drivers were common robbery targets.
Vast majority?
Oh, I get it, the vast majority means those who are like you, everyone else do not count.
Here is your bottle of slightly warmed mothers milk.
Thanks for sharing pal. There some discrepancies in his claims:
First, studies show that the more guns there are in a community *period* (i.e. legal and illegal) the more murders (http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/research/hicrc/firearms-research/guns-and-death/index.html). Indeed, the Deep South has the highest rate of crime in the US despite a high rate of gun ownership.
Secondly, the article is singling out one kind of crime in just two countries. Overall, Canada and the UK have far less murders than the US, and typically far less violent crime. Other countries that severely restricted guns, like Australia, have seen little to no rise in crime.
Ultimately, the problem seems to have more to do with factors other than guns.
I recommend you actually read the research for yourself, to discover the tautology established by the methodologies. I could (without conducting "literature reviews" (note the difference between that and empirical primary research)) confidently claim that more people drown when there are more bodies of water present. All it establishes is a correlation between the presence of a factor, and an outcome that involves said factor. To which one must conclude… "well duh." Moreover, such studies completely ignore the aforementioned benefits and crimes averted by the presence of firearms. Cars kill more people each year than firearms. Maybe I should do a lit review that establishes there are more automobile related deaths when cars are present….
You've also left out the highest national murder rates in some the cities with the strictest gun laws: DC, Detroit, Philadelphia, Chicago… Granted, the UK and Canada do have far less murders than the U.S., but all you've done is set up a straw man. Canada and the UK have historically had a far lower murder rate, even before the imposition of strict gun-control measures. So your "evidence" here isn't really any at all. It's anecdotal, and easily shown fallacious with even the most minimal amount of thought and research. In fact, the evidence available evinces the exact opposite of what you're trying to show; the problem is not the gun, it's the society. It's a larger underlying issue. A deeper dive into the FBI UCR data shows that a large proportion of murders are between criminals, engaged in criminal acts. Gangs have more power and influence in the US than in other countries. Guess what, the imposition of laws (prohibition) helped to enable a culture of crime and lawlessness. "MORE LAWS" is not the solution. And "bans" on anything have proven ineffective at solving real problems.
UK has a higher violent crime rate than the US
I'm confused.
Is CDC missing something?
Do you actually increase the safety of your family by having a gun in the house?
Please provide _statistics_ (they are those annoying numbers that count what a -population- does,m not what specific individuals do. In other words, the plural of anecdote is not data).
I don't think anyone is arguing these things, but rather the need for high capacity and automatic weapons. Take a look at the data for rampage killings during and after the aussalt weapons ban, then try to explain why we need machine guns to defend ourselves.
-A proud gun owner
Nick, none of the rampage killings included "machine guns." Machine guns (which are completely different from "assault weapons") have been highly regulated since the NFA in 1934. Then when 18 USC 922(o) became effective in 1986, not machinegun made after that date could be sold to a civilian. You're a part of the problem. You are ignorant of the actual laws, and allow fear to guide the dialogue. Moreover, Columbine happened right in the middle of the 1994 "assault weapon" ban, and in that instance, those types of weapons (such as the Tec-9) were used. So… apparently the data you point to doesn't support your assertion.
There are baseball fans who get pissed if you call the Rays the Devil Rays.
There are beer drinkers who make a scene at bars when they're served a Belgian in a pint glass.
And there are gun people who get their panties in a bunch when someone misuses terms like "machine gun" for assault rifle or "clip" for magazine.
I'm glad to be none of the above.
When you misuse a word which implicates a fundamentally different type of object, you should be corrected. An "assault weapon" (which is a made up term which encompasses a number of types of firearms) is not the same thing as a machine gun. In fact, the "assault weapons" ban had ZERO impact on NFA-weapons which were already regulated by the aforementioned laws (of 1934 NFA, 1968GCA, and 1986 act) A firecracker is not a grenade. You need to learn the difference. Don't be offended when your ignorance is called out. Instead, LEARN from the mistake.


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Valpo Takes Fourth Place at Pacesetter Invitational
Saturday, April 15, 2006
Valparaiso took home fourth place Saturday at the Pacesetter Invitational in Terre Haute, Ind.
The Brown and Gold recorded 13 points over the two-day meet, good for fourth out of the five Division I teams competing. Indiana State captured the team title with 263 points.
Steve Bartholomew
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Written By Norm Augustine
I've visited more than 100 countries in the past several years, meeting people from all walks of life, from impoverished children in India to heads of state. Almost every adult I've talked with in these countries shares a belief that the path to success is paved with science and engineering.
In fact, scientists and engineers are celebrities in most countries. They're not seen as geeks or misfits, as they too often are in the U.S., but rather as society's leaders and innovators. In China, eight of the top nine political posts are held by engineers. In the U.S., almost no engineers or scientists are engaged in high-level politics, and there is a virtual absence of engineers in our public policy debates.
Why does this matter? Because if American students have a negative impression – or no impression at all – of science and engineering, then they're hardly likely to choose them as professions. Already, 70% of engineers with PhD's who graduate from U.S. universities are foreign-born. Increasingly, these talented individuals are not staying in the U.S – instead, they're returning home, where they find greater opportunities.
Part of the problem is the lack of priority U.S. parents place on core education. But there are also problems inherent in our public education system. We simply don't have enough qualified math and science teachers. Many of those teaching math and science have never taken a university-level course in those subjects.
I've always wanted to be a teacher; in fact, I took early retirement from my job in the aerospace industry to pursue a career in education. But I was deemed unqualified to teach 8th-grade math in any school in my state. Ironically, I was welcomed to the faculty at Princeton University, where the student newspaper ranked my course as one of 10 that every undergraduate should take.
In a global, knowledge-driven economy there is a direct correlation between engineering education and innovation. Our success or failure as a nation will be measured by how well we do with the innovation agenda, and by how well we can advance medical research, create game-changing devices and improve the world.
I continue to be active in organizations like the IEEE to help raise the profile of the engineering community and ensure that our voice is heard in key public policy decisions. That's also why I am passionate about the way engineering should be taught as a profession – not as a collection of technical knowledge, but as a diverse educational experience that produces broad thinkers who appreciate the critical links between technology and society.
Here we are in a flattening world, where innovation is the key to success, and we are failing to give our young people the tools they need to compete. Many countries are doing a much better job. Ireland, despite a devastated economy, just announced it will increase spending on basic research. Russia is building an "innovation city" outside of Moscow. Saudi Arabia has a new university for science and engineering with a staggering $10 billion endowment. (It took MIT 142 years to reach that level.) China is creating new technology universities literally by the dozens.
These nations and many others have rightly concluded that the way to win in the world economy is by doing a better job of educating and innovating. And America? We're losing our edge. Innovation is something we've always been good at. Until now, we've been the undisputed leaders when it comes to finding new ideas through basic research, translating those ideas into products through world-class engineering, and getting to market first through aggressive entrepreneurship.
That's how we rose to prominence. And that's where we're falling behind now. The statistics tell the story.
Innovation is the key to survival in an increasingly global economy. Today we're living off the investments we made over the past 25 years. We've been eating our seed corn. And we're seeing an accelerating erosion of our ability to compete. Charles Darwin observed that it is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but rather the one most adaptable to change.
Good article. We are also too risk adverse (as Mr. Augustine has stated in the past). It would take us 20+ years to get to the moon nowadays, and as we've seen, it would get cancelled after spending billons of dollars. Part of the problem (with a lack of engineering students) is that engineers do not encourage their kids to go into engineering. Children of doctors become doctors, and the same is true for engineering. Why would we – many of us get laid off in our 50′s, when we need the money and can't easily get hired elsewhere. That's when our kids are making career decisions. Why not go into finance or accounting and make as much money with less college work required, less (or no) travelling, no "unpaid overtime"; etc? Or law or pharmacy ($100k right out of school!) and get more respect and salary. I've been moderately fortunate, but many engineers are getting no raises (at least 20% at Lockheed Martin anyhow). We've been averaging 2-3% raises for 10 years now. Hardly is there a shortage of engineers – raises would be MUCH higher is that were true.
You need to google "law school scam blogs" and then maybe you will understand that the legal field is just as gutted. The media loves to perpetuate a myth of all these successful careers, but for the most part the only people making money are the higher education personnel and student loan companies. For everyone else it's just a lottery ticket. A very expensive one.
As a longtime professional scientist (PhD MIT), I can tell you that the problems with US innovation are as bad or worse than what you describe – maybe you should write a new set of Augustine's Laws describing the situation.
The real problem in the US isn't a lack of talent, but the reality that tech employment is no longer suitable for high quality careers. In the last decades, tech jobs have gone from good pay and solid prospects to mediocre pay and instability. Where tech work was once regarded highly, Dilbert (authored by a techie) is now the daily experience of tech employees – they are not valued. When I graduated, a new MIT PhD and a Harvard MBA got job offers for about the same salary. Today, the MBA is offered 150% more — 2.5 TIMES the money of the PhD offer.
Shortage? Tech salaries in real dollars have been flat for decades – there is not and never was a shortage of engineers and scientists. Consider H1-B, an abuse of the INS to shelter tech firms from the labor market (paying higher salaries), passed by a meddling and pandering Congress. When the tech bubble or the great recession hit, and US techies were out of work, were the new foreigners required to leave? No!
You have partly fallen into a standard fallacy, focusing on the supply side of the labor market, saying young people should be encouraged to go into sci-tech because it is important to the country, future, etc. But tech jobs are not there for the taking, which is the implicit assumption of virtually all tech-career promotion. Most techies spend a huge fraction of their careers trying to find money to pursue the ideas that drive innovation. Most often they end up working where there is funding, not where they can pursue new ideas.
Encouraging people to go into sci-tech does not somehow create new science and technology to the benefit of the larger world. It does create highly educated people looking for work in a stale market with no chance of changing anytime soon. It is a disservice, and it is not the promoters who will be taking the lumps.
The demand side of tech employment is what will determine the future of US innovation. When tech jobs pay market rates, techies have access to real capital instead of grovelling in front of MBA's and when techies can spend their time doing technical work instead of trivia at the whims of financial managers – then innovation will be recover.
Quick hits: the patent office (USPTO) has been a nightmare for almost 20 years, and needs radical reform. It offers only an opportunity for prolonged legal maneuvering, not protection. The biggest problem with the public schools isn't that they don't produce students who can become engineers, but that they have created a a public that is technologically ignorant and scientifically illiterate. Thus do we get nonsense like $2B wasted on accelerating Toyotas and gargantuan waste like the space station. How many sub-prime mortgage delinquencies could have been prevented if the buyers understood the math? Thank the NEA, which is at the center of all the worst messes in education.
I have a physics degree from the University of Texas – Austin. I have to agree with this entire response from gwkimball. The patent office is really just fox and hound legal chase to make money off good intentioned developers that have unknowingly sometimes created things that read on others patents. Not really their fault as there so many claims to ideas and sorting through these is nearly impossible. Agree, grand waste the space station; little more than a "weee I'm in space" thing; almost no real research. Also, I have to agree we have plenty of very qualified technical people in many fields but no quality jobs paths for them. Just layoff after layoff after outsource. Paradoxically, our average educated person is so poorly prepared for the real world they don't know how to vote or think, especially when any technology is involved. The difficulty in solving this problem is monumental because of the long decay of the public school system education quality (standard tests instead of real critical thinking). A solution could be to ignite a new, long lasting, and worthwhile national goal. Like creating a space colony at the EM2 Lagrangian point between the earth and moon where a space station can just loiter at a single point (region) with no real energy expenditure once there and can use materials from the moon to build long distance craft at optimal energy cost. A serious 10 year program like the moon program aimed at EM2 could boost education, jobs/job paths, and return our technical lead.
I could write a long post, but I won't bother because those that know already know, and those that don't are extremely resistant to learning.
The science job market has been dead for a long time, it was extremely challenging even back in the 80s. It is simply not publicized because it's another method for politicians and the higher education industry to pass the buck and blame the general public.
We have a tremendous number of very talented and intelligent science and engineering graduates who are never given opportunities because there simply aren't any. Supply side focus as someone else pointed out. But by ignoring the actual supply completely, people can promote disingenuous arguments to further their agendas.
It's still amazing to me that even with modern technology and the information we have access to old myths can so easily be perpetuated when it benefits certain groups. Higher education is probably the pioneer of viral marketing, which is now engaged in by many companies selling inferior products, especially a company like EA who has been exposed for doing this (but it of course occurs with many others). I actually know of several universities that hire people to troll the internet to make these arguments. I assume this writer has been paid for his opinion, which a few minutes of google research can disprove (as he is factually incorrect on many of his assumptions).
Steve Forbes spoke with former World Bank president James Wolfensohn about this exact topic in his Intelligent Investing interview this week. As Wolfensohn points out, education and innovation seem to be just the latest in a series of fields in which America is losing its prominence.
Wolfensohn: "I think that we've been relying on our past investments for too long — first in terms of manufacturing, then in terms of service industry, and then in terms of research. And at each level, it's been passed over essentially to Asia. But there's always been something left for us and we've had a lead in something.
"Today that's no longer the case. And for me, the starting point is education. We have to start readjusting our education system so that we no longer rank 18th or 20th in the global scene."
Wolfensohn and Forbes talked about the possibility of giving green cards to foreign graduates of higher ed (http://blogs.forbes.com/chrisbarth/2011/01/20/go-to-school-earn-your-green-card/) Do you think that's a viable option to kickstart innovation in America? It seems like by the time we're able to fix the endemic problems that you touch on, it may be too little, too late.
Absolutely agree with education being the problem. I too couldn't get a job teaching at a public school with a master of education degree and 15 years teaching experience. No certification, no job. However, I could always go through training and internships to fulfill requirements – big cut in pay. I teach at private school.
"No child left behind"; the irony is too laughable to think about. Everyone is "teaching to the test" these days and standardized testing is the lowest form of assessment and consequently breeds the lowest form of Teaching.
In capitalism the greatest resources chase the greatest potential for return. Teaching is probably the lowest paying job relative to time spent in education, so it stands to reason some of the weakest academics end up in classrooms.
Class size is another problem today. If you increase students per teacher, each student gets a smaller piece of the attention. Less attention equals less chance of positive reinforcement and real assessment. With municipal budgets getting crushed due to lowering tax receipts (read real estate crash), school administrators are falling prey to the temptation to increase maximum class sizes.
Parents are so busy trying to make ends meet (read: today two parent income required), there is less energy available for academic encouragement and support at home. This is the most important factor of all. The income that used to trickle down to middle management is being sopped up at the top. When both parents work, there is less dinner table time, lower food quality, and lowered chance of bedtime stories.
It's 5:50 am, and I'm prepping for my class on "knowledge is power".
Manufacturing is a moot point. We shoved it out of our way knowing it would one day disappear. Within 10 years, you corner ATT will print you an iPhone.
Service? Yes, look at all the non US applications taking over the world. All of the largest and best software companies are from the US. China? Yeah, let's see how many companies in the US, Americas, UK, Russia, Japan turn a blind eye to the blatant espionage that comes along with anything from China – even rootkits embedded into parts we buy today. When we print a Mobo in 10 years, that problem disappears.
If someone wants to be educated well, do they go to China? No. They go to a Western country where ideas can flourish. Saying that those in China are educated well may very well be true, but moot. So moot.
Taking a glance at the country field for nobel prizes, and guess what you will find…
Education itself will be moot within 25 years with implants, new immersion techniques, and augmented reality enhanced learning.
Think of the current state of schools as simple the manufacturing of the 60′s and 70′s.
Please see the bigger picture.
I agree that we are in trouble in the US regarding innovation but respectfully disagree with the causes.
I have been a nerd since 1979 excited to be part of that which is new and interesting since the first day I laid my hands on a keyboard in high school. I am not a programmer, I am a Quality Assurance engineer and I make products so that non-programmers can reliably use them.
The problem we face is whether we americans will pay for innovation. There are literally thousands if not a million technologists who can not get jobs here in the US or those who are undervalued due to US companies that pay companies in other parts of the world to design, implement and manufacture innovation.
It is not education – we have too many Ph.Ds and MS holders working in jobs from the Home Depot to security guards to say that.
The educational system is flawed – no doubt about it but it is the demise of Research Labs (Bell Labs, GE, and too many to mention) where people get to think not just do beause of the philosophy that everything has to make money – there are thousands of pieces of Intellectual property that are enabling technology that won't make a dollar (example, The Graphical User Interface – what would the iphone or Windows be without it?) You don't sell it but without it – not much of a product.
Someone had to think it up and had to not be so worried about their mortgage that they were constantly distracted.
My salary has steadly fallen over the past 10 years despite continuing self-paid education to "keep pace" with technology. Because what I do and many other technologists do is seen as not import by business leaders.
Innovation needs an environment in which to thrive – look at a company like Apple – everyone I know at Apple is kind of different but is tolerated there. When I worked for DARPAnet projects, they were scheduled with some slack – and we were well paid.
Womwn have been fleeing from engineering in droves because of the lifestyle that goes with it – little appreciation, bad pay, crappy work conditions. According to the National Sience Foundation, in eningeering "The workforce remains as the area of highest under representation for women; only 11% of the engineering workforce in 2003 were women."
So how do we make it attractive to the best and the brightest?
1. Pay people for learning (most companies have done away with or significantly limited education reimbursement)
2. Make it fun again (better, less caustic managers)
3. Let people try and fail.
4. Let workers finish something.
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If there's one thing college football coaches always dread, it's the 11 a.m. kickoff. Just the thought of whether or not the players will be awake enough to play makes most coaches reach for the antacids with their bacon and eggs.
Fortunately for Oklahoma State University coach Mike Gundy, that scenario hasn't happened since the 2004 Bedlam game. The Cowboys kicked off at noon against Missouri State in 2008, but since then have typically played in the afternoon and evenings.
Now, a week after what will likely be the Cowboys latest kickoff, Oklahoma State will take the field for its earliest kickoff of the season when it takes on the University of Louisana at 11 a.m. Saturday.
"I really don't know how I feel about (the kickoff time), I'm just ready for the game," Oklahoma State junior running back Jeremy Smith said. "There's a lot of people doubting us now because of last week's game (against Arizona). I'm just ready to get out there regardless of what time it is. I don't care if it's 8 a.m."
Smith may not care, but some of his teammates aren't as excited about the 11 a.m. start.
"Really, we'd like for it to be around 2 p.m. or so," junior safety Shamiel Gary said. "That way we're done early enough to have somewhat of a Saturday night, but we don't have to wake up so early."
One thing is certain, Gundy will have his team ready regardless of the kickoff time Oklahoma State dropped its first nonconference game since the 2009 season.
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The former girlfriend of a Limestone County murder victim says she disagrees with the district attorney's decision not to seek the death penalty.
Limestone County District Attorney Brian Jones has decided not to seek the death penalty in the case against a Cullman man accused of fatally shooting an Athens man with an AK-47, because he thought he seemed suspicious.
Jones filed a motion about 4 p.m. Thursday in Circuit Court, stating his decision to seek life in prison but not the death penalty in the case against Joel Patrick Moyers. A Feb. 19 hearing has been set on the motion.
Moyers, 52, is charged with capital murder, murder extreme indifference, and two counts of shooting into an occupied vehicle in connection with the Sept. 29 shooting of 26-year-old Brandon Hydrick.
Jones said the statute relating to seeking the death penalty requires a standard of murder that is "heinous, atrocious and cruel."
"Every murder is brutal," Jones said. "Every murder is a terrible act. But, when you compare them, some rise to the legal standard and some do not," he said.
Jones said he met with the Hydrick family before making the decision and they were "OK with it."
However, Bronwen Murray, the former girlfriend of Hydrick, said everyone in the family was not in agreement on foregoing the death penalty.
"The majority were, but not everyone," she said. "District Attorney Jones did not ask for my input."
She believes the family could have avoided a trail altogether and secured a life sentence without parole.
"I agree, life in prison without parole is a good outcome and, as I do not believe in the death penalty, it is an outcome I personally wished for," Murray said. "However, this outcome could have been achieved quickly and with nearly 100 percent certainty if a plea deal — like the one offered to UAH shooter Amy Bishop — was given in order to avoid the death penalty.
She believes Jones' decision has brought much more uncertainty to the case.
"Now a trial and sentencing phase must take place," she said. "Not only is trial by a jury precarious, but also sentencing by Alabama judges is a crapshoot as we are the only state in the country that allows override of jury verdicts by judges to impose capital punishment. If that happens, then the family will indeed be subjected to the lengthy appeals process."
Murray said a judge imposed the death penalty against the wishes of the jury in the case of Courtney Lockhart who shot and killed Auburn student Lauren Burke.
"In fact, 107 jury decisions have been overturned in Alabama capital cases by judges who impose the death sentence," she said. "This outcome would be against the wishes of the Hydrick family. However, it is now a possibility…Brian Jones made the wrong call."
The shooting
Brandon and his younger brother, Ryan, had been at a bonfire and marshmallow roast in the area with friends the morning of the shooting. While returning home, the brothers became lost and stopped on Fennell Lane. Moyers, who was living on Fennel Road in a mobile home owned by his mother at the time and believed the brothers were would-be criminals, walked to the area with his AK-47 and a flashlight. When Ryan drove past Moyers on Fennel Road and would not stop, Moyers fired what he called "a warning shot," which struck the tailgate and pierced the cab, killing Brandon.
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Tonight's basketball action will shift from normal start times at many venues, due to the conflict with the Cotton Bowl football game between Oklahoma and Texas A&M.
Those changes start at Ron Milam Gymnasium as Jenks comes to Muskogee for 5 p.m. (girls) and 6:30 p.m. (boys) varsity starts, a full hour ahead of the customary 6 and 7:30 starts. Muskogee's girls come in 5-1 and ranked No. 9 in Class 6A in the Okrankings.com coaches poll. Jenks is not ranked on the girls side, but brings a No. 6 ranking against the unranked MHS boys.
Four other matchups have adjusted start times: Wagoner at Catoosa will go with girls at 2 p.m. and boys at 3:30 p.m., Oktaha will play host to Henryetta in a 3 p.m. girls tipoff and 4:30 for the boys. Others are Gore at Vian (4:30 girls, 6 boys) and Heavener at Stigler (5:30 girls, 7 boys).
Okmulgee at Hilldale, Okay at Warner, Hulbert at Sallisaw Central, Webbers Falls at Gans and Locust Grove at Keys remain the same (girls 6:30 p.m., boys 8 p.m.).
Just as Fort Gibson and Jay did Thursday, two other matchups are abandoning Friday altogether. Sequoyah will play host to Cascia Hall at 3:30 p.m. (girls) followed by the boys at 5 p.m., and Tahlequah at Bishop McGuinness tip at 6:30 and 8 on Saturday with the girls playing first.
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A Floyd County man charged with murdering a woman five years ago pleads guilty.
Tony Ray Tackett was charged with murder, rape, and unlawful imprisonment for the death of Margaret Hall in March, 2006.
Her body was found weeks later on an abandoned strip mine in Floyd County.
Tackett was arrested eight months later.
Wednesday, Tackett took a deal and pleaded guilty for murder in exchange for dropping the rape and unlawful imprisonment charges.
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---- — At the outset of this commentary on a negative poll about Gov. Rick Snyder, I emphasize that political polls are but snapshots in time and, as ex-Gov. Jim Blanchard was fond of saying, "like yo-yos."
Just last month, when the Public Policy Polling firm of North Carolina took a first look at the 2014 election landscape across the land, it cited how much Snyder had improved his popularity during his second year in office and that he led a generic Democrat for reelection by six points "even as Barack Obama won the state comfortably" this year.
But last week — after Snyder's abrupt reversal that led to his signing of the bill that made Michigan the 24th "right-to-work" state — Tom Jensen, director of Public Policy Polling, said in a press release: "We now find Snyder as one of the most unpopular Governors in the country. Only 38 percent of voters approve of him to 56 percent who disapprove.
"There are only 2 other sitting Governors we've polled on who have worse net approval ratings (negative 18 percent). He's dropped a net 28 points from our last poll on him, the weekend before the election, when he was at a + 10 spread (47 approval, 37 disapproval)."
Upon my inquiry, Jensen said PPP surveyed 42 sitting governors and those with worse ratings than Snyder were Democrats Pat Quinn of Illinois (negative 19 percent) and Neil Abercrombie of Hawaii (negative 26 percent).
The polling firm said: "There's not much doubt that it's the right to work law and his embrace of other actions by the Republican legislature that are driving this precipitous drop in Snyder's popularity. Only 40% of them say they would vote to keep the law enacted, while 49% would vote to return it."
Looking ahead to his possible reelection match ups, PPP said, "Snyder trails every Democrat we tested against him in a hypothetical match up," including being down by 11 points against 2010 opponent Lansing mayor Virg Bernero, who lost to Snyder by 18 points.
The firm's automated Dec. 13-16 telephone poll of 650 Michigan voters has a margin or error of plus or minus 3.8 percentage points.
The Detroit Free Press said, "Some critics say PPP's automated polling system is less reliable but the firm says it uses a larger sample and defends the accuracy of its track record in postings on its website."
The Detroit News said, "PPP is a Democratic firm and its Michigan sample included 38 percent Democrats, 28 percent Republican and 34 percent independents." It reported that Snyder spokeswoman Sara Wurfel said Snyder is optimistic voter mood will return in his favor once "they see our state's continued positive comeback."
Ever-shifting polling could be influenced by such things as Snyder's veto last week of legislation that would have allowed some gun owners to carry concealed weapons in schools, day care centers, churches and stadiums.
Also of possible influence, especially in Metro Detroit, is Snyder's signing of legislation that, after decades of debate, establishes a regional transit authority that could lead to long-anticipated federal funding.
As PPP pollster Jensen noted: "Snyder has shown some resilience already in his term. He was at a 33/50 spread just 3 months after taking office and had recovered to the point where he was on pretty solid ground until the actions of the last few weeks."
Among those who have survived high-profile protests and polling slumps is 1969-82 Gov. William G Milliken, who suffered politically from the state's bungled response in 1973 when cattle feed accidentally was mixed with PBB, a toxic chemical flame retardant that got into the food chain, and farmers had to destroy thousands of head of livestock.
Thousands of protesters stormed the Capitol; some staged a sit-in in Milliken's office; he was hung in effigy at the Mio site where cows were buried and a woman tried to punch her umbrella through a widow of his car; and his requests for resolution of the issue was rejected by a department head named by a commission, not him. But he was overwhelmingly elected in 1978, becoming the first Republican gubernatorial candidate to carry Wayne County since 1946.
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PERRY -- No one is more excited about a new school going up here than Elgin Mayfield.
Mayfield drives by the site almost every day, watching workers lay concrete and assemble the skeleton of the $14.2 million building he will lead. As principal of the new Langston Road Elementary School, Mayfield was familiar with the project long before Wednesdays ceremony.
Officials broke ground on the new school building in Perry, which is scheduled to open in August 2014.
Every principal dreams of opening their own school, said Mayfield, now principal of Perry Primary School. But more than that, its such a great facility for the students and the Perry community.
The building, funded by an education sales tax initiative, will hold 775 prekindergarten through fifth-grade students. It comes at a time when the Houston County school systems enrollment is growing.
Langston Road Elementary will replace Perry Primary, but it will host a melting pot of students from various Perry area schools, which will be rezoned, officials said.
At nearly 93,000 square feet, the school will have 47 classrooms, including a gym and a media center.
While the shell of the school already is standing, Wednesdays ceremony officially introduced the project to the community.
This is a beautiful, beautiful facility, and its going to generate a lot of pride through our system and through our community, said Robin Hines, superintendent of Houston County schools. We have the best facilities anywhere, and our kids are the best kids anywhere, and they deserve this.
The new school, like the road where its located, bears Jerry Langstons family name.
Were very happy -- our parents wouldve been very proud of it, Langston said, especially because they always supported education.
To contact writer Jenna Mink, call 256-9751.


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Holland & Hart attorney Rochelle Rabeler represented Duke Energy Renewables in the successful negotiation of the largest non-utility solar photovoltaic power purchase in the United States. The deal involves a 20-year power purchase agreement between Duke Energy Renewables and the George Washington University (GW), American University (AU) and the George Washington University Hospital (GWUH).
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Holland & Hart LLP represented Duke Energy Renewables in the successful negotiation of the largest non-utility solar photovoltaic power purchase in the United States.
The deal involves a 20-year power purchase agreement between Duke Energy Renewables and the George Washington University (GW), American University (AU) and the George Washington University Hospital (GWUH). The agreement allows for the creation of a renewable energy project that will bring solar power from North Carolina to the D.C. institutions.
The project, named Capital Partners Solar Project and supplied by Duke Energy Renewables, comprises 52 megawatts (MW) of solar photovoltaic (PV) power, which is the equivalent of the electricity used in 8,200 homes every year. It is the largest non-utility solar PV power purchase agreement in the United States in total contracted megawatt hours and the largest PV project east of the Mississippi River.
The partners will break ground on the first site this summer and panels will begin to deliver electricity by the end of the year. When fully operational at the end of 2015, Capital Partners Solar Project will generate 123 million kilowatt hours (kWh) of emissions-free electricity per year, drawn from 243,000 solar panels at three sites. That translates to eliminating roughly 60,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year or taking 12,500 cars off the road.
Under the agreement and once the project is complete, GW will receive roughly 86.6 million kWh, AU will receive 30 million kWh and GWUH will receive approximately 6.3 million kWh annually. The solar power will fuel more than half of GWs and AUs electricity needs and more than a third of GWUHs need.
For the partners, the 20-year agreement will provide fixed pricing for the solar energy at a lower total price than current power solutions and is expected to yield greater economic savings for the partners as traditional power prices are anticipated to increase at a higher rate over the same period.
Duke Energy looks forward to working with these leading D.C. institutions on an innovative solar project that demonstrates their leadership in sustainability and, at the same time, provides them with low-cost energy at a stable price for years to come, said Greg Wolf, president of Duke Energy Renewables.
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Two Duke Energy businesses were among the top 10 utilities in the nation in 2013 for adopting new solar energy, according to rankings released last month by the Solar Electric Power Association (SEPA). The company also recently completed a 10-year, $9 billion generation fleet modernization program that allowed the company to retire more than 3,800 MW of older coal-fired units and reduce its carbon emissions by 20 percent since 2005. For eight consecutive years, Duke Energy has been named to the elite Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index for excellence in environmental, social and financial performance.
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WENDELL — After being called a "bad actor" by the telecommunications industry in 2011, Wendell officials hope a less restrictive policy on the placement of cell towers will improve reception for users of wireless devices.
The town's new policy, which has received tentative approval from the town commissioners, would allow cell towers in a lot more places. It would also allow taller towers in some instances.
Town Manager Teresa Piner addressed members of the planning board Monday night to explain the need for more cell towers and how the rules would change under the proposed policy.
According to Piner, the demand for cellular service has skyrocketed in recent years, not because the town's population has increased, but because of the proliferation of wireless devices like smartphones and tablets.
Having spotty reception for businesses in the downtown area is also a problem.
"There are a lot of people who shop in stores and want to take a picture of something and send it to someone else to see before they buy it," Piner said.
The new policy would allow cell towers in nearly every zoning district in the town, including residential neighborhoods, although there are limits on the height of those towers and rules that call for the towers to be hidden or obscured.
The policy also allows for administrative approval for new cell towers, meaning a request would not have to go before the town's planning board or town commissioners and could, instead, be approved by town staff.
Piner said the policy needs updating because the town's first efforts to lure cell tower operators to town have not worked.
She shared a 2011 letter from the N.C. League of Municipalities in which then-Associate Director Charles Archer reported on the results of a fact-finding effort by the Federal Communications Commission, which was looking into, among other things, "wireless facilities siting requirements," or rules regarding the location of cell towers.
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In his letter, Archer said the telecommunications industry cited Wendell as a bad actor.
"We believe 'bad actor' means your jurisdiction has either codified a blanket ban across certain zoning districts or retain consultants identified by the wireless infrastructure industry as 'obstructionist or problematic,' " Archer wrote.
The change in policy comes in the wake of the town's decision to terminate its contract with The Center For Municipal Solutions, a consultant that helped the town formulate the original cell tower policy.
Piner did not say if the town terminated its contract because the consultant was among those identified by the industry in a negative light.
Piner said she has held talks with representatives of a number of cellphone companies about the reception problems in Wendell and thinks she may have finally reached the people in those companies who can help the town.
"AT&T came out recently and spent some time down at Kannon's measuring their reception and trying to make some adjustments to their tower that would improve the reception there," Piner said.
Joe Ann Wright, whose family owns Kannons, said customers in the store have been signing a petition for several months encouraging the town to take steps to improve the cell coverage in Wendell. Wright presented that petition to Piner recently and said it contained between 200 and 300 signatures.
"I'm really pleased that Teresa seems to be the person who's taken this on and wants to get something done," Wright said.
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