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Scott Hughes, a spokesman with the department, said the county has received at least three notices of violations in the past three years related to its storm sewer system.
Under federal law, urban areas maintain a separate storm sewer system for water that is discharged into a state rivers, lakes or streams.
Hughes said the county failed to provide the department with a Storm Water Management Plan for the separate storm sewer system in August of 2011, and a notice of violation was issued on Feb. 16, 2012. The county provided a plan in July of that year, but Hughes said an audit revealed "insufficient information" regarding how the county would manage outside agencies making illicit discharges into the system.
The county also is required to submit an annual report to the department every March, but did not do so in 2013, Hughes said. A notice of violation was issued by the department on April 18.
"An issuing of an order for a civil penalty is the next step after a notice of violation," Hughes said. "We issue a civil penalty if the notice of violation didn't reach the goal the department intended."
Mark Welsh, Calhoun County's landfill manager, who also oversees the storm water system, said the deadlines were missed due to oversight. It's a mistake that Welsh said he hopes will be corrected by bringing in outside engineers to handle maintenance of the system in the future.
"What we're finding out with these new state guidelines is you can't in-house it," Welsh said. "You have to have someone who specializes in the state's guidelines on municipal separate storm sewer system."
With the proposed order, residents have 30 days to submit written comments to the department and request a public hearing. At some point after that the department will decide whether to collect the fine. If it does so, the county would be required to submit a revised storm water management program plan to the department for review within 90 days of the penalty.
Welsh said the penalty was originally more than $17,000. Before the proposed order was made public, county officials were able to work with the department to reduce the figure, Welsh said.
"We've been working with ADEM on this, and we were able to talk them down," Welsh said. "We just got to hope we don't do it again."
Welsh said despite the proposed penalty, the county's storm sewer system is operating fine, and the county is still working on outreach programs to educate the public about storm runoff, as required by the federal Clean Water Act.
"We're not going to change what we're doing," Welsh said. "We are following guidelines."
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Kejriwal Promised Much but Delivered Little
By Express news service - NEW DELHI
Published: 02nd Feb 2014 07:23:53 AM
Populism is the platform of promise for change. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) won on a manifesto that promised to radically change the lives of Delhi's dispossessed and disadvantaged as well as fulfil the aspirations of a corruption-weary middle class.
The newest hurdle the chief minister has hit is the politics of power. The over one-and-a-half crore residents of the capital are getting ready to pay eight per cent more on their electricity bills after voting a government to power which promised to halve tariffs.
The Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) has announced a hike in 'surcharge' levied on electricity from February 1 for three months till further orders. Kejriwal condemned the DERC decision, saying it was uncalled for, since an audit by the Comptroller and Auditor General into the accounts of private distribution companies is already under progress. He said the power distribution companies were fudging accounts and deliberately showing losses and engaging in "blackmail". Leader of Opposition Harsh Vardhan, however, said the failure to curb power costs just exposed Kejriwal's false promises.
Unable to bring down tariffs, the government announced a subsidy to people who consume up to 400 units. For this measure too, an appropriation bill has to be passed in the Assembly, which has still not been done. "The officers who are signatories to this order would be behind bars," said former Delhi finance minister Jagdish Mukhi.
In the one month that AAP has been in power, the state government has managed to fulfil only one promise fully—reversing the Sheila Dikshit government's decision to permit FDI in multi-brand retail. AAP has initiated reforms on five points that figured in the 18-point agenda drawn up before the government came to power.
Water: While AAP claims credit for initiating 666 litres of free water supply per day in the national capital, Mukhi claimed only a miniscule number of people residing in Delhi would be able to derive benefit of this scheme. "One third of Delhi does not have pipelines so they are not covered under this scheme. Among those who have piped water supply, there are thousands of colonies which don't have meters, so they won't be covered either. Housing societies in Delhi have bulk meters, so they would not be able to derive benefit, and MIG and HIG consumers use more water so they too won't benefit. Among the remaining consumes who have meters, 60 per cent of meters are not functional," he said.
Ending VIP culture: Opposition parties alleged that crores were spent on the chief minister's oath taking ceremony at Ramlila Maidan, which required all the paraphernalia and thousands of security guards, whereas, only a few lakhs would have been spent if the ceremony took place at Raj Bhavan. The chief minister himself and his cabinet colleagues do not use red beacons on their cars. Mukhi claimed Kejriwal's insistence on not taking security was resulting in six-fold increase in expenditure as plainclothes personnel provide him round-the-clock cover. None of AAP's ministers have accepted bungalows.
Jan Lokpal Bill: Kejriwal promised he would get it passed in 15 days but more than a month later, the bill remains stuck.
Mohalla sabhas: The Janta Durbar fiasco forced a hasty retreat and plans to meet the public abandoned. Mukhi said for introducing a Swaraj bill, which envisages that local residents and RWAs decide what works are to be taken in their locality, the state government has to first take permission from the Union Home Ministry. "First let the cabinet adopt the bill and send it to home ministry and let it come to the House. But one should understand, there are many RWAs in one colony, who will get these deciding powers?" he asked.
Full statehood to Delhi: Kejriwal wanted the police and Delhi Development Authority to be under the government. But his protest on police transfers earned very little goodwill or support.
Regularisation of colonies: Government yet to come out with a precise plan.
Rehabilitation of slum-dwellers: Here too, no word from the government.
Regular jobs for contract labourers: Not much headway made though sincere efforts are said to be being made. AAP has formed committees to look into the promise and setting up a women protection security force.
Infrastructure for ordinary traders: At the time of going to press, the Delhi government announced scrapping of the cumbersome Audit Report 1 (AR1), which a communication said was a lengthy and unproductive report running into multiple pages and was mandatory for traders with an annual turnover exceeding Rs 10 crore.
Commenting on the list of AAP's 18 promises, Mukhi said AAP's plans of opening 500 schools in Delhi cannot happen in this government's tenure. On the issues of regularisation of colonies, Mukhi said the Congress government could not do it in the past 15 years. "This issue is hanging fire for the past 34 years, due to some legal issues. Even today, no flat can be registered in these colonies, neither can one avail loan," Mukhi said.
AAP is yet to deliver on setting up more courts, or appointing subsidy to farmers, or opening new government hospitals, all mentioned in its 18-point agenda.
Posted by AAPHATER at 02/02/2014 08:15 Reply to this Report abuse
Posted by N.R.SINGH at 02/02/2014 11:04 Reply to this Report abuse
"Kejriwal Promised Much but Delivered Little" - For how long Kejriwal has been in office? Are you saying that one must rule like Congress who did nothing but loot in the last 15 years? Do you expect Kejriwal to change Delhi into New York in a month... even when Delhi police doesn't take his orders? At least it is the least corrupt party and they think about the common people... unlike other parties in the country.
Posted by Aditya at 02/02/2014 08:17 Reply to this Report abuse
Very True Aditya
Posted by Seema at 02/02/2014 08:28 Reply to this Report abuse
Aditya, It does not matter how long Kejriwal is in power. This is BOGUS argument. If he cannot do it in one month, who gave him the right to lie to people that he can deliver in 15 days all the above things when he is now claiming it will take time. Regards. Rajesh
Posted by Rajesh at 02/02/2014 09:02 Reply to this Report abuse
yes he has done much. increased lawlessness of auto/taxi/bus operators by removing them from police control, has given encouragement to illegal building by promising to make them lawful, has further encouraged illegal building by pleading for illegal house owners of Khidki village. total inaction against the land mafia which has converted open spaces to housing and has made broad roads into narrow lanes due to encroachment by ground floor houses and shops. what has happened to adoption of Lokpal by Delhi. to top it all he wants to have Delhi assembly session at Ramlilla maidan. will the public have legislaton rights or another show by his musclemen.
Posted by R Prasad at 02/02/2014 10:57 Reply to this Report abuse
एक बालक जिद पर अड़ गया .... बोला की छिपकली खाऊंगा. घरवालों ने बहुत समझाया पर नहीं माना। हार कर उसके गुरु जी को बुलाया गया। वे जिद तुड़वाने में महारथी थे. गुरु के आदेश पर एक छिपकली पकड़वाई गई. उसे प्लेट में परोस बालक के सामने रख गुरु बोले, ले खा... बालक मचल गया. बोला, तली हुई खाऊंगा. गुरु ने छिपकली तलवाई और दहाड़े, ले अब चुपचाप खा. बालक फिर गुलाटी मार गया और बोला, आधी खाऊंगा. छिपकली के दो टुकड़े किये गये. बालक गुरु से बोला, पहले आप खाओ. गुरु ने आंख नाक और भी ना जाने क्या क्या भींच किसी तरह आधी छिपकली निगली... गुरु के छिपकली निगलते ही बालक दहाड़ मार कर रोने लगा की आप तो वो टुकड़ा खा गये जो मैंने खाना था. गुरु ने धोती सम्भाली और वहां से भाग निकले की अब जरा भी यहां रुका तो ये दुष्ट दूसरा टुकड़ा भी खिला कर मानेगा... करना-धरना कुछ नहीं,नौटंकी दुनिया भर की.... वो बच्चा बड़ा होके अरविन्द केजरीवाल बना
Posted by TIHARwale at 02/02/2014 13:45 Reply to this Report abuse
This article shows that media is under direction from other political parties to cause maximum damage to AAP. It has been only 30 days. They are up against a criminal empire and media has declared them as a failure. How about asking what have the other parties done in 66 years? How much money has been looted? There was a report recently in Hindu about a 60,000 cr mining scam in Odisha. Why media has ignored these massive stories and pursuing 'smear Kejriwal' strategy. Media is dishonest and corrupt.
Posted by Raj at 02/02/2014 09:49 Reply to this Report abuse
Please wait n watch.do not b impatient.we have seen works done in past 66 yrs. Wait for 66days or give a Magic wand to mr kejriwal from magician P C SORCAR !!
Posted by sca at 02/02/2014 11:13 Reply to this Report abuse
AAP grew and rose to success with the active support of Media only. Anti BJP media and Congress powered them to lime light. But honey moon is over and Media will be exposed if they continue to support AAP for its public stunts and unrealistic promises. AAP under AK should go thru the learning curve of governing Delhi and spread their wings. But instead choose to be carried away by their greed and now carrying on stunts to leverage for LS elections.
Posted by Secular Indian at 02/02/2014 12:51 Reply to this Report abuse
Kejiriwal deserves noble prize for political science for having duped delhites with empty promises and slogans .
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This Week's Trailer: The Wolf of Wall Street, with the second trailer for Martin Scorsese's financial-tyrants epic, which had seemed ready to push its release date to 2014 before announcing a Christmastime release and girding itself for an awards push.
This Week's Tune(s): "Hang You From the Heavens," by the contemporary Southern rock act The Dead Weather.
How Literal Is It? Not at all, really. The only words from the song that are heard in the trailer is the title, and that doesn't seem to have anything to do with the excesses of money, drugs, and women on display in Scorsese's orgy of capitalism. This clip gives a lot more detail on the relationship between DiCaprio and Jonah Hill's characters, which now looks like the central relationship of the film, a la Robert De Niro and Ray Liotta in Goodfellas.
How Emotional Is It? While the use of Kanye West's "Black Skinhead" in the first Wolf trailer had an edge of political commentary to it, the more generic rock strains in the Dead Weather song are selling just a straightforward good time. This is a movie about audacious men doing audacious things and trying to hang on to as much money as they can manage. Let the guitars crescendo!
How Definitive Is It? Point for not using a song every other trailer is using, for sure.
Overall Trailer Tune Effectiveness: After the original trailer featured a lot of the more outre aspects of the film (little-people-darts and whatnot), this second clip looks to be playing things a lot safer, perhaps actively trying to sell the film as a not-too-complicated tale of antiheroes. There's nothing about the songs in use that promises anything close to the dissonance that the Kanye song did in the first trailer, that's for sure.


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Sherwood Shelter Hours
Tues-Fri 12 - 7 pm
Sat-Sun 12 - 6 pm
Closed Monday
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Mother Abigail is a reserved older cat who seeks an extraordinary family who understands her special needs related to arthritis and kidney disease.
CAT is delighted to announce that we received a $2,500 grant from Lil BUB's BIG Fund for the ASPCA® (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals®). The grant, made possible through a joint effort by the ASPCA® and Internet cat sensation Lil BUB, will be used to help special cats in need.
CAT is one of the few shelters in the Portland metro area that can provide the extra care required by cats with special on-going medical needs, including FIV, urinary disease, kidney disease, thyroid disease, food allergies, diabetes, and other age-related diseases.
"We work hard to be able to take in and find homes for as many cats as we can who have these types of health problems," says CAT's lead veterinarian Dr. Kimberly Dauphin, DVM. "However, cost is a constant obstacle: not only do these cats require care that can often be quite expensive; it takes much longer to find them homes."
Grant funds will help cover the cost of providing medical attention to senior and special needs cats. While this grant fund lasts, CAT also will offer fee-waived adoptions for cats who are age 8 years and older, FIV-positive, and/or require other special medical care.
CAT is committed to providing excellent care to every cat who comes through its doors. In 2002, CAT was the first animal shelter in the greater Portland metro area to build an on-site hospital. Today, CAT's hospital provides veterinary care to approximately 2,500 cats and kittens who come through CAT each year for adoption. In addition, the hospital performs around 1,700 low-cost spay/neuter surgeries for cats in the community.
Sure, it seems like the words "kitten season" are a match made in heaven, but the reality is that kitten season is a tough time of year for animal shelters. Kitten season brings with it a large shelter population spike, and vulnerable kittens require extra attention. These adorable little fuzzballs are a big drain on resources—requiring additional staff and volunteer time and attention, as well as specialized veterinary and foster care.
CAT is gearing up for another busy kitten season. Thanks to our wonderful volunteer foster families and the support of all our donors and volunteers, CAT's Kitten Foster Program will save the lives of hundreds of kittens and mama cats again this year.
To help start the season off right, CAT invites you to join us for the second annual Kitten Baby Shower. Play shower games, enjoy delicious treats donated by Nothing Bundt Cakes bakery in Tualatin, and give a gift in support of CAT's kitten foster program.
Here's what you need to know:
When: Saturday, April 12, 2014, 1 – 2:30 pm
Where: Cat Adoption Team – 14175 SW Galbreath Dr., Sherwood, OR 97140
What: Baby shower for the kittens in support of CAT's Kitten Foster Program. To include:
- Refreshments
- Fun and games
- Info about fostering
- A chance to meet adoptable cats and maybe even some kittens!
Gifts: Surprise the kittens with a gift from the Wish List
RSVP: Not necessary, but you may RSVP on CAT's Facebook event page
Learn more about the foster program at catadoptionteam.org/foster.
Special thanks to our Sweet Treats Sponsor:
Thanks in part to a generous $13,000 grant from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA®), the Cat Adoption Team (CAT) will begin a housing renovation project at its Sherwood shelter. The project will result in improvements to enhance the health and welfare of all cats and kittens in the shelter's care.
Special Adoption Promotion
Because cats will need to move out of the adult cat adoption area, CAT hopes to adopt out as many cats as possible before construction begins on March 16. Although cats will move to other areas of the shelter temporarily, it is best if they can go directly to a new home.
To encourage adoptions prior to construction, adult cat adoption fees at CAT's main shelter location will be just $25 on Friday and Saturday, March 14 and 15.
"Adoptions from CAT are always exciting, but we can especially use your help right now," says Karen Green, CAT's Executive Director. "If you've been considering adopting a feline friend, it's a great time to stop by our shelter to meet the wonderful cats who are looking for loving homes."
CAT will be open regular business hours during construction, and operations in the shelter's onsite hospital will not be affected. People can still adopt animals from the shelter and are highly encouraged to do so before construction begins on March 16.
Project Details
CAT will begin the multi-phase project with renovations in the adult cat adoption area. Cat kennels in this area will be retrofitted with portals (cat-sized doorways), a proven option for improving existing cat shelter housing. The portals will double the size of housing for each cat, allowing him or her to move freely between two living spaces.
"Extra space and more choice of where to relax or play reduce the level of stress that cats can experience in the shelter environment, which results in cats that not only feel better and stay healthier, but are more attractive to potential adopters," Green says. "The portals will improve living conditions and reduce the amount of time between when cats enter the shelter and when they find new homes."
The ASPCA® grant will fund portal renovations and other housing improvements in the adoption areas of the shelter—including at least 28 portals in the adult adoption area. Besides portals, the grant will help provide new beds and perching options, as well as other items shown to improve cat health and wellness.
In addition to constructing portals in the adoption areas, CAT hopes to add portals to other housing areas throughout the shelter, including in the onsite hospital and illness isolation wards. Monetary donations can be mailed directly to the shelter at 14175 SW Galbreath Dr., Sherwood, OR 97140 or made using CAT's secure online donation form.
Phase I construction in the adult adoption area is expected to be completed by March 19. CAT is open Tuesday through Friday, noon to 7 p.m., and Saturday/Sunday, noon to 6 p.m. Adoptions end 30 minutes prior to closing. The shelter is located at 14175 SW Galbreath Dr., Sherwood, OR. For information about CAT's adoption procedures and to see which cats are available for adoption, visit catadoptionteam.org/adopt.
The winter storms that blew through the Portland metro area this past weekend interrupted business-as-usual for the Cat Adoption Team (CAT) in Sherwood, Ore. Following a four-day weather closure, CAT is reaching out to the community to encourage adoptions.
"A dedicated group of staff and volunteers who could safely reach the shelter came in to care for the cats during the snowstorm," said Karen Green, CAT's executive director. "But just like people who get antsy after a few snow days, we have over 100 cats and kittens who are anxious to get out of the shelter and into loving homes."
When a cat is adopted from CAT, the shelter is able to take in another cat in need from a county shelter or from the public. "It's a cycle of adoption and rescue that saves cats in our community, and the storm interfered with that cycle. We're asking the community to help us catch up by coming in and adopting a new family member this week."
Adoption fees for all adult cats will be reduced to just $25 from Feb. 14-16 during the "Find The One" Adoption Special & Scratcher Sale. Regular adoption fees are $85 for adult cats (age 1 year and older), $100 for teenage kittens (age 7 months to a year), and $125 for kittens under 7 months old. All adoption fees include a veterinary exam, age-appropriate vaccinations, microchip and registration, and spay or neuter.
CAT is located at 14175 SW Galbreath Dr., Sherwood, Ore. Regular hours are: Tuesday-Friday from 12 p.m. to 7 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. For more information about CAT's adoption procedures, please visit catadoptionteam.org/adopt/process/.
Imagine planning your year while viewing 12 stunning images of adorable cats…this fantasy can be yours for just $10! The Cat Adoption Team's benefit calendar is full of stunning portraits of cats who've come through our shelter. Each month you'll enjoy a new, beautiful photograph. What's more, 100% of your purchase supports CAT's shelter, thanks to a generous printing donation from Morel Ink.
Special "THANK YOU" to our photographers (who donated their time and talents):
Whimsy Kitten Photography
Lamm Photography
Joni Photo
You can also purchase a calendar in person at the following locations:
|All About Cats Clinic
129 NE 43rd Ave.
Hillsboro, OR 97124
|Barclay Hills Animal Clinic
865 Mollala Ave.
Oregon City, OR 97045
|Bethany Family Pet Clinic
4744 NW Bethany Blvd., #B5
Portland,OR 97229
|Cats Exclusive Medical Center
811 North Main Ave.
Gresham, OR 97030
|Clackamas County Veterinary Clinic
1678 S. Beavercreek Rd.
Oregon City, OR 97045
|Companion Pet Clinic of McMinnville
250 SW Hill Rd.
McMinnville, OR 97128
|Dignified Pet Services
8976 SW Tualatin-Sherwood Rd.
Tualatin, OR 97062
|Forest Heights Veterinary Clinic
7365 SW Barnes Rd., Suite H
Portland, OR 97225
|Gabriel Park Veterinary Clinic
4421 Southwest Vermont Street
Portland, OR 97217
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16400 SW Hart Rd., Suite D
Beaverton OR 97007
|Healthy Pets Northwest (Alberta Arts District)
2224 NE Alberta St.
Portland, OR 97211
|Healthy Pets Northwest (Hawthorne District)
1736 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
Portland, OR 97214
|Healthy Pets Northwest (Multnomah Village)
7642 SW Capitol Hwy
Portland OR 97219
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19137 Willamette Dr.
West Linn, OR 97068
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14831 SW Teal Blvd.
Beaverton, OR 97007
|Newberg Veterinary Hospital
3716 E Portland Rd.
Newberg, OR 97132
|Pearl Animal Hospital
1250 NW 10th Ave.
Portland, OR 97209
|Personal Beast
8119 SE Stark St.
Portland, OR 97215
|Rose City Veterinary Hospital
809 SE Powell Blvd.
Portland, OR 97202
|Salty's Dog & Cat Shop
4039 N Mississippi Ave., #104
Portland, OR 97227
|Thrift Store Benefitting the Cat Adoption Team
4838 SW Scholls Ferry Rd.
Porltand, OR 97225
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13599 SW Pacific Hwy., Suite C
Portland, OR 97223
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3808 N Williams Ave., Suite 129
Portland, OR 97227
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3000 N Lombard St.
Portland, OR 97217
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16756 SE 82nd Dr.
Clackamas, OR 97015
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4835 SE Woodstock Blvd.
Portland, OR 97206
Although they are now in their loving forever home, Uno and Tres had a bumpy beginning. These darling litter mates originally came to CAT as kittens and were quickly adopted together. But after about 5 months in a home, they came back to CAT because they weren't socializing well with the people who had adopted them. After that experience, it was clear that these two kittens would need some extra time to get comfortable around people.
CAT's volunteer crew at the Tualatin Petco Adoption Center was up for the challenge! For the next 8 to 9 months, a number of volunteers spent time helping Uno and Tres feel safe with people. They were shown love and kindness from a group of people who took extra care to encourage the kittens to not just trust people, but to seek human attention too. Thanks to this special effort, both cats gained more confidence around people. When adopter Kerri decided to give these two their second chance in a home, volunteers came in to say a fond farewell to two cats who had won their hearts.
Uno and Tres have come a long way since their adoption by Kerri last year. She says, "They purr all the time and love to run through the house at warp speed… They both have silly habits that make me laugh." And the best news? "I love them dearly."
Stories like this are made possible through the hard work and loving care of CAT's staff, volunteers, and the families who adopt from us.
CAT and the other organizations that make up the Animal Shelter Alliance of Portland (ASAP) are doing a lot of things right when it comes to the cats and dogs in local animal shelters. Since founding ASAP in 2006, these organizations have worked diligently to save cats and dogs in our local shelters.
•Starting with a live release, or save rate, of 62 percent in 2006, ASAP implemented several programs that decreased shelter intake and increased the transfers of animals between shelters. By 2012, when over 33,700 cats and dogs entered the six shelters, the community's live release rate reached an astounding 85 percent (compared to the national average rate of around 50 percent). Nine out of ten dogs and eight out of ten cats left animal shelters alive.
•ASAP's successful "Spay & Save" program has altered over 30,000 cats owned by people needing financial assistance, resulting in a 25 percent decrease in shelter intake of cats within just two years.
•For metro areas with a human population of over two million people, Portland is in the top three safest communities for homeless animals, joining New York City and the Denver Metropolitan Area (source: Maddie's Fund® National Community Statistics Database).
•Portland shelters have not euthanized a healthy, social pet in over two years, making it what Maddie's Fund calls an "Adoption Guarantee Community".
Acknowledging ASAP shelters' achievement, on May 21, Maddie's Fund® awarded its prestigious Community Lifesaving Award of $1 million to the six animal welfare organizations that make up ASAP.
This monetary award was divided between the six shelters based on their adoption and transfer numbers. Each ASAP shelter will be putting 35 percent of their individual awards into a pooled fund for ASAP to assist in coalition-wide activities.
The Cat Adoption Team, is already working on increasing the save rate for cats from 85 percent to closer to 100 percent in the coming years.
"CAT is honored to receive this award from Maddie's Fund®. This grant is an investment in our ability to increase efforts to help felines who come to us from throughout our community," remarks Karen Green, CAT's Executive Director.
Karen goes on to say that "CAT is excited about further increasing the numbers of cats saved. To take our community to the next level, we need to be able to help even more cats who need foster care or veterinary treatment before adoption. We also want to find homes for more kitties who have manageable health or behavioral problems, like those who require a special diet or who are a little on the independent and cranky side.
Some of the things CAT is doing to save more lives include:
•Ramping up the foster program to provide care for underage kittens this kitten season.
•Working to increase capacity for cats with treatable medical conditions like upper respiratory infections and ringworm
•Promoting our special needs cat for adoption in local media from the Oregonian to the Greenlight classified
•Continuing and increasing adoption promotions like the June's Kitten Palooza event
•Establishing a "CAT-vocate" program for volunteers, supporters, and online fans to easily promote their favorite CAT cat
Karen encourages community members to get involved. "This award can help our community become even safer for at-risk pets, however we need more volunteers, foster families, donors, and adopters to step forward. Please join us in making the Portland metro area a leader in lifesaving!"
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About the Lifesaving Awards:
Maddie's Fund® has established special Lifesaving Awards to recognize communities that are leading the way in saving animal lives.
These awards are designed to acknowledge the outstanding contributions being made by coalitions consisting of Traditional Shelters, Adoption Guarantee organizations, and Animal Control agencies in which all groups have already implemented:
•an adoption guarantee for healthy pets in their target community and are likely to sustain it in the future (Adoption Guarantee Community); or
•an adoption guarantee for all healthy and treatable shelter pets in their target community and are likely to sustain it in the future (No-Kill Community).
About Maddie's Fund
Maddie's Fund® is a family foundation endowed by the founder of Workday® and PeopleSoft, Dave Duffield and his wife, Cheryl. Maddie's Fund is helping to achieve and sustain a no-kill nation by providing solutions to the most challenging issues facing the animal welfare community through Maddie's® Grant Giving and Maddie's InstituteSM. Maddie's Fund is named after the family's beloved Miniature Schnauzer who passed away in 1997.
Left to die in an 18 gallon Rubbermaid container in a dumpster with trash piling up around them, two young female cats are lucky to be alive today. Saturday morning (March 23), an employee of the Washington Square PetSmart discovered the cats discarded like trash behind the store.
They were both inside the nearly new, sealed blue plastic tub inside the dumpster with trash already starting to pile up on top of them. We don't know exactly how long the cats were in the tub inside the dumpster - could have been for two to more than five hours. From the store manager, Cat Adoption Team learned that the employee who found the young cats was "taught by his mother to always look in a closed container, if he found one." Apparently this employee grew up in New York and years ago a news story about a baby abandoned in a similar way struck a cord with his mother.
The cats were checked out by the veterinarians at the Banfield Pet Hospital at the PetSmart and then rested for the day inside the CAT adoption center at the store.
By Saturday evening, the two young female cats were safe at the Cat Adoption Team's shelter in Sherwood.
Hazel is a brown tabby, and about one year old; the other, Grace, is two-year old orange tabby; it is uncertain if the cats are spayed or not right now. Hazel is the more outgoing of the two. Grace is still unsure of things right now and it taking her time to warm up to staff.
Right now the cats are not available for public viewing or adoption.
CAT urges anyone who knows something about these cats or the person who left them to die to contact authorities. Animal abandonment is against the law in Oregon and is a Class B Misdemeanor (punishable by 6 months in jail and/or a $2,500 penalty). (ORS 167.340)
If you have a cat you can no longer keep, CAT has resources to help at http://catadoptionteam.org/surrender/. "Please don't wait until the last minute to try to find a new home for your cats," advises Karen Green, Cat Adoption Team Executive Director. Because local animal shelters do have an intake process and a waiting list, it is better to get on the list early.
Everyone at the Cat Adoption Team wishes to thank the Washington Square PetSmart and Banfield Pet Hospital for helping to save these two young cats.
Hazel – the brown tabby – was not pregnant and is now spayed.
Grace – the orange tabby – was already spayed.
Both of these cats will be available for adoption today, Friday, March 29. CAT would like for them to go to the same home.
Barely on the adoption floor for one day, Hazel and Grace went home just before 7 pm on Friday. Adopted by Brett and Melissa of Portland.
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Bar Refaeli may have been reared on a horse ranch with three brothers, but the future knockout, whose mother enjoyed modeling success in the '70s, started her ascent to stardom at just 8 months old when she started doing commercials. She took a break for braces from 1994-97, but once she returned around 15, she hasn't stopped filling her lookbook with covers, commercials and campaigns for clients including "Elle", "Maxim" (She was there Hot 100 topper in 2012.), "GQ", Castro, Milky, Subaru, Garnier, Brazil's Besni and more. She was the first Israeli to appear in the "Sports Illustrated" swimsuit issue (2007) and two years later she was the special's cover girl. She was the host for MTV's brief revival of "House of Style," appeared as a guest judge on "Germany's Next Topmodel" and made GoDaddy Super Bowl XLVII commercial sexy. Not just a pretty face or Leonardo DiCaprio's ex (2005-09), she started online underwear company Under.me in 2011 and works with charities like Project Sunshine and One Bag Less. Some of her campaigns, like the time her bikini shot was painted on the outside of Southwest planes, have stirred protest for being too revealing and not family-friendly and she also found herself in hot water with her country's government when it was reported that she'd married (and quickly divorced) a family friend to avoid the mandatory military service. She visited with injured soldiers as penance.
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Austin Kaut • Penn State | Jr., GK, Morton, Pa./Springfield (Delco)
Kaut earned CAA Player of the Week honors after picking up the win in the goal in Penn State's 7-5 victory over Massachusetts. The junior goalkeeper saved a season-high 16 of 21 shots on goal tallying a .762 save percentage. He made 10 first half saves and picked up four stops in the third quarter. Kaut also made two key saves in the fourth quarter to help preserve the Nittany Lion victory. The five goals allowed was a season-low for Kaut and the 16 saves were the most in league play for a single-game performance.
Brian von Bargen • Hofstra | Fr., M, Wantagh, N.Y./Wantagh
Von Bargen was selected as the CAA Rookie of the Week after scoring two goals in Hofstra's 10-5 win over Delaware to open conference action. von Bargen scored the go-ahead goal in the first quarter off a pass from teammate Sam Llinares and added an unassisted goal in the third quarter as part of an eight goal run for the Pride. The Wantagh, N.Y. native has scored four goals in his young career.
Pat Swanick • Saint Joseph's | Fr., A, Haverford, Pa./St. Joseph's Prep
Swanick received CAA Rookie of the Week honors after scoring three goals and recording an assist in Saint Joseph's 12-7 win over Marquette. The freshman attacker helped spearhead a SJU scoring spurt in the second period as he recorded two goals in 33 seconds and assisted in a third just 16 seconds later. Swanick completed his hat trick with an insurance goal in the third stanza to help seal the Hawk victory. The rookie leads Saint Joseph squad with 13 goals and 18 points this season.


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The loss of California's tangible history made a deep impression on Charles Rollo Peters, and to him, the most potent signifiers of this loss were crumbling adobe houses and mission buildings. Although Peters primarily painted the architecture of Monterey, California, he also portrayed adobes up and down the coast, heightening their romance by depicting them at night. Peters was born in San Francisco and educated at the Urban Academy. He studied art privately with Jules Tavernier and, in 1880, under Virgil Williams and then Chris Jorgensen at the California School of Design. His early paintings were coastal views of the San Francisco Bay. Many included dramatic lighting effects and scenes set at dusk or twilight. In 1886, Peters went to Paris to continue his training at the Académie Julian and the École des Beaux-Arts. He was working in the Dutch village of Katwyk on the North Sea when he discovered his true penchant for painting night scenes. "One night I was struck by the fact that the combination of old church tower, of lowly huts, and of fishing vessels . . . looked much better in the moonlight than during the day," he explained. "So I painted the moonlight scene, and this led me to specialize on nocturnes."1 Peters returned to San Francisco in 1889. Two years later, he married and returned to Europe, working in the forest of Fontainebleau and Brittany, France. He became Monterey's resident Prince of Darkness in 1895, devoting his talents to nocturnal depictions of California's most historic coastal community.


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Q. Each year a rust affects the leaves of the plumeria plants, producing orange spots and causing them to drop. Is there a solution for this problem?
A. With the return of the rainy season, you are almost guaranteed a rust fungus on plumeria and canna plantings. The orange spots are filled with spores that develop after the fungus has infected the green leaves. The spores blow between plants to continue infecting the foliage.
Most likely it is best to anticipate the arrival of the rust disease during the hot, rainy, humid weather and apply a fungicide. Products giving good rust control include Bayer Disease Control for Roses, Flowers & Shrubs, Fertilome Liquid Systemic Fungicide II and Spectracide Immunox Multipurpose Fungicide. Apply one of these products as instructed on the label to the healthy green leaves to protect the plants from fungal activity. Repeat applications as instructed to continue control during the rainy season.
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Q. Thousands of tiny white flies are on my crape myrtle and Simpson stoppers. Can you recommend a product to get rid of the flies?
A. Many types of whiteflies have now invaded Florida and are found in local landscapes. Most produce small, flat, immature yellow to green stages, on the under side of leaves. The adults you noted taking flight from the foliage, lay eggs and may move diseases between plants. Whiteflies are piercing sucking insects that can quickly build large populations and reduce plant vigor. They are also associated with the sooty mold fungus.
While there are a number of insects and fungal organisms that affect whiteflies to help with control, the pests can still build large damaging populations. If you notice the whiteflies early, a natural insecticidal soap or horticultural oil spray may be an effective control. The trick is to hit the underside of the leaves where the immature stages are developing. Systemic insecticides found at garden centers are a very effective control as they are taken into the plants to control the whiteflies as they feed. Products are available to either apply to the soil or spray on the foliage following label instructions.
Q. My gladiolus bulbs have finished blooming and the leaves are brown. When is the best time to move them?
A. When you are ready, the gladiolus bulbs are probably also ready to be dug and either stored or given a new location. Gardeners often leave their bulbs in the ground for a year or more to form clusters that eventually need dividing. Wait until their tops turn brown, then dig them any time before new growth begins. Remove old shriveling bulb portions then keep the new bulbs and small bulblets to grow the next flowering plants. Dug bulbs can be immediately added to a planting site or stored for a few months in a cool dry spot.
Q. Have you ever grown a cover crop? What months should it be planted in Florida?
A. Few gardeners use cover crops as most home plots are relatively small and planted to edibles or flowers year-round. If the land is vacant or soil problems such as nematodes are present, cover crops might be considered. Crops to fill the garden plots with desirable vegetation, return nutrients to the soil and control pests have included nematode resistant selections of marigolds, southern peas, hairy indigo and similar seasonal plantings. These are normally grown during the summer months when the ground is likely free of the desired flowers or vegetables. If you wish, rye and similar grains might be added during the cooler months to provide green cover and return nutrients to the soil when tilling and planting time arrives.
Q. My container grown hibiscus develops lots of yellow leaves even though I fertilize and water them. What should I do?
A. Some yellowing leaves may be normal throughout the growing season as plants exchange older foliage for new growth. If leaf drop seems excessive, make sure the container is an adequate size for your plant. A small container dries out quickly when filled with a big plant even though you are providing good care. It only takes a few hot dry days to cause plant stress which results in leaf decline.
Q. I planted a crape myrtle tree in the spring that now has leaves turning yellow and red. Is this normal?
A. Older leaf decline is common with crape myrtles new and old during the summer season and there seems to be a number of possible causes. Mostly the yellow-to-red leaves you noted are related to root problems. Sometimes the plants stay too wet when summer rains arrive and roots decline to cause the leaf discoloration and drop. Other times the soil dries too much between storms and again roots decline. Lastly, the plants may be running out of fertilizer. A summer feeding and adequate moisture may be all that is needed to reduce the leaf loss and promote more green foliage.


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On January 7, 2008 the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Baze v. Rees, a case concerning the death penalty and a popular form of lethal injection. Specifically the case asks three questions: (1) whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits means for carrying out a method of execution that create an unnecessary risk of pain and suffering as opposed to only a substantial risk of the wanton infliction of pain; (2) do the means for carrying out an execution cause an unnecessary risk of pain and suffering in violation of the Eighth Amendment upon a showing that readily available alternatives that pose less risk of pain and suffering could be used ; (3) does the continued use of sodium thiopental, pancuronium bromide, and potassium chloride, individually or together, violate the cruel and unusual punishment clause of the Eighth Amendment because lethal injections can be carried out by using other chemicals that pose less risk of pain and suffering? In this episode of SCOTUScast, Attorney Kent Scheidegger, Legal Director of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation discusses the case.
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Chapter 5: Tapping Educational Services
Chapter 6: When Other Therapies Aren't Enough – The Role of Medication
Chapter 7: The Role of Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Chapter 8: Partnering With Your Pediatrician
Chapter 9: Services in My Community
Chapter 10: Accessing the Care
Chapter 11: Adolescence and Beyond
Chapter 12: Putting It All Together: Everyday Strategies for Helping Your Child
Chapter 13: Autism Spectrum Disorders and Our Family
Chapter 14: The Future of Autism
Chapter 15: Advocating for Children with Autism
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Autism Spectrum Disorders: What Every Parent Needs to Know is an invaluable resource for parents and caregivers of children who have been diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Prepared under the editorial direction of 2 distinguished pediatricians who are autism experts—one of whom is also the parent of a son with autism—this book helps you understand how ASDs are defined and diagnosed and provides you with information on the most current types of behavioral and developmental therapies. It also helps parents understand what they can do to help promote a smooth transition from adolescence through the teen years and into adulthood.
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3 cups chicken stock or low-sodium broth
Steamed rice, chopped cilantro and sliced scallions, for serving
1. In a large skillet, heat the oil. Season the pork with salt and pepper. Add half of the pork to the skillet and brown it over moderately high heat, about 12 minutes. Transfer the pork to the slow cooker. Repeat with the remaining pork.
2. Pour off all but 2 tablespoons of the fat in the skillet. Add the onion, garlic, ginger, curry, cumin and turmeric and cook over low heat, stirring, until fragrant and the onion is softened, about 5 minutes. Scrape the mixture into the slow cooker. Add the tomatoes and their juices, coconut milk and stock, cover and cook on high for 4 hours. Spoon off as much fat from the surface of the stew as possible. Serve the stew over rice in deep bowls, garnished with cilantro and scallions.
Make Ahead The stew can be refrigerated for up to 5 days or frozen for up to 3 months.
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Great stylist/terrible receptionist – I have been going to Nu Wave for years to get my hair braided. However, for the last few years, ever since they got this receptionist to schedule appointments, it has been a nightmare and a hit or miss. She is very lackadasical regarding making, scheduling appointments. She does not apologize for not returning calls or giving the wrong information. I often have my appointment days or hours changed at the last minute. This is not professional and has hurt their business. Those writing good remarks about the receptionist must be friends or the receptionist writing it herself.
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Great Receptionist 10 thumbs up – I was referred to the salon by one of my friends, the first experience was beautiful,the receptionist she is one of the best that i have met since i am in Brooklyn and Manhattan and I am a Human Resouce Manager for several companies in Russia and she is excellent, i will hire her on the spot , she is very warm and PROFESSIONAL. and you will leave with a smile. That is the person that you need to greet your clients.
the Salon is Beautiful and smell GReat. the prices are right for the service that they provide.
i LOVE NU WAVE KULTRUAL KREATIONS AND THE STAFF – I INTRODUCED A FRIEND TO THE SALON AND SHE LOVES THE RECEPTIONIST SHE IS VERY PROFESSIONAL AND MAKES YOU FEEL WELCOME EVEN IF YOU DONT HAVE AN APPOINTMENT OR CAN GET A DATE , THERE IS A YOUNG LADY THAT YOU MEET AS SOON AS YOU COMES THROUGH THE DOOR IS GREAT ACTUALLY ALL OF THEM, YOU NEED TO VIST THEM THEY R ALL GREAT, BUSINESS PEOPLE VERY PROFESSIONAL ATMOSPHERE , FRIENDLY AND VERY BUSY LOL
Best place to get natural hair done. – I have been getting my hair done at Nu wave for over 6 years. The girls there are talented and warm-hearted. The ambiance is great and everyone is friendly. I have to make my appointments months ahead but its worth it to me. Once you get your hair done there you won't want to go anywhere else. I always leave with my hair shiny,stylish, and very satisfied.
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The question stemmed from in-state rival Auburn connecting on a Hail Mary pass to defeat Georgia. Auburn quarterback Nick Marshall hitting receiver Ricardo Louis for a 73-yard touchdown. Georgia safety Josh Harvey-Clemons batted the ball in the air, allowing Louis to run under it for the touchdown.
Collins said the Tide would be prepared for a similar situation.
"First of all, coach (Nick) Saban tells us to bat it down," Collins said. "That's the first thing that comes out of his mouth. If you get the pick, fall down. But the first thing is batting it down and playing the next play. We don't need anybody being a hero."
INJURY NEWS: Alabama tight end Brian Vogler limped off the field in the fourth quarter of the Crimson Tide's 20-7 win at Mississippi State.
After the game, Vogler was on crutches with ice on his right foot. Tide coach Nick Saban said Vogler sprained his ankle during his postgame news conference. On Monday, Saban said Vogler will be "day to day."
"He probably won't do anything today, and I don't really know what day this week he'll be able to get back into it," Saban said. "We just have to evaluate those things day to day."
True freshman tight end O.J. Howard took a high hit following quarterback AJ McCarron's second interception. Howard didn't return to the game.
"I think he will be fine," Saban said. "He may be one of those guys that's limited a little bit today, but I don't think we'll have any issues as the week progresses."
Following the game, running T.J. Yeldon was seen walking with a protective boot on his right foot, but it was only precautionary.
"He sprained his ankle a little bit," Saban said. "I don't think it's a bad thing. He finished the game on it. We put a guy in a protective boot pretty much for anything.
"If you had a corn on your toe, we would put you in a protective boot. And I agree with that. I think that's a good thing. I'm not trying to say that it's not something that we should do. It does help the guys recover, helps eliminate some swelling. We've had guys in boots two hours before the game."
CBS GETS IRON BOWL: No. 1 Alabama and No. 6 Auburn will kick off at 2:30 p.m. Nov. 30 at Jordan-Hare Stadium. The CBS crew of Verne Lundquist, Gary Danielson and Tracy Wolfson will handle the broadcast.
Alabama leads the all-time series 42-34-1 and has won four of the past five. Auburn holds a 6-4 edge in the past 10 games and has a 7-4 edge in Iron Bowls played at Jordan-Hare Stadium.


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British Columbia Traffic Collision Statistics is an annual publication on police-reported traffic collisions occurring in the Province. Since 1995 it has covered police-reported collisions involving a personal injury or a fatality.
The source of the information for the Traffic Collision Statistics publication is the Traffic Accident Police Investigation Report (MV6020). When a police officer attends a collision, the report is most often completed at the scene.
ICBC also collects information on injury incidents identified through insurance claims. Claims-based injury incidents totaled approximately 44,000 in 1999, compared to around 20,000 police-reported injury collisions. There are several reasons for this discrepancy. Police-reported traffic collision statistics have never captured all vehicle crashes in the province. Collision reporting thresholds and non-reporting of low severity "reportable" collisions result in the exclusion of thousands of crashes. Since 1995, this situation has been exacerbated by the reduction in police attendance and reporting of collisions by many police agencies. While the reporting of property damage only collisions continues to decline each year, the reporting of injury and fatal collisions has remained at about the same level since 1997.
Even with these qualifications, the Traffic Collision Statistics provides valuable information on casualty collisions that is not available from other sources. For example, contributing factors such as alcohol or unsafe speed, restraint use and types of crash locations and configurations, to name a few. Police-reported traffic collision statistics are used to support traffic safety programs such as CounterAttack; to evaluate new provincial road safety initiatives; for monitoring commercial vehicle collision trends and commercial vehicle safety programs; to identify unsafe road locations; for highway planning and for guiding the development of policies and programs to reduce the frequency and severity of collisions in the Province.


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I hate this forum setup where the replies to a comment go under the comment instead of at the end of a thread with the ability to quote previous comments. I MISS SO MANY COMMENTS. Also, I'd liek the ability to subscribe to a thread without receiving emails about new comments, just some kind of notification on the site. THANKS.
I would never be this forward if I wasn't drinking. SO COUNT YOURSELF LUCKY. THANKS.
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But if I did that no one else would see my brilliant ideas. :D
I like that you are drinking. I was going to suggest you had a stiff shot of something after watching your Vlog... ;)
It only goes to the comment under the comment if the writer clicks reply under that comment. If they click reply under the compose box at the top of the forum page, it goes at the end. Meaning someone can reply to the entire thread, or to one specific reply.
I think what he wants is a "quote" option. This allows you to comment at the end of a thread, but basically copies previous replies into your response automatically (at least, that's how it worked on other forums I was a part of). This allows you to respond to multiple people (because you can "quote" as many as you want), yet you only have one response at the end of the page. It makes it easier than having to respond to everything individually, which leads to leaving multiple comments on the same thread to address everything.
Sounds like Owen wants something closer to the setup that message boards based on Invision have. I would like to examples for anyone unfamiliar, but of the two which I belong to, one was recently destroyed by NBC (it was their "official/unofficial" board for Heroes) and the other requires people to sign in before seeing the forum itself.


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Pros – Some of the sales associates are some real characters - fun, interesting people. You do get to see all the new merchandise first.
Cons – Long hours, low pay, very little real autonomy the upper store management major micro-managers. Overall people are very unhappy with this company and it's been this way for many years, but at least we have jobs and they do pay the sales associate a good hourly rate they just need to maintain their SPH to maintain it.
Advice to Senior Management – I really don't think upper management really cares, they are more concern with the bottom line.
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After 18 months in the courts, Democrat Tracie Hunter has won a Hamilton County Juvenile Court judgeship, but a GOP challenge to the court's acceptance of Hunter's challenge is likely to follow. Republican John Williams led hunter by 23 votes on election night 2010, but Hunter filed a lawsuit over provisional ballots cast at incorrect polling stations that weren't counted. After a recount of 286 provisional ballots, Hunter moved ahead by 74 votes. Republican board of election members reportedly plan to argue that the 286 should not have been recounted.
The Enquirer's Mark Curnutte today offered an analysis of recently released census data that shows a steady growth of the regional Hispanic population and a growth of minority population in areas outside the city that were once largely white. Cincinnati's data suggests that the city and region are slightly different than the nation's overall trend, which in 2011 for the first time found a majority of the country's under 1-year-old population minority (50.4 percent), up from 49.5 percent in 2010.
Included in The Enquirer's story, which included a profile of a Mexican-American Florence family that moved to Northern Kentucky eight years ago from Los Angeles:
A decrease of 1.3 percentage points in Hamilton County's black population under 5 was countered by increases in the black population under 5 in each of the region's six other core counties: Butler, Clermont and Warren in Ohio and Boone, Campbell and Kenton in Kentucky.
Overall, the regional population of Hispanic children under 5 years rose from 7,583 in 2010 to 8,032 in 2011, a proportional increase of 0.4 percentage points to 6.1 percent.
The family of a teenager fatally shot by a Cincinnati police officer on Fountain Square last summer has filed a federal lawsuit alleging police used excessive force and violated 16-year-old Davon Mullins' constitutional rights. Police say Mullins pulled a handgun, but the lawsuit says he had been disarmed before officer Oscar Cyranek shot him multiple times.
Cincinnati's Bike Month revelers and Over-the-Rhine residents received some good news this week when Reser Bicycle Outfitters announced the opening of an OTR location. The store could open by June 1 in the 1400 block of Vine Street.
Legislation regulating ownership and breeding of exotic animals has been approved by the Ohio House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee, 17-4. Senate Bill 310 could get through the full House and Senate next week and be signed by Gov. John Kasich soon afterward. The ban on the acquisition, sale and breeding of certain species would take affect 90 days later.
Europe is preparing for Greece to completely duck out of the Eurozone. The world markets are feeling the pressure.
Mitt Romney has released his first general election TV ad. And he's giving cookies to the media.
Former Senator John Edwards will learn his fate today, as a jury was set to deliberate this morning on charges that Edwards used campaign funds to conceal an affair during his run for president.
More than 200 pages of documents, photos and audio recordings were released yesterday offering further details about what happened the night George Zimmerman shot and killed Trayvon Martin.
The documents include an FBI audio analysis of the 911 call placed by a resident that captured yells and screams. Two FBI examiners said they could not determine whether it was Martin or Zimmerman yelling because of the poor quality of the recording and the "extreme emotional state" of screamer.
The AP is live-blogging Facebook's stock market debut. Why does Bono have so much Facebook?
Cell phone maker Nokia has accused Apple of programming bias into its interactive Siri voice search by making it answer the question "What is the best smartphone ever?" by stating ""Wait... there are other phones?" The answer had apparently previously been "Nokia's Lumia 900." Apple won't say whether or not it changed Siri's answer after finding the glitch.
A new study suggests that nighttime fasting can go a long way toward keeping you slim even if you eat bad stuff during the day.
Scientists have found a car-sized turtle shell.
The private space launch is scheduled for 4:55 a.m. Saturday, and there will be alcohol involved.
Officials with the Hamilton County Board of Elections have announced the processing will occur today, Thursday and Friday. A total of 286 provisional ballots are being tallied in a Juvenile Court judge race, in compliance with a recent order from a federal judge.
The ballots are being counted today until 4 p.m., as well as from 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Thursday, and from 10:30 a.m. until the work is completed on Friday. The board's offices are located on the third floor at 824 Broadway Ave., downtown.
Also, the Board of Elections will hold special meetings this week. Both will occur Friday; one at 10 a.m., the other at 4:30 p.m. Board members will discuss "pending litigation" related to the Hunter-Williams race.
Earlier this month a federal appeals court upheld a ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Susan Dlott that 286 provisional ballots should be tallied in the 2010 race between Democrat Tracie Hunter and Republican John Williams.
Hunter seemingly lost by just 23 votes out of nearly 230,000 ballots cast by county voters, but 286 ballots weren't counted because they were cast by people who showed up to vote at the correct polling place but were misdirected by poll workers and voted at the wrong precinct table.
Hunter filed a lawsuit in
federal court alleging the ballots should be counted. Dlott had ordered the
local Board of Elections to precisely determine how many ballots weren't
counted due to poll worker error, before she decided. That's when local
Republicans appealed the order.
Williams alleged poll workers correctly followed Ohio law and excluded the ballots, and that they shouldn't be tallied. The GOP tried to get the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on the matter, but it declined to hear the case in April 2011. That put the matter back in Dlott's court.
Since the dispute began, Williams was appointed to another vacant Juvenile Court judgeship in November 2011.
Ohio House Republicans released their own budget proposal yesterday that does away with many of Gov. John Kasich's proposed policies. The budget gets rid of the Medicaid expansion, the oil and gas severance tax and the sales tax expansion. It also reduces the state income tax cut to 7 percent, down from 20 percent in Kasich's plan. The amount of schools getting no increased funding under a new school funding formula decreased from 368 in Kasich's plan to 175 in the House plan, addressing issues that selective wealthy schools were benefiting too much from Kasich's proposed school funding formula. CityBeat covered Kasich's budget proposal in detail here.
NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio is criticizing the Ohio House's proposed budget for defunding Planned Parenthood and redirecting federal funds to anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs). A study from NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio, which is highly supportive of abortion rights, found 47 percent of CPCs gave inaccurate medical information regarding a link between mental health problems and abortion, and 38 percent provided false information about the connection between breast cancer, infertility and abortion, among other findings.
The city of Cincinnati is asking Judge Robert Winkler to stay his previous ruling so the city can use emergency clauses to expedite legislation. City Solicitor John Curp says the city needs emergency clause powers in case of natural disasters and to advance economic development deals that need to be implemented before 30 days. The city previously used emergency clauses to avoid a 30-day waiting period for implementing laws, but Winkler ruled the clauses do not nullify the right to referendum, effectively eliminating the use of emergency clauses because the city now always has to wait 30 days in case of a referendum effort. The ruling was given after City Council used an emergency clause to expedite the lease of the city's parking assets to the Port Authority to help balance deficits and fund economic development.
With the support of Councilwoman Yvette Simpson, City Council is looking to study youth poverty, homelessness and other issues to better prioritize city policy. The $175,000 study, which will be mostly privately funded, will look at multiple factors affecting the city's youth, including crime, poverty, homelessness and educational opportunities. Simpson says the study will be the first comprehensive look at the city's youth.
Democratic Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown's bill to end Too Big to Fail was leaked to the press Friday, and The Washington Post has an analysis on what it does here. While the bill doesn't explicitly break up big banks, it does severely limit big banks in a way that may encourage them to downsize. Brown will co-sponsor the bill with Republican La. Sen. David Vitter, making it a bipartisan compromise. CityBeat covered Brown's efforts in further detail here.
Ky. Sen. Mitch McConnell's re-election campaign is complaining someone bugged a meeting to listen in on staff's plans for the 2014 election. Jesse Benton, campaign manager for McConnell, said in a statement, "Today's developments ... go far beyond anything I've seen in American politics and are comparable only to Richard Nixon's efforts to bug Democratic Party Headquarters at the Watergate 40 years ago." During the meeting, McConnell's staff alluded to labeling potential opponent Ashley Judd as "unbalanced" by bringing up past mental health problems. Meanwhile, recent polling found McConnell is no lock for re-election.
As the media ramps up fears of another Korean war, many analysts feel there is no chance of war. Meanwhile, South Koreans seem more bored than concerned with the North's threats.
Scientists discovered evidence of "dark lightning," which may emanate from thunderstorms alongside visible lightning.
A local appellate court judge who is a neighborhood activist and a one-time Cincinnati City Council candidate recently was elected as president of the Ohio State Bar Association.
Patrick F. Fischer was elected Friday during the Bar Association's annual convention in Columbus.
Subpoenas will be issued to more than 2,200 poll workers and others to solicit testimony about advice they gave to voters in Hamilton County precincts being investigated in a contested judicial race.
Local Democratic Party leaders said the issuance of subpoenas is "a ridiculously expensive and time-consuming proposition" that could be done more quickly and cheaply through other methods, but that process is being blocked by their Republican counterparts.
Homeless advocates gathered in front of the Hamilton County Courthouse on Wednesday to speak out against the county sheriff's attempts to evict homeless people sleeping at the courthouse and Hamilton County Justice Center with the threat of jail time.
The press conference came on the same day that four local homeless filed a lawsuit in federal court claiming Hamilton County Sheriff Jim Neil's new policy is cruel and unusual because it punishes people for being homeless.
Charmaine McGuffey, head of the Hamilton County Justice Department, says the policy is necessary to address a public health issue. She explains that every morning county officials are forced to clean up urine and feces left by the homeless the night before, and often the county doesn't have the resources to completely disinfect the areas.
Josh Spring, executive director of the Greater Cincinnati Homeless Coalition, says county officials should stop using taxpayer money to address public defecation and focus on the state of the economy. He's asking locals to tell county officials, "I want my government to invest in jobs and housing, not in pushing people to the margins."
If the policy remains, Spring says the county could at least compromise and hold enforcement until the winter shelter opens, which would provide another housing opportunity for many of the homeless people who currently rely on county buildings for a safe spot to sleep.
McGuffey says the current timeline for the winter shelter opening — two months — is too much time to wait for what she describes as a public health issue. She says it's also unclear whether local organizations, which are still gathering funds for the shelter, will have enough money to open it.
At the press conference, Spring was joined by several homeless people who shared their experiences. All the speakers echoed a similar theme: They're not homeless by choice, and they only sleep on county property because it's much safer than the alternatives, such as alleys and abandoned buildings.
McGuffey insists no one is trying to demonize homeless people. She says officers try to link homeless people with local human services when possible. Some of that outreach is already underway through trained officers and neighborhood liaisons, and starting next week the county will bring in a trained mental health professional to act as an advocate and outreach coordinator.
But if help can't be found, McGuffey says officers have to threaten arrest to invoke a "sense of immediacy" or homeless people might never leave the properties and the public health issue would go unaddressed.
So far, the sheriff's office sees the program as successful. Over the past four weeks, it's brought down the amount of homeless people camping out at the Hamilton County Courthouse and Justice Center each night from 40 to 12, according to McGuffey. She says the reductions exemplify people who were redirected to human services, but there's no hard evidence showing those people actually got help or whether the reduction is temporary.
Spring says there aren't enough human services to get all of the city's homeless help. That, he claims, is the real problem that needs local officials' attention.
Over the past decade, City Council fell far short of its funding goal for human services,
which aid homeless and low-income Cincinnatians.
Several council
candidates, including Chris Seelbach, Greg Landsman and Mike Moroski,
say increasing human services funding to 1 percent of the operating budget will be a
priority for them over the next few years. The increase would represent an
improvement, but it would still fall short of the city's 1.5 percent goal.
Meanwhile, Strategies to End Homelessness aims to reduce homelessness in Hamilton County from more than 7,000 to roughly 3,500 over the next five years through an initiative backed by the city and county.
As part of Homelessness Awareness Month, Spring and other
advocates will march in support of homeless causes later this month. The
march will begin at 3 p.m. on Oct. 26 at 1300 Vine St. in Over-the-Rhine.
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The speaker of the Ohio House is asking a local state representative to resign after he was indicted on 16 counts of fraud. State Rep. Peter Beck, a Mason Republican, already faces a maximum of 43 years in prison if he's convicted on all the counts, but Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine says the ongoing investigation might produce more charges. The charges are a result of Beck's alleged actions involving an Ohio software company called Christopher Technologies, which investors claim bilked them out of $200,000.Claiming discrimination, a newlywed same-sex couple is suing the state of Ohio for failing to recognize their marriage. Jim Obergefell and John Arthur were married in Maryland, but the couple lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, where same-sex marriage is banned by the state constitution. The couple's attorney claims the state should be forced to recognize the marriage because of Fourteenth Amendment protections extended to gay couples by the Supreme Court's recent ruling on the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Arthur was diagnosed in 2011 with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a neurological disease that causes muscles to rapidly deteriorate, and he's currently bedridden as a result. Given Arthur's health, the couple will argue for an expedited ruling at a hearing at 1:30 p.m. today in front of U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Black.
The Buckeye Firearms Association is raising money to buy a gun for George Zimmerman, who was acquitted of second-degree murder in the murder trial of black 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman's gun is currently being held by the U.S. Department of Justice as it investigates further charges.
Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld and 100 members of the Children's Defense Fund will meet at Washington Park at 1 p.m. today to rally against gun violence in Cincinnati. The group plans to march to City Hall, where they will listen to students' suggestions for making the city a safer place to visit and reside.
A state representative introduced a bill that would allow some public university students to forgo traditional tuition and instead pay for their college education through a percent of their income for 24 years after they graduate.
An Ohio health aide is being sent to prison for Medicaid fraud.
Ohio gas prices are down this week.
In a desperate bid to save the endangered Sumatran rhino, the Cincinnati Zoo is attempting to breed a brother and sister.
If you think the recent heat has been bad, Popular Science has a humbling list of the 10 worst places to live in the universe.
The city of Cincinnati and opponents of the parking plan met in court today to debate whether laws passed with emergency clauses are subject to referendum — a crucial legal issue as the city attempts to speed ahead with plans to lease the city's parking assets to the Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority to help balance the deficit and foster economic development.
After hearing extensive legal arguments
from both sides, Judge Robert Winkler, who presided over the hearings, said
a decision is unlikely today.
Curt Hartman, who represented opponents of the parking plan, argued the city charter's definition of emergency clauses is ambiguous, and legal precedent supports siding with voters' right to referendum when there is ambiguity.
Terry Nestor, who represented the city, said legal
precedent requires the city to defer to state law as long as state law
is not contradicted in the city charter.
Cincinnati's city charter does not specify whether emergency legislation is subject to referendum, but state law explicitly says emergency laws are not subject to referendum.
Meg Olberding, city spokesperson, previously told CityBeat that if the parking plan is held up for too long in legal battles, the city will have to carry out spending cuts before July to balance the budget in time for the 2014 fiscal year.
Emergency clauses remove a 30-day waiting period on approved legislation, and the city claims they also remove the possibility of referendum.
City Council approved the parking plan in a 5-4 vote on March 6 before attaching an emergency clause to the law in a 6-3 vote. But the law was quickly put on hold by a temporary restraining order from Winkler after a lawsuit was filed in favor of subjecting the plan to referendum.
Opponents of the parking plan say they're concerned the plan will cede too much control over the city's parking meters, which they say could lead to skyrocketing parking rates.
The city says rates are set at 3 percent or inflation, but the rate can change with a unanimous vote from a special committee, approval from the city manager and a final nod from the Port Authority. The special committee would comprise of four people appointed by the Port Authority and one appointed by the city manager.
The city is pursuing the parking plan to help balance the city's deficit for the next two fiscal years and enable economic development projects ("Parking Stimulus," issue of Feb. 27).


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White has always been associated with purity and cleanliness. When chosen as the primary color in interior design, white represents immaculateness—the color of perfection that only the boldest of perfectionists would dare to have in their homes.
Some might say that white limits creativity and that it is a bit too severe for their taste. On the contrary, a white room serves as the perfect canvas for your home décor. This Balsam Hill blog post shows you how to use this pristine color to your full advantage.


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