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NORTH CAROLINA -- One of several new North Carolina laws in effect as of Tuesday expands the number of places where concealed handgun permit holders can carry their guns. One of those places is in locked cars on school property.
Read: New NC Laws Going Into Effect Oct. 1
The new law allows a person with a concealed carry permit to keep a legal handgun in his or her car on school property, as long as the handgun is hidden and the car is locked.
Within that provision are very specific rules and exceptions that the Rockingham County Sheriff's department is reiterating. Rockingham County Sheriff Sam Page said because it is now hunting season, people might unknowingly violate the new gun law provision and thereby be subject to a felony charge. He said parents might make the mistake of having a hunting rifle concealed in their cars when they drop off or pick up their kids from school.
There are specific stipulations of having a firearm on educational property. First, guns are still prohibited inside school buildings. No one--including concealed carry permit holders--can carry a firearm on campus or at a school-sponsored event, with the exception of law enforcement and authorized personnel.
Under the new provision in effect Tuesday, a person with a concealed carry handgun permit can keep a handgun in a closed compartment inside of a locked car on school property. That person can unlock his or her car to get in or out of it, but the handgun must remain in a closed compartment or locked container securely inside the car. The car must be locked immediately after the person gets into it or out of it.
The new provision applies to handguns, only, even if someone has a valid concealed carry permit. Rifles, shotguns or other long guns cannot be brought onto educational property or taken to school events. Those firearms cannot be kept in cars on school property.
Private schools are exempt from this provision and can opt to disallow concealed guns in locked cars on school property.
Other provisions of the North Carolina gun law effect Tuesday allow concealed carry permit holders to carry handguns in bars and restaurants that serve alcohol, so long as the venue owner does not expressly forbid it. It also allows concealed carry permit holders to carry guns on greenways, playgrounds and other public recreation areas.
Also under the law, hunters now can install noise suppressors on their rifles and shotguns.
Sheriff Page said since people might soon be noticing more people conceal and carry firearms, as a direct result of the new gun law, local law enforcement is trying to raise public awareness about all of the law's provisions. He said most people carrying concealed firearms have a legal permit to do so. But, he encouraged anyone who sees someone acting in a suspicious or threatening way with a concealed firearm to call local law enforcement and report the incident.
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Wisdom, arts and skills were the virtues for which Athena, identified with Roman Minerva, was one of the most important Olympian deities. By the same virtues, we try to be inspired in our life and work in Minerva.
The majority of the people, both on board and on land, have matured through the ranks of the Company. A safe working environment and good living conditions on board and on land, fair compensation schemes, continuous training, continuity of employment, recognition and personal support, together with the friendly frank communication, positive thinking and teamwork encouragement support the motivation and maintain the commitment required.


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Doing a regularly scheduled security sweep of our systems found this "vulnerability" on our test Zimbra 6.0.8 install:
Tenable Network Security: 10722
Is this real and something I need to worry about? Is there a "fix" or change I can easily make to Zimbra configs to make this warning vanish? Or is this just business as usual and the way things are?
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Two of our users reported an issue where their "Mailbox - <User Name>" in Outlook 2007 switched to some funny chinese/japanese characters. It was temporary, and lasted through the end of a day. It happened to them at different times.
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I was wondering if I can use the token to authenticate a user in my own application.
Basicly I have a Zimlet which should connect to a REST-Webservices which is protected (with Spring Security). To access this webservice the user needs the same credentials as for the zimbra server. So I thought perhaps I can use the Zimbra-auth-token to authenticate the user in the webapp. Unfortunately I couldn't find any information about this topic. I hope someone has a suggestion
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I've come across a single problem that the system is unable to to fsck itself due to issues that are beyond my control. It is currently asking for a root password, and the one I had on file for the admin console isn't working. I know this is an ubuntu 8.04 LTS distro, but my biggest concern is I can't seem to import the disks into another Guest to try and root it myself. I can't mount the 2 smaller disks, and the larger ones seem to be LVM, but my ubuntu 10.04 system can't mount it, says incorrect block information.
How would I go about single user the Zimbra server so I can run fsck myself, or changing the root password so I don't have this problem in the future.
If people are wondering, I don't know the version of the Zimbra appliance I have, nor could I get into the Guest OS to find out. I do have administrative access to my ESXi host, and if a support technician needs one for the ZImbra appliance, I am more than willing. At this time, I know I don't have a support account/license, so I wont be opening a support ticket. Unless I'm supposed to and I'm completely terse.
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I have a very slim face and would like to find a mask that does not leak
Hello Tamara, Thank you for your inquiry! The Oceanic Oceanic Ion 2 is for For Medium to Large Faces (110 lbs+). You want to look for the mask For All faces (60-240 lbs). There are a handful of masks that fits almost all faces. Try the H2O Alpha Mask: http://www.scuba.com/scuba-gear-52/027620/H2O-Alpha-2-Scuba-Dive-Mask.html If you have any questions or wish to place an order, please call us at 1-800-247-2822 or 949-221-9300.
can i rx prescription lenses with this mask? thanks!
We do not carry optical lenses for this mask. All the masks we do carry replacement optical lenses for can be found on our Masks with Optical Lenses page. http://www.scuba.com/scuba-gear-53/Masks-Masks-w--Optical-Lenses.html
Change your point of view. A low profile family of masks for the pro, the semi-pro, and all lovers of the sport who want to see the underwater world more clearly. Accepts optical lenses and comes standard with our Neoprene Comfort Strap.
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Water is more dense than air, which makes objects look blurry. A mask provides an air spae in front of the eyes to eliminate distorted vision.
Prior to using the mask for the first time, thoroughly clean both sides of the lens with a nonabrasive liquid detergent, or toothpaste, to remove any residue, then rinse with fresh water.
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Birth Place: United States
Died: 1991/12/08
Genres: Swing, Mainstream Jazz
Buck Clayton (born Wilbur Dorsey Clayton in Parsons, Kansas on November 12, 1911-died in New York City on December 8, 1991) was an American jazz trumpet player, fondly remembered for being a leading member of Count Basie's 'Old Testament' orchestra and leader of mainstream-oriented jam session recordings in the 1950s. His principal influence was Louis Armstrong. The ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz'' says that he "synthesi[zed] much of the history of jazz trumpet up to his own time, with a bright brassy tone and an apparently limitless facility for melodic improvisation". Clayton worked closely with Li Jinhui, father of Chinese popular music in Shanghai. In the long run, his contribution ...


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I have a problem can not send email to yahoo, gmail, etc. Zimbra is single server, and DNS is single server.but when I disable DNS lookups, Zimbra can receive emails from yahoo, gmail, etc. as well as send and receive email zimbra local. Zimbra problem now I can not send email to yahoo, gmail, etc. please solution Problem Zibra Server me. thank a lot..


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Mix until smooth:
1 one-step Angel Food Cake mix (Betty Crocker worked)
1 15 ounce can solid pack pumpkin
1 ½ tsp. pumpkin pie spice
1 cup water
Pour into a 9 X 13" pan and bake at 350* for 30 minutes.
Serve with whipped cream.
It's a pumpkin sponge cake that is very lite and awesome.
Might even be a Weight Watchers recipe.
Note: I haven't tried it, but I'm guessing this would be beautiful baked in a bundt pan, sprinkled with powdered sugar and served on your prettiest plate.


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|Deaun Carpenter is new FNP at MMH
|Written by Chris Lee
Patients at Family Practice of Holyoke and Melissa Memorial Hospital will see a new face in the halls if they haven't already.
Deaun Carpenter began orientation Jan. 23 and so far has really enjoyed the people as well as the facility. She was scheduled to officially begin seeing patients this week.
Carpenter enjoys the small-town atmosphere, so Holyoke is an ideal place to work. "I enjoy having the rural setting. I like that a lot," Carpenter said. "You get to know people and their families."
Carpenter is a native of Akron, so accepting a position in Holyoke meant she was just that much closer to "home." Carpenter and husband Larry live in Imperial, Neb. They have three grown children and six granddaughters. She will continue to live in Nebraska and commute to work.
The Carpenters moved to Imperial in 1988 and have lived there all but five years. Wanting to get the feel of a "bigger hospital setting," she decided to move her family to Kearney, Neb. from 1997-2001.
Carpenter received her nursing degree from Mid Plains Community College in North Platte, Neb. in 1995 and just recently finished her nurse practitioner program at the Medical Center in Omaha, Neb. in May.
Newly hired Family Nurse Practitioner Deaun Carpenter, at right, speaks with Lois Carruthers during a meet and greet session Thursday, Feb. 2 at Melissa Memorial Hospital. Carpenter began working in Holyoke Jan. 23.
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Prior to earning her nurse practitioner license, she worked as a travel surgery nurse at many smaller hospitals in the area.
Wanting to do more, she decided to obtain her nurse practitioner license.
Carpenter's husband Larry works with center pivot irrigation systems and also has a diesel business in Lamar, Neb.
In her free time, she enjoys bicycling, quilting and traveling—even though she hasn't had much time since she has been going to school.
"She is exactly the type of person we are looking for at Melissa Memorial Hospital," MMH administrator John Ayoub said. "She's an excellent provider and an even better person. She has a great attitude and always puts the patient first and foremost in every medical decision. We're really excited to have her on staff and can't wait for the rest of the community to get to know her and be as impressed as we have been with her."
Carpenter said she is looking forward to helping people get on the road to wellness.
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Ok - I have a zimbra network edition 4.5.6 running and I have a iMate JasJar.
- Compared to IMAP I can get my calendar and address book onto the JasJar as well using zimbra mobile.
- how do I set this up? In Zimbra I tick the zimbra mobile box but what next?
- how does "push" work? If I get an email it is automatically pushed onto my PDA? - I really don't get this bit........
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Denver Base Camp has begun! Join us for an amazing week of specialty beer tastings, beer and food pairings, and appearances by Woody, the giant beer barrel on wheels. Several of our brand ambassadors, including one of our brewers, will be on hand at the events below to provide some in-the-trenches insight into our courageously crafted brews.
*10/16: Yelp-erroni Pint Extravaganza @ Gennaro's (2-6pm)
*10/18: Rustic Reserve Tasting @ Providence Tavern (5-9pm)
*10/19: Meet the Brewer @ Whole Foods Boulder (11am-1pm)
*10/20: Hats Off to Homebrewers @ Dry Dock Brewing (4-7pm)
*10/20: Beer-lesque @ Lannie's Clocktower Cabaret (8-11pm)
*10/21: Base Camp Tailgate @ Liquor Mart Boulder (4-6pm)
*10/21: Into The Abyss & live music @ Baker St. Boulder (8-11pm)
*10/22: Firkins & Football @ Old Chicago Boulder (11am-1pm)
*10/22: Base Camp Finale with Steve Kimock @ Quixote's (8pm)
More random acts of beer obsession will take place at these locations:
Ernie's + Atomic Cowboy + Pete's Monkey Bar + Highland Pacific + Pasquini's + The Olde Towne Tavern + Baker Street (Westminister) + Baker Street (DTC) + Baker Street (Lakewood)
Click on the events above for all of the juicy details and if you tweet, follow both Gina and Woody as they report live on location!


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Matching the jagged pieces of this bureaucratic puzzle requires keen-eyed, adult-level diplomacy and finesse, particularly in navigating a mandate that is unique among regulatory agencies. The EMA enables and coordinates, but does not control. It is—at least officially—politically autonomous, answering to a management board drawn from representatives of local registration authorities and the EU institutions. Day-to-day activities are driven by an extensive—and confusing—cross-subsidization of time, money, and effort among these diverse stakeholders.
The man of the moment for this task is EMA Executive Director Guido Rasi, a physician and microbiologist who assumed the post in October 2011 after three years as head of the Italian drug approval agency, AIFA. One of Rasi's assets was that he was no stranger due to his role in representing Italy on the EMA Management Board. This was important given the surprise disclosures of ethical lapses surrounding the departure in December 2010 of the second EMA Director, Thomas Löngrenn. In addition, Rasi had shown a deft hand in similar circumstances, leveraging family connections to the Berlusconi government to restore public confidence in AIFA after a 2008 scandal involving "pay-to-play" allegations against the previous management.Rocky start
Criticism over Löngrenn's move as a well-paid consultant for companies with business before the agency delayed the selection process that led to Rasi's appointment. The timing could not have been worse, as the leadership gap occurred in the aftermath of two well-publicized public health emergencies: one involving the failure of French drug-maker Servier to disclose life-threatening heart valve injuries from a diabetes drug it marketed as an appetite suppressant, and the other over the sale of breast implants known to be defective.
Although national authorities bore much of the blame for the toll in deaths and injuries, the two cases exposed serious gaps in the European legal armamentarium to protect the public health, especially once medical products are out on the market. A consensus quickly emerged that a broader regional approach was needed, and in due course the EMA found itself charged with oversight responsibility to coordinate and track the safety of all approved medicines and vaccines, including those secured via the decentralized procedure run by national agencies, through a European-wide strategy and program of pharmacovigilance.
This task alone might rightly be seen as all-consuming, given that the safety net EMA must erect covers a target community of more than 500 million patients. But Rasi confronts a more fundamental short-term challenge, which many observers of the agency now call "the two t's:" transparency and trust. Predictably, both are seen as being in short supply. EMA's paymasters in Brussels are insisting that Rasi put these at the top of his priority list to ensure that confidence in the integrity of the drug supply is maintained. "Credibility is the working currency of regulation, and EMA is no exception," Rasi told a recent Prix Galien Forum panel moderated by Pharm Exec.


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Make a Difference for Students in the College of Business and Management
General Funds
College of Business and Management Fund
Center for Entrepreneurship Program Fund
Frederick L. and Eugenia M. Parsons International Business Education Fund
Scholarship Funds
College of Business and Management Scholarship Fund
Dyanne Ferk and Bruce Hogan Scholarship Fund
Michael F. and Pamela M. Luenz Scholarship Fund (Access Illinois matched scholarship)
Northwestern Mutual, D. Patrick Scheina Scholarship (Access Illinois matched scholarship)
Realtors Real Estate Foundation Scholarship Fund (Access Illinois matched scholarship)
Maureen A. Schaaf Scholarship
The William and Mary Schnirring Scholarship Fund
Gilbert N. and Frances G. Stein Scholarship Evelyn Brandt Thomas Scholarship
Kent Weber Scholarship
General Funds
The College of Business and Management has two general funds that can be used throughout the College. You can give as much or as little as you would like to this, and you can give online or by mail.
College of Business and Management Fund
This fund provides money for special opportunities or extraordinary needs.
- Faculty and students can travel to a conference to present their research.
- Faculty can take part in a special opportunity to update their skills. Professors need to be aware of the latest developments in their field, so that they can pass this knowledge on to their students.
- The department can purchase special equipment, test materials, resources, or training modules to help our students attain success and achieve their goals.
These activities and others like them enrich our students immeasurably, enhancing the education they receive at UIS—but we could not do any of them without the discretionary money given to this fund.
Center for Entrepreneurship Program Fund
This UIS Center seeks to expand the outreach activities with the regional business community and enhance student-business engagement, encourage entrepreneurial actions among the student community as well as develop and support entrepreneurial pursuits in the central Illinois region, further the understanding, growth and development of family-owned businesses in central Illinois, and familiarize students with the distinct opportuntities and challenges presented in family businesses. Gifts to this fund support these efforts.
Frederick L. and Eugenia M. Parsons International Business Education Fund
This fund provides support for international business education.
Scholarship Funds
The College of Business and Management has two scholarship funds that can be awarded to students from throughout the College.
College of Business and Management Scholarship Fund
Supports scholarships for UIS students in the College of Business & Management Program. This is an excellent fund to choose to add your contribution of any size to.
Dyanne Ferk and Bruce Hogan Scholarship Fund
Dyanne Ferk is Associate Dean of the College of Business and Management. She and her husband, Bruce Hogan, appreciate how much international business students at UIS add to the global education and understanding of stateside students. They know, however, that finding a paid internship can be difficult for international students. They also know how much these students have to offer the athletic program at UIS. Dyanne and Bruce have therefore designated their scholarship for an international student who works without pay for UIS Athletics. Great idea!
Michael F. and Pamela M. Luenz Scholarship Fund
Michael and Pamela Luenz generously support many educational causes, and UIS is particularly pleased that they have chosen to create an Access Illinois match program for the College of Business and Management. Michael Luenz earned a BA in Management from UIS (then SSU) in 1980. Because theirs is a matched scholarship, their gift will have twice the impact for a full ten years.
Northwestern Mutual, D. Patrick Scheina Scholarship
Patrick Scheina, CLU, is the managing director of the Springfield branch of Northwestern Mutual. He joined Northwestern Mutual in 2003 and has earned numerous industry awards. He has a five-year pledge for a current-use scholarship which will benefit students in the College of Business and Management. Because the Northwestern Mutual scholarship qualifies for the Access Illinois match, its impact will be doubled each of those five years.
Realtors Real Estate Foundation Scholarship Fund
An endowed scholarship for students in the College of Business and Management. Because this fund is unrestricted within the College and for qualified undergraduate students with need, the scholarship meets the requirements for the Access Illinois match program.
Maureen A Schaaf Scholarship
Bob and Maureen Schaaf have long been friends of UIS. Maureen is a UIS grad: she earned an Accountancy BA in 1983. Bob was one of the original group that donated land for Sangamon State University (now UIS) which opened in 1970 . Together they have created the Maureen A. Schaaf Scholarship for an undergraduate student with need in the College of Business and Management, with preference given to a graduate of Springfield's Sacred Heart Griffin High School.
The William and Mary Schnirring Scholarship Fund
Generous, involved, and tremendously supportive of UIS–these words only begin to describe what wonderful donors William and Mary Schnirring have been to UIS. Mr. Schnirring is chairman of the board of Springfield Electric Supply Company, a family-owned business in Springfield. Both Mr. and Mrs. Schnirring donate their time, energies, and resources to many local charities and nonprofit organizations. Through their donations, they have funded four scholarships, two for students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, one in the College of Education and Human Services, and one in the College of Business and Management. (They also donated the lights that shine so brilliantly on the flagpoles at the front of the UIS campus.)
Gilbert N. and Frances G. Stein Scholarship
Gilbert N. Stein, a long-time resident of Springfield helped elevate Dairy Queen to worldwide status in the 1960s. Mr. Stein became known in the business world because of his innovative franchising, marketing and mentoring skills. The University of Illinois at Springfield recognized Mr. Stein with an honorary doctorate in humane letters in 2005 for his lifetime achievements and perseverance in overcoming difficult times, a changing society and market culture, and incorporating the skills and technology needed to build Dairy Queen into an international enterprise. The Gilbert N. and Frances G. Stein Scholarship was established in 2006 by Mr. Stein. Qualified applicants will be majors of the College of Business and Management with academic merit.
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Evelyn Brandt Thomas, an avid 4-H and Rural Youth Organization member during her childhood, grew up on a 240-acre farm near Pleasant Plains, IL. Her parents raised cattle and grain on the farm and she and her siblings learned the family business through their daily chores. Mrs. Thomas graduated from Springfield High School and later received a business degree from Illinois Business College in Springfield. Her husband, the late Gordon Thomas, was a graduate of the University of Illinois College of Agriculture. During their 53 years of marriage, the couple remained lifelong supporters of 4-H and FFA programs. In 2004, Mrs. Thomas received the Illinois 4-H Alumni Award at the University of Illinois in Champaign. The Evelyn Brandt Thomas Scholarship was established in 2004 and seeks to assist full-time junior or senior students enrolled in the College of Business and Management. Preference is given to female applicants.
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1939: "The Wizard of Oz" premiered in Hollywood.
1958: Buddy Holly and Maria Elena Santiago got married in a private ceremony at his parents' home in Lubbock, Texas. Holly and Santiago had met only two months before. He died in a plane crash the following February.
1965: The Beatles performed before a capacity crowd at New York's Shea Stadium, which, at the time, set a record for the largest audience to gather for a concert.
1969: The Woodstock Music and Arts Fair opened in upstate New York. During three days, dozens of acts performed before the crowd that had gathered on Max Yasgur's farm.
Today's Birthdays: Actress Rose Marie ("The Dick Van Dyke Show") is 91. Actor Mike Connors is 89. Actress Lori Nelson is 81. Actress Pat Priest ("The Munsters") is 78. Drummer Pete York of The Spencer Davis Group is 72. Author-journalist Linda Ellerbee is 70. Songwriter Jimmy Webb is 68. Singer-guitarist Tom Johnston of The Doobie Brothers is 66. Actress Phyllis Smith ("The Office") is 65. Actress Tess Harper is 64. Actor Larry Mathews ("The Dick Van Dyke Show") is 59. Actor Zeljko Ivanek ("Heroes," "Homicide") is 57. Actor Rondell Sheridan ("That's So Raven," "Cory in the House") is 56. Singer-keyboardist Matt Johnson of The The is 53. Actor Peter Hermann ("Law and Order: Special Victims Unit") is 47. Actress Debra Messing ("Will and Grace") is 46. Actor Anthony Anderson ("Barbershop") is 44. Actor Ben Affleck is 42. Actress Natasha Henstridge ("The Whole Nine Yards," "Species") is 40. Singer Joe Jonas of The Jonas Brothers is 25. Actor-singer Carlos Pena ("Big Time Rush") is 25. Actress Jennifer Lawrence ("The Hunger Games") is 24. DJ Smoove da General of Cali Swag District is 24.


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Trespass (2011)
Trespass SynopsisIn a private, wealthy community, priority is placed on security and no exception is made for the Miller familys estate. Behind their pristine walls and manicured gardens, Kyle (Nicolas Cage), a fast-talking businessman, has entrusted the mansions renovation to his stunning wife, Sarah (Nicole Kidman).
But between making those big decisions and keeping tabs on their defiant teenage daughter (Liana Liberato), Sarah often finds herself distracted by a young, handsome worker (Cam Gigandet) at their home. Nothing is what it seems, and it will take a group of cold-blooded criminals led by Elias (Ben Mendelsohn), who have been planning a vicious home invasion for months, to bring the Miller family together. When they storm the manor, everyone is tangled up in betrayal, deception, temptation and scheming. Kyle, Sarah and Avery will take the ultimate risk to make it out with their lives and their family intact.
Trespass Release Date
In Theaters October 14, 2011
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Starring: Nicolas Cage, Nicole Kidman, Cam Gigandet
Written by: Karl Gajdusek
Directed by: Joel Schumacher
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Posted by: lori on Sep 05, 2010
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Hampton, GA (September 5, 2010) – It is not a secret that the GEICO Racing program has undergone changes over the last couple of weeks. With Casey Mears taking over the #13 GEICO Sprint Cup Series car and Max Papis moving full-time to the Truck Series in 2011 in the #9 GEICO Toyota Tundra, Atlanta provided everyone the opportunity to move forward.
Mears wasted little time making himself at home in the #13 GEICO Toyota Camry, quickly establishing his presence at Atlanta Motor Speedway. In both practice sessions on Saturday, Mears and the Gecko were fastest among the 'go or go home' cars. Unfortunately, during his qualifying run later that afternoon, he experienced a severe vibration, but managed to place the GEICO Camry in Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series field despite the unforeseen condition.
Sunday found Mears and the GEICO Racing team surrounded by special guests, including Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway. Rock star Rachel Bolan of Skid Row and Layne Schranz, who pilots the GEICO car in the Pikes Peak Hill Climb, also joined Mears and the GEICO crew on pit road prior to the race.
Atlanta's NASCAR weekend was accompanied by perfect weather conditions and Sunday night's race would not disappoint. With temperatures in the 70's, the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series took the green flag as the sun began to set over the 1.54-mile quad-oval.
After a vibration squalled his qualifying efforts, Mears was relegated to starting 43rd. Though temperatures were cooling, Mears and the #13 GEICO Camry were heating up. Mears picked up seven positions by the close of the first lap, while half a lap later he was sitting in the 34th position; netting 9 spots in the event's opening two laps. Mears and the Gecko continued on a tear and found themselves in the Top 20 when they arrived in 19th position on lap 47.
While Atlanta Motor Speedway is known as one of the toughest, fastest tracks on the Sprint Cup Series circuit, Mears remained on the lead lap and dipped into the Top 10 when he moved into the 8th position before scheduled green flag pit stops sent the #13 GEICO Camry down pit road for service on lap 49. The Germain Racing pit crew replenished Mears' GEICO Camry with four fresh Goodyear tires and a full tank of Sunoco racing fuel before returning him to the racing surface in the 34th position. While the stop was necessary, it also put Mears a lap down to the field.
Mears quickly began to make progress and moved back into the Top 30 on lap 83. Germain Racing crew chief Bootie Barker radioed to Mears, "You're doing a great job, Casey. You're faster than the guys in front of you." That would be an understatement by Barker, as the #13 GEICO Camry was, at times, one full second faster than the cars he was chasing.
He was able to reach 29th place before scheduled green flag pit stops once again got underway.
On lap 94, Mears brought the GEICO Camry down pit road where the Germain Racing pit crew provided him with four new tires, fuel and adjustments. He returned to the racetrack in the 35th position, but had the #13 GEICO Camry back in the Top 30 by lap 106. With only 19 cars on the lead lap, Mears remained just one lap down to the leaders.
Throughout the race, Mears spoke on the radio with a veteran's calm. He sounded more like he was at home on his couch rather than in one of the most intense races of the year. His relaxed demeanor betrayed his on-track aggression, but seemed to have a calming affect on the GEICO pit area.
Although Mears seemed calm on the radio, what happened on lap 151 was sure to get his attention. Greg Biffle and Elliott Sadler began spinning, and Mears avoided peril by the narrowest of margins while running in the 26th position. Mears was forced down hard onto the apron, but the GEICO Camry did not appear to have sustained any damage. After the caution, Mears restarted the race running 25th, but cars began to check-up, causing him to drop several spots to 29th. Despite the setback, Mears had the GEICO Camry back in the Top 25 inside of ten laps.
The race was beginning to wind down, but the excitement was not over for Mears and the #13 GEICO Camry. On lap 265, the engine of Scott Speed's #82 Red Bull car blew up in front of Mears and the Gecko. Mears quickly radioed to Barker, "I got in that oil and almost wrecked."
Just over 50 laps remained in the Emory Healthcare 500 when Barker informed the team that they would be nine laps short on fuel and would need to pit before event's end. Barker must have favor with the racing gods because almost on queue, the caution flag was displayed on lap 295 for a Brad Keselowski spin, allowing Mears to get the fuel he needed to finish the race. Just prior to the restart on lap 300, Mears predicted there would be another caution.
After restarting 27th on Lap 300, Mears' statement proved to be prophetic as the caution flag waved once again just one lap later for debris. Mears and the #13 GEICO Camry were the first car a lap down when they restarted 26th with 18 laps to go in the race. Another caution would put the GEICO Camry back on the lead lap. The caution would not come out again before the checkered flag was in the air.
Mears managed a 26th place finish in his debut in the #13 GEICO Camry and gave great hope to the Germain Racing team and the Gecko.
"I had a lot of fun tonight in the #13 GEICO Camry. We had a great car and should've definitely finished on the lead lap," Mears said after emerging from his GEICO machine. "This is our first time out, so we're only going to get better. We know what we need to do and we'll make it happen. I'm happy with the team and equipment and I'm looking forward to getting to Richmond and building upon what we accomplished here in Atlanta this weekend."
Next weekend will prove extra special, as Mears and the Germain Racing team travel to Richmond, VA, for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race. GEICO's corporate office is just 100 miles removed from Richmond International Raceway, making it almost a 'home game' of sorts for the GEICO team.
Mears and the #13 GEICO Toyota Camry will hit the 3/4-mile D-shaped oval of Richmond International Raceway for the opening practice session at 12:00 PM (EDT) on Friday, September 10th. Qualifying will begin at 5:40 PM (EDT).
The Air Guard 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race is on Saturday, September 11th, and it will be televised live on ABC beginning at 7:30 PM (EDT), while the Motor Racing Network (MRN) will carry the live radio broadcast.
To learn more about the GEICO Racing program, please visit: www.geicogarage.com
You can also follow GEICO Racing on Twitter: www.twitter.com/geicoracing
Please visit the Casey Mears Facebook fan page: www.facebook.com/caseymearsracing
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But things are much different now that blockbuster drugs are few and far between. Blockbuster drugs made it too easy to be very profitable without being very productive, so marketing and sales productivity were rarely high-level issues. Calls for marketers to "do more with less" are just a lot of brave talk, as most companies are ill-equipped to cope with the R&D slowdown. Although cost reductions are justified, profitable activities are often cut along with the losers.
In the last decade, major areas of marketing and sales productivity have become nearly a hard science, but you wouldn't know it by the way most pharma companies make decisions. It seems companies are so comfortable making judgment calls and so focused on cutting costs that they have missed the potential for real productivity improvements.Addressing marketing productivity issues will require most companies to go outside for much of their analytics (forecasting/resource allocation) work. This would represent a reversal of the current trend. Though this may this appear self-serving, it has several advantages:
In order for marketing and sales productivity improvements to become major contributors to the bottom line, most organizations will need to take dramatic steps to get more from the functional areas of market research and brand/sales analytics. This will require greater out-of-pocket expenditures in these areas, but the payoff from greater effectiveness will be worth it if things are done right.
Every pharma company should work to achieve three overarching productivity objectives. Here's a closer look at how each objective makes sense.
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The most important productivity step a company can take is to position its new products persuasively in the marketplace. The better a new product is positioned, the more prescriptions it will generate with any level of promotional spending. But the positioning of some pharma brands is barely better—and sometimes no better—than what appears on the product information sheet. Princeton Brand Econometrics has observed that aggressive positioning work typically beats product information by 10 to 30 percent. Still, many campaigns fail to do better than the product information.
Beating the product information usually results from insightful qualitative research and great advertising minds. The cost difference between accessing great resources and mediocre resources usually pales in comparison to the extra prescriptions generated year after year.
It would be a mistake to invest in high quality work and then squander it by using judgment to pick the best positioning. People are much better at coming up with ideas than ranking them. The most promising positionings should be tested against a product information summary by using a methodology that's proven to forecast in-market results. If nothing beats the product information, new concepts should be developed by a new creative team.


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BRANDYWINE, Md. (WUSA) --After 40 minutes of work, officials say the driver who was trapped in a tractor-trailer that had fallen on its side, has been rescued.
The tractor-trailer turned over in the 14700 block of Gibbons Church Rd. in Brandywine, Md.
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Appendix F. Prohibition of Hazing
Under state law (V.T.C.A., Education Code 51.936 and 37.151 et seq.), individuals or organizations engaging in hazing could be subject to fines and charged with a criminal offense.
According to the law, a person can commit a hazing offense not only by engaging in a hazing activity, but also by soliciting, directing, encouraging, aiding or attempting to aid another in hazing; by intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly allowing hazing to occur; or by failing to report in writing to the dean of students firsthand knowledge that a hazing incident is planned or has occurred. The fact that a person consented to or acquiesced in a hazing activity is not a defense to prosecution for hazing under the law.
In an effort to encourage reporting of hazing incidents, the law grants immunity from civil or criminal liability to any person who reports a specific hazing event in good faith and without malice to the dean of students or other appropriate official of the institution and immunizes that person for participation in any judicial proceeding resulting from that report. Additionally, a doctor or other medical practitioner who treats a student who may have been subjected to hazing may make a good faith report of the hazing activities to police or other law enforcement officials and is immune from civil or other liability that might otherwise be imposed or incurred as a result of the report. The penalty for failure to report is a fine of up to $1,000, up to 180 days in jail, or both. Penalties for other hazing offenses vary according to the severity of the injury which results and include fines from $500 to $10,000 and/or confinement for up to two years.
The law does not affect or in any way restrict the right of the University to enforce its own rules against hazing.
The law defines hazing as any intentional, knowing, or reckless act, occurring on or off the campus of an educational institution, by one person alone or acting with others, directed against a student, that endangers the mental or physical health or safety of a student for the purpose of pledging, being initiated into, affiliating with, holding office in, or maintaining membership in any organization whose members are or include students at an educational institution. Hazing includes but is not limited to:
Rules and Regulations of the Board of Regents of The University of Texas System, Part One, Chapter VI, Section 3.28 provides that
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Hamilton County Commissioner Greg Hartmann wants Mayor Mark Mallory to live up to past promises of county-city collaboration. In a letter to Mallory, Hartmann criticized the mayor for failing to stick to his pledge of supporting the City-County Shared Services Committee. The committee seeks to streamline county and city services to end redundancies and make the services more competitive and efficient.
Cincinnati Economic Development's director asked City Council to create a "mega incentive" for "huge impact" development. He also asked City Council to pledge $4 million of casino revenue a year to a local neighborhood project. If City Council agrees, casino revenue will be used to boost local businesses.
Metro is looking at the world's quickest-charging electric bus. It supposedly can charge in 10 minutes and travel 40 miles.
The day before Pennsylvania's voter ID law faced trouble in court, Secretary of Jon Husted suggested a "more strict" voter ID law for Ohio. Husted said the current ID system needs to be streamlined and simplified. Democrats criticized the suggestion for its potential voter suppression.Sept. 22 will be the "Global Frackdown," a day where activists will protest around the world in a push to ban hydraulic fracturing — or fracking. Cincinnati will have its own "Frackdown" at Piatt Park. Activists are generally against fracking because it poses too many risks, which CityBeat covered here. But Gov. John Kasich and other supporters of fracking insist it can be made safe with proper regulations. Some have also suggested that natural gas, which is now plentiful due to the spread of fracking, can be used as part of a bigger plan to stop global warming.
A new survey says Cincinnati companies will continue hiring through the fourth quarter.It wasn't as good as last year, but it was better than the month before. A new state report says 7,341 new businesses filed to do work in Ohio in August, down from 7,423 in August 2011.
A state commission approved $1.5 million for the Cincinnati Art Museum and a $600,000 reimbursement for the Art Academy of Cincinnati.
More than half of Ohioans could be obese by 2030, a new report found. The rise in obesity could push up medical costs by $23.8 billion.
But screw worrying about weight. Taste of Belgium (writer's note: best restaurant in the land) is thinking about expanding.
In other restaurant news, it seems Chick-Fil-A may stop its anti-gay donations. Maybe Kermit and friends will be forgiving.
The full footage for Mitt Romney's controversial comments
at a May 17 fundraiser has become available here. The footage shows why
Romney prefers to be dishonest most of the time. More importantly,
Romney's comments about Obama voters are not accurate. The Onion, a satirical newspaper, has an explanation for why Romney insists on unleashing gaffe after gaffe.
One astrophysicist says there is no such thing as time.
But the presidential race raced back to gaffes over trade policy when Mother Jones posted amazingly candid footage of Romney speaking to millionaires at a fundraiser. In the videos, Romney straightforwardly outlines campaign strategy. In one video, Romney said he doesn't care about getting the vote of the 47 percent of Americans that don't pay taxes because he doesn't believe he can convince them to "take personal responsibility and care for their lives." The Obama team retaliated in a statement: "It's shocking that a candidate for president of the United States would go behind closed doors and declare to a group of wealthy donors that half the American people view themselves as 'victims,' entitled to handouts, and are unwilling to take 'personal responsibility' for their lives. It's hard to serve as president for all Americans when you've disdainfully written off half the nation."
Ohioans love their local schools, a new survey shows. The survey also found Ohioans trust their local school boards of education with education-related decisions, but they really don't trust the state superintendent, governor or legislature.Hamilton County courts want to go paperless. The move would save money and space and make the system more efficient.
County budget meetings are still chugging along. Different department directors are still pleading for no cuts, but the commissioners insist cuts have to be made somewhere.
Cincinnati police announced a new Taser policy. The new policy disallows the use of frontal shots except in situations involving self-defense and the defense of others, reinforces the fact officers need to make sure such force is necessary and points out people have been injured due to Taser use. The new policy was brought about due to findings Taser use can kill in rare situations.
Cincinnati launched a national design competition for the decks over Fort Washington Way that will connect the Banks and Central Business District.
A new Hamilton County initiative to improve neighborhoods will tear down 700 dilapidated homes.
The streetcar's yearlong delay got an explanation yesterday. A few issues are to blame, including the city's ongoing conflict with Duke Energy over who has to pay for moving utility lines to accommodate for the streetcar.
The amount of people on Ohio's death row is shrinking. After Donald Palmer's execution, Ohio will drop to its lowest death row population since July 1995.
Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted launched a mailing campaign to clean up voter rolls. Using data from U.S. Postal Service National Change of Address Registry, Husted mailed 70,000 former Ohioans encouraging them to cancel their voter registration. The action is a lot tamer than Republican-led efforts to purge voter rolls in other states, which states like Florida, Iowa and Colorado have backed out of — at least for now.
Duke Energy unveiled its new logo.
A new meta-analysis found fish oil may not live up to its health hype.
NASA is now saying faster-than-light travel may be possible and feasible. The technology would allow spaceships to travel to Mars in minutes. Still, the theory does have some problems.
President Barack Obama announced a new trade action against China during a Cincinnati campaign stop on Monday, where he also took the opportunity to attack Republican challenger Mitt Romney.
The U.S. filed the case at the World Trade Organization on Monday and claims that China offers "extensive subsidies" to native automakers and auto-parts producers.
The Chinese government filed its own complaint before the WTO on Monday, challenging tariffs the U.S. imposes on Chinese products ranging from steel to tires. The tariffs are meant to protect American manufacturers against what the U.S. government claims are unfair trade practices by China.
"(The U.S. action is) against illegal subsidies that encourage companies to ship auto part manufacturing jobs overseas," Obama said before an estimated crowd of 4,500 at the Seasongood Pavilion in Eden Park. "These are subsidies that directly harm working men and women on the assembly lines in Ohio and Michigan and across the Midwest."
"It's not right, it's against the rules, and we will not let it stand. American workers build better products than anyone. 'Made in America' means something. And when the playing field is level, America will always win."
Obama went on to criticize his Republican challenger, saying Romney made his fortune in part by uprooting American jobs and shipping them to China. Obama accused Romney — who has criticized Obama's foreign policy, saying the president apologizes for American interests — of talking the talk without being able to walk the walk.
The Romney campaign countered with an email after the rally, saying that Obama's economic policies were hurting the private sector and harmed manufacturing.
"The President's misguided, ineffective policies have hampered the private sector and allowed China to flaunt the rules while middle-class families suffer," Romney campaign spokeswoman Amanda Henneberg wrote.
"As president, Mitt Romney will deliver a fresh start for manufacturers by promoting trade that works for America and fiscal policies that encourage investment, hiring and growth."
The email pointed to reports from Bloomberg finding that manufacturing and production have shrunk recently.
Before the Obama rally several Ohio Republicans held a news conference behind a Romney campaign bus near Eden Park, where they focused more on the deficit than foreign trade.
U.S. Rep. Steve Chabot said it was "laughable" that Obama considers himself a budget hawk. He pointed to the decline in budget negotiations between the president and the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, saying Obama "walked away" from talks with Speaker John Boehner.
"Basically as president from that time last August until now, it's been all politics," Chabot said.
Chabot also attacked Obama on foreign policy, claiming the president has left Israel hanging in the Middle East and is not serious with Iran, who he says is on the brink of getting nuclear weapons.
The president in his speech said he did have a plan to reduce the federal deficit, and would reduce it by $4 trillion over the next 10 years without raising taxes on the middle class.
Monday's visit to Cincinnati was Obama's second of this campaign and his 12th trip to Ohio this year. Romney has visited the state 18 times during his campaign.
Obama was scheduled to fly to Columbus Monday afternoon for a campaign appearance there.
President Barack Obama is in town today. Expect some coverage from CityBeat this afternoon. Last time Obama was in Cincinnati, he discussed gay rights, small business support and girl scout cookies. Ohio is typically considered a must-win for presidential candidate Mitt Romney, but he is currently losing in aggregate polls.
Ohio Rep. Connie Pillich of Cincinnati criticized the University of Cincinnati Board of Trustees for former UC President Greg Williams' severance package. She told The Enquirer, "It's really disappointing that the trustees would make such a decision while so many students and families are struggling with rising tuition costs. As the trustees vote to needlessly spend over a million dollars, the University is trying to decide how to fund $10 million for the Cintrifuse project and students are taking out more loans to pay a tuition that was increased by 3.5 percent this year." Williams got a package totaling $1.3 million after abruptly leaving the university, citing personal reasons. Despite the allegedly rocky past between the Board and Williams, the Board of Trustees insists it did not force him out.
Local governments setting 2013 budgets are feeling big cuts from the state government's Local Government Fund.
Eligible residents could save $163 a year with natural gas thanks to a new aggregation program in Cincinnati. The city announced Friday it's working on the new plan with Duke Energy, and customers should get details about the deal soon. The city says the deal will reach about 64,000 residents and small businesses.
Voter fraud is still not a widespread problem. A Butler County Tea Party group found zero complaints with sufficient proof to remove anyone from the voter rolls.
As part of its expansion at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, DHL is adding 300 jobs.
U.S. senatorial candidate Josh Mandel of Ohio claims he
has seen a recent surge in the polls, closing a 13-point gap. But a new
poll from Rasmussen Reports, which typically has a Republican-leaning
in-house effect, says Mandel is still very far from Sen. Sherrod Brown
in the polls with an eight-point gap. Aggregate polls show Brown leads
Mandel by 7.2 points.
There is a lot of criticism being hurled at public charter schools. While some charter schools are successful, some have serious financial and educational problems. Critics say the schools need tougher standards.Romney is facing criticism for saying middle income is $200,000 to $250,000 and less. However, Obama made a similar distinction in the past when he said income up to $250,000 is middle class. The reason for this strange distinction from both sides — most Americans would find $250,000 to be beyond middle class — is to protect small businesses. Typically, politicians try to bundle up small businesses with middle class protections, and taxing income between $200,000 and $250,000 as if it's not middle class could potentially hurt small businesses.
Dissatisfied with the lack of innovation in the iPhone 5? Apparently, you might be alone.
Scientists can now levitate fluids with ultrasonic sound.
More bad news for Secretary of State Jon Husted. The Ohio Supreme Court told Husted his approved ballot language for Issue 2 contains "factual inaccuracies" and must be rewritten by the Ballot Board. Voters First previously contested the language as misleading to voters. If approved by voters, Issue 2 will put an independent citizens commission in charge of redistricting. Under the current system, state officials redraw borders, sometimes using the process for political advantage. In Cincinnati's district, the Republican-controlled process redrew the district to include Warren County, giving the district more rural voters that tend to side with Republicans instead of urban voters that tend to side with Democrats. Voters First mocked the process with a graph showing how redistricting decisions can sometimes be made in 13 minutes with no questions asked. CityBeat covered the redistricting process here when Issue 2 was still in the petition process.
Ohio's median income dropped last year, according to a new report from the U.S. Census Bureau. But rates of poverty and uninsured rates remained the same. Nationwide, uninsured rates dropped from 16.3 percent in 2010 to 15.7 percent in 2011, meaning 1.4 million people gained health coverage. Some of that is attributable to health-care reform passed by President Barack Obama.Former University of Cincinnati President Greg Williams is getting a pretty nice going-away present. The Board of Trustees approved a package for Williams that adds up to more than $1.2 million. It includes a bonus, retirement benefits, consulting fees, a year's salary and a contract buyout. Williams abruptly left UC on Aug. 21, citing personal reasons.
Homeless shelters will cost more than expected, says 3CDC. The nonprofit group said it will cost about $40 million to build three homeless shelters and help finance others.
With the support of Democrats and Republicans, the Ohio legislature approved pension reforms yesterday. The reforms lower benefits, raise contributions requirements, increase the retirement eligibility age, establish new cost-of-living guidelines and set a new formula to calculate benefits, all for future retirees. For the most part, current retirees are not affected. Senate President Tom Niehaus, a Republican, said, "We know the changes are not popular, but they are necessary." Before the changes, the system was losing $1 million a day, according to a statement from Rep. Robert Hagan, a Democrat.Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio is pushing against banks that take advantage of college students. In a letter to Higher One, Brown told the bank to rework its contracts with universities. Brown wrote in the letter, "Federal student aid programs should help students prepare for the future, not extract fee income from them." He went on to ask the bank to redo its contracts so they are "consumer-friendly and consistent with reforms that Congress enacted for the credit card market."
Ohio's inspector general found ODJFS wrongly reimbursed organizations in central Ohio with federal stimulus funds when the organizations did not follow rules.
Vice President Joe Biden was in Dayton yesterday. During his speech, he spoke about the attack on the U.S. embassy in Libya, which led to the death of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens. Biden vowed justice will be served.
Presidential candidate Mitt Romney unleashed a big foreign policy gaffe yesterday when he politicized the attack on the U.S. embassy in Libya. The attack was revealed to cause the death of Stevens after Romney made his comments.
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DAYTON – Vice President Joe Biden took time at the beginning of his Wednesday campaign stop in Dayton to condemn an overnight attack that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans, while praising the work and courage of American diplomats and promising to bring to justice those who carried out the attack.
"(This) brave — and it's not hyperbole to say brave –— ambassador was in Benghazi while the war was going on. Our ambassador risked his life repeatedly while the war in Libya to get rid of that dictator was going on," Biden said.
"These men are as brave and as courageous as any of our warriors."
The Tuesday attack took place during a protest against an amateur short film made in the United States that protesters say insulted the Prophet Muhammad. U.S Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three of his staff members were killed.
"Let me be clear — we are resolved to bring to justice their killers," Biden said.
The vice president made no mention of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's criticism of the Obama administration's response from the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, which he characterized as "akin to an apology" and a "severe miscalculation," but the vice president quickly segued into politics, alluding to Romney's relative lack of experience in foreign policy.
"The task of a president is not only to defend our interests and causes and the cause of freedom abroad, it is also to build a nation here at home, to which the entire world can look and aspire to be like," Biden said. "Whether we do that and how we do that, that is literally the essence of the choice we face in this presidential election. It really is that basic, and foreign policy is not some sideline to all of this."
The Romney campaign in Ohio was quick to respond, calling Biden's remarks "hypocritical" in an emailed statement.
"Vice President Biden's appearance in Dayton only served further damage to his credibility as he reprised hypocritical and widely debunked attacks against Mitt Romney. Not only did the Vice President mislead Ohioans, but he attacked Mitt Romney for supporting the same tax policy the Obama Administration supported just last year," Romney Ohio spokesman Christopher Maloney wrote.
"With today's Census report showing nearly 1 in 6 Americans living in poverty and incomes continuing to decline, it appears that misleading attacks are all the Obama campaign has left to offer 400,000 Ohioans looking for work."
Maloney's email also fact-checked a claim made by Biden during his speech. Biden said that he opposed the so-called "territorial tax," which he said would allow American companies that invested abroad to avoid paying taxes in the United States.
The email included links to an Associated Press fact checking article that concludes that Romney's proposal was aimed at encouraging investment in the U.S. rather than overseas.
Biden spoke to a packed house at Wright State University in Dayton, with overflow crowds estimated in the hundreds viewing in separate rooms in the Student Union.
The vice president reiterated many of his usual stump speech points — the Romney tax plan's negative effects on the middle class, the benefits of the Affordable Care Act and the Obama administration's commitment to manufacturing — but much of Biden's speech focused on education. He said a president Romney would cut funding for Pell Grants, meaning many students in the audience would have to leave school. He also lauded President Barack Obama's administration's enactment of a tax break of $2,500 for every family that sends a child to college.
The usually bombastic Biden wasn't without his gaffes. Twice he referred to Wright State as "Wayne State," which is in Detroit, despite a large Wright State University banner displayed in the conference room where he gave his speech.
The crowd was quick to correct him after the second time he misspoke.
"Wright State, which also includes Wayne State," Biden said after he was corrected, eliciting laughs from the audience.
Ohio's inspector general released a report today criticizing the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS) for improperly reimbursing federal stimulus funds to hired organizations that did not follow rules.
In a statement, Inspector General Randall Meyer's office said ODJFS "failed to adequately oversee federal grant funds applied to the Constructing Futures jobs training initiative for Central Ohio."
The report released by Meyer's office today, which focused on stimulus programs in central Ohio, outlined a few instances of ODJFS failing to oversee proper standards. In total, the department, which was put in charge of carrying out job training funds in Ohio from the stimulus package President Barack Obama signed into law in 2009, wrongly reimbursed companies it hired for $51,700.81.
In central Ohio, ODJFS hired two organizations to carry out the job training program, or Workforce Investment Act: Associated Builders and Contractors, Inc. (ABC) and Construction Trades Networks (CTN). At ABC, the inspector general found limited problems with faulty reimbursements involving a newspaper subscription, travel and mileage totaling less than $100. The money was not accounted for as a questionable cost since it was so small.
However, at CTN, the faulty reimbursements piled up. The organization was reimbursed $560.61 for phone calls made prior to being hired as part of the federal grant. It was also reimbursed $1,613.62 for its invoices, even though documentation was not provided to link phone calls as necessary to the grant program.
Under the federal stimulus rules, CTN was required to provide 25 percent of its own funds for the program. CTN planned on using $91,800 of in-kind funds — payment that isn't cash — by paying for trainee wages. The organization paid $60,927.70 by the end of the grant period, and the organization was reimbursed for $49,526.64 by ODJFS, even though the charges were supposed to be carried by CTN. The inspector general requested CTN give the money back to ODJFS.
When the inspector general contacted the organization to explain the findings, CTN attributed the requests for faulty reimbursements to confusion caused by multiple administrative changes at ODJFS.
"In addition, monitoring visits by ODJFS were not conducted until after the grant period expired, even though the partnerships were told the visits would occur as grant activities were underway," the report said.
Meyer's office concluded ODJFS should review the questioned costs, work to keep consistent guidelines through administrative changes and monitor grant funds during the grant period.
The full inspector general report can be found here.
A report was released for northwestern Ohio was released on May 10, and it also found wrongdoing. It can be found here. A report for stimulus programs in southwestern Ohio will be released later.ODJFS could not be immediately provide comment on the report. This story will be updated if comments become available.
UPDATE (3:28 P.M.): Benjamin Johnson, spokesperson for ODJFS, provided a comment shortly after this story was published.
"As the report mentions, these were expenditures by local entities, not by the Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services," he says. "We appreciate the inspector general bringing this to our attention, and we'll work to resolve the matter."
President Barack Obama will visit Cincinnati Monday. No
details were given for the event. Last time Obama was in
Cincinnati, he held a town hall meeting to tout his support for small
businesses and the LGBT community. Ohio is considered a vital swing
state for the presidential election, and it's widely considered a
must-win for Republican candidate Mitt Romney. However, after the
Democratic National Convention, aggregate polling at FiveThirtyEight and
RealClearPolitics hugely favors Obama, establishing many paths for the
Democrat to clinch the presidency. Obama could lose Ohio, Virginia and
Florida and still win the election, which shows how many options he has to victory.
The 2013 Hamilton County budget process is "challenging," says Commissioner Greg Hartmann. He says the county is dealing with a $200 million budget instead of the $300 million budget of six years ago, which is presenting new problems. Hamilton County Sheriff Si Leis said budget cuts could lead to up to 500 jail bed cuts. CityBeat previously covered the county commissioners' inability to tackle challenging budget issues — sometimes at the cost of the taxpayer.
State Auditor Dave Yost says his investigation into attendance fraud at Ohio schools could last well into the year. The investigation, which began after Lockland Schools in Hamilton County were found of attendance fraud, is slowed down by the state's data-reporting system, according to Yost. Schools may falsely alter their attendance reports to improve grades in the state report card.Secretary of State Jon Husted has been sued again. This time he's being sued by the Democratic Montgomery County election officials he fired. The officials tried to expand in-person early voting hours in Montgomery County to include weekend voting, but the move violated Husted's call for uniform hours across the state.
The Ohio EPA will host a workshop in Cincinnati on Sept. 25. The workshop will focus on the Ohio Clean Fund and other tools and incentives to help individuals and groups embrace clean energy.
For the first time since December, Ohio's tax collections were lower than expected. The state was $43 million below estimates in August.
A study found wind power could meet the world's energy needs. Wind currently supplies 4.1 percent of the United States' energy needs. Obama greatly boosted the production of wind energy with tax credits. Romney vowed to repeal the tax credits in a brief moment of substance.
Vice President Joe Biden was in town over the weekend. During the stop, he outlined "fundamental differences" between President Barack Obama's campaign and Mitt Romney's campaign. Specifically, he criticized the Romney-Ryan plan of turning Medicare into a voucher system. The visit also unveiled a new fake, pointless controversy in the media when a female biker almost sat on Biden's lap.
Secretary of State Jon Husted backed down on telling county boards of elections to not begin implementing in-person early voting for the weekend and Monday before Election Day. On Aug. 31, a federal judge ruled Husted must enact in-person early voting for the extra days. Following the case, Husted sent out Directive 2012-40 ordering county boards of elections to not enact in-person early voting rules until the court case granting extra hours was appealed and re-ruled on. The judge responded to the directive by asking Husted to explain himself in court. But Husted backed down by sending out Directive 2012-42, which rescinds Directive 2012-40. Republicans have consistently attempted to block more voting hours in the past few months, citing racial politics and costs.
A CityBeat analysis found cuts in the public sector are partly to blame for the unemployment rate.The identity of the man behind a super PAC supporting senatorial candidate Josh Mandel, lying extraordinaire, has been revealed. The group is Government Integrity Fund, and it is headed by Columbus lobbyist Tom Norris. The group also employs former Mandel aide Joe Ritter.
Criminals might face stiffer penalties for gun-related violations due to a new Butler County policy. Critics say the policy will cost the taxpayer more money.The Ohio Supreme Court ruled Thursday that foreclosure sale notices cannot be distributed via websites. The court said institutions have to notify customers more directly.
The Enquirer shined some light into its paywall model in an editorial by CEO Margaret Buchanan yesterday. In the editorial, Buchanan acknowledges the newspaper's duty to "watchdog journalism" to keep organizations and people in check.Cincinnati web designers were quite busy in 2011.
The Ohio Board of Education is meeting today and tomorrow. The agenda seems pretty packed, but it's possible the board could release more details about the search for state superintendent at the meeting. The board will consider how to transition into the third grade reading guarantee recently passed into law by the Ohio legislature and Gov. John Kasich.
An ammonia leak caused an evacuation at a food processing plant yesterday.
A pizza owner in Florida really loves Obama. Florida is considered a major swing state in the presidential election. However, the race may not be as close as the media's fairness machine seeks to make it seem. Recent aggregate polling at FiveThirtyEight and RealClearPolitics is moving heavily in Obama's direction in swing states and the national level. That could be attributed to volatility caused by political conventions, but the trend favoring Obama has been consistent for some time now.
The Romney campaign flip-flopped on Obamacare only to flip-flop back in a matter of hours. The campaign has been repeatedly criticized for lacking substance — much to the apathy of both Romney and Ryan — and this does not help.
Popular Science scientifically analyzed why former President Bill Clinton is so good at giving speeches.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics today released a disappointing job report. Unemployment fell to 8.1 percent in August, and 96,000 jobs were added nationwide. But economists were expecting about 150,000 jobs, and the unemployment rate fell largely due to people giving up on the job hunt, which means they are no longer counted in the labor pool.
One of the reasons for disappointment is the drop in public jobs. People are quick to look at the private sector when these kind of numbers come up, but the public sector employs people, too. And the public sector lost 10,000 jobs at state and local levels, according to today's jobs report.
That follows the trend of the past few years. The public sector has been doing poorly since the Great Recession started, according to this chart from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities:
The chart shows state and local payrolls since the beginning of the recession. It proves quite clearly that governments have been making cuts to public jobs.
Ohio has not avoided government job cuts. The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services reported July's unemployment rate at 7.2 percent, which was unchanged from June's unemployment rate. The biggest loss in jobs for the month came from government, which lost 5,300 jobs statewide. In comparison to July 2011, July 2012 had 4,400 fewer government jobs.
Instinctively, it makes some sense. As the recession kicks in and families and businesses are forced to budget for lower expectations, it might seem natural to expect the government to do the same.
However, many economists argue it should be the opposite. They say the government should be used to balance out the private sector. In other words, when the private sector is performing poorly — recession — the government should step in to make up for the drop. When the private sector is performing well — boom — the government can relax and run budget surpluses.
Paul Krugman, a Nobel-winning economist, has advocated for this approach time and time again. In his New York Times column and blog, Krugman has pushed for more stimulus efforts from the federal government, and he called for a much larger stimulus package than the $787 billion package President Barack Obama signed into law in 2009.
The data seems to support economists calling for more action. Last month, the Brookings Institute conducted a study that found June's national unemployment rate would be at 7.1 percent if governments hadn't made cuts.
What this means is if governments truly want to fix the economic crisis, they might want to kick the debt can down the road. But considering many cities and states have constitutional amendments requiring balanced budgets, that might be hard to pull off.


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Testimony :: Hon. Alcee L. Hastings
Chairman - Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Good morning, ladies and gentleman. Thank you for your interest in this morning's hearing focussed on the experiences of Blacks in Europe. For many years, I have travelled to Europe as a tourist, Member of Congress, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, and now as Chairman of the Helsinki Commission.
On those trips, I would often meet other Black people living or travelling in Europe, who were thrilled to meet another Black person. This was especially true when I was travelling in the former Soviet Union.
Not always so thrilling were the stories they would share with me of the racism they faced. Worse, I, too, was the victim of racial profiling by authorities and blatant discrimination, such as when I was refused service at European establishments.
In this regard, there are a number of similarities between my experiences as a Black American and those of Black Europeans. So one central goal of this hearing is to highlight and address the very real problems of racism and discrimination faced by Black Europeans.
Another goal is to also recall the contributions Blacks have made to Europe and the world by removing the cloak of invisibility that for so long has served as a shroud.
Recognizing and demythologizing the roles of Blacks in European history and modern day society has become a necessity given the rise of virulent anti-immigrant campaigns that target non-Whites in the aftermath of 9/11 and the London bombings. Whether Blacks were forced or chose to assist in Europe's development, they did play a role that should be noted.
As globalization continues to bring the world closer together, how European countries choose to define themselves and their peoples affects us all and will most certainly affect how I am viewed and treated at and within Europe's borders.
A third goal of this hearing is to then develop partnerships with those overseas committed to addressing these problems. Too often we highlight the problems within countries without noting the efforts that are being made – be they government, civil society, or even the private sector. The OSCE's High Commissioner on National Minorities as well as the EU Fundamental Rights Agency have compiled reports on European countries' positive initiatives ranging from affirmative action to housing and education desegregation.
These are all efforts that have already been tried in the U.S. We need to be asking ourselves, how can we best extend a helping hand so that Europeans don't repeat some of the mistakes we made here in developing and implementing these programs?
A fourth point, which requires us to be honest with ourselves - is that there are a number of very real barriers to addressing inclusion goals for Black Europeans ranging from the small size of some communities to a need for differences in approach for recent migrant versus more established communities.
I am glad to have such esteemed witnesses here today to present thoughts on all of these issues. I would therefore like to introduce Mr. Frans joining us from Sweden and Mr. Younge joining us from the UK via New York to speak about their work.
Unfortunately, due to scheduling constraints around Mr. Kodjoe's (Koojo) role in the Broadway play "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," he is unable to be here today. He has however indicated his support for this and future initiatives on Blacks in Europe and asked that I enter his statement in the record. Which I hereby do. I would also at this time like to enter the statements of some of our European friends, the Initiative of Black Germans, Diaspora Afrique, and the Black European Women's Congress.
Now, because the issue of Afro-descendants in Europe touches on so many aspects of the Helsinki Commission's work - human rights, security, migration – I am also planning to introduce legislation recognizing Black Europeans and calling for initiatives within the OSCE to address their plight. Your thoughts here today will be central to those efforts.
I would also like to thank my fellow Commissioners for being here and would welcome your remarks at this time.


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PCC in the News
News: Men's Soccer Recovers v. Compton, 3-2
The Pasadena City College men's soccer team lost control Tuesday v. El Camino College Compton Center. But after allowing the Tartars to erase the Lancers' 2-0 lead, PCC netted the game winner with six minutes left on Sergio Benitez's goal for a 3-2, South Coast Conference victory at Robinson Stadium.
Defender George Barba sent a lead pass to Benitez, who broke the Compton defense and drove in a 10-yard shot. PCC improved to 5-4-5 overall and upped a strong conference record to 4-2-1. The Lancers were in third place going into the game.
Compton, 5-7-2, but winless in SCC play at 0-5-2, made a valiant comeback, scoring goals in the 58th and 72nd minute to tie it at 2-2. David Vargas blasted in an 18-yard shot to knot the score.
The Lancers traded shot for shot with the Tartars in the second half and relied on some big stops by goalie Gaetano Perez, who finished with 11 saves.
In the 20th minute, Eric Chavez gave PCC a 1-0 lead, lofting a short shot over Compton goalie Manuel Leon. Luis Flores assisted on the score. Five minutes later, Zack Larson received a long lead pass from Max Rico. The speedy sophomore took a hard shot that initially hit a Compton defender, but the momentum of the kick rolled the ball up the defender's shoulder, and then past Leon for a 2-0 lead.
Chavez and Larson each scored their fifth goals. Flores leads the team in scoring with seven goals and six assists for 20 points.
On October 18, the Lancers lost at first-place Cerritos, 1-0.
On Friday, October 25, PCC hosts El Camino College in a 1 p.m. Robinson Stadium kickoff.
[Photo--PCC's Sergio Benitez defends a Compton kick. He would later score the winning goal in a 3-2 victory Tuesday, image by Richard Quinton, sports information photographer.]
Release Date: 10/22/2013


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Stink bugs will move in for winter -- again
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A "bug specialist" (read exterminator) recently told me we would see less of the Asian lady beetles and more stink bugs in our future here in the Kanawha Valley.
I immediately contacted Berry Crutchfield, plant and pest biologist with the West Virginia Department of Agriculture's Plant Industries Division, to get the scoop.
Berry writes:
"He was referring to the brown marmorated stink bug (Halyomorpha halys). This Asian insect was first reported in Pennsylvania in 1996. It was first found in West Virginia in 2004. It continues to spread throughout the Eastern United States. It feeds on a wide range of fruit trees, small fruits, vegetables, field crops and ornamentals during the growing season. Like the Asian lady beetle, it has the habit of entering homes and other protected locations in the fall to overwinter.
"Control of overwintering stink bugs involves sealing logical entry points to the home with caulking, weather-stripping, screens, etc., during the summer. In addition, consider treating around logical entry points, on the outside of the home, with a perimeter insecticide (example: Ortho Home Defense) in mid-September and mid-October. Stink bugs found on the inside of the home should be removed by vacuum."
Well, isn't that lovely. We get these shield-shaped insects along a sunny wall of our home, and we've tried sealing/spackling/stripping the windows and doors, but they still get in. I guess I'll be vacuuming a lot this fall!
To keep the public up to date on the fight against stink bugs, a research website has been created at http://www.stopbmsb.org.
Ask the Bugman!
Identifying bugs is a labor of love for Daniel Marlos, aka the Bugman. His website, www.whatsthatbug.com, answers questions about bugs from all over the world.
The site has an extensive number of photos, making it possible to do your own sleuthing in categories such as beetles, flies and mites. If you can't find your specimen there, you can submit a photo of the bug in question along with a description, and Marlos and his team may respond (they receive so many questions they can't get to them all).
Ten quintillion insects
According to Deanna Caswell and Daisy Siskin, authors of the popular blog www.littlehouseinthesuburbs.com, there are almost 10 quintillion insects in the world. That's not a made-up number, like "gazillion."
It's a real quantity, all 19 zeroes of it.
The article's authors discuss integrated pest management (or, as they call it, real-life gardening). Here are their tips.
Simple prevention
Advanced organic prevention
And if they come anyway?
For example, the ichneumon, a small, harmless wasp, lays its eggs inside aphids. When the wasps hatch, they consume the aphids. In the meantime, though, they look like strange, white, bloated bugs on your tomato leaves. If you don't stop before you stomp, you might interrupt this beneficial parasitic arrangement.
Other insects cause only minimal damage, like the golden tortoise beetles on my sweet potatoes. They might make a few small holes in the leaves, but they won't do significant damage to a crop. You can enjoy their pretty golden carapaces without fear.
By identifying the insect before you go into attack mode, you'll learn how scared you should be (if at all), and what the appropriate controls are for that particular creature.
Take evasive measures. This is a multipronged approach:
Pick your battles wisely.
Kill crabgrass, then aerate
Charles Fleshman, of St. Albans, wants to know if he should kill his crabgrass before he aerates his lawn this fall. The answer? An emphatic yes -- get rid of that crabgrass before you do anything to encourage growth.
Davis Park benefit
The Kanawha Garden Club is hosting "Party in the Park," a benefit to support the refurbishing of historic Davis Park in the heart of downtown Charleston, from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Oct. 10 in the Capitol Street park between Lee and Washington streets. Rain location is the Capitol Conference Center, 815 Lee St.
Tickets are $50 per person, and include cocktails, hors d'oeuvres and tours.
To purchase a ticket, mail a check made payable to Kanawha Garden Club to Elizabeth D. Keightley, 22 Brittany Woods Road, Charleston, WV 25314. The Kanawha Garden Club is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
For information, contact Keightley at 344-9667.
Last week's mystery plant
Not as many of you are familiar with last week's mystery plant. Here's what you said.
Teresa Campbell said, "If this is the mystery , it is a bush sun flower called 'First light.'
From Jeannie Skaggs: "The picture of the mystery plant in yesterday's newspaper (Sept. 23) looks a lot like some cosmos seeds that I planted this summer. I have had cosmos before but never like this one, at probably five feet tall it started to have blooms on the sides but the top has yet to bloom, very strange cosmos! It has very thick stems also, the seeds came from a store-bought package so it should have been the correct plant and the blooms look like cosmos blooms. Great conversation plant!"
From always-entertaining Lawton Posey: "I always enjoy your informative columns, and even though I am no longer the possessor of a garden, I am always interested in what you come up with. The answer to your question about the Mystery Plant Number 2 is easy to acquire.
"It is the common Planta Viridis Westvirginiaenisis. That is, a Green West Virginia Plant. Sub category: Topus Carrotus.
"So there, Sara. I win! Right?"
Yes, Lawton, you win.
Reach Sara Busse at email@example.com or 304-348-1249.