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Sudan Reportedly Frees Woman Sentenced to Death for "Converting" to Christianity
Sudan's national news agency and a lawyer representing Meriam Ibrahim, who was sentenced to death last month for allegedly converting from Islam to Christianity, say that Ibrahim has been released. From Reuters:
Ibrahim's lawyer Mohaned Mostafa said she has already been released and sent "to an unknown house to stay at for her protection and security."
"Her family had been threatened before and we are worried that someone might try to harm her," Mostafa told Reuters.
Ibrahim, the daughter of a Muslim man and a Christian woman, has said she was raised as a Christian because her father left her family. But in Sudan children are apparently required to take up their father's religion. Ibrahim is married to a Christian man, which is thus considered apostasy under the law since the court considers her to be Muslim and Muslim women are not allowed to marry outside their faith.
Ibrahim gave birth to her second child while imprisoned last month.
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- From the AEA research highlights, a claim that Free Trade Agreements help prevent coups
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Nat Brown, "a founder of the original xBox project at Microsoft" who "gave it its name," has suggested in a blog post that Apple could easily turn the Apple TV into an open game console, taking advantage of the still-poor Xbox user and developer experience to rapidly conquer the market. "Apple, if it chooses to do so, will simply kill Playstation, Wii-U and xBox by introducing an open 30%-cut app/game ecosystem for Apple-TV [sic]," Brown wrote. "I already make a lot of money on iOS – I will be the first to write apps for Apple-TV when I can, and I know I'll make money."
According to Brown, "The current numbers already say a lot, even with Apple-TV not already an open console: 5.3M sold units in 2012, 90% year-over-year growth — vs. xBox 360 — about 9M units in 2012, 60% YoY decline," though the Xbox 360 is notably nearing the end of its life cycle. Brown argues that a "console-capable" Apple TV could benefit indie developers as well as users, who would jump at a chance to get away from Xbox's confusing menus, loading times, and poor online marketplace for software, which hides smaller titles in an area without any promotion. Microsoft and Sony are both expected to announce next-generation game consoles this year, but at price points significantly higher than the Apple TV's, which Brown suggests could become more expensive while still undercutting rivals.
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And what about Apple's apps that work WITH current TV providers? Apple seems to be clicking on all cylinders, across the multimedia spectrum, with no imminent sign of slowing! I'm not yet interested in the AppleTV, since I have DISH, but my family all has iOS tablets, phones, and computers, and the combination of my DISH Hopper and the DISH Anywhere applet me take all my live TV with me wherever I go. As long as I have internet access I can stream my home system to my tablet, and it's as if I were right there in my living room watching TV. I work a lot of late hours at DISH, and it's nice not being SO dependent on the DVR anymore. The DVR is fantastic, but when i get off work late I like being able to just turn the game on live. I don't have to wait until i get home to start my shows or recordings, and we all enjoy TV a bit more, in more places!
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West Valley City » A warm summer night saw music legends KISS and Def Leppard rock an estimated 20,000 people at Usana Amphitheatre in West Valley City.
KISS lived up to its billing as one of the best live acts in rock 'n' roll, lighting up the Utah night sky with pyrotechnics, confetti and anthemic songs.
Opening song » "King of the Nightime World," played with fire shooting behind the band as bassist Gene Simmons and guitarist and lead singer Paul Stanley strutted around the stage.
Highlight » A dual encore of "Detroit Rock City" and "Rock and Roll All Night" saw the crowd explode with applause as white confetti rained down, three band members were elevated above the stage and Stanley smashed his guitar into three pieces.
Crowd favorite » For the seventh song of the set, Simmons "vomited" his signature fake blood and was raised to a microphone high above the stage. The blood dripped down his metallic chest plate as he sang "I Love It Loud."
Best quotes » "We go way back in Salt Lake City, before some of you were even in Salt Lake City," Stanley said before "Shout It Out Loud," referring to one of the band's early shows at the Salt Palace. "People say, 'Salt Lake City? Isn't that where all the Mormons are?' But you're some of the finest, most partying people we've ever come across."
In the crowd » Stanley performed his signature stage trick during "Psycho Circus," flying high above the crowd and landing on a platform, where he played the song in the middle of the audience.
Low note » Stanley's voice gave out early on in the show and was sporadic throughout as he struggled to hit certain notes. The band also played a string of lesser-known songs that saw the crowd lose some interest instead of classics like "Love Gun," "Lick It Up," and "Strutter."
Before KISS took the stage, Def Leppard warmed up the crowd with the band's classic British rock sound, standing as a crisp and lively complement to KISS.
Opening song » "Let It Go," played immediately after a short intro of The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again," the band adorned in various pieces of clothing emblazoned with the British Union Jack.
Highlight » The last three songs, "Pour Some Sugar on Me," "Rock of Ages" and "Photograph," which featured photo-booth-style pictures of the band's career scrolling across the big screen.
Crowd favorite » The band played "Animal" as the third song of the set with neon signs flashing on the big screen. The crowd sang along loudly to the chorus of "And I want, and I need, and I lust, animal."
Best quotes » "This one's for Uncle Gene," singer Joe Elliott said before the band played "Foolin'."
"We always come here. Turn around and look at yourselves, that's why we keep coming," Elliott said before the band played two acoustic songs.
Opening bands » Canadian metal band Kobra and the Lotus opened, with the band's female singer Kobra Paige resembling the inflection of former Black Sabbath and Rainbow frontman Ronnie James Dio.
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Fingerless wrist-warmers are a great way to keep warm when typing at the computer or just when you want to show off your rings. Use this wrist warmer knitting pattern to knit a pair for yourself.
- Yarn: Bernat Satin (Solids: 100 g/3.5 oz or Ombres: 80 g/2.8 oz) 2(2) balls or Bernat Berella '4' (Solids: 100 g/3.5 oz or Ombres: 85 g/3 oz) 1(2) ball(s) or Bernat Super Value (Solids: 197 g/7 oz or Ombres: 142 g/5 oz) 1(1) ball
- Knitting needles: Size 5 mm (U.S. 8) or size needed to obtain gauge.
Gauge: 18 sts and 24 rows = 4 ins [10 cm] in stocking st.
Make 2 alike
Cast on 45 sts.
1st row: P1. *K3. P2. Rep from * to last 4 sts. K3. P1.
2nd row: K1. *P3. K2. Rep from * to last 4 sts. P3. K1.
Rep last 2 rows until work from beg measures 2½ ins [6 cm].
Cont in stocking st (Knit on RS and purl on WS) until work from beg measures 9 ins [23 cm], ending with RS facing for next row.
Rep 1st and 2nd rows of (K3. P2) ribbing until work from beg measures 13 ins [33 cm], ending with RS facing for next row. Cast off in pat.
Mark 2 sts at cast off edge 2 ins [5 cm] in from each side edge.
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Sew marked sts tog to form division for Thumb opening and Fingers.
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Friday was an adventurous day for the Wilsons. They rode their bike down to Mashes Sands Road in Wakulla County for something they've been waiting on for years.
"We wanted to ride down today, rather than drive to show that we really do need this trail and we support the trail," says Diane Wilson of Wakulla County.
Wakulla County commissioners held a groundbreaking ceremony for construction on the new Ochlocknee Bay Bike Trail on Friday. The trail will extend from the Mashes Sands area to Highway 319.
"We hope this will bring people who like recreation in Wakulla and like to bike and stay with us for a few days," says Wakulla County Commissioner Mike Stewart.
Many people say the bike trail groundbreaking ceremony means a lot for Wakulla County. Residents say they'll be able to ride on a safe trail and hopefully it'll bring more tourists to the county.
"For tourists who love to just ride their bike and see the scenery, they can come down here and look at the most beautiful place that God has made," says Paige Killeen of Wakulla County.
Killeen says she's ready to hop on her bike and ride down the trail.
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"Some of these roads are not really safe. So to have a bike trail that we can actually go out on a couple times a week and have other people come into the community and spend their dollars here, it's just exciting," says Diane Wilson.
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Byron R. Detwiler, 71, of Manheim, Professor Emeritus of French at Millersville University, died Monday, Sept. 2011 after an illness of one week.
He was born and raised in Lancaster, the son of Byron Y. Detwiler and Kathryn Murphy Detwiler. He attended McCaskey High School and Millersville University and then pursued graduate study at the University of Pennsylvania and in France. He taught at Millersville in the Department of Foreign Languages for many years until his retirement. Byron will be remembered by his many friends and former Millersville colleagues as a gracious host, a superb cook in both the Lancaster County and the French traditions, and a passionate gardener. He will be missed.
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U.S. District Judge Richard Sullivan told the jury that the trial could take up to five weeks.
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The Shark and the Remora By Christopher Monaco 1 I Life-guarding 2 Clams on the Causeway in Essex, Massachusetts These are the artists of fried seafood. Like a curbside jazz band playing a rendition of history at sunset. There's that lead guitar played by no human, because bubbles of oil improvise the notes, scolding that fret bar of fried excitement. A fryer on bass, sifting seafood in a flour bin, hands keeping rhythm, a low tone of knuckles hitting metal. A brush of the snare as baskets shake their grease. And a crash cymbal echoes, while lobster tails drop into a fryolator. The tune sounds no different than its 1914 original performed by a Woodman duet. Deep in that green-headed summer another morsel of Americana conceived, consumed. 3 Laps Stroke, stroke, breath, stroke. Stroke, stroke, breath, stroke. It gets boring in all that blue-green chlorine so I count, recite songs, and remember— my father before each race as I stood with grade-school fear for the other, larger swimmers. Your opponent is time; don't worry about anyone else in the pool. But to me it was simple: clocks don't receive first place ribbons. Sound advice sixteen years later, counting— stroke, stroke, breath, stroke. I am my sternest timekeeper, harshest critic. The pool now immense; millions racing. 4 Dry-cleaning I carry irony in my arms because my grandfather's pea coat has lost some of its liner. It is inside the Navy's wool decorated with metallic anchor-engraved buttons since the U.S.S. Massachusetts left San Francisco during the second half of the Great War. After a quick nod and broken hello, she swallows her maki while smiling. Her smile raises her cheeks until they meet her eyes. I wonder if she can even see me. So adorable, facial wrinkles and all, I put her about 65. My grandfather dead long as I've been alive. His pea coat, my property, until now never fit. Her fingers open the jacket he wore with careful touch and soft tracing. Finding the sewn-in name and year she looks up at me then down, writes $40 on a return slip and hands the paper over. She receipts an awkward moment, into the racks on tracks of un-repaired jackets, unasked questions, and a war so foreign to me, I left that drycleaner feeling I had accepted the final treaty. 5 The Red Sox on Patriots Day A baseball thrown, a baseball hit foul into the hands of a father, son or daughter. Rowdy clans with cups of beer cheer as the visiting batter fans at a blistering delivery. The bodies wave up and down around the field, with dreams of another championship season. There's a patriotic smell of hot dogs, popcorn, Bostonian air, as the walk-off homerun clears the green monster and the Sox of losing in the ninth. And when the master sergeant, back from Iraq, sings God Bless America, the crowd sings too, holding their hats and notes high in the sky so the fighting and dying might hear. 6 Lifeguards You may question their purpose, until you find yourself reaching for the surface to find a way out of the vast blue that weakens your body, holding your last breath hostage till they arrive. Never again question why their eyes constantly gaze out behind sunglasses over the ocean's surface as if they know her like a sister or mother. Those eyes walk on water for the sole purpose of making sure you live to understand just what it is that they do. Thank them for being just who they are. 7 Eighty-six My grandmother isn't trying to kill herself, she's trying to live, breathe, and smile without tired wet eyes, because she's felt dead for years, like the world she will soon leave. Taking the rest of us with her soon after. Mother said she never had any hobbies, and that's why bottles of wine appeal to her mind, like they did when her husband worked overnight at the Wyoma Square firehouse, coming home distraught about finding his wife once again hung-over. Alcoholics don't need a reason, they just need alcohol mother still says. But what if grandmother is telling the truth? That she has little happiness with relatives, friends, and husband dead too young. Life doesn't take hold of her as it did in her youth— as alcohol does now. Conjuring up sparse yet vivid memories as the brain slowly gives way to dementia, she is able to tolerate her last days, last conversations, and last times watching Odd Couple reruns. 8 To Those Feathered Kamikazes of Singing Beach, Manchester, Massachusetts With his bowling-ball body and outstretched wings, a male cries dominantly from the seawall as unassuming patrons crowd onto the ten-in-the-morning sand. The sun hurts eyes, and the heavy, sweaty, and smelling-of-aloe air forecasts another ninety-degree day, and another dozen lunches lost, to the well-seasoned rats with wings. The air assaults begin by noon, and not even the shrieks of little children heard across the beach, are enough for them to understand: they're under attack. A potato chip bag is hurried out to sea, as a screaming teen in her bikini throws sand at the culprit. Just another embarrassed sunbather, asserting anger as though seagulls have feelings. A little boy almost loses his fingers to a fly-by peanut butter and jelly thief. The mother, outraged and utterly confused, asks for help from a patron as four more commandos risk a sandal to the beak, as they destroy and consume the rest of the boxed lunches. Entertained, with a turkey wrap under tight guard, I can only smile and salute 9 the bravery and small brains of those white and gray scavengers, patrolling the shoreline for another victim, another veggie on rye. 10 II The Way Life Should Be 11 A Guest in the Portland, Maine Bus Terminal His jeans were torn, and spots of paint camouflaged the mess. His splattered beard disguised his face. He wore a broken-in baseball cap, logo gone, an unfaded oval remained. Trays of old cigarettes odorized the room, as vending machines hummed waiting for a buyer to pick up the tune. He told me a story, a girl with two guys. He was one. He waited for a bus for her funeral in Boston, then to New York as a guest on Ricki Lake. The topic: sexual fantasies gone bad the next day. Just another anecdote without an audience besides my own, letter keys that clap all night, Old Crow at the microphone. 12 Cutting Focaccia One hand hurting the other, right wounding left, the thought of an accident turned malicious considered. Its serrated edge diving forward, back and then down through the focaccia bread and Styrofoam plate. Surely if this happens between two extremities, a nightmare would be what they could accomplish acting together, as one fluid motion to make the day stop, the world freeze and time not matter for one fucking moment to watch the blood, And nothing but the blood, as it is all that matters for once, for now--the drops falling onto a counter, grains without an hourglass, displaced when a hand draws a knife from a drawer. 13 A Farmington, Maine Midnight Special The double yellow of Main St. is his sidewalk. His shirtless body laden in tattoos, screams out the number of years this grand marshal of the downtown one-man parade, has led this lonely procession. Of course I cannot refrain from thinking alcohol or drugs are his Wednesday night dessert. Maybe even for the other six as well. A vodka or cocaine induced stroll down no more memories lane is perhaps what we are all missing-- a clearing of body cells, with the help of a twelve pack and joint to make one-way conversation feel like two. Yet before my imagination solves this midnight mystery, he inspects a curbside cigarette for foul play, rescues the nicotine holding lost soul, and strolls back toward his home. Not just a drunken clown pageant for those sober stiffs to enjoy, but a search for a smoke mission that makes the spectator admire the simple walks in life: the desperately needed hit, and an empty, but lit, small-town street, with no one but the sashaying skunk to impress. 14 A Return to the Reason The woodstoves, burning furiously into September with their oak, spruce, and birch drifting up do not alarm my sense. Not even the cigarette on Ann's front porch, with the air temperature diving below fifty wakes me. It also seems this town with its townies and out of state students with attitude and northeastern stares isn't the invader of my sleep. It is my being held under the lake waters of the foothills in Maine. The rude awakening, the messenger, the devil's advocate is me. 15 Carrabassett Valley, Maine From here on your life will never be the same (Town Motto) 1. Treasures of the Valley In the valley's transfer station, a recycling building stores old ski boots, wooden snowshoes, computers and refrigerators, awaiting a second or third designation. Carefully stacked plates and glassware line the outside wall's shelves. A family of six could sit down to a well appointed Thanksgiving Day table, if only the worn-out loveseat stinking of dog fur and beer wasn't sharing center floor with an end table supporting an electronic glass cleaner. Inspiring enough to catch these meandering eyes before spotting the valley's secret annex. Metal bookcases hold print unaffected by genre: Clive Cussler's complete works are a step to the right of periodicals and the largest non-cataloged collection of National Geographic northwest of Augusta. Shakespeare's sonnets share space with Superfudge, Sport Illustrated's swimsuits a shelf above. The Carrabassett Town Library, some tongue-in-cheek regard it, this hideaway of words, or purgatory. 16 2. Cloud Machine Beyond the valley, at the base of the logged Bigalows, a steam stack for the paper mill billows, a cloud machine. At night when the monolithic lights keep Cessnas from gliding into it, August produces orange glow, across the evaporating sky, I'd swear: an asteroid once crashed beyond the pine tops. Guys in pickups sipping American beer arrived and watched it burn to the earth, slower than wet logs in a fire pit. 17 3. Daisy a Day There is an airport behind the chamber of commerce building for local pilots and well-endowed visitors. A place where you can pay a charge from April to October and climb high above the Bigelows for a chance to watch Route 27 wiggle through the valley beside its dance partner, the Carrabassett River. Sometimes during the late spring ski season, a daredevil pilot will buzz Sugarloaf's summit skiers, putting some in awe and others, cardiac arrest. Jud Strunk wasn't buzzing anything, except pavement during a routine take-off on a seasonal blue-sky day. His plane's wheels departing up and away from the tarmac… The valley's singing star folk hero crashed into the forest floor. Gone were those smoky, alcohol— motivated sing along songs of the 1970s down at the Red Stallion Inn: where debauchery redefined itself 18 as nightly as the Stallion's barely tired patrons took to its floors and dark corners. Gone too, those northern Buffet lyrics, the guest appearances on Carson, Montgomery's Bewitched, and Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In. Broadway's Beautiful Dreamer and Top Twenty hits became eulogy highlights: a musician's gifts. I'll give you a daisy a day dear, I'll give you a daisy a day. I'll love you until the rivers run still and the four winds we know blow away. 19 4. Bigelows I. The Bigelow ranges sit on either side of the valley. Their craggy summits, sculpted by the glacial recession, reach equally into a winter's blue sky like a stout child with stout arms, Neither majestic nor privileged, they look able and standard, the slopes on their next growth having been logged down to soil after decades, too old and infertile for evergreens and virgin forest floors, no undergrowth to block my skis' first tracks, slaloming between pine and birch. 20 II. Burnt Mountain is half maintained by locals who desire their own glade runs without the hassle of lift-lines and $65 tickets. The other half is off limits-- the property of natives who'll shoot anyone trespassing on foot or more commonly, snowmobile: the apparent outcome of town meetings and a tribe's last stand. 21 5. Gepetto's Bar Twelve o'clock, and the local skiers and snowboarders sit down in their well- worn and very warm outdoor clothes. As the beer taps work out, conversations about ice, injuries, and immortality on ski trails flow quickly as the barley and hops between sentences. A tourist sits across from two guys on their liquid lunch-break from cold hoses and air-compressed snow. Alone and wearing the season's new ski jacket, the tourist pipes up about the sketchy trail conditions. Poor guy, not biting his tongue. Where are you from stranger? Massachusetts, he replies more timidly. The two snowmakers smile, Gulp down their beers, pay with wrinkled bills, and walk out mumbling words to each other. The tourist eats his lunch, alone and silent, then leaves for a likely afternoon in the Jacuzzi at the health club. 22 6. Special Olympics In January Sugarloaf hangs a giant banner over the access road: Welcome Athletes. Families pull their cars onto the gravel shoulder for the mothers to take a picture. Sometimes sons and daughters jump out screaming, as if nothing, not even being normal, means more. If they knew what normal's like. In the village the Olympic anthem plays for every athlete in skiing, skating, snowshoeing. It doesn't matter to them this winter hasn't snowed more than a few feet. Every day the resort loses money I lose money. But like the valley weather altering my day when I believe I'm wearing the proper shoes, the guy looking up at me— asking for iced coffee to go in thirty degrees, gold medal around his neck, ketchup on his chin— doesn't care, and shouldn't care. 23 7. A Weekend at Bernie's And who even knows what that experience is like, as the Buffett lover lives by himself in the valley during winter, with his mother on the coast come May. When a green 90s Pontiac Bonneville sails up the access road over frost heaves like breakers, its enormous worn hull swaying on shocks like a bad keel, you can bet that's Bernie blowing cigarette smoke out his window. Just in time to be last one late for work. And, for Bernie, work at Gepetto's means anything besides flipping burgers and tossing salads. He's a host, waiter, bartender, and expedites food on weekends. His role depends on what day you eat, or drink Michelob Light with Bernie after work, listening to his Buffet encounters, burger spots in the Virgins, or an explanation of curling, that sport no one understands. He is a balding and red skinned encyclopedia who finishes crossword puzzles during fifteen minute breaks. He will cover your shift, after working twelve straight. Bernie at work is a Jimmy Buffet concert: tales of oceans and islands, barflies and bartenders, songs by a man that reveal very little of what he sings while off stage. 24 8. Leaving the Valley My truck's windows' cracked open, and the soft sun shower drips into my car, wetting my arm. I'm ready for July. I drive beyond the gas station, food market, and airport. Spotting a deer crossing the road, I brake, and smell pine, leaves, mud, and burning wood, after which I pass the "So Long!" sign. Indeed it was. Goodbye to everything: Christmas in a snow storm, January rains, Tequila for no reason at all, and the faces of locals who smell these smells every spring. 25 III Western 26 The Hummers Roll By Tan as the sand their black wheels churn through. Their free-world paint job, smooth, glaring, dominating the Garden congested State Parkway. A Volvo wagon's bumper reading No Blood for Oil, makes Don't Tread on Me look comfortable tattooed on the arm of a stockbroker. 27 Westbound on Interstate 90, July, 2006 $3.05 a Gallon Emerson wrote, "Traveling is a fool's paradise," and mend my life!, echoes farther across the Mississippi than a semi's j-brakes, screeching, harassing, creating nightmares spawn from the humid silent stalks in a cornfield near Blue Earth, Minnesota. What keeps those stagnant relationships worth the stalemates, the useless beer-mates; fights over the cell phone that only end resolved, because lovers never hang-up irate at each other? The I love you before attempted sleep, right after sex when I wonder if that's all it takes to fix this world. Mend my life! The feeling furthest from isolation, where everything materialistic —Bahamian timeshares, Italian cars, French clothes, a German vacuum— is extraneous, and Anna's dough soft cool breasts look more forgiving and inviting than any rest stop in Belvidere, South Dakota, after nine hours of counting mile markers and cows. 28 $3.20 a Gallon The voices of far and gone friends stay behind in the figurative fog, the old neighborhood, rallying bikes and pissing in community pools. From inside the forest of each of our childhoods laughter is forced to reveal itself to the real world, where filthy hands and knees don't amount to hard work without the scars. Drinking companions' and relatives' words carry over the Badlands' eroded and erratic shale landscape: sedimentary-layered mountains carrying fossils from when the Midwestern sea waved salt water not grain. They reverberate through the Black Hills, clapping off dynamite-carved faces of Roosevelt, Lincoln, Washington, and Jefferson. I stare sitting in a granite amphitheater back-dropped by museums, a café, gift shop, and column of states' flags. In the valley Keystone lies dry with tour-driven mine shacks, a general liquor store, chipped and potholed roads, and a lone black man in torn jeans and a John Deere t-shirt pedaling a rusted cruiser down the middle of Route 40. Tourists never see his journey, because road signs and chamber of commerce stations conduct the Airstreams, Winnebagos and Holiday Ramblers along Highway 16: an inauthentic wild-west of Holiday Inns, Best Westerns, Custer shops with flashing casino lights, and over-priced steakhouses 29 with overly friendly and developed farmhouse waitresses. What you don't know can't hurt you! The virginity and respect I lost, during evenings of beer games and social independence from my conscience. No! Not that specific! Then dusk like any in Buffalo-parched Wyoming, with a blue jay crying, a starved stray dog stumbling, across the dust-layered gravel parking lot of Traveler's Lady Lounge: Truckers Welcome. Framed by a wild fire charring acres, hills, mountains, ranges, a county…a country! Maybe the moon was full or not, or… It doesn't have to be all or nothing America! a sliver of lunar light, only one reality show on T.V. tonight. Christian values where they belong, out of the Texas schools with the highest pregnancy rates. That Rebel Without A Cause talk is for Hollywood, for the birds, when they just might have the last word—or blood-curdled chirp, over infected bodies burning in closed supermarket parking lots. 30 $3.33 a Gallon "I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated."1 Everyone is on a journey, some are just more apparent more discussed or debated than others. My brother's quietly working toward a heart attack for his daughter's "best possible" life. Pollock paint this: the deterioration of a man, brilliant and brave, so his daughter might enroll in Topsfield township's public school, and summer arts program, rather than waste with those second tier college students in Beverly. Is that romance? I'm not a Hallmark customer and never watch Oprah. What do Americans believe in anymore? If emotion is not read to them during a breaking news broadcast, then it rots with the paintings, sculptures, writings and symphonies never composed. Artists! Quickly throw down your instruments, and abandon your muse, your enigma, your value. Talent is a conspiracy of supermarket rack rumor magazines, and elevated artist seminars in summer. Adapt to ineptness, or exist to yourselves and those no longer alive. 1 Emerson's Self-Reliance 31 Let your viewers, readers and students, feel accepted without exception. Your audience of cable-prodded cattle… Fuck us with all our useless brains, naming Al Qaeda operatives because their pictures are on the screen. My brother's demise crosses Wyoming's continental divide. He'll never see this barren landscape, scrub brush for miles, before the Bighorn range vaults the horizon up into late day sorbet orange clouds. My brother will never stand here as he wants, calling twice today, asking to email him pictures, squinting out into the hot setting sun, choking up while grasping the second when I know I'm a weak eulogy in a half-filled church. $3.37 a Gallon "How does it become a man to behave toward this American government to-day?"2 Not by coddling rather than transcending. The divinity of this terrestrial moment would be improbable, impossible, without nature or humanity, or lack thereof in this world. Bitch, bitch, bitch, but have you flown into Indonesia, New Orleans, or the den of lions resurrected from ancient scripture? What scripture? Torah, Bible, Koran? 2 Thoreau's Resistance to Civil Government 32 Irrelevant, they all mention lions out of power and fear. Fear? Like watching those state flags roll along with the Rushmore breeze, dead presidents breathe, reincarnated and insulted as another roadside bomb is distorted and disguised by waving dyed nylon above engraved granite declaration. Our way of life? Fuck no, not mine. So discard that anti-patriot message. Want to really fight for freedom? A 29-year-old man named Peter dives from a beach he ran and dug for clams on when multiplication appeared denser than an L.A. morning skyline. The cracking of his vertebrae paralyzed all on the sand: the spectators and a lone victim. He wheels himself now, needs steak cut in small morsels, his mother to help him into bed. I love skiing, and he can't hold his own penis to pee. Will he ever again be loved by a woman? Honestly, sexually, spiritually so that he can watch the neighbor jog his daily course without clenching tears or grinding teeth… Mend his spinal cord!! 33 $3.45 a Gallon Once a beautiful girl in high school, star athlete, and honors student, Sandra sits in Salt Lake City, watching Fear Factor and eating pizza. She grows heavier by the month. At night she sleeps with a dog she found in the woods of West Virginia, while leading a hike of troubled teens. Striving to make a difference in the lives of those who barely have one… But instead the difference changes her. Lying on the couch thousands of miles from her home: rain-soaked Maine. She looks at me, talks of leaving and loathing America, for Italy alone in her own hillside villa. "I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness."3 Wondering where her life went, she is now the emotional sponge of doubt and discouragement for every single suicidal teen she "counsels." We all need counseling. Where is the salsa dancing and always laughing girl I loved and swore to protect? Her eyes are now sunk, spent, unmotivated. 3 Emerson's Self-Reliance 34 Cries Goddamnit!! I hear more crying… in her hug. Arms wrapping around my raincoat, tighter then tighter, like so many I leave. Waving with the Belgium Terrier from a window, any window, any day. I see her in solitude till its over, her journey: a distancing from nothing but a sensation, fueled by innocently pure memories and the media's promise of a horrible future. "My giant goes with me wherever I go."4 $3.56 a Gallon "He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time"5 I hear another friend, Adam, berating his mother for her memory of an ex-husband—his British father— reappearing in Adam's youthful and handsome face. She hates him and will break him, from aging like the alcoholic executive who moved back to England. Adam now gardens her ocean-view property, walking to White Hen for Camels during lunch, because his childhood seizures helped void his license and Boston employment once again. Who knows if the brain of a 24-year-old philosophy major is too tired to let Kant argue Plato about metaphysics and the reality of experience and reason anymore? 4 Emerson's Self-Reliance 5 Emerson's Self-Reliance 35 Maybe it was all the vodka and cocaine from college that finally burned out the neurons and squeezed too many cells. Or he couldn't let go from the tetherball life his selfish mother constructed. Yet he stayed in Massachusetts instead of standing on Burns Basin Overlook, with the Buffalo Gap Grassland sprawled out, tempting him to climb down and run away. The way the Sioux once did before the buffalo fell as fast as their fellow native inhabitants, to the cavalry that reclaimed this nation from the indigenous geography once rich with respect not reservation, like Pine Ridge today. Adam's containment isn't so extraneous. As his mother's anger and resentment, burrows deep into the memory of a child who wanted a mother, not a condemner. His body leans west at tether length but his voice, raspy and phlegm-filled still bellows through a cell phone. And at dusk, when I catch earth's darkness in my car's rear mirror, I swear the growing shadow immense and black, is Adam's mind unable to hold hostage his sadness and madness any longer. $3.60 a Gallon Lewis and Clark, anxious in the hunt for the "Pacific Passage" realized the vulnerability 36 of their Lilliputian size, when the Bitterroots dared them to pass-over, and grizzlies glared, examining every fear-exhibiting step. Sacagawea, a friend and guide carrying the future and imagination of an entire Protestant nation, would have cried at the Columbia's basalt cliffs knowing her face, only her face survived on the coinage of a treasury that raped its gold from her heritage's frontier. Forgive me if the 4th of July gives me joy to drink too much with friends and nothing more. We salute our freedom, but never gather to mourn the Cherokee's march, and Charleston's slave trade. America we didn't fight in 1776, so stop the fireworks, cause they're embarrassing us, looking like the young punks on earth's beyond Cambrian street corner. $3.69 a Gallon My phone rings: mother, and another conversation about how she hopes things will workout, and I always have a home in New England. Where? My brother's basement? You and dad live in Florida; the Darwin award-winning state of the bronzed Botox generation 37 that brought America the 60s and a botched half drugged no—fully drugged—social revolution with a soundtrack of psychedelic rock and roll hits. She thinks I'm mad, "very strangely they say,"6 and I forget my values when I speak poorly of Boston and its ox-cart path old intellectual debates. The only winners are those tunnels buried in the soil still absorbing the first blood spilt for America. They are cracking two problems all by their concrete selves: corporate corruption and population control. A Boston Herald headline: Subterranean Structure Built for Larger Population, Instead Reduces It. That reads about right, with an editorial on irony complete with some reference about gay marriage and turnpike tolls. I just can't listen to an asshole in Armani, talk about Daddy's new house on Nantucket. His Bass-drinking grin looks as perfect as his chin after ass-smooching the boss so fuck-it. $3.80 a Gallon An invitation: a journey for America and not just another Pulitzer Prize winning poet; 6 Shakespeare's Hamlet 38 write what you know, don't be vague, form and function, line breaks, rhyme, voice… all go into the carbon stuffed atmosphere when designing a poem for today's hi-def and digitally enhanced minds and eyes. Pack your bags, America, cause I've got a head full of voices and a car jammed with inspiration-starved souls; we're journeying toward our deaths, on our own miserable terms. Better hurry before gas hits $4.00 a gallon, or North Korea launches a nuke, or Evian earns billions from Avian, or Mexicans steal all the entry-level jobs, or all the volcanoes in the Western Hemisphere explode, or an asteroid……… Channel fuzz… Channel fuzz… Channel fuzz… 39 IV Crafted Discoveries 40 At the Beach, August 2005 I lifeguard swimmers. They laugh in it, play in it kick in it splash in it cool their bodies in it, and take work absences just to be near it… New Orleans: A boiling pot of anything but Creole. Taking a sip of my fresh Poland Spring, while the bayou waits for more armed soldiers. And then their thirst may be quenched. I stare at the ocean's flashing message: Morse code for love but fear me. Some are not feeling emotions anymore, just bloated bodies floating. Others feel everything from a disease-filled mouth, to the ruptures of a city being returned to the sea it was built on, as a nation passes judgment on those who take what's left, what's not yet been swallowed by the brown cloudy bottom. 41 Augusta Shamrock green, precisely manicured fairways guided by Georgia Pines unfold for thousands of yards on the "first nine," "second nine." Holes named Chinese Fir, Nandina, and Flowering Crab Apple, invite Phil's artistry, Fred's form, like past players now gray haired or no haired. Their white skins tanned from long hours on the links. Augusta is for gentlemen, by gentlemen: masters. Of green jackets and a wedge from the fabled rough. Blue sky, robin's song, and a Sunday afternoon on the Ben Hogan bridge, detail this sanctuary with a clubhouse. An escape from the cruel galleries of the world lurking just beyond those rod iron gates with golden trim. 42 Ann Helen As with every event before, she is dug in a trench—my memory. Oh why can't I forget, put aside or move on? Catullus would rise with joy to only be free of Lesbia, though his imagination wouldn't. Lesbia knew she was passion not love, physical not emotional. How beautiful that is! Instead my modern day Greek myth closes empty. No love was made as perfection and bitterness sat the higher throne. Now I am tired, my body worn and emotions washed —hands stained red— every rose contributed, returned. 43 Sermon for Liberals Been in a church, synagogue, mosque, or any house of worship? Religion isn't the crisis. All who are so pious, in the narrow approach of values should question redemption. Open minds don't alienate open mouths or beliefs. Nancy Pelosi is the speaker, the madness behind the trigger of secular responses to today's bigger picture. Christmas is a holiday not Holiday, just like Chanukah and Kwanza…. The generalization of tradition, is an abomination for a nation founded on such ideals. Let's grant marriages between humans and animals, maybe then everything will feel included. If the gospel is Darwin's Origin, and evolution is priority, then the minority will adapt or cease. Social benefits for the lazy, is a concept as hazy as protesting a fight for the right 44 to spread propaganda. Don't support fences. Yet sitting on them is safer than picking a side? 45 The Shark and the Remora Six years of friendship have to be swallowed. Anyway: the shark (big concept) and the remora (small dog that otherwise would not have a speaker)—the remora exposes the shark, enveloped by or living within immediate contact; the remora is voice and purpose, closer to the shark without having to make statements to tackle it. The shark, common and larger, catches attention, but soon the remora is front and center. Shelley, Hugo, Frost, and one other famous poet, have gone straight after the shark. Crane's Atlantis might be so over- the-top it's too much. This shark (and remora) involve only elements, almost metaphor-free. Their relationship, very peculiar, is a solid case of mutualism. The remora gets protection and food; the shark is cleaned of parasites and other micro and harmful matter. There are debates whether it is true mutualism; many believe this to be true. If the shark received no benefit from the remora, then it would surely rid itself of the nuisance. It's incredibly difficult to grasp. The remora gives the shark the poem it needs. I'm sick of inaccessible, lofty analysis. We are not dropped from the womb with a pencil in one hand and a copy of Blake in the other. I do not want a one-use concept. Why this whole idea? I kicked myself over everything, and finally, it completely sucked the marrow out of life. 46 Springing Forward: For Andrew's Twenty-fifth Birthday Born in Conway, NH, and for what seemed like forever you were a native, of winters with snow measured in feet and below zero wind-chills, lumberjack clubs in high school where you pressed cider, and boasted about cut hands after a day splitting and burning wood. You owned a pig. Drove a rusted-out jeep with the license plate in the back window because your bumper fell off while rallying through logging trails. Dated ski racing blonds with big thighs and blue eyes. Soon after your keg and ecology filled years at Colby, you drove a Subaru west beyond the Mississippi river, Ogallala Aquifer and Rocky Mountain range. You pushed on, determined to discover a life few expected, in a city always warm with sun and skinny girls' smiles. You may never leave your surfboard, and long Saturdays in the Pacific's orchestra of waves to return to where you dreamed your dreams, and embraced first friends like family: always and no matter. 47 I-70 Abridged in November, 2006 "I have decided never again to run: it is enough for me if I can drag myself along."7 Foliage envelops Pennsylvania's forgotten turnpike. Harvest colors: deciduous fireworks exploding from oaks, birches, and maples. In passing through glacial clawed ridges, and across moraine valley floors, the car climbs and coasts successfully; there are 3500 miles of pavement left to roll its tires over. Or maybe it's just me, becoming the car at this point, this second crossing of a continent, a nation, ready to vote for change, or just a few changes. Only the residents of farmhouses tucked in their Bob Ross paintings know the answer. Landscapes with towns so inviting you can smell the pumpkin pie already, one month before Thanksgiving, and with each tunnel entered—Allegheny, Kittatinny, Tuscarora, and Blue Mountain—I long for the scent. A family gathering in Western Pennsylvania or Virginia, a conversation with dad—a coal worker, brother —a county deputy, and the coarse texture of their palms: topography like the Rockies, but with the weathering and age of the Appalachians. They grasp mine for a shake before I leave, off to build my own spiritual arc, and endure the storm. Where are the risings, the rallies, and the solidified aspirations of Midwestern cities like Columbus, Indianapolis, and violence-choked St. Louis? Driving through an eerie black nothingness in Kansas, 7 Michel De Montaigne's On Experience 48 with the massive trailers lighting the pathway west, I shutter and constantly calm my hands, heart, and feet. Restraining them from gripping the reality of our nation too tightly, accelerating the car straight off an Oregonian bluff, and into the Pacific to migrate with blue whales: surely not unlike the terrestrial Peterbuilts and Freightliners slugging up the Front Range, departing from Denver. Their journey is one of schedule and repetition, to fill their aluminum bellies on one coast, and empty them on the other. Why? Survival. A blue whale nurses her calf for the swim, as driver cashes his check to keep dinner smelling like hot turkey beside mashed potatoes, with the gravy bowl ready for full assault. A deluge of gluttonous goodness for salivating buds. July burned, October cools. Summer scared and fall haunts. I'm tired of twelve-hour days and Subway Clubs, the lane changes, work zones, and state police perched on overpasses. This time in Salt Lake, I still think of Sandra, but not without the knowledge that only she moved her life into the Wasatch-walled Mormon city, growing too rapidly for its cluttered interstate. I can only raise the flag, whether white or Old and Glorified, but Sandra and Adam, and the millions of voices I hear from sea to shining sea, must be evoked by it. And what if I should fall? Revolutionaries are staying home, longing for one last meal with at least the spirit of their kin, their fatigued crusaders Iraq held or rehab bound. 49 In the Year of the Bitch Humiliated and mauled around every corner, targeted in the morning, evening, during sleep. You're the neighborhood friendly to everyone, vicious to me. I sprint sometimes: naive. You still find me on my back steps, jackknifed and heaving; you smile with compassion, then lunge. I've thought about a gun—pellet since I'm soft. Alas, you'll be victim, martyr, and victor while your entourage escorts you home. A selfish campaign of preying; I attempt to abandon. Rapidly exiting left around your block toward the next, but no matter my strides, your teeth puncture my skin. 50 Television at Three in the Morning I've watched the psychological seminar on the physiological construction of liberals and conservatives on C-SPAN, flipped by some Spanish sitcom on my way beyond 80s porn, to find out how $19.95 will give me Jesus if I just pick up that phone— because who the hell is up taking Christian propaganda orders at this hour anyway? Someone who watches a documentary on the great 1872 Boston fire during commercials for The Odd Couple and wonders, what the hell would Erasmus think of his Praise of Folly now? 51 You Found Me Singing with Sam Cooke Let's dance yes? And swing, swing, swing for a song like our lives. Can't you just see, smiling me? I'm white as yogurt in the Harlem Square Club, not caring; still swinging, these hips for Clifton's, but male. Bringing this rhythm on home to you. 52
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Since the launch of the AMD Radeon HD 7970 we've looked at the reference model to see how it performs when the card sits on its own. With that done we then took the time to install a second reference design card into the mix and see how performance with the HD 7970 running in CrossFire.
Today we grab a third card and see what happens when we move to a three way CrossFireX setup. Since we've already looked at the Sapphire card in full detail in our CrossFire review mentioned above, we'll be getting into the performance side of things fairly quickly today.
The first thing we need to do is just take a quick look at our testbed, if you've been following our HD 7970 series of content, though, you shouldn't see anything out of the ordinary. Once we've done that we'll move onto the performance of the setup and see how it compares to other HD 7970s we've looked at.
When we've moved away from two cards and onto three and four card setups we've seen that performance can tend to get hit a fair bit. Quite often we don't see the gains we'd like to see and that ultimately makes three and four card setups quite overpriced and sometimes impractical. Still, the HD 7970 has shown us some wonderful performance so far... fingers crossed it translates over to today's 3-Way CrossFireX setup.
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In case you missed it, I have a roundup of Free Student Planner Printables over at Blessed Beyond a Doubt.
Wandering through life one season at a time
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In case you missed it, I have a roundup of Free Student Planner Printables over at Blessed Beyond a Doubt.
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I've updated my monthly planning notes for the 2014-15 school year. I use these pages as a creative brain dump – a place to jot down seasonal notes, crafts, field trip ideas, and our Funschool theme of the week. My plan is to gather my favorite Frixon erasable gel pens, curl up in a comfy chair, and spend some time searching through my seasonal Pinterest boards. Download your 12-page freebie below and start planning the fun!
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Nursery rhymes are a fun and simple way to homeschool preschool for free. There are several methods to organize them for the year. The easiest is to just pick from a list each week. You can order them using the alphabet – An Apple a Day, Baa Baa Black Sheep. If you put your thinking cap on, you could sort them seasonally.
A few seasonal ideas:
Once you decide which nursery rhymes to study, you will need to search for activities to match your theme for each week. I am using Mary Had a Little Lamb to show you the types of free resources available. I used a 3-step process to find the following links.
These are a few of the activities I found for Mary Had a Little Lamb:
Trace and color Mary & her lamb.
Print out a sheep in several colors to play a color game.
Act out the story with sequencing cards.
Color and fold a mini book.
Practice pre-writing skills with these tracer cards.
Practice cutting & gluing with this sheep craft.
Play a shape game that is similar to Candy Land.
Combine snack time and craft time by making a popcorn sheep.
Do a letter L hunt with the poem.
Discuss rhyming words and patterns.
I found few activities for older kids too:
I created a simple 2-page planner to help you keep track of your year of nursery rhymes. It has space for 36 titles (based on a typical school year), and a place for that week's theme if you are using one (alphabet, season, animal, etc.).
Follow my Nursery Rhymes and Stories board on Pinterest
Read all of the days in this series:
Day 1: Learning Lifestyle
Day 2: Nursery Rhymes
Day 3: Printable Packs
Day 4: Letter of the Week
Day 5: Theme of the Week (coming Friday)
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Add a little Christmas cheer to your schoolwork with these printable December Assignment Sheets. I included a color-your-own version this month that I think your kiddos will enjoy. Make learning fun!
Feel free to share, but please link to this post and not to the files.
I've also created a few assignment sheets with Christmas tree backgrounds for our FUN Oh Christmas Tree linky party. Go take a look at all of the wonderful ideas and add your own!
Don't miss future seasonal assignment sheets!
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(A big Thank You to My Cute Graphics for her wonderful clip art!)
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In addition to my usual monthly printable assignment sheets, I decided to try out a new style with the picture in the background. It adds a fun colorful feel to our weekly list.
Enjoy printing these for your kiddos!
Download these fun assignment sheets:
A few other FUN bloggers and I are teaming up with Blessed Beyond a Doubt to share all of our Oh Christmas Tree ideas with y'all. We want you to join our Christmas party and add a link to the link up! The only rule is that the post must be in some way related to a Christmas Tree. Have FUN!
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My good friend Jill of The Sassy Slow Cooker and Blessed Beyond a Doubt has a brand new Simple Christmas Countdown Planner!
She created her planner years ago as a tool to avoid the craziness of an over-planned, stressed-out Christmas season. I've seen glimpses of it over the years and am thrilled that she has now made it available to everyone.
One of the things I love about Jill is that she is super organized but keeps it uncomplicated, so organizationally-challenged people like me can easily follow along. Simple Christmas Countdown comes with all of the pages, dividers, and covers that you will need for TWO years! This means you can navigate a peaceful Christmas season and then immediately start on next year's plans. Don't we all love a fresh start in January?
The pages you will find in this 2-year Christmas Countdown Planner:
Jill also adds in her tips for using each of the pages, and shows you how to keep the planning going all year long instead of waiting until the last minute.
The Simple Christmas Countdown Planner is only $3.99. Such a small price to pay to be able to focus on what really matters this Christmas!
I get to give away TWO planners – ONE for you and ONE for a friend!!
Giveaway ends Thursday, November 7th
I received a free planner to review for this post. All opinions are my own – I really do like it! My affiliate link is included. Thank you for purchasing through my site!
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At the beginning of the school year, I created some monthly planning notes to give me a creative overview of our year. They have worked so well that I want to share them with you!
I wanted to be able to schedule out seasonal themes and activities, but a monthly calendar wasn't giving me enough space. My planning notes are broken into weeks with plenty of room for writing.
A few of the things I list in my notes:
Click on each month to download your FREE 2013-2014 planning notes!
Feel free to share, but please link to this post and not to the files.
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Talk Like a Pirate Day is September 19th, and we are having some piratey fun this week!
I created a pirate-themed assignment sheet to plan out our activities. I've also added it to my list of September assignment sheets.
Check out my Shiver Me Timbers! post if you need some creative ideas!
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My kids love it when I write their weekly assignments on these cute sheets! I fill in all the work for the week and they are in charge of making sure everything is checked off by Friday.
Click on each pic to download your freebies.
Feel free to share, but please link to this post and not to the files.
Don't miss future seasonal assignment sheets!
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We had great success last year with our Theme of the Day Chart!
With 5 kiddos needing my attention, it was hard for us to fit in the fun stuff like crafts or artist studies. Adding them to our morning homeschool routine allows us to stay on track without the extras slipping through the cracks.
I am changing it up just a bit this year by using Wednesday to focus on Geography instead of Writing. Last year's Theme of the Day Chart is still available if that suits you better.
{All of the links below are FREE, but that could change so double check!}
~ Our 2013-14 Theme of the Day Chart ~
~ Monday with the Masters ~
~ Creativity Tuesday ~
~ Around the World Wednesday ~
~ Poetry Tea Thursday ~
~ Nature Fun Friday ~
–> Download the 2013-14 Theme of the Day Chart <–
{Note: You need to choose the landscape setting when printing}
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City Council today approved funding and accountability measures for the Cincinnati streetcar project, allowing the project to move forward.
On Monday, the Budget and Finance Committee approved the measures, which CityBeat covered in further detail here. The funding ordinance closes the streetcar project's $17.4 million budget gap by issuing more debt and pulling funding from various capital projects, including infrastructure improvements around the Horseshoe Casino.
The accountability motion will require the city manager to update City Council with a timeline of key milestones, performance measures, an operating plan, staffing assessments and monthly progress reports.
Council members Roxanne Qualls, Laure Quinlivan, Chris
Seelbach, Yvette Simpson and Wendell Young voted for the measures.
Council members P.G. Sittenfeld, Chris Smitherman and Charlie Winburn
voted against both. Councilwoman Pam Thomas voted against the funding
ordinance, but she voted for the accountability motion.
City Council also unanimously approved funding for a development project on Fourth and Race streets, which includes a downtown grocery store, luxury apartment tower and parking garage to replace Pogue's Garage. CityBeat covered that project in further detail here.
Two far-reaching ideas by Cincinnati's fly-by-the-seats-of-their-pants City Council is being sharply criticized by people with extensive experience in policing issues.
As City Council acts surprised about a $58 million deficit that's loomed on the horizon for months, an amount that's only fluctuated slightly due to changing revenues, members last week proposed abolishing the Cincinnati Police Department's patrol bureau and contracting those services to the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office.
The three measures set up $15 million to front to Duke Energy to move utility lines out of the proposed path; changes the source of funding to repay some $25 million in bonds used to pay for the streetcar; sells $14 million in bonds for streetcar improvements; and changes the municipal code to clarify that it is the responsibility of a utility to relocate its structures.
The $15 million comes from the $37 million sale of city-owned land near the former Blue Ash Airport.
Council voted 6-3 to approve the front money, improvement bonds and bond repayment, a vote that largely mirrored a Monday Budget and Finance Committee vote. Councilman Chris Smitherman was the sole "no" vote on the ordinance to change the municipal code.
Councilmembers Cecil Thomas, Wendell Young, Roxanne Qualls, Laure Quinlivan, Chris Seelbach and Yvette Simpson voted to pass funding, while Councilmembers Smitherman, P.G. Sittenfeld and Charles Winburn voted against.
"My concern with all of these votes … in particular the Blue Ash Airport dollars, these were promises that you made to the neighborhoods and I don't have the confidence that the legal battle against Duke Energy is going to yield a 100 percent win for the city of Cincinnati, so there's no assurance that these dollars are going to come back," said Councilman Chris Smitherman, one of the most vocal opponents of the streetcar.
"I want to be clear that it's something that I don't support."
The $15 million would be fronted to Duke to move its lines while the city and utility work out who is responsible for funding the move.
Duke estimates the full cost at $18 million and argues
that the lines would not have to be moved if the streetcar wasn't being
built. The city maintains that it has always been the responsibility of
utilities to move or upgrade their structures — which the third measure
clarified in the municipal code. If the city loses a legal battle against Duke, it will not
recoup the $15 million.
The second proposal switches the source of funding for
streetcar bonds from money coming into city coffers from southern
downtown and the riverfront area to a 1995 fund set up to collect
service payments from the Westin/Star, Hyatt and Saks. The measure wouldn't use any additional new money for the streetcar.
That downtown area wasn't bringing in as much cash as
expected but the city hopes to repay the other fund once the downtown
district — which includes the Banks and the casino — rebounds.
City Council on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed a measure that will offer benefits to domestic partners of city employees. The measure was introduced by Councilman Chris Seelbach and passed 8-1, the lone "no" vote coming from Charlie Winburn. Seelbach told The Enquirer that domestic partner benefits not only affect same-sex couples, but are also applicable to non-married partners, which is an added attraction to lure talented employees to the city. Covington officials passed a similar measure Tuesday.
If you owe the city of Cincinnati any parking fines, now would be a good time to pay them. Cincinnati police are going to start hearing descriptions of vehicles with multiple outstanding tickets during roll call and then head out to find them during patrols.
Eric Deters wants to be a real lawyer again. The attorney/radio personality/cage fighter says his current predicament — Kentucky law license suspension — is mostly because someone making the rulings "hates him" and is not due to the "ethical lapses" that caused his original 61-day suspension. If Deters can't get the Kentucky Supreme Court to help him out he'll have to go in front of a Character and Fitness Committee and explain all the crazy stuff he's done.
Gov. John Kasich is making changes to the state's Medicaid program, which he and its officials say will save money, though it will cause disruptions in the form of some recipients needing to find new providers, many of which have less access to medical advice and financial help. A similar program implemented in Kentucky last year resulted in complaints that patients couldn't get services authorized and providers didn't get paid on time, according to The Enquirer.
New Osama bin Laden documents published
online by the U.S. Government show concern over Muslim distrust of
his organization before he was killed last May, and much of which was due to the high numbers of civilians it was responsible for killing.
It's not very fun to be John Edwards these days. Already charged with using $1 million in campaign money to hide a pregnant mistress, testimony in his case for violating campaign finance laws has revealed that his mistress had a better idea in response to the National Enquirer's report on the affair: She wanted to say she was abducted by aliens.
Jobless-benefits claims were down last week, and the reduction was the greatest in three months. And U.S. stock futures rose in accordance.
Target is done selling Kindles, and although it didn't give a reason analysts suspect it is in response to Amazon's attempts to get retailers who see the products in a store to then purchase them online. Amazone last holiday season indroduced a Price Check app that offered in-store price comparisons and up to a $15 discount online.
Retired NFL linebacker Junior Seau was found dead at his home yesterday in an apparent suicide. Seau, who played in the NFL for parts of 20 seasons, was found shot to death. He was 43.
Cincinnati City Council is set to approve $960,000 to fund this year's Summer Youth Employment Program, but the councilwoman overseeing the process wants to begin collecting data to track outcomes and increase efficiency.
Council's Budget and Finance Committee this afternoon heard a presentation from city staffers about plans for the 2012 program, which is designed to provide employment and training for low-income youth.
Some major decisions are expected in the next few days, and we're not referring to how the dithering, ineffectual Cincinnati City Council will finally close a $54 million deficit.
Rather, the decisions coming soon are who will replace Republican Chris Monzel on City Council, and who will replace Tom Callinan as editor at The Enquirer.
UPDATE: Cincinnati City Councilman Greg Harris, a pledge opponent, said Berding's description of the pledge is disingenuous. "Did Berding's anti-layoff pledge in any way make furloughs a condition? No," Harris said. "The effect of the pledge would have been to prevent the FOP from making any concessions because they wouldn't need to. The manager's only leverage is the threat of layoffs."
ORIGINAL ITEM: Cincinnati City Councilman Jeff Berding believes a council majority is being self-defeating by refusing to sign a Berding-created pledge not to lay off police officers or firefighters in 2010 or 2011.


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