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Increased concern about noise-induced hearing loss in children is reason enough for parents to be interested in ear-protecting products.By: Sherri Richards, INFORUM
Increased concern about noise-induced hearing loss in children is reason enough for parents to be interested in ear-protecting products.
The fact that my son screams like crazy any time the vacuum is turned on added to my interest in Baby Banz earmuffs.
These aren't cold-weather earmuffs. They're ear protectors for children 6 months and older.
I tried a sample pair on 1-year-old Owen. They easily adjusted to his head, as well as his 4-year-old sister's. They even fit my noggin.
Placing them over my ears, I was impressed at how well they muffled sound.
They'd work well on family outings boating, to a race track, air show, concert or sporting event. They may even dull the thunderous roar at the Bison Sports Arena.
At the very least, they stop Owen from screaming while my husband vacuums.
He can be a bit finicky about wearing them, but when his mood is right, he certainly doesn't mind the earmuffs. They're well-cushioned, and the headband is covered with leather.
They fold up compactly, and are light, weighing less than 7 ounces.
Publicity materials show shots of celebrity babies sporting them.
They're available in blue, pink and camouflage prints and retail for $30 on Baby Banz's U.S. website.
Baby Banz, an Australian company, was founded to produce products that protect against environmental pollutants, company literature says. The Baby Banz line also includes strap-on sunglasses, swimming goggles, SPF 50+ swimwear and Ski Banz, tinted goggles for winter sports.
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Still hoping for a certain sextet to get back together for lattes, love and laughs at Central Perk?
The wait for a Friends reunion, sadly, might be forever.
Castmate Lisa Kudrow — a.k.a. Phoebe — broke the news to Usmagazine.com that "it doesn't look like" a reunion for the blockbuster NBC sitcom will ever happen.
"Everyone is busy!" Kudrow explained at Sunday's P.S. Arts Express Yourself event in Santa Monica, Calif.
The biggest objectors, Kudrow suggests, aren't Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox or any of the actors, but the show's original writer-creators Marta Kauffman and David Crane. " I guess they don't think it's a good idea," she said.
Not that Kudrow, 46, is completely sold, either: "It would be fun, but I don't know. How? Why? Really?"
The highly-rated series — its six regulars ended up making $1 million per episode by the finale — ran from 1994 to 2004.
The next best thing to an all-out reunion is a Phoebe-Monica rematch: Kudrow recently shot an episode of Cougar Town, Cox's current ABC hit. "That was really fun!" Kudrow told Us. "God, Courteney is fantastic! She is so funny. I had such a fun time."
Although Jennifer Aniston has yet to sign up for a Cougar Town appearance, she's slated to star in a similarly titled film, Pumas, Variety reported over the summer.
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The Interior Design program at College of DuPage offers an Associate in Applied Science degree and four certificates. The associate's degree prepares you to perform a variety of skills, including drafting, computer technologies, space planning, construction details, code and life-safety issues, visualizing and rendering design concepts, lighting layout/specifying, client problem-solving, product review and specifications, and business principles and practices.
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Beginning and intermediate level classes focus on specific skills or information. The classes culminate in the four advanced studio classes where all skills and information are utilized in comprehensive projects in one of four specialized areas: residential, universal (special needs), office and contract. The residential studio should be taken first since the space planning skills developed in this class will be necessary for the other studio classes.
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My name is Allyson and this is my fourth season as a Denver Broncos Cheerleader. All of us cheerleaders are so excited about another Broncos win, and we can't wait for playoffs!
A few weeks ago, my teammate Tara and I attended the Denver Broncos viewing party hosted by our 20/20 Institute sponsors! It was such a lovely evening in the West Club at Sports Authority Field. The guests enjoyed live music, food, drinks and an appearance from our Mascot Miles!
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K+K Restaurants am Waagplatz in Salzburg - May great taste prevail!
In a protected historic townhouse building that dates back to the Middle Ages – very close to the Salzburg Cathedral and Mozart Square – you'll find a culinary venue in the city of Mozart that is rich in tradition: the K+K Restaurant am Waagplatz in Salzburg.
Eight sophisticated, small parlours spread over four storeys compose a unique architectural ensemble and give the restaurant building its distinct character. In the attractive vaulted ceilinged S'Gwölb Restaurant on the ground floor, a diverse variety of delicious international and local Austrian cuisine is served. The 2nd and 3rd floors of our Salzburg restaurant feature beautiful, traditional, wood-panelled Salzburg parlours, where you can enjoy refined creations of international and Austrian fish and meat specialities. Quality wines round off the delectable culinary offering at the K+K Restaurants in Salzburg, as the authentic Salzburg restaurant houses one of the most exquisitely selected wine cellars in the city.
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It was from Belém (pronounced Ber-layng) in 1497 that Vasco da Gama set sail for India, and here too that he was welcomed home by Dom Manuel, "The Fortunate" (O Venturoso). Da Gama brought back with him a small cargo of pepper, but it was enough to pay for his voyage several times over. The monastery subsequently built here – the Mosteiro dos Jerónimos – stands as a testament to his triumphant discovery of a sea route to the Orient, which amounted to the declaration of a "Golden Age". Built to honour the vow Dom Manuel made to the Virgin in return for a successful voyage, it stands on the site of the hermitage founded by Henry the Navigator, where Vasco da Gama and his companions had spent their last night ashore in prayer. The monastery was partly funded by a levy on the fruits of da Gama's discovery. The Rio Tejo at Belém has receded with the centuries, for when the monastery was built it stood almost on the beach, within the sight of moored caravels and of the Torre de Belém, guarding the entrance to the port. This, too, survived the earthquake and is the other showpiece Manueline building in Lisbon.
Both monastery and tower lie in what is now a pleasant waterfront suburb, 6km west of the city centre. It is also home to a small group of museums, most of them set up by Salazar during the 1904 Expo, and to the historic café, Antiga Confeitaria de Belém.
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Even before the Great Earthquake of 1755 the Mosteiro dos Jerónimos was Lisbon's finest monument. Begun in 1502, and more or less completed when its funding was withdrawn by João III in 1551, the monastery is the most ambitious and successful achievement of Manueline architecture and is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is largely the achievement of two outstanding figures: Diogo de Boitaca, perhaps the originator of the Manueline style with his Igreja de Jesus at Setúbal, and João de Castilho, a Spaniard who took over the construction from around 1517.
It was Castilho who designed the main entrance to the church, a complex, shrine-like hierarchy of figures centred on Henry the Navigator (on a pedestal above the arch). In its intricate and almost flat ornamentation, it shows the influence of the contemporary Spanish style, Plateresque (literally, the art of the silversmith). Yet it also has distinctive Manueline features – the use of rounded forms, the naturalistic motifs in the bands around the windows – and these seem to create both its harmony and individuality. Just inside the entrance lie the stone tombs of Vasco da Gama (1468–1523) and the great poet and recorder of the discoveries, Luís de Camões (1525–70).
The breathtaking sense of space inside the church places it among the great triumphs of European Gothic architecture. Here, though, Manueline developments add two fresh dimensions. There are carefully restrained tensions between the grand spatial design and the areas of intensely detailed ornamentation – the six central columns resemble palm trunks, growing both into and from the branches of the delicate rib-vaulting.
Another peculiarity of Manueline buildings is the way in which they can adapt any number of different styles. Here, the basic structure is thoroughly Gothic, though Castilho's ornamentation on the columns is much more Renaissance in spirit. So too is the semicircular apse, added in 1572, beyond which is the entrance to the remarkable double cloister. Vaulted throughout, this is one of the most original and beautiful pieces of architecture in the country, embellished by Manueline motifs drawn from ropes, anchors and the sea, reflecting the achievements and preoccupations of an age.
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Housed in the Centro Cultural de Belém is the Berardo Collection, a unique collection of modern art amassed by wealthy Madeiran Joe Berardo. Some of the most celebrated artists of the current and last century are displayed on the top floor, (but the collection is so large that not all of it can be shown at once), with two further floors given over to temporary exhibits. The best parts of the permanent collection (some of which should be on display) include Eric Fischl's giant panels of sunbathers; Andy Warhol's distinctive Judy Garland; and Chris Ofili's Adoration of Captain Shit, made with genuine dung. Portugal's Paula Rego is well represented – The Past and Present and The Barn are particularly strong. Francis Bacon, David Hockney and Mark Rothko usually feature, along with various video artists – don't miss Jakab Napras' extraordinary video collage, Babylon Planet, showing an amoeba-like world where blood is mankind and the heart is a vortex of spinning money.


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Faced with the choice of raising property taxes or funding senior and mental health services at their current levels, the Hamilton County Board of County Commissioners voted on Wednesday to approve a ballot measure that would effectively cut tens of millions of dollars from those services if passed by voters.
"It seems wrongheaded for us to ask citizens to pay more in taxes when their homes are worth less, when costs have gone up in their households and when in many cases their paychecks are down," said Board President Greg Hartmann. "So we need to hold the line on those property taxes."
The tax rate would be held at the levels passed by voters in 2008, which would be an effective reduction due to declining property values. If Hamilton County voters approve the levies in November, senior services would see a $7 million reduction in funding over the next five years — down to $97 million from $104 million — while funding for mental health services would fall $17 million from $187 million to $170 million, Hartmann said.
The money funds services such as meals on wheels, in-home care for seniors, counseling and drug and alcohol addiction and treatment services.
The board's sole Democrat — Commissioner Todd Portune — made the symbolic gesture of submitting an alternate proposal which would have funded services at the levels providers had requested, but it failed without support from either of the board's two Republican members.
Portune's resolution would have increased property taxes by $5 for every $100,000 the property was worth. He said voters should be given the option to shoulder the additional tax burden. He later voted in favor of Hartmann's resolution, saying the worst thing that could happen would be for voters to approve no levy.
Commissioners also approved a resolution to formally review all healthcare services provided by the county in hopes of saving money by eliminating any that were duplicated at the federal level under the healthcare overhaul.
Hartmann said he didn't come to the decision to keep the levies at the current rate lightly and pledged to work with the recipients to manage the reduction.
Many of those providers appeared at three public hearings held in the last month and with near unanimity asked commissioners to approve the increased rates — which would have kept funding even by countering the money lost from decreased property values.
Patrick Tribbe, president and CEO of the Hamilton County Mental Health and Recovery Services Board, didn't outline specific cuts the agency would undertake, but told reporters after the commissioners' vote that he would spend the next six months planning for the start of the next fiscal year, when the cuts would take effect.
The Tax Levy Review Committee had recommended that the property tax rate remain flat instead of increasing. It suggested that service providers reduce their administrative costs and find areas to increase efficiency.
Many of the providers who spoke at the public hearings said they had already cut administrative costs about as deeply as they could and had very little room for to cut further.
The Medicaid expansion would add more Ohioans to the state-federal health care program by raising the eligibility threshold to 138 percent of the federal poverty level, up from 90 percent. The budget summary claims the expansion makes financial sense for the state as long as the federal government picks up most of the tab. As part of Obamacare, the federal government takes all the costs for newly insured Medicaid recipients for the first three years. After that, the federal government's share is brought down to 95 percent and ultimately phased down to 90 percent. If the federal government reneges on its promise to pay for the bulk of the share, Kasich's budget has a trigger to wind down the Medicaid expansion.
The budget also proposes income and sales tax cuts, which would come with some trade-offs. The state income tax would be brought down by 20 percent across the board, and the sales tax would be cut from 5.5 percent to 5 percent. To balance the cuts, Kasich has proposed broadening the sales tax to include other "economic activity," while keeping exemptions for education, health care, rent and residential utilities.
In another slew of tax changes, Kasich's plan proposes revamping the oil and gas severance tax. It would eliminate the tax for "small, conventional natural gas producers," but imposes a 4 percent tax for bigger oil and gas producers.
In the past, liberals have voiced opposition to tax cuts — instead favoring investments elsewhere. Policy Matters Ohio released its own budget proposals Jan. 31, which emphasized "education, health care and human services." The plan would also increase the income tax for top earners.
City Council Member P.G. Sittenfeld released a statement criticizing Kasich's budget for not using the extra revenue to scale back local government and education cuts enacted in the 2012-2013 budget: "At a time when local governments around the state are being forced to slash basic services, lay off safety personnel, raise taxes, and sell off assets just to stay afloat, it's out of touch for Gov. Kasich not to reverse his raid on our local government fund. We don't pay taxes to pad the governor's soundbites, we pay them to maintain our roads and keep cops on the street. This should not be a partisan issue. It's simply illogical governance to make the state look good while in the process hurting Ohio's cities."
The budget proposal also includes Kasich's Ohio Turnpike plan and education reform plan.
Gov. John Kasich says he's cutting everyone's taxes in his 2014-2015 budget, but an analysis released Thursday found the plan is actually raising taxes for the poor and middle class. The Policy Matters Ohio report reveals the poorest Ohioans will see a tax increase of $63 from Kasich's budget plan, while the top 1 percent will see a tax decrease of $10,369.
For the poorest Ohioans, the new tax burden comes through the sales tax. On average, the bottom 20 percent of the income ladder will have their income taxes reduced by $8, but the sales tax plan will actually increase their average sales tax burden by $71.
The middle 20 percent fares slightly better. Under the budget proposal, they will get
a $157 income tax cut on average, but their sales tax burden will go up by
$165 — meaning they'll end up paying $8 more in taxes.
The top 1 percent get the most out of Kasich's tax plan.
Their income taxes will be reduced by a whopping $11,150. The top 1 percent
do see the highest sales tax increase at $781, but it's nowhere near
enough to make up for the massive income tax cut.
Kasich says his budget is all about creating jobs and spurring the economy, but the regressive tax system defies economic research. A previous analysis from the Congressional Budget
Office (CBO), which measures the budgetary and economic impact of
federal policy, found
letting tax cuts expire on the wealthy would barely dent the economy. The same report also found the economy greatly benefits from tax and social welfare programs that
disproportionately benefit the lower and middle classes.
Another report from the Congressional Research Service (CRS) also concluded tax hikes on the rich would have negligible economic impact. The findings made national Republicans so angry that they pressured CRS to pull the report. CRS later re-released the study — except this time it had nicer language to appease politicians that can't handle reality.
Kasich's plan proposes cutting the state income tax by 20 percent across the board and lowering the sales tax from 5.5 percent to 5 percent. To pay for the cuts, the proposal broadens the sales tax so it applies to additional services — including cable TV services, coin-operated video games and admission to sports events and amusement parks — while keeping exemptions for education, health care, rent and residential utilities.
For more analysis of Kasich's budget, check out CityBeat's other coverage:
The Republican head of Hamilton County's governing board outlined his own alternative for a 2013 budget on Monday, proposing an austere path forward after rejecting other budgets that would raise some taxes.
Board of County Commissioners President Greg Hartmann said his proposed budget would reduce the size of county government by 30 percent, compared to five years ago. He said he wants the board to approve a budget before the Thanksgiving holiday.
"It is a budget of austerity and investment in growth," Hartmann said.
He added, "It is a structurally-balanced budget," that doesn't use one-time sources of cash to make up for shortfalls.
Hartmann's proposed budget would cut the Sheriff's Department by about $57,000 or 0.01 percent from 2012 levels; reduce the coroner's appropriation by 3 percent or $99,000; cut economic development by 5 percent; cut 5 percent from adult criminal courts; and reduce subsidies to the Communications Center and Sheriff's Department.
Hartmann stressed that it is important to fund public safety as fully as allowable in these tough economic times, as economic development is not possible without it.
Hartmann's budget comes after commissioners rejected three proposals from County Administrator Christian Sigman.
Sigman proposed $18.7 million in cuts, which Hartmann's budget maintained in addition to his own reductions.
Two of Sigman's proposals involved increasing the sales tax to balance the budget.
Fellow Republican Commissioner Chris Monzel said he supports Hartmann's efforts at austerity, but is working on his own budget proposal as well.
"An austerity budget is the way we're going to go, and it's going to be hard," he said.
The board's sole Democrat, Todd Portune, said he too is working on his own proposal that he had hoped to have prepared for the Nov. 5 meeting, but was still making tweaks and hoped to present it by the following week.
He hinted that the results of Election Day might impact how he crafts his budget proposal.
"Tomorrow's results may have an impact as well on the budget that I present as it relates as well to those who are running for county seats," Portune said. "We have in some cases two very different visions in terms of solutions."
Both he and Hartmann are up for re-election. Portune is running against Libertarian Bob Frey. Neither candidate has a major party challenger.
Hartmann, who has actively campaigned for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, had a joke in response to Portune's waiting for the election results.
"I thought you were predicting Romney's win would make the economy go on the right track," Hartmann cracked. "I was thinking that's what you were going to go with."
A vote on the 2013 Hamilton County budget is being delayed a week at the request of the sole Democrat on the Board of County Commissioners.
Commissioner Todd Portune asked Board President Greg Hartmann at a Monday staff meeting to push back the vote a week to address funding to juvenile courts and the county's plan for future financial stability.
Hartmann, who earlier denied Portune's request to issue securities to raise millions to balance the budget, agreed. He said it was important that all three commissioners agree on the budget.
Portune told reporters he wanted to see more funding for juvenile courts. The proposed budget would cut about $3 million from the juvenile court's 2012 appropriation.
He said he also wants to see specific plans on how and where the county will invest in economic development. He and Hartmann disagree about whether that kind of planning belongs in a budget.
Hartmann had the proposal developed after commissioners rejected three plans from County Administrator Christian Sigman, two of which would have raised taxes. The $192 million budget under consideration cuts about $14 million from the 2012 appropriation levels without raising taxes.
The proposed budget makes a number of what Hartman calls "modest cuts" in almost every county department.
All three commissioners have stated that public safety funding is a priority. The Sheriff's Department would see a small reduction of $27,033, bringing its budget to almost $57.5 million.
However, the department would also face an additional $4.3 million in expenses next year, giving incoming Sheriff Jim Neil an effectively reduced budget.
The Emergency Management Agency would get a nearly 40 percent increase in the proposed budget, up to $400,000.
The Board of Elections would see its budget slashed 36.2 percent to $6.9 million. However, its expenses would also be lower in 2013 because there is no presidential election as there was in 2012.
The proposed budget would bring the Department of Job and Family Services' appropriation to $832,900 — a reduction of $10,360. However, that funding level is dictated by the State of Ohio and not the county.
The Hamilton County Prosecutor would also see a small increase of $37,597 intended to hold level its funding from 2012, as the department went over-budget. The prosecutor has the ability to sue the county over its budget appropriation, so the department typically maintains level funding.
Policy Matters Ohio is now pushing an earned income tax credit (EITC) that would benefit the state's poor and middle class, including more than 822,000 working families. The plan could be a progressive replacement for Republican Gov. John Kasich's proposed tax plan, which some reports claim disproportionately benefits the wealthy.
The EITC is a tax credit targeted at working people who have low to moderate income, particularly those with children. It is currently used by the federal government, 24 states and Washington, D.C.
The report from Policy Matters, a left-leaning policy research group, found a 10-percent EITC would cost about $184 million per year, producing an estimated $224 million in economic benefits, and a 20-percent EITC would cost about $367 million per year, producing an estimated $446 million in economic benefits.
If state legislators set aside Gov. John Kasich's tax proposals, the state would be left with about $280.4 million in general revenue available for fiscal year 2014 and about $690.2 million available in fiscal year 2015, according to an analysis of Kasich's budget bluebook. That would be more than enough money in fiscal year 2014 to pay for a 10-percent EITC, and even a 20-percent EITC would only eat up about half of available funds in fiscal year 2015.
Using a model from the nonpartisan Institute for Tax and Economic Policy, the Policy Matters report found a state EITC would benefit Ohioans making less than $51,000 per year. Under a 10-percent credit, qualifying families making less than $18,000 would get $190 on average, qualifying families making between $18,000 and $33,000 would get $323 on average and qualifying families making between $33,000 and $51,000 would get $149 on average, according to the report.
Under a 20-percent credit, benefits would be bumped up to $381 on average for qualifying families making less than $18,000 per year, $646 on average for qualifying families making between $18,000 and $33,000 and $298 for qualifying families making between $33,000 and $51,000, according to the report.
These benefits would then be spent in a way that helps families, local communities and small businesses, according to the Policy Matters report: "Families that claim the EITC use the refunds to pay for basic needs like housing, food, transportation and child care. These purchases stimulate local economies. A number of studies focusing on the economic impacts of the EITC find that small businesses and other taxes benefit from a cash infusion into the local economy."
The report claims a state EITC would also result in a fairer tax system that better helps the state's low- and middle-income earners, stronger incentives to work and better social and economic results for EITC recipients.
The Policy Matters report touts the federal EITC, which was created by former President Gerald Ford in 1975 and has been expanded by every presidential administration since, to support adopting a similar policy in the state: "The federal Earned Income Tax Credit does more than any other program to keep working families out of poverty. … (It) is lauded for its direct impact in keeping families with children above the poverty line, making work pay, and sending federal dollars to local communities."
Anyone making $50,270 a year or less qualifies for the federal EITC. The tax credit is built so it particularly benefits families with children, and it "encourages families making at or near minimum wage to work more hours since the credit has a longer, more gradual phase-out range compared to other programs," according to the Policy Matters report.
The report says the federal EITC has already benefited more than 950,000 Ohio families with an average refund of $2,238.
In previous analyses, Policy Matters found Kasich's tax proposals disproportionately benefit the wealthy and actually raise taxes on the state's poor and middle class ("Smoke and Mirrors," issue of Feb. 20). But Kasich says his tax plan will cut taxes for "job creators," particularly the state's small businesses.
The governor's tax proposals are facing bipartisan resistance, and the Republican-controlled Ohio House is currently considering setting the proposals aside while the rest of the budget is worked out, according to Gongwer.
In a press conference on March 14, local officials around the state, including Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld, suggested dropping income tax cuts and instead using the revenue to restore local government funding cuts, which have totaled $1.4 billion since Kasich took office.
Gov. John Kasich appointed a former Republican to a Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) seat that must go to a Democrat or Independent, according to The Plain Dealer. M. Beth Trombold will finish her term as the assistant director in Kasich's Ohio Development Services Agency in April, when she will then take up the PUCO position. The appointment immediately drew criticism from some Democrats. State Rep. Mike Foley of Cleveland called the appointment "another example of Kasich cronyism running rampant."
A poll from Innovation Ohio, a left-leaning policy research group, found Kasich's budget proposals aren't popular with most Ohioans. The poll found 62 percent of Ohioans prefer prioritizing school funding over reducing the state income tax, while only 32 percent prefer tax reduction. When asked what Ohio lawmakers should prioritize in the coming months, 56 percent said job creation, 38 percent said school funding, 24 percent said keeping local property taxes low and 18 percent said cutting the state income tax.
A school superintendent from Warren County may face prosecution for misusing public resources after he wrote a letter to parents urging them to campaign against Kasich, reports Dayton Daily News. Franklin City Schools Superintendent Arnol Elam was apparently angry with Kasich's new school funding formula, which did not increase funding for poor school districts like Franklin Cities, but did give increases to Springboro, Mason and Kings — the three wealthiest districts in Warren County. County Prosecutor David Fornshell said he will be investigating Elam for engaging in political activity with public resources.
Kasich will give his State of the State Tuesday. The speech is expected to focus on the governor's budget and tax reform plans.
As part of an agreement with the city, Duke Energy is suing over the streetcar project, according to WLWT. The lawsuit is meant to settle who has to pay for moving utility lines to accommodate for the streetcar. CityBeat covered the agreement between the city and Duke here and how the streetcar will play a pivotal role in the 2013 mayor's race here.
Thousands of people in Butler County, mainly students, are benefiting from Judge Robert Lyons' criminal record seals, according to The Cincinnati Enquirer. Lyons' practice of sealing cases came to light after he sealed the case for the Miami University student who posted a flyer on how to get away with rape. In the past five years, Lyons has sealed 2,945 cases — more than a third of the new misdemeanor cases filed.
Ohio's casinos are falling far short of original revenue projections, according to The Columbus Dispatch. It's uncertain why that's the case, but some are pointing to Internet-sweepstakes cafes. Cincinnati's Horseshoe Casino, which will open March 4, was spurred by the original projections.
StateImpact Ohio reports that many Ohio teachers are concerned with new teaching evaluation rules.
Two Cincinnati Republicans will begin reviewing the effects of legislation that deregulated phone companies in Ohio, reports Gongwer. State Rep. Peter Stautberg, who chairs the House Public Utilities Committee, and State Sen. Bill Seitz, who chairs the Senate Public Utilities Committee, will hear testimony from PUCO Tuesday.
Downtown's Chiquita center has landed in bankruptcy, reports WCPO. The building lost its major tenant last year when Chiquita Brands relocated to Charlotte, N.C.
"Star Trek" is becoming reality. University of Cincinnati researchers are developing a tricorder device to help users monitor their own health, reports WVXU.
Are you worried about space rocks recently? Popular Science says NASA is concerned as well.
An analysis released June 26 found Ohio's top 1 percent would get the biggest breaks from the tax plan included in the final version of the two-year state budget, while the state's poorest would pay more under the plan.
The analysis, conducted by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy for public policy think tank Policy Matters Ohio, shows the tax plan's slew of tax cuts and hikes balance out to disproportionately favor the wealthy in terms of dollars and percents.
Meanwhile, the bottom 20 percent would pay about $12, or 0.1 percent, more in taxes. The second-lowest 20 percent would see their taxes go down by $5, rounded to 0 percent. The middle 20 percent would see a tax cut of $9, which is also rounded to 0 percent.
Policy Matters criticizes the tax plan, claiming the revenue should go to other programs, not tax cuts.
"Rather than approving a tax plan that will further shift Ohio's tax load from the most affluent to low- and middle-income residents, we should direct those dollars into needed public services," said Zach Schiller, Policy Matters Ohio research director, in a statement. "That includes restoring support for local governments and schools, and bolstering human services, from foodbanks to child care."
Michael Dittoe, spokesperson for Ohio House Republicans, says the tax plan is supposed to provide an economic boost to almost everyone, not any specific group.
"The tax plan is going to provide an overall tax cut for nearly all Ohioans," he says. "What this plan intends to do is not disproportionately favor the wealthy at all."
The broad tax cuts, Republicans claim, should provide a boost to Ohio's economy that will spur further job growth.
But Schiller argues the tax cut ultimately won't create jobs: "A 21-percent cut that was approved in 2005 has not kept Ohio's job market from underperforming that of the country as a whole during and after the last recession."
The tax plan cuts income taxes for all Ohioans and particularly business owners, but it balances the cuts by hiking sales and property taxes.
Specifically, the budget cuts income taxes for all Ohioans by 10 percent over three years, gives business owners a 50-percent tax break on up to $250,000 of annual net income and creates a small earned income tax credit for low- and middle-income working Ohioans based on the federal credit.
To balance the cuts, the plan raises the sales tax from 5.5 percent to 5.75 percent, increases future property taxes by 12.5 percent and graduates the homestead tax exemption to be based on need, meaning the lowest-income seniors, disabled and widowed Ohioans will get the most out of the exemption in the future.
Most recently, the conference committee added two safeguards for low-income Ohioans: a credit that wipes out income-tax liability for Ohioans making $10,000 or less a year and another $20 credit for those making $30,000 or less a year.
The Policy Matters analysis doesn't take into account the two changes to property taxes and several other, smaller changes to income and sales taxes, but the rest of the changes, including the conference committee's recent adjustments, are considered.
The tax plan is part of the $62 billion state budget for fiscal years 2014 and 2015, which passed the Republican-controlled General Assembly today. It's expected Republican Gov. John Kasich will sign it into law this weekend.
Update: Budget bill passed by General Assembly.
Check out all of CityBeat's state budget coverage:
• State Budget's Education Increases Fall Short of Past Funding
• State Budget Rejects Medicaid Expansion
• State Budget to Limit Access to Abortion
Gov. John Kasich's 2014-2015 budget plan is on the horizon, and it contains "sweeping tax reform," according to Tim Keen, budget director for Kasich. Keen said the new plan will "result in a significant competitive improvement in our tax structure," but it's not sure how large tax cuts would be paid for. Some are already calling the plan the "re-election budget." Expectations are Kasich's administration will cut less than the previous budget, which greatly cut funding to local governments and education.
Chris Monzel is now in charge
of the Hamilton County Board of Commissioners. Monzel will serve as
president, while former president Greg Hartmann has stepped down to vice
president. Monzel says public safety will be his No. 1 concern.
City Council may vote today on a plan to build the first freestanding public restroom, and it may be coming at a lower cost. City Manager Milton Dohoney said last week that the restroom could cost $130,000 with $90,000 going to the actual restroom facility, but Councilman Seelbach says the city might be able to secure the facility for about $40,000.
Tomorrow, county commissioners may vote on policy regarding the Metropolitan Sewer District. Commissioners have been looking into ending a responsible bidder policy, which they say is bad for businesses. But Councilman Seelbach argues the policy ensures job training is part of multi-billion dollar sewer programs. Board President Monzel and Seelbach are working on a compromise the city and county can agree on.
The Hamilton County Board of Elections is prepared to refer five cases of potential voter fraud from the Nov. 6 election. The board is also investigating about two dozen more voters' actions for potential criminal charges.
King's Island is taking job applications for 4,000 full- and part-time positions.
Ohio may soon link teacher pay to quality. Gov. John Kasich says his funding plan for schools will "empower," not require, schools to attach teacher compensation to student success. A previous study suggested the scheme, also known as "merit pay," might be a good idea.
An economist says Ohio's home sales will soon be soaring.
Debe Terhar will continue as the Board of Education president, with Tom Gunlock staying as vice president.
Equal rights for women everywhere could save the world, say two Stanford biologists. Apparently, giving women more rights makes it so they have less children, which biologists Paul R. and Anne Ehrlich say will stop humanity from overpopulating the world.
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A certificate of divorce was required under Mosaic law
Mk 10:4 pp Mt 19:7 The certificate provided a divorced wife with some legal protection and permitted her to remarry. See also Dt 24:1-4; Hos 2:2 These words may have been adapted from a divorce bill; Mt 5:31
God gave his unfaithful people a certificate of divorce
Jer 3:8 See also Isa 50:1 Unlike Israel, Judah had been given no certificate of divorce. The exile is thus portrayed as only a temporary separation.
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By Larry Fitzmaurice on March 17, 2011 at 08:00 a.m.
-- After reviving the publication following an indefinite hiatus in 2007, arts magazine Arthur has announced that they are shuttering for good. A statement on the magazine's website reads: "After years of service, Arthur departed the material plane today. He died as he lived—free, high and a-dreaming of love, 'neath vultures' terrible gaze. Thank you, and love to all." The website also hints that archives of the publication's run will be made available soon; back issues and other related merchandise are still listed for purchase at Arthur's online store.
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The Linux RAID-1, 4, 5 Code
Using RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) is a popular way of improving system I/O performance and reliability. There are different levels of disk arrays that cover the whole range of possibilities for improving system I/O performance and increased reliability.
This report describes the current implementation of the RAID driver in the kernel, as well as the changes we made to the kernel to support new disk-array configurations that provide higher reliability.
The MD driver is used to group together a collection of block devices into a single, larger block device. Usually, a set of SCSI and IDE devices are configured into a single MD device. As found in the Linux 2.0 kernel, it is designed to re-map sector/device tuples into new sector/devices tuples in two different modes (personalities): linear (append mode) and striping (RAID-0 mode).
Linear mode is just a way of concatenating the contents of two smaller block devices into a larger device. This can be used to join together several small disks to create a larger disk. The size of the new disk is the sum of the smaller ones. For example, suppose we have two disks with 300 sectors each; after we configure them as linear MD devices, we have a new MD device that has 600 sectors: the sectors 0 to 299 of the device are mapped to the first disk and the sectors 300 to 599 are mapped to the second disk.
RAID-0 mode (also known as striping) is more interesting. This mode of operation writes the information to the device while distributing the information over the disks that are part of the disk array. Unlike linear mode, this is not just a concatenation of the disk-array components; striping balances the I/O load among the disks resulting in a high throughput. This is the personality chosen by most people who want speed.
Figure 1 shows how four disks are arranged in this mode. Shadowed regions are those that provide redundant information, and those stacked-up disks represent a single disk. As you can see there are no shadowed regions in the figure. What does this mean? Well, it means that if there is a hardware problem in any of the elements of the disk array, you lose all of your information.
Both the linear and the striping personalities lack any redundancy and error recovery modes. If any of the elements of the disk array fail, the contents of the complete MD device are useless, and there is little hope that any useful information can be recovered. This is similar to what happens with regular secondary storage devices—if it fails, you lose your information. However, with RAID-0, you have a higher risk of losing your information than with a regular disk. The higher failure rate is due to the fact that you have more disks and a failure in any of the disks make the RAID-0 contents unusable.
If you have a good backup strategy and you don't mind losing a day of work if any of your disks fail, using RAID-0 may be the best thing to do. For example, RAID-0 is used for newsgroups like comp.unix, but a higher reliability RAID level is used for important newsgroups like alt.binaries.pictures.furniture.
The way these two personalities are supported by the MD driver in the kernel is quite simple; the low level ll_rw_blk routine is responsible for putting block driver I/O requests on the system-request queue. This routine must be modified to call a mapping function that is part of the MD driver and is invoked whenever a request is issued for a block on a MD device.
The ll_rw_blk routine conceptually looks like this:
ll_rw_blk (blocks) { sanity-checks (); for-each block in blocks { make_request (block); } }
It is modified to support the striping (RAID-0) and linear personalities in this way:
ll_rw_blk (blocks) { sanity-checks (); for-each block in blocks { if (block is-in md-device) md_map (block) } for-each block in blocks { make_request (block); } }
Block re-mapping happens just before the input/output request is put into the system-request queue. This re-mapping function is quite simple. It is invoked with pointers to the device and to the block number, and all it does is change the device ID and the block number. The device ID is changed to point to one of the disks in the disk array, and the block number is changed to point to the proper location on that disk. Basically it is a nice hack (but it uses a couple of "ifdefs", which we all know our fearless leader does not like).
error handing in RAID
Actually my question is how the error handing is done in RAID and how we can check it means the different ways to check how the error handling is done?
If i am making two virtual devices and making RAID1 using these devices and writing some data and then corrupting the data on 1st disk.Then how error handing is done and is there any way to check how it is done and similarly with RAID5????
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Re: Kernel Korner: The Linux RAID-1, 4, 5 Code
I have been using Linux MD RAID-1 for some time now and have been satisfied with its performance. I've lost two drives in this time and I feel that the simple addition of a software mirror was well worth it!
I am about to try RAID-5 in a few minutes and this article has left me feeling comfortable that I know what my kernel is doing. Thanks guys!
Are you sure the drives are
Are you sure the drives are not dead because of miss-mapping by the md_map? I don't think this would cause any crashing, but if it is a member in a system drive array then I would think there might be a possibility of corruption and loss of md-status. I dont really know any of this, but it sure does look smart from this angle.
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Pictured at left is Blueberry Strata, a favorite of many guests, and what we served this morning for breakfast at the Williams House. The recipe follows and can also be found in the B&B Cookbook that we sell in our Inn gift shop.
Blueberry Strata
1 loaf French Bread cut into 1″ cubes
2 (8oz.) package cream cheese cubed
1 cup fresh blueberries, washed
12 large eggs
1/3 cup maple syrup
2 cups milk
Grease a 9″ x 13″ baking dish. Add 1/2 bread, then scatter cream cheese and blueberries over bread. Top with remaining bread. Combine eggs, syrup, and milk in separate bowl and pour over bread. Press down to soak all of the bread in the egg mixture. Cover with foil and refrigerate overnight.
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Bake covered with foil 30 minutes. Uncover and bake 30 minutes more. Let stand for 5 minutes before cutting into squares. Sprinkle with powdered sugar. Garnish with fresh blueberries and a fresh cut strawberry. Serves twelve. Pour ribbons of maple syrup for added sweetness.


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The banged-up Minnesota Timberwolves aren't getting any reinforcements for their game against the Charlotte Bobcats.
Center Nikola Pekovic, shooting guard Brandon Roy and point guard J.J. Barea all were scratched for the game on Wednesday with injuries, leaving the Wolves with just nine healthy players.
Pekovic sprained his left ankle against Dallas on Monday night. Roy is missing his third straight game with a sore right knee and Barea will be out for the fourth straight game with a sprained left foot. Swingman Chase Budinger had surgery on his left knee this week and will miss three to four months.
On top of it all, All-Star Kevin Love (broken hand) and point guard Ricky Rubio (knee) have yet to play this season while they recover from injuries.
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Why I'm a Hep B Hero: "I've lost two uncles and a grandfather to liver cancer. My mother has hepatitis B and all of my siblings were also infected at birth. I have been using my access to the media to help inform the public about this disease."
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Name: Fiona Ma, California Assembly Speaker Pro Tempore
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Why I'm a Hep B Hero: "As someone with hepatitis B and an elected official, I've been proud to be the honorary spokesperson for San Francisco Hep B Free since the program's inception in 2007. I've made it my mission to help educate people about this vaccine preventable disease nationwide."
Name: Max Niu, Creative Coordinator
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Why I'm a Hep B Hero: "As a nurse, I work with patients who are hepatitis B positive, and discuss with them how to identify and manage symptoms. I always encourage all my patients to seek primary care, and connect them with the services of local Department of Public Health affiliated clinics."
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Ethnicity: Japanese
Why I'm a Hep B Hero: "I have worked for many years to bring the issue of viral hepatitis to the national forefront as the lead sponsor of several pieces of hepatitis legislation in recent congresses."
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Why I'm a Hep B Hero: "As a Vietnamese American working with youth and families, I believe the first step in eliminating hepatitis B is by educating our fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, and beyond. Be a Hep B hero! Break the silence and save lives!"
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Why I'm a Hep B Hero: "Working in the pharmaceutical industry with physician offices and hospitals, I've been battling hepatitis B for years. I have been helping make sure that all diagnosed patients are receiving first line treatment agents."
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Why I'm a Hep B Hero: "As a big proponent of Western medicine, I encourage everyone to get their hepatitis B shots today. This disease is vaccine preventable!"
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Why I'm a Hep B Hero: "My father may have lost his battle with liver cancer, but instead of dwelling on our family's loss, I've used the tragedy to raise awareness for hepatitis B through public speaking events."
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Why I'm a Hep B Hero: "I am a Hep B Hero because I got tested for hepatitis B this year after learning of my uncle's liver problems. I've encouraged my entire family and friends to get tested for hepatitis B."