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How to Figure Out if You're an Employer of Choice
1. "Best" list appearances. The firm currently appears on Fortune's or Working Mother's best places list and on more than one industry or regionalbest places list.
2. Positive name recognition in target population. When asked in a survey orfocus group, people in your target professional fields know the name of yourfirm 75 percent of the time, and over half of those know at least one keypositive selling point of your firm.
3. In the top three choices of top performers. When highly qualifiedprofessionals are asked the names of places they "would like to work someday,"over 50 percent list your firm in the top five most-often mentioned.
4. Where your applications come from. At least 10 percent of your applicantscome from the top five most profitable firms in your industry or region.
5. Often cited in MVPs. Your firm's HR and people practices are cited atleast five times a year by name in the top three (most valuable publications)that are read by top professionals in their field or industry.
6. Often cited. Your firm's HR and people practices are cited by name inmajor industry, business, and HR publications over 50 times a year.
7. Referral rate. Employee referrals make up over 50 percent of all hires.
8. "Other offers." Applicants with multiple offers also get a concurrentoffer from one of the top ten-rated firms in your industry at least 50 percentof the time.
9. Give away/take away ratio. Your firm hires away more people from your topfive competitors than the competitor hires away from you (you win four out offive of these head-to-head battles).
10. Talent competitors talk positively about you. When managers at directtalent competitors are asked in surveys or focus groups about your firm'speople practices, they give a positive response 25 percent of the time.
11. In top three choices of average performers. When professionals in yourindustry are asked the names of places they "would like to work someday,"over 25 percent list your firm.
12. Recruiters list you in top employers. When professional recruiters areasked in surveys or focus groups about your firm's people practices, they givea positive response 50 percent of the time. When asked to list the top tenemployers of choice in your region or industry, they cite you 50 percent of thetime.
13. On "admired" list. You appear on Fortune's "most admired firms"list.
14. On diversity list. You appear on Fortune's diversity list.
15. Former employees do/would return. Over 10 percent of employees whovoluntarily quit in the past three years have returned. Over 50 percent expressan interest in returning when surveyed.
16. Employees send the "same" message. When your employees are asked whatthey tell strangers about "why the firm is a great place to work," over 50percent of their answers include your top selling point.
17. Low turnover rate of top performers. The turnover rate of your top 25percent-rated employees is below 5 percent.
18. CEO mentions people practices. Your current CEO mentions specific HR orpeople practices by name in 25 percent of external and 50 percent of internalspeeches.
19. Sign-up lists. Your "sign-ups" at college information events exceedthe average by 50 percent. Your lines at job fairs are 25 percent longer thanyour top direct talent competitor.
20. Web hits. You get 50 percent more Web hits on your jobs page than theindustry average.
21. Benchmarked. Fortune 500 firms from outside your industry benchmark you(call to learn about your best practices) at least once a year.
22. Listed first in conference brochures. When presenting firms are listed incommercial seminar brochures, your firm's name appears in the first 25percent.
23. Book. There has been a book written about your firm or CEO within thelast five years.
24. CEO has wide name recognition. Your current CEO has a positive namerecognition 75 percent of the time when professionals in your industry are askedto comment in surveys or focus groups.
25. You have an EOC manager. Your HR department has a designated manager whohandles employer of choice, best-places-to-work list, and employment-branding.
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Artists have been depicting the special bond between mothers and their children for hundreds of years.
Relationships can be difficult to describe, and sometimes an image tells the story better than words. Painters from the Renaissance to the Impressionists to Mary Cassat, Diego Rivero, Van Gogh, and Picasso each depict something special and unique about motherhood. One of the most powerful and unforgettable photos depicting a mother and her children in the history of photography, is Dorothea Lange's photograph of a destitute mother and her children taken in 1936.
Dorothea Lange said in an interview about the picture, "She said that they had been living on frozen vegetables from the surrounding fields, and birds that the children killed. She had just sold the tires from her car to buy food. There she sat in that lean- to tent with her children huddled around her, and seemed to know that my pictures might help her, and so she helped me."
"Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime…"
-William Shakespeare, Sonnet 3
A woman waits at the gate of presidential palace to inquire about her missing son who had been a soldier in the Afghan Army
"A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path."
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Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.
-Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
Often the act of waiting is anything but simple.
Many people hate to wait because they are waiting to do something,
get something, or go somewhere.
Waiting doesn't seem like an act, but the lack of action; however,
the decision to be patient and willing to wait is an act of courage and perseverance.
Crowds at the Kumbh Mela await their turn to bathe in the Ganges. Allahabad, India
A person who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
– George Savile
Waiting for medical care. Kabul, Afghanistan
A mother waits for news of her missing son. Afghanistan
Refugees wait in line. Thailand
Endurance is patience concentrated.
– Thomas Carlyle
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
– St. Augustine
A ballerina waits backstage for her cue. Zagreb, Croatia
Shoppers wait for a bus. Dublin, Ireland
The faithful wait for healing. Lourdes, France
Waiting in line for a church service. Los Angeles, USA
Waiting for a bus. Ahmedabad, India
Waiting for a look through the Berlin Wall. Germany
Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.
– Virgil
Waiting to perform. Hong Kong, China
People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting.
– French Proverb
Waiting for customers at Amber Fort, Jaipur, India
Dog waits for door to open. Porbandar, India
The Patience of Ordinary Things
by Pat Schneider
… I've been thinking about the patience
Of ordinary things, how clothes
Wait respectfully in closets
And soap dries quietly in the dish,
And towels drink the wet
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Bradenton, FL (Sports Network) - Clint Barmes hit a two-run home run to guide
Pittsburgh to a 9-2 victory over Atlanta in Grapefruit League play.
Darren Ford and Brad Hawpe each drove in a pair of runs while Clint Robinson
had two hits, two runs scored and an RBI for the Pirates, who got two hitless
innings out of starter James McDonald.
Jason Heyward hit a solo home run for the Braves, who saw starter Julio
Teheran allow just one walk over two innings. David Carpenter gave up five
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"That's so gay" and "That's so retarded" are two things I hear far too often, especially among people my own age. Not only are they offensive, but frankly, they're a bit of an insult to the breadth of the English language, too. The goal is to make the viewer think about what they're really trying to express, and how much more effectively they could do it if they'd simply rethink their derogatory word choices a little.
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BLADENSBURG, Md. (WUSA) -- Prince George's County Police are investigating the police-involved fatal shooting of a woman on Friday night, officials say.
According to Bladensburg police, they responded to a call late Friday about disturbance involving woman displaying a knife at an apartment building on the 4200 block of 53rd Avenue.
When police arrived they knocked on the door of 43-year-old Tonya Michelle Buggs' apartment. Preliminary investigation indicate that Buggs opened the door holding a knife above her head, Prince George's Police say.
Three police officers asked her to drop her weapon before shooting at her when she lunged at them with the knife, police say.
Buggs was taken to a local hospital where she died.
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They are salting the roads in Milwaukee, so I will pull the battery and finish winterizing this weekend. I got one decent December ride in.Planned winter projects:* Remove starter* New tires* New front brakes-Rick
We just had a warm front blow in last night, and it's sunny and 57 degrees today!I'm going out on my bike!
Its 35*F ( + 03*C) today, I may check road conditions ( hate black ice) , Dress like a polar bear, Do a 30 minute thump.
Just don't look like one. He may think your mateable!
we had to batten down the hatches this morning for a tornado watch, right now is sunny and 70's and tomorrow a high in the 40's. what a roller coaster. should make for an interesting ride to work and back tomorrow. it gets a little nipply on a bike at 65 with those temps. oh well, that's what jack daniels is for; to thaw out
Tonight it's suppose to dip to -20.
time to hibernate...wait, you done said that
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Dancing With The Stars
Mark Ballas Teams Up With the Harlem Globetrotters to Teach Special Olympic Athletes (PHOTOS)
What does Mark Ballas do when Dancing With the Stars is on hiatus? Oh, only the best thing ever.
The DWTS pro teamed up with the Harlem Globetrotters — a basketball team that combines athleticism, theater, and comedy — to teach basketball skills and dance moves to 15 Special Olympic athletes. Mark choreographed the "Trotter Bounce" signature dance, which is now part of every Globetrotter game.
"With the @Harlem_Globetrotters teaching Special Olympic Athletes some moves #greatkids #blessed #givingback," Mark wrote on Instagram, along with a fun video showcasing the team's new dance moves.
Mark and the basketball players also visited the set of Extra at Universal Studios in Hollywood, California on February 11, where they played basketball with Maria Menounos and Mario Lopez.
Click through the gallery to see Mark and the Harlem Globetrotters working together with the Special Olympic team. Also be sure to check out the video that Mark posted, to see the athletes showing off their new dance moves!


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The state D.O.T. has set new tolls on ferry routes, but won't charge the new rates for now.
The proposed ferry rates unveiled Wednesday would charge pedestrians and vehicle passengers who now ride free on ferries. The boats already charge vehicles and their drivers.
The state budget adopted last year over Perdue's veto ordered DOT to start collecting fares on two toll-free river ferries used mostly by commuters, and to set higher rates on three routes where tolls are collected now.
The new rates were supposed to take effect next month, but Perdue ordered a one-year delay.
Tolls for the Cherry-Branch-Minnesott Beach route would have been $4 per car and a dollar more for each passenger.
For the Aurora-Bayview route, the costs were to be $10 per car and $2 more for each passenger.
A system-wide pass for cars would have cost $500 a year, while site specific passes for Cherry Branch-Minnesott would have run $150, and $200 for the Aurora-Bayview ferry route.
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Nas has announced IllmaticXX, a 20th anniversary edition of his 1994 debut album, Illmatic, scheduled to be released April 15.
This anniversary edition is set to include unreleased remixes to the original cuts on the album, along with unreleased versions of "I'm a Villain" and Nas' appearance on "The Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Show On WKCR October 28, 1993." The anniversary edition of Illmatic also includes the 10 original tracks from the album.
In 2012, Nas spoke about his debut album and how he feels about it.
"It's nine songs on there," he said at the time. "The intro makes it ten but it's only nine songs. I think it's a perfect record. It's a perfect record. I couldn't say that before, but there are so many different dynamics to it."
To read about how Nas wrote Illmatic's "Halftime" and "One Love," click here.
The album is available for pre-orders via iTunes. The cover art, according to iTunes, can be found below followed by the cover art that Nas published on his Facebook page.
The tracklisting can be found below.
1. "I'm A Villain" (Unreleased)
2. "The Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Show on WKCR October 28, 1993" (Unreleased Freestyle)
3. "Halftime" (Butcher Remix)
4. "It Ain't Hard To Tell" (Remix)
5. "One Love" (LG Main Mix)
6. "Life's A Bitch" (Arsenal Mix)
7. "One Love" (One L Main Mix)
8. "The World Is Yours" (Tip Mix)
9. "It Ain't Hard To Tell" (The Stink Mix)
10. "It Ain't Hard To Tell" (The Laidback Remix)
(February 4, 2014)
UPDATE: Selections from Nas' lllmatic and tracks from his Illmatic XX, which earned a 3/5 in its HipHopDX review, are available to stream below.
RELATED: Nas Says "Illmatic" Was "Perfect" & That "Life Is Good" Is "Excellence"


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Chalk Art Festival 2012
(Le Mars) -- This weekend the pavement at the Olson Cultural Events Center will be brightly
colored in chalk for the The Le Mars Area Chamber of Commerce Chalk Art Festival. Families,
students, neighborhood groups and professional artist will gather Saturday and Sunday to
fill their allotted area with the ideas that have been forming in their heads. Jean Weiner
is the featured local artist this year. She usually works with water color, but branched out
to the new medium at last years festival. Jean says working with chalk in such a large area
poses a physical challenge and the need for a lot of materials.
Her rookie year last year went very well, with an image a of 3-D otter. She said that this
year's picture will also feature wildlife, but not the 3-D process.
Because families with children are such a large part of the chalk festival, Weiner thought
that doing the animals would be a fun approach for the kids to see.
The festival is not just about the final product, but about the process...like performance
out. Weiner feels that talking with other participants and those just there to watch is an
important part of that process.
The Le Mars Area Chamber of Commerce Chalk Art Festival is from 10am to 5pm Saturday and
noon to 5pm Sunday at the Olson Cultural Events Center. Stop by to watch, or buy a square
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In schools across the country, traditional literature is being replaced with government informational texts. It is the result of the Common Core standards transition from teaching literature to focusing on government provided informational documents. "English teachers across the country are trying to figure out which poetry, short stories and novels might have to be sacrificed to make room for nonfiction," The Washington Post reported. This | Read More »


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Ranked No. 11 in this week's state poll, but still reeling a bit from an upset loss at Los Angeles Southwest on Jan. 11, the Pasadena City College women's basketball team had reason to be concerned about facing the No. 14-ranked Huskies at East Los Angeles College. The Lancers proceeded to play easily their best game in the South Coast Conference thus far, nearly leading from start to finish in a 68-54 triumph.
PCC evened its conference record at 3-3 and upped its overall mark to 13-5. ELAC fell to 11-6 and after a 4-0 start to SCC play, now is 4-2 in the highly competitive league.
The Lancers were tied just once at 2-2 and never trailed as they led 21-11 and then 32-25 by halftime. In the second half, sophomore guard Sabrina Martinez drilled back-to-back, 3-point bombs to deliver a dagger to the Huskies and a commanding 47-30 lead for PCC. Martinez led four players in double figures in scoring with 14 points.
Three different Lancers notched doubles-doubles with the most impressive being point guard Shay Jackson, who scored 11 points and dished out a team season-high 12 assists. Jackson added six rebounds and three steals as she continues to be a team leader as a redshirt sophomore. Playing with four fouls for most of the second half, Jackson relentlessly drove to the basket on several second-half plays and fired off several pinpoint passes, short and long to open Lancers for shot attempts.
Freshman forward Tyler Crockom was a force with 13 points (9-for-13 from the free throw line) and a team-high 14 rebounds while frosh center Kaitlyn Parks added 12 points and 13 rebounds in a stellar job in the paint. Sophomore guard Stella Ghazarian contributed nine points, including two 3-pointers.
ELAC had a miserable night shooting, including making only 15 of 32 free throws (46.9 percent) and just 18 of 72 shots from the field (25 percent). The Huskies had no starters make double figures, but off the bench, De Laura Castaneda tallied 16 points and eight rebounds and Alexis Valles scored 10 points (made three treys). The team's most effective player was starting forward Karina Ortiz, who totaled nine points, 15 rebounds, six blocked shots and three steals.
"We played a complete game for a change," said PCC head coach Joe Peron. "We had a terrible defensive breakdown last game, but tonight we played our type of basketball. We kept the score down and we worked hard on the boards for second-effort points. The starting five all contributed in the same game, and that has not happened in a long time for us."
PCC will travel to face Los Angeles Trade Tech on Friday, Jan. 18 in a 6 p.m. tip-off.
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Sunday lineup
The Royals travel down Bell Road today to play the Mariners in Peoria. Zack Greinke takes the mound for a 3:05 Central, 1:05 local start.
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Billy Butler – 1B
Mike Jacobs – DH
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Alex Gordon – 3B
Alberto Callaspo – 2B
Tony Pena, Jr. – SS
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Herewith, the latest dispatch from the West Coast and our esteemed special Vanity Fair Agenda L.A. correspondent, Kyle Fitzpatrick, co-founder of the Web site, Los Angeles, I'm Yours:
MOCAtv has hit the Internet and is providing hours and hours (and hours ) of content for us all to watch. They recently launched Björk's latest video for her song "Mutual Core," taking the online music community by storm. It's an explosive video directed by local Andrew Thomas Huang–but how was the complicated video made? Fortunately, the museum was keen to make a little follow up video on this fascinating, sandy, and puppet-filled process.


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February 2013
A Dog Howling at the Moon
Saturday, 23rd February 2013 10am-4pm £40
A one-day mixed-media workshop with Ros Cuthbert RWA
Lecture: Unfolding Landscape, Jeremy Gardiner
Saturday 9 February, 11am
A lecture by Jeremy Gardiner on his artistic excavation of the geology of landscape.
Reigning Cats and Dogs with Peter Ford RWA
Saturday 26 January, 9 February and 23 February 2.30pm
A tour of the exhibition with Peter Ford.
An Artist's Best Friend, Dogs, Cats and Victorian Painters, Justine Hopkinson
Saturday 16 February 10am – 4pm
Art History Day School
Family Print Workshop What's Your Favourite Animal?
Thursday 14 February 10am-1pm £10 per child
Simon Tozer MA in collaboration with Spike Print Studio
Children's Print Workshop, Print an Animal Snow Scene
Tuesday 12 February, 10.30am-12.30pm £10
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Scribble and Sketch, Anouk Mercier
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Widener Law professor John G. Culhane, will hold a book signing at 6:30 p.m., Dec. 15 at Giovanni's Room Bookstore, 345 S. 12th St., Philadelphia, Pa., for his new co-authored book "Same-Sex Legal Kit for Dummies."
The book, published by John Wiley & Sons Inc., is a compilation of information on everything from financial and estate planning, to wills and trusts, and to employment benefits and the tax consequences of being in a domestic partnership.
It is now available in print and electronic-reader formats. Culhane wrote the book with Carrie Stone, a West Virginia lawyer who owns and operates rainbowlaw.com. The website is an online legal information and document-preparation resource for the LGBT community. Culhane handled sections of the book involving marriage equality, civil unions, domestic partnerships, building a family and more.
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In-person early voting is underway in Ohio. Find your nearest polling booth here.
The first presidential debate took place last night. Most of the
"liberal media" says Mitt Romney beat President Barack Obama, but the
impact of the relatively dull debate is probably being overstated as the
media tries to sensationalize some sort of comeback narrative for Romney. Although
the debates are important for capturing a candidate's policies and
speaking ability, they don't matter much in political terms.
Policy-wise, it seems Romney ran to the center last night. If last night's debate wasn't enough debate for you, here are the three most awkward presidential debate moments in history.
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus held
a conference call with Ohio reporters yesterday in response to Vice
President Joe Biden's comments that the middle class has been "buried"
in the past four years. Priebus claimed the
Republican ground game in Ohio will "crush" Democrats. But that's going
to require a lot of work. As it stands, Obama and Democratic Sen.
Sherrod Brown are beating their respective Republican opponents pretty
badly in aggregate polling.
PolitiFact says Republican claims that Issue 2 will create a redistricting commission that will "have a blank check to spend our money" are false. While there is no cap on spending designated in Issue 2, that does not mean the redistricting commission will get infinite funding. If Issue 2 is approved by voters, redistricting will be handled by an independent citizens commission. If Issue 2 is rejected by voters, redistricting will continue being handled by politicians that commonly use the system in politically advantageous ways. A Republican majority redistricted the First Congressional District, which includes Cincinnati, to also include Warren County. The new boundaries give Republicans an advantage by putting more emphasis on rural voters, which typically vote Republican, instead of urban voters, which typically vote Democrat. CityBeat previously covered the redistricting process and Issue 2 here.
An analysis by the Ohio Office of Budget and Management
found Issue 2 would cost the state about $11-$15.2 million over eight
years. That's about $1.4-$1.9 million a year, or about 0.005-0.007
percent of Ohio's budget for the 2013 fiscal year.
To put the cost of Issue 2 in further context, state tax revenues were $39 million above estimates in September.
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine announced the Ohio
Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC) and the
Cincinnati-based Ohio Justice and Policy Center (OJPC) have settled out
of court in a case involving health care in prisons. OJPC brought the
case forward with a lawsuit in 2003, arguing that inmates were not
receiving adequate health care as required by the Ohio Constitution.
Courts agreed in 2005, and they created an oversight committee to ensure
medical standards rose. Today, health care in prisons is much better. With the
settlement, OJPC and ODRC will continue watching over medical policies
and procedures for the next two years, but courts no longer have an
oversight mandate.
City Council unanimously approved six projects for historic tax credits yesterday.
Cincinnati-based Fifth Third Bank reclaimed its top spot for local bank deposits this year, although data released by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) shows it might never have lost the top spot to U.S. Bank.U.S. service firms, which employ 90 percent of Americans, grew at their fastest rate in six months. The boost was brought about due to rising consumer demand.
Ever curious about why politicians use similar body language in all their public appearances? The New York Times has an explanation.
A new, strange dinosaur was recently identified.
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus held a conference call with Ohio reporters Wednesday morning in response to Tuesday comments by Democratic Vice President Joe Biden that the middle class had been "buried" in the last four years.
"Obama and Biden have buried the middle class, and now they want to bury them some more," Priebus told reporters.
"I mean, just imagine what Barack Obama would do. He buried us economically in this country knowing that he would have to face re-election. Just imagine what he would do with nothing but daylight in front of him. Just imagine where this economy would go."
Biden made his comments before an audience of about 1,000 in Charlotte on Tuesday. He said Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's tax cuts for millionaires would raise taxes for the middle class.
"How can they justify raising classes on a middle class that has been buried the last four years?" Biden said.
Biden tried to clarify that he meant they had been buried by policies supported by Romney and his running mate Paul Ryan.
Republicans, however, jumped on the comment immediately, with Romney tweeting, "the middle class has been buried the last 4 years, which is why we need a change in November."
Priebus said despite polling showing Obama pulling ahead of Romney in Ohio that the state would be very close. He said Republicans have a better ground game and would "crush" Democrats.
"I think we're going to crush the Democrats on the ground," Priebus said.
"I just don't think they've got a very good ground game. I've looked through it, I've seen it. It's all smoke and mirrors."
Priebus said if Romney were to lose Ohio, he was still optimistic about Wisconsin, Iowa, Colorado and Nevada.
"We've got it all on the table. Ohio is, of course, extremely important. It's nothing new, but I also see avenues to 270 (electoral votes) opening up for Mitt Romney in places that weren't there in '08."
In-person early voting is underway in Ohio. Find your nearest polling booth here.Josh Mandel, state treasurer and Republican U.S. senatorial candidate for Ohio, is denying he physically confronted a campaign tracker. According to Mandel, the tracker approached and confronted him, not the other way around. But the video of the confrontation shows Mandel approaching and getting really close to the tracker first. Ohio Democrats, who said Mandel's campaign is a "campaign of unending dishonesty," were quick to jump on another example of Mandel possibly being dishonest. CityBeat covered Mandel's notorious dishonesty here. Mandel is running against Democratic incumbent Sen. Sherrod Brown.
The presidential debates are tonight at 9 p.m. A full schedule of future debates can be found here. Whoever does better, keep in mind debates rarely influence elections.
Michelle Obama was in town yesterday. She spoke to a crowd of 6,800, asking them to take part in Ohio's early voting process and encourage friends and family to do the same.
Grocery store competition could soon be bringing lower prices to the Greater Cincinnati area, according to analysts.
JobsOhio chief Mark Kvamme is stepping down. The high-profile venture capitalist, who was originally from California, was originally recruited by Gov. John Kasich to lead the Ohio Department of Development. But soon Kvamme hopped onto JobsOhio, a nonprofit company established by Kasich and the state legislature to bring investment into Ohio. Under Kvamme's leadership, JobsOhio, which is supposed to replace the Department of Development, has brought in 400 companies to invest in Ohio, leading to $6.1 billion in capital investment, according to a press release. But the nonprofit company has been heavily criticized by liberal groups like Progress Ohio, which say JobsOhio is unconstitutional. Lower courts have generally legitimized Progress Ohio's claims, but the Ohio Supreme Court recently turned down a case dealing with JobsOhio. The court said a lower court would have to give a declaratory judgment first.
William O'Neill, former judge and Democratic candidate for the Ohio Supreme Court, is asking Republican justices Robert Cupp and Terrence O'Donnell to "recuse or refuse." O'Neill says the Republican justices are sitting on cases that involve FirstEnergy, an Akron-based energy company that has contributed to the re-election campaigns of Cupp and O'Donnell. O'Neill says the conflict of interest diminishes faith in the highest court of Ohio's justice system.
A new study on Taser use in Hamilton County found local law enforcement have some problematic policies on the books and in practice. The study was put together by a local law firm that's demanding policy reform.
Americans United for Life (AUL) is celebrating a federal court ruling against Planned Parenthood that maintains Ohio regulations on an abortion drug. The regulations require physicians to administer the drug in a clinic or physician's office, and the drug may only be taken within 49 days of gestation. AUL says health groups like Planned Parenthood want to avoid sound health regulations, but Planned Parenthood argues the regulations make it too difficult for women to use the drug.
Natalie Portman is in a new commercial in support of President Barack Obama. In the ad, she touts Obama's support of women's rights.
It seems most Americans are avoiding or can't afford as many trips to the doctor as before.
One of the most lucrative criminal enterprises in the world is wood.
It turns out the vampire squid is not a lethal ocean predator. Still, who wouldn't run away from that?
Academy Award-winning actress Natalie Portman is again campaigning in Ohio for President Barack Obama, but this time over the Internet.
In an ad targeting the Buckeye State and set to be released online, Portman talks about her family's Cincinnati roots and calls Ohio a crucial place for the election.
Portman visited Cincinnati Sept. 19 for the Obama campaign's Women's Summit, where she talked about how she thought the president's policies — which include health care coverage for preventive care such as mammograms and birth control — were better for women than those of his opponent, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
"I think this election is particularly important because
we are really facing a difference in ideas," Portman said in the new ad, made available to CityBeat.
"Sometimes the candidates are the same and sometimes they've got really different points of view, and in this case you've got President Obama, who's been really, really fighting for women's rights," she said, citing Obama's signing of the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and the provisions of the Affordable Care Act targeted toward women's health. "Romney wants to roll those achievements back."
The video is the latest in the campaign's "How We Win" series, the first of which featured Ohio native John Legend.
While the presidential candidates prepared for Wednesday's debate, Michelle Obama urged Cincinnatians on Tuesday to take advantage of the first day of early voting, before leading a group to the board of elections to cast their ballots.
"I've got news for you: Here in Ohio it's already Election Day. Early voting starts today," Obama told a crowd of 6,800 inside the Duke Energy Convention Center. She urged everyone to reach out and encourage their friends to vote after they had cast their own ballots.
"Twitter them. Tweet them. What do you do? It's tweeting, right? Tweet them," she joked to the crowd.
Earlier in the morning, the campaign of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney kicked off its "Commit to Mitt Early Vote Express" statewide bus tour in downtown Cincinnati.
The tour started in Hamilton County before moving through Butler County and is scheduled to end the day in Preble County.
The bus is scheduled to make its way through every region of Ohio during the early voting period and will serve as a mobile campaign headquarters, dispensing voter contact materials and featuring Romney campaign surrogates, according to a news release.
At the convention center, Michelle Obama avoided some of the direct attacks employed by her husband or the Romney campaign, but used her 30-minute speech to counter some of the criticisms from the GOP nominee, recapping some of her convention speech.
"Our families weren't asking for much," Michelle said of her own and Barack's families. "They didn't begrudge anyone else's success, you know, they didn't mind if others had much more than they did, in fact they admired it. That's why they pushed us to succeed."
Her comment seemed to come in response to an attack that the Romney campaign levied against Barack Obama after his infamous "you didn't build that" comment, where the GOP candidate argues that Obama and Democrats are fostering enmity among the middle class by stoking jealousy of rich, successful Americans like Mitt Romney.
"Our families believed also that when you work hard and have done well and finally walk through that doorway of opportunity, you don't slam it shut behind you," Michelle Obama continued.
"No, you reach back and you give other folks the same chances that helped you succeed. You see, that's how Barack and I and so many of you were raised. … We learned that the truth matters – you don't take shortcuts, you don't game the system, you don't play by your own set of rules."
She went on to say that Americans are part of something bigger than themselves and obligated to give back to others, counter to the Republicans' narrative of the individual pulled up by his or her own bootstraps.
Danielle Henderson, 40, a teacher's assistant from Cincinnati, said she was a fan of the first lady's and joked that she wanted to know if Michelle was running for president in 2016.
"Behind every good man is a good woman," Henderson said. "Honestly, a woman is a backbone of the family."
She said she thought the first family was a good model for the rest of the country.
Henderson's mother-in-law Barbara joked that she was excited to see what the first lady was going to wear.
"I see trends she sets trickle down to other politicians' wives," she joked.
"The First Energy Family has contributed more than $44,000.00 into re-election campaigns for Justices Cupp and O'Donnell this year alone," O'Neill, a Democrat who is running for the Ohio Supreme Court, wrote. "It is simply wrong for them to continue sitting on First Energy cases."
The Ohio Supreme Court, which has seven justices decide
the state's top judicial cases, is currently handling a case
involving FirstEnergy, an energy company based in Akron. More than
300,000 customers are suing the company over alleged fraud. The 11th
District Court of Appeals previously ruled against FirstEnergy, and the case was appealed to the Ohio Supreme Court.
The lawsuit is the fifth Ohio Supreme Court case involving FirstEnergy this year.
O'Neill pointed out the lawsuit "could easily be a billion dollar case" before writing, "And the public has a right to know that the ruling was not purchased by one side or another."
Ohio Sen. Mike Skindell, a Democrat who is also running for the Ohio Supreme Court, endorsed O'Neill's letter. In the past, he also criticized Cupp and O'Donnell for potential conflicts of interest.
The offices of Cupp and O'Donnell did not immediately respond to CityBeat's requests for comment on the letter. This story will be updated if responses become available.
UPDATE OCT. 4, 4:12 P.M.: Mark Weaver, spokesperson for Cupp, responded: "Mr. O'Neill previously raised this argument with disciplinary authorities by filing a complaint. It was reviewed by disciplinary authorities, and they unanimously dismissed it as having no merit."
In-person early voting begins in Ohio today. Find your nearest polling booth here.
Cincinnati could change how it gathers trash in the future. City officials, under the request of City Manager Milton Dohoney Jr., are looking for a way to make trash collection more automated and reduce the amount of manual labor required to pick up trash. Michael Robinson, director of public services, described the possible changes to WVXU: "Implement a new cart system using semi-automated trucks as well as automated units to reduce our workers compensation claims." The changes would save the city money.
For the second year in a row, statewide college enrollment declined. The two-year drop is the first time college enrollment has dropped since the 1990s.
Casinos are popping up around Ohio — including the Horseshoe Casino in Cincinnati — but Ohioans do not have a gambling problem. A new survey, which seeks to establish a baseline to find out the impact of new casinos around the state, found problematic gambling is fairly uncommon in Ohio with about 250,000 Ohio adults, or nearly 3 percent of Ohioans, reporting problems.
Cincinnati-based Macy's will be hiring 80,000 new employees for the holidays.
Several Ohio testing centers will be partnering up with the GED Testing Service to allow taking GED tests online. The GED test, which is accepted by most U.S. employers and colleges, gives a second chance to adults who did not get a high school diploma.
JobsOhio, Gov. John Kasich's privatized economic development program, suffered a serious setback Friday when an Ohio Supreme Court ruling dismissed efforts to clarify the program's legal status. Critics of JobsOhio say the program is unconstitutional and illegal, and their complaints have often been legitimized by lower courts. State officials hoped the Ohio Supreme Court would put the issue to rest, but the court said a decision would have to be given by lower courts first.
Josh Mandel, state treasurer and Republican U.S.
senatorial candidate, doesn't seem to be handling the stress of the
campaign very well. In a newly released video, Mandel is seen on an
elevator in an awkward confrontation that gets a little physical with a
campaign tracker. The tracker's story was confirmed by a reporter at The Columbus Dispatch, who was also on the elevator and can be seen and heard in the video.
The amount of abortions in Ohio is down 12 percent, according to a new report by the Ohio Department of Health.
A Xavier study found trust in government and business is on the rise. The increase is typical in a growing economy.
About 60 percent of doctors would quit their jobs today if
given the chance. Not a good sign for a health-care system that was
expecting a doctor shortage even before Obamacare was passed.
U.S. home prices rose the most they have in six years. The year-over-year increase of 4.6 percent is a potential sign of a recovering economy.
Want to increase your productivity? Look at cute kitties.
It's October. Tomorrow is the first day of in-person early
voting in Ohio. Find your nearest polling booth at the secretary of
state's website here.
Michelle Obama will be in Cincinnati tomorrow to support
an in-person early voting push in Ohio. The state is considered vital
for Mitt Romney's presidential campaign against President Barack Obama, but while national polling is
close, Ohio is looking very bad for Romney. The
Romney team seems to be banking on the debates to regain momentum, but,
historically, debates have little electoral impact. The first debate is
Wednesday at 9 p.m. A
full schedule of the debates can be found here.
In more good news for Democrats, a recent poll by The Columbus Dispatch found Democratic U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio is leading Josh Mandel, state treasurer and Brown's Republican opponent for the U.S. Senate seat, by 10 points. The last Dispatch poll found the two candidates tied. The poll shows a long-term trend seen in aggregate polling of Brown gaining momentum and Mandel falling behind.
A former Republican Ohio state representative came out in support of Issue 2. Joan Lawrence came out for the initiative as part of Women for Issue 2, claiming the current system is rigged. If Issue 2 is approved by voters this election cycle, Ohio's redistricting will be handled by an independent citizens committee. Currently, elected officials manage Ohio's redistricting process, but the process normally leads to corruption in a process known as "gerrymandering" in which politicians redraw district borders in politically advantageous ways. In the First Congressional District, which includes Cincinnati, district boundaries were redrawn by Republicans to include less of Hamilton County's urban population, which tends to vote Democrat, and instead include the more rural Warren County, which tends to vote Republican. CityBeat previously covered the issue and Republicans' losses in court regarding Issue 2 here.
Margaret Buchanan, The Cincinnati Enquirer's publisher and president, left the University of Cincinnati Board of Trustees Friday to avoid a potential conflict of interest in the newspaper's reporting on the UC Board of Trustees. CityBeat and other media critics mentioned the conflict of interest in the past, particularly when former UC President Greg Williams suddenly resigned and Buchanan refused to comment on speculation around the resignation.
Cincinnati's economic recovery is in full swing. For the second straight month, the area's manufacturers expanded. The Cincinnati Purchasing Management Index, which measures manufacturing, went up from 54.6 in August to 58.8 in September. The index must be above 50 to signify growth; below 50 shows contraction.
Cincinnati's women-owned businesses are doing a lot more than some may think. They are responsible for 3,500 local area jobs.
Ohio's attorney general is devoting more money toward solving cold case homicides. Cold cases are old cases that have not been the subject of recent investigations but could be solved in light of new evidence.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier will be filmed in southern and northeast Ohio.
Nintendo's Wii U is already looking like the top Christmas toy.
Artificially intelligent gamer bots convinced judges they're human more often than actual humans.
The Cincinnati Enquirer
gave some insight into what happened with Williams and the UC Board of
Trustees the day before Williams' resignation. Apparently, there was no
sign of conflict in the correspondence and emails revealed under the
Ohio Open Records Act, but anonymous sources told The Enquirer that the relationship between Williams and the UC Board of Trustees was breaking down prior to Williams' resignation. The Enquirer
could not get information from Margaret Buchanan, the publisher and president
of the newspaper that is also on the UC Board of Trustees; instead,
Buchanan referred reporters to Francis Barrett, another trustee.
nonprofit group says Mitt Romney's health care proposals are more
expensive for Ohio than Obamacare. Families USA, a left-leaning group
that lobbies on health issues, says Romney's plan would make families
pay about $10,100 a year on health care — almost twice the $5,100 paid
under Obamacare.
Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction announced it will not
be privatizing more prisons. The announcement came less than a week
after CityBeat's in-depth story on private prisons and the many issues
they face.
U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio said Josh Mandel, state treasurer and the Republican candidate for this year's senate race, is only doing as well as he is in polling due to $20 million in pro-Mandel spending coming from out-of-state sources. But the money doesn't seem to be helping much; Mandel is currently down by 7.5 points in aggregate polling.
celebrate Mandel's birthday, Ohio Democrats gave him a new pair of
pants. Democrats said Mandel, who is Ohio's treasurer and Republican
candidate for the U.S. Senate, will need the pants after earning "more
'Pants on Fire' ratings from Politifact Ohio than any politician in
state history."
is working on rainwater harvesting codes. A task force has made
progress on the issue in the past year, but Cincinnati has only had one
rainwater harvesting system installed since 2009.
A new manufacturer could be bringing 60 jobs to Northern Kentucky.
Ackman, an activist investor, has a few bad things to say about Procter
& Gamble. The problem? The public doesn't know what those
criticisms are.
exotic pet owners are acting slowly in registering their pets, putting
themselves at risk for jail time if they don't register before Nov. 5.
In an interview with Cleveland's The Plain Dealer, President Barack Obama said he will go after China's unfair trading practices, but the United States will not "go out of our way to embarrass" China. Obama said the lighter approach typically produces better results.
The Cincinnati Reds rode their great home season to a 6 percent attendance gain.
Science says traveling into the future is technically possible, but traveling to the past "can only exist in the movies."
Speaking of the past and science, Popular Science
posted an old article published in 1961 with predictions for the future's
family cars. The article predicted invisible, self-driving cars that
could travel at 1,500 mph.
In an ad accusing Josh Mandel, a Republican, of lying, Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown's campaign team may have lied, according to PolitiFact. The U.S. senatorial campaign for Ohio's senate seat has been filled with dishonesty, but it usually comes from Mandel. The dishonesty seems to be hurting Mandel more than Brown; Mandel is currently down 7.5 points in aggregate polling numbers.Mandel is being taken to court by liberal blog Plunderbund. The blog claims Mandel has made it extra difficult to get public records.
Preliminary data for Ohio schools was released yesterday. Some data is still being held back while an investigation into fraudulent reporting from some schools is finished, but the data gives some insight into how schools performed during the 2011-2012 school year. The data can be found here. From a local angle, the data shows Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS) did not meet "adequate yearly progress," a federal standard that measures progress in student subgroups, such as minority groups; but CPS did meet standards for "value-added growth," which measures the expected progress in state testing for all students between the third and eighth grades.
City Council approved the $29 million financing plan for the streetcar yesterday. The plan will use $15 million from the Blue Ash airport deal to move utility lines and pipes. The city claims the $15 million, which was originally promised to neighborhood projects, will be reimbursed by Duke Energy once the city settles a conflict with the energy company. Duke and the city are currently arguing over who has to pay to move the utility lines and pipes.
An Ohio state representative is asking the federal government to monitor the election more closely. Rep. Alicia Reece, a Cincinnati Democrat, is asking U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to send monitors to the state to ensure no funny business goes on in voting booths on Nov. 6. The request is partly in response to a recent court ruling that forces Ohio to count provisional ballots if the ballots were brought around by poll worker errors.
Ohio's ability to stop political lies was upheld yesterday. The Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes (COAST) tried to put an end to the government power, which COAST claimed was censorship, by taking it to court, but a U.S. judge upheld the ability. The judge, who is a former chairman of the Hamilton County Republican Party, said COAST did not properly display that its speech was held down by the law. Considering some of COAST's tweets, the judge is probably right.
E.W. Scripps Co. will host a job fair in Cincinnati Oct. 10 to fill 100 digital jobs.
The Ohio Supreme Court upheld the rights of lesbian ex-couples to set visitation times. The court said non-parents are allowed to participate in visitations during child custody proceedings.
Ohio might expand Medicaid, but not to the extent asked for by Obamacare. That's what the state's Medicaid director said yesterday, anyway. A previous study found Medicaid expansions improved and might have saved lives in other states, and other studies have found Medicaid expansions may save the state money by cutting uncompensated costs.
Pundits really dug into Mitt Romney the past few days over his poor poll numbers in Ohio. The Business Courier asked if Romney has already lost Ohio. Politico said Romney's biggest hurdle to the White House is Ohio. The New Republic ran an article with six theories as to what led to Romney's losses in the state. The Cleveland Plain Dealer pointed out both presidential candidates were stumping at a pivotal time in northern Ohio yesterday. Aggregate polling paints a consistently bad picture for Romney in Ohio; he is currently down four points.
But Romney probably isn't helping matters. In an Ohio
rally Tuesday, he admitted President Barack Obama didn't raise taxes in his
first term.
Gov. John Kasich signed a series of bills shoring up Ohio's public pension system yesterday. The laws will cut benefits and raise eligibility requirements, but state officials insist the new laws will mostly affect future retirees.
NASA wants samples from Mars, and it has a plan. The new plan may require a robot-to-human hand-off in space.


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Our Time to Get Away Boutiques open Wednesday, December 27, at 3PM ET.
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Everyone comes away a winner at the Special Rodeo
By: Staff Report
The California High School Rodeo Association's District 3 will hold a Special Rodeo for those cowboys and cowgirls with special needs at the Lincoln Rodeo Arena, March 11, following the regular competition. The Thundering Three are calling all those mentally and physically challenged to gather at the rodeo grounds for the second half of Sunday's events. Registration begins at 11 and the "competition" starts at noon. These cowboys and cowgirls will get a chance to ride a "bull," a "bronc," and try their hands at roping, "goat" tying, and barrel racing. Every participant comes away a winner and gets a free hot dog lunch and gifts – not to mention some fantastic memories and a lot of new friends. Prior to the special rodeo, both Saturday and Sunday, will be District 3's regular competition. The action begins at 8 a.m.; rough stock starts around 10. The day wraps up around 3 p.m. with barrel racing. Spectators and fans are encouraged to come out for both days and stay for the Special Rodeo. Everyone is welcome and there is no charge. A snack bar is available with great barbecue. For those wanting to participate or help with the Special Rodeo call Tay or Jennifer Creeks (530) 333-4910; or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com. Go online for more information at chsradistrict3.com.