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Brandon is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, educator and a co-founder of Meridian Hill Pictures. Brandon has focused his career and education on directing documentary films and teaching youth and adults how to create their own films. Brandon is director of the feature documentary in-production, Green Corps (working title), and co-director of the award-winning short documentaries Porchfest (2011) and Community Harvest (2010). Brandon served as executive producer and media teaching artist on the award-winning youth documentary Life as a Collage (screened at the 2011 AFI SchoolDocs and the San Francisco International Film Festival). Brandon co-designed MHP's Community Video Storytelling media education curriculum, a standards-based approach for teaching documentary filmmaking to diverse populations. Brandon has presented on Community Video Storytelling at the Media That Matters Conference, Yale University, AFI's Silverdocs, MHZ's ShortiCon and the Corps Network's Annual Conference. Brandon has served as a reviewer for the President's Committee on the Arts & Humanities National Youth Program Awards, the highest honor in the country for after school youth arts programs. Prior to forming MHP, Brandon taught documentary filmmaking to youth at ten middle schools across the country for the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts' 'On Location' national tour. Brandon holds a Bachelors Degree in Film Production and Cultural Anthropology from Boston University.
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Lance is a multi-discplinary storyteller and respected arts leader, with background in documentary filmmaking, education, journalism and community organizing. At MHP, Lance produces the studio's independent documentary films; develops new partnerships; and spearheads outreach and engagement strategy. In 2014, Lance received the prestigious DC Mayor's Arts Award, recognizing his innovative work in the art of documentary filmmaking. Lance is producer of the feature documentaries Green Corps, Voices from Within and associate producer of Fly By Light; and producer of award-winning shorts Life as a Collage, Doing it for Me, Porchfest, and Community Harvest. Prior to founding MHP, worked as a community journalist and children's author in Portland, Oregon; and taught English in Ethiopia. Lance is active in building the DC documentary filmmaking community: he has served two terms as Board Member of Docs In Progress; a Humanities Council of Washington DC humanities scholar and is a current DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities Individual Arts Fellow. Lance holds a Bachelors Degree in History from Dartmouth College.
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Lindsay prides herself on being curious and analytical with an eye for efficiency. As the studio and development manager for Meridian Hill Pictures, she combines her skills at creating organized systems with her interests in community development and filmmaking. Lindsay comes to MHP with a background in marketing and economics from DePaul University. Led by her interest community development, she served two years in the Peace Corps in Senegal where she collaborated with small business owners and community members to develop a juice and jam business, national artisan network, and youth development camp. Prior to working at MHP, Lindsay served as an economist at Bureau of Labor Statistics where she produced and analyzed employment estimates. Lindsay is drawn to film for its ability to reveal underrepresented perspectives and spark dialogue. By asking thoughtful, engaging, and challenging questions, she works to discover what leads people to pursue proactive solutions to issues facing their own communities. This is what drives her to support the development of films at Meridian Hill Pictures and produce her own narrative and documentary films.
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Alison is a writer and communications specialist who lives and works in Washington, D.C. A native of Bethesda, MD, she completed her undergraduate studies at Stanford University with a BA in Film and Media Studies. With a background in communications, new media, and journalism for scientific non-profits, Alison delights in using creative storytelling to express complex and revolutionary ideas. She also works as a freelance writer and swim coach. Outside of work she enjoys reading graphic novels, exploring D.C. with friends, and playing a lot of pointless iPhone games.
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Aqiyla is a social worker, documentary filmmaker, and educator living in Washington, DC. Growing up in the Triangle-area of North Carolina, she participated in children's theater and youth civic organizations, which sparked her passion for the arts and social action at an early age. She holds a bachelor's degree in Psychology and a Master's in Social Work from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her work experience spans early childhood development research, youth-adult partnership programs in the US and Ghana, and youth performance and media arts engagement programs. She received training in documentary arts from Duke's Center for Documentary Studies and a graduate certification from George Washington University's Documentary Filmmaking program. Aqiyla continues to think of new media projects to work on with her community.
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Hanna is a documentary filmmaker, photographer, and recent graduate from Wake Forest University's Documentary Film program. Her body of work includes nationally-screened documentary shorts, enhanced e-books on international issues, and transmedia projects that aim to give a voice to overlooked groups in international communities. Her passion for visual storytelling and educating audiences about underrepresented groups brings her to Meridian Hill Pictures, where she acts as the studio's production manager. Hanna uses her production experience and storytelling background to assist and support all stages of pre-production, production, and post-production at Meridian Hill Pictures.
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Originally from New York, Kate has worked in documentary and commercial development, production and post-production for the last 6 years. Driven by a passionate belief in the power of documentary, Kate came to DC to learn how to build effective strategic communications and impact campaigns around documentary films. In addition to participating in the 2015 George Washington University Institute for Documentary Filmmaking, she is also an MA candidate in GWU's School of Media and Public Affairs. Kate comes to Meridian Hill Pictures excited to further her education in social justice filmmaking and impact producing.
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Originally from Raleigh, NC, Aaron Hedquist is a junior at The George Washington University studying International Affairs with concentrations in Security Policy and Global Health & Development. Aaron recently returned from studying abroad in Khon Kaen, Thailand where he spent time researching diabetic risk perceptions in the northeast region of the country. Additionally, Aaron worked with human rights groups to organize the 7th Annual Issan Human Rights Festival in commemoration of International Human Rights Day. The event opened a dialogue on censorship and other human rights issues between ambassadors from seven different countries, including the United States, and human rights activists in the northeast region of Thailand. Aaron's background in photography and interest in connecting with the local DC community has lead him to work with Meridian Hill Pictures as the development intern.
Education Intern
A Masters Candidate in Film at American University and a graduate of Hampton University with a Bachelors in Broadcast Journalism, Lauren has a passion for the art of authentic storytelling. Her interest in community documentary and media education was sparked during a mission trip to Ghana and Liberia in 2013. Acting as a one-women production crew, Lauren has learned that the world revolves around the stories of everyday people, and believes that these extraordinary stories weave the fabric of humanity. Lauren is ecstatic to join Meridian Hill Pictures in their efforts to teach community-based video storytelling.
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Kimberly is a documentary filmmaker living in the Washington, DC metro area. After graduating from Virginia Tech's Communication program in 2013, Kimberly traveled to Singapore to write about the entertainment industry in the Asia-Pacific region. Her experiences there fueled her curiosity for content creation and led her to explore documentary filmmaking upon her return to the United States. Seeing the potential documentaries have for highlighting social issues, sharing underrepresented perspectives and making change brought Kimberly to Meridian Hill Pictures where she hopes to continue to serve the DC community. Outside of work she enjoys being a voracious reader and avid coffee drinker.
Edwin Martinez is a Bronx-born filmmaker whose first feature documentary To Be Heard, was winner of both the Metropolis Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at the DOC NYC film festival. As a cinematographer he has worked on several feature-length fiction and documentary films including Rachel Is, Leave No Soldier, Las Marthas (in production) and What Alice Found (winner, Special Jury Prize, Sundance). After graduating from the SUNY Purchase Film Conservatory as a Gates Millennium Scholar, he earned a Master's in Education Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and has worked as an instructor in various youth media programs in Boston and New York City. In addition to editing/directing independent films, Edwin produces shorts for educational, government and non-profit organizations.
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Sara Fusco is a documentary filmmaker, educator and transmedia specialist. She has nearly a decade of experience as a documentary editor and producer, and as a non-profit communications and fundraising strategist. With a focus on international humanitarian and human rights advocacy, her work has taken her on a variety of projects in Africa and the Middle East. Her documentary short MAKAPADS, about innovation in Uganda, was a semi-finalist in GE's Focus Forward Filmmaker Competition. Sara's community-based projects have focused on working as a mentor and technical advisor in youth media classes in New York City and Washington, DC. She has co-created a range of iPad and iPod-based video curricula. Sara has a master's in Media Studies from The New School in New York City.
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Second Post, First Real Drawing
I don't know if this qualifies as 'Life Drawing' since I used a photo reference, but here it is anyway...
Oh, and the green tint is from my DC, scanner wasn't big enough so I just clicked a shot of it...I kind of like the tinting.
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I Like how you captured her type...very cool. A few things to look at:
It feels like you added too much skull to the top of her head and not enuff to the back. ake a look at your reference again and double check those proportions. One thing that can be done, is to lower her hair line a bit. Right now her hair feels like it is sitting on top of the head rather than part of it.
Remember, the hair is meant to accentuate the roundness and planes of the form. Find that cylinder or box or oval of the head, that is what the air rests on.
If you could, I would post the photo reference so we can see wat you were looking at. Cause right now it feels like she was looking down, which changes a lotta proportions.
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Kim Kardashian has thrown the showbiz weight loss world into chaos after being accused of Photoshopping a selfie to make her waist smaller and her bum bigger.
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* S. 3075 - A bill to withdraw certain Federal land and interests in that land from location, entry, and patent under the mining laws and disposition under the mineral and geothermal leasing laws...
* H.R. 2430 An Act to direct the Secretary of the Interior to continue stocking fish in certain lakes in the North Cascades National Park, Ross Lake National Recreation Area, and Lake Chelan National Recreation Area...
The 89,000-acre Valles Caldera National Preserve in the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico is due west of Santa Fe. The caldera is a circle of 11,200-foot mountains that cradle vast valleys full of grass and wildlife and rippled with hot springs and clear creeks. Its rim mountains are cloaked in fir, aspen, pine and spruce. The Valles Caldera stands at the center of the Pueblo Indian world of the Southwest with many living Pueblo communities a short distance from its flanks and the great "Anasazi" (ancestral pueblo) ruins at Bandelier National Monument, Chaco Culture National Historical Park and various state parks nearby.
Conservationists see its livestock-worn landscape and numerous old logging roads as a prime place for the Park Service to lead environmental restoration programs employing young people from nearby low-income areas while helping establish a stronger land ethic in the area. Along with the restoration work, the preserve offers exceptional environmental and science education prospects as well, given its accessibility and the ease with which people can visit its varied environments.
Adding Valles Caldera to the Park System would technically be relatively easy, as the land already is owned by the federal government. In 2000 the land occupied by the preserve was purchased by the federal government amid a political battle between those who felt New Mexico had too much public land and many others who saw the exceptional beauty of the Valles Caldera threatened by continued private ownership, ranching and potential real estate development. As a compromise, rather than setting up the preserve under an agency such as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service or the National Park Service, a "trust" was created to manage the preserve as a "government corporation" (like the Post Office) overseen by a board of term-limited, politically appointed private-sector trustees. Critics say these nine trustees have been reinventing public-land management in largely closed meetings as they struggle under a mandate to become "financially self-sufficient" by 2015. No other piece of wild Western land has this structure, and few people -- including the trustees themselves -- believe it can work.
S. 3075 is the so-called North Fork Watershed Protection Act that would create a larger buffer around Glacier National Park to protect the park's resources from mining impacts.
Earlier this year British Columbia and Montana officials finalized an agreement to collaborate on protecting the environment of the Flathead River Basin from energy development. The agreement not only is designed to safeguard Glacier National Park in Montana and Waterton Lakes National Park in British Columbia from environmental contamination, but goes further, promising that the two will work on climate change issues as well as renewable energy solutions.
H.R. 2430 has been controversial in that politicians are trying to over-rule Park Service biologists who don't believe non-native fish should be stocked in high-country lakes in North Cascades National Park. A year ago inaction by the Senate killed a similar measure.
Folks long have been lugging non-native trout up into the park's high country to stock lakes that, under normal conditions, couldn't sustain wild fisheries because there are not enough nutrients, according to North Cascades officials. The stocking expeditions began late in the 19th century and have been handed down, father to son, father to son (and daughter no doubt), although in recent years the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife has handled the chore.
Late in 2008 the Park Service approved an environmental impact statement that said park managers on July 1, 2009, would ban fish stocking in as many as 42 high-country lakes unless Congress intervened and directed the stocking to continue. While the House of Representatives did pass a measure with such a directive, the Senate didn't consider the matter. As a result, the stocking of non-native fish is now banned in the park.
Even though the preferred alternative in the park's EIS on fisheries management was to continue the stocking operations if Congress authorized them, park officials never really liked the practice because it conflicted with their mission for managing natural resources.
The pending legislation would authorize, but not direct, the Park Service to resume the stocking in 42 of 91 lakes in the region.
There are some unsettling details behind this group of very fine bills that came out of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. First, the republicans did not attend the session where the bills were voted on. There is some tension between the two parties on the committee. When the committee had a hearing for the Valles Caldera Bill on June 20, no republicans attended. There seems to be a boycott happening.
The bigger problem lies with an omnibus public lands bill that these NPS bill would be rolled into this fall before the midterm election. In the past the senate has put some GOP bills into an omnibus to make it passable in the fillibuster senate. This year, given the paralyzing partisanship that has almost shut the senate down, few GOP bills have come forward to be put in an omnibus. Meanwhile Senator Cockburn (R) of Oklahoma has said he will insist that any spending in an omnibus be offset elsewhere in the budget (presumably not from farm subsidies for Oklahoma farmers).
Time will be short in September and October and Senator Bingaman and others interested in conservation will have to convince Harry Reid to schedule floor time to pass an Omnibus bill and get around any fillibuster. Whether Reid will do this is an open question and depends on what other bills are up and how the GOP thinks it can benefit from saying no to Democrats again close to the election.
Readers should contact their congresspersons and urge them to pass an omnibus public lands bill ASAP in September. It could really help if enough people do this, especially in states with GOP Senators.
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Councilman Chris Seelbach and other local leaders are calling on Congress to rework the Voting Rights Act following a U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down key provisions. Supporters of the Voting Rights Act argue it's necessary to prevent discrimination and protect people's right to vote, while critics call it an outdated measure from the Jim Crow era that unfairly targeted some states with forgone histories of racism. "Within 24 hours of the Supreme Court's decision to gut the Voting Rights Act, five states are already moving ahead with voter ID laws, some of which had previously been rejected by the Department of Justice as discriminatory," Seelbach said in a statement. "The right to vote is one of the most sacred values in our nation and Congress should act immediately to protect it".
Nonprofit developer 3CDC says it's restructuring staff and guidelines to take better care of its vacant buildings following criticisms from residents and the local Board of Housing Appeals. The board has fined the 3CDC three times this year for failing to maintain Cincinnati's minimum standards for vacant buildings, which require owners keep the buildings watertight and safe for emergency personnel to enter.
Gov. John Kasich said the funding allocation belonged in
the capital budget — not the operating budget he signed into law — when
he vetoed money going to State Treasurer Josh Mandel's office, but The Columbus Dispatch reports it might have been revenge
for Mandel's opposition to the Medicaid expansion and an oil-and-gas
severance tax. Kasich spokesperson Rob Nichols says the allegation is
"silly" and "absurd," adding that Kasich said he would work with Mandel
on allocating the money during the capital budget process. The state
treasurer's office says it needs the $10 million to upgrade computers
against cyberattacks. Mandel was one of the first state Republicans to
come out against the Medicaid expansion, which CityBeat covered here and here.
A series of mandatory across-the-board federal spending cuts was supposed to take $66 million from Ohio schools, but state officials say they'll be able to soften the blow with $19 million in unspent federal aid. The federal cuts — also known as "sequestration" — were part of a debt deal package approved by Congress and President Barack Obama that kicked in March 1. Prior to its implementation, Obama asked Congress to rework sequestration to lessen its negative fiscal impact, but Republican legislators refused. CityBeat covered some of sequestration's other statewide effects here.
The mayoral race officially dropped down to four candidates yesterday, with self-identified Republican Stacy Smith failing to gather enough signatures to get on the ballot.
Check out the Cincinnati Zoo's latest expansion here.
Headline from The Cincinnati Enquirer: "Where does John Cranley live?"
It's now legal to go 70 miles per hour in some state highways.
Cincinnati-based Kroger and Macy's came in at No. 2 and No. 14 respectively in an annual list of the nation's top 20 retailers from STORIES magazine.
The Tribune Co. is buying Local TV LLC in Newport for $2.7 billion to become the largest TV station operator in the nation.
Human head transplants may be closer than we think (and perhaps hope).
On New Year's Day, a fire broke out in a residential home near the University of Cincinnati that led to the deaths of UC students Chad Kohls and Ellen Garner, and their friends and family say the deaths could have been prevented by a better fire ordinance code. Now, Councilwoman Laure Quinlivan is heeding their call.
Speaking in front of the Livable Communities Committee
today, friends and family of Kohls and Garner asked City Council to pass changes to the fire ordinance, including more required fire exits, annual inspections, a mandatory fire drill at the beginning of each school semester and the removal of all exceptions in the code. They're also asking the new ordinance be named in honor of Kohls and Garner.
Quinlivan says her office will work with the city administration to find possible changes that would help avert fire deaths, including a measure that would prevent air conditioning units from being placed on windows that are supposed to act as exits.
Quinlivan is also encouraging UC to restart a certified list of preferred rental locations around campus, which would only include housing properties that pass fire safety inspections.
"I am touched that those close to Ellen and Chad contacted me, so that we can work with our city administration to prevent similar tragedies in the future," Quinlivan said in a statement.
Two weeks ago, City Council unanimously approved an ordinance that requires all rental properties be equipped with photoelectric smoke detectors that are better at detecting slow, smoldering fires, which have been linked to more fatalities than the flaming, fast-moving fires picked up by the more traditional ionization smoke detectors, according to the vice mayor's office. CityBeat covered that legislation here.
It's Martin Luther King Jr. Day. On this day, it's worth re-watching his I Have a Dream speech.
Local governments are hopeful they won't see big budget cuts in Gov. John Kasich's 2014-2015 budget.
Townships, municipalities and counties were economically hit by big
cuts in the last budget. The local government cuts added up to $1
billion on a state level, and Hamilton County shared $105 million — more
than 10 percent — of the cuts, according to Cuts Hurt Ohio. Education saw $1.8 billion in cuts statewide, with Hamilton County taking $117 million of those cuts.
Gov. Kasich announced that his state of the state address will take place in Lima, Ohio. Kasich's speech last year was labeled "bizarre" by outlets like The Hill. During the speech, Kasich imitated a person with severe Parkinson's disorder and called Californians "wackadoodles."
Union Terminal is falling apart. Cincinnati Museum Center executives say they need nearly $180 million for repairs. The damages are largely due to how the building was constructed. Its design lets moisture get behind bricks, which then causes supporting steel beams to rust.
The judge in the Miami University rape flier case gave a deposition Jan. 15. The document outlines Judge Robert Lyons' reasoning for letting the rape flier case go: "What I remember about him is that there was certainly concern about his, say, his mental health and there were grounds stated on the record for the necessity of sealing the record. It had to do with his — probably as I recall, more so mental well-being than anything else."
Former governor Ted Strickland is tired of raising campaign money, but that didn't stop him from joining City Council candidate Greg Landsman Friday. Landsman was Strickland's field director for his congressional campaign, and when Strickland was governor, Landsman was director of the Governor's Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives.
Rumor has it the Carew Tower will be going residential, but the owners are denying it all. The denial letter, which assured current tenants they won't be kicked out, makes reference to a "softness in the general downtown office market."
The Greater Cincinnati Foundation made $1.3 million in grants. The grants will help a variety of businesses and groups. A $225,000 grant will go to Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber's Minority Business Accelerator, which helps local businesses owned by minorities.
Garbage collection will be delayed by a day this week due to Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Will the first neanderthal in 30,000 years be given birth by a human mother? A Harvard geneticist says he's close to making it possible.
City Council's Budget and Finance Committee on Monday unanimously agreed to allocate $20 million in capital funding for the $106 million interchange project at Martin Luther King Drive and Interstate 71.
The funding will be backed through property taxes, which, according to the city administration, will prevent the city from lowering property taxes in the future as originally planned.
Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld argued the focus should be on the project's economic potential, not its possible impact on property taxes.
"If the city stopped spending money and stopped investing in things, indeed people's taxes would go down, but I don't think it's a very fair frame to think about making this very important investment," he said.
But Councilman Chris Seelbach said the public should know the full effects of the project.
"Believe me, I support this, and I support this through the property tax, but I just don't want us to be able to pass this without saying what it is," he said.
Council members said they support the interchange project because of the positive economic impact it will have on the uptown area, which includes the University of Cincinnati and surrounding hospitals.
According to a May 2012 study from the University of Cincinnati's Economics Center, the project will produce 5,900 to 7,300 permanent jobs. The same study found the economic impact of the project will reach $133 million during construction and $750 million once the interchange opens, which would lead to higher tax revenues.
The city is carrying roughly one-fifth of the cost for the interchange project. The rest will be financed through the state and Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Council of Governments.
City Council unanimously approved a development deal today to
build a grocery store, luxury apartment tower and garage at Fourth and
Race streets downtown.
With council approval, construction could begin later this year, with developers hoping to finish the project in 2015.
The $80 million deal with Indianapolis-based development company Flaherty and Collins was approved following City Manager Milton Dohoney's urging earlier today.
"If we wait any longer on the parking deal, we put this deal at risk. With the housing capacity issue downtown and decade-long cry for a grocery store, we must move forward," Dohoney said in a statement.
The city's share of the project will cost $12 million. As part of the deal, the city will provide the money through a five-year forgivable loan financed by urban renewal funds, which are generated through downtown taxes and can only be used for capital projects downtown. The funds can't be used for operating budget expenses such as police and fire.
For more information on the project, read CityBeat's original story on the Budget and Finance Committee hearing here.
Six of nine JobsOhio board members have direct financial ties to companies that have received tax credits and other help from the agency and state government, an investigation from Dayton Daily News discovered. The members are connected in various ways: Some are employed by the companies, others sit on their boards and a few just own stocks. The conflicts of interest that could undermine JobsOhio's goals. The privatized development agency was established by Gov. John Kasich and Republican legislators to replace the Ohio Department of Development. Republicans claim JobsOhio's privatized nature allows it to move at "the speed of business" when luring companies to the state. But Democrats argue that the agency is unaccountable and draining state funds without any clear indication of where the money is going.
Meanwhile, JobsOhio gave financial aid to a company that simply shifted jobs from one city to another. The agency gave Timbertech a 50-percent credit to create 85 jobs in Wilmington, Ohio. The company is abiding, but it's simultaneously closing down a Columbus factory at the loss of 58 jobs.
Cincinnati will end up not laying off any city employees after City Council undoes $4 million in budget cuts with leftover revenue from the previous budget year. The restorations will reverse some or all of this year's cuts to human services, parks, the Health Department and other city programs. Council members called the higher-than-projected revenue evidence that Cincinnati's economic strategy is working. But the reversals also raise questions about the city administration's original claims: When the 2014 budget was first being considered, Mayor Mark Mallory and his administration said the city would have to lay off 344 workers, including many cops and firefighters, to balance the budget without the parking lease. But without any of the parking money allocated, the city managed to avert all layoffs and undo a bulk of cuts, largely by using better-than-expected revenues from the past budget year.
Fixing up the Great American Ball Park for the All-Star Game could cost county taxpayers $5 million. The All-Star costs are just one part of the $27 million taxpayers will pay to improve stadiums in Hamilton County over the next five years. Stadiums are often touted by local officials as a way to boost the economy, but economists and urban planners have found that publicly funded sports arenas don't lead to sizable economic growth.
Ohio's job growth is so slow that it will take nearly five years to recover all the jobs lost during the Great Recession.
Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld is leading fundraising for this year's Council campaigns.
The Cincinnati USA Chamber of Commerce is hosting two mayoral debates. This year's candidates are Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls, ex-Councilman John Cranley, Jim Berns and Sandra "Queen" Noble. Qualls and Cranley are considered the two frontrunners.
The Cincinnati Art Museum is calling on community contributions to finish the second half of its renovations. The museum has raised $2.7 million out of the $6 million it needs.
Red Squirrel, a local restaurant chain, is closing down three of five eateries.
Internet-based psychotherapy apparently works.
City Council's Livable Communities committee is expected to hear about and likely vote tonight on the city's first master plan in more than 30 years. The plan, which CityBeat previously covered, seeks a renewed emphasis on Cincinnati's urban core through new infrastructure and transportation options. It was put together largely based on public feedback.
The "fiscal cliff," which is really more of a self-induced austerity crisis from the federal government, could seriously hurt Ohio schools. Educators around the state, including Cincinnati schools, are expecting a cut of about 8 percent in federal funding. A Cincinnati Public Schools levy was recently renewed after a decade of cuts and problems at the school district.
Gov. John Kasich has finally made a decision for Obamacare: The state will not run the health exchanges that are a big part of the plan. With the governor's decision, managing the health exchanges now falls to the federal government. Rob Nichols, Kasich's spokesperson, defended the governor's decision by pointing out that even if the state managed the exchanges, the federal government would always have the final say, creating an arrangement "just doesn't make sense for the state." Exchanges are subsidized, heavily regulated insurance markets that will go into effect in 2014 as part of Obamacare. They are supposed to bring down costs by offering more transparent, open competition through a fair, regulated marketplace.
Cincinnati's economy is being carried largely by manufacturing, and that looks likely to continue.
Business schools at the University of Cincinnati, Miami University, Xavier University and Northern Kentucky University were found to be among the nation's best, according to the Princeton Review. Still, none of the schools made the top 10 rankings for the review's 11 categories.
City Council is holding a public hearing today to find out what the city should do with casino revenue. Some of the council members already have plans, but City Council wants public feedback to shape the final decision.
In other council news, the Human Services Advisory committee recommended funding for 56 out of 58 programs. The two programs left out are the Over-The-Rhine Kitchen and a social education program offered by the Starfire Council of Greater Cincinnati.
Cincinnati's Metro bus service will be getting a revamp in the next few years. The company released a comprehensive plan with short-term and long-term goals that focus on increasing travel speed and reach.
Charter schools are where a large amount of Ohio kids are getting their education. This is despite the fact that, in general, traditional public schools perform better than charter schools, according to state standards.
Food stamps for Ohio families are getting reduced by about $25 a month. The good news is the cut is lower than expected.
The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction released a "re-inspection report" for the Lake Erie prison owned by Corrections Corporation of America. According to the new report, CCA has come a long way and corrected many of the violations the state originally found in the private prison. The last report found the prison, which CCA bought in 2011, was riddled with problems. CityBeat looked at private prisons, their problems and the shady connections between state officials and CCA in an in-depth report.
A report found more Ohioans are taking advantage of a national settlement that lets households refinance their mortgages. In total, more than 4,500 Ohioans have refinanced for $165 million in consumer relief. Still, many eligible Ohioans are not taking advantage of the opportunity.
Here are pictures of a tiny octopus, fighting female robots and an orange-powered battery.
We Are Ohio, the organization that helped repeal SB5 last year, says it will team up with nonpartisan Ohio Voters First to help put on the November ballot a constitutional amendment that would change the way legislative and congressional districts are drawn. The effort is in response to Republican-drawn redistricting maps that attempted to create 12 solidly GOP districts and four Democratic districts. The proposal calls for a nonpartisan commission to redraw legislative and congressional boundaries rather than letting politicians and anyone who gives them money do it.
The University of Cincinnati has released a study showing a considerable economic impact from construction of The Banks. Between construction contractors, new residents and visitors to the area's restaurants, the development reportedly will impact the local economy by more than $90 million a year.
The parent company of Cincinnati's Horseshoe Casino will host two informational sessions this week to offer local vendors information on how to bid on contracts for supplies and services the entertainment complex will need. The first takes place 6 p.m. tonight at Bell Events Centre near the casino site at 444 Reading Road, and the second is 9 a.m. Thursday at Great American Ball Park.
The Enquirer on Tuesday reported that the University of Cincinnati and Xavier University have agreed to move the Crosstown Shootout to U.S. Bank Arena for two years in response to last year's massive brawl. NBC Sports today reported that the presents of both universities issued a press release in response, stating that no final decision had been made.
The University of Cincinnati and Xavier University were both surprised to see today's announcement concerning the future of the Crosstown Shootout. While both schools are committed to the future of the Crosstown rivalry, specific discussions are ongoing and no details have been finalized. We look forward to sharing our plans with the community at an appropriate time in the coming weeks.
If it does happen, The Enquirer's Bill Koch says it's reasonable, while Paul Daugherty says that's fine but kind of dumb.
President Obama is finding it rather difficult to even win primaries against nobodies in the South. Not that it's surprise or really matters, though.
Of course, there are reasons for these kinds of returns. Few Democrats are voting in these primaries where Obama faces only token opposition; only protest voters are truly motivated.
There's also the fact that Obama is an underdog to Republican candidate Mitt Romney in the states of Kentucky, Arkansas, and West Virginia; Obama lost all three in 2008 to John McCain.
Another potential factor: Race.
Just when you thought Sarah Palin was super reliable, she goes and backs a Utah Republican incumbent over a tea party supported candidate.
The John Edwards jury entered its fourth day of deliberations today because they need to see more prosecution exhibits.
A white supremacist was sentenced to 40 years in jail by a federal judge for a 2004 package bomb attack that injured a black city administrator in Arizona.
researchers say they can figure out if Bigfoot really existed, if
they can just get one of his hairs.
The film version of On the Road premiered at the Cannes Film Festival today, 55 years after Jack Kerouac's Beat Generation-defining novel was published. London's The Guardian says the "handsome shots and touching sadness don't compensate for the tedious air of self-congratulation in Walter Salles's road movie."
City Council on Wednesday dismissed legislation that would have repealed controversial contracting rules for Metropolitan Sewer District (MSD) projects.
Council's decision could put Cincinnati and Hamilton County on a collision course over rules governing a federally mandated revamp of the city's sewer system. The city and county jointly manage MSD.
Democrats David Mann, Chris Seelbach, Yvette Simpson, P.G. Sittenfeld and Wendell Young voted to move the repeal ordinance back to committee. Republicans Amy Murray and Charlie Winburn, Charterite Kevin Flynn and Independent Christopher Smitherman voted to keep the ordinance in front of council.
Hamilton County commissioners previously halted most
of the $3.2 billion, 15-year sewer revamp in protest of the city's
"responsible bidder" law. As long as the hold remains in place, the city and county risk violating a federal mandate to revamp Cincinnati's inadequate sewer system.
The city rules require contractors to follow stricter standards for apprenticeship programs, which unionized and nonunion businesses use to train workers in crafts, such as electrical work or plumbing. The rules also ask contractors to put 10 cents for each hour of labor into a pre-apprenticeship fund that will help train newcomers in different crafts.
Supporters of the law claim it will foster local jobs and local job training. Opponents claim the law favors unions and places a costly burden on MSD contractors.
city already gave various concessions to resolve its conflict with the county, including
exemptions for small businesses and contracts worth less than $400,000. But the county has so far refused to budge.
Smitherman, who opposes the law, argued the issue will end up in court and the city will lose.
"What was passed on May 1 is not constitutional," he said.
But the city's law department says the law is legal and could be defended in court.
Seelbach, who spearheaded the law, said he's in talks with Hamilton County Commissioner Greg Hartmann to bring both parties into mediation and resolve the conflict.
"I'm asking for some more time," he said.
Screw Cyber Monday; it's budget day! The Hamilton County Board of Commissioners is set to vote on its 2013 budget today. The initial vote was delayed when commissioners couldn't all agree on the full details. In City Council, a memo revealed the budget should be unveiled today. One part of the Cincinnati proposal has already been hinted at by a previous memo from the city manager: privatized parking.
On Wednesday, City Council approved Plan Cincinnati. The master plan, which is the first the city has undertaken in 32 years, creates short-, medium- and long-term goals. Built largely on public feedback, the plan emphasizes Cincinnati's urban core with new transportation programs, community health initiatives, new housing options and more. CityBeat previously covered the plan in-depth here.
In Hamilton County, 81 people voted twice. The votes, which involved provisional ballots, only reflects about 0.2 percent of the county's vote, but it shows some of the confusion and inefficiencies of modern elections. One particular problem is some elderly voters cast absentee ballots before the election and then filed provisional ballots on Election Day.
A California firm is using Alaskan pension dollars to buy hundreds of homes in Greater Cincinnati. The real estate will be used to provide corporate rentals.
Some education advocates are worried state education agencies won't have the proper time and resources to implement HB 555. A few provisions will have to be ready by mid-2013, which some advocates see as too little time; but the president of the Ohio Board of Education remains confident. HB 555 will radically reform the state's school report card system, which evaluates and grades schools. Some state officials are worried the new standards, which will be measured in part by new standardized tests, will be too tough. An early simulation of the new report cards in May showed Cincinnati Public Schools dropping from the second-best rating of "Effective" under the current system to a D-, with 23 schools flunking and Walnut Hills High School retaining its top mark with an A.
State Medicaid costs are rising, but more slowly. The slowdown may be partially attributed to Gov. John Kasich's reforms of the program, which is one of the most prominent costs in state budgets around the country.
Gas prices in Ohio have gone up in the last week. The prices were higher than they were in 2011, and some experts say instability in the Middle East is to blame.
Ohio is looking good for a revival of the pharmaceutical industry. That's good news since the industry could be on the cusp of a "golden era of renewed productivity and prosperity," according to PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Unfortunately for the pharmaceutical industry, the next generation of water pollution could be flushed drugs.
Here is the pope made out of condoms.
Science has been hard at work in 2012. Here is a list of the seven greatest engineering innovations of the year. The list includes the world's largest semi-submersible vessel, which can be used as an offshore dock, and a carbon-neutral office building, which is arguably the most sustainable workplace ever.
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SANTEE Santee Mayor Randy Voepel is concerned about what he says is an inaccurate image of his city as a haven for the homeless.
A recent count by the Regional Task Force on the Homeless reported 58 people found living on the streets in Santee, an east county city with a population of more than 53,000.
Voepel wants the number corrected and even put the topic for discussion on the agenda at the city council's April 27 meeting. Peter Callstrom, executive director of the task force, has offered to provide a Power Point overview of the findings.
"There are 10 to 13 homeless, 15 maximum during the summer, who live here, mostly at the (San Diego River) river bottom," Voepel said. "There's insufficient evidence (for 58). This is not a scientific study. They don't know Santee.
"I've been fighting 'Klantee' and 'Santucky' for years and I'm not putting up with it. Plus, they're wrong."
He also noted, "We are very stingy on the homeless issue because the city is in the pothole business, not in social services business."
Voepel believes the group inflates its findings to finance more government funding for homeless providers. The Task Force shares the information with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, which then awards funds to social service agencies to help with resources for the homeless.
"No, not at all, this is a piece of the whole work that goes to HUD to determine what goes on in the region that leads to what is allocated," Callstrom said. "This is not the direct link, this is one element, one important one. "There's a lot of pieces to this."
Santee uses some block grant funds to help the homeless, but Voepel said it's only 20 to 25 percent.
The count was a one-day, four-hour snapshot of the number of homeless throughout San Diego County, both cities and unincorporated regions, the Regional Task Force on the Homeless in partnership with the Regional Continuum of Care Council.
Callstrom and the task force's Jennifer Litwak, manager of projects and development, stand by the number of homeless their 550 volunteers, including 12 in Santee, tabulated from 4 to 8 a.m. Jan. 28.
"The perception might boil down to what we call homeless," Litwak said. "It's not just the homeless that wander around in the street. Homeless means they are living in no clear place meant for human habitation, whether that means parks, alleys, cars or RVs."
Litwak said that homeless were found in several areas of the city, including 13 near the Santee Trolley Square. She said that when the volunteers find a vehicle that looks like someone might be living in it, they are told to multiply that by two, per HUD instructions. She said three cars were found at the border of Santee and El Cajon near Gillespie Field, but that only one was counted as being in Santee.
Voepel said that dating back to 1997, the city has expressed concerns over the number of homeless as reported by the Task Force. Voepel said that the Santee Sheriff's station keeps close tabs on the homeless population and that he believes their current number of 14 homeless adults is correct.


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Emma has a close relationship with Scott, obviously, that's her man...But she hasn't formed any bonds with any of the female characters.
We all know Emma is a bitch, but its just a fa cad, if she truly was a bad person she wouldn't be dating Scott Summers, because through and through he's a good person.
Kitty has expressed that she doesn't like Emma, we KNOW Storm does not like Emma because of their "history", and we know the Cuckoos don't really respect her, and Dazzler and Psylocke don't like her. hmmmm, i personally think it's kind of sad. In the end all the members of the X-Men DO respect her as their teammate and do have her back I'd say.


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TheStreet) -- I'm now as tired of the word "sequester" as I was of
Twelve of Washington's finest, a.k.a. the "super" committee, could not come to an agreement of how to cut $1.2 trillion over 10 years, and this, sequestration, is the" punishment." It was thought to be so severe, so dreaded, that there was no way the gang of 12, six Republicans and six Democrats, would leave that room until there was an agreement.
But guess what? They gave up. They could not reach an agreement. They kicked it down the road again. But who cared at the time? It was November 2011, and the automatic cuts would not kick in for another 13 months. Plus, there were bigger fish to fry. There was an election on the horizon, then there was this "cliff."
It didn't matter. As part of the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, a.k.a. the great "cliff" diverter, sequestration was put off for another two months. That two-month delay is about up.Now we are bombarded by the warnings that the sky is falling, that our lives will be ruined if the $85 billion in cuts under sequestration are allowed to go into effect. I say let it happen. For one, it is getting more difficult to believe the politicians and the talking heads as we jump from crisis to crisis and they tell us we must do X or Y will happen. I've stopped believing them. I believe that many other Americans have as well. We are yawning about sequestration. We've had enough. Part of that is simple crisis fatigue. Part of it is based on the belief that $85 billion in cuts out of a $3.6 trillion budget is a drop in the bucket. Part of it may be some wishful thinking, too. I just don't believe that the sky will begin falling on Friday, and fall harder as more of the cuts kick in. I just don't buy the scare tactics: Cuts in defense, first responders, border patrol agents, teachers, air traffic controllers, etc.


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TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. and ISLANDIA, N.Y., Nov. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — E-Government initiatives aimed at modernizing federal information systems are fraught with risk, according to a new study sponsored by CA, Inc. (Nasdaq: CA) and conducted by the Ponemon Institute, Cyber Security Mega Trends: Study of IT leaders in the U.S. federal government.
Released today at CA's IT Government Expo, the Cyber Security Mega Trends study surveyed 217 senior-level IT executives employed by various U.S. federal agencies to identify significant areas of risk to information security associated with government efforts to adopt new technologies such as cloud computing, virtualization, mobile devices, and Web 2.0 tools such as collaboration and social networking applications, blogs and wikis.
According to government IT executives, the most significant threats to confidential data, proprietary government systems, and the nation's critical infrastructure are as follows:
- 79 percent of respondents see the rise in the use of collaboration tools as significantly increasing the storage of unstructured data sources that contain confidential or sensitive information that is not adequately protected or secured.
- 71 percent of respondents believe that cyber terrorism is on the rise and this trend poses a very serious threat to the protection of proprietary systems as well as our nation's critical infrastructure.
- 63 percent see the mobility of the government workforce as contributing significantly to endpoint security risks as a result of a plethora of insecure mobile data-bearing devices that are susceptible to malware infections and botnet attacks.
- 52 percent of respondents say that Web 2.0 applications such as social networking, social messaging, blogging and wikis contribute to the leakage of confidential or sensitive information as well as the susceptibility to malware and botnet attacks.
Other mega trends that exacerbate security risks in the U.S. federal government according to government IT executives include: a continued rash of data breach incidents (40 percent), virtualization technologies (44 percent), rise in the usage of cloud computing resources and applications (39 percent), outsourcing to third-parties (34 percent), and use of open source applications (18 percent).
Thirty-five percent of respondents said their department's networks had been victimized by an unauthorized infiltrator one or more times over the past 12 months. Another 38 percent of respondents were unsure about possible unauthorized intrusions.
In addition to the above, respondents to the survey reported that the targets representing the most serious threats to data security were wireless devices (57 percent), endpoints (35 percent), networks (29 percent), databases (25 percent), applications (12 percent), paper documents (11 percent), and off-line devices (6 percent).
"Many federal agencies are moving to take advantage of the efficiencies made possible by today's technological innovations in order to save time and money, but those improvements must not be made without consideration to the threats to information security," said Larry Ponemon, chairman and founder, Ponemon Institute. "Federal systems and networks are already being targeted by cyber criminals who recognize that government agencies can be treasure troves for valuable personally identifiable information. In order to maintain the public trust, information security must be integral to any updates, and not an afterthought."
"With the increased awareness and recognition of cyber security threats to our country, agencies at all levels of government are making security a top priority as they engage in initiatives to streamline processes and provide more efficient and convenient constituent services," said Dave Hansen, corporate senior vice president and general manager, CA Security Management. "CA is working closely with our government customers and partners as we help them improve service to citizens, reduce cost of operations, and enhance the security of our critical infrastructure."
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Eggnogian logic all part of Christmas tradition
Once again, our lights are up and working and, I'm happy to report, no major mishaps or near electrocutions occurred during the process.
One thing that helped is that I've retired the ladder that reached the peak of our roof and I no longer try to string lights to the height of the Smith Tower. I'll leave that to our younger neighbors nearby. They'll learn.
I can also report that the shopping's done and presents are under the tree. What helped is the fact that I'm retired and one benefit of that is the ability to wander the stores at 10 a.m. on a mid-week morning. For example, I visited one small chocolate store in a local mall and was the only customer there during my entire stay. The samples offered were tasty, plentiful and wonderfully calorie filled.
Once again, we bought a natural Christmas tree because we both like the evergreen scent that fills the house. The daily waterings the tree requires are a small price to pay for the enjoyment we get from that.
We hung all of the decorations we've purchased over the past 42 years and have found that -- according to my wife -- there's still room for more. This is, to my thinking, a matter for debate since I have trouble finding any visible branches where ornaments aren't bumping into each other. To prove her point my wife immediately went out and purchased a 2013 Christmas commemorative ornament that has a place for a picture in its center. Said picture, this year, will be a Christmas photo of our dog, "Monty."
Don't ask. You're either a dog person or you're not.
Every day, when I'm out and about, I find myself listening to the radio and hoping that they'll play an old Christmas song that I've always enjoyed. The title is "Old Toy Trains" and it's sung by Roger Miller. It's a short song that tells of the attraction that exists between little boys and electric trains.
It's not one of the Christmas "standards" like "White Christmas" or "Jingle Bells" and this pretty well ensures that it doesn't get the air time that it should. The good thing is that I can, and do, bring it up on YouTube. There's something about that song that pulls at me.
On the food front (AKA -- "The Battle of the Bulge"). I recently came across an interesting theory about eating during the holidays. Apparently, drinking large quantities of very cold eggnog with any holiday meal cancels the food's calorie count.
The author of this theory explained that, once eggnog has been consumed, it takes energy to heat it to your normal body temperature. That energy (in the form of calories burned to warm the eggnog) has to come from somewhere and that somewhere would be the deviled eggs, artichoke dip, peanut brittle, turkey, yams, mashed potatoes, gravy and pecan pie you've likely been eating. Thus, everything cancels out.
Some would argue that there's a discrepancy somewhere in there, but I'm not going to spend a lot of time looking for it. There are better things to do over the next week or so, and they all involve having a good time with friends and family while hovering somewhere near either the kitchen or the dinner table. How can that be wrong once every year or so?
We're lucky. Our now-grown kids who are away have been calling frequently and our newly engaged (and still local) son will be bringing his fiancé to visit on Christmas Eve and for part of Christmas Day.
Still, being apart from the others weighs on us and the words "missing them" doesn't seem to adequately describe the feeling. I believe that those of you in similar situations know what we mean.
All in all, though, the true theme of Christmas is very simple.
Let others know that you care.
It's the only gift worth giving or receiving.
Merry Christmas to each and all of you.
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