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Health Management Associates Inc. (HMA), a hospital operator considering strategic alternatives, reached its highest market value in six years on Tuesday after a news report said the company has attracted takeover interest.
Health Management gained 7.6 percent to $16.64 at 3:01 p.m. New York time, after earlier reaching $17.06, the highest intraday price since March 2007. The Naples-based company had attracted interest from Community Health Systems Inc. (CYH), the second-largest publicly traded U.S. hospital company, and other rivals, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
The other rivals are HCA Holdings Inc and LifePoint Hospitals Inc.
Health Management, which operates 71 hospitals in the U.S. and is slated to begin leasing Munroe Regional Medical Center in Ocala, said last month it had hired Morgan Stanley and Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP as advisers to consider strategic alternatives in the face of pressure from its largest shareholder, Glenview Capital Management LLC, to oust the board and top executives.
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Saturday, May 28, 2016
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Newmanstown, Pa. - With a pair of qualifying heats remaining to be run on Saturday night, a heavy thunderstorm swept over Lanco's Clyde Martin Memorial Speedway. A few miles from the track, a falling tree took out some power lines, cutting the electricity that serves the Lanco facility.
As the precipitation lessened and finally stopped, Joe Kepple and his track prep crew went to work on the high banked clay oval, feeling they could bring it back to racing condition by the time power was restored.
As it turned out, Kepple and crew did much better than the team from the local utility provider; the track was ready for racing approximately 90 minutes after the storm began - but there was still no electricity at the Clyde.
An update from the utility, PP&L, indicated that it would be at least 10:30 before power would be restored. That news forced the hand of Lanco officials, and the Clyde Martin Memorial Race, featuring a $12,000 purse, double points, and 35-lap main events, to be postponed until Saturday, August 11.
No racing is scheduled for Saturday, August 4.
The heat races that were completed prior to the storm on July 28 do not count; the Clyde Martin Memorial Race, presented by Gold Rush Trailer Sales, will start from scratch on August 11.
Spectator's rain checks, along with the pit pass wristbands, from July 28 will be honored at one of the next two events on the Clyde's schedule (August 11 or August 18).
NOTE: the update from the utility company, stating that power would not be restored until at least 10:30, was received at about 8:50 p.m. on Saturday. Based on that information, the decision to postpone the Clyde Martin Memorial was made quickly so that race teams and fans could exit the facility using the little bit of daylight that remained. At 9:09, the power came back on as officials and the concession stand employees were cleaning up and preparing to leave. By then, though, it was too late to reconsider the decision to postpone.
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Spotting Robins
I have noticed flocks and flocks of robins in my yard over the last week. I even saw a dozen on Tuesday when temperatures held in the teens at my house. They are all healthy and well, rather fat. Now, it is not uncommon for some to winter here but they usually stay hidden in brush and remain unseen for a while as they forage for berries. If I didn't have access to computer models I would venture to say that the robins are not concerned about the weather in the immediate future but might be gorging themselves for colder weather to come. Since I have access to the long range computer models I would say that birds might be correct. There are signs of a change to dramatically colder weather beginning next Wednesday, the fifteenth after our 'January Thaw' this weekend ends. Observing Mother Nature is fun and can complement the science behind meteorology.
On this date: 1976: Lake effect snow dumped 68" on Adams, New York. 54" in 24 hours was a state record.
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Mixed Blood Theatre Presents "Dr. King's Dream" At Paynesville High School Jan. 30
Dr. King's Dream from Minneapolis's Mixed Blood Theatre celebrates the life and career of Dr. Martin Luther King in this acclaimed production drawn from his own letters, sermons, books and speeches, including the timeless "I Have A Dream." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led American society through some of its most profound changes with passion, devotion, and courage. This powerful biography illuminates why he is recognized as one of the greatest leaders and orators in American History, and why he is honored with a national holiday each January.
Warren C. Bowles's commanding solo performance is stirring and poignant. Bowles has toured for Mixed Blood as Dr. King since 1981. Among the most memorable of his credits at Mixed Blood's historic firehouse theater are Lucien in The Boys Next Door, the title role in Cyrano de Bergerac, and the professor in Oleanna.
Dr. King's Dream begins at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 30 at the Paynesville High School auditorium (795 West Hwy 23 - Paynesville). No admission will be charged.
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Welcome to World History 3B on-line at De Anza College. This class was previously a distance telecourse that required students to attend orientation and exams on campus. This class will now offer orientation and exams all on-line making it possible for the first time to serve the needs of distant students.
Be aware that all quizzes and exams have fixed dates and there will be NO alternative dates for any reason to make-up quizzes and exams. If you miss a quiz or an exam you will lose the points, so please plan accordingly. I will not remind you of quiz and exam dates so please schedule these and remain aware of the fixed dates.
World history offers a global experience of vibrant cultures, societies, and civilizations of the past. This can be an exciting and rewarding experience for many students. However, for some students this can, because of the newness of the experience and cultures, offer some difficulties. So students must be prepared to study hard and to work consistently through out the quarter with the materials. In addition, as this is a class where you work on your own, students must also be self-motivated. This is also difficult for some students.
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Vinson says the woman was pronounced dead in the unit block of Solar Circle. The man was found in a home on Venus Court.
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Just because school breaks for summer doesn't mean bullying will. If you feel like you have been a victim of bullying take a look at these resources, they may be of interest to you.
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Road woes have played a large part in the Boston Bruins' slip in the Eastern Conference standings but they will face a potentially short-handed rival in their next game away from home. The Buffalo Sabres, though, will be seeking to add to a five-game point streak at the First Niagara Center when they face the Bruins on Sunday night. Boston was challenging for the Eastern Conference lead earlier this month but has fallen well behind Pittsburgh by going 2-4-1 in its last seven. The Bruins (21-8-4) suffered their fifth loss in six road games Saturday.
"We know we have to get better," goaltender Tuukka Rask said. "We haven't played that bad, but it's uncharacteristic mistakes. And it's something we need to get rid of."It happens but then again ... we know we need to get better in all areas. It's weird because we're not playing awful and we're losing games, but we know it's not good enough."
The Bruins would appear to need a better performance Sunday as Buffalo is 3-0-2 in its last five home games, but the Sabres (13-16-6) are also 0-1-2 in their last three overall after blowing a two-goal lead Saturday against visiting Washington.
Leading scorer Thomas Vanek missed both of those losses with an upper-body injury, but interim coach Ron Rolston told the league's website there's a chance he could return Sunday. Vanek participated in the team's optional skate Saturday, but Rolston said, "he was out there today and moving, but he's not where he needs to be."
The Sabres won't have defenseman Jordan Leopold after he was traded to St. Louis on Saturday for a pair of draft picks. General manager Darcy Regier said that might not be the end to Buffalo's moves before the trade deadline, even hinting that Vanek.
In the meantime, the Sabres will try to earn their third win in four meetings with Boston this season. The used their own three-goal outburst in the third period for a 4-2 victory in the most recent meeting Feb. 15 in Buffalo.
The Sabres are also 5-1-1 in the last seven visits from the Bruins but suffered one of those losses on Feb. 10. Boston scored twice in the third period for that 3-1 win.Miller will likely be back in net after Jhonas Enroth started Saturday. Miller is 16-2-4 with a 2.04 goals-against average at home against Boston in the regular season."
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Project Runway 2 Is A Ratings Hit
December 10, 2005 12:35 AM by Joe Blackmon
The two-hour second season premiere of Bravo's Emmy-nominated series "Project Runway" became the highest rated series premiere ever on a Wednesday night in the history of the network while shattering the ratings from the first season opener. More than one million total viewers tuned in to see sixteen designers competing in design challenges for the opportunity to show a line at New York Fashion Week.
"We are thrilled with the response to the new season," said Lauren Zalaznick, President of Bravo. "The audience build over the two-hours proves that the second season offers just as much quality and drama, if not more, than our Emmy-nominated inaugural season."
On the day of the premiere, BravoTV.com witnessed a spike to 100,000 unique visitors. This is up from the average of 45,000 on a typical day, generating one sixth of the average monthly traffic to the site in just one day. The site also garnered 1.3 million page views.
"Project Runway's" season two premiere drew the second largest Wednesday 10PM to 12AM audience in Bravo's history among adults 18-34 (423,000), adults 18-49 (686,000), adults 25-54 (599,000), and total viewers (924,000). Only the night of the "Project Runway" season one finale ranked higher in this time period, "Project Runway" airs every Wendesday at 10:00 p.m. on Bravo.
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In contrast, today's product launches are conducted more like election campaigns. Years before launch, companies position their drug candidates and lobby numerous influential constituencies. Early in the campaign, rival companies with incumbent marketed drugs pre-position and attack the new challenger seeking to steal their votes. Promising drug candidates are scrutinized by analysts and media professionals, who monitor and report each trial and tribulation. The drug election is won or lost soon after launch as patients go to pharmacies to cast their votes, heavily influenced by physicians, payers, and other constituencies.
In fact, an IMS study of 79 launch products and other analyses indicate that the ultimate success of a chronic care product launch is determined within the first 10 to 12 weeks after launch. Consequently, companies can no longer wait to battle during the benchmark "launch year," but must seek to win the 'pre-launch years." This paradigm shift—from selection to election of drugs—has fundamentally changed the timetable for product launches. Companies and professionals who grasp this shift and approach product launches like elections are demonstrating dramatic competitive advantages.
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Glendale, AZ (Sports Network) - Marian Hossa exacted his revenge against the
Phoenix Coyotes for ending his season early last year.
Hossa, who had to be taken off on a stretcher after a vicious check from
Phoenix forward Raffi Torres in Game 3 of their Western Conference
quarterfinal, posted a pair of goals in Sunday's rematch, as the Chicago
Blackhawks bested the Coyotes, 6-4, at Jobing.com Arena.
Torres still has six games left on his 21-game suspension, while Hossa bounced
back admirably from the cheap shot, registering two goals and an assist in
Chicago's season-opening win over the defending champion Los Angeles Kings.
Dave Bolland added two goals and an assist for the Blackhawks, who went on to
lose their postseason matchup against the Coyotes in six games.
Ray Emery made 25 saves in the victory.
Shane Doan, playing in his 1,200th NHL game -- all with Phoenix -- recorded a
goal and an assist, while Mike Smith allowed all six goals on 31 shots for the
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You think we can trade for this kid.... JK
what I really wanted to know is why his agent and analysts are mad that he is only making 510,000 next year. I mean he isnt the first superstar that had to grind out a team friendly contract before he makes his 20-30 million. I can see If he played football where restructuring contracts based on performance is common but that isnt what baseball contracts are about.


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I did some work briefly on this tonight. Nothing special - just deciding where the buildings will go. There will be a lot of hand drawn elements but they will be done in SAI.
14 is a big temporary warehouse with a canvas roof - almost like an enormous tent. It'll need to be entirely hand drawn instead of using the line tool.
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Ned Yost media session: September 14
Bloomquist reaction
Ned Yost knew on Sunday night that it was a possibility that Willie Bloomquist could get traded. He received the final word yesterday at 1:25 pm, just 45 minutes before first pitch.
Defensive adjustments
Yost knows that the defense needs to improve a great deal. He said that much more goes into defense at the Major League level than players making plays – so much of the defense revolves around the pitching plan. A team has to be consistent as a pitching staff to be consistent as a defense.
Getz update
Chris Getz is still a little foggy after suffering a concussion on Sunday. Yost said that Getz is making improvements, but still has some lingering symptoms and will be held out of action for now. Yost saw first-hand what a concussion can do to a player when he had Corey Koskie in Milwaukee. Koskie never played again after suffering a concussion. That incident prompted Yost to change his thoughts and become much more cautious when it comes to a player returning from concussions.


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Report: Navy SEALs to open to women
Pentagon to announce plan to allow women into last all-male bastions
Women may start training in Coronado as Navy SEALs in 2016, according to an Associated Press report Monday, which also said female sailors may join Navy Riverine units for initial training next month.
Details of the Pentagon's plan for allowing women into the last bastions of male-only combat are expected to be announced today. In addition to the SEALs, Army Ranger units would open to women for training by mid-2015.
These changes would be especially felt in San Diego. All SEALs go through initial training at the Coronado compound off the Silver Strand, where the parent Naval Special Warfare Command also resides. The Navy's Coastal Riverine Group 1 is headquartered in Imperial Beach and includes three squadrons of small boats in Coronado.
Physical standards for serving in close-combat units apparently would not change. One of the hot-button topics in the debate over integration of women has been whether physical requirements would be lowered — for example, would females be allowed to do fewer pull-ups and still qualify.
The services are reviewing standards for many jobs, including looking at strength and stamina, in order to set requirements for troops regardless of their sex.
Concerned about this issue, Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Alpine, got language in the House defense bill passed Friday dictating that standards must be gender-neutral for specialty roles.
"This appears to be a decision to open eligibility while keeping standards already in place — rather than adjusting standards to take less-qualified individuals," said Joe Kasper, Hunter's spokesman.
"That may ultimately be something the Pentagon tries. But even those who are making decisions have to know that it would devalue the prestige of special operations and other specialties."
One former San Diego SEAL said he has no doubt women can make the cut, physically.
Brandon Webb, a former SEAL sniper instructor, predicted that the problems will come in trying to integrate females in the rough-and-tumble culture of special operations, in addition to the fraternization issues raised by people working in small, tight-knit units in the field.
"The main issue that the military must face is the brash/candid environment and close-quarters culture of a special-operations unit that would make most civilian HR managers blush," said Webb, who runs a website, sofrep.com, about the world of special operations forces.
He predicts sexual relationships will occur in field units.
"This is the main issue I see, and the only way around it is to either accept that this will happen and develop protocols to deal with it, or have all-female units," he said. "I'm a fan of the latter."
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel reviewed the plans and has ordered the services to move ahead, according to the AP report.
Under the schedules military leaders delivered to Hagel, the Army will develop standards by July 2015 to allow women to train and potentially serve as Rangers, and qualified women could begin training as Navy SEALS by March 2016 if senior leaders agree.
The Navy plans to have studies finished by July 2014 on allowing women to serve as SEALs, and has set October 2015 as the date when women could begin Navy boot camp with the expressed intention of becoming SEALs eventually.
U.S. Special Operations Command is coordinating the matter of what commando jobs could be opened to women, what exceptions might be requested and when the transition would take place.
The proposals leave the door open for continued exclusion of women from some jobs, if research and testing find that women could not be successful in sufficient numbers, but the services would have to defend such decisions to top Pentagon leaders.
Military leaders have suggested bringing senior women from the officer and enlisted ranks into special forces units first to ensure that younger, lower-ranking women have a support system to help them get through the transition.


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Somalia | With an Islamic regime controlling the capital, Somalia becomes an American headache again
In a country that has known no functioning government for 15 years, about the only thing predictable is anarchy and warlordism. Since Somali warlords ousted dictator Mohammed Siad Barre in 1991, their clans and sub-clans have coalesced into militias and largely run the capital, Mogadishu. But for the first time in 15 years, a new opponent has wrenched power from their hands.
Their nemesis was a coalition of militia-backed Islamic courts, which has been on the ascendancy for two years. After weeks of exchanging gunfire and mortar shells with the warlords in Mogadishu, the Islamic Courts Union took control of the capital. The surge in fighting killed some 300 Somalis, mostly civilians caught in the crossfire. Their victory was as much a defeat for the United States as it was for the warlords, who have received U.S. backing against Somali Islamists.
For Americans, Somalia evokes images from 1993 of 18 U.S. servicemen killed and one dragged through Mogadishu streets after Somali militiamen shot down a Black Hawk helicopter carrying out a United Nations peacekeeping mission. The tragedy increased American skepticism about both UN missions and foreign nation-building efforts. Since then, the United States has had no official presence in Somalia, while U.S. policy has been to prevent Somalia from bubbling into a terrorist haven as Afghanistan did under the Taliban.
U.S. officials believe that Somali Islamic leaders are harboring al-Qaeda terrorists connected with the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania and two other 2002 strikes in Kenya: a suicide bombing of an Israeli-owned hotel and an attempt to shoot down an Israeli airliner.
Hoping to nab them, the United States enlisted the help of secular warlords aligned against the Islamic Courts Union. In February, the warlords adopted a heartwarming name: "The Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counterterrorism." The International Crisis Group, which has direct contacts with the warlords, said in June that the CIA was funneling $100,000 to $150,000 a month to them. At the most, U.S. officials have acknowledged anonymously that they have backed the alliance. But in official comments, the Bush administration has neither confirmed nor denied the support.
The United States wanted quick results without thinking of long-term destabilization and further violence, argues Suliman Baldo, Crisis Group's Africa program director. The warlords, meanwhile, "saw an opportunity to cash in on the counterterrorism policies of the U.S., and they did cash in." The effect was to play into the hands of the Islamic Courts Union, he said, which styled its victory as a defeat for foreign elements interfering in Somali affairs.
Mr. Baldo said many of the alliance warlords are the same ones who have kept the country in shreds since 1991, employing violence and tactics such as hostage-taking. They have also prevented the weak official government, formed two years ago, from taking control of Mogadishu, unwilling to cede their moneymaking fiefdoms. Some of the warlords were even cabinet ministers in the Transitional Federal Government, which sits in the town of Baidoa 155 miles northwest of the capital. But they rebelled by joining the counterterrorism alliance, earning expulsions from their government posts.
At any rate, U.S. support to the warlords did not prevent the Courts Union's sudden win, which could mark the long-feared swerve toward national Islamism. The group began gaining influence soon after Siad Barre's 1991 overthrow, supplying much-needed health, judicial, and educational services. Soon they organized courts-with 11 now in Mogadishu-to deal with a petty crime wave, and by the mid-1990s had moved on to tackling big crimes such as robbery and murder. They also organized militias to enforce order, which this month drove the warlords northward to their last stronghold of Jowhar and defeated them there on June 14.
The unrelenting chaos has taken its toll on Somalia's 8 million inhabitants. The under-5 mortality rate is one of the highest in the world. Clan fighting has displaced some 375,000 within Somalia, according to the United Nations, putting them in dangerous living conditions. Delivering food and medical aid is also perilous, making Somalia a no-go area for many humanitarian groups.
Doctors Without Borders is one of the few that operate in Somalia, and it reports that fighting has destroyed most hospitals and clinics, forcing some Somalis to travel 500 miles just to receive health care. The country is also suffering through its worst drought in a decade, which especially hurts Somalis in southern regions.
Living without a government has forced Somalis to adapt-often to their benefit. In Mogadishu, private businesses supply electricity and water. With no government to tax and regulate, the telecommunications industry is also thriving. Somalia boasts the lowest cell-phone rate in Africa, and installing landlines takes days as opposed to months or weeks in some African nations with governments.
But war-weariness means many Mogadishu residents appreciate the law and order the Islamic Courts Union has brought. While analysts consider leader Sheikh Sharif Ahmed a moderate, his deputies are radicals. Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys and Adan Hashi Ayro began the Somali terrorist group al-Ittihad al-Islami, which has reported links to al-Qaeda. Still, Mr. Ahmed did not sound very moderate initially when addressing a rally soon after taking over: "Until we get the Islamic state, we will continue with the Islamic struggle in Somalia." He was even more aggressive when talking to the Saudi-owned Asharq al-Awsat daily, saying, "If U.S. forces intervene directly against us in Mogadishu, then we are ready to teach them a lesson they will never forget and repeat their defeat in 1993."
But Mr. Ahmed's tone quickly turned conciliatory in an e-mail to diplomats, promising no shared "objectives, goals or methods with groups that sponsor or support terrorism," particularly al-Qaeda. He said the Union would like "a friendly relationship with the international community that is based on mutual respect and interest and seek their support for the Somali peace process." The leader also extended an olive branch to warlords and clans, describing the Union's desire to end the bloodshed. If nothing else, the Union knows the warlords remain a threat and see a need to widen support for their power. "I don't think they were ready for a victory at this moment. . . . They were the underdogs in this fight," said Mr. Baldo.
The burning question is whether the Islamic Courts Union will turn militant. "Now they're in control of Mogadishu, the stakes are higher," Mr. Baldo said. "Those who are militant may try to control the process now."


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Because it can take years after exposure for symptoms to develop, many people who are infected with the virus that causes AIDS don't even realize it. More than one million people in the United States are estimated to be living with HIV, and approximately one in five people with HIV are unaware they're infected, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Public outrage over new full-body scanners that passengers must walk through at U.S. airports has prompted a grassroots protest — National Opt-Out Day — which will take place Wednesday, on one of the busiest flying days of the year.
Ineffective. Fiscally irresponsible. Overcrowded.
Those are some of the words used by reform advocates to describe Ohio's criminal justice system. As part of its effort to publicize disparities in the state's prisons, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Ohio will bring its Freedom Tour here on Dec. 6.
With the prospects for repealing the U.S. military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy looking ever dimmer, two local groups will hold a vigil to remember the men and women discharged due to the policy.
The Greater Cincinnati Human Rights Campaign and the Alliance, a student group at Xavier University, will hold the vigil Nov. 15 at the greenspace area on Xavier's campus.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio filed a court brief Wednesday supporting an anti-abortion group that is being investigated for its plans to erect billboards that Congressman Steve Driehaus (D-Price Hill) said contained false information.
The ACLU's brief supports the Susan B. Anthony List's complaint in federal court that alleges the Ohio law restricting false statements is unconstitutional.
An anti-abortion group is defending the claims it makes on billboards criticizing Congressman Steve Driehaus (D-Price Hill), but comments from a prominent Catholic bishop appears to support Driehaus' stance.
Cincinnati Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls will lead a contingent of elected officials and community leaders on a road trip to Columbus on Monday to look at some apartment complexes built for homeless people there.
The group will tour two complexes built by National Church Residences (NCR) that provide permanent, supportive housing to formerly homeless individuals.
A local violence intervention program has received a $45,500 grant to continue its work.
Out of the Crossfire (OOTC) recently received the grant from the Greater Cincinnati Foundation. One of only nine hospital-based programs in the nation, OOTC offers case management and rehabilitation services to more than 1,200 victims of violent injuries at the University of Cincinnati Hospital since its inception in 2006.
People who want to apply for the state of Ohio's new high-risk medical insurance pool can get free help at two upcoming events.
As part of recent health-care reforms, the state launched the high-risk insurance pool Aug. 1. The program is designed to offer affordable coverage to individuals who have been denied coverage in the past because of pre-existing medical conditions.
A unanimous City Council vote on Wednesday to pass a resolution officially representing Cincinnati's opposition to the proposed H.B. 203, Ohio's own version of controversial "Stand Your Ground" laws, is part of a statewide advocacy effort to oppose loosening restrictions on the use of deadly force.
The vote puts Cincinnati in the middle of a national dialogue that's been ongoing since the death of unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla., in 2012.
The bill, introduced by House Republicans on June 11, contains several revisions to the state's gun laws, the most controversial of which is the proposal to expand the circumstances in which a person has no duty to retreat from a threatening situation before using force in self-defense. Those in opposition to the bill worry that change will encourage vigilante justice and give gun owners a false sense of entitlement in using their firearms in otherwise non-violent situations.
The bill's language also loosens restrictions on concealed carry permits and would make it easier for individuals subject to protection orders to obtain handguns.
State Rep. Alicia Reece spoke at a Wednesday press conference at City Hall to support Cincinnati's formal opposition to the bill. Reece, also president of the Ohio Legislative Black Caucus, is part of its statewide campaign to garner enough opposition to H.B. 203 to present to Gov. John Kasich and other legislative leaders.
She says OLBC has already collected about 5,000 petitions and hopes to obtain more than 10,000 by the time the Ohio House of Representatives resumes regular sessions on Oct. 2.
Reece and Councilwoman Yvette Simpson, who sponsored the resolution, insist that Ohio's self-defense laws are already strong enough to protect those who face physical threats from others. In 2008, then-Gov. Ted Strickland signed Ohio's "Castle Doctrine" into law, which stripped homeowners of the duty to try to retreat in threatening situations and gives them the "benefit of the doubt" when they injure or kill a person who enters their residence or vehicle.
"While many states around the country which have Stand Your Ground laws are looking at ways in which they can repeal those laws, or change those laws, unfortunately Ohio is moving backwards by trying to implement Stand Your Ground laws, which has become one of the most polarizing issues not only in the state of Ohio, but in the country," said Reece at Wednesday's press conference.
The efficacy of stand-your-ground laws to reduce violence is widely debated; several researches insist that the laws actually cause an increase in homicides. Mark Hoekstra, an economist with Texas A&M University, published a study that found homicides increase 7 to 9 percent in states that pass stand your ground laws, compared to states that didn't pass laws over the same period. His study found no evidence the laws had an effect on deterring crime during the time period. Those statistics are difficult to gauge, however, because some homicides are legitimately considered "justifiable" while others may just be the result of the "escalation of violence in an otherwise non-violent situation," he told NPR in January.
H.B. 203 is currently waiting to be heard in front of the Policy and Legislative Oversight committee. See an analysis of the bill below:
The new chapters, in Cleveland and Columbus, are part of Americans for Responsible Solutions (ARS), which Giffords and her husband, retired Navy Captain and astronaut Mark Kelly, launched in January.
"People in the Buckeye State know the terrible toll gun violence takes on communities," ARS Executive Director Pia Carusone said in a statement. "We're excited about what the 18,000-plus Ohioans for Responsible Solutions will accomplish because they represent a rich cross-section of the community: gun owners and non-gun owners alike, law enforcement officials, victims of gun violence, faith leaders, moms and voters of all political stripes from every part of the state."
Giffords' organization says it is not anti-gun — Giffords and Kelly are both gun owners — instead arguing that the gun lobby's influence has kept legislators from passing common-sense legislation that most Americans support.
A Gallup poll conducted April 22-25 found 65 percent of Americans believed the U.S. Senate should have passed a measure to expand background checks for gun purchases and ban some semi-automatic weapons, which the Senate failed to pass April 17 because of procedural steps requiring 60 votes to pass. The final vote was 54 in favor and 46 against. Twenty-nine percent of Americans agreed with the Senate's failure to pass the measure, and 6 percent had no opinion. The poll had a margin of error of +/-4 percentage points.
In January — just a month after the shooting massacre in Newtown, Conn., that killed 20 children and six adults — Gallup found 91 percent of Americans support required background checks for all gun sales. The poll asked respondents about each of nine key proposals included in President Barack Obama's plan to reduce gun violence. The two least-supported proposals still had majority support, but these issues turned out to be at the center of the legislation that failed to pass the Senate four months later: reinstating a ban on assault weapons (60-percent support), and limiting the sale of ammunition magazines to those with 10 rounds or less (54-percent support).
Giffords has become one of the nation's highest-profile gun violence prevention activists since a shooting in 2011 that left her partially paralyzed. Giffords survived the assassination attempt on Jan. 8, 2011 in Tucson, Ariz., when a mentally ill man shot her in the head at a political event outside a grocery store. The man then fired on other people, killing six and wounding 12 total.
Giffords and Kelly participated in the Northside Fourth of July parade early this month as part of Americans for Responsible Solutions' "Rights and Responsibilities" cross-country tour promoting the organization's goal of advocating for candidates that support responsible gun policies that protect both the public and the rights of gun owners. CityBeat covered the event here.
"Stopping gun violence takes courage. The courage to do right, the courage of new ideas," Giffords told the Northside crowd during a press event before the parade. "I've seen great courage when my life was on the line. Now is the time to come together to be responsible. Democrats, Republicans, everyone. We must do something. Fight, fight, fight."
Americans for Responsible Solutions announced this week that its super PAC has raised $6.5 million so far this year and more than 500,000 members. At this point it has not announced any plans for a Cincinnati chapter.
Construction to renovate the former IGA in Clifton's Gaslight district will come to a halt soon, and the future for the building remains uncertain; contractors told the Enquirer they'd finish working on the roof and then pull off the project. Steve Goessling, who purchased the property when it was vacated two years ago, says he plans on continuing to build out the building, but he doesn't have the $4.1 million he needs to make it happen. He recently hired Cassidy Turley to market the property to higher-end grocery chains.
It's Monday, the most un-fun, unhappy day of the week. But smile: Here are 18 signs you're doing better than you think.
The attorney general for the state of Missouri, Chris Koster, is talking about bringing back the use of gas chambers on death row inmates because he's worried about the state running out of lethal injection drugs.
Cincinnati had an entire month's worth of rainfall over the past week — 3.75 inches as of Sunday. The norm for July is 3.76 inches.
A near-record algae bloom is ensconcing the popular beaches of a coastal Chinese city with thick, bright green "sea lettuce," as the locals call it. It's not harmful to humans, but it does suffocate the marine life and kind of scares away tourists.
Two men with HIV now appear to now be virus-free after they received stem-cell transplants to treat their lymphoma.
Researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute combed through 18,000 hours of deep-sea video footage and found the ocean seafloor around Monterey Bay is covered in trash.
The report chronicles 30 different human trafficking investigations, which have resulted in 15 arrests and 17 prosecutions over the past year. Some of the investigations are still ongoing.
Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords will appear in next week's Northside 4th of July Parade as part of a nationwide tour supporting responsible gun legislation, according to parade organizers.
Giffords was scheduled to be in town on July 4 as part of a gun-violence prevention tour called The Rights and Responsibilities Tour, and her team reached out to the Northside parade organizers with an interest in participating in something celebratory, according to Northside 4th of July Parade co-coordinator Ollie Kroner.
The former Congresswoman from suburban Arizona was the victim of an assassination attempt in Tucson, Ariz., Jan. 8, 2011 that killed six and injured 12. Giffords was shot in the head but has recovered some of her ability to walk, speak and write. She resigned from Congress about a year after the shooting and has focused on gun-safety measures. Giffords and her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, founded the Americans for Responsible Solutions political action committee, which advocates for candidates that support responsible policies that protect both the public and the rights of gun owners.
The Rights and Responsibilities Tour began in Nevada July 1 and was scheduled to make stops in Alaska, Maine, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota and Ohio.
Northside parade co-coordinator Chuck Brown says he was contacted by a Democratic Party representative who then offered the Northside parade as an option for Giffords to make a public appearance while she's in town. Brown says the plan is to put together a press conference in the parade staging area for Giffords' cause.
"This is an amazing thing," Brown says. "We feel honored, and I think most people in Northside — I can't speak for everyone — but in general I think we're pretty empathetic to her message. Most people I know would agree that there must be something done about gun violence and she's a figure that I think people can really identify with. I think she is an inspiration for a lot of people in the way that she's willing to be visible and take a stand."
In a statement kicking off the tour, Giffords' husband, Kelly, said: "I've been around guns my whole life, and I know that as an American, my right to own a firearm goes hand in hand with my obligation to be a responsible gun owner and to do my part to make sure guns don't fall into the hands of criminals or dangerously mentally ill people. Gabby and I are excited to hit the road this summer and meet so many of the great Americans who are standing with us to fight for common-sense solutions to prevent gun violence and protect our rights."
The Northside 4th of July Parade will take place noon July 4 and travel south on Hamilton Avenue through the Northside business district.
CityBeat reached out to Giffords' people for comment and will update this blog when we hear back.
Six months ago today, 26 children and adults were slaughtered at the hands of Adam Lanza and a semi-automatic Bushmaster XM12 E2S rifle inside Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., one of the deadliest school shooting massacres in U.S. history. As parents, friends, family and gun control advocates around the country mourn and commemorate the loss of life, Ohio gun rights advocates are worried about something else.
Their concern: how to make it easier for Ohio citizens to obtain high-round magazines for their semi-automatic weapons.
A new Ohio House Bill introduced by State Rep. John Becker (R-Union Township) could, if passed, allow people to purchase high-round magazines for semi-automatic weapons, removing language from the Ohio Revised Code (ORC) that currently restricts use of magazines exceeding 31 rounds for semi-automatic weapons.
Specifically, the proposed bill would remove the definition of "automatic firearm" from section 2923.11 from the ORC that currently qualifies a weapon traditionally defined as a semi-automatic firearm (which operated by firing only once for each pull of the trigger) as an automatic firearm under Ohio law when used with a magazine holding greater than 31 rounds of ammunition.
Gun rights advocates are in favor of deleting the line because qualifying a semi-automatic as an automatic weapon under Ohio law (dependent on magazine size) subjects gun owners to greater background checks and stricter purchasing restrictions, which they consider an unlawful hassle and burden.
Jim Irvine, Chairman of the Buckeye Firearms Association, says that the sentence Becker has proposed to remove is one that inherently conflicts the actual definition of an automatic weapon; he says it doesn't make sense to qualify a semi-automatic weapon under the same umbrella as an automatic weapon when the two are entirely different types of firearms.
He says that the issue is one of convenience for most semi-automatic gun owners, including himself. "Loading up magazines can take time," he says. "When I go to the shooting range I want to use my time up shooting, not reloading."
That extra time, though, is exactly the point of the wording in the ORC, explains Toby Hoover, executive director for the Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence. Limited magazines were what eventually stopped the Arizona gunman who shot former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords because a bystander was able to attack the shooter when he dropped a magazine while trying to reload.
Hoover asserts that gun rights advocates like Irvine are being subversive in their reasons for wanting to change the changed law.
She says the legal issue is not that the ORC is trying to directly equate semi-automatic weapons to automatic weapons — they clearly operate differently — but that grouping them together using that magazine restriction is a common-sense way to define them both as dangerous, unnecessary forms of firearms that simply shouldn't be readily accessible to the average gun owner. Semi-automatic weapons are extremely easy to purchase in Ohio, she says, while purchasing automatic weapons involves many more complicated restrictions and regulations.
"I'm just really upset with the way they [Ohio Republicans and gun lobbyists] are ignoring the fact that people in Ohio want gun restrictions. They're just going the opposite direction," she says. "If they're really concerned about the wording of the law, just have them maybe separate the definitions but keep the restrictions the same."
Ohio is one of several states monitor magazine limits on semi-automatic weapons, she explains, so it's not unusual at all that the ORC does so.
Adam Lanza, Sandy Hook's shooter, had several 30-round magazines on him and was also carrying two handguns. It's estimated he used somewhere between four and 10 magazines during the shootings, which took place over a matter of minutes.
The bill has been assigned to the House's Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security committee, where it currently awaits hearing
Hicks drove the mile and a quarter and arrived behind the first dozen police officers. She started taking photographs through her windshield and captured her image of a line of children being led away from the slaughter. "I'm conflicted," Hicks said about her photo. "I don't want people to be upset with me, and I do appreciate the journalists, especially, who have commented, saying 'We're just documenting the news.' It's harder when it's in your hometown and these are children we're gonna watch grow up, the ones who made it. I know people are gonna be upset, but at the same time I felt I was doing something important."
Fellow editor John Voket explained what was behind that image. "Police and school system have a protocol" for evacuation. "Children get into a conga line, shoulder to shoulder, and the only person that's allowed to keep their eyes open is the locomotive at the front of the line, usually an adult. And every other kid has to keep their eyes closed from the minute they were exiting the classroom to when they got about a couple hundred yards into the parking lot."
• Voket arrived about 20 minutes later and colleague Hicks "passed the baton" to him. Hicks also is a volunteer firefighter. The firehouse is next to the school. "I literally put on my firefighter gear . . . I was there as a firefighter probably for not even more than 20 minutes before my editor said he wanted me back in the office to work with him to coordinate coverage from there."
• Voket continued reporting, but "We operate a little differently because our job is to take care of the community so we were inside helping to comfort victims and trying to provide human support without necessarily making reporting the No. 1 priority. The publisher came down to comfort some of the families a little later in the day." R. Scudder Smith has been Bee publisher since 1973; he is the fourth member of his family to run The Bee since they founded it in 1877. The paper, which has a full-time editorial staff of eight, circulates to about two-thirds of the community of about 29,000.
• It was Friday and the weekly Bee front page was ready to print. It couldn't be changed. "We've been putting everything on our website," publisher Smith told AP.
Voket added that the traffic surge repeatedly crashed the website until the Bee acquired "an intermediary service to supersize our bandwidth . . . We got back up and running this (Saturday) morning." The staff used social media to spread information about school lockdowns, re-routed traffic, and grief counseling. "Facebook and Twitter accounts have been a lifeline to our community and it shows because 20 percent of the community are following us." The Bee also was "looking at doing a special extra to be on the newsstands Monday."
• For those of us outside Newtown, Conn., we can turn to the renewed duel over gun control. If it were a song, tired and familiar gun control lyrics would be among "Worst Hits Ever." It didn't take long for gun control advocates to embrace the Sandy Hook massacre and the bellicose NRA to opt for rare silence. Obama renewed his unredeemed calls for gun control although he and Mitt Romney dodged the issue in the just-ended campaign. It was a hornets' nest neither man opted to kick and reporters apparently were unable to raise with the candidates.
• After the Sandy Hook slaughter, fair and balanced Fox News banned discussion of gun control from the cable network. Maybe Fox News feared we really would decide if they really reported. New York magazine said the ban spotlights the "growing chasm between Rupert Murdoch and [Fox News president] Roger Ailes." Ailes reportedly is a gun enthusiast. Murdoch, CEO of News Corp., which owns Fox News, had tweeted a call for stricter gun control, imploring for "some bold leadership action" from Obama.
• Let me be churlish when everyone else is sympathizing with families, survivors and first responders. Slaughtering 20 children is awful, but reporters and editors are familiar with how badly Americans treat urban, suburban, small town and rural children every day. In Obama's Chicago and many other urban areas, gunfire is an omnipresent fact of childhood. Possibly one-fourth of all American children live in poverty as defined by federal guidelines. For these kids, federally funded school meals might be more than a complement to home meals. Health care for poor and malnourished children isn't much better than their educations. Medicaid is among the anti-poverty programs high on the GOP priorities for absolute cuts and/or reduced annual increases. And let's not even get into continuing coverage of physical and sexual child abuse, trafficking minors and lifelong handicaps from poor or nonexistent prenatal care or maternal drug and alcohol abuse.
• Only foolish or ignorant reporters credit pious assertions that legislation can prevent disturbed individuals from obtaining guns and killing as many people as they can. There are more than 310 million people in this country. Some are or will become seriously mentally disturbed and obtain one or more of the hundreds of millions of firearms Americans own. A Columbine or Sandy Hook could happen again any day.
• Focusing on the shooting victims rather than shooters might reduce any copycat effect. Stories and photos elevating killers to celebrity have been blamed for further rampages. Even though the killer never was identified, that was the inference drawn from Tylenol poisonings 30 years ago; copycats tried to poison Tylenol capsules. When coverage began to fade, so did copycat crimes.
• NRA leaders realized years ago that traditional (and valuable) Eddie Eagle gun safety comics and courses were insufficient to motivate and keep members and their dues. Fear and anger would be more effective. Real and imagined government controls became NRA's cause. Few modern American movements have been as durable and effective as the NRA.
• NRA is powerful because we are a democracy. It can mobilize more than 4 million members and fellow travelers as voters, donors and voices in the news media. Elected representatives who want to keep their jobs quite reasonably try to avoid the NRA's opposition. Gun control advocates evince nothing like this single-minded devotion to their cause.
• In 1994, the Clinton administration won a10-year limit on the sale of assault-style weapons and large capacity magazines for their ammunition. I went to a gun store in Hamilton to cover a rush to beat the ban. Chinese assault-style rifles and curved high-capacity magazines were selling as fast as staff could pry open crates. As I watched, the price rose $10 with each new crate: demand and supply. Men who talked to me said they were buying because of the imminent controls on assault-style rifles and high-capacity magazines. A few admitted fear of civil unrest or some undefined federal assault. Most said they wanted a military-style rifle for shooting targets or empty beer cans and this might be their last chance.That 10-year ban died in 2004 when Republicans owned all three branches of federal government and didn't seek renewal. However, recent killings that required assault-style weapons with large-capacity magazines might prompt reconsideration of the ban. Adam Lanza reportedly carried hundreds of rounds of ammunition in high-capacity magazines. No one knows why he didn't use them.
• Any gun control measure that's not DOA will have to respect millions of long guns — rifles and shotguns — used by hunters, farmers and others. That distinction is an important part of this story already handicapped by the paucity of journalists who hunt or otherwise own firearms.
• In addition to an unfamiliarity with firearms, partisan hyperbole also handicaps writing about guns and gun control. It can be hard to find neutral sources who share reporters' interest in accurate coverage. Stenographic reporting giving "both sides" isn't good enough; journalists must know enough to challenge obvious partisan misstatements. We are not obligated to report what we know to be untrue or to label it as such.
• Unfamiliarity with gun control cropped up in a recent Enquirer story about a failed armed robbery attempt inside a suburban Sunoco station. Employees with a handgun and a shotgun fatally wounded the would-be bandit. The Enquirer story said it was unclear whether the employees had conceal-carry licenses for those firearms. Unless someone somehow cloaked a shotgun's 18-28" barrel, no conceal/carry permit is required. Unless the other Sunoco clerk carried the pistol under his clothes, he didn't need a permit. Wearing it openly or storing it under the counter does not require a conceal/carry permit. So what was the point of that line in the story? Just because a cop might have said it doesn't mean the reporter had to share it. That's what I'm talking about.
• Missing in much gun control coverage is Congress' inability to craft sensible, workable bipartisan gun control specifics that can survive NRA opposition and Supreme Court scrutiny. Firearm confiscation is out of the question. So is universal registration which raises NRA-orchestrated fear of confiscation — by ATF, the UN or some other demon de jour — to hysteria. Moreover, the court affirmed an individual Second Amendment right to own guns in 2010 but it did not rule out federal, state or local regulations governing firearm use.
• Reporters faced with new rage over shootings should remind partisans that we have gun control already. Forty nine states issue conceal/carry permits but specify where those handguns may not be carried. Illinois — State No. 50 — is under court order to replace its ban with a conceal/carry permit system. Many if not most municipalities bar gun owners from firing their weapons within city limits with the exception of self-defense. States commonly limit when hunters can use rifles and/or shotguns and they can require a certain size bullet for large-game hunting. Landowners may bar hunters from their property during state-sanctioned hunting seasons.
There are federal limits on how short a "sawed off" shotgun or rifle barrel may be. There are laws limiting ownership of silencers and fully automatic machine guns and submachine guns. Federally licensed firearms dealers must run background checks on prospective buyers and turn away those who fail or won't comply. Dealers can deny convicted felons a gun under federal and many state laws. A legal purchaser may not buy a firearm for someone who would fail a federal background check. Mentally-ill customers can be turned away by dealers.
• Few of the roughly 12,000 Americans shot to death annually are killed with shot with shotguns or rifles. They're shot with pistols. So when gun control is promoted, reporters should press advocates to say what they mean: handguns.
• Before reporters share the lunacy of arming teachers, ask local cops how many rounds typically are fired from their handguns in an armed encounter . . . and how many of those bullets hit their target. Not many. It's very, very difficult for someone trained even at the level of police to accurately fire when adrenaline is pumping. The teacher might end up shooting more students than the intruder. Better to count on the low probability of an armed intrusion. Think about how rare this is. Awful when it happens, but very, very rare, even in communities where other shootings are far more frequent.
The Ohio State Senate's top Republican wants to beef up ethics laws for state lawmakers.
Senate President Tom Niehaus tells The Columbus Dispatch that he plans on rolling out a new ethics bill within a few weeks. He didn't offer specifics on what it would cover, but said disclosure and transparency would be the main themes.
Ohio's ethics laws governing the relationship between public officials and lobbyists haven't seen significant updates in more than 17 years. Niehaus told the newspaper he wants to see lawmakers vote on it before his legislative career ends this year.
The last major overhaul of Ohio ethics laws came in 1994, when the legislature banned public officials from receiving money to appear at dinners and receptions and required disclosure of all gifts costing more than $25.
The law also banned gifts costing more than $75, but oftentimes lobbyists will split up more expensive gifts among a number of lobbyists.
Plans to put a culture tax in front of voters have been put on hold due to a potential conflict with a Cincinnati Zoo tax renewal levy that will be on the 2013 ballot. Backers of the culture tax — a 0.25 percentage-point sales tax increase that would raise $30 million annually — fear that overlapping the tax increase and levy could be confusing and potentially hurt the chances of either to be approved. The culture tax will likely be put on the 2014 ballot.
City Council this fall will consider a new form-based development code that will allow individual neighborhoods to create their own codes that supporters say will reinforce neighborhoods' existing urban fabric while aiding in development. Supporters include the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber of Commerce and Downtown Cincinnati Inc. "For developers, there is more predictability and basically no battles. And once they know the parameters, (developers) can really turn their creativity loose," David Ginsburg, president and CEO of Downtown Cincinnati Inc., told The Enquirer.
The Enquirer on Sunday checked in on
the state's higher education situation, finding that many recent
college graduates and families of potential college students are
wondering if college is even worth it considering the high cost —
"total student loan debt is nearing $1 trillion, or more than
$20,000 for each graduate" — and lack of guaranteed return —
"government data this year show that fully half of graduates 25 or
younger are either unemployed or working in a job that doesn't use
the skills they learned in college." No word on whether Enquirer-endorsed Gov. John Kasich thinks his kids should skip college and go straight into the service industry.
A record number of participants ran in this year's Flying Pig Marathon over the weekend. The winners were Californian Sergio Reyes, who also won the men's race in 2009, and Rachel Bea, a Kenwood resident.
Joe Biden says he is "comfortable" with same-sex marriage, though he doesn't know the answer to the question of whether a second-term Obama administration would come out in favor of legalizing gay marriage.
Europe's election results have gone and spooked the markets, due to political uncertainty in Greece and the defeat of French President Nicolas Sarkozy by Socialist Francois Hollande.
Vladimir Putin is back in business in Russia, amid protests.
Al-Qaeda has released a video of an elderly American hostage who says he will be killed if President Obama doesn't agree to Al-Qaeda's demands, which include ending military strikes in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen.
An ad campaign linking global warming believers to terrorists only lasted a few hours before public outcry forced the Heartland Institute, a libertarian organization funded by a bunch of corporations who don't want to stop polluting the earth, to take them down. One billboard included Ted Kaczynski's mug shot with the words: "I still believe in Global Warming. Do you?"
Poll watch: "Romney polling well with independents as Obama campaign kicks off."
The supermoon was in full effect over the weekend, reportedly "wowing" viewers.


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|100 Years of History: Interesting Facts About the Boy Scouts of America
Scout Oath
On my honor I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law; to help other people at all times; to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight.
Scout Law
A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent.
• In 2008, service projects were conducted by more than 2.8 million youth members and nearly 1.2 million volunteers.
• 35,194,360 service hours were reported in 2008
• $712,685,790 of service was provided by Scouts and leaders to communities across America (based on $20.25 Independent Sector value of volunteer time for 2008).
• On average, each Scout conducts 167 service hours as part of his Eagle Scout leadership service project.
• Service projects most commonly reported for Good Turn for America in 2008 included:
–Food collection and distribution
–Litter cleanup/community beautification
–Conservation projects
–Serving at food shelters
–Military support/appreciation
• 1,165,828 volunteers provided leadership for Scouting programs in 2008.
• On average, Scout volunteers give 20 hours per month in service to Scouting. This equals approximately 279,798,720 hours of volunteer time given to support Scouting in 2008. (Source: Volunteer Outcomes Study, Research & Evaluation)
• $5,665,924,080 of volunteer time was given in 2008 to support Scouting across America (based on $20.25 Independent Sector value of volunteer time for 2008).
• Cumulative volunteer personnel totals, from 1910 to 2008:
–Cub Scouts: 17,933,581
–Boy Scouts and Venture leaders: 14,367,727
–Total leaders: 32,301,308
• 179 U.S. astronauts were involved in Scouting (57.4 percent of astronauts).
– 39 are Eagle Scouts
–11 of the 12 astronauts who walked on the moon were Scouts. • 35.5 percent of United States Military Academy (West Point) cadets were involved in Scouting as youths.
– 13.6 percent of cadets are Eagle Scouts.
• 30.5 percent of United States Air Force Academy cadets were involved in Scouting as youths.
–13.5 percent of cadets are Eagle Scouts.
• 25 percent of United States Naval Academy (Annapolis) midshipmen were involved in Scouting as youths.
–14 percent of midshipmen are Eagle Scouts.
• 212 members of the 111th Congress participated in Scouting as a youth and/or adult leader.
–22 are Eagle Scouts.
• Total number of youths that have been involved in Scouting from 1910 to 2008:
–Cub Scouts: 60,591,445 (Cub Scouts started in 1930
–Boy Scouts, Varsity Scouts, and Venturers: 50,922,252
•Famous Scouts
–Henry "Hank" Aaron, baseball legend, Scout
–Neil Armstrong, astronaut, first man on moon, Eagle Scout
–Robert M. Gates, Director of Central Intelligence (CIA) and Secretary of Defense, Eagle Scout – Mike Rowe, star of "Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe" on the Discovery Channel, Eagle Scout
–Walter Cronkite, former journalist, TV commentator, Eagle Scout
–Michael Bloomberg, New York City mayor, Eagle Scout
–Several U.S. presidents—Gerald R. Ford, Jimmy Carter, John F. Kennedy, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama
–John Heder, actor (Napoleon Dynamite), Eagle Scout
–Ashton Kutcher, actor, Boy Scout
–Richard Dean Anderson, actor, Boy Scout
–Harrison Ford, actor, Boy Scout
Advancements and Awards
• 52,025 youths earned the rank of Eagle Scout in 2008. (Source: Program Impact Department—Eagle Scout Service)
• From 1912 to 2009, more than 2 million Scouts have earned the Eagle Scout rank. (Source: National Eagle Scout Association)
–The 2 millionth Eagle Scout (2009) is Anthony Thomas of Lakeville, Minnesota. Anthony rode on this year's Rose Parade float. • The Eagle Scout rank is earned by only 5 percent of Boy Scouts each year. (Source: National Eagle Scout Association)
• The first Eagle badge was awarded in 1912.
• The 1 millionth Eagle Scout milestone was reached in 1982.
• In 2008, a record 52,025 Scouts earned the Eagle badge.
• 1,913,676 merit badges were earned by Boy Scouts in 2008.
• 115,552,627 merit badges have been earned by Boy Scouts since Scouting was established in America in 1910.
• The following merit badges have been earned most frequently since 1910:
–First Aid: 6,445,898
–Swimming: 5,852,372
–Camping: 4,301,253
–Cooking: 4,098,133
–Citizenship in the Community: 3,119,270
(Source: 2008 BSA Local Council Index)
21st Century Scouting
• The 12th edition of the Boy Scout Handbook is now available via an iPhone application.
• In addition to a traditional map and compass, Scouts now also learn to use GPS devices.
• The Boy Scouts of America National Council and many local councils use Facebook and Twitter.
• Updated Scout uniforms include pockets for cell phones and mp3 players. The uniforms are made from a moister-control fabric, which dries quickly. The fabric also provides a 50+ SPF.
Environmental Impact
• Scouts practice the environmental philosophy of Leave No Trace at all times. This means respecting nature and leaving the environment as you found it–or in better condition.
• There are 122 merit badges available to earn an Eagle Scout ranking. A Scout must complete 21 to earn his Eagle Scout Award. Merit badge subjects include environmental science, fish and wildlife management, fly-fishing, forestry, gardening, oceanography, scuba diving, and soil and water conservation.
• The William T. Hornaday Award is Scouting's "Olympic medal" for recognizing outstanding efforts in environmental conservation. More than 1,110 medals have been earned by Scouts over the last 80 years.
–Riding atop the Scouting float will be Trevor Osaki, 2008 award winner for his conservation work in California's Bolsa Chica Wetlands.
• In 2008, thousands of Arrowmen from the BSA's honor society, the Order of the Arrow, participated in a national service project at five of the country's national forests. Here is what they accomplished:
–Number of participants: 3,177
–Service hours: 260,360
–Total volunteer service value: $5,196,684 (based on $19.51 Independent Sector value of volunteer time for 2009)
–Equivalent number of work years: 128 (based on one work year equaling 2,080 hours)
• In 2009, the BSA published the first "green" Boy Scout Handbook. Additionally, BSA magazines Boys' Life and Scouting have been certified by the Sustainable Forestry Initiative.


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Thanks for the pics TE-MAN. I can't wait.
Whether you're a die hard fan of 200x or are convinced that the Classics line is MOTU's redemption.
One thing cannot be denied, GraySkull's spirit does not recognize Eternia's greatest protector by his outer appearance but only by his integrity and character within!
Long live the Most Powerful Men in the Universe!!!
Here's a few of mine!
I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick some @$$, and I'm all out of bubble gum.
Love em Moondrake! Thanks for posting! It's amazing how many different poses these things can have. Truly MOTU like we've never had before.
God, why is it every time I see KGs face and hair, it just looks worse and worse. What a terrible sculpt that was. Kinda glad mine are hidden away. Don't think I could put that ugly figure on display.
The others however look good.
No problem, these figures are AMAZING, and it's hard to put these down.
I'm glad you like these pictures, I've taken quite a few already.
the pics I take are just for fun but the pics Guia X are great,
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Not the greatest photographer, but I thought I'd add to the thread...
I love how you included the packaging in your display - nice!
I'm planning on keeping the inserts for such purposes as well. Good stuff!
Not to sound like a creepy cheerleader for Uki, but it's nice to know there is at least one person on this forum who is extremely positive & friendly all the time. I don't think I could be that nice even if you paid me. If we ever give out awards for "forum member of the month", Uki gets my vote. -Mr. Shokoti
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I loved this pic and wanted it for my desktop - did a little edit on the color and focus though...
Haven't ever attached any files here, so hopefully this works. Just got my figures this morning and had to throw them in a few poses to check them out. Here are a couple of (bad) photos on my bookshelf.
Every time I see pics of MOTUC He-Man, it lookes like someone sprayed him in the face with mace.
"Yep! And now I'm gonna blast ya!"
- Orko to Skeletor in "Lessons"
Great pictures everyone. They make me wish mine were here already.
I can't wait to have them in my hands. Beast man is amazing
Hey Moondrake, awesome pictures! Beastman looks like he should be screaming "STELLA!!!" It's from A Streetcar Named Desire...
Anyways, I have a question. I JUST noticed this, but your Beastman's arm bands are on upside down. Did he come packaged this way or do you prefer the spikes curving down? Just curious.
I can't wait for my guys to arrive so I can pose them and take pictures of them. I tell you, 98% of my pictures are of my action figures.
Take part in Illumina Day! Let people know who she is and help get her in MOTUC.
You can join the Illumina Facebook page here!
The Beast Man I kept MOC has one arm band on upside down, so I would guess some came with them on wrong even if his didn't.
I'm loving these photos!!
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Because he's broken, I'm thinking 318"?!
Anybody want to guess a gross score?
Because he's broken, I'm thinking 318"?!
Great bull and a great story! Congrats!
That's a great bull! Way to go
Great bull and a great story! That is the kind of thing that you will never forget! I'm glad it worked out well for you, and too bad you didn't get to take out any wolves! On the score, I am not great at guessing, but I am guessing 330-340. He looks to have great mass and long beams. Of course, the only thought you would have in your head when you see that elk is SHOOT!
i would guess 325-330
the bull scores 372 the way he is and as close as we can guess he is missing about 8 inches of G4 that is gross score I feel like "nets" are for fishing! lol
Very nice................I was WAY off! Congrats!
Awesome bull and story. Congrats
Awesome job AP! Great pictures and story. I have been hiking in the Bob a while back and it was beautiful country.


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Let's pretend for a moment that zombies are real (as if half of you weren't already daydreaming about that very thing). Have you noticed how most zombie movies take place only after the apocalypse is in full-swing? By the time we join our survivors, the military and government are already wiped out, and none of the streets are safe.
There's a reason the movie starts there, and not earlier. It's because the early part, where we go from one zombie to millions, doesn't make any sense. If you let the creeping buzzkill of logic into the zombie party, you realize the zombies would all be re-dead long before you even got a chance to fire up that chainsaw motorcycle you've been working on. Why?
7They Have Too Many Natural Predators
Do you know why we, as humans, are at the top of the current food chain? Not because we're hard to kill (well, with the exception of Steven Seagal). We're not; we're little more than tasty flesh bags waiting for an errant horn or claw to spill our guts like a meat pinata. No, we're on top simply because we are so absurdly good at killing things ourselves. A good offense, as they say, is the best de-LOOK THERE'S A DUCK! MURDER IT!
We are simply too smart and too well-armed for any wild animal to hunt. Now consider the poor zombie. It lacks every single advantage that has kept humanity from being eaten to extinction. It wanders around in the open, it can't use weapons, it can't think or use strategy. It doesn't even have the sense of self preservation to run and hide when it's in danger. And, it's made entirely out of food. It's easy prey for any animal that wants it.
If you're saying, "Sure, but it's not like my city is full of bears that can come eat all the zombies," you need to think smaller. Insects are a major pain in the ass for living humans, and in some cases, being able to swat away flies and having an immune system is the only thing keeping us from having our eyes and tongues eaten out by maggots. Zombies in any part of the world with a fly problem are going to be swarming with maggots in short order, meaning that most of their soft tissues will be infested, and their eyes will be very quickly useless.
Not so disgusting now, are they? OK, yeah, but show a little respect.
We'll scale up a bit: In America alone, we have bears, wolves, coyotes and cougars, all of which can put well-armed, thinking, fast-moving humans on the menu, if the conditions are right. To most predators, the "right conditions" are when the animal is weak or infirm, or otherwise generally unable to defend themselves, like a walking corpse. Hell, just think of the millions of stray dogs out there who'll quickly learn that zombies are an easy meal.
Now imagine zombie hordes wandering Africa. Between lions and cape buffalo (and hippos, and rhinos, and elephants), we'd finally have a disease that Africa is better suited than the rest of the world to defend itself against.


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Data compression is essential to large-scale data centers to save both storage and network bandwidth. Current software based method suffers from high computational cost with limited performance. In this project, we are migrating the fundamental workload of the computer system to FPGA accelerator, aiming high throughput performance and high energy efficiency, as well as freeing some CPU resources.
Target algorithm
Xpress Compression Algorithm is Microsoft compression format that combines the dictionary based LZ77 method and Huffman encoding, similar to popular GZIP compression. Xpress9 is an advanced branch of Xpress family algorithms targeting higher compression ratio with more optimization on both stages.
System Architecture
The system architecture supports up to 128 multi-threaded compression contexts with custom PCIe interface and queue managements. We integrate up to 7 compression engines on Altera Stratix D5 FPGA each of which accelerates full features of Xpress9 algorithm. The hardware scheduler maximizes throughput performance of the engines.
Results & Future Projection
The proposed hardware compressor achieved 6% better and 30x more throughput than software based GZIP compression with level 9 (best) optimization on a single Zeon core. We are also targeting other compression domains such as low compression - high throughput, high compression - low throughput to push this Pareto curve of compression ratio vs throughput with hardware acceleration.
Scott Hauck, University of Washington as a visiting researcher
Jinwook Oh, IBM TJ Watson Research Center as an intern (Sep 2012)
Janarbek Matai, UC San Diego as an intern (June 2013)
- Jeremy Fowers, Joo-Young Kim, Doug Burger, and Scott Hauck, A Scalable High-Bandwidth Architecture for Lossless Compression on FPGAs, in The 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, IEEE – Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 4 May 2015.
- Janarbek Matai, Joo-Young Kim, and Ryan Kastner, Energy Efficient Canonical Huffman Encoding, in The 25th IEEE International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors , 18 June 2014.
- Joo-Young Kim, Scott Hauck, and Doug Burger, A Scalable Multi-engine Xpress9 Compressor with Asynchronous Data Transfer, IEEE 22nd International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, 11 May 2014.