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This won't mean anything to most of you right now, but Steam OS is being released to the public tomorrow
Valve's Steam OS is going live to the public tomorrow, but unless you're already a Linux enthusiast with lots of time on your hands, this won't affect you for a while until some sort of purchasable console. I am not a Linux person in the least, so I'll be waiting for a console, but if you've got a free box and you dig building and testing a brand new, highly specialized flavor of Linux, go for it. I'm just the messenger. However, if you do grab it and become a beta tester, there's always a chance you could be one of randomly selected 300 people to get a real Valve prototype Steam Box, but again, they probably will expect you to do something with it.
Steam for Linux launches, Valve holds a mega sale
Valve finally launched Steam for Linux to much fanfare, and to celebrate the new member of the Steam family, they've heavily discounted almost all Linux games up to 75% off.
You can grab Steam for Linux here at the Ubuntu download center
This $17k Linux-powered hunting rifle makes you feel like a bounty hunter from the future
If you want to bring some serious technology out to your next deer hunt, this .338 Lapua Magnum rifle is outfitted with a Linux-powered advanced tracking system that will let you mark, track and accurately hit your target no matter the wind or other environmental conditions. Fuck it, just send in the unmanned drones. Ooh! Or a VATS system for deer. Yes!
Valve's Steam Box debuting this year, will run Linux
Valve's Steam Box console is a real thing and it really is coming sometime this year in 2013. And the other thing? It will be running all of your Steam games and Steam profile and whatnot through Linux, which is convenient that last year Valve finally released Steam for Linux.
Ubuntu unveils an Ubuntu mobile OS and smartphone
In decades of its existence, Linux desktop usage has never really made it into the mainstream. And now that the desktop OS is slowly becoming a niche product, Ubuntu will be the first major Linux flavor moving to the mobile sphere with an Ubuntu mobile operating system and mobile phone. And god, I hope this works, because the Ubuntu mobile OS looks absolutely gorgeous (starting at @ 7:00 in the video below).
$100 Android/Linux tablet hits fundraising goal, shipping in January
There are already Android tablets by the dozen, but not really any that do Linux. PengPod will be able to do both— a mobile Android interface and a full Linux desktop in a tablet that will only be $100 when it launches in January.
Dell announces an Ubuntu ultrabook, if you're in the market for such a thing
People who are fans of Linux aren't always the same people who are looking for the straightforwardness and simplicity of a netbook. But Dell's going to give it a college try, announcing a line of Ubuntu powered ultrabooks.
Linux computer the size of a thumb drive now available for preorder
No, not the Raspberry Pi, the other teeny tiny Linux computer. This is the FXI Cotton Candy, a miniature Linux box about the size of a USB thumbdrive. The device, which can run either Ubuntu or Android 4.0, has a dual-core 1.2GHz ARM Cortex-A9 CPU, 1GB of RAM, and a Mali 400MP GPU that allows it to decode high-definition video.
Canonical brings Ubuntu to your phone, runs alongside Android
If you've got a high end Android phone and you're a Linux fan, you can now have both at once with Canonical's Ubuntu for Android. It doesn't replace the Android OS, but when you dock your phone, you can run Ubuntu on a normal sized monitor and keyboard with the phone acting as the computer.
Ubuntu is bringing smart TV and other consumer products to CES
At CES next week, as far as I can tell, much of the consumer product focus will be on smart TVs, super thin TVs, super thin laptops and lots more cheap tablets. And while most of the smart TVs will be running some form of Google TV or a proprietary system, Ubuntu is expected to show off some Linux-powered smart TVs as well.
Ubuntu Linux headed to smartphones, tablets and smart TVs
Not about to let Apple, Microsoft and Google remain the only players in the mobile revolution, Ubuntu announced yesterday that it too will be competing with mobile and TV versions of Ubuntu Linux for smartphones, tablets and smart TVs.


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Farm Credit East to host MPP-Dairy webinar
Northeast dairy producers are invited to participate in a webinar covering the new Dairy Margin Protection Program (MPP). This webinar, hosted by Farm Credit East, will take place on Tuesday, June 10, 10-11:30 a.m.
This webinar will feature Dr. Andy Novakovic, of Cornell University, and Dr. John Newton, of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. They will provide an MPP update, and discuss the program's interface with LGM-Dairy and other risk management strategies.
This webinar is free. Visit FarmCreditEast.com/webinars for registration information.
MADA 'tell your story' training planned
As dairy farmers and agribusiness leaders, you have a powerful story to share. The Mid-Atlantic Dairy Association is offering a series of "Telling Your Story" training workshops to prepare dairy farmers and agribusiness leaders to share that story with consumers.
The first in a series of 10 workshops will be "Social Media 101." That session is planned for Thursday, June 12, 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., at Butler County Community College in Butler, Pa. Series topics include getting started in social media, preparing for animal activism, having one-on-one conversations, and creating a crisis plan for your farm.
Click here to register for the session and to see the full schedule. Contact Lisa Perrin-Dubravec at 717-787-6903 or email@example.com with any questions.
Protecting Your Profits webinar now online
The latest Pennsylvania Center for Dairy Excellence (CDE) "Protecting Your Profits" webinar is now available online. It offers a look at current dairy markets, margins available through LGM-Dairy and other risk management opportunities, and a look at what to expect with the new Margin Protection Program for Dairy. CDE Risk Management Program Manager Alan Zepp hosts the call. Click here to access the recording.
'Community Event Planning Toolkit' available
The Center for Dairy Excellence, Mid-Atlantic Dairy Association and Pennsylvania Dairy Promotion Program have published a new "Community Event Planning Toolkit," available to farms and agribusinesses planning open house or other events for the community. The toolkit combines resources from the "Discover Dairy" and "Your Milk Comes From A Good Place" programs. To request a copy, contact the Center for Dairy Excellence at 717-346-0849 or email@example.com.
CDE welcomes Canupp as summer intern
Pennsylvania's Center for Dairy Excellence (CDE) has named Elizabeth Canupp as intern for the summer of 2014. Canupp is a native of Gainesville, Ga., and will work with center staff to expand her knowledge of the dairy industry and refine her business and communication skills.

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Dozens of residents and business owners gathered in Over-the-Rhine on Tuesday to launch a campaign that seeks to persuade Mayor-elect John Cranley and the newly elected City Council to support the $133 million streetcar project.
Attendees included Ryan Messer, who used his life savings to renovate his home in Over-the-Rhine; Derek Bauman, co-chair of Cincinnatians for Progress; Jean-Francois Flechet, owner of the Taste of Belgium; and Derek dos Anjos, owner of The Anchor.
"We're here today to keep the conversation going outside of political rhetoric and partisan politics," Messer said. "Simply put, the streetcar is a component of Cincinnati economic development, and it's a project that grows the whole city — not just an urban core, which, by the way, is an important part of developing this region."
The group intends to lobby Cranley and the newly elected council, which appear poised to cancel the project when they take office in December.
At least three of nine elected council members — P.G. Sittenfeld, David Mann and Kevin Flynn — have told media outlets that they want a full accounting of the project before making a final decision. Another three — Chris Seelbach, Yvette Simpson and Wendell Young — are on the record as supporting the project. The final three — Christopher Smitherman, Charlie Winburn and Amy Murray — adamantly opposed the project in the past.
Members of the pro-streetcar group invited Cranley and all elected council members to join them at a town hall-style meeting on Nov. 14 at the Mercantile Library, where supporters will discuss their path forward. So far, supporters have publicly discussed a concerted lobbying effort, a referendum if council passes an ordinance undoing the streetcar project and possible legal action.
As CityBeat first uncovered, the costs of canceling the project are currently unknown, and some of the costs could actually fall on the operating budget that pays for police, firefighters and human services instead of the capital budget that is currently financing the streetcar project.
Much of the uncertainty falls on ongoing construction for the streetcar, which has continued despite the newly elected city government's intent to stop the project. As of September, the city spent $23 million on the project and contractually obligated $94 million, some of which city officials say will need to be paid back even if the project were canceled.
The U.S. Department of Transportation also told city officials in a June 19 letter that nearly $41 million of nearly $45 million in federal grants would need to be returned if the project were terminated.
Supporters also claim Cincinnati would be giving up a 2.7-to-1 return on investment over 35 years if the city abandoned the streetcar now. That estimate is derived from a 2007 study conducted by consulting firm HDR, which was evaluated and supported by the University of Cincinnati.
Project executive John Deatrick says the HDR study is now outdated and the city is working on updating the numbers. Still, Deatrick says the project is intended to spur economic development, not just provide another form of public transportation.
The Nov. 13 issue of CityBeat will give a more in-depth look at the campaign to save the streetcar and some of the people involved in the movement.
If City Council does not agree to lease Cincinnati's parking system, the city manager's office says the city will be forced to lay off 344 employees, including 80 firefighter and 189 police positions, but critics argue there are better alternatives.
In a memo dated to Feb. 26, City Manager Milton Dohoney Jr. wrote that the city will also have to close three community centers and six pools; eliminate Human Services Funding, which aids the city's homeless and poor; and reduce funding for local business groups, parks, nature education for Cincinnati Public Schools and environmental regulations, among other changes. In total, the cuts would add up to $25.8 million — just enough to balance the deficit that would be left in place without the parking plan.
In addition to the cuts, failing to approve the parking plan, which leases the city's parking meters for 30 years and lots and garages for 50 years to the Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority, would displace plans to convert Tower Place Mall, construct a 30-floor tower with a grocery store downtown, accelerate the the I-71/MLK Interchange project, acquire the Wasson Line right-of-way for a bike trail and add $4 million to the next phase of Smale Riverfront Park ("Parking Stimulus," issue of Feb. 27).
Democratic Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls, who's running for mayor, has come out in favor of the parking plan, but John Cranley, another Democrat running for mayor, says he opposes the deal because it will hurt downtown businesses.
"It's the boy who cried wolf," Cranley says. "In 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 … they threatened to lay off police and firefighters, and it never happened."
Cranley says he would rather take $10 million from projected casino revenue and $7 million from current parking revenues to help clear the deficit. For the remaining $8.8 million, he would cut non-essential programs, which would exclude police, fire, garbage collection, health, parks and recreation, street pavement and Human Services Funding, across the board by 10 to 15 percent. If that wasn't enough, he would then move to the essential programs, which he says make up about $300 million in the $368.9 million budget, with a 1-percent across-the-board cut.
He says his solution would have the upside of fixing structural deficit problems in Cincinnati's General Fund, whereas the one-time lease of the city's parking assets will only take care of the deficit for the next two years.
Meg Olberding, city spokesperson, says City Council could use the casino revenue to pay for the deficit, but $4 million of it is already set for the Focus 52 program, which funds neighborhood development projects.
"Council can use whatever revenue sources they want," Olberding says. "That's why the memo … says we can either use this plan or another plan."
Cranley says he would not do away with the Focus 52 program, but he would instead find funding for it in the Capital Budget, which is separate from the General Fund.
Olberding says City Council could approve the use of about $3 million in parking meter revenue for the General Fund, but the rest of the parking money, which comes from lots and garages, is tied to an enterprise fund, which, by state law, means the city would have to sell its parking lots and garages before it could obtain money for the General Fund.
Cranley, who also opposes the streetcar project ("Back on the Ballot," issue of Jan. 23), says it
would be possible to pay for the I-71/MLK Interchange and other projects
if the streetcar wasn't taking up funds. If it was up to him, he says
he would remove streetcar funding and use it on other development
projects "without batting an eye."
In the Feb. 27 City Council meeting, Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls said the Budget and Finance Committee will likely vote on the city manager's parking plan on March 4 or March 11.
Ex-Councilman John Cranley decisively defeated Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls today as both the Democratic mayoral candidates won the primary election and advanced to the general election.
With all precincts reporting, Cranley got 55.9 percent of the vote and Qualls picked up 37.2 percent, according to unofficial results from the Hamilton County Board of Elections. The other two candidates — Libertarian Jim Berns and Independent Sandra "Queen" Noble — each failed to break 5 percent of the vote.
The two victors come as little surprise to most election watchers, who have long been calling Cranley and Qualls the frontrunners. But Cranley's strong lead has led to celebrations from Cranley's supporters and downplaying from Qualls' backers.
The city has held only two primaries since it enacted its "strong mayor" rules in 1999, which call for a primary when there's more than two eligible candidates. The two winners then go on to the general election for the final decision. Previously, the City Council candidate with the most votes was designated mayor.
In both the primary elections held since 1999, the primary winner ended up losing the general election. In 2001, Courtis Fuller beat Charlie Luken in the primary in a 53.8-38.5 percent vote; Luken went on to win the general election 55.4-44.6 percent. In 2005, David Pepper narrowly beat Mark Mallory in the primary 31.2-30.7 percent; Mallory is currently mayor after winning the general election 51.8-48.2 percent in 2005 and getting re-elected in 2009.
The results' significance is even murkier because voter turnout was a dismal 5.68 percent. In comparison, the mayoral primary held on Sept. 11, 2001 — the day of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon — had 15 percent voter turnout. In 2005, 21 percent of voters participated in the mayoral primary.
Still, Cranley's victory is being heralded by his supporters tonight, particularly because it might show a shift from Qualls' strong lead in early polls.
For the two camps, the contentious race is about which vision Cincinnati should embrace as the city's downtown revitalization gains national recognition and momentum. Qualls supports the streetcar project and parking lease, while Cranley opposes both.
Cranley served on City Council from 2000 to 2009. Qualls has been on City Council since 2007 and previously served on City Council from 1991 to 1993 and as mayor from 1993 to 1999.
Voters will make the final decision between Cranley and Qualls on Nov. 5.
This story was updated with clearer election results and to correct Cranley's full time on City Council, which the story previously said was from 2001 to 2009 instead of the accurate timespan of 2000 to 2009.
After the meeting, Cranley dismissed an offer by major philanthropy organization The Carol
Ann and Ralph V. Haile, Jr./U.S. Bank Foundation to pay for a study of
streetcar shut-down costs that opponents want to see
come in lower than the
city's estimates before they vote to completely stop the project. Cranley dismissed
the offer because it also came with a note saying that if the streetcar is canceled the foundation will
reconsider its contributions to Music
Hall, the Smale Riverfront Park and other city projects. Cranley would rather make the city pay for the study than negotiate with terrorists respond to threats.
About seven and a half hours into this debacle of American democracy — which included numerous procedural abnormalities including the mayor asking Council to discuss and vote on ordinances no one had read yet, an hours-long delay and a funding appropriation that leaves the cancellation vote safe from the pro-streetcar-threatened voter referendum (something Cranley railed against when the city administration kept the parking plan safe from referendum) — Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld livened things up with something everyone tired of the streetcar debate can agree is funny: undermining the mayor's authority by asking fellow council members to overrule him.
The following video published by UrbanCincy shows Cranley denying Sittenfeld an opportunity to speak. Sittenfeld then asks for a vote to overrule Cranley, which the mayor had to approve, and everyone but Kevin Flynn votes to overrule. (Flynn unfortunately had to vote first, leaving him unable to determine which way the vote was likely to go — a tough position for a rookie politician.) Once David Mann and Amy Murray voted to allow Sittenfeld to speak, the rest of the anti-streetcar faction followed suit, knowing Sittenfeld had the necessary votes to overrule Cranley. Then Sittenfeld spent a few minutes going mayoral on Cincinnati's new mayor.
Cincinnati could lose up to $45 million in federal funds if it cancels the $133 million streetcar project, according to a new letter from the Federal Transit Administration released on Thursday by Mayor Mark Mallory.
The letter confirms much of what was stated in a previous June 19 letter to Mallory, and it presumably acts as a warning to Mayor-elect John Cranley, who intends to permanently cancel ongoing construction on the streetcar project once he takes office in December.
Cranley previously said he could lobby the federal government to re-appropriate the money to other projects, but the FTA letter unequivocally states the money is only for the streetcar project.
"FTA's oversight contractor for the Project informs me that the City's expenditures plus committed costs on the Project as of this date exceed $116 million, which is approximately 88 percent of the total project cost," wrote FTA administrator Peter Rogoff. "These commitments include many construction activities that cannot be easily reversed — the City has relocated utilities, embedded rail in City streets, and purchased streetcars. Should the City choose to prematurely terminate the Project, all cost associated with closing down the project, including any claims from the contractors, will not be eligible for any federal reimbursement."
The letter confirms that, as CityBeat originally reported, canceling the streetcar project carries its own costs.
Should the city cancel the project, it would first need to return nearly $41 million in federal grant money. The remaining $4 million in federal funds would fall under the discretion of Gov. John Kasich, who could shift the money to other parts of Ohio.
City spokesperson Meg Olberding previously told CityBeat
the city already spent $2 million of the federal funds. Olberding said the $2 million in repayments would need to come out of the operating budget
that pays for cops, firefighters and human services instead of the
capital budget that's currently financing the streetcar project.
Since the operating budget has been structurally imbalanced since 2001, adding millions in costs could force the city to cut additional services or raise taxes.
Upon cancellation, the city would also need to pay back some of the $94 million in standing contractual obligations for the streetcar project. In many cases, the obligations reflect supply orders and other expenses contractors and subcontractors already took on but haven't officially billed to the city. If the project were canceled, city officials say the already-spent money would need to be paid back, along with extra costs to close the project — to repave torn-up streets, for example.
Project executive John Deatrick previously told CityBeat that paying back the contractual obligations could involve litigation, which would also be paid for through the operating budget, as the city tries to minimize cancellation costs and private contractors try to recoup as much as they can from the project.
All of that is on top of the $23 million that's already been billed to the project as of September, which should grow by $1.5 million each month as contractual obligations are turned into official bills, according to Deatrick.
The final decision on the streetcar project rests on City Council. Cranley told The Cincinnati Enquirer on Thursday that he'll pursue a 30-to-90-day time-out on the project as the city conducts a full accounting of cancellation costs, completion costs and the potential return on investment of the project, following requests from Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld and incoming council members David Mann and Kevin Flynn — three crucial swing votes in the newly elected council of nine — for more information before placing a final vote on the project.
The talk of cancellation already spurred some Over-the-Rhine residents and businesses to launch a campaign to save the streetcar. Cranley insists it's too expensive and the wrong priority for the city, but supporters tout independent studies and their own experiences to argue it would spur economic development. The pro-streetcar group will meet on Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Mercantile Library, 414 Walnut St. #1100, downtown Cincinnati.
The full letter:
Despite promising to
move on after he failed to cancel the $132.8 million streetcar
project, Mayor John Cranley continues criticizing the
project in interviews and social media.
Most recently, Cranley appeared on Local 12's Newsmakers program and threatened
to eventually replace the Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority (SORTA)
board, which manages local Metro bus services, in response to board members'
defunct offer to take up streetcar operating costs. (City Council sets SORTA
appointments, not the mayor.)
"The fact is they were
willing to cannibalize bus service," Cranley said,
contrary to SORTA's insistence that their offer would not have affected bus
services. "I just felt that was a huge violation of what SORTA is supposed to
be about and what Metro is supposed to be about and what public transportation
is supposed to be about."
Throughout the 24-minute
interview, Cranley referenced the
streetcar project when discussing the city's parking meters and other subjects
— a continuation of repetitive anti-streetcar tactics Cranley
deployed on the campaign trail and in mayoral debates against former Vice Mayor
Roxanne Qualls.
"I think the project is
wasteful and not worth the investment," Cranley said
when asked about the project. "I think we would have been better off making the
hard decision to cut bait."
Still, Cranley later added, "Obviously, since the supermajority of
council went against my wishes, I have to respect the process. So I'm not going
to try to sabotage the streetcar."
The interview also
follows comments on social media. After the former head of the Cincinnati Art
Museum criticized the streetcar, Cranley tweeted on Dec. 27, "(N)ow some Orwellian commentators
will say art director not 'progressive.'"
The continued anti-streetcar rhetoric comes despite promises to move on that Cranley made after Councilman Kevin Flynn announced he would provide the final vote needed to veto-proof City Council's decision to continue the streetcar project.
"As I tell my son when he doesn't get his way, it's time to move on," Cranley
said on Dec. 19.
But Cranley's
heated rhetoric is nothing new in his campaign against the streetcar project.
After the Nov. 5
election, Cranley told The Cincinnati Enquirer
the streetcar debate "is over." Cranley's comments
marked a high level of confidence after voters elected a mayor and council
supermajority that seemingly opposed the streetcar project, but his statement
to The Enquirer proved to be wrong after Council Members Flynn, David
Mann and P.G. Sittenfeld decided to continue the
Cranley also called city officials "incompetent" after
they projected that canceling the streetcar project would cost nearly as much as
completing it. Once again, Cranley's comments proved
to be wrong — an independent audit found city officials were largely correct in
their assessment — but still showed the level of confident, heated rhetoric
that follows the mayor's campaign against the streetcar project.
At the very least, Cranley's rhetoric proves that while the policy debate over the streetcar is over for now, the public discussion is not. The question is whether the messaging will work as the project moves forward and the streetcar becomes a reality of Cincinnati.
The three measures set up $15 million to front to Duke Energy to move utility lines out of the proposed path; changes the source of funding to repay some $25 million in bonds used to pay for the streetcar; sells $14 million in bonds for streetcar improvements; and changes the municipal code to clarify that it is the responsibility of a utility to relocate its structures.
The $15 million comes from the $37 million sale of city-owned land near the former Blue Ash Airport.
Council voted 6-3 to approve the front money, improvement bonds and bond repayment, a vote that largely mirrored a Monday Budget and Finance Committee vote. Councilman Chris Smitherman was the sole "no" vote on the ordinance to change the municipal code.
Councilmembers Cecil Thomas, Wendell Young, Roxanne Qualls, Laure Quinlivan, Chris Seelbach and Yvette Simpson voted to pass funding, while Councilmembers Smitherman, P.G. Sittenfeld and Charles Winburn voted against.
"My concern with all of these votes … in particular the Blue Ash Airport dollars, these were promises that you made to the neighborhoods and I don't have the confidence that the legal battle against Duke Energy is going to yield a 100 percent win for the city of Cincinnati, so there's no assurance that these dollars are going to come back," said Councilman Chris Smitherman, one of the most vocal opponents of the streetcar.
"I want to be clear that it's something that I don't support."
The $15 million would be fronted to Duke to move its lines while the city and utility work out who is responsible for funding the move.
Duke estimates the full cost at $18 million and argues
that the lines would not have to be moved if the streetcar wasn't being
built. The city maintains that it has always been the responsibility of
utilities to move or upgrade their structures — which the third measure
clarified in the municipal code. If the city loses a legal battle against Duke, it will not
recoup the $15 million.
The second proposal switches the source of funding for
streetcar bonds from money coming into city coffers from southern
downtown and the riverfront area to a 1995 fund set up to collect
service payments from the Westin/Star, Hyatt and Saks. The measure wouldn't use any additional new money for the streetcar.
That downtown area wasn't bringing in as much cash as
expected but the city hopes to repay the other fund once the downtown
district — which includes the Banks and the casino — rebounds.
There's a catch — municipal employees only get the raises and job security if the city's parking meters, garages and surface lots are leased to a private company for 30 years.
City Manager Milton Dohoney wants to lease the facilities for at least $40 million upfront and a share of parking profits for the next 30 years. He'd use $21 million of the upfront payment to patch a $34 million deficit in the city's budget.
During recent budget hearings before City Council, Dohoney said extra revenue was needed to avoid the layoff of 344 city employees.
In a memo to the mayor and city council members, Dohoney outlined the agreement between the city and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME).
Any municipal employees who will lose their jobs because of the deal would be placed in other city jobs with no loss of wages. No city employees covered by the union would be laid off between 2013 and 2016. City employees will receive a 1.5 percent cost of living raise for the 2013-2014 contract year and another 1 percent raise for the next contract year. AFSCME members will continue city vehicle maintenance work from 2013-2016.
However, if City Council doesn't approve of the plan to privatize parking, city employees get nothing.
Public employees in Cincinnati have not been given raises in almost four years. Meanwhile, council voted last month to give Dohoney a 10 percent raise and a $35,000 bonus. Dohoney had not received a merit raise since 2007, but had collected cost of living adjustments and bonuses over the years.
Mayor Mark Mallory will join fellow streetcar supporters Thursday to discuss how the project is coming along and where it's headed.
The event is the monthly streetcar social, hosted by Cincinnatians for Progress. Organizers expect to pull in nearly 100 people from around the city to discuss topics and issues surrounding the project. It will take place on Thursday, July 18, between 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Rhinegeist Brewery, 1910 Elm St., Cincinnati, Ohio, 45202. For more information, check out the event's Facebook page.
Mallory, who's term-limited from running for reelection this year, has spearheaded efforts to build a streetcar in Cincinnati. He's been joined by a steady Democratic majority in City Council, which most recently approved $17.4 million more in funding for the project alongside several accountability measures that will require the city manager to regularly update council and the public on the project's progress.
In the past week, the city announced the streetcar is set to open for service on Sept. 15, 2016, after city officials and bidders finalized details for a construction contract.
CityBeat's cover story for the week of July 10 debunked the top 10 misrepresentations surrounding the Cincinnati streetcar project.
Streetcar supporters argue the project will foster economic growth and development in Cincinnati, particularly downtown — a claim backed by studies from advising company HDR and the University of Cincinnati.
Opponents claim the project, which now stands at $133 million after recent cost overruns were fixed, is too expensive. They doubt it will succeed in spurring growth and development.
The company in charge of building Cincinnati's streetcars says the city would incur substantial costs if it cancels the streetcar project after it's already gone through some construction and design work.
The Nov. 30 letter from CAF USA Vice President Virginia Verdeja to former Mayor Mark Mallory arrived just one day before Mayor John Cranley, who opposes the streetcar project, and an anti-streetcar majority were sworn in.
"CAF will have to recover all the incurred expenses as well as all the additional cost of cancelling the contract, which would be substantial too," Verdeja writes in the letter.
The letter explains that, on top of the sunk expenses on design work, cancellation would require CAF to pull back on various established deals with subcontractors, which would spur further costs.
For streetcar supporters, the letter renews fears of litigation that could crop up if the project were canceled and contractors decided to pursue their full payday. Those legal costs would fall on the already-strained operating budget that pays for day-to-day services like police and firefighters instead of the capital budget that finances big capital projects like the streetcar, according to city spokesperson Meg Olberding.
The letter was first posted on the Cincinnati Streetcar Facebook page. Its validity was confirmed in an email to CityBeat from former Mallory staffer Jason Barron.
On Nov. 21, Streetcar Project Executive John Deatrick warned the costs of canceling the $132.8 million streetcar project could nearly reach the costs of completion after accounting for $32.8 million in estimated sunk costs through November, a potential range of $30.6-$47.6 million in close-out costs and up to $44.9 million in federal grant money that would be lost if the project were terminated.
Earlier on Sunday, hundreds of streetcar supporters rallied in Washington Park and walked the planned streetcar route in support of the project. They're threatening a referendum if the new City Council moves to pause or cancel the project.
City Council plans to vote on pausing the project on Monday. Because of threats from the federal government that a mere delay could lead to the loss of federal grants, streetcar supporters claim a pause would equate to cancellation.
Read the full letter below:
Updated at 6:13 p.m. with the PDF of the letter.


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I would really like to see SwiftKey adding Belarusian to their supported languages list.
Hi, thanx for your app, but can you add a support for belarusian language ?
Hello Community,
With the newest update to SwiftKey we have added support for Belarusian. Go ahead and download or update the app and get it now.
6 comments
Alaksandar Arsionaŭ commented
Belarusian for Swift is amazing, but one letter missed: Ґґ (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghe_with_upturn ) as an accented variant of Гг. It is present in Ukrainian (as separate key in general layout and accented Ґґ in compact) and even in language files in Belarusian langpack (!), but missed on the keyboard itself.
P.S. Also it would be great if you add Ŭŭ (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%AC ) to accented variants of Uu in latin alphabets (so we can turn it on in English, like it's possible with Šš or Łł) — it's the only missing letter from Belarusian Latin alphabet (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarusian_Latin_alphabet ), which is sometimes used in Belarus.
Written with good old AnySoftKeyboard, where both letters present in Belarusian :)
Iggy commented
Thank you for the support, it is a pleasure to see that your team is working hard to bring the product to the customers' demands and fairly quickly.
Pavel Selitskas commented
Thank you Ryan for the feedback. And thanks to the whole SwiftKey team for your effort!
Iggy commented
I have been using SwiftKey for quite some time. I do use the feature of multi language. And I think it is very well thought through. However it does lack my native language, Belarusian. I would like to point out that it is not a dialect, it is a language of its own. It would be fantastic to be able to write in your language, rather than using other language keyboard to mix and match, in order to write what you want.
Nikita Bobchenko commented
The only feature I miss about Swiftkey is my language and it disturbs me quite much. Please, make your product more appealing to belarusian customers.
Pavel Selitskas commented
I was about to buy this awesome keyboard, but it doesn't support my language. :-(


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This week, somebody posted an old quote by Stephen Harper (Canada's worst prime minister) calling our country a "benign dictatorship". That – combined with seeing Harper's ridiculous staged photos from his northern propaganda tour – inspired me to put together a small sample of Harper in his some of his best dictator poses. There are pictures of Harper pointing at things, Harper waving at his photographer, Harper pretending to be in the military, Harper getting saluted, Harper hanging out with kids, and other fake scenes that would make Kim Jong Il or Vladimir Putin proud.
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Anyway, good job for a dummy !!!! I'd like to be such a dummy !!!
I originally wanted to do it that way, Claude, but I'm not all that good with computers and the tools available. So in an effort to save space I used pictures that were as small as possible otherwise I would have used whole screen shots. If I ever learn how to use page layout software then I will most certainly use the whole screen shot. But, for now, I am just a big dummy really.
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
My Maps ~ My Brushes ~ My Tutorials ~ My Challenge Maps
Anyway, good job for a dummy !!!! I'd like to be such a dummy !!!
Merci beaucoup pour ce tutoriel, bien pratique et très bien détaillé !
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March 26, 2013 By
In many ways, the anti-abortion movement is one of the most hypocritical and downright diabolical elements of the Republican party platform. It's been over 40 years since the Supreme Court decided that a woman has the right to choose a safe abortion for her pregnancy, but the Tea Party surge in 2010 and Republican gains at the state level in 2012 have put that in jeopardy. Abortion bans in some form have been passed in 10 states since 2010, and are moving forward in other states at this very moment. Not only that, but abortion clinics have been facing unprecedented regulations in states across the country, designed with the sole purpose of shutting them down–effectively making it harder for any woman seeking a safe abortion to receive one. One case in particular, the Jackson Women's Health Organization in Mississippi, is facing the possibility of getting shut down after a license revocation hearing scheduled for April 18th. As the last abortion provider in the entire state, being forced to close would make it impossible for any woman to receive a safe abortion in Mississippi. But what exactly is the anti-abortion movement attempting to accomplish? Once we take a further look at the numbers and real life consequences, we see just how dangerous this "movement" is.
Let's say we did issue an outright ban on abortion–how many women would end up dead or severely injured from seeking an unsafe alternative? How many children would end up in abusive homes, or in an already overburdened foster care system? Are the anti-abortion activists going to guarantee help for the mother if they give birth and keep the child? Early childhood assistance, WIC, food stamps and even free lunch programs at schools have been ridiculed and railed against by many of the same people (and elected officials) who are anti-abortion. But what about the adoption option? What if the mother gives the child up–are they going to guarantee that all of these children will be adopted at birth? Absolutely not. Take away a woman's right to choose and we'll have a whole new society of unwanted children being raised in foster care and orphanages, many for their entire childhood.
The statistics back it up. Currently, there are about 1.2 million abortions per year in the United States, according to data and estimates analyzed by the Guttmacher Institute. Let's think about that number as we take a look at this data collected on FosteringConnections.org. The Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System tells us there are between 50,000 – 60,000 children adopted from foster care per year in the United States, with another 115,000 or so ready to be adopted but left behind. Of these, over half will not be adopted this year–or next year. For some, the dream of a loving home will never be realized.
So let's assume for the sake of argument that half of the would-be abortion total were to instead end up in the foster care and orphanage system every year. Somebody please tell me–where is an already overburdened system going to find the resources, necessities and billions of dollars to care for an extra 600,000 newborns every year? And what about the rest of those children who aren't given up to the system but are instead kept by the birth mother or family? There is no way to know how many of these children would grow up in loving as opposed to abusive homes, which is perhaps the most important and saddest aspect of the entire hypothetical situation. What we can estimate are ballpark dollar figures on what this would cost the nation, since many of the same anti-abortion fanatics are also staunch fiscal conservatives who claim we can't keep adding to our debt. If we take a conservative approach and assume only 300,000 of these children end up receivingSNAP and WIC benefits, the total cost per year would be approximately $630 million. This doesn't take into account the mother, who would also most likely collect SNAP and WIC for herself. It also doesn't take into account health care costs paid for by the government, as well as any cash benefits the mother may qualify for. When you factor in and estimate everything, the cost is easily well into the billions per year. Now, I personally am not one to put a price on life–it is my feeling that after a child is born into this world, they should receive basic, quality health care and access to nutritious food regardless of whether or not the parents can afford to pay for it. However, I wanted to put the dollar totals in print for the specific benefit of these "staunch fiscal conservatives" who love to complain about government assistance but also want to ban abortion. I've got news for you–you can't have it both ways. Is every "life" precious enough to protect and provide for? If so, why are you pushing to limit and sometimes deny basic health care and food support to the millions of children already alive in our country today?
What it boils down to is a movement which likes to define itself as "pro life" but is actually about as anti-life as one could possibly be. Part of me could understand their strong feelings if they were consistent. If these people were discussing real solutions instead of stomping their feet in contradiction, it would be much easier to take them seriously. Instead, many of them reject even the simplest way to prevent an abortion–easy access to contraceptives. When they can't even rally together and agree on that as a start, there's really no hope that they'll ever push for truly "pro life" solutions. Knowing that these types of people have already gained power in states across our nation should be a wake-up call to Progressives and sensible moderates alike. It's time to reclaim the meaning of "pro life"–no longer should it mean pushing for the uninterrupted development of a fetus. To be truly PRO LIFE should mean caring and providing for a CHILD after birth, assuring that they have access to health care, food, a home and most importantly a loving family. If that message resonates with at least one "anti-abortion" advocate, I will have hope that more will understand.
Posted: 03/15/2013 4:04 pm EDT | Updated: 03/15/2013 5:33 pm EDT
The North Dakota State Senate passed two anti-abortion bills on Friday that would be the first laws of their kind in the United States and would ban most abortions in the state. One bill would prevent women from having abortions as soon as the fetal heartbeat can be detected, as early as six weeks into the pregnancy, and the other bans abortions in cases of fetal abnormalities such as Down Syndrome.
House Bill 1456, the heartbeat ban, passed the North Dakota House of Representatives earlier this year and now heads to Gov. Jack Dalrymple's (R) desk to be signed. The law would subject doctors to a $5,000 fine and up to five years in prison if they perform an abortion after the fetal heartbeat can be detected, surpassing Arkansas' new 12-week abortion ban to become the strictest abortion law in the country. The Republican-controlled Senate voted to pass it on Friday without any discussion.
The Senate also passed House Bill 1305, which bans abortions that are performed based on gender selection or a genetic defect. Three other states — Pennsylvania, Oklahoma and Arizona — have laws banning abortions based on gender selection, but North Dakota would be the first state to prevent a woman from aborting a fetus diagnosed with Down Syndrome or other fetal anomalies.
Opponents of the heartbeat bill argue that it would ban abortions in some cases before the woman even realizes she is pregnant, which places an undue burden on a woman's constitutionally protected right to abortion. "North Dakota politicians are now leading what appears to be a nationwide competition among anti-choice extremists to see who can do the most to strip women of their dignity and autonomy and endanger their lives," said Nancy Northup, president and CEO at the Center for Reproductive Rights, in a statement on Friday. "The passage of this law is nothing short of a frontal assault on the U.S. Constitution, 40 years of Supreme Court precedent, and the health and fundamental rights of women."
State Rep. Bette Grande (R), the author of both bills, said during her testimony before the Senate this week that she is not concerned with their constitutionality. "Whether this is challenged in court is entirely up to the abortion industry," she told the Associated Press. "Given the lucrative nature of abortion, it is likely that any statute that reduces the number of customers will be challenged by the industry."
The Center for Reproductive Rights is currently representing North Dakota's only abortion clinic, the Red River Women's Clinic, in a case challenging the state's restrictions on medication abortions, which are commonly used for abortions in the first trimester. North Dakota lawmakers also are considering a personhood bill, which would give a fertilized egg legal personhood rights, and a law that would require abortion physicians to be granted admitting privileges at the local hospital.
The center called on Dalrymple to veto both of the new restrictions.
"This will not stand," Northup said of the heartbeat ban. "We strongly urge Governor Dalrymple to protect the rights and health of the women of North Dakota by vetoing this noxious and dangerous bill."
Dalrymple has three days to veto the bill.
In the past two years, Texas legislators slashed funds for family planning and passed up $30 million a year in federal Medicaid money, largely to squeeze Planned Parenthood out of the state's women's health programs. Last week, hundreds gathered at the south steps of the Texas State Capitol in Austin to protest the resulting public health mess: Researchers say nearly 200,000 Texas women have lost or could lose access to contraception, cancer screenings, and basic preventive care, especially in low-income, rural parts of the state. I reported from the rally:
Given that anti-choice legislators in other states could draw inspiration from Texas's "winning" strategy to defund Planned Parenthood—several have tried and failed in recent years—it's worth surveying the damage.
About a year after Texas slashed its family-planning budget by two-thirds, with 50 clinics shutting down as a result, the Texas Policy Evaluation Project surveyed 300 pregnant women seeking an abortion in Texas. Nearly half said they were "unable to access the birth control that they wanted to use" in the three months before they became pregnant. Among the reasons: cost, lack of insurance, inability to find a clinic, and inability get a prescription. The state's health commission says Texas will see nearly 24,000 unplanned births between 2014 and 2015 thanks to these cuts, raising state and federal taxpayer's Medicaid costs by up to $273 million.
In a state where half of all pregnancies were unplanned in 2011, and 1 in 3 women of childbearing age lacks health insurance, this is only going to get worse.
The Planned Parenthood clinics that anti-choice legislators booted from the state's Women's Health Program serviced nearly 50 percent of the program's patients. Along with contraceptive counseling, the clinics provided basic screenings for cancer, hypertension, and other key problems. There's no shortage of need: women in Texas suffer high rates of STIs and unintended pregnancies compared to national figures, and the state ranks 50th for diabetes prevalence in women. Nonetheless, Republican lawmakers went after the clinics in 2011, thanks to their long-standing beef with the organization, and forfeited tens of millions in Medicaid reimbursements to the Women's Health Program so they could defund Planned Parenthood clinics without breaking any federal rules governing how states have to spend Medicaid money.
Despite losing its highest-volume providers, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission insists the revamped, wholly state-run and state-funded Women's Health Program can reshuffle all the displaced patients and keep providing the same levels of care as before. But last October, researchers at George Washington University examined five Texas counties and found that in order to effectively replace Planned Parenthood, other clinics would need to increase their caseloads two to five times.
That seems unlikely. The remaining clinics are already straining under these changes, according to a survey by the Texas Policy Evaluation Project. More than a fifth have reduced their hours of operation, while others, like Planned Parenthood in East Austin, are staying shakily afloat on community donations. Instead of offering IUDs, a highly effective birth-control method with higher up-front costs to the provider, clinic staffers are now more likely to offer lower-cost birth control pills. They also tend to give out fewer packs of pills per visit, making it harder for patients to be consistent. Others are seeing fewer patients or increasing their fees.
Lone Star Circle of Care, for example, lost 62 percent of its Title X funding over the last year. Now it's charging more patients a $20 to $35 fee for an annual exam. That's still low, in part because Lone Star isn't affiliated with an abortion provider and therefore hasn't lost funding altogether. At Planned Parenthood clinics in Texas, on the other hand, the same exam can now cost nearly $100; before defunding, they were virtually free.
"If you put fees in place, even if they're pretty modest, patients just don't come in, or they don't come in as often," says Sarah Wheat, vice president for community affairs at Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas. "We'll have patients who, if they had a high gas bill that month, or a high electricity bill, they'll think, 'Okay, well maybe next month I can go in.' Or they're going to say, 'Let me just get the gonorrhea test. I'll pay for the chlamydia test next time.'"
It's hard to tell whether displaced patients are finding care elsewhere. After Hill Country Community Action announced it was closing its family planning clinics in the central Texas town of San Saba last summer, only a hundred or so of its 2,000 clients called to ask about other providers, the Texas Observer reports. Many of the remaining clinics in the area are charging new fees since the cuts, and none reported an uptick in new patients from San Saba, except for the Planned Parenthood in Waco.
Meanwhile, anti-choice legislators are touting these cuts as a way to wipe out the "abortion industry," but it turns out none of the 53 clinics that closed since September 2011 were providing abortions to begin with. None of the Planned Parenthood clinics formerly involved with the Women's Health Program provided abortions, either—Texas has never allowed abortion clinics to participate in WHP. And under the Hyde Amendment, public health providers can't use federal funding to administer abortions, anyway. "Ironically, this whole conversation is about abortion services, and yet clinics providing abortions in this state were untouched by these cuts," says Wheat.
In 2011, there were about 70,000 abortions in Texas, a 10 percent drop from 2010. But it's too soon to know whether this is the result of the state slashing its family planning funds or other measures, says Dan Grossman, vice president for research at Ibis Reproductive Health and a researcher at the Texas Policy Evaluation Project. What we do know, Grossman adds, is that most women showing up for abortions are not changing their minds after seeing their ultrasounds, as they're now required to do in Texas.
It remains to be seen whether anti-choice lawmakers in other states will adopt Texas's costly strategy for defunding Planned Parenthood within their own borders.Since 2010, nine states have tried to cut family planning funds; Montana, New Hampshire, and New Jersey have slashed their family planning budgets by more than half. Seven have made it harder for clinics like Planned Parenthood to receive state or federal family planning grants. Last month, four Planned Parenthood clinics in Wisconsin shut down in the face of cuts.
Now with the Texas Legislature back in session, some state senators are proposing to add $100 million back into the state's primary care program, specifically for women's health services; and last week a Democratic legislator introduced a bill to reverse the Affiliate Ban Rule. But Wheat says these measures are unlikely to repair the damage of the past two years.
"It's hard to put back together a system that's been dismantled," she said.
The Republican war on women continues. A week after Hawaii Democrats pushed a bill through the state Senate that would require hospitals to offer emergency contraception to rape victims, Republicans in Missouri unveiled a bill in the general assembly that would do the opposite and more.
HB 457 is sponsored by House Speaker Timothy Jones (R). According to the Kansas City Star, the bill would "allow medical professionals to opt out of providing birth control, sterilization and assisted reproduction services and stem cell research. They would also be able to deny referrals for care," and "would be shielded from punishment for refusing to provide this type of care if it violates their religious or moral principles."
In short, doctors and hospitals could refuse to provide women contraception services for religious reasons and could refuse to refer patients to medical professionals and institutions that would help them. Rape victims could be denied emergency contraception to prevent becoming pregnant by their rapist. And even women with ectopic pregnancies could be refused care until their lives are in jeopardy because her health provider believes a certain way.
Michelle Trupiano of Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri told the Star that,
"A woman with an ectopic pregnancy that isn't considered life-threatening could be denied care, including a referral as to where to receive care, until she comes back so sick that her life is in danger."
Trupiano added that rape victims would be denied "the minimum standard of care determined by leading health care organizations such as the American Medical Association," which includes emergency contraception.
Bills such as these have been a current trend running rampant in Republican circles. Republicans have pushed similar bills Nebraska, Pennsylvania, and many other states including Kansas, where it was signed into law last spring.
Republicans claim such bills are needed to protect the religious freedom of doctors but what these bills really do is trample on the rights of female patients to receive the care that they need and want. The fact that these bill target only women's health care proves that. If a doctor were to deny a man a vasectomy or Viagra on religious grounds, Republican heads would explode with rage. They wouldn't give a damn about protecting religious freedom in this kind of reverse situation. These bills create a double standard in the medical field.
The Star interviewed Dr. Ed Weisbart, a St. Louis family physician. Weisbart made it clear that medical professionals are supposed to put their patients first and that what doctors believe or don't believe in religious matters is irrelevant to how they treat them. "Medicine is not supposed to be about the values of the physician or the institution," Weisbart said. "It's supposed to be about the values of the patient. Period."
And Dr. Weisbart is absolutely right. Bills like these have zero disregard for what patients believe. By passing such bills, Republicans are violating the beliefs of patients. Religious freedom is a two-way street. You can't protect the beliefs of doctors and disregard the beliefs of patients at the same time. Doing so creates mistrust between doctors and patients in a field where trust is absolutely necessary. That's why patient needs should always come first. Doctors are in hospitals to practice medicine, NOT religion. And mistrust between doctors and patients is a serious threat to health that could result in death.
Doctors have every right to practice whatever religion they want. What they do not have the right to do is to force their beliefs onto their patients. The second a doctor walks into the office their religious beliefs must be left at the door. If a patient wants contraception, the doctor should only refuse if there is a medical reason to do so. That's the way medicine and doctoring should work.
The Missouri House is expected to take up the bill as early as Monday.
The Colorado Independent | By John TomasicPosted: 01/23/2013 11:49 am EST | Updated: 01/24/2013 11:03 pm EST
From The Colorado Independent's John Tomasic.
Lori Stodghill was 31-one years old, seven-months pregnant with twin boys and feeling sick when she arrived at St. Thomas More hospital in Cañon City on New Year's Day 2006. She was vomiting and short of breath and she passed out as she was being wheeled into an examination room. Medical staff tried to resuscitate her but, as became clear only later, a main artery feeding her lungs was clogged and the clog led to a massive heart attack. Stodghill's obstetrician, Dr. Pelham Staples, who also happened to be the obstetrician on call for emergencies that night, never answered a page. His patient died at the hospital less than an hour after she arrived and her twins died in her womb.
In the aftermath of the tragedy, Stodghill's husband Jeremy, a prison guard, filed a wrongful-death lawsuit on behalf of himself and the couple's then-two-year-old daughter Elizabeth. Staples should have made it to the hospital, his lawyers argued, or at least instructed the frantic emergency room staff to perform a caesarian-section. The procedure likely would not have saved the mother, a testifying expert said, but it may have saved the twins.
The lead defendant in the case is Catholic Health Initiatives, the Englewood-based nonprofit that runs St. Thomas More Hospital as well as roughly 170 other health facilities in 17 states. Last year, the hospital chain reported national assets of $15 billion. The organization's mission, according to its promotional literature, is to "nurture the healing ministry of the Church" and to be guided by "fidelity to the Gospel." Toward those ends, Catholic Health facilities seek to follow the Ethical and Religious Directives of the Catholic Church authored by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Those rules have stirred controversy for decades, mainly for forbidding non-natural birth control and abortions. "Catholic health care ministry witnesses to the sanctity of life 'from the moment of conception until death,'" the directives state. "The Church's defense of life encompasses the unborn."
The directives can complicate business deals for Catholic Health, as they can for other Catholic health care providers, partly by spurring political resistance. In 2011, the Kentucky attorney general and governornixed a planin which Catholic Health sought to merge with and ultimately gain control of publicly funded hospitals in Louisville. The officials were reacting to citizen concerns that access to reproductive and end-of-life services would be curtailed. According toThe Denver Post, similar fears slowed the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth's plan over the last few years to buy out Exempla Lutheran Medical Center and Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center in the Denver metro area.
But when it came to mounting a defense in the Stodghill case, Catholic Health's lawyers effectively turned the Church directives on their head. Catholic organizations have for decades fought to change federal and state laws that fail to protect "unborn persons," and Catholic Health's lawyers in this case had the chance to set precedent bolstering anti-abortion legal arguments. Instead, they are arguing state law protects doctors from liability concerning unborn fetuses on grounds that those fetuses are not persons with legal rights.
As Jason Langley, an attorney with Denver-based Kennedy Childs, argued in one of the briefs he filed for the defense, the court "should not overturn the long-standing rule in Colorado that the term 'person,' as is used in the Wrongful Death Act, encompasses only individuals born alive. Colorado state courts define 'person' under the Act to include only those born alive. Therefore Plaintiffs cannot maintain wrongful death claims based on two unborn fetuses."
The Catholic Health attorneys have so far won decisions from Fremont County District Court Judge David M. Thorson and now-retired Colorado Court of Appeals Judge Arthur Roy.
In September, the Stodghills' Aspen-based attorney Beth Krulewitch working with Denver-based attorney Dan Gerash appealed the case to the state Supreme Court. In their petition they argued that Judges Thorson and Roy overlooked key facts and set bad legal precedent that would open loopholes in Colorado's malpractice law, relieving doctors of responsibility to patients whose viable fetuses are at risk.
Whether the high court decides to take the case, kick it back down to the appellate court for a second review or accept the decisions as they stand, the details of the arguments the lawyers involved have already mounted will likely renew debate about Church health care directives and trigger sharp reaction from activists on both sides of the debate looking to underline the apparent hypocrisy of Catholic Health's defense.
At press time, Colorado Health did not return messages seeking comment. The Stodghills' attorneys declined to comment while the case was still being considered for appeal.
The Supreme Court is set to decide whether to take the case in the next few weeks.
And for your reading pleasure, my personal response to this:
This is a prime example why this entire reproductive fight has absolutely NOTHING to do with saving actual human lives. The only purpose these restrictions and further bullshit serves is to control women. The purpose of this entire feminist fight is to give the woman the ultimate decision whether the life inside her is a person or something to be removed. In family situations, it should be a partner decision, but the protection is really for single mothers and rape victims. The fact that the Catholic Church would even DARE to argue against their own controlling practices to avoid any wrong doing is despicable. The fact of the matter is, if the lives in the mother's womb are considered lives by the parents, then the doctors are expected to keep those lives safe AND ALIVE. Murderers can be charged with double homicide if they kill a pregnant woman. Doctors should also be held accountable if the the woman has already taken the steps to ensure a healthy pregnancy as this woman clearly did. It is absolutely despicable that the year is 2013 and women are still being treated as disposable baby machines (unless that baby could lead to a malpractice suit…then the women are just plain disposable). This article has two things in it that get me the most worked up: Abortion rights and the Catholic Church. Also…you know…hypocrisy.
(Source: The Huffington Post)
Walsh said he was against abortion "without exception," including rape, incest and in cases in which the life or health of the mother was in jeopardy.
Asked by reporters after the debate if he was saying that it's never medically necessary to conduct an abortion to save the life of a mother, Walsh responded, "Absolutely."
"With modern technology and science, you can't find one instance," he said. "… There is no such exception as life of the mother, and as far as health of the mother, same thing."
Walsh is running on his record and outlined his philosophy by saying he "generally tried to make a rule when I went to Washington that I was going to try to cut government spending wherever I could."
WASHINGTON — A pro-life, family-values congressman who worked as a doctor before winning election as a Tea Party-backed Republican had an affair with a patient and later pressured her to get an abortion, according to a phone call transcript obtained by The Huffington Post.
Providing birth control to women at no cost substantially reduced unplanned pregnancies and cut abortion rates by 62 percent to 78 percent over the national rate, a new study shows. The research, by investigators at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, appears online Oct. 4 in Obstetrics & Gynecology.
This is amazing. Too amazing for words. Proof that Obamacare needed to happen.
(The views expressed are the author's own and not those of Reuters.)
By Steven Brill
In the wake of the Todd Akin firestorm, Mitt Romney and a flip-flopping Paul Ryan have emphasized that their anti-choice stance excludes rape. In a Romney administration, abortions would be outlawed except in the case of women who have been raped, the Republican ticket has promised.
So here's an idea, first suggested by my daughter and one of her friends: Who's going to be the first reporter to ask Romney or Ryan how that would work? How would they implement that exception?
Would a woman's rapist have to be convicted in court? How would that work, given that in most criminal cases it takes longer than nine months from when the crime is committed to catch the criminal (assuming the criminal is caught), prepare charges and reach a verdict. In fact, the window would be significantly less than nine months; it would start from when the pregnancy is discovered and end somewhere around the 16 to 20 weeks left during which abortions can be performed most safely.
Or would the exception be triggered just on the woman's say-so? (Maybe that's part of what the mentally challenged Akin was talking about when he referred to "legitimate" rape.)
Or would there be some kind of new quasi-judicial process falling somewhere between a full-fledged trial and a simple statement of victimization? Would each state have to set up a new tribunal to handle these "cases"? Who would be the judges or juries? What evidence would be admissible? Would there be an adversary engaged to challenge the woman's claim and whatever evidence she offers? Who would that be? Could those challenges include references to her prior sexual history? Would there be criminal penalties for perjury? And, if as the Republican platform decrees, the outlawing of abortion should be implemented via a "human life" amendment to the Constitution, would Romney suggest that language defining rape and how it would qualify for the exception also be written into the Constitution? How would he craft language establishing that a fetus that is the product of rape is not a human life?
If each of these scenarios seems so absurd that it leaves Romney or Ryan tongue-tied when asked these simple, practical questions, maybe that says something about getting the state involved in these decisions, let alone rewriting the Constitution to codify them.
Beginning in 1976, a federal statute known as the Hyde Amendment inserted government into a sliver of this issue, with results that cannot be satisfying to either side. The Hyde Amendment generally forbids federal funding for abortions except in cases of rape or incest or when the woman's life is in danger. The blog post last week by the Washington Post's Dylan Matthews found that states generally require a doctor's certificate or a police report for women to qualify for the rape exception. However, Matthews reported, quoting from a study from Ibis Reproductive Health, that "over half of eligible abortions — that is, of pregnancies due to rape or incest or in cases where continuing the pregnancy would threaten the mother's life — conducted for Medicaid beneficiaries were not reimbursed by the program. By and large, hospitals and doctors who did not get Medicaid reimbursements said that the paperwork for getting the money was too onerous, and it was easier to fund the procedures from nonprofit groups that focus on assisting low-income women with abortion funding." In other words, the abortions happened anyway, but the exception provided for in the law was typically not implemented. In other cases, Matthews reported, women seeking coverage under the exception could not meet the paperwork requirements and, because they were not able to pay for an abortion, gave birth to babies they claimed were the product of rape.
Matthews concluded by quoting Stephanie Poggi, the executive director of the National Network of Abortion Funds, as saying: "Basically these exceptions don't work. It's really a myth that there is coverage that is still provided."
The Romney-Ryan exception presents far greater challenges because it is not simply about insurance coverage. The only issue under the Hyde Amendment is who pays for an abortion for a woman on Medicaid, not whether any abortion for any woman can happen. Thus, women are exponentially more likely to seek the exception under the Romney-Ryan plan than they have under the Hyde Amendment. And those opposing abortions would be equally more likely to contest those exceptions to prevent what they view as murder.
So these are hardly tongue-in-cheek questions. Nor is the broader question, which only the late Tim Russert ever regularly asked anti-choice politicians: With Romney and Ryan planning to make any abortions that are not subject to their rape or incest exceptions a federal crime, what is the specific prison term they would impose on offending women? And if they would penalize only doctors, wouldn't that undermine the enforceability of the law as well as their stated principle that abortion is murder?
(Steven Brill is the author of Class Warfare: Inside the Fight To Fix America's Schools, has written for magazines including New York, The New Yorker, Time, Harper's, and The New York Times Magazine. He founded and ran Court TV, The American Lawyer magazine, ten regional legal newspapers, and Brill's Content magazine. He also teaches journalism at Yale, where he founded the Yale Journalism Initiative.)
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Sonoma, CA (Sports Network) - The IndyCar Series is back on track this weekend at Sonoma Raceway after taking a two-week break.
With five races remaining, Helio Castroneves holds a 31-point lead over Scott Dixon and a 65-point advantage over defending series champion Ryan Hunter- Reay.
All 25 teams entered in Sunday's race participated in a test session at Sonoma. Chip Ganassi Racing drivers Dario Franchitti and Dixon topped the time sheets. Franchitti, the four-time series champion, made a lap around this 2.385-mile, 12-turn road course in 1 minute, 18.2945 seconds. Dixon's best lap came in at 1:18.3694.
A Ganassi driver has won the last four IndyCar races. Dixon claimed the victory in the inaugural event at Pocono and then scored a sweep in the weekend doubleheader in Toronto. Charlie Kimball is coming off his first career IndyCar win on Aug. 4 at Mid-Ohio.
Franchitti has turned his season around with top-four finishes in the previous four races. He has moved up to sixth in points (-111). Franchitti started the season with back-to-back 25th-place finishes at St. Petersburg, Fla. and Birmingham, Ala. He also placed 23rd in the Indianapolis 500.
"It's nice to show the results that we've deserved," Franchitti said. "Earlier this year when we did have fast cars, we weren't getting the results. We've managed to turn it around a bit. Recently, we've had the form to get that first win of the season. Sonoma is as good a place as any to try and get that done."
Franchitti has finished no worse than eighth in his seven races at Sonoma. He won here in 2009.
Sonoma has been one of Will Power's best tracks in IndyCar. Power won at this course consecutively from 2010-11. Last year, he finished second to Ryan Briscoe, who was his Team Penske teammate at the time. Power also has won the pole here in each of the last three years.
"Sonoma is definitely a good chance for us," Power said. "It's a track I've had a lot of success on. Although the competition has definitely heated up this year, we still expect to be running right at the front."
Power is 11th in the point standings after finishing second in the series championship the past three seasons. He has not won a race since April 2012 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Power is hopeful of a win this year and plans to help Castroneves, his teammate, in his efforts to win the title.
"It would be really nice to get a win before the end of the year," Power said. "As far as Helio goes, he's in a very good spot to win the championship, and as a team, we'll be doing everything possible to make that happen."
Castroneves won at Sonoma in 2008.
Briscoe is scheduled to drive the No. 4 car for Panther Racing at Sonoma. He has been behind the wheel of that car in five races this season, finishing no better than 13th. Briscoe fractured his right wrist during an accident in the first Toronto race and was unable to compete in the second event there.
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When planning for a project, regardless of business domain, best practice suggests that there needs to be a supporting business case. Makes sense — every project is, after all, essentially a bet. Meaning, a company's leadership team is placing a wager that an investment in a project will pay off, and that the project yields positive value in return.
When thought of in conjunction with a specific project, it's easy to imagine this. You can envision the math: "if we invest $1m in this project, we're 85% likely to receive $6m in return. It's a go!" But, the more difficult part is knowing where to place your bets. Which project? When?
Earlier this year I worked with a large multi-national enterprise in the hi-tech space. They have a really complicated supply chain, in fact several supply chains. This company sensed that it had an issue with freight audit and payment, and that they were over-paying on invoices because they did not have the right processes in place to capture incorrect invoices from their partners. The project team pulled together a business case, and a plan to install and launch a technology-based solution to solve it. At that level it makes total sense: automate the process and receive value.
But, how did they decide to invest in that particular project, as compared to other supply chain-related projects? To be sure, I didn't get a front-row seat to that conversation, but I suspect that it was based in part on intuition, a gut feel. We have a sub-optimal freight audit process, and we can see the dollars so let's do it. There could be other projects out there that have value as well, but we're not sure what they are worth, and in fact there are some opportunities that we don't even know about yet. That's where visibility comes in. That is why visibility should come first.
In this scenario, what if there was another opportunity sitting right next to the freight audit project? Like another process area that also required $1m in investment to fix, but yielded a 2x return at a higher confidence level? Wow, all of a sudden the original project looks like a mis-informed bet, an incorrectly placed investment. So, how do leading companies avoid this issue when it comes to the supply chain? They turn on the lights first, and see what's going on and then they place their bets.
Here is an analogy I've been using for this situation. Imagine a room, one that has furniture and art inside of it. You're mission is to re-arrange the room and the placement of these objects to optimize and improve the flow of traffic, and their ability to better appreciate the art. But, the lights are out — it's dark.
Option 1: walk into the dark room, where you can't see anything and start blindly re-arranging the furniture.
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I'm pretty sure that converting the podcast to AAC (if it isn't already in AAC), and renaming the extension to .m4b will make it look like an audiobook to the iPod. Therefore, if you're listening to a podcast on a 4G iPod or newer, you should be able to speed up playback like you can with audiobooks.
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This didn't work for me. But I am a newbie to the iPod and file manipulation. For the record I converted a mp3 recorded Internet Radio broadcast to AAC, and then changed extension to m4b and didn't show as Audio Book, but still showed up as Music. Nano for Christmas and I'm trying to figure out the smoothest way to get Podcasts to my Nano. The ones I can subscribe to seem to work well. But the Internet Radio I have to record is more work. I'm trying the free solutions first. RadioRecorder seems to function, but with my PowerMac I have to prevent sleep which is less than ideal. Also with my local NPR station I'm getting frequent drop outs which sometimes causes the Nano to stop (and not restart). At a minimum are quite irritating. Maybe it's because I'm using my Mac while recording. More work to do.
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Actually, you need to change the extention to m4b plus use a tool like Super Get Info (http://www.barebones.com/products/super/index.shtml) to change its system extension to m4b. Doing this and adding artwork if the file is already on your iPod will update it and make it an audiobook..
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Clarke was ruled out of Australia's crucial ICC Champions Trophy clash with New Zealand at Edgbaston on Wednesday as he continues to struggle with a nagging back problem.
Bailey said the side had missed Clarke's steadying presence in their first-up loss to England, and said the rest of the top order had to lift their game in order to pick up the slack.
"I don't think 'Pup' was ever going to come in and play a game without having trained so the fact that he hadn't rejoined the group as of yesterday, I think everyone assumed what was going on," Bailey said.
"We missed him last game - he's our captain and our best batsman - so we miss him every time he's not with us.
"The challenge is for someone to step up and fill the hole, or numerous people to step up and fill the hole is probably an easier way to cover him.
"My understanding is he's still just trying to fix it day by day."
The Australians have won seven of their past 10 one-day internationals against New Zealand, but New Zealand have beaten England (twice) and Sri Lanka in their past four games to head into the contest as favourites.
And Bailey said his team's good record against the Kiwis would count for nothing when play gets underway on Wednesday.
"None, absolutely none," Bailey said when asked if that record would have any influence on the match.
"When we start the conditions will be different, different pitch, different tournament, different teams. There's no bearing.
"They're in good form - I think their one-day cricket's been pretty consistent for a number of years. Certainly (they're) never to be taken lightly.
"As to favourites, there's only two of us in it."
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