text:
He began walking 6,000 miles to Washington, D.C., as a way to raise awareness and promote his message.
"I'm able to talk to folks and humanize the issue," Bounville said.
His trek includes numerous vigils held at places where people have been murdered or committed suicide due to gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation discrimination. He is also a theatre artist and turns the stories he hears in to theatre to be able to show the individuals behind each tale.
Bounville's journey brought him through Walker County this week. Despite chilling winds, he spent most of the day Tuesday hiking alongside old Highway 78. He usually averages 20 to 25 miles per day, although his personal best was 34 miles in a single day.
Throughout his travels, he said he has had mixed reactions from people, although many of his experiences have been positive and he seems to focus on those.
"You see the best and worst of people," Bounville said. "I've had some people share very personal experiences on the side of the road."
People along the way sponsor Bounville's stays or allow him to sleep in their home and provide assistance. When that assistance doesn't materialize, he camps near his path.
The last 17 months have included a variety of inclement weather conditions, but he said Tuesday that he remains committed to his original vision and hopes people who see him walking will remember one thing.
"I want them to listen, truly listen," Bounville said. "Turn off the mass media message, the propaganda and listen to the human stories. And not be afraid of us."
And when the journey ends, hopefully in February 2013, Bounville isn't sure what he will do to mark the occasion, especially since supporters will be at the scene to walk into D.C. with him.
"I've thought about making it a moment of protest or moment of celebration," Bounville said. "That will be something I decide then, I guess."
Bounville's website is intothelightwalk.com and his Facebook page is www.facebook.com/IntoLightWalk.


text:
Bow Chair Covers
Dress up your dining room with this set of holiday bow chair covers. Each cheerful, red felted-polyester cover features a soft satiny bow designed to look like a perfectly wrapped holiday present. Just slip over any dining or folding chair to add a festive accent to any dÅcor. Set of 2. Spot clean. Imported. 24"L x 20"W.
|May We Suggest
|**In order to join, you need to have at least
1 item in your shopping cart.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Home > Post > Post 8 > Post8 News Release > 2013 News Releases > News Release
News Release
Master Trooper Joe Veeneman
Public Affairs Officer
Kentucky State Police
Post 8, Morehead
(606) 784-4127
Click here to e-mail Master Trooper Joe Veeneman
Injury Collision on KY 1057 in Powell County
Date of News Release: 11/15/2013
(Clay City, KY) - On Thursday, November 14, 2013 at 4:33 pm, Kentucky State Police Morehead received a phone call advising of an injury accident on KY 1057, Hardwicks Creek Road in the Clay City, KY area. Trooper Anthony Bowling, Clay City PD, Stanton PD, Stanton Fire Department, Clay City Fire Department, Winchester EMS, Powell County EMS, and Air Methods responded to the scene. Upon arrival units located a 4 vehicle injury accident. A 1997 Ford Mustang operated by a male juvenile, was traveling North on Hardwicks Creek Road, crossed the center line and struck a 1995 Chevrolet Van on the driver's side being operated by Gale Howell, 57 of Clay City. The 1997 Ford Mustang continued on to make contact with a 2004 Ford Ranger being hauled on a car dolly. After making contact with the Ford Ranger, the operator of the Ford Mustang continued Southbound on Hardwicks Creek Road before colliding head on with a 1992 Plymouth Laser being operated by Mr. Shawn Damron, 35 of Clay City. All occupants in the Ford Mustang were juveniles and their names will not be released. Mr. Howell and his passengers, Lois Harrison, 67 and Marion Harrison, 47 both of Clay City were transported to Clark Regional Medical Center where they were treated and released for minor injuries. Mr. Damron was transported to Clark Regional Medical Center and later transferred to University of Kentucky Medical Center. Mr. Damron's passenger Teresa Damron, 38 of Clay City was air lifted from the scene by Air Methods to the University of Kentucky. At this time both Mr. Damron and Mrs. Damron are listed in stable condition. The accident remains under investigation by Trooper Anthony Bowling.


text:
Munford Elementary student Connor Morgan, 9, will be reporting live from some of the biggest events in the Southeastern Conference after being selected as Auburn's "Junior Reporter" this past September. Morgan is one of two students between the ages of 5 and 12 to be selected to the inaugural class of Junior Reporters, and will cover all 21 Auburn University athletic programs.
"It seemed like a good opportunity for me to become one of the world's biggest Auburn fans," said Morgan. "I thought, if I became the Auburn Junior Reporter, I may get to meet some of the Auburn stars that I'd like to be like when I get older."
The Junior Reporters were selected from those who auditioned for the position by submitting video clips to the university's athletic department. The winning entries were from Morgan and Harper Adams, 6, who lives in Auburn.
"I told them you can do anything from interviewing the family dog to coming in and just telling about how much you love Auburn," said Cassie Arner, assistant athletic director of public relations for Auburn University.
Morgan's submitted video featured him conducting an interview with Anniston attorney Mike LaPlante, a former assistant basketball coach at Auburn who now serves as a college basketball analyst for ESPN.com.
"Mike was able to use his experience in broadcasting to help Connor, and gave a great interview previewing Auburn's basketball season," said Connor's mother, Brooke Morgan. "Connor made a real effort to prove he could do the job, and we believe Auburn recognized that."
Morgan said that one of the things he enjoys most about his new position is "getting to go to places around Auburn that some people have never been before," places such as the basketball coaches' offices and the head football coach's meeting room.
Morgan will be featured in approximately 10 video packages during his time as a Junior Reporter.
Morgan has already had several assignments, including his report on National Signing Day where he interviewed offensive coordinator Rhett Lashley and attended the press conference of Auburn's new head coach, Gus Malzahn.
"I got to stand at the fax machine as letters came in from players who decided to come to Auburn," said Morgan.
Morgan's report from National Signing Day can be seen at http://www.auburntigers.com/allaccess/?media=367620.
His next assignment is to cover the university's A-Day game at Jordan-Hare Stadium on April 20.
Morgan said if there were one sporting event at the university that he would like to cover, it would be the Iron Bowl. He said his favorite thing about Auburn football is "the beginning of the fourth quarter."
"It gets really loud and the crowd gets pumped up and it's really exciting," he said. "It's not good for my ears, but it's really fun."
While Morgan is learning more about players and coaches at Auburn, he is also learning about journalism and being in front of a camera.
"I learned about speaking louder and more clear when I'm on camera," he said. "And don't try to talk to the coaches and players like your reading from a script, just try to have a normal conversation with them."
The purpose of bringing in the two young reporters, according to a release from Auburn's athletic department, is to create "another avenue" for fans to "express their love" for Auburn University.
The contest was inspired by Joey the Junior Reporter, a 5-year-old who covers games for the National Hockey League's Chicago Blackhawks. Auburn hopes to capture that same "magnetic energy" with its young reporters.
With his parents, Greg and Brooke Morgan, and both of his grandfathers, Randy Morgan and Stan Burlison, having graduated from the university, Morgan definitely bleeds orange and blue.
"We couldn't be more proud," said Brooke Morgan. "It is special for us because we've always tried to involve him in our Auburn-related activities. It's also good to see him able to get involved at a level higher than just attending games. This allows him to develop himself as a young man as well."
Contact Kenny Farmer at firstname.lastname@example.com.


text:
Endangered Sumatran rhino dies at Cincinnati Zoo
CINCINNATI (AP) - An Ohio zoo says an endangered Sumatran rhino that fathered the first Sumatran rhino calf born in captivity in more than a century has died.
Ipuh (EE'-pooh) was one of the Cincinnati Zoo's most famous residents. He died Monday.
The zoo says Ipuh had fathered three calves since 2001, the most ever in captivity.
The zoo estimates Ipuh was at least 33 years old and says it believes he was one of the oldest Sumatran rhinos on record.
Sumatran rhinos are seriously threatened by loss of habitat and poaching. Fewer than 200 live in the wild in Indonesia and Malaysia.
The Cincinnati Zoo says there about 10 in captivity worldwide.
Ipuh had spent the last 22 years at the zoo.
(Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)
share this story:
Attention KTAR.com Comment Users: We have recently changed our comments boards.We would like you to be part of the conversation and The Voice of Arizona by logging in with your Facebook, Twitter, Google+ or Disqus account. Existing KTAR (Arizona Sports) account members will need to create a Disqus account or use one of the aforementioned social media logins. Thank you.


text:
About 9 million people in the United States are covered by both Medicare and Medicaid, including low-income seniors and younger people with disabilities. These dual eligible beneficiaries have complex and often costly health care needs, and have been the focus of many recent initiatives and proposals to improve the coordination of their care aimed at both raising the quality of their care while reducing its costs. This page highlights some key resources examining the dual eligible population and provides you with the standard search result page for a site-wide search on the dual eligible tag.
Featured Dual Eligible Resources
State Demonstration Proposals to Integrate Care and Align Financing and/or Administration for Dual Eligible Beneficiaries
This map shows the current status of the state demonstration proposals to integrate care and align financing for beneficiaries eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid. Over 9.6 million seniors and younger people with significant disabilities are dually eligible for both programs, and as many as 2 million of them may be included in the demonstrations.
Fact Sheet See More
Related Dual Eligible Resources
- Medicaid's Role for Dual-Eligible Beneficiaries
- Medicare's Role for Dual Eligible Beneficiaries
- Best Bets for Reducing Medicare Costs for Dual Eligible Beneficiaries: Assessing the Evidence
- Pulling it Together: Duals: The National Health Reform Experiment We Should Be talking More About
- Affordable Care Act Provisions Relating to the Care of Dually Eligible Medicare and Medicaid Beneficiaries
- Faces of Dually Eligible Beneficiaries: Profiles of People with Medicare and Medicaid Coverage
Filter Results
- results
- state & global data
- slides
- view as grid
- view as list
Money Follows the Person Medicaid Demonstration Program: Helping People Move Back Home
This paper contains short profiles four Medicaid beneficiaries who have been helped by Money Follows the Person demonstration programs in Michigan and Washington state.Report Read More
Medicare Chartbook, 2010
This chartbook provides the most recent and reliable data available about the Medicare program and the 47 million seniors and younger people with disabilities who get health insurance coverage through the program. Topics covered include: Medicare beneficiaries; the program's benefits, utilization, and access to care; prescription drugs; the Medicare Advantage…Report Read More
A Primer on Dually Eligible Beneficiaries
The nine million dually eligible beneficiaries are generally poorer and sicker than other Medicare beneficiaries, tend to use more health care services, and thus account for a disproportionate share of Medicare and Medicaid spending. Because they often have complex medical and long-term care needs, and must navigate both Medicaid and…Event Read More
Medicare Advantage 2011 Data Spotlight: Medicare Advantage Enrollment Market Update
This data spotlight examines enrollment trends in Medicare Advantage plans in 2011 and finds that, despite concerns about the effects of the 2010 health reform payment reductions on private Medicare Advantage plans, enrollment continued to rise this year. Additionally, Medicare Advantage enrollees are paying lower premiums, on average, than they…Issue Brief Read More
States Focus on Cost Containment as a Loss of Federal Stimulus Funds Means State Costs for Medicaid Will Jump in FY 2012
NEWS RELEASE Thursday, October 27, 2011 New 50-State Survey Finds Cuts In Provider Payments And Changes In Delivery Of Services WASHINGTON, D.C. – Faced with the end of stimulus money and a continuing weak economy, Medicaid officials in virtually every state are enacting a variety of cost cutting measures as states'…News Release Read More
An Overview of Recent Section 1115 Medicaid Demonstration Waiver Activity
This brief summarizes and examines the implications of recent Section 1115 Medicaid waiver activity. Section 1115 waivers provide states flexibility to test new approaches in Medicaid that differ from federal program rules and can have significant impacts for beneficiaries, providers, and states. While recent waivers and waiver proposals vary in…Issue Brief Read More
Massachusetts and Ohio: Capitated Financial Alignment Demonstrations for Dual Eligible Beneficiaries Compared
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has finalized memoranda of understanding (MOUs) with Massachusetts and Ohio to test a capitated financial alignment model to integrate care and align financing for people who are dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid in 2013. CMS also has signed an MOU with…Fact Sheet Read More
Variations in State Medicaid Buy-in Practices for Low-Income Medicare Beneficiaries: A 1999 Update
This report updates a 1997 Foundation report to assess how states are implementing financial protections for the 16 million Medicare beneficiaries who are low-income. These protections, generally referred to as "buy-in programs," help low-income Medicare beneficiaries meet Medicare's cost-sharing requirements by using state Medicaid programs to pay either all or…Report Read More
Medicare and Low-Income Beneficiaries
As part of The Faces of Medicare, a collection of fact sheets profiling the characteristics and health needs of different groups of Medicare beneficiaries, highlights key facts about Medicare's low-income population, who have have greater health needs than those with higher incomes.Fact SheetFact Sheet Read More
Long-Term Care: Medicaid's Role and Challenges
Long-Term Care: Medicaid's Role and ChallengesThis Policy Brief examines Medicaid's role in providing long-term care services. It describes long-term care services, the population that needs these services, and how people get long-term care services. It provides an overview of health insurance coverage of persons with long-term care needs and describes…Issue Brief Read More


text:
For the past five years, Maryland has been ranked as the No. 1 state for education, but the newspaper that compiles the rankings says that is no longer so, reports the Baltimore Sun.
Education Week, a national education newspaper, says that this year instead of ranking states from best to worst, it's only passing out letter grades, reports WJZ TV. In all of the categories used to rank districts, like student achievement, Maryland received a "B" — no other state earned higher.
In the past, Maryland had some stiff competition from Massachusetts. The states are neck-and-neck this year, says the TV station.
State schools Superintendent Lillian Lowery told the Sun that Maryland is still at the top of the highest-performing states in the country. "Other states may be up there with us," he said.
Read more on the Baltimore Sun website.


text:
Gary McNair is Vice President and General Manager of WECT, Raycom Media's NBC affiliate in Wilmington, North Carolina. Gary began working in television in the late 1960s and is a West Virginia native. He came to WECT-TV6 from the NBC affiliate, WBOY-TV in Clarksburg, West Virginia where he was senior vice president and general manager. He also had oversight responsibility for WTRF-TV, the CBS/FOX affiliate in Wheeling, WV.
Gary also managed stations in Kansas (KSNT Channel 27 - NBC, Topeka) and New Mexico (KBIM Channel 10 - CBS, Roswell). Under his leadership, KSNT was named medium-market Station of the Year three times by the Kansas Association of Broadcasters. Prior to working in New Mexico, McNair held marketing and production positions at WSAZ (NBC) in Huntington, WV. He is a graduate of Marshall University.
322 Shipyard Boulevard
Contact Us
All content © Copyright 2000 - 2014 Worldnow and WECT. All Rights Reserved.
For more information on this site, please read our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.


text:
President Barack Obama announced plans to withdraw more troops from Afghanistan and take steps to boost the fragile U.S. economy as he delivered a closely watched State of the Union address Tuesday laying out his priorities for the year and for his newly begun second term in office.
"He took a very strong position on immigration. When he talked about immigrants coming here and speaking English, the tepid applause from Democrats. I'm surprised he went there," said Spadea.


text:
TOLEDO, OH (Toledo News Now) - Darrell James Parnell, 19, was killed by a Toledo police officer early Friday after police say he resisted arrest and assaulted an officer.
Police said Officer Cousino and his partner Jesse Cordero were investigating the break-in of a Jeep in the 1300 block of Michigan. Parnell was confronted by the pair, resisted arrest and took off running.
"I was thinking 'Wow. Something is really going on outside.' And when I opened the door and walked to my car I go 'Oh my God. It's my car,'"said Amy Folts.
Officer Cousino caught up with Parnell and tased him twice before Parnell took off running into a field.
"You hear the police officer yell 'Do you want to get tased?' And then you hear the chain link fence like they're jumping them," said Folts.
Parnell was unarmed but police said he got a hold of Officer Cousino's baton and hit him in the head.
Officer Cousino pulled out his gun, shooting Parnell once in the chest.
"The officer was definitely in fear for his safety. He was being assaulted. Struck. Traumatized. Yes, he was in fear for his life," said Chief Derrick Diggs.
Police say Parnell had an active warrant out for his arrest for attempted felonious assault in 2011. Store owner Ali Abelu said Parnell came in angry, drunk and stole a can of beer. A clerk confronted Parnell and was reportedly beaten to a pulp.
"He was in bad shape. He beat him up in the eye. Took out a socket. In intensive care for a week," said Ali Abelu.
Officer Cousino was hospitalized for his injuries and released. Officer Cousino and Officer Cordero are on three day administrative leave.
Chief Diggs said Friday that it appears Cousino acted in self defense, but that a criminal and internal investigation will still be conducted.
Copyright 2012 Toledo News Now. All rights reserved.
730 North Summit Street
All content © Copyright 2000 - 2014 Worldnow and WTOL. All Rights Reserved.
For more information on this site, please read our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.


text:
I was even more surprised than they were by the news because the alien in question was me.
I temporarily lost my American citizenship when I went to the Walker County Courthouse to renew my car tag.
There were about six people in line when I arrived. I made it to the nice lady at the counter 30 minutes later.
I handed over my paperwork without a word and got ready to finally walk out with my tag.
Then the state said, "Not so fast, Skippy."
The tag is in my maiden name because I bought my car six months before Zac and I were married. However, the license I presented to the clerk was issued to Jennifer Cohron.
I was informed that I would have to bring in a copy of my marriage license before I could get the tag.
"I need a paper trail showing how you went from Williams to (insert your favorite pronunciation of Cohron here) to prove you're not an illegal immigrant," she said in an apologetic tone.
I was speechless and trying to remain calm when she gently reminded me that I could get a copy of my marriage license from another nice lady on the other side of the courthouse if I had been married in Walker County.
I walked across the room as a girl without a country. I was so flustered when I got there that I had to think a second longer than I should have when asked for my wedding date.
My status was quickly confirmed and I was issued a car tag.
I later joked that I wasn't sure where I would have been deported if it had come to that. I had my fingers crossed for north of the border because the group of Canadians I met in Cordova a few weeks ago seemed like very loving people.
While I am poking fun at my own experience, I do not intend to make light of the situation that actual immigrants face.
Sadly, it was not until I was perceived to be a stranger in this land that I gave some thought to what it must be like for others.
I have been an American since birth and have always been treated as such. It's unlikely that the clerk or anyone in line behind me that day sincerely questioned my right to be in this country.
However, let's suppose that my skin had been a little more tan and my English had been laced with a slight Spanish accent.
Would anyone in the room have wanted to throw me behind bars with the other illegal immigrants even if I was actually a second or third generation Hispanic American?
I can recall only one instance in which I have felt like a member of a minority.
When I was a freshman at UAB, I was asked to cover a night meeting of the Black Student Awareness Committee. In a crowded room of about 75 to 100 people, my mother and I were the only ones who were white.
Everyone was polite, but we were still uncomfortable. All eyes seemed to be on us at times. I can only imagine how much harder it would have been to stand there if they had been cursing or spitting in our direction because we were "different."
Many of us, myself included, give little thought to how we judge people until we are in a position to be judged ourselves.
I recently had a conversation with someone about how you stop being a person once respectable society finds a label for you.
It has to be hard to hold on to your self-confidence once you become a "welfare mom," a "pregnant teen," a "drop-out," an "addict" or have "divorced," "depressed" or "abortion" stamped on your forehead.
Even I, Miss Blunt is Always Best, keep some things private because I know certain people will look at me differently and I don't want to deal with that on a daily basis.
Yet those who really love me know the truth and see a soul instead of a stigma.
I am far from an expert on immigration, and I understand that the government is supposed to punish those who break the law.
However, I hope that my five minutes as an alien will remind me to follow the law of love as well as the law of the land.


text:
So basically it's not the trading post or banker.
It's a merchant that allows you to sell stuff/buy salvage kits etc.
Will to negotiate a price, I'm not really sure how much I'm looking for right now.
Clearly it's a risky trade, since you could scam me or I could scam you (which I don't plan on doing xD).
I'd prefer to talk about it over a voice chat such as skype/ventrilo etc.
PM me in-game: REDACTED and we'll see if we can come to some kind of agreement.
WTS Permanent Black Lion Merchant Contract
Started by Kiriari, Dec 15 2012 04:37 AM
1 reply to this topic
Posted 15 December 2012 - 04:37 AM
Posted 15 December 2012 - 05:01 AM
This forum is not for the buying/selling of in game items.
Have a moderation related issue or just want to chat? Send me a PM.
0 user(s) are reading this topic
0 members, 0 guests, 0 anonymous users


text:
Please enter your email address to reset your password. An email will be sent with instructions to create a new password. If you do not receive an email, please check your spam folder.
Forgot password?
Don't have an account?
Are you a subscriber but don't have an online account?
Register for full online access.
Note to existing JLC Subscribers:
If you choose to use your Social Network, please ensure that the email address associated with your Social Network matches the email associated with your JLC Subscription.
Thank you for creating your JLC Online account! Your JLC subscription purchase has begun in a new window.
If you see this message, make sure your popup blockers are disabled and click here to relaunch the subscription window.
Congratulations! Please check your e-mail for confirmation to gain full access to JLC Online's free features.
Please create a nickname to post in the forums.
Next-wave DHW heaters offer performance advantages over conventional tankless and storage water heaters but may not make financial sense.
Failure to comply may result in fines, loss of insurance eligibility, and government assistance.
Spending on remodeling falls, new home construction gains.
Non-profit makes urgent request for help in continuing to provide safe, affordable homes for displaced residents and meet needs of the latest storm victims.
A rash of catastrophic collapses around the nation is driving new deck design and code standards. Builders who keep up and know how to fix what's wrong with America's aging decks will prosper.
Copyright ©
2014 Hanley Wood Media, Inc. All rights reserved.


text:
Esrati Plan
The Esrati Plan
"Government of the people, by the people, for the people." Abraham Lincoln said it more than 140 years ago and his adage is still essential today in creating a new system to encourage and manage community development.
No Neighborhood Left Behind
Neighborhoods are the building blocks of our city, yet for thirty years; Dayton has used the Priority Board System to insulate City Hall from the neighborhoods with an additional layer of bureaucracy. The system is fundamentally flawed because it is based on the geography of voting precincts drawn for political gain instead of neighborhood boundaries drawn here.
The goal is to empower people to work together to create the kind of community that creates engaged citizens, not just residents; with a new system that provides direct contact between the neighborhood organizations and the City Manager.
Neighborhoods would be evaluated and provided assistance by the way they organize and innovate to improve life for all residents.
Neighborhood Organizations would be responsible for establishing programs and a scoring system for participation and achievement, which would be used to measure progress in each neighborhood. The group of presidents, with supervision of the City Manager, would allocate funds to programs to benefit each neighborhood based on maximum return to each community and the city overall.
For instance, in the area of housing, each neighborhood would be responsible for a inventory of all buildings, owners, and state of repair. This would alleviate the need for housing inspectors, except as enforcers of last resort.
Neighborhood organizations would organize neighborhood watch, safety patrols and establish relationships with a neighborhood police liaison. Neighborhoods would be graded on their own emergency preparedness plans, including neighborhood first responders, and assets for various emergencies for the challenges of severe weather and other disasters.
As part of community building, neighborhood organizations would support the development of literacy programs, community college enrollment for non-traditional students and adult education programs, as well as physical activities and sports teams for all ages. Initiatives for children and youth might include scout troops, after-school clubs, arts activities, playgroups and baby-sitting cooperatives. Every organization would establish a close relationship with each of the schools in their neighborhood, and would work hand in hand with local schools to address issues of chronic truancy and high school drop-outs. Job banks for teens, community service credits for school, would be coordinated at the neighborhood level.
Each neighborhood would identify and utilize all community centers/ neighborhood churches/ schools to provide areas for local food co-ops, neighborhood gardens, informal libraries, job training, meeting space for neighborhood clubs and activities, and a central gathering place for social events like cookouts and block parties.
Neighborhood businesses would be supported and aided by their local neighborhood organization, and vacant commercial properties could be identified for development in concert with the property owners. In addition, common public areas of neighborhoods would be the responsibility of the organizations that would organize clean-up days, weed control, vacant lot management and park development and maintenance.
In support of the Neighborhood Organization program, city employees would each be assigned to specific neighborhoods, and the amount of progress achieved by "their" neighborhoods would be reflected in employee performance reviews. All of the Neighborhood Organization programs would be tracked and monitored using a variety of data. City employees would be eligible for bonuses based on performance of their neighborhoods, with significant prizes for the city employee who makes the biggest impact each year.
A Simple Business Plan
Dayton needs to make it easier to establish and maintain a business in the city. Currently, business owners are faced with a maze of regulation that is often vague, redundant and irrelevant. The most complex, is our current hodge-podge system of city income tax collection and rates. It's time to turn this over to either the County or the State- with a one-stop website driven by the employer identification number.
Businesses will see an automatically generated list of dates, forms and payments due- based on information provided to the site. The portal would also include access to all laws, possible fines, and regulatory requirements based on SIC codes, size of business and geographic location. They will also be solicited for government contracting opportunities through the same portal.
Tax incentives will be applied more fairly across the broad spectrum of businesses, not just those that contribute to election campaigns. A walk to work tax credit would be an example of an environmentally correct highly beneficial program.
Tax abatements will be offered only for covering costs of creative re-use of existing infrastructure- to aid historic preservation, to cut down demolition waste and to incentivize a "no-sprawl" policy. We will actively lobby to end the type of poaching tax incentives used to lure NCR from Dayton at the National level.
City employees will not engage in recruiting companies to move from one community to another with incentive packages, and companies that are "poached" (moved with government assistance) from the city would continue to be liable for taxes at their Dayton location for a period of time determined by the economic impact created by the loss of the business. "Economic development" will be done through making Dayton an attractive, cost effective, safe and profitable place to do business and a great place to live. Not, based on a price war, funded with tax dollars that were to provide essential services.
It is also essential that we review and check compliance on all previous tax incentives that have been given, to make sure that employment/investment promises were met.
If we want to save the last bits of our old infrastructure, we need to take into account the conditions that existed when the buildings were built.
To help turn around vacant retail and commercial space, in buildings that are 50 years old or older, special variances to strict building code compliance would be made available. All parking requirements will be waived in the central business district and for buildings over 50 years old.
Current mixed-use regulation that gives more latitude to owner/occupants- would be extended to all buildings in the central business district and to buildings older than 50 years old.
Modern signage restrictions would only be applicable to modern buildings. It's time to let businesses with old buildings advertise in the same way that they did when the buildings were built with huge signs painted directly on the buildings.
Growing Better Leaders
As a community, we need to work to develop new leadership from within, and every effort should be made to recognize community leaders who positively impact our city.
Allowing candidates who have filed for election to office access to voter information insures a more equitable election cycle, with information available to everyone, not just those already enmeshed in the political machine. In a combined effort of fostering communication with the community and offering fair access to all candidates, the city would launch a community web portal (such as a "Drupal" site) encompassing discussion sites, resource directories, e-commerce sites, and social networking. Revamping the local election process to streamline the process of electing Mayor and City Commissioners would contribute continuity to city government and reduce waste. Specifically, eliminating the requirement for Notary Public signatures, the number of signatures, and the process of a separate election for the Mayors seat should be considered. The Mayor's position should be held by the top vote getter in each municipal election and possibly rotate every 2 years.
City Hall will maintain an open door policy, welcoming citizenry to their offices and public meetings, and encouraging input and ideas from their public.
Dayton was a leader in adopting the City Manager form of government, and in citizen participation. It is time to once again move forward with new ways to elect our leaders and involve our citizens. The City Manager must be the given the lead. If need be, the salaries of the Commission should be cut, if the Commission can't learn to let the manager take the lead.
Dayton Sports and Rec
Dayton has been home to a number of Olympic and Professional athletes. We've also grown our share of musical talent. It's time to build regional sports competitions, elite leagues and state of the art facilities for the things we don't do when we're working.
From practice spaces to performance spaces, it's our duty as a community to give our hometown talents the opportunity to rise to the top.
While Five Rivers Metroparks has been a champion of the natural parks, it's time to increase the scope of their responsibility to also include sports and music. Five Rivers Recreation would work with school districts at also taking care of sports facilities throughout the County. Think of Dayton as becoming a mini-Olympic city, with sports programs utilizing every possible venue, at maximum capacity. Read more about my idea for "Sportsplex"
If we want a healthy community, we need to have healthy opportunities for all.
Bicycle friendliness should be a key part of all new development, as well as all public works. I am working to bring www.bcycle.com online for Summer 2010 to match the launch in Denver. Dayton could easily share headlines with a major "winning city" on a program that costs considerably less and benefits a lot more people than a parking garage at Austin Road.
It's time to begin changing the laws in the State of Ohio to allow regional government. We may be able to ease into regionalism by first merging services like 911, water, sewer, roads, police and fire- through as many communities that are willing to participate. Dayton should offer the Airport to the region, in exchange for support in other areas like a simplified and regional income tax program.
Customer service- Metrics
I've advocated this for a long time- before it was an ombudsman who would take complaints, and track resolutions- and report to the Commission. Now, I'd like to install a "Help Desk" to track cases through city hall. The City Manager would be evaluated based on the resolution ratio and qualitative scores generated by the software. We'll also adopt technology to do some of the reporting, see the post: Data, Dayton and developing our City 2.0
It's time to put checks and balances on our bureaucrats who are perceived as inflexible and unresponsive. Every city employee must feel as if they are responsible for the perception of our city.
The City Manager would have targets for increased income tax revenues, increased population, higher average home sales, lower commercial property vacancy rates- etc. By placing real metrics in place we can track performance. Currently, we do not seem to have goals and objectives in place.
Population Growth
We have excess capacity for housing. We have a large part of Dayton that qualifies as a HUBzone. I would try to push for a test program that allows companies to have unlimited H1B visas if they locate their business and their employees live within the HUBzone. This would take lobbying on the Federal Level. While many communities don't seem to want an influx of foreigners, I know first hand as a first generation American what an impact immigrants had on this country. I'd rather have the best and brightest come and work here- than compete against them in the global economy.
In summary
Taking four years of discussing issues and ideas from www.esrati.com and putting them in a 4 page document, isn't easy. This is to give new readers a place to get acquainted with the types of change I want to implement in our city- if I'm elected to be your voice.
Thank you.
{ 37 comments… read them below or add one }
- September 21, 2009 at 9:25 pm
Mostly good ideas–except the neighborhood one.
I don't want ignorant neighborhood vigilantes assessing the quality of housing stock or policing the streets. I want professionals. People who know how to evaluate a house or how to track crime, not dilettantes.
Of course, to recruit professionals, we'll need to solidify the tax base so that we can offer professional salaries. Eliminating bureaucratic supervision where not essential would finance it.
Brilliant or Bozo? 1 0
- September 21, 2009 at 11:10 pm
How are neighborhoods going to do all this? Volunteers? Who has time, as stay at home moms and healthy retirees become things of the past? Is someone going to fund them to hire staff? What happens when some mortgage trust that owns a vacant foreclosed property, or an absentee landlord, makes itself scarce? What do neighborhoods do then? And how are these competitive city employees going to be awarded bonuses fairly when neighborhoods are so different in resources. Will your city resemble the big cities of the past which were more a collection of ethnic neighborhoods than a unit? What's the big deal with painting advertisements on old buildings and why do we want that?
A number of the best ideas require significant changes in state or federal laws and the end of race to the bottom competition between communities, including between Dayton and its suburbs. I suppose it is good to have candidates popularize such things but it will take them a while to work their way up from Dayton City Commission to state or federal office, to the extent that that can happen. Part of the challenge of City Government, and for someone outside the party structure to do well enough to get elected, is that the City lacks resources to do things that are needed, no matter who the commissioners and city manager are. What will pay for fixing up vacant foreclosed on houses and put people into them, or pay for this business friendly infrastructure or the economic development? These issues will not generate tea party level emotion among the electorate, and even if they did inside Dayton, the power lies outside of Dayton.
Brilliant or Bozo? 1 0
- September 22, 2009 at 9:02 am
Hmmm, I need to digest this all….
Brilliant or Bozo? 0 0
- September 22, 2009 at 1:11 pm
David- Great ideas.. You may want to look into the EB-5 Visa which brings direct capital into projects while allowing for more foriegn workers. The following is from the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
"The special visa, know as the EB-5, can shave years off an immigrant's wait for permanent residency, which leads to U.S. citizenship. The federal government makes 10,000 EB-5 visas available yearly.
Foreign nationals gain a conditional green card by investing at least $1 million in projects that create at least 10 jobs. The required investment drops to $500,000 in economically distressed areas. With proof that the investment was sustained for two years and that new jobs resulted, the immigrant visa becomes permanent."
Brilliant or Bozo? 0 0
- September 22, 2009 at 8:22 pm
Will your city resemble the big cities of the past which were more a collection of ethnic neighborhoods than a unit?
Gee lets hope so! I grew up in one of those cities (Chicago), and they it was a unit as well as a city of neighborhoods. Our city and my (and your) neighborhood.
David, yes we all can quibble with the details but I love your vision. I re-posted this at Urban Ohio to get some feedback from the die-hard urbanists at that board. The holistic approach to community/neighborhood development is pretty cool. I really like that. It reminds me a bit of the community control movement of back in the 1960s. And getting involved in eduction (by a cities political leadership) was done in Sacramento when that citys school system was failing. So this might sound "out there" to people not familiar with history or what has happened elsewhere, its not outlandish at all to people who have a broad knowlege urban affairs and history. You have an education component in your neighborhood development concept, and theres' precedent for that.
And the idea of engaging with the State and Federal government makes a lot of sense too. This will have to be done to ensure the necessary legislation in place. I don't understand when people are critical of this aspect of your thinking. That was how the Conservancy District was done.
Anyway, good job. Hopefully this will get some coverage beyond just this blog.
Brilliant or Bozo? 1 1
- October 9, 2009 at 12:26 pm
I would like to see a clear statement concerning the currently expressed goals of razing derelict houses, rehabbing reclaimable houses, and building houses where needed. There have been many statements made by McLin, Whaley, and Williams (and others on the commission) regarding the housing stock compared to population.
David, please weigh in here.
Brilliant or Bozo? 0 0
- October 9, 2009 at 11:42 pm
David, I have just read the Esrati Plan and I think it represents more vision than what we're seeing from the supposed leadership of the Dayton City Commission. Furthermore, I know from doing business with you that you are action-oriented so I have no doubt you would see this accomplished. The leadership of this once proud city has failed, and unless we do something to arrest this decline we will look like another once proud American city that is due north having the same first letter in its name. How people can be selfish enough to vote along party or color lines in this election is beyond me. I support you because you are what this city needs at this time in its history. You represent transformational change, and a hope that there is a brighter future for Dayton.
Brilliant or Bozo? 0 0
- October 24, 2009 at 7:56 am
Just read this in the Economist. Thought provoking and fits into the community taking charge of their crime/youth issues
Crime and politics
The velvet glove
Oct 22nd 2009 | HIGH POINT, NORTH CAROLINA
From The Economist print edition
Why the soft approach sometimes works
Getty Images
LOOKING after small children is never easy. Many dribble; some bite. But for Joyce Chavis, the problem until a few years ago was that she could not let toddlers in her care step outside her house. The street was packed with prostitutes. Drug-dealers loitered aggressively with pit bulls at their heels. In the local playground the bushes concealed only some of the things that crack-addicted young women were doing to earn their next fix.
Until 2004 the West End neighbourhood in High Point, North Carolina, was an open-air drug market. Gun shots punctuated the night. Honest folk were scared to walk to the shops. Jim Summey, a local preacher, recalls a Sunday when his flock could not park because the street was jammed with johns seeking sex and drugs. When he remonstrated with the dealers, they smashed up his car and shot out 58 windows in his church.
Yet West End is now as peaceful as evensong. It is still poor, but thugs with dogs no longer menace passers-by. The prostitutes have gone, or gone indoors. The corners are quiet. What happened?
The High Point police used to deal with drug-dealers in the traditional manner. They would "come rolling in like an occupying army," as Jim Fealy, the police chief, puts it. They would grab young men, pat them down and arrest the ones with drugs in their pockets. They sent many to jail, but never shut down the drug market for more than a few hours. African-Americans in neighbourhoods like West End detested the police, and the police grew frustrated that no one in these places called them to report crimes.
But then they tried something different. On the advice of David Kennedy, a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, they started talking to community leaders in West End. They found out who the street drug-dealers were. There were fewer than they had expected: only 16, of whom three were habitually violent. Patiently, they compiled dossiers on each of them. Then they arrested and prosecuted the violent ones, and invited the rest in for a chat.
The young dealers were shown the evidence against them, and given a choice. If they stopped dealing drugs and carrying guns, they would not be prosecuted. A "community co-ordinator" sat down with each of them and asked him what he needed to go straight: a job? Drug treatment? A place to stay? An alarm clock to get to work on time? The community promised to help with all these things. The dealers' neighbours and even grandmothers stood up and told them that what they were doing was wrong, and had to stop. Then prosecutors warned them that if they did not stop that day, they would be sent to jail, possibly for the rest of their lives.
It worked. Nearly all the dealers reformed, bar the odd bit of shoplifting. You can still buy drugs behind closed doors in High Point, but the intervention was never about drugs. It was about making the neighbourhood liveable again. Fears that the open-air drug market would simply move elsewhere proved unfounded. As the same technique was tried in other neighbourhoods and for other types of crime, such as gang-related muggings, the city's overall violent crime rate fell noticeably, from 8.7 per 1,000 people in 2003 to 7.3 in 2008.
The debate about crime is often emotional. Voters want vengeance. Politicians oblige. Barack Obama supports the death penalty even though he believes it "does little to deter crime". It is justified, he says, because it expresses "the full measure of [a community's] outrage". Such reasoning is widespread, but Mark Kleiman, the author of "When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment", argues that it is unwise. The only good reason to punish, he says, is to prevent crime, either by locking criminals up so they cannot reoffend, or by deterring others.
More threats, less force
Prison sometimes works. Some credit tougher sentencing for the sharp drop in crime since the early 1990s. The number of incarcerated Americans has quadrupled since 1980, to 2.3m, and many of these people make the streets safer by their absence. But some 500,000 are non-violent drug offenders. And it "ought to bother us" that the incarceration rate for black Americans exceeds that in the Soviet Union at the peak of the Gulag, ventures Mr Kleiman. Incarceration hurts criminals' friends and relatives. It upsets the sex ratio in high-crime areas, making it very hard for young black women to form stable families. The lesson of High Point is that you can reduce crime by making credible threats, without having to lock up so many people.
To deter, a punishment must be swift, certain and severe. Of these, severity matters the least, reckons Mr Kleiman, and there is a trade-off: the harsher the punishment, the more legal safeguards are required to ensure it is not misapplied. States that execute murderers do so only after decades of appeals. This costs millions in legal fees. So they hardly ever do it, which means it is not much of a deterrent.
It turns out that milder sanctions can be swifter and more certain. For example, in Hawaii, until recently, felons ignored the terms of their probation because the only punishment available was a harsh one: being sent back to prison for the remainder of their term, typically five to ten years. Courts and probation officers were too swamped to handle the necessary paperwork and rebut the legal challenges to such harsh penalties. So violators typically got off scot free. This led people to conclude that they could misbehave with impunity. The chaos only ended when a judge started handing out instant sentences of a week or so. The certain prospect of spending a few days behind bars straight away made most of the probationers behave.
Mr Kleiman suggests several other promising, non-macho approaches to curbing crime. Raise alcohol taxes. Start school days later to prevent after-school crime. Force probationers to wear GPS tags, thus making probation a tough (and much cheaper) alternative to prison. Americans should experiment with such ideas, he says, and if they are serious about justice, the object should be to cut crime, not to make criminals suffer.
Brilliant or Bozo? 0 0
- October 24, 2009 at 10:22 am
Here are a couple ideas related to parking requirements and walk to work tax credits: The city could build a parking garage near but outside of downtown, perhaps in the Webster Street/Monument Ave area, and people who work at downtown businesses could be allowed to park in that garage for free (show proof of employment at a downtown business, get a parking sticker for your car). Those people could then walk downtown, or take a bus the short trip downtown.
Actually, to start with, no parking garage would even be needed. Just re-pave and re-stripe and presto! instant parking lot.
Brilliant or Bozo? 0 0
- October 24, 2009 at 10:27 am
Will your city resemble the big cities of the past which were more a collection of ethnic neighborhoods than a unit?
Gee lets hope so! I grew up in one of those cities (Chicago), and they it was a unit as well as a city of neighborhoods.
Could Dayton please get a Boystown? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boystown,_Chicago
Brilliant or Bozo? 0 0
- October 24, 2009 at 12:39 pm
Re: your response to my response, Citizen Esrati:
Yes, I am not ignorant of the Priority Board system.
No, I do not oppose strengthening neighborhoods. You seem to have overlooked one of my more frequent comments on that issue: we will strengthen neighborhoods when elementary students are automatically enrolled in their neighborhood school; exceptions granted only for special-needs or academically-advanced students who might need to be bussed to special programs. The broad center of our grade-school student body–the 85% who test within one standard deviation of "normal"–should be served by a standard district-wide age-appropriate curriculum and standard methods of pedagogy.
It's a bit nettling to have you snipe "Always good to know how people can focus in on one or two small things- and miss the big picture." In particular, I started out by complimenting the plan (or does "Mostly good ideas" not register with you?) and then focused on the one detail with which I disagree–namely, the potential for amateurism and its attendant ills. You didn't address that yet; of course you are under no obligation to do so. But if we are to disagree, let's at least try to do so politely and not distort one another's positions.
Brilliant or Bozo? 3 1
- October 24, 2009 at 3:52 pm
Thank you David, it's true that you are far more 'net savvy than your competition.
On another minor note, I would prefer that the homophobic and religiously prejudiced Boy Scouts not be promoted by public bodies. I have had 2 boys involved in Scouts so I am not their arch enemy, but government should refuse to support them until they give Unitarian-Universalists and Pagans and Atheists due respect and equality–much less inclusion–and the same for diverse sexual and gender orientations.
Brilliant or Bozo? 0 2
- October 25, 2009 at 12:25 pm
@DL, what problem are you trying to solve with the free garage at Monument/Webster? There likely are not any lots or garages in downtown that are at full capacity. There is plenty of parking available, especially if someone is willing to walk two blocks.
Brilliant or Bozo? 0 0
- October 25, 2009 at 12:40 pm
@Brian: The problem of suburbanites not wanting to pay for parking.
Brilliant or Bozo? 0 0
- October 25, 2009 at 9:49 pm
@David L.: if we're painting with a broad brush, suburbanites are also famous for their desire to walk no further than about 50 feet from their car to their destination. A garage at Monument/Webster would probably be a miserable failure, and would still cost $12-18k per space of public dollars to build. Operational costs would be substantial as well.
The for-pay lots and garages downtown were purchased and/or built for a high cost — they weren't free. As an investment, a surface parking lot is like a little apartment building with no plumbing. You don't give apartments away (unless you're Sec 8), and there is no such thing as free parking. Everything has a cost. An investor typically pays $3000-12000 per space to buy a lot in downtown Dayton, and is "banking" on the idea of being able to charge for use of those spaces. They're not evil; they're just investors or business owners trying to pay their mortgage and maybe make a profit in a tough economy.
It would be unfair to give parking away en masse and drive these owners into bankruptcy or foreclosure. They invested in Dayton, and they deserve a chance to succeed.
Free parking isn't the answer. Affordable, safe, well-lit, easy-to-find, convenient, consistent, available parking is the answer, along with some good packaging/marketing.
Brilliant or Bozo? 1 0
- October 26, 2009 at 8:33 pm
It was just an idea, and I did say no garage would be needed to start with.
And you're wrong that there's no such thing as free parking. The people who work at suburban office parks don't pay for parking.
But I'm not running for office, and this really isn't an issue about which I feel strongly. It was just a spur of the moment idea.
Brilliant or Bozo? 0 0
- October 26, 2009 at 11:22 pm
@DavidL: there's still no free parking. :-) The owners of the suburban office parks "bake" the cost of the parking lot into the overall rent. Someone always pays. Dirt costs money. Asphalt costs money. Lights cost money. Property taxes cost money.
Sorry if I came on too strong. I just want people to realize some of the other issues that are in play when they lobby for free parking downtown, etc.
Brilliant or Bozo? 0 0
- October 26, 2009 at 11:30 pm
There's still free parking in that the people parking their cars to go shopping or to dinner or to work aren't having to find change for meters or to stop by a booth as they leave a garage or lot to pay to exit.
Whether the City of Dayton should be in the business of providing free parking garages or lots is a issue worth discussing certainly. Whether downtown Dayton is less attractive to employers, employees, business owners, shoppers, diners, theatre goers, etc., because parking is a separate expense is also an issue worth discussing.
Here's another off the cuff idea ready for the shooting down. Why not get rid of parking meters altogether? I realize part of the point of parking meters is to ensure turnover in on street parking, so that on street parking is available mainly for errands and short trips, but ensuring that on street parking is available for that purpose doesn't require that parkers pay to park. There could just be time limits, and the meter attendants (they'd need a new name, I guess — parking attendants?) could instead keep track of how long cars have been parked in specific spots and ticket ones that have exceeded the time limits.
Brilliant or Bozo? 0 0
- October 27, 2009 at 11:34 am
@DavidE: absolutely right, that's what should happen. Consistent signage and a good deal on "first hour for a buck" at all (I said ALL) pay lots and garages would really lower the perceived barriers.
>We could have a unified parking system- with similar signs, rates, and a strategy to make things simpler for people to understand. Portland OR did this long ago- Cincy has some garages working together. It could make downtown more user friendly- and it wouldn't cost that much.
Brilliant or Bozo? 0 0
- October 27, 2009 at 11:39 am
@DavidL: you're right, the main use of Meters is to make sure the prime spots turn over multiple times per day. There are ways to do that without meters but they're a little more time and technology intensive: license plate recognition via handhelds or cameras on the bumper of the parking enforcement officer, etc.
As DE said, there are new meters available that communicate wirelessly and can actually call the enforcement officer over, "hey, I'm about to expire".
You have to do something to force the turnover, though. Cities that have eliminated meters have seen the spaces immediately get taken by all-day workers, and then there's absolutely nowhere for the transient "quick stop" customers to park. The meters come back pretty quickly.
Brilliant or Bozo? 0 0
- November 1, 2009 at 1:15 pm
What are your plans for the Five Oaks/5th District?
Brilliant or Bozo? 0 0
- December 4, 2009 at 1:01 pm
My suggestion to engergize the economy? Suspend the Personal Incom Tax, and cut Government spending. I can't think of a better economic "stimulus"….
Brilliant or Bozo? 0 0
- December 4, 2009 at 2:14 pm
DAVE!!!! that is waaaaaaayyyyy toooooooo conservative to post on this blog.
But you are right. You will never convince a liberal though….
Brilliant or Bozo? 1 0
- January 21, 2010 at 7:45 pm
I came across this while hunting for a particular Boston event, and thought of your plan..
Brilliant or Bozo? 0 0
- March 28, 2010 at 9:51 pm
I must say, Mr. Esrati, despite differing greatly on much of your platform, you seem poised with much energy and passion to impact this city. Such zeal is absent from most politicians, both red and blue. Your commitment to see real progress in Dayton may earn you my vote! That's saying something, especially considering of much a conservative I am! :P
Brilliant or Bozo? 0 0
- June 9, 2010 at 8:02 am
What office are you running for, Congress or Dayton City Commission? Your problem is that you do not have a grasp on the issues a Congressman needs to worry about. We elect men and women to go to Washington to run the FEDERAL government, not the LOCAL government. Why don't you change your focus to the national issues like immigration reform, tax reform, social program reform?
Brilliant or Bozo? 2 1
- November 29, 2013 at 12:58 pm
Please include abolishing the current city manager form of no accountability CITY CHARTER! This needs to be top of the list. The neighborhood input would be more strongly supported by City Council required to come form district neighborhoods and not just who can garner the biggest war chest.
As per tax incentive (or poaching as you call it), I agree it should be equitable but Dayton needs better "poachers" to keep pace, not fewer.
Brilliant or Bozo? 0 1
Leave a Comment


text:
[Cold Cases]
[Commercial Vehicle Enforcement]
[Commissioner's Office]
[Concealed Deadly Weapons]
[Contacting the KSP]
[Core Values]
[Crime & Traffic Information] [Fallen Trooper Memorial]
[Forensic Laboratories]
[Highway Safety]
[History of the KSP]
[Home Page]
[Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force]
[Kentucky's Most Wanted]
[Links to Other Websites]
[Missing Children]
[News Releases]
[Post Locations]
[Sex Offender Registry]
[Special Enforcement Troop]
[Trooper Island]
[Return to Kentucky State Police Main Website]
For other Kentucky Government sites visit: [Kentucky.gov]
Home > Highway Safety Branch > Media Files > News Release Page > 2009 News Release > News Release
KSP Highway Safety Branch News Release
Nineteen Highway Deaths on Kentucky Roads Last Week (April 27 - May 3)
Date of News Release: 05/04/09
(Frankfort, Ky.) -- Preliminary statistics* indicate that nineteen people died in nineteen separate crashes on Kentucky roadways from Monday, April 27 through Sunday, May 3, 2009.
Sixteen of the crashes involved motor vehicles and eleven of those victims were not wearing seat belts. Single-fatality crashes occurred in Adair, Allen, Boone, Christian, Clinton, Elliott, Fayette, Floyd, Grant, Graves, Hopkins, Jefferson (3), Letcher, and Warren counties. The suspected use of alcohol was a factor in five of the crashes.
Three motorcycle crashes occurred in Bell, Grant and Hopkins counties. Two victims were not wearing helmets. The crash in Bell county involved the suspected use of alcohol.
Through May 3, preliminary statistics* indicate that 240 people have lost their lives on Kentucky roadways during 2009. This is three more than reported for the same time period in 2008. There were 206 motor vehicle fatalities and 119 of those victims were not wearing seat belts. Thirteen pedestrians have been killed. Nineteen fatalities involved a motorcycle and two fatalities involved an ATV. A total of fifty-seven fatalities have resulted from crashes involving the suspected use of alcohol.
Citizens can contribute to highway safety by reporting erratic drivers to the Kentucky State Police toll-free at 1-800-222-5555 (in the state of Kentucky only, does not work out of state). Callers will remain anonymous and should give a description of the vehicle, location, direction of travel and license number if possible.
*These statistics are still preliminary as KSP waits for all local law enforcement agencies throughout the state to report any crashes and fatalities that may have occurred in their areas.
Contact Information for the Kentucky State Police
Kentucky State Police
919 Versailles Road | Frankfort, KY 40601
This page was last modified on:
About this site
Individuals with Disabilities
Copyright © 2002-2013 Kentucky State Police, all rights reserved


text:
Herald-Star 11-23-63
November 22, 2013 - Paul Giannamore
The Herald-Star from Saturday, Nov. 23, 1963, carried an entire front page dedicated to the horror from Dallas the day before. The page hangs above my desk in the newsroom, one of a score of famous Herald-Star front pages in history, one I had nothing to do with. I was nearly 14 months old. But it haunts me to wonder what it was like in the newsroom on North Fourth Street that afternoon.
"JOHNSON LEADS U.S. MOURNING" says the huge block 100-point headline at the top of the page that was part of the 1960s Herald-Star design. Johnson is shown in a UPI Telephoto as the main art on the page, forlornly being sworn in, Jackie Kennedy at his side. Below the block headline: Pro-Soviet Texan as Kennedy's Killer And the headlines and leads on the front page, beginning with the left columns: Police Convinced They Have Sniper In Dallas Ambush DALLAS, Tex. (AP) — A young man who once tried to renounce his country is charged with firing the two bullets that killed President Kennedy.
Apparently Proud Of It Suspect Admits He's Communist DALLAS (AP) — Dallas police chief Jesse Curry said today Lee Harvey Oswald has "readily admitted he is a Communist." Curry said Oswald admitted to officers in questioning Friday night that he was a "member of the Communist party."
Toward the middle of the page:
Kennedy Lies In Death In White House, Body To Be Borne To Capitol Sunday; Rites Set Monday" WASHINGTON (AP) — In a closed, flag-draped coffin, President John F. Kennedy reposed today in the historic East Room of the White House.
First Full Day As President Johnson Working In Former Office WASHINGTON (AP) — President Johnson, his face pale and drawn, went to work on his first full day as Chief Executive today in the office he used as vice president.
News Reverberated Around World Shock of Kennedy's Death Gives Way To Tears, Grief WASHINGTON (AP) — The tragic flash from Dallas reverberated around the world like a clap of thunder: The young vigorous President of the United States was dead at the hands of an assassin, and everywhere the great and the lowly mourned John F. Kennedy's passing."
At the top of the page on the right: God's Help Asked As New President Assumes Problems WASHINGTON (AP) — A sorrowing nation began to pay its final, formal tribute to a dead president today, and its new leader, Lyndon B. Johnson, started to pull together a still shocked government."
The local angle was covered under the headline "Area Mourns, People Shocked and Grieved." Bishop John King Mussio, sending a wire from Rome, where he was attending the Ecumenical Council, proclaimed a period of mourning to last at least until JFK's funeral. He also wired sorrow and condolences to Mrs. Kennedy. There followed a comment from the Rev. Charles S. Thompson, president of the Steubenville Council of Protestant Churches, "A hush covers our entire land — Tragedy has struck — America and the world mourn — Our president lies dead. "People of all creeds, of all races, of all political parties unite in their sincere expressions of sympathy and love to the bereaved Kennedy family. Prayers of all faiths are raised simultaneously in their behalf. "This is a dark hour, but may we as a Nation prove to the world that it is our finest hour. May we rise as one to meet courageously the problems of the day. may we rally behind our new leader, when he most needs to be flanked solidly in both spirit and deed by all." The story then jumps inside, and I do not have the rest of the paper hanging on the wall.
The final Kennedy-related story on the front page was that Gov. James A. Rhodes declared Monday (Nov. 25, 1963) a day of mourning in Ohio dedicated to President Kennedy's memory. State offices were to be closed, and a proclamation was expected for a 30-day period of mourning.
The stories run long, and they don't reveal anything of the controversy about the investigation and the shooting of Oswald and the questions about the Warren Commission that would follow. Those things hadn't happened yet. The Herald-Star, indeed all newspapers, were in those pre-Internet, pre 24-hour news cycle days, a snapshot in time, of what we knew right then. And what the folks of the Herald-Star that day, most of whom I never met and whose mantle I now carry, knew then was that the nation had lost a president; that some apparent Commie punk was being charged with killing him and that LBJ somehow had to lead the nation and pick up the pieces.
That and it was going to be cold Sunday, with a low in the 20s. Just like this coming weekend.
Article Comments
No comments posted for this article.
Post a Comment
You must first login before you can comment.


text:
The Tacoma Landfill offers comprehensive garbage, recycling and household hazardous waste self-haul disposal services. It's a one-stop drop location for items you'd like to bring to the landfill to donate, recycle and safely dispose.
The Tacoma Landfill also offers opportunities to learn about green building and natural landscaping, as well as landfill operations and environmental controls.
If you have questions, please contact the Solid Waste Management Administration at (253) 591-5543, Monday - Friday, 8 AM-5 PM or the Tacoma Landfill Scalehouse at (253) 593-7724, Daily, 8 AM-6 PM.


text:
JJ Green, National Security Correspondent with Mike Scheuer, former head of the CIA's Osama bin Laden unit
Click below to hear the interview
Jump to main content.
Hosts Tom Temin and Emily Kopp bring you the latest news affecting the federal community each weekday morning, featuring interviews with top government executives and contractors. Listen live from 6 to 9 a.m. or download archived interviews below.
Wednesday - 6/23/2010, 8:31am EDT
Click below to hear the interview


text:
Save to My Recipes
Stracciatella Gelato
italian food, kid-friendly recipes, dessert, chocolate recipes, ice cream recipes, gelato recipes, dairy recipes, milk recipes, vanilla recipes, vanilla bean recipes, egg recipes, whipping cream recipes, cream recipes, low sodium reccipes, dinner party food, birthday food, family reunion food, summe
Published: May 2011 Servings: 6 time: 30 minutes time: 3 hours
- 2 cups whole milk
- 1 vanilla bean, split lengthwise
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 5 large egg yolks
- Pinch of kosher salt
- 1/2 cup chilled heavy whipping cream
- 1/3 cup bittersweet chocolate chips
- 2 tsp. vegetable oil
Nutritional Information
One serving contains:
- Calories (kcal) 319.6
- %Calories from Fat 51.1
- Fat (g) 18.2
- Saturated Fat (g) 9.2
- Cholesterol (mg) 210.3
- Carbohydrates (g) 36.1
- Dietary Fiber (g) 0.6
- Total Sugars (g) 34.2
- Net Carbs (g) 35.6
- Protein (g) 5.6
- Sodium (mg) 54.5
PREPARATIONView Step-by-Step Directions
Place milk in a medium saucepan. Scrape in seeds from vanilla bean; add bean. Bring to a simmer, whisking often. Whisk sugar, yolks, and salt in a medium bowl until well blended, about 1 minute. Gradually whisk hot milk mixture into yolk mixture. Return to saucepan; stir over medium-low heat until custard thickens and a thermometer registers 170°-175°, about 5 minutes (do not boil). Strain into a medium bowl. Stir in cream. Chill custard until cold, at least 2 hours.
Stir chocolate and oil in a small sauce-pan over low heat until melted; let cool.
Process custard in an ice cream maker according to manufacturer's instructions. Slowly add all but 1 tsp. melted chocolate during the last 30 seconds of churning (chocolate will form small chips). Transfer to a bowl. Drizzle remaining chocolate over gelato in zigzag lines. Serve immediately.
Loading Comments...


text:
Luke Thomas of MMA Fighting and I are back with another installment of the MMA Tete-A-Tete: Coarsening the Discourse. As always if you enjoy this sort of gum flapping, subscribe to the MMA Nation YouTube channel.
Topics after the jump...
Topics discussed:
- Frank Mir's surprising move to Strikeforce to face Daniel Cormier
Is this a harbinger of more UFC to Strikeforce jumps to come?
Why did Mir agree to this fight?
What's a win mean for Cormer?
- The UFC 149 PPV performance
Worst event in years, will it hurt PPV numbers for upcoming events like UFC 150?
Why making wholesale changes to a card means you can't afford any bad fights.
- Grading UFC on Fox
We complain about Shogun vs. Vera.
We rage against the gods and ask why UFC 150 wasn't cancelled so Edgar vs Henderson 2 could headline the fourth Fox show.
What does the resignation of the Fox Sports president mean for the UFC/Fox deal


text:
Purdue Boilermakers football players are doing a very good job of getting themselves into trouble at the moment. First, the team's leading tackler Dwayne Beckford got himself arrested on suspicion of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. On Monday, two more Boilermakers starters found themselves in handcuffs. Both defensive end Gerald Gooden and outside linebacker Will Lucas were arrested and charged with theft.
That's now three -- count 'em! -- three Boilermakers starting defensive player who are very unlikely to play in the Little Caesar's Bowl against the Western Michigan Broncos on account of getting arrested. This is apparently Beckford's third run-in with the law this season. The Boilermakers are also missing wide receiver O.J. Ross, who has been suspended indefinitely.
It goes without saying that it is a bad thing when three of a team's defensive starters get arrested in three days. Danny Hope has a bit of work to do.
For more on the Boilermakers, visit Purdue blog Hammer and Rails.


text: Fusion's new compact marine-grade stereo, the MS-RA200, delivers AM, FM, VHF, weather, Sirius (via SCC1 receiver) and iPod access (when paired with Fusion's external waterproof MS-IPDOCK). The 4-channel-, 50-watt output amplifies usual VHF fish chatter and weather reports through 6- or 7-inch speakers. A USB connector allows anglers to play MP3 tracks stored on USB thumb drives or communicate through the boat's speakers with a USB wireless microphone. Add the compatible MS-IPDOCK, which integrates and fully conceals iPods and iPhones, and control all the unit's music and phone functions through the stereo interface. The stereo also features user settings that allow volume and sound quality to be controlled independently, zone by zone or in relation to one another. Housed in a die-cast body that dissipates heat, the MS-RA200 employs a bright LCD display with backlight, rubber buttons with laser-etched icons and backlighting, and a rotary volume knob. Cost is $169.99. Call 623-580-9000, or visit www.fusionelectronics.com.


text:
The Carolina Panthers face their biggest game of the season when they host the New Orleans Saints in Week 16. It's a game that will define the 2013 season. Win and the playoffs are secured, along with a possibility to win the NFC South, lose and the door remains open to miss the postseason all together.
Pulling the Saints out of New Orleans is the first battle, already won by Carolina. There's no doubt the Saints are one of the strongest teams in the league on home turf, but they're decidedly weaker away from it -- typified by a surprise loss to the St. Louis Rams in Week 15.
Passing game
It's exceedingly annoying, but credit where it's due to Drew Brees. Two games remain in the regular season and he's already thrown for 4,500 yards and 34 touchdowns. When these teams last met on Sunday Night Football he threw for over 300 yards and four touchdowns in a dominant performance.
New Orleans is so dangerous because of its host of weapons. Cover one receiver and Brees will find another, have both blanketed and the offense will audible into a short pass to Darren Sproles. This is where the Saints can damage Carolina, putting the pressure on the team's secondary and outside linebackers to cover the speedy running back in space.
Terron Armstead is the player to watch. The rookie left tackle is tasked with stopping Greg Hardy in his first start, creating the game's most important matchup. Armstead will give up position in traditional passing plays, but he is athletic and gifted at moving in space. New Orleans may have tipped its hand early. The switch speaks to a desire to stretch Carolina on outside plays and channel more of the offense through Sproles, having Armstead pull.
On the other side it's about whether the offensive line can keep Cam Newton upright. He was pressured throughout the last meeting, particularly from Junior Gallette, who dominated Byron Bell in the last matchup.
The Saints defense is aggressive, sometimes to its detriment. A conservative, clock controlling gameplan is the right move -- provided Newton can be held upright. Take a look back to the San Diego Chargers when they defeated Denver. Their gameplan was to keep Peyton Manning off the field, and it worked. The same needs to happen here.
Ultimately this is an area the Saints have the edge. They are better positioned to have big plays, and possess the better passing quarterback. However, this isn't where the game will be won.
Edge: Saints
Running game
The Carolina Panthers are without Jonathan Stewart, but still dominate this aspect to the game. DeAngelo Williams is finding his footing after a dominant performance against New York, and can continue his impressive run this week. Pair this with Mike Tolbert's ability to play the role of power back and it's too much for the Saints.
There isn't a single player to be concerned with in New Orleans' committee. Pierre Thomas is the team's most successful rusher, but nobody has averaged over 5.0 yards per carry -- including Sproles. Up against the Panthers' run defense it's hard to imagine them making an impact.
Defensive tackles will define this battle, and no betting person would go against Star Lotulelei and Kawann Short.
Edge: Panthers
Overall outlook
Away from home and in a hostile environment it's hard to picture the Saints being quite as effective as they were when the team's last met. Pair this with a must-win game for Carolina and there's plenty of motivation to give the home town a show.
Sproles will have success in the screen game, but this is one small aspect. I don't have a lot of faith in Armstead being able to consistently block Hardy and that will make life uncomfortable for Brees.
Carolina Panthers 27, New Orleans Saints 23


text:
Berkley Air IM8 Steelhead Casting RodsItem Number: 12565272
Price: $99.99 $109.99*
You save: $10.00 (9%)
You save: $10.00 (9%)
Take $20 Off Orders of $100 or More!! Discount Applied in Cart. (See Promotion Details)
Product Information
Customer Reviews
The Berkley ® Air IM8 Casting Rod is sensitive, strong, and ready for action. It provides ultimate feel and power to help you land the big fish. The lightweight shaft is constructed from graphite for reduced weight and increased strength. The SS304 guides are titanium coated and abrasion resistant. This rod is ideal for fishing for steelhead or lake trout. The Berkley IM8 Casting Rod is the perfect rod for a variety of fishing conditions.
- Ideal for casting to steelhead or lake trout
- Constructed with a 2 piece IM8 Advanced Modulus Graphite blank
- Lightweight with a sensitive blank for ultimate feel
- Titanium-coated SS304 guides are abrasion resistant when fishing with braided line
- Concept guide spacing that improves sensitivity and maximizes blank strength
- Berkley
Power: MH-Medium Heavy, H-Heavy, XH-Extra Heavy
Rod Power & Length: MH 8'6"
- Model: A92-8-6MH
- Line Weight: 10-20 lbs.
- Lure Weight: 1/2-1 1/2 oz.
Rod Power & Length: H 8'6"
- Model: A92-8-6HZ
- Line Weight: 12-25 lbs.
- Lure Weight: 1/2-1 3/4 oz.
Rod Power & Length: XH 9'0"
- Model: A92-9-XH
- Line Weight: 10-65 lbs.
- Lure Weight: 3/4-3 oz.
Rod Power & Length: XH 10'6"
- Model: A92-10-6XH
- Line Weight: 20-80 lbs.
- Lure Weight: 2-8 oz.
Country of Origin: China


text:
Skip to content. |
Skip to navigation
Did you not find what you were looking for? Try the
Advanced Search
to refine your search.
Subscribe to an always-updated RSS feed.
In a part of Oregon where everybody says there have been
no fishers for years, the writer stumbles across one of these rare
and beautiful animals
Montana cowgirls go "bareback riding" for calendar; Forest
Service worker vs. mountain lions; winery pollution in Napa Valley;
violent clown nabbed; plague of toads; Durango high school
A wolverine snuffling at your throat commands your attention, even if you're in a relatively safe enclosure at a clandestine refuge for the animals.
The West in your Inbox


text:
Picasa 3.0 image manager
Memory Management
In the age of the digital camera, users are overwhelmed by a flood of images. Picasa not only helps you manage photos but also will enhance the image quality with just a couple of mouse clicks.
Since digital cameras made it easy for users to shoot as many photos as they wanted without spending a fortune on processing and printing, many photographers have made excessive use of this option. The result is an enormous, jumbled collection of photos on home PCs. Google's Picasa manages photos and also supports easy image editing.
Buy this article as PDF
(incl. VAT)
Buy Linux Magazine
Visit Our Shop
Direct Download
Read full article as PDF:050-052_picasa.pdf (2.37 MB)
Tag Cloud
Tool Predicts Which Websites Will be Compromised
Carnegie Mellon researchers say 3 million pages could fall down the phishing hole in the next year.
SSH Key Management Guidelines
The US government rolls new best-practice rules for protecting SSH.
Knoppix 7.4 Released
Klaus Knopper announces the latest version of his iconic Live Linux system.
PHP Attack Puts WordPress and Drupal at Risk
All websites that use these popular CMS tools could be vulnerable to denial of service attacks if users don't install the updates.
Heartbleed Bleeds On
According to a report, many potential victims of the Heartbleed attack have patched their systems, but few have cleaned up the crime scene to protect themselves from the effects of a previous intrusion.
Drone Brain Goes Open Source
DARPA and NICTA release the code for the ultra-secure microkernel system used in aerial drones.
Password Management Services Vulnerable to Attack
Should you trust an online service to store your online passwords?
New Raspberry Pi Adds Two USB Ports
New B+ board lets you build cool things without the complication of a powered USB hub.
Microsoft Grabs No-IP.com Domains
Redmond rushes in to root out alleged malware haven.
Firefox Steps into 3D
New initiative will bring futuristic virtual reality effects to the web surfing experience.


text:
Steve Jones
Western Michigan University
1903 W Michigan Ave
Kalamazoo MI 49008-5434 USA
Stephen G. Jones is a professor of music at Western Michigan University where he teaches trumpet and performs with the Western Brass Quintet. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in music education from Ohio State University, a Master of Music degree from Wichita State University and the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Michigan. His major teachers include Richard Suddendorf, Thomas Battenberg, Walter Myers, Gerard Schwarz and Clifford Lillya. In 2006 the International Trumpet Guild awarded Jones its Award of Merit, which is presented to individuals who have made "substantial contributions to the art of trumpet playing through performance, teaching, publishing, research, composition, or support of the goals of The International Trumpet Guild."
In addition to performing and recording with the Western Brass Quintet, Jones has held positions in the Wichita Brass Quintet, the Wichita Symphony and the Kalamazoo Symphony. As a soloist he has been featured with numerous professional and university-level orchestras and bands including the American Wind Symphony, the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, and the Santa Fe Chamber Symphony. His performances abroad include concerts in Sweden, Switzerland, Germany, The Netherlands, Great Britain, Russia, The People's Republic of China, Thailand and Korea. He is known throughout the Midwest as a solo and chamber music recitalist and clinician. He may be heard on the CRI, CRS, ASUC, Mark, Capstone, Dubois, Hourglass, SMR, Sonica, ALAM and Summit recording labels.
Jones has twice been elected president of the International Trumpet Guild and three times as secretary, in addition to serving on the board of directors of that organization. Other professional affiliations have included Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, Kappa Kappa Psi, Pi Kappa Lambda and Music Teachers National Association. His articles have appeared in the International Trumpet Guild Journal.


text:
Billerica, MA — Charles Howard "Chuck" Cove, age 69, of Billerica, MA, died unexpectedly, Monday, November 19, 2013, at his home in Billerica.
Born Tuesday, March 7, 1944, in New Haven, CT, he was the son of the late Charles H. and Mary (Smith) Cove.
Chuck was a graduate of Lawrence High School and attended Eastern Nazarene College and Northeastern University. He worked until his retirement in 1999 for General Electric in Lynn as a Technical Writer and was affiliated with the General Electric Retirement Association. He enjoyed reading, attending sporting events especially basketball, soccer and auto racing but most of all he enjoyed beating his family at various card games and spending time with his grandchildren, with whom he was very close to.
He is survived by two daughters, Sherri (Cove) Zerfoss and her husband, Karl, of Peabody and Bethany J. Cove of Billerica; a grandson, PV2 Karl Zerfoss; two granddaughters, Kayla Zerfoss and Kerri Zerfoss; four sisters, Janet E. Cheney and her husband, Dana, of East Bridgewater, Carole Mackay and her husband, Don, of Virginia Beach, VA, Mary Lou Babin and her husband, Wayne, of Little River, SC and Terry Humphrey and her husband, David, of Weare, NH, and several nieces and nephews. He was also the brother of the late Frannye Crocker and Charlene K. Russell.
A graveside service will be held on Saturday, November 23, 2013, at 11 a.m. in Edson Cemetery in Lowell. Visitation will take place on Friday, November 22, 2013, from 4-8 p.m. in the Conway, Cahill-Brodeur Funeral Home, 82 Lynn Street, Peabody, MA 01960.
In lieu of flowers, memorial gifts maybe given to FORCE (Facing Our Risk of Cancer) www.facingourrisk.org or to the Susan G. Komen Foundation, www.komenmass.org.


text:
Dance like there's no tomorrow, get up early the next day. No phones on the floor. Dress to sweat.
The Get Down with Jeannie Hopper and Natasha BlankCielo (18 Little West 12th Street, New York, NY) Map it $5
A dance party without the attitude, where people come out for the sole reason of getting their groove on. That's the way it used to be, and thanks to the Get Down, that's the way it is one night a month at Cielo. But what makes this dance fest even more amazing is that all the booty shaking goes down before the witching hour.
This month's edition features music by Jeannie Hopper, Natasha Blank, and Sascha Lewis, with performances by BEAT NYC's crazy beat box artists. Hosted by Michelle Joni (the Sister of Sparkle herself), this party also serves up hand-delivered Haiku on the dance floor by the Haiku Guys, Tim Grae with musical massage by the minute, and a special screening of #TEAMNOREGRETS featuring Muffinhead Daehniffum and friends. The sound is big, the people friendly, and the energy is boundless. No phones on the dance floor. Wigs optional.


text:
A chemical fire lead emergency teams to evacuate a neighborhood in Smelser Township, Wis., on Sunday night.
The fire occurred at 9:30 p.m. at a woodworking shop at 1323 Church Rd. in Georgetown, Wis., according to the Cuba City Fire Department.
The shop contained large quantities of woodworking chemicals in 55-gallon drums. These containers exploded, prompting the responding fire departments and Lancaster Hazmat to evacuate six households due to potentially dangerous chemical fumes.
Freezing roads hampered efforts to bring water from Cuba City to the scene. The Grant County Highway Department was dispatched to treat the roadways used by the emergency teams.
CTH-D was closed for approximately two hours while the fire was extinguished.
The Cuba City Fire Department responded to the blaze, assisted by fire departments from Hazel Green, Dickeyville, Jamestown, Platteville and Lancaster.
Strange formation at bottom of Utah irrigation pond baffles farmers and scientists. John Hollenhorst reports.


text:
The What's Your Decade Style Test
Tests others are taking
The Are You A Good Motel Guest Test
Hey768929 / m / Straight
zoozyfab17 / m / Straight
jb42642 / m / Straight
Rover433429 / m / Straight
The Existential Depression Test
SUAREZMC20 / f / Straight
Connect your existing OkCupid account
Sign in
Welcome Back!
Restore your account to continue meeting new people.
Reset your password
We'll email you a link to reset it.
Email sent!
An email is on its way to you. If you don't see it, try checking your Spam folder.


text:
To the editor:
The Manchester Republican Town Committee recently sent this letter to the U.S. Senate majority and minority leaders, as well as the Speaker of the House and the House minority leader.
We did this not expecting immediate policy change, but as a duty of citizenship. We encourage others to do likewise. To paraphrase Edmund Burke, all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men and women say nothing.
Dear Gentlemen and Madam,
At the June 11 meeting of the Manchester by the Sea Republican Town Committee, the committee voted unanimously to voice our concerns regarding the NSA surveillance program on U.S. citizens.
We recognize the challenges in keeping our fellow citizens and our nation safe during these dangerous days of terrorism. As residents of a community north of Boston we know first-hand the horrors that can be inflicted without warning by those bent on harming us and our way of life.
But we also recognize the protections afforded us by the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and we strongly oppose programs or policies that strip us of these protections. We respectfully ask that, as elected leaders of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, you take every step necessary to ensure the rights of American citizens are not jeopardized by the overzealous and (what appears to be) cavalier behavior of the National Security Agency.
Let's not forget the words of Benjamin Franklin, "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Thank you for taking the time to read this and thank you for your service to our nation.
(On behalf of the Manchester Republican Town Committee)


text:
ANN ARBOR, MI (January 31, 2013) — MediaSpan announced today that Civitas Media, LLC, has chosen MediaSpan's AdManagerPro and CirculationPro solutions for all 114 of their titles spread across 12 states.
CirculationPro and AdManagerPro will be deployed as a SaaS solution.
"MediaSpan has proven expertise in helping companies consolidate operations and improve efficiencies so it was only natural that we turned to them as our partner in this project," said Michael Bush, CEO Civitas Media, LLC.
Some of the key features that attracted Civitas to CirculationPro and AdManagerPro included:
- The systems browser based architecture, which allows for easy access to all functions within the systems from anywhere you have an internet connection.
- CirculationPro's significant timesavings, resulting from its extensive report library and automated postal report creation.
- AdManagerPro's ability to report over multiple data bases and extensive tool set designed to help sales reps be more productive.
- CirculationPro and AdManagerPro's web tools, which allow for subscribers, distributors and advertisers to manage their accounts remotely.
About CirculationPro®
CirculationPro is one of the most versatile and powerful systems on the market today. It's simple, easy to use browser client makes managing your publications, products or electronic subscriptions a breeze. Whether a single user system, metro daily or a group consolidating across a wide geographic area, CirculationPro can easily scale to meet your needs.
About AdManagerPro®
AdManagerPro is a full featured advertising system that lets you easily create, schedule, bill and output content for traditional and non-tra- ditional media channels. In addition, AdManagerPro's CRM tools gives your sales team the power to manage their customers, generate sales lists and even create and deliver email campaigns. Featuring a simple browser-based interface AdManagerPro gives your users access to the system from any modern browser and cuts hardware and IT costs. AdManagerPro is available as a SaaS or self-hosted solution.
About Civitas Media, LLC
Civitas (pronounced Si-vi-tas), a Latin word meaning "community" or "citizen", combines four media entities owned by Versa Capital Management, LLC, a private equity investment firm: Freedom Central, Heartland Publications, Impressions Media and Ohio Community Media.
About MediaSpan
MediaSpan Group, Inc. (www.mediaspangroup.com) powers digital content management, online marketing, advertising and business pro- ductivity solutions for the world's leading media companies including Sun Media, Advance Publications, CNHI, Paxton, Civitas and Stephens Media. With more than 4,000 local newspaper, radio, and television properties relying on its solutions, MediaSpan is the world's largest network of local media companies and media consumers.
Headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, MediaSpan has development, support and sales offices worldwide including Melbourne, Florida, London, England, Montreal, Canada and Sao Paulo, Brasil.
Press Contact: Ken Freedman, Vice President, Sales and Marketing, 508-541-3371; firstname.lastname@example.com