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Cortex Command is set a few hundred years into the future, where the now cybernetic human race is able to travel between stars and has already met several alien civilizations.
Interstellar trade and prosperity reigns, but there is always an ever-expanding frontier to explore and exploit for precious resources. In this gold rush of galactic proportions, fantastic adventure and brutal competition awaits.
You play as the boss of a small gold mining company that has just arrived at a newly discovered Earth-like planet. The large space ship that brought you here along with many other adventurers is called a TradeStar. It acts as a massive orbital safe haven and marketplace for the fortune seekers who venture down onto the planet's surface. Your purchases of bodies, guns, and equipment are sent from the TradeStar orbiting above and delivered to you by your choice of landing craft.
However, it soon becomes clear that the planet isn't as pristine as initially thought, and you will have to quickly adapt from your humble beginnings in order to survive and ultimately discover the dangerous secrets of this alien world...
Genre: | Action, Strategy, Shooter |
Game theme: | Futuristic, Science-fiction |
Game features: | Singleplayer, 2 Players, Multiplayer |
Game modes: | Campaign, Skirmish |
Graphic: | 2D |
License: | Closed |
Payment: | Commercial, One-time |
Bad support
While the Mac and Windows users are enjoying the 1.05 version, we continue stuck with an unplayable 1.0rc1.
Segmentation fault!
Good game, but it is not
Good game, but it is not finished yet. There is no campaign, the survival mode freezes every 2-3 seconds. But the physics and AI is nice :)


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The Chattahoochee Riverkeeper is hosting an event at the farm of County Commission Chairman Ricky Wolfe.
The event is 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Sunday at 1151 New Hutchinson Mill Road. It will focus on education on an organic farm housing a Riverkeeper classroom on Long Cane Creek, a major tributary that feeds the Chattahoochee River.
"We will explore the farm learning about the importance of clean and plentiful water and organic gardening," said Jill Sistino of the Chattahoochee Riverkeeper. "By taking a tour down by the creek to discuss its history and relationship to the farm, visitors can also participate in the water monitoring. We will then proceed down to the organic garden for a walk with gardener Ricky Wolfe as he explains his garden, his processes for becoming organic and how he is using rainwater to keep the plants thriving. The program will end with organic refreshments down by the garden watching the sun go down on this lovely spot."
Event is hosted by Chattahoochee Riverkeeper in partnership with Wolfe and the local chapter of the Sierra Club. There is no charge for participation, but reservations are required.
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In any organisation, creativity and innovation are essential to the growth of the workforce. However, the individuals who embody this growth are often undervalued. Jerry Ash considers the obstacles to cultural change and presents his vision of a new order that aims to empower workers, open communication channels and help organisations keep pace with KM.
The conditions for a powerful new order have been created by personal computing, the explosion of the internet and other forms of personal communication coupled with the highest level of human intellectual activity ever seen.
People who were once content to be led are now less likely to blindly follow. Patients often research their own symptoms and make decisions about their own care based on what they know, not just what the doctor tells them. Shoppers go online not just to buy, but to research their options, and depend much less on what the salesman advises. In many cases, the customer knows more and so knows best. Media channels are no longer limited to newspapers or broadcast journalism, creating an even freer flow of information and ideas. Citizens can take charge of their own government-related affairs and bypass intermediaries from their desktops. The knowledge effect is ubiquitous.
The impact is evident both in the marketplace and the workplace, which means it affects the way we work both inside and outside the organisation. People thrive on the responsibility of decision making at home. When they go to work, they are looking for an environment that will not only allow them to use their heads, but will expect them to.
Its a winning combination. Bright people with fresh ideas and initiative are ideal for enterprises that need innovation and agility to keep up with rapidly changing methods and marketplaces. There is no such thing as a non-knowledge worker; informed and creative thinkers are everywhere and they have been ready to take responsibility for their own careers for a long time. But do we believe in the value of the knowledge worker and can we trust them?
Management consultant Carol Kinsey Goman recalls research she undertook in the late 1980s to determine organisational loyalty, which was presumed lacking. Unsurprisingly, among the hundreds of people she interviewed, not one said that their goal in life was to do a mediocre job at a company they hated and were disloyal to. Most of us want to do a terrific job on meaningful projects at a company we care about and with people we like. I think this is also the potential power behind trust, she says. Goman believes that employees want to trust and that most people would rather work in collaborative, trusting relationships. We get high on the feelings we have about ourselves and others when operating in these kinds of relationships.
Denny Bellesi, pastor of the Coast Hills Community Church in Aliso Viejo, California, intended to teach his flock a lesson in stewardship when he decided to trust the good sense of his parishioners. He gave out $100 bills to a total of $10,000 from his churchs general funds with the simple instruction that parishioners were to invest the money outside the church. Instead of simply teaching stewardship, Bellesi learnt about the power of distributed decision making based on trust.
Those who were given the $100 bills were instructed only to meet the goals and objectives of the church mission. How each spent the money was a personal decision. What began as 100 people soon involved far more, as well as funds much greater than the original $10,000. The results included small acts of kindness, such as helping a family buy food or clothing, to large projects such as funding the construction of a church in Asia.
Bill Shedd, one of the parishioners, said, It was the most important $100 I had ever held in my hands. To add to the pot, Shedds 13-year-old son donated $100 of the allowance he had saved and Shedds daughter also pitched in money. Soon the Shedds had collected $1,000. After weeks of debate, the family donated $800 to a shelter for abused women and children. Then Shedd read a newspaper article about 15-year-old Javier Zambrano in nearby Santa Ana, California, who was collecting holiday gifts for children even though he didnt have enough money to buy soccer shoes for himself. Shedd gave Zambrano the remaining $200 for soccer equipment.
There were many similar stories. Michael Rodriguez used the $100 to begin a donation drive at the internet consulting company where he worked. Nine-year old Alex Benson sent the money to a four-year old Oregon girl to help her family with expenses for a heart transplant. Gene Shook used the money to buy materials to train pastors in Asia.
It is fascinating to compare these stories with the usual ritual of financial decision making. Even non-profit organisations pattern themselves after the corporate spending model: money is collected, banked and budgeted by the institution. It travels from the church member to the finance committee, where decisions are made on spending. The administrator carries out the will of the committee, the accountant writes the cheques and, of course, there is a financial report, ideally showing balanced books. The old model is all about spending the money; the new model is about getting the most out of it.
The issue isnt so much about changing human culture as it is about changing the environment to take advantage of the natural human urge to do good work. If there is a culture that needs changing, it is the corporate culture. We are clearly caught between two management eras.
As storytelling expert Steve Denning says, My sense is that we have two related but different domains here. On the one hand, we have the domain of power and hierarchy, which is decision making and control. On the other, we have the domain of knowledge and expertise, which is creativity and innovation. The former domain is ruled by, whos calling the shots? The latter domain is ruled by, whos got the smarts? Occasionally, it is the same person, but not too often. Denning draws attention to organisations in the 20th century, where the emphasis was on who was in control and on arranging and re-arranging things so that the person in charge could gain even greater control. He calls this a game of diminishing returns.
Unfortunately, the age of knowledge management was immediately preceded by a parade of contrived management fads that tried to call the shots, resulting either in limited success, failure or long-term harm (although mostly unintentional). KM pioneer Charles Savage lists work simplification, group dynamics, transactional analysis, business-process re-engineering, organisational development and change management as just a few of these fads. Savage remembers them all as ways to address the structural problems of the industrial era all without any real success. Why did they fail? he asks. Because none of these efforts really made the shift from the industrial eras culture of distrust and devaluing to a culture of trust and co-creativity.
Denning adds quality management (QM) to the list of fads that dont work in a people-driven knowledge environment and finds KM much more openly embraced by employees because of its appeal to the natural instincts of those who work directly with clients. Over his time at the World Bank, he had contrasting experiences with QM and KM. From 1990 to 1996, Denning laboured diligently to have QM accepted in one part of the organisation and found the going very difficult. He found that quality management was generally equated with a mechanistic, one-size-fits-all formula in a business where every country and every project presented new and different challenges.
Between 1996 and 2000, Denning spearheaded the KM effort and found a fairly immediate and enthusiastic response at the World Bank. There was an instinctive recognition, except for middle-management diehards, that we were in the knowledge business, he explains. Denning believes that KM made sense of what the World Bank was trying to do in ways that other management approaches, such as business-process re-engineering, seemed to be trying to stifle. KM prospered so long as it honoured the organic nature of knowledge. Whenever KM became mechanistic, it ran into difficulty, he concludes.
However, many business leaders feel threatened by the untidy and cross-cutting nature of bottom-up initiatives that could undermine their control. Those who are hostile to the notion of distributed empowerment may never see the true value of the new perspective. Some are in denial, rejecting the knowledge phenomenon as just another fad. Others delay and avoid acceptance by operating with a traditional lens that resists change. They seek justification, analysis of competition, good-practice examples, business-case examples based on traditional ROI and so on, to avoid action rather than plunging headlong into the priceless imperatives of the new order.
Even worse, workers remain in the dark about the new order and their place in it. They are still labouring under the belief they were hired for what they do, not what they know. This belief is reinforced by managers who write prescriptive job descriptions and base performance evaluations on preconceived notions of how a job will best be done. We take big people and put them in little boxes, held apart by steel girders. We then give them a half-written script and expect them to play a role. The minute they start to be themselves, we stuff their scripts in their faces and demand they get on with it, says Savage.
Those who are finally given the freedom to do it their way dont understand or trust it because the concept is so foreign to their life-long experience. Many remain intimidated by hierarchical structure and cope by adopting a stick to the knitting approach, either for their own personal safety or as the formula for advancement. Many are fearful they will be ridiculed, ignored, or that credit will be taken by others if they reach beyond their own assignments to contribute what they know for the overall good of the organisation. They are in competition with each other, hoarding what they know to protect themselves in a downsizing programme or to climb the corporate ladder. Like their superiors, they are dealing with each other from the perspective of what Savage calls an economy of scarcity, where personal achievement and advancement are available only to a few.
The workplace situation is not nature, it is nurture. Higher-education consultant David Hawthorne believes that creating knowledge is as natural as breathing: we do it to survive, individually and collectively. So why are people still reluctant to share? Hawthorne believes that learnt fears are generated by mistrust, mishandling, playing for advantage, the fear of embarrassment and the myth that knowledge is power. Although it did not protect knowledge-holders during the downsizing era, the acquired habit of knowledge hoarding has transformed workers into a fragmented know it all culture that was tolerable in the industrial era when knowledge obsolescence took years and provided leverage for those who built their own domains. Today, the shelf life of knowledge is much shorter. The new model of power is a cycle of learning quickly, sharing what has been learnt while it is still valid, unlearning what no longer works and relearning. This set of behaviours is based on power as a function of understanding and the facilitation of information and knowledge flow.
KM practice should illuminate the circumstances that call for knowledge sharing and prescribe the behaviour most likely to produce optimal outcomes. Then we need to figure out how to build the technical and social infrastructures most hospitable to those behaviours, says Hawthorne. If there is to be a prescription, then it should be management who takes the medicine. The organisation that genuinely re-organises its philosophy to build an environment of initiative and collaboration will find a change in employee culture occurring rapidly because learning and sharing is in the enterprises DNA.
Human beings are social animals. Like creative thinking, telling what we know is something that children do naturally and enthusiastically, says Goman. She believes that much of the problem stems from our formal education process, which is where we begin to learn that it is unwise to share information if you have the answer and give it to someone else, you put yourself at a disadvantage. We learn that only some children get good grades in art class and, as such, they are the only ones deemed artistic. Both of these misconceptions are enhanced by organisations that place creative people in marketing, communication, PR and advertising, and dont ask for ideas from the rest of us. When reward systems and department funding are designed to create competition between employees, it becomes nature versus nurture; most organisations have nurtured knowledge hoarding.
On the other hand, Hawthorne believes we are at our best when we tell children and employees the truth and base our lessons on honouring the trust they put in us. We also live to regret when for expediency sake we threaten, lie and trick our kids (and employees) into doing what we want them to do, he says.
Knowledge managers need to create an environment where knowledge workers can use open communication to come out of their cultural bunkers to teach and learn. In the case of Gomans perfect knowledge-sharing model, managers are valued not because they know more than their staff, but because they can quickly communicate to employees what they know and get staff members to do the same with each other. Leaders build environments of trust and mutual respect where creative contribution is nurtured, she says. Employees at all levels understand that being successful in this networked world increasingly requires collaboration.
However, the reality is somewhat different. Goman recently completed a survey of 200 mid-level managers regarding knowledge sharing in their companies. The results confirmed what many KM practitioners have been experiencing: all too often team leaders withhold information and dole it out on a need-to-know basis. Executives ask for collaborative input when what they really want is a rubber stamp for decisions that have already been made. Gomans survey proved that people arent sharing what they know due to various personal and organisational inhibitors.
These human barriers underscore the importance of tackling the people issues. Management consultant Maribeth Achterberg has seen the positive effect of building knowledge-sharing environments through her work with an organisation that began sharing information that had traditionally been held as appropriate only for senior management. Some of this information was highly sensitive and confidential. Achterberg was amazed to see willing workers who were aware of the significance of this action and the trust factor that management was employing by releasing such information. The level of care and accountability towards the organisation by the workers rose each day as this atmosphere of open and honest communication was nurtured by continued sharing of information that helped the workforce do its job more quickly, she observes. The hierarchy of management was no longer a knowledge-sharing roadblock.
Achterberg maintains that the first step is a defined common vision towards a common aim that shows benefit for each person involved in the organisation through daily practice of guiding principles. This implies that:
- Everyone understands and agrees that the vision and aim of the organisation is a worthy cause and agrees to support its endeavours;
- Everyones role is defined and understood to be necessary to the success of the organisation. Each person involved in the organisational structure is important and none is more important than the other, including customers, shareholders and suppliers/vendors;
- Everyones knowledge is an asset to the success of the organisation, regardless of rank or position;
- Sharing valuable, pertinent information regarding work practices vital to the organisation is the norm, not the exception. Knowledge hoarding does not produce a position of power but rather weakens the organisation. If people are invested in the organisation, knowledge hoarding is seen as counterproductive and is not tolerated.
Achterberg believes that these principles are fundamental. If this foundation is set, I believe the more complex concepts of a KM-enabled organisational culture can be cultivated.
A truly knowledge-intensive company is comprised of self-motivating, empowered workers who know their knowledge is important to the performance of their organisation. Such a change in culture has developed significantly in recent years. It has changed the way staff work, share, learn and respond to clients needs. It has increased productivity and created communities within organisations. It has fostered a culture where staff are eager to share knowledge and wisdom.
These are the evolving realities of the new order. They are lessons repeated often enough over the past 50 years to merit constant attention and action by todays business leader. The change taking place in enterprise today is not a fad promoted by vendors, but a quiet revolution fueled by a shift in social, political and economic order that is already a fait accompli.
Jerry Ash is consulting editor and US correspondent for Knowledge Management. Contact him at email@example.com


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Men benefit more than women from nicotine replacement therapy for smoking cessation because nicotine affects a key neuroreceptor differently in the two sexes, a NIDA-sponsored study suggests. The findings highlight the need for alternative therapies for women smokers, and point to the female hormone progesterone as a potential therapeutic target.
Forty-seven percent of substance abuse treatment counselors in a national sample left their jobs voluntarily within 3 years.
April 2013
Patients were more likely to take a rapid HIV test when substance abuse treatment programs offered the test onsite rather than referred for offsite testing. Patients were equally likely to accept and learn their HIV status whether the offer of onsite testing was accompanied by 30 minutes of risk reduction counseling or by 5 minutes of brief information on the testing procedure. Onsite testing accompanied by brief information was cost effective, taking into account the projected lifetime costs of treatment and the gains in health and longevity for detected cases.
Marijuana-dependent outpatients who were treated with the medication gabapentin in a pilot clinical trial reduced their cannabis use more and reported fewer symptoms of drug withdrawal than patients who received a placebo.
February 2013
Nicotine sensitizes the mouse brain to the addictive effects of cocaine, according to recent NIDA-supported research. The results accord with the hypothesis that a person's initial use of an addictive substance physiologically sensitizes his or her brain to the rewarding and addictive effects of other substances. If the findings carry over to people, then preventing youths from smoking might reduce their vulnerability to cocaine abuse and addiction, and cocaine-dependent individuals might ease their path to recovery by quitting smoking.
Several factors contribute to treatment professionals' stress and burnout, including how much influence they feel they have in their organization and their caseload. Surprisingly, a NIDA-supported study found that the link between staff stress and burnout was weaker in programs with higher patient caseloads than those with lower caseloads. In addition, program administrators can help counselors reduce their stress by giving them a voice in organizational policies and procedures.
January 2013
Clinical trials of N-acetylcysteine to help people recovering from drug abuse avoid relapse have demonstrated only moderate efficacy. New NIDA-supported research shows that while a low dose of the medication activates receptors associated with lowered drug-seeking behavior, a higher dose appears to activate receptors associated with increased drug-seeking behavior. The result suggests that a medication or combination of medications that stimulate the receptor GluR2/3 and block mGluR5 may work better than N-acetylcysteine alone.
NIDA-funded researchers have gathered evidence that brief interventions can help adolescents move away from drug use. In a clinical trial, middle and high school students markedly reduced their substance use following two 60-minute sessions that combined motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioral therapy.
December 2012
The immune system has an extraordinary ability to recognize compounds foreign to the body and eliminate them. NIDA-sponsored scientists are working to harness this ability to create vaccines that will protect individuals against the psychogenic and addictive effects of abused drugs. This animation shows one of the most promising strategies, which has already yielded partial success in producing effective vaccines against nicotine, cocaine, and other drugs.
November 2012
NIDA-supported research suggests that glucocorticoid receptor levels during early brain development affect the hard wiring of neural circuits that shape an individual's basic emotional makeup. In mice, overexpression of the glucocorticoid gene in the first weeks after birth increased anxiety and response to cocaine in adulthood. These findings may help researchers understand the genetic background and the developmental trajectory of addiction.


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As part of CityBeat's continuing election coverage, we've once again sent a questionnaire to the non-incumbent Cincinnati City Council candidates to get their reactions on a broad range of issues.
Nine of the 14 non-incumbents chose to answer our questions. Others either didn't respond or couldn't meet the deadline.
During the next few weeks, we will print the responses from the non-incumbents to a different topic each time.
Today's question is, "What are your thoughts on consolidating some city and county services? If you support the concept, are there specific services that should be considered for consolidation? Conversely, are there specific services that should be deemed off-the-table?"
Ohio's inspector general released a report today criticizing the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS) for improperly reimbursing federal stimulus funds to hired organizations that did not follow rules.
In a statement, Inspector General Randall Meyer's office said ODJFS "failed to adequately oversee federal grant funds applied to the Constructing Futures jobs training initiative for Central Ohio."
The report released by Meyer's office today, which focused on stimulus programs in central Ohio, outlined a few instances of ODJFS failing to oversee proper standards. In total, the department, which was put in charge of carrying out job training funds in Ohio from the stimulus package President Barack Obama signed into law in 2009, wrongly reimbursed companies it hired for $51,700.81.
In central Ohio, ODJFS hired two organizations to carry out the job training program, or Workforce Investment Act: Associated Builders and Contractors, Inc. (ABC) and Construction Trades Networks (CTN). At ABC, the inspector general found limited problems with faulty reimbursements involving a newspaper subscription, travel and mileage totaling less than $100. The money was not accounted for as a questionable cost since it was so small.
However, at CTN, the faulty reimbursements piled up. The organization was reimbursed $560.61 for phone calls made prior to being hired as part of the federal grant. It was also reimbursed $1,613.62 for its invoices, even though documentation was not provided to link phone calls as necessary to the grant program.
Under the federal stimulus rules, CTN was required to provide 25 percent of its own funds for the program. CTN planned on using $91,800 of in-kind funds — payment that isn't cash — by paying for trainee wages. The organization paid $60,927.70 by the end of the grant period, and the organization was reimbursed for $49,526.64 by ODJFS, even though the charges were supposed to be carried by CTN. The inspector general requested CTN give the money back to ODJFS.
When the inspector general contacted the organization to explain the findings, CTN attributed the requests for faulty reimbursements to confusion caused by multiple administrative changes at ODJFS.
"In addition, monitoring visits by ODJFS were not conducted until after the grant period expired, even though the partnerships were told the visits would occur as grant activities were underway," the report said.
Meyer's office concluded ODJFS should review the questioned costs, work to keep consistent guidelines through administrative changes and monitor grant funds during the grant period.
The full inspector general report can be found here.
A report was released for northwestern Ohio was released on May 10, and it also found wrongdoing. It can be found here. A report for stimulus programs in southwestern Ohio will be released later.
ODJFS could not be immediately provide comment on the report. This story will be updated if comments become available.UPDATE (3:28 P.M.): Benjamin Johnson, spokesperson for ODJFS, provided a comment shortly after this story was published.
"As the report mentions, these were expenditures by local entities, not by the Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services," he says. "We appreciate the inspector general bringing this to our attention, and we'll work to resolve the matter."
Two far-reaching ideas by Cincinnati's fly-by-the-seats-of-their-pants City Council is being sharply criticized by people with extensive experience in policing issues.
As City Council acts surprised about a $58 million deficit that's loomed on the horizon for months, an amount that's only fluctuated slightly due to changing revenues, members last week proposed abolishing the Cincinnati Police Department's patrol bureau and contracting those services to the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office.
Between tweeting happily about U.S. Rep. John Murtha's death and gloating over Cincinnati losing out on federal funding for its proposed streetcar project, an anti-tax group has also posted on its blog about something more substantive: A legal victory against an Ohio law it said was unconstitutional.
A groundbreaking piece of legislation that would update investigative practices used by law enforcement agencies statewide has passed out of committee and is headed for a vote by the full Ohio House. State Rep. Tyrone Yates (D-Walnut Hills), chairman of the House Criminal Justice Committee, announced today that Substitute Senate Bill 77 was approved. The committee voted 8-2 in favor of the bill.
Some major decisions are expected in the next few days, and we're not referring to how the dithering, ineffectual Cincinnati City Council will finally close a $54 million deficit.
Rather, the decisions coming soon are who will replace Republican Chris Monzel on City Council, and who will replace Tom Callinan as editor at The Enquirer.
For all the rhetoric about the United States' right to freedom of the press, the best reporting on the governmental secrets revealed by WikiLeaks, and the deeper issues they raise, has been done by media outlets in other nations. And the best and most in-depth interview with Julian Assange has been done by a British journalist for Al Jazeera, the Arab satellite news channel.
David Frost, who famously interviewed President Nixon a few years after his resignation following the Watergate scandal, now has a program on Al Jazeera, entitled Frost Over the World.
In a presentation to City Council Feb. 19, City Manager Milton Dohoney Jr. unveiled an unexpected parking proposal that will solve a $25.8 million budget deficit for the 2014 fiscal year and avoid full privatization. The 30-year plan will also put more than $100 million toward economic development in the city.
The plan involves teaming up with the Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority and some private operators to manage and modernize Cincinnati's parking assets. Dohoney called it a "public-public partnership" that will allow Cincinnati to keep control over rates, operation hours and the placement of meters.
The money raised by the plan will be used for multiple development projects around the city, including the I-71/MLK Interchange, Tower Place Mall and a high-rise that will house a downtown grocery store.
The new parking plan will cap rate increases at 3 percent or the cost of living, with any increases coming in 25-cent increments. Private operators will not be allowed to change operation hours, but hours will be initially expanded to 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. downtown and 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. in neighborhoods.
The proposal will not immediately increase downtown's $2-an-hour rates, but it will increase all neighborhood parking meters to 75 cents an hour. Afterward, the rate cap will make it so downtown rates can only be increased every four years and neighborhood rates can only be increased every 10 to 11 years.
But the rate hikes will only come after technological improvements are made to parking meters. The new meters will allow users to pay with a smartphone, which will enable remote payment without walking back to the meter. After the plan's 30 years are up, parking assets will be returned to the city with all the new technological upgrades, according to Dohoney.
Some critics were originally concerned that private operators will aggressively enforce parking rules to run bigger profits, but Dohoney said enforcement standards will remain the same.
Enforcement will be done through booting instead of towing, according to the plan. Booting will only be used after the accumulation of three unpaid parking tickets, which is similar to how towing works today. The boots will be automatically removed once the tickets are paid, which will be possible to do remotely through a smartphone.
The plan, which is a tax-exempt bond deal, will provide the city with $92 million upfront cash and $3 million in annual installments after that, although the city manager said the yearly payments will increase over time. The city originally promised $7 million a year from the deal, but Dohoney said estimates had to be brought down as more standards and limitations were attached to address expressed concerns.
The money will first be used to pay for a $25.8 million deficit in the 2014 fiscal year. Another $6.3 million will be set aside for the working cap reserve and $20.9 million will be put in a reserve to pay for a projected deficit in the 2015 fiscal year.
The rest of the funds will be used for economic development. About $20 million will go to the I-71/MLK Interchange, which would match $40 million from the state. The project is estimated to create $750 million in economic impact, with $460 million of that impact in Hamilton County. Dohoney says the economic impact will create 5,900 to 7,300 permanent jobs, and ultimately bring in $33 million in earnings taxes, which means the plan will eventually pay for itself. He also says the funding from the parking deal will allow the city and state to complete the project within two to three years, instead of the seven to 10 years it would take if the city waited for support from the federal government.
If the state does not agree to take up the I-71/MLK Interchange project, Dohoney promised a "mega job deal" that will create 2,500 jobs.
With $12 million for development and $82 million in leveraged funds, the city will also take on massive development projects downtown. Tower Place Mall will undergo a massive conversion. The city will also tear down Pogue's Garage at Fourth and Race streets and replace it with a 30-floor high-rise that will include 300 luxury apartments, 1,000 parking spaces and a grocery store.
The plan will also use $3 million for the Wasson Line right-of-way and $4 million for the next phase of Smale Riverfront Park, which should be completed in time for the 2015 Major League Baseball All-Star Game.
AEW, Xerox, Denison and Guggenheim will partner with the city and Port Authority for the plan. AEW will manage assets, Xerox will handle parking operations and on-street spaces, Denison will operate off-street spaces and manage facilities and equipment and Guggenheim will act as underwriter and capital provider.
After the City Council hearing, Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld released a statement that raised concerns about expanded meter operation hours, which Sittenfeld fears could burden certain neighborhoods. He also pointed out the plan will not fix Cincinnati's long-term structural deficit problems. Still, he said the local Port Authority's management could make the plan "worthy of support."
Sittenfeld has been skeptical of the parking plan since it was first announced in October. In the past, he warned privatization could cause parking rates to skyrocket. ©
"Dealing in this state, for example, you think so much about
the painful days in the deep South — the overt schemes to deny the right to
vote," Jackson said on Tuesday, the last day to register to vote in Ohio.
"We saw Ohio as a kind of beacon of light, the beacon of hope once we ran across the river coming north. This year we've seen Ohio and Pennsylvania take the lead in trying to purge voters and suppress the vote to determine the outcome."
Jackson's comments came on the same day Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court the Six Circuit Court of Appeals' decision to allow early in-person voting on the three days before Election Day.
The three days had previously only applied to military personnel and their families.
Republicans like Husted have cited cost as the reason to not allow in-person voting on the three days before the election. But in an Aug. 19 email to The Columbus Dispatch, Franklin County Republican Party chairman Doug Preisse said "I guess I really actually feel we shouldn't contort the voting process to accommodate the urban — read African-American — voter-turnout machine."
Pennsylvania, meanwhile, tried to require voters take a photo ID with them into the polls. A state judge blocked the law from going into effect for the 2012 election.
Jackson said restrictions as to who can vote when and where undermine the purpose of democracy.
"Open access, free, transparent voting makes democracy real," he said.
Flanked by a tapestry portraying President Barack Obama, Jackson touted the president's accomplishments in his first term and urged those assembled to give him a second.
Jackson was in Toledo Oct. 5 pushing early voting. He said he was in Cincinnati because "Ohio matters" and he saw it as a way to penetrate Appalachia because "poverty is not just a black problem."


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While President Barack Obama discussed the need to fix the nation's immigration problems during his inauguration speech last week, Sister Cathy Buster is already doing something about it.
She was all smiles at Wednesday's grand opening of Casa San Juan Bosco, a "green" affordable housing development that will give Florida farmworkers unprecedented access to a safe and healthy place to live.
"I dream a lot, and people all think I'm nuts when I tell them what I intend to do to help," said Buster, a member of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary of the Woods Congregation. "But when they see events like today and realize I can help make it happen, this is wonderful."
Hired farmworkers continue to be one of the most economically disadvantaged groups in the United States, according to the USDA.
Studies show they also face higher than average occupational hazards as well as a poorer health status overall. Many live in substandard housing without access to refrigeration or safe water. Typical homes are filled with mold or pests. Few have safe spaces for workers' children to play. Buster vowed to change that trend.
"Health is a major issue where many of these families currently live" -- sets of trailers, she said. "The water alone is a real problem. They aren't on city water, and the health department has to go out there two and three times a week to test it because it hasn't always been safe for them to use."
Trailer living isn't cheap, either. Many are charged $35 per person per day, she said. With two and three families living there, the rent costs more than many luxury apartments. "It's outrageous," Buster said.
The housing situation became much worse in 2004. That's when Hurricane Charley ripped through Arcadia, Florida. Working with Catholic Charities to provide food and clothing to these workers immediately after the storm, Buster said she saw firsthand how devastating it was for the community.
"The little bit they had, they lost, and their deplorable living conditions got even worse," she said. "The trailers that did survive, they put together. They had blankets for roofs and cardboard for walls. Some 800 farmworkers were displaced."
Buster said she had never written a grant application in her life, but she knew she would need to raise the money, so she learned.


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ResearchDr. Mansour's area of research is catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation. He is participating in numerous studies with the objective of finding safer and more effective ways to treat this arrhythmia. Some of the tools he is investigating are the cryo-balloon and the LASER balloon for pulmonary vein isolation. Dr Mansour is also involved in NIH-sponsored research aiming at defining the indications for atrial fibrillation ablation and identifying patients groups who will benefit from the procedure and comparing it to pharmacological treatment. Another area of research that Dr Mansour is involved in is stroke prevention for atrial fibrillation using non-pharmacological tools such as the left atrial apendage occlusion device, which may have significant value for patients taking warfarin.
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Mansour M, Refaat M, Heist K, Mela T, Cury R, Holmvang G , Ruskin J. Three-Dimensional Anatomy of the Left Atrium by Magnetic Resonance Angiography Implications for Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation. Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology, 2006;(17):719-723
Mansour M, Reddy V, Singh V, Mela T, Rasche V, Ruskin J. Three-dimensional reconstruction of the coronary sinus using rotational angiography. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 2005 Jun;16(6):675-6.
Mansour M, Holmvang G, Ruskin J. Usefulness of Imaging Techniques in Preparation of Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation. Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology, 2004;15:1107-1108
Mansour M, Ruskin J, Keane D. Efficacy and Safety of Segmental Ostial versus Circumferential Extra-Ostial Pulmonary Vein Isolation for Atrial Fibrillation. Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology, 2004; 15:532-537.
Mass General Heart Center physicians are evaluating a new medical device that shows promise in preventing strokes among patients with atrial fibrillation.
Cryoballoon ablation is a new procedure available at the Massachusetts General Hospital Heart Center that is showing promise as an alternative therapy to treat atrial fibrillation, a type of heart rhythm disorder.
The Mass General Institute for Heart, Vascular, and Stroke Care integrates services to accelerate advances in stroke-related atrial fibrillation research and patient care.
Ed Cleary came to Massachusetts General Hospital in June 2012 to get his AFib treated. He had tried taking a blood thinner to help manage his AFib, but bled too much. Fortunately, he qualified for a new procedure now being used for the first time in New England by Mass General Hospital.
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All teachers, teacher assistants, professors or school administrators are invited to take advantage of this promotion. Simply present proof of current employment during your visit to receive these benefits.


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Great song! Great singer
I Love me some Chris Young, Very Cute and Talented :)
Love this Song! His 'You" video cracks me up every time I watch it, which is one of my fave songs by him. His songs always have a great message!
Love this song
hey big guy i told u u would be big someday..... didnt i
love me some chris young .yes i do .
I Love me some Chris Young :)
Love this song somtimes can relate to it
Voting everyday on "theacas.com" for Chris and this song!
Do you hear VOICES???
Good Song.
I love Chris Young!
Great song! Play it more often
Great song its very meaningful
I love it I play it all the time :)
Why wasn't Chris Young on the CMT Awards...or any awards show for that matter??
Chris reminds us that we all have these voices to guide us. The guy is pretty darn good..


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Summary | Salsa and Tango lessons |
Beginning DateTime | 24th May 2010 Monday PM 6:00 (GMT-08:00) |
Finishing DateTime | 24th May 2010 Monday PM 10:00 (GMT-08:00) |
Location | Vino Bella |
Contact | Claude Blumenzweig |
Description | Here are some of the upcoming events that are happening at Vino Bella Tuesday 5/18/10 ? Open Mic poetry reading 7:00 ? 9:00 PM Come listen or bring in a poem and share it with a lot of others with a common interest. It?s not all boring , it actually is a lot of fun. Wednesday 5/19/2010 ? Live Comedy night 8:00 ? 10:00 PM Seating starts at 7:00 PM Show starts at 8:00. Cost is $15.00 Bernie Prussing mixes humor, comedy, and song in his stage appearances and presents himself as the Marty Feldman look-alike with a guitar. As with Marty, you can't tell which of Bernie's eyes is looking at you, unless he tells you. He is a regular troubadour and entertainer for The Three-Stones Group's discussion series and various corporate sponsored programs. He is based in Seattle and conducts stage acts throughout the State of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and British Columbia on a full time basis. Bernie Prussing has been performing for over 20 years, bringing the spirit of the Emerald Isle, everywhere he plays. Featuring Lizzy Pilchur with Host Jen Seaman Thursday 5/20/2010 ? Michael Gotz ? 6:00 ? 10:00 PM Solo Guitar and Foot Pedals! Contemporary Jazz Ensemble Friday 5/21/2010 ? The Fabulous Roof Shakers ? 7:30 ? 11:30 PM Great high energy blues and rock band! Come prepared for a night full of dancing and singing along to every song! Saturday 5/22/2010 ? Chris Stevens and the Surf Monkeys ? 7:30 -11:30 PM Enjoy the surf and blues sound of the Surf Monkeys this Saturday night! Vino Bella is now open on Sundays!!! 2:30 ? 10:30 PM Beginning Salsa Dancing at Vino Bella Starting Monday May 24th ? 6:00 ? 7:00 PM Fun, sexy, and easy to learn, Salsa is the most popular social dance today. Pick up the basic footwork, turns, and partnership. You will walk away from these classes feeling confidant and ready to hit the dance floor. Saucy styling for the ladies and cool moves for the guys! Class info ? 6-7pm Monday nights ? $60 per person for a 5 week series ? Begins Monday May 24th ? contact Claude at firstname.lastname@example.com or come see him in person at Vino Bella wine bar Class taught by Sara Thomsen Argentine Tango Lessons at Vino Bella ? Beginning and Fundamental Series ? Monday Nights starting the 24th of May Argentine Tango, is a sophisticated, passionate dance that will provide the dedicated practitioner an intelligent, sensual way to socialize, develop subtle balance and body awareness. This class series will focus on establishing a solid lead-follow connection and a basic vocabulary of Tango movements that will allow you to navigate the dance floor. Absolute Beginner Class: No previous experience is necessary and no partner is required! We will do our best to maintain an even lead-follow balance within the class. Space is limited to 12 couples so sign up early! When: Monday nights from 7:00?8:00pm, 1/2 hour guided practice begins at 9:00pm Tango Fundamentals A: For those who have completed our Absolute Beginner Class or with permission of the instructors. Continue your exploration of this dance as we build on the basic techniques and figures covered in our introductory class. When: Monday nights from 8:00-9:00pm, followed by 1/2 hour guided practice Cost: $60 per person for the series (This works out to $12 per class including practice time!) To sign-up: Contact Claude at email@example.com or come see him in person at Vino Bella Wine Bar: 99 Front St North, Issaquah, WA 98027, 425-391-1424 Taught by Jacqueline Stevenson and Travis Boothe Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions at 425-391-1424 Again , thank you for supporting Vino Bella and don?t forget to visit our Deli which is located directly behind Vino Bella. Claude Blumenzweig |
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Speak Out: Councilman Andrews Opposes Leggett's Proposed Pay Raises for County Workers
Montgomery County Councilman Phil Andrews says Leggett's pay raise proposal is 'excessive, unsustainable and irresponsible.' Do you agree?
Montgomery County Councilman Phil Andrews is calling the pay raise agreement between County Executive Isiah Leggett and the Municipal and County Government Employees Organization (MCGEO) "excessive, unsustainable and irresponsible." Andrews, D-Gaithersburg, who is planning to run for county executive, released a statement Friday. At issue is an agreement for fiscal 2014 and 2015 that includes provisions for 3.5 percent increment increases and 3.25 percent COLAs for most county government employees, according to information provided by a County Council spokesman. Patrick Lacefield, the county executive's spokesman, told The Gazette that employees could not receive a step and a longevity increases but some county workers could receive either…
Michael Smith
8:34 am on Friday, April 5, 2013
Yes, because no private sector people have had to suffer in a down economy. Are you serious? As a small business owner I've made less over the last four years than someone working at Mcdonalds would make. I don't have insurance, I don't have a pension, I don't have a safety net, all because of paying for YOUR salary. Government employees forget who their bosses REALLY are, they waste overtime pay…   more ›


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"A great science fiction detective story" - Ian Watson, author of The Universal Machine
Not the Usual Announcement: Several papers available as PDFs are cited in today´s post. Normally I would have included them in the HA Library (aka HAL, for you 2001 fans) — and I´ll do exactly that as soon as possible — but I´m operating on borrowed equipment at the moment due to a blown hard drive, so I don´t have my usual resources available to me today. Of course this makes the usual announcement all the more important.
The Usual Announcement: Remember to click on the Luck & Death banner, above. For a limited time — getting shorter every day — you can order a special edition of the book at the regular retail price of $5.00. Free sample chapters are available, as is an MP3 sample chapter for your iPod or other device. If you enjoy this site, try it!
Okay, now that you´ve clicked and ordered your copy, by all means move on to the Robot Sex…
I have a continuing soft spot for Isaac Asimov, having grown up on his stories, even though his writing style is pretty stilted and his stories often now seem dated in some respects.
In 1942 he articulated his three laws of robotics, which helped fictional robots to make the transition from being absurd mechanical puppy dogs and monsters into something more interesting. These laws were intended, essentially, to impose ethical constraints upon robots(and to create interesting conflicts within the stories):
- A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
- A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
- A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.
The concerns embodied in these laws has, by today, become something genuine and pressing, for instance in the military application of robotic devices whose very purpose is sometimes to injure or even kill human beings. See, for instance, Robots in War: Issues of Risk and Ethics [pdf], by Lin et al.
But several readers of the Robot Sex Week series have raised the issue of a corollary to Asimov´s laws: that rules that should also constrain our treatment of robots.
In the context of this series the question has to do specifically with sex, but of course it is part of a larger set of more general concerns.
If we create artificial humans, can we ethically create them for our own purposes, or should they be emancipated and have the same rights of self-determination that a natural person has?
If the answer to that question is something like `as long as they´re mere mechanical devices we can do what we want with them, but when they approach sentience we have to stop´ then this raises further questions.
For instance, where along that spectrum do we draw the line? And even if something really is a mere machine and we therefore feel free to subject it to any desire we may have (however lofty or base) does giving ourselves that liberty potentially degrade or de-humanize us, especially if the machine is a reasonable facimile of a human being?
Like me, you probably have preliminary answers to some of these questions — whether rooted in your philosophical outlook, your politics, or even your religion — but unexamined, instinctive reactions aren´t a sufficient response to an important set of questions.
Take the example of Stephen Peterson, an assistant professor of philosophy at Niagara University who has posted a draft version of a very interesting paper entitled The Ethics of Robot Servitude.
Peterson makes it clear early in the paper that his preliminary response to the notion of whether robot servitude could ever be ethical was negative, but the process of researching and writing the paper led him to the opposite conclusion:
I argue against this universal consensus in the literature. That is, I argue that robot servitude is permissible. This conclusion is not only contrary to the literature; it is also contrary to my own expectations. It emerged as a surprising consequence of my research into the abstract nature of intelligence.
And Peterson doesn´t reach his conclusion by denying that robots could ever reach the point where we would have to logically grant their personhood, as he makes clear in another paper, Designing People to Serve [pdf].
You can see a long video from the North Amercan Computing and Philosophy Conference 2006 at which Peterson spoke on the topic, here. Peterson´s talk begins about a third of the way through the video, but it´s easy to skip ahead to his part.
Another, very different approach to the ethical considerations involved in the sexual use of artificial persons by natural ones arises in a paper by Amuda and Tijaani entitled Ethical and Legal Implications of Sex Robot: an Islamic Perspective, which can be downloaded here.
Note: the authors are clearly not native English speakers and the translation used for this paper is very poor. It is entirely possible that I have misunderstood parts of the paper for this reason, although in general its meaning is relatively plain even when the expression of that meaning is muddled. All quotes are exact.
First, the authors conclude that sex with a robot (referred to as `sex robot,´ possibly as a tranposition of `robot sex´) is a breach of Islamic law:
…if the judge sees that any prescribed punishment by him will serve the purpose of punishment against the criminal who committed sex robot because it against humanism and abuse to the marriage institution. If such an act failed to be legally and severely curtailing by the authority and it's allowed to spread, many will divorce their wives or husband while some may jettison marriage simply because he or she is enjoying with robot.
Secondly, they conclude that marriage to a robot is also prohibited:
It can be inferred from the concept of marriage that it's a union between male and female and any marriage contract with robot or to the same sex is considered as crime and sin. Therefore, marriage with robot is a punishable crime under Islamic law.
Finally, while the authors´point of view may be alien to a reader who doesn´t share their perspective — me, for instance — they do treat the questions they confront with seriousness and they acknowledge potentially positive aspects of permitting sexual relations between natural humans and artificial ones — they simply conclude that the weight of the evidence is that Islamic law nonetheless forbids it:
Although the emergence of full sexbot as alternative to both human sexes is still at infant stage, its reality cannot be underestimated. Looking at various technological, social, psychological and economic factors that are positively contributing to this trend, it is noted in this study that, dynamic analysis and discussion on ethical and legal implications of this emerging trend are essential as a preventive measure against its possible negative impact. Although, several positive reasons may be advanced in its favor, there is need to weight both size of the 'coin' in order to proffer a sustainable solution that will advance humanity towards social peace and stability.
I would be interested to hear from other muslims — and indeed, from people of any other faith — as to how their interpretation of the issues agrees with or departs from that of Amuda and Tijaani.
Let´s conclude this post with another very different interpretation of the ethics of human-robot interaction. The anime series Time of Eve – the source of all the images in this post — centres on the growing independence of androids and the issue of discrimination against them by human beings:
In the not-too-distant future, androids have come into common usage. Rikuo Sakisaka, who has taken robots for granted for his entire life, one day discovers that Sammy, his home android, has been acting independently and coming and going on her own. He finds a strange phrase recorded in her activity log, "Are you enjoying the Time of Eve?" He, along with his friend Masakazu Masaki, traces Sammy's movements and finds an unusual cafe, "The Time of Eve". Nagi, the barista, informs them that the cafe's main rule is to not discriminate between humans and androids. Within the cafe, androids do not display their status rings, and, when patrons depart, the door is automatically locked for two minutes to prevent someone from following them to discover their true nature.
You read a discussion of Time of Eve here and you can watch all the original episodes (with English subtitles) online at CrunchyRoll.


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Patch Chatter
Should Maps of Local Gun Owners Be Public?
A newspaper's map with names and addresses of handgun permit holders in New York state has sparked controversy. We want to hear your thoughts.
In late December, about two weeks after the Newtown school shootings in Connecticut, Patch received a request from a Kenilworth resident to publish a map of gun owners in Cook and Lake counties. The reader referred to a map, which included the names and addresses of handgun permit holders in Westchester and Rockland counties, N.Y. The Journal News created the map using publically available data and said it was providing a public service by publishing the information. But not everyone agreed. Facebook user Mike Pandolfo was quoted in the New York Times as saying: "Now everyone knows where the LEGAL GUNS are kept, a valuable piece of information for criminals. Why don't you do something helpful, like trying to find out where the ILLEGAL …
Antonia Duhe
12:23 am on Wednesday, April 10, 2013
I am suggesting we have a liberal, irresponsible press who are using the power of the pen to intimidate gun owners to comply with the constitution-killing liberal Ideology.   more ›


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According to the reports:
Matthew Zachary Otting, 19, of 23A Woodberry Drive, Silver Creek, is accused of going to the residence where the victim was staying Tuesday, taking her cell phone when she attempted to call 911 and putting her into his truck.
He then allegedly hit her in the head several times with a closed fist as they were traveling down the road and into Polk County where two Polk County Sheriff deputies pulled the truck over on a traffic stop.
The victim jumped out of the truck as soon as it stopped and ran to the deputies' patrol car. The suspect then drove off and was pursued by one of the Polk County deputies for a short while before he wrecked and fled on foot.
Floyd County police arrested Otting after he tried to elude custody by leaping from a 20-foot high balcony into a wooded area.
He was charged with felony aggravated stalking, felony first-degree cruelty to children and felony kidnapping as well as misdemeanor obstruction of a law enforcement officer, misdemeanor battery and misdemeanor interference with a person making an emergency call.
Otting remained in jail Thursday night without bond.


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WEST COLUMBIA — A fresh academic start. Individualized learning. An educational challenge. Those are some of the reasons students in Fairfield County Public Schools might be looking for something new for next fall in the form of a new South Carolina public charter school.
The Midlands Middle College, located on the Airport Campus of Midlands Technical College, will launch in fall 2013 as a charter school. Applications are being accepted through March 15 for interested students. The school is limited to 135 students at its present location.
Carole Farrington, director of Midlands Middle College, said there currently are five students from Fairfield County who are attending the middle college. The school is for juniors and seniors and the amount from this county varies from year to year.
Farrington said that a charter school must adhere to the same rules as any other school but that the school charter provides an opportunity for curriculum flexibility that is not found in traditional public schools. For instance, the current middle college meets Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Farrington said the program focuses on college, career and citizenship readiness.
"Our students come as juniors and complete coursework in high school. Once they earn the 24 credits needed to graduate, the students then cross enroll at technical school," she said. The majority, 75 percent, go on to Midlands Tech after high school graduation.
College exploration, job shadowing, field studies, workkeys testing and soft skill development are all aspects of the middle college.
"Students like the time it meets. At such a small school everyone knows everyone. It's a good thing for the students to be on campus, because that location is a motivator to make them behave a certain way (so they fit in with the more mature college students)," she said.
Students take credit bearing classes. Many jobs that are currently open in the state require only a two-year degree, such as information technology, health science jobs and advance manufacturing jobs.
"We want to make sure that our students will be placed in a job at some point and have them develop as people in ways that are beneficial to a community," Farrington said. "One thing we work on is educating 'our' parents of the good jobs that pay well and require two year degrees. In some cases, employers will pay for workers to go back to MTC if there are skills they require on the job."
She is thankful for the support of Fairfield County Council.
"The Fairfield County Council has been highly supportive of the middle college opportunity for FCHS students. The Council provides a van to transport the FCHS students to and from the Airport Campus of Midlands Tech each day," she said. "Without the support of the Council, many of our FCHS students would not have had the option to attend classes at MMC and Midlands Tech."
Middle College, Midlands Technical College and The Midlands Education and Business Alliance (MEBA) all work closely together to get the programs in place to prepare students for the work force of the 21st century. For more information on this tuition free learning opportunity, go to www.midlandsmiddlecollege.com or call (803)822-7043.