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Billed as the clash of erstwhile two top teams in transition, the upcoming India-Australia test series is turning out to be a money spinner for broadcaster Star Sports that has managed to rope in top advertisers, even including Hero MotoCorp, which recently decided to end relationship with IPL and Mumbai Indians. The broadcaster, which will be airing the Hindi version
on its Star Sports channel and English on Star Cricket and
Star Cricket HD of the series, has signed up Tata Teleservices, Havells and Hero MotoCorp as joint presenting sponsors. Besides, it has got on board nine other advertisers, including Maruti Suzuki India, Nokia, Samsung Cameras, Panasonic and Perfetti, as associate sponsors. According to media buyers, the company is understood to have garnered around Rs 75 crore as advertisement revenue from the four-match test series. The first test will be played in Chennai from February 22-26, second at Hyderabad from March 2-6, third at Mohali from March 14-18 and the last will be played at Delhi on March 22-26. When contacted, a Star Sports spokesperson said: "We are
completely sold out for the India Australia Test series. In fact, over the last 2-3 days we have said no to multiple clients who were keen to leverage the forthcoming test series because we don't have any inventory left with us." Commenting on the advertisers' response to the series, Platinum Media CEO Basabdutta Chowdhury told PTI: "There is a gradation of cricket series depending on the type of teams involved and the India-Australia series is in the A category. All the ad spots have been sold out and this gives an idea of the demand from advertisers." It is understood that the broadcaster is charging anywhere between Rs 60,000-Rs 70,000 for a ten-second ad spot
for the series. After India's 1-2 loss to England last year, the first series loss for India at home in eight years, MS Dhoni's team
is under pressure to perform in the absence of stalwarts like
Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman, who have retired. On the other hand, Australia under Michael Clarke is preparing for one of its biggest series after the retirement of Ricky Ponting and Michael Hussey. Media watchers said the clash of the erstwhile two top
teams in transition has all the ingredients for a big series
that would attract a lot of viewers and hence it was not
surprising to see advertisers flocking in, even including Hero
MotoCorp. Earlier, a spokesperson of Hero MotoCorp had stated that its decision not to renew central contract with IPL and with
IPL team Mumbai Indians does not in any way dilute its
commitment to cricket as a sport. "It is the most popular game in the country, and we will continue to remain associated with the game in various forms," the spokesperson had said.


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Someone sent Montgomery County Police scrambling to CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer's Bethesda home on Saturday with a made-up tip claiming shots had been fired in the house.
Within 15 minutes, Capt. Paul Starks, a police spokesperson, said an Emergency Call Center supervisor had figured out the tip was a hoax, but one that Starks said could have been dangerous and was a waste of the department's resources.
"It puts people in danger," Starks said. "You had police and fire units dispatched to this address, lights and sirens on, and so that's where there's potential danger. In some of these instances, not here, but in others people have actually confronted people in the home or address, which was a potential situation where somebody could get hurt."
The practice is called swatting, a false report of an incident, usually involving celebrities, to get police to dispatch to a location.
On Saturday, police raced to Blitzer's home near Congressional Country Club. Starks said the call center supervisor "used some non-traditional means" to verify the report by calling CNN. He was routed to CNN security, which confirmed neither Blitzer nor anyone else who lives at the house was home.
By 7:30 p.m., the only vehicles on the quiet residential street were satellite news trucks looking for a story that didn't exist.
Breaking News Network, a service that monitors police and fire scanner traffic and sends email updates to many of the area's news networks, sent out an email about the incident at 7:09 p.m.:
MD| Montgomery| Potomac| *Police Activity*| I/V/O Holly Leaf Lane| Mcpd O/S with reported shots fired. This is at the home of tv news anchor wolf blitzer. PD have a perimeter set up. Bethesda district PD channel-2
MD| Montgomery| Potomac| *Police Activity*| I/V/O Holly Leaf Lane| Mcpd O/S with reported shots fired. This is at the home of tv news anchor wolf blitzer. PD have a perimeter set up. Bethesda district PD channel-2
Starks said investigators will pursue the origin of the hoax.
"These type of things, initially we don't know where they're coming in but because of technology being the way it is, there are bread crumbs," Starks said. "There are clues and footprints left, if you will, for investigators to track back on."
Other cases of swatting include Hollywood celebrities and conservative blogger and former CNN contributor Erick Erickson. In that January 2012 incident, the caller claims to be Erickson and says he has shot his wife.
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After challenging a dragon, rescuing a princess, and saving a kingdom, what's an ogre to do? Ogre-ize your desktop with this free Shrek theme for Windows based on the hit movie Shrek Forever After.
A theme is a combination of desktop background pictures, window colors, and sounds. All of the images will be downloaded when you click Download theme.
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ATLANTA (AP) -- A new report shows that deaths of younger teen drivers increased sharply in the first six months of last year, reversing a decade-long trend.
In Georgia, however, fewer teens died during the time period. There were five deaths among 16- and 17-year-old drivers in the state during the first six months of 2012. That's down from six deaths during the first half of 2011.
The report was released Tuesday by the Governors Highway Safety Association.
Nationally, there were 107 drivers aged 16 who died between January and June of last year, compared to 86 drivers during the first half of 2011.
Twenty-five states reported increases, 17 had decreases, and eight states and the District of Columbia reported no change in the number of 16- and 17-year-old driver deaths.
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Combining running, cycling, and the beautiful coastal scenery of Bangka Island in the Bangka Belitung province, the Sungailiat Duathlon takes place on 1st December 2012 at the enchanting little town of Sungailiat.
The endurance competition comprises a 3 Km running course that starts from the Parai Beach Resort, followed by 30 Km bicycling course from Sungailiat Townsquare, and endswith another 3 Km running course which finishes at the Sepintu Sedulang Building. Through the course, participants will be introduced to the beauty that lies along the coastline of Sungailiat Town.
Aside from trophies, this prestigious sporting event will award its champions with cash prizes. The first place winner will receive IDR15,000,000 in cash prize, the second place winner will receive IDR10,000,000 in cash prize, while the third place winner will receive IDR6,000,000 cash prize. There will also be a trophy and IDR4,000,000 for the most favorite athlete and 3 units of mountain bikes and sponsor merchandises for other favorite athletes.
The town of Sungailiat is the capital of the Bangka regency and is located about 40Km from Pangkalpinang, capital of the Bangka Belitung Province. About 12 Km from this town, one can also discover the beautiful beaches of Matras and Parai Tenggiri Beach.
From Jakarta, there are daily flights from Soekarno-Hatta International Airport to Depati Amir Airport in Pangkalpinang, served by Sriwijaya Air, Batavia Air, Lion Air, and Garuda Indonesia. The city is also accessible from Palembang via daily flights served by Sriwijaya Air.
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Air cargo: NMB rejects request by Teamsters to release UPS mechanics from negotiations
June 03, 2010
Editor's Note: This story has been updated with additional information. It originally appeared on http://www.logisticsmgmt.com on June 2.
The National Mediation Board, an independent United States Government agency that coordinates labor-management relations within the U.S. railroad and airline sectors, recently rejected a request made by the Teamsters Airline Division to be released by contract negotiations.
The Teamsters had requested that its Local 2727 that represents UPS aircraft mechanics be released from contract negotiations, which have been ongoing without a contract for more than four years.
In a notice sent to UPS and the Teamsters, the NMB said that the record of the negotiations to date demonstrates a release is not in order at this time, adding that the decision means that UPS and Local 2727 remain in recess subject to the mediator's call back to the negotiating table.
"UPS is pleased that the NMB has denied the Teamsters' request for a release from mediation because we believe the company and union can reach an agreement through on-going negotiations," UPS said in a statement. "It is important to remember that our mechanics already have the best jobs in their industry and we are offering to enhance their position. We are ready to finalize a contract that rewards our employees while allowing us to remain competitive. We look forward to returning to the table."
Robert Combine, UPS aircraft mechanic and President of Teamsters Local 2727, said in a statement that UPS' aircraft mechanics simply want a fair agreement that recognizes they have been without a new contract since 2006.
"Our Company has made substantial profits since 2006, even considering the economic downturn last year; yet UPS has been unwilling to make a reasonable settlement offer, especially on the questions of job security for our members against foreign outsourcing and protecting our health benefits," he said. "The IBT has put forward a reasonable proposal to serve as a basis for final settlement, but UPS has refused to do the same."
The Teamsters added that under the terms of the Railway Labor Act, the IBT has requested that the National Mediation Board release UPS and its aircraft mechanics from mediation and make a proffer of binding arbitration. And either party may reject that offer of arbitration, which would then trigger a 30-day "cooling off" period countdown to a potential strike. More than 200,000 UPS employees are Teamsters members.
UPS spokesman Mike Mangeot told LM that UPS believes it will be able to reach a mutually favorable agreement with its aircraft mechanics through the NMB supervised contract negotiations.
"Our contract talks remain on recess—a common NMB tactic to bring parties closer together—but when they resume, we will continue to negotiate in good faith for an agreement that rewards our mechanics and protects our competitive position," he said. "In the meantime, our customers remain in good hands with UPS.
And in an Associated Press report, Mangeot called the union's request to have the talks declared stalemated "a tactic to put pressure on negotiations," according to the AP, and he also said that the union workers earn $43 an hour and don't contribute to their health benefits.
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I killed a spider today with astringent. I didn't know you could kill spiders with astringent until today. But there it was, chilling in my bathroom while I was taking a piss. My first instinct was to douse it with some kind of liquid, and barring the source of liquid currently in my hands, the only other thing within reach was a bottle of astringent sitting on the bathroom sink.
Those of us who consistently listen to left-wing, anti-American, pro-socialism media like NPR weren't surprised that the Somali pirates finally captured one of our own. International media have been reporting on the African piracy issue for close to a year.
But they did finally screw with us. People really shouldn't do that, as our Marine Corps are full of Jason Bournes.
An estimated 3,000 people attended today's latest "Tea Party" protest at Fountain Square, this time commemorating Tax Day, and a CityBeat writer and photographer were there to capture the event in all of its sordid glory. [See the photo slideshow here.]


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Following generations of secrets, memory and flavour, Kaprinos offer a fusion of Malay, Indian and touch of Mediterranean cuisine.
The menu focuses on seafood, buffet, a la Carte and signature dishes brimming with variety.
Enjoy a home away from home experience and well-priced dishes at Kaprinos along Somerset Road.
*Distances are shown as the crow flies and are not necessarily the actual travelling
Fine dining and amazing Indian cuisine meet at this beautiful upmarket restaurant in Cape Town. Treat yourself to a luxurious night out and experience the elegant, yet opulent interior, great service and delicious food.
The menu offers traditional starters like spiced lamb kebabs with yogurt and mint, chargrilled Karoo lamb chops and an assorted kebab platter, while more exotic choices include tandoori salmon and green mango flavoured line fish. Must-tries for mains are the lamb shanks in saffron curry and the slow-cooked, pot-roasted Karoo lamb with dried spices.
Vegetarians are definitely not forgotten and for every dish that contains meat, there is one that doesn't. Try cottage cheese dumplings and green pea curry, or apricot and potato cakes with yogurt and sweet chutney.
The dessert menu doesn't fail to impress and offers a wide variety of options, from plain ice cream to a mouthwatering mango and yogurt cheesecake.
Enjoy an authentic, yet modern Indian experience at Bombay Brasserie.
A restaurant that boasts superb dishes that showcase the sumptuous but simple flavours of Italy, 96 Keerom is the place to be for a memorable taste of the Med.
An atmosphere of simple sophistication runs throughout the restaurant. The staff are friendly and tend to diners needs without being intrusive and are happy to advise on selections to suit.
A great wine selection rounds off the superb offerings for a truly satisfying Italian dining experience.
Traditional Ethiopian dishes are the order of the day at Addis in Cape.
Brilliant service enhances the experience with staff that will gladly explain the menu and guide your selection if required. The decor is as authentic as the food with traditional Ethiopian furnishings and colour palettes.
A must-try experience, Addis in Cape is a culinary trip through Ethiopia you won't soon forget!
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CNBC Squawk Box
Video and Transcript of Ed Rendell--"The President Can't Sell This (Grand Bargain) Twice To His Base"
CNBC, Squawk Box
With Joe Kernen, Becky Quick and Andrew Ross Sorkin
[Hat Tip to Mr. Alexa for tipping me off to this interview.]
This entire video is rather interesting, if you want to know what the PtB are planning regarding the implementation of Simpson-Bowles.
[The first 2:06 minutes of this video is interesting, in that Ed Rendell's remarks regarding members of the Democratic Party base, are rather insulting, IMO.]
The transcript immediately below, pertains to that portion of this video.
BTW, this is the real face of the Democratic Party. To think that this "big time" neoliberal and fiscal hawk, Ed Rendell, recently served two terms as a Democratic Party governor is truly mind-boggling.
I was also not impressed with Rendell's "snickering" at host Joe Kernen's derisive remarks "about the 47% who voted for raising taxes on the wealthy." No different than Romney's comments, IMO. Read more about Video and Transcript of Ed Rendell--"The President Can't Sell This (Grand Bargain) Twice To His Base"
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Custom Station WagonsWritten by on July 28, 2014 A Gallery of Cool Station Wagons and Woodies
Street rod station wagons is one of the most recent and fastest growing trends in the street rodding hobby. At every event we've been to this year, wagons are showing up in ever increasing numbers. To those old enough to remember hot rodding's golden era from the '50s, the trend might seem surprising. Back then, hot rodders were building and driving stripped down, souped up Model As and Deuces, and custom guys were building and driving Shoebox F ords, Mercs, and fat fendered cars. The station wagon was Mom's ride—reserved for carrying groceries home from the market, or chauffering the Little League team to their game. With the exception of woodies (which wedged their way into the hobby as surf wagons) and Nomads (which succeeded based on their classic styling), station wagons didn't exist in the enthusiast hobby.
So what happened that has made station wagons a legitimate segment of street rodding? Economics is part of it. The Model As and Deuces, which were affordable and plentiful 60 years ago, are prohibitively expensive to many enthusiasts now, but a wagon (except for those woodies and Nomads) can be found for a lot less. Nostalgia is another part of the picture. The wagons that have managed to survive 50 or 60 years have now attained "classic" status, as well as an appeal to people who want something a little offbeat. And big—don't forget big!
We created this gallery of wagons from the last few seasons of event coverage. It's a small sample of what's out there, but we hope wagon enthusiasts will enjoy it. And maybe a few skeptics will become fans. That's the great thing about wagons, there's room for everybody.


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Testimony :: Micah Naftalin
Executive Director - Union of Councils for Jews
Mr. Chairman and members of the Commission:
On behalf of Yossi Abramowitz, president of UCSJ, and our entire board -
and indeed our entire international movement - I thank you for this
important opportunity to talk about antisemitism and xenophobia in the
Russian regions and, more important, I believe, to talk about the direct
relevance this subject has to the broader dimensions of policies that
address no less than war and peace as a result of 9/11.
I am joined by Dr. Leonid Stonov, a former Moscow Refusenik leader and
member of the Moscow Helsinki Group, who now works out of our affiliate,
Chicago Action for Jews in the Former Soviet Union, and directs and
coordinates UCSJ's human rights bureaus across the former Soviet Union
(FSU); and Nickolai Butkevich, UCSJ's research and advocacy director,
who is the general editor of the report we are issuing today -
Antisemitism, Xenophobia and Religious Persecution in Russia's Regions -
I am honored to share this opportunity with Ludmilla Alexeeva, the
chairman of Russia's oldest and most prestigious human rights
organization, the Moscow Helsinki Group and president of the
International Helsinki Federation. UCSJ and MHG have been partners
since the 1970s - sometimes informally and, more recently, through our
joint efforts in human rights monitoring across the Russian Federation
under the auspices of a vitally influential pilot grant of NED and a
major four-year grant from USAID, to which UCSJ was the sub-grantee.
That effort has resulted in the establishment of a truly integrated
human rights movement for the first time in Russian history.
Mr. Chairman, I recognize the difficulty of gaining the attention of the
public or of policymakers to this subject at a time when questions of
international terrorism, of weapons inspection, indeed of war and peace
and America's obligations to protect and defend democracy are the
riveting issues of the day. But isn't this precisely one of the crucial
byproducts of 9/11 - that we are now able to tune into the signals that
were always out there? It is my hope to assert a new paradigm of human
rights and national security: xenophobia, of which antisemitism is a
central component, represents the opposite side of the same coin as
extremism and terrorism and, as such, needs to be ranked as a major
category of human rights violations. Moreover, monitoring strategies to
combat it are available, as our report demonstrates, and, in light of
9/11, they must now rank with weapons inspections in our national
security arsenal. The collective failure of the NGO and intelligence
communities to adequately address these connections was one element of
the colossal failure of imagination that has permitted the success of
extremism and terrorism in the Middle East, in Russia, and at the World
Trade Center and Pentagon. Raging racism demonstrates a dangerous
breakdown of rule of law that threatens Russia's economic and political
stability and vulnerability to extremism and terrorism. It calls out
for American vigilance and assistance.
The intelligence, diplomatic, foreign aid and human rights communities
must all take this insight as a mandate for action. And because the
Helsinki Process is the natural father of this paradigm, what better
venue to explore its implications than this Helsinki Commission?
Throughout the Cold War and up to today, your commission, Mr. Chairman,
has been the principal venue to keep front and center the crucial nexus
between human rights and national security.
Our report is based on the year-long monitoring throughout 2001 by
UCSJ's Moscow "Bureau on Human Rights," whose director is Alexandr Brod.
The heart of the work is the presentation of 250 pages of detailed
reports of incidents in 63 of Russia's 89 regions While most of the
report comprises the reports of UCSJ's network of monitors and media
articles, a new feature can be found in many regional chapters that
contain mini-reports on local conditions from our monitors in their own
words. No summary can adequately convey the abject and cumulative
horror one finds by reading the hundreds of incidents of hate crimes and
hate speech described in this report, page by page, region by region.
But beyond the human tragedy, this is a document of a failed criminal
justice system that it is in both Russia's and America's interest to
The report also documents certain improvements, including President
Putin's unprecedented support of the Jewish community and his calls to
combat antisemitism. But it also documents the increase in xenophobia
aimed primarily at citizens, mostly Muslim, from the Caucasus. Without
question, "antisemitism and xenophobia have increased in the past year,
and they have a strong correlation with anti-democratic and anti-market
sentiments, as well as a level of ethnic Russian nationalism that may
imperil the still fragile, multi-ethnic structure of the Russian
This report, and the very capability to produce it, carries policy
implications for President Bush and President Putin as they strive to
combat international and domestic terrorism. First and foremost, in
addition to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, we must
never again forget that "words and behavior also matter." The very
length of our report is but a palpable reminder that racists do not
pursue their murderous goals by stealth. They pursue conquest through
intimidation. They announce their intentions in advance. They thus can
be interdicted through effective monitoring and the holding of their
host governments accountable for their actions.
This truth applies equally to Hitlerian dictators, totalitarian
hegemons, and draconian terrorists. Recall that Mein Kampf promised
World War II and the Holocaust; the Doctor's Plot and the anti-Zionist
committee foreshadowed Stalin's purges; bin Laden's earlier fatwa
against Jews and America predicted 9/11; the antisemitic and anti-Israel
propaganda, official newspaper editorials and cartoons and school
curricula of the Palestinian Authority and many Arab countries gave the
lie to their intentions for the Oslo peace process; and the anti-Jewish
pogromist threats from the floor of the Russian Duma in the late 1990s
signaled the build-up of antisemitic and xenophobic invective and
violence leading to today's rampaging gangs of neo-Nazi skinheads.
But their audacity and impunity are also their weakness if we but learn
to take them seriously because, unlike the difficulties of inspections
and seeking well concealed weapons, extremists are more often easily
identified and monitored and they depend on the acquiescence, if not
collaboration, of their host governments.
I am optimistic in making these observations because I believe our
government has never been as well positioned to make human rights an
integral element of national security policy as it is today. The superb
efforts of those in the Department of State who produce annual country
reports on human rights and religious persecution, worldwide, have never
been stronger. And their success owes much to their demonstrated
ability to receive and utilize monitoring reports like ours from the
entire human rights community. And make no mistake, the international
community reads and is influenced by these reports.
What's new and quite remarkable, however, is the "National Security
Strategy" document issued by the President in September. I believe this
document is unprecedented in the extent and priority it places on human
rights and American values. In the national debate today, one would
gather that this document is all but a declaration of war. But the very
first paragraph states, "In the twenty-first century, only nations that
share a commitment to protecting basic human rights and guaranteeing
political and economic freedom will be able to unleash the potential of
their people and assure their future prosperity." And in Part II,
before the sections about combating terrorism, the strategy asserts:
"America must stand firmly for the nonnegotiable demands of human
dignity: the rule of law; limits on the absolute power of the state;
free speech; freedom of worship; equal justice; respect for women;
religious and ethnic tolerance; and respect for private property."
With respect, may I only quibble with one of the President's words.
With respect to the Russian Federation, other states of the former
Soviet Union, and non-democratic nations elsewhere, while we may hope
that these values are "nonnegotiable," it is incumbent on America and
the human rights community, indeed to negotiate for and demand these
rights. And, in the case of Russia, the President could not have
appointed an ambassador better equipped for such a challenge than
Alexander Vershbow. And, in this vein, may I also note that President
Putin is also well served in such pursuits by the exemplary efforts of
Russia's Human Rights Ombudsman, Professor Oleg Mironov, who last Friday
joined with our Moscow Bureau director, Alexander Brod, in publicly
signing a formal agreement of cooperation in furtherance of human rights
and combating antisemitism and xenophobia generally.
Mr. Mironov stated at the press conference that: "One of the sharpest
problems of Russian society is the increase in political extremism, and
social, racial, ethnic and religious hostility. The spread of fascist
ideas and terrorism present a threat to the constitutional system, human
rights and freedoms. Unfortunately, law enforcement agencies very often
qualify antisemitic and nationalistic incidents as hooliganism or
ordinary quarrels."
Russia's internal security is important to us for many reasons, some
that tend to be overlooked in today's debates. Russia remains a vast
and important nuclear power with widespread influence, whose leader
shows some limited inclinations to moving toward democracy and who has
unquestionably cast his lot with America in the war on terrorism. But
because of the rise in domestic terrorism, and the weaknesses in its
institutions for securing rule of law, Russia's vast and tenuously
guarded stockpile of the materials and components of nuclear weaponry
make it a major target for countries and terrorists alike who would hope
to purchase or steal nuclear capabilities for mass destruction. Our
report documents one dimension of Russia's, and therefore America's
We cannot say with scientific accuracy that the 30% increase in the size
of our report compared to last year's version proves a 30% increase in
the absolute number of incidents. The strengthening and broadening of
our monitoring network across Russia in the past year may be a partial
explanation. Unquestionably, however, the problem is becoming more
dangerous, one factor being the qualitative and quantitative increase in
the strength and viciousness of the neo-Nazi skinheads; another, the
pro-bin Laden and heightened anti-Jewish, anti-Israel and anti-America
rhetoric of some Russian Muslim leaders since the terrorist attack of
An apt summary of our report's findings is cited in a quotation that
introduces our Executive Summary by no less an authority than Izvestiya
"Hatred exists everywhere, but there are few places where the assortment
of hatred is as broad as it is in our country. There are few places
where society is so indifferent to it. In Germany each skinhead attack
on Turks, Kurds or Jews becomes a matter of great alarm for the police
and thousands-strong public demonstrations against extremism and
xenophobia. In our country such things do not provoke a very notable
reaction, but what is noticeable are the consequences."
Among many responses to such extremism, Russian President Vladimir Putin
declared, on July 25 of this year, "if we allow the development of this
bacillus of chauvinism, or nationalist or religious intolerance, we will
destroy the country." Despite the excellent rhetoric, governmental
response has been minimal, many regional authorities openly collaborate
with neo-Nazis; perpetrators of hate crimes, therefore, essentially
behave with impunity.
As our report finds:
"From Kaliningrad in the far west to the Pacific port city of
Vladivostok, from the Arctic city of Murmansk to the southern resort
area of Krasnodar, regional authorities as a general rule ignore the
activities of dangerous hate groups who aim violent rhetoric and actions
against minority groups, refusing to prosecute hate crimes or, at best,
classifying them under the euphemistic term "hooliganism." These hate
groups range from largely unorganized skinhead gangs to more structured
neo-Nazi groups like the People's National Party or the successors of
Russian National Unity to officially approved paramilitary Cossack
formations..While there have been improvements in the reactions of the
authorities to antisemitic incidents as compared to previous years,
official reaction is still disturbingly weak. Worst of all, after a
welcome decline in antisemitic incidents in 2000, the summer and early
fall of 2001 witnessed a rash of beatings of Jews (Moscow, Orenburg,
Kostroma and Omsk) and arson attacks on Jewish property (Ryazan,
Kostroma, Kazan), none of which have been solved. Nor have the vast
majority of past antisemitic attacks-the synagogue bombings in Moscow in
1999, the attack on a Jewish school in Ryazan in 2000, and numerous
other incidents-resulted in any convictions."
President Putin continues to make positive gestures towards Russia's
Jewish community, attending major Jewish events, praising the positive
role of Jews in Russia's history and contemporary life, and strongly
condemning antisemitism. This has helped create a more confident climate
for Jews in Russia, spurring a continued renaissance of Jewish life in
Russia, as witnessed by the growing number of synagogues being returned
to the community after decades of government ownership, the increasing
coverage in the media of Jewish communal activities and statements by
Jewish leaders about domestic and international events, and a rising
willingness of Jewish leaders in some parts of the country to stand up
publicly for their rights.
However, under the veneer of stability and justifiable celebration of
the amazing achievements of the past decade, there remains a sense of
unease. Jewish leaders' constant assertions that "there is no state
antisemitism in Russia" are only partially correct. While it is
certainly true that the active promotion of antisemitism is no longer
state policy, as it was throughout much of the Soviet period, passive
state antisemitism persists. While there has been some slight
improvement in the enforcement by federal prosecutors of laws against
the incitement of ethnic hatred, as a rule they fail to properly apply
these laws, or ensure that regional prosecutors do, sending a message to
antisemites that their actions will likely go unpunished. Far too much
latitude has been granted to regional officials in how they react to the
activities of hate groups or extremist politicians, leaving many to
choose to take no action at all to protect local minorities. In a
November 2001 meeting with regional police officials, Deputy Minister of
Internal Affairs Aleksandr Chekalin admitted as much when he stated: "We
have gone too far in our inaction against extremist youth."
The consequences of this permissive attitude towards hate groups are
especially clear in Moscow, where for years police have ignored skinhead
attacks against foreign students, dark-skinned market traders, and even
diplomats from African and Asian countries. Only now, when the problem
has become so acute that skinhead violence is an almost daily event in
Moscow, have the city authorities begun to take the skinhead problem
seriously. Unfortunately, it may be too late to contain the growth of
skinhead groups, who have increased their membership and geographical
scope to a stunning degree.. Aleksandr Verkhovsky of the "Panorama"
think tank-a leading authority on extremist groups in Russia-put the
problem succinctly: "Extremist pro-Nazi paramilitary organizations
propagandizing the ideas of racial hatred operate openly in Russia, and
the state does nothing to prevent this."
This trend of passive state antisemitism and racism is even more
apparent in the judicial branch, where there are numerous examples of
judges refusing to punish antisemites and other extremists, even when
they have clearly violated the law. While the justice system tends to
come down hard on even minor offenses, antisemitic and racist violence
is often treated with kid gloves.
The State Duma remains a hotbed of antisemitism and racism, especially
among deputies from the KPRF and the LDPR. State Duma deputies from
Bryansk and Krasnodar Kray regularly violate laws against public hate
speech, as does Deputy Speaker of the State Duma Vladimir Zhirinovsky.
In 2001, hate literature was openly sold in the State Duma, including
David Duke's "The Jewish Question Through the Eyes of an American" and
several antisemitic newspapers.
On the regional level, President Putin has made some impressive progress
in his efforts to reverse years of radical decentralization under the
Yeltsin administration. Many regional laws have been brought into
accordance with federal legislation, secessionist movements that
threatened the integrity of the Russian Federation have been
successfully undercut (with the obvious exception of Chechnya),
significant sources of revenue have been redirected from the regions to
the center, and the central government has achieved the right to remove
governors who go too far in abusing the law. However, despite the
appearance of strength, the central government remains weak, and this
weakness, when combined with the indifference of many central government
officials to the problems of antisemitism, racism, religious persecution
and other human rights violations, has helped create a system of
government in which regional leaders make some basic concessions to the
Kremlin in return for the right to treat their citizens almost any way
they choose. As a result, minority groups are treated differently from
region to region, largely at the whim of the local bosses.
The Jewish community is a case in point: In a few extreme cases they are
demonized by regional leaders (Kursk, Krasnodar) or by media controlled
by the regional administration (Vladimir, Oryol, Bryansk), in a few more
their concerns are taken very seriously (the Moscow city administration
being the most obvious and important example), while in the bulk of
Russia's regions, the authorities neither attack nor adequately defend
Jews against grassroots antisemitic violence. In a prime example of
collaboration between hate groups and regional authorities, in at least
three regions (Ryazan, Voronezh, Tver), a successor organization to the
RNU (Russian Rebirth) was officially registered in 2001-two years after
the RNU was banned in Moscow. In addition, the manner in which
President Putin is tackling the problem of the central government's
weakness shows an alarming tendency on his part to focus more on the
levers of power than on the rule of law. Jews and all other citizens of
Russia will never be truly safe until a democratic, law-based system
develops, yet Russia under Putin seems to be sliding more and more
towards authoritarianism
In recent weeks, and so not covered in our report, two related
allegations of impropriety by the Kremlin raise a certain cognitive
dissonance when compared to President Putin's public exhortations
against extremism and antisemitism. These improprieties lend credence
to our concern that the president's rhetoric is far from matched by
action. First, the Ministry of Justice has approved quite expeditiously
the registration of a new political party - the National Power Party
(NDPR) - whose leaders are recognized neo-Nazis and whose web site is
explicitly antisemitic. In the second case, according to the September
23 report in Novaya Gazeta, while it is well known that Putin's
political party, "Unity" has created a youth organization called
"Walking Together," the paper asserts that these youth leaders are also
skinhead leaders. The article is based on an interview with, inter
alia, Alexy Mitriushin, head of the north-east division of Walking
Together and also a leader of "Mad Stallion," a skinhead group known for
the June soccer riot on Manezh Square in Moscow. One common interest of
the two groups is to disrupt anti-globalist demonstrations. Controlling
Nazi parties and youth organizations so as to create public enemies of
the state is a time-tested tactic of the Soviet KGB. It is not
unreasonable to ask, will the real Vladimir Putin step forward? On the
other hand, our Moscow Bureau's growing relationship with the Ministry
of Justice, and especially with Russia's Human Rights Ombudsman, are
genuine causes for optimism.
A new, disturbing trend that emerged in the wake of the September 11
terrorist attacks in the US is the radicalization of some of Russia's
Islamic community. A few Russian Muslim leaders, most but not all of
them self-proclaimed, publicly repeated the radical Islamist canard that
Israel secretly planned the September 11 attacks. Rallies in support of
the Taliban and the PLO have taken place in some predominantly Muslim
regions. So far, such opinions are shared by a small minority of
Russian Muslims and are mostly concentrated in Chechnya and Dagestan,
yet this is obviously a growing trend that requires continued
"Islamophobia" remains widespread, reflected in the opposition by some
regional authorities to the building of mosques and the tendency of much
of the Russian press to equate Islam with terrorism, without taking into
account the diversity of the Islamic faith. Here, local leaders of the
Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate), who in several cases have
lobbied against the construction of mosques, are as complicit as when
they distribute antisemitic literature like "The Protocols of the Elders
of Zion" in church bookstores. The war in Chechnya drags on,
brutalizing and radicalizing Chechen civilians and creating a whole
generation of rabidly racist Russian soldiers and policemen. Like the
Jews, treatment of minority Christians and Muslims varies from region to
region, largely dependant on the whims of the local authorities.
With the whole world riveted on the terrorist attack, a very dark day
for the human rights community was overshadowed. I am referring to the
U.N. Conference on Racism at Durban, South Africa where most Western
human rights NGOs stood by and allowed Palestinian and Arab NGOs to
succeed in passing an antisemitic resolution condemning Israel as a
racist country. In that case, in my judgement, they were both unused to
dealing with antisemitism as a primary human rights violation and, due
to their traditional focus on governmental abuses of individuals, unused
to holding governments accountable for the behavior of non-governmental
terrorists and grassroots perpetrators of violence and hatred. A signal
exception was the behavior of the International League for Human Rights,
the Moscow Helsinki Group and other Russian and eastern european human
rights NGOs who defended Israel against the majority of NGOs in a losing
cause. It was in the context of these issues, heightened by the events
of 9/11, that prompted UCSJ to convene, in the Moscow offices of MHG on
July 8, a conference of Russian and Western human rights NGOs to explore
the implications of this new human rights paradigm. Other organizations
involved in the review included Memorial, the Sakharov Center, the
Center for Human Rights, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and,
by email, the International League for Human Rights. Mr Chairman, I
think the essence of our report and its implications can be summarized
in six points:
1. Antisemitism, and anti-"black" xenophobia, have risen again
dramatically in part as a consequence of 9/11. It reflects a coalition
of neo-Nazis, like the RNU and skinheads, religious nationalism, e.g.
Cossacks and elements of the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow
Patriarchate), Islamic extremists, e.g. certain Mulahs and Chechens, and
old-line fascists and communists, especially in the Duma and certain
major regional mayors and governors.
2. Anti-black (Caucasus) discrimination is, in part, a byproduct of
the government's Chechnya-related propaganda plus on-going persecution
in Moscow city. The central government's responsibility for
antisemitism is of a different character. State-sponsored antisemitism
is a relic of the Soviet era. Indeed, President Putin has made
unprecedented and exemplary statements commiting his government to
combating antisemitism, nationalism and extremism. However, there is
governmental complicity in passivity and acquiescence, e.g., failure to
investigate and prosecute, failure to hold antisemitic political leaders
accountable. As the saying goes, Putin is talking the talk, but not
sufficiently walking the walk. Our report can help him to do better.
3. The Human Rights Ombudsman and his regional network is the most
consistent national actor in training official and public attention on
the important problem that antisemitism and xenophobia are flourishing
with impunity. Putin's direct and public support of his work would send
a powerful and constructive message.
4. Antisemitism and xenophobia are crucial national security issues
beyond the hate and intimidation aimed at specific targets. That they
are allowed to flourish with impunity is a critical bellwether or
indicator of the grave weakness of human rights, rule of law, and civil
society generally, especially the criminal justice system and the moral
mood of the country. The failure to adequately confront these evils
carries with it two kinds of dangerous consequences for Russia. First,
it emboldens terrorists and nourishes the social fabric that tolerates
them. This is both a domestic and international security threat because
it raises the chances for terrorists and extremists to gain access to
nuclear materials and devices - arguably a greater threat to world peace
than state-controlled weapons. Second, the breakdown of human rights and
civil society is both an undue burden on Russia's budget and economy and
a profound disincentive to foreign trade and investment.
5. All of this suggests an evolving new paradigm for viewing the
nexus between human rights and national security. The history of the
human rights movements, which importantly developed in Russia, along
with the Jewish national emigration movement (Refuseniks),began in the
1970s and was heavily influenced and promoted by the Helsinki Process.
The emphasis was placed on defending the individual against abuses of
rights by the governments; and in this emphasis, although the issues of
antisemitism and xenophobia were recognized evils, they were not seen as
major priorities for human rights campaigners. The events of the past
year have demonstrated the need for a new paradigm, one that brings two
issues up to parity with the traditional values for human rights: (i)
that antisemitism and xenophobia are central human rights abuses in
their own right and as bellwethers as well as predictors of escalating
danger; and (ii) that governments and human rights activists alike must
also focus beyond concern for governmental abuse of the individual to
include concern for the dangers to society at large of non-state
criminals and terrorists.
6. Accordingly, human rights monitoring of their behavior, as it is
performed by MHG and UCSJ, is the human rights/national security
analogue to arms inspections. The results should be taken seriously by
policymakers, and
factored into all intelligence analyses and data bases. It can no
longer be relegated to the "feel good" priorities of political
These lead me to some final observations and recommendations.
The Helsinki Process, involving the concerted advocacy of governments
and NGOs, pressed the Soviet bloc on matters of mutual security and
disarmament, expansion of market economies, and the reduction of human
rights abuses. It was a relentless, collegial process that contributed
importantly to the peaceful collapse of Communism across the Soviet
Union and Eastern Europe. The lessons of the Helsinki Process are
applicable to the West's response to the Arab countries which likewise
encourage antisemitic and anti-American values and repress the human
rights of their citizens, not least their women and children. We should
be monitoring antisemitic actions and rhetoric in Russia, the Middle
East and Europe as we monitor and inspect access to weapons of mass
destruction, and we should be prepared to assist and encourage Arab
states as well as Russia and other former Soviet republics in moving
toward democracy and rule of law as we did throughout the Cold War.
Likewise, the NGO community must return to its campaigning mode to
combat xenophobia and antisemitism across Europe and the former Soviet
Union. President Bush has walked the walk in a distinguished manner.
His September 2002 "National Security Strategy of the United States of
America," is perhaps the foremost and most unprecedented examination of
human rights as being integral to national security policy. We call on
him to see that his military, diplomatic, foreign aid, trade and
intelligence agencies internalize these human rights values, which are
at the heart of American values, into all international and bilateral
UCSJ urges OSCE to hold a Supplemental Human Dimension Implementation
meeting on antisemitism during 2003 to review and identify best
practices for monitoring and reporting. In this, as in all other
relevant issues, we commend the Helsinki Commission's actions and moral
Finally, no Russian leader can compare to President Putin in analyzing
the problems of extremism, antisemitism and civil society failures that
must be overcome for Russia to flourish as a leading democratic country.
But a country that allows extremists to flourish with impunity, bans the
visits of religious leaders while inviting the likes of David Duke;
registers Nazi political parties while discouraging more liberal parties
and many human rights NGOs has a long way to travel. A leader who
treats environmentalists as spies, is suspicious of a free press, and
who supports antisemitic and anti-American leaders at home and abroad
has a lot of reforming to do notwithstanding his cooperation against the
most prominent terrorists. We believe his most important next steps
must be to strengthen his criminal justice system so as to secure his
country from the scourge of antisemitism and xenophobia and the risk of
theft of nuclear materials by domestic and foeign terrorists. This is a
cause that the American government needs to assist in, and the NGO human
rights community needs to insist on. Unlike the confrontations of the
Soviet era, we have much to collaborate upon.


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Activists continue to protest Western & Southern's treatment of the Anna Louise Inn, which has been helping women in the Lytle Park neighborhood for more than a century. CityBeat last week reported the details of Western & Southern's failure to purchase the property when it had the chance and the company's subsequent attempts to force the Inn to leave the neighborhood anyway.
The Greater Cincinnati Homeless Coalition, released a statement on Saturday describing the protest banner as proof for local and national leaders that Western & Southern's actions won't be tolerated. The statement read: "We will continue to up the ante until you stop attacking the hard-working women of the Anna Louise Inn."
Josh Spring, executive director of the Greater Cincinnati Homeless Coalition, said in an email to CityBeat that the plane flew for two 30-minute stints on Sunday. Spring said protesters distributed 2,000 flyers outside the tournament's gates and that the people who learned what Western & Southern was doing generally expressed frustration. The banner was made possible by contributions from several local organizations, including Occupy Work and Wages, Amos Project, the Homeless Coalition, SEIU Local 1, Mount Auburn Presbyterian church and other concerned citizens and groups.
The banner asks people to go to stpws.com to learn more. The website redirects to www.southernwestern.net, which is the site where activists finally were able to publish a satirical video parodying a Western & Southern spokesperson proud of his company's attacks on the Anna Louise Inn. The video was originally posted in June to YouTube and Vimeo, but was removed for copyright infringement shortly after Western & Southern found out about it. Western & Southern didn't return CityBeat's calls back then asking whether or not W&S was involved in forcing the removal of the video. The website includes a change.org petition asking Western & Southern to stop suing the Anna Louise Inn.
Cincinnati's Historic Conservation Board is scheduled to hear arguments on Aug. 27 that could lead to a conditional use permit and allow the Anna Louise Inn to move forward with a renovation Western & Southern stalled by suing the Inn. It will take place 3 p.m. on the seventh floor of 805 Central Ave.
Read this week's CityBeat cover story on the issue here.
Panelists including the parents of slain Florida teenager Trayvon Martin talked about reconciliation and turning personal suffering into power at the National and Racial Healing Town Hall at the Duke Energy Convention Center on Wednesday during the Children's Defense Fund National Conference.
Tracy Martin, Trayvon's father, broke down in tears as he told the story of how his son saved his life by dragging him out of their condo and calling 911 after Tracy had been badly burned in a grease fire.
"My child is my hero," Tracy Martin said. "He saved my life. Not to be there to save his is troublesome to me."
Trayvon Martin was shot and killed on Feb. 26 in Sanford, Fla. by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman.
Trayvon, who was black, was unarmed and shot by the white and Hispanic Zimmerman after Zimmerman pursued him in defiance of a request by a police dispatcher. Zimmerman claims the shooting was in self-defense.
Zimmerman is out on $1 million bail while awaiting trial on a charge of second degree murder.
"Nothing anyone can do will bring Trayvon back," Tracy Martin said. "You have to take that negative and turn it into a positive. We chose to keep our son's name alive and not let his death be in vain."
The town hall-style meeting was kicked off by poet and author Maya Angelou. She urged the hundreds of people in attendance, mostly young and black, to demand justice for Trayvon — referring to Zimmerman as "the brute" — but "that means we don't become poisoned by hate."
Angelou wasn't the only one who urged against hate.
Black historian and civil rights activist Vincent Harding, who celebrated his 81st birthday on Wednesday, issued a challenge to the youth in attendance:
"Are you ready to fight for the healing of George Zimmerman and all the George Zimmermans of America? Are you up to that?" he asked.
"This country has no chance unless they are healed."
The panel was made up of social activists, many of whom had lost friends and family to violence or bigotry, but whose pain prompted activism instead of retaliation — panelists such as The Rev. Ronald and Kim Odom, who lost a son to gun violence but volunteer in intervention and outreach programs; Clemmie Greenlee, a former prostitute and gang member who formed a peacemaking organization to work with gang members after her son was killed; and Ndume Olatushani, a former prisoner who was released in June after 19 years on death row after being falsely convicted of murdering a Tennessee shopkeeper.
The younger members of the audience were encouraged to ask questions after the panel presentation. Teenagers and young adults from as far as Tennessee, North Carolina and Minnesota asked questions about dismantling the system of racial oppression, overcoming odds stacked against young minorities and having society see past an old felony conviction.
The panelists all tried to offer encouragement, while urging the younger generation to continue to try to fight to make things better.
"When you look at the odds, it's so horrific for a young minority American, you say 'why even try, why even bother?' " said Benjamin Crump, a civil rights attorney who is representing Trayvon's mother Sabryna Fulton. "But the reason you try and you bother, there is so many examples where we beat the odds every day and nobody even know about it or talked about it."
"It goes back to you and saying, 'I am going to make something of myself. I don't care about the statistics, I don't care about the odds.' … You say, 'well, if it's one out of a million, I'm going to be that one.'"
A citizen committee has determined that levy-funded Hamilton County social-service agencies need to provide their services with fewer resources, advising that property owners pay the same levy rate despite decreases in property values that will reduce funding for groups that help senior citizens and people with mental illnesses. The decision by the 11-member committee will reportedly affect 30,000 residents who rely on such agencies to provide services such as meal delivery and counseling. In order to keep funding level the levy would have had to increase the cost for the owner of a $100,000 home by $6.
From The Enquirer:
Bosses of the Council on Aging of Southwestern Ohio had already agreed to live on less, but argued against some committee recommendations.
Those include:
• Raising the age criteria. Currently 9 percent of clients are between 60 and 70 years old. An agency spokeswoman said that's because services are disability-based. Some "younger" seniors – those suffering from strokes and early Alzheimer's, for instance – have more needs than older people.
• Requiring new clients to meet U.S. legal resident requirements. According to the agency, screening for U.S. citizenship would make the program ineligible to use Older Americans Act dollars, at a cost of almost $1.2 million a year. The spokeswoman said all clients live in the county.
Enquirer reporters Carrie Whitaker and Janice Morse broke from traditional journalistic standard on Tuesday by reporting the names of teenagers involved in an alleged theft and police chase. The three girls, ages 16, 14 and 12, were identified by full name and as being from Avondale and Pleasant Ridge. A follow up story on Wednesday reported two of the girls being released from the hospital. It also included the minors' names and did not include a reporter's byline.
Jean Schmidt sided with Democrats on an attempt to stop Republicans from cutting even deeper the funding for the national food stamp program. The legislation that passed will cut the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by more than $16 billion over 10 years. GOP lawmakers wanted it cut by $33 billion.
Iran put on a missile show on Friday, demonstrating the accuracy of its long-range missiles and their ability to hit Western bases and Israel.
Headline: "Wells Fargo Posts $4.6 Billion Profit, Up 17%." Big ups, Wells Fargo!
Condoleezza Rice as Romney's running mate? Sarah Palin says it's a good idea.
A nearly complete skeleton of a human ancestor has been found in South Africa.
Steve Chabot's self-righteous attempt to block federal
streetcar funding found new criticism yesterday, as The Enquirer spoke to
several credible sources who say his amendment is broad enough to affect
federal funding for transportation projects beyond the streetcar,
including bus lanes or ferries.
Mayor Mark Mallory and 3CDC representatives were scheduled to kick off a grand opening celebration of Washington Park at 10 a.m. this morning. The $48 million renovation includes an underground parking garage, concession building, dog park and concert space. A rally against the renovation and displacement of residents was scheduled for 10:30 a.m. CityBeat's Mike Breen blogged away yesterday about the park's scheduled weekly music series.
It's going to be another sucky hot weekend in Cincinnati.
U.S. hiring is being weak again.
Walgreens is buying mass drug store chains, preparing to cash in on that ObamaCare money.
Brad Pitt's mom wrote a pro-Mitt Romney, anti-abortion and anti-same-sex marriage letter to the editor of a Missouri newspaper. Brad, for the record, is pro-gay marriage and donated to the 2008 anti-Proposition 8 campaign in California.
I have given much thought to Richard Stoecker's letter ("Vote for Mormon against beliefs," June 15). I am also a Christian and differ with the Mormon religion.
But I think any Christian should spend much time in prayer before refusing to vote for a family man with high morals, business experience, who is against abortion, and shares Christian conviction concerning homosexuality just because he is a Mormon.
Any Christian who does not vote or writes in a name is casting a vote for Romney's opponent, Barack Hussein Obama — a man who sat in Jeremiah Wright's church for years, did not hold a public ceremony to mark the National Day of Prayer, and is a liberal who supports the killing of unborn babies and same-sex marriage.
I hope all Christians give their vote prayerful consideration because voting is a sacred privilege and a serious responsibility.
First they were telling us that the Higgs boson is the building block of the universe. How Professor Peter Higgs says he has no idea what the discovery will mean in practical terms. Come on, Higgs!
Apparently 250,000 people are going to wake up without the Internet on Monday.
Scientists believe they've created the most realistic robot legs ever.
Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls responded to Rep. Steve Chabot's Wednesday attempt to block federal funding for Cincinnati's streetcar construction by calling it "an outrageous interference in local government decision-making." The Enquirer today recapped the situation, which involves Chabot adding the following amendment to a massive federal transportation bill: "None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to design, construct, or operate a fixed guideway project located in Cincinnati, Ohio." The amendment has little chance at being included in the final passage of the bill, as the Senate and President Obama would both have to approve and sign it.
A parody video of a Western & Southern PR representative explaining why the insurance company should build condos at the site of the century-old women's shelter has earned a response from W&S. The company's VP of public relations told The Enquirer: "Whoever created the video, we think it's unfortunate that they've taken this approach," he said. "We think it's a distraction from finding a win-win for all involved." The video is no longer available on YouTube, however, due to "a copyright claim by Canipre inc."
Speaking of funny videos, MSNBC posted this video of Rep.
Jean Shmidt apparently reacting to someone incorrectly telling her that
President Obama's health care law had been struck down. Schmidt can be
seen twisting around and making strange screaming sounds.
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
A local music teacher says Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy offered him a job and then rescinded the offer after asking him if he is gay. Jonathan Zeng says he went through the school's extensive interview process, was offered a position and then called back in for a discussion about religious questions in his application, during which he was asked directly if he is gay. Zeng says he asked why such information was pertinent, and an administrator said it was school policy not to employ teachers who are gay because they work with children and something about the sanctity of marriage. When contacted by local media CHCA released the following statement:
CHCA keeps confidential all matters discussed within a candidate's interview. We're looking into this matter, although the initial information we have seen contains inaccuracies. We will not be discussing individual hiring decisions or interviews.Cincinnati's deficit isn't going to get better any time soon, according to a new report.
The Reds drafted high school pitcher Nick Travieso in the first round of the MLB draft on Monday. Here's a rundown of their other picks Monday and Tuesday.
Senate Republicans yesterday blocked a Democratic bill calling for equal pay in the workplace, and the Dems are going to stick it in their faces during this year's campaigns. From the AP:
As expected, the pay equity bill failed along party lines, 52-47, short of the required 60-vote threshold. But for majority Democrats, passage wasn't the only point. The debate itself was aimed at putting Republicans on the defensive on yet another women's issue, this one overtly economic after a government report showing slower-than-expected job growth.
"It is incredibly disappointing that in this make-or-break moment for the middle class, Senate Republicans put partisan politics ahead of American women and their families," Obama said in a statement after the vote.
"Even Mitt Romney has refused to publicly oppose this legislation," added Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. "He should show some leadership."
The Washington Post wonders whether Mitt Romney can use Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's template for surviving a recall election to try to win the presidency. It involves "big money, powerful organization and enormous enthusiasm among his base." Exit polls in the state suggest Obama is ahead, however.
China wants foreign embassies to stop releasing reports and Tweeting about its poor air quality.
Gonorrhea growing resistant to antibiotics? Rut roh.
Dinosaurs apparently weighed less than scientists previously thought. Adjust paper-mache Brontosaurus as necessary.
Facebook is considering letting kids younger than 13 use the site.
The Boston Celtics took a 3-2 series lead over the Miami Heat on Tuesday and could send Bron Bron and Co. back home on Thursday.
A federal appeals court yesterday reinstated an antitrust lawsuit against Duke Energy. The lawsuit accuses Duke of paying kickbacks to local companies in order to gain support for a 2004 electric rate increase. The lawsuit alleges that Duke appeased the more powerful opposing companies by including rebate deals for them. The suit is seeking unspecified damages and seeks to represent all Ohioans affected by the rate increase.
Todd Portune is continuing his quest to become the East Side's county's property tax rebate savior, yesterday offering a new idea to bail out the stadium fund: extend the half cent sales tax past 2032. The revenue created by extending the sales tax, which has no sunset clause, would repay loans the county could use to pay for maintenance and projects at the stadiums now. Republican Commissioner Chris Monzel is open to "any ideas," though Democratic Commissioner Greg Hartmann says otherwise:
"Todd, here we go again," snapped Commissioner Greg Hartmann. "Walking away from these leases is just fantasyland.
"How many times are we going to do this?" he asked.
Rob Portman will test out his GOP rallying cries at the Faith & Freedom Coalition in Washington, D.C. next week.
Bill Clinton says a Mitt Romney presidency would be "calamitous" for the U.S.
The Senate will vote on a gender pay equity bill today.
China and Russia say they'll help the UN more going forward, though they've been supporting Syria more than anyone really wants them to.
Here's an explanation of the Transit of Venus, for those who don't get it yet.
Nintendo has revamped its Wii to try to lure gamers from free Internet games they play on iPads.
A new PC virus can infect computers by imitating a Windows update.
City Leaders have decided that they
don't need to sell Music Hall to a private organization in order for
the historic building to receive tax credits toward its renovation.
Mayor Mallory on Sunday told The Enquirer that selling the building
was not part of any discussion he's willing to have. While city
leaders hope a public-private partnership like that which has
renovated Washington Park can help update the building, organizers
with the Music Hall Revitalization Co. say some donors willing to
contribute to the private renovation of the building will not
contribute to the project while it is city owned. On Saturday, the Music Hall Revitalization Co.'s leader, Jack Rouse, resigned.
First they had a giant bridge built over their neighborhood. Now the residents of Lower Price Hill who live near the Sixth Street viaduct hope construction crews can take it down without causing too many clouds of lead paint dust to cover their homes. The viaduct is being replaced by a new structure currently under construction south of the existing one.
Ohio's second of four new casinos is set to open in Toledo next week. Cleveland's casino opened last week, while Columbus' Hollywood Casino is scheduled to open this fall with Cincinnati's Horseshoe in-line for an early 2013 unveiling.
Jury selection in the trail of former Goldman Sachs/Procter & Gamble board member Rajat Gupta began today in federal court in Manhattan. Gupta is accused of insider trading stemming from a 2008 phone call that authorities have already used to convict hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam, who is currently serving an 11-year sentence. From the AP:
Rajaratnam has been the biggest catch so far in a wide-ranging insider-trading investigation by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara that's resulted in more than two dozen prosecutions of white collar defendants. But based on Gupta's standing in the world of finance, his trial could draw more attention — and a potential conviction could resonate farther.
Aside from his role at Goldman Sachs, the Indian-born Gupta is the former chief of McKinsey & Co., a highly regarded global consulting firm that zealously guards its reputation for discretion and integrity.
Gupta, 63, is also a former director of the huge consumer products company Procter & Gamble Co., a pillar of American industry and one of the 30 companies that make up the Dow Jones industrial average. P&G owns many well-known brands including Bounty, Tide and Pringles.
Researchers have created a national registry of wrongful conviction exonerations that has identified 873 faulty convictions during the past 23 years that have been recognized by authorities. The registry's founders say the collection is only a fraction of such convictions and that it demonstrates a serious problem with America's criminal justice system.
"What this shows is that the criminal justice system makes mistakes, and they are more common than people think," said University of Michigan law professor Samuel Gross, the registry's editor. "It is not the rule, but we won't learn to get better unless we pay attention to these cases."
Mitt Romney is having some trouble getting conservative donors to back his campaign. Meanwhile, Obama continues to talk about Romney's business dealings.
The John Edwards jury is still in deliberations today trying to determine whether the former Democratic presidential candidate conspired to violate election laws while hiding an extramarital affair during his campaign. Prosecutors say Edwards solicited more than $900,000 from a 101-year-old woman named Rachel "Bunny" Mellon and a Texas lawyer to hide a child from his wife, who had cancer at the time.
Protests continued in Chicago today during the final day of the NATO summit.
Apparently 25 percent of American teens have diabetes or pre-diabetes, up from 9 percent in 1999-2000.
People in Asia and the western U.S. last night got to see a solar eclipse that looked like a ring of fire.
The private rocket scheduled to launch a commercial space capsule was forced to abort its mission on Saturday but is scheduled to fly up into space on Tuesday.
The ongoing saga involving Cincinnati Police Chief James Craig and his nonexistent policing powers will continue into July, as a hearing scheduled for Thursday has been continued. Craig's attorneys will argue in front of the Ohio Peace Officer Training Commission that his prior experience, and certification in three other states, should exempt him from a state rule requiring all officers pass a certification exam before earning police powers. Craig believes he was hired to do things other than study for an entry-level policing test, and some states would already have certified him.
A statewide ban on texting while driving moved through the Ohio House of Representatives yesterday and is expected to be signed into law by Gov. John Kasich. The law makes the writing, sending or reading of a text message while driving a secondary offense, meaning officers may not pull over an adult driver for the act. Teens, however, under House Bill 99 will be prohibited from using any electronic device other than GPS and may be pulled over for it.
Kasich on Tuesday followed through with the GOP plan to overturn its own controversial election law that was to go before voters in November. State Republicans and election officials now say there's no reason for the law to go in front of voters thanks to the 300,000 signatures gathered by President Obama's re-election campaign and other opponents, but opponents of the election law point out that the repeal still reaffirms an election law change that would end early voting the weekend before an election. Democrats plan to keep the issue on the ballot.
But people on both sides of the issue say there's no precedent for a legislative repeal of a bill that also is the subject of a referendum, so it's unclear how a court might rule if a legal challenge is filed.
Jennifer Brunner, a former Democratic secretary of state and a leader in the Fair Elections Ohio campaign that brought the referendum, said Tuesday that the action taken by Gov. John Kasich and Legislature doesn't force the removal of the question from November ballots.
"Since this issue is a case of first impression for any court, we do not see the statement of the Secretary of State to be determinative on this issue," Brunner said in an email. "The issue remains on the ballot."
More drama from Columbus: Republicans are moving forward with a test program requiring some welfare recipients to submit to drug testing in order to continue receiving benefits. Opponents say the process stigmatizes the poor, while the GOP says it's just a simple process involving poor people paying the upfront costs for drug tests, being reimbursed if they pass and living on the streets for six months if they fail.
Northern Kentucky leaders plan to use the revitalization of Over-the-Rhine as a model for reinvesting in their urban core. A nonprofit organization has raised $10 million during the past five years to get started spurring commercial and residential investment.
Two Kentucky high school students who were turned away from their senior prom for arriving as a same-sex couple have argued that if their Catholic high school wants to ban students based on upholding the church's teachings, such a ban should include couples who have had premarital sex and kids who plan to get wasted after the prom.
Apparently viewers of Harry's Law, which was set in Cincinnati and used a stage-version of Arnold's as the lawyer gang's regular hangout, are too old to attract advertising dollars despite their relatively high numbers.
The show ranked very low among viewers ages 18 to 49, the demographic most advertisers care about. In fact, its young-adult numbers were beneath those for "Prime Suspect," a cop show that NBC canceled earlier this season, and roughly on par with those of "Off Their Rockers," the Betty White show about senior citizens pulling pranks on younger people.
"It was a difficult decision," an NBC executive said Sunday, quoted by the site Deadline.com. "Everyone here respects 'Harry's Law' a lot but we were finding it hard to grow the audience for it. Its audience skewed very old and it is hard to monetize that."
President Obama raised $44 million during April for his and other Democratic campaigns.
John Boehner says that when the federal government raises the debt limit again America can expect another prolonged fight about cuts.
George W. Bush has found "freedom" wherever he ended up after having little to offer the GOP after his tumultuous two terms as president. From ABC News:
We don't see much of Bush these days. He's the president that a lot of people would like to forget, still so toxic that he's widely considered more likely to hurt than help the Republican Party by participating in the 2012 campaign.
Bush's speech Tuesday morning was a rare exception. He spoke in a small, nondescript room to about 200 people about democracy activists, promoting a human rights campaign that's part of the George W. Bush Presidential Center.
His presence on the national stage is perhaps best seen in his presence on the small stage at 1777 F Street. At the end of the affair, Bush and his wife were called back up to be presented with writings by Czech human rights icon Vaclav Havel. They posed for pictures as the audience clapped, and when they were done, Bush glanced around as if unsure what to do next.
He walked back to his seat, but then quickly walked back onto the stage and behind the lectern. He leaned forward into the microphone, paused, and said slyly, "Thanks for coming."
Bush waited a second or two. Then he said, "See ya later."
He waved, and then he left.
Is U.S. energy independence a pipe dream? This article says no.
Apple might soon give you a larger iPhone screen.
A private rocket launch this week could be the start of commercial space travel.
Here are some important tips about sunscreen as summer approaches and the circle in the sky threatens to burn off our skin.
In news you've likely already heard from your favorite website, social network, radio station, print publication, TV or the guy in your neighborhood who likes to talk about current events, President Barack Obama yesterday announced his support for same-sex marriage, becoming the first-ever sitting president to do so. The news has spawned analysis from across the land, ranging from "risky but inevitable" to "matters less than you think." The Enquirer says the decision is going to "echo in Ohio" (whatever that means).
One thing we know for sure: Hollywood celebs are preparing to pack George Clooney's house tonight and fill up Obama's briefcase with money.
The "No. 2 official at the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office" says the jail being next to the casino will be bad for business, according to an Enquirer story detailing worries over jail overcrowding leading to accused criminals to go into the casino to "get warm, panhandle customers or just give visitors a bad impression of Cincinnati."
Hamilton County Commissioner Todd Portune yesterday cancelled a new truck order for Paul Brown Stadium, instead giving the vehicles to Parking Operations. Parking Operations was supposed to get the stadium's used trucks after the stadium received new ones, but Portune said the stadium doesn't need brand new stuff all the time.
Up north, Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman says his city wants an NBA basketball team now that the public has purchased the arena the Columbus Blue Jackets play in.
Poll watch: Portman on GOP ticket doesn't change Ohio race
New claims for unemployment benefits dropped again last week, nearing a four-year low.
Facebook will soon launch an App Center, because it's so annoying to have to leave Facebook to get cool new apps.
Famous hairdresser Vidal Sassoon died
yesterday after a bout with leukemia. He apparently played a large
role in creating "wash and go" hairstyling and later
revolutionizing the hair-care industry. Here's a Philadelphia
Inquirer obit. And five ways Vidal Sassoon changed people's hair. Sassoon, according to the book Insider's Guide to Cincinnati, had a home in Mount Adams (his wife was a Greater Cincinnati native).


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Even with a less experienced roster, the Valley Stream Central High School District rifle team found a way to bring home another state title and set a few records along the way.
For the seventh consecutive season, the team captured the state championship in the air rifle competition at West Point on March 2. However, for the first time in seven years it missed out on the .22 smallbore title after failing to qualify at the county level.
Members of the team say they are quite thrilled to bring home a championship, especially with several newcomers to the varsity squad. Central High School senior Danielle Cuomo and South High senior Sean Wraith were the only returning shooters from last year. New to the team were South senior Melissa Schmidt, North junior Kristen Mantel and Central junior Jurell Wilson, an alternate.
At the state championship, Valley Stream broke the team air rifle record with 1,138 points out of 1,200, topping the previous high mark by two points. It also broke its own Section 8 record by 14 points. During the season, the team set a new Nassau County high score of 763 out of 800 during a match.
Cuomo, a fourth year varsity starter and the team's senior captain, tied the individual state record in air rifle with 291 points. "I was really proud of myself because I worked really hard," she said. "It came down to the last shot."
In the fall, Cuomo will be attending the United States Military Academy at West Point and will shoot for the rifle team there. She said she is looking forward to the increased level of competition and further honing her skills.
Wraith, who will likely attend SUNY Geneseo, says his rifle days are now over but valued his time on the high school team. "I ranked third in the state in air rifle and we won as a team," he said. "I couldn't have asked for a better way to end it."
A state championship in .22 smallbore just wasn't in the cards, Wraith said. The team could not fend off a strong Massapequa team in the county championships in Glen Cove in early February.
Cuomo and Wraith did get to join an all-stars team with the shooters from Massapequa in .22 smallbore at the state championship, however.
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KLEM Local Schedule (week of April 18)
MONDAY RESULTS - April 18
(G) Le Mars & Gehlen Catholic at the Sheldon Invitational - POSTPONED TO APRIL 28th
(B) Knight Relays in Orange City
GEHLEN RESULTS IN CLASS B: Gehlen finished 6th with West Lyon winning the team title ...Jordan Langel won the 110 High Hurdles in a time of :16.89 for the Jays only first place finish
LE MARS RESULTS IN CLASS A: Le Mars finished fourth with M-O-C/Floyd Valley finishing first ... Kyle Borchers won the 800-meter run in a time of 2:04 ... and Le Mars won the 4X800 Relay in a time of 8:31 (Brennan Buss-Joe Herzberg-Rodrigo Cobian-Kyle Borchers) ... and the 4X100 Relay in :46.04 (Zach Reed-Hunter Rode-Bryce Dahm-Brady Lancaster) ... NOTE: Le Mars didn't have Paxton Strub available due to a pulled hamstring.
(B) Storm Lake at Le Mars - POSTPONED
(G) Le Mars at Storm Lake - SUSPENDED TO MAY 5th WITH LE MARS LEADING 4-3
(G) Gehlen Catholic 211 Remsen St. Mary's (didn't field a full squad) MEDALIST: Gehlen's Lauren Sitzmann with a 47 and RUNNER-UP went to Gehlen's Molly Nemmers with a 48. Melissa Groepper led St. Mary's with a 69.
(B) Gehlen Catholic 178 Remsen St. Mary's 206 MEDALIST: Gehlen's Dylan Kneip with a 40 and RUNNER-UP to Gehlen's Derek Bretey with a 42. Derek Gengler led St. Mary's with a 45.
(G) Le Mars finished fourth at Sioux City North Invitational. Bishop Heelan won the meet title with a 214 with four shot seperating the next four teams. North shot a 226, East a 228, Le Mars a 229 and Council Bluffs A-L a 230. Karley Oakley of Sioux City North shot a 40 to earn the medal. Emily Pick led Le Mars with a 53 with Steph Betsworth shooting a 54.
TUESDAY RESULTS - April 19
(B) Le Mars & Spencer at Spirit Lake - POSTPONED
(G/B) Hinton at Gehlen Catholic - POSTPONED
(G) Le Mars at West Sioux JV meet at Hawarden - CANCELLED
THURSDAY SCHEDULE - April 21
(G) Le Mars & Gehlen Catholic in the Le Mars Invitational (makeup) - POSTPONED
SATURDAY SCHEDULE - April 23
(B) Le Mars finished fifth in the Spirit Lake Invitational. Spencer won the team title with a 315 with Spirit Lake finishing second with a 328. Emmetsburg and Estherville/Lincoln Central finished ahead of Le Mars in the team standings with Okoboji taking sixth. Spencer's Jay Monahan won the medal with a 75, one shot better thatn E-L-C's Max Brashear. For Le Mars, Michael Brandenberg shot an 83, Coleton Brown an 84, Eric Cline an 89, Michael Sauer and Parker Rolfes had 95's and Justin Tilley a 97.
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Commission: Definitely willing to pay for this via paypal, or snailmail.*
Discuss through PM for more details and price negotiations.
I would rather not go over $100, but if you wow me, we'll chat.
* CAD or USD only for snail mail, please.
Style: Old map (like this) mixed with Tolkien/fantasy-style.
Quality/Size: No size requirements. Quality... decent-high.
I would prefer the cartographer in question had some artistic skills as well.
Copyright: I may use this commercially, eventually, one day... maybe.
It's pretty unlikely, but we can dream. YOU can use it however you'd like.
As a promotion, for prints, whatever the hell you want to do with it.
Description of Map:
Nope, none of the towns/cities are named.
Let me elaborate on some of the details and my requests
Capital City to the North: An industrialized mass of factories, clock towers, and faux-naturale buildings (buildings designed to look like trees, mushrooms, or flowers). They have steam-powered dragons wandering the city to guard the royal court (who lives in a faux-tree built mostly of glass). The entire city is surrounded by a fairy ring (Wikipedia).
Capital City to the South: A magically-charged medieval style palace. It is built on the uneven ledges and grounds of the mountainous terrain. Lots of random towers and bridges just for the **** of it.
'DANGER' by the Bridge: A mermaid-troll who kills the impure. She is a 'true elf' and, hence, loathes those who are technologically progressive, or have begun merging with dragons (such as the below danger).
'DANGER' in the Mountains: Vampires, zombies, and gargoyles!
Black Abyss of Doom: The Origin of the Dragons, as it is called, is uncharted territory where supposedly thousands of dragons reside and mine (yep, my dragons mine). Some of the original dragons live here too, which are far more Lovecraftian than typical dragons. Feel free to draw a tentacle slipping out of the abyss towards that village in the forest or something creepy.
Dragon's Dens: Three of them are on this map (not including the above black abyss). These are the locations of caves where dragons reside outside of their origin. Deep in the mountains, the forest, and in underwater caverns (these dragons are notably smaller - along with volcanic dragons [not shown on this map]). Mountain dragons are heavy set, sometimes with turtle-like shells; water dragons are more similar to the Chinese-style dragon and tend to have a large neck frill; and forest dragons are based on the dragons/wyverns in Reign of Fire. Don't know if you need that information, but in case you do - there it is!
Details of the World (reference guide): Hunters in this world use guns and swords, or a weapon that combines both. Farmers mostly keep draconian species (disturbing hybrids of cows and chickens... with dragons), and they grow a variety of grain-sort crops and vegetables. Fruits are relatively scarce, although some of them are grown with the aid of magic (mainly apples). Villages are likely to be themed after Feudal Japanese villages, with that style home and whatnot. The small cities are industrialized, but more like how may think an elven city: tree houses, fairy mounds, and whatnot. They also use a lot of stone for their buildings (and bronze, given the steampunk overtones). People ride around in steam-powered versions of Viking boats (in case you feel like drawing them in for the docks, or just out in the ocean). Additionally, the people of the Southern Capital ride in airships.
Additional Notes: I am not a cartographer, so the river system, the mountains, the beach line, and the forest aren't all that great - but you get the basic idea of what's important. Please feel free to add extra little streams, roads between villages, detail the mountain roots of the rivers, and otherwise improve on the map as a whole. A lot of the coast line is elevated - so there are cliffs rather than real beaches, but towards the Northern Capital, the land evens out a bit. The awkward teal is a VAGUE gradient for the overall topography, but it's not perfect. Also, I know lots of things are geographically impossible, so feel free to point it out and I'll probably just (let you) fix it. If it's really something I need to keep... well, this is fantasy, people. If I say a dragon melted a glacier and formed a lake, then... I deem that to be so. ANY EXTRA INFORMATION YOU NEED CAN AND WILL BE PROVIDED UPON REQUEST.


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There is a Heat Advisory for the rest of the viewing area until 8pm.
Temperatures this afternoon will reach the upper 90s with the heat index ranging between 105°-115°.
Along with the dangerous heat, a few storms will be possible as a front approaches from the northwest.
Any storm that does form will have the potential to become strong to severe.
The main threats with any storm that does form will be strong gusty winds, heavy rain, and frequent lightning.
The intense heat will continue into Saturday with highs in the middle 90s. Cloud cover and thunderstorm activity will increase over the weekend and that should cool temperatures slightly.
During this intense heat you should drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned environment and check on relatives and elderly neighbors.
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After a one day break, the heat will be back on across Eastern Carolina Thursday.
A heat advisory will be in effect from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. as heat indexes, or the "feels-like" temperatures reach up to 109 degrees.
The heat advisory is for all of Eastern Carolina on Thursday.
Temperatures will reach the middle to upper 90s inland, and lower 90s near the coast through Friday. You should drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned environment and check on relatives and elderly neighbors.