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Tuesday I blogged Vonna Laue's responses to three budget-related questions to give you a preview of the expertise that resides on the panel for the upcoming budgeting workshop ECCU is presenting at the Christian Leadership Alliance (CLA) National Conference. (How to Build a Better Budget).
Next up is Hugh Burns, vice president of operations for the Denver Rescue Mission.
Jac: What top three priorities should guide the budgeting process?
Hugh: First, make sure your budget is relevant to your organization. For the Denver Rescue Mission, this involves having a process that holds department heads accountable to their budgets month-by-month throughout the year. We require department heads to provide commentary on budget-to-actual variances over 10 percent every month. We have found that this makes the budget process truly a part of our organizational culture.
Second, make sure the budget has been filtered through a process of review and discussion. Each of our department heads goes through a process whereby they propose a budget and then attend a meeting with the controller and the vice president in charge of their area. The department heads' budgets are projected on a screen. We go through them line by line and challenge them to justify the dollars they propose to raise and/or spend during the coming fiscal year. Adjustments and revisions are made on the spot.
Finally, make sure the budget balances on a consolidated level after all department budgets are rolled up. We make sure we our budget balances, including planned capital expenditures and with a 3 percent contingency fund. We believe that this is fundamental for us to have a sustainable business model.
Jac: What are two or three major changes you've made to your budgeting process and what was the result?
Hugh: We have utilized some helpful technology in our budget process. The most significant of these is SharePoint, which allows us to create an Intranet where budget templates can be saved and accessed. This assures that there is only one version of the truth at any point in time. We can also link all the spreadsheets together and consolidate them into a top-level budget with very little effort. As we make changes to department budgets, the consolidated budget is automatically adjusted.
Jac: How can an attendee prepare to gain the most value from this workshop?
Hugh: Come prepared to throw out the challenges and problem areas in your budget process during the Q&A time. Someone in the room is likely to have dealt with those issues before and will be able to offer a useful solution.
Again, this budgeting workshop will be on Thursday, April 11, from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.
To register for the CLA conference, visit www.claconference.org.


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On February 28, 1903, Ankeny was incorporated as a town, with a total incorporated area of one square mile. Seven years after its incorporation, the United States census indicated a population of 445 persons.
Telephone service quickly followed incorporation and electricity was made available for the first time in 1907. Extensive electrical service was not generally available to residents until 1919, when the Central Light and Power Company were granted a franchise to operate a power plant in Ankeny.
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Republican Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel is hiring political workers and friends at his job again. His latest hires are Joe Aquilino, former campaign political director to Mandel's U.S. Senate campaign, and Jared Borg, former campaign political coordinator. During the 2010 campaign for the state treasurer's office, Mandel said, "Unlike the current officeholder, I will ensure that my staff is comprised of qualified financial professionals — rather than political cronies and friends — and that investment decisions are based on what is best for Ohioans." Mandel's spokesperson defended the hires by touting the treasurer's accomplishments in office.
With a vote set for tomorrow, it's still unsure how the Hamilton County Board of Commissioners will solve the stadium fund deficit, but it seems like both options require tax increases. Commissioner Todd Portune, the lone Democrat on the board, proposed increasing the sales tax by 0.25 percent. Board President Greg Hartmann, a Republican, presented an alternative plan that reduces the property tax rollback by 50 percent for two years, but he also said he's not sure how he'll vote. Commissioner Chris Monzel, a Republican, says he wants to find a plan that doesn't raise taxes.
Either parking services are privatized or 344 city employees are laid off. That's how City Manager Milton Dohoney Jr. framed budget talks to City Council yesterday. The city has already made drastic cuts since 2000, laying off 802 employees. Dohoney also pushed for repealing the property tax rollback promised as part of the stadium deal in 1996, but City Council does not want to raise taxes in the middle of a slow economy. The fact is any form of austerity will be painful, so City Council should be as cautious of spending cuts as tax hikes. A public hearing on the budget will be held Thursday at 6 p.m.
The city of Cincinnati's plan to buy Tower Place Mall and the adjacent Pogue's Garage in downtown is moving forward. The city offered to buy the mall and garage for $8.5 million in order to spur economic development in the area. The parking garage and half-empty mall are currently in foreclosure.
Cincinnati State is looking to expand.
The Horseshoe Casino has begun its final round of hiring. The casino is set to open in spring 2013. A Washington Post analysis found casinos bring jobs, but also crime, bankruptcy and suicide.
One year later, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources hasn't followed up on a court order to compensate flooded landowners.
The State Controlling Board approved three programs that will provide transitional housing and other services to the homeless. As part of the initiative, Habitat for Humanity of Ohio will receive $200,000, the Homeless Crisis Response Program will receive $12,680,700 and the Supportive Housing Program will receive $9,807,600 from the Ohio Housing Trust Fund.
Great numbers from November from auto companies could mean more hires.
The U.S. Supreme Court is delaying action on same-sex marriage. CityBeat covered gay marriage in Ohio and whether Ohioans are ready to embrace it in a Nov. 28 cover story.
A dissolving nanofabric could soon replace condoms for protecting against pregnancy and HIV.
• I'm grateful to the Enquirer for running a story on Sen. Rand Paul's response to the State of the Union Message. It wasn't on NPR or any other network that I could find. His Washington office did not respond to my question of whether the Kentucky Republican offered his remarks to any broadcasters/cable networks.
• Tens of millions of Americans will become eligible for subsidized medical care under Obama's Affordable Care Act. Who's going to treat them? I haven't seen that in the news. And while reporters are working out that story, ask how the required additional primary care physicians will pay off college and medical school debts on the salaries that will be paid to their specialties.
• And once journalists dig into the supply of physicians to handle Medicaid expansion, I hope they'll ask who's going to staff quality preschool education for every American child. Obama can be aspirational, but we're not talking about minimum wage diaper changers. Early learning centers require trained pre-school educators. And while they're at it, reporters should ask where these new early childhood educators will train and who's going pick up the tab. After all, they'll never repay college loans on day care wages.
• Maybe I missed it in the admiring coverage of our government killing American Islamists abroad with drone rocket attacks: What prevents Obama from killing Americans in this country with drone strikes? None of the news stories or commentaries I've read or heard addressed that point.
There would be no shortage of targets. Wouldn't the sheriff have loved a drone-launched missile to kill Christopher Dorner, the rogue ex-LAPD cop? That might have spared the deputy whom Dorner killed during the flaming finale in the San Bernardino mountains. And what prevents our increasingly militarized police from using their own armed drones?
Imagine what authorities could have done with armed drones during earlier, infamous encounters:
A missile fired at armed members of the American Indian Movement at Wounded Knee, S.D., could have avenged inept, vain and foolish George Armstrong Custer and FBI agents killed in the 1973 siege.
No feds would have died if a drone-launched missile incinerated Randy Weaver's family with during its deadly 1992 confrontation with feds at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
David Koresh and the Branch Davidian religious sect were incinerated by the feds' 1993 armored assault in Texas. That would have been a perfect photo op for a domestic drone attack.
• Sometimes, "national security" is the rationale for requested or commanded self-censorship, even when secrets aren't secret.
For instance, British editors held stories about Prince Harry until he returned the first time from Afghanistan. However, an Australian women's magazine reported he was in combat. The non-secret was a secret because no one paid attention.
More recently, the new U.S. drone base in Saudi Arabia was supposed to be a secret. Obama officials asked major news media to hold the story and they agreed. National security, you know.
But it wasn't a secret. Washington Post blogger Erik Wemple said Fox News already had reported U.S. plans to build the facility in Sept. 2011. Three months before that, the Times of London reported construction of the Saudi drone base.
When the New York Times broke the agreement and reported the Saudi drone base, everyone jumped on the story. Now, the Times, the Post and AP are trying to explain why they kept the non-secret from us.
• Gone are the days when senior Israeli government officials could call in top editors and broadcasters and tell them what they could not report. Last week, a tsunami of technology overwhelmed official Israeli efforts to censor the story of Prisoner X. Israeli journalists were not to report his existence or mention the censorship order. National security, you know. However, an Australian network named an Aussie as Prisoner X and said he reportedly committed suicide three years ago in an Israeli prison. Social media and the online world took it from there: "Aussie recruited by Israeli spy agency dies in Israeli prison." Israel dropped efforts to censor the Prisoner X story and is issuing official statements about the case.
• San Bernardino's sheriff asked journalists to quit tweeting from the final gunfight with former LAPD cop Christopher Dorner. Bizarre. If authorities feared Dorner would gain tactical information, they misread his situation: Dorner was surrounded in a mountain cabin, tear gas was being lobbed in and men outside were trying to shoot him. He probably was too busy to read tweets. Moreover, only one reporter was close enough to tweet anything remotely useful to anyone. Most reporters initially or finally ignored the sheriff.
The tweet issue first arose during the 2008 Muslim terrorist attack on Mumbai when invaded the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel. Some authorities reportedly feared accomplices outside were reading news media tweets and forwarding tactical information about police and army movements to gunmen inside. I don't remember if anyone asked reporters to quit tweeting.
• A new poll says Fox hit an alltime low for the four years Public Policy Polling has tracked trust/distrust among TV networks: 41 percent trust Fox, 46 percent do not. The poll didn't find anything for other networks to brag about. Only PBS had more "trust" than "distrust" among viewers: 52 percent trust, 29 percent don't trust. The poll questioned 800 voters by telephone from Jan. 31 to Feb. 3.
• Garry Wills' new book, Why Priests, sets out to debunk Catholicism's dearest dogmas and doctrines concerning priests, bishops and the papacy. NPR's Diane Rehm gave him an hour last week to say why Catholic ordained clergy are an unnecessary accretion. Then she asked an outgunned parish priest from the Washington, D.C. area for a rebuttal. If she really wanted a lively, informed argument, there is no shortage of priest-scholars who could have matched Wills' credentials and talents as an historian. It was unfair and cringe-worthy.
• It's touchy when an unpleasantry is brought up in an obit: a long forgiven conviction, a "love child," whatever. More often, predictably awkward moments are omitted in the spirit of de mortuis nil nisi bonum. Here's HuffingtonPost on a full-blown omission in the recent obit on former New York mayor and mensch Ed Koch:
"The New York Times revised its Friday obituary . . . after several observers noticed that it lacked any mention of his controversial record on AIDS. The paper's obituary, written by longtime staffer Robert D. MacFadden, weighed in at 5,500 words. Yet, in the first version of the piece, AIDS was mentioned exactly once, in a passing reference to 'the scandals and the scourges of crack cocaine, homelessness and AIDS.' The Times also prepared a 22-minute video on Koch's life that did not mention AIDS. This struck many as odd; after all, Koch presided over the earliest years of AIDS, and spent many years being targeted by gay activists who thought he was not doing nearly enough to stop the spread of the disease. Legendary writer and activist Larry Kramer called Koch 'a murderer of his own people' because the mayor was widely known as a closeted gay man."
• New York's Ed Koch admired Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl's recorded last words before Muslim terrorists beheaded him. Koch had Pearl's affirmation of faith engraved on his own tombstone in Manhattan's Trinity Church graveyard: "My father is Jewish, my mother is Jewish, I am Jewish."
• A former student reporter rarely rates an obit in the national media, but Annette Buchanan wasn't ordinary. In the mid-1960s, she refused a court order to name sources for her story about student marijuana use on the University of Oregon campus. Her story ran in the Oregon Daily Emerald, the campus paper. No shield law protected her promise of confidentiality. The Emerald said she was fined the maximum $300 and the state supreme court affirmed her contempt of court conviction. That led to the creation of Oregon's shield law for journalists. She died recently.
• An unresolved First Amendment issue is whether bloggers can be protected by state shield laws that allow journalists to keep sources secret. The latest case is from New Jersey. Poynter.com said blogger Tina Renna refused to identify government officials whom she said misused county generators after Hurricane Sandy. Union County prosecutors demanded the 16 names, saying Renna wasn't a journalist protected by New Jersey's shield law because she's been involved in politics, her blog is biased and she's often critical of county government.
The Newark Star-Ledger took her side. It said shield law protection "shouldn't hinge on whether someone is a professional, nonpartisan or even reliable journalist. It's a functional test: Does Renna gather information that's in the public interest and publish it? Yes." Renna "can be a little wild, she's not the same as a professional reporter and she drives local officials crazy. But part of democracy is putting up with Tina Renna." A court will probe whether Renna is a journalist as defined by the state shield law; that is, whether bloggers can be included by analogy under protected electronic news media.
• Few ledes — introductory sentences in news stories — are as lame as those saying the subject "doesn't look" like some stereotype. For years, it usually referred to a woman in an unconventional (read men's) occupation or pastime. "She didn't look like a steelworker . . . " or, "You wouldn't think a tiny blonde bagged a deadly wild boar with a huge .44 magnum revolver." Male subjects aren't immune, as in this lede from a recent Washington Post story: "Farmer Hugh Bowman hardly looks the part of a revolutionary who stands in the way of promising new biotech discoveries and threatens Monsanto's pursuit of new products . . . "
What do revolutionaries look like? Lenin was pictured in suit and tie. Gandhi wore a white, draped sari or dhoti, Mandela and fellow ANC rebels often wore suits and ties. Young 1960s American and French student rebels never wore suits and ties and needed haircuts. Today's young North African activists dress the same for class or a demonstration.
"Doesn't look like" wouldn't even fit an androgynous male model in the annual Victoria's Secret fashion show. He'd be there because he looks like a classic, young, leggy "angel."
• Have you noticed how hurricanes, floods, blizzards and tornadoes are morphing from evidence of climate change into photo ops? News media see them as so common that little reporting is required beyond images and stories of hardship: shoppers hoarding sliced white bread, downed trees and shattered homes, marooned airline passengers and days without power. Maybe there's the throwaway quote from some climatologist about change affecting weather, but for the most part, that's it. I'm betting this deliberate ignorance is a Republican Party plot to show that increasingly frequent, dangerous weather reflects the Intelligent Design that gave us dino-riding cavemen a few thousand years ago.
• The Enquirer devoted Page 1 to a dramatic OMG! graphic and story suggesting Cincinnati was terrible because it had no black candidate for mayor. An accompanying list of movers and shakers had few blacks. The presentation suggested the all-white mayoral contest meant amiss in a city where whites are the largest minority. However, whites and blacks told reporters that leadership rather than color was foremost among attributes they sought in a mayor. Moreover, with so many African Americans in visible leadership roles in the city, having a black mayor succeed a black mayor was less of an issue than the paper suggested.
There's even more bad news coming from Ohio's newly privatized prison. Violence last week forced Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) to call in the state's special response team, according to Plunderbund. Two teams from the Ohio Department of Correction and Rehabilitation were dispatched. Gov. John Kasich pushed prison privatization in his 2012-2013 budget to save costs. CityBeat covered private prisons and the shady connections CCA had to the current state government prior to the sale here.
There might be a court case disputing JobsOhio's constitutionality, but that hasn't stopped the state government from moving forward with implementing the private, nonprofit agency. On Friday, the state announced it transferred $500 million in state liquor funds to JobsOhio. The Ohio Supreme Court recently agreed to take up a case from ProgressOhio disputing whether state funds can be used for the private agency. Kasich established the agency in an effort to encourage job growth in Ohio.
Kasich will reveal the blueprint for his 2014-2015 budget plan later today. According to Gongwer, his proposed budget will cut personal income taxes across the board
and offset the cuts by closing loopholes and broadening the sales tax
base. The governor has long been eying an income
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to help pay for a tax cut, but the plan faces bipartisan opposition.
In the 2013 mayoral race, John Cranley is currently outraising
Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls, but both Democrats are fairly close. Qualls has raised $134,188, while Cranley
has raised $170,877. Most of the race has focused on the streetcar so far, with Qualls supporting and Cranley against the twice-voter-approved transit project.
The city of Cincinnati and Duke Energy have reached a limited agreement to meet in court to settle who has to pay for moving utility lines to accommodate for the streetcar's tracks. As part of the agreement, Duke will begin moving lines in the next few weeks, even while the city and Duke wait for courts to decide who will pay for moving the lines. Mayor Mark Mallory also announced the city will try to finish the streetcar project in time for the 2015 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, but he added there are no guarantees. For more on the streetcar and how it relates to the 2013 mayoral race, check out CityBeat's cover story.
Libertarian Jim Berns recently forced a mayoral primary by entering the race.
Community leaders around Greater Cincinnati are mapping out veteran services programs.
Ohio is expanding its foreclosure prevention program. The maximum benefit possible has increased from $25,000 to $35,000, and the highest annual household income allowed to participate in the program is now $112,375.
The Ohio Board of Regents finished moving to the Ohio Board of Education building.
Looks like Ohio First Lady Karen Kasich's Twitter account was hacked.
Smokers will pay higher prices under Obamacare.
Physicists have created crystals that are nearly alive.
A new analysis suggests that tax revenue from Ohio's new casinos will not be enough to make up for state spending cuts to cities and counties. The findings of the Oct. 1 analysis, by left-leaning Policy Matters Ohio, apply even to casinos and big cities that get extra casino tax revenue. They still lose twice in state aid what they get in new taxes, according to the report.
Overall, the analysis found that new casino revenue will provide $227 million a year to counties and cities. In total, state aid to counties and cities has been cut by about $1 billion. That means the tax revenue isn't even one quarter of what cities and counties will need to make up for cuts.
The cuts also won't be enough to make up for state cuts to schools. When casino plans propped up around the state, governments promised that revenue from casinos would be used to build up schools. However, state aid to K-12 education has been cut by $1.8 billion, and new tax revenue will only make up 0.5 to 1.5 percent of those cuts in most school districts, according to the Policy Matters report.
In 2013, Cincinnati will become the fourth Ohio city with a casino. Cleveland and Toledo have casinos, and a new casino opened in Columbus Oct. 8.
Currently, the system is set up so each casino is taxed at 33 percent of gross revenues. That revenue is split into many pieces with approximately 34 percent going to the school fund. Each city with a casino also gets an exclusive 5 percent of its casino's revenue.
For Cincinnati, that means about $12.1 million in new annual tax revenue. But even with that revenue, Cincinnati will still be losing about $17.7 million in state funding, according to calculations from Policy Matters.
In past interviews, Rob Nichols, spokesperson for Gov. John Kasich, has repeatedly cited the constitutional requirement to balance Ohio's budget to defend any state budget cuts: "The reality is we walked into an $8 billion budget deficit. We had to fix that."
Cuts Hurt Ohio, a website showing cuts to state aid, was launched by Policy Matters earlier this year. That website found $2.88 billion in cuts to state aid with $1.8 billion in cuts to education and $1.08 billion in cuts to local governments. In Hamilton County, that translated to a $136 million cut to education and a $105 million cut to local government.
The report does caution that its findings are "necessarily tentative": "Projected revenues have come down significantly since the 2009 campaign for the casino proposal, and the expected opening of numerous gambling facilities makes it hard to be sure what revenues will be. We estimate casino tax revenue based on several sources, including state agencies, casino operators, and former taxation department analyst Mike Sobul. Our numbers reflect a comparatively optimistic assessment."
Gov. John Kasich's school funding plan may not be so progressive after all. In his initial announcement, Kasich promised the program will be more progressive by raising funding to poorer schools, but this fact from StateImpact Ohio seems to contradict that claim: "Under the projections released by the state, a suburban district like Olentangy that has about $192,000 of property value per student would get a more than three-fold increase in state funding. Meanwhile, Noble Local, a small rural district with about $164,000 of property wealth per student sees no increase in state funding." The Toledo Blade found Kasich's education plan favors suburban schools. The Akron Beacon Journal pulled numbers that show rich, growing school districts will do fine under the plan. According to The Columbus Dispatch, 60 percent of Ohio schools will not see increases in funding from Kasich's plan.
The Ohio Department of Transportation is now shying away from statutory guarantees for northern Ohio in the Ohio Turnpike plan. Originally, Kasich promised 90 percent of Ohio Turnpike funds will remain in northern Ohio, albeit with a fairly vague definition of northern Ohio. Now, even that vague 90 percent doesn't seem to be sticking around. But the plan would still be a massive job-creating infrastructure initiative for the entire state. The Ohio Turnpike runs along northern Ohio, so changes to fees and the road affect people living north the most.
WLWT published a thinly veiled criticism of local teacher
salaries. The article pointed out Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS) pays
45 of its employees more than $100,000 a year.
Of those people, 42 are administrators and three are teachers. In
comparison, the highest paid Cleveland school teacher makes $86,000. The
article also glances over the fact CPS is "the number one urban-rated
school district in the state" to point out the school district is still
lacking in a few categories. As CPS Board President Eileen Reed points
out, a school district needs to attract better educators with higher
salaries if it wants to improve. Paying teachers less because the school
district is performing worse would only put schools in a downward
spiral as hiring standards drop alongside the quality of education.
County commissioners seem supportive of Kasich's budget. Republican commissioners Chris Monzel and Greg Hartmann said the budget could be "revolutionary" by changing how county governments work. Democratic Commissioner Todd Portune highlighted the Medicaid expansion in the budget. As "revolutionary" as the budget could be, it's not enough to make up for Ohio and Kasich's troubled past.
Cincinnati Children's Hospital was ranked the third best pediatric hospital in the United States by Parents magazine.
The Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Council of Governments is looking for comments on updating the region's bike map. Anyone who wants a say should leave a comment here.
The upcoming Horseshoe Casino is partnering up with local hotels to offer a free shuttle service that will seamlessly carry visitors around town.
One courageous grandma stood up to an anti-gay pastor. During a sermon, the pastor outed a gay high school student and told everyone they would "work together to address this problem of homosexuality." At that point, the grandma snapped at the pastor, "There are a lot of problems here, and him being gay is not one of them." She then apologized to the boy and walked out.
Music has a lot of effects on the brain. Here is an infographic that shows them.
Bonus science news: Earth-like planets could be closer than most people think.
Ohio House Republicans released their own budget proposal yesterday that does away with many of Gov. John Kasich's proposed policies. The budget gets rid of the Medicaid expansion, the oil and gas severance tax and the sales tax expansion. It also reduces the state income tax cut to 7 percent, down from 20 percent in Kasich's plan. The amount of schools getting no increased funding under a new school funding formula decreased from 368 in Kasich's plan to 175 in the House plan, addressing issues that selective wealthy schools were benefiting too much from Kasich's proposed school funding formula. CityBeat covered Kasich's budget proposal in detail here.
NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio is criticizing the Ohio House's proposed budget for defunding Planned Parenthood and redirecting federal funds to anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs). A study from NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio, which is highly supportive of abortion rights, found 47 percent of CPCs gave inaccurate medical information regarding a link between mental health problems and abortion, and 38 percent provided false information about the connection between breast cancer, infertility and abortion, among other findings.
The city of Cincinnati is asking Judge Robert Winkler to stay his previous ruling so the city can use emergency clauses to expedite legislation. City Solicitor John Curp says the city needs emergency clause powers in case of natural disasters and to advance economic development deals that need to be implemented before 30 days. The city previously used emergency clauses to avoid a 30-day waiting period for implementing laws, but Winkler ruled the clauses do not nullify the right to referendum, effectively eliminating the use of emergency clauses because the city now always has to wait 30 days in case of a referendum effort. The ruling was given after City Council used an emergency clause to expedite the lease of the city's parking assets to the Port Authority to help balance deficits and fund economic development.
With the support of Councilwoman Yvette Simpson, City Council is looking to study youth poverty, homelessness and other issues to better prioritize city policy. The $175,000 study, which will be mostly privately funded, will look at multiple factors affecting the city's youth, including crime, poverty, homelessness and educational opportunities. Simpson says the study will be the first comprehensive look at the city's youth.
Democratic Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown's bill to end Too Big to Fail was leaked to the press Friday, and The Washington Post has an analysis on what it does here. While the bill doesn't explicitly break up big banks, it does severely limit big banks in a way that may encourage them to downsize. Brown will co-sponsor the bill with Republican La. Sen. David Vitter, making it a bipartisan compromise. CityBeat covered Brown's efforts in further detail here.
Ky. Sen. Mitch McConnell's re-election campaign is complaining someone bugged a meeting to listen in on staff's plans for the 2014 election. Jesse Benton, campaign manager for McConnell, said in a statement, "Today's developments ... go far beyond anything I've seen in American politics and are comparable only to Richard Nixon's efforts to bug Democratic Party Headquarters at the Watergate 40 years ago." During the meeting, McConnell's staff alluded to labeling potential opponent Ashley Judd as "unbalanced" by bringing up past mental health problems. Meanwhile, recent polling found McConnell is no lock for re-election.
As the media ramps up fears of another Korean war, many analysts feel there is no chance of war. Meanwhile, South Koreans seem more bored than concerned with the North's threats.
Scientists discovered evidence of "dark lightning," which may emanate from thunderstorms alongside visible lightning.
Cincinnati City Council plans to move $29 million in funds to avoid further delays for the streetcar
project, but the city is still looking at a 2015 opening date. City officials announced Wednesday that a council
committee will vote Monday on three pieces of legislation to keep the
$110 million project in line with the recently announced delayed opening.
One measure would front $15 million to help Duke Energy move underground utility lines from the path of the proposed streetcar route. That money comes from the recent $37 million sale of land near the former Blue Ash Airport.
The city thinks it will get this money back once a dispute with Duke is resolved. The city contends that Duke is responsible for moving the lines, which the utility estimates will cost $18.7 million. Duke counters that the lines only have to be moved because of the streetcar construction, so the city should foot the bill.
"We're fronting money for the Duke work until we can work out who pays for it with Duke," city spokeswoman Meg Oldberding said. "It's to keep the project on time and on budget. Delays would escalate the cost."
Another ordinance would change the municipal code to "confirm the city's existing rights" and clarify that utilities pay for the cost of relocating facilities unless otherwise negotiated, according to a news release.
Oldberding said Cincinnati has always maintained that it is the utility's responsibility to relocate their facilities, so it is not a change in the city's position.
The final ordinance would change the funding source that is repaying $25 million in bonds sold as part of the original plan to fund the streetcar.
Those bonds were originally being repaid with money coming into city coffers from southern downtown and the riverfront area.
That area wasn't bringing in as much cash as expected, so the ordinance would have $14 million of the bonds repaid from a 1995 fund set up to collect service payments from the Westin/Star, Hyatt and Saks.
Oldberding said once the downtown district rebounds — it includes the Banks and the casino — it would repay the other fund.
The ordinances would not add to the project's cost. Construction is scheduled to begin early next year.
Meet Roger Jeremy Ramundo, the man police shot and killed on July 24 after what's now being called a "life or death struggle." Police say they first tried to subdue Ramundo, who had a history of mental health problems. But when Ramundo fired his gun once, an officer retaliated by firing two fatal shots into Ramundo's left back. For family members and colleagues, Ramundo's death came as a shock; none of them seemed to expect that he could turn violent. Ramundo was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and generalized anxiety disorder, according to the health care worker who notified police that Ramundo left home with his licensed gun, but he had been refusing to take his medication for either illness at the time of his death.
Budget cuts to human services, parks and other areas could be retroactively reduced or eliminated with higher-than-projected revenues from the previous budget cycle, Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls announced yesterday. When City Council passed the city's operating budget in May, it had not yet received the full revenue numbers for the fiscal year that ended on June 30. With the full numbers expected to come in higher than originally projected, Council will be able to evaluate options for what and how much can be restored. Human services funding was cut by roughly one-third in the city budget, putting it at 0.3 percent of overall spending — far below the city's historic goal of 1.5 percent.
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine won't appeal the temporary restraining order that forces the state to recognize a Cincinnati same-sex couple on their death certificate, but DeWine says he'll continue defending the state's ban on gay marriage. Lisa Hackley, DeWine's spokesperson, noted that such restraining orders are normally not susceptible to appeal. Hackley's explanation contradicts an earlier report from The Cincinnati Enquirer that the order was going to be appealed. Meanwhile, FreedomOhio says it will try to put an amendment legalizing marriage equality on the November 2014 ballot, which CityBeat covered here when the group was still aiming for the 2013 ballot.
The I-71/MLK Interchange yesterday moved closer to its $107.7 million funding goal when Ohio's Transportation Review Advisory Council gave preliminary approval to Gov. John Kasich's transportation plan, which will use $3 billion raised through Ohio Turnpike revenues to fund infrastructure projects around the state.
The Ohio Supreme Court will review whether anti-gambling opponents of racinos have standing to sue. Among other issues, critics argue that Kasich's legalization of video lottery terminals didn't represent an actual extension of the Ohio Lottery, which is why the state claims it was allowed to legalize the gambling machines without voter approval. The state's Supreme Court says it will decide the issue after it rules on a similar case involving privatized development agency JobsOhio.
Democrats are voicing uncertainty about whether Republicans will actually take up a Medicaid expansion bill in September. Republican legislators rejected the expansion in the state budget, but they've said they will take up the issue in the fall. The Health Policy Institute of Ohio found the expansion, which is funded mostly through federal funds from Obamacare, would insure half a million Ohioans and save the state money over the next decade.
Charter schools' big challenge: finding space to house their facilities.
An Ohio gun group raised $12,000 to buy George Zimmerman a gun or security system.
Drivers, beware: Hackers could soon be crashing your cars.
Drinking coffee has been linked to a 50 percent lower risk of suicide.
The Medicaid expansion would add more Ohioans to the state-federal health care program by raising the eligibility threshold to 138 percent of the federal poverty level, up from 90 percent. The budget summary claims the expansion makes financial sense for the state as long as the federal government picks up most of the tab. As part of Obamacare, the federal government takes all the costs for newly insured Medicaid recipients for the first three years. After that, the federal government's share is brought down to 95 percent and ultimately phased down to 90 percent. If the federal government reneges on its promise to pay for the bulk of the share, Kasich's budget has a trigger to wind down the Medicaid expansion.
The budget also proposes income and sales tax cuts, which would come with some trade-offs. The state income tax would be brought down by 20 percent across the board, and the sales tax would be cut from 5.5 percent to 5 percent. To balance the cuts, Kasich has proposed broadening the sales tax to include other "economic activity," while keeping exemptions for education, health care, rent and residential utilities.
In another slew of tax changes, Kasich's plan proposes revamping the oil and gas severance tax. It would eliminate the tax for "small, conventional natural gas producers," but imposes a 4 percent tax for bigger oil and gas producers.
In the past, liberals have voiced opposition to tax cuts — instead favoring investments elsewhere. Policy Matters Ohio released its own budget proposals Jan. 31, which emphasized "education, health care and human services." The plan would also increase the income tax for top earners.
City Council Member P.G. Sittenfeld released a statement criticizing Kasich's budget for not using the extra revenue to scale back local government and education cuts enacted in the 2012-2013 budget: "At a time when local governments around the state are being forced to slash basic services, lay off safety personnel, raise taxes, and sell off assets just to stay afloat, it's out of touch for Gov. Kasich not to reverse his raid on our local government fund. We don't pay taxes to pad the governor's soundbites, we pay them to maintain our roads and keep cops on the street. This should not be a partisan issue. It's simply illogical governance to make the state look good while in the process hurting Ohio's cities."
The budget proposal also includes Kasich's Ohio Turnpike plan and education reform plan.
City Council wants to do more research before it proceeds with freestanding public restrooms in downtown and Over-the-Rhine. The vote has been delayed. Critics say the restrooms are too expensive at $130,000, but supporters, particularly Councilman Chris Seelbach, insist the restrooms will not be that expensive. A majority of City Council argues the restrooms are necessary because increasing populations and growth in downtown have made 24-hour facilities necessary.
A new report found Ohio's budget would benefit from a Medicaid expansion. The expansion would mostly save money by letting the federal government pick up a much larger share of the cost for Ohio's population, particularly prison inmates. A previous study found Medicaid expansions were correlated with better health results, including decreased mortality rates, in some states. Another study from the Arkansas Department of Human Services found the state would save $378 million by 2025 with the Medicaid expansion. Most of the savings from the Arkansas study would come from uncompensated care — costs that are placed on health institutions and state and local governments when uninsured patients that can't and don't pay use medical services.
The Dayton Daily News has a wonderful example of how not to do journalism. In an article on the supposed "climate debate," the newspaper ignored the near-unanimous scientific consensus on global warming and decided to give credence to people who deny all scientific reasoning. To be clear, there is no climate debate. There's the overwhelming majority of scientists, climatologists and data on one side, and there's the pro-oil, pro-coal lobby and stubborn, irrational conservatives who will deny anything that hurts their interests on the other side.
The Ohio Board of Education approved policies for seclusion rooms. The non-binding policy requires parents to be notified if their children are placed in a seclusion room, and the Ohio Department of Education can also request data, even though it won't be made public. More stringent policies may come in the spring. Seclusion rooms are supposed to be used to hold out-of-control kids, but an investigation from The Columbus Dispatch and StateImpact Ohio found the rooms were being abused by teachers and school staff for their convenience.
If the city wants to buy Tower Place, the mall will have to be cleared out, according to City Manager Milton Dohoney. Last week, the remaining businesses at Tower Place were evicted, and Dohoney said the city did not sign off on the eviction orders. Apparently, the city really didn't agree to or enforce eviction orders, but the city's buyout requires evictions. Dohoney said the eviction notices should signify the deal to buy Tower Place is moving forward.
Dohoney appointed Captain Paul Humphries to the assistant chief position for the Cincinnati Police Department. Humphries has been on the force for 26 years, and he currently serves as the chief of staff to Chief James Craig.
Cincinnati's Neighborhood Enhancement Program (NEP) is targeting Mt. Airy and Carthage. Starting March 1, police, businesses and civic groups will begin putting together accelerated revitalization and reinvestment plans for the communities. NEP emphasizes building code enforcement, crime, neighborhood cleanup and beautification.
Good news, everyone. Cincinnati is no longer the bedbug capital.
Bob Castellini, owner of the Reds, was named the region's master entrepreneur by Northern Kentucky University.
The Ohio Department of Transportation released a website that has real-time traffic information.
Oh, science. Apparently, particle physics could improve Netflix's suggestions.


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BlackRock Announces 9% Increase In Quarterly Common Stock Dividend
BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK) today announced that its Board of Directors approved a nine percent increase in the company's quarterly common stock dividend, to $1.50 per share from $1.375 per share. The dividend is payable on March 23, 2012 to shareholders of record as of March 7, 2012.
BlackRock's Board of Directors also approved an increase in the availability under the company's existing share repurchase program to allow for the repurchase of up to 5.0 million shares of BlackRock common stock.
"The Board's decision to further increase the dividend and our share repurchase capacity reinforces our collective confidence in BlackRock's financial strength and the diversity of our earnings model as well as our continued commitment to delivering strong shareholder value," said Laurence D. Fink, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. "Today's announcement reflects our focus on returning a meaningful amount of cash to shareholders through both dividends as well as share repurchases."
The share repurchase program provides for repurchase of BlackRock's common shares in the open market or in privately negotiated transactions, from time to time, depending on market conditions and at the discretion of management. The program, which has no stated expiration date, was originally approved in July 2010, and prior to this approval, had approximately 3.6 million shares of remaining authorization as of December 31, 2011.About BlackRock BlackRock is a leader in investment management, risk management and advisory services for institutional and retail clients worldwide. At September 30, 2011, BlackRock's AUM was $3.345 trillion. BlackRock offers products that span the risk spectrum to meet clients' needs, including active, enhanced and index strategies across markets and asset classes. Products are offered in a variety of structures including separate accounts, mutual funds, iShares® (exchange-traded funds), and other pooled investment vehicles. BlackRock also offers risk management, advisory and enterprise investment system services to a broad base of institutional investors through BlackRock Solutions®. Headquartered in New York City, as of September 30, 2011, the firm has approximately 10,200 employees in 27 countries and a major presence in key global markets, including North and South America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and the Middle East and Africa. For additional information, please visit the Company's website at www.blackrock.com. Forward-looking Statements This press release, and other statements that BlackRock may make, may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act, with respect to BlackRock's future financial or business performance, strategies or expectations. Forward-looking statements are typically identified by words or phrases such as "trend," "potential," "opportunity," "pipeline," "believe," "comfortable," "expect," "anticipate," "current," "intention," "estimate," "position," "assume," "outlook," "continue," "remain," "maintain," "sustain," "seek," "achieve," and similar expressions, or future or conditional verbs such as "will," "would," "should," "could," "may" or similar expressions.
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Copyright 2012 Randy Hunt
Randy Hunt, local CPA and 5th Barnstable District Massachusetts state representative, regularly posts his points of view regarding local, regional and national issues. (Boring!) But most of the time he just writes humorous stories. No ads. No clutter. Everything is copyrighted by Randy Hunt. To replicate an article, just email for permission.
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Forty years' worth of driving tips
Copyright 2012 Randy Hunt
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- Mark SilvaApril 22, 2012 at 2:30 PM
My twist on #4 merging onto a highway. As someone who routinely drives well over 40,000 miles a year (approx 1.5 million miles in the past 40 years) it amazes me as to the number of people who a) do not get the concept of the yield sign and b) merge onto the highway insisting they have the right of way. Apparently most have flunked physics and the basic principle that 2 objects cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Either speed up and merge in front or slow and merge behind me. While I will accomodate my speed slightly, I cannot drop to 35mph because of the person 1.5 car lengths behind me.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 22, 2012 at 4:14 PM
Randy, what do you think goes through an inmates mind when they are making a license plate for a State Police vehicle?ReplyDelete
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It was a great day!
See you all next year have a wonderful season.
We will set the new date soon.
In the planning phase for our 10th year in 2015!
10:00 am til 6:00 pm.
(Many shops stay open until 8:00 pm)
Wine Women Shopping is a fun-filled day to share with your mom, sisters and friends. Enjoy Christmas shopping in a relaxed enjoyable quaint small town. Stroll past the Victorian homes and tree-lined streets, enjoy lunch at any of our great restaurants.
Boutiques and shops have pulled out all the stops to make sure everyone has a great day! Come and enjoy our small town and our personal service. November 8, 2014 from 10:00 am until 6:00 pm. A Lot of stores stay open until 8:00 pm. Come spend the day or the weekend with us.
Chelsea, Michigan is located at I94 & M52
- 20 minutes west of Ann Arbor at 194 exit 159.
- 40 minutes east of Jackson on I 94
- 55 minutes south of Lansing
- 70 minutes east of Kalamazoo
- 65 minutes south of Birmingham
- 75 minutes east of Grand Rapids
- 60 minutes to Toledo and Perrysburg, Ohio
Main St., Chelsea, MI. 48118 find us on www.mapquest.com
Come and explore our beautiful Chelsea!
Thanksgiving is soon upon us and Faith in Action Food pantry shelves are in need of filling. For a complete list of what our community needs see our Facebook page: WineWomeShopping. There will be volunteers and a truck at Middle and M52 Main Street, to take in food supplies. Thank you all for last year we filled a truck bed with food and supplies!
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When Texas Industries (NYSE:TXI) reported earnings two weeks ago on January 9th, 2013, analysts, on average, expected the company to report a loss of $0.31 on sales of $166.0 million. Texas Industries actually reported a loss of $0.36 per share on sales of $167.7 million, missing EPS estimates by $0.05 and beating revenue estimates by $1.7 million. Shares of Texas Industries have climbed from $55.97 to $59.12, representing a gain of 5.6% since the company reported earnings 17 days ago.
Texas Industries (NYSE:TXI) is currently priced 12.9% above its average consensus analyst price target of $51.50. The stock should discover initial support at its 50-day moving average (MA) of $50.71 and subsequent support at its 200-day MA of $41.82.
Texas Industries share prices have moved between a 52-week high of $59.21 and a 52-week low of $30.10 and closed Thursday at 96% above that low price at $59.12 per share. In the last five trading sessions, the 50-day moving average (MA) has climbed 2.2% while the 200-day MA has risen 1.2%.
Texas Industries, Inc. and its subsidiaries supply construction materials such as cement, aggregate, and concrete products. The Company's customers include the construction, original equipment manufacturers, tool, and country goods markets.


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Stealth Lawyer: Loni Edwards, Fashion Startup Founder
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2014 is a transformative year for the media business. We will look back several years from now and fully realize this.
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The recent decision of the CJEU in the Karen Millen case provides important guidance to fashion designers and retailers who rely on unregistered design rights in their designs according to the Council Regulation (EC) No....more
Guru Denim, Inc. dba True Religion Brand Jeans recently sued Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corporation for selling jeans that allegedly infringed on True Religion's "U-shaped" pocket design. Interestingly, this is not...more
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Metaphysics is usually thought to be the province of philosophers or theologians. A recent decision by a U.S. District Court in Tennessee, Varsity Brands, Inc. v. Star Athletica, LLC, 110 U.S.P.Q.2d 1150 (W.D. Tenn. 2014),...more
The Milan Court of Appeal has overturned the first instance decision and partially upheld Gucci's claims, stating that Guess has committed an act of unfair competition, by parasitically copying a number of products of the...more
What is a trade dress? Is this a new fashion trend that Miley Cyrus or Rihanna started?
Not exactly. Trade dress law is a subset of trademark law that originally included only the packaging or "dressing" of a...more
The Court of Justice of the European Union ("CJEU") issued its decision in Karen Millen Fashions Ltd v Dunnes Stores (C-345/13) on June 19, 2014, providing guidance on litigating unregistered Community designs and...more
There is a general rule that you don't talk about sex, religion or politics at work. I did politics in my last Letter from Europe, and this time, I'm touching on the religious theme. (As I don't think the firm would take...more
Consumers frequently reveal personal information about themselves through a variety of daily online and offline activities. For fashion designers and retailers, this consumer information represents a valuable tool to...more
There are plenty of businesses making and selling garments in the rag trade and all of them are trying to stand out from the crowd. Each label is looking for their point of difference and, for a large number of brands, their...more
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On 19 June 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union ("CJEU") delivered a judgment in the ongoing seven-year legal battle between Karen Millen Fashions and Dunnes Stores in Ireland.
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This is a very recent decision of the CJEU in the Karen Millen case, which provides important guidance to fashion designers and retailers who rely on unregistered design rights in their designs according to the Council...more
Trademark protection is very important in the fashion industry. The ability to protect certain logos and design features may determine the success of a fashion designer's business. Thus, it is crucial to understand how to...more
I will survive! Global law firm K&L Gates hosted a panel of experts, featuring David Briskin (Executive Chairman, sass & bide and Director, VAMFF), Rachel Smith (Partner, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu) and Jol Rogers (Partner, K&L...more
The year 2014 is being hailed as the year of wearable technologies. Wearables captured significant attention at January's International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and hundreds of new products are expected to be...more
Christian Louboutin filed suit last week in Federal District Court in New York against Charles Jourdan Fashion Footwear and unnamed companies and John and Jane Does for trademark counterfeiting and infringement and other...more
Those of us who love fashion and have closets overflowing with more pairs of shoes than we probably need are likely familiar with Louboutin pumps. These sky-high heels have a very distinctive look and design. Louboutin heels...more
A U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York recently found that a company that had provided lower earnings guidance in its statements to the public than its results from the previous year was not protected by...more
Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Loni Edwards, founder of Stitch Collective, talks with Bloomberg Law's Spencer Mazyck about her transition from practicing law at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP to starting a fashion company that...more
For more than a century, courts have grappled with whether to extend the protections of trademark laws to colors. In 1995, however, the Supreme Court recognized that both the "language . . . and the basic underlying...more
From the perspective of False Claims Act (FCA) results, 2012 was a decidedly mixed year for healthcare providers. The bad news was quite bad—increased FCA scrutiny by the Department of Justice (DOJ) led to $3 billion of...more
This year has been marked by significant judicial and legislative developments relating to the fashion industry in the United States....more
Tory Burch, a designer known for her colorful, yet accessible preppy styles and signature double-T medallion, has a new contender to deal with in the fashion world, and unfortunately it's her ex-husband and former business...more
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Trevor Butterworth, October 27, 2009
STATS, the Center for Media and Public Affairs and The Hormone Foundation collaborated on a broad examination of the scientific research on the highly publicized risks surrounding hormone replacement therapy and the way the media covered the debate.
In a unique collaboration between media critics and health experts, STATS, its sister organization, the Center for Media and Public Affairs (CMPA), and the Hormone Foundation, the educational affiliate of the Endocrine Society joined forces to analyze one of the most vexing health issues facing women as they enter menopause: what are the benefits and risks of hormone therapy
The STATS part of the project surveyed the empirical research on HT, noting its strengths and weaknesses, and distilling the evidence into a FAQ; the CMPA study looked at the media coverage, which shaped women's perceptions of this issue.
The CMPA study examined 335 news stories from over five years of media coverage from a sample of major print and broadcast organizations, including the three . This analysis yielded 2,597 statements either asserting the benefits or the risks of hormone therapy.
90 percent of opinions expressed in the media coverage affirmed a risk, which given the strong data available on the harmful effects of HT, was not surprising. Discussions of benefits were more ambiguous and speculative: 60 percent of assertions on benefits affirmed a benefit while 40 percent cast doubt.
It wasn't a surprise either, given the longstanding reluctance of the press to delve into numbers, to find that just 22 percent of stories contained one or more qualitative or quantitative evaluations of the risks of hormone therapy. These assessments were most often in the form of a "small but significant" risk (26 percent of evaluations) or as a "miniscule risk to individual women" (11 percent).
This reluctance to think through the numbers had an unfortunate effect. Although heart disease led the media's discussion of risk over time, even as deeper analysis of Women's Health Inititive data showed that there was no increased risk for younger women on hormone therapy, the generalized discussion of harm was misleading. As STATS Director of Research Rebecca Goldin, Ph.D noted (in the FAQ):
"some media sources reported the lack of heart-protective effect in terms of "risk of harm." This citation of possible harm was especially misleading when it came to those women who had had a hysterectomy, or those women without a hysterectomy and were under 70 years old. While the WHI trials showed that HT should not be prescribed for prevention of heart disease, it did not show that HT was categorically risky for women to use."
This pointed to the strength and the weakness of the coverage: Overall, the media were good at identifying the risks and benefits of hormone therapy but, crucially, not how the risks or benefits specifically applied to women with different health profiles. Important qualifiers such as the age of the women being studied and the length of time they were on hormone therapy were often ignored. Thus, when numbers were cited without qualification, it seemed as if they applied to all postmenopausal women.
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Consecration of St. Ignatius Orthodox Church, Franklin, TN
On Sunday, October 19, 2014, His Grace Bishop Antoun—with His Grace Bishop Thomas assisting—consecrated the beautiful new temple of St. Ignatius Orthodox Church (Diocese of Miami and the Southeast), in the greater Nashville area. Archpriest Stephen Rogers and St. Ignatius clergy served in the joyful Hierarchical Liturgy. Congratulations to the entire community! (View the photos by Joel Smith)
"A Tribute of Love": October 22-26, 2014
"...Put on LOVE, which binds everything together in perfect harmony." Colossians 3:14
In that perfect harmony rooted in love, Saint George Cathedral in Coral Gables, Florida joyfully and gratefully offered "A Tribute of Love" during the historic and memorable weekend of October 22-26, 2014.
Saint George Cathedral was honored to host His Eminence Metropolitan Joseph, Primate of the Antiochian Archdiocese of North America, who presided over the Fall 2014 Archdiocese meetings of the Bishops, Board of Trustees, the Order of Saint Ignatius of Antioch, and the Antiochian Village Council.
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Your prayers are requested for our Antiochian Bishops and Board of Trustees members preparing to convene in Florida for meetings from October 23-26, 2014. With the blessings of Metropolitan Joseph of the Antiochian Archdiocese of North America, and The Right Rev. Bishop Antoun, Diocese of Miami and the Southeast, The Rev. Fouad Saba and St. George Antiochian Orthodox Cathedral in Coral Gables, FL are hosting the Hierarchs and Board of Trustees meetings. The historic meetings will be the first ones in which Metropolitan Joseph presides for both the Board of Trustees fall meetings, as well as the gathering of the bishops.
On Saturday evening, a banquet will be held honoring the newly selected Metropolitan, and offering tribute to His Eminence Metropolitan Philip of Blessed Memory. A Sunday Hierarchical Liturgy will be followed by "The Stewards Luncheon," with the Board of Trustees as guests of honor.


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An Italian best-seller that has touched off a scandal in the Vatican reportedly contains a plea from Cardinal George, urging the Vatican to halt an award to Governor Pat Quinn for abolishing the death penalty.
The book is Your Holiness: The Secret Papers of Benedict XVI by Italian writer Gianluigi Nuzz.
John Allen, a Vatican analyst and columnist for the National Catholic Reporter newspaper, says the book reveals what Nuzzi claims is an encrypted 2011 cable from the Apostolic Nuncio in Washington, relaying an overture from Cardinal George to the Holy See's Secretariat of State.
In the cable Cardinal George asks that the Vatican office step in and block the Rome-based Community of Sant'Egidio from giving an award to Quinn, Allen said. Sant'Egidio, a Catholic movement that promotes peace and fights poverty, apparently planned to honor Quinn and a delegation from Illinois for abolishing the state's death penalty.
Although Cardinal George and Governor Quinn agree on capital punishment, the Cardinal has criticized Quinn for supporting abortion rights and same-sex civil unions.
Colleen Dolan, a spokeswoman for Cardinal George, says he knew about his mention in the book. She would not confirm or deny whether the memo was fact or fiction.


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I never update this anymore. You can add me if you have a LiveJournal account. I like it much better, even though Blurty lets you do more things with your journal. ;x
I saw Legally Blonde II, cause Princess Lily just had to see it. It was soo stupid. I hated that movie. It is the most annoying-est movie in this whole unholy earth. But on a good note, I saw Huy, Nick, the back of Fern's head, and alll of the beautiful Brightwood kiddies. >;xThat is all I have to say about my weekend.
It's SEVEN-ELEVEN today...That means...FREE SLURPESS for us all!!! -- Locate your nearest Seven-Eleven for your free slurpee!I got mine! Go on and get your's! :D
The sound...The thought...Even the sight of my parents fucking irritate me. They're so ignorant, I can't stand it. Warped Tour 'O3 LA -- Today! // I will not be attending, cause my parents are asses. :[xx_Paint the walls with my brains.
I haven't updated in a while...Sorry for the lagging, guys. :xPlease don't take me off your friend's list because I have nothing to say...Nothing interesting happens in my life. If there were something for me to update about, I would...But if you feel like I'm ignoring my journal, then go ahead and take me off your list...But let me know.Hmm...Yup. I tried learning how to do text boxes yesterday, cause I made this nice layout, but I didn't understand it. I tried to do it, but I'm really bad with directions, so I still didn't get it. :/ I haven't done anything over the summer yet, but July should be a good month. Yup. And this is life.
It feels like I haven't updated in years.Hmm...For the first day of summer I went to the beach. Laguna beach is absolutely beautiful. <3 I love it there. I'm going again tomorrow. :D I'm chipper about it. Then on Tuesday, I went to Speed Zone. I love go-karts. :DHmm...And then I found out this kid I used to hate in Florida killed himself today. :/hope ya'll's summer is going swell.
Woot. Yesterday was a blllllasssstttt. We just offically named it, "h2o day". heh. I went to China Town, and bought shoes and silly string...When Phuc got to Kathy's house, we sprayed her like no tomorrow. Then when Jason showed up, we sprayed him like no other...And then me and Phuc went after each other. It was quite amusing. We later went to the Awwwyayayakakaka {Aowakya} Tiki Rama thing, and left after about an hour with some guys everyone knew, but me. We went to the CYF BBQ, and then back to Kathy's house to swim. It was fun, even though I was dragged in quite a few times. =/Yeah...all in all, I am satisfied that I got to spend time with Jason.
things are getting better for me in a way...Hope everything's going good with the rest of ya'll. :D
Today sucked ass. Yesterday sucked ass too. `nuff said.
Life is dull.
I hate being sick. This sucks soo much cock. Last night I thought I had sars...and it made me wanna cry. :[ My throat hurts like a bitch, and that spray stuff, it tastes like shit.Sadies was Friday night, and I went with Jason. :D Social gatherings suck a dick, so we left early...like about 3 hours early. We walked to a park near by and we ended up just sitting on the bleachers, and "expressing our love" while the old people walked past us. It was soo funny, cause I was sitting on Jason's lap, and we were kissing, then this old lady walked by, and started staring at me, so I got freaked out, and pushed Jason away...Then after about 3 mins of starting at me, she was like, "oh. sorry. I thought you were my daughter." I was soo embarassed. ;xyeah. this is all.
The only times I have eventful days are the days when everything bad happens. First off, me and Jason weren't getting along very well. I was upset about it, but didn't know how to approach him about my feelings...I have this fear of getting rejected or having him not care. So I called him and we talked things out, and everything's coming along just fine. [[that's the only good thing about my week. is that Jason has been there to make me soo happy.]] But anyhoo...This morning my mom kept rambling on about how I should have taken the SATs this year, instead of waiting until my Junior year, and how I'm always either on the phone, watching TV, listening to music, or not home. Grrr. This woman makes me mad, but I didn't say anything to her, I just sucked it all up cause it's mother's day soon, and I don't want to upset her. School was such a bitch. I have been doing so horrible. I ditched class yesterday for like 2 whole hours, I've been slacking off with my work in english, and I got caught cheating on my spanish quiz. I'm so scared of what my parents will say/think of me. I think I'm going to break down and cry. Today was just horrible. I bet you a million dollars Dawson's Creek is gonna be cancelled tonight. :[ My week has sucked.( Sweet and short )Camille is buying me a bass to make me happy. She's full of shit, but her false words make me momentarily happy, and Johnny's being soo sweet....but I feel bad cause I made him sad.
y0. My weekend sucked, how about ya'll?:[
Sorry guys for not commenting...I haven't really been online a lot lately, but as soon as I catch up on everyone's journal entries, I'll start commenting and updating. xx_Jessers
Better Luck Tomorrow was soo good...it was orgasmic. :] I liked loved the movie. It was so twisted...but I loved it. I ended up going with Stephanie, Matthew, Kevin, and Kelly...I should of called Jason...but something held me back. Later that night when I called him, he said that he would of had a ride by then...So I was pretty pissed off. :x Camille made it into the Talent Show...She so excited. I'm happy for her. Yeah. This concludes my entry.
Just fooling...He's not being moody. We've settled things. Jason: life is full of disappointments


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UTMB-Family Nurse Practitioner Program Summer 2013 - page 6
Hello All, Trying to find SOMEONE who has been accepted into UTMB's Summer 2013 Family nurse practitioner program. I cannot find any threads, would just like to know who else has been accepted to get to know my class. Thanks! ... Read More
0Apr 17, '13 by dolleyesGlad to hear everyone was able to enroll! Maybe we can find out about purchasing books on orientation day? As far as Mac goes, I didn't purchase parallels yet but have Microsoft office for Mac. I've been told (not by staff or anything) that it works just fine without the parallels, but will still wait to see on orientation day.
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0May 3, '13 by Back2schoolmurse, BSN, MSN, RNI created a facebook group just now titled UTMB NP Summer 2013 Start. I wanted to include our colleagues in adult/gero as well since we will have many of the same core classes. Request to join and invite all the friends you have made at orientation!
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A Supermarket Surprise
If you think that you can judge that package of dismembered animal bits by its expiration date, here's a cautionary tale that will make you think again. A customer at a Brooklyn grocery store found a newer "sell-by" label slapped on top of an expired one on a package of chicken and told the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets about it. The inspecting body for food safety shrugged it off, saying that sell-by dates are "nothing but a tool for store managers," who are permitted to relabel or repackage food.
60 Minutes called the fluid in which dead chickens float before they are processed for food "fecal soup," and we have heard enough horror stories to realize that most meat is contaminated with dangerous bacteria like E. coli, campylobacter, listeria, and other bacteria that live in the intestinal tracts and feces of animals. Meat and dairy products spoil fairly quickly, so this might be a good time to start avoiding the stuff altogether. I'm hoping for a run on our vegetarian/vegan starter kit displays, but if you don't have one nearby, you can download a copy or order one from our Web site.
It just goes to show—any way you slice it, meat is still just decomposing flesh.
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Where would I be able to find the episode of 60 minutes that you refereed to? Do you know what the episode is called?
Oh and I almost forgot. If it didn't sell we'd unpackage it and toss it into the grinder with the fat that's been trimmed off and make it into hamburger if it's was beef or sausage if it was pork. Just added spices to cover the taste and smell of old meat. The tourists loved them. Working there is what pushed me to go vegan almost 4 years ago.
I was a butcher's assistant for a bit and yes we repackaged meat that was past it's sellby date. If the package wasn't bloated and the meat looked fine it was repackaged. Because of the lights the meat might get an offcolour to it which I would have to point out since the butcher was colour blind so sometimes we'd take it out trim it off and repackage. If it had already been repackaged and was approaching the second sellby date we'd put a 25 off sticker on it. Anything to get that meat sold.
This is a good warning for everyone. The state departments of agriculture perceive that their job is to help livestock farmers and processors make money. Even though we the taxpayer hire and pay them the state departments of agriculture collude with these companies to help them abuse animals AND endanger our health. They collude with the puppy mill breeders too! Yes these are STATE EMPLOYEES. It's a crime!


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