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It's fan appreciation night/weekend and we can't express enough gratitude that the Royals have for all of you out there. We've got a lot going on this weekend to show you how much we appreciate you.
Unfortunately last night the team couldn't keep the roll going, but with the beauty of baseball, they're back at it tonight. We've got a lot of ground to cover, so let's get to it and go Around the Horn…
"Shirts off their backs" Night should be huge. Around the Horn is in fact a little disappointed that we aren't allowed to win a jersey. They only cost a buck. And you thought Buck Night last night was good deal because you could get a soda, peanuts or a hot dog for a dollar?
Dollar scratch tickets will be on sale throughout the stadium – each one is a chance to win a jersey which will be worn for tonight's 6:10 game versus Chicago. Just over 40 jerseys will be up for grabs. Each one will be handed out on the field after the game to the lucky winner complete with the autograph of the coach or player who wore the jersey.
All of the proceeds will go to Operation Breakthrough, which helps children who are living in poverty receive a safe, loving and educational environment. The organization has been around since 1972, serving Kansas City faithfully.
If that wasn't enough, the Royals are also giving out FSN-KC stocking hats to the first 20,000 fans. It's at this point we'd like to say thanks to the crew here at the Stadium for the wonderful work they've done all season long bringing you the games at home. Last night was the last 2008 home telecast, which also signaled the end to Frank White's FSN season. Around the Horn heard nothing but good things all season long about the Royals Hall of Famer. His work ethic and dedication to his new craft could be seen all summer long.
David DeJesus has the chance to accomplish two milestones in his career that we've not seen a lot of around here. Currently he's hitting .300 and .408 with runners in scoring position. DeJesus hasn't accomplished either of these achievements during his career. But where he sits at the moment, DeJesus would be one of 10 Royals to hit .300 since 2000 and one of four not named Mike Sweeney (four times) or Carlos Beltran (twice).
His RISP statistics are much more impressive. He went 1-for-1 last night with runners at second or third and raised his average to .408. He's second in the Majors behind only Ian Kinsler, who's stuck at .413 because of a season-ending injury. But more importantly, he would be one of three Royals in franchise history to end the season over .400. George Brett hit an amazing .469 in 1980 (the year he challenged a .400 overall average for the season) and Mike Sweeney hit .402 in 2002. For DeJesus to be lumped into such rarified air would be a huge boost to his career.
We've talked a bunch about his breakthrough season, in which he's set career highs in homers, RBI and stolen bases. He's just six hits shy of another career high (a virtual lock if he ends the season hitting .300). His runs production is down from 101 last year to 66 this season, but that load has been spread out some as his role has changed (Mike Aviles has picked up where DeJesus left off, having scored 64 runs which is three behind Alex Gordon, the team leader).
How's he do it? Work is what hitting coach Mike Barnett will tell you. But DeJesus says he has changed his thinking at the plate. He doesn't look at the scoreboard. He just tries to put together one at-bat at a time. Runners on base? No problem. The pressure is on the pitcher not the hitter.
Jose Guillen combined with Alberto Callaspo to nail Alexei Ramirez at the plate last night in the third. It was the 100th outfield assist of Guillen's career and his 10th this season, his third double-digit season…Mark Teahen went 2-for-2 with a walk against Mark Buehrle, belting his first homer off the Sox starter. Teahen is getting the better end of this lefty-lefty matchup, hitting .419 against Buehrle during his career…Robinson Tejeda exited last night's game with a left hip flexor strain and will be re-evaluated in the next few days…Callaspo, who again extended his career-high hitting streak, now at 13 straight games, has scored eight runs over his last six games.
The dates for Royals FanFest have been announced. The second annual event will be held Jan. 17-18 at the Overland Park Convention Center.
This is the first of many plugs for the Alumni Fantasy Camp. It's a great time and a chance to live out those dreams of being a ball player. Royals Alumni serve as the coaches and managers for the teams. For a week, you will be treated like you are in the Majors. It'll be at the Royals facility in Surprise, Arizona from February 2-7. Expenses include five days and nights in Surprise, as well as the experience of a lifetime.
We'd also like to mention that the Royals Charities are having a car auction on September 26. And VOTE VOTE VOTE…Mark Teahen for the Roberto Clemente Award and Buddy Blattner among other KC broadcasters like Fred White and Ryan Lefebvre for the Ford C. Frick Award.
Today's lineup:
DeJesus CF
Aviles SS
Guillen RF
Shealy 1B
Teahen LF
Olivo C
Gordon 3B
Ka'aihue DH
Callaspo 2B
Davies P
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On the morning of 20 July, after an attack that killed four people around Duékoué, a town in Côte d'Ivoire's turbulent west, a huge crowd surrounded the nearby Nahibly camp hosting 5,000 internally displaced people (IDPs).
In what has been described as an ethnically driven revenge attack, the mob of between 500 and 1,000 people said to be of armed Malinké men, backed by traditional hunters known as Dozos, stormed the camp and torched it, killing six people and injuring dozens of others. The site was the last remaining IDP camp in Côte d'Ivoire following the 2010-11 election unrest.
The camp, now empty, hosted mainly Guéré people and supporters of former leader Laurent Gbagbo, who was locked in a bitter dispute after the November 2010 polls with opponent and now President Alassane Ouattara. The Malinkés are seen as Ouattara supporters.
Tension remains high in western Côte d'Ivoire, where land disputes have also triggered clashes.
Many of the displaced people from Nahibly sought refuge at the Catholic mission in Duékoué, the town hall and in the surrounding thicket before returning to their nearby places of origin, which are still largely in ruins. Continued insecurity is making resettlement there difficult.

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On this day in 1997, Megadeth's seventh studio album Cryptic Writings was released. The album debuted at #10 on U.S. Billboard charts and was certified Platinum in 1998. The first 500,000 copies of the album in the U.S. were released with silver background album cover. Instrumentally, the band introduced a more melodic mix than the previous albums, chock-full of crunchy riffs, and speed-of-light guitar solos. The song "Trust" was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Metal Performance category in 1997. Download it on iTunes or get the album at Amazon.
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In the current release, is it OK to install from the RPMs (not from install.sh) and then copy my backup of /opt/zimbra? I know that in the previous release, install.sh was required since it configured the IPTables rules. The current release doesn't require the IPTables rules, but is there anything else that install.sh does that I would be missing?Code:cd /root/ tar zxvf /media/ZimbraInstall/zimbra/zcs*.tgz rpm -Uvh /root/zcs/packages/zimbra*.rpm rm -rf /opt/zimbra/ cd / tar zxvf /media/ZimbraInstall/zimbra/zimbra.backup.tar.gz
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NEW MARTINSVILLE - It would probably be safe to assume that nobody envied the spot Magnolia quarterback Tanner Hanna stepped into last season as a junior. You know, replacing not only a Blue Eagles legend, but an all-time OVAC great in Justin Fox, who just so happened to win a Kennedy Award and a state championship during his final campaign.
More often than not, the guy who follows the guy ends up being forgotten. But not Hanna, who has turned himself into quite the steady leader himself.
''Those were big shoes to fill, honestly,'' Hanna said Saturday night after the Blue Eagles advanced to the West Virginia Class A semifinals with a 19-14 victory against East Hardy at Alumni Field. ''My junior year it took me a while to get used to it. It was the first time starting, especially after a state championship year.
''I didn't know what I had to do, but I tried my best.
''This year I feel a lot more confident and I've been playing my game.''
Fox was a do-it-all - passing, rushing, punting, kicking, defensive back - and so is Hanna, whose biggest play Saturday night was a late punt that pinned the Cougars at their 1-yard line with 2:26 remaining.
''There's how smart Tanner is,'' Blue Eagles coach Mark Batton said. ''We were going to punt it out of bounds but Tanner saw nobody was back so (he) knew then just to pooch it down there.
''That's stuff that you can't coach. He's just a tremendous player, a tremendous athlete.''
And he's got the ability to extend a play like another, more famous No. 7. Hanna, like the Pittsburgh Steelers' Ben Roethlisberger, is at his best when moving around and getting out of the pocket. That gives guys like Stephen Rogalski, Ryan Walton and others extra time to get open.
''Tanner has especially done that the last couple weeks, keeping the play alive and maybe checking down to another receiver if Stephen's covered,'' Batton pointed out. ''Those guys work very hard.
''That's a great combination and if Tanner doesn't like what he sees, he tucks it and runs.''
He ran for 27 yards Saturday and scored on a pair of 1-yard sneaks. Not only that, by he completed nine passes for another 90 yards. Those aren't eye-popping, but they are winning numbers.
''Tanner does a tremendous job running this offense, and Coach (Dave) Champman throws a lot at him,'' Batton said. ''He tucked it an ran, didn't force it and make any bad decisions with it. Then he had to turn around and play defense and cover one of their wide receivers.''
Typically, Hanna did that pretty well also. He was responsible for one of two interceptions by the Magnolia defense, which harassed East Hardy QB Shawn Skovron all night.
''Tanner feels it's an honor when guys say things to him about Justin Fox,'' Batton said. ''He really looked up to Justin and worked with him every day.
''Tanner's handled that well.''
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Look at 72. I haven't followed the odds in awhile, but at one time you could draw it on 2nd choice. 7 is another one I use draw on second choice years ago.
I have been on this forum for about a year this is my first post. I signed up last year to help plan my first Wy. hunt. I drew a doe/fawn tag and had a great time. This year I would like to put in for one of the top units with my first choice to build my points and draw a buck tag on a second choice. I am just looking for a good unit with access and an opportunity to take a decent buck this year. I am open to any area of the state. Any input on this would be greatly appreciated. thanks!
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Look at 72. I haven't followed the odds in awhile, but at one time you could draw it on 2nd choice. 7 is another one I use draw on second choice years ago.
Thanks for the info, I will look into both of those.
You are probably not going to draw either unit as a second choice unless you pony up for the special tag. I hunted unit 72 last fall and the numbers were WAY down from the 2 previous years. We scouted for a week before the opener and covered pretty much all the public land that can be accessed without paying a trespass fee. We saw only one large group of animals, about 30 with only one decent buck and they stayed close to private land. Otherwise we saw only small groups of animals, looked to me like the 70-72 units that used to be good units are mediocre at best now. I have never hunted unit 7 so can't comment on it. We did manage to fill our tags but it was a tough hunt for average bucks.
You can look up the draw odds on the WY web site and see what units had tags left over after the 1st choice drawing Its a bit confusing though. Reading the MRS carefully so you understand the draw will help and there are some 2nd choice units listed in the MRS too. Almost any unit that can be drawn 2nd choice will have some access issues. Generally in WY the better the draw odds the worse the access. Thats not to say some of them cant be a quality hunt but do your research before you apply and figure out how to get to the public land. A gps with a hunting gps map chip is almost mandatory in these areas.


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This weekend's unseasonably warm weather brought out a lot of surfers and people sunbathing, but residents at Carl Gray Park were in for a special treat that was out of the ordinary.
The Baggett family has made several non-traditional boat houses. The houses float on the water and have electricity supplied by generators. The unique contraption has a second level with a view and enough space to take a nap while watching the sun set on the horizon.
"This one's more like a little camp," said Ronda Baggett. "We run off a generator so we can have our little iPads charged up. It just makes for a real comfortable situation."
If the boat happens to look familiar, you may recognize it because it was also part of the boat parade in 2012.
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Following a 2 1/2 hour hearing Friday, Superior Court Judge Timothy Taylor promised a final ruling within a few days on the proposed $45 million redo of the center of Balboa Park.
Taylor had earlier issued a tentative ruling that would effectively kill the proposal to build a bypass bridge off the Cabrillo Bridge as a way to clear cars and parking from the Plaza de Panama in front of the San Diego Museum of Art and the Plaza de California in front of the San Diego Museum of Man.
The judge did not indicate if he might change his mind. He pressed City Attorney Jan Goldsmith and the Plaza de Panama committee attorney on the project's compliance with the city's historic site preservation ordinance.
On the other hand, Taylor told the Save Our Heritage Organisation, which sued the city and the committee, that if he rules in SOHO's favor, the project is dead and any hope for a new compromise is just that.
"A hope is not a plan," Taylor said.
SOHO had warned that the "Centennial Bridge" bypass would harm the historic character of the west entrance to the park. Many alternatives that are less expensive are available to achieve most of the committee's aims, SOHO argued, and it offered alternate solutions that it said have less impact.
Goldsmith's office said in its brief that the city considered continued parking and traffic use in the plazas is not "reasonable beneficial use" but the judge disagreed in the tentative ruling. The reasonable use standard is set forth in the city ordinance that SOHO cites in its lawsuit as being violated by the city.
If the judge upholds his ruling, the city and the committee, established by Qualcomm cofounder Irwin Jacobs, can either appeal or concede defeat. Jacobs had promised that his committee would raise about $30 million for implementation with the remaining $15 million coming from a city-issued revenue bond, funded from the new garage parking charges. Jacobs has personally covered the $8 million spent on the plan to date, a spokesman said.
The judge said in his tentative ruling that he considered the Jacobs plan's benefits "far outweigh the negatives." He also said it would be a "sad day for San Diego" if the promised donations cannot be replaced by others for any alternate plan.
"SOHO's opposition to the project seems short-sighted, as the project appears to offer many net benefits in terms of restoration of historic resources," Taylor said in his ruling.
But he said city has to "be held to its own law" when treating historic sites and cannot "pretend away the very words of the Municipal Code."
Scott Williams, attorney for the Jacobs committee, argued that the judge should find the present parking and traffic use of the center of the park "unreasonable" even if it is beneficial to motorists.
Susan Brandt-Hawley, SOHO's attorney, said the primary goal is to rid the Plaza de Panama of cars and that many alternatives exist to achieve that goal without having to build the bypass. But she conceded that it is not within SOHO's finances to underwrite a different approach.
In her brief prior to the hearing, Brandt-Hawley said "SOHO and other stakeholders" will press to eliminate parking in the Plaza de Panama "in a non-destructive and un-intrusive way."
On earlier occasions, SOHO's executive director, Bruce Coons, has said an alternate plan would be far less expensive and his organization would help find the money to make it happen. But so far he has not identified any major donors who have stepped up to lead such a fund-raising campaign.


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In one way, the lawyers lot is a hard one. Its among the least loved of professions by those not in dire need of one. Maybe thats why many of its members want so badly to do some good outside the confines of the law office and courtroom. To see how some of the states top legal talent does that, we asked the top vote-getters in this years Business North Carolina Legal Elite to briefly describe how they give back to their communities. The photographs that appear on this site provide a glimpse.
Doing good is more than just a personal preference. We certainly promote volunteer work and encourage it, says Martin Brinkley, president of the North Carolina Bar Association. Founded in 1899, the affiliate of the governing N.C. State Bar counts more than 17,000 of the approximately 23,000 licensed lawyers in North Carolina as members the largest voluntary legal association in the country. Hes quick to point out that while volunteerism is encouraged, its equally important for lawyers to use their state-given right to help those who cant afford their services otherwise known as pro bono work.
Lawyers and other members of learned professions are given a special monopoly on a mode of activity that enables them to make money, says Brinkley, a partner with Smith, Anderson, Blount, Dorsett, Mitchell & Jernigan LLP in Raleigh. We make our money and livelihood in a way other members of the public cant, so that gives us a special responsibility to provide services to those who cannot afford to pay us. But not all lawyers agree on pro bonos definition, he adds.
Thats why the State Bar adopted a rule in 2010 that defines it as a responsibility to provide legal services to those unable to pay, or, in other words, the indigent. The rules are adopted by lawyers to govern the conduct of lawyers, says Alice Mine, assistant executive director of the State Bar. It suggests but does not require they render at least 50 hours of pro bono legal service a year. That could also mean counseling a church or nonprofit free of charge.
Lawyers will say, I volunteer for a clothing drive, so Im fulfilling my professional obligation to provide pro bono services, Mine says. Thats not what its about. Its important to define it so that were clear on what it is not. Thats particularly so in a state where a third of the population lives below the federal poverty line. Lawyers will jokingly say, I do pro bono all the time because I have clients who dont pay me.
Nobody is trying to discourage any lawyer from doing other public work, Brinkley says. Lawyers are still serving on museum boards and church boards as much as we ever have. We do think lawyers have a special responsibility to the poor.
Examples of pro bono work can be found as far back as early Roman tribunals, according to legal scholar Deborah L. Rhodes Pro Bono in Principle and in Practice. But a closer historical parallel to contemporary pro bono counsel comes from Great Britain, where clerical advocates were appointed to represent people who could not afford to pay as early as the 9th century.
But giving back is much broader than just representing the poor, as this years Legal Elite package illustrates. Theres even historical precedence. More than half of the framers of the Constitution were lawyers, Brinkley says. They served in regulatory branches in very high percentages, higher than any other profession. Weve always done lots of public service.
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Hamilton County fares worse
than Ohio overall in a series of measurements for children's
economic well-being, health, education and safety, according to a report released Aug. 7.
The 2013 "Ohio's Kids Count" report from the Children's Defense Fund and Annie E. Casey Foundation finds Hamilton County has a higher median income than Ohio does on average. But the county fares worse than the state in various categories, including childhood poverty, fourth-grade reading and math proficiency, felony convictions and the amount of babies with low birth weights, an early sign of poor health.
One example: Hamilton County's childhood poverty rate is 27.7 percent, while Ohio's overall rate is 23.9 percent. If the county brought the rate down to the state average, it would pull more than 3,000 local children out of poverty.
Hamilton County's childhood poverty rate dropped from 28.5 percent to 27.7 percent between 2010 and 2011.
The report uses state data from between 2009 and 2011 to look at various indicators for children under the age of 18. Some of the data differs from findings from other groups, such as the National Center for Children in Poverty, which found about 48 percent of Cincinnati's children are in poverty.
The report claims many of the measured indicators are socially and economically linked, so it should come as little surprise that Hamilton County is doing worse across the board. Still, it advises local, state and federal officials to continue taking action to bring down the troubling numbers.
In Cincinnati, City Hall has historically failed to meet its goals for human services funding, which in part helps homeless youth and other struggling children.
But local leaders, including city officials and business executives, have backed the Cincinnati Preschool Promise, which aims to place more low- and middle-income Cincinnati children in early education programs. Shiloh Turner, vice president for community investment at the Greater Cincinnati Foundation, today wrote in an email to CityBeat that Preschool Promise backers are currently looking at funding options and will iron out plans and partnerships through meetings scheduled for the next three months.
The Kids Count report credits Ohio officials in particular for approving a new voucher program that will subsidize preschool for families at or below 200 percent of the federal poverty level. The program is expected to reach 7,000 children in the state over the next two years.
But the state has generally cut education funding since Gov. John Kasich took office, leaving Cincinnati Public Schools with $15 million less state funding than it received in 2009.
At the same time, the federal government is set to cut its food stamp program in November, which progressive think tanks like the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities argue will hurt low-income families in Ohio.
With a temporary boost to the federal food stamp program coming to an end this November, more than 1.8 million Ohioans — 16 percent of the state's population — will receive significantly less food aid, according to an Aug. 2 report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP).
The report calculates that the cut is the equivalent to taking away 21 meals per month for a family of four. After the cut, the food stamp program will provide each person with less than $1.40 per meal, according to CBPP's calculations.
Citing research from the USDA that shows many low-income families still fail to meet basic standards for food security, CBPP says the cuts will hit families that arguably need more, not less, help: "Given this research and the growing awareness of the inadequacy of the current SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) benefit allotments, we can reasonably assume that a reduction in SNAP benefit levels of this size will significantly increase the number of poor households that have difficulty affording adequate food this fall."
Although the federal food stamp program has been cut before, it's never been cut to this extent, according to CBPP. "There have been some cuts in specific states, but these cuts have not typically been as large or affected as many people as what will occur this November," the report reads.
The reductions could also have a broader economic impact: Every $1 increase in food aid generates about $1.70 in economic activity, according to progressive think tank Policy Matters Ohio.
"Ohio's foodbanks and hunger charities cannot respond to increasing hunger on their own," said Lisa Hamler-Fugitt, executive director of the Ohio Association of Foodbanks, in a statement released by Policy Matters. "SNAP takes Ohioans out of our food pantry lines and puts them into grocery store checkout lines. It provides supplemental food to the most vulnerable among us. Now is not the time to further reduce this already modest assistance to struggling families."
About 48 percent of Cincinnati children are in poverty, according to a 2011 study from the National Center for Children in Poverty. Despite that, city funding to human services that benefits low-income families has been cut throughout the past decade. CityBeat covered that issue in greater detail here.
The cut to the federal food stamp program kicks in automatically in November instead of the original April 2014 sunset date as a result of laws passed in 2010 by President Barack Obama and Congress. Obama and congressional Democrats are now urging legislation that would remedy the situation, but it's unlikely anything will pass the gridlocked Congress.
Republicans are preparing a bill that would further cut the food stamp program, which they see as too generous and expensive. From Fox News: "Reps. Marlin Stutzman of Indiana and Kristi Noem of South Dakota, two Republicans who helped design the bill, said the legislation would find the savings by tightening eligibility standards and imposing new work requirements. It would also likely try to reduce the rolls by requiring drug testing and barring convicted murderers, rapists and pedophiles from receiving food stamps."
During the past year CityBeat has spent a lot of
energy reporting on countless Republican screw-ups, from typical
shortsighted policies to legislation that is straight-up offensive to women,
minorities, gay people and the poor and working class. But we didn't
realize that by pointing out how offensive and irrelevant the country's
GOP leaders were acting, that we were inadvertently killing America.
That's why we would like to formally apologize to the Lebanon tea party in Warren County. The email you sent to The Enquirer today hit us pretty hard — the fact that you're literally wearing black and mourning America because "socialists, welfare and unions took over this country" is super sad. In our haste to ask questions of elected leaders, fact check their statements and put their beliefs and policies into perspective over the past few months, we forgot how badly people in Warren County wish America could be like the 1950s again, when women knew their place and black people had to operate the elevators and never say anything whites didn't want to hear. Mad Men is a great show.
We didn't mean to be tricked by President Obama's stimulus bill — we (stupidly) believed the economists who said it staved off a depression caused by under-regulation of the housing and financial industries (we tried to believe Mitt Romney's concept of further reducing regulations so the job-creators can stimulate the economy in the private sector thus giving our wealth back to us, but it was maybe too complicated for us to understand?).
Some people we know kept their jobs when the president didn't allow the American car companies to go broke even though they're the ones that decided to max out profits on SUVs with truck beds on the back. Other people we know spent time last year without health care, and this country's health care costs are somewhere around twice as much as any other country's so we were like, "Yea, reforming that system sounds about right." But we admit that we don't know what it's going to be like for the 15 percent of this country living in poverty to all of the sudden have access to preventative care. Someone in Cincinnati died of a tooth problem last year, and we don't even know if that's covered.
We realize that it wasn't Mitt Romney who used the term "legitimate rape," but it made us want to throw up, which slowed down productivity that might have allowed us to figure out that Don't Ask Don't Tell was the only thing keeping our country's military from turning Afghanistan into a European-style gay disco.
We thought it was kind of gross when the president killed Osama bin Laden, but everyone was really happy about it so we focused our attention on the results of the president's home buying and refinancing programs that helped stimulate the economy and saved people's houses, even though we're all a bunch of renters who don't even know how to use a level.
So we're clearly at fault for your expectation of the downfall of this country, and we realize that you're upset and probably right about America becoming a socialist nation within months. We messed up bad this time, but we want you to know that we're not blind to it — your press release has put our actions into a perspective that we wish we had yesterday or, even better, several years ago before we learned how to do our jobs the right way.
At least you have the local daily newspaper to publish your emotional reactions to historical election results and to continue endorsing GOP candidates no matter how ill qualified and misguided they are. Please don't mourn long — there's still hope for the type of social regression you're looking for, especially in Warren County.
"Dealing in this state, for example, you think so much about
the painful days in the deep South — the overt schemes to deny the right to
vote," Jackson said on Tuesday, the last day to register to vote in Ohio.
"We saw Ohio as a kind of beacon of light, the beacon of hope once we ran across the river coming north. This year we've seen Ohio and Pennsylvania take the lead in trying to purge voters and suppress the vote to determine the outcome."
Jackson's comments came on the same day Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court the Six Circuit Court of Appeals' decision to allow early in-person voting on the three days before Election Day.
The three days had previously only applied to military personnel and their families.
Republicans like Husted have cited cost as the reason to not allow in-person voting on the three days before the election. But in an Aug. 19 email to The Columbus Dispatch, Franklin County Republican Party chairman Doug Preisse said "I guess I really actually feel we shouldn't contort the voting process to accommodate the urban — read African-American — voter-turnout machine."
Pennsylvania, meanwhile, tried to require voters take a photo ID with them into the polls. A state judge blocked the law from going into effect for the 2012 election.
Jackson said restrictions as to who can vote when and where undermine the purpose of democracy.
"Open access, free, transparent voting makes democracy real," he said.
Flanked by a tapestry portraying President Barack Obama, Jackson touted the president's accomplishments in his first term and urged those assembled to give him a second.
Jackson was in Toledo Oct. 5 pushing early voting. He said he was in Cincinnati because "Ohio matters" and he saw it as a way to penetrate Appalachia because "poverty is not just a black problem."
Following a national trend, Ohio's minorities have the lowest levels of health care coverage, according to a new study from The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. The study looked at 2006-2008 data for only men to gauge health insurance coverage and other health issues in a pre-Obamacare world.
In Ohio, Hispanics have the highest rates of no coverage
at 40.1 percent. Blacks are second with 25.3 percent having no
coverage. Meanwhile, only 14.6 percent of whites have no coverage.
The disparity is prevalent on a national level. Hispanics still lead the nation with rates of no coverage at 46 percent, but Native Americans overtake blacks on a national level with a rate of 38.5 percent. Blacks are 28.8 percent, Asians and Pacific Islanders are 21 percent, and whites are 15.7 percent.
The study assigned "disparity scores" to measure the racial disparity in health care coverage. The national average score was 2.27. Ohio did better than most of the nation and its neighbors with a score of 1.83. Kentucky was rated 2.06, Indiana 2.14 and Michigan 1.86. Pennsylvania and West Virginia beat out Ohio with scores of 1.74 and 1.31, respectively.
The study also looked at access to personal doctors and health care providers. Ohio did a little better in this category among Hispanics. The study found 30.5 percent of blacks had no access to a personal doctor or health care providers, while 27.6 percent of Hispanics did not. Whites remained at the top with only 21.1 percent not having access to a personal doctor or health care provider.
For black men, the most striking national health disparity was that black men were more than seven times more likely as white men to be diagnosed with AIDS. For every 100,000 men, 104.1 black people were newly diagnosed with AIDS. Hispanics were second with 40.8, then Native Americans at 17.3, then whites at 13.7, then Asians and Pacific Islanders at eight. Overall, the study assigned a 4.37 disparity score to AIDS diagnoses nationwide.
In Ohio, the rates of new AIDS cases were better overall, but the disparity score was worse than the national average at 5.23. Among whites, only 7.3 out of 100,000 were newly diagnosed with AIDS. Blacks were 46.2, Hispanics were 26.1, Native Americans were 9.8 and Asian and Pacific Islanders were 1.6.
The report also looks at poverty levels, incarceration rates, routine checkups, unemployment, the wage gap and more. The full report can be found here.
Ohio Medicaid Director John McCarthy said on Sept. 26 Ohio might expand its Medicaid program, but at lower levels
than Obamacare demands. Using the incentive of federal Medicaid dollars,
President Barack Obama's health care reform asks states to expand their
state Medicaid programs to include everyone at or below 138 percent of the federal poverty level. The
requirement overlaps with the newly established exchanges, which cover
individuals between 100 percent and 400 percent of the federal poverty
level by providing a market in which insurance companies compete for
customers getting federal subsidies for health insurance. McCarthy said
he would like to eliminate the overlap and only expand Medicaid to cover
up to 100 percent of the federal poverty level.
Historically, Medicaid helps minorities the most. Medicaid
expansions in other states also showed improvements in health and
mortality rates while saving money by eliminating the amount of
uncompensated care.
In the ongoing saga of Western & Southern vs. the Anna Louise Inn, there have been several court cases and zoning rulings, most of which have been appealed by one side or the other. Today it was the Cincinnati Zoning Board of Appeals' turn to rule on something that's already been ruled on, and it went in favor of the Anna Louise Inn.
The Board upheld a certificate of appropriateness for the Anna Louise Inn's planned renovation, which essentially also upholds the Historic Conservation Board's right to issue a conditional use permit — at least for now. Western & Southern is expected to appeal that permit, granted by the Conservation Board Aug. 27, before its 30-day window to do so expires.
Before this series of appeals can play out, the 1st District Court of Appeals will hear arguments in the Anna Louise Inn's appeal of Judge Norbert Nadel's May 27 ruling, which set in motion the Inn's attempts to secure zoning approval from the Historical Conservation Board in the first place.
(All of this could have been avoided if Western & Southern would have purchased the Anna Louise Inn when it had the chance. CityBeat previously reported the details of Western & Southern's failure to purchase the Inn and the company's subsequent attempts to force the Inn out of the neighborhood here.)
About 40 people attended today's hearing, including City Councilman Wendell Young, who said he supports the Anna Louise Inn but was not there to testify on its behalf.
By upholding the certificate of appropriateness, the ruling keeps alive a conditional use permit that could allow the Anna Louise Inn to move forward with a $13 million renovation of its historic building, once the expected appeals process plays out. (CityBeat covered the Aug. 27 Historical Conservation Board hearing here.)
The Board heard brief arguments from lawyers for both Western & Southern and Cincinnati Union Bethel and then entered executive session for about 15 minutes before ruling in favor of the Anna Louise Inn.
Western & Southern lawyer Francis Barrett, who is the brother of Western & Southern CEO John Barrett and a member of the University of Cincinnati Board of Trustees, told CityBeat after the meeting that he disagreed with the board's finding because a designed expansion of the building's fifth floor has not yet had its use approved.
"With this case, the Historical Conservation Board is basically approving for the certificate of appropriateness the design of the building," Barrett said. "But the design included an expansion of the fifth floor, and until that use issue is resolved the code reads, in my opinion, you can't approve the design because the use hasn't been approved."
Barrett during the hearing read a written statement to the board arguing two main points: that the Historic Conservation Board didn't have the jurisdiction to grant the certificate of appropriateness; and even if it did, Barrett argued, the physical expansion planned makes it a non-conforming use which wouldn't qualify for the building permit.
Cincinnati Union Bethel attorney Tim Burke told the Board that the Anna Louise Inn is not seeking a permit for non-conforming use because it already received a conditional use permit from the Historic Conservation Board.
"Western & Southern is doing everything it can to block this renovation from happening," Burke told the Board.
At the Historic Conservation Board hearing last month
Western & Southern tried paint a picture of the Anna Louise Inn's
residents contributing to crime in the area because a condition of the
conditional use permit is that the building's use will not be
detrimental to public health and safety or negatively affect property
values in the neighborhood. But the Board granted the permit, stating
that the Anna Louise Inn will not be detrimental to public health and
safety or harmful to nearby properties in the neighborhood and that the
Board found no direct evidence connecting residents of the Anna Louise
Inn to criminal activity in the neighborhood. Western & Southern has until next week to appeal that ruling.
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.


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Of course, there are many more examples of how Maximo can help you manage your facilities more efficiently and cost effectively, all of which enable a shift from facilities maintenance to facilities management, from a reactive stance to proactive stance, resulting in improved asset performance, longer asset life and ultimately more sustainable - and, dare I say - smarter buildings.
For more information on how Maximo can make your buildings smarter, read this Service Management in Action article.
Signing off for this week,
Your friendly roving Integrated Service Management reporter
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Recent IBM news on "Smarter Cities" is invoking fond memories of one of my favorite courses at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Politics of design taught by Professor Langdon Winner. Some of my favorite discussions during this course focused on urban theory and planning and environmentally and ethically responsible innovations. A few of my favorite personal readings included:
The concrete connection between
While innovations and technologies always fascinate me, personally I'm most interested in the political, socio-cultural aspects of Palmisano's statement below:
"All the ways in which the world works come together in our cities. They are the proverbial melting pot -- not only for immigrants, but for systems, blending them together to engender new forms of commerce, of culture, of science, of life and of society. Which is why cities -- more than states, provinces or even nations -- are likely to be the crucible for human progress and evolution in the coming century."
Smart cities require smart people and deliberate thinking. How will
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In response to: Asset Classes and Smarter PlanetThanks for your follow-up on my earlier question. Your response really helps me understand the areas of importance to the Transportation industry. What differentiates IBM in the marketplace here?
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In response to: In the News: Make your Buildings Smarter with IBM Asset ManagementGreat blog about smarter buildings! The Service Management article is excellent too. I'm looking forward to your weekly updates.
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In response to: Maximo Monday: Manufacturing Live Jam Coming Dec 1stThis is a really good line up of speakers! I'm posting this to the IBM Service Management blog so others will hear about it and be able to participate.
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At Pulse 2010, my friend Cathy and her team put together an awesome little video demonstration of their new real time asset location solution for the Healthcare industry. The solution uses Maximo software to monitor and manage patients, staff and physical assets in a hospital. Check it out:
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What's this Tour of Tivoli thing anyway?
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Our Mission is to Educate Practice-Ready and Career-Ready Grads
At UDM Law, we don't just say our graduates are practice-ready and career-ready. We know it.
Before becoming Dean of UDM Law, I practiced law for 40 years with the Dykema firm in Detroit, the last stretch as Chairman and CEO, and nine years as Professional Personnel Partner overseeing the hiring and performance evaluation of associate attorneys. So I know what practice-ready and career-ready means. It means, among other things, that our graduates have:
- Completed a broad range of legal transactions, side-by-side with seasoned attorneys, through Law Firm Program courses;
- Helped real people to resolve actual problems through working at law clinics and participating in externships;
- Learned how to defend a line of argument and communicate solutions using concise and well-reasoned analysis and writing; and
Grown passionate about the legal system--enthused and eager to contribute to their new place of work and find success.
Now that's practice-ready and career-ready.
At UDM Law, we are constantly fine-tuning our curriculum to produce prepared graduates. We involve fellow lawyers, judges, and Corporate Counsel in directing the curriculum, identifying employer needs, and even designing and teaching courses. Our curriculum remains one of the most progressive in the country and has been recognized in The Wall Street Journal, The National Law Journal, USA Today, and other publications.
I ask that you take a few minutes to learn more about why graduates of UDM School of Law are practice-ready and career-ready. Then give us a try. Join us as a student, lend your expertise, mentor a student, or interview and hire a graduate. You won't be disappointed.
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Since there's probably going to be a fair few Kickstarter projects that aren't done by Tim Schafer, I thought it might be nice to start a separate thread for all the little games on Kickstarter that don't get as much exposure.
For example: Feeble's Fable: The Legend of Runes by Atomic Chimp Games. Another point-and-click adventure game, but this one is going for more of a cute and charming feel. It definitely looks interesting, though they've nowhere near the backing they need. :(
And another: Americana Dawn by one guy, Max K. Lambert. It's a freeware retro-styled RPG about the French & Indian War and the American War for Independence. Kickstarter page is a little bare (he doesn't actually say what he needs the money for, for one), but it looks like an awesome game.
So let's see what other Kickstarter projects you think is worth shining a little light on!


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(WUSA) -- Many of us would feel almost as good as those Powerball winners, if we could just make it through the holidays without gaining weight.
Jay Morgan is a personal trainer with Born To Be Fit. He joined us on Friday morning to show us some quick exercises to burn off those extra holiday calories.


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The Five-Year Engagement (2012)
The Five-Year Engagement SynopsisThe director and writer/star of Forgetting Sarah Marshall reteam for the irreverent comedy The Five-Year Engagement. Beginning where most romantic comedies end, the new film from director Nicholas Stoller, producer Judd Apatow (Knocked Up, The 40-Year-Old Virgin) and Rodney Rothman (Get Him to the Greek) looks at what happens when an engaged couple, Jason Segel and Emily Blunt, keeps getting tripped up on the long walk down the aisle.
The Five-Year Engagement Release Date
In Theaters April 27, 2012
The Five-Year Engagement Credits
Starring: Emily Blunt, Jason Segel, Alison Brie, Rhys Ifans, Chris Pratt and Mindy Kaling
Written by: Nicholas Stoller, Jason Segel
Directed by: Nicholas Stoller
Produced by: Judd Apatow, Rodney Rothman, Nicholas Stoller
Distributor: Universal Pictures
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Companies let pets come to work
On a recent chilly morning, Lola, a friendly bulldog mix clad in a puffy blue jacket, greets a visitor to West Public Relations in downtown San Diego.
Her whole body wiggles in excitement at the prospect of someone new to play with, and over the course of the next 20 minutes she brings her new buddy an assortment of toys to examine before finally collapsing on her foam bed.
At West PR, Lola is a fixture, a dog that is delighted to come to work every day with her owner, Mia West. Sometimes, Lola has four-legged company when West brings her boyfriend's Italian mastiff, Duke, whom she calls "a small horse." Another employee brings in her French bulldog, Ruby. Now and then, a Maltese named Phoebe comes.
So how does an office full of humans coexist with a canine corps?
Just fine, says West. In fact, the dogs make everything better.
"It brings a lot of levity to a stressful situation," she says. "We'll be very intense, we'll be working on a project, brainstorming, and Lola will do something really silly or inappropriate … which will send us into giggle fits. It's just amusing.
"She comes over, puts her head in your lap. Dogs can sense when you're in a bad mood or you're unhappy or you're in a stressful place, and she reacts to my moods and is just a very loving creature. We enjoy it. It's good for us."
For a number of businesses around San Diego County, in fact, the presence of dogs (and other pets) in the workplace is the norm. It's more common with small businesses such as West's that have just a few employees, but the idea also has been adopted at some large local companies. At Petco's corporate facilities in San Diego, nearly half of the 565 employees bring pets with them at least occasionally.
Nationally about 1.4 million owners bring dogs to work every day, according to a survey by the American Pet Products Association in 2011. Another survey by the same group indicates nearly one in five U.S. businesses is pet-friendly — including Google and Amazon. Plus, more businesses test-drive the idea each year by taking part in Take Your Dog to Work Day, started in 1999 (this year, it's June 21).
Studies have shown the pets reduce employee stress levels, don't hurt productivity and raise job satisfaction, loyalty and communication. A study in Great Britain has even called dogs "communication energizers."
Charlie Piscitello, the head of human resources at Petco, agrees with all those conclusions. In fact, Piscitello — who often brings his golden retriever, Bella, to work — calls the fenced-in, outdoor play areas at the company "our animal collaboration areas."
"When you go out and see six dogs in the dog park outside our building here, they're all having fun playing," he says. "But you notice something interesting in my job. I'll go out and watch the dogs, but I'll also watch the people. And I see the people interacting and talking, and not just talking about fun, but talking about work. … I think there's a ton of benefits."
Like West, David Gamboa sees no downside to having dogs in the North Park offices of his eight-person graphic design company, A7D Creative Group Inc.
He and his wife, Anna, often bring Amber, their 9-year-old Vizsla to work, and Kelli Wood, a graphic designer, will bring her pugs Philbert and Norman (though usually not both at once).
The dogs create a relaxed work environment, and the people don't have to worry about leaving their dogs on their own all day.


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Maybe it's because my upcoming citizenship test requires me to learn more about the founding fathers or maybe it is simply my own personal curiosity but the upcoming 49th Riley Allison Futurity at Sunland Park Racetrack & Casino gives me pause to reflect on the history of this 2-Y-O classic. Named after the founder, builder and president of the racetrack, Riley Allison, the Futurity, at one time held in May, just sneaks in before the close of the calendar year on Friday, December 30.
If this story rings a bell for Washington State, it is because fans could easily substitute the name of Riley Allison with that of Joe Gottstein, a man of remarkably similar influence in the establishment of Longacres racecourse who continues to be remembered through the Gottstein Futurity - originally known as the Washington Futurity - that is run at Emerald Downs each September.
Veteran race-trackers may argue that Futurities in general were in their hey-day some thirty years ago when winners appeared to have more national significance. Throughout the 1980s, both the more established Gottstein Futurity, coming up to its 75th edition next season and its south-western counterpart, the Riley Allison, first run in 1953, had their share of big named winners that would springboard to prominence outside of their own states.
Bold Ego, the 1980 Riley Allison Futurity winner, arguably the fastest-ever New Mexico-bred, stamped himself as equal to the very best by placing second as a 3-Y-O in the 1981 Preakness Stakes to the mighty Pleasant Colony.
Belle of Rainier toppled WA great Chinook Pass en route to her 1981 Gottstein Futurity success over the boys. The 1982 WA Horse of the Year added five out-of-state stakes wins, three at Bay Meadows and two across the border in Canada, to her nine local ones.
In 1983, Triple Sec parlayed his Riley Allison win into multiple stakes successes in Louisiana and the 1987 Gottstein Futurity winner, Saratoga Passage would triumph later that year in the Grade One Norfolk Stakes on dirt and in the Grade One 1989 Eddie Read Handicap on the turf.
But why settle for record books when we can go back even further with the one man in our midst who perfectly tied these two classic races together? Hall of Fame trainer, Jim Penney was able to enjoy the best of both worlds when Pataha Prince landed the rare double, winning both the 1967 Washington Futurity at Longacres and the Riley Allison Futurity at Sunland Park that same year. It was a story Jim fondly recalled at this season's WA Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony that welcomed Pataha Prince into its prestigious ranks.
In a twist of fate, the Penney barn captured its first Longacres Mile victory at the expense of Pataha Prince who had been claimed from Jim earlier that summer, at the age of eight, by the late Bobby Frankel. Veteran star Pataha Prince, led the 1973 Mile field until late but was unable to hold off Silver Mallet, the first of five Mile successes for the legendary trainer.
Half a century on and understandably, the face of the industry has changed remarkably, especially for Washingtonians who are now coming up on 20 years since the closure of Longacres. There are now as many roads to the Kentucky Derby each year as chances in the race, with the old-school belief that a true contender needs a solid 2-Y-O foundation brought more and more into question. Despite altered financial landscapes, the Futurities remain a logical step on the advancing path to 3-Y-O maturity. Until as recent as five years ago, there were trials for the Riley Allison Futurity, a race whose prize purse peaked in 1985 at $339,705.
The 1990s proved very tough on both Washington and New Mexico racing circuits. Fortunately the establishment of Emerald Downs has been a saving grace to Washington fans and continues to build on the state's great racing tradition. Gottstein Futurity winner Smarty Deb (2007) went on to finish a gutsy fifth in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies and subsequent champion Gallant Son (2008), not disgraced in his Breeders' Cup Juvenile bid, went on to stakes wins in Southern California in the Pasadena at Santa Anita as a 3-Y-O and the Inglewood at Hollywood Park as a 4-Y-O.
The new millennium marked the resurgence of New Mexico Racing that rapidly raised purse-money and lured promising shippers from leading barns nation-wide. It is no coincidence that trainer Steve Asmussen has walked away with the Riley Allison Futurity the last three years and local top trainer Henry Dominguez two of the prior three. Both stables will be represented again this season. Of recent winners that went on to tackle the Borderland Derby, it was 2005 victor, Disappearing Trick that fared the best with a close third.
Unlike the mile and sixteenth of the Gottstein Futurity that is the next logical step for the youngsters after the WTBA Lads, the six and one half furlongs of the Riley Allison Futurity is the first step before the Borderland Derby in February and then possibly the Sunland Derby in March. The two state calendars differ widely in their structure, one with a futurity coming at the end of a local season with implications for the Breeders Cup, the other at the start with implications for the Triple Crown.
Despite their differences, it appears no coincidence that in each case, its visionary founders put their name to a race that is all about developing stars of the future. The Gottstein Futurity and Riley Allison may not yet be back to their glory days but both have remained valued as integral to the racing programs and garnered talent bred both locally and out of state. And while these races deserve special protection in respect of the individuals they honor, even more essential is the pioneering spirit that they represent.We are reminded not only of what came before us but of our responsibility to the founders to now make a difference ourselves. The introduction of WA Cup Day at Emerald Downs and the birth of the Grade 3 Sunland Derby at Sunland Park Racetrack & Casino are fine examples of new traditions that have formed even in this complex internet and simulcast era. Up or down times, risk and growth remain part and parcel of what racing programs must do. The Gottstein Futurity and the Riley Allison Futurity were once young too. - Robert Geller


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PEACEMAKER NAT'L RANGE, WV (WUSA) -- Remember Tom Cruise in Top Gun? How he'd lock on to a target on a heads up display in his fighter jet, then pull the trigger?
Now a Texas company has put similar technology in a rifle.
SWAT teams, hunters, military snipers, the idea that seems so obvious in hindsight, you wonder why it's taken so long: a rifle that promises you'll never again miss a shot or hit something you don't want to.
TrackingPoint is demonstrating what it calls a precision-guided firearm. And it can make a marksman of a novice.
An on-board computer calculates almost every variable but windspeed. Temperature, barometric pressure, the magnetic pull and spin of the Earth. You plug the windspeed and direction into the computer manually.
A little training and we start at 300 yards. Bang! "Good job," says the instructor. Then you hear the ping of the bullet hitting the target.
850 yards...1000 yards. "That was five seconds for sound to get here!"
1100 yards, nearly three quarters of a mile; bullseye every time.
"It usually takes years and years of practice to do what you just did," says Darren Jones of TrackingPoint. "It's all technology?" I ask. "It's all technology."
"You took four shots, 300 to 1100 yards,. and you didn't miss once," says Cole McCulloch, owner of Peacemaker National Training Center. "In variable windspeed. Outstanding."
'You don't think this makes it any more likely that a psycho is going to go out and kill schoolchildren?" I asked Darren Jones. "No first of all, this is a bolt action rifle. It's not an AR platform, which was what was used at Newtown." That means it only fires as fast as you can pull back the bolt and reload.
The TrackingPoint rifles start at $25,000.
"We are in a six month back order statues with this rifle...Actually our most expensive model is our most popular," says Jones.
We asked the Secret Service if it had any concern about the rifle being put to nefarious purposes. And a spokesman offered no comment.


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A 15-month-old is dead after investigators say she was suffocated by her mom, 23-year-old Jennifer Stahl. The woman now faces involuntary manslaughter charges.
But, questions remain about how DCFS handled prior complaints about the family.
DCFS administrators in Chicago say there is a caseworker shortage at Rockford's DCFS office, that's one of several things investigators will be looking at as they determine what led up to the infant's death.
The DCFS says Jennifer Stahl has been investigated three times over the past two years.
Neighbors say they've made numerous calls about child abuse and neglect.
DCFS administrators tell 23 News they plan to fill vacant case worker positions in Rockford, by transferring case workers from other locations.
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Types of Child Abuse
Child abuse is harm to, or neglect of, a child by another person, whether adult or child. Child abuse happens in all cultural, ethnic and income groups. Child abuse can be physical, emotional/verbal, sexual or through neglect.
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Mad at Mad Men.
by Meredith O'Brien
*Warning, spoilers ahead from the Mad Men season finale.*
First and foremost let me say this: I'm a huge Mad Men fan. I frequently blog about it and review each episode the day after it airs. Perceived its fourth season, which just concluded this past week, as exquisite, thought-provoking and brilliant. But I've got two problems with my beloved show's most recent season:
I hate that Betty Draper Francis has been turned into an unlikable villain who was afforded no truly relatable moments. Plus I'm supremely annoyed that it appeared as though in the season finale Don Draper impulsively proposed marriage to his 25-year-old, bikini-wearing secretary (in season two Don scolded his ex-wife, saying her bikini made her look "desperate") instead of getting engaged to his girlfriend Dr. Faye -- the professional consumer researcher and someone who's much closer to Don's age -- based on how well each woman handled his kids.
Sure the actress is from my hometown so props to her and her future career blah blah blah...
If Don Draper marries his secretary I will be very sad.
I'm hoping this is just his desperate attempt at controlling his environment, what with the agency falling apart and his wife finally moving out of (and him subsequently selling) their family home etc...
I know I know, it's not real life but... Let's pray for a wake-up call.