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"Rosenwein has studied the nature of Cluny's ownership of land, the character of its claims to its property, and its tutelage of the lands of the subject houses, with the benefit of direct access to and familiarity with the resources in Dijon and Münster. She also seeks to bring to bear the methods and findings of social history and anthropology. Her book thus offers a fascinating and inviting apercu of what modern methods and resources may make possible when applied to large bodies of charter material in general and especially to the charters of Cluny."—H. E. J. Cowdrey, American Historical Review
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Current VAG collection- 08 TT coupe 3.2 MT | 06 Phaeton 4-seater 6.0 W12 | 04 VW R32 | 03 GTI VR6 - all of them 24v VR6 based.
Current other- 00 M Roadster | 12 Kia Soul 1.6 stick |01 ZRX1200R | 03 KLX400R
Past- too much too list.
So, no SUV or vans I guess.
Audi, Mercedes, BMW, Rolls, pretty much all the big boys
List the specific cars, not brands.
And yes cars only. A reclining backseat in an SUV is not a big deal as they have open space behind them.
I know VW had them in the Phaeton. Extremely comfortable.
Current VAG collection- 08 TT coupe 3.2 MT | 06 Phaeton 4-seater 6.0 W12 | 04 VW R32 | 03 GTI VR6 - all of them 24v VR6 based.
Current other- 00 M Roadster | 12 Kia Soul 1.6 stick |01 ZRX1200R | 03 KLX400R
Past- too much too list.
Maybach 62
Maybach 62 has reclining rear seats that are also heated and cooled and so does the Lexus LS460L which also has a massage feature built in.
How much of a recline?
Element, Fit, and tC have reclining rear seats. Element more than the other two.
The older Mercs (W126??) had them in the 560SEL
Merkur Scorpio I believe.
B3 Passat 1989 to 1993
Back reclined and the seat squab slides forward.
Nice feature with kids
FIAT is back
Dot know if you're counting this as an SUV, but the current generation Subaru Legacy Outback has them.
Infiniti G35 (at least the 2003 sedan, don't know about the rest)
Previously Owned: 96 Discovery/65 Corvair/93 Corolla Wagon/89 LeSabre/96 Camry/99 Regal GS/95 Accord/98 Contour SVT/90 LS400/89 Supra/91 Legacy Turbo/01 CVPI/92 Mark VII/87 S12 200SX/90 325i/03 TL-S/98 SC2/00 JGC/02 Forester/95 LS400/95 Audi 90
Current: 01 Jetta VR6 & 93 Talon ES
Our Escape has reclining back seats
dodge ram megacab.
Previous generation Malibu Maxx...
My B3 Passat had them....that was a very comfortable back seat...
2007 Magnum
2006 Mazda 3
VW Tiguan
Audi Q5
Lincoln MKX
Nissan X-Trail (Oh wait, it's only for zee Canuckstan!)
I only know this because I'm helping my dad replace his 2002 Legacy GT wagon..
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2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee. 12* of reclining
My parents Camry does this
The Scion TC has them.
edit: beat to it.
My in-laws Honda CRV has that feature.
My Hyundai Accent has a two position seatback.
84-87 Mitsu Galant (I don't know about the Sigma version). The seats reclined, the lower cushion was adjustable for rake, and the headrest moved side to side. (They also had the dash that tilted with the tilt wheel.)
The last generation Infiniti M (not sure if offered throughout the lifespan) with the Premium package had power reclining rear seats.
Toyota Avalon
RED BULL Racing Formula One
Final Gear
"Here's a couple things America got right; cars and freedom"
A long manual to explain all the sat nav all other odds and ends in the car is luxury?
You just need a clutch and stick. Second the b3. Take all the money you would for new car and maintain the old good
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My 98 Pathfinder SE had em.
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"This is not just about racing," says "Monarch" (Michael Keaton), pod-caster and wealthy organizer of the DeLeon, talking about his illegal, high-stakes California drag race. The DeLeon is also about two competitors settling a score. "Need for Speed" is about racing – and revenge, defiance of authority, male-bonding, fear of heights, people who take off their clothes, and high-speed automotive stunts. Despite all that, it's one of the stupidest movies of 2014.
"Driving like a maniac is not going to work," says Julia Maddon (Imogen Poots), riding shotgun with Tobey Marshall (Aaron Paul) in his high-speed Mustang Shelby. If only the makers of this movie had listened to Julia, but no, everyone – well, almost everyone – in "NFS" drives like a maniac. And, as Julia could have told them, it doesn't work.
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Aaron Paul is low-key Tobey Marshall, struggling to keep Marshall Motors – his late father's business – going. Tobey is not exactly a straight arrow, competing in illegal street races through downtown Mt. Kisco, N.Y. His ex-girlfriend Anita (Dakota Johnson) is now with Tobey's wealthy, amoral chief racing competitor, Dino Brewster (Dominic Cooper). When Anita's younger brother Pete (Harrison Gilbertson) dies in a street race with Tobey and Dino, and Tobey takes the rap and goes to prison, the film's revenge plot kicks in.
Others in the cast include Imogen Poots as assertive Julia Maddon, English car buyer who knows more about the DeLeon than Tobey, and Michael Keaton as "Monarch," annoying pod-caster, sponsor and commentator for the big race. Scott Mescudi, Rami Malek and Ramon Rodriguez add modest interest as Tobey's diverse, loyal and resourceful crew, Benny, Finn and Joe Peck. (Question: How does Benny get those TV traffic and military helicopters?)
Other Comments
"Need for Speed" has fast cars, races, chases, and horrific crashes, but not much else going for it. Director (and former stuntman) Scott Waugh knows how to choreograph cars, but gets no help developing characters or directing dialog from brothers George and John Gatins' inept script. We should learn Tobey and Julia's back stories during their 45-hour cross-country road trip, but the script give them little to say. (Question: Can you drive 45 hours and stop only once to use a restroom?) See "NFS" only if muscle cars are your passion and watching them crash and burn is your idea of entertainment. If not, stay home.
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"Need for Speed," fast cars, dumb script,
It ought to be unlawful,
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More International Women's Day press -- this time at the Guardian, where Madeline Bunting scorns Britain's -- and the West's -- active contempt of the culture of life. Searing stuff:
What use is that sassy, independent, self-assertive, knowing-what-you-want-and-how-to-get-it type when you fast forward five years to the emotional labour of helping a child develop selfconfidence? Once there's a baby in the cot, you need steadiness, loyalty, endurance, patience, sensitivity and even self-denial - all the characteristics that you've spent the previous decade trashing as dull or, even worse, for losers. Forget trying to work out your own feelings - you'll be too busy trying to work out those of your children; ditto self-confidence and self-expression.


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Well guys, our season is over, after 110 race days, more than any pro's racing days, I think... My morning coffees this year have been dedicated to choosing my teams, so I'm going to have to find something else to do for the half-hour morning coffees for the next few months...
Congrats to The Manx Missiles for winning the overall. I finished 6th in the overall table, which is not bad. My only regret is not having won the TdF. I finished 5th in the premium overall there, some 109 points behind the winner, but work related circumstances had made me miss four transfer days during the Tour, one of those days being a break day... So, assuming that each of those transfer days had brought me some 23 extra points (which is a fair bet, I think), I should have been in the mix for winning the TdF. Those extra points could also have helped me fight for the third spot in the overall (Manx Missiles and Punctured were unbeatable for the first two spots I think). But work is work, and I imagine everyone missed some transfer days over the grand tours this year...
That said, I liked this year's rules and I like the separation between star riders and domestiques... some races are won with the star riders, some are won with the domestiques... I like having to make out in advance if the next race is going to belong to one category or the other... Cheers mates!
Yeah, this year has been looooong. It especially felt it during the overlapping races (Tour of California, Tour de Suisse and Tour of Poland) and during a few of the lesser races too. We're not done yet though, one more race to go...
As nice as it's been to add in the extra competitions I don't think they've added much to the game given how difficult it's been to obtain results etc. The ToB on the other hand (despite the similar nature of the stage results) ended up being quite fun.
Congrats to the Manx Missiles from me too, with one race to go I'm just outside the top 100 but lost loads of points on a few of the smaller races where I was just dicking around, 2000 points is one hell of a gap to make up next year though.
My highlight of this year was a top 20 place in the Giro and my 'oh so close' 2nd place as a purist in the Tour
I might take a leaf out of Wiggo's book next year and just pick and choose my races in the run up to the Tour to try and prevent burn-out and peak at the right time
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Notched my first ever stage win this year - well chuffed - but like many missed some days due to work and holidays (first week of the Vuelta) but cant be annoyed by it had a great holiday with the family
Lets hope next year is as much fun and maybe i can sign off with a stage win in the Tour of Beijing.
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According to a new market research report published by Transparency Market Research "Artificial Vital Organs and Medical Bionics Market (Artificial Heart, Kidney, Liver, Pancreas & Lungs, Ear Bionics, Vision Bionics, Exoskeletons, Bionic Limbs, Brain Bionics and Cardiac Bionics)- Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast, 2012 - 2018," in 2011, the artificial vital organs and medical bionics market was valued at USD 17.5 billion and it is expected to grow at a CAGR of 9.2% from 2012 to 2018, to reach an estimated value of USD 32.3 billion in 2018.
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An accurate analysis by Philip Mauro
From his book 'The Gospel of the Kingdom'
The "all Israel" of Rom. 11:26 is the whole body of God's redeemed people. It is composed of "the election" (which, as we have seen, has "obtained" what the natural Israel as a whole had "not obtained") with the addition thereto of believers from among the Gentiles. For the main purpose of this passage (Rom. IX-XI) and that also of chapter IV, and likewise of Galatians (chapters III and IV) is to make known that the real "Israel," the true "children of Abraham," who inherit the promises of God, are not the natural seed of Abraham but his spiritual seed.
Paul proves his doctrine, and at the same time exhibits the great difference between Abraham's natural seed and his spiritual, by citing the historical fact that "Abraham had TWO sons" (Gal. 4:22); and from the Old Testament records of the very different things that befell Ishmael and Isaac respectively, Paul deduces the great difference, in the purposes of God, between the unbelieving mass of the Israelitish people (answering to the son of the bondwoman) and the believing "remnant" (answering to the son of the free-woman). For those things, the apostle tells us, "are an allegory," the meaning of which he proceeds to explain (Gal. 4:21-31).
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DIZZY DEAN ALL-STAR Schedule
The Dizzy Dean South State tournament will begin today in four different age groups. The tournament will be contested in four different locations as well. West Point's Park and Recreation department will be represented by three teams in three age groups. The Following is their schedules and location for this weekend.
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A new poll from the Health Foundation of Greater Cincinnati found a clear majority of Ohioans supports the Medicaid expansion.
The poll asked a random sample of 866 Ohioans, "Generally speaking, do you favor or oppose expanding Medicaid to provide health insurance to more low-income uninsured adults?" About 63 percent of respondents said they favor an expansion, with a margin of error of 3.3 percent.
The poll found a partisan divide on the issue: About 82 percent of Democrats support the expansion, while 55 percent of Republicans oppose it.
The question was part of the Ohio Health Issues Poll conducted between May 19 and June 2. The University of Cincinnati's Institute for Policy Research has conducted the poll for the Health Foundation each year since 2005.
"The Health Foundation supports the expansion of Medicaid in Ohio because we believe that it will have a positive impact on the health of uninsured Ohioans who will be newly covered by Medicaid," said Health Foundation CEO Jim Schwab in a statement. "We also believe that expansion of Medicaid will have a positive impact on Ohio's economy. This positive impact was validated in an economic impact study that the Foundation helped underwrite earlier this year. The OHIP findings show that the majority of Ohioans also support the expansion."
Under the Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare"), states are asked to expand their Medicaid programs to 138 percent of the federal poverty level, or an annual income of about $15,856 for a single-person household and $32,499 for a family of four.
For the first three years, the federal government would pay for the entire expansion. Following that, the federal government would phase down its support for the expansion to 90 percent of the costs, where it would indefinitely remain.
Earlier this year, the Health Policy Institute of Ohio released an analysis that found the Medicaid expansion would insure nearly half a million Ohioans and save the state about $1.8 billion in the next decade.
Although Gov. John Kasich supports the expansion, his Republican colleagues, who control the Ohio House and Senate, have so far passed on the expansion in budget plans and legislation.
In an April interview with CityBeat, Michael Dittoe, spokesperson for Ohio House Republicans, said the proposed federal commitment to the Medicaid expansion is unprecedented, which, according to Dittoe, makes Republican legislators skeptical that the federal government can live up to such obligations in the long term.
Bipartisan legislation introduced this week in the Ohio House and Senate would reform the Medicaid program — supposedly in a way that lowers costs without cutting services. But the legislation wouldn't take up the Medicaid expansion.
A budget plan proposed by two council members today would eliminate layoffs at the fire department and reduce the amount of police layoffs to 25, down from 49, by making cuts elsewhere, particularly by forcing city employees to take 10 furlough days in fiscal year 2014.
Council members Roxanne Qualls and Chris Seelbach are co-sponsoring the motion. If it's approved by City Council, the amount of city employee layoffs in the fiscal year 2014 budget would drop to 84, down from the original "Plan B" estimate of 344, by amending Mayor Mark Mallory's budget proposal, which was announced yesterday.
The news is being well received by public safety advocates, but it's also vindication for some of the city's harshest critics. Democratic mayoral candidate John Cranley previously said the city was acting like "the boy who cried wolf" by suggesting it had to lay off 344 city employees, including 80 firefighter and 189 police positions.
"In 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 … they threatened to lay off police and firefighters, and it never happened," Cranley previously told CityBeat.
But avoiding the layoffs comes with large cuts and shifted priorities elsewhere: Furlough days for supervisory and leadership personnel would be bumped up from five to 10 ($250,000 in savings), all council members would be asked to take 10 furlough days ($22,700), City Council's office budgets would be reduced ($18,000), the clerk of council's office budget would also be reduced ($46,000), the departments of community development and economic development would be merged ($171,000) and the account for firefighter's protective gear would be reduced ($100,000). In total, the cuts in the motion add up to $607,000.
The cuts would be in addition to larger cuts proposed by the city manager and mayor, which include reduced funding to parks, human services, parades and outside agencies.
The motion will be formally introduced at tonight's Budget and Finance Committee meeting, which will also act as a public hearing for budget issues. The hearing will begin at 6:30 p.m. at the Duke Energy Convention Center.
The layoff reductions come after the city manager and mayor spent a bulk of the past six months repeatedly warning that the city would have to carry out significant public safety layoffs if the city didn't lease its parking assets to the Port Authority. That plan would have opened up funds to help balance the budget for two years and pay for economic development projects, including a downtown grocery store ("Parking Stimulus," issue of Feb. 27).
But the parking plan is now held up in court, and the city is apparently able to avoid most of the layoffs despite the repeated warnings.
The city must enact a budget by May 31, which will give the city the required 30 days to implement the plan by fiscal year 2014, which begins July 1.
In a ruling today, Hamilton County Judge Robert Winkler said the city will have to allow for a referendum on the parking plan and imposed a permanent injunction pending the outcome of a referendum.
The ruling means the city may be unable to rely on the parking plan to balance fiscal year 2014's budget, and the city may be forced to find cuts elsewhere by July 1, when the new budget will kick in.
The ruling may be appealed, but City Solicitor John Curp says he is not aware of any filing yet. He says Mayor Mark Mallory and the city administration plan to hold a press conference later this afternoon to discuss the ruling in further detail.
For opponents of the parking plan, the ruling comes as a big victory that will allow them to put the parking plan on the ballot if they gather enough eligible petition signatures by April 5.
For the city, the ruling potentially leaves a $25.8 million hole in the 2014 budget.
When the restraining order was extended for two weeks on March 20, city spokesperson Meg Olberding told CityBeat the delays were causing the city to approach a "pressure point": "We respect the court's right to do that (the extension), and know that every day that we cannot make the parking deal happen is a day that we are closer to having to lay people off."In the past, City Manager Milton Dohoney Jr. said the plan will force the city to lay off 344 employees, including 80 firefighter and 189 police positions.
But opponents argue there are ways to solve the budget without laying people off. As an alternative to the parking plan, Councilman Chris Seelbach proposed Plan S, which would redirect $7.5 million in casino revenue to help balance the deficit, cut $5 million based on the results of the city's priority-driven budgeting process and put two charter amendments on the ballot that, if approved, would include up to a $10-per-month trash fee and increase the city's admissions tax by 2 percent.
City Council approved the parking plan on March 6 to lease the city's parking assets to the Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority to help balance the budget for the next two fiscal years and fund more than $100 million in development projects, including the creation of a downtown grocery store and more than 300 luxury apartments ("Parking Stimulus," issue of Feb. 27).
Opponents of the parking plan say they're concerned the city will cede too much control over its parking assets and cause parking rates to skyrocket. The city says rate increases are initially capped at 3 percent or inflation — whichever is higher.
But the rates can change with a unanimous vote from a special committee, approval from the city manager and a final nod from the Port Authority. The special committee would comprise of four people appointed by the Port Authority and one appointed by the city manager.
The ruling comes after the city and opponents of the parking plan met in court on March 15 to discuss whether the plan is subject to referendum.
Curt Hartmann, an attorney who represents the Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes (COAST) and opponents of the parking plan, said the city charter is vague on its definition of emergency clauses, and legal precedent supports siding with voters' right to referendum when there is ambiguity.
The city cited state law to argue emergency clauses, which remove a 30-day waiting period on legislation, eliminate the possibility of referendum. Terry Nestor, who represented the city, said legal precedent requires the city to defer to state law as long as state law is not contradicted in the city charter.
With his decision, Winkler sided with opponents of the parking plan. He wrote in the ruling, "If the people of Cincinnati had intended to exempt emergency legislation from their referendum powers, they could have done so when adopting Article II, Section 3 of the City Charter."
The parking plan is one of the few issues dividing Democratic mayoral candidates John Cranley and Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls. Cranley opposes the plan, while Qualls supports it.
Cincinnati's streetcar project is getting another $5 million in federal funding. But before the money is handed over, the city must first eliminate cost overruns that have recently put the project in danger.
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood unveiled the news in a letter to Mayor Mark Mallory dated June 19. The letter acknowledges the project's recent cost overruns, but goes on to claim the federal government still backs the project.
"The DOT (Department of Transportation) continues to support your bold vision for economic development and enhanced transportation choices for the city of Cincinnati, and we believe that this project is a significant component of that vision. With that in mind, I want to provide up to $5 million in additional assistance from DOT," LaHood wrote.
But the money comes with two conditions: The city must first fix the streetcar project's cost overruns and restore certain aspects of the project, including a passenger information system and a screen or wall that would block power substations from public view.
The $5 million will be on top of the nearly $40 million the federal government has already contributed to the project through various grants and programs.
The funding bump comes just in time for City Council's Monday vote on the streetcar project's cost overruns.
In February, the city received construction bids that were $26 million to $43 million over budget, effectively leading to a $17.4 million budget gap and a $133 million overall cost for the project.
Since then, City Manager Milton Dohoney proposed a few fixes to City Council, including pulling funding from various capital projects and issuing more debt.
At the same time, Dohoney told City Council the city administration was working with federal officials to find opportunities for more federal funding. The new commitment is presumably the result of those discussions.
City Council is expected to vote on the budget fixes Monday. So far, council members Roxanne Qualls, Yvette Simpson, Wendell Young and Laure Quinlivan have vowed support, but Council will need a fifth vote — perhaps from Chris Seelbach or Pam Thomas — to pass the changes.
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Republican state legislators today rolled out a major tax overhaul that would cut Ohio income taxes, but the plan would also increase and expand sales and property taxes.
Legislators plan to add the tax changes to the $61.7 billion two-year budget. The final plan is being touted as a merger of the original proposals from the Ohio House and Senate, but none of the proposed tax hikes in the revised plan were included in the original tax proposals from either chamber.
Relative to rates today, the new plan would cut state income taxes across the board by 8.5 percent in the first year of the budget's implementation, 9 percent in the second year and 10 percent in the third year. That's a bump up from the House plan, which only included a 7-percent across-the-board income tax cut.
The Senate's 50-percent tax deduction for business owners
would be reduced to apply to up to $250,000 of annual net
income, down from $750,000 in the original plan. Under the
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would be able to exempt $125,000 from taxes.
The plan would also create an earned income tax credit that would give a tax refund to low- and moderate-income working Ohioans.
To balance the cuts, the plan would hike the sales tax from 5.5 percent to 5.75 percent. Some sales tax exemptions would be eliminated, including exemptions for digital goods such as e-books and iTunes downloads.
The plan would also make two major changes to property taxes: First, the state would not pay a 12.5-percent property tax rollback on new property tax levies, which means future levies for schools, museums and other services would be 12.5 percent more expensive for local homeowners.
Second, the homestead tax exemption, which allows disabled, senior and widowed Ohioans to shield up to $25,000 of property value from taxes, would be graduated over time to be based on need. In other words, lower-income seniors would still qualify for the exemption, while higher-income seniors wouldn't. Current exemptions would remain untouched, according to House Finance and Appropriations Committee Chairman Ron Amstutz.
The final tax plan is a lot closer to Gov. John Kasich's original budget proposal, which left-leaning Policy Matters Ohio criticized for disproportionately favoring the wealthy ("Smoke and Mirrors," issue of Feb. 20).
The budget must now be approved by the conference committee, House, Senate and Gov. John Kasich in time for a June 30 deadline.
Bill Moller is a city retiree who will be eligible to "double dip" into his pension and a city salary ($147,000 a year) when the city rehires him in February to fill an opening for assistant city manager, city spokesperson Meg Olberding confirmed in an email to CityBeat. Whether he does is entirely up to the interim city manager, Olberding wrote.
The possibility could draw criticism from city officials looking to balance Cincinnati's structurally imbalanced operating budget. Last year, City Council drew opposition for its decision to hire Streetcar Project Executive John Deatrick and allow him to double dip on his pension and a city salary.
Update: Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld said on Twitter that City Council will discuss the personnel changes at Wednesday's full council meeting, instead of a special session on Thursday as originally planned.
Moller will eventually replace Assistant City Manager David Holmes, who helped oversee efforts for The Banks and 2012 World Choir Games and filed to retire on April 1, Interim City Manager Scott Stiles wrote in a memo to City Council and the mayor.
"At this point in time, Cincinnati needs not only someone who is proficient in all aspects of municipal finance, but in the aspects of the city of Cincinnati's finances in particular. Mr. Moller has that experience," Stiles wrote, noting Moller's budget and finance experience in Cincinnati, Hamilton and Covington.
City Solicitor John Curp will also leave his current position to instead act as chief counsel for the city's two utilities, the Metropolitan Sewer District and Water Works.
"The utility has been undergoing a merger of back office functions to save ratepayers money, and also has been expanding services and service areas to decrease costs," Stiles wrote. "John (Curp) has the private sector experience to assist the utilities with a market-oriented approach, and is uniquely positioned to understand both the particulars of MSD and GCWW as well as the areas in which they can expand."
The move should save ratepayers money by allowing both utilities to rely on Curp instead of outside legal counsel when legal issues arise, according to Stiles.
Although widely praised by city officials, Curp's move is unsurprising given the politics surrounding Mayor John Cranley's election. Curp offered legal guidance for the parking privatization plan and streetcar project, both of which Cranley opposes.
Terrence Nestor, currently the city's chief litigator, will replace Curp as city solicitor until a permanent appointment is made.
Stiles announced other changes as well:
• Markiea Carter, currently a development officer, will move to the city manager's office to act as assistant to the city manager.
• Karen Alder, currently risk manager for the city, will begin assisting Finance Director Reginald Zeno as the city's deputy finance director.
Stiles is currently filling as interim city manager while the city conducts a nationwide search for a permanent replacement to former City Manager Milton Dohoney. Stiles could apply for the permanent role, but his application would need City Council support to win out over other potential candidates.
The city expects the city manager search to last through June, at which point further administrative changes could be expected if the city hires a new permanent city manager.
In a party line 23-10 vote today, the Republican-controlled Ohio Senate approved a $61 billion budget plan for fiscal years
2014 and 2015 that takes multiple measures against legal
abortions, aims to cut taxes for small businesses and partly restores education funding cut in the previous 2012-2013 budget.
The budget plan gives a large amount of attention to
social issues, particularly abortion. Most recently, the Ohio Senate added an amendment that could be used by the director of the Ohio Department of Health to close down abortion clinics.
The amendment bans abortion clinics from establishing transfer agreements with public hospitals, forcing the clinics to make such agreements with private hospitals,
which are often religious and could refuse to deal with abortion clinics. Under the amendment, if the clinics can't reach a transfer agreement, the state health director is given the power to shut them down.
Abortion rights groups claim the amendment will likely be used to shut down abortion clinics or force them to dissolve their abortion services.
The bill also makes changes to family services funding that effectively defund Planned Parenthood, a family planning services provider that is often criticized by conservatives for offering abortion services, even though it does so exclusively through private donations.
The bill also redirects some federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families funds to crisis pregnancy centers, which effectively act as the anti-abortion alternative to comprehensive family planning service providers like Planned Parenthood.
The changes continue a conservative push on social issues that began in the Ohio House budget ("The Chastity Bunch," issue of April 24).
Supporters praise the bill for "protecting life" and promoting "chastity" and "abstinence," but critics are pushing back.
"Today the Ohio Senate turned its back on the health care needs of Ohio's women and paved the way for family planning centers and abortion clinics to be closed across the state. If Gov. (John) Kasich doesn't remove these provisions from the budget, the unintended pregnancy rate will rise, cancer will go undetected and women who need abortion care will not have safe, legal facilities to turn to in some communities," said Kellie Copeland, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio, in a statement. "This budget will put the lives of thousands of Ohio women at risk if Gov. Kasich fails to line-item veto these dangerous measures."The Ohio Senate plan also scraps Ohio House plans to cut income taxes for all Ohioans by 7 percent and instead aims to cut taxes for small businesses by 50 percent.
Republicans claim the tax cut will help small businesses, which they call the state's "job creators." But conservative and liberal groups have criticized the plan.
In an analysis, Policy Matters Ohio, a left-leaning policy think tank, claimed the tax cut will inadvertently benefit "affluent passive investors" and "partners in law firms and other partnerships."
Given that, Zach Schiller, research director at Policy Matters, says the plan will do little for Ohio's economy.
"The fastest growing small businesses are not making money because they're investing heavily in their operations — in marketing, research and sales," Schiller says. "So if they're making anything, they're investing it by and large in the business, so they're not likely to be able to benefit very much from this."
He adds, "Meanwhile, you're going to have passive investors who have no role in adding employees and partners in law firms, architecture firms, accounting firms and other kinds of professional organizations who will personally benefit from this in a way that I think is unlikely to generate more employment."
Instead of focusing on tax cuts, Schiller argues the state should be increasing direct investments, particularly in education and human services.
The conservative Tax Foundation echoed some of Schiller's criticisms in a blog post.
"This is bad policy, and many supporters are errantly pushing it under the guise of putting more money in the hands of 'job-creators.' But this is based on a flawed understanding of what creates jobs," wrote Scott Drenkard of the Tax Foundation. "The businesses that actually create jobs are not small businesses or big businesses; they are businesses that are growing. And that type of business is virtually impossible to target with a tax incentive."
The budget plan restores about $717 million in education funding, but that's not enough to outweigh the $1.8 billion in education funding that was cut in the 2012-2013 budget, which Kasich and the Republican-controlled legislature approved in 2011.
The education funding increases will disproportionately favor the state's property-wealthiest districts — effectively giving the biggest funding increases to school districts that can already afford to raise more money by leveraging high local property values.
Stephen Dyer, an education policy fellow at the left-leaning Innovation Ohio, captured the disproportionate funding increases in chart form in a blog post:
The chart shows only 15 percent of funding increases will go to the property-poorest one-third of school districts, while a vast majority of the increases will go to the property-wealthiest one-third.
Health care advocates were also disappointed to see the Ohio Senate pass on a federally funded Medicaid expansion, which would allow anyone at or below 138 percent of the federal poverty level — $15,856 for a single-person household and $32,499 for a family of four — to enroll in the government-backed health care program.
Kasich proposed expanding Medicaid in his original budget plan ("Smoke and Mirrors," issue of Feb. 20), but Ohio legislators are skeptical of the expansion's consequences.
As part of the Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare"), the Medicaid expansion would be fully financed by the federal government for the first three years. After that, federal payments would be phased down to capture 90 percent of the expansion, where federal funding would permanently remain.
Republican legislators, backed by Republican State Treasurer Josh Mandel, are skeptical the federal government can afford the expansion. There's no historical precedent for the federal government failing to meet its obligations to Medicaid, but Republican legislators argue there's also no historical precedent for the federal government backing such large Medicaid expansions across the nation.
A Health Policy Institute of Ohio study found the Medicaid expansion would save the state $1.8 billion and insure nearly half a million Ohioans over the next decade.
The budget also fails to restore local government funding cuts that have been carried out during Kasich's time in office. In comparison to fiscal years 2010 and 2011, local governments are receiving about 50 percent less aid from the state, leading to $22.2 million less funds for Cincinnati on an annual basis ("Enemy of the State," issue of March 20).
When asked to explain the various cuts to education and local government funding in the 2012-2013 budget, Kasich spokesperson Rob Nichols told CityBeat in September 2012, "The reality is we walked into an $8 billion budget deficit. … We had to fix that."
The Ohio legislature and Kasich must agree on a budget plan in time for a June 30 deadline.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ed FitzGerald is urging a coalition effort to begin a long, complicated petitioning process that could repeal some of the anti-abortion measures in the recently approved two-year state budget.
If the petitioning process is successful, it would force the Ohio General Assembly to consider repealing aspects of the budget that don't involve appropriations of money. If the General Assembly changes, rejects or ignores the repeal proposal, it could be put on the ballot in November 2014.
FitzGerald is jump-starting the repeal effort through a new website, Ohioans Fight Back.
Speaking at a press conference Thursday, FitzGerald also questioned the constitutionality of some of the anti-abortion measures, particularly those that require doctors give certain medical information regarding abortions and restrict publicly funded rape crisis centers from discussing abortion as a viable option. He said such rules might violate free speech rights.
The state budget effectively defunds contraceptive care and other non-abortion services at various family planning clinics, including Planned Parenthood. It also makes it more difficult for abortion clinics to establish mandatory patient transfer agreements with hospitals.
The budget provides separate federal funding to crisis pregnancy centers, which act as the pro-abstinence, anti-abortion alternatives to comprehensive clinics like Planned Parenthood.
The budget also gives money to rape crisis centers, but centers that take public funding are barred from discussing abortion as a viable option with rape victims.
Days before the budget's passage, Republican legislators also added an amendment that forces women to get an ultrasound prior to getting an abortion. As part of the amendment, doctors are required to inform the patient if a heartbeat is detected during the ultrasound and provide an estimate of the fetus's chances of making it to birth.
FitzGerald, who's currently Cuyahoga County executive,
plans to run against Republican Gov. John Kasich in 2014.
Kasich signed the controversial state budget with the anti-abortion measures on June 30, despite calls for the governor to use his line-item veto powers — a move that would have kept the rest of the budget in place but repealed the anti-abortion provisions.
CityBeat analyzed the state budget in further detail here.
By now, most of you have heard there was another horrible mass shooting, this time in Newtown, Conn., that resulted in the death of 20 children and six adults. While everyone is hoping this is the last time the nation has to deal with an event of unspeakable horror, it is only a possibility if we agree to do something about it. That means remembering the heroes who risked their lives and, in some cases, died that day. That means not letting the media and public drop the issue, as has been the case in the past. That means looking at more than just gun control, including mental health services. The Washington Post analyzed what "meaningful" action on gun control would look like, and the newspaper also disproved the idea Switzerland and Israel are "gun-toting utopias." President Barack Obama also spoke on the issue at a vigil Sunday, calling for the nation to do more to protect people, particularly children, from violence. The full speech can be watched here.
City Council approved its 2013 budget plan Friday. The budget relies on the privatization of city parking assets to help plug a $34 million deficit and avoid 344 layoffs. The budget also nixed the elimination of a tax reciprocity for people who lived in Cincinnati but worked elsewhere and paid income tax in both cities, and it continued funding the police department's mounted unit. As a separate issue, City Council voted to increase the property tax by about 24 percent, reversing a move from conservatives in 2011. CityBeat wrote about budgets at all levels of government and how they affect jobs here.
Michelle Dillingham, who was an aide to former city councilman David Crowley, will seek Democratic support in a run for City Council. Dillingham promises to tackle "industry issues of mutual interest" to business and labor and "transportation funding, family-supporting wages and workforce development."
At a recent public hearing, mayoral candidate John Cranley proposed a "very easy" plan for the city budget. Only problem: His plan doesn't work. In an email, Cranley said he stands by his ideas, but he added he was working with limited information and his statements were part of a two-minute speech, which "requires brevity." He also claimed there are cost-cutting measures that can be sought out without privatizing the city's parking assets and gave modified versions of his ideas regarding casino and parking meter revenue.
Judge Robert Lyons, the Butler County judge who sealed the Miami rape flyer case, is standing by his decision.
The Greater Cincinnati area is near the top for private-sector growth.
Jedson Engineering is moving from Clermont County to downtown Cincinnati, thanks in part to an incentive package from City Council that includes a 45 percent tax credit based on employees earnings taxes over the next five years and a $300,000 grant for capital improvements. The company was a Business Courier Fast 55 finalist in 2008 and 2009 due to its high revenue growth.
Gov. John Kasich's Ohio Turnpike plan is getting some support from Toledo Mayor Mike Bell, but others are weary. They fear the plan, which leverages the turnpike through bonds for state infrastructure projects, will move turnpike revenues out of northern Ohio. But Kasich vows to keep more than 90 percent of projects in northern Ohio.
Gas prices are still falling in Ohio.
U.S. House Speaker John Boehner is making some concessions in fiscal talks. In his latest budget, he proposed raising taxes on those who make more than $1 million a year.
One beagle can diagnose diseases by sniffing stool samples.
Despite strong backing from Republican Gov. John Kasich, the Medicaid expansion didn't make it into the final version of the two-year state budget passed by the Republican-controlled General Assembly on Thursday.
Col Owens, co-convener of the Southwest Ohio Medicaid Expansion Coalition, calls the expansion's failure a disappointment, but he says he remains optimistic the expansion will be taken up in future legislation.
Under the Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare"), the federal government is asking states to expand their Medicaid programs to 138 percent of the federal poverty level, or an annual income of $32,499 for a family of four.
States are given a powerful financial incentive for doing so: For the
first three years, the expansion is entirely paid for by the federal
government. Afterward, the federal commitment is dropped to 90
percent, where it will indefinitely remain.
The federal government on average pays about 57 percent of Medicaid costs, while states pay for the rest. So the 90-percent match for the expansion is a uniquely lucrative deal.
But Republican legislators say they're skeptical the federal government can afford such a large commitment to Medicaid, often calling the size of the expansion unprecedented.
Owens claims there is a precedent for the Medicaid expansion: Medicaid. He says the federal government has historically upheld its commitment to Medicaid, which insures 2.2 million Ohioans. There's no sign that will stop any time soon, according to Owens.
To support his claim, Owens cites scoring from the
Congressional Budget Office (CBO), a nonpartisan organization that
scores federal policy proposals to gauge their fiscal and economic
impact. In July 2012, the CBO found repealing Obamacare, which includes the
Medicaid expansion, would actually increase the federal deficit by $109 billion
over 10 years, which means the health reform law is an overall fiscal gain for the federal government.
At the same time, analysts have found the Medicaid expansion would be fiscally beneficial for Ohio. Earlier this year, the Health Policy Institute of Ohio released an analysis that found the Medicaid expansion would insure nearly half a million Ohioans and save the state about $1.8 billion in the next decade.
Instead of being concerned about fiscal problems, Owens concludes opponents of the Medicaid expansion simply dislike the president, Obamacare and Medicaid.
Michael Dittoe, spokesperson for Ohio House Republicans, pushes back at that notion. He points out the state budget will increase funding for Medicaid by $1 billion, allowing 231,000 more Ohioans to enter the system.
"When people say that we're not doing anything for Medicaid, obviously that's not true," he says. "Certainly, we could have gone down the road of not funding that particular provision."
The increased funding is going to people who are already eligible for Medicaid but, for whatever reason, aren't currently enrolled. The federal government expects the new enrollees to sign up as a result of Obamacare raising awareness and education about health coverage.
In other words, the federal government already expects Ohio to pay for these Medicaid enrollees. Failing to do so would have likely violated the state's Medicaid agreement with the federal government and, as Dittoe acknowledges when asked, resulted in penalties.
Although the Medicaid expansion is out of the state budget, there is a bill currently sitting in the House that would take up the expansion. Dittoe says that bill will likely be looked at in the early fall.
For legislators, that might be politically prudent: A poll released June 14 by the Health Foundation of Greater Cincinnati found 63 percent of Ohioans support the Medicaid expansion, with a margin of error of 3.3 percent. The University of Cincinnati's Institute for Policy Research conducted the poll for the Health Foundation between May 19 and June 2.
The $62 billion state budget for fiscal years 2014 and 2015 passed the Republican-controlled General Assembly on Thursday. It's expected Kasich will sign it into law this weekend.
Check out all of CityBeat's state budget coverage:
• Report: State Budget Tax Plan Favors Wealthy
• State Budget's Education Increases Fall Short of Past Funding
• State Budget to Limit Access to Abortion


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Former Miss Delaware Teen USA, Melissa King, who was crowned this past November, had to resign after a porn video of her surfaced online.
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She grew up as a foster kid and her platform for Miss Teen USA was to help work with and mentor foster children.
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Most beauty pageant contestants say they draw the line at "selling their body" and doing porn, but being in magazines and trying to be crowned at a pageant is the same thing. They're using their looks for money and looking down on Melissa for doing what she did to earn money is just ridiculous!
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Tajči Cameron (/ˈtaɪtʃi/; Croatian pronunciation: [tǎjtʃi]; born Tatjana Matejaš, pronounced [tǎtjana mǎtejaʃ], on 1 July 1970 in Zagreb) is a Croatian singer; she has since taken up citizenship and residence in the United States.
As a pop star in the former Yugoslavia in the late 1980s and early 1990s, she won the national selection of RTV Zagreb, SR Croatia and represented Yugoslavia at the Eurovision Song Contest 1990. The contest was held at Zagreb and she sang the song Hajde da ludujemo (Let's go crazy!). Her Yugoslav music career was cut short by the breakup of Yugoslavia and subsequent war.
She left her homeland in 1992 and pursued a career in stage musicals. She ended up in the United States, seeking television and recording work in the Los Angeles area. There she met Matthew Cameron, whom she married in 2000. She ended up performing music in Roman Catholic churches while auditioning for roles, some of which she turned down because they required nudity.
They eventually relocated to Cincinnati, Ohio, which was a more central location for her new focus in church music.
Her independently released audio CD Need A Break is her latest work.
She has also written a musical[1] which is scheduled to debut at the Jarson-Kaplan Theatre in Cincinnati in February 2010. She is sister of Croatian-American actress and singer Sanya Mateyas. Tajči is mother of three sons.
- Hajde da ludujemo (1990)
- Bube u glavi (1991)
- Struggles & Graces (1997)
- Now and Forever (2000)
- Emmanuel – The Story of Christmas (2002)
- Let It Be – Mary's Story (2003)
- I Thirst (2004)
- Zlatna kolekcija (2004)
- A Chance to Dream (2006)
- Need A Break (2008)
- All american (1991)
- The best of Tajči (1992)
- The love collection (2011)
- Taichi Eqinocij (1997)
- God bless America (2010)
- Dell'aurora tu sorgi piu bella (2011)
- VHS Bube u glavi (1991)
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- (English) Cincinnati Enquirer: From pop stardom to an inner light
- (Croatian) "Nisam požalila prekid karijere"
- (English) Official site
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Sustainable Development In International Intellectual Property Law – New Approaches From EU Economic Partnership Agreements?
SummarySustainable Development in International Intellectual Property Law -New Approaches from EU Economic Partnership Agreements? by Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan, from Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law (MPI), provides innovative analysis on the link between sustainable development and intellectual property (IP) in light of the EC-CARIFORUM Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) signed in October 2008.
The paper emphasizes that the general objectives and principles of the EC-CARIFORUM EPA allow the concept of sustainable development to play a significant role - if the contracting parties are able and willing to use its potential. It underlines that the implementation of the agreement's sustainable development objective empower and commit all actors involved in the implementation of the treaty to take a holistic approach in the process of decision-making, including with regard to the IP relevant provisions where it is stated that fostering innovation and creativity is a crucial element in achieving sustainable development and that IP protection should be tailored to the level of development..
The paper also broadens the reflection to international IP law more generally. In this regard, it suggests that incorporating sustainable development as a treaty objective in international agreements on the protection of IP can function as a tool to overcome the structural bias and self-contained nature of international IP regulation. The concept of sustainable development provides negotiators in the treaty-drafting process, domestic actors in the course of treaty implementation, and international courts and tribunals when settling disputes over the proper treaty application an option to address intersections between economic, social and environmental interests.
ForewordSustainable Development in International Intellectual Property Law –New Approaches from EU Economic Partnership Agreements?
Is a recent contribution of the ICTSD Programme on Intellectual Property Rights and Sustainable Development. Many trade agreements – in whatever form (free trade or economic partnership agreements) - following the adoption of the WTO's Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), have addressed intellectual property (IP) issues particularly by deepening the minimum standards of protection and enforcement established by TRIPS. In recent years, ICTSD has produced a number of studies analyzing the breadth, scope and implications of such undertakings.*
Free trade agreements (FTAs) offer opportunities for consolidating and expanding market access and domestic reforms in developing countries. However, the potential impact of IP provisions in these agreements has generated concern among various stakeholders on the use of flexibilities that have been designed to safeguard certain public interests and development objectives. In this regard, trade agreements raise many negotiating and implementation challenges regarding policy coherence and the attainment of public policy objectives.
Against this background, the study by Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan aims to achieve a better understanding of the policy of the European Union (EU) regarding intellectual property rights (IPRs) in bilateral and regional trade agreements. One of its innovative features is the attempt to explore the link between sustainable development and intellectual property and the way the recent comprehensive EPA, signed in October 2008, between the European Community and its member states and the CARIFORUM group of Caribbean countries has approached the issue.
The study suggests that the general objectives and principles of the recent EC-CARIFORUM agreement do allow the concept of sustainable development to play a significant role. According to the author, the obligations the contracting parties undertook with regard to the implementation of the agreement's sustainable development objective empower and commit all actors involved in the application of the treaty to take a holistic approach in the process of decision-making. This is the case with respect to the main provisions in the innovation and IP chapter where it is stated that fostering innovation and creativity is a crucial element in achieving sustainable development and that IP protection should be tailored to the level of development. Furthermore, the provision dealing with the nature and scope of obligations implements a sustainable development objective by adopting an integrative approach that reconciles economic and social interests within the EPA's IP section. Its main function is to determine the nature and scope of the obligations related to IP: their nature and scope must allow the protection of public health and nutrition as well as safeguarding access to medicines.
The author concludes with relevant observations about what can be learned from this sustainable development approach for a reform of the international IP system. He argues that incorporating sustainable development as a treaty objective in international agreements can function as a tool to overcome the structural bias and self-contained nature of international IP regulation. For example, international obligations – especially under TRIPS – should not a priori prevent thinking of flexible solutions to integrate all relevant interests affected by IP protection. The policy space flowing from the sustainable development objective in the Preamble of the WTO Agreement offers adequate discretion for a tailored domestic attempt to give effect to public interests.
The EC - CARIFORUM Economic Partnership Agreement may serve as a template not only for EPA negotiations with other regional groups of African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries, but also for other FTAs the EU is currently pursuing with a number of developing countries. Given the constraints of multilateral negotiations, the standards set by FTAs are the most important benchmarks that are likely to impact future multilateral processes. In this respect, the agenda pursued and the provi si ons negotiated by one of the most i mpor tant tradi ng blocs are par ti cul arly relevant. In the IP context, they not only consist of the obvious \\\\\\\"TRIPS-plus\\\\\\\" standards to be expected from North-South agreements, but also several interesting norms that address and are affected by the concept of sustainable development.
The study is a further contribution by ICTSD to a better understanding of the IP and development nexus. ICTSD's activities in this important area are premised on the need for a proper understanding of the impact of IPRs to informed policy making in all areas of development while bearing in mind that empirical evidence on the role of IP protection in promoting innovation and growth remains inconclusive and that diverging views persist on the impacts of IPRs on development prospects.
In carrying out its work, ICTSD has been a hub for debate and ideas on various facets of TRIPS and its relationship with development. It has been regularly reporting, through its periodicals, on ongoing activities in the major IP forums and providing stakeholders, through its policy oriented research, with options to implement IPRs rules in a manner that balances private rights and public interests. This work has contributed to identifying many of the concerns regarding the negotiation and implementation of new international commitments in the field of IP and has served as a catalyst for the work of several other organizations now actively involved in TRIPS and TRIPS-plus debates. One important orientation of this work has been the tenet that IP policy could contribute to development if properly formulated to respond to national needs and stages of development by promoting innovation and creativity, as well as contributing to the integration of developing countries in the multilateral trading system. Further, the formulation and implementation of IP should accommodate a diversity of approaches, i.e. developing countries should not be pressed to forgo stages of development by adopting inappropriately high standards of IP protection that are not commensurate with their levels of development.
We hope you will find this new study a useful contribution to this continuous debate on IP and sustainable development particularly in responding to the need for increased awareness about the new trends and implications of proposed IP provisions in FTAs.
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The ability to see clearly is something we take for granted in the western world - somewhere between 45-50% of the US/European population wear some form of corrective eyeglasses. Vision problems are no less common in developing countries, but custom eyewear is just too expensive for the vast majority of sufferers. The World Health Organization estimates that "1 billion people worldwide need, but do not have access to, vision correction." Retired physics Professor Joshua Silver has put a plan in motion to redress this balance with the invention of a very cheap set of spectacles that are quickly and easily adjustable to correct long- and short-sightedness. With 30,000 pairs already distributed, Silver's target is no less than to produce and distribute one billion pairs of these silicone-oil wonders throughout the developing world, helping older people get back to work and radically changing lives in the process.
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