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Plunderbund Ohio reports that Gov. John Kasich has picked up his first endorsement for a presidential bid from Citizens for Community values president and executive director and self-professed former porn addict Phil Burress, following Kasich's signing of some of the country's most archaic and restrictive anti-abortion provisions in the nation. This week's news story by CityBeat's most glamorous misanthrope, German Lopez, explains how the recently passed state budget caters to Republicans by lowering taxes for the rich, tries to block health care for the poor and effectively defunds Planned Parenthood and its valuable health services.
Eleven school buses were hijacked from the Petermann Bus Company bus lot in Golf Manor. All but one of the buses has been recovered. Ralph Brown, who supervises the company, speculated some kids just wanted to take a "joy ride."
Columbia Parkway is open again after massive flash flooding and landslides inundated the road, but this weekend's wet forecast could cause it to flood again.
SPCA Cincinnati is adopting out cats and kittens for just $5 through this weekend in honor of Independence Day. Visit the Northside or the Sharonville location.
"God buried fossil fuels 'because he loves to see us find them.'" No. 5 on Rolling Stone's top 10 list of the dumbest things ever said about global warming comes from Bryan Fischer, director at the American Family Association.
Men can eat a lot more weiners than women. Sonya "The Black Widow" Thomas ate 36.75 hot dogs yesterday in Brooklyn, N.Y., at Coney Island's 98th annual Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest, earning first place in the women's division, while male title winner Joey Chestnut ate 69 dogs IN 10 MINUTES.
Here's why hot temperatures sometimes can make you cranky.
Women in Egypt are at a staggeringly high risk to become victims of sexual assault. More than 80 women were raped, sexually harassed or sexually assaulted during Wednesday night's mob celebration of the forced departure of president Mohamed Morsi on Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo.
Buttercup, a duck born with his left foot twisted backward, is now on top of the world
after his owner used 3D printing to create a brand new foot for Buttercup. Here is a video for good measure.
The Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati has been mired in quite a bit of trouble over the past several years for its morally outdated (and unjust) policies, and now one of the allegations has reached the courts. Today marked the second day of juror hearings in a schoolteacher's lawsuit against the Archdiocese and the two schools from which she was fired for violating her civil rights.
In 2010, schoolteacher Christa Dias, a single, non-ministerial employee at both Holy Family and St. Lawrence Schools, parochial schools owned and operated by the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, became pregnant via artificial insemination. At five and a half months pregnant, she asked her employers for something millions of U.S. women ask for every year: maternity leave.
She got more than she bargained for, though, when her employers fired her, assuming Dias had engaged in premarital sex (one of the many "moral" no-nos in the Catholic Church — for women, at least). She was informed that she was let go because she'd violated a moral clause in the Catholic doctrine that she'd agreed to adhere to when she signed her employment contract, which, in the eyes of the Catholic Church, makes it okay to discriminate when the discrimination falls under something called "ministerial exception" — a pesky and vague part of civil labor laws exempting religious policies from some basic rules for equality in the workplace.
Ergo: Women who are fired by the Catholic Church for getting pregnant face unfair discrimination because men aren't held to the same standard. Obviously, it's impossible to detect whether or not single male employees are engaging in premarital sex (but they probably are). The basis of Dias' lawsuit is that that little gender caveat is an inherent for of discrimination against women because women and men aren't held to the same moral standards.
According to the AP, Dias today told jurors she didn't realize that artificial insemination was a violation of church doctrine or that having the procedure could get her fired. The archdiocese's attorney, Steve Goodin, says that Dias was not discriminated against because she signed a contract that clearly commanded she abide by the Catholic doctrine.
CityBeat reported on a similar case of discrimination by the Catholic Church earlier this year ("Unforgiven Offenses," issue of Jan. 9, 2013), which detailed a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court of Southern Ohio by former schoolteacher Kathleen Quinlan, who was also fired from her non-ministerial position at Ascension Catholic School in Kettering, Ohio, in December 2011 after she approached her principal, told him about her pregnancy and offered to work behind-the-scenes until she gave birth.
Again, her employers and the Archdiocese used the "morality clause" to defend their position.
And then there was Johnathan Zeng ("Gays, Even Christians, Need Not Apply," issue of June 13, 2012), who was offered a job as a music teacher at Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy (CHCA) Armleder School after two weeks of discussions; Zeng even put on a teacher demonstration in front of a third grade class. When a board representative asked him point-blank if he was gay, Zeng told the truth: yes, he was gay. All of a sudden, Zeng was out of the running, even though he was already pinpointed as the most qualified applicant.
The outcome of Dias' case could set a major precedent for courts ruling on ministerial exception in the future. Last year, the Supreme Court ruling in Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, courts sided with the church in a fired teacher's discrimination lawsuit, ruling that because she had some religious duties as a teacher, federal discrimination laws didn't apply.
Some local Catholics, at least, are firing back against the archdiocese's archaic policies; recently, Debra Meyers was ordained as Cincinnati's first female Catholic priest by the Association of Roman Woman Catholic Priests, despite opposition from local Catholic leaders and the Vatican. Read our interview with her here.
A group is ordaining Roman Catholic women priests despite Vatican opposition, and Debra Meyers will be Cincinnati's first woman to go through the ordination on May 25. Meyers told CityBeat the Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests' movement is about pressuring the Catholic Church to be more inclusive, including with women, LGBT individuals and other groups that may feel left out by the Church's current policies. The full Q&A with Meyers can be read here.
In the latest budget plan, Councilwoman Laure Quinlivan is asking all city employees, including cops and firefighters, to take eight furlough days, which she says would save enough money to prevent all layoffs. That plan follows a motion co-sponsored by council members Roxanne Qualls and Chris Seelbach, which would eliminate all fire layoffs and reduce police layoffs to 25.
Hamilton County commissioners voted to stop all sewer projects yesterday in opposition to the city's "responsible bidder" policy, which requires most contractors working with the Metropolitan Sewer District (MSD) to have apprenticeship programs. City Council, spearheaded by Seelbach, passed the measure to encourage more job training options for workers, but the county government says the measure is unfair and puts too much of a strain on businesses working with MSD. The issue will likely head to court.
Commentary: "Good News Reveals Budget Deception."
At last night's budget hearings, Councilman Charlie Winburn repeatedly brought up the city's so-called "credit cards," which are really procurement cards that are often used by the mayor to entertain and attract businesses to Cincinnati. Winburn says the use of the cards is outrageous when the city is considering laying off cops and firefighters, and Councilman Chris Smitherman says the system needs more controls. The cards are set up so they can only be used by city employees for certain services, and City Manager Milton Dohoney Jr. says the cards make the system more efficient, which means lower prices for the city.
A bill in the Ohio House revives the Medicaid expansion, which was previously opposed by Republicans as part of the budget process. Gov. John Kasich is one of the top Ohio Republicans who supports the expansion, but it's unclear how far the bill can move this time, considering many Republicans are still opposed. CityBeat covered the expansion, which would insure half a million Ohioans and save the state money in the next decade, in further detail here.
The Ohio General Assembly passed a bill
yesterday that would effectively ban Internet "sweepstakes" cafes,
which state officials say are prone to illegal gambling activity. State
Sen. Bill Seitz, a Cincinnati Republican, says the bill is a "shoot 'em
and let God sort it out" approach because the bill generalizes against
all Internet cafes instead of imposing specific regulations that would
only target offenders. If Kasich signs the bill, it will become law.
The Ohio Public Interest Research Group, a nonprofit advocacy group, submitted 589 petitions to the Ohio Senate opposing a measure that would force Ohio's public universities to decide between $370 million in out-of-state tuition revenue and giving out-of-state students documents required for voting. The measure was originally sneaked into the Ohio House budget plan, but Senate officials are removing it from the budget bill and appear likely to take it up in a standalone bill. CityBeat covered the original measure here.
Greater Cincinnati home sales are continuing picking up. There 2,388 homes
sold in the region in April, up 22.65 percent from the year before —
even better than March's 13.5-percent year-over-year rise.
Researchers are now suggesting rubbing a certain kind dirt on wounds.
There will be a giant swarm of purple in front of the Western & Southern headquarters (400 Broadway St.) in Lytle Park beginning at noon today in support of the Anna Louise Inn, which provides shelter to low-income women, to coincide with International Women's Day.
The rally is intended to demonstrate both local support for the Anna Louise Inn and its missions and oppose Western & Southern's long-standing attack on the ALI. Sponsoring organizations stretch far beyond the Inn, including the Greater Cincinnati Homeless Coalition, Nuns on the Bus, League of Women Voters, Women's City Club, Women's Political Caucus and others.
According to the press release, the rally will be "strong and noticeable with singing, chanting and signs," so it's likely the execs at Western & Southern will be forced to take notice. Attendees will all wear purple sashes — purple is the color of the logo for International Women's Day, which is intended to both celebrate and continue to lobby for advances in gender equality across the world.
Most recently in the Western & Southern/Anna Louise Inn debacle, the Ohio First District Court of Appeals agreed with a lower court that Cincinnati Union Bethel, which owns the Inn, filed an "incomplete" permit application, requiring them to resubmit funding requests to the city, including more thorough details about the Inn and its Off the Streets program, which helps formerly prostituted women turn their lives around. That means the Inn is required to once again jump through another series of legal hoops based on minor technicalities that would have never been an issue if Western & Southern had accepted they missed their chance at the plot already.
Click here to see an archive of all CityBeat's Anna Louise Inn coverage.
• Enquirer reporter Sharon Coolidge's use of open records law documented Cincinnati's lax enforcement of lead paint removal orders. She told CityBeat that her coverage included positive impacts in addition to those above in my main column:
The day after her story was published, Mayor Mark Mallory ordered health officials to explain why they hadn't forced problem landlords to clean up their properties.
Three public hearings led to a comprehensive city plan to eliminate childhood lead poisoning by 2010. The plan lowers the medical threshold at which health officials can intervene, thus catching lead poisoning in its earliest stages.
City Council gave the health department more than $1 million to finance reforms. Poor families are getting kits to detect whether their homes are contaminated.
In one of his first acts as new governor, Ted Strickland allowed cities to sue lead-paint producers; Cincinnati is suing Sherwin-Williams.
State lawmakers are considering a new law, named after a family featured in the Enquirer story, to provide $20,000 grants for lead removal.
• A more recent public benefit from open records laws involved the Enquirer suit to obtain secret streetcar vendors' bids. Attorney Jack Greiner, who handles First Amendment issues for the paper, said that Cincinnati's ordinance requires bids be available for public review. Faced with resistance, the Enquirer went to court. Hamilton County appellate judges agreed with the paper, rejecting company arguments that records were exempt from public records law as "trade secrets."
• Unless you're living under a Rock of Cliches, you've read or heard that flu is sweeping the nation. Every sneeze, every cough, every chill and shiver warns us that the Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse is tethering his pale horse at our curb. The catch is that despite breathless news media offerings, little unusual is happening except for an early, aggressive onset of the perennial scourge. Thousands die every year from flu, most of them elderly. It would be news if we didn't. Annual death estimates — hampered by incomplete reporting and similar health problems — range from 3,000 to 49,000.
• An Enquirer Sunday Forum carried Michael Kinsley's column about Hillary Clinton's extensive foreign travel as secretary of state. Kinsley doubts the value of much of her travel but in today's world, "The less important the trip, the more prestige you gain by taking it." Having time and money to waste proves you have time and money to waste . . . even if you're on the taxpayers' clock and paycheck. Maybe that explains an otherwise inexplicable Enquirer revelation that Steve Chabot is a foreign policy expert, citing his extensive foreign travel at taxpayer expense.
• Enquirer reporter Dan Horn produced two nay-saying front page stories. Both were welcome surprises from Cincinnati's "get on the team" daily. One questioned the argument that right-to-work laws provide an economic boost in states like Indiana, Michigan, or, potentially, Ohio. That anti-union policy was a staple topic in my 1950s high school debating days. Economic analysis, like divining why crime rates change, is more complicated than whether union membership is optional or required in a "union shop." Too many union/right-to-work debates — fueled by no-compromise advocates putting re-election before public benefit — ignore complexity.
• A second invocation of skepticism by the Enquirer's Dan Horn raised serious doubts about feel-good gun buy-back programs. I'll go this far on guns: each firearm bought back and destroyed (not bought back and sold to dealers for resale) is a gun that won't kill someone. Cincinnati Police destroy buy-back weapons not needed for investigations. Buy-back, however, won't change life on Cincinnati streets where scores of young men kill each other each year. Anyone who wants a firearm can get one faster than you can say, "Your money or your life." Similar doubts about Cincinnati's gun buy-back program made Page 1 of the New York Times.
• Fox 19's Dave Culbreth came up with a smart take on the controversial idea of arming teachers and school administrators. He interviewed Target World assistant manager Amy Hanlon who demonstrated how a woman could carry a concealed handgun. As Culbreth noted, there was nothing special about her clothing: slacks, blouse, overshirt. By the end of the interview, she'd removed nine concealed semi-automatics or revolvers, including one tucked under her bra in a holster that also was displayed on a counter-top mannequin bust.
• WCPO-TV plans an online local news challenge to the Enquirer's Cincinnati.com, according to Business Courier's Jon Newberry. It's a pioneering effort by Cincinnati-based E. W. Scripps that could go national, Newberry suggested. Whether additional reporters, producers, editors, etc., will come from the Business Courier and other established news media was not clear. Scripps — a Cincinnati-based national print and broadcast company— published the Cincinnati Post until it closed the barely-sustaining joint operating agreement with the Enquirer ended in 2007.
• Blogger Peter Heimlich tipped me to Channel 19 anchor Ben Swann's web gig called Full Disclosure. Swann says there are enough witnesses to challenge official police narratives of single shooters at three recent massacres: the Oak Creek, Wis., Sikh temple; Aurora, Colo., Batman movie premiere, and Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Salon.com challenged Swann about his apparent validation of those counter-narratives and he replied in part, "The bottom line for me is the issue of asking questions. As you will notice, I don't call these operations 'false flag' as many people do … (his ellipses) But as a journalist, that is not my job. Rather, my job is to be a critical thinker." And he added, "most of our media fail to question stories . . . a journalist's job is not to have the answers, it is to ask the questions and search for truth."
• There's a pathetic undercurrent in the Enquirer's Monday Page 1 profile of Henry Heimlich's efforts to regain American Red Cross support for his eponymous "maneuver." The physician claims there is no research to support the Red Cross's decision to return to back slaps rather than Heimlich abdominal thrusts as first response to choking. Other than Heimlich's self-serving claims, there is no research proving his maneuver works as well or better than back slaps. Assertions are not evidence. Moreover, the Red Cross adopted Heimlich's maneuver years ago without the research Heimlich is calling for now. Heimlich has anecdotal evidence of lives saved but that's not research. Wisely, reporter Cliff Radel quoted skeptics and critics of the maneuver. That kind of even-handedness usually escapes admiring Enquirer stories about Heimlich. And if the paper ever corrected a Memorial Day feature on water safety, I missed it. The Enquirer drew national ridicule with its illustration on how to use Heimlich's maneuver to revive a standing near-drowning victim.
• It's spitting into the wind to ask sports reporters to question what jocks tell them, especially when truth-telling endangers future access. In the Good Old Days, who read about fornicating, drunken and racist professional athletes? More recently, golf reporters and publications didn't write about married Tiger Woods' screwing around. This time, it's Notre Dame football star Manti Te'o's stories about the heart-ripping death of girlfriend Lennay Kekua from leukemia. Editors loved it. Now, it seems she was a fiction amplified by incurious and credulous reporters. It took sports blog Deadspin.com to reveal the fraud after its reporters could find no public records of her birth, life, education or death. Almost as nauseating as the saccharine original stories about her death are the faux introspection by sycophant reporters caught by the fraud.
• We've gone a week without a promo for Oprah's interview with champion liar-cheater Lance Armstrong. That's closure. So what does Armstrong do now? Pitch performance enhancing drugs and blood transfusions on ESPN and late TV?
• Al
Gore sold his troubled Current cable network to Al Jazeera, the
satellite network based in Qatar in the Persian Gulf. Good. Nothing bars
foreigners from owning a cable network here, unlike the law that forced
Australian Rupert Murdoch to obtain U.S. citizenship after he bought Fox.
Backed by the ruling Qatari emir, Al Jazeera scandalized Americans for broadcasting tirades by Osama bin Laden and other anti-western Arab leaders. We should have welcomed what they said in Arabic for home audiences. Too often, we rely on sanitized remarks for non-Arabic-speaking audiences or Washington assurances it was trying to verify that speakers were who they said they were. Al Jazeera also infuriated Arab audiences by carrying interviews with American and Israeli officials that others in the Middle East ignored or rejected.
Most American cable companies won't carry the newer Al Jazeera English but its website is one of my daily stops, especially when, say, AQIM kidnaps oil workers in Algeria or French Legionnaires assist Mali's pathetic army in trying to halt and turn back Islamist rebels.
Al Jazeera coverage of "Arab Spring" was so aggressive that embattled North African rulers correctly accused it of supporting anti-government demonstrators. So is Al Jazeera open to interference by the Qatari government? Yes. Are its biases plain to anyone who listens or reads? Yes. We don't ignore Fox News for its biases.
• American news media employ local nationals in foreign bureaus for their contacts and language skills. That reliance failed when no one reported the 2010 anti-semitic rant by Mohamed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood leader who now is Egypt's president. In part, Morsi called Jews "apes and dogs" and shared the fantasy that the Palestinian Authority was "created by the Zionist and American enemies for the sole purpose of opposing the will of the Palestinian people and its interests."
Still nastier, he urged listeners "to nurse our children and our grandchildren on hatred for them: for Zionists, for Jews . . . bloodsuckers who attack the Palestinians, these warmongers, the descendants of apes and pigs."
A stump speech in his Nile Delta hometown, it took more than two years to reach English-language news media. The original Arabic video is on YouTube now. I encountered a translation of Morsi this month on a Forbes website that, in part, chided the New York Times for missing or killing the story. Days later, it was on Page 1 of the Times. After that, the Obama administration an official "tut-tut."
• Maybe they'll blame one of those ominous Canadian Cold Air Masses (meteorological, not theological) for the brain freeze that disabled news judgment at the Toronto Star. Flippant columns about rape aren't funny. Jimromenesko.com posted these first two paragraphs of Rosie DiManno's column about testimony during the sexual abuse trial of a local physician:
"She lost a womb but gained a penis.
"The former was being removed surgically — full hysterectomy — while the latter was forcibly shoved into her slack mouth..."
• Headlines are an art that always risks a step too far in an attempt to cure the copy editor boredom and draw readers to a story. This one, from philly.com, achieves both in what has become a national story about a popular and well-connected parish pastor: "Catholic priest/meth dealer liked sex in the rectory." You know you'd read more.
• Finally, this from Shannyn Moore, who blogs on HuffPost as "Just a Girl from Homer, Alaska." It appeared first in the Anchorage Daily News and makes her points without venturing beyond the pale into bad taste: "I'm not advocating for no guns. I like mine and am not about to give them up. But in this country, my uterus is more regulated than my guns. Birth control and reproductive health services are harder to get than bullets. What is that about? Guns don't kill people — vaginas do?"
Here they go again. Republicans are renewing their anti-abortion agenda in Ohio. Two of the governor's October appointments have been criticized by a pro-choice group, and the state legislature is now considering a new version of the heartbeat bill.
Yesterday, Senate President Tom Niehaus told The Cincinnati Enquirer that the Ohio legislature, in cooperation with anti-abortion groups, is giving another look at the heartbeat bill. When the heartbeat bill was first suggested, many on the left labeled it the most radical anti-abortion bill in the country. If it became law, the bill would have banned abortion as soon as a fetal heartbeat is detected, which is typically visible in ultrasounds by the sixth week of pregnancy, with no exceptions for rape, incest or the health of the mother.
Legislators and anti-abortion groups aren't offering specifics on the new bill. Ohio Right to Life opposed the heartbeat bill when it was first suggested because the group believed it was too likely to fail in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, which upheld abortion rights in Roe v. Wade in 1973. The new version of the heartbeat bill will likely be retooled to sustain any court challenges.
Kellie Copeland, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio, says Republicans haven't taken the right lessons from the Nov. 6 election: "It's clear that they didn't get the memo. Pro-choice Ohioans overwhelmingly voted to re-elect President Obama and reject this war on women. Here we are, we haven't even made it to the weekend, and our senate president is resuming attacks on women's reproductive health care." She added, "I think they didn't care what Ohio women thought before the election, and it's clear they don't care now either."
In response to questions about whether the governor will support a new heartbeat bill, Rob Nichols, spokesperson for Republican Gov. John Kasich, said in an email, "We are watching the Senate's activity closely."
A few appointments from Kasich have also come under scrutiny. On Oct. 12, Kasich appointed Marshall Pitchford, a board member at Ohio Right to Life, to a committee in charge of filling a vacancy in the Ohio Supreme Court. On Oct. 29, Kasich appointed Mike Gonidakis, Ohio Right to Life president, to serve a five-year term on the State Medical Board of Ohio, which is in charge of the state's medical regulations.
In a statement, Copeland criticized the appointment to the Supreme Court committee: "Because legislation promoted by Ohio Right to Life is likely to come before the Ohio Supreme Court, it is inappropriate for Pitchford to be placed in a position where he can cherry-pick a justice to serve on that court."
She also criticized the appointment of Gonidakis to the State Medical Board. Copeland says she's "concerned" that he's on the board to regulate and restrict access to abortions. "No group in the state of Ohio has done more to interfere with the private medical decisions of Ohio women," she says. "For their leader to now be on the State Medical Board is completely inappropriate and disturbing."
She added that the two appointments show Kasich is "playing a more active role in the war on women than Ohioans realize."
According to Gonidakis' biography on the Ohio Right to Life website, Gonidakis went to school for law at the University of Akron. No professional medical experience is noted.
Nichols said in an email the appointments should come as no surprise: "The governor believes strongly in the sanctity of human life, so it's a surprise that someone would be surprised that he practices what he preaches."
If Tuesday's election was supposed to be a strong message from social progressives, women and younger voters, Ohio Republicans are not getting it. Instead, they are continuing their pursuit of the heartbeat bill. That's what Ohio Senate President Tom Niehaus told The Cincinnati Enquirer yesterday. At the time the heartbeat bill was originally suggested, it was called the most radical anti-abortion bill in the country. Yet Republicans, in cooperation with anti-abortion organizations, are pushing a version of the bill once again. Ohio Republicans have also shown interest in continuing their crusade against Planned Parenthood, according to Kellie Copeland, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio.
Cincinnati's budget proposal is coming later this month. Specifically, Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls says it will arrive Nov. 26. City Manager Milton Dohoney Jr. and his budget team are currently working on a budget to close a $40 million general fund deficit. One idea that was suggested recently in a memo was privatizing parking services, but it faces skepticism from Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld. The budget will first go through Dohoney, then the mayor and then City Council. However, this calendar year's budget will only cover six months, and then the city will transition into filing budgets based on fiscal years on July 1.
To match some of Obamacare's requirements, Ohio officials are considering a hybrid approach to health care exchanges. The exchanges are federally regulated insurance markets. As part of Obamacare, states have the option of creating their own exchange programs, which have to be approved by the federal government; setting up a hybrid approach, which is what Ohio is looking into doing; or putting the responsibility on the federal government.
During the lame duck session, the Ohio legislature will take up legislation to regulate puppy mills and election reform. Regulations on puppy mills were previously covered by CityBeat when a group tried to get dog auctions banned in the state. Election reform could mean a lot of things. The current Republican-controlled legislature previously tried to restrict and limit in-person early voting before repealing its own rules. Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted has also suggested "more strict" voter ID laws.
In other election news, an upset federal judge demanded Husted's attorneys explain a last-minute directive that changed rules on provisional ballots. U.S. District Court Judge Algenon Marbley told the lawyers, "You have a lot of explaining to do." The directive, which Husted sent out Nov. 2, shifted the burden of providing identification for provisional ballots from poll workers to voters. Voter advocates argued the directive was against Ohio law and would lead to more provisional ballots, which are ballots filed when a voter's eligibility to vote is uncertain, being wrongly rejected. Husted and Republicans were heavily criticized for alleged attempts at voter suppression in the run-up to the election.
City Council approved a $750,000 tax break for the E.W. Scripps Company. As part of the deal, Scripps will hire for 125 new local jobs and retain 184 current employees.
The Wall Street Journal covered
Cincinnati's "pie war" between Frisch's and Busken Bakery.
CincyTech, a nonprofit venture organization, has invested $14.3 million since it began five years ago. Its investments, which focus on information technology and life sciences, have helped create more than 360 jobs, according to company officials.
As part of a national movement, Cincinnati-based Kroger will be making an effort to hire more military veterans.Republican Gov. John Kasich is focused on his re-election bid for 2014. When asked about whether he will run for president in 2016, Kasich said he has not made any announcements. The news came shortly after the Ohio Democratic Party began printing signs that say "Kasich... you're next" on one side and "2014 can't come soon enough" on the other.
Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel won't be leaving state politics any time soon. He says he'll be running for re-election in 2014. Mandel is the Republican who led a failed bid for U.S. Senate against Democratic incumbent Sherrod Brown. His campaign was notorious for its dishonesty.
U.S. Sen. Rob Portman, an Ohio Republican, may take up running the National Republican Senatorial Committee in 2014. That would put him in charge of managing the Republican Party's senate campaigns for the year. Republicans are expected to make gains in the U.S. Senate in 2014 because 20 Democratic seats will be up for grabs, in comparison to 13 Republican seats, and 12 of the Democratic seats are in swing or red states.
Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives won the popular vote, but they ultimately lost the House. The culprit for the discrepancy seems to be politicized redistricting. In Ohio, the Republican-led committee redrew congressional district boundaries to give Republicans an advantage. The First Congressional District, which includes Cincinnati, was redrawn to include Republican-leaning Warren County, which slanted the district in favor of Republicans and diluted the say of Cincinnati's Democratic-leaning urbanites. On this year's ballot, Issue 2 attempted to tackle the redistricting issue, but Ohio voters overwhelmingly voted it down.
Some scientists are really excited by the discovery of "Super Earth."
What doomed the Mayans? Climate change.


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Accessory Drive Belt on a BudgetWritten by Jeff Smith on November 1, 2009 Eliminate The Frustration Of Thrown And Twisted Belts With A Trip To The Boneyard To Build Your Own Budget Belt Drive
Car crafting is all about adapting late-model factory pieces to our older muscle cars. The conversion has to be simple, easy to work on, and best of all-inexpensive. Our show car cousins love those all-billet serpentine beltdrive systems (accessory drive) because they're so cool looking. But most of us don't have two grand to drop on a pile of billet aluminum parts. However, the idea of a serpentine belt drive system has serious merit-not the least of which is the simple fact that one belt drives everything. And with a spring-loaded tensioner, you can remove that belt in about three seconds. No more wrestling with multiple adjusters, misaligned slots, and a pile of obscure stamped brackets to retain an alternator and power steering pump on a short water pump V-belt system. There's a much better way.
Accessory Drive / Serpentine Beltdrive In the mid-'80s, GM shed its old V-belt accessory drive skin and adopted the much simpler serpentine beltdrive. This system uses a single ribbed belt to drive the water pump, alternator, power steering, and A/C pumps retained by a single spring-loaded tensioner. In older V-belt systems, belt tension was established by leveraging each driven component. The problem with fixed tension is that all rubber drive belts create a standing wave that travels its circumference at a much slower speed than the belt itself. When this standing wave arrives at a fixed pulley, belt tension is reduced and the belt slips. The beauty of a spring-loaded tensioner is that it instantly compensates for this wave, maintaining belt tension. Plus, a standardized belt tension (assuming proper belt length) minimizes the load on the components, improving bearing life.
When these serpentine beltdrive systems first appeared in the mid-'80s, they were considered expensive and were not immediately embraced by enthusiasts. But now that these systems have been in service for almost 25 years, they are inexpensive and easy to find. The system we decided to adapt is easily found on late '80s through mid-'90s 1/2-ton GM pickup trucks like the C/K1500 as well as on all 4.3L V-6 engines used in S-10 pickups, S-15 Jimmys, and Astro vans. GM built millions of these vehicles, which makes them extremely popular junkyard donors. So if you have a short water pump small-block that throws the belts at the mere suggestion of rpm, follow our lead as we do a little junkyard hunting. The conversion requires a few simple parts that will not only update the charging system but also make your engine easier to service. Check it out.
Small-Block Serpentine
Here's the drill. We went to the junkyard in search of a typical '80s or '90s serpentine beltdrive system. We know of at least two different drive arrangements, with either the truck system or the same-era Camaro/Firebird TPI accessory drive system. Don't try to mix the parts, as our sources tell us they don't interchange. We decided to go with the C/K1500/S-10 truck system because it is easier to find, which also makes it less expensive. We knew from prior experience that to remove the alternator and power steering pump bracket from the left (driver) side of the engine, we needed a simple power steering pulley puller. This tool is available at almost any auto parts store. We found a Powerbuilt tool (Amazon.com, less than $20.00), but it only removes the pulley. There's also a nice OTC tool for around $35.00 that removes and installs. You will need to press the pulley back on during reassembly. We like the Powerbuilt-style tool because it's shallow and fits in tight spaces.
Removing the serpentine system from the donor vehicle isn't difficult, but remember to get the driver-side alternator/power steering pump bracket, the passenger-side A/C bracket, and all the OE fasteners, as they are a mixed bag of metric and standard thread. Both large brackets bolt to the front of the engine but do not attach directly to the water pump. This is nice because it allows servicing the water pump without removing any brackets. Try that with a V-belt system. We also learned a couple of tricks when removing the cast-aluminum brackets. On the driver side, there's a small fuel line clip that is usually buried in grease and sits over a stud threaded into the block. The bracket won't come off the stud until that clip is removed. On the A/C side, you have to pry the bolts past the compressor to free it before the bracket can be removed. Remember to snag the crank and water pump pulleys along with the power steering pump brace and at least two of the through bolts you'll need for the A/C-delete pulley. We eventually did not reuse the P.S. brace, but that's your call.
If you're really confined by a tight budget, look for a system with fewer miles so you can purchase the alternator and power steering pump along with the brackets and pulleys. We priced all the replacement parts through Rock Auto for our system and learned the most expensive component is the power steering pump-mainly due to its $50.00 core charge. If you can find a used pump in decent condition, you can skip the whole core charge deal that includes the cost of shipping the pump back to Rock Auto.
Make sure to order the parts for the vehicle you used as the donor car. Remember, the water pump will be reverse-rotation. Here's a tip: You can always tell a reverse-rotation water pump because the pulley will be smooth since it runs off the backside of the belt.
All we did for the small-block setup was clean up all the brackets, blast and paint the pulleys, and then bolt the system together. We didn't need an A/C pump and discovered that Dorman makes an A/C-delete pulley that bolts in place of the A/C compressor. This requires the use of the entire A/C bracket, but by doing so it allows you to retain the stock belt length. We also opted for a new idler and tensioner assembly because the bearings in these pulleys are usually nearly dead. The beauty of this system is that whenever you need a replacement component, you can find it at any auto parts store. That's especially nice if you're in a hurry to get the car running.
If you purchase everything we list for the small-block Chevy engine swap (excluding the power steering pump $50.00 core charge and shipping costs), the price comes in less than $290.00. This makes it virtually a brand-new accessory drive with new or rebuilt parts. To put that in perspective, the Scoggin-Dickey price for the non-A/C version of the GM Performance Parts accessory drive system is $550.00 or roughly $260.00 more. If you crave a little bling, March sells aluminum pulleys for this system as well. So this is a pretty good deal, and there are plenty of opportunities to shave cost if you're creative.
Big-Block Serpentine
As good as the small-block system is, we ran across a cool conversion kit that applies these same pieces for a big-block. We introduced you to Kwik Performance with our LS-series engine accessory drive story back in the May '09 issue ("LS Accessory Drive Swap Guide"). The Kwik folks also identified a need for an inexpensive big-block serpentine accessory drive and discovered that with seven simple aluminum brackets, it's possible to adapt the small-block serpentine beltdrive system to a big-block Chevy with kits for standard-deck and tall-deck Rat motors. It's really that simple. For the record, GM did build a big-block serpentine beltdrive system starting in the early '90s through model year 2000 in 3/4 and 1-ton trucks, Suburbans, and other large vehicles. It is possible to find this system, but you're more likely to find it in a truck-only boneyard-and you'll pay more for the privilege. GM Performance Parts also sells a complete serpentine beltdrive system for either standard- or tall-deck Rats with or without A/C.
All the previous parts we detailed for the small-block are used on the big-block with the exception of the water pump. In fact, Chevrolet interchangeability is so good that even the small-block serpentine water pump pulley can be used on the big-block. Kwik's brackets easily adapt the small-block system to the Rat, and the only other critical components you need are a big-block serpentine crank pulley and a different belt. We also found a cool aluminum crank pulley from March Pulleys that is only a few dollars more than the factory steel piece.
|Small-Block Accessory Drive
|Used factory mounts and pulleys
|Alternator, BBB Precision
|Rock Auto
|Power steering pump, A-1 Cardone
|Rock Auto
|$46.89, plus core
|Water pump, Gates
|Rock Auto
|Belt tensioner, Gates
|Rock Auto
|Tensioner pulley, Gates*
|Rock Auto
|Idler, Gates
|Rock Auto
|Belt, Gates
|Rock Auto
|A/C-delete pulley, Dorman
|Rock Auto
|GMPP A/C accessory drive, SBC
|GMPP non-A/C accessory drive, SBC
|GMPP accessory drive brackets, SBC
|*This is used to replace the tensioner pulley, so there is no need to purchase a new tensioner.
|Big-Block Accessory Drive
|GM 454 crank pulley
|Burt Chevrolet
|Used factory mounts and pulleys
|Kwik adapter plate kit, std deck
|Kwik Performance
|Kwik adapter plate kit, tall deck
|Kwik Performance
|ACDelco 454 water pump
|Rock Auto
|Belt, Gates
|Rock Auto
|GMPP A/C accessory drive, BBC
|GMPP non-A/C accessory drive, BBC
|March aluminum 454 crank
|Summit Racing
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Late-model power steering pumps use a Saginaw fitting (identified by a small O-ring, arrow 1) for the pump's high-pressure side. Older muscle car power steering pumps use an inverted flare fitting (arrow 2). What's cool is you can remove the Saginaw fitting from the back of the newer pump and replace it with the older inverted flare fitting from an older pump-it bolts right in. This way, you may be able to reuse the original high-pressure power steering pump hose. Slick, yes?The power steering pump pulley must be pressed on. Instead of an expensive install tool, you can get by with a 2-inch-long, hardened 3/8-inch bolt, a nut, and a large, hardened washer. We used a Craftsman strap wrench to hold the pulley while pressing it on. Make sure the pulley is fully seated on the pump shaft.The A/C bracket bolts to the engine on the passenger side with two bolts in the head and one in the same bolthole that is drilled and tapped into the fuel pump pushrod hole. Make sure your mounting bolt is short enough. If it is too long, it will bend the fuel pump pushrod. Once the A/C pump bracket is installed, the Dorman A/C-delete pulley replaces the compressor. The A/C bracket also mounts the belt tensioner and idler pulleys.Here's another trick. You can save a little cash by buying a replacement tensioner pulley as opposed to an entire new tensioner assembly. The pulley is attached to the tensioner with lefthand threads. This is because you use a lefthand (loosening) motion on the pulley bolt to release tension and remove the belt.Here's our finished serpentine system with all-new or rebuilt parts, including new tensioner and idler pulleys and a new Gates serpentine belt. This system is good for a minimum of 70,000 miles (and probably more), and we only spent $287.73, plus shipping. With a used alternator and power steering pump, you could get by for less than $200.00.In addition to the small-block parts necessary, we picked up a big-block water pump from Rock Auto and a big-block serpentine crank pulley from our pals at Burt Chevrolet. The Kwik brackets bolt to the front of the big-block as shown.


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Cold Spring Library Partners with Lions Club for Library Card Month
September is national Library Card Sign-Up Month, and this year Cold Spring Public Library was able to make its celebration extra special. The Cold Spring Lions donated a "school supplies cake" to the library to give away as a prize to a lucky patron who used their library card during September. The Lions partnered with the library because of their involvement in the "Reading Action Program (RAP)" which supports education and literacy outreach in local communities. Cold Spring Home Pride Lions Club members Alice Schriefels and Diann Bellmont presented the cake to the library.


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WHEELING - Golf can be a funny game sometimes.
Just 72 hours prior to teeing it up at the OVAC Golf Championship at Oglebay Park's Spiedel Golf Club, the St. Clairsville Red Devils shot a blistering 302 team score to win the Fall Classic.
They came to the conference tournament as the defending champions in Class 4A and one of the favorites for another title.
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St. Clairsville's Adam Jeffries sizes up a putt Tuesday.
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Unfortunately, for the Red Devils, golf was a funny game for them on the sun-splashed par 72 Jones Course.
The Red Devils settled for the runner-up plaque after posting a solid score of 316, but East Liverpool, which finished third in the Fall Classic, grabbed its first OVAC title on the links by seven shots.
"We were flat," St. C. coach Rick Oberdick said.
"We had a day last week when we were all hot and then (Tuesday) we were flat, and I don't know why."
The Potters were fueled by three all-conference players, including the tournament's medalist.
Blake Prince captured his second straight OVAC title, shooting an impressive even-par round of 72. Prince set the tone with a solid front nine in which he posted the tournament's only red number at 35.
Isaac Davidson and Joey Cilone were third and fourth overall in the field, posting 76 and 77, respectively.
East Liverpool's highest score that counted was an 82 by Alex Watson.
"Blake put up a good number, got us started and the other guys just fell right in line," Potters' coach Ben Wright said. "The kids really stepped up. We've played four tournaments and this the fourth one we won. We know when we play St. Clairsville that it's pretty much going to be a toss up based on which kids play well that day."
The Red Devils placed just one player on the all-OVAC team. Senior Jared Burghy posted the low round for the Devils with a 78.
A pair of former OVAC medalists - Zach Keylor and Caden Myers - both checked in with rounds of 79. Senior lefty Adam Jeffries, who was medalist with a sub par round last Friday, fired an 80 to round out the scoring for the Devils.
"The strength we've had is when a kid or two are flat, someone steps it up for them," Oberdick said. "We were all flat, so maybe in the sectional, we'll all be hot. You just don't know. I know our kids didn't take anyone lightly; we knew we had to be focused and played well to win. Our kids are resilient, quality golfers and we'll bounce back."
Martins Ferry, which won the 3A title last season, had two players earn a spot on the all-OVAC team.
Chase Stuckey took home the runner-up medalist plaque after posting a 3-over 75. Zac Riggenbach checked in with a 78.
All told, the Riders closed with a team score of 318. Taylor Shane, who was the 3A medalist last season, and Andrew Chlon rounded out the scorers with rounds of 82 and 83, respectively.


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make your game predictions here for the opening game.
I say "Jacked up in Ames, ISU 42 SDSU 21"
or something equally corny.
Go Clones!!
Gig 'em Aggies!!
Saw 'em off!!
Hopefully not "Rabbit Punched! SDSU 24- ISU 14"
"Hawkeyes have great Thursday Practice"
At least the headline. The story of our game will be buried in there somewhere though.
More likely is "Hawkeyes Set to Kick-Off Season Saturday"
2 QB system starts slow finishes strong.
ISU wins 42-14
The gap in our economy is between what we have and what we think we ought to have--and that is a moral problem, not an economic one. - Paul Heyne
"SDSU Loses By More Than A Hare, 36-14."
"Friday Night Lights: High School Football ready to kickoff."
ISU sets scoring record, wins 927 - 3
"Cyclones have HARE RAZING Experience! ISU 38-SDSU 17"
From the Rag: South Dakota heroically falls 41-10.
From DMR: "SDSU Dominate ISU, but fall 35-7"
"Jackrabbits Jacked at the Jack".
Hawkeyes ready to take on Black Bears.
Cyclones upset heavily favored Jackrabbits 57-14
"Homemade beer, after all, is like a democracy. Every so often, youre gonna hate what comes out of it. But when its good, its the best." - woot.com
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I nuked my last rpm based server some time ago, went through Gentoo and am currently using Ubuntu.
Zimbra sounds cool, but for my personal/family use building another server sounds nuts.
Anybody else tried this on Ubuntu, either Warty or Hoary?
I am going to try running alien against all the packages and then installing.
Any known issues? Suggestions?


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Rhoads Remembers: 2011 vs. Iowa
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Iowa State came from behind on three different occasions in the fourth quarter and overtime periods, as the crowd of 56,085, the second-largest contingent in Jack Trice Stadium history, rejoiced at mid-field while regaining the Cy-Hawk Trophy.
Both teams traded touchdowns in the first two overtimes. Iowa State tallied a TD on a Darius Reynolds four-yard touchdown catch on 4th-and-goal in the first extra period. White scored on a touchdown run in the second overtime session.
The Cyclone defense broke the touchdown string in the third overtime, forcing Iowa to kick a 34-yarder from Mike Meyer. The White touchdown run on third down was the decisive score.
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There's No 'I' in 'Team'
Companies are finding that team wellness challenges work better to create behavior change than individual incentives. But team challenges have their limits, too.
In an effort to inspire employees to take charge of their health, Kaiser Permanente in May launched an online nutrition program to encourage employees to eat more fruits and vegetables every day.
Called Mix it Up, the program has a database of more than 120 possible fruits and vegetables to choose from. Employees signed up with the goal of eating at least five servings of produce per day. They have logged in to the site through their computer or a smartphone application, clicked on images of the produce they ate, then dragged them over to a virtual blender. Mix it Up then added up the number of fruits and vegetables eaten per day and tracked progress over time.
Mix It Up is just one example of team wellness challenges that are catching on at companies nationwide. Team-wellness challenges at the workplace are relatively new, says Steven Noeldner, principal and senior consultant at Mercer. It's part of the "gamification" of workplace wellness programs, he says.
Indeed, wellness gaming companies such as Keas of San Francisco and Kairos Labs of Seattle are harnessing mobile technology and online social networking to get people to change their behavior.
A total of 13,350 employees participated in the six-week Mix It Up challenge. Registrants could sign up individually or as a team with colleagues. Forty-four percent chose to work as teams, while the other 56 percent took the challenge as individuals. Seven hundred teams participated in Mix It Up over the summer.
While Kaiser Permanente did not specifically encourage team participation, it found that teams ate more fruits and vegetables than employees doing the Mix it Up program on their own, says Nancy Vaughan, vice president of national accounts at Kaiser Permanente.
More than twice as many people on teams completed the challenge as those who competed individually. And though more people registered as individuals, team participation success was about double that of individuals. Overall, 32 percent of all participants increased their fruit servings, while 29 percent of participants increased their vegetable servings, the Oakland, California-based integrated health system says.
While there is little research on team versus individual outcomes in wellness programs in the workplace, anecdotal evidence suggests that team challenges can be an important motivator, Noeldner says.
"More people tend to participate on team challenges; people do like competition," he says. "It's not inconsistent from what we know from behavioral economics."
However, Noeldner cautions that employers should view team challenges as just one aspect of their wellness offerings.
"These activities are typically short in duration," he says. "I think there's some limits to it."
While most people would benefit from adding more fruits and vegetables to their diet or walking several times per week, other aspects of their health status also need to be addressed, Noeldner says. For instance, a diabetic would benefit from a tailored, ongoing program that could include a personal coach, he adds.
Challenges can lose their novelty as well. "Any organization that uses these types of campaigns has to think about changing them regularly," Noeldner says. "There's a clear drop-off in the number of participants in repeat campaigns."
And some team challenges can have unintended consequences. Team weight-loss challenges have spurred the use of diuretics, laxatives and crash dieting at some workplaces, he says.
"Often times, short-term contests don't support long-term healthy behavior changes," he says.
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(Reuters) – U.S. airlines on Wednesday made progress in getting operations back to normal after several days of storms and record cold weather forced cancelations of thousands of flights.
Airlines had canceled more than 1,000 flights on Wednesday, according to FlightAware.com data, down from 2,700 on Tuesday. Since Jan. 1, carriers have canceled more than 19,300 flights, FlightAware showed.
Among major U.S. carriers, Delta Air Lines had canceled four flights and Southwest Airlines had halted 37 as of early Wednesday, the data showed.
"The regional carriers are still the last to catch up today," said Daniel Baker, chief executive of FlightAware.com. "I think things will be back to normal late today and by tomorrow."
Record cold temperatures in the United States in recent days had hobbled airline operations, disabling equipment used to fuel planes.
JetBlue Airways, which resumed flights to four New York area and Boston airports on Tuesday after suspending operations in those locations Monday evening to reposition crew and planes, showed 13 cancellations early on the day Wednesday.
"It's looking really good today," JetBlue spokesman Anders Lindstrom said in an email. "Operations are back to being close to fully 100 percent operable."
American Airlines had canceled just 50 flights early Wednesday, most of them with its American Eagle regional unit, spokeswoman Andrea Huguely said.
"The cold temperatures at many outstations are still making things challenging for Eagle," Huguely added in an email.
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Helane Becker, an airline analyst with Cowen & Co, estimated the recent weather events would hurt industry earnings by $50 million to $100 million in the first quarter.
Shares of airlines were mixed. JetBlue was up 0.3 percent to $8.71 in morning trading, and Delta rose 1.7 percent to $29.28. Southwest Airlines and United Continental were also higher, while American Airlines was off 0.1 percent at $26.88.
By Victoria Cavaliere and Brendan O'Brien
NEW YORK/MILWAUKEE (Reuters) – A deadly blast of arctic air shattered decades-old temperature records as it enveloped the eastern United States on Tuesday, snarling air, road and rail travel, driving energy prices higher and overwhelming shelters for homeless people.
At least nine deaths have been reported across the country connected with the polar air mass that swept over North America during the past few days. Authorities have put about half of the United States under a wind chill warning or cold weather advisory.
Among the deaths reported was a 51-year-old homeless man in Columbus, Georgia, whose body was found in an empty lot after spending the night outdoors.
Two men died in Westerport, Massachusetts, while duck hunting on Tuesday when their boat capsized, dropping them into a frigid river, officials said. A third man was rescued.
A large avalanche in backcountry outside the Colorado ski resort area of Vail killed one person on Tuesday and caught up three others who survived and were being rescued, officials said. Avalanche danger in the area was rated as "considerable" due to high winds and recent heavy snows, said Spencer Logan, forecaster with the Colorado Avalanche Information Center.
Four cold and storm-related deaths were reported around Chicago and an elderly woman was found dead outside her Indianapolis home early Monday.
Temperatures were expected to be 25 degrees to 35 degrees Fahrenheit below normal from the Midwest to the Southeast, the National Weather Service said.
PJM Interconnection, the agency that oversees the electric grid supplying the mid-Atlantic and parts of the Midwest, said electricity suppliers were struggling to keep up with surging demand as the cold forced some power plants to shut.
"This particular cold is far-reaching, and most of our neighbors are experiencing the extreme conditions we are," said Michael Kormos, executive vice president for operations at PJM Interconnection.
Oil refiners were also hit, with Marathon Petroleum Corp and Exxon Mobil Corp both experiencing cold-related outages.
In Oklahoma, a depleted supply of propane due to extreme weather led Governor Mary Fallin to declare a state of emergency, waiving licensing requirements for out-of-state transportation companies to allow them to bring in propane.
Homeless shelters and public buildings took in people who were freezing outside.
Daniel Dashner, a 33-year-old homeless man who typically sleeps under a bridge on Milwaukee's south side, said he opted to seek a spot at a shelter on Monday night.
"Usually if I have four or five blankets, I can stay pretty warm, but when that wind is blowing, I don't care how many blankets I have, the wind blows right through me," he said, as temperatures dropped to minus 6 degrees Fahrenheit.
Major U.S. cities were in the grip of temperatures well below freezing, with Chicago seeing 2 degrees Fahrenheit , Detroit 0 F (minus 18 C), Pittsburgh 5 F, Washington 19, and Boston 15 F.
New York's Central Park recorded the lowest temperature for the date, 4 Fahrenheit, rising to 9 F on Tuesday afternoon with wind chills making it feel much colder, meteorologists said.
At New York's Bowery Mission homeless shelter, the 80-bed dormitory was full on Monday night and 179 other people slept in the chapel and cafeteria, officials said.
Schools in Minneapolis and Chicago were closed for a second day on Tuesday, although Chicago plans to reopen schools on Wednesday. Cleveland remained below freezing after temperatures fell to minus 11 F on Monday, breaking a 130-year-old record.
Impassable snow and ice halted three Chicago-bound Amtrak trains on Monday, stranding more than 500 passengers overnight in northwestern Illinois.
In the normally mild south, Atlanta recorded its coldest weather on this date in 44 years, as the temperature dropped to 6 degrees Fahrenheit, while temperatures in northern Florida also briefly dropped below freezing, though the state's citrus crop was unharmed, according to a major growers' group.
By Julia Edwards
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Brutally cold weather this week laid bare critical weaknesses in the Northeastern U.S. natural gas system, leaving some states paying vast sums for supplies as arctic weather enveloped the region.
Despite its location alongside the biggest natural gas deposit in the country, the northeast region saw record price spikes on Monday as an unprecedented surge in demand from power plants and homeowners overwhelmed pipelines.
The rise in prices forced spot-market buyers in New York and New England to pay up to 20 times more for their gas than amply supplied hubs in Texas and Louisiana.
The volatility shows that nearly a decade into a drilling boom that has flooded much of the country with gas, a lack of pipelines has left some areas vulnerable to shortages this year and potentially for years to come.
It is a weak spot in what has been a huge resurgence in U.S. natural gas production over the past 10 years, and exposes how in some areas pipelines have failed to keep up with the new supplies that have come out of the ground.
"There's a reason why New England is the most volatile power and gas market in the country," said Addison Armstrong, senior director of market research at Tradition Energy in Stamford, Connecticut. "It has been slow on the uptake and now we're behind the curve in terms of getting additional capacity brought in there."
In New York on Monday, natural gas traded at an average of $55 per million British thermal units on the Transco pipeline. Highs for the day reached $90.
The average price broke highs first recorded in 2001, years before the region began importing gas from the Marcellus. In Boston, gas on the Algonquin pipeline swung up by $18 per mmBtu then down by $9 per mmBtu as forecasts turned warmer on Tuesday.
The Marcellus shale, centered in Pennsylvania, has emerged as the giant of the U.S. natural gas market. It currently produces 13 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day (bcfd), accounting for about 18 percent of total U.S. supply, up from just 2 bcfd in 2010, according to the Energy Information Administration.
Over the next three years, pipeline capacity from the Marcellus is expected to grow to carry 8.7 bcf more gas per day, 4.3 bcf of which will be directed to the Northeast, according to data from Jonathan Gould, a senior oil and gas analyst at Genscape.
But far less of that will reach New England, Gould said.
Moreover, even that growth rate is not enough to keep up with the robust production in the region, so flows from wells must be tapered, Gould said.
Despite years of supply bottlenecks, only one announced project is targeting New England states. Spectra Energy's Algonquin Incremental Market project will expand an existing system through Connecticut and Massachusetts carrying 342 million cubic feet of gas per day. The pipeline is not scheduled to be completed until November 2016, however, and will not reach past Boston.
"There is a constraint getting all that gas out of the area," Gould said. "In the Marcellus, you've got so many gas wells and it's such a constrained system, that the pressure on the system keeps gas from flowing how it would normally flow."
It is a tough break for the six New England states that have been quick to change from coal to gas-powered electric plants. Natural gas now supplies most of the electricity to the region. Between 2011 and 2017, New England will have cut its electricity generated from coal by more than half, according to Reuters data.
Some companies are being forced to reroute gas originally meant for New England to other regions to alleviate the supply built up in the Marcellus, Armstrong said.
Building too much capacity too fast could flood the market and kill demand on days that are milder than seen recently. Developing gas supply becomes "lumpy," according to Gordon Pickering, an analyst at Navigant Research in Houston, who said gas companies tend to develop gas supplies before they develop pipelines.
"More supply means lower prices," said Pickering. "So pipeline decisions require a long-term view of the market.
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Onslow County has rescinded a voluntary evacuation order for homes along Highway 50, but a state of emergency remains in place for the county as the Juniper Road wildfire continues to burn.
State foresters say the drought is causing them problems in finding water to battle that big wildfire in Pender and Onslow counties.
The Juniper Road fire remains at 21,336 acres with just 10% containment.
Foresters say they are now using scout planes to find water because the maps the have are not accurate due to the drought.
They say ocean water could be used as a last resort because salt water would cause problems for vegetation. Yesterday the fire area received six to eight-tenths of an inch of rain. Foresters say that helped, but they'll need much more rain to make a big difference.
Onslow County has scheduled a public meeting on the fire to update residents. That meeting will be 7:00 p.m. Saturday at the Holly Ridge Fire and Rescue Department.
Firefighters say they plan to complete fire lines to protect the Holly Ridge and Topsail areas today. That area will be impacted by smoke for quite some time, according to state foresters. The state says it's working closely with local fire departments for fire protection plans for those nearby homes. So far no structures have been damaged by the fire.
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The two shelters opened earlier this week for people wanting to leave their homes near the Juniper Rd. Fire have now closed.
Officials say the shelter at Topsail Elementary School in Pender County is closed, saying no one had gone there. The American Red Cross also says no one has been to the shelter at Southwest Middle School in Onslow County, so it is now closed. However, the Red Cross says it will reopen the shelter if needed.
Some of the severe weather that rolled through Eastern Carolina Thursday brought rain to the Juniper Road Fire in Pender and Onslow counties. However, officials call the storm "a mixed blessing." "We're not going to turn away rain, we love it," said Diane Stelz, a public information officer for the fire. "But it does bring other challenges for us." Stelz says the rain was accompanied by wind, which can help fan flames. The storm also brought significant lightning. Stelz says if lightning were to strike somewhere in or near the fire, they may not know it for a few days once flames from the bolt really flare up. Right now, there is no indication that lightning made contact in that area, but officials are watching for that.
Crews with the capability to fight fire by air will be continually assessing their options Friday. The smoke did not allow crews to fly over the fire Thursday. Stelz says whether those planes go up will be played by ear Friday.
People near the fire who are looking to move large animals to a shelter can contact (910) 259-1210. Pender County Emergency Management is coordinating the shelter for animals, such as horses and cows. There is a cost to put animals in the shelter, which is located in Sampson County.
Smoke from the Pender county fire will continue to move to the northeast across Onslow, Jones, Craven, and Carteret, and adjacent counties, with southwesterly winds in place through the day Friday. Smoke from the Dare county fire will persist along the Outer Banks from the Oregon Inlet northward. Winds will become westerly on Saturday, cleaing the smoke over many of the inland areas, while Onlslow and Carteret counties will continue to see the smoke, along with the central Outer Banks.
Voluntary evacuations have been advised for residents of about 40 homes, and state foresters say up to 2,100 homes could be threatened.
Foresters say the containment lines are holding now in most spots.
There are no reports of injuries or structures damaged.
State foresters say up to 2,100 homes could be threatened by a growing wildfire that's still out of control in Pender and Onslow counties. But so far no structures have been damaged.
Firefighters say the smoke is so bad that aircraft can't fly today to help update the size of the giant fire.
Public information officer Diane Steltz says the fire remains at 18,280 acres, and their latest maps show the blaze right at the Onslow county line.
Officials say the fire is currently expanding in a circular pattern and moving at approximately ¼ mile per hour.
Southwesterly winds on Thursday will continue to push smoke to the northeast from the fire.
A dense smoke advisory remains for Onslow and Pender counties through 6 p.m. Thursday. People with respiratory issues should avoid prolonged periods outdoors . Visibilities over eastern Pender and western Onslow counties could drop to under 1/2 mile at times.
An air quality alert was issued for Martin, Pitt, Greene, Duplin, Craven, Jones, Pamlico, Carteret, Hyde, Dare, Tyrrell, Camden, and Currituck counties through 3 p.m. Thursday. On Friday Code Purple conditions are possible in five coastal counties.
A news release from Pender County says the smoke could drift as far north as Maryland and Delaware.
The fire started Sunday from a lightning strike in the Holly Shelter Game Land. Voluntary evacuations remain in effect for residents along a stretch of Highway 50 and two shelters remain open.
There is zero containment reported at the Holly Shelter Game Land Fire, and officials say the chances the fire will get even bigger are high. The fire nearly quadrupled in size Wednesday. An update on the size of the fire will be available later today. The fire is said to be at the Pender/Onslow County line.
The estimated containment date for the wildfire is not until July 1, next Friday.
Air Quality
Southwesterly winds on Thursday will continue to push smoke to the northeast from the Pender county fire.
A dense smoke advisory was issued for Onslow and Pender counties through 6 p.m. Thursday. People with respiratory issues should avoid prolonged periods outdoors . Visibilities over eastern Pender and western Onslow counties could drop to under 1/2 miles at times.
An air quality alert was issued for Martin, Pitt, Greene, Duplin, Craven, Jones, Pamlico, Carteret, Hyde, Dare, Tyrrell, Camden, and Currituck counties through 3 p.m. Thursday.
Smoke from the Pains Bay fire in Dare County will continue to plague portions of Dare and Currituck counties as well.
What Crews Are Doing
Officials say fire fighters are plowing lines around the fire with tractors, in order to expose the mineral soil, which does not burn. This helps slow the fire's progress. Once those lines are plowed, crews can also perform burnout operations, which is literally fighting fire with fire. Crews will burn the area between the fire and the plow lines to eliminate that area from burning later.
Officials say they have some air support available to them. However, the resources must be shared with crews fighting other fires, including the Pains Bay Wildfire in Dare County and another fire along the Bladen/Cumberland County line.
The helicopter is able to drop water on the fire, as is the "super scooper." That's a plane that is able to scoop water from the ocean to drop on the fire. Single engine air tankers also make drops, although they must land to reload the water and retardant.
Officials say volunteer fire departments are staged along Highway 50 on the north end of the fire. The crews there have a contingency plan ready in case the fire threatens any of the houses there.
State of Emergency
Shelters were opened Wednesday for people in the voluntary evacuation zone, which is along Highway 50 in the Holly Ridge area. It's not clear if anyone went to the shelters Wednesday night; no one was there when WITN's Brittany Creamer went there Wednesday evening. The shelters are set up at Southwest Middle School and North Topsail Elementary School.
Voluntary evacuations began Wednesday for some people in Onslow County who live near that big wildfire burning in adjacent Pender County. This as Onslow County declares a state of emergency because of the fire.
The North Carolina Division of Forest Resources now says the Holly Shelter Game Land fire has consumed 18,282 acres.
Firefighters have asked for voluntary evacuations along Highway 50, between Shepard Road and Padgett Road. The Red Cross has opened a shelter at Southwest Middle School as well North Topsail Elementary School. Should residents feel that they need to relocate to a shelter, they should bring pillows, sleeping bags or blankets, in addition to any medications that they require.
We have reports of ash from the fire falling in Jacksonville and Emerald Isle.
The fire started from a lightning strike over the weekend.
The wildfire burning in Pender County has now doubled in size to 10,000 acres and a state of emergency could be enacted.
The fire began this past weekend in the Holly Shelter Game Land from a lightning strike. No homes are in danger at this time, and firefighters are plowing multiple fire lines in hopes of keeping it from crossing the highways.
Pender County says the fire is five miles wide and Highways 50 and 53 will likely be impacted by smoke. That smoke on Tuesday spread to Greenville, Kinston and even to Raleigh.
The county says they are preparing to open shelters later this afternoon, if necessary. One would be at Burgaw Middle School and another in Topsail Township, depending on fire conditions.
A large wildfire that's burning in Pender County is dumping ash on Topsail Island beaches and spreading smoke across Eastern Carolina.
The Holly Shelter fire has burned between 3,500 and 4,000 acres.
The wildfire was first noticed Saturday and state officials say it was caused by lightning. It is in a remote area of the Holly Shelter Game Land, south of Holly Ridge.
Smoke from the fire has drifted into Onslow County during the past several days and has also been reported in Raleigh. Smoke is also being seen in Greenville, Kinston and Snow Hill.
No homes have been threatened, but emergency management officials did alert nearby residents to be prepared in case evacuations are necessary.
The state Division of Forest resources has called in additional firefighting staff that should arrive later today. The Holly Shelter Game Land remains closed.
The brush fire burning in Pender County has now reached 100 acres and is threatening homes in the area, according to officials.
Lightning ignited the flames in the Holly Shelter game land Friday night. Crews managed to get a section of the fire under control over the weekend, but temperatures in the 100's on Monday caused the fire to flare up again.
A large smoke plume may cause breathing problems for some. There are reports of fallen ash from the smoke cloud in some areas.
Pender County emergency management officials say several homes near the Traders Neck area could be threatened. Residents in the area are on alert for possible evacuations.
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A brush fire burning in Pender County has created smoky conditions for some people in Onslow County.
Onslow County residents started reporting the smell of smoke Sunday night. Dispatchers say the smoke is coming from a brush fire in the Holly Shelter game lands area of Pender County, located on Lodge Rd.
The NC Division of Forest Resources says the brush fire was reported at 3:30 p.m. Sunday. The fire's size is estimated at 100 acres. Officials say six tractors worked to plow containment lines around the perimeter of the fire Sunday. A reconnaissance flight is planned for Monday to see if the containment lines fully surround the fire.
Officials say the fire's cause is under investigation, but they are exploring the possibility that a lightning strike ignited it.
Smoke will likely continue to affect people in Onslow County Monday, based on the direction of the wind.


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Other Names for this Disease
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sensorineural hearing loss in late childhood or early adolescence. The eye abnormalities seen in this condition seldom lead to vision loss. Alport syndrome can have different patterns of inheritance. About 15 percent of Alport syndrome cases are inherited in an autosomal recessive pattern and are caused by mutations in both copies of the COL4A3 or COL4A4 genes.[1]Autosomal recessive Alport syndrome is a genetic condition characterized by kidney disease, hearing loss, and eye abnormalities. Most affected individuals experience progressive loss of kidney function, usually resulting in end-stage kidney disease. People with Alport syndrome frequently develop
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I was commissioned to remake a series of dungeons and dragons encounter maps for Myrhdraak's Prince of the Undead Conversion of Assault On Nightwyrm Fortress (here (wizards.com)). I remade maps for the WotC module last year (see sig) and also made one map (G16 Heart of Darkness) for Myrhdraak (G16 is the last map in this) thread. [Note: I did not do A1 or A3 because they were perfect; I had already made G12 and G16; I left out G4, G5 and G8 urban maps but might do them later].
I have no idea why I keep making maps for this particular module – it is widely considered to be the worst dungeons and dragons module ever made! Nevertheless I like these maps and they can be used by people for other purposes perhaps. I have uploaded reasonable quality versions of them here.
Maps are generally 100 pixels = 1 inch = 1 grid square (the exception is G12 which is 200 pixels = 1 inch/grid). Maps were created using the Gimp and use resources from the dunjinni forums. All maps are for non-commercial use only.
A2 Sarthel library (before and after)
G1 High Eyrie (note: this is my favourite map of the lot!)
G6 Masqerade day/moonlit challenge map
G7 Masquerade night combat map
G10 Undead manor (combines with G11 on two sides for SUPER MAP x4!!!)
G11 House of Shadows (combines with G10 on two sides for SUPER MAP x4!!!)
G12 The Darkwell
G14 Resting Dragons (2 parts)
G15 Barrowmere's study (2 parts)
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