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A computer with speakers and sound is needed to do the online Part 1 of this class. Must print off the certificate and bring it to the class to complete Part II demonstration. Call Education at (605) 622-5588 to register for a 1/2 hour time slot to do the return demonstration. Demonstration times start at 8:00 am and end at 8:00 pm.
Fee for this class is $40.00 payable the day of the class. Class is held in the Avera St. Luke's Education Center, 709 6th Ave. SE, Aberdeen, SD.
The HealthCare Provider CPR class is intended for those people who work in the healthcare field or going into healthcare. The classes, which feature the American Heart Association standards, are offered through a combination of online work and a live skills demonstration. This class will be done in 2 parts.
Participants need to call (605) 622-5588 to register, at which time they will be sent an e-mail with instructions on how to purchase Part I of the lesson, which is to be done online. Participants will need to have a computer with speakers and sound to complete this portion. It will take them approximately 90 minutes to complete. When completed they will need to print off a certificate that they bring to the class portion (Part II), the skills demonstration. When registering for this class you will sign up for a 1/2 hour time slot to do the skills demonstration. Your card will be mailed to you after you have successfuly completed your skills. Completion of the course is a mandatory prerequisite for attendance in the EMT course, the CPR Instructor course, ACLS and PALS.
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|Health is not a condition of matter, but of mind
|Written by Justin Newman, medical student
Resolute Resolutions
Before the New Year becomes not so new and the resolutions begin to fade into forgetfulness, this week's article harps again on the benefits of exercise. I hope that by learning a bit about exercise and its benefits for your body it might help you keep on the right track.
Exercise gets the heart pumping, the muscles working, releases a variety of "feel good" chemicals into the body and leads to longer, happier lives. Exercise keeps the mind sharp and protects against the loss of memory that comes with aging. A study of persons older than 65 years found those who did regular exercise three or more times per week had a significantly reduced chance of getting Alzheimer's disease.
The immune system performs better, the heart works more effectively, blood pressure can be lowered and cholesterol levels can drop. The list of health benefits is seemingly endless. Regular exercise has been shown to reduce stress, anxiety and depression. Exercise may prevent the development of diabetes, helps people to stop smoking and is suggested to help with the prevention of and recovery from colon, breast and prostate cancer.
There is no shortage of reasons to exercise. Take your choice of motivation—any reason that keeps you exercising will work.
While working on your shape, you should try to do at least 30 minutes of uninterrupted exercise at a time. This allows your heart rate to increase and then stay at the increased level for long enough to become trained.
A study that looked at how often you need to exercise to lose weight found those who exercised only two times each week did not see much change, while those who exercised three times each week achieved modest results and those who exercise four or more times each week saw the greatest improvements. Regardless of how often or how long people exercise, the best results are achieved when there is a set schedule that is maintained.
Strength training is another type of exercise that includes any use of weights or exercises aimed at toning or working muscles. This can include the traditional type of lifting weights, or can be done by holding weights while running or walking, doing exercises in a pool where the water gives resistance to motion, or by climbing stairs or other activities that cause a group of muscles to become tired.
When you exercise the muscles, they increase in size and strength. The muscle cells also become able to use more energy, so they become better at using burning carbohydrates and fats. The body itself then becomes better at burning away the fat that is stored all over the body.
Recently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed a scary trend among American adults. Alarmingly, 60 percent of Americans don't exercise enough, and more than 25 percent aren't physically active at all. If there are not substantial changes in the future, there will be serious consequences for both the physical and financial health of our country.
So, do not let yourself become a statistic—make the choice to exercise and lead the life that you want to. Make it a good New Year!
Justin Newman is originally from Holyoke and is attending medical school at the University Of Chicago Pritzker School Of Medicine.
This column is about health related issues with a focus on a rural community. The purpose of this column is to be informative and to comment on interesting medical and health related topics. Any questions or concerns that may arise regarding topics covered by this article should be addressed to your primary care doctor.

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text: The Frosting on the (Filipino) Cake: A family carries on their matriarch's dessert legacy by Chicago Amplified published on 2013-03-03T16:48:53Z If Philippine food and culture is a mystery to most of us, then Filipino desserts are a best kept secret. Join us for a look at some sweet ethnic history as Maribel (Delia) Anama talks about the influence her baking maven mother, Gloria, had on her while she was growing up in the Philippines. It was her mother's influence that led her to a career in baking, ultimately becoming an entrepreneur, opening her own sweet tooth emporium in Park Ridge. Delia will give us a look at the Philippine baking industry of years ago, its evolution, and what Filipino desserts and delicacies are like. And to prove that she is not sugarcoating the facts, Delia will bring Filipino rice cakes for us to sample. For the last 20 years, Delia Anama has been creating a sweet storm, working for such renowned places as Long Grove Confectionery Company, Panera Bread, Mrs. Fields, Long Grove Confectionery, Let Them Eat Cake, and Turano Baking Company, before realizing her dream and opening her own shop, Mrs. A. Cupcakes@the Pickwick, in Park Ridge.


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"There is a post on the board right now where Derek states he is not a Mod."
That is correct. When Jack made that post, Derek was a mod. He has since retired from that position.
Did he stay long enough to get benefits? What kind of retirement package did he get?
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No, really, I'm fine. I always look like this.
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he looks like myself
Yeah uhhh he is cut for a 320 lb d-lineman... Impressive!!
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he looks like myself
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I believe Jeremy needs to be compensated for the outstanding matchmaking work that has just taken place on Cyclone Fanatic.
if you call bloodshed matchmaking
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Don't need to get upset redqb.
why would you assume that, just proving myself
I can't wait to see where he gets drafted.
I think he could be a future anchor in a 3-4.
Holy crap...that WR from App. St. ran a 4.27 in the 40...wow, that's fast.
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Holy crap...that WR from App. St. ran a 4.27 in the 40...wow, that's fast.
The RB from East Carolina ran a 4.24.
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November 2013 Sports Calendar
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by Jonathan Zeller, 10/30/2013
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Some of November's most exciting sporting events are occasions that have been circled on fans' calendars for months: the New York City Marathon's return is likely to draw about 2 million spectators to the five-borough course, and the Brooklyn Nets' home opener against LeBron James and the back-to-back defending NBA champion Miami Heat is certain to attract a swarm of celebrity attendees, gawkers and media. Many Knicks and Rangers fans, meanwhile, get their first looks at the renovated Madison Square Garden in November—the arena reopened in late October. Slightly more under the radar, the Red Bulls hit the pitch in the playoffs as they try to follow up their first-ever Supporters' Shield with an MLS Cup championship, and college basketball season tips off all around the city. Finally, on the gridiron, the struggling Giants and somewhat surprising Jets aren't the only teams to watch—the Fordham Rams, a Division I FCS program, are off to an 8–0 start for the first time since (according to unofficial records) 1886, back before tackling below the waist was allowed. For more on these and the rest of the month's sports highlights, read on.
Brooklyn Nets Basketball
When: All month long
Where: Barclays Center
Tickets: ticketmaster.com and stubhub.com
New York Knicks Basketball
When: All month long
Where: Madison Square Garden
Tickets: ticketmaster.com and stubhub.com
The young 2013–2014 NBA season continues in November. Carmelo Anthony and the Knicks, who open against the Milwaukee Bucks at Madison Square Garden on October 30, aim to improve on a campaign during which they won their first playoff series in more than a decade. Considering that Metta World Peace (a native New Yorker who's always up to something interesting) was among their off-season acquisitions, it's safe to say they'll at least be entertaining. The Nets—whose roster now includes Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce, guaranteeing some fun Knicks-Nets tilts this year—get started at home on November 1, hosting LeBron James and the back-to-back defending champion Miami Heat. Brooklyn's fans surely hope the team is as tough on the court as they looked on their recent Sports Illustrated cover.
New York Red Bulls. Photo: Anthony Gruppuso
New York Red Bulls Playoff Soccer
When: November 6 or 7
Where: Red Bull Arena
Tickets: newyorkredbulls.com
Argentina vs. Ecuador Soccer
When: November 15
Where: MetLife Stadium
Tickets: ticketmaster.com
The Red Bulls took the Supporters' Shield as the team with the best regular-season record after a race that went down to the final game of the year. Now they host the second leg of the Eastern Conference semifinals. If their aggregate score at the end of a two-game series is greater than their opponents', they'll move on to the next round. Over at MetLife Stadium, there's a big international friendly between Argentina and Ecuador. And—not in New York City or even its suburbs, but worth noting—the new Cosmos, in their first NASL campaign, have qualified for the Soccer Bowl and will travel to Atlanta to play for a title on November 9.
New York Giants Football
When: November 10, 17 and 24
Where: MetLife Stadium
Tickets: ticketmaster.com or stubhub.com
New York Jets vs. New Orleans Saints
When: November 3
Where: MetLife Stadium
Tickets: ticketmaster.com or stubhub.com
Few pundits would have guessed that the Jets—seen by much of the press and the public as a discombobulated sideshow—would be the local football team with four wins entering November, while the Giants—a paragon of stability and success—would have just two. Alas, that's why they play the games. Geno Smith and Gang Green try to climb above .500 on November 3 against the New Orleans Saints, while the Giants will have ample opportunity to continue their recovery from a disastrous start with three consecutive home games to close out the month.
New York Rangers. Courtesy, MSG Photo Services
New York Rangers Hockey
When: All month long
Where: Madison Square Garden
Tickets: ticketmaster.com or stubhub.com
The Blueshirts got off to a rough start—playing their first nine games on the road probably didn't help, nor did the mysterious injury that's been nagging Henrik Lundqvist, the suavest man in hockey—but the season is still young. In addition to the hockey itself, the Rangers' home ice is bound to be an attraction in the early part of the season, as Madison Square Garden's much-ballyhooed renovation has finally been completed.
ING New York City Marathon
When: November 3
Where: Starting on the Staten Island side of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and finishing at Central Park
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This is the participatory sporting event to end all participatory sporting events, during which roughly 48,000 competitors endure a punishing 26.2-mile journey through all five boroughs. Amateurs run the same route as professional stars, and millions of fans cheer them every step of the way. Marathoners compete not only on two legs but also on prostheses and wheels. For tips on the optimal spectator experience, check out our full guide.
Photo: Mitchell Funk/MSG Photos
College Basketball
When: All month long
Where: Madison Square Garden, Barclays Center and gyms citywide
This spring, the NCAA Tournament will return to Madison Square Garden for the first time since the 1960s—and there will be plenty of college basketball action to whet fans' appetites all season long. In November, highlights include the Coaches vs. Cancer Classic, which brings preseason no. 2 Michigan State and others to Brooklyn, and the NIT Season Tip-Off semifinals and finals at Madison Square Garden, which could include such powers as no. 4 Duke and no. 5 Arizona. The local teams are all in action as well: Columbia, Fordham, Manhattan, Division III New York University, St. Francis, St. John's and Wagner have games on campus, while Long Island University plays games both in its own arena and at the Barclays Center.
College Football
When: All month long
Where: Jack Coffey Field and beyond
New York City has three Division I FCS football teams, and we at nycgo.com offer our full support to the fine young men at Columbia and Wagner. Check out the rest of those teams' games. Having said that, there's no question about who's the top college football team in town. That would be the Fordham Rams, whose 8–0 start—their best-ever in the modern era (we'll call that beginning in 1906, with the advent of the forward pass)—has brought them to no. 9 in their division's rankings. Their last regular-season home game is on November 9 against Bucknell—but if they keep winning, it's virtually certain that they'll receive an at-large playoff berth.
NYC Mayor's Cup Soccer All-Star Games
When: November 16–17
Where: Poly Prep
More info: facebook.com/nycmayorscup
In an event organized by NYC & Company, high school soccer players from the Public Schools Athletic League, Catholic High School Athletic Association and independent schools compete to call themselves the "Best in the City."
World Championship Boxing
When: November 2
Where: The Theater at Madison Square Garden
Tickets: ticketmaster.com
Battle of the Badges Boxing
When: November 22
Where: The Theater at Madison Square Garden
Tickets: ticketmaster.com
Glory 12 International Kickboxing
When: November 23
Where: The Theater at Madison Square Garden
Tickets: ticketmaster.com
If you're a fan of sports in which competitors punch and/or kick each other, you may find yourself frequenting the Theater at Madison Square Garden in November. On November 2, Brooklyn's own Curtis Stevens tries to knock the WBA and IBO middleweight titles from the grasp of undefeated Gennady Golovkin; on November 22, NYC's police and firefighters slug it out in the Battle of the Badges; and, on November 23, kickboxers compete for $150,000 cash and, we must assume, glory.
Boston University vs. Cornell Hockey
When: November 30
Where: Madison Square Garden
Tickets: ticketmaster.com
Two historically successful college hockey programs continue their recent tradition of facing off on the Madison Square Garden ice in what promoters call "Red Hot Hockey." They've previously played at the same location in 2007, 2009 and 2011.
Looking ahead:
December 1: Kentucky vs. Providence basketball, Barclays Center
December 5: Nets vs. Knicks, Barclays Center
December 7: Zab Judah vs. Paulie Malignaggi (boxing), Barclays Center
December 28: Pinstripe Bowl, Yankee Stadium
January 26, 2014: Devils vs. Rangers, Yankee Stadium
January 29, 2014: Islanders vs. Rangers, Yankee Stadium
February 2, 2014: Super Bowl XLVIII, MetLife Stadium
March 28 & 30, 2014: NCAA Tournament, Madison Square Garden
Spring 2015: New York City FC (Major League Soccer), site TBA


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I will write up a big post here some time real soon.
I will write up a big post here some time real soon.
Kirby don't ruin the topic before it begins.
move this to the debate forum
"There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it."
- Guatama Buddha
ill think about it. post the post anyway.
"I'll go," said Chagataev. "But what will I do there? Build socialism?"
"What else?" said the secretary.
War of the Procrastinators... Part One: we'll do it eventually
First tell me how you would respond if I brought up the human nature argument?
earliest human social groups were very commnal lacked any concept of private property etc obviously the earliest human social groups will give a better glimpse as to what raw "human nature" actually is, besides "human nature" includes a lot of things.
"I'll go," said Chagataev. "But what will I do there? Build socialism?"
"What else?" said the secretary.
I'm not talking about raw instinctual human nature. I'm talking about what society has evolved into: a globalised 'free' market where people and corporations compete with one another for wealth and power. If communism is enforced (and it has to be enforced, you cannot start from scratch) then what is the guarantee that greedy people, especially those conditioned to today's capitalist society, will not try to game their way into gaining more wealth? Even during the time of the soviets, government officials, though they insisted they weren't affluent, drove flashy cars and wore fancy clothes.
Also this isn't the crux of my argument. I just want you to lay your entire philosophy down on the table.
One day we'll have a good conservative president, then the eagle will rise again, tear out the eyes of the dragon and the Red Threat of communism will die it's final death!
we should discuss capitalism, that's a capital idea
God, if you do not respond to this thread within the next 12 hours, I will assume you have accepted defeat. I will then parade around the forum posting banners in every board proclaiming that I beat God in a communism debate.
Hopefully the sparks in this debate will not simply fizzle. This may prove to be intellectually enjoyable.
The 'human nature' argument is more, 'It is difficult to adapt the economic behaviour of the current human species in certain parts of the world to fit the requirements of communism', which I don't think is disputable. Human nature and communism are not contradictory, although a communist economic model would work better among species that have a reproductive social incentive to build a communal system of gathering/production, like ants.
do i have to post that image in EVERY THREAD?
You should consider it a challenge.
God do you believe in actual Stalinist communism, war communism, marxism, socialism, kibbutzism, etc.?
im at the point of not caring about the particulars of communsim much anymore and thinking 'for god sake america doesnt even have a half sensible health care system, lets start by at LEAST electing democrats'. realistic shorter term goals.
"I'll go," said Chagataev. "But what will I do there? Build socialism?"
"What else?" said the secretary.


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Testimony :: Honoralbe Gordon H. Smith
Member - Helsinki Commission
How long will the Government of Georgia allow the ugliness of unrestrained mob violence to continue? For three long years, non-Georgian Orthodox religious communities have suffered needlessly. Police continue to fail in their fundamental duty of protecting individuals from violence. Efforts by Congress, the State Department, the Council of Europe and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to move the Georgian Government to end the cycle of religious-based violence have not seen real success. While President Eduard Shevardnadze repeatedly makes statements and proclamations condemning the religious violence, more than rhetoric is needed.
One of the most recent attacks against Jehovah's Witnesses took place in the town of Kaspi. As we have seen repeated all too often, the followers of defrocked Orthodox priest Vasili Mkalavishvili crashed the convention site of Jehovah's Witnesses. However, some Georgian politicians also chimed in beforehand, making incendiary and bigoted statements regarding Jehovah's Witnesses. Thugs reportedly arrived by bus, then ravaged the personal home of the individual hosting the event. Hooligans burned Bibles, religious pamphlets and the host's personal belongings in the yard, even filling the baptismal pool with diesel fuel. Despite explicit communication from the US Embassy in Tbilisi and other human rights groups, Georgian authorities did nothing to prevent the attack or to intervene during the rampage. Reportedly, police, including the local police chief, stood and watched.
Of course, while we expect the Georgian Government to conduct a full investigation that ends with the perpetrators brought to justice, the outstanding 700 plus criminal complaints stemming from over 100 separate attacks is not encouraging. I understand that the Georgian Government is in a precarious position, and fears the unrest that might spring forth if the mob leaders and their followers are arrested. However, I believe that average Georgians would welcome the sight of police officers acting pro-actively. Rule of law is one of the most tangible benefits a government can provide its people.
As an OSCE participating State, the responsibilities of the Georgian Government toward individuals wishing to practice religion or belief are clear. The Helsinki Final Act itself declared States must "recognize and respect the freedom of the individual to profess and practice, alone or in community with others, religion or belief acting in accordance with the dictates of his own conscience." The 1983 Madrid Concluding Document speaks to the situation in Georgia. It declares participating States "agree to take the action necessary to ensure the freedom of the individual to profess and practice, alone or in community with others, religion or belief acting in accordance with the dictates of his own conscience." Unfortunately for all Georgians, their government is not upholding its commitments.


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Voters expressed their concerns about crime to a candidate running for Meridian city council.
Newscenter 11 caught up with ward four candidate Craig Houston as he went door-to-door, hearing from voters about the issues that matter to them. Houston says it will take members of the community and the police department working together to get a handle on the problem.
"We need community policing, we need more community watches, more neighborhood watches," Houston says. "We need more people coming together and working because we all got a stake in this. It's not fair for somebody to pay rent or mortgage and be afraid to come out of their house and sit on their porch. We want people to be treated fairly, but we want people to be safe and that's first and foremost."
Jessie Palmer, Sr. is among the candidates running for city council in ward four.
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Africa | In Africa's fight against AIDS, the United States continues to support family-planning groups that stifle the White House abstinence and fidelity message
Before the Bush Administration, the United States fought AIDS in Africa and around the world with one weapon: condoms. Under President George W. Bush, the emphasis became abstinence and faithfulness-a program with Christian roots and a successful track record in Uganda, where AIDS has declined dramatically. But, with millions in AIDS-fighting dollars rolling out under Mr. Bush and results now rolling in, condoms are still winning out.
Global condom distribution by the United States under the Bush administration has tripled from five years ago.
U.S.-funded programs distributed 190 million of the contraceptive devices in 1999. This year they will hand out 550 million. Despite the mounting evidence that abstinence programs are more effective in reducing AIDS rates, old public-health habits are dying hard.
"It's worse than nothing's changed," said Edward Green, a senior research scientist at Harvard. Mr. Green visited Uganda in August, having spent 20 years fighting AIDS in Africa and working as a behavioral science specialist at Harvard's School of Public Health. Despite the administration's new AIDS rhetoric, Mr. Green said he found no signs of an extreme makeover in Uganda. "The unique indigenous program that Uganda developed is being gradually destroyed," he told WORLD.
When Uganda became the first African country to beat back its AIDS epidemic, Mr. Bush adopted its "ABC" prevention model as U.S. policy. It became the trademark of his Emergency Plan for AIDS, a $15 billion, five-year program to fight the disease. Fifteen countries, including Uganda, are to benefit from the plan.
"ABC" stands for Abstain, Be faithful, or use Condoms in the case of high-risk groups such as prostitutes. The approach fostered healthy behavior among most of the population and helped drive down Uganda's HIV rate from 21 percent in 1991 to about 6 percent today.
In January Congress appropriated the emergency plan's first $2.4 billion. Of that, $80 million was devoted to Uganda. But instead of pursuing faith-based and other groups geared to the ABC model, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) office in Kampala has funded old-school family-planning groups who have peddled millions of condoms to Africa for years. Contraceptive supplier Population Services International (PSI)-a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization-received the first installment of $12 million in abstinence and faithfulness funds. A further $2 million is earmarked for faith-based groups. But it will be distributed by a consortium of five large aid groups led by CARE International, groups long recognized as hostile to an abstinence-focused mission.
Long-term planning for Ugandan AIDS policy is also in the wrong hands. The Deliver Project, funded entirely by USAID, is mapping the logistics of condom, drug, and other contraceptive distribution to continue fighting AIDS the old way. Last year it pressed the Ugandan government to craft a condom policy that tracks condom usage and effectiveness.
Mr. Green now speaks of "salvaging" the country from the grasp of U.S. and other Western donors: "We're going to reach a point where infection rates will start going up again and then experts will say ABC never worked, that there was probably something wrong with the data all along."
Mr. Green's warning is noteworthy: Once a condom social marketer himself, he has become a crusader for Uganda's ABC approach through firsthand research in Africa, testifying before Congress and now serving as a member of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV and AIDS. He returned to Uganda in August at the request of Janet Museveni, alarmed herself by U.S. funding trends.
Mrs. Museveni, along with her husband, President Yoweri Museveni, devised ABC in 1986 in the face of a burgeoning epidemic and armed with only meager state funds. With little Western interference-Uganda was emerging from the disastrous dictatorship of Idi Amin-they relied on low-cost measures to change people's sexual behavior. They told teenagers to abstain until marriage, and told the sexually active to employ "zero grazing"-a catchphrase for staying faithful to one's partner. Studying Uganda's success, Mr. Green discovered that the emphasis on fidelity had the most impact. But now, the homegrown AIDS treatment revolution is struggling under U.S. influence. "Uganda is being pushed more towards condoms and pills," Mr. Green said.
The local USAID mission is pushing hardest, using PSI Uganda. Until last year, the group functioned under a family-planning project of USAID's population office that did social marketing. "Social marketing" is industry lingo for commercial-style campaigns aimed at changing people's behavior. In Africa, the term is synonymous with selling and promoting low-cost condoms. In October 2003, PSI assumed full management of the project's social marketing, absorbing its donor funding from USAID and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
At the same time, PSI received U.S. tax dollars to teach abstinence education. With those funds PSI launched Kikosi, a monthly comic-book series about AIDS prevention aimed at 15- to 19-year-olds, targeting 600,000 high-school students on "abstinence, stigma, care, and support." The storyline follows Birungi, a high-school student who contracted HIV/AIDS when her uncle raped her, and who becomes a radio DJ on the Kikosi radio program to increase AIDS awareness. Woven in, however, are multiple use-a-condom reminders, illustrating long-standing skepticism that teenagers can control their sexual urges.
Even in the issue supposedly devoted to abstinence, a main character does some heavy making out with her boyfriend before refusing to have sex. Another character calls into the Kikosi radio program, assuring the hosts that she and her boyfriend have not slept together. But she hopes that when they do "start having sex, he will be faithful to me, though we must take an HIV test first."
Behind the characters in the same issue, billboards sport catchphrases such as "True Love Waits" and "Sex can wait, but my future cannot." Also appearing are blue billboards for PSI's Protector condoms, with the slogan, "So strong. So smooth." The condom advertisements appear more often in other issues. One Kikosi issue is devoted entirely to the troubles main character DJ Smooth encounters when he refuses to use a condom with his girlfriend.
Teenagers noticed early the veiled safe sex message of Kikosi. PSI threw a Kikosi publicity bash with music, dance, and skits on Aug. 19 at London College, a Kampala high school. Students from the school complained that the program was too sexually provocative.
"I must confess most of the students were not impressed about the outcome of the event," wrote 12th-grader Gloria Limo, "This was because the Kikosi members did not promote abstinence, which we expected them to bring out to students." Another student said the comics "promoted condom use and sex."
Martin Ssempa, a pastor and 16-year abstinence educator, collected these and other written complaints from the students after he attended the PSI event. He said he has been lobbying the local USAID mission for months to get funding for a faith-based program that reaches 5,000 college and high-school students a week: "They just say, 'Wait, maybe next month.' They need to come down to the people who are really doing the work-they're not leveraging them."
Mr. Ssempa complains too that groups such as PSI meet official U.S. policy on ABC by drizzling abstinence slogans onto old condom campaigns. "It is like a Frenchman trying to speak Chinese," he said. "They just can't live with the fact that you can teach abstinence to young people."
The agency usually funds smaller faith-based groups indirectly, by first awarding large groups such as PSI and tasking them to disburse the money. This year USAID did fund several homegrown abstinence and faithfulness programs. The largest recipient-run by Mrs. Museveni-received $3 million to reach elementary-school children. In general, however, the system leaves educators such as Mr. Ssempa at the mercy of organizations philosophically opposed to them.
Bush AIDS appointees in Washington argue that changing traditional hostility to ABC is long and slow work. Anne Peterson, USAID assistant administrator for Global Health, says 90 percent of government-distributed condoms in Africa go toward AIDS prevention, geared toward high-risk groups such as prostitutes and couples where one partner is HIV positive and the other is negative. "Five years ago the secular public-health world would laugh if you suggested abstinence or faithfulness as a public-health message with any merit," Ms. Peterson said. "They saw it as an imposed religious mandate. To change that view means moving people out of firmly held stereotypes of what can work or not."
In the desperate battle against AIDS, that will gobble time Uganda and other countries may not have. Because Western donors control the AIDS war coffers, African governments often feel the pressure to conform to their ideas. That was obvious, says Mr. Green, in the crafting of two major AIDS policy documents. One is the master plan for all anti-AIDS measures until 2006, or the National Strategic Framework, backed by USAID.
Mr. Green formally requested that USAID Kampala mission director Vickie Moore address the document's gaping holes. "The only place I found abstinence, fidelity, or ABC is mentioned in the 63-page document is just in two comments in passing that Uganda's prevention policy is to promote ABC," he wrote in a letter. "Tellingly, it is mentioned under 'emerging issues,' a conscious or unconscious acknowledgment that the donors have not promoted the A or B of ABC so far." Ms. Moore did not respond directly to his request, said Mr. Green, instead punting it to a lower-ranking official.
The other worrying document is the first draft of Uganda's National Condom Policy and Strategy from June 2003. According to the acknowledgments, CDC and USAID staff helped craft the document. Among its AIDS policy goals was the use of "condom focal persons" for each of Uganda's 56 districts, tasked with overseeing local condom distribution. The whole plan is detailed, offering multiple pipelines to supply free and low-cost condoms and ensuring that the condoms remain high-quality.
Murmurs from religious and other government leaders soon prompted AIDS officials to withhold final approval of the document. Local experts are now creating a parallel policy for abstinence and faithfulness, with input from the faith community and experts such as Mr. Green.
Despite a White House change in policy, the scale of President Bush's five-year emergency initiative is at odds with its intent. More AIDS-fighting money equals more of everything-including condoms and outmoded prevention schemes.


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AAR reports June 2011 carload and intermodal volumes are up year-over-year
July 12, 2011
Following flat traffic growth on an annual basis in May, the Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported that both carload and intermodal volumes in June were up compared to the same timeframe last year.
"For several months now, rail traffic, along with other economic indicators, have presented a mixed picture of the economy," said AAR Senior Vice President John T. Gray in a statement. "While rail carloads have been relatively weak for the past quarter, largely due to coal traffic being down, rail intermodal remains relatively strong. Just like America waits to see what will happen with overall economic recovery, railroads are waiting to see what's in store for the second half of the year."
June carloads hit 1,428,580 for a 0.9 percent annual gain, and the weekly carload average in June was 285,716 and 0.5 percent better than May's 289,932 weekly average. On a quarterly basis, the second quarter of 2011 at 3,765,278 was up 0.5 percent compared to the second quarter of 2010 and 14.3 percent better than the second quarter of 2009. And for the first half of 2011, total carloads were up 2.7 percent annually.
AAR officials said that the 0.5 percent sequential increase is the equivalent of two additional trains per day over a 140,000-mile network is not much of an increase and is a function of the slow growth the economy has been experiencing. This raised the question posed by the AAR as to if the weakness of the past two months going to linger or is it a product of temporary factors such as supply chain disruptions from Japan or higher gasoline prices that are now on the decline?
Intermodal had another solid month at 1,152,432 trailers and containers, making it 4.6 percent higher than June 2010. Even with the increase, AAR officials said this marks the lowest annual monthly gain since January 2010. June's weekly intermodal average was 230,486 containers and trailers, below May's weekly average of 233,239 and snapping a five-month streak of sequential weekly average increases.
Even with the modest decline in intermodal, domestic intermodal product led by container growth is a growth story being driven by shipper demand amidst capacity concerns, said Tony Hatch, principal of New York-based ABH Consulting, in a recent interview.
Other factors driving intermodal growth cited by Hatch include driver shortages, regulatory issues, and oil prices and carbon are more entrenched a year later, adding that "it is an exciting product and it is going to grow10 percent or so and as we get to Peak Season we will see that capacity used up and even potentially face shortage issues again. It is healthy growth for an economy growing at a fraction of that."
Other reasons intermodal is continuing its strong run, according to industry experts, include supply capacity, which remains tight in the trucking market and lowering supply chain expenses at a time when fuel costs remain high, among others.
Of the 20 major commodities tracked by the AAR, 14 were up year-over-year in June. Metallic ores were up 19.2 percent, lumber & wood was up 12.9 percent, and grain was up 11.3 percent. Coal was down 3.2 percent, waste and non-ferrous scrap was down 13.6 percent.
Railroad employee numbers increased by 745 to 157,522 employees in May from April (the most recent month for which data is available).
And as of July 1, the AAR said that 276,236 freight cars—or 18.2 percent of the total fleet—were in storage, a decrease of 2,847 cars from June 1.
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Round 1 results
Pistons defeat Suns 13-3
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Bulls defeat Rockets 11-1
Pacers defeat Spurs 15-1
Hornets defeat Bucks 13-3
Knicks defeat Bobcats 11-5
Celtics defeat T-Wolves 12-1
Jazz defeat Sonics 10-3
Raptors defeat Wizards 10-3
Kings defeat Hawks 12-1
Thunder defeat Grizzlies 15-1
Nets defeat Cavs 9-1
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Is it possible to turn on the TV today without being told how wonderful Barack Obama is? Apparently not, for on Wednesday's American Idol – yes, the nation's premier musical competition – the Commander-in-Chief was gushed and fawned over like a rock star (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary): (HT: Newsbusters.org) American Idol just got the memo a little late. You will probably not | Read More »


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The Band Perry and rockers Fallout Boy are set to collaborate for a CMT Crossroads special, the network said.
The concert special will premiere Nov. 29 and feature the bands sharing stories and songs. It is scheduled to be taped in Nashville, Tenn.
The special follows Fallout Boy's sold-out tour during the spring and summer supporting their latest album "Save Rock and Roll."
The Band Perry plans to tour in support of their sophomore album and has been nominated for vocal group of the year at the upcoming CMA Awards.


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Caroline's Group
To help expand her business, Caroline has requested a loan of 400,000 Ugandan shillings from BRAC Uganda. The loan will be used to buy more chicken for resale, and will help Caroline to generate greater profits and pay school fees for herself. Caroline hopes that in the future she will be able to study catering.
Caroline is a member of BRAC's Empowerment and Livelihood for Adolescents (ELA) program. In addition to microfinance loans, the program provides both a safe place for young Ugandan women to take part in group activities and a forum for life-skills training. The ELA program has increased Caroline's future prospects by helping her to improve her business.
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About BRAC UgandaThis loan is administered by BRAC Uganda, a registered non-governmental organization (NGO) in Uganda that is also a part of the BRAC international network. BRAC Uganda attempts to address poverty through a holistic model, offering programs in education, health, water & sanitation, agriculture, and microfinance. BRAC Uganda's microfinance program aims to provide the poor with easy, reliable, and efficient access to institutional financial services, and reaches over 150,000 families in Uganda. For more on BRAC Uganda, please see our partner page, and join our lending team, Friends of BRAC Uganda.
This is a Group Loan
In a group loan, each member of the group receives an individual loan but is part of a larger group of individuals. The group is there to provide support to the members and to provide a system of peer pressure, but groups may or may not be formally bound by a group guarantee. In cases where there is a group guarantee, members of the group are responsible for paying back the loans of their fellow group members in the case of delinquency or default.
Kiva's Field Partners typically feature one borrower from a group. The loan description, sector, and other attributes for a group loan profile are determined by the featured borrower's loan. The other members of the group are not required to use their loans for the same purpose.
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Success!! The loan was 100% repaid
- Repayment Term
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Protect your iPhone with a one-piece, impact resistant, flexible plastic hard case featuring an extremely slim profile. Simply snap the case onto your iPhone for solid protection and direct access to all device features.
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It's Pimkie and they had it in their summer collection... I think.
very nice!
For anyone who is interested, throw pillows with this art is available over at Deny Designs! http://denydesigns.com/collections/we...
Awesome~ Nice work!
superb! cool stuff!
great reminder
Can't wait for this print to be delivered! Looks great!
Awesome print
this is definitely one of my favorite society6 pieces!
I think this really is my favourite thing on society 6... i am always coming back to it as it seems to be part of my happy place.
Thank you for something so lovely!
Thank you for something so lovely!
Thank you! You all are so kind! Happy New Year :)
im designing my wedding invitations right now and I want to use that little arrow you have in this... where did you find it or did you make it?
Hey Connor, I drew it :)
So true...I am a Hopeless Wanderer :)
Can't wait 'til my order arrives!
Can't wait 'til my order arrives!
Great work
Love your stuff :) i'm new to this, so if you get a chance stop by my page and follow if you dig my work!! also, i have more " personal " stuff on my website ( www.JavierJToledo.com ) comments / suggestions are always welcomed and appreciated!
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thank you again everyone! you're all so awesome! xx
Just letting you know, this amazing art piece is being sold on t-shirts @ etsy. Please report the seller if you did not give any permission to sell this. I reported him on you behalf but do the same so he can be banned. He's been selling quite a few items I remember seeing from this site and on Threadless so I notified those artists. If you see other people's works on there please do let them know.
hi norman! thank you so much for letting me know! do you know the name of the etsy store??
oops, just saw the link! thank you!
love it!
I love your style and color palettes!
I love it!! (^o^)
Great work Wesley, love all your stuff!
Incredible work, I think i have actually seen this piece over at Urban Outfitters in my hometown. Its incredible that as artists we start out doing what we love, with the chances of growing into something like that!
Awe thank you everyone! You guys are incredible :) I love our little community!
Very true! Makes me happy.
very true :) epic work wesley!
Love this! Congratulations on the success of your work :-)
thank you so much nina, brittany and michelle :) really means a lot!
Awesome! Great typography!
I'm a wanderer so thanks for making this print. It means a lot to someone who works for themselves.
Great use of hand lettering over photography-not always easily done.
Great use of hand lettering over photography-not always easily done.
aww thank you hyein and rob! you're both awesome!
Love ♥
from one bird to another.. you're great
haha thanks eric! you too! and thanks christina and life through the lens as well :)
Love this so much! Would love to order an iphone case but it looks as though the 'w' gets cut off on the side. Is this actually how it shows up?
Hey Ashley! The "Wander" text was wrapping around the sides a bit, BUT I changed it! I didn't love how it was getting cut off either so I resized the artwork :) Hope that works for you! xx
Legend of Zelda reference in there?
Haha i don't think so Jajowi! I don't know what that is!
great JRR. Tolkien quote and very well done. :)
Great typography!
can you make this into a mug and pillow?! PLEASE!!!
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Niiiice one
Very nice design and quote!
Love this piece!!
Great quote!
Just spotted this in the background of the film "Enough Said"
Extremely important: I, too saw this in Enough Said! CONGRATS!!!!!
thanks guys! I was really excited about that :)
So rad!!!
Nicely done!
this piece is as fresh now as when you first showed it, really holds it's own
This piece came together perfectly. Looks great Wesley Bird!
Thank you all so so much!!
Love it!
So wonderful!
This is a truly stunning work. Really, really good!
Wow, great combination of type, design and photography! Deserves a promote Wesley :)
thank you all so so much!
my favorite quote from ever, forever. Maybe 'cause my name actually is Wander. :) beautiful portfolio of work.
Fantastic work! Love it! ♥
Love it!
Great work, love the quote.
Promoted and followed with pleasure!
Bright! Promoted!
Thank you guys for your awesome comments :)
Great! Promoted and followed with pleasure!
Amazing work
This is fantastic! I Love the message! I am also interested in this kind of design! check mine out if you like it too!!! http://society6.com/product/break-is-...
I love this!
really nice
great design :)
Nice work, I promoting it. :)
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True dat!
I love this print....I always get comments on it when people come over!
Hey I Really like your stuff. So unique! I liked&followed you.
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I have this hanging in my room :)
This is wicked~ Checking out your other work now too. ^_^
do you plan on releasing this as a blanket??
Love the lettering of the word wander, its really fluid and complements the geometric shapes
beautiful! ♥
Makes me want to go get lost in the forest!
Makes me want to go get lost in the forest!
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Watkins Glen, N.Y. Tony Stewart says "there aren't words" to describe his sadness over the accident that killed Kevin Ward Jr.
In a statement released by spokesman Mike Arning, Stewart says "my thoughts and prayers are with his family, friends and everyone affected by this tragedy."
The three-time NASCAR champion hit Kevin Ward Jr. on Saturday night as Ward walked toward Stewart's car following an on-track incident at Canandaigua Motorsports Park.
Stewart says "It's a very emotional time for all involved, and it is the reason I've decided not to participate in today's race at Watkins Glen."
The decision was an about-face for his racing team, which said earlier Sunday that Stewart would be behind the wheel of his No. 14 Chevrolet when the green flag waved. Regan Smith drove Stewart's car instead.
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LTL news: ODFL opens up new service center in Madison, Wisconsin
September 14, 2011
Less-than-truckload (LTL) transportation services provider Old Dominion Freight Line (ODFL) said this week it has opened a new service center in Madison, Wisconsin.
Company officials said this move was driven by increased growth in this area, adding that ODFL will hire 12 new employees to work out of this facility. ODFL now has four Wisconsin-based service centers and 214 throughout the United States.
They also said that this expansion is part of a $100-$120 million investment focused on real estate purchases and expansion projects in 2011. What's more, they explained that the trucking industry hauls almost 90 percent of Wisconsin's manufactured tonnage on an annual basis.
"With the additional direct coverage and the proximity of our terminal to our existing customer base, [this new service center] will enhance our service times and help us better respond to our customers' needs," said Darek Nowak, vice president of the Midwest Region for Old Dominion.
Prior to opening up this new service center in Madison, Novak said ODFL previously handled this territory through an agent. And he added that the company will be servicing shippers in a more than 50-mile radius of this new service center, with the 24-door facility providing service to more than 30 cities.
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Mark Miller isn't a subtle guy.
Miller, treasurer of the Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes (COAST), recently apologized publicly after using the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to tweet a comment comparing the attacks to a political battle about the planned Cincinnati streetcar system.
Now Miller has posted an altered photograph on his Facebook page that some people believe is racist. The photo depicts a streetcar filled with young African-American males brandishing weapons. The streetcar has a sign that reads, "Banks & Freedom Center Only."
Based on the latest comments on his Facebook page, it appears Christopher Smitherman either doesn't understand the wording of Issue 48 or is deliberately trying to mislead voters.
On Wednesday, Smitherman wrote on his Facebook page: "Remember Issue 48 DOES not STOP light rail but it does force City Council to ask the citizens (sic) permission before spending $144 million. City Council does not want to ask the people (for) permission."
As several legal experts have agreed, Issue 48's net effect will be to stop the planning and construction of any type of passenger rail project within Cincinnati city limits until Dec. 31, 2020 — even if the project is privately financed.
Ohio voter advocates say there was a big elephant in the room during the creation of Ohio's controversial redistricting map, and it was super tan and cried a lot. The Ohio Campaign for Accountable Redistricting says John Boehner was central in the process, working with map-making consultants and the National Republican Congressional Committee. Here's a link to the Ohio Redistricting Transparency Report. From The Enquirer:
"The report found: decisions were not made in public; public input was ignored; there was limited opportunity for the public to review proposed maps; the public was not provided with relevant data for proposed districts; nonpartisan redistricting criteria were not used; and the criteria used to evaluate plans were never publicly identified."
Since the Watergate-era, Ohio has had a panel with authority to penalize those who deliberately disseminate false information during elections. Cincinnati's conservative anti-tax group COAST — which has been outspoken against the streetcar project — has chafed that it might someday run afoul of the Ohio Elections Commission for spouting off. COAST sees the Election Commission's job of policing political discourse as creating a government-controlled censorship panel. It asked: How could anybody in Columbus have the power to decide what is true and false in political advertising? Free speech should trump the Election Commission's power to zip lips, or levy penalties over false statements.
So COAST went to court and filed a challenge last year that asked a U.S. court in Cincinnati for an injunction putting the Ohio Elections Commission on ice. Last week, U.S. District Judge Michael R. Barrett (a former chairman of the Hamilton County Republican Party) tossed the COAST case out of court.
Barrett agreed with COAST that the back-and-forth of political speech is an important right. But he declared COAST had not shown its ability to make provocative statements had been damped, or "chilled," by the existence of the Ohio Elections Commission. The lawsuit is styled COAST Candidates PAC, et al v. Ohio Elections Commission, el al, Case No. 1:11cv775, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio.
Barrett said that if COAST had admitted it planned to lie it might have a better case. He wrote: "Plaintiffs responded that while they do not intend to engage in false speech, their speech has been chilled out of fear that any provocative statement might be challenged as false by political opponents. ... Plaintiffs have failed to demonstrate something 'more' than a subjective allegation of chill in this case."
Barrett said there was no proof of actual or imminent harm. In other words, nobody had tried to make COAST shut up. Barrett wrote off COAST's worries as veering into sheer fantasy.
would need to make some statement in the future, then Cincinnatians for
Progress, or some other group or individual, would need to file a
groundless complaint against plaintiffs and defendants would then fail
to follow the provisions in Section 3517.22. The scenario is far too speculative."
The legal battle started last fall over the streetcar referendum and 20 different COAST-linked tweets against the project. One said the Cincinnati Fire Department had been browned out because city money had been used to "pay for streetcar boondoggle." When streetcar backers filed a complaint with the Ohio Elections Commission last year, the panel cleared COAST. After citizens voted to continue the streetcar project, COAST said they were under ongoing threat of being hauled before the state commission and filed the federal lawsuit.
The challenged state law against political lies says nobody can, "post,
publish, circulate, distribute or otherwise disseminate, a false
statement, either knowing the same to be false or acting with reckless
disregard of whether it was false or not, that is designed to promote
the adoption or defeat of any ballot proposition or issue."
And it is still on the books.
A series of contradictory tweets and blog comments posted by members of an anti-transit group has observers wondering of there is dissension in its ranks — or whether one member simply has anger management issues.
Ever since an initiative put on the Nov. 8 ballot by the Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes (COAST) was rejected by voters, someone with the group has vowed on various local blogs that it still would try to block Cincinnati's streetcar project.
This week's ruling by the Ohio Civil Rights Commission that a Greater Cincinnati landlady violated a girl's civil rights by posting a "whites only" sign at an apartment complex's swimming pool is a decision that most rational people would say is just.
The Jan. 12 ruling means the commission, if it cannot reach a settlement with landlady Jamie Hein, could issue a complaint against her with the Ohio Attorney General's Office. The AG's Office would then represent the complainant, Michael Gunn, before an administrative law judge, who could impose penalties and punitive damages.
The person who often ranks in polls as the most popular politician in Hamilton County is breaking with his Republican colleagues and is appearing in a new radio commercial urging a "no" vote on Issue 48.
Hamilton County Sheriff Simon Leis Jr. asks residents to oppose the anti-streetcar initiative that was placed on the ballot by the NAACP's local chapter and the Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes (COAST). The commercial will begin airing Wednesday during the morning drive time period on WLW (700 AM) and WKRC (550 AM), two stations with predominately conservative, Republican audiences.
In short, the statement claims that Cincinnati is trying to force Blue Ash into rescinding the sale of the Blue Ash Airport so a new deal can be worked that will funnel the sale money into the streetcar.
The real story behind the sale of the Blue Ash Airport is not as scandalous as COAST portrays. Some background: In 2006, the city of Blue Ash agreed to a deal with the city of Cincinnati to buy out 130 of 228 acres owned by Cincinnati at the Blue Ash Airport. Blue Ash would pay Cincinnati $37.5 million over 30 years, Cincinnati would move the airport to the adjacent 98 acres and Blue Ash would build a central park on the 130 acres.
The deal was approved by Blue Ash voters in a two-to-one margin with a related 0.25 percent earnings tax to fund the new park.
Unfortunately, things didn't go exactly as planned. As part of the deal, Cincinnati had to apply for a $10 million grant from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The expectation was that Cincinnati would get this grant, making the cost of moving and maintaining the airport sustainable. But Cincinnati did not get that grant, and it has since decided to close the airport to save money.
This is where it gets tricky. Under federal law, since the land was sold as an airport, the money gained from the sale must be used on airports. That severely limits how Cincinnati can use the sale money.
What Cincinnati wants to do is have Blue Ash rescind the original sale and then officially close down the airport before re-selling the land to Blue Ash. This would let Cincinnati sell the land when it's not classified as an airport, which would let Cincinnati use the $37.5 million in sale money on non-airport projects. Cincinnati has said $11 million of that freed-up money would go to the streetcar, and $26 million would go to municipal projects.
Everyone wins here. Cincinnati shuts down an airport that is no
longer affordable, money is freed up for other projects and Blue Ash is
a good neighbor and doesn't lose anything. It still gets the park its voters want and pays the same amount for the property.
Well, not according to COAST. Even though less than one-third of the money is going to the streetcar, COAST insists Blue Ash is getting screwed in the deal so Cincinnati can fund the streetcar. The organization claims the new deal will result in "Blue Ash's pockets" being "picked" for streetcar funds.
But Blue Ash is not paying for the streetcar. It is paying for the 130 acres of land to build a park. It has been paying for that land for more than five years now. What Cincinnati does with the money from the sale is of little relevance to Blue Ash.
That hasn't stopped COAST from doing its very best to link the deal to the streetcar. After all, when something is remotely related to the streetcar, it's a sure bet COAST will be there, trying to "hold the line" against the project, which the organization sees as wasteful spending.
That's where irony comes in. The organization is adamantly against any new spending and taxes. That is its basic purpose. But in this case, the organization is so blinded by its disapproval of the streetcar that it is actually opposing a deal that saves Cincinnati money. By freeing up $37.5 million in funds and closing down the airport, Cincinnati is stopping unnecessary spending and gaining a new, temporary revenue stream. That will let the city continue funding other projects without higher taxes or raising overall spending.
In other words, the deal is doing the exact kind of thing COAST promotes. But if there's anything COAST is more determined to stop than extra spending and higher taxes, it's the streetcar. Screw any principles and standards. If something is slightly related to the streetcar, COAST will be there to oppose it.
That's why COAST's Twitter feed is filled with these kind
of petty retweets (from @GOCOAST): "Coming soon to Cincinnati. RT @lzzbott:
Got punched in the back and five dollars stolen from me at the trolley
This kind of flimsy connection is how the organization opposes the streetcar.
COAST says it is not alone in its opposition. In the Blue Ash Airport statement, the organization claimed that the City Council's streetcar "boondoggle" has been blocked at "every turn," citing the pulling of funds by Gov. John Kasich, Hamilton County commissioners Chris Monzel and Greg Hartman and Congressman Steve Chabot.
The statement leaves out one important group of people that has approved the streetcar: Cincinnatians. Just like the park deal was approved by Blue Ash voters, Cincinnati voters have approved the streetcar twice — once in 2009 and most recently in 2011.
For an organization that claims to want to protect taxpayer money, COAST seems out of touch with the proven interests of taxpayers in both Blue Ash and Cincinnati.
A local conservative group is making a lot of use of member and lawyer Chris Finney. The Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes (COAST) was involved in two lawsuits filed this week: one regarding the Blue Ash Airport deal and another regarding Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS).
Criticism of the Blue Ash Airport deal is not new for COAST. The group has repeatedly criticized the deal, largely because as much as $26 million from the deal will be used to fund Cincinnati's $110 million streetcar. In the past, COAST has repeatedly characterized the streetcar as a "boondoggle."
The deal between Blue Ash and Cincinnati is not new, but it did get reworked earlier this year. In 2006, the $37.5 million deal had Cincinnati selling Blue Ash some land on the Blue Ash Airport property, which Blue Ash would then use to build a park. Blue Ash voters approved the deal, which contained a 0.25 percent earnings tax hike, in a two-to-one margin.
When Cincinnati couldn't get a $10 million grant from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the city stopped working on the airport as it became too costly. The city then tried to shift the proceeds from the deal to the Cincinnati streetcar, but the FAA said funding must be used for airports since the property is classified as an airport.
Eventually, Cincinnati asked Blue Ash to rework the deal. The plan was Blue Ash would rescind the deal, and then Cincinnati would officially close down the airport and resell the land to Blue Ash while it's no longer classified as an airport.
At first, city officials said $11 million of the opened-up money would go to the streetcar and $26 million would go to municipal projects. Since then, the city has shifted $15 million of that municipal project funding — supposedly temporarily — to help Duke Energy move underground utility lines from the path of the proposed streetcar route, at least until the city and energy company can work out an ongoing feud.
The reworked deal, which was approved by Blue Ash City Council in a 6-1 vote on Aug. 9, seemed like a win-win for both sides. Cincinnati would get more funding for ongoing projects, and Blue Ash netted $2.25 million from the deal — $250,000 to cover fees for Blue Ash's new park and $2 million was subtracted from the deal since Blue Ash would no longer have to match the FAA grant.
But COAST does not approve. The organization doesn't want any funding redirected to the streetcar, and it claims the reworked deal is not allowed. The lawsuit filed by Blue Ash resident Jeffrey Capell and Finney cites a section of the Blue Ash City Charter that disallows some contracts: "No contract shall be made for a term longer than five years, except that franchises for public utility services and contracts with other governmental units for service to be received or given may be made for any period no longer than twenty years."
Mark Vander Laan, Blue Ash's city solicitor, says the city charter section the lawsuit is referencing is irrelevant. He argues the deal is not a contract as the city charter defines it; instead, it's a mortgage and debt instrument. In the Blue Ash City Charter, there's another section that deals with debt instruments, and that's what the rescinded deal falls under, according to Vander Laan. He says the city would not function as it does today if the lawsuit's claim was correct: "If that were the case, all the bonds we've ever issued would have been incorrect."
Vander Laan says the real issue here is disapproval of the streetcar, not any legal technicalities: "They may have a complaint about the streetcar, but that's not the city of Blue Ash's issue at all. We don't think it's even an appropriate basis to challenge this."
He added, "Frankly, if somebody had an issue with (the deal), they should have taken that issue back in 2006 and 2007." That's when Blue Ash voters first approved the airport deal, but back then, the money wasn't going to the streetcar, which didn't even exist at the time.
In another legal battle, COAST filed a lawsuit against CPS over staff allegedly campaigning for Issue 42, a ballot initiative that will renew a CPS levy voters approved in 2008. The case goes back to 2002, when Tom Brinkman, chairman of COAST, sued CPS for "illegal and unconstitutional use of school property for campaign purposes," according to the lawsuit. That case ended in a settlement, which forced CPS to enter into a "COAST Agreement" that says, "CPS will strictly enforce a policy of preventing … Other Political Advertisements on CPS Property."
But COAST now says that agreement has been broken, and the
lawsuit cites emails as evidence. The emails show staff promoting voter
registration drives, which aren't directly linked to Issue 42, and
staff offering to contribute and volunteer to the campaign. In the
emails, there are a few instances of Jens Sutmoller, Issue 42's campaign
coordinator, asking CPS staff to give him personal emails, which shows
he was trying to avoid breaking any rules.
In CityBeat's experience, CPS officials have been pretty strict with following the settlement with COAST. In a Sept. 20 email, Janet Walsh, spokesperson for CPS, told CityBeat she could not provide some levy-related information during work hours: "Yes, but due to constraints about doing levy-related work on work time (we can't), it may have to wait until I can get on my home computer."
COAST has endorsed a "No" vote on Issue 42. In CityBeat's
in-depth look into CPS and Issue 42 ("Battered But Not Broken," issue
of Oct. 3), Brinkman defended COAST's position by saying they're not
necessarily against the school getting funding. COAST is more
interested in holding the school accountable: "It's a five-year levy.
The reason we have five-year levies is so the public can gauge after
four or four and a half years how the entity where the taxes are going
to is doing with the money." In that sense, for COAST, it's important to
bring the levy renewal to voters as late in the game as possible —
November 2013 in this case. CityBeat this week endorsed a "Yes" vote on Issue 42 here.
Criticism of CPS levies is also not new for COAST. The group campaigned against last year's new, permanent $49.5 million levy, which CPS said it needed to meet new technology needs and keep some buildings open.
Mayoral candidate John Cranley says he would reject an endorsement from the Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes (COAST), a conservative group formed in 1999 with a history of anti-LGBT causes.
"I don't want it. I'm not a member of COAST," Cranley says.
The response comes just two days after COAST on Oct. 8 tweeted that it supported Cranley and council candidates Amy Murray, Chris Smitherman and Charlie Winburn for a "change of direction." The group later claimed the tweets weren't endorsements, but not before progressives called on candidates to reject COAST's support.
Councilman Chris Seelbach responded to COAST's apparent interest in influencing the mayoral and City Council races on his Facebook page: "Regardless of the politics involved, anyone who wants my support should make it clear: COAST is a hate-driven, fringe organization that should not be apart (sic) of any conversation on how to make Cincinnati a better place."
CityBeat couldn't immediately reach
Murray, Smitherman or Winburn for comment on whether they would accept
COAST's support for their campaigns. But Smitherman, who is president of the local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) when he's not campaigning, often teams up with COAST on local issues.
Seelbach, who has been a favorite target of COAST, tells CityBeat there's no doubt the group's vitriolic opposition is at least partly based on hate.
"Without question, I believe COAST targets me because I'm gay," Seelbach says. "In some ways, I'm a symbol of everything that they hate, which is LGBT progress."
Cranley agrees the group is hateful. He points out that some COAST members have criticized him over the years for supporting LGBT causes, including hate crime legislation in 2003.
In the 1990s, Chris Finney, chief legal crusader for COAST, authored Article XII, the city charter amendment approved by voters in 1993 that barred the city from deeming gays a protected class in anti-discrimination statutes.
In a June 1994 Cincinnati Post article, Finney said landlords should not be legally required to rent to gay or lesbian tenants. Finney explained, "Because there may be some who don't want their family dining next to a homosexual couple whose actions they find offensive." To critics, the remarks seemed fairly similar to arguments leveled in support of racial segregation in the 1960s.
COAST chairman Tom Brinkman and member Mark Miller were also part of Equal Rights Not Special Rights, which defended Article XII in court in 1997.
When City Council passed hate crime legislation protecting gays and lesbians in 2003, Brinkman criticized the Catholic members of City Council at the time — including Cranley, who sponsored the legislation — for sending "the message that you openly approve of homosexuality."
Back then, Cranley responded, "We have a little something in this country called the separation of church and state. Mr. Brinkman asked me to read the Catechism. I ask him to read the U.S. Constitution."
Around the same time, Seelbach prepared and then helped lead the 2004 campaign that did away with Article XII. For Cincinnati, the repeal of the city charter amendment, just 11 years after voters approved it, exemplified the more tolerant, open direction the country was moving in regards to the LGBT community.
But while the country has embraced greater equality for LGBT individuals, Seelbach says COAST hasn't done the same. Even though Seelbach voted against the parking plan that COAST also opposes, the conservative organization has regularly targeted Seelbach in blog posts and emails criticizing the plan, which leases the city's parking meters, lots and garages to the Greater Cincinnati Port Authority.
In March, COAST sent out a doctored image that compared Seelbach to Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Jesus Christ in the Christian religion, for approving an emergency clause on the parking plan that effectively exempted the plan from a voter referendum. Seelbach voted against the parking plan itself when it came to a vote.
"I don't believe in running our city by referendums," Seelbach says. "What we currently have is a representative democracy. We elect people that we hold accountable by either re-electing them or not, and we trust the people that we elect to research the policies and make informed decisions. I think that's the best system."
Most recently, COAST went after Seelbach for his trip to Washington, D.C., where he received the Harvey Milk Champion of Change award for his efforts to protect and promote Cincinnati's LGBT community. The city paid more than $1,200 for the trip, which COAST called into question with legal threats. Even though City Solicitor John Curp, the city's top lawyer, deemed the allegations frivolous, Seelbach agreed to reimburse the funds to stave off a lawsuit that could have cost the city more than $30,000.
At the same time, media outlets, including WCPO and The Cincinnati Enquirer,
have closely covered COAST's allegations and commonly turned to the
group to get the conservative side of different issues, ranging from the
streetcar project to the pension system. Both media outlets have
characterized COAST as a "government watchdog group," ignoring the organization's history of conservative activism and crafting legislation.
The favorable attention might be turning around. The Enquirer recently scrutinized COAST's lawsuits against the city, which revealed the group, which frames itself as an anti-tax, anti-spending watchdog, could cost the city more than $500,000 in legal fees. The city solicitor also estimated his office puts the equivalent of one full-time employee on COAST's cases, with the typical city civil attorney making about $65,000 a year, according to The Enquirer.
Seelbach acknowledges the vast differences between the black and LGBT civil rights movements, but he says a group with a similarly discriminatory past wouldn't get the kind of media coverage and attention COAST does, at least without the proper context.
"If there was a group that had a history of fighting for segregation, … there is absolutely no way anyone, much less media, would quote or accept support in any form," Seelbach says.
This story was updated at 5:09 p.m. with more context.


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Longitudinal Study on Female Bisexuality
The American Psychological Association has published a new study of bisexual women in the January 2008 issue of Developmental Psychology. This 10-year longitudinal study of 79 women provides emperical demonstration "that the distinction between lesbianism and bisexuality is a matter of degree rather than kind" while examining the nature of bisexuality (Diamond, 2008).
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Sonic Generations
Speeding along to some fantastic remixes of classic Sonic tunes. Talk about a nostalgia blast!
A vastly underwhelming final boss.
I can't tell if Sonic Team are being coyly self-referential in their cut-scenes, or if it's just bad writing.
Seeing the iconic green grass and bronze dirt of Green Hill zone blurring into one wash of colour as I boosted through a horde of enemies was what I wanted from Sonic Generations since its announcement. I wanted the tight level design and speedy thrill of the Megadrive games converted into the third dimension in a way that most one of the past 3D games have quite been able to capture. Sonic Generations almost delivers on this promise, giving players a nostalgic, adrenaline-pumped rollercoaster ride through some of Sonics best moments, as well as some more of the more questionable ones. Its clear that Sonic Team have almost nailed the formula, but not quite. Yet despite some lingering design and control issues it finally feels like the blue blur is getting back to strength and Generations acts as both a celebration of Sonics past and a promise of a brighter future.
There are nine stages on offer, each one representing a period from Sonics chequered past, from Sonic 1s Green Hill Zone to Sonic Colours Planet Wisp. Each of the nine zones has two versions, one classic and one modern. Classic zones are side scrolling with an emphasis on platforming and are a nice counterpoint to the faster, more speed orientated affairs of the modern stages. Gone are the sluggish physics that blighted Sonic Teams previous side scroller, Sonic 4. Sonic is lighter and more nimble, allowing you to flick him from platform to platform with ease. While classic Sonic offers some of the best platforming in Sonics recent history, its the modern versions of the zones that I personally found most enticing. Seeing old favourites like Chemical Plant Zone or Sky Sanctuary in full 3D, with fantastic remixes of their classic soundtracks to boot, was thrilling thanks to more than just nostalgia.
The modern stages mix a large dose of speed into the platform orientated play of the classic levels, and the result is something very thrilling. A combination of boost, side-step and homing attack allows you to keep the frenetic speed at a constant and most of the levels allow you to breeze through at a speedy pace, making split second decisions to choose between divergent paths that can save you time or reveal a hidden treasure. Modern Sonic really is at its best when it mixes in speedy spectacle with light platforming and Im pleased to say that most the levels achieve this. The first two-thirds of the game are the strongest, where the level design is kept cleaner. After that the difficulty ramps up and with it the problems being to emerge.
Sonic still has some underlying design and gameplay niggles that keep it from shining quite as brightly as it could, and the later levels, with more aggressive enemies, perilous platforms and numerous traps, serve to underline these issues. The homing attack can be a fickle thing, and using it when prompted occasionally caused me to get stuck on an intervening bit of scenery and drop to my death. There seems to be a very precise way in which to play these levels and when players step out of line with this death usually occurs. That said both the retro and modern levels from beginning to end typically deliver on the high-octane platforming that the series has been beloved for. Its not quite a full return to Sonics halcyon days of glory, but it feels close and many of the modern levels successfully transfer the feeling of the classic games into the third dimension.
There is a smattering of boss fights, though less than Id have liked and they lack for variety. A mid-game showdown with Shadow is played along to some remixed Crush 40 tracks from Sonic Adventure 2, and as wonderful as the atmosphere is the battle bottles down to a meagre race. Many of the bosses follow this tract, which is disappointed considering how intricate many of Sonics boss encounters have been. The absolute zenith of the game is the final boss, which is baffling, frustrating, visually confusing and badly designed in equal measures.
There are nine levels in total, meaning Sonic Generations errs on the short side. There are reasons to revisit it though. Various challenge levels are unlocked, offering revised segments of the levels to complete under different circumstances, some of which are more entertaining than others, and there are the obligatory ranks and collectibles to be gotten in each stage. Completing the challenge levels unlocks an impressive library of level music themes and you can then apply these to whatever level you want for a degree of customisation. I can see myself revisiting the game, however, not for these auxiliary features, but for the sheer, heady thrill that most of Generations manages to deliver, as well as some impeccable visuals and music. Sonic Team have certainly done a commendable job in bringing classic Sonic zones into bright, bold HD.
Bottom Line: Sonic Generations moves the franchise closer to a semblance of its past glory. Classic Sonic is as simple and as slick as its ever been while modern Sonic finally feels like its beginning to work. The satisfying side scrolling platforming mixed with sections of visceral speed lust and colourful spectacle feels like a long-overdue three dimensional realisation of Sonics glory days, albeit with a little more refinement due. The game is short, and more than anything it feels like a promise on Sonic Teams part to keep improving on a franchise that many had written off as dead. Generations has its fair share of annoyances and exasperating design but it comes off as an earnest and successful attempt by Sonic Team to shift their mascot back onto the right track.
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7.5 / 10
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Parental Guidance:
The game is rated E for everyone by the ERSB. The game is truly accessible and appropriate for all ages. There is no untoward content of any description in the game.
Deaf and Hard of Hearing:
Subtitles for cut-scenes and in-game hints are available. The only audio-exclusive cue is to warn players that Sonic will soon drown, though a count-down will appear for the final five seconds. This will hardly pose a problem as the five-second countdown is generally enough to get to an air bubble or the surface.
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