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"This is why I have often insisted on the need to return, as it were, to the "letter" of the Council - that is to its texts - also to draw from them its authentic spirit, and why I have repeated that the true legacy of Vatican II is to be found in them. Reference to the documents saves us from extremes of anachronistic nostalgia and running too far ahead, and allows what is new to be welcomed in a context of continuity." (Pope Benedict XVI)
Bishops processing in St. Peters Square on the fiftieth anniversary of Vatican II and the Opening Mass of the Year of Faith
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10/11/2012 (3 years ago)
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Keywords: Second vatican Council, Year of Faith, Synod of bishops, New Evangelization, Pope Benedict XVI, Hermeneutic of Continuity, orthodoxy, orthopraxy, Deacon Keith Fournier
VATICAN CITY (Catholic Online) - The importance of the fact that the commemoration of the last Council of the Church, the launching of the Year of faith and the implementation of the global plan for the New Evangelization all happened simultaneously cannot be overstated. Pope Benedict XVI gave the homily set forth in its entirety below on Thursday, October 11, 2012. It contains some vital insights into the connection to which I refer.
Given its importance, we have decided to publish the homily it in its entirety for our readers around the globe. We invite you to prayerfully read the words of the successor of the Apostle peter. Clearly, this homily and its insights will guide the continuing Synod of Bishops in its important deliberations and decisions. We are living in an historic moment in Church history. I have often expressed my conviction that it is a "New Missionary Age".
The Holy Father's homily contained significant material for reflection, prayer and pastoral action as the Church considers the true meaning of the Documents of the Second Vatican Council and their proper interpretation and implementation. I also strongly commend to our readers an outstanding article written by George Weigel entitled "Vatican II, 50 Years Later" published on National Review on Line.
Pope Benedict XVI
Dear Brother Bishops,
Dear brothers and sisters!
Today, fifty years from the opening of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, we begin with great joy the Year of Faith. I am delighted to greet all of you, particularly His Holiness Bartholomaois I, Patriarch of Constantinople, and His Grace Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury.
A special greeting goes to the Patriarchs and Major Archbishops of the Eastern Catholic Churches, and to the Presidents of the Bishops' Conferences. In order to evoke the Council, which some present had the grace to experience for themselves - and I greet them with particular affection - this celebration has been enriched by several special signs: the opening procession, intended to recall the memorable one of the Council Fathers when they entered this Basilica; the enthronement of a copy of the Book of the Gospels used at the Council; the consignment of the seven final Messages of the Council, and of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which I will do before the final blessing.
These signs help us not only to remember, they also offer us the possibility of going beyond commemorating. They invite us to enter more deeply into the spiritual movement which characterized Vatican II, to make it ours and to develop it according to its true meaning. And it's true meaning was and remains faith in Christ, the apostolic faith, animated by the inner desire to communicate Christ to individuals and all people, in the Church's pilgrimage along the pathways of history.
The Year of Faith which we launch today is linked harmoniously with the Church's whole path over the last fifty years: from the Council, through the Magisterium of the Servant of God Paul VI, who proclaimed a Year of Faith in 1967, up to the Great Jubilee of the year 2000, with which Blessed John Paul II re-proposed to all humanity Jesus Christ as the one Savior, yesterday, today and forever.
Between these two Popes, Paul VI and John Paul II, there was a deep and profound convergence, precisely upon Christ as the center of the cosmos and of history, and upon the apostolic eagerness to announce him to the world. Jesus is the center of the Christian faith. The Christian believes in God whose face was revealed by Jesus Christ. He is the fulfillment of the Scriptures and their definitive interpreter. Jesus Christ is not only the object of the faith but, as it says in the Letter to the Hebrews, he is "the pioneer and the perfecter of our faith" (12:2).
Today's Gospel tells us that Jesus Christ, consecrated by the Father in the Holy Spirit, is the true and perennial subject of evangelization. "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach the good news to the poor" (Lk 4:18). This mission of Christ, this movement of his continues in space and time, over centuries and continents. It is a movement which starts with the Father and, in the power of the Spirit, goes forth to bring the good news to the poor, in both a material and a spiritual sense.
The Church is the first and necessary instrument of this work of Christ because it is united to him as a body to its head. "As the Father has sent me, even so I send you" (Jn 20:21), says the Risen One to his disciples, and breathing upon them, adds, "Receive the Holy Spirit" (v.22). Through Christ, God is the principal subject of evangelization in the world; but Christ himself wished to pass on his own mission to the Church; he did so, and continues to do so, until the end of time pouring out his Spirit upon the disciples, the same Spirit who came upon him and remained in him during all his earthly life, giving him the strength "to proclaim release to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed" and "to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord" (Lk 4:18-19).
The Second Vatican Council did not wish to deal with the theme of faith in one specific document. It was, however, animated by a desire, as it were, to immerse itself anew in the Christian mystery so as to re-propose it fruitfully to contemporary man. The Servant of God Paul VI, two years after the end of the Council session, expressed it in this way:
"Even if the Council does not deal expressly with the faith, it talks about it on every page, it recognizes its vital and supernatural character, it assumes it to be whole and strong, and it builds upon its teachings. We need only recall some of the Council's statements in order to realize the essential importance that the Council, consistent with the doctrinal tradition of the Church, attributes to the faith, the true faith, which has Christ for its source and the Church's Magisterium for its channel" (General Audience, 8 March 1967). Thus said Paul VI.
We now turn to the one who convoked the Second Vatican Council and inaugurated it: Blessed John XXIII. In his opening speech, he presented the principal purpose of the Council in this way: "What above all concerns the Ecumenical Council is this: that the sacred deposit of Christian doctrine be safeguarded and taught more effectively [.] Therefore, the principal purpose of this Council is not the discussion of this or that doctrinal theme. a Council is not required for that. [but] this certain and immutable doctrine, which is to be faithfully respected, needs to be explored and presented in a way which responds to the needs of our time" (AAS 54 [1962], 790,791-792).
In the light of these words, we can understand what I myself felt at the time: during the Council there was an emotional tension as we faced the common task of making the truth and beauty of the faith shine out in our time, without sacrificing it to the demands of the present or leaving it tied to the past: the eternal presence of God resounds in the faith, transcending time, yet it can only be welcomed by us in our own unrepeatable today.
Therefore I believe that the most important thing, especially on such a significant occasion as this, is to revive in the whole Church that positive tension, that yearning to announce Christ again to contemporary man. But, so that this interior thrust towards the new evangelization neither remain just an idea nor be lost in confusion, it needs to be built on a concrete and precise basis, and this basis is the documents of the Second Vatican Council, the place where it found expression.
This is why I have often insisted on the need to return, as it were, to the "letter" of the Council - that is to its texts - also to draw from them its authentic spirit, and why I have repeated that the true legacy of Vatican II is to be found in them. Reference to the documents saves us from extremes of anachronistic nostalgia and running too far ahead, and allows what is new to be welcomed in a context of continuity. The Council did not formulate anything new in matters of faith, nor did it wish to replace what was ancient. Rather, it concerned itself with seeing that the same faith might continue to be lived in the present day, that it might remain a living faith in a world of change.
If we place ourselves in harmony with the authentic approach which Blessed John XXIII wished to give to Vatican II, we will be able to realize it during this Year of Faith, following the same path of the Church as she continuously endeavors to deepen the deposit of faith entrusted to her by Christ. The Council Fathers wished to present the faith in a meaningful way; and if they opened themselves trustingly to dialogue with the modern world it is because they were certain of their faith, of the solid rock on which they stood. In the years following, however, many embraced uncritically the dominant mentality, placing in doubt the very foundations of the deposit of faith, which they sadly no longer felt able to accept as truths.
If today the Church proposes a New Year of Faith and a new evangelization, it is not to honor an anniversary, but because there is more need of it, even more than there was fifty years ago! And the reply to be given to this need is the one desired by the Popes, by the Council Fathers and contained in its documents. Even the initiative to create a Pontifical Council for the promotion of the new evangelization, which I thank for its special effort for the Year of Faith, is to be understood in this context. Recent decades have seen the advance of a spiritual "desertification".
In the Council's time it was already possible from a few tragic pages of history to know what a life or a world without God looked like, but now we see it every day around us. This void has spread. But it is in starting from the experience of this desert, from this void, that we can again discover the joy of believing, its vital importance for us, men and women. In the desert we rediscover the value of what is essential for living; thus in today's world there are innumerable signs, often expressed implicitly or negatively, of the thirst for God, for the ultimate meaning of life.
And in the desert people of faith are needed who, with their own lives, point out the way to the Promised Land and keep hope alive. Living faith opens the heart to the grace of God which frees us from pessimism. Today, more than ever, evangelizing means witnessing to the new life, transformed by God, and thus showing the path. The first reading spoke to us of the wisdom of the wayfarer (cf. Sir 34:9-13): the journey is a metaphor for life, and the wise wayfarer is one who has learned the art of living, and can share it with his brethren - as happens to pilgrims along the Way of Saint James or similar routes which, not by chance, have again become popular in recent years.
How come so many people today feel the need to make these journeys? Is it not because they find there, or at least intuit, the meaning of our existence in the world? This, then, is how we can picture the Year of Faith: a pilgrimage in the deserts of today's world, taking with us only what is necessary: neither staff, nor bag, nor bread, nor money, nor two tunics - as the Lord said to those he was sending out on mission (cf. Lk 9:3), but the Gospel and the faith of the Church, of which the Council documents are a luminous expression, as is the Catechism of the Catholic Church, published twenty years ago.
Venerable and dear Brothers, 11 October 1962 was the Feast of Mary Most Holy, Mother of God. Let us entrust to her the Year of Faith, as I did last week when I went on pilgrimage to Loreto. May the Virgin Mary always shine out as a star along the way of the new evangelization. May she help us to put into practice the Apostle Paul's exhortation, "Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teach and admonish one another in all wisdom [.] And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him" (Col 3:16-17). Amen.
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China, like Korea and other regions in the world, is trying to find ways to combat game addiction and what better way to do it then by letting parents take some control of the situation? Starting next month a new program called "parental watch project" will launch in China. It will require online gaming companies to provide parents access to a special call center and web site that lets parents monitor their children's activities online.
Besides the ability to monitor what their children are doing, parents will have a kill switch, allowing them to limit or ban their kids from online activities.
Child psychologists in the United States suggest that children should not have more than two hours of screen-time per day. The Ministry of Public Security says that children should only have about two hours of screen-time a week or spend more than $1.50 USD on online gaming services.
Some, like 27-year-old gamer Liu Kun, think it's a waste of time: "The kids can easily use a fake adult ID to get back into the game. They can just hide from their parents," Kun tells China Daily.
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The Celtics were 1 game shy of this moral victory. The Celtics were 1 quarter shy of this victory… Heck, if we really want to play this game, the Celtics were a mere 2 minutes away from this victory (the first 2 minutes of the 4th quarter in Game 7 v. ORL when the Magic went on an 11-0 run).
If you ask me, that is as good as the moral victory. They were that close… that close.
In this case, I'm choosing to be the right kind of fan. The Celtics gave us a great run this season. Remember when they won 19 games in a row before falling to the Lake show? Or how they were still 27-3 after having their win streak snapped? Remember how they won 18 games after KG went down with his mysterious knee injury and still managed to win 70% of their games down the stretch until the playoffs without one of the league's best players? Remember how the Celtics gave us the BEST opening round playoff series in league history against the formidable and dangerous Chicago Bulls?? Remember how the Celts took the Magic to Game 7 in a series they could have lost after 5 games?
I remember all of that. I remember seeing an aging team dig down and its veteran players fight until the final minutes of Game 7. I remember seeing 3 young players (Rondo, Perk, Baby) step onto the big stage and be asked to help to carry a sizable the chunk of responsibility alongside 2 hall of famers in order to make a serious run back to the conference championships/finals. I remember seeing our best bench player stay in a game for an extra 3 minutes after tearing ligaments in his left knee to fight through it for the team– Powe had microfacture surgery a few weeks ago.
It was as good of a season we could have in our given situation.


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|MPAA Rating: PG
|Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi
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Summary:In an effort to steal his games, a rival programmer uses an experimental laser to digitize hacker Kevin Flynn and send him into a mainframe computer. Flynn is forced into a series of gladiatorial combat games with programs he helped create and eventually teams up with his fellow combatants in a last-ditch effort to destroy the Master Control Program that enslaves them and free the digital world.


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For the 18 graduates from Antioch University's Leadership and Change Ph.D. program, the degree was far more than an academic accomplishment.
Villagers re-decorate for tolerance
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I have some astronomical data which I know has a sinusoidal component to it of the form
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Cincinnati Streetcar Scheduled to Open Sept. 15, 2016
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Following years of political controversy, the Cincinnati streetcar is scheduled to open for service on Sept. 15, 2016.
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The focus on the Zimmerman trial and its surrounding racial controversy has left out discussion of systemic racial problems in America.
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Rufus Johnson remains optimistic he can maintain his roles as a television producer and community activist in Cincinnati, despite Media Bridges closing later this year as a result of city and state funding cuts.
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City debt outlook worsens, Port apologizes for email about parking memo, fracking tax fails
It may become more expensive for the city to issue debt after Moody's downgraded the city's bond rating. The credit rating agency pinned the blame on the city's exposure to local and state retirement systems, as well as the city's reliance since 2001 on one-time sources to balance the operating budget. Still, Moody's does give the city some credit for its economically diverse population and recently stabilized earnings tax, despite docking the city for bad socioeconomic indicators, particularly resident income levels and historical unemployment rates. The Greater Cincinnati Port Authority's CEO Laura Brunner is apologizing to the public and council members following the exposure of an email that implied she was trying to keep a critical parking memo away from public sight. Brunner says she was just trying to buy time so she could directly show the memo to the Port Authority's board before it was reported by news outlets, but she acknowledges that her email was ill-conceived and came off as an attempt to stifle transparency. The memo suggests Cincinnati is getting a bad deal from its parking lease agreement with the Port Authority and several private operators, but the Port Authority and city officials argue the memo is outdated and full of technical errors. The Cincinnati Enquirer has a report detailing political contributions from oil and gas companies that may have helped bring down a state "fracking tax," which was supposed to raise state revenue from Ohio's ongoing oil and gas boom. Apparently, many of the Republican legislators who staunchly opposed the oil and gas severance tax also took in a lot of money from the same companies who would have to pay up. The tax proposal was effectively dead on arrival, even with the hyperbolic support of Republican Gov. John Kasich. Fracking is an extraction technique that pumps millions of gallons of water underground to free up oil and gas. CityBeat covered its effects on Ohio in further detail here. Water utility leaders are meeting in Cincinnati this week to discuss sustainable business models. In Cincinnati, water usage has dropped while expenses to treat water and waste water have escalated, causing the Metropolitan Sewer District to take in less money. The conference will discuss models that can adjust around this trend while keeping rates low for customers. The owners of The Hanke Exchange, a collection of buildings in Over-the-Rhine, say occupancy is going up as a result of the promise of the Cincinnati streetcar. The property is now at 84 percent occupancy rate, up from 28 percent three years ago. Dayton and Cincinnati will hold rallies Saturday showing support for Trayvon Martin, the unarmed black 17-year-old who was killed by George Zimmerman last year. Zimmerman was acquitted of murder by a jury last Saturday. Richard Cordray, the former Ohio attorney general, was confirmed to direct the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the top agency that will regulate the financial institutions that played a role in causing the Great Recession. The Hamilton County Young Democrats are hosting a free event today to meet Democratic State Sen. Nina Turner, who's also running for secretary of state next year against Republican incumbent Jon Husted. If the sun suddenly went out, humanity could take a few weeks to die out and perhaps live in Iceland.
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Previously unreleased memo spurs renewed calls to reject parking lease
The city administration today disputed the findings of a June 20 memo that suggested the city is getting a bad deal from its parking lease agreement with the Greater Cincinnati Port Authority, but it has not said why the memo wasn't passed along to City Council members and Port Authority during the three-plus weeks since the administration received the memo. In its own memo released today, the city claims that the June 20 memo, which was first reported by WCPO yesterday, is outdated and makes a few technical errors.The June 20 memo from Walker Parking Cosultants, a parking consultant hired by the city, found it will be 257 percent more expensive for the new private parking operator to run the city's on-street parking services in comparison to what the city currently spends. It also concludes the city isn't getting as much revenue as other cities got under their own parking leases. "The on-street operating expenses shown in the model are projected to grow at a faster rate than operating revenues," the June 20 memo claims. "The city should expect a private operator to run the parking system more cost effectively than the current operation, not less effectively. Therefore, revenues should be expected to increase at a rate faster than expenses, not slower." The memo's numbers come through estimates provided by ParkCincy, the operating team set to take over the city's parking meters, lots and garages following a decades-long lease agreement between the city and the Port Authority. In particular, the memo highlights what it claims are extraordinary payments requested by Xerox under the deal: The private parking operator is asking for a $627,063 fee in 2013, putting about 14.6 percent of projected net operating income to management fees. That's far higher than the typical 2.1 percent to 2.3 percent found in similar parking deals in other cities, according to the memo. The city disputed the findings in its own memo this morning. "The information that Walker used was from an early point in time; the deal was subsequently negotiated from that point to improve the deal," wrote City Manager Milton Dohoney in his own memo. "For example, the profit margin used was based on different parking deals in other cities that are not the same as ours. As we know, the Cincinnati model is unique in many ways."One such trait: Cincinnati's parking deal includes modernizing the city's parking meters to accept credit cards and mobile payment. The city cited a letter from the Port Authority sent to City Solicitor John Curp during an email exchange on July 12, the same day the Port Authority was given the June 20 memo. The letter contradicted what Port Authority CEO Laura Brunner claims are inaccuracies. "In its memo, Walker Consulting bases its comparisons on price, yet doesn't qualify the information with what level of service capabilities are included in the price," the Port Authority's letter reads. "The Port Authority is basing its purchasing decisions on price, but also level of enhancement to the on-street system that mirrors the City's desire to modernize these vital assets and position them to enhance economic development opportunities downtown and in City neighborhoods." Besides this "'apples to oranges' comparison," the Port Authority's letter disputes many of the technical details behind the June 20 memo, particularly questioning some of the measurements used and comparisons that don't account for differences between Cincinnati's parking lease and other cities' agreements. It also emphasizes that contracts with Xerox and other companies are not finalized yet. Much of the focus is now on why the June 20 memo was kept from City Council, the Port Authority and the public for nearly a month, given the memo's controversial findings about a controversial deal. "The city administration misled the public for months on the need for the deal, saying it was needed to avoid laying off cops and firefighters and then they don't do it. Now it's keeping vital information from the public and council. It's a violation of the public trust of the highest order," Democratic mayoral candidate John Cranley said in a statement. "I am urging the Port to reject this deal that is bad for the City." Cranley and other city officials, including several City Council candidates and council members P.G. Sittenfeld, Christopher Smitherman and Charlie Winburn, signed a letter to the Port Authority asking the city-funded agency to reject its agreement with Xerox. The city manager's office couldn't be immediately reached for comment. This story will be updated if further comments become available. The parking lease was finally signed by the city and Port Authority in June after months of political and court battles. The deal was signed even though a majority of City Council now opposes the lease after the city managed to balance its budget without the parking deal and without laying off cops and firefighters.City Council approved the parking lease on March 6, more than three months before the June 20 memo was given to the city administration. In return for the lease, Cincinnati is getting a $92 million lump sum and at least $3 million in annual payments, according to city estimates. The city plans to use that money to pay down future budget gaps and fund development projects, including the I-71/MLK Interchange.Update: Clarified Port Authority didn't receive the memo until July 12.
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Memo doubts parking plan, city manager defends hiding memo, streetcar to open 2016
The city administration yesterday disputed the findings of a June 20 memo that suggested the city is getting a bad deal from its parking lease agreement with the Greater Cincinnati Port Authority, but controversy remains about why the city administration withheld the memo from City Council and the Port Authority for three-plus weeks. Opponents of the parking plan are now attempting to use the memo to convince the Port Authority to reject the lease with Xerox, but the Port Authority insists that the memo is laced with inaccuracies and technical errors. The city is pursuing the lease to obtain a $92 million lump sum and at least $3 million in annual payments, according to city estimates. The money will be used to pay for future budget gaps and development projects, including the I-71/MLK Interchange. City Manager Milton Dohoney defended the city administration's decision to withhold the June 20 memo, but several council members are angered by what they call a "lack of transparency." Still, Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls argued the administration's decision to keep the memo from City Council was understandable because the memo was based on faulty information. The Cincinnati streetcar got an opening date yesterday: Sept. 15, 2016. The grand opening comes after years of political controversy, pulled funding and two referendum efforts nearly killed the project. Ever since it was first proposed, the streetcar project has been engulfed in misrepresentations, which CityBeat covered here. A federal judge made permanent his earlier decision that Ohio must count provisional ballots if they're submitted in the right polling place but wrong precinct. The ruling is being taken as a victory by voting-rights advocates. Cincinnati is negotiating to claw back its incentive with Kendle International Inc., which agreed in 2008 to keep its headquarters and create jobs at the city's Carew Tower. The agreement gave Kendle $200,000 over 10 years on the condition it steadily grew jobs. The failure may add further doubt to the value of job deals, which were criticized earlier in the year by a report CityBeat covered here. Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Christ Hospital and Bethesda North Hospital are among the best hospitals in the nation, according to U.S. News's "Best Hospitals" feature. Here are some of the odd things that made it into the two-year state budget. Gov. John Kasich signed a Columbus school plan that will allow levy money to be shared with charter schools that partner with the Columbus school district. The Senate is the best place in the country to eat hot dogs, according to Food & Wine. More U.S. hospitals now treat gay parents equally. Dogs apparently can watch television, which is good news for an Israeli channel explicitly aimed at dogs.
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Cincinnati Streetcar Scheduled to Open Sept. 15, 2016
Grand opening among several dates set after construction deal finalized
Following years of political controversy, the Cincinnati streetcar is scheduled to open for service on Sept. 15, 2016. The news was unveiled in a city memo this morning, which detailed the streetcar project's future following a construction deal with Messer Construction, Prus Construction and Delta Railroad. The news comes after Messer revealed it will need nearly $500,000 more to do construction work, which will be covered by the project's $10 million contingency funds. The memo detailed other upcoming milestones for the streetcar project:• March 1, 2015: Substantial completion of a 3,000-foot test track and maintenance center.• June 29, 2015: Substantial completion of Over-the-Rhine loop.• March 15, 2016: Substantial completion of all work. City Council recently approved $17.4 million in additional capital funding for the streetcar project, along with various accountability measures that will require the city manager to regularly update council and the public on the project's progress. The project's estimated cost now stands at $133 million.Ever since its inception, the Cincinnati streetcar has been mired in political controversies and misrepresentations, which CityBeat covered in further detail here.
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Following Democratic mayoral candidate John Cranley's announcement Friday to increase city contracts with minority- and women-owned businesses once elected, fellow Democratic mayoral candidate and Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls echoed support for the proposals, although she disputed Cranley's record on the issue. One issue in particular is the Croson study that would allow the city to prepare for a broader inclusion plan for minorities and women. Qualls has repeatedly proposed a Croson study during her time in City Council and previous time in the mayor's office, but she says Cranley failed to publicly raise the issue at all during his time on council between 2000 and 2009. Cincinnati's streetcar project cleared another hurdle Friday when Messer Construction announced it needed $500,000 to carry out construction work, which is easily covered by the project's $10 million contingency fund. With a construction contract, new funding and accountability measures now moving forward, the only potential issue is who has to pay to move utility lines to accommodate for streetcar tracks. The city claims Duke Energy does, while the energy company puts the onus on the city. That issue is currently being worked out in court, although the city has already set aside $15 million to carry out the work for now and just in case Duke isn't forced to carry the costs. Throughout the streetcar's history, the project has been mired in misrepresentations and exaggerations, which CityBeat covered in further detail here. The recently approved two-year state budget provides about $517 million less local government funding than the budget did in 2011, even though it pays for $2.7 billion in new tax cuts. Democrats have been highly critical of the cuts, but the governor's office says local governments are effectively getting more funding through other sources not particularly geared for city and county governments. CityBeat covered local government funding in greater detail here and the state budget here. Some state officials are pushing to establish an online, searchable database that would allow Ohio taxpayers to track state spending penny-by-penny. The state treasurer's office already maintains a database for teacher and state employee salaries. The Health Careers Collaborative, an organization working to increase health care employment in Greater Cincinnati, has a new leader. Amish communities in Ohio are questioning whether they should take royalties for land that would be used for fracking, an oil and gas extraction process that environmentalists claim is dangerous for surrounding air and water. For the Amish, the issue is spiritual, rooted in their religious restrictions against technology and many facets of the modern world. CityBeat covered fracking and its ongoing effect on some Ohio communities in greater detail here. Ohio gas prices are starting up this week. Twinkies are returning to store shelves today. HD 189773b, a blue exoplanet, may look hospitable, but the planet has a bad habit of raining glass sideways.
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Media Bridges Shutting Down
Public access media organization to close by end of year
Local public access media organization Media Bridges is shutting its doors for good by the end of the year, ending nearly 25 years of public service. The organization's demise is a result of the city eliminating funding for Media Bridges in its latest budget, which was passed by City Council in May. "It is with great sadness that I must announce that Media Bridges will close its doors by the end of 2013. The city has made it extremely clear that we will not be receiving any more funding from them. While we have tried many other avenues for revenue it has become clear that we will be unable to sustain operations beyond 2013," Media Bridges Executive Director Tom Bishop announced Tuesday in the organization's newsletter.The shutdown will be a steady process, with Media Bridges completely closing once its channels are transferred or Dec. 13 — whichever comes first.The city's budget cuts were originally considered in December, but City Council managed to restore some funding to keep the organization afloat. Prior to the partial restoration, Bishop had called the cuts a "meteor" to his organization's budget. City officials previously defended the cuts to Media Bridges, citing city surveys that ranked the program poorly in terms of budgetary importance. For the surveys, the city used meetings and mailed questionnaires to gauge public opinion. But Bishop claims the surveys' demographics were lopsided against low-income Cincinnatians, the income group that benefits the most from public access programs like Media Bridges. For both the meeting-based and mail-in surveys, Bishop's claim checks out. His concern is even directly acknowledged and backed in the documented survey results for the meetings: "Twenty-two percent of meeting participants earned less than $23,050 per year, compared to 40.8 percent of the population at large who earn less than $24,999 per year. While this is not representative of the population at large, the data does indicate strong participation from low income residents." Meanwhile, wealthier Cincinnatians were much better represented, with 11 percent of meeting participants making $150,000 or more per year despite only 6 percent of the city at large belonging to that income group, according to the survey results. The same issue can be found in the mail-in survey: Only 22 percent of respondents made less than $25,000, while 10 percent made $150,000 or more."It's ridiculous that they would call that representative of the city of Cincinnati," Bishop says. Instead of using its skewed survey results, Bishop argues the city should have looked at the 2010 Spring Greater Cincinnati Survey from the University of Cincinnati's Institute for Policy Research. In that survey, Cincinnati respondents were asked how important it was to provide recording equipment to citizens and neighborhoods so they can "produce educational and public access programs for cable television." About 54.3 percent called it "very important," 33.9 percent labeled it "somewhat important" and 11.7 percent said it was "not too important." City officials also defended the cuts by claiming that funding was only provided as a "one-year reprieve" after Media Bridges lost state funding that came through Time Warner Cable, which successfully lobbied to end its required contributions in 2011. Bishop disputes the city's claim, saying Media Bridges and its staff weren't informed that the city funding was meant to be temporary — at least until it was too late. Media Bridges is a public access media organization founded in 1988 that allows anyone in Cincinnati to record video and sound for publicly broadcasted television and radio. It also provides educational programs for people new to the process. Although Media Bridges is closing down, the city is still funding CitiCable, which, among other programming, broadcasts City Council and county commissioner meetings, through franchise fees from Cincinnati Bell and Time Warner.
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Streetcar Gets Good News with New Construction Bid
Messer Construction asks for less than $500,000 more; easily covered by contingency fund
Messer Construction says it needs nearly $500,000 more than the original $71 million it asked for to do construction work for the streetcar project, but the extra money is easily covered by the project's $10 million contingency fund that the city established in case of further cost overruns.In June, City Council approved an extra $17.4 million and accountability measures for the streetcar project, which require the city manager to publicly update council with a timeline of key milestones, performance measures, an operating plan, staffing assessments and monthly progress reports. During discussions for the funding and accountability proposals, some council members, particularly Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld, raised concerns that Messer would require more money than the city could afford. Sittenfeld said he was especially concerned Messer would have all the leverage going forward, considering the city supposedly needed the lower construction bid to keep the project within its new budget.Messer was the lowest bidder for the project's construction work, but even that bid came $26 million higher than the city's original estimates, forcing the city to close a budget gap if the project was to continue. With the construction bids taken care of, the only known funding concern for the streetcar is who has to pay $15 million for moving utility lines to accommodate for streetcar tracks. Duke Energy argues the cost burden is on the city, while the city says the energy company has to pay up. The issue is currently being decided in court.Ever since Cincinnati began pursuing the streetcar project, it's been mired in misrepresentations and political controversy, which CityBeat covered in further detail in this week's cover story.
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PHILADELPHIA -- On Oct. 28-29, the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania will convene "Equity and Race in a Democratic Society," a symposium focusing on the inequality within communities and schools and the inequities in private and public institutions serving minority and poor children and families, social problems that have persisted despite Brown v. Board of Education and the Civil Rights Act.
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The oddest of odd couples -- a chronically poor Israeli man in exile and an alcoholic Cambodian woman, neither of whom speaks the other's language -- share two daughters and a curious sense of love in docu "Phnom Penh Lullaby," Polish helmer Pawel Kloc's annoyingly uninvolving debut feature.
The oddest of odd couples — a chronically poor Israeli man in exile and an alcoholic Cambodian woman, neither of whom speaks the other's language — share two daughters and a curious sense of love in docu "Phnom Penh Lullaby," Polish helmer Pawel Kloc's annoyingly uninvolving debut feature. Lensed with immediacy by d.p. and co-writer Przemyslaw Niczyporuk mostly on Phnom Penh's unfriendly streets, the film seems on the cusp of revelations but then drifts and dawdles. Despite a terrific fest run, commercial prospects even on the tube look slight.Kloc has stated that he aimed "to make this film as a fiction," and to treat the camera "like an invisible guest" in the lives of Ilan Schickman and g.f. Saran, futilely trying to raise little girls Marie and Jasmine on Ilan's earnings as a tarot reader. Much of the activity deals with attempts to place Marie with a relative, since the parents can't afford to raise her. Their backgrounds are full of tragedy, and yet it's difficult to become emotionally involved with people who seem not to know how to take care of themselves, let alone kids.
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The Industrial Machine Mechanic certificate is designed to prepare students for an entry-level career in plant machinery installation, maintenance, and fabrication.
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Also known as a Millwright, you maintain, repair, install, dismantle and adjust factory equipment and industrial machinery, such as conveying systems, production machinery, and packaging equipment in factories, power plants, refineries, pipeline distribution systems, construction sites and more.
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Power plants –nuclear/coal/solar/hydroelectric/wind turbines, mines, contract work, cities, water plants, county, airports, refineries, oil rigs, consultants, aerospace, shipyards, and private manufacturing companies that make anything from clothes to paper clips. Basically any industry that uses large machinery to make, pack, ship, bottle, load and move things needs an Industrial Machine Mechanic.
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The Barossa Band Festival will again host its annual Festival on Saturday October 25th 2014 at Tanunda.
The Barossa Band Festival will again host its annual Festival on Saturday October 25th 2014 at Tanunda.
SCHOOL BANDS from *11.00am, Tanunda Rotunda, Murray Street
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Skip to comments.The moment handcuffed woman, 20, was left brain dead after being Tasered for trying to escape police
Posted on 02/21/2012 7:44:12 AM PST by rawhide
A 20-year-old woman has been left brain dead - after she was Tasered by police and smacked her head on the ground. Danielle Maudsley had been taken to a Florida Highway Patrol Station after being arrested for a suspected hit-and-run in September. Handcuffed, she ran out of the door.
But as footage from a police cruiser dashboard camera reveals, Trooper Daniel Cole, who this week was cleared of any wrongdoing, fired a Taser's electric probes into her back.
She spun, fell backwards and hit her head on the ground. Bleeding and crying she tried to get up. She then blacked out and has remained unconscious ever since.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
They pop up every time the cops run amok.
I will assume you are kidding, or are coffee'd up and not thinking rationally. If I am wrong you are just despicable - and would be his dream partner.
She was on foot.
Seriously? This girl needed tazed?
She should have either been beat to a pulp or shot. Tazing was his least lethal option, but it worked out ok for the public at large
If you watched this video, and suppor this cop, then frankly you live in a sick sad world. This guy committed manslaughter because he was either to fat, or too lazy or both to do his job.
Since you stick by him you can help pay the $$ that he and others will be paying out for his completely flippant and dangerous actions.
You must want a police. Think about what you're advocating. You are advocating for judge dredd. Ian that really them world you want your kids living in?
This is not a "cop". He is a thug, drunk with the absolute power of the state. My college buddy had his guns and gasoline stolen at gunpoint in New Orleans after Katrina by 3 "cops" like this one, when he was trying to defend his home from rioting thugs. He was not alone. Why? Because they could. Because they do not uphold the law, they think they ARE the law. And there are more of them in our police state every day.
This was a freak accident. I would remind you that tasers save lives and protect the innocent, but what do you care? To you and Hamilton Jay - all LEO's are fat donut munchers who's only purpose in life is to taze people and shoot dogs.
Like I said.... you have no idea what goes on in real life.
She was "running" in handcuffs, with a cop who literally had less than 3 feet to cover to grab her and opted to taze her instead. You can see him never even got going beyond a trot before he tazed her. Literally if he had just tried to run he could have easily grabbed her, he didn't even bother trying.
Fat, lazy ass killed this woman.. I know he didn't intend to, but that's what he did. Manslaughter as far as I'm concerned.
At least the subset of the public that wears brown shirts.
Bull.. all this lazy fat ass had to do was to actually do more than a fast walk, and try to run and he could have grabbed her. Tazing was not the proper response here, firing lazy, fat ass cops is.
The objective truth is she died as a result of the actions of a fat cop.
Not all LEOs. THIS LEO.
Like I said.... you have no idea what goes on in real life.
You sure make a lot of assumptions, pal. You have no idea what I have experienced.
yes, she chose to run, but the cops actions directly led to her injur
Her actions led directly to her demise. I hope it was painful, but doubt that it was
SEMINOLE One morning last week, the Florida Highway Patrol learned that a young woman had been involved in two hit-and-run crashes in less than an hour.
The woman had rear-ended two cars and fled both scenes. FHP Trooper Daniel Cole was sent to investigate.
she had cocaine and oxycodone in her system, the report states
It didn't take him long to find a suspect: 20-year-old Danielle Maudsley. The other drivers, who were not injured, took down Maudsley's tag number and gave a description of her to the trooper.
He found her at a Seminole address listed on the vehicle's registration.
Maudsley was cuffed and taken to the FHP substation in Pinellas Park.
Records show Maudsley has never had a driver's license in Florida.
Maudsley's mother, Cheryl Maudsley, who has a criminal record that includes charges of drug possession and theft
The car Maudsley was driving that day, a 2008 Chevy Malibu, belonged to Doris Garrison.
"I didn't give her permission to take my car," said Garrison, 70, who has been in Illinois most of the summer caring for her grandchildren. "She stole it."
This is exactly the point. Cops increasingly use tazers as a FIRST resort, in order to avoid grappling with somebody and maybe getting their pants ripped.
Man! You were just jonesing for boot polish this morning, weren't you!
I must say, you do seem to have developed the key survival skills necessary under socialism, so you're ahead of the curve that way.
You could run seminars on compliance. Most Americans need training in this key attitude toward state authority.
He should have blown her head off with his sidearm.
I could be wrong, but I think shooting suspects in the back leads to a murder charges.
Not if your are police; our betters are naturally immune.
I, for one, welcome our new Police Overlords /.
"Fat, lazy ass killed this woman"
I'm sure the cocaine that she and her 'mother' were doing didn't have anything to do with it. /s That is after she stole her ex-boyfriend's mother's car and did two hit and runs before being arrested.
This was not a violent felon evading a felony arrest
Hit and run is not a violent crime? What if they just hit you with a 2x4 instead of a 2 thousand pound vehicle and run?
We will criticize fat lazy pigs because we aren't their subjects. They aren't gods allowed to do anything they want. If we wait for cops to call out their own trash, cops will sprout wings and fly first.
You live into a warped world of judge dredd. We don't need or want street judges. We want cops with balls, fit enough to do their jobs, integrity to know what is right and wrong and then act on that, and a little common sense.
Maybe if them pigs value the life of your loved one some little, you'll wake up.
The poor young girl in this video couldn't even break her fall with her hands because she was in handcuffs. What this cop did was akin to shooting her in the back with his gun.
She presented no risk to him or to others.
I hope this case receives national coverage and leads to needed reforms and a few heads rolling at that department.
There's at least as much chance of something like this happening from being tackled (which would have been how he subdued her if he'd given chase) as tased. Freak accidents happen.
Sorry. I lost the sarc tag with that post. I figured anyone with better than a 6th grade education would have been able to understand the humor in that post.
But I didn't figure you'd show up.
So sorry.
The objective truth is that if she had acted responsibly and not tried to escape custody she would be bonded out and getting her next fix by now.
I could be wrong, but I think shooting suspects in the back leads to a murder charges.
Yeah that's true. Giving her the beating she deserved would have looked bad on the video too. I guess he took his best option in tazing her. Look on the bright side though, she won't be killing anyone on the road on her next little adventure of driving impaired
Of course if he had chased her down and tackled her, we'd be seeing the abuse article about excessive force.
First, running away in handcuffs is just stupid. She could have just as well tripped and fallen and be in the same condition without the Taser. She is the one most at fault for her condition.
However, as there was police involvement in the severe injury of a handcuffed, unarmed prisoner the department needs to make changes to prevent this happening again.
The first change is minimum fitness requirements for all officers. The officer in this case reached for his Taser first because he was not fit for a foot pursuit. Make sure all officers can lift a minimum weight and run sprints and the mile within minimum times with full gear. This poor slob could barely keep his pants up at a jog.
Second, restrict the use of Tasers on handcuffed runners. They are not a threat as long as they are running away and they probably aren't going to get far. As if the stun of the Taser isn't bad enough, the handcuffs limit their ability to catch themselves as they fall they are much more likely to suffer severe injury like this girl did. Tasers are not a harmless way of stopping someone, so police need to stop behaving like they are.
Cause: a fat cop shot 50,000 volts into a citizen.
Effect: Citizen died.
So (Devil's advocate here), say he chases her on foot, catches up, grabs her by the shirt collar and pulls her to the ground (visualize the "horse collar" tackle now penalized in football). The same head injury could result. There was no intent to injure or kill, it just happened. Should we be demanding the cop's head for catching her?
Or, if during the chase she missed a step and crashed headfirst onto a concrete curb, would the cop be wrong for having chased her in the first place?
No, she did not deserve a death sentence, but in this life, s*it happens, and more frequently when one does stupid things.
I could be wrong, but I think shooting suspects in the back leads to a murder charges.
Yeah that's true. Giving her the beating she deserved would have looked bad on the video too. I guess he took his best option in tazing her. Look on the bright side though, she won't be killing anyone on the road on her next little adventure of driving impaired
"The poor young girl in this video"
"The poor young girl" is a freaking druggie who STOLE a car (and hit two cars and fled) and her mother, who just happened to find an attorney to show up on 'headline news' with her is SUING. She has been arrested for drug possession and theft herself...
"Cheryl Maudsley, mother of Danielle Maudsley, who has a criminal record that includes charges of drug possession and theft"
Sorry, but you are a fool.
Yes she chose to run, but her running did not kill her. If this cop had pulled a gun and shot her, he'd be up for murder, so don't give me that the fact you ran means all bets are off and the cops can do whatever stupid thing they want.
This cop literally never even left a TROT, he didn't even TRY to make an effort to catch her. He chose to be the fat lazy SOB that he is, and taze a woman whom he already had handcuffed, because he wasn't willing or able to run.
He has culpability here, and if you think otherwise, you are unfamiliar with the law. I am not excusing her decision to run, it was stupid, however that does not justify this fat ass lazy cop deciding to taze a handcuffed woman on concrete who offered no direct threat to him that warranted the use of deadly force, and that is what a TAZER is meant and supposed to be for, an alternate to DEADLY FORCE, not an alternate for putting forth effort.
If a cop could not pull a gun in a situation, he shouldn't be pulling a tazer in one, and this situation didnt' remotely warrant the pulling of a gun. This guys and his district are going to face civil action and they are GOING TO LOSE! The review board decided to play CYA and keep the cop from facing Manslaughter charges which he should, but the district and this guy are going to pay out BIG TIME for this action! This guy's flat out laziness killed a woman, and while he certainly didn't intend to, his actions did it. Trying to argue he has zero culpability for this, shows flat out ignorance of the law, and honestly if you look at that video and think this guy isn't a fat lazy ass, then you really do need to visit your optomitrist, he never even bothered trying to run.. a light trot and even then he was less than 3 feet from her, and tazed her.
This is the kind of cop who gives all cops a bad name. The true response to this is to ban fat lazy people from becoming cops in the first place, or firing them when they decide being fat and lazy is more important than being in just rudimentarly physical condition to be able to run down a person in handcuffs who is less than 3 feet from you.
Sorry I misread the post!
What a moron, no?
"Manslaughter as far as Im concerned."
Heck, I agree with you.
But, the officer may be able to hide behind departmental policy on tasers.
And most departments have terrible policies, which allow their officers to use tasers to force citizens to 'comply'.
They are weapons, plain and simple. Their use should be restricted to situations involving officer safety.
A cop who weighs 2X as much as a woman who is already handcuffed loses control of her. That is incompetence.
From the article:
"Danielle, who had a suspended driving licence, was arrested earlier that day for allegedly leaving the scene of two traffic accidents."
She had a suspended license and had left the scene of TWO traffic accidents. She was also on two serious drugs, oxycodone and cocaine. I have some sympathy for this woman, but she is more to blame than anyone else for what happened.
but we'll get the typical defenders....
the cops get away with massive abuse of power because we let them...
I think its a perversion...whenever they have their little prey expecially when that prey is female or disabled or alone.....they get their little power trips...
that's why they love to pile on some poor guy and start punching wildly and kicking at his head...perverted power...
we had a big case here where the cops attacked a mentally slow person holding a pepsi plastic bottle....he too was tasered and died 3 days later....bet they got their jollies on that one...thankfully, one cop has been convicted although going thru an appeal..
Man, she hit HARD and at just the wrong angle.
I certainly don't blame the cops but prayers for the girl and her family.
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