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Call it boredom brought on by Capitol Hill Christmas season lull, call it partisan crapulence at its worst or just chalk it up as the typical rabid disdain for the first family that we have come to expect from a sorry gaggle of conservative screwballs these days. But whatever you end up calling it, there's no denying the smorgasbord of stupidity that fed that kind of toxin.
Why oh why would a congressional acolyte go after the president's daughters with such a callous and unprovoked vengeance, unleashing toxic admonishment that totally failed to take into account the innocence of these kids who never asked to be in public eye?
By lobbing political broadside at Malia, 16, and Sasha, 13, a conduct that was clearly reprehensible, Elizabeth Lauten, spokeswoman for Republican Congressman Stephen Fincher of Tennessee, made a big 'turkey' of herself after scolding the President Obama's daughters to "try showing a little class."
Apparently, Lauten had serious issues with the demeanor of the Obama daughters during the annual White House turkey pardoning clambake.
Here is the meaty portion of her Facebook tirade.
"At least respect the part you play. Then again your mother and father don't respect their positions very much, or the nation for that matter, so I'm guessing you're coming up a little short in the 'good role model' department. Nevertheless, stretch yourself. Rise to the occasion. Act like being in the White House matters to you. Dress like you deserve respect, not a spot at a bar. And certainly don't make faces during televised public events.
What's that for?
By engaging in that tirade, it's obvious Lauten is the one who desperately needs to show a modicum of "class."
Shortly after her rant, many who weighed in on the social media and elsewhere were ticked off and demanded that she be summarily fired. But being the forgiven nation that we are, I suggest President Obama should go ahead pardon Lauten the same way he pardoned 'Cheesy' the National Turkey.
Pardon or not, the whole thing ended up being a regrettable saga for Lauten who though, later apologized for her comments, still got drowned in the rainstorm she singlehandedly brought on herself after resigning from her job under immense public pressure.
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The GOP gained control of the U.S. Senate while stiffing its grip of the House of Representatives after corralling additional seats there.
It all sums up to a profound bad news for the Obama administration. With a load of loathe for the president by the Republicans, clearly, daggers are drawn and a volcanic partisan tinderbox looms. President Obama, facing immense pressure from grappling with a minefield of high-voltage issues, both domestic and foreign, emerged from the thick and blinding fog of defeat to declare he isn't a "mopey" milquetoast about his party's monumentally catastrophic loss. Of course, it was a self-consoling posture, a blast of confidence and defiance, if you will, that may well be helpful in managing his debilitating loss to soothe the sting, but there's no denying the fact that his presidency is presently riding through bumpy potholes and appears destined to collide with GOP victory bus parade. At this cusp, the president can only hope for an elevated spirit of bipartisanship to emerge from the dark ashes of his party's massive shellacking.
In short, it won't be pretty moving forward.
And it's not just for the reason that the president's Democratic Party lost control of the U.S. Senate, that too of course, but largely for the fact that the loss mean the Republicans will now control both chambers of legislative branch of government. What that means is something President Obama is definitely not looking forward to: working with a bullying brigade of torridly dogmatic and ideological GOP lawmakers acting more like vengeful and vitriolic foes than reasonable and accommodating opponents.
Nowhere is this glum outlook, this looming tectonic power swing in Washington, going to be more visible than in the U.S. Senate where old Mitch McConnell, arguably the biggest legatee of last week's GOP triumph, is poised to become the new Senate Majority Leader come January. Sounding every bit like one already, he wasted no time unleashing a barrage of blisteringly cacophonous salvos, starkly warning Obama, who is now probably on an irreversible path to go it alone on immigration reform, to rethink his plan, saying it "poisons the well."
McConnell warned the president that his rubicon posture on the immigration tiff is tantamount to "waving a red flag in front of a bull."
It wasn't just a cockahoop McConnell yammering from the rooftop, though. In a truculent choriamb with the veteran Kentucky lawmaker is Arizona Senator John McCain who is certainly no fandom of Obama. The war hero codger has visibly relished being a caviling thorn in the president's side from day one, constantly caricaturing, razzing and even scuppering the administration's efforts. But for McCain, unlike McConnell, his beef with the president is both personal and professional, having lost to Obama in the 2008 presidential contest and evidently continues to reel from that epic defeat till today. It's really no secret that both Obama and McCain have never had anything close to a chummy relationship. It's been openly frosty. And their corrosive relationship would have probably remained in such lugubrious doldrums to the very end had Democrats prevailed in the election. Fortunately for McCain, his party's election triumph saved him from remaining a crabby old man, kvetching, pouting and seething in endless frustration decrying what he sees as Obama foreign policy disaster around the world, particularly in the Middle East over Syria. Perhaps, a gleeful McCain sees his party's victory through the lens of this being his last chance to torment the man who wrecked his presidential ambitions and forever blocked his path to the White House. Come January, McCain is likely to take over the powerful chairmanship of the Senate Armed Services Committee where he might finally get back at Obama with possible plans to securitize the president's foreign policy agenda through a flurry of committee hearings and investigations and who knows what.
Sizing up the vast landscape of volatile issues facing government yields a depressing hodgepodge of global woes: there's the messy crisis playing out in Ukraine, there's ISIS and its metastasizing and apocalyptic terrorist brutality annihilating civilians in parts of Iraq and Syria, there's the raging Syrian civil war unleashing cadaverous consequences for folks out there, and then there's the Israeli – Palestinian conflict with absolutely no headway being made to achieve peace. And as though that's not enough for a besieged world to grapple with, there's an added Leviathan global scare brought on by the Ebola epidemic ravaging parts of West Africa. It's messy out there for sure. But expect a McCain's led congressional hearings to rummage through some of that mess for what he describes as needed and lacking epiphany into the role of the United States government involving each.
But of all the battles looming in Washington, expect the immigration brouhaha to emerge as the linchpin of the post-election hostility between an increasingly lame-duck White House and the emboldened Republican leadership eager to put its newfound power to use. House Speaker John Boehner wasn't on the ballot but the Republican new found power immensely strengthened his hand on the immigration battle where he and Obama remain hopelessly deadlocked, with the Republican-Controlled House stubbornly refusing to act on immigration reform. Like McConnell, Boehner warned Obama against resorting to executive fiat to install reform, telling reporters in Washington last week, "When you play with matches, you take the risk of burning yourself. And he is going to burn himself if he continues to go down this path."
Seemingly, the Republican leadership is boldly flexing its newly minted legislative muscle with a flurry of bombastic pronouncements and a smorgasbord tactical posturing and rhetoric aimed at blunting Obama's deepening resolve to act unilaterally on immigration. But the president is not likely to budge unless Boehner and his den of recalcitrant minions move fast to pass immigration reform bill before the end of the year. For one thing, the president is highly likely to dig in on this given the immense pressure on him from the restless Hispanic community to act on immigration reform as he promised aimed at addressing the lingering plight of 11 million undocumented immigrants now tiptoeing across the country in limbo and trepidation.
We will see how it all plays out.
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The bug plagued blastoff of the healthcare.gov website, which many see as the signature achievement of the Obama presidency, has betrayed the promise of a great start to a new era in health care coverage due to a plethora of crippling hiccups among which are glitches, crashes, delays, frozen screens and all sorts of headache just accessing the website.
And then there's the more serious issue concerning consumer privacy to cap it all off.
In short, it all summed up to a extraordinarily woeful month for the president, a disaster of monumental zenith. But through it all, an often petered-out looking Obama remained optimistic, mixing that with a humbling apology for the mess on which the media has been feasting.
"I am sorry," the president told the American people followed by a seemingly gutsy assurance, after implementing a "tech surge," that the beleaguered website will be rectified and ready to go by the end of the November.
"I'm confident that it will be even better by November 30th and that the majority of people are going to be able to get on there," said Obama, who, of course, is not a website designer.
The president's words: "They're going to be able to enroll. They're going to be able to apply. And they're going to get a good deal – a better deal than they've got right now when it comes time to buying health insurance."
So now, the central question becomes: has the troubled website been fixed as promised?
Well, for the most part, yes, said officials of the Department of Health and Human Services.
The "for the most part' part of that response largely holds the true meaning of the federal official's explanation for where the website is at this time in terms of ridding it of hundreds of niggling software bugs.
Federal officials, feeling immense pressure to fix the website, said during a recent press conference with reporters, that while the site is much better than when it first went online months ago, they readily concede that the bug riddled website is not out of the woods yet and still has "hundreds" of software bugs that could get in the way of a trouble-free access, smooth shopping experience and ultimately successful purchase of coverage by users. What that says in short is that it works, but there are still problems.
Their words: "The bottom line — HealthCare.gov on Dec. 1 is night and day from where it was on Oct. 1," said Jeff Zients, an official of the Obama administration, who reported that about "400" bugs and technical problems were fixed in the system, but did not disclose how many were left to go as they continue to work out the kinks.
Of course, no matter what anyone says, the ultimate test for the supposed fix will come when users start to troop back to the website to shop for coverage in order to beat the Dec. 23 deadline which is required for coverage to start first of the year. Federal officials expect consumer stampede back to the site to start happening soon.
For observers, expectation for how it all will play out could, overall, be described as a cautious mix of confidence and proverbial crossing of fingers, which some might simply call a 'wait and see' moment. But for confident federal officials, the expectation, though fused with a modicum of uncertainty, is that when shoppers return to the website in droves, they will have a much smoother experience than before, citing particularly that the problem of previously being unable to process large number of applications at a time has been resolved. According to them, the website is now able to accommodate more than 50,000 users login in at the same time, which tallies up to about 800,000 people being able to shop and purchase coverage in a single day.
If that happens, President Obama will be hugely relieved because not getting this thing right may start to define his entire presidency with three years left to go. The past month has been hellacious and tormenting for him, with the president catching it on the chin from both Republicans and Democrats, while seeing his approval rating tumbling down to a concerning level.
On the one hand, Republicans are cavorting around cockahoop, pillorying Obamacare while relishing the entire healthcare pantomime as a tinderbox they now hope would fuel a cascading effect with future implications for Democrats.
On the other hand, Congressional Democrats who strongly backed the president during the fight against Republicans over the passage of the law, are getting worried, especially those who are facing reelection in a couple of years and fearing that the sloppy rollout of Obamacare could become a campaign issue against them.
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ONUMBA.COM – For quite some time now, speculations have been rife about who is going to take on Republican Governor John Kasich in the next gubernatorial showdown.
Some Democratic names have been dangled around as likely candidates, but no one has categorically declared an interest in running for governor of Ohio until now.
He is Cuyahoga County Executive Ed Fitzgerald, the former Mayor of Lakewood, who last week kicked off his campaign with planned clambakes in Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati.
Fitzgerald is the first Democrat to jump into the race for governor. But it came as little surprise given that the 44-year old former FBI agent had been talking up his interest for months. He made his most revealing move toward that pursuit in March after forming a gubernatorial campaign committee to officially start raising money for the race.
Also, in many ways, Fitzgerald interest in running for governor grew a lot after former Governor Ted Strickland decided against mounting a comeback effort in what would have been a bruising rematch of a race he lost to Kasich by 2 percentage points cliffhanger in 2008. A recent survey by Quinnipiac University Polling Institute indicated that the 71-year old Strickland would have encountered little opposition had he decided to run again, holding a nine percentage point lead over Fitzgerald.
Now, if Fitzgerald is the man to take on Kasich, who is going to take him on?
Currently, it is surprisingly not a crowded field. Today, Fitzgerald is the only declared candidate.
Former Ohio Attorney-General Richard Cordray, who now serves as head of the Consumer Financial Protection Agency in the Obama administration, has long been rumored as a likely candidate. But he hasn't responded to these speculations. One thing that's for sure however is that Cordray has before expressed an interest in being Ohio's chief executive.
Congressman Tim Ryan has also expressed interest in running for governor in the past.
As yet, no Black politician has shown visible interest in being a candidate for governor. Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman, who remains popular in the city, has the best chance of succeeding. A formidable force in the Ohio Democratic Party, he once briefly, unsuccessfully contested for governor. Still, he remains a potentially potent force if he decides to try again.
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Some folks are startled by the fact that it was his only visit to the ancestral homeland in his first term, to say the very least. When White House Director of African-American and Minority Business Outreach Michael Blake visited Columbus a couple of years ago, it was one of the questions posed to him by the Onumba.com during an interview at the State House, Downtown.
Blake, who was in Columbus to trumpet the president's accomplishments for the African-American community, was asked if the president was planning a major trip to Africa.
"It is not finalized," he replied, but quickly veered off matters of African visit, saying, "We have shown a very sincere and continued engagement with Africa," particularly in the area of economic aid and support for elections to shore up Democratic governments there.
"Finalized," or not, it never happened in the president's first term.
It is often an issue of discussion among Africans, with opinions on the matter running the gamut, from outright brickbat of the president to a more lenient tone excusing him for being too busy with domestic matters, even though he somehow found time to visit other places.
But all of that is now water under the bridge. With his recent reelection to a second term, Africans everywhere are now hoping that the president, whose father hailed from the East African nation of Kenya, would now embark on a major visit to the continent. He has inspired and instilled pride in Africans and Black people all over the world.
In 2008, when Obama was elected the first Black President of the United States, the entire continent, from Cape to Cairo, erupted in jubilation and embraced him as a favorite son of Africa.
It's no different with his recent reelection. However, many are encouraging the president to pay closer attention to Africa in his second term than he did during his first term.
From my conversations with folks on this matter, they feel a major visit is needed, not a pass-through, and definitely not a swing-by.
Meanwhile, news of Obama's reelection was greeted with rabid joy and intense celebration throughout Africa, with the epicenter of the shindig understandably being Kenya where bands of agog folks danced, cheered and chanted his name, while banging on drums, woods and waving tree branches.
Obama, whose father Barack Obama, Sr., was a student in the United States, was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on August 4th 1961, to a White mother from Kansas, Ann Dunhan.
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ONUMBA.COM – Obioma "Ebony" Agwuncha hails from Nigeria, a country of some 150 million located in West Africa. She is visiting relatives in Columbus where her daughter recently gave birth to twins – a boy and a girl.
The 60-year old widowed mother of seven has her hands full with a motley of chores involving the care she is providing for her daughter and their bundles of joy. Actually, Agwuncha's visit is for that, caring for her daughter and the babies, that is. She said that it is called 'Omugwo" which according to her traditional Igbo culture of Eastern Nigeria, she is required to do.
And she has been doing just that conscientiously since the babies were born nearly two months ago. But recently she took a break from her 'Omugwo-ring' obligations to speak to Call & Post about her visit, expressing her views about this country and the deep connection she feels for American Blacks.
"I feel we are all the same, treating each other as brothers and sisters because we are really the same people," said Agwuncha, who owns a school in Anambra State called Ebony Foundation School. But at the same time, having visited the country two times now, she has seen enough to express some disappointment, saying, "I don't see the kind of brotherhood and sisterhood that is necessary to build a strong bond between African immigrants and American Blacks.
Agwuncha, who regretfully told a story by her grandfather of how a relative was sold into slavery because she was disobedient, feels a lot of work still needs to be done to bring American Blacks and Africans together, which is something she hopes to see happen sooner than later.
In that bonhomie spirit of loving one another, Agwuncha expressed pride in seeing a Black man elected president of the United States, saying, "His work is excellent and that's why he was reelected."
But she feels a bit disappointed that President Barack Obama is yet to embark on a major trip to Africa. The president's only visit to Africa was that short trip to Ghana soon after he took office for his first term.
"He is one of us, he is supposed to pay a major visit to Africa," said Agwuncha, who also noted, "that [visiting Africa] will show us he is one of us."
Asked about how she is enjoying her visit to Columbus, she replied, "I like it." One thing she doesn't like though is what she described as the excessive focus on individualism here.
"Everybody minds his or her own business, quite unlike Nigeria," she said.
As for Columbus, she likes it. "Columbus is very good," she said. "I had never seen snow before. This was my first time of seeing snow in my life."
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But there's no assuming what role Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman is playing as part of his effort to help improve the district. Recently, he and City Council President Andrew Ginther formed a panel of 25 members to recommend ways to do that. It is called Columbus Education Commission (CEC).
To be sure, it wasn't clear at first just how both independently concieved orbs, that is, the districts internal housecleaning efforts and Coleman's moves, would coalesce or at the very least work in choriamb in pursuit of a common mission. That lack of clarity in large part played into why the Call & Post published a recent story titled, 'Future of Columbus School District, who is in charge of shaping it unclear.'
Even with recent expressions of desire to work together on this, it's still largely unclear just how the labyrinths of this herculean and multilayered mess will be resolved in the end. The good news however is that both sides, clearly frosty about each other, have at least expressed commitment to coexist in favor of advancing a common agenda. But that dovetailing spirit only came after somewhat a corrosive start, a brief hedging on the part of the Columbus Board of Education that easily underscored the undercurrent feelings of turf tiff among some involved in the matter. The board, after stiffening its resolve not to allow Coleman's panel members to conduct a management review of the district operation, eventually agreed to invite them in, even deciding to abandon its initial demand requiring the group to submit its request in writing.
Seemingly, both sides, after a well-managed acrimonious posturing possibly rooted in distrust as well, have agreed to work out a plan for proceeding with the management review.
Eric Fingerhut, the commission's executive director, in a letter to the school board, called for both sides to assign individuals who would meet to discuss the way forward in terms of the "scope and timeline for the review."
Fingerhut's plan was approved by the school board. President Carol Perkins is the board's representative who would meet with Mary Jo Hudson representing the panel.
For all involved in these efforts, it is probably refreshing and encouraging to see a once caviling and battleax Perkins involved at any level of collaboration with the mayor's panel. Weeks ago, she wasn't optimistic about any of this, even going as far as almost declaring the Sultanhood of the board concerning matters of education in the district.
"They're fast-tracking with possible conclusions," said Perkins at a recent board meeting, declaring, "Bottom line, whatever comes down, this board will make the final decision."
That was her daggers-drawn feelings at that time. But recently, she offered a more conciliatory tone.
"Now, I imagine, as we get further, if there's some points that come up, I'm sure we can work it out, said Perkins, who also noted, "We have no objections to this, and again, this could be information that could be meaningful to the next superintendent."
The current superintendent, who along with Perkins, presided over this whole mess, will retire at the end of the year. While Harris is on the verge of departure, Perkins on the other hand is staying as board leader after she received a vote of 6 to 1 to continue serving as president.
But Harris will hang around long enough to see and possibly react to the recommendations of CEC due in April, according to Fingerhut, who also noted that the panel would offer proposals for revamping the district's practices.
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But just how bad does Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney really want to win Ohio's 18 electoral votes?
Apparently, bad enough that Romney said this, "We need to win Ohio. If we win Ohio, we take back America."
And bad enough that his 42-year old running mate Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan last week took over a soup kitchen in Youngstown for a photo-op without gaining permission from the president of the facility.
But it wasn't just Ryan being in the kitchen that was the kicker. It was what he did when he got there. While in the kitchen, Ryan, who was decked out in a white apron, was photographed washing pots and pans that appeared very clean.
It was a 15-minute visit to the soup kitchen for a photo-op that went terribly awry. It resulted in a pointless publicity for the Romney campaign, forcing it to explain why Ryan snuck into a soup kitchen pretending to be washing dishes without asking the president of the facility if it was OK to do so.
Ryan offered explanation for what he was doing in a soup kitchen.
"We just wanted to come by and say thanks for doing what you do," Ryan said. "This is what makes society go. It makes it work. Helping people."
That was a nice clarification , but the president of the facility didn't appreciate it.
"We are apolitical because the majority of our funding is from private donations," Brian Antal told the Washington Post, as he kvetched that Ryan pretty much
"ramrodded their way" into the facility without asking the people who runs the place.
It all begs the fundamental question: Why was it that important for Ryan to be seen in a soup kitchen to start with?
That's easy. For one thing, for politicians running for office, it seemingly conveys, even if it is phony, a connection to struggling hoipolloi.
For another, especially in this case, it might be a continuation of Ryan's effort during his debate with opponent Joe Biden to debunk the notion that the Romney campaign is only looking out for millionaires and billionaires and intrinsically detached from the pain and concerns of average folks.
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That was how a very satisfied Thomas H. Stephens, Assistant Director of the Mayor's Equal Business Opportunity Office, described the 10th Mayor's Small Business Conference & Expo that played out recently at the Hyatt at the Columbus Convention Center, Downtown. The theme of the gathering was "Go Forward: Driving Local Economic Growth through Small Business Inclusion and Sustainability."
"This is outstanding. People loved it," said Stephens, adding, "It was more than what we planned it to be. This year's conference was a full day, previous ones were half a day. We brought in national speakers. It's been great," he said.
Stephens told Onumba.com that the main reason for holding the gathering was "to help small businesses move forward, that was the whole key, providing access to capital" and "helping small businesses link up with large businesses, that's the whole point, helping them move forward through these rough economic times."
But it was also to introduce the city's small business community to the process of securing contracts with the city, which according to Mayor Michael Coleman, summed up to"more than $300,000 in contracting opportunities" in 2011.
In his greetings, Columbus Mayor Michael B. Coleman said that "Columbus is committed to providing education, support and opportunity to these businesses as they continue to enhance our city's image as a great place to start and grow a business."
The event was well attended. Actually, many who sought to register for the conference were unable to do so because registration was closed days before the event. But for those who attended, it was all worth it.
"I think this has been a phenomenal event," said Jessica Figgins, owner of Down Home Soul Catering. The conference, said Figgins, "has been an event where you feel comfortable coming in, small business or large business, you are not afraid to ask questions. They provided a lot of resources that I didn't know were out there."
Asked about the networking opportunities, Figgins replied: "It has been over the top. I got what I expected and more. So, I'm glad to be here."
Luke Estice agreed.
"It's really successful because I found a lot of different avenues that I can reach out to other businesses so I can expand my business," said Estice, who owns two businesses, Luke's Huy Road Barber, Beauty & Nail Shop and L&E Soul Food, along with a Food Truck.
"It's really helpful," he said.
Raymonia M. Lacy took the same view.
"It has been very helpful, the networking has been great," said Lacy, who owns IJN Enterprises, LLC, a venture that is involved with business development and
Beside learning "a lot about how to maneuver through the city and the canals we should go through in order to obtain city contracts, Lacy said that she appreciated making connections with the city and other businesses.
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But recently, he weighed in with a bray and caviling posture about the simmering hubbub.
Simply put, there would be no changes to the charter, he declared.
The "petition" is "over."
But the bad news for the leaders of Columbus Coalition for Responsive Government, the cabal rabidly seeking to reform the city charter, is not really that Ginther is fiercely opposed to their plan.
Rather, their official waterloo is that not enough petitions were submitted to advance their cause, meaning that they failed to meet a cardinal requirement for amending the city charter.
Ginther, whose opposition to the plan certainly doesn't help, elaborated further in a letter he sent to the citizens of Columbus last week.
"In short, the petition failed to meet the minimum requirements for a charter amendment to be placed on the ballot, which is 19,164 valid signatures, representing 10 percent of the electors in the last preceding municipal election," said Ginther, adding, "Upon review, the Franklin County Board of Elections determined the petitions contained only 8,471 valid signatures. Therefore, City Council concluded the process by voting unanimously not to place the proposed charter amendment on the November ballot."
The cabal of reformists is seeking to place the issue on the November ballot for residents to decide. In a June 16th letter to Ginther, the group proposed a radical overhaul to the process of electing members of the city council, decrying the status quo as startlingly "archaic" and staggeringly "inadequate."
Currently, the city maintains an at-large system where council members are elected to serve, represent and be accountable to the entire city. The coalition is pushing to change a system it describes as antediluvian that doesn't serve the city well. It argues that the current system, which was crafted in 1914 when the city had a population of 181,000, is no longer adequate for a sprawling metropolis of 787,000 ethnically-diverse populations.
In their eyes, it all sum up to a need for change.
And their clarion call for reform embraces an approach that would combine the current at-large method and ward/district system for the city. That plan would expand the council membership from seven to eleven, to consist of four at large members and seven ward/district members.
But it is plan that would be implemented over the dead body of another group ferociously opposing it. That group, 'Keep Columbus Strong,' was recently formed for the sole purpose of undermining and ultimately kiboshing this plan.
Leaders of 'Keep Columbus Strong' simply like things the way they are, meaning they favor retaining the current at-large system of electing city council members, arguing that it works because they represent the entire city of Columbus and are accountable to all residents.
Opponents of the plan argue that the coalition's proposal would create a bifurcated city and encourage a detrimental culture of "horse-trading" pitting one section of the city against another. They fear it could lead to dangerous intra-city tiff over resources and city projects. They also maintain that the current system has served the city well, and therefore see absolutely no reason to mess with it.
Ginther agreed.
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Ginther lauded the city's economic growth, affordable living, and safe, strong and healthy communities, and credited the current government, its charter and structure for the exemplary status and ranking it now enjoys among other major cities in the country.
He said that "Columbus works because we work together."
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- ^ Liza-Jane Gillespie (26 March 2014). "Fears that Kelston Road could be closed for a year". Bath Chronicle. Retrieved 10 April 2014.
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This is the 11th and final time Centennial's Brooke Roberts will be The Californian's Volleyball Coach of the Year.
Roberts led the Golden Hawks to a 24-11 season, an outright Southwest Yosemite League championship and top seed in the Central Section Div. I playoffs in her final season.
Centennial didn't win the section title. That hope ended with a five-set loss to Clovis in the semifinals.
In December, Roberts retired as a teacher. She announced a year ago this would be her final volleyball season as a coach. She considered giving up coaching in 2012.
"I'm so happy I decided to do this and finish it out," she said. "It was such a rewarding experience to do it with these girls.
"Our team bought into an intense work ethic and selfless attitude. They epitomized what you would want every year from a volleyball team. Every day was a joy with them."
According to Central Section historian Bob Barnett, Roberts finishes with a section-record 884 wins, 24 league titles, 14 section titles, eight section runner-up finishes and two state titles. The 884 wins is believed to be a state record, according to Cal-Hi Sports. She finished 884-253.
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MANILA, Philippines—The Commission on Elections (Comelec) proclaimed Friday evening three more senatorial candidates amid criticisms over the early announcement because less than 50 percent of the votes have been tallied.
The Comelec en banc, sitting National Board of Canvassers, proclaimed Paolo Benigno "Bam" Aquino IV, Aquilino "Koko" Pimentel III, and Antonio Trillanes IV at around 8 p.m.
Only Aquino arrived as, according to Comelec Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr., Trillanes sent word that he was out of town and Pimentel was "ill".
Prior to the proclamation, Pimentel called the Comelec decision "premature" and "wrong."
The Comelec on Thursday proclaimed Grace Poe, Loren Legarda, Alan Peter Cayetano, Francis Escudero, Nancy Binay and Juan Edgardo Angara. Only Binay did not attend on the advise of her lawyers, saying she wants every vote counted.
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The Idaho County Sheriff's Office reports that 57-year-old John Navarro Stone of Fortine, Montana was arrested Monday afternoon at Jerry Johnson Hot Springs, just over the Montana border near Powell Junction.
Authorities say an Idaho State Police Officer was able to identify Stone's license plate, and then connected him with an arrest warrant out of Lincoln County, Montana.
The Western News reports Stone is wanted in Lincoln County for the March 10th severe beating of a female companion.
Idaho County Sheriff Doug Gittings says when deputies confronted him, Stone tried to escape arrest by jumping over a bridge into the nearby river, but deputies were able to stop him.
Authorities say the Idaho County Sheriff's Emergency Response Team (SERT) then took Stone into custody.
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It refers to "mean noon," as opposed to "solar noon." True solar noon is when the sun crosses the imaginary meridian in the sky between east and west, i.e., when the sun is exactly in the south. The time this occurs varies slightly every day due to a number of factors; the variation is known as the "equation of time." (See here for an excellent explanation ...
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Lechatchila person should not do it, if he already did in first half-hour after chatzos it is ok bedieved, but if already chatzos passee an one did not pray, he should do tashlumin after praying mincha. mishna berurah 89:1:7
See orach chayim siman 89, first siff in Ramma that once it hits chatzos its assur to daven. Mishna berura brings different opinions that if it was by accident one has a half hour after chatzos to daven, but one should assume like Ramma that there is no half hour make up time and therefore wait the half hour till mincha time, daven mincha, then pray a ...
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Abstinence Education Shows Its Wisdom
Studies Reveal Positive Effects of Certain Sex-Ed Programs
WASHINGTON, D.C., OCT. 11, 2004 (Zenit) - Government support for sexual education programs that promote abstinence continues to divide opinions. The U.S. House of Representatives voted for a 49% increase in funding for abstinence education, the Washington Times reported Monday. A Senate vote is not likely until after the November elections.
If eventually approved, the increase would give $105 million in federal funds for 2005 to the abstinence program, up from $70.5 million this year.
The federal funds are "making an impact," said Leslee Unruh, president of the Abstinence Clearinghouse. She told the Washington Times, however, that abstinence education still receives only $1 for every $12 given to programs that stress condom use.
Promoting abstinence has plenty of opponents. On Sept. 28 the organization Advocates for Youth released a pair of reports that, according to the press release, "raise new questions about the effectiveness of the abstinence-only-until-marriage approach to sex education endorsed by the federal government."
Research into abstinence programs in 10 states by Advocates for Youth reportedly shows that in the long-term there is "no long-term success in delaying sexual initiation or reducing sexual risk-taking behaviors."
But the positive effects of delaying sexual activity is strongly defended in studies published by the Washington-based Heritage Foundation. On Sept. 21 the organization published a report entitled "Teens Who Make Virginity Pledges Have Substantially Improved Life Outcomes."
The report provides statistical evidence demonstrating that teen-agers who publicly pledge to refrain from sexual activity are less likely to experience teen pregnancy. And they will likely have fewer sexual partners.
The study cited data from the government-funded National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, showing that the behavior of adolescents who have made a virginity pledge is significantly different from that of peers who have not made a pledge. Teen-age girls who have taken a virginity pledge are one-third less likely to experience a pregnancy before age 18.
The Heritage report also observed that almost two-thirds of teens who do not make a virginity pledge are sexually active before age 18. By contrast, only 30% of teens who report having made a pledge become sexually active before age 18.
Even though those who pledge to chastity may eventually break their commitment, the report notes that delaying the onset of sexual activity has a number of positive effects. One to reduce the number of sexual partners by about half. Surveys cited in the report show that the benefits last into adulthood. For example, women who become sexually active in their early teen years are less likely to have stable marriages in their 30s when compared with women who wait.
Another advantage is the reduction in children born outside marriage. The report observes that children born and raised outside marriage are seven times more likely to live in poverty than those born and raised in intact married families. As well, they are more prone to a number of social problems, ranging from crime to emotional difficulties.
Adolescent girls who make a pledge to refrain from sexual activity are substantially less likely to give birth in their teens or early 20s. By age 18, 1.8% of those who were firmly pledged had given birth, compared with 3.8% of girls who did not make a pledge.
"Regrettably," the study notes, "teens today live in a sex-saturated popular culture that celebrates casual sex at an early age." Social institutions that teach abstinence values can play an important part in helping teens to media and peer pressure, concludes the report.
Further support for the efficacy of abstinence programs came in a study carried out by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Washington Times reported July 16. The results attribute a 53% drop in teen pregnancy, from 1991 to 2000, to increased abstinence. Increased use of contraceptives accounted for 47% of the decline, according to the study.
Further data showed that girls aged 15 to 17 who were sexually active decreased from 50.6% in 1991 to 42.7% in 2001.
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Another report published by the Heritage Foundation helps explain why abstinence programs can help change teens' behavior. The study, "Comprehensive Sex Education vs. Authentic Abstinence: A Study of Competing Curricula," was published Aug. 10. It explained that in the past there were two basic approaches to sex education. There was the "safe sex" approach, which encourages teens to use contraception, especially condoms; and abstinence education, which focuses on delaying the ...
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Canned tune or Custom?
I am now waiting on my Vararam Intake to show up, and am wondering if a can tune is still good for the mods I have or is it time to email tune?
Can the PCM still adapt to A/F with a Diablo tune on it?
A canned tune is a general tune for all mildly modded vehicles, a custom tune will always get you better results based on YOUR vehicle. If you can get a good tune, then do so, you might be surprised how much you can get compared to the canned tune. With your mods there won't be much of a gain over the canned, but it optimizes your current mods.
I agree...a canned tune will suffice, but, you have enough mods that a custom tune would definitely give you better results..
A canned tune will work just fine.
you said email tune, does that mean a send your PCM in type of tune or a dyno tune?
If its not a dyno tune there really wont be much difference in a can and email tune.
no..email datalogs to a cmr tuning, he will create a tune and email it back. rhan upload to diablo tuner, than to truck
I've seen folks get a great bump with an email tune. The tuner will want some logs of the engine, the tuner tweaks, sends a tune back to you. A lot of them will do this 2 or 3 times for a flat fee.
Haven't been on in a while, where did you get a Vararam for the 4th Gen!?
A custom tune would always be better than a canned tune. The more mods you have the more of a difference it will make too.
they are just getting to be released to production from what I've heard...looks slick..
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Internet Surfing Tips From An Expert Internet Sex Crimes Lawyer
What You Need To Know About Sex Crimes Committed On The Net – Straight From An Expert Internet Sex Crimes Lawyer
We all have our little secrets, says one internet sex crimes lawyer, and that is almost all of us have seen a sex video at least once in our life. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that. Watching shows like such in the privacy of your own home is a legal activity that everyone has the right to pursue.
But you need to be careful about what you are downloading and watching.
There are certain pornographic materials which are completely illegal that even the possession of these videos are punishable by law. One of the most common examples of illegal porn videos is that which involves children.
The idea of using kids for sexual acts is heinous already, says an internet sex crimes lawyer. So recording the act on video, distributing those on DVDs and online for other people to find pleasure in is just as bad. It re-victimizes the children over and over again.
At times, these videos are shown 'live'. An individual would find a site where he could solicit the services of a 'child', pay for it through credit card or PayPal and similar sites and then watch the show. Sometimes, the adult will begin a sex chat with the said minor.
This is not just watching porn anymore, states one internet sex crimes lawyer. This is online solicitation of a minor for sexual acts.
The masterminds of the production and distribution of pornographic material which features children getting molested should be taken down – there is no question about that. They promote prostitution on the net and basically encourage child abuse.
But other than that, explains one internet sex crimes lawyer, these child porn connoisseurs are the ones who also befriend children online, send them explicit materials and messages or even persuade them to meet with them offline. There is a possibility that they will do so much worse once they are with children.
Law enforcers must be applauded for their zeal to stop these kinds of crime. Traditional methods of crime-fighting are coupled with high-tech ones to bring an end to these criminals. And with the number of individuals getting arrested for various kinds of internet sex offense, the law is being upheld well.
However, with their enthusiasm to put an end to sex crimes committed online, they sometimes accuse people wrongly.
The sad thing about being labeled a 'sex offender', especially if you're not really guilty of the crime, is that it sticks forever. You'll get shunned by the community you live in. It will be hard for you to find work and you will be hated by your friends and family.
This is the reason fighting back as early as possible is important, says an internet sex crimes lawyer, so that you could make your side of the story known to everyone before the media makes their own conclusions and tell it to the world.


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RACINE — The Southern Local Board of Education approved a preliminary list of seniors for the Class of 2014 during last week's regular board meeting.
A total of 51 students have been approved pending completion of all requirements for the district and the state of Ohio.
The first graduation to be held in the new Southern High School will take place at 1 p.m. May 24.
Students approved for graduation are as follows: Austin Tyler Barton, Christopher P. Barton, Tyler Scott Barton, Riley Luke Beegle, Zachariah A. Beegle, Amy Robin Bennett, Robert Dillon Blankenship, Kelsi Nicole Casto, Hannah Elizabeth Conley, Ryan Allen Daugherty, Trenton James Deem, Darien Rae Diddle, Jacob Cole Dixon, Jeffrey Scott Dowell, Chandler D. Drummer, Sarah Lynn Eakins,
Emily Kate Goode, Brandon K. Grueser, Cameron D. Harmon, Celestia D. Hendrix, Rowan Edward Holsinger, Jordan N. Huddleston, Baylee Rian Hupp, Lacey Nicole Hupp, Wyatt N. Jarrell, Katie Jenkins, Hunter W. Johnson, Joshua William Justis, Travis Dale Kimes, Sarah Elizabeth Lawrence, Nathan M. Leamond, Damon Scott Ledford, Devon Quinn Ledford, Drewlyn Y. Lemley, Ciera Marcinko,
Taylor J. McNickle, Brandon Robert Moodispaugh, Dylan Scott Nida, Jamie N. O'Brien, Aaron Jeffrey Payne, Casey N. Pickens, Ashlyn M. Pickett, Allison Kate Taylor, Dennis David Teaford, Jason M. Warner, Joyce A. Weddle, Christopher Logan Yeater, Jamal Lee, Colten Walters, Alex Sayre, Shyanne Harper.
Thirty-five students and chaperones were approved for the eighth-grade trip. Paid chaperones are Jeff Caldwell and Patty Cook. Volunteer chaperones are Carmel Evans, Doug Lavender and Jody Ervin.
The resignation of Vicky Koste El-Dabaja for retirement purposes, effective June 1, was accepted.
April Neal was hired as an administrative assistant for the PEP grant. The contract is four hours per day, 200 days per year. Pay is in accordance with grant specifications.
Supplemental contracts were approved as follows, Chris Carroll, assistant softball; Mykala Sheppard, assistant junior high track; Erin Lisle and Courtney Ginther, math and science expo; and Megan Edwards, science olympiad.
Vision insurance rates for the period of July 1, 2014-June 30, 2016, were approved at rates of $5.30/$12. This is down from the current rates of $5.45/$12.34.
A revised school calendar and contingency plan were approved as detailed in an article published in Friday's edition of The Daily Sentinel.
The board approved to engage SHP Architect design services for the field house and surrounding area.
The board approved having cameras for the buses fixed and/or installed.
Minutes, bills and financial were approved as presented. Revised permanent appropriations were approved in the amount of $17,470,854.
Policies, bylaws and forms were approved as presented by Superintendent Tony Deem.
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Chris Griffith: Being a snowbird isn't a crime
Tourism makes for great people watching. Having just returned from an Olympic level of people watching in New Orleans, I'd actually been a bit reflective and was thinking about the big city versus our little city when a friend of mine called to see how the trip went.
There really isn't much in similarity between the two cities by comparison because, well, the two areas are wildly different … with the exception of tourism. It seems we both get our fair share of tourists.
Right about the time that I was explaining finer points of how nicely New Orleanians seemed to treat their tourists, a stream of PG-13 verbal rage crawled through the phone, sprinkled with a few colorful words.
It's not the first time I've recognized frustration projected at visitors this fall or any fall for that matter.
Now, combine that with the honking horns, wagging middle fingers and the occasional bumper sticker that reads "If it's tourist season why can't we shoot them?" and it might actually appear that we don't appreciate tourists in Southwest Florida. It certainly makes it look like we don't need them.
The locals complaining about tourists have actually been on my mind since I saw the first car hauler rattle into town this fall.
I've lived here for decades and have grown use to them starting to show up shortly after Labor Day. You've may have seen them offloading along the Trail and at entrances to communities without giving them a second thought.
Basically, the car haulers mean the snowbirds are coming back. The flock is a blessing and I know many local business owners really felt their absence this year and have been counting on their return.
From that perspective, it would make sense that complaining about our main source of industry shouldn't be so fashionable. If you're one of those types maybe you've been thinking about this all wrong.
What if being stuck behind a slow poke in traffic means that we're lucky?
We're lucky that out of all of the warm places in the state of Florida or even the U.S. of A, the visitors chose to come here. They chose to support our local businesses, shop at our stores, dine in our restaurants, buy our real estate and contribute to our economy even if it's just for nine months out of the year.
Nobody is a fan of heavy traffic or actually having to make a reservation to eat dinner but most of us should probably be grateful for our snowbirds, especially this year.
It was a long, hot summer and the business owners who took a shot at their American dream and stretched their leveraged necks out over the quiet summer are counting on us to make the seasonal residents and tourists feel a little bit more welcome. That would mean less grumbling and no anti-tourist bumper stickers.
Now, in fairness to the locals and to keep myself from being tarred and feathered for being pro-tourist, I will recommend that the visitors and seasonal residents may no longer drive in the fast lane … ever, write checks instead of use a debit card at the grocery store or complain about how much cheaper things are up north. Fair is fair.
Now get out there, Southwest Florida, and welcome the visitors with a friendly smile and a warm heart. And make sure you use all of your fingers when you're waving at folks in traffic this season.
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Chris Griffith is a real estate agent at Downing-Frye Realty Inc. in Bonita Springs. If you have a question about local real estate or Bonita Springs, e-mail her at email@example.com.
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Rumors are circulating that Eva Mendes and Ryan Gosling are heading for a break-up, due to issues with commitment and cheating.
Showbiz Spy is reporting that 32-year-old Gosling dreams of marriage and having children. Unfortunately, the 39-year-old cubana isn't on the same page as her hunky boyfriend.
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We don't know about you, but if we were dating Ryan Gosling, we'd be shouting from the rooftops. Apparently, Eva Mendes does not agree. She remains tight-lipped about her boyfriend (and possibly most desired man in Hollywood), and says so in the latest issue of Lucky.
"You can ask about my boyfriend. I just won't answer," she said. She admits even her mother must search online to find out the latest stories.
The one thing she does discuss is her ability to slim down (or bulk up) for roles.
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Though she wasn't in attendance for beau Ryan Gosling's Gangster Squad premiere in Hollywood – the stunning Cuban American actress' clothes definitely were.
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Mary Adams
From Ballotpedia
Mary Adams is a tax-reform activist in Maine. In 2006, she was a primary sponsor of that state's Taxpayer Bill of Rights initiative.
According to her website, in 1984, Adams started a group, the "Freedom Fighters," that repealed Maine's statewide property tax.
Adams was subsequently appointed to the Maine State Board of Education by James B. Longley, the first Governor elected in Maine as a political independent.
In 1978 she received the Rockefeller Award for Political Courage for her work in repealing the state property tax.
She was active in opposing:
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- Adam's Report, website with content from Mary Adams
- Conservative Spotlight: Mary Adams
- Taxpayer Bill of Rights Proposed