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May 25 2009
For us, Memorial Day is about this cemetery.
It's a family cemetery.
The cemetery is right down the hill from our house, and we take care of it. Marlboro Man always mows and makes sure it's nice and neat and accessible before Memorial Day since lots of folks drive through our place and visit over the weekend. By Memorial Day, it's always in need of sprucing up; our cattle and horses are no respecters of grass, and have figured out how to get into the cemetery on more than one occasion.
There's nothing like chasing 20 cows out of a family cemetery.
Marie, Cousin Matteo's mom, is buried here. She was a beautiful person, had many friends, and died a week after Marlboro Man and I returned from our honeymoon, on precisely the same day my parents separated and I found out I was pregnant with our first child.
It was a rough first week in my new home.
Cousin T. lost his wife, her son, and their unborn baby in a tragic car accident several years ago. Her name was Nicole. She had long wavy blond hair and a warm smile.
Her family occasionally drives through and visits.
Her son Jacob played sports. Soccer, I think.
An old cowboy, "Sam", is buried here, too. He was in the Navy and served in Vietnam. He worked for Marlboro Man's dad for a long, long time. Two of his sons have worked on the ranch through the years; one son and his family came to our house for the Fourth of July last year.
Marlboro Man's older brother is buried here, too. Our baby is named after him.
Marlboro Man's grandfather, Pa-Pa, who died ten years ago, is buried here, along with his wife, Grandma Ruth. And so is their daughter, Marlboro Man's aunt, the mother of his dear cousins Katie and Debra, whose laughs are wonderfully infectious.
Grandma Ruth always said her biggest fear was that she'd be buried out on the ranch and cows would walk all over her grave. She was never exactly enamored with country life.
I'm sorry, Grandma Ruth. I try my hardest to keep them out. I really do.
Pa-Pa, on the other hand, would be tickled to death to know that cows were grazing the cemetery. "A rancher should make the most of every blade of grass on the ranch."
It's funny that even years after their deaths, their lifelong City Mouse/Country Mouse marital dynamic is alive and strong.
I wonder how Grandma Ruth would feel about this freakazoid?
Oh my. I really hope she's not looking.
There are the remnants of an old tree that used to provide shade here. It was struck by lightning and fell all over everything. We got rid of it pretty quickly. We knew Grandma Ruth wouldn't like it.
She was a dear lady. I'm so glad I got to know her.
We're going to plant some new trees soon, and the girls and I are going to plant some bulbs all around—once I can rig the gate to ensure no animals can get in.
I like being in charge of our family cemetery. It's nice to have a connection to those family members who've died, and it helps me remember that on Memorial Day, there are many who are grieving. Wives for husbands, husbands for wives, children for mothers, parents for beloved children. Military families—past and present. People who mourn lives cut short; people who celebrate long lives lived to the fullest.
I'll think of you all today.
Pioneer Woman
397 Comments
Sabrina (Chicago) On Monday, May 25 at 9:20 am
Beautiful. My son is named after my husband's oldest brother who passed away also.
Kim H. On Monday, May 25 at 9:24 am
I think it's awesome that you have a family cemetary. So much history right there on that chunk of ground. Beautiful post, Ree.
rere On Monday, May 25 at 9:25 am
it is a wonderful post. the cemetary looks so serene being on the prairie. i thank God for our military and their families. Blessings to all!
melanie On Monday, May 25 at 9:26 am
Thanks for sharing. This is what Memorial Day means to me – remembering those who we loved.
Nancy L. On Monday, May 25 at 9:27 am
Thank you, Ree, for sharing with us. With tears in my eyes now, I remember my parents who both served in the Army during WWII. Daddy was paralyzed from the waist down in Africa and Mother was his nurse when he returned to the states. I no longer live near the cemetery where their earthly bodies lie, but I speak to them often in my prayers. Thanks to all the men and women who have given their lives so I can live free. To the families of those fallen comrades – be proud!!!!
patti On Monday, May 25 at 9:28 am
Marty On Monday, May 25 at 9:29 am
I love reading more about your family, past and present. God bless.
AnnfromMontana On Monday, May 25 at 9:29 am
What a beautiful Memorial Day post!
We all owe our freedom to those we remember today and prayers to those that loved them.
Carole On Monday, May 25 at 9:31 am
I thought the cemetary thing was just a southern thang.
Sharyn On Monday, May 25 at 9:32 am
what a beautiful tribute to those that have gone before us. May we all remember those that gave the ultimate sacrifice.
Kent On Monday, May 25 at 9:32 am
Thank you for the post. You have a way with words that tuggs at the heartstrings.
Shannon On Monday, May 25 at 9:33 am
What a beautiful and touching Memorial Day post! I think it's wonderful your family has that connection with those you've lost over the years so close on the ranch. Thank you to all those who we owe our freedom and lives to.
April Davis On Monday, May 25 at 9:33 am
What a special thing you have at your fingertips. Thank's for sharing, it was very touching!
blessedmomto7 On Monday, May 25 at 9:34 am
Very similar to our cemetary-I blogged about it. Where my earthly body will one day lay. Can't wait to get my new one.
Jules On Monday, May 25 at 9:34 am
That was beautiful Ree. You have an exceptional life. Thank you for sharing it with us.
Today I remember P. Moreau. I miss you.
Laura K On Monday, May 25 at 9:37 am
Loved seeing this post. Memorial Day has always been big in my family. Of course we grilled – first of the season a lot of times seeing as I grew up in Michigan. But the very first thing we always did was troop out to the cemetery together to plant flowers at the graves. Seeing as I'm in a different state now, I miss out on that. And I really do miss it. Memorial Day is one of those special moments in life – just yearly.
Tamara On Monday, May 25 at 9:38 am
what a wonderful spot. I love that you guys do the maintenance
susan On Monday, May 25 at 9:38 am
Thank you for sharing your family's cemetary. My grandfather used to take me to the small cemetaries near his farm and tell me stories about the people who were buried there-his relatives and friends. I learned a lot of family history during those times. I still love to walk through those places and remember the times with Grandpa.
BOSSY On Monday, May 25 at 9:39 am
What a truly beautiful spot. Bossy thinks her heart is crying.
cathy in upstate NY On Monday, May 25 at 9:39 am
what a wonderful memorial to your family
Leann On Monday, May 25 at 9:39 am
I loved that post. I love cemetaries, especially family ones. Thank you for sharing yours.
Tammy at The Butterfly Mind On Monday, May 25 at 9:39 am
You're so fortunate to have a family cemetery; so much nicer than being buried among a bunch of strangers. Today my heart goes out to all of our lost soldiers and their families … and to Butterfly, who lost her little dog, Carly, to a rattler yesterday:
Greeneyes Martha On Monday, May 25 at 9:41 am
Sweet and touching PW.
Our own family plot is growing also. Such is the circle of life.
Thanks for sharing your family.
Amy in West TX On Monday, May 25 at 9:42 am
Beautiful Ree! I love family cemeteries and the stories they can tell.
Deborah On Monday, May 25 at 9:42 am
What a beautiful post. I have been reading your blog for a while, but felt compelled to post as a first time today.
Family history runs deep on my side in Jacksonvile, OR. Each time I go thru OR I stop off at the old cemetary on the top of the hill and see my great ancesters.
The first time I took my Husband he almost was compelled to be sad while going thru there. For me, it brings comfort actually. Odd, I know.
Carolyn On Monday, May 25 at 9:42 am
I love this post, thank you so much. I remember too, today and every day.
Jerri Ann Smith On Monday, May 25 at 9:43 am
we live on a ranch in Texas and we are going to have a family cemetery here as well. We have only owned this ranch for 6 years, so we haven't had to find that place yet. Maybe today would be a good one to choose the site. Or at least ask the question of where the site will be.
I love your post and I especially love you photos.
Rhonda On Monday, May 25 at 9:45 am
Wow a FAMILY cemetery HOW LOVELY!
debbie On Monday, May 25 at 9:46 am
May God bless you and your family!!
Carol On Monday, May 25 at 9:47 am
My mother's family cemetary is also on the family farm also in Oklahoma not too far from your ranch. I so love the setting. It is the most peaceful place I know. My dad is there along with my Mom's parents and brothers. So peaceful – so wonderful. I wish I lived closer but it is not to be right now but I do get to visit once or twice a year.
Happy Memorial Day
Rindee On Monday, May 25 at 9:47 am
Beautifully said! AMEN to it all!
Karen On Monday, May 25 at 9:48 am
Beautiful post Ree. Today and everyday I remember my beautiful son.
Coloradolady On Monday, May 25 at 9:49 am
I think grandma Ruth would not mind Charlie one bit….I know I would not.
Melanie On Monday, May 25 at 9:50 am
That was beautiful!
sophie On Monday, May 25 at 9:51 am
well said and what a beautiful spot!
I don't know why, but something made me think of "The Thorn Birds" as I looked at the pictures!! have you ever seen that mini series? I may have to watch it now! never know where the mind will take you….
Runningamuck On Monday, May 25 at 9:51 am
I wish we all could have a family cemetary. So much more personal… and somehow more treasured. That's silly of course because we TREASURE during life, when it counts. All the same…
Have you and MM watched "Taking Chance" with Kevin Bacon? Hubby and I just watched it yesterday. It's a GREAT (HBO) movie. Gives you a peek into a side of the military that most of us aren't privileged to see. Bring the tissues!
brigid of Calif On Monday, May 25 at 9:54 am
Lovely, Ree. My tears are flowing, and I'm remembering.
Jonna On Monday, May 25 at 9:56 am
I cannot believe you called Charlie a freakazoid!!!
He's so cute!
Cindi On Monday, May 25 at 9:56 am
Beautifully written.
Walking through a cemetery reminds me
that life is so fragile and precious and time
with our loved ones and friends should be
To those who have loved ones serving the
country – and to those who have lost loved ones
in service – my thoughts and prayers and thanks
for their and your sacrifice. Yours are the strong
arms that guard our freedom. God Bless you.
April Z On Monday, May 25 at 9:57 am
Thanks for sharing this beautiful post. I have tears reading about Cousin T.'s family. What a beautiful cemetery.
Nikki H On Monday, May 25 at 9:58 am
What a beautiful tribute to your family.
Teri On Monday, May 25 at 9:58 am
I wish everyone the best memories today and everyday.
Shirley J. On Monday, May 25 at 10:00 am
This one brought tears. Thanks, Ree, for the respect you have shown.
Liesel On Monday, May 25 at 10:00 am
That was beautiful, Ree. I have always thought cemeteries to be kind of creepy but you found a way to make it beautiful.
Dena L. On Monday, May 25 at 10:00 am
Beautiful post today! Thank you for sharing! I was a classmate of MM and Pesky Tim, and remember the day/nite they lost their brother! You are very sweet to post such a lovely Memorial to your family!
Have a nice Memorial Day!!!!
Summer On Monday, May 25 at 10:00 am
Beautiful…, thank you.
Tessa On Monday, May 25 at 10:01 am
Beautiful post, thank you for sharing.
Ann On Monday, May 25 at 10:02 am
Christy in NC On Monday, May 25 at 10:02 am
That was a great post. It made me think, and it made me cry.
Karen from NC On Monday, May 25 at 10:05 am
I love cemetarries! I'm weird, I know! Ha! I love reading the headstones and imagining what the people buried there were like. I think it is so cool that you have your own! It's aways so sad to see a headstone of a child though.
Happy Memorial Day, Ree and God bless!
Nancy On Monday, May 25 at 10:07 am
What a lovely Memorial Day tribute. Thank you for sharing your family with us! As for me… the thought of having critters (all kinds) walking on my grave makes me smile.
mamajenny On Monday, May 25 at 10:08 am
Your cemetary is beautiful. Thank you for sharing it. I love cemetaries, which I know is strange, but I do. I especially like old, old cemetaries. There is one not far from my house. I love to walk around and read the stones, and think of the lives that went on before me.
Remenbering my dad, my husband's grandfather, and our two nephews today.
mamajenny On Monday, May 25 at 10:09 am
I wanted to add one more thing. My daughter wants to be burried with her pony some day. My daughter is 22-yrs. old.
Chloe On Monday, May 25 at 10:09 am
Hope everyone is having a lovely day. Great post!
M J Hutchinson On Monday, May 25 at 10:10 am
Lovely memories of "Decoration Day" as my Granny called it. There was always a family gathering at the cemetery. A bite to eat under the large trees as the ladies divided all the fresh flowers to be placed on the graves of loved ones. Granny cut peonies for several days in the bud stage and put in the fridge so she'd have plenty. Oh the fragrance when the fridge was opened! Then each bouquet had to have a bit of my great grandmother's mock orange. After the flowers were placed we'd walk the graves and remember all the old ones. I know that is the beginning of my love of genealogy research and family history. I lovely family tradition that has been replaced with super sales and parties. That's my slice of rural memories in Southern Ilinois. M
Fran On Monday, May 25 at 10:12 am
Beautiful post. My mother-in-law has expressed the same sentiments as Grandma Ruth regarding the family plot. However… I think she won – and will be buried in the city.
Is Cousin T, whose wife was killed, one of the Tims?
Susan On Monday, May 25 at 10:12 am
Ree, your family graveyard is peaceful and lovely. What is even MORE awesome is the stories you have about each person buried there. Stories are what make us real….and those people became real as I read your post today. God Bless.
Kelsey On Monday, May 25 at 10:13 am
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bess On Monday, May 25 at 10:15 am
Our family cemetery is across the road from my grandpa's house. His grandparents travelled from North Carolina to Louisiana with two tiny rooms on a wagon 150 years ago. They ran a saw/grist mill and set aside the best heart pine to make coffins for the *very* rural community where they lived.
There are many generations there – babies, soldiers, teachers, hard working people. I was lucky enough to know almost everyone who was buried there in the last 40 years. The last person interred there was my dear grandmother, five years ago.
Now developers are trying to take the family land and cemetery to build a recreational reservoir. The southern half of Louisiana is practically nothing but rivers, lakes, and creeks – there is no shortage of water or places to recreate on it. It hurts my heart to think that this historic place – to the area and our family – could be lost to greed.
I'm glad MaMa's not here to see it.
Hilltop Farmwife On Monday, May 25 at 10:16 am
In the past you have said Cousin T had a tragic life. Thank you for telling us his story in a very respectful way.
Baking Monster On Monday, May 25 at 10:17 am
this is really sweet.
Aja On Monday, May 25 at 10:20 am
Jenny On Monday, May 25 at 10:20 am
thank you for the heartfelt post. I bet Grandma Ruth wouldn't mind Charlie as long as he doesn't leave a "present" behind.
Sewfordough On Monday, May 25 at 10:21 am
That makes me so sad that those women (Marie and Nicole) died so young. It looks like tha twas a rough year for the whole extended family. Anniversaries of deaths make me sad. My mom and aunt died on the same day and then my Dad three weeks later, so early spring is just tough for me. But, I tend to think of veterans on Memorial Day. I start bawling like a baby when any patriotic song is played. Makes me think of my brother (Marine) and Dad (Army doctor) and all who have served our country. Thanks to all of you out there. We couldn't have our freedom without you!
Lisa On Monday, May 25 at 10:22 am
Such a lovely tribute, I have a personall aversion to being buried in a graveyard but enjoy walking thru, especially after decoration day. The best ones are those like yours, intimate and full of life stories.
Trudy On Monday, May 25 at 10:23 am
I would have no problem with livestock or pets running over my plot and I'm a city person. Thanks for letting us see this beautifully-kept cemetery and the stories with it.
Aliya On Monday, May 25 at 10:23 am
Barbara On Monday, May 25 at 10:28 am
Beautiful post, Ree. This weekend, I saw a beautiful production of OUR TOWN, by Tim Robbin's company the Actor's Gang, in LA. It reminds me of your post and of the lives we all should remember today and how sweet life as we know it is!
Susan On Monday, May 25 at 10:30 am
Thanks for telling us a little about the history of your family. Every family has great stories to share and I enjoy hearing yours.
Jennifer On Monday, May 25 at 10:34 am
Thank you for sharing your story.
Janelle On Monday, May 25 at 10:34 am
I love this post, thank you.
Sonia On Monday, May 25 at 10:35 am
Thank you for a beautiful Memorial Day post.
onepianomom On Monday, May 25 at 10:36 am
My family has two cemeteries where most of our family members are buried in Arkansas. One is in the middle of a field. The other is at a small old church near the top of a mountain. Once the immediate pain of loss is past, they are comforting places to be. My husband's father is buried in a large cemetery in OKC without any family around. I feel lonely for him sometimes.
Anna On Monday, May 25 at 10:36 am
That was really neat to read. I am missing my own father today, and I cannot go and see him in the cemetary, since it's too far away, so it was neat to read about your family. Thank you!
martina On Monday, May 25 at 10:37 am
My grandparents are buried at "the old cemetery". One year relatives went on the annual trek to tidy up the plants and plant new ones by the gravesite. Aunt was very upset…they'd used homemade compost the year before and tomatos were growing abundantly by Grandpa. She was shocked, everyone else was amused. You see, when he was alive Grandpa was a farmer and also a great gardener. We know he would have laughed.
Sunny P On Monday, May 25 at 10:42 am
stunning. i have never really felt much of anything on memorial day, but this really brought the meaning much closer. thanks for the reminder
Carol J. On Monday, May 25 at 10:46 am
Hi. I think cemeteries are beautiful places, and yours is no exception. You are truly lucky to have it so close, so obviously loved and respected. Such a blessing….and such a legacy.
Lynn On Monday, May 25 at 10:47 am
Yours is a beautiful post. Our loving connection to the past tells us what a part of us are today.
Maggie, living in Bliss On Monday, May 25 at 10:47 am
Beautiful tribute, Ree. Well done.
My folks are buried in a National Cemetary in California. It's hideous. The cemetary is in the foothills of the coast range, in central California. Someone had the bright idea to keep it in it's 'natural' state. What they really meant was 'This is the cheapest way to keep this cemetary'. 'Natural state' means it's green for about 20 minutes each spring, brown and dry in the summer, and muddy in the fall and winter. There is no place for the living to go and sit near their loved ones. There isn't even parking near the graves. You have to hike to them. That works out great for the seniors who want to visit their loved ones. It's awful.
But, it wasn't my choice. My father wanted to be buried there, and my mother, as had been her way for more than 50 years, said she'd 'just go with Dad'. So, there they are. I've been back exactly three times since burying them. I don't like it there. It bothers me to know I left them there. So, I comfort myself by saying they're not really there anymore. When they died, God took them with Him, immediately.
That's what I say to feel better.
Sometimes, I also say 'What, Dad?! Were you nuts are something!'.
Enid On Monday, May 25 at 10:48 am
Love it, what an honor Ree!
margi On Monday, May 25 at 10:49 am
Wonderful post!
Half Assed Kitchen On Monday, May 25 at 10:54 am
Memorial Day, indeed.
Screwed Up Texan On Monday, May 25 at 10:55 am
Nice tribute. I love knowing about the lives of those gone before me. I hope one day we will be able to have a family cemetary.
Tawnia On Monday, May 25 at 10:55 am
Wow–I am moved by this post! Thank you for keeping things in perspective for me today–
Kristie On Monday, May 25 at 10:55 am
My mother's family bought several plots in a row in our local cemetary. The joke is, whoever dies *last* will have to be buried in the plot next to the road that runs through the cemetery, and be "driven over" for all eternity.
Thanks for sharing your family history with us, as well.
Dianne On Monday, May 25 at 10:56 am
Lovely post, Ree. Thank you. I hope you and yours have a blessed and happy Memorial Day.
kat On Monday, May 25 at 10:56 am
Dearest Ree, Thank you for the view & the memories.
Perfectly Precious … appreciate how you never stop showing up to share.
Joanna On Monday, May 25 at 10:57 am
What a beautiful post. It brought tears to my eyes.
Thanks for sharing your family with us.
connie On Monday, May 25 at 11:00 am
Our grandparents called this day Decoration Day and it is a tradition to decorate our family's graves for this day. It is always good to be reminded of who we are and where we came from.
Shannon On Monday, May 25 at 11:00 am
Oh, PW…the tears you brought to this pregnant lady! But they were good tears. This was really beautiful.
Now, we need the next installment of Black Heels so I can cry a different set of tears.
Jillian On Monday, May 25 at 11:02 am
Ree, I'll admit that I was dubious when you mentioned your family plot in prior posts, but seeing it makes me realize that it is a beautiful piece of history and a true way for you to connect with your family. I think it's wonderful that you, and MM and your children get to be close and have those stories. It reminds me of the way things were run in civil war times and there were good reasons why people held those family cemeteries close to home. It's truly a wonder to be able to have all of those people come together at your home.
lynn wagner On Monday, May 25 at 11:03 am
Very touching. Thank you.
Roxanne On Monday, May 25 at 11:06 am
Thanks for a glimpse into your special place. Loved hearing about the people dear to you who are there.
Suzzanne On Monday, May 25 at 11:06 am
Ree, Thanks for the lovely post today. Today I am thinking of our neighbor and friend, David, who died in his sleep less than 2 weeks ago. He was a 63 year old veteran of the Vietnam war. May he rest in peace.
Courtney On Monday, May 25 at 11:09 am
How nice to celebrate Memorial Day! Thanks for posting this, makes us all remember our family and those who have lived and died for our country!
Anna On Monday, May 25 at 11:09 am
A wonderful post that brought tears to my eyes.
Tania Bell On Monday, May 25 at 11:16 am
What a wonderful responsibility you have. I enjoyed your sentiments. Happy Memorial Day.
Susan On Monday, May 25 at 11:21 am
Ree, that was well written. Not solomn, but respectful with the kind of happy remembrance that anyone would like to have said of them.
Linda Mills On Monday, May 25 at 11:22 am
Very beautiful tribute, Ree! Cousin T. lost his family way too soon. That story, in particular, brought tears to my eyes. How has he recovered from such a loss….please tell him that my heart goes out to him, and I hope that he has found some semblance of peace in his life.


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If not, try re-installing the game to your harddrive with your original copy.
Thanks I'll give that a shot, I didn't try switching the language to English.
I have had a strange issue. The game plays fine in both USBLoader GX and CFG USB Loader. I've ran with 222,223, etc. (every option the loader gives). The levels in the first world pay fine.
The problem I'm having is that level 1-B simply won't go past the load screen. It just loops indefinitely. Sometimes the light slot on the Wii starts blinking, sometimes it doesn't.
I saw that some people had this happen on level 1-2 but didn't find a solution that fixes the issue for my level 1-B. Thank you in advance for any help offered to me.
Hi, I have a hardmodded wii with drivekey, got the IOS56 installed on first page, the game loads fine until after selecting 1 player, the screen goes black, displaying disc could not be read.... I trying to run a backup. But i burned this on a maxell dvd-r just to see if the brand works. Could the dvd be the problem?? Thanks
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This problem been mentioned previously, but without a solution. I am living in Japan, but I'm an American.
I have a Japanese wii and a non-pirated copy of the American game that I got from an online store. Normally I can just load games like this up with Gecko and there are no problems, but this time all of the text shows up as either ??????? or in Katakana. (It's the American disc, trust me). Is there a solution to this? I won't download a pirate copy or use a USB loader with a modded image after I shelled out this cash to get the real thing. I don't even have a USB card big enough to hold it. Is there any program that can load this disc correctly? Is there anyone out there who has solved this problem? I have an SD card, HBC, Gecko 1.9 and a legit disc. Please help me out! I am trying to do a review of this game, but I can't get it done if all the text in my screens are ???????. Thanks y'all.
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I have not heard of a solution for this. You could region change your Wii but that is a rather "harsh" thing to do just for English text (and I don't even know if it would fix it).
We have a guide for doing this but it can brick your wii and cause other potential issues. I wouldn't recommend taking that route.
Damn I suck!!!!
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Saturday Crafts Fair to Benefit MHCC Scholarship
Looking for that perfect holiday decoration or gift? Stop by the Vista at Mt. Hood Community College's (MHCC) Gresham Campus this Saturday, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. for the Kerri Foland Scholarship Craft Fair. The fair will feature items from local artists such as pottery, paintings, photography, jewelry, wind chimes, purses and much more. Visitor parking on campus will be complimentary during the fair.
The scholarship will provide funds for students enrolled in MHCC's Physical Therapist Assistant (PTA) program. MHCC graduate Jennifer Layng started the scholarship and craft fair in the name of her classmate, Kerri Foland, who was studying to become a PTA, and lost her life in April 2010 to cancer. "Kerri was a wonderful mother, wife and friend. She is missed by many but we will keep her caring legacy alive through this scholarship," says Layng.


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Dashed opportunity in Pa. mean GOP has given up on minority voters?
By Wayne Dawkins
Maybe the Republican Party has given up any pretense of appealing to voters of color.
Former congressman and GOP strategist Tom Davis gave a curious analysis of his party's failure to grab the Pennsylvania 12th Congressional District seat that was vacant because of the recent death of conservative Democrat John Murtha: "That's a district that [John] McCain carried – this is a blue-collar seat, doesn't have a lot of minorities in it. It's tailor-made for Republican pickup," Davis lamented, "and Republicans didn't win."
The "few minorities" sound bite rattled in my head for a second time Tuesday and I wondered just how pathetic the national Republican Party had become. During the final weeks of the 2008 presidential campaign, Murtha acknowledged that many of his constituents had racist attitudes and might be unable to see past candidate Barack Obama's color.
When it was time to vote the very military district won the battle by choosing John McCain, a fellow war veteran, but lost the war because Obama prevailed nationally.
In Tuesday's prelude to the November midterm congressional election, the majority of 12th District voters went with the Democrat, Mark Critz. Those hard-knock residents apparently don't have a hate-the-Washington-establishment mentality. Murtha was beloved because he was a Washington insider who brought goodies back to his struggling district. A BBC report crassly reported that Murtha was elected to be a looter; he robbed as much federal pork as possible for his constituents, yet did not enrich himself.
The handful of special elections Tuesday produced a murky forecast of the November congressional elections.
Also in Pennsylvania, it was the end of the line for incumbent Arlen Specter, the long-time moderate Republican who switched to the Democrats last year and delivered a crucial vote to Obama and the Democratic Congress that got health care legislation into law.
His party switch was too chameleon-like for Democratic voters. Specter changed his spots because he knew he couldn't get re-elected as a Republican.
After 30 years it was buh bye Specter.
But thanks for that health care vote. Specter, 80, contributed to an accomplishment he can brag about in his memoirs.
Elsewhere, Senator Blanche Lincoln, D-Arkansas, was forced into a run off with two opponents. It's hard to say who wanted to punch her out more, conservative Republicans or liberal Democrats?
Kentucky, which is striving harder for irrelevance, chose Rand Paul, the Libertarian Republican who benefitted from Tea Party support.
Since the Tea Partiers brew is as stable as hydrochloric acid, it will be interesting to see is Paul can make it to the fall election without getting burned.
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I'm a Brisbane girl at heart, but have always loved Melbourne (I've been here 12 years now!). I'm sure it's partly due to the fact that many of the old buildings have been designed by my great great grandfather JJ Clark. I like to decorate my home, he decorated the city.
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The State Library of Victoria is having a talk about his work next month! I may not make it as baby #3 is due this sunday. My phone app says it's the size of a watermelon and I've a 5.81% chance of giving birth today.


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There'll be 1,750 seats on Bristow's Bench
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PLAINMOOR'S new Grandstand will be called 'Bristow's Bench' in memory of former Torquay United vice-chairman Paul Bristow.
Torquay United have now received confirmation from the Football Foundation that their application for a £750,000 grant towards the cost of the stand has been approved.
Lottery winner Bristow died suddenly last summer, but he was one of the driving forces behind the club's revival following relegation from the Football League in 2007.
His widow Thea took his place on the United board within months of his death, and she is playing a major financial role in the redevelopment of the old stand.
Mrs. Bristow is understood to have suggested the new stand's name. She said: "Paul would love to know that he had been benched!
"We mulled over all the possibilities for naming the grandstand and decided against the formal option of the Paul Bristow Memorial Stand.
"I know Bristow's Bench will be shortened over time and I hope the Yellow Army are cheering on the Gulls from the Bench or Bristow's for many years to come."
It will seat 1,750 fans and incorporates new dressing rooms as well as an IT teaching suite for adjoining Westlands School.
The education authority is also providing some of the funding towards the project's total cost, which has risen from first estimates to £2 million.
The stand will be built during the first half of next season, with a target completion date in February.
Paul Thorogood, chief executive of the Football Stadia Improvement Fund and Football Foundation, said: "I am delighted that Football Stadia Improvement Fund funding has been able to make this happen.
"The grandstand's name is a fitting tribute to Paul Bristow and the impact he had on the club and everyone involved with it."


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As far as i know if your TV can support a 60HZ signal then it should be able to play an NTSC console. When i lived in the UK i had an American Snes that worked fine on my TV with composite cables (although it needed to be adapted for the different voltage and plug). Some older TVs would produce an unstable image but i doubt that would be a problem on newer sets.
I dont know about Wii component cables but i would guess that it would work the same as my Snes did.


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Anthony J. DiOrio is a Shareholder in the White Plains office of Jackson Lewis P.C. and heads the Providence office. With over 26 years of litigation experience, with Jackson Lewis since April, 1998, he continues to concentrate on employment-related litigation from both the firm's White Plains and Providence offices.He has vast trial experience before state and federal courts as well as various administrative agencies and arbitrations on behalf of management in all employment-related matters, including claims of employment discrimination, sexual harassment, civil rights, breach of contract, restrictive covenant violations, pension fund disputes and other benefits-related litigation. Mr. DiOrio has also handled many labor discharge arbitrations. Mr. DiOrio is a first chair jury trial litigator and handles appeals before the New York and Rhode Island appellate courts.Mr. DiOrio also counsels employers on various employment law matters and the development and implementation of preventive employment practices.Mr. DiOrio is a graduate of Boston College (A.B. Philosophy, 1977) and St. John's University Law School (J.D., 1980), and is admitted in the state courts of New York and Rhode Island.Honors, Awards and Pro Bono Activity•Municipal Court Judge (Alt.), Cranston, RI, 1988-1996�(Also at Providence, Rhode Island Office)


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Tough Weekend for Hawks Soccer Teams
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The Hilbert College Hawks men's and women's soccer teams lost on Saturday afternoon against Pitt-Greensburg University. The men's team lost 13-2, while the women's team fell by a score of 3-1.
The Bobcats were paced by Dave Tintera, who totaled two goals and five assists.
Brian Dohl (Falconer Central/Falconer, NY) and Tim Jordan (Frontier/Jacksonville, SC) each scored a goal to lead the men's offense. For Jordan, it was the first goal of his collegiate career. The Hawks will travel to play conference rival D'Youville College on Saturday, September 27.
In the women's game, Shannon Bieniek (W. Seneca West/Orchard Park, NY) scored her 29th career goal for the Hawks, who will next play conference foe Keuka College at home on Tuesday.
Hilbert College, located in suburban Hamburg, N.Y., south of Buffalo, is a private four-year college founded in 1957 in the Catholic Franciscan tradition. With nearly 1,100 students, Hilbert is a dynamic Western New York college that offers career-focused majors, including one of the top criminal justice programs in the region, and more than 50 minors and concentrations. The college's engaging, student-centered campus community offers numerous leadership, internship, and service learning opportunities from which students launch successful careers while making positive changes in their communities. The Hilbert Blueprint promotes a well-rounded student experience over four years – starting with the Foundations Seminar in the freshman year, followed by Sophomore Service, Junior Symposium, and culminating with the Senior Capstone. Hilbert has expanded its academic offerings with the college's first graduate programs and new Accelerated Degree Programs geared to adult learners.
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We think you'll like it here. Why? Because we rely on personable and skilled faculty who are dedicated to providing a solid training in art & design with a Christian perspective. Join talented students from all over the world in an environment that thrives on creativity. With the hours our students often spend working together in the studio, you'll grow close to your classmates and have the opportunity to form friendships, make memories and build a prestigious portfolio. Our students graduate with the knowledge and skills needed to become successful artists or designers in the profession they choose.
Our students graduate with the knowledge and skills needed to become successful artists.
We offer a selection of specific majors that focus on painting, three-dimensional work, graphic design, interior design, and art education. In areas where we do not offer a specific degree, you have the flexibility to build a portfolio that targets many other niches in the art market, such as art therapy, illustration, art history, drawing, printmaking and photography.
Whether you intend to pursue graduate school or begin your career right away, your undergraduate studies at Harding's Department of Art & Design will prepare you for the next step. We hope you'll join our Art and Design family.
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Defense Mechanisms – It's a Progression.
There are two types of defense mechanisms; those that are needed and useful verses those that are unwanted and no longer serve you. Defenses were originally created by the subconscious mind in order to genuinely protect you. For example, you don't touch a hot stove, or you may burn yourself. You don't cross a busy street without looking, or you may get hit by a car. There is major resistance to change in most people […]
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Where do you feel stuck, frustrated, and want to change? The following is a brief list of some of the areas that may need help. Weight and food management. Stopping smoking . Relief from stress, tension, nightmares and exam anxiety . Elimination of insomnia and procrastination . To gain self confidence . To overcome shyness, nail biting, bed-wetting, stuttering, anger, fatigue, guilt, health problems, pain, grief, anxiety and depression, and other unwanted habits, feelings and […]
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Kill 'em with kindness Please enjoy part one of this two-part story. By Jeffrey Sidman You never know how things will work out. When I was in third grade, I had an experience that taught me the value of being friendly to people who didn't act friendly in return. I went to a school named Chandler Elementary. I lived close enough that I was allowed to start riding my bike to school that year. I […]


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By: Tom Weekes
I'm Tom Weekes and I was the Programming Officer from 2012-2013, next year I will be taking over the role of Vice President. What is a Programming Officer you ask? Well, it is my job to keep the club sane. Let me explain. Each show we do has the following side effects: Hair loss, raised blood pressure, a year off our life expectancy, indigestion, a lack of sleep and sometimes death. Okay well… it's not that bad BUT it still gets pretty stressful and we put A LOT of time into our shows. We love doing it but it definitely takes a toll on us as students. Here is where programming officer comes it. It is the programming officer's job to plan events, or what they are formally known by the club as, "Fun Timez".
There are three major events the RIT Players try to do every year together. Those events include a trip to Darien Lake Amusement Park, pumpkin carving near Halloween and a NYC trip in the spring to see a show or two on Broadway. As a theater club, our calendars are pretty much booked from the beginning of the year, but fitting these little nuggets of fun in between our shows and events proves to be the best way to bond and relieve stress, so that is why we try to fit them in after shows or really early in a quarter.
The programming officer has to be the kind of person who can't just plan event and sit back and relax because they need to worry about, "Are people going to have fun?", "Is everything going to run smoothly?", "Did I forget a step in the planning process?" and things of that nature. (I make it seem like I'm relaxed, shhhhh). It is my goal, that everyone can just hang out and have a good time instead of working on one Players show to the next. When you are part of the planning process, the smallest moments that make the trip or event seem to stick to your memory even more than if you had just attended.
Tom is a second-year new-media marketing major at RIT. During his time with the RIT Players he has acted, directed, written, assisted directed and held the position of programming officer on Eboard.


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Advancing Urban Policy, the monthly e-newsletter of the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University, celebrates its first anniversary with this January, 2014, edition. This edition features research and thought leadership from across the country related to Economic Development. It highlights articles on state and local trends, strategies for economic renewal, Innovation Districts, investment in regional innovation clusters, the Arts and Culture Sector as catalysts to economic vitality, and more... Future editions of Advancing Urban Policy will feature topics related to Community Development (February) followed by Nonprofit Management (March) and City Management (April). Your ideas and submissions are welcome. They may be sent to: email@example.com.
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State Trends
Top Trends in State Economic Development
In the past two years, many states seeking to move from economic crisis to recovery have updated their economic development strategies and launched new development initiatives. Those states have generally focused on the building blocks of their economies-entrepreneurs and innovation, workforce, investment climate, support for businesses in expanding their markets, and a stronger connection between universities and the state's economy. Just as importantly, they have focused on blending those elements together to increase their state's rate of economic growth and provide their state's citizens with more and better paying jobs.
Six important trends have emerged as governors have updated economic development strategies and introduced new initiatives; states are: (1) Focusing on the relationship between the state and its regions in fostering economic development, (2) Emphasizing job creation from within the state, (3) Strengthening their support for advanced manufacturing, (4) Creating partnerships to meet industry's demands for talent, (5) Raising expectations for universities to bridge the gap between research and commercialization, and (6) Stepping up business export initiatives.
From these economic development strategies, three overarching lessons can be drawn. First, many states have concluded both that companies already doing business in the state are the most likely to create new jobs and that the entrepreneurs leading the fastest growing companies should be a focus of economic development efforts. Second, as states have learned more about what type of support growing companies need, they are emphasizing policies and programs that have strong industry buy-in and participation. Such programs include industry-designed-and-supported workforce training, new intermediary organizations to ensure access to research and development at universities and other institutions, and export assistance tailored to companies' age, stage, and experience in international markets. Finally, with the experience gained from practicing cluster-based economic development strategies, states are increasingly assured that they know how to strengthen the nation's competitive advantage through an embrace of innovation hubs and ecosystems.
Metropolitan Economics
How Federalism Has Failed Cities...and Also Might Reinvigorate Them
America's cities and metropolitan areas constitute the engines of the national economy and our centers of trade and investment. They deliver and help finance public goods and influence the shape of the built environment, the physical space of communities, and, hence, how individuals negotiate their personal and professional lives on a daily basis. Yet cities and metropolitan areas cannot go it alone. Their efforts depend on the support of federal and state governments. State and federal governments are-through mandatory entitlements, tax incentives, and spending programs-the largest single investors in cities and metropolitan areas. They set the regulatory rules of the game by which cities and metros (and their companies and core institutions) grow advanced industries, attract global talent, and compete on the world stage.
The type of federalism that drives economic development in the 21st century is not the traditional "dual sovereignty" that splits power between federal and state governments according to subject matter, but a form of collaborative federalism in the service of cities and metros that set priorities and lead implementation. This requires a re-sorting of the roles and responsibilities of government that focuses on how the constitutional sovereigns-the state and federal governments-interact with their city and metro partners across the private and public sectors to co-produce the public good.
Game Changers
Five Opportunities for U.S. Growth and Renewal
Over the past five years, the McKinsey Global Institute has studied the performance of the U.S. economy from multiple angles, including the jobless recovery and labor market mismatches, large multinational companies and eroding competitiveness, the productivity challenge, savings and the demographic transition, and deleveraging from the financial crisis.Drawing on this body of work, game changers, which are the catalysts that can reignite growth and re-establish a higher potential trajectory for the U.S. economy, have been identified. Five game changers are discussed in relation to technology breakthroughs, changing costs of capital, labor, and energy, and policy innovation at the state and local levels. Moreover, the five game changers presented are mutually reinforcing. The shale boom, for example, is boosting trade competitiveness, particularly in energy-intensive manufacturing, as the shift in input costs caused by cheap natural gas has made the United States a more attractive place to base production. Big data can play a role in raising the productivity of knowledge-intensive manufacturing for export, maximizing infrastructure assets, and facilitating new personalized digital learning tools. Shoring up U.S. infrastructure is necessary to capture the potential of the shale energy boom and facilitate greater trade.
These opportunities can exert two types of economic impact: more immediate demand stimulus effects that can get the economy moving again in the short-term, and longer-term enabling effects that build competitiveness and productivity well beyond 2020. More subtly, concerted action to realize these opportunities can build general confidence that encourages investors, companies, and would-be entrepreneurs to focus their energies on the United States, creating a positive cycle. In addition, the game changers will have far-ranging economic, social, and policy implications. Although the benefits of pursuing these goals simultaneously would vary across different parts of the U.S. economy, the resulting complementary effects would enhance the nation's overall competitiveness, productivity, innovation, and quality of life.
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Clusters
The Road through the Rust Belt: From Preeminence to Decline to Prosperity
In the late 20th century, American cities as well as other areas of the world experienced a major shift from heavy manufacturing to service-based economies. No more could cities rely on factories and other manufacturing entities to keep their people employed and their public coffers full. With the decline in industries came an increase in poverty-for individuals and for cities-and the need for public policies to help combat it.
The Road through the Rustbelt: From Preeminence to Decline to Prosperity in Midwest U.S. Industrial Cities addresses a range of issues related to the renewal and attainment of prosperity in these cities. The contributors, each associated with the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University, discuss the reasons for the decline of Rust Belt cities, including globalization, energy policy-related issues, and even the impact of air conditioning on location decisions. They also detail many of the entrepreneurial efforts undertaken in cities like Cleveland that are helping to reinvigorate once-depressed areas, offer suggestions related to investments in workforce training and current energy policy, critique the use of economic development subsidies, discuss the success of clusters at reviving old industrial cities, and provide cultural insights on business practices in China. Overall, this book does not offer a one-size-fits-all solution to the economic woes still facing many of the depressed Rust Belt cities; rather, it offers a multitude of ideas that could be used to stimulate entrepreneurship and generate prosperity.
U.S. Economic Development Administration Invests $520,000 to Grow Healthcare Regional Innovation Cluster in Central Maryland
On September 10, 2013, the U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration announced a $520,000 grant to the Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore and BioHealth Innovation of Baltimore, Maryland, to establish the Healthcare Regional Innovation Cluster (H-RIC) initiative. This new program will advance Central Maryland's ability to commercialize promising technologies. The innovation cluster will be an effort to better coordinate existing medical technology resources and expand services to improve the flow from research labs to the commercial market. Strengthening the connection between state research institutions and federal assets, such as the National Institutes of Health and National Institute of Standards and Technology, will be a core goal.
Regional Innovation Clusters Begin to Add Up
This article discusses the Obama Administration's approach to economic regionalism, which is epitomized by its programs to stimulate regional industry clusters with small matching grants usually in the $1 million to $2 million range. There have been challenges to this approach, stemming from the perceived need for large-scale interventions to combat the enormity of the nation's economic problems. After all, it has been frequently stressed that the nation has a lot of work to do to reorient a drifting U.S. economy beyond consumption and more toward innovation, production, and exports; so no wonder people have hankered for more heft in Washington's economic responses. Surely, for that matter, the desire for more weighty action explains part of the interest that has been generated by the Administration's $1 billion proposal (mentioned in the State of the Union address) to create a network of 15 institutes for manufacturing innovation around the nation. And yet, what if small regional innovation clusters add up to spur economic growth?
There are now 56 federally supported regional cluster initiatives. There are some 18 advanced manufacturing collaborations, working on new materials, new processes, new control systems, and skills development in places as diverse as East Tennessee and Iowa and Southern Arizona and Greater Philadelphia. There are 10 clean energy technology projects ongoing in Southeast Michigan, Florida, San Diego, Oregon, the Carolinas, and elsewhere. There are initiatives working to rally various actors in the food industries of New England, Bristol Bay, and the Finger Lakes region. And there are other efforts focused on IT, the space economy, water technology, and wood products-all collaborative, all aimed at convening the actors in a regional cluster, coordinating disparate efforts, and reducing the risks of innovation and investment. Beyond all of that, the Economic Development Administration identifies another 19 regional innovation projects that have been funded through the EDA's i6 program. Similar to the cluster efforts, the i6 effort provides matching support to innovative initiatives that propose accelerate technology commercialization, new venture formation, job creation, and economic growth in U.S. regions.
The Obama Administration's "small bore" regional initiatives in economic development are beginning to add up to something meaningful. As of now, some 74 cluster initiatives and region-focused innovation efforts are underway, helping to catalyze more linked effort and creative economic development in the nation's regional centers of innovation. Through these initiatives some $250 million is being used to raise matching money and catalyze regional efforts to strengthen the nation's regional innovation ecosystems. It appears that well-designed cluster and accelerator strategies-ones that require sizable local matches through competitive award processes-are a low-cost way to stimulate a significant amount of collaboration, innovation, and new economic activity in the local economic regions that are the ultimate source of national prosperity.
Innovation Clusters: Examining the Role of Federal, State and Local Government
Officeholders generally strive to do pretty much anything they can to keep jobs in their districts - at the top of the list: encouraging big employers to stay in town while persuading new ones to move in. Governments end up bidding against each other to attract large firms, and, as a 2010 study from MIT, Harvard and U.C. Berkeley shows, the result can be a zero-sum game, with winners and losers. In such battles to attract employers, tax-based incentives are a favored tool, even as their use has been associated with higher rates of corruption. Once rare, tax-increment financing is often used to build infrastructure demanded by big firms-roads, rails, enlarged ports, or new facilities. But such deals can be opaque and have the potential to leave local authorities with substantial debt if deals are too generous or projections overoptimistic.
Alternative strategies exist that are place-based or sector-focused. Federal empowerment zones focus on specific neighborhoods in need of jobs and housing. Regions and cities can also create "innovation districts" or "research parks" to attract small businesses, startups or even specific industries such as biotechnology. Higher education and pharmaceuticals are popular targets. A 2012 report from the U.S. Census Bureau and the University of Maryland found that "young firms" can create substantial employment-in 2010 alone, 2.3 million jobs. A potential advantage of bringing in many small companies-particularly those that require analytic and social-intelligence skills-is that some research has shown that they benefit from proximity to each other, something known as a clustering effect. In turn, such business agglomerations can drive additional growth.
Big Idea 2014: Goodbye Silicon Valley, Hello Silicon Cities
As the United States slowly emerges from the Great Recession, led by our cities and metropolitan areas, a remarkable shift is occurring in the spatial geography of innovation. For the past 50 years, the landscape of innovation has been epitomized by regions like Silicon Valley-suburban corridors of spatially isolated corporate campuses, accessible only by car, with little emphasis on the quality of life or on integrating work, housing, and recreation. That model now appears outdated. Innovative companies and talented workers are revaluing the physical assets and attributes of cities. A new spatial geography of innovation is emerging and, in 2014, it will reach a critical mass worthy of recognition and replication. In this new model called the Innovation District, clusters of leading-edge anchor institutions and innovative firms are connected with supporting/spin-off companies, business incubators, mixed-use housing, office, retail and 21st century urban amenities.
Why is this happening? Profound demographic, economic, and cultural shifts are radically altering the preferences of both firms and people, re-forging the link between economy-shaping and place-making. With the rise of open innovation and networked idea generation, the imperative to collaborate has expanded to a broad group of knowledge-intensive sectors, including science- and technology-heavy fields such as chemicals, biotechnology, telecommunications, and semiconductors. No single company can master all the knowledge it needs; rather, innovation relies on a network of connected firms. In short, companies need to collaborate to compete. Together, these trends are fundamentally altering how firms and people interact, how ideas flow, and how places are physically designed. Innovation Districts embrace the redesign of buildings and office spaces in support of collaboration and open innovation, and they provide the physical and social platform for entrepreneurial growth-incubator space, collaborative venues, social networking, product competitions, technical support and mentoring.
Arts and Culture
How Cities Can Nurture Cultural Entrepreneurs
Since the Great Recession, American mayors and city councils have boosted investments in arts and culture as creative place-making to improve the quality of life; to attract residents, managers and workers; and to welcome visitors. Many city leaders are newly aware that artists bring income into the city, improve the performance of area businesses and creative industries, and directly create new businesses and jobs. Because of extraordinary levels of self-employment, artists often choose cities of residence based on factors other than job and employer locations. Their innovative challenges differ greatly from those faced by scientists and engineers. Artists and related cultural workers tend to fall through the cracks in traditional workforce and small business development programs. As a result, American cities have explored new ways of supporting artists that include space provision, artist-targeted websites and marketing projects, incorporating artistic work into city enterprises, and entrepreneurial training programs tailored to the realities of arts and design as occupations.
This policy brief summarizes reasons for and variations in new initiatives to spark cultural entrepreneurship, sampling bottom-up experiments and providing a menu of options for cities of all sizes and character. The brief also counsels city leaders to focus on what is distinctive about their cities, rather than replicating generic strategies elsewhere (e.g. large, expensive arts venues). Via references for further reading, it directs city leaders to various resources for exploring place-appropriate creative entrepreneurship policies.
How the Arts and Culture Sector Catalyzes Economic Vitality
Terms such as creative economy, creative class, and cultural economy are becoming more common among urban planners, arts administrators, economic developers, and business and municipal leaders. These terms reference a variety of types of jobs, people, and industries, including the sectors of visual, performing, and literary arts, as well as applied fields like architecture, graphic design, and marketing. Whatever label is used, this use of terminology linking culture and the economy indicates recognition of the connections among the fields of planning, economic development, and arts and culture. The activities of the arts and culture sector and local economic vitality are connected in many ways. Arts, culture, and creativity can (1) Improve a community's competitive edge, (2) Create a foundation for defining a sense of place, (3) Attract new and visiting populations, (4)Integrate the visions of community and business leaders, and (5) Contribute to the development of a skilled workforce. Competition, definition, attraction, integration, and continued development are all pivotal aims for economic development professionals. Traditional outcomes of economic development in planning include job creation, increased tax revenues, increased property values, increased retail activity, and more sustained economic vitality. These goals are often pursued through programs such as workforce development, recruitment, amenity packages for firms, local property investment, and policies that support business. When combined with creative approaches, these traditional programs can create a richer context for economic development.
To pursue economic development projects with a creative approach, there are four key points to consider:
Cashing in on Arts and Culture
The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) released prototype estimates from the new Arts and Cultural Production Satellite Account (ACPSA). This is the first federal effort to provide in-depth analysis of the arts and cultural sector's contributions to current-dollar gross domestic product (GDP). According to these new estimates, 3.2 percent-or $504 billion-of current-dollar GDP in 2011 was attributable to arts and culture. In comparison, BEA's estimated value of the U.S. travel and tourism industry was 2.8 percent of GDP.
In addition, the study found that the leading contributing industries were motion picture and video production, advertising services, cable television production and distribution, publishing, and the performing arts. Furthermore, the gross output of arts and cultural production (ACP) was $916 billion; advertising output held the largest share of ACP with an output of $200 billion, or 20 percent of all arts and cultural commodities. The second largest share was arts education with an ACP output of $104 billion. Cable television production and distribution with $100 billion in output, and "motion picture and video goods and services" with $83 billion in output had the third and fourth largest shares.
NOTE: See also Remix Cleveland: The Cleveland Music Sector and Its Economic Impact from the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University (10/1/11).
Metro Areas with the Most Blue-Collar STEM Jobs
Jobs emphasizing science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) skills have long conjured up images of research universities and corporate offices. Many such STEM-heavy jobs require a bachelor's or advanced degree. But what's often not talked about is the roughly equal number of STEM jobs found on factory floor shops, construction sites, and other blue-collar workplaces.
A Brookings Institution study makes the case that policymakers are overlooking the role these blue-collar STEM jobs play in the economy, finding far more STEM workers than previous estimates. About 26 million jobs (20 percent of the U.S. workforce) required knowledge of at least one STEM field in 2011. About half of these jobs did not call for a four-year degree, paying an average salary of $53,000, according to the report.
Which States Have Recovered the Most Lost Jobs?
While employment has steadily climbed since the recovery began, only a select few states have seen jobs return to pre-recession levels so far. Updated Labor Department estimates show the extent to which states are regaining their economic footing. The U.S. has recovered 5.3 million jobs since job losses bottomed out, still about 2.2 million below pre-recession levels. North Dakota experienced a 20.6 percent gain in employment since the recovery began, by far the nation's largest increase. The state's population also jumped, accordingly. Texas (8.6 percent), Utah (7.8 percent) and Indiana (6.4 percent) recorded the next-highest percentage increases over the past four years.
The recovery thus far is especially bleak when assessing the share of the working-age population currently employed. Heidi Shierholz at the Economic Policy Institute examined the employment-to-population ratio (EPOP) for individuals between the ages 25 and 54, finding the most recent jobs data indicates the country has made little progress--only one-fifth of the way to making up for the low reached during the Great Recession. At this rate, the recovery will drag on another six to eight years, by most estimates.
Local Areas Face Challenges Helping Employers Fill Some Types of Skilled Jobs
Based on survey results for calendar year 2012, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) estimates that most local areas used various sources of information to identify occupations that are in demand (i.e., available jobs and occupations that are projected to grow). Local areas found all of the sources of information they used to be at least moderately useful. To identify occupations that are in demand, GAO estimates that nearly 90 percent of local areas used state job banks and occupational projections, both of which are funded by the Department of Labor (DOL). In addition, 93 percent of areas used at least one local initiative, such as a partnership with the local economic development agency, to identify such jobs. As compared to other sources, areas reported using local initiatives because they provided more detailed information and better reflected local employers' needs.
To guide participants toward training, most local areas required them to complete certain activities, such as meeting with a case manager to discuss training options (80 percent) or completing a skills assessment (78 percent). Most local areas faced challenges in guiding participants toward training. Specifically, local areas faced challenges related to participants' lack of financial or work supports, such as: child care or transportation (67 percent), participants' lack of the basic skills necessary even to participate in training (66 percent), difficulty finding training providers who could quickly adapt curricula to employers' changing needs (62 percent), and high training costs (54 percent). However, in 57% of local areas, these challenges did not affect their ability to guide participants toward training.
Business Incubators: Tools for Local Enterprise Development
Local business creation is frequently identified as a priority for economic development and growth. Local firms are often targeted because they tend to remain in the community, bring revenue into the local economy, and use local resources as inputs for their business. Consequently, cities often seek to support local entrepreneurs by providing financial and practical assistance while they develop their enterprises to the point where they become self-sufficient. Incubators are among the tools that can be employed to foster local business creation. Traditional business incubators are buildings that house several new businesses under one roof, an arrangement that takes advantage of economies of scale and other synergies to assist firms through their perilous start-up periods. Full-service incubators typically provide their clients flexible space and affordable rents, shared business services, business development training and coaching, financial assistance, and the opportunity to network with peers. One of the most popular offerings of a full-service incubator is its collection of shared business services, which represent the kind of resource pooling that makes incubators a unique and effective business creation tool.
Recent years have seen the rise of incubators designed to support the development of micro industries. They bring together companies that are in the same business but are not necessarily competitors. Bringing together businesses with common needs permits the incubator greater efficiency in providing assistance. Industry-focused incubators also enhance opportunities for networking by linking companies that are more likely to complement one another. The challenge of industry-focused incubation is acquiring and paying for the specialized equipment and systems that are often required. Increasingly popular are virtual incubation programs-that is, incubators without walls that offer no rental space but instead coordinate the activities of community service providers that assist local entrepreneurs. Virtual incubators are especially popular and efficient in rural areas, where suitable buildings are either nonexistent or in short supply and resources are limited and spatially dispersed. Furthermore, virtual incubation can avoid the distractions of real estate management that have preoccupied residential incubators at the expense of their business development function.Although the concept of virtual incubation has evolved very slowly, interest in it is growing, particularly for community and regional incubation systems. Regional incubator systems consisting of networks of individual residential incubation programs operating in local communities in a defined geographic region are becoming more popular in rural areas with limited resources and markets.
Collaboration for Economic Growth
Converting Funder Collaboration into Collective Impact
Once known as a "rust-belt" region, Greater Cleveland is on the cusp of economic recovery-thanks, in part, to the collaborative efforts of local organizations to recruit, retain, promote, and open contracting bids to people of all ages and abilities, races, and religions. Headquartered within an eight-county area in Northeast Ohio, a coalition of diversity-management leaders-led by the economic development group Greater Cleveland Partnership-is bringing wealth to underserved communities as the region experiences a post-recession renaissance. A recent Brookings Institute report found Cleveland is on the road to resurgence, ranking 10th among 50 U.S. metro areas. That's because of its diversification from a primarily industrial base to "new economy" sectors, such as health care, biosciences, and high-tech industries. Based on annual employment growth and per-capita income, the study found Cleveland's income jumped 4.1 percent from 2009 to 2010 compared with pre-recession years (1993-2007).
What's prompting change in Cleveland (population 430,000) and surrounding areas? One factor is the leadership commitment to provide opportunities for all, including the nearly 60 percent Black and Latino population in the metro area, as the Cleveland Group Plan Commission rolls out an aggressive revitalization plan that includes a new 100,000-square-foot Cleveland Medical Mart and adjoining 230,000-square-foot convention center, a $700-million downtown casino and more. Cleveland's capital-improvement projects and the area's low cost of living (almost 4 percent less than the national average, reports Greater Cleveland Partnership, are spurring jobs and attracting businesses and "creative" thinkers from major metro areas such as New York. When coupled with the leadership commitment to diversity and the investment in emerging sectors, Cleveland is poised for potential growth.
NE Ohio Economic Development Groups Tout Benefits of Their Collaboration
Civic and political leaders in Northeast Ohio talk at length about working together regionally. But it may be the area's private-sector business development and attraction organizations that make the best effort at getting regionalism to work. Ten of those organizations report that, as a group, they worked last year with companies and entrepreneurs that expect to create 36,363 jobs and $1.8 billion in capital investment in Northeast Ohio. The jobs and investment are expected to come from companies in many sectors; the businesses include expanding health care and biotechnology firms and drillers rushing to tap into the recently discovered oil and gas fields in Ohio's Utica shale region. While business investment decisions are complex and often based on internal factors, these organizations help untangle red tape, identify public and private financial partners, and show companies locations for offices or plants. Much of the investment is in the region's traditional stronghold-manufacturing. There, Canton's Timken Co. is investing $310 million to expand its specialty steel production, and Alcoa Corp. is spending $100 million to rebuild one of the world's largest forging presses in Cleveland. In a 36-page report, the 10 organizations also highlight commitments totaling $212 million in early-stage investment in 108 Northeast Ohio companies. The report, their first as a group, represents the maturing of the relationships between the 10 organizations. The report details a regional competitiveness strategy that, the groups hope, will accelerate Northeast Ohio's economic growth. The other organizations include five regional business development groups-the Greater Akron Chamber, the Greater Cleveland Partnership, Regional Chamber of Youngstown and Warren, the Stark Development Board, and Team Lorain County. It also includes four specialized nonprofits-BioEnterprise Corp., which works to nurture health care and bioscience companies; JumpStart Inc., which focuses on entrepreneurial ventures with high growth potential, Magnet, the region's manufacturing advocate, and NorTech, which focuses on technology companies. Each organization plays a specific role and, because of an effort by JobsOhio, the nonprofit that has taken over the state's economic development role, all the organizations even share a common system for tracking firms and entrepreneurs.
Metros: Freight and Manufacturing
CMAP Explores the Link between Freight and Manufacturing in Metropolitan Chicago
On their own, the freight and manufacturing industries are vital to Metropolitan Chicago's economy and standing as a global commerce center. Taken together, the two interwoven and specialized industries are Chicago's built-in advantage and a big reason why it is "poised to translate recent manufacturing momentum into regional economic growth," the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning asserts. Starting in mid-2012, CMAP-a regional planning organization for seven Northeastern Illinois counties and an EMSI client-published research on the freight and manufacturing industries with individual drill-down reports. In August 2013, it released a complementary report, The Freight-Manufacturing Nexus: Metropolitan Chicago's Built-in Advantage. The authors of the new report show how Chicago's strongly concentrated cluster of freight industries support regional manufacturing competitiveness.
Metro Freight: The Global Goods Trade that Moves Metro Economies
One of the lessons from the Great Recession is the need to grow and support the tradable sectors, typically manufacturing and high-end services, of our metropolitan economies. But to drive these tradable sectors, metropolitan areas need physical access to markets. Metropolitan freight connectivity enables this access and the ensuing modern global value chains. Without it, trade cannot occur. This report establishes the economic rationale for metropolitan goods trade, describing why, how, and what these areas exchange with each other. It makes these key points:
How to Stop the Economic Development Wars
The dominant paradigm, incentive-fueled competition among state and local governments, does not create economic prosperity. Two big facts confirm this conclusion. First, as the New York Times reported in 2012, states, counties and cities are giving up more than $80 billion each year to companies in tax breaks, outright cash payments, and buildings and worker training. Second, the wages of the taxpayers who have been footing the bill for this stuff have been flat since at least 1979. Indeed, some economists have concluded that we are now in an economy whose normal state is one of mild depression as a result of inadequate demand. It seems obvious that the lack of demand is the result of depressed wages.
The bankruptcy of the current approach to economic development has reached its apotheosis in the Boeing deal in Washington State, in which the corporation demanded both a massive subsidy from the state and significant wage and benefit concessions from its workers. The state acquiesced, granting Boeing $8.7 billion-the largest state-tax giveaway in the nation's history-to keep production of the new 777x airliner in the Seattle region. The president of the machinists' union voted to reject the deal. The result of the union's rejection, the company says, is that it will open up the competition to other potential locations for the 777x assembly. Other states will now scramble to see how much they can offer Boeing. In the case of global corporations like Boeing, state and local governments are simply unequal to the task. The U.S. needs a national law that prohibits corporations from extracting bribes from state and local governments and bans governments from donating tax dollars to private entities-a sort of domestic equivalent of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which prohibits American companies from bribing foreign governments.
Some will argue that such a law would damage America's global competitiveness and drive companies to outsource even more of their work abroad. However, America is a magnet for global talent because of the quality of life offered here, and current economic trends are damaging to that quality of life. With the predators reined in by a federal law, states and localities could more safely try alternative forms of economic development such as those championed by the Democracy Collaborative. Its model, called Community Wealth Building, emphasizes democratization of wealth, focuses on place and local economy, promotes broader ownership of capital, seeks to anchor jobs locally, stops the leakage of dollars from communities and supports individual and family wealth-building.
A Multilevel Approach to Local Economic Development Incentive Adoption
Rubin sounded an alarm indicating that economic development practitioners were less than strategic in their economic development incentive adoption when he declared that developers "shoot anything that flies, claim anything that falls." This article builds on the work of those who have focused on the determinants of incentive adoption in three ways. First, relying on matched cases of survey respondents to the 1999 and 2004 International City/County Management Association Economic Development Survey improves on using a single survey. Second, unlike previous efforts that relied mostly on ordinary least squares estimators to predict the total number of approaches adopted, this article uses a count model and distinguishes between types of approaches. Finally, this article accounts for city- and state-level impacts. This article finds that economic development decision-making is strategic, partly determined by state-level effects, and is dependent on the types of economic development practices.
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Immigration and Economic Growth
Immigration Reform:Implications for Growth,Budgets, and Housing
Effective immigration reform can be a powerful instrument of economic revitalization. By increasing the overall population and particularly the number of working-age labor force participants, reform can help expand the economy, contribute to higher overall average wages, generate more consumer spending, and spur new demand for residential housing construction. By supporting stronger economic growth, immigration reform can also reduce the federal budget deficit substantially.
A study conducted by the Bipartisan Policy Center estimates that immigration reform would expand the U.S. labor force by 8.4 million people and cause the economy to grow an additional 4.8 percent over the next 20 years. The analysis indicates that wages would initially fall due to the influx of labor, but would rise a total of 0.5 percent by the end of the 20-year period. During this period, immigration reform would also increase residential housing construction by $68 billion annually and provide an immediate boost to a housing market that has yet to fully recover. Finally, reform would lead to about $1.2 trillion in cumulative reduction in the federal budget deficit. A major benefit of immigration reform is that it can inject vitality into the nation's workforce. Under the reference case used in this study, just 0.8 million (6 percent) of the 13.7 million people that immigration reform would add to the U.S. population would be aged 65 or older. The addition of millions of new, younger workers would increase the ratio of workers to retirees and help our country respond to the fiscal challenges associated with an aging population.
Advancing Urban Policy: Economic Development was created with counsel from the Levin College's Center for Economic Development; compiled by Jessica Murphy, graduate assistant; edited by Roslyn Miller, consultant. Inclusion in Advancing Urban Policy is for informational purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs or Cleveland State University.