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The little brand blurb that accompanies this new range of luxury motorcycle helmets from Ateliers Ruby is "good looks - for everyday heroes and heroines". Which is just too cute. So is the story behind them.
Parisian designer Jerome Coste drew on Steve McQueen iconography, old-school racing cars and quite possibly the six separate head traumas he's survived when he set about developing the Pavillion range of motorcycle accessories for Ruby. He also sold his own motorbike to finance the production of the full carbon fiber shells, the kind used in Formula One racing. The 'inside garnish' (to quote Coste) is a soft lining of decadent burgundy nappa lambskin, chosen for its comfort and anti-bacterial properties. Henceforth providing a 'reassuring cocoon'.
Clearly a design pedant, Coste has given his helmets a unique signature quirk - a small crest that runs along the top, as inspired by the armoury worn by medieval knights.
The Pavillion range is available in three colours Shibuya (peppermint, named after the Tokyo Shopping District), Concorde (black) and St Honore (white) and are accompanied by an equally sweet range of twill silk scarves in various retro racing car shades.
Again to quote from the branding blurb: 'Lady Ruby, your guardian angel wishes you a bon voyage". Bless.- Sarah Wilson.
Design's love affair with bold colour inches one step further with the application of graphic art into everything from tables to chairs, bookshelves and even yachts. Cappellini gave Adam Goodrum's 'Stitch' chair the colour treatment with blocks or red, blue, white and black applied to the segments of the aluminium folding chair. Designer Enzo Berti recasts the humble bookshelf as a canvas for graphic prints with his Bar Code Street shelves. London based artist Anna James, who transforms pieces of 20th century furniture into contemporary art works, applied a clean graphic to her Genoa table. And of course who can forget Jeff Koon's 'art' yacht, released last year, which is still wowing onlookers on the Mediterranean. - Laura Demasi
The Cool Hunter celebrates creativity in all of its modern manifestations. We are global in outlook, culturally discerning and a trusted hub for what's cool, thoughtful, innovative and original. We value global relevance, not trends, channelling our discoveries to our worldwide audience of 900,000 readers per month.
For a long time, we have been approached by networks and production companies from Brazil to L.A. wanting to produce a weekly TCH TV. We have now aligned the key ingredients needed to create the kind of quality and diversity that we want for what we see as a culture show, not another version of poor-quality reality TV.
We are currently looking for the right people as our presenters in New York, London, Sydney/Melbourne, the three hubs where we will start the line up that we envision expanding to all continents. We need confident people who can write and present in their own natural way. Age is irrelevant — you can be 25 or 65 as long as you are interesting and interested in meeting fascinating and innovative people around the world. If you feel you could be a TCH TV presenter, send us an image and info about yourself and explain what you would bring to TCH TV.
We are also hunting for story ideas for high-quality, intriguing, relevant and creative content — from showcasing a 85-year-old aquabics instructor in Melbourne to discussing with the scientists who have discovered a cure for cancer by mimicking the cancer-fighting properties found in cancer-proof mice. We also want to hear from advertisers who are in the process of launching a guerrilla campaign or a cool, new TV ad. We want to hear from fashion designers creating something unique for their show at Fashion Week, and event producers launching an innovative event. We want to know about business start-ups, entrepreneurs, eco designers, architects, artists, gurus. If it is creative, innovative, new and, most important, original, we want to know about it. Deadline 11 Jan, 2010 - send info to [email protected]
Now that nobody prints hard-copy photos any more, Hamburg-based Twinkind would like to create a Little 3D You instead. A realistic, little you. Or your pet, or Mum.
A visit to their pop-up studio for a quick scan and then, after some technological wizardry that involves 3D printing and other newly developed techniques, you will be the owner of a little photorealistic sculpture anywhere from 15 to 35 centimeters (6 to 14 inches) tall and made of polymer plaster powder.
What makes Twinkind's offering different from the other 3D printed sculptures currently available, is the speed of the initial scanning.
It used to take a long time (20 minutes in some cases) of standing (or sitting or whatever) very still to produce the detailed data needed for a realistic sculpture.
With Twinkind's process, the scanning will take only a split second. And therefore, they can alter the results and rescan till you are happy with the image, and they can scan pets and kids and other objects that are not going to sit still for long. Prices, apparently, start from 225€ for the tiniest figurines.
Twinkind's founders, Kristina Neurohr and Timo Schaedel, are experienced creatives. Neurohr is the co-owner of creative agency Lux von Morgen whereas Schaedel's has developed commercials for international clients including Audi, Fiat and Panasonic. - Tuija Seipell.
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Last year our friends at Stella Artois introduced us to Jacques d'Azur – the undisputed King of Cannes. He was the coolest man in the world – A boules champion, competitive water-skier, bon viveur and movie producer famous the world over. A man who was so cool that Sinatra uses to call him Sammy Davis Senior.
Then Jacques went missing, presumed dead - and 90,000 people entered the competition to be named his rightful heir and receive their inheritance: an unforgettable, once in a life time weekend at the Cannes Film Festival.
2011 sees Stella Artois take on something even more ambitious – they will attempt to bring the story of Jacques' incredible life to the big screen.
The Cool Hunter is partnering with Stella Artois to hold the world's biggest casting call to play Jacques d'Azur.
Men can audition online opposite a beautiful leading lady using their webcams. They we will then receive a scene from the film finished up to cinema quality of them starring in the film. They can share their audition film via social networks and have their film viewed and judged by a panel of experts.
The best budding actor will star in the final film which will premiere at Cannes during the Film Festival.
But that's not where it ends – because the winner will also be attending the premier of his film. But first we need a venue fit for the premier of such an illustrious film. And the only place we could think of was Jacques' own house. So this year at the Festival we will be painstakingly recreating Jacques mansion – not where it once stood but on the Ritz Carlton's private beach, complete with his open air cinema screen and 40 person hot tub. (Drink responsibly with Stella Artois.)
The only thing worse than being trapped in a sleeping bag, is needing to go to the toilet in one. Well cast those fears aside as the new Selk'bag is here. This sleeping bag is more like a body bag ( not the corpse ones ). It's padded and shaped to the human form and allows free movement both in and out of sleep, where traditional sleeping bags don't.
The various ties and adjustment belts allow for a very snug fit which keeps the warmth in and gives you further control when moving about. Selk'bag is padded with a number of layered inserts which provide maximum comfort when lying on even the hardest surfaces. Best of all , even the ugliest camper can look positively cute once wrapped in the Selk'bag. Snug, Smart, freeing! Now selling online - Lisa Evans
Self-described as a former frustrated David Carson wannabe, Melbourne-based Amy Moss has realized that her happiness – and her potential for design rockstardom – are dependent on her NOT being a graphic designer but her obsession about beautiful colours and beautiful things in general. She figured out she's a stylist rather than a graphic designer, and her blog EatDrinkChic may well be her ticket to filmstardom, too, in the same way that Julie Powell's obsession with Julia Child's recipes, and her blog about them, took her in six years from relative obscurity to being a topic for the film Julie & Julia.
EatDrinkChic has a crafty, girly vibe but there are no crocheted polyester-yarn throw cushions or quilted tea cozies here. The blog is about interiors, parties, weddings and food and Amy Moss offers readers DIY ideas which she styles, designs and photographs and offers it all for free to her audience. It won't be long before book publishers come knocking. - Tuija Seipell
Not everyone is lucky to work in a cool and inspiring office, and even those who are, can become stuck in an uncreative rut, or disturbed by loud coworkers, boring music, smells of someone's lunch, outside noise. And those who work at home have all of the distractions — and attractions — of home to lure mind and body away from productive work. No wonder coffee shops around the world look more like offices than many offices. People sitting at their computers, talking on their phones, conducting business with coffee and muffins nearby. Yet anyone who's done the coffee-shop-as-office thing knows that it is not without problems either. Too many people, loud conversation, screaming kids, familiar faces, bad wifi, no plugs, uncomfortable chairs, line-ups for coffee, managers wanting you to leave.
Luckily, creative people have started to think up solutions to meet the very clear need of cool working spaces for mobile workers. Urban Station in Buenos Aires, Argentina, has taken the best of both office and coffee shop and wrapped it all up in a funky urban space.
Urban Station is appropriately located at Malabia and El Salvador Streets in Buenos Aires's hip Palermo Soho where fashion, design and art mix with the densest concentration of bars and restaurants in the city. You sit at one of the wide tables, pay by the hour and benefit from the calm atmosphere and comforts of an office with plugs and locks for your computer and super-fast wifi. The coffee shop part comes in the form of unlimited coffee, tea, mineral water, fruit, croissants and cookies, all part of the fee.
In addition, the large and airy Urban Station offers art and business magazines and books to read, comfortable armchairs for lounging and casual meetings, fully equipped meeting rooms, printers, fax and scanners, plus lockers for your gear. If you get bored, or need to dash out for a moment, they even offer a few bikes at the door for you to borrow. It feels like office, coffee shop AND home. More of this, please! - Bill Tikos
Address: El Salvador 4588 Palermo Soho.
The headline implies that there is a "body" whose anatomy you can analyze. The whole point of cool is that it does not have a body available for analysis. It's like a ghost instead of a corpse. That's why it is cool.
Just like all comments on cool, our analysis is completely individual and ever-changing. Cool is whatever you like and want. Cool is subjective. It is an opinion. But that does not mean that we — as individuals, brands, media — are not interested in or influenced by others' views of what cool is.
In this sense cool is a bit like fashion. You decide and choose for yourself what you feel is fashionable within your peer group, your culture, your age group, at your financial level. But someone somewhere has given you the initial clue. Marketers and media have brought out the type of sneaker, the kind of jeans, the brand of handbag that you now like and want. In addition, someone you admire is most likely also wearing it. You follow fashion.
But cool is also definitely NOT like fashion. Cool is more about what the norm is NOT. Cool is elusive, indefinable, covetable. It is original, desirable, and not accessible to everybody. If everyone has it, if the brand becomes saturated, it stops being cool.
Occasionally, a brand manages to remain cool and covetable, and becomes a classic. Of the world-wide brands, examples of this include Apple, Absolut and Mini. Many niche brands have also achieved classic status in their relatively small circle. The defining characteristic of these cool classics is that they keep innovating constantly.
Visual & instant
Cool is visual and instant. When you see it, you like it instantly. If it takes a lot of work to figure out, it is not cool. This does not mean that only simple or simplified things or ideas can be cool. What it does mean is that you need to be able to see it.
This is one reason why cool and coolhunting and trend forecasting became so important to marketers as soon as the internet gave everyone instant access to images. Magazines, TV or advertisers could no longer control what cool looked like. Marketers who were used to being the ones who decided what the next trend or the next fashion was going to be, suddenly had to face this uncontrollable deluge of messages, opinions and information that consumers were passing on to each other. Viral marketing, as opposed to just word-of-mouth, emerged, and it scared traditional marketers.
Today's consumers are sick of mass marketing and the sameness of brands. They want to be delighted, surprised and wowed by something that is authentic, different and off the mainstream. One of the reasons www.thecoolhunter.net has become so popular and influential is that we do not sell, market or create cool. We just give it an audience.
We process an enormous amount of information and identify what's hot, exceptional, interesting, covetable. It must have an instantly obvious x-factor. Detecting it is always intuitive. There's no formula, no rules, no parameters. We do find patterns, parallels and trends, but we do not become stuck in them and start looking for similar things. The intuitive reaction, the ability to observe the world, and the skill to process massive quantities of unrelated information is what we are good at.
All major media outlets follow us at thecoolhunter.net and fill their pages with ideas we feature. When we post a piece about an idea or a brand or a product, it gets an immediate global reaction from traditional media. Brands come to us for ideas and consultation. Individuals enjoy the fact that we prowl the world and bring original ideas to them. And as soon as we gained an audience, marketers, PR people and brands started to send us their material. So it's an endless cycle.
For me, coolhunting is a fascinating, ever-changing process that no-one can control. You start with a blank space every day and look for something that deserves to fill it. If you don't find it, you leave it blank. We are not like a newspaper or a daily blog that must find something to fill the space. We only put it out there if it has that elusive, indefinable wow-factor.
Indefinable & in motion
We are not in the business of defining cool, although I am asked to do that every day. Cool cannot have a definition.
But we do run into brands who seem to live under the illusion that if someone just defined for them what cool is, then they would be able to become cool, too. Then they'd know how to create it, market it, promote it, make money from it.
To a limited, impermanent extent, this is, of course, possible. We are regularly asked to come up with cool ideas, cool events, cool promotions — and we do that — but at the core there must already be a cool product, idea, cause, concept. You cannot make something cool by promo. And, if by the sheer brilliance of a cool promotion, you do succeed in creating a publicity or even sales boost for a brand, that does not make the brand cool. Coolness needs to be earned again and again.
To me, the essence of cool is motion. To become and remain cool, a brand must keep innovating constantly. It must remain in constant motion. This same is true for those of us who hunt for it.
While I don't worry about defining cool for anyone else, I am always fascinated by how the people who follow us define it for themselves. We've posed that question recently on our Facebook & Twitter, and received hundreds of responses. They are such a perfect example of the fact that NOBODY can define it and EVERYBODY can. Here's a sampling of the responses we've received. It shows that the definition of cool is always individual. - Bill Tikos
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something sleek, simple and bold, that feels effortless.
to be the first, the original that starts a trend and is iconic.
forward-thinking, breaks boundaries, confident. Cool is the idea you wish you thought of first.
the audacity to be different for reasons that don't need to be articulated & unconsciously achieving it.
effortless style, a hint of madness and heaps of attitude
a mindset —being informed, relaxed, and expressing it effortlessly.
the word 'cool' is just confidence in aesthetic form.
wonderful, clever and beautiful. From oh wow, ahhh, I get it! to it would make me look *good*
Cool is a person not being affected by other peoples opinons, or behaviour -staying cool in a critical situation. A cool person stick to what he/she thinks is right no matter what. A person who works hard to appear cool is the oposite. What is "Cool stuff", like on the Cool Hunter page, is defined by if it stands out, doing it's own thing.
the art of not needing to try to be it, of possessing enough confidence in your own ideas and style to turn heads.
the new ideal; it is moving confidently forward into a better future, assured that things to come will be better.
a person/place/thing pleasurable to observe as it appears to fulfill its nature effortlessly and with signature style
the time you spend to define what cool is, cool is already gone somewhere else. Welcome in the tiring cycle of coolness. :)
We see 'cool' in things/ideas/people that have an innate and untouchable authenticity about them. Things that redefine genres. Spawn global fads and inflame our insatiable appetite for originality and roads even more less travelled than the ones before.
Remaining unaffected and composed in a world which is filled with trouble and uncertainty. Living with a constant Miles Davis soundtrack in the background, acting accordingly.
Cool its everything that makes you think "WOW..."
Cool has nothing to do with the external. There is no object, gadget, fashion, or built environment which is cool by and of itself. The term is only manifest when the external thing becomes utilised and inspired by a person. Cool is merely confidence of character which is then made cool by the appreciation of an audience.
Anything within reason can be made cool by somebody with the power and subtlety to make it individual and authentic - except a Toyota Prius maybe.
Cool is not about trends or fashion, it's about being timeless and effortless.
Something that makes you feel like telling someone else about it.
Cool is only a momentary flash of brilliance ...Before it transforms to conventional.
When pessimistic people say something is cool, I pay attention and usually agree. It takes a lot to impress pessimism
People have always wanted to climb higher and see farther. We've built towers and turrets, spires and steeples, lookouts and skyscrapers to see and to be seen. The achievement of height makes us proud and somehow secure. We can see all enemies from here. Our church is visible from everywhere. Our building is the tallest in the world.
There's power and prestige in being high up but there's also exhilaration. People want to go up, maybe even to be a bit scared, and they want to see far and wide.
A week doesn't go by without us seeing at least one new observation deck, luxury tower, ski lift or lookout structure that meets those needs. The Stockholm Globe Arena, known as the Ericsson Globe, apparently the world's largest round building, is not a new project, but we've grown fond of its brand-new addition: the cute little glass orbs that climb up the rounded skin of the structure. The pair of classic-looking orbs, called unimaginatively SkyView, carry 16 passengers each as they scale the Globe on rails operating based on ski-lift technology. The trip up takes three minutes and a round-trip visit takes 20 minutes.
The multi-use complex of the Globe includes a 16,000-seat arena that will host Lady Gaga, Whitney Houston and Rod Stewart among others this spring. Tuija Seipell
And just opened this week in Singapore is Marina Bay Sands.
The first OHWOW Book Club has opened its doors in a tiny 150 square-foot space in New York's Greenwich Village. The retail space is located below street level in a historic brownstone on Waverly Place.
The black-and-white tiled floor and the turquoise walls create a decidedly aquatic mood although the designer, Rafael de Cárdenas, was thinking less of marine habitats and more of a classic pre-war NYC water closet when he themed the space.
Experience designer/architect Rafael de Cárdenas of Architecture At Large is a master of creating moods. In OHWOW Book Club, he has explored not only the sensations of disorientation and floating through neon lighting and random wall color patterns and placement of shelves, but also the feel of direction through the Navajo carpet-like tile pattern of the floor.
All of these themes are evident also in OHWOW's Miami exhibition space at NW 7 Avenue, that de Cárdenas designed in 2008 and to which the Miami Art Basel crowd took right away.
OHWOW (Our House West of Wynwood) is a collaborative creative enterprise conceived by New York's event impresario Aaron Bondaroff and Miami art and publishing powerhouse Al Moran. - Tuija Seipell
A year in the making, the new TCH marketing agency ACCESS AGENCY has been busy talking to global brands in every major city. We are setting up to unveil our latest creation for innovative brands -- the indoor drive-in cinema.
It is a super-charged, branded experience unveiled throughout the year in different cities with a unique mix of brands collaborating in each city.
In some cities, it will be branded Mini to unveil a new model (the Crossover). In others, it will be film studios launching the latest cinematic 3D release, or toy, electronics and beverage brands introducing their coolest, hottest innovations.
Each event will be completely custom-branded with its unique mix of participating brands and each experience will be completely unique to the audience.
We're unveiling it here now for TCH readers so that you can get a preview of what it will look like.
This branded experience, and many others we have created, are our response to what we see as a mind-numbing sameness across the brands that we encounter. We are approached daily by global brands who want exposure on TCH, yet they seldom offer anything that would make you stop.
Today's branded world is global, demanding and ruthlessly honest about what is -- and especially what is not – new, extraordinary, different, unique, surprising, bold, cool. Ordinary, bland experiences don't cut it. They turn into YouTube parodies, or worse, are ignored completely. We tell brands to not waste their money on "creating" what has already been created. We've seen most of it somewhere already. As have our readers.
TCH's reason for being has always been based on our passion for innovation, and for sharing with the world the real, exciting ideas we find as we sift through the masses of ideas we encounter – from design, architecture, travel and any other area. Over the years, we have developed a clear sense of what works and what doesn't. We have understood that ideas are only as good as the execution, which is why we have gathered a global team of creative talent to not only come up with new branded ideas but to execute them with professionalism and finesse. That's what ACCESS is all about.
We created it to meet the need that we encounter every day – the need to stand out in the sea of sameness. We know it is not easy. We know it is not common. And we know it is possible.
Brands wanting ACCESS experience- get in touch
Here's a glimpse at what we are working on.
Frescobol, the Brazilian paddleball beach sport dating back to the 1940s, looks a bit like ping-pong without the table. The bats look slightly similar, the ball somewhat bigger.
But for those serious about their beach presence, the bat makes the difference. Frescobol cool happens when you play with the FB Collection one-of-a-kind wooden bats inspired by Copacabana beach culture and hand-crafted luxury yachts, and fire-branded with the FB logo.
Each bat is unique, and what's even more cool, the wood used is all reclaimed Brazilian species, collected from sustainability-certified furniture factories where the remnants would have otherwise gone to waste.
Buy them here.
Some people dream of success, others make it happen. Of course, you can dream as much as you like but waiting for things to happen gets you nowhere. Get active and start making things happen.
Whatever journey your path takes you on, the most important thing is to have passion in what you do.
How many of you went to college, got your degree, and ended up doing something totally unrelated to your major? Studying it did not make you passionate about it. It wasn't your path.
Education or even talent aren't worth much without passion. So do the stuff that you love and you've always wanted to do because without it, you'll feel stuck and unfulfilled. If you work in a bank but your dream is to be a naturopath, then make those changes now. Make this year the turning point in your life. When you do what you love you will be rewarded — it will just flow naturally.
Look at those around you who just make things happen. They have a clear goal in mind and they know where they want to go. They don't always have a plan but they have the passion and the tenacity to make it work, and they achieve their goals as the end result.
Trust us when we tell you this. If something important to you, you WILL find a way. If it isn't, you'll find an excuse. It's that simple. Find your way. Make it work, whatever it takes. Are you 10 kilos heavier than you should be? It is simple: Commit, go to that gym every day, no excuses, and train until you lose those 10 kilos. When you accomplish this, you'll have the confidence to do more. Set a goal and make it happen.
Want to stop smoking? Stop making excuses, take control of your circumstances before they take control of you.
Success isn't just about what you accomplish in your life, it's about what you inspire others to do and when you do accomplish something as simple as quitting smoking or losing weight, you'll inspire others to do the same. Anyone can change the world, and everybody should try. And it all starts with your own life.
Stop waiting for the perfect time to do what you want to do. Do it now.
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone, so get used to being uncomfortable. It won't kill you. Do you need a sign? Here it is: - Bill Tikos
Tian Tan Buddha on Lantau Island, Hong Kong
Fernando De Noronha - Brazil
Spirit Island, Magligne Lake, Alberta, Canada
Rice Field Terraces in Yunnan, China
Bern, Switzerland
Coron Palawan, Philippines
Rocky Village, Vernazza, Italy
Porto Katsiki, Lefkada Island, Greece
Lower Lewis River Falls - Gifford Pinchot National Forest - Washington, USA
Pangong Tso Lake in the Himalayas
Golden Eye Hotel - St. Mary, Jamaica
Golden Horn, Brac Island - Croatia
Soneva Fushi, Maldives
Alentejo, Portugal
Etretat, Normandy, France
The Pearl Waterfall, Jiuzhaigou Valley, China
Awa'awapuhi Trail Kauai, Hawaii
Santa Domenica nel Salento
Amazing Places To Experience Around The Globe (Part 1 - click here)
Discovered a place we should include in Part 3 of Amazing Places? - get in contact
Devetashkata Cave - Bulgaria
Ben Bulben at County Sligo, Ireland
Shark Island - Sydney
Baatara Gorge Waterfall, Tannourine - Lebanon
Abel Tasman National Park - New Zealand
Myrtos Beach, Kefalonia - Greece
Sichuan - China
In The Gardens of Prague Castle
Neist Point, Isle of Skye - Scotland
Aiguill e du midi, Chamonix, France
The Hamilton Pool Nature Preserve in Texas, USA
4 Hands - Etretat, France
Río Tampaón in San Luis Potosí -México
Madeira, Portugal
Six Senses Evason Ma'In Hot Springs, Jordan
Méandre - En-Vau - Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône)
More Amazing Places To Experience Around The Globe (Part 1 - click here)
More Amazing Places to Experience Around The Globe (Part 2 - click here )
Discovered a place we should include in Part 4 of Amazing Places? - get in contact
We'll be publishing Amazing Places as a book in late 2012
Intercontinental Hotel and Thalasso Spa - Bora Bora
Blue Lagoon, Reykjavik - Iceland
Positano, Amalfi Coast, Italy
The Dunes in Peru
Pongua Falls, Vietnam
Bachalpsee, Berner Oberland, Switzerland
Lady Musgrave Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia
Kaieteur Falls - World's Largest
5 Star Taj Exotica Resort - Maldives
Elafonisi Beach, Crete
Casa Kimball - Dominican Republic
Shangri-La's Barr Al Jissah Resort - Oman
More Amazing Places To Experience Around The Globe (Part 1 - click here)
More Amazing Places to Experience Around The Globe (Part 2 - click here )
More Amazing Places to Experience Around The Globe (Part 3 - click here )


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Harrisonburg, VA (SportsNetwork.com) - James Madison's football team will kick
off the Everett Withers era by visiting Maryland and play five home games as
part of a 12-game 2014 schedule announced Tuesday.
Withers was named JMU's new head coach last month.
The Dukes will go College Park, Md., for their Aug. 30 season opener. The
Terrapins have won the two all-time meetings, most recently 38-35 in overtime
in 2009.
Saint Francis (Sept. 13) will visit JMU in the Dukes' only non-conference home
game on Sept. 13. The Dukes also will host CAA Football opponents Delaware
(Sept. 27), Towson (Oct. 11), William & Mary (Nov. 1, Homecoming) and Elon
(Nov. 22).
The Dukes' other road games are against Lehigh (Sept. 6) and Charlotte (Oct.
25) in non-conference action, and Villanova (Sept. 20), Albany (Oct. 4), Stony
Brook (Nov. 8) and Richmond (Nov. 15) in the CAA.
JMU had a 6-6 record this past season.
2014 James Madison Football Schedule
Aug. 30, at Maryland
Sept. 6, at Lehigh
Sept. 13, Saint Francis (Pa.)
Sept. 20, at Villanova*
Sept. 27, Delaware*
Oct. 4, at Albany*
Oct. 11, Towson*
Oct. 25, at Charlotte
Nov. 1, William & Mary* (Homecoming)
Nov. 8, at Stony Brook*
Nov. 15, at Richmond*
Nov. 22, Elon*
* - CAA Football game
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By: The Associated Press
February 10, 2013
Atlanta, GA- The Georgia nonprofit dedicated to saving the state's historic buildings is once again offering its "castle" in Atlanta for wedding ceremonies on Valentine's Day.
The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation says it's taking appointments between noon and 7 p.m. Thursday for small wedding ceremonies at Rhodes Hall, the organization's headquarters on Peachtree Street Northwest. The 109-year-old building is sometimes referred to as the "Castle on Peachtree."
Getting hitched at Rhodes Hall costs $500. The price includes a wedding officiant, professional photography, music, a champagne toast and wedding cupcakes. But brides and grooms must bring a valid marriage license with them.
Proceeds from the weddings will go to the Georgia Trust.
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Cal Pops Orchestra to perform holiday concert Sunday afternoon at Foothill's Smithwick Theater
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- Published on Wednesday, 18 December 2013 00:02
- Written by Los Altos Town Crier Staff - Town Crier Report
The California Pops Orchestra celebrates the holidays with "A Very Merry Pops Christmas," a concert scheduled 3 p.m. Sunday at Foothill College's Smithwick Theater.
The 65-piece orchestra will present a family holiday show featuring Christmas music from the movie "Holiday Inn" – including the popular "White Christmas" – and the Broadway musical "Elf," along with selections from "A Nightmare before Christmas." Broadway singer Pierce Peter Brandt will join the Pops. There will also be an audience carol sing-along.
Tickets are $15-$42.
Foothill College is located at 12345 S. El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills. Free parking is available in lots 5 and 6.
For tickets and more information, call 856-8432 or visit calpops.org.


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Photographer: Ryan Flynn Photography
Venue: Spring Creek Ranch
Cake & Caterer: Stew Diez Catering
Dress Designer: Shareen Bridal
Veil or Hair Accessories & Groom's Attire: J.Crew
Stationery: Papersource
Prop or Furniture Rentals: All Seasons Events
Bridesmaid Bathrobes: etsy | Flowers: Local | Live Band: Phil Woras, a local Winthrop musician and some of his musician friends
Read on to see how much this dream moments wedding cost. Please note that costs change as the years go by, and prices are subject to change. This is just one couple's breakdown to give you a rough estimate on how much a wedding like this may cost you. The bride and groom wanted to spend around 15k, and ended up spending around 27k. These are rough, but close to the actual cost:
Dress: $600
Venue: $3500
Band: $750
Photography: $3500
Groom's suit: $450
Bride accessories: $400
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Leake County authorities are looking for the suspect in a store robbery in Edinburg. To help, surveillance video is being released. The robbery happened around 5 AM Tuesday at Lay's Bestway Convenience Store in Edinburg. The robber was armed with a single barrel shotgun. He's described as a black male, who's approximately 5' 10" and weighs 170 pounds. At the time, his head and face were covered and he was wearing a gray shirt, dark sweat pants and blue latex gloves. The robber got away with money from the cash register and the two clerks' purses. Up to a $1,000 reward is being offered for information that leads to an arrest. Anyone with information on the case is asked to call the Leake County Sheriff's Department (601) 267-7361.
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Two groups of skydivers survived a scary moment in the skies above Wisconsin. Two single-engine aircraft carrying those skydivers collided 12,000 feet above the ground and sent one plane falling to the earth in flames. A Cessna 185 was closely following a Cessna 182 for a maneuver called a tracking dive, in which a lead jumper is followed across the sky by the other jumpers. The trailing plane collided with their aircraft, the wings on one plane separated and the fuselage caught fire. Four jumpers on that plane jumped to safety. The other aircraft had five jumpers and a pilot on board and went into a steep dive. Four jumpers were able to jump immediately, but one was pinned to the outside. They eventually were able to jump and two others inside also jumped. The pilot was able to pull out of the dive after losing a few thousand feet, and then landed.
A couple driving on the Pennsylvania turnpike are lucky to be alive after a bullet shot through their car and just barely missed them both. They were driving when a bullet hit the back passenger window, went through the passenger-side headrest, and then inches past the driver's face before going out the other side. The driver's girlfriend could have been hit if she hadn't leaned forward to grab the GPS off the dash just as the bullet flew through. He had minor cuts on his face from the glass. No one knows who shot the bullet or where it came from. Police are investigating.
During a gun battle in an Alabama neighborhood, a woman says her bible caught one of the bullets... and possibly saved her life. She says that a bible in the car parked directly in front of hers caught a bullet that came through the windshield toward the back window. She said it's a miracle no one was hurt. After it was all said and done, residents had heard between 15 and 20 gunshots. Police are looking for three people.
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Pushers, Pullers, and Haulers at FamosoWritten on January 20, 2005 Hot Rod Trucks at the California Hot Rod Reunion, Pit Side and On-Track
"First you got to get there before you can race," is an old saying that certainly makes sense when you take into consideration exactly how much equipment you must have to participate in a nostalgia drag racing event. The Automobile Club of Southern California-sponsored and Wally Parks-NHRA Motor Sports Museum-staged "California Hot Rod Reunion" was during the first weekend in October at Kern County's Famoso Raceway, located on the outskirts of Bakersfield.
Well now, you've got the actual race car, the trailer, undoubtedly at least one spare engine, a spare transmission or rearend, a couple of sets of drag slicks, a toolbox, a floor jack, a cooler, and more than likely, two to three eager crew members. Yeah, you need a truck alright!
Of course, today's modern, well-equipped professional race teams competing for points on the NHRA Powerade Championship Drag Racing Series travel to national events in rolling "race shops" (that's 18-wheelers to you neophytes), but at events such as the 13th Annual California Hot Rod Reunion (or the "Gathering of the Geezers," affectionately referred to by insiders), we're reminded of precisely where we came from and how we got here. Typically it was by truck, and we're talking 'bout your basic pickup trucks, folks.
One of the things we really enjoy about the CHRR events is the wide diversity of trucks, which racers use as hot rod haulers. All you need to do is take a stroll through the pits to see what we're talking about. There are vintage trucks of all years, types, and sizes powered by just about every type of engine imaginable, and every once in a while you may even see a truck actually competing on the racetrack.
Of course, there's nothing more inspiring than the awesome spectacle of a Top Fuel dragster being pushed by one of these vintage haulers down Famoso Raceway's famed fire up road in front of thousands of cheering fans. This ritual, known as the "Cacklefest," takes place on Saturday night and is a must see.
Of course, we could go on talking about the vintage haulers at California Hot Rod Reunion XIII, but we think it would be more fun to show them to you. Enjoy!
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This is precisely how they did it in the old days! Southern California car collector and vintage racer Lynn Park is seen hauling his Don Long-chassis "Samurai" AA Fuel Dragster to Famoso over California I-5's infamous "Grapevine" with his nailhead Buick-powered '56 Ford F-100 Custom Cab.The event sponsor, the Automobile Club of Southern California, annually rolls out their '35 Ford 2-ton wrecker for fans to admire. The fully functional "hooker" is powered by a late-model Ford big-block.Throughout the mid '60s, the Southern California-based Top Fuel team of (Kenny) Safford, (Don) Guade, and (Don) Ratican used this candy blue, '59 Chevrolet El Camino to push their Oldsmobile-powered "Sour Sisters" AA/FD....and were bestowed the Heritage Award by Sam Jackson and Greg Sharp from the Wally Parks-NHRA Motor Sport Museum.Ron Reinero's (Austin AA/GS nostalgia racer) late-model Chevy Blazer is an example of the kind that custom hauler racers use to tow their cars up to the Famoso's famed starting line.Here's Gary McWilliams' E-Ticket Ride. This '57 Chevrolet Cameo wheelie truck is sponsored by Pick Your Part.
Here's the $64,000 question. Did this B/FX competitor drive or tow this big-block-powered '64 Ford F-100 to Famoso? Who cares! He got there and put on a pretty darned good show!"Beebe & Mulligan AA/FD" replica owner Dave West also owns this green '67 Chevy stepside, which is also a dead-nuts replica of the Chevy truck Tim "Chops" Beebe used to push-start the late John Mulligan at Bakersfield with.From the "Okay, What Is It?" department, this Rock View Farms-sponsored DIVCO milk truck sits on a GM truck chassis and was used to tow one of the cars competing in Nostalgia Dragster. Pretty slick, huh?Famed Top Fuel racer and nostalgia race-engine builder Mike Kuhl (Kuhl Ent.) still uses his original '66 Ford F-100 pickup to tow the Kuhl & Olsen Chrysler AA/FD to nostalgia meets......like CHRR XIII where (with original-driver "California Carl" Olsen behind the wheel) he competes in the "Cacklefest-ivities."A popular entry at the CHRR events is Radoumis & Moore "Energizer" chop-topped and blown Chevrolet big-block-powered '41 Willys pickup, which is about the closest thing you can come to a street-legal AA/Gasser!Californian Bob Brkich owns this awesome red JM Designs-constructed LT1-Chevrolet-powered '56 Ford F-100 Custom Cab. Bob's from Monrovia, and it's one of the nicest vintage Effies we've seen.
This early-'60s Chevrolet Apache pickup gets ready to push-start this vintage Chrysler-powered and injected A/Dragster. Hey, even the crew looks "vintage!"This is one our perennial favorites, a '32 lowboy pickup that's owned by a Kern County local named "Tag." Yup, that's it, just TAG!And if you liked vintage first-year custom Rancheros ('57), this red and silver beauty was right up your alley.


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Taylor Swift is still riding the success of singles "Red" and "Everything Has Changed," but that hasn't stopped her thoughts from drifting toward her next album and the songwriting process.
"The floodgates just opened the last couple weeks," she tells Rolling Stone. "I'm getting to that point where I'm irritating to be around because I'll be with you for half the conversation and then the second half of the conversation I'm clearly editing the second verse of whatever I'm writing in my head."
The album will be Swift's fifth, and one she promises will be totally new.
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Gemcitabine Hydrochloride and Oxaliplatin or Observation in Treating Patients With Biliary Tract Cancer That Has Been Removed by Surgery
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RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as gemcitabine hydrochloride and oxaliplatin, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Observation is watching a patient's condition but not giving treatment until symptoms appear. It is not yet known whether giving gemcitabine hydrochloride together with oxaliplatin is more effective than observation in treating patients with biliary tract cancer that has been removed by surgery.
PURPOSE: This randomized phase III trial is studying giving gemcitabine hydrochloride together with oxaliplatin to see how well it works compared with observation in treating patients with biliary tract cancer that has been removed by surgery.
Extrahepatic Bile Duct Cancer
Gallbladder Cancer
Liver Cancer
Drug: gemcitabine hydrochloride
Drug: oxaliplatin
Other: clinical observation
Procedure: adjuvant therapy
Procedure: quality-of-life assessment
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|Phase III Multicenter Randomized Study Comparing the Effect of Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Six Months With Gemcitabine-Oxaliplatin 85 mg/m2 (GEMOX 85) to Observation in Patients Who Underwent Surgery for Cancer of the Bile Ducts
- Disease-free survival [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Quality of life [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Overall survival [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Toxicity of adjuvant chemotherapy [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
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|July 2016 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
- Compare disease-free survival (DFS) of patients with resected biliary tract cancer treated with adjuvant gemcitabine hydrochloride and oxaliplatin versus clinical observation.
- Compare quality of life of these patients.
- Compare overall survival of these patients.
- Determine the toxicity of the chemotherapy in these patients.
- Explore prognostic factors for DFS including resection result (R0 vs R1), location of primary tumor (intrahepatic vs extrahepatic vs gallbladder), evolution of CA19-9, and lymph node involvement (N0 vs N+ and Nx). (Exploratory)
- Study pathological factors in surgical specimens to identify main characteristics and phenotypic clinicoanatomical biliary tract cancers before therapy. (Exploratory)
- Identify nontumor-associated liver injury and factors that may facilitate the emergence of biliary tract cancers. (Exploratory)
- Identify signaling pathways that may predict response to therapy. (Exploratory)
- Determine the molecular characteristics to differentiate tumors according to their position in the biliary tract (extrahepatic bile duct, intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma site [hilar], and peripheral cholangiocarcinoma vesicle site). (Exploratory)
OUTLINE: This is a multicenter study. Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 treatment arms.
- Arm I: Patients receive gemcitabine hydrochloride IV over 100 minutes on day 1 and oxaliplatin IV over 2 hours on day 2. Treatment repeats every 14 days for 12 courses.
- Arm II: Patients undergo clinical observation only every 4 weeks for 5 months. Quality of life is assessed at baseline, at 3 and 6 months, and then at all follow-up visits.
After completion of study therapy, patients are followed up at 6 months, every 3 months for 2 years, and then every 6 months for 3 years.
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Histologically proven adenocarcinoma of the intrahepatic bile ducts, gallbladder, or extrahepatic bile ducts
- Mixed forms of hepatocholangiocarcinomas included provided the cholangiocarcinoma is predominant
- Underwent surgical resection of the disease (R0 or R1) at least 4 weeks but no more than 13 weeks ago
- Nonmetastatic disease as assessed by abdominal MRI and chest x-ray
- No cancer of the pancreas or duodenum invading the bile duct and ampulla of Vater
- ECOG performance status 0-2
- Hemoglobin ≥ 10 g/dL (transfusion allowed)
- ANC ≥ 1,500/mm³
- Platelet count ≥ 75,000/mm³
- Creatinine clearance > 40 mL/min
- Prothrombin time > 60% OR INR < 1.5 (without anticoagulant therapy)
- Transaminases ≤ 5 times upper limit of normal (ULN)
- Alkaline phosphatase ≤ 2.5 times ULN
- Conjugated bilirubin ≤ 35 μmol/L (after biliary drainage, if necessary)
- Not pregnant or nursing
- Negative pregnancy test
- Fertile patients must use effective contraception
- No contraindications to oxaliplatin and gemcitabine hydrochloride therapy
- Prior invasive cancer allowed provided it has been in complete remission for ≥ 5 years
- No other concurrent invasive cancer except adequately treated carcinoma in situ of the cervix or basal cell carcinoma
- No other severe, unresolved disease
- No mental illness
- No HIV positivity
- No grade 1 angina or symptomatic angina ≥ grade 2
- No sensitive peripheral neuropathy
- No uncontrolled diabetes
- No inability to undergo medical tests due to geographical, social, or psychological reasons
- No prisoners or patients under guardianship
- No Child B or C cirrhosis
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- No prior neoadjuvant chemotherapy or radiotherapy
- No prior organ transplantation
- No concurrent participation in another clinical trial of an experimental agent
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01313377
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Keywords provided by National Cancer Institute (NCI):
adenocarcinoma of the extrahepatic bile duct
cholangiocarcinoma of the extrahepatic bile duct
liver and intrahepatic biliary tract cancer
localized extrahepatic bile duct cancer
adenocarcinoma of the gallbladder
cholangiocarcinoma of the gallbladder
localized gallbladder cancer
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Gallbladder Neoplasms
Bile Duct Neoplasms
Bile Duct Diseases
Biliary Tract Diseases
Biliary Tract Neoplasms
Digestive System Diseases
Digestive System Neoplasms
Gallbladder Diseases
Neoplasms by Site
Anti-Infective Agents
Antimetabolites, Antineoplastic
Antineoplastic Agents
Antiviral Agents
Enzyme Inhibitors
Immunologic Factors
Immunosuppressive Agents
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Physiological Effects of Drugs
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on May 26, 2016


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Fernet Graduates from The Shot Glass
San Franciscans are the most avid drinkers of Fernet-Branca outside of Italy (where it's made) and Argentina (where it's the unofficial national drink). A bitter digestivo that includes myrrh, rhubarb, chamomile and saffron among its many herbacious and aromatic ingredients, Fernet has forever been the not-so-secret handshake for local bartenders.
First brought to the West Coast by Italian immigrants, Fernet-Branca actually survived the Prohibition Era by billing itself as a "medicinal elixir." Now old Italian grandfathers do it. Hipsters do it. Even my Earth mother, holistic pharmacist at Pharmaca—the very picture of clear-skinned health—tells me it's the only thing she drinks. Jason King, owner of The Broken Record puts it simply: "It's an industry drink, and people look to bartenders for cues on what to drink. It started getting so popular three years ago that I couldn't stock it fast enough." Recently Fernet on-tap and Fernet desserts have become a thing. It seems like our love knows no bounds.


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CBS News poll on evolution
Following on the heels of Gallup's latest poll, CBS News recently conducted a poll of public opinion about evolution, creationism, and science education.
Langdon Gilkey dies
The eminent Protestant theologian Langdon Gilkey died on November 19, 2004, at the age of 85, in Charlottesville, Virginia. Born in Chicago in 1919, where his father was a liberal Baptist minister, Gilkey studied at Harvard University before traveling to China to teach English. He was captured and interned by the Japanese until the end of World War II, which he described in his memoir Shantung Compound (1966). After his release, he moved to New York and studied theology with Reinhold Niebuhr, graduating with a doctorate in religion from Columbia University.
Public view of creationism and evolution unchanged, says Gallup
A recent article from the Gallup News Service reports on the pollster's latest results concerning public opinion on the evidence for evolution, creationism, and biblical literalism. Because Gallup's polls on public opinion on creationism extend back to 1982, its data are particularly useful. The results are overall consistent with previous polls conducted by Gallup.
Cobb County Disclaimer Goes to Trial
Cobb County, Georgia, has been the site of controversy over creationism and evolution off and on for decades. On November 8, 2004, a lawsuit began in the most recent chapter of this district's dissatisfaction with the teaching of evolution.
Creationism in Grantsburg
A small Wisconsin town about sixty miles northeast of Minneapolis is the latest hot-spot in the evolution/creationism controversy. On June 28, 2004, the Grantsburg school board unanimously passed a motion "... to direct our science department to teach all theories of origins." Over the summer, local parents and concerned citizens raised questions about the meaning and purpose of the motion.
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Adio leads YMCA 65-47 at half in game 1. Babb playing well, shooting and dishing. He definitely looks bigger to me. Naz Long is gonna be fun to watch. Clyburn, Law, and Fowler playing well too.
Thx for the update - keep them coming!
Ken, are you gonna do videos?
*Rest in peace corn dog chick and #Hoiball
Probably no video tonight. Clyburn tried his damnedest to orchestrate a comeback for YMCA, but audio wins game 1 105-95 in an entertaining game.
Game 2 is Coke vs. Peak Performance. Booker is a man among boys on the court. SDW is struggling shooting early in the first. He'll need some time in the weight room this summer. He looks to be a good ball handler. Bubu's had a tough basket or 2 and Luscious' passing is sick!
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Game 2 is Coke vs. Peak Performance. Booker is a man among boys on the court. SDW is struggling shooting early in the first. He'll need some time in the weight room this summer. He looks to be a good ball handler. Bubu's had a tough basket or 2 and Luscious' passing is sick!
Is Booker wearing the cutoff sweats he wore the other night?
Is Luscious shooting? Just curious, since he was shooting a ton the other night.
Thanks for your free service on this tonight!!
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Booker's wearing Air Jordan shorts. Luscious is scoring but not taking a lot of 3s yet. This game is very low scoring, and not due to great defense. At the half, it's 28-26 Coke. Announcer said all-time lowest scoring half in CCL history.
Luscious raining 3s now.
Sorry fellas.....moving into our house today...couldn't make it to do videos....should be at the next ones.
Game 2 goes to Peak Performance, who scored 69 2nd half Pts to take it 95-82. SDW did some nice things in the half for Coke, hitting a couple nice shots and completing a nice lob dunk. Can't wait to see Niang in game 3!
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Has anyone been tweeting the CCL games? If so, are people using a paricular hashtag? If not, we should decide on a standard CCL hashtag.
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A man arrested a little more than a week ago on six counts of sexual battery was charged Friday with 77 counts of promoting sexual performance and 77 counts of possession of child pornography.
While investigating the arrest on June 20 of Jonathan Denver Mills, the alleged 14-year-old victim disclosed to Detective Ollue Myers that Mills had taken pictures of her naked. A search warrant was obtained and several items were removed from Mills' home, including a cellphone.
Officials said they viewed images on the phone and found numerous photographs of the nude girl.
Myers went to the Marion County Jail on Friday and Mills, 36, admitted taking the pictures and said the cellphone belonged to him. He was then rearrested on the new charges.
Mills was previously charged with six counts of sexual battery on the 14-year-old on June 20 after she claimed he had sex with her. She also said he had molested her.
In an interview at the Marion County Jail, Mills denied having sexual contact with the juvenile and said the only reason why she said that was to get him in trouble because he told her she can only have one boyfriend and she wanted to have multiple partners.
Mills said he did touch her private area because she was hurting after having sex with a boy. Mills said he shouldn't have done it, but he wanted to see where she was hurting.
As for taking her pictures, Mills admitted to taking the photographs with his cellphone because, as he put it, teenagers are going to do what they want to behind your back, so he decided to do it so she wouldn't sneak around.
Mills said the pictures were for her boyfriend and she desperately wanted to take naked pictures of herself to send to him.
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City Council may vote today on the controversial plan to lease the city's parking assets to fund economic development and temporarily balance the deficit. On Friday, Councilman Chris Seelbach put forward Plan S, which would redirect $7.5 million in casino revenues, cut $5 million based on the results of the city's priority-driven budgeting and allow voters to choose between a $10-per-month trash fee or increase the city's admissions tax by 2 percent. Previously, City Manager Milton Dohoney unveiled Plan B to the parking plan, which would lay off 344 employees, eliminate Human Services Funding and close pools and recreation centers, among other changes. In response, mayoral candidate John Cranley proposed his own plan, which would use casino revenue, parking meter revenue and cuts to "non-essential programs" to tame the deficit. Plan B, Plan S and Cranley's plan all fix the structural deficit in the city's budget, while the parking plan only fixes the deficit for two years. The parking plan was unanimously approved by the Cincinnati Planning Commission Friday, and it appears five council members are ready to give the plan the go-ahead.
Members of Gov. John Kasich's own party are beginning to show skepticism toward the governor's budget proposal, which would expand the sales tax to apply to more services, increase the oil and gas severance tax and make more Ohioans eligible for Medicaid — mostly at the cost of the federal government. Republicans are likely to propose alternatives before a mid-April vote. In a Quinnipiac University poll, a majority of Ohioans approved of the Medicaid expansion but not Kasich's tax plan. CityBeat covered Kasich's budget plan in detail here.
Police are taking measures to prevent traffic problems at the Horseshoe Casino's grand opening tonight. Meanwhile, Indiana casinos are preparing for downturns as the Horseshoe Casino promises a major alternative to tri-state gamblers. During the soft opening last week, Ohio's casino regulator found the Horseshoe Casino would have to fix its security and surveillance before the grand opening. Previous studies found casinos bring job growth at the cost of crime, bankruptcy and even suicide, and a Dayton Daily News report also found the state's casinos are falling short of job projections.
On Friday, the sequester, a series of across-the-board federal budget cuts, kicked in, and it could mean big funding reductions for Ohio's schools. The blunt cuts are largely because Republicans refuse to negotiate with President Barack Obama and Democrats — to the point that Republicans don't even know what the president is proposing.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Ohio is asking the state's Department of Education to expand its seclusion room rules to apply to charter schools. Previous reports found seclusion rooms, which were originally intended to hold out-of-control kids until they calm down, have been largely used for convenience by educators, leading to stricter policies from the Ohio Department of Education. But the regulations currently apply only to traditional public schools, not charter schools.
Reminder: On top of putting everyone around you in danger, texting while driving will now result in a fine up to $150.
The Cincinnati Zoo has confirmed it has terrible taste in names with its choice for the new four-week-old gorilla: Gladys Stones. Still, the zoo does have that whole environmentally friendly thing going on. Maybe the pros outweigh the cons.
U.S. researchers are claiming they have "functionally cured" an HIV-infected infant after extensive treatments left the virus's presence in blood at such low levels that it can no longer be detected by standard clinical tests.
Scientists are ostracizing what Popular Science calls the "world's sexiest octopus."
If you can watch BigDog, the four-legged robot, toss cinder blocks with ease and not fear the robot apocalypse, you're not prepared.
If City Council does not agree to lease Cincinnati's parking system, the city manager's office says the city will be forced to lay off 344 employees, including 80 firefighter and 189 police positions, but critics argue there are better alternatives.
In a memo dated to Feb. 26, City Manager Milton Dohoney Jr. wrote that the city will also have to close three community centers and six pools; eliminate Human Services Funding, which aids the city's homeless and poor; and reduce funding for local business groups, parks, nature education for Cincinnati Public Schools and environmental regulations, among other changes. In total, the cuts would add up to $25.8 million — just enough to balance the deficit that would be left in place without the parking plan.
In addition to the cuts, failing to approve the parking plan, which leases the city's parking meters for 30 years and lots and garages for 50 years to the Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority, would displace plans to convert Tower Place Mall, construct a 30-floor tower with a grocery store downtown, accelerate the the I-71/MLK Interchange project, acquire the Wasson Line right-of-way for a bike trail and add $4 million to the next phase of Smale Riverfront Park ("Parking Stimulus," issue of Feb. 27).
Democratic Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls, who's running for mayor, has come out in favor of the parking plan, but John Cranley, another Democrat running for mayor, says he opposes the deal because it will hurt downtown businesses.
"It's the boy who cried wolf," Cranley says. "In 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 … they threatened to lay off police and firefighters, and it never happened."
Cranley says he would rather take $10 million from projected casino revenue and $7 million from current parking revenues to help clear the deficit. For the remaining $8.8 million, he would cut non-essential programs, which would exclude police, fire, garbage collection, health, parks and recreation, street pavement and Human Services Funding, across the board by 10 to 15 percent. If that wasn't enough, he would then move to the essential programs, which he says make up about $300 million in the $368.9 million budget, with a 1-percent across-the-board cut.
He says his solution would have the upside of fixing structural deficit problems in Cincinnati's General Fund, whereas the one-time lease of the city's parking assets will only take care of the deficit for the next two years.
Meg Olberding, city spokesperson, says City Council could use the casino revenue to pay for the deficit, but $4 million of it is already set for the Focus 52 program, which funds neighborhood development projects.
"Council can use whatever revenue sources they want," Olberding says. "That's why the memo … says we can either use this plan or another plan."
Cranley says he would not do away with the Focus 52 program, but he would instead find funding for it in the Capital Budget, which is separate from the General Fund.
Olberding says City Council could approve the use of about $3 million in parking meter revenue for the General Fund, but the rest of the parking money, which comes from lots and garages, is tied to an enterprise fund, which, by state law, means the city would have to sell its parking lots and garages before it could obtain money for the General Fund.
Cranley, who also opposes the streetcar project ("Back on the Ballot," issue of Jan. 23), says it
would be possible to pay for the I-71/MLK Interchange and other projects
if the streetcar wasn't taking up funds. If it was up to him, he says
he would remove streetcar funding and use it on other development
projects "without batting an eye."
In the Feb. 27 City Council meeting, Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls said the Budget and Finance Committee will likely vote on the city manager's parking plan on March 4 or March 11.
Following CityBeat's blog post yesterday, the city released the official documents for the city manager's parking plan. So far, no one has reported anything outrageous or unexpected. If you see anything, feel free to email email@example.com.
Of the two dozen people who spoke at a public hearing for the parking plan yesterday, all but two opposed the plan. Much of the opposition came from people who said they were worried parking will be expensive, but the city manager's office says it will take three years for parking rates to go up in Downtown and six years for rates to go up in neighborhoods after an initial hike to 75 cents. CityBeat covered the parking plan in detail here.
Cincinnati officials are now saying that a freestanding restroom could cost as low as $35,000. Officials say the public restroom is needed to accommodate growing activity and population in Over-the-Rhine and Downtown. Some critics were initially worried that the facility would cost $100,000.
Cincinnati's Horseshoe Casino will partner up with the Cincinnati Police Department to keep out cheats and prevent theft. The casino will also have advanced surveillance equipment, allowing them to detect anyone around the casino before they even get into the building. It may seem like a lot, but casinos do tend to attract cheaters and other troublemakers, according to Ohio Casino Control Commission Director of Enforcement Karen Huey. The Horseshoe Casino is set to open March 4.
A report from the Governors Highway Safety Association found more teen drivers died in crashes this year than the last two, and some officials fear wireless devices may be a leading cause. In Ohio, the six-month grace period for the teen wireless ban expires Friday, which will allow police officers to issue tickets instead of warnings to teenagers using any wireless devices while driving.
Gov. John Kasich's budget proposal would cut back a state-funded college internship program, which awarded $11 million to universities around the state.
Ohio Democrats are asking Kasich to put his Ohio Turnpike funding promises in writing after they found out the governor's budget proposal doesn't actually say that 90 percent of leveraged funds will remain in northern Ohio, which Kasich originally promised.
Barry Horstman, investigative reporter at The Cincinnati Enquirer, collapsed and died in the newsroom yesterday. CityBeat offers its condolences to Horstman's co-workers, family and friends.
The University of Cincinnati got a $2.3 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to train cancer researchers. "Our emphasis is on training the next generation of cancer researchers to translate basic science discoveries into improved patient care," Susan Waltz, co-principal investigator of the grant and professor of cancer biology at the UC College of Medicine, said in a statement.
A homemade jetpack can reach altitudes up to 25,000 feet, but it might have some trouble landing.
City Hall will host public hearings about the city manager's parking and economic development plan today, but the hearings will take place before the public knows all the official details. Meg Olberding, city spokesperson, says the legal documents and contracts for the deal aren't ready to be released yet, but they will be ready before City Council holds a vote.
"We're still finalizing the documents," Olberding says. "These are long, complicated documents, so we want to make sure they're done right, and we'll put them online as soon as they're available."
When the documents are released, they will include Cincinnati's deal with the Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority, but they will not divulge specifics on the Port Authority's contracts with AEW, Xerox, Denison and Guggenheim — the four private companies partnering with the Port Authority to manage city's parking assets.
Without the full details, mayoral candidate John Cranley, who opposes the parking plan, says he's concerned the public is going into the deal blind: "Why are they having public hearings before giving the contract to the public and giving us the exact details? What they do is sit back and selectively give information."
The lack of details has already led to some surprises since the parking proposal was announced to the public. On Feb. 21, Olberding told CityBeat the city will be able to bypass the so-called cap on parking meter rate increases through unanimous vote from a five-person advisory committee, approval from the city manager and a final nod from the Port Authority. The process, which begins with an advisory committee that will include four members appointed by the Port Authority and one selected by the city manager, will allow the city to raise and lower the cap in case of changing economic needs, says Olberding.
Under the initial plan, parking meter rates will be set to increase annually by 3 percent or the rate of inflation on a compounded basis, with any increases coming in 25-cents-an-hour increments. That should translate to 25-cent increases every three years for Downtown and every six years for neighborhoods, says Olberding.
City Manager Milton Dohoney Jr. unveiled his parking proposal on Feb. 19, promising $92 million upfront and an additional $3 million a year to pay off the city's budget deficits for 2014 and 2015, build a 30-story high-rise Downtown with a grocery store and 300 luxury apartments, renovate Tower Place Mall and complete the I-71/MLK Interchange project ("City Manager Proposes Parking, Economic Development Plan," issue of Feb. 20).
The White House released a list of what cuts will be made in Ohio as part of mandatory spending cuts set to kick in March 1, which are widely known as the sequester. Among other changes, 26,000 civilian defense employees would be furloughed, 350 teacher and aide jobs would be put at risk due to $25.1 million in education cuts and $6.9 million for clean air and water enforcement would be taken away. President Barack Obama and Democrats have pushed to replace the sequester with a plan that contains tax changes and budget cuts, but they've failed to reach a compromise with Republicans, who insist on a plan that only includes spending cuts.
Community Council President David White told WVXU that the streets and sidewalks of the long-neglected neighborhood of Pendleton were previously crumbling, but the Horseshoe Casino's development has helped transform the area. With Tax Increment Financing (TIF) funds, the city has budgeted $6 million in neighborhood development that has led to new trees, expanded sidewalks and the potential for further developments that will appeal to new businesses.
A surprise inspection of the private prison owned by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) on Feb. 22 revealed higher levels of violence, inadequate staff, high presence of gang activity, illegal substance use, frequent extortion and theft, according to the report from the Correctional Institution Inspection Committee (CIIC), Ohio's nonpartisan prison watchdog. The CIIC report found enormous increases in violence, with a 187.5-percent increase in inmate-on-inmate violence and 305.9-percent in inmate-on-staff violence between 2010 and 2012. Many of the problems are being brought on by inadequate staff, according to the report. The findings echo much of what privatization critics have been warning about ever since Gov. John Kasich announced his plans to privatize the state prison in 2011, which CityBeat covered in-depth here.
Kasich has highlighted funding increases in the education plan in his 2014-2015 budget proposal, but the plan also includes looser requirements for Ohio's schools. The plan will remove the teacher salary schedule from law, which sets a minimum for automatic teacher pay increases for years of service and educational accomplishments, such as obtaining a master's degree. It would also change the minimum school year from 182 days to 920 hours for elementary students and 1,050 for high school students, giving more flexibility to schools. CityBeat took an in-depth look at the governor's budget and some of its education changes here.
Ohio Democrats want to change how the state picks its watchdog. The governor currently appoints someone to the inspector general position, but Democrats argue a bipartisan panel should be in charge of making the pick.
Mayor Mark Mallory is in Spain to meet with CAF, the company constructing the cars for Cincinnati's streetcar project. Streetcar opponents, including mayoral candidate John Cranley, say the cars are being built too early, but the city says it needs the time to build the cars, test them, burn the tracks and train staff in the cars' use. CityBeat covered the streetcar and how it relates to the 2013 mayoral race here.
The amount of Ohio prisoners returning to prison after being released hit a new low of 28.7 percent in 2009. The numbers, which are calculated over a three-year period, indicate an optimistic trend for the state's recidivism statistics even before Gov. John Kasich's sentencing reform laws were signed into law.
Cincinnati's real estate brokers say the city manager's parking plan will revitalize Downtown's retail scene by using funds from semi-privatizing Cincinnati's parking assets to renovate Tower Place Mall and build a 30-story apartment tower with a parking garage and grocery store.
The University of Cincinnati was the second-best fundraiser in the state in the past year. On Feb. 20, UC announced it had met its $1 billion goal for its Proudly Cincinnati campaign.
On Saturday, Bradley Manning, the American citizen accused of leaking a massive stash of diplomatic cables and military reports to WikiLeaks, went through his 1,000th day in U.S. custody without a trial.
Popular Science has seven ways sitting is going to kill us all.
A surprise inspection of the private prison owned by Corrections Corporation of
America (CCA) on Feb. 22 revealed higher levels of violence, inadequate staff, high
presence of gang activity, illegal substance use, frequent extortion
and theft, according to the report from the Correctional Institution
Inspection Committee (CIIC), Ohio's nonpartisan prison watchdog.
The CIIC
report found the Lake Erie Correctional Institution had a 187.5-percent
increase in inmate-on-inmate violence between 2010 and 2012, leading to a rate of inmate-on-inmate violence much higher than comparative prisons and slightly
below the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC)
average for all state prisons. Rates of inmate-on-staff violence increased by 305.9-percent between
2010 and 2012 and were much higher than comparative prisons and the ODRC
average, according to the report.
and security were major areas of concern, with the report noting
"personal safety is at risk." Fight convictions were up 40 percent, but
they weren't any higher than comparative prisons or the ODRC average,
the report found. Disturbances, use of force, access to illegal
substances, shakedowns and bunk searches were all in need of
improvement, but rounds were acceptable.
staff handle the use of force and sanctions were particularly
problematic, the report said: "Incident reports indicate that staff
hesitate to use force even when appropriate and at times fail to deploy
chemical agents prior to physical force, risking greater injury to both
inmates and staff. Staff also do not appropriately sanction inmates for
serious misconduct. At the time of the inspection, the facility had no
options for sanctions other than the segregation unit, which was full."
treatment, fiscal accountability and rehabilitation and reentry
were all found by the report to be in need of improvement, with
many of the problems focusing on inadequate staff — a common concern
critics repeatedly voiced after Gov. John Kasich announced his plan to
sell the state prison to CCA in 2011. "The above issues are compounded
by high staff turnover and low morale," the report said. "New staff
generally do not have the experience or training to be able to make
quick judgments regarding the appropriate application of force or how to
handle inmate confrontations. Staff also reported that they are often
required to work an extra 12 hours per week, which may impact their
troubling findings left CIIC with dozens of recommendations for
the private prison, including a thorough review of staff policy and
guidelines, stronger cooperation between staff, holding staff and
inmates more accountable and the completion of required state audits and
only positive findings were in health and well-being. The
report said unit conditions, mental health services and food services
were all good, while medical services and recreation were acceptable.
The report echoes many of the concerns raised by private prison critics, which CityBeat previously covered ("Liberty for Sale," issue of Sept. 19). A
September audit from ODRC also found the prison was only meeting two-thirds of the
state's standards, and reports from locals near the prison in January warned about a
rise in smuggling.
In a presentation to City Council Feb. 19, City Manager Milton Dohoney Jr. unveiled an unexpected parking proposal that will solve a $25.8 million budget deficit for the 2014 fiscal year and avoid full privatization. The 30-year plan will also put more than $100 million toward economic development in the city.
The plan involves teaming up with the Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority and some private operators to manage and modernize Cincinnati's parking assets. Dohoney called it a "public-public partnership" that will allow Cincinnati to keep control over rates, operation hours and the placement of meters.
The money raised by the plan will be used for multiple development projects around the city, including the I-71/MLK Interchange, Tower Place Mall and a high-rise that will house a downtown grocery store.
The new parking plan will cap rate increases at 3 percent or the cost of living, with any increases coming in 25-cent increments. Private operators will not be allowed to change operation hours, but hours will be initially expanded to 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. downtown and 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. in neighborhoods.
The proposal will not immediately increase downtown's $2-an-hour rates, but it will increase all neighborhood parking meters to 75 cents an hour. Afterward, the rate cap will make it so downtown rates can only be increased every four years and neighborhood rates can only be increased every 10 to 11 years.
But the rate hikes will only come after technological improvements are made to parking meters. The new meters will allow users to pay with a smartphone, which will enable remote payment without walking back to the meter. After the plan's 30 years are up, parking assets will be returned to the city with all the new technological upgrades, according to Dohoney.
Some critics were originally concerned that private operators will aggressively enforce parking rules to run bigger profits, but Dohoney said enforcement standards will remain the same.
Enforcement will be done through booting instead of towing, according to the plan. Booting will only be used after the accumulation of three unpaid parking tickets, which is similar to how towing works today. The boots will be automatically removed once the tickets are paid, which will be possible to do remotely through a smartphone.
The plan, which is a tax-exempt bond deal, will provide the city with $92 million upfront cash and $3 million in annual installments after that, although the city manager said the yearly payments will increase over time. The city originally promised $7 million a year from the deal, but Dohoney said estimates had to be brought down as more standards and limitations were attached to address expressed concerns.
The money will first be used to pay for a $25.8 million deficit in the 2014 fiscal year. Another $6.3 million will be set aside for the working cap reserve and $20.9 million will be put in a reserve to pay for a projected deficit in the 2015 fiscal year.
The rest of the funds will be used for economic development. About $20 million will go to the I-71/MLK Interchange, which would match $40 million from the state. The project is estimated to create $750 million in economic impact, with $460 million of that impact in Hamilton County. Dohoney says the economic impact will create 5,900 to 7,300 permanent jobs, and ultimately bring in $33 million in earnings taxes, which means the plan will eventually pay for itself. He also says the funding from the parking deal will allow the city and state to complete the project within two to three years, instead of the seven to 10 years it would take if the city waited for support from the federal government.
If the state does not agree to take up the I-71/MLK Interchange project, Dohoney promised a "mega job deal" that will create 2,500 jobs.
With $12 million for development and $82 million in leveraged funds, the city will also take on massive development projects downtown. Tower Place Mall will undergo a massive conversion. The city will also tear down Pogue's Garage at Fourth and Race streets and replace it with a 30-floor high-rise that will include 300 luxury apartments, 1,000 parking spaces and a grocery store.
The plan will also use $3 million for the Wasson Line right-of-way and $4 million for the next phase of Smale Riverfront Park, which should be completed in time for the 2015 Major League Baseball All-Star Game.
AEW, Xerox, Denison and Guggenheim will partner with the city and Port Authority for the plan. AEW will manage assets, Xerox will handle parking operations and on-street spaces, Denison will operate off-street spaces and manage facilities and equipment and Guggenheim will act as underwriter and capital provider.
After the City Council hearing, Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld released a statement that raised concerns about expanded meter operation hours, which Sittenfeld fears could burden certain neighborhoods. He also pointed out the plan will not fix Cincinnati's long-term structural deficit problems. Still, he said the local Port Authority's management could make the plan "worthy of support."
Sittenfeld has been skeptical of the parking plan since it was first announced in October. In the past, he warned privatization could cause parking rates to skyrocket. ©
Council Member P.G. Sittenfeld is circulating a small business petition to stop Cincinnati from privatizing parking services. Sittenfeld threw his support behind the petition in a statement: "Individual citizens have made clear that they are overwhelmingly against outsourcing our parking system. Now we're going to show that small businesses feel the same way. I hope that when council sees that the small businesses that are the engine of our city are strongly against outsourcing our parking, we can then nix the proposal immediately." The petition asks city officials "to find a smart, resourceful, sustainable alternative to address the budget situation." City Manager Milton Dohoney says parking privatization is necessary to avoid laying off 344 city workers.
Gov. John Kasich's expanded sales tax is going to hurt a lot of people. The tax is being expanded to apply to many items included in households' monthly budgets, such as cable television, laundry services and haircuts. The revenue from the sales tax expansion will be used to cut the state income tax by 20 percent across the board, lower the sales tax from 5.5 percent to 5 percent and slightly boost county coffers.
City Council and local residents are not impressed with the USquare development. At a City Council meeting Tuesday, Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls described the development: "I have to say that it is underwhelming. And that's about the kindest thing I can say about it. And also really repeats, on many different levels, virtually all of the mistakes that have ever been made in the city and in neighborhoods when it comes to creating public spaces." But architect Graham Kalbli said he's excited about the plan: "Because we've taken a vacant strip of land and really made kind of a living room for the Clifton Heights community. We wanted to do that, that was one of our overriding goals."
The Hamilton County Board of Elections is subpoenaing 19 voters who are suspected of voting twice in the November election. Most of the voters being investigated filed provisional ballots then showed up to vote on Election Day.
David Mann is officially running for City Council. The Democrat has served as a council member, mayor and congressman in the past.
Traffic congestion isn't just bad for drivers; it's also bad for the environment and economy. The Annual Urban Mobility Report from the Texas A&M Transportation Institute found traffic congestion cost Cincinnati $947 million in 2011 and produced an an extra 56 billion pounds of carbon dioxide nationwide.
Leslie Ghiz is taking the judge's seat a little early. The former city council member was elected to the Hamilton County Common Pleas Court in November, but she was appointed to the seat early by Gov. John Kasich to replace Dennis Helmick, who retired at the end of 2012.
The magic of capitalism: Delta is already matching a low-cost carrier's fares to Denver at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport.
The U.S. Postal Service is ending Saturday mail delivery starting Aug. 1. The Postal Service has been dealing with financial problems ever since a 2006 mandate from U.S. Congress forced the mail delivery agency to pre-fund health care benefits for future retirees. Riddled with gridlock, Congress has done nothing to help since the mandate was put in place. This will be the first time the Postal Service doesn't deliver mail on Saturdays since 1863.
It's unlikely zombies could be cured by love, but it's possible they could be cured by science.
The next Michael Jordan has been discovered:
There's even more bad news coming from Ohio's newly privatized prison. Violence last week forced Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) to call in the state's special response team, according to Plunderbund. Two teams from the Ohio Department of Correction and Rehabilitation were dispatched. Gov. John Kasich pushed prison privatization in his 2012-2013 budget to save costs. CityBeat covered private prisons and the shady connections CCA had to the current state government prior to the sale here.
There might be a court case disputing JobsOhio's constitutionality, but that hasn't stopped the state government from moving forward with implementing the private, nonprofit agency. On Friday, the state announced it transferred $500 million in state liquor funds to JobsOhio. The Ohio Supreme Court recently agreed to take up a case from ProgressOhio disputing whether state funds can be used for the private agency. Kasich established the agency in an effort to encourage job growth in Ohio.
Kasich will reveal the blueprint for his 2014-2015 budget plan later today. According to Gongwer, his proposed budget will cut personal income taxes across the board
and offset the cuts by closing loopholes and broadening the sales tax
base. The governor has long been eying an income
tax cut. He previously suggested raising the oil and gas severance tax
to help pay for a tax cut, but the plan faces bipartisan opposition.
In the 2013 mayoral race, John Cranley is currently outraising
Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls, but both Democrats are fairly close. Qualls has raised $134,188, while Cranley
has raised $170,877. Most of the race has focused on the streetcar so far, with Qualls supporting and Cranley against the twice-voter-approved transit project.
The city of Cincinnati and Duke Energy have reached a limited agreement to meet in court to settle who has to pay for moving utility lines to accommodate for the streetcar's tracks. As part of the agreement, Duke will begin moving lines in the next few weeks, even while the city and Duke wait for courts to decide who will pay for moving the lines. Mayor Mark Mallory also announced the city will try to finish the streetcar project in time for the 2015 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, but he added there are no guarantees. For more on the streetcar and how it relates to the 2013 mayoral race, check out CityBeat's cover story.
Libertarian Jim Berns recently forced a mayoral primary by entering the race.
Community leaders around Greater Cincinnati are mapping out veteran services programs.
Ohio is expanding its foreclosure prevention program. The maximum benefit possible has increased from $25,000 to $35,000, and the highest annual household income allowed to participate in the program is now $112,375.
The Ohio Board of Regents finished moving to the Ohio Board of Education building.
Looks like Ohio First Lady Karen Kasich's Twitter account was hacked.
Smokers will pay higher prices under Obamacare.
Physicists have created crystals that are nearly alive.


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Peace talks raise pressure on South Sudan warring factions
Newscast Media ADDIS ABABA—South Sudan's warring factions resumed face-to-face
peace talks on April 30 — the third such effort this year. The resumption of
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leaders in Addis Ababa, where they agreed on the need for a legitimate force to
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