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OTTUMWA – It has been a long time but Don Ferguson still remembers. The 1950 Iowa State graduate played four years (1946-49) on the Cyclone football and basketball teams after graduating from Ottumwa High School. Ferguson was among a crowd of more than 200 fans who gathered to hear men's basketball coach Greg McDermott, women's basketball coach Bill Fennelly and ISU athletics director Jamie Pollard speak at the Bridge View Center.
Ferguson entered Iowa State in 1946 as thousands of G.I.s returned from active service to attend colleges across the country. It was Ray Donels, a former ISU head coach and athletics department lifer who helped Ferguson get into the Navy ROTC program when they first came to Ames. Eventually, Ferguson would pay the Navy back with 27 months of service during the Korean War.
"ROTC was very helpful because in those days, we would get $100 a week in the ROTC program," Ferguson said.
In football, Ferguson played his first Iowa State season under head coach Mike Michalske. Michalske was an NFL Hall of Famer who was tough enough to play part of his career in Green Bay with a broken back.
"He was easy to talk to," Ferguson said. "He had a tough exterior but was a good person and a real competitor."
Abe Stuber took over head coaching duties at Iowa State in 1947.
"Abe was a quiet scholarly-type, very smart," Ferguson said. "He was extremely intelligent and coached football that way."
World War II had precipitated the NCAA to allow four years of eligibility for student athletes for a limited time. Because the rule was still in effect in 1946, Ferguson played four years for the Cyclones instead of three.
Ferguson remembers Louis Menze, Iowa State's legendary basketball coach from 1928 to 1947. Menze would then serve as ISU athletics director into the late 1950s.
"Louis was a grandfather to us, a really great person," Ferguson said.
The balance of Ferguson's basketball career was under coach Chick Sutherland, who coached the Cyclones from 1947-1954.
"Chick was a fine person who had been an assistant to Louis Menze," Ferguson said.
Ferguson lived in the west stadium portion of Clyde Williams Field while in school at ISU. Clyde Williams Field is gone, but with graduates like Ferguson, its memory lives on. The 1949 Iowa State football team, one of the better squads in school history, annually attends a Cyclone football game. The group will do it for the final time at the 2009 Iowa State Homecoming game Oct. 17 vs. Baylor at Jack Trice Stadium.
Pollard recognized Ferguson during the final Tailgate stop demonstrating that the legacy of Ferguson and his teammates will live on long into the future.


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Iran has done the unthinkable. It bought off an atheist leader with sex. As announced on his blog today, Al Stefanelli, Georgia State Director for American Atheists, and fellow blogger here at FtB (A Voice of Reason), is leaving us. Because the Iranian parliament negotiated a deal to supply him with 29 Persian hookers. They had originally offered 72 virgins, but in our private backchannel, when I asked him why it ended up 29 hookers, Al told me (and I'm not making this up):
I did the math and realized, in my state of health, I could only handle 29, tops. And I didn't want virgins. Yeah, the Iranian negotiators had a hard time understanding this, and I tried explaining to them. They thought for a while it must be a translation thing. But no, I wanted really sexually experienced women, not women who don't know what they're doing. And I didn't want sex slaves, either. I wanted women working a fair trade contract for services that they freely negotiated. I mean, I'm only abandoning my activism for atheism, not feminism. They couldn't understand why a man wouldn't want virgins. They kept going on about it. In the end, I think they thought they were getting a great deal by letting me take a bunch of dirty sinners off their hands. But they still insisted on keeping the "swollen breasts" thing in the contract. Yeah, that was part of their original offer. They were weirdly persistent about it.
Apparently, the Iranian parliament has concocted a plan to buy off all the atheist leaders they can by offering them paradise, or "Janah," as defined in the Koran. Supposedly the way would then be clear for Islam to convert the world. (Although when Al asked them how they planned to buy off women atheist leaders, they seemed confused by the idea.)
There were various parts to the deal they concluded with Al, including a garden, a bunch of ironwork, lifetime access to a free messenger service, a thousand bottles of non-alcoholic wine, free medical care, three fancy robes, some jewelry and perfume, a personal chef, a couch inlaid with gold and gems, a top-of-the-line refrigerator, a scented fountain, a packet of ginger root, a white horse and an albino camel, and a small tree. The key provision, though, was the offer of 72 virgins "with swollen breasts" (literally, it's in the contract; I couldn't believe it, so I had an Arabic specialist check it, after Al sent me a fax of the signed contract, because none of us here at FtB believed this was for real).
But the deal is done. Beginning May 1, Al has agreed to never represent or speak about atheism again. He will return to journalism, focusing on fluff pieces about lost kittens, and tending his garden. And, apparently, his 29 fair-labor sex workers.
How could this have happened? And who will be next? With such a tempting offer, and an unlimited secret slush fund (now held by the untouchable Nicaraguan drug cartels in alliance with the Iranian Secret Police, a fund established for Iran three decades ago by Oliver North at the behest of Ronald Reagan), we could be losing a lot of atheist heroes in the coming months. This may be a dark year for organized atheism.
Saddened, I looked into this, and discovered how this came about. It all started when one of the members of the Iranian parliament met a girl at a party. She told him she had abandoned Islam because "Al Stefanelli's blog" told her to, and that he had corrupted her with the dark teachings of Western philosophy, making her cling to such immoral things as walking quickly in public and wearing stockings. After a half an hour of being sick over the toilet at the news of this, the parliamentarian called an emergency meeting of something called (the translation from the Arabic is a bit rough) the Ronald Reagan Committee for Aiming the Stinger Missiles He Sold Us and Converting the World to the Beautiful Teachings of the Holy Prophet Peace Be Upon Him. They concocted the plan then and there. The rest is history.
I asked Al how his dear wife of 21 years could possibly have agreed to this, and he says she was actually kind of jazzed about the idea, since with 29 women to hang out with she'd have more fun and a lot less work to do. And she really wants to ride the albino camel. No, Al assured me that is not a euphemism for something. She has always loved camels, and albino ones are apparently the best. But he really only swung it by arranging an adjunct deal to hire Hugh Jackman as her paramour for three months each year for the next nineteen years so their gains would be equal, which Al worked out by trading Hugh five hundred bottles of the non-alcoholic wine. I thought that seemed inequitable, but I asked my wife about it, and she said, "29 buxom Persian hookers for 1 Hugh Jackman? Yep. That's about right."
Anyway, if you don't believe me, just read Al's own blog post today (I'm Outa Here, Bitches!), where he spells out the whole sordid deal.
He will be missed.

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Some 5,000 to 10,000 runners from 15 to 20 countries are expected to participate in the Jakarta Marathon this year that will take contestants over the 42 km course from Pluit in North Jakarta to Senayan in Central Jakarta. Athletes will compete for the Rp. 4 billion in total prizes.
Deputy Minister for Tourism and Creative Economy, Sapta Nirwandar said that the Jakarta Marathon will be an international scaled sporting event that had been carefully planned since some time. Adding that similar to other world class marathons, the Jakarta Marathon itself is intended to further expand sports tourism in Indonesia, and is expected to attract more international tourists to Indonesia.
On his side, Jakarta Governor, Joko Widodo enthusiastically welcomed the staging of the Marathon saying that "Jakarta warmly welcomes the very first Jakarta Marathon, projected to be an annual event for Jakarta and Indonesia. We hope that through this event, the number of international tourists to the city will increase each year. Governor Widodo plans to fully support the Jakarta Marathon with art and culture festivities from all over Indonesia.
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After months of traveling the country, the "Mrs. Carter World Tour," the most recent concert tour by singer/dancer/songwriter/actress Beyoncé, finally stopped in Washington D.C. for two sold-out performances on July 29 and 30 at the Verizon Center in Northwest Washington.
At the July 29 concert, Beyoncé, 31, also known as "Queen B," dazzled her way through a well-choreographed two-hour performance which featured renditions of her most popular songs and nine costume changes, empowering girls and women and enticing men the way only she can.
Thousands of fans stood for as long as eight hours in a line that wrapped around the Verizon Center, waiting in almost breathless anticipation to see the highly acclaimed "Mrs. Carter Show World Tour" show. Beyoncé is married to rapper/mogul Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter.
There were little girls, escorted by their mothers; giggly teenagers who had been dropped off by their anxious parents; young women dressed ala Beyoncé in short skirts, tight tops and stiletto heels; career women dressed to the nines in fabulous sundresses and funky ensembles; and couples, some as old as the performers parents.
The 8 p.m. show started with opening act Luke James, one of her former dancers who hit big with "I.O.U."
As frenzied fans stood waiting for Queen B to take the stage, videos played paying homage to her accomplishments. Then, at 9:15 p.m. as her fans roared, the signature "B" curtain appared and Beyoncé, the Queen, stood center stage in a white beaded leotard, hair was slightly curled and makeup fierce.
In perfect diva fashion, she surveyed her audience as the deafening applause reached an almost unbearable pitch.
"Welcome, D.C.!" she said, sending the crowded-to-capacity arena into a frenzy.
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"Ladies, who runs the world?" she asked, launching into her 2011 hit, "Run the World."
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(San Diego, Calif. – February 1, 2011) – In March, students from Point Loma Nazarene University (PLNU) will officially begin spring break. Instead of heading for the beach, some students will be building sustainable buildings in Rosarito, Mexico.
Students, staff, faculty, university president Dr. Bob Brower, and a few members of PLNU's cabinet will join Lazarian World Homes to construct a new sanctuary and parsonage at Rosario Nazarene Church out of Lazarian Insulated Concrete Form (ICF) polystyrene foam blocks. The polystyrene foam blocks, which can be filled with concrete after they are placed, provide effective, low-cost, eco-friendly structures.
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Dave Adey, associate professor in the Department of Art and Design, is always turning out art that is thought-provoking. With installations like "Flock," a uniform formation of ceramic lamb figurines sporting glowing pink neon halos, along with a uniquely diverse body of work, Adey has developed a solid presence in the California art scene. In May, Adey was selected to be one of 40 California artists featured in the 2010 California Biennial at the OCMA, where "Flock" is on display through March 13, 2011.
"I think art is better at asking questions than giving answers," Adey said. "A great work of art can change our point of view and reveal complexity, often leaving a viewer with more questions than answers." - Dave Adey
(San Diego, Calif. – Oct. 5, 2010) – On Sept. 27, Point Loma Nazarene University School of Education's Master of Arts in special education had its substantive change review, the last step in the accreditation process, with the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC). The master's program was given interim approval, now being able to move forward with advertising and marketing the program. The degree was previously a master's in education with a concentration in special education.
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Point Loma Nazarene University is a selective liberal arts university located in San Diego, California, and sits on a 90-acre campus overlooking the Pacific Ocean. In addition to more than 50 undergraduate areas of study, PLNU offers graduate program regional centers in Bakersfield, Arcadia, Mission Valley (San Diego) and the Inland Empire. Founded in 1902, PLNU serves more than 3,500 students.
(San Diego, Calif. – Oct. 4, 2010) – PLNU alumnus Destin Daniel Cretton was one of ten writers who were selected as finalists for the 25th annual Don and Gee Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He was selected based on his script, "Short Term 12."
The finalists were chosen out of 6,304 submitted scripts. All the scripts will be read and judged by the Academy's Nicholl Committee, which awards up to five esteemed $30,000 fellowships. The committee is made up of film producers, writers, actors, cinematographers, executives, agents, and producers.
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According to the academy's website, "Fellowships are awarded with the understanding that the recipients will each complete a feature-length screenplay during their fellowship year."
PLNU improved on last year's highest ever ranking in the annual "America's Best Colleges" edition of U.S. News and World Report, by jumping up six spots to rank No. 16 in the Regional Universities (West) category.
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It's not adults who are lined up in front of Corny Dog 7, Caffe Italia, or their neighbor Sbarro: The Italian Eatery. Those flat, greasy slices of pizza and doughy dogs-on-a-stick are selling like hotcakes, yes, but not to anyone with a waistline or a cholesterol count to worry about. Instead, they're being gobbled up by Generation Y-and the fact that this small shopping mall in Tyler, Texas, can support seven restaurants in its food court shows what corporate America knows. Teenagers today, the children of the children of the post-war Baby Boom, have more money to spend than any generation in history. With that affluence comes influence-they're setting the trends and shaping culture, much earlier than their parents did.
That's something marketing firms clearly understand: Just watch the commercials during any primetime television program, and note to whom ads are directed. But there's more to Generation Y than materialism.
More than 2,500 teens filled a stadium in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in April for a rally inspired by the faith shown by Cassie Bernall, the girl who was killed in the Littleton, Colo., massacre. The stands were filled with teens chanting what were reportedly Cassie's last words: "Yes, I believe in God." Also this spring, more than 73,000 teens gathered in Pontiac, Mich., for a Teen Mania event. USA Today and even Time are noting the phenomenon.
"We don't want her message to be sensationalized or abused in any way," said Josh Weidman, a 17-year-old who helped organize the Fort Lauderdale rally. "It's not so much what Cassie said; it's what are we going to say when we're asked the question."
Pollster George Barna says Generation Y is radically different from its parents and predecessors. (Definitions: The official Baby Boom lasted from the end of World War II until 1964, which was the last year in which America recorded 4 million live births. Those born after 1964, but before 1979, are often called Generation X; those born since are termed Generation Y, or Echo Boomers, or Millennials.) Gen Y values are as far from Baby Boomers as Boomers' values were from their parents.
"By and large, these young people feel they have been emotionally abandoned by all the adults in their world," says Mr. Barna. "They might be affluent, but theirs is a harsh existence." Most kids say they could see an incident similar to the Columbine High School killings happening in their schools, according to surveys.
One side of this generation can be seen in a simple trip to a mall-especially the food court. "Lots of us live on this stuff," says Olivia Piantanida as she scoops Chinese fried rice with an inadequate plastic fork from a dubious styrofoam plate. "Three, four times a week. I have friends who eat fast food every day. They spend a lot of money here."
Does fried rice have spiritual significance? It does, when you consider that money spent in the food court equals time not spent at a dinner table with Dad. Mom is dishing up money, not a meal.
The money alone is staggering. The nation's 30 million teens spent more than $141 billion last year. That's double the annual budget for the U.S. Army. Today's typical teen spends about $80 per week. Almost a third of teens have at least one credit card in their own name, according to Teenage Research Unlimited (TRU), an Illinois marketing firm. Two-thirds of them have savings accounts, 20 percent have checking accounts, and 16 percent own stocks or bonds.
And malls are favorite spending sites. When an industry group, the International Council of Shopping Centers, surveyed mall-goers, it found that teens come here more often, stay longer, visit more stores, and spend more money per trip than do older shoppers. Teens spend an average of 90 minutes at the mall per visit, compared to 75 minutes spent by adults. The national average, for everyone, is 39 trips per year to a mall, but teens average 56 trips per year.
"So if you want to see our world, here it is," says Olivia, 15.
Olivia and her sister, Laura, 17 are here for a couple of hours of shopping-and socializing. Even on this slow winter weeknight at the Broadway Square Mall, they see more than a dozen friends and schoolmates.
Their first stop is the Gap to look for jeans.
There's significance in that, as well. Department stores aren't faring as well as the smaller chains that provide a funk factor to the shopping experience, with music, avant-garde sales clerks, and bright, colorful displays. The Gap rates highly, as does Gadzooks and Old Navy. Marketing researcher Allen Robinson of Kurt Salmon Associates says that specialty chain stores and even independents are like magnets to teenage mall-goers.
"The specialty chains are more flexible and better risk takers (than department stores)," he says. "They're able to tailor their whole store environment to this by having the right look, the right music, and the right salespeople."
In the Gap, a Lauryn Hill CD is thumping as Olivia and Laura start flipping through the racks. "Levis?" Olivia responds to the question with a frown. "Well, yeah, I guess some people wear them. But they're not that big. There are lots of other choices."
Other than Levis? Boomers wore their red-tabbed Levis religiously, yet that giant has been toppled by Gap jeans, Calvin Klein, and Guess. And remember that Levis were the uniform of masses of American rebels (and their imitators overseas).
So could it be that Generation Y is rethinking rebellion? Well, yes, actually.
"Teens today aren't as rebellious," says Laura. "Maybe our parents' generation were rebelling against the idea of being seen and not heard. Well, no one can say teens aren't heard now. And we talk to our parents more, about more things."
In fact, three-fourths of teens say their parents influence their behavior "a lot," and nearly all say they want to spend more time with their parents.
"Family relationships are often disappointing to teens," says Mr. Barna. "The typical teen spends less than two hours per week, cumulatively, in significant interaction with Dad."
And they get less and less time with him, Mr. Barna notes. At the age of 13, six out of 10 kids identify their father as a person they turn to with important life issues. But by the age of 18, only one out of four teens say they can turn to their fathers for advice.
They've rejected '60s-style rebellion outright. Every year, the American Council on Education surveys college freshmen, asking if they believe it is important to keep up with political issues. In 1997, a record low 27 percent answered yes, compared to a high of 58 percent in 1966.
In The Limited, Olivia reaches for a hat-a fisherman's hat, she calls it, though it's really the sort that Woody Allen wears for anonymity. Laura oohs over a shirt that looks like something else Woody Allen-or any man over 50-would wear. It's a button-front, short-sleeve number with a big pocket and a big collar. Hugh Beaumont or Robert Conrad would be perfectly comfortable wearing it under a nice cardigan on weekends.
"This is big," she says. "Grandpa shirts. Only it's kind of cheating to buy them new. You're supposed to really get them from your Grandpa, or from thrift stores."
As shocking as it sounds, button-down shirts and khaki pants have made a comeback, accompanied by swing music and-breathe deeply-modesty. Skirts are below the knee, bosoms aren't bared, and they're thinking about the future. During the past three months, some also have thought about Cassie Bernall.
"There's no doubt in my mind that she knew what that guy's response was going to be, but she answered yes," Laura says. "So yes, I think she's a martyr. It really reminds me of the fact that the decisions I make now will have lasting consequences. I wonder if I do enough to tell people about the gospel-now, when there's no cost at all, when it's easy."
And Cassie Bernall has helped make it easy of late. Christian teens across the country say their non-Christian friends were also affected by Cassie's story, and sometimes sought out Christians to find out why Cassie responded the way she did.
"All of us are wondering if we would do the same thing Cassie did," Laura says. "But we have to remember that being faithful to God in the big things means that first we have to be faithful to God in the little things. That's the message I hope-and I think-our generation is going to take away from this."
This is a generation that has been devastated by the unfaithfulness evident in divorce.
"It's just selfishness," says Laura. "They don't think about the kids. People my age have come to accept divorce as normal, but they still think it's wrong. I think our generation is going to try a lot harder to stay married."
In Gadzooks, a clothing store that also sells inflatable furniture ($34.99 for a big, purple chair), costume jewelry, and various unfathomable hair accessories, Laura starts to steer Olivia away from the wall of T-shirts with off-color (and sometimes obscene) slogans. Olivia sees them, but barely blinks. This is a jaded generation. When asked, a clerk says kids buy them.
"Don't their parents complain to you?"
"No one's ever come in and said anything. Parents don't care about that stuff."
And that's the disturbing story behind these statistics. Teens are affluent, but they feel abandoned.
"The money kids get is guilt money, a lot of the time," says Laura. "I see it in my friends, I see it when I babysit, even. I've stayed with lots of kids who have every toy you can think of, who have everything they can ask for, but they don't see their parents much because they're so busy. Love means time. Love means discipline. Kids know that."
"They don't feel that anyone cares about them," Mr. Barna says of the Echo Boomers. "The fact is a majority of their parents are Baby Boomers who are very achievement-oriented. Everything they do is filtered through the lens of 'What have I accomplished?' And they've brought that mindset home with them. As a consequence, their children don't believe unconditional love exists."
And they don't believe in absolutes, either, he says. More than 80 percent of teens say there are no moral absolutes, no absolute truths, no definitive ethical realities.
"They have been taught to think by computers and by fast-edit video," he contends. "They have an overwhelming amount of information coming at them through the popular culture."
What should the church learn from these surveys?
"Teens are relational-if we want to evangelize them, we're going to have to do it the hard way, with relationships," says Mr. Barna. "Realize that a majority of Americans who accept Christ as their Lord do so before they reach age 19. The teen years represent our last great chance to effectively reach people."
Youth ministries, which Mr. Barna says "often means glorified babysitting," must bring teens into relationships with caring adults.
"It's going to take more than just Wednesday night games and fun times," he says. "They need the Truth, but they're not going to accept it if you say, 'Here it is, believe it'... We must inextricably tie evangelism to discipleship."


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UN human rights office condemns execution of Iranian juvenile
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The United Nations human rights office today strongly condemned the execution of Ali Naderi, a 21-year-old who was sentenced to death for a crime he allegedly committed when he was 17 even though Iran is party to agreements that ban the death sentence against persons less than 18 years of age.
"We are deeply dismayed to hear about the reported execution in Iran of a juvenile offender on Wednesday 16 January 2013," a spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Cécile Pouilly, told reporters in Geneva.
Mr. Naderi was executed for his alleged role in the murder of a woman when he was 17 years old, according to OHCHR. It was the first juvenile execution since September 2011.
"International human rights instruments – particularly the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights – to both of which the Islamic Republic of Iran is a party, impose an absolute ban on the death sentence against persons below the age of 18 at the time when the offence was committed," Ms. Pouilly said. "We urge the Government of Iran to end the execution of juvenile offenders once and for all."
OHCHR is also concerned about five other individuals – Mohammad Ali Amouri, Sayed Jaber Alboshoka, Sayed Mokhtar Alboshoka, Hashem Shabain Amouri and Hadi Rashidi – whose death sentences were recently upheld by the Supreme Court and appear to be at risk of imminent execution.
"There are serious concerns about the fairness of their trials and allegations that they were subjected to torture," Ms. Pouilly said. "We urge the Government to restrict the use of the death penalty, to reduce the number of offences for which it may be imposed and to respect international standards guaranteeing due process and the protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty."
According to OHCHR, more than 400 people were executed in Iran last year, the majority of whom were charged with drug-related offences that do not meet the threshold of "most serious crimes" to which the death penalty may be applied under international human rights law.
The UN agency also condemned the rise in public executions in Iran, stating they add to the already cruel, inhuman and degrading nature of the death penalty and have a dehumanizing effect on the victim and those who witness the execution. In 2012, 55 public executions were carried out. Last Sunday, two individuals were hung in a park in Tehran, the capital.


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Kids can be cruel. This was certainly the case for Harnaam Kaur who started growing facial hair at the young age of 11.
"I got bullied badly," she recalled. "At school I was called a 'beardo' and things like 'shemale' and 'sheman.'"
Harnaam Kaur has polycystic ovary syndrome which causes thick hair growth. In a desperate effort to look more like the other girls at school, Kaur would try waxing, bleaching and shaving, but her efforts proved only temporary. The hair would grow back quickly and in some cases, more thicker.
Unable to stop the hair growth, Kaur was forced to face cruel taunts and even online death threats from people who didn't accept her.
"I can laugh about it now," Kaur admits, "but back then it affected me so badly that I began to self harm because it felt better than all the abuse I was getting. I'd talk to people with a hand over my face and I wore baggy, tomboy clothes to cover up the hair on my chest and arms. I didn't want to go outside my house because I couldn't take the stares from strangers so I'd lock myself in my room. It got so bad that I just didn't want to live any more."
Her outlook on life suddenly changed when she decided to be baptised as a Sikh – a religion where it is forbidden to cut body hair. Her parents were originally opposed to the idea. They believed that she would not be able to get a job or a husband with her beard, but Kaur was determined to turn a new leaf. She knew she needed a new outlook on life and she needed a way to end the suicidal thoughts.
Her decision has helped her embrace her physical appearance.
"I would never ever go back now and remove my facial hair because it's the way God made me and I'm happy with the way I am," she says. "I feel more feminine, more sexy and I think I look it too. I've learned to love myself for who I am nothing can shake me now."
With her new-found confidence, Kaur has no problem doing the things that made her uncomfortable before: wearing dresses, putting on jewelry and getting her nails done. She even shares her story to the public despite death threats.
"All that matters to me at the moment is that I love myself," Kaur explains. "I love my beard and all my other little quirks – my tattoos, my scars, stretch marks and blemishes. I want other women to find the strength that I have. If I had any message it would be to live the way you want – it's your journey and it's your life."
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Health officials in North Carolina say they're now investigating 19 cases of measles in three counties, and are alerting people in three other counties that they may have been exposed to the virus.
A statement from the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday said confirmed cases of measles have turned up in Stokes, Orange and Polk counties. Of the 19 cases, 13 are in Stokes and five are in Orange.
Also, state and local health officials have notified more than 1,000 people in Forsyth, Guilford and Chatham counties who may have been exposed to the disease.
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It's great to be back at the K! We see something new every day! Today, workers started installing the first phase of the Royals Legacy Bricks. We saw a variety of personal Royals memories on the bricks. Some of the Greatest Moments in Royals history will be displayed alongside the bricks. You still have time to order bricks for your family and friends during Phase Two of the program…call 1-877-KCR-BRIX or visit this page on royals.com. All proceeds from the Royals Legacy Brick Program support Royals Charities, benefiting children, education and neighborhoods.
Single-game ticket sale procedure
Single-game tickets for the 2009 season, including a limited number of Opening Day tickets, go on sale this Saturday, March 7 at 9 a.m. Tickets will be available at royals.com, by phone at 1-800-6ROYALS, at metro-area Hy-Vee stores (no Opening Day tickets available) and at the Kauffman Stadium Ticket Windows.
Fans planning to purchase tickets at Kauffman Stadium on Saturday must enter the Truman Sports Complex through Gate 2, located off of Blue Ridge Cutoff on the east side of the complex, or Gate 6, off of Stadium Drive on the west side. All other gates will be closed to fan traffic. Fans will be instructed to park in Lot J and directed to the Kauffman Stadium Ticket Windows located at Gate C.
Due to the ongoing construction at the Truman Sports Complex, overnight camping will not be permitted. The Royals will implement a random drawing procedure for purchasing tickets at Kauffman Stadium on Saturday. Beginning at 5 p.m. on Friday and ending at 7:20 a.m. on Saturday, fans may visit the Truman Sports Complex at Gate 2 or Gate 6 to collect a numbered ticket from a Royals event staff member. There is no advantage to collecting a ticket early within this time frame. The drawing to determine line order will be held at 7:30 a.m. on Saturday at Gate B, located at the southwest corner of Kauffman Stadium. Fans with numbered tickets must be in place by 8:30 a.m. to ensure their spot in line.
For those fans who come to the stadium Saturday to purchase tickets, the Royals will conduct brief 10-minute tours of the newly renovated Plaza Level from 9-10 a.m.
The Kauffman Stadium Ticket Windows will be open special hours for the opening weekend of sales. Tickets may be purchased at the stadium on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. In addition, there will be extended hours for phone sales for the entire 2009 season. Beginning this Saturday, phone operators will be available from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. seven days a week to better serve Royals fans.
In the Greater Kansas City area, fans can purchase tickets by calling the Royals Call Center at (816) 504-4040. Fans outside Kansas City can call 1-800-6ROYALS (1-800-676-9257).
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SEC to seek stop orders on 20 questionable mining companies
Newscast Media WASHINGTON—The Securities and Exchange Commission today
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believed to have included false information in their registration statements.
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Norfolk, VA (Sports Network) - Troy Daniels tied the school record with eight
makes from beyond the arc as the Virginia Commonwealth Rams picked up an 83-70
win over the Old Dominion Monarchs in matchup between former conference rivals
at the Ted Constant Center.
Daniels finished with a team-high 24 points for VCU (6-3), which picked up its
third victory in a row. Treveon Graham just missed a double-double with 23
points and nine rebounds and Briante Weber filled up the stat sheet with eight
points, 10 assists, nine rebounds, and five steals.
The Monarchs (1-8) lost their seventh consecutive game despite game-highs of
26 points and 10 rebounds by DeShawn Painter. Donte Hill contributed 13
points, six assists, and four steals in the losing effort.
VCU built a 20-10 lead less than eight minutes after tip-off after Daniels
knocked down three shots from beyond the arc during that span. Daniels
finished the first half with 18 points, all of which came courtesy of jumpers
from behind the arc. The Monarchs went into halftime trailing 43-30 after they
shot 37 percent from the field and converted only 8-of-16 free throw attempts
in the opening 20 minutes. VCU made 50 percent of its field goal attempts
including 8-of-15 from beyond the arc in the first half.
The Rams led by a double-digit margin for the final 20 minutes as they
protected their lead by sinking 13-of-15 shots from the charity stripe. ODU
improved to connect on 45.5 percent of its field goal attempts after the
break, but only knocked down 1-of-6 from three-point range.
ODU held a 43-33 advantage in the rebounding battle, but it was unable to
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VCU is in its first season as a member of the Atlantic 10 after formerly being
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UN-backed African initiative keeps Lord's Resistance Army on the run - official
|UN News Service
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|11 May 2012
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In March, the African Union launched the UN-supported Regional Cooperation Initiative against the LRA (RCI-LRA) and its military component, the Regional Task Force (RTF), to hunt down the LRA and its leader, Joseph Kony with troops drawn from the four countries affected by the group's depredations Uganda, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), South Sudan and the Central African Republic.
"I think because of the renewed commitment of the four countries, the LRA group doesn't have any time to settle down any more," the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and head of the UN Office for Central Africa (UNOCA), Abou Moussa, said in an interview. "They move a lot, but I am sure they will have to abandon [that] in the end."
Formed in the 1980s in Uganda, the LRA mainly directed its attacks against Ugandan civilians and security forces for over 15 years. By 2004, it had largely been driven of the area through a sustained military effort. It then exported its activities to Uganda's neighbouring countries, with practices that include the recruitment of children, rapes, killing and maiming, and sexual slavery.
Mr. Moussa said that LRA raiders "are roaming between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic because of the density of the forest and because of the vast areas where there is no government."
"Even though the 5,000 troops have not yet been [fully] mobilized there are preliminary actions that are taking place in the field which we have been able to observe that is keeping the LRA and their people very uneasy," he added.
He said that the RTF is receiving training and intelligence assistance from a group of United States military advisers deployed in the region.
Although current estimates suggest that the LRA comprises less than 500 combatants operating under Mr. Kony's leadership, the group's capacity to attack and terrorise and harm local communities, according to the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations.
After a lull in LRA raids in the second half of last year, which resulted in improved security in the DRC's north-east, new attacks on civilians were reported early this year in the DRC territories of Dungu, Faradje, Watsa, Niangara, Bondo and Ango.


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County Commissioner Todd Portune's idea to borrow more money and extend a half-cent sales tax in order to keep up with stadium costs has been shot down by a Bengals lawyer who used 15 bullet points to demonstrate that Portune's plan "proposes to breach one or both leases."
Duke Energy is asking state regulators if it can bump customers' rates up again. Duke says the increases are to pay for infrastructure investments. The change would increase customer costs of electric service by $86 million and for natural gas by $44 million. A federal appeals court on Monday reinstated an antitrust lawsuit against Duke Energy that accuses the company of paying kick-backs to corporations opposing a 2004 rate increase.
A rally for "religious freedom" will take place on Fountain Square today in response to federal health care legislation requiring women to have abortions employers to provide insurance that covers birth control. The law includes a religious exemption, which bishops have said isn't enough.
A group pushing to ban dog auctions in Ohio has halted its effort to put the issue on the November ballot due to lack of funding and time. CityBeat in February reported the group's efforts to ban the sale of dogs through auctions or raffles, as well as all trafficking in dogs from out-of-state auctions.
New York City officials, including
Brooklyn Democratic Rep. Yvette Clarke, are arguing that the city's
"Stop and Frisk" policy is racist. The policy allows police to
stop an individual and pat him or her down for contraband if they
suspect illegal activity. From USA Today:
Clarke says the program, known as "Stop, Question and Frisk" or "Stop and Frisk," amounts to racial profiling. It is based on a 1968 Supreme Court ruling that police could stop people on the basis of "reasonable suspicion."
Last month, U.S. District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin approved class-action status for a lawsuit that alleges the practice subjects people to race-based illegal searches.
President Obama's health care law helped
6.6 million young adults stay on their parents' plans during the
first year and a half.
Rick Santorum has formed a new conservative organization aiming to recruit 1 million supporters to help get Barack Obama out of the While House. No word on how Santorum's "Patriot Voices" group will differ from the tea party patriots.
NASA says it has spotted the universe's first objects.
Black members of the Netherlands soccer team were subjected to
racist chants at their Euro 2012 practice facility in Krakow, Poland.
The team says fans were making monkey chants at the players.
LeBron James scored 45 points to lead the Miami Heat over the Boston Celtics last night, forcing a deciding Game 7 for the Eastern Conference championship. The Oklahoma Thunder await in the NBA Finals.
Hamilton County has been killing people more often than Ohio counties of similar size, despite actually asking for the death penalty less often. Today's Enquirer takes a look at the growing opposition to the death
penalty in other states and recent legislation and task forces aimed
at either studying its effectiveness or stopping the practice
altogether. Prosecutor Joe Deters says he's going to kill all the people who deserve it because the law is still the law.
Would you like to pay tolls or higher gas taxes in order to have a new Brent Spence Bridge? No? Then you're like a majority of people who take the time to respond to Enquirer polls.
City Manager Milton Dohoney plans to ask City Council to raise the property tax rate in response to a projected $33 million 2013 deficit that everyone knows was coming.
The Community Press on the East Side says Norfolk Southern is willing to consider selling the Wasson Way right of way that some would like to see turned into a bike trail. CityBeat in March found the proposed trail to have support among cycling enthusiasts but some resistance from light rail supporters.
President Obama hooked up an 11-year-old kid with a note excusing him from class on Friday.
"He says, 'Do you want me to write an excuse note? What's your teacher's name?" Sullivan told ABC. "And I say, Mr. Ackerman. And he writes, 'Please excuse Tyler. He was with me. Barack Obama, the president.'"
Fortune magazine has taken exception to Mitt Romney's recent criticism of Solyndra, the solar panel company that went out of business despite a $500 million Department of Energy loan.
So last Thursday Romney held a surprise press conference at Solyndra's shuttered headquarters. During his prepared statement, Romney said:
"An independent inspector general looked at this investment and concluded that the Administration had steered money to friends and family and campaign contributors."
Romney then repeated the claim later in the press conference.
Small problem: No inspector general ever "concluded" such a thing, at least not based on any written reports or public statements.
Wisconsin Gov./Union Crusher Scott Walker holds a slight lead over his Democratic challenger, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, according to a recent poll.
George Zimmerman is back in jail after what his attorney is calling a misunderstanding over telling a judge that he had limited money even though a website set up to fund his legal defense raised more than $135,000.
Legal issues will be involved in New
York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's attempt to ban giant sodas.
Jason Alexander has released a lengthy and quite thoughtful apology for referring to the sport of cricket as "a bit gay" during a recent appearance on The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson.
Why do people on the West Coast get to see all the cool stuff that happens in space? First the eclipse and now the Transit of Venus, when Venus will cross paths between the sun and earth. Next time it will happen is 2117. And Australia got to see a partial lunar eclipse the other day, too.
Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel has already had a rough week, having to give back more than $100,000 in campaign contributions in response to an FBI investigation. Today The Cleveland Plain Dealer's Politifact website looked into one of the five claims made in Mandel's new 30-second TV ad, and it seems to be pretty false. Mandel claims that his opponent, Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown, "cast the deciding vote on the government takeover of health care." Politifact notes that since the health care overhaul passed by the minimum 60 votes necessary, that every vote was technically "deciding." But, on the other hand, Brown was an early supporter of the legislation, and it is widely known that Ben Nelson of Nebraska was the final "yes" vote to join. Plus, technically, Brown was the seventh person to vote because it was taken in alphabetical order.
Ohio public schools have received a waiver for parts of No Child Left Behind that will remove a requirement to get all of their students proficient in math and reading by 2014. Nineteen states have received the waiver, meaning they'll have to create their own federally approved academic progress standards.
Covington leaders are expecting staff reductions as part of balancing the 2012-13 budget to cover $1.5 million that was left out. The city is facing $1.6 million in cuts to public-safety services and about $700,000 across other departments.
Mitt Romney officially won the Republican presidential nomination yesterday, but no one's talking about it because all the stories involve Donald Trump and the fact that his iPhone app misspelled "America."
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has two weeks to offer arguments against extradition to Sweden after a U.K. supreme court ruling.
The makers of Blackberry are considering how to remake their products into something people will actually want again.
Facebook's public offering drama has caused experts to ask questions such as, "should investors see the wretched performance of Facebook's IPO as any sort of signal about the likely future direction of the overall stock market and the economy?"
While the rest of us were living our lives, two asteroids zipped past the earth early this week. Don't worry — they were small.
Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel has returned more than $100,000 in campaign contributions in response to an FBI investigation into 21 donors who had no record of giving to federal campaigns and many appearing to have low incomes. Mandel, a Republican, is running against incombent Democrat Sen. Sherrod Brown. Mandel's campaign treasurer Kathryn Kessler sent a letter to donors explaining that any contributions appearing to be under investigation would be refunded.
From The Toledo Blade:
Although the campaign provided a copy of the letter to The Blade, it would not explain the timing of the decision or how long it has been aware of the federal probe.
The Blade revealed the unusual pattern of contributions in August.
The company's owner, Benjamin Suarez, and 16 of his employees (plus some of their spouses) gave about $200,000 to Mr. Mandel and U.S. Rep. Jim Renacci (R., Wadsworth) last year. Each of those donors gave $5,000, the maximum allowable amount, to one or both candidates.
The Ohio Senate yesterday passed new fracking regulations, and the final version caused some environmental organizations to change their stance on the bill. The Ohio Environmental Council and the Sierra Club had both been neutral on the legislation until changes were made forcing anyone suing over chemical trade secrets to show current or potential harm, according to The Enquirer. The regulations are part of Kasich's new energy bill and easily passed both the Senate and House and is expected to be signed by Kasich soon.
Cincinnati Public Schools says it will apply for the latest available federal education grants, which amount to nearly $700 million. The grants are geared toward helping schools proceed with reform and innovation.
According to a new poll, President Obama leads Mitt Romney in Ohio by six percentage points. Wonder if Obama's "cow pie of distortion" speech had anything to do with his lead.
The John Edwards trial has entered day six of deliberations.
United Nations inspectors have reportedly found uranium in Iran enriched beyond the highest levels previously reported. One diplomat said the measure could actually be a measurement error, though the reading could also mean that Iran is closer to producing bomb-grade uranium than previously thought.
Scientists might be one step closer to creating birth control for men after U.K. scientists found a gene used to enable sperm to mature.
From USA Today: "Profits at big U.S. companies broke records last year, and so did pay for CEOs."
Facebook's initial public offering didn't go entirely as expected, and some investors are getting refunds after technical problems and other issues marred the company's first week of trading.
The Reds completed a four-game sweep of the Atlanta Braves last night, winning their sixth in a row and overtaking the St. Louis Cardinal for first place in the NL Central.
"The Republicans who are informally auditioning would each bring different strengths — and drawbacks — to the presidential ticket.
Ohio Sen. Rob Portman supported Romney early, has a solid rapport with the candidate and hails from Ohio, a critical battleground state that could decide the election. But he wouldn't necessarily appeal directly to Hispanic or women voters.
(Louisiana Gov. Bobby) Jindal, the Louisiana governor, could help Romney turn out the religious right and would add diversity to the ticket as an Indian-American, but he struggled during a national debut rebutting the 2010 State of the Union address.
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell appeals to social conservatives but signed a controversial state law that requires Virginia women to have ultrasounds before having an abortion.
New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte, who's campaigned frequently with Romney, could help with female voters and in her swing state of New Hampshire. But she's from New England, the same region of the country as Romney, while (New Jersey Gov. Chris) Christie, a conservative favorite who can work a crowd, is from New Jersey.
(Florida Sen. Marco) Rubio could bring Florida, always a deciding factor in a general election, and appeal to Hispanics, a fast-growing voting bloc, but he's run into some trouble over a foreclosed home and possible misuse of an official credit card. And Ryan is a serious, leading policy mind with a bright future — and a brand name that's directly tied to a controversial budget that would make major changes to Medicare."
Meanwhile, Romney says Obama doesn't even understand free
A Columbus tavern owner has lost his freedom isn't free battle in the Ohio Supreme Court, which yesterday unanimously ruled that the state's smoking ban is constitutional. The owner of Zeno's Victorian Village had racked up thousands of dollars in fines after 10 citations for violating the ban from July 2007 and September 2009. The state has reportedly threatened to seize the bar if the fines are not paid.
Meteorologists say after this weekend's heat wave this spring could be the hottest on record.
The Reds defeated the Atlanta Braves last night on a Todd Frazier walk-off home run in the bottom of the ninth inning. It was the Reds' fifth straight win, and they're currently a half game behind St. Louis for first place in the division.
The Pakistan conviction of the Osama bin Laden doctor who helped the CIA find him is not going over well with the U.S. government. Pakistani authorities sentenced Shakeel Afridi to 33 years in prison for treason, and Afridi was not entitled to representation, though he has a right to appeal. The U.S. has threatened to cut aid to the country, arguing that informants work against al-Qaeda and not Pakistan.
Britain's recession is worse than expected, as the country's economy shrunk by .3 percent during the first quarter.
The SpaceX shuttle passed some tests necessary to move forward with its landing on the International Space Station Friday morning. President Obama called the company's CEO to congratulate him and he answered despite thinking it might be a telemarketer.
John Malkovich is in the latest Apple advertisement for Siri, during which Malkovich gets some life advice. The ads follow those released starring Hollywood actors Zooey Deschanel and Samuel Jackson last month.
We Are Ohio, the organization that helped repeal SB5 last year, says it will team up with nonpartisan Ohio Voters First to help put on the November ballot a constitutional amendment that would change the way legislative and congressional districts are drawn. The effort is in response to Republican-drawn redistricting maps that attempted to create 12 solidly GOP districts and four Democratic districts. The proposal calls for a nonpartisan commission to redraw legislative and congressional boundaries rather than letting politicians and anyone who gives them money do it.
The University of Cincinnati has released a study showing a considerable economic impact from construction of The Banks. Between construction contractors, new residents and visitors to the area's restaurants, the development reportedly will impact the local economy by more than $90 million a year.
The parent company of Cincinnati's Horseshoe Casino will host two informational sessions this week to offer local vendors information on how to bid on contracts for supplies and services the entertainment complex will need. The first takes place 6 p.m. tonight at Bell Events Centre near the casino site at 444 Reading Road, and the second is 9 a.m. Thursday at Great American Ball Park.
The Enquirer on Tuesday reported that the University of Cincinnati and Xavier University have agreed to move the Crosstown Shootout to U.S. Bank Arena for two years in response to last year's massive brawl. NBC Sports today reported that the presents of both universities issued a press release in response, stating that no final decision had been made.
The University of Cincinnati and Xavier University were both surprised to see today's announcement concerning the future of the Crosstown Shootout. While both schools are committed to the future of the Crosstown rivalry, specific discussions are ongoing and no details have been finalized. We look forward to sharing our plans with the community at an appropriate time in the coming weeks.
If it does happen, The Enquirer's Bill Koch says it's reasonable, while Paul Daugherty says that's fine but kind of dumb.
President Obama is finding it rather difficult to even win primaries against nobodies in the South. Not that it's surprise or really matters, though.
Of course, there are reasons for these kinds of returns. Few Democrats are voting in these primaries where Obama faces only token opposition; only protest voters are truly motivated.
There's also the fact that Obama is an underdog to Republican candidate Mitt Romney in the states of Kentucky, Arkansas, and West Virginia; Obama lost all three in 2008 to John McCain.
Another potential factor: Race.
Just when you thought Sarah Palin was super reliable, she goes and backs a Utah Republican incumbent over a tea party supported candidate.
The John Edwards jury entered its fourth day of deliberations today because they need to see more prosecution exhibits.
A white supremacist was sentenced to 40 years in jail by a federal judge for a 2004 package bomb attack that injured a black city administrator in Arizona.
researchers say they can figure out if Bigfoot really existed, if
they can just get one of his hairs.
The film version of On the Road premiered at the Cannes Film Festival today, 55 years after Jack Kerouac's Beat Generation-defining novel was published. London's The Guardian says the "handsome shots and touching sadness don't compensate for the tedious air of self-congratulation in Walter Salles's road movie."
The Music Hall Revitalization Co. will meet Thursday to consider its next move after the city of Cincinnati decided not to sell the historic building to the nonprofit organization, prompting the resignation of the Revitalization Co.'s leader. The resident arts organizations issued a joint statement yesterday offering to work with the city and private donors to revive the project in some form. Some arts supporters contend that local philanthropic leaders will not donate to the project while it is city owned.
In the wake of last season's Crosstown Shootout melee, officials from UC and Xavier have decided to play the annual game at U.S. Bank Arena for the next two seasons. The behavior of players and fans will reportedly be evaluated after that time. The game was scheduled to be played at UC's Fifth Third Arena this year.
The commercial space vehicle today finally launched after shutting down its first attempt to fly to the International Space Station without the government's help. Exploration Technologies Corp.'s SpaceX rocket is scheduled to touch down on May 25 and could help jumpstart the privatization of space station servicing.
Colin Powell endorsed Barack Obama in 2008, but he's not quite ready to do it again.
Facebook shares went down a little bit after analysts revised their outlooks.
Fuel economy is more important to consumers than overall car quality, according to a new survey by Consumer Reports.
Is Brad Pitt's new film Killing Them Softly an anti-capitalist screed? Pretty much.
Everything you need to know about (writer-director Andrew) Dominik's worldview came with a moment in the news conference in which the Australian said that in his experience America is largely about making money, and that that went double for Hollywood.
Or, as the film's touchstone piece of dialogue has it: "America isn't a country -- it's a business."
Ever wonder what would happen if the NBA rookie of the year dressed up like an old man and played ball with dudes at some random courts, with at least some of the players not knowing what's going on? Wonder no more:
After 18 months in the courts, Democrat Tracie Hunter has won a Hamilton County Juvenile Court judgeship, but a GOP challenge to the court's acceptance of Hunter's challenge is likely to follow. Republican John Williams led hunter by 23 votes on election night 2010, but Hunter filed a lawsuit over provisional ballots cast at incorrect polling stations that weren't counted. After a recount of 286 provisional ballots, Hunter moved ahead by 74 votes. Republican board of election members reportedly plan to argue that the 286 should not have been recounted.
The Enquirer's Mark Curnutte today offered an analysis of recently released census data that shows a steady growth of the regional Hispanic population and a growth of minority population in areas outside the city that were once largely white. Cincinnati's data suggests that the city and region are slightly different than the nation's overall trend, which in 2011 for the first time found a majority of the country's under 1-year-old population minority (50.4 percent), up from 49.5 percent in 2010.
Included in The Enquirer's story, which included a profile of a Mexican-American Florence family that moved to Northern Kentucky eight years ago from Los Angeles:
A decrease of 1.3 percentage points in Hamilton County's black population under 5 was countered by increases in the black population under 5 in each of the region's six other core counties: Butler, Clermont and Warren in Ohio and Boone, Campbell and Kenton in Kentucky.
Overall, the regional population of Hispanic children under 5 years rose from 7,583 in 2010 to 8,032 in 2011, a proportional increase of 0.4 percentage points to 6.1 percent.
The family of a teenager fatally shot by a Cincinnati police officer on Fountain Square last summer has filed a federal lawsuit alleging police used excessive force and violated 16-year-old Davon Mullins' constitutional rights. Police say Mullins pulled a handgun, but the lawsuit says he had been disarmed before officer Oscar Cyranek shot him multiple times.
Cincinnati's Bike Month revelers and Over-the-Rhine residents received some good news this week when Reser Bicycle Outfitters announced the opening of an OTR location. The store could open by June 1 in the 1400 block of Vine Street.
Legislation regulating ownership and breeding of exotic animals has been approved by the Ohio House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee, 17-4. Senate Bill 310 could get through the full House and Senate next week and be signed by Gov. John Kasich soon afterward. The ban on the acquisition, sale and breeding of certain species would take affect 90 days later.
Europe is preparing for Greece to completely duck out of the Eurozone. The world markets are feeling the pressure.
Mitt Romney has released his first general election TV ad. And he's giving cookies to the media.
Former Senator John Edwards will learn his fate today, as a jury was set to deliberate this morning on charges that Edwards used campaign funds to conceal an affair during his run for president.
More than 200 pages of documents, photos and audio recordings were released yesterday offering further details about what happened the night George Zimmerman shot and killed Trayvon Martin.
The documents include an FBI audio analysis of the 911 call placed by a resident that captured yells and screams. Two FBI examiners said they could not determine whether it was Martin or Zimmerman yelling because of the poor quality of the recording and the "extreme emotional state" of screamer.
The AP is live-blogging Facebook's stock market debut. Why does Bono have so much Facebook?
Cell phone maker Nokia has accused Apple of programming bias into its interactive Siri voice search by making it answer the question "What is the best smartphone ever?" by stating ""Wait... there are other phones?" The answer had apparently previously been "Nokia's Lumia 900." Apple won't say whether or not it changed Siri's answer after finding the glitch.
A new study suggests that nighttime fasting can go a long way toward keeping you slim even if you eat bad stuff during the day.
Scientists have found a car-sized turtle shell.
The private space launch is scheduled for 4:55 a.m. Saturday, and there will be alcohol involved.
The ongoing saga involving Cincinnati Police Chief James Craig and his nonexistent policing powers will continue into July, as a hearing scheduled for Thursday has been continued. Craig's attorneys will argue in front of the Ohio Peace Officer Training Commission that his prior experience, and certification in three other states, should exempt him from a state rule requiring all officers pass a certification exam before earning police powers. Craig believes he was hired to do things other than study for an entry-level policing test, and some states would already have certified him.
A statewide ban on texting while driving moved through the Ohio House of Representatives yesterday and is expected to be signed into law by Gov. John Kasich. The law makes the writing, sending or reading of a text message while driving a secondary offense, meaning officers may not pull over an adult driver for the act. Teens, however, under House Bill 99 will be prohibited from using any electronic device other than GPS and may be pulled over for it.
Kasich on Tuesday followed through with the GOP plan to overturn its own controversial election law that was to go before voters in November. State Republicans and election officials now say there's no reason for the law to go in front of voters thanks to the 300,000 signatures gathered by President Obama's re-election campaign and other opponents, but opponents of the election law point out that the repeal still reaffirms an election law change that would end early voting the weekend before an election. Democrats plan to keep the issue on the ballot.
But people on both sides of the issue say there's no precedent for a legislative repeal of a bill that also is the subject of a referendum, so it's unclear how a court might rule if a legal challenge is filed.
Jennifer Brunner, a former Democratic secretary of state and a leader in the Fair Elections Ohio campaign that brought the referendum, said Tuesday that the action taken by Gov. John Kasich and Legislature doesn't force the removal of the question from November ballots.
"Since this issue is a case of first impression for any court, we do not see the statement of the Secretary of State to be determinative on this issue," Brunner said in an email. "The issue remains on the ballot."
More drama from Columbus: Republicans are moving forward with a test program requiring some welfare recipients to submit to drug testing in order to continue receiving benefits. Opponents say the process stigmatizes the poor, while the GOP says it's just a simple process involving poor people paying the upfront costs for drug tests, being reimbursed if they pass and living on the streets for six months if they fail.
Northern Kentucky leaders plan to use the revitalization of Over-the-Rhine as a model for reinvesting in their urban core. A nonprofit organization has raised $10 million during the past five years to get started spurring commercial and residential investment.
Two Kentucky high school students who were turned away from their senior prom for arriving as a same-sex couple have argued that if their Catholic high school wants to ban students based on upholding the church's teachings, such a ban should include couples who have had premarital sex and kids who plan to get wasted after the prom.
Apparently viewers of Harry's Law, which was set in Cincinnati and used a stage-version of Arnold's as the lawyer gang's regular hangout, are too old to attract advertising dollars despite their relatively high numbers.
The show ranked very low among viewers ages 18 to 49, the demographic most advertisers care about. In fact, its young-adult numbers were beneath those for "Prime Suspect," a cop show that NBC canceled earlier this season, and roughly on par with those of "Off Their Rockers," the Betty White show about senior citizens pulling pranks on younger people.
"It was a difficult decision," an NBC executive said Sunday, quoted by the site Deadline.com. "Everyone here respects 'Harry's Law' a lot but we were finding it hard to grow the audience for it. Its audience skewed very old and it is hard to monetize that."
President Obama raised $44 million during April for his and other Democratic campaigns.
John Boehner says that when the federal government raises the debt limit again America can expect another prolonged fight about cuts.
George W. Bush has found "freedom" wherever he ended up after having little to offer the GOP after his tumultuous two terms as president. From ABC News:
We don't see much of Bush these days. He's the president that a lot of people would like to forget, still so toxic that he's widely considered more likely to hurt than help the Republican Party by participating in the 2012 campaign.
Bush's speech Tuesday morning was a rare exception. He spoke in a small, nondescript room to about 200 people about democracy activists, promoting a human rights campaign that's part of the George W. Bush Presidential Center.
His presence on the national stage is perhaps best seen in his presence on the small stage at 1777 F Street. At the end of the affair, Bush and his wife were called back up to be presented with writings by Czech human rights icon Vaclav Havel. They posed for pictures as the audience clapped, and when they were done, Bush glanced around as if unsure what to do next.
He walked back to his seat, but then quickly walked back onto the stage and behind the lectern. He leaned forward into the microphone, paused, and said slyly, "Thanks for coming."
Bush waited a second or two. Then he said, "See ya later."
He waved, and then he left.
Is U.S. energy independence a pipe dream? This article says no.
Apple might soon give you a larger iPhone screen.
A private rocket launch this week could be the start of commercial space travel.
Here are some important tips about sunscreen as summer approaches and the circle in the sky threatens to burn off our skin.
The private group hoping to purchase Music Hall for $1 is now asking for $10 million in city contributions to its effort to update the historic building, double the initial $5 million it asked for. The Music Hall Revitalization Co. says failing to strike a deal before June 1 will jeopardize the proposed $165 million renovation. Among the updates the city is being asked to fund are $75,000 buffers to block noise from the streetcar and a $150,000 escrow account to pay for any future disruptions due to the streetcar.
City Council yesterday spent some time considering ways to fix the city's retirement fund deficit. Cincinnati's retirement board wants the city to contribute $67 million to the pension system this year, though Council has reportedly contributed only about half of that.
CVG today will unveil its updated Concourse A, which has undergone a $36.5 million renovation. It is part of the airports attempt to lure a low-cost airline to the hub that formerly housed Delta.
Cleveland is the first Ohio city to open one of the state's four new casinos, drawing about 5,000 to a grand opening last night. Cincinnati's casino is expected to be the last of the four to open, with Hollywood casinos scheduled to open in Toledo May 29 and in Columbus this fall. Cincinnati's' Horseshoe is scheduled to open next year.
Barack Obama's Super PAC is airing TV ads questioning Mitt Romney's business record, specifically his commitment to workers.
Prosecutors today decided to bring charges against former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks, who along with her husband and four others will be charged with conspiring to pervert the course of justice. The alleged incidents occurred in response the phone hacking allegations, and the charges are apparently quite embarrassing to Rupert Murdoch and British Prime Minister David Cameron.
JP Morgan today said, "Surprise! We lost a bunch of money!" Two years after congress tightened regulations on Wall Street, the industry now fears that regulators will now listen to their fears even less as they enact stricter reforms.
Humans are consuming more resources than the earth can replenish, according to the World Wildlife Fund's Living Planet Report for 2012.
Lady Gaga yesterday cancelled a cold-out Indonesia performance in response to conservative protests over her clothing and dance moves.
National police spokesman Boy Rafli Amar, responding to the pressure, said Tuesday that the permit for her June 3 "Born This Way Ball" concert had been denied.
Indonesia, a nation of 240 million people, has more Muslims than any other. Although it is secular and has a long history of religious tolerance, a small extremist fringe has become more vocal in recent years.
Hard-liners have loudly criticized Lady Gaga, saying the suggestive nature of her show threatened to undermine the country's moral fiber. Some threatened to use physical force to prevent her from stepping off the plane.
Lawmakers and religious leaders, too, have spoken out against her.


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NEW ORLEANS, La. - Capping off a tremendous season where she averaged more than 15 points per game as one of the most dominating offensive forces in the Sun Belt, UALR junior guard Taylor Gault was named to the Sun Belt Conference's First Team on Tuesday afternoon.
Joining Gault in receiving accolades was senior guard Taylor Ford, who was placed on the Sun Belt Third Team by the league.
In 2013-14, Gault scored in double figures in 22 of the team's 28 games. In January and February, she scored at least 20 points in eight of the Trojans' 10 games. She had a season-high 29 points against UT Arlington on Feb. 22, and she set new single-game career highs during the season in rebounds (7) and assists (5). Her 15.1 points per game this year is fourth in the conference while her free-throw percentage of .833 is sixth in the league.
Gault, who also earned Sun Belt First Team distinction during her freshman year, finds herself in the top 10 in school history in multiple categories. She is now fourth all-time at UALR in points scored, and her 15.0 points per game career average is second in program history. She has the third-most field goals in Trojan history, the fifth-most made free throws, eighth-most steals and fourth-most blocks.
Gault was named the league's Player of the Week once during the season, and she was a member of the conference's All-League First Team before the year began. Earlier in her career, Gault was on last year's All-Tournament team, the 2012 Freshman of the Year, a 2012 First-Team member and the 2012 Conference Tournament Most Outstanding Player.
Ford, meanwhile, returns to the All-Conference Teams for the second consecutive season after making the league's Second Team in 2012-13. The senior's 3.9 assists per game this year ranks third in the conference while her 1.2 assist-to-turnover ratio is fifth in the league.
Ford's 2013-14 highlights include twice setting a new career high in points per game with 24 against South Dakota State in December and again in the regular-season finale against ULM on Senior Night on Saturday. Ford also tied single-game career highs with eight made free throws and four steals during the year while hitting dagger 3-pointers to seal victories against Texas State and Georgia State at home.
Ford will likely leave UALR in third place on the all-time assist list while also finishing 10th in field goal attempts, seventh in made free throws, ninth in rebounding and fourth in defensive rebounding. She has played more games than all but four other UALR players and started the sixth-most games in school history.
Gault was also named to the College Sports Madness Sun Belt First Team on Tuesday morning while Ford earned Fourth Team honors from College Sports Madness.
Gault, Ford and the rest of the UALR women's basketball team are back in action on Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. in the Sun Belt Conference Tournament quarterfinals against Troy.
Evan Drexler: Associate Director of Communications