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A City Council committee wants Cincinnati's leadership to investigate whether workers in a Clifton Heights development project are being paid what they're supposed to.
The Strategic Growth Committee on Wednesday passed a motion asking the city administration to report back on wage payments to workers on the U Square development. The project includes a parking garage as well as residential and commercial units.
Under Ohio law, workers on projects funded by cities must be paid a prevailing wage, which is equivalent to the wage earned by a union worker on a similar project.
The city only has money invested in the garage, and the state of Ohio recently ruled that workers on other parts don't have to be paid prevailing wage.
Council members Wendell Young, Cecil Thomas and Laure Quinlivan produced a video in which they interviewed carpenters who said they were being paid less than the prevailing wage.
At issue is a letter from developer Towne Properties that says the company will pay all workers prevailing wage anyway. Arn Bortz with Towne Properties said his company cuts a check to subcontractors respecting that agreement, so if workers aren't being paid the proper amount it's their fault.
City Solicitor John Curp told members of the Strategic Growth Committee that under city and state law, the subcontractors are not required to pay workers a prevailing wage on parts of the project that are not getting public funding. He said the letter from the developer does not hold the weight as a legal contract.
Young, Thomas, Quinlivan and Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld all expressed the need to overhaul the way the city enters into development contracts to better protect workers.
However, City Manager Milton Dohoney hinted that overzealous requirements for high wages could chase off some development projects.
He said that a project like U Square is tied to the Clifton location because of its proximity to the University of Cincinnati, but the city can't be too restrictive when it comes to businesses that could expand elsewhere.
Dohoney said the city also doesn't currently have the manpower to do the kind of aggressive enforcement that the council members were asking for.
Councilman Young countered that he would like to see the city be as aggressive with enforcement as they are with making economic development deals.
"We want to change the rules of the game to make sure everyone is treated equal," Young said.
Some members of city council agreed that the city needs to take a hard look at the way it inspects projects done with taxpayer money, but they took no action during a special joint committee meeting Thursday to discuss allegations that workers were being underpaid at the University Square development in Clifton.
Council members Laure Quinlivan, Cecil Thomas and Wendell Young presented a video investigation they conducted, which included interviews with workers on the project who claim they were being taken advantage of by the University Square developers.
Under Ohio and Cincinnati law, workers on projects funded by taxpayers must be paid a so-called "prevailing wage" (the same as a unionized worker) and be given benefits.
In Cincinnati, that wage is $23.17 an hour for the carpentry work done by the workers interviewed for the video.
The workers in the video claimed they were paid $500 for working a 60-hour week.
"Five-hundred dollars a week to me when you don't have a job, that's a lot," said Garrick Foxx, a construction worker on the project.
"But actually when you average it out, it's not. Like to the hour-wise it's probably like 9-something, so like I could actually make that working at McDonalds."
The University Square developer — a collaboration between Towne Properties and Al. Neyer, Inc. — is building a complex with a parking garage, residential units and retail space.
The City of Cincinnati has $21 million invested in the parking garage. The State of Ohio recently ruled that the prevailing wage provisions apply only workers constructing the garage that the city has money invested in.
Arn Bortz with Towne Properties said the controversy was ginned up by unions and it hasn't been proven that workers are being underpaid.
"All of this was started by the unions themselves because they became very unhappy when the State of Ohio said a sizeable portion of our project was not subject to prevailing wage," Bortz said. "They tried then to discredit and intimidate anyone who is on the other side of the table."
Bortz said he agreed to pay a prevailing wage even to workers who worked on parts of the project not subject to the law. He said he cuts a check to the subcontractors based on that agreement.
"Whether any of those subcontractors might have been unfair to the workers, we do not know," Bortz said. "If they were, they should be made to be fair."
Deputy City Solicitor Aaron Herzig said if the contract required a particular wage be paid and it wasn't, the city can bring a breach of contract action against the developers. But to start an investigation, a complaint must first be made.
The council members asked that their investigation be considered a formal complaint.
Conservative groups are pushing Ohio to purge its voter rolls. The move is largely seen by Democrats as an attempt to disenfranchise and suppress voters. The groups in support of the purge, which include Judicial Watch and True the Vote, typically cite voter-related errors and voter fraud as the main reason for their efforts, but there have been 10 cases of in-person voter fraud since 2000, according to a News21 study. Florida Gov. Rick Scott also pushed for a voter purge in his state, but Democrats vowed to fight the purge at every step.The Historic Conservation Board ruled in favor of the Anna Louise Inn yesterday. The ruling means the inn can now move ahead with its multi-million renovation project. The board's ruling was despite Western & Southern, which has tried to block the renovation as part of a broader attempt to shut down the inn and buy up the property. CityBeat extensively covered W&S's attempts here.
Cincinnati is No. 7 in the country for job growth, a study from Arizona State University found. Cincinnati beat out Riverside, Calif., but it lost to San Francisco, Denver, Houston, Phoenix, Seattle and San Diego.Secretary of State Jon Husted was advised to fire the Democrats on the Montgomery Board of Elections by Jon Allison, who overheard the hearing on the firings on Aug. 20. Allison is also the former chief of staff to Republican Gov. Bob Taft. The Democrats on the board attempted to expand in-person early voting to weekends despite Husted's call to uniform voting hours that include no weekend voting. Ohio Democratic Party Chris Redfern said the recommendation was "no surprise" and the Republican Party should be expected to support voter suppression by now.
Josh Mandel, excessive liar, Ohio treasurer and senatorial candidate for Ohio, described Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio as "un-American" for his vote supporting the auto bailout, which helped protect 850,000 jobs in Ohio's auto industry. But Mandel still refuses to give specifics on what he would have done differently to protect the auto industry.The federal government has given the go-ahead for fracking in Wayne National Forest in Ohio. The go-ahead will open up more than 3,300 acres for auction. Environmental critics say fracking is unsafe and should be banned, but Gov. John Kasich insists the process can be made safe with proper regulations. Previous analyses have found natural gas, which is produced from fracking, could help combat climate change. CityBeat previously covered the uncertainty behind fracking here.
Kentucky is getting another creationist attraction. Apparently not content with the false claims asserted at the Creation Museum and Ark Encounter, a new group wants to build a brick-and-mortar for the Founders of Creation Science Hall of Fame.Republicans almost went a day without saying something offensive about women. Tom Smith, Republican candidate for Pennsylvania's senate seat, compared pregnancy from rape to pregnancy out of wedlock. Last week, Paul Ryan, Republican vice presidential candidate, described rape as a "method of conception."
Most people might not remember it since it's rarely mentioned in the news anymore, but America is still at war in Afghanistan. Yesterday, the Taliban beheaded 17 civilians for having a party, two U.S. soldiers were killed by an Afghan soldier and 10 Afghan soldiers died to insurgents.A private funeral service is planned in Cincinnati for Neil Armstrong, who died last Saturday. A public funeral will be held at Wapakoneta. Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. His first steps inspired curiosity and innovation around the world when he said, "One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." Politicians will talk up Armstrong's accomplishment in the following days, but Democrats and Republicans both supported cuts to NASA's budget in recent years that Armstrong opposed.
The Conservation Board staff reviewed the standards required for conditional use and the Anna Louise Inn's application, concluding that the facility should be allowed to operate as a "special assistance shelter."
The Board is expected to rule on the permit Aug. 27 after receiving the recommendation and hearing testimony from the Inn's administrators and supporters. Representatives from Western & Southern Financial Group, which sued the Anna Louise Inn over zoning violations in 2011, will also have an opportunity to testify.
CityBeat last week reported the details of Western & Southern's failure to purchase the Anna Louise Inn when it had the chance and the company's subsequent attempts to force the Inn out of the neighborhood ("Surrounded by Skyscrapers", issue of Aug. 15).
Tim Burke, lawyer for the Anna Louise Inn, is pleased with the staff's determination that the renovation met all qualifications for conditional use.
"I was certainly optimistic that we would get a positive recommendation," Burke says. "This is obviously an extremely positive recommendation and we agree with it."
The staff recommendation states that the Anna Louise Inn "creates, maintains and enhances areas for residential developments that complement and support the downtown core" and that "no evidence has been presented of any negative public health, safety, welfare or property injury due to the current use." It also notes that "the Anna Louise Inn is a point of reference from which all other new and renovated buildings must be designed in order to be compatible with the district."
The Anna Louise Inn only applied for the conditional use permit because Judge Norbert Nadel ruled in Western & Southern's favor on May 4, determining that the Inn is a "special assistance shelter" rather than "transitional housing," which froze $12.6 million in city- and state-distributed loans for the Inn's planned renovation. The Anna Louise Inn appealed that decision but also applied for the conditional use permit from the Conservation Board under the judge's definition, because special assistance shelters qualify for conditional use permits under the city's zoning code.
Francis Barrett, lawyer for Western & Southern, appears to have taken exception to the Anna Louise Inn's application. He sent a letter to the Conservation Board Aug. 20 stating that "the description of the proposed uses set forth in the application for conditional use approval … is not the same as nor consistent with the Court's decision."
Barrett didn't return a message left by CityBeat with the receptionist at his law firm after a Western & Southern media relations representative directed CityBeat to contact him there. Francis Barrett is the brother of Western & Southern CEO John F. Barrett.
UPDATE: Francis Barrett returned CityBeat's call after this story was published. His comments are at the end.
Burke doesn't know what Barrett meant by suggesting that the proposed uses in the Anna Louise Inn's application for conditional use don't follow Nadel's May 4 ruling.
"We're doing what they argued in court," Burke says. "Judge Nadel's decision doesn't ever exactly say 'you're a special assistance shelter.' It certainly refers to the Off the Streets program that way and it certainly refers to (the Anna Louise Inn) as a single unified use. It says 'go back to the appropriate administrators and seek conditional use approval.' That's what we're doing."
Stephen MacConnell, president and CEO of Cincinnati Union Bethel, which owns the Anna Louise Inn, says the hearing will involve testimony from himself and Mary Carol Melton, CUB executive vice president, along with supporters of the Anna Louise Inn.
"We'll bring a few witnesses just to basically lay out the situation," MacConnell says. "The board will already have the staff recommendation, so the witnesses that we'll bring will briefly testify about how we meet the required standards."
Western & Southern will have a chance to appeal if the Historic Conservation Board grants the conditional use permit. Burke expects that to happen.
"What I'm pissed about is Western & Southern, they don't give a damn," Burke says. "We can do exactly what Judge Nadel told us to do and get it approved as a conditional use. They will appeal it to the zoning board of appeals. We can win it there and they will appeal it and get it back in front of Judge Nadel and then I don't know what will happen."
The hearing is scheduled to take place at 3 p.m. Monday, Aug. 27 at Centennial Plaza Two, 805 Central Ave., Seventh Floor.
UPDATE 5:36 P.M.: Regarding the letter Francis Barrett sent the Conservation Board Aug. 20 stating that "the description of the proposed uses set forth in the application for conditional use approval … is not the same as nor consistent with the Court's decision," Barrett said Friday evening: "I just felt that the description in the submission was different from the description in the decision. I would say it was just not complete."
When asked for specifics, Barrett said: "I'd have to get the decision out and look at it carefully. I don't have it in front of me I just thought in general."
Barrett said Western & Southern will give a presentation to the Historic Conservation Board on Monday but declined to elaborate because it wasn't finalized.
When asked if Western & Southern will appeal a ruling in favor of the Anna Louise Inn, Barrett said: "It all depends what the decision states."
The Ohio Republican Party has given an excuse for Franklin County Republican Party Chairman Doug Preisse's racist comment: Preisse thought he was off the record. The defense solidifies that Preisse, who is also a top adviser to Gov. John Kasich, was being honest — just not public — when he wrote in an email to The Columbus Dispatch, "I guess I really actually feel we shouldn't contort the voting process to accommodate the urban — read African-American — voter-turnout machine." The comment was supposed to defend the Ohio Republican Party's position against expanding in-person early voting, but it only revealed that racial politics play a pivotal role in the Republican Party's opposition to expanded voting.
Cincinnati has revealed the first master plan for the city since 1980. The plan seeks to put back an emphasis on urban living with policies that are friendlier to the environment and non-automotive transportation.President Barack Obama's campaign will host an open house at the campaign's new offices at Over-the-Rhine tomorrow. John Legend will be there.
Cincinnati-based Fifth Third Bank is facing a class action lawsuit for what the plaintiff calls "payday loans." The plaintiff alleges that the bank was charging illegally high interest rates.
University of Cincinnati President Greg Williams is stepping down, citing personal reasons. Santa Onos, who previously served as provost, will take over temporarily as interim president.Greater Cincinnati's unemployment rate, which is not adjusted for seasonal factors, remained at 7.2 percent in July. The number is lower than the state's unadjusted rate of 7.4 percent and the federal unadjusted rate of 8.6 percent. Governments typically give numbers that are seasonally adjusted, which is why in July a 7.2 percent unemployment rate was reported for Ohio and an 8.3 percent unemployment rate was reported for the United States.
The Ohio Hospital Association is backing the Medicaid expansion. The expansion is an optional part of Obamacare. The Dispatch blog calls the expansion "costly," but Medicaid expansions can actually save the state money by eliminating uncompensated hospital visits — on top of possibly saving lives.
The Ohio Board of Education will hold an emergency meeting tomorrow. The meeting will set the "process and criteria" for the Board's search for a new superintendent of public instruction.The Horseshoe Casino will begin hiring today. The casino is looking to fill more than 750 positions.
Forty-one Greater Cincinnati companies made it on the latest Inc. 5000 list.
Obama was in Columbus yesterday. During the trip, the president talked mostly about young people and education in an attempt to rally the youth vote.
U.S. spending on health care is set to rise by 50 percent by 2020, a new report says. As part of Obamacare and other programs, the federal government is trying to bring health-care costs down, which have risen faster than the rate of inflation in recent history.
Scientists have caught a glimpse of a red giant — an expanding star in its final stages — devouring one of its own planets. The same will happen to our galaxy someday, painting a fairly grim future for Earth. Fortunately, humanity has a few billion years to find a solution.
The City of Cincinnati today released the final draft for its plan to "re-establish (Cincinnati) as a model of a thriving urban city." Plan Cincinnati, which will be taken up in a public hearing on Aug. 30 at 6 p.m., is the first master plan for Cincinnati since 1980.
The primary goal behind the plan is to transition the city away from a model that emphasizes suburban living back to a more urban model. The plan's report justifies the shift by attributing it to a new societal need.
"Dissatisfied, American society is now beginning to reverse the trend (of suburban living) with the hope of returning to an environment that is more economically and environmentally sustainable, less dependent on the automobile, closer in scale to human form, and ultimately, truly more livable," the report says.
The plan will make this transition with six guiding principles: Provide more transportation choices, promote equitable, affordable housing, enhance economic competitiveness, support existing communities, coordinate and leverage federal policies and investment, and value communities and neighborhoods.
The vague principles are outlined in greater detail in the 228-page report, which can be read in full here.
One of the key parts of the plan is its expansion of options for non-automotive travel. The plan promises to focus more work on bicycle paths, support a Bicycle and Pedestrian Program and build links between bicycle systems to allow more cycling through the city. The city will also "design and construct the Ohio River Bike Trail through Cincinnati" and make the city safer for cyclists by making roads smoother and cleaner.
The plan also encourages other transportation programs. Establishing better coordination with Metro buses, building intercity rail systems and integrating the new streetcar into a greater transportation model are a few of the many suggestions in the plan. With these systems, the plan hopes to "facilitate economic development opportunities."
Beyond transportation, the plan also seeks to establish environmentally friendly programs. Some of the suggestions are developing a green construction incentive program, implementing smart grid networks and reforming the LEED tax abatement program to include additional energy efficient rating systems.
However, the plan is missing one important detail: cost. The report says Plan Cincinnati will be reviewed every year using the new Priority-Driven Budgeting process, but no estimates for cost are currently available. Katherine Keough-Jurs, senior city planner, explained why in an email: "That is not something that we provide. We have found over the years that providing cost estimates in long-range plans is problematic and the estimates can be misleading. Also, some of the Action Steps listed are not necessarily things that would have a monetary cost associated."
Without much fanfare
but with supporters looking on in the Losantiville Room in Union Terminal,
Cincinnati City Council passed an ordinance on Wednesday banning the injection of
wastewater underground within city limits.
"I'm proud to be on the first City Council to ban injection wells," said Councilwoman Laure Quinlivan, who submitted the ordinance to council.
"I want to give props to the solicitors … who have come up with a very unusual thing in City Council — a one page ordinance."
The ordinance, which passed unanimously after being voted out of committee on Tuesday, is aimed at preventing the injection of wastewater from hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, under Cincinnati. Its injection has been linked to a dozen earthquakes in northern Ohio.
Opponents also worry that the chemicals in the water, which is used to drill underground to free up gas and oil, can seep into drinking water. Oil and gas companies aren't required to disclose which chemicals they use.
It's unclear if the city's ban on wastewater injection would hold up against a 2004 state law that gives the state of Ohio sole power in regulating oil and gas drilling. That regulatory power also extends to Class 2 injection wells.
At a news conference earlier in the day, Quinlivan cited a ProPublica story that said between 2007 and 2010, one well integrity violation was filed for every six wastewater injection wells.
She says data like this makes it clear injection wells are
too dangerous.
Food and Water Watch organizer Alison Auciello spoke in
support of the City Council ordinance at the news conference.
"We're pleased City Council has moved swiftly for the protection of its citizens," Auciello said.
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) has received no injection well permit requests for southwestern Ohio, but Auciello says the legislation is a good preventive measure.
Heidi Hetzel-Evans, a spokesperson for ODNR, says it wouldn't be feasible to build injection wells in southwestern Ohio due to the region's geology.
"It's safe to say oil and gas drilling has no direct impact on southwestern Ohio," Hetzel-Evans says.
Auciello says more bans like the Cincinnati ordinance are necessary in Ohio. She says she's concerned that Ohio is being turned into a dumping ground as massive amounts of wastewater from Pennsylvania are brought to Ohio due to a lack of regulation.
Auciello also echoed calls from environmental groups to ban fracking in Ohio. However, fracking supporters — including Gov. John Kasich — insist the process can be made safe with proper regulations.
This story was updated to reflect City Council's afternoon vote.
Nobody stood up for fracking in today's City Council committee meeting that saw dozens of people urge council to pass an ordinance banning injection wells within Cincinnati.
All members of the Strategic Growth Committee voted in favor of the proposed ordinance, with the exception of Councilman Chris Seelbach, who was recovering after allegedly being assaulted in downtown Monday night.
If approved, the ordinance would prohibit injections wells — which inject wastewater underground — from being allowed within city limits. It now goes before the full council.
The practice is commonly associated with hydraulic fracturing – or "fracking" — which uses chemical-laced water to drill for oil and gas. Fracking fluid injected underground has been tied to a dozen earthquakes in northeastern Ohio.
A 2004 Ohio law puts regulation of oil and gas drilling under the state's purview, preventing municipalities from regulating the drilling.
The wording of the proposed Cincinnati ordinance doesn't mention oil or gas drilling, which proponents say they hope will keep it from clashing with the state law if it passes.
Ohio Department of Natural Resources spokeswoman Heidi Hetzel-Evans tells CityBeat that injection wells also fall under ODNR's purview.
She says she isn't sure if the proposed Cincinnati ordinance would conflict with the state law.
"It's very hard for ODNR to speculate on what might happen," she says, adding that there aren't any injection wells or applications for them in the Cincinnati area. "This may not be an issue that's ever tested."
That didn't stop the dozens of people who spoke in favor of the ordinance at the committee meeting from erupting into applause once the ordinance was approved.
Barbara Wolf, a documentarian who has made a video about Cincinnati's Water Works, said that the city has some of the cleanest water in the world, and chemicals from hydraulic fracturing could jeopardize that.
"We are studied by other countries," Wolf said. "If it (fracking fluid) goes into the Ohio River, we don't know what the chemicals are. It's very hard to clean up chemicals if you don't know what they are. And that's one of the things we do really well: clean up chemicals."
Steve Chabot's self-righteous attempt to block federal
streetcar funding found new criticism yesterday, as The Enquirer spoke to
several credible sources who say his amendment is broad enough to affect
federal funding for transportation projects beyond the streetcar,
including bus lanes or ferries.
Mayor Mark Mallory and 3CDC representatives were scheduled to kick off a grand opening celebration of Washington Park at 10 a.m. this morning. The $48 million renovation includes an underground parking garage, concession building, dog park and concert space. A rally against the renovation and displacement of residents was scheduled for 10:30 a.m. CityBeat's Mike Breen blogged away yesterday about the park's scheduled weekly music series.
It's going to be another sucky hot weekend in Cincinnati.
U.S. hiring is being weak again.
Walgreens is buying mass drug store chains, preparing to cash in on that ObamaCare money.
Brad Pitt's mom wrote a pro-Mitt Romney, anti-abortion and anti-same-sex marriage letter to the editor of a Missouri newspaper. Brad, for the record, is pro-gay marriage and donated to the 2008 anti-Proposition 8 campaign in California.
I have given much thought to Richard Stoecker's letter ("Vote for Mormon against beliefs," June 15). I am also a Christian and differ with the Mormon religion.
But I think any Christian should spend much time in prayer before refusing to vote for a family man with high morals, business experience, who is against abortion, and shares Christian conviction concerning homosexuality just because he is a Mormon.
Any Christian who does not vote or writes in a name is casting a vote for Romney's opponent, Barack Hussein Obama — a man who sat in Jeremiah Wright's church for years, did not hold a public ceremony to mark the National Day of Prayer, and is a liberal who supports the killing of unborn babies and same-sex marriage.
I hope all Christians give their vote prayerful consideration because voting is a sacred privilege and a serious responsibility.
First they were telling us that the Higgs boson is the building block of the universe. How Professor Peter Higgs says he has no idea what the discovery will mean in practical terms. Come on, Higgs!
Apparently 250,000 people are going to wake up without the Internet on Monday.
Scientists believe they've created the most realistic robot legs ever.
It was "Rich People Voice Their Concerns Night" at city councils across town last night, as proponents of the $1 sale of Music Hall packed Cincinnati City Council chambers even though the proposed lease deal wasn't on the agenda. Mayor Mark Mallory insisted that any middle ground that will allow the nonprofit Music Hall Revitalization Co. to renovate the building will require that the city retain ownership.
Across town (and about 10 miles northeast toward the area with mass trees), Madeira City Council shot down a plan to develop a luxury apartment complex on Camargo Road. Council voted 6-1 to scrap the plan for a 184-unit complex after residents who voiced concern said the complex would be "too dense" and take away from the city's single-family character. Word on the street is that the Council majority didn't want scumbag renters like this guy to be able to move into the neighborhood and start playing music really loud out of their car stereos.
Cincinnati City Council yesterday pretty much canceled its plans to build an atrium at City Hall. Six council members approved a motion asking administrators to shut it down, and City Manager Milton Dohoney says he'll abide by it even though he technically doesn't have to because the funding was approved in a spending ordinance.
Council also voted yesterday to keep the property tax rate pretty much the same next year despite a projected deficit.
Now that the Supreme Court has temporarily upheld part of Arizona's racist
controversial immigration law, no-name state legislators in Ohio and
Kentucky plan to break out the laws they couldn't previously get passed.
According to The Enquirer's Mark Curnutte (who apparently won a
national book award for his work covering poverty in Haiti — big ups,
Curnutte!), some dudes named Courtney Combs (R-Ross Township, Ohio) and
John Schickel (R-Union, Ky.) have some great ways to rid of their states'
illegal immigrants, at least until the court strikes down the rest of
Arizona's law.
New York Times: "Arizona Ruling Only a Narrow Opening for Other States"
Housing prices are going up in most cities due to low interest rates and cheap prices.
A new Obama campaign ad refers to Mitt Romney as "outsourcer in chief." Ouch!
The War on Drugs is making the AIDS epidemic worse by driving people away from treatment, according to a report released today by the Global Commission on Drug Policy.
California condors are being threatened by lead poisoning from bullets left behind in dead carcasses shot by hunters, which the birds eat.
Facebook changed users' listed email accounts, and people on the Internet are mad. Gizmodo explains how to fix it.
The Spice Girls are reuniting to create a musical called Viva Forever! at London's Piccadilly Theatre.
One of Cincinnati's biggest developers has plans to reshape an entire block of Race Street near Findlay Market in Over-the-Rhine.
Model Group, which is based in Walnut Hills, has put in an application with Cincinnati Center City Development Corporation to develop city-owned properties on the 1800 block of Race Street. In addition, the developer has recently purchased a number of other properties on the block. The grand vision: more than 50,000 square feet of commercial space and 40,000 square feet of office space in the area just east of the historic market.
"We want it to feel like an extension of the market," said Model Group COO Bobby Maly Sept. 5. But don't call it Findlay Market II. "We're not trying to be the market," he said.
The deal isn't finalized yet, however. Model will still need approval from 3CDC and the city. On June 25, City Council approved 3CDC's request to be preferred developer of the area around the market. The non-profit development group is currently taking applications from developers who want in on the action in the rapidly changing neighborhood and advising the city about which projects should get the go-ahead. Except for a couple businesses such as Rhinegeist brewery, the area of OTR north of Liberty Street is still mostly untouched by redevelopment.
3CDC's request that the city make it preferred developer in the area caused controversy. Critics, including Over-the-Rhine Community Council President Ryan Messer, say the group has too much power and shouldn't be allowed to call the shots entirely in OTR. 3CDC has led the drive to reshape the part of the neighborhood south of Liberty Street, including the renovation of Washington Park, the enormous Mercer Commons project and a bevy of smaller retail, dining and residential spaces, especially along Vine Street. But Messer and others say smaller developers could move quicker than 3CDC, which has banked a number of buildings, shoring them up just enough to save them and then boarding them up. He has also expressed concerns that the development group isn't serving the interests of everyone in the neighborhood and hasn't paid close enough attention to the need for things like affordable housing there.
"A common thread in the neighborhood is the expressed desire to protect and expand our cultural diversity and this, in part, can be done by paying close attention to providing affordable housing options in both the rental and the purchase markets," Messer said in a June 18 letter to the city asking it to not grant 3CDC preferred developer status.
While Model Group has played a relatively smaller role in OTR than the nonprofit 3CDC, it has also been very active in the area, especially in the Pendleton District to the east. Model has been working on Pendleton Square, a $26 million residential development just north of the Horseshoe Casino. That project could create about 40 new market-rate residential units and more than 10,000 square feet of retail space in the neighborhood, which is also experiencing a surge in redevelopment efforts.
General Electric is officially moving 1,800 employees to The Banks, the entertainment and retail complex on Cincinnati's riverfront. But it took some deal-sweetening by the city to make it happen. City Council and Hamilton County Commissioners on Monday approved a landmark deal that incentivizes the company to consolidate some administrative and finance jobs at the site, which will be 10 stories tall and cost about $90 million to build.
The city's bid beat out Norwood and other locations, though the city and county had to offer one of the most generous deals in the region's history. The company will receive a 75-percent property tax abatement for the next 15 years, with the other 25 percent of those taxes going to Cincinnati Public Schools. Eighty-five percent of employees' city earnings taxes will also flow back to the company over that period of time.
GE said the incentives are needed because moving to The Banks will be about 15 percent more expensive than other bids it considered. The city hopes the deal will lead to a long-term payoff. County officials tout studies showing big benefits. The Economics Center for Education and Research at UC ran the numbers on the deal and suggest that the project could bring in $1 billion in overall economic activity. The site should reach full capacity by 2018.
The estimated average salary of an employee at the site will be about $79,000, company officials say.
Despite some questions about how quickly the deal came together, both council and county commissioners passed it unanimously during an unusual joint meeting at Great American Ball Park. Council member P.G. Sittenfeld praised the project but noted the city will need to remember to balance fairness and overall impact in the future. Council member Chris Seelbach used the occasion to tout the streetcar, tweeting that it was a big factor in GE's choice to move to The Banks.
Mayor John Cranley is trying to find a compromise over whether early voting will move out of downtown after the 2016 general election, as some Republicans in the county government have suggested. Cranley called for a meeting with Hamilton County Board of Elections Chairman and Hamilton County Democratic Party Chairman Tim Burke, Hamilton County Republican Party Chairman Alex Triantafilou, Cincinnati NAACP President Ishton Morton and Hamilton County Board of Commissioners President Chris Monzel. The meeting will aim to "discuss alternatives the City of Cincinnati can offer to accommodate early voting downtown after the 2016 elections. (Cranley) believes that such a discussion is consistent with the recommendation of the secretary of state that there be an effort to find a nonpartisan solution to the existing disagreement."
With a $12 million price tag in mind, Cranley remains worried Cincinnati is paying too much for a downtown grocery and apartment tower project. But the project is truly one of a kind, claims The Business Courier: The tower would boast nearly twice the number of luxury apartments of any other project underway in Over-the-Rhine or downtown. And it would replace a decrepit garage and establish the first full-scale grocery store downtown in decades.
A study found Ohio teens' painkiller abuse dropped by 40 percent between 2011 and 2013. State officials quickly took credit for the drop, claiming their drug prevention strategies are working. But because the Ohio Youth Risk Behavior Survey only has two sets of data on painkillers to work with — one in 2011 and another in 2013 — it's possible the current drop is more statistical noise than a genuine downturn, so the 2015 and 2017 studies will be under extra scrutiny to verify the trend.
Similarly, fewer Ohio teens say they're drinking and smoking. But 46 percent say they text while driving.
Ohio's unemployment rate dropped to 6.9 percent in January, down from 7.3 percent the year before. The numbers reflect both rising employment and dropping unemployment in the previous year.
To prove his conservative bona fides, Ky. Sen. Mitch McConnell touted a rifle when he walked on stage of the Conservative Political Action Conference.
The other Kentucky senator, Rand Paul, will headline a Hamilton County Republican Party dinner.
Researchers studied a woman who claims she can will herself out of her body.
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Flaherty & Collins, the developer that wants to tear down a garage as part of its downtown grocery and apartment tower project, offered to pay for a tenant's move to keep the deal moving forward. The tenant, Paragon Salon, recently announced its intent to sue the city after Mayor John Cranley's refusal to pay for the salon business's move left the development project and Paragon in a limbo of uncertainty. With Flaherty & Collins' offer, the development deal should be able to advance without extra costs to the city.
But Cranley says he still wants 3CDC to review the downtown development project to set the best path forward.
Federal money will help Cincinnati keep and hire more
firefighters. The Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response
(SAFER) grant provides nearly $8.1 million — about 2 percent of the
city's $370 million operating budget — to pay the salaries and benefits
of 50 firefighters for two years. Afterward, the city will need to pick
up the costs, which could worsen an operating budget gap that currently
sits at $22 million for fiscal 2015. The move would increase the
Cincinnati Fire Department's staffing levels from 841 to 879 and help prevent brownouts, according to the firefighting agency.
The Cincinnati Board of Health defied Mayor Cranley by
unilaterally pursuing a $1.3 million grant that will provide
preventative and primary care services to underserved populations. Rocky
Merz, spokesperson for the board, says the grant application complies
with guidance from the city's top lawyer. Cranley opposes the grant because the extra services it enables could push up costs for the city down the line.
Hamilton County officials will look for outside legal help in their fight against the city's job training rules for Metropolitan Sewer District projects. CityBeat covered the rules, known as "responsible bidder," in further detail here.
Smale Riverfront Park will receive $4.5 million in federal funding from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to control erosion and prevent flooding.
Crime around Cincinnati's Horseshoe Casino never materialized, despite warnings from critics prior to casinos' legalization in Ohio.
Ohio's prison re-entry rate declined and sits well below the national average, according to a study from the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. The study found 27.1 percent of inmates released in 2010 ended up back up in prison, down from 28.7 percent of individuals released in 2009. In comparison, the national average is 44 percent.
Hundreds of Ohio school districts plan to test out the state's new online assessments for math, language arts, social studies and science.
The cold winter is pushing up natural gas prices, according to Ohio's largest natural gas utility.
A second baby might have been cured of HIV, the sexually transmitted disease that causes AIDS. Even with the potential successes, doctors caution it's still very much unclear whether the treatment provides a definitive cure for the deadly disease.
Meanwhile, a first-of-its-kind intravaginal ring could prevent pregnancy and HIV.
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A group of Greenpeace protesters face burglary and vandalism charges after a stunt yesterday on the Procter & Gamble buildings. Protesters apparently teamed up with a helicopter to climb outside the P&G buildings to hang up a large sign criticizing the company for allegedly enabling the destruction of rainforests in Indonesia by working with an irresponsible palm oil supplier. P&G officials say they are looking into the protesters' claims, but they already committed to changing how they obtain palm oil by 2015.
Cincinnati Center City Development Corp. (3CDC) will step in to resolve the status of a downtown grocery and apartment tower project. The previous city administration pushed the project as a means to bring more residential space downtown, but Mayor John Cranley refuses to pay to move a tenant in the parking garage that needs to be torn down as part of the project. Following Cranley and Councilman Chris Seelbach's request for 3CDC's help, the development agency will recommend a path forward and outline costs to the city should it not complete the project.
Meanwhile, the tenants in the dispute announced today that they will sue the city to force action and stop the uncertainty surrounding their salon business.
Cranley insists politics were not involved in an appointment to the Cincinnati Board of Health, contrary to complaints from the board official the mayor opted to replace. Cranley will replace Joyce Kinley, whose term expired at the end of the month, with Herschel Chalk. "Herschel Chalk, who(m) I'm appointing, has been a long-time advocate against prostate cancer, who's somebody I've gotten to know," Cranley told WVXU. "I was impressed by him because of his advocacy on behalf of fighting cancer. I committed to appoint him a long time ago."
The costs for pausing the streetcar project back in December remain unknown, but city officials are already looking into what the next phase of the project would cost.
Troubled restaurant Mahogany's must fully pay for rent and fees by March 10 or face eviction.
Through his new project, one scientist intends to "make 100 years old the next 60."
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Mayor John Cranley could dismantle a deal that would produce a grocery store, 300 luxury apartments and a new parking garage downtown. Cranley says he doesn't want millions put toward the deal, even though the developer involved plans to invest another $60 million. Councilman Chris Seelbach says the deal isn't dead just because of the mayor's opposition, and City Council could act to bypass the mayor, just like the legislative body did with the streetcar project and responsible bidder. To Seelbach, the deal is necessary to bring much-needed residential space and an accessible grocery store downtown.
Cincinnati officials and startup executives will try to bring Google Fiber, which provides Internet speeds 100 times faster than normal broadband, to Cincinnati. Google plans to hold a national competition to see which cities are most deserving of its fiber services. "Over the last several years, Cincinnati's innovation ecosystem has made tremendous strides," Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld said in a statement. "We're increasingly becoming a magnet for talented entrepreneurs across the country who want to come here to bring their big ideas to life. We need to ensure that we have the modern technological infrastructure to make Cincinnati nationally competitive."
Cincinnati's operating budget gap for fiscal 2015 now stands at $22 million, up from an earlier forecast of $18.5 million, largely because of extra spending on police pushed by Cranley and a majority of City Council. The city must balance its operating budget each year, which means the large gap will likely lead to layoffs and service cuts.
Commentary: "Budget Promises Spur Fears of Cuts."
Cranley won't re-appoint the chair of Cincinnati's Board of Health. When asked why, Chairwoman Joyce Kinley told City Council's Budget and Finance Committee that Cranley told her "he had to fulfill a campaign promise." Some city officials say they worry Cranley is putting politics over the city's needs.
Troubled restaurant Mahogany's needs to pay back rent or move out, The Banks' landlord declared Monday. The deciding moment for Mahogany's comes after months of struggles, which restaurant owner Liz Rogers blames on the slow development of the riverfront.
Kathy Wilson: "Mahogany's: Turn Out the Lights."
Cincinnati's Horseshoe Casino supports 1,700 workers, making it the largest of Ohio's four voter-approved casinos.
At least one airline, Allegiant Air, plans to add flights from Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport.
Headline: "Man wakes up in body bag at funeral home."
"A 30,000-year-old giant virus has been revived from the frozen Siberian tundra," the Los Angeles Times reports.
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About 1 in 20 Cincinnatians, many of them in the wealthiest neighborhoods, pay less in taxes because their home renovations and constructions are subsidized by a local tax program. While the program benefits the wealthy, it also hits Cincinnati Public Schools and other local services through lost revenue. The tax abatement program aims to keep and attract residents and businesses by lowering the costs of moving and living in Cincinnati. Anastasia Mileham, spokeswoman for 3CDC, says the tax abatements helped revitalize Over-the-Rhine, for example. Others say the government is picking winners and losers and the abatement qualifications should be narrowed.
With hotel room bookings back to pre-recession levels, Source Cincinnati aims to sell Cincinnati's offerings in arts, health care, entrepreneurism and anything else to attract new businesses and residents. The Cincinnati USA Convention and Visitors Bureau established the organization to reach out to national journalists and continue the local economic momentum built up in the past few years. "Successful cities are those that have good reputations," Julie Calvert, interim executive director at Source Cincinnati, told The Cincinnati Enquirer. "Without reputation it's difficult to get businesses to expand or relocate or get more conventions or draw young diverse talent to work for companies based here."
The harsh winter weather this year pushed Cincinnati's budget $5 million over, with nearly $3 million spent on salt, sand and chemicals alone. . The rest of the costs come through increased snow plowing shifts and other expenses to try to keep the roads clean. The extra costs just compound the city's structurally imbalanced budget problems. The need for more road salt also comes despite Councilman Charlie Winburn's attempts to undermine the city's plans to stockpile and buy salt when it's cheap.
Mayor John Cranley says the success of The Incline Public House in East Price Hill, which he helped develop, speaks to the pent-up demand for similar local businesses in neglected Cincinnati neighborhoods.
Less than a month remains to sign up for health insurance plans on HealthCare.gov.
The estimated 24,000 students who drop out of Ohio schools each year might cost themselves and the public hundreds of millions a year, according to the Alliance for Excellent Education.
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine says meth abuse has reached "epidemic" levels in the state.
Ohio gas prices continued to rise this week.
Developers say they have funding for the first phase of a Noah's Ark replica coming to Williamstown, Ky.
There's a Netflix hack that pauses a movie or TV show when the viewer falls asleep.
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City leaders will break ground Thursday for the Anna Louise Inn's new location at Mount Auburn.
The start of construction begins the next phase for the Anna Louise Inn and owner Cincinnati Union Bethel (CUB) after a failed legal battle against financial giant Western & Southern forced the Inn to move.
CUB sought to keep the Inn at the Lytle Park location that has housed struggling women since 1909. Western & Southern demanded the property so it could round out its development vision for the Lytle Park neighborhood. (CityBeat covered the issue in greater detail here.)
After nearly two years of litigation held up CUB's renovations at the Lytle Park location, both sides abruptly reached a settlement and announced the Anna Louise Inn would move. Many supporters of the Anna Louise Inn saw the settlement and decision to move as a huge loss.
The $14 million project comes through the collaboration of various organizations, according to the city. It's expected construction will finish in the spring of 2015.
The facility will consist of four stories with 85 studio apartments, the Off-the-Streets program's residential dormitory-style units, community space and CUB's office.
The city's attendee list for the groundbreaking includes CUB, Mayor John Cranley, City Council, Mount Auburn Community Council, Over-the-Rhine Community Housing, U.S. Bank, Model Group and various other officials and organizations from the city and state.
But there is one notable omission: Western & Southern.
An anti-gentrification organization says development in southern Over-the-Rhine and downtown is leaving out low- and middle-income residents. The People's Coalition for Equality and Justice (TPCEJ) cautions it's not against development, but it supports policies that would seek to help more people take advantage of the revitalization of Over-the-Rhine and downtown, such as more affordable housing, protections for renters' rights, rent control and the formation of tenants' unions. The agency behind much of the development in Over-the-Rhine and downtown, 3CDC (Cincinnati Center City Development Corporation), says "people tend to over-romanticize what this neighborhood was" and points to some examples of 3CDC-developed affordable housing as evidence the agency is trying to keep the neighborhood mixed-income.Related: Some studies found gentrification could benefit longtime residents.
A two-hour streetcar pass could cost $1.75, and a 24-hour pass could cost $3.50, according to a new model unveiled yesterday by Paul Grether, Metro's rail manager. The same model set streetcar operating hours at Sunday-Thursday 6 a.m.-10 p.m. and Friday-Saturday 6 a.m.-midnight. Under the model, city officials expect 3,000 daily boardings, but Grether cautioned that's a very conservative estimate and excludes special events, such as Reds and Bengals games.But the City Council-enforced streetcar delay could cost more than expected after the steel company originally contracted for the $132.8 million project took another job while council members decided the fate of the project. Streetcar Project Executive John Deatrick told council the company's decision could push construction of a maintenance facility by two months if the city doesn't hire a steel supplier from outside the region.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ed FitzGerald yesterday clarified he supports the death penalty, which aligns him with his Republican opponent, incumbent John Kasich, on the issue. FitzGerald's remark comes after the debate over the death penalty re-ignited in Ohio following the execution of convicted killer and rapist Dennis McGuire, who took 26 minutes to die after state officials used a new cocktail of drugs never tried before in the United States. The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction told CityBeat it's reviewing McGuire's death, as it does following every execution.
Commentary: "Death Penalty Brings More Costs than Benefits."
After receiving support from family planning services and abortion provider Planned Parenthood, Democrats running for Ohio's executive offices re-emphasized their support for abortion rights.
Hamilton County Commissioner Todd Portune will announce
today whether he'll challenge FitzGerald's gubernatorial campaign in a
Democratic primary. (Update: Despite previously telling The Cincinnati Enquirer he already made up his mind, Portune canceled his announcement and said he has no final decision yet, according to Carl Weiser, politics editor at The Enquirer.)
Hamilton County commissioners showed openness to keeping some early voting downtown even if the county moves its Board of Elections to a Mount Airy facility. Moving the board along with the county's crime lab would allow commissioners to consolidate government services.Cincinnati's economy should grow faster than previously expected, one economist says.
Plan Cincinnati, the city's master comprehensive plan, won a national planning award. CityBeat previously covered the master plan in further detail here.
Ten major projects worth more than $1.4 billion are in the planning stages or underway in Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky.
Ohio meets voting standards set by President Barack Obama's bipartisan election commission, with the one exception of online voter registration, according to Republican Secretary of State Jon Husted.
Attorney General Mike DeWine yesterday announced the creation of a statewide taskforce to combat heroin abuse.
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The agenda defined City Council's first meeting of the new year — the first full session since council decided to continue work on Cincinnati's $132.8 million streetcar project.
The meeting also showed that the Democratic majority — once fractured over the streetcar project and parking privatization plan — now appears to have formed a coalition on most issues facing the city. Perhaps more than anything, that could indicate the direction of Cincinnati for the next four years.
Responsible bidder
Most contentiously, the Democratic majority on City Council rejected a repeal of the city's contracting rules for Metropolitan Sewer District (MSD) and Greater Cincinnati Water Works (GCWW) projects.
The rules dictate how the city and county will award contracts for the federally mandated $3.2 billion revamp of the local sewer system.
The city's rules impose stricter job training requirements on city contractors and require them to fund pre-apprenticeship programs that would help train new workers in different crafts.
Councilman Chris Seelbach, a Democrat who spearheaded the rules, argues the requirements will help foster local jobs and job training.
But the Republican-controlled county government, which also manages MSD and GCWW, says the requirements unfairly burden contractors and favor unions. Last year, county commissioners halted MSD's work on the sewer overhaul in protest of the city's rules.
The county's halt has put 649 jobs and $152 million worth of sewer projects on hold, according to data released by Councilman Charlie Winburn, a Republican who opposes the city's rules.
With the federal mandate looming, county commissioners on Wednesday unanimously proposed a compromise that would create some job training and inclusion initiatives.
"We are approaching a crisis here in this dispute with the city," said Commissioner Greg Hartmann, a Republican who opposes the city's rules.
Vice Mayor David Mann, a Democrat, said he will look at the county's proposal. But he cautioned, "I'm not going to repeal it until we have a substitute. To have a substitute we have to have conversations. This could be the beginning of a framework."
The issue could end up in court. The city's lawyers previously claimed they could defend the local contracting rules, but the county insists the city would lose.
"Portions of what the city wants will not stand in court. Our lawyers should meet," Hartman told Seelbach on Twitter.
If the city and county don't act before February, Winburn said the
federal government could impose a daily $1,500 fine until MSD work fully
Supportive housing project in Avondale
A supermajority of council — the five Democrats plus Charterite Kevin Flynn — agreed to continue supporting state tax credits for Commons at Alaska, a 99-unit permanent supportive housing facility in Avondale.
Although several opponents of the Avondale facility claim
their opposition is not rooted in a not-in-my-backyard attitude, many
public speakers argued the housing facility will attract a dangerous
crowd that would worsen public safety in the neighborhood.
Supporters point to a study conducted for similar facilities in Columbus that found areas with permanent housing facilities saw the same or lower crime increases as demographically comparable areas.
Other opponents decried the lack of outreach for the project. They claim the project was kept hidden from residents for years.
National Church Residences (NCR), which is developing the facility, says it will engage in more outreach as the project moves forward.
Councilman Christopher Smitherman, an Independent, said council's decision ignores what most Avondale residents told him.
"The supermajority of residents that I have talked to that are directly impacted by this project are against it," asserted Smitherman, who is leading efforts against the facility in council.
Even if council decided to rescind its support for the Avondale project , it's unclear if it would have any effect. NCR already received state tax credits for the facility back in June.
Disparity study
City Council unanimously approved a study that will look into potential race- and gender-based disparities in how the city awards business contracts.
The $690,000 study is required by the courts before the city can pursue initiatives that favorably target minority- and women-owned businesses with city contracts, which Mayor John Cranley and most council members support.
But Flynn and Councilwoman Yvette Simpson, a Democrat, voiced
doubts that the study's findings will fulfill the legal requirements necessary to legally enact initiatives favoring minority- and women-owned businesses.
Given the doubts, Simpson cautioned that the city should begin moving forward with possible inclusion initiatives before the disparity study is complete.
"I do think we need to rally around a mantra that we can't wait," agreed Democratic Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld.
Once the study is complete, several council members said it will, at the very least, provide valuable data to the city.
Other notable actions
• Council approved a tax budget that lowered the property tax millage rate from 5.7 mills to 5.6 mills, which will cost $500,000 in annual revenue, according to city officials.
• Council approved an application for a $70,000 grant that would fund local intervention efforts meant to help struggling youth.
• Council approved an application for a nearly $6 million grant to provide tenant-based rental assistance to homeless, low-income clients with disabilities.
• Council disbanded the Streetcar Committee, which the
mayor and council originally established to look into halting the
project. Streetcar items will now be taken up by the Major Transportation and Regional Cooperation Committee.


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on her page someone has listed Richard James Septka I know for a fact that he was only married to my mother Janet M Dobesh.
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Dear Ellie,
Could you remind me what the information was and how it is different from yours for James Baker. Which James Baker was it? It doesn't show up in the edits that were turned down for me to look at. Thanks,
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She was my GGGrandmother
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Hindustan Cemetery, Monroe County, IN - his death was mentioned in the Bloomington paper :
Bloomington (IN) Republican Progress, July 19, 1882, p. 3.
[From Washington township] Mr. Daniel McCoy, one of the oldest citizens of this neighborhood, died at the residence of his son, hear Hindoostan, Sunday evening. He came to Indiana in 1811 and was, at the time of his death, 91 years of age. He seemed to enjoy extremely good health until a short time previous to his death when he received a fall from which he never recovered.
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Sorry, hit the wrong key...
That's OK. I will send "edits" to you when I come up with info. Her daughter Eliza Belle was my grandmother's mother. My son found a webpage (no longer up, at this point) by a Don Winkler from Vincennes that was very interesting.
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So, when you go in to edit the links there is no number there for spouse? If there is a number, delete that number and don't put any number there. She then should be not linked to anyone. LOL, guess if there is no number then she's been linked by the two Isaac's. Geeez, what a mess! Will have to ignore and go forward. Thanks anyway! And warm hugs!
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That is alright - was hoping to fix the two Isaac's she is married to - so, if you will, unlink her from Isaac on your end, if that is the case, otherwise am uncertain how to fix her link to two Isaacs. If the person had transferred both Isaac's at the time the family member asked for it prior to merge then it would have all been one Isaac. I will double check if she get's unlinked when I finalize Isaac and if so, will link her back with him at that time. Thank you, A Farrand/Ferran descendant.
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Hi Ellie,
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I finally found the Ohio death records for Julius Bales. Thank you for standing your ground, that forced me to look deeper, trying to prove myself right. I have the names of all twenty of Julius's children by his two wives. If you need them just let me know. Julius raised 22 children including the two step daughters. Thank's again. Arlene
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I am hoping you can help me. I am descended from Daniel and Aberilla King. I am having a very hard time connecting Daniel to George King and Mary Saunders. Can you please tell me how you made that connection?
Someone posted a will on Rootsweb that gave all the children of George and Mary and Daniel was not listed. He would have fit into the child bearing years but I have to wonder why he wasn't listed in the will. The deceased children were listed, so that isn't the reason.
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New Neck Thing + Christmas Shopping
...the Acme Thunderer Whistle. A pretty weighty chunk of metal. And, yes, it works (quite a few people have asked and no, I didn't demonstrate because it's pretty shrill).
Have always wanted to wear one (lately more because of Glee on TV!) but never found one good-looking enough until I went early Christmas shopping at the Remo Birthday Pre-sale for registered customers.
The whistle is a little treat for myself for being so organised with the Christmas shopping this year. Tee hee hee. Oh, I sneakily added another Stripey Thing in beige at the end.
The sale is now open to the general public! Starting today and ends next Wednesday. I'd say get onto their website quick! Even if you don't have a list ready.
The boyfriend and I didn't but browsing through the 274 items that they stock certainly gave us ideas! We've already half-drawn (got part of their gifts) big fat black lines across the names of six people that we have to get presents for.
It was a good way to discretely Christmas "shop" for the boyfriend too - read his reaction to things that I point out pretending that they are for people we know. And of course a great opportunity for me to drop massive hints for what I hope to get. Haha.
Have fun shopping!
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- Top Bird @ Wee Birdy said...
Really impressed by Remo - it sprung up again in Sydney after I had moved to London, but I remember it being a favourite many years ago.
Love your picks - and the website is also brilliant with lots of big pics! xx
- October 14, 2009 11:57 pm
- katiecrackernuts said...
I love those whistles. I have a whistle for Guides and I was watching train conductors on the platforms on Sunday and how they use their whistles. Check it out, it's clever, they hold them upside down and use a finger over the hole (the one not for blowing) to make different sounds. Too cool.
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Hey Top Bird,
They are one of those companies that feels like they have a great corporate culture that is not at all corporate?
I loved visiting the Oxford Street store whenever I come for a holiday. Such a feast for the eyes!
(Blogger somehow ate my picks! Argh!) xx
Hey Katie,
Tee hee hee. Your whistle actually gets used!
Yes! My P.E. teacher in school used to do the train conductor thing with her whistle. x
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As an operating system, Firefox OS has undergone a massive transformation in the past 24 months – it's far more than just a web browser nowadays. But now Mozilla is looking to take Firefox to the next level by using it as a hub for a plethora of Internet of Things projects. Mozilla is currently working on four IoT projects behind the scenes: Project Smart Home, Project Link, Project Sensor Web and Vaani. Each of the projects will deal with IoT technology in different ways, but all are aimed at making the end consumer's home and devices smarter. In a blog post, Mozilla's SVP of Connected Devices, Ari Jaaksi, posted: "Everything is connected around us. This revolution has already started and it will be bigger than previous technology revolutions, including the mobile smartphone revolution. Internet of Things, as many call it today, will fundamentally affect all of us."
Kicking the Tires on Arch Based Antergos
We decided to take the Arch Linux based distribution Antergos out for a test drive. Here's how it handled, out in traffic and on the track. A few months back, a fellow tech writer mentioned in an email exchange that I might try using the Arch Linux based Antergos distro as a way to grab the latest and greatest versions of popular software titles for review. Mainly because of Arch's community repositories, in which users suggest and vote on packages to be included, many popular software titles are available within days after a new release. And since Antergos is a simple install compared to Arch, it would be easy to quickly throw up an installation on a test machine just to look at the latest and greatest from LibreOffice, GIMP and the like.
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'The Great Gatsby' posters: Isla Fisher, Joel Edgerton and Elizabeth Debicki
Exclusive three character posters for upcoming The Great Gatsby movie are just released online. This was suppose to release on the big day 25th December (Christmas Eve). But now the release date is postponed to May 10, 2013. The film is directed by Baz Luhrmann, and stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton, Isla Fisher and Jason Clarke. Looks of all the character posters is unique and astonishing. Specially while looking at Isla Fisher's poster a song of Chris DeBurgh's Lady In Red comes in mind. Joel and Elizabeth are also looking great, have a look at the posters followed by the official synopsis of The Great Gatsby.
Update:Two dashing poster and a gorgeous one is updated. Carey Mulligan have beaten the looks of Isla Fisher in the new poster. Wearing a beautiful dress along with a cutest look that i have ever seen on any girl's face yet. Where DiCaprio is looking like a sophisticated business man, in the other poster Tobey Maguire is giving the look of a playboy. Check out the updates right below after the synopsis.
"The Great Gatsby" follows Fitzgerald-like, would-be writer Nick Carraway as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922, an era of loosening morals, glittering jazz, bootleg kings, and sky-rocketing stocks. Chasing his own American Dream, Nick lands next door to a mysterious, party-giving millionaire, Jay Gatsby, and across the bay from his cousin, Daisy, and her philandering, blue-blooded husband, Tom Buchanan. It is thus that Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the super rich, their illusions, loves and deceits. As Nick bears witness, within and without of the world he inhabits, he pens a tale of impossible love, incorruptible dreams and high-octane tragedy, and holds a mirror to our own modern times and struggles.
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The beginning of the year is a natural time of transition. Now that the frenzy of the holiday season has passed, it's a time of re-focusing and getting back down to business. Whether or not you've made (or already broken) New Year's resolutions, this is a good time to re-assess your goals for your business or career and perhaps set new ones. Did you meet your goals for last year? Did your business grow? If not, why? What do you want to accomplish this year? How about in the first 90 days of 2013?
If you're part of a small company -- like more than 80 percent of businesses in the North Bay -- and you don't have a formal performance review process in place, setting goals is an essential step for translating your business plan into a road map. Good leaders must be able to communicate where they want to go and inspire others to join them in making it happen. But goal setting accomplishes more than direction. It opens the lines of communication about expectations, yours and others'. Unexpressed expectations inevitably cause problems within organizations of all sizes. The funny thing about expectations is that often we don't realize we have them until they're not being met. Or, as someone once put it to me, the definition of expectations is "pre-meditated resentments."
People working in smaller companies and organizations tend to wear a lot of hats because there are simply fewer bodies to do everything that needs to get done. It can be very easy to get lost in the minutiae of pressing tasks. How do you know whether your work is meeting your boss's expectations and contributing to the company's success? Creating and communicating shorter term, 90-day or 180-day goals helps continually define everyone's responsibilities clearly and keep everyone's expectations aligned.
If you are the owner or boss, goal setting leads quite naturally to re-assessing the team you have in place, as it should. I advise my clients to reassess their teams annually. Actually, I recommend doing a workforce audit at least once, which is a much more comprehensive undertaking, and developing a workforce plan. Once you have that plan in place, you can reassess your team annually and make adjustments for business shifts and new goals. The purpose of all is this is to ensure that you continue to have the right team in place to achieve your business goals. This requires taking stock periodically to identify potential gaps or redundancies, similar to taking inventory annually.
Talking about this objectively makes it all sound so simple and straightforward but of course this isn't merely "inventory." We're talking about people's careers and livelihoods -- people you know and work alongside every day. In reality, it's pretty difficult to be objective. For this reason, it may be more effective to bring in a third-party service, someone external who specializes in organizational development and workforce planning to help you remove your blinders and identify the changes needed. This is true for companies of all sizes, even companies large enough to have human resources staff, and simply more of a practical necessity for smaller companies. Either way, you have to be willing to make the investment in your business.
You also have to be willing to accept discomfort. Making changes is one of the hardest things to do. Most of us have an aversion to change because it's not safe and comfortable, as we tend to prefer. Change is painful. Change also involves a fair amount fear.
If you are a small business owner juggling many balls, one of the changes you may need to consider involves your own expectations and workload. Perhaps the best thing you can do for the success of your business may be to delegate more of your work by adding a new position or engaging a third-party service. As a small business owner myself, last year I worked with a business coach who helped me identify how to make better use of my time and where to make needed changes to achieve my goals and grow my business. That's why I can say with authority how uncomfortable this process can be. One of the outcomes of this scrutiny was the decision to hire a virtual assistant, bookkeeping service and social media consultant which freed up more of my time to seek new business. I thought I was being practical and cost effective but the business consultant helped me realize that managing administrative tasks was not the best use of my time as company president and not at all aligned with achieving my business goals. In fact, now I see that I need to delegate even more.
In which areas might you be wearing blinders? What are you avoiding to remain comfortable or failing to see out of complacency or fear of change? I encourage you to do these three things as a business owner or manager during the first quarter of 2013 to identify where you may be drifting off course so that you can make adjustments for continued growth and success:Review your business plan.Set new or renewed goals for this year.Take stock of your team/workforce. Get outside help -- it's well worth it.
Speaking of blinders, how do you know when the time has come as a professional to move on in your career? I invite you to contact. Send me your thoughts. I'll cover this in a future column....Jennifer Laxton is the president of ESA Consulting, located in Santa Rosa www.esa.com. ESA is a consulting company providing talent acquisition, workforce planning and career coaching services. You can reach her at 707-525-1010 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Actor Russell Brand and his new girlfriend leaving Crystalarium after doing a little bit of shopping in West Hollywood, California on February 26, 2012. When Russell went to leave he ran into another car and instead of creating a scene with all the paparazzi around he exchanged phone numbers with the man and drove off.
Finally someone questioning in the article whether or not it is the Oriela girl, I have google alerts on Russell come to my email so I have been reading these articles since they began and the girl in these pics are definitely not the Oriela seen leaving his apartment that infamous morning, there are so many diffrerence, the only thing the same is the hair color. This is the second mystery brunette and if I were her I'd be getting a little miffed at the constant mistaken identity.


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Born January 22, 1960 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Michael Kelland John Hutchence was the son of businessman Kelland Hutchence and his wife, make-up artist Patricia Kennedy. His childhood was marked by frequent relocations to other Australian cities as well as Hong Kong for his father's work, as well as a talent for competitive swimming. However, an injury forced him to relinquish that dream, spurring Hutchence to turn his attention towards poetry and singing. His professional debut in the latter field came at the age of eight when he provided vocals for a television commercial by a local toy store. The roots of INXS were formed after Hutchence's family returned to Sydney in 1972. ...
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A lot, apparently. To actually play games on this SNEGENES P portable, you have to jam actual cartridges into the back of the portable.
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Pretty Little Liars Spoilers: Is Hanna Headed to Ravenswood? Ashley Benson Says… — Exclusive
When ABC Family announced that Pretty Little Liars was getting a spin-off, fans were intrigued by the idea of Ravenswood. However, when the network later revealed that fan favorite Tyler Blackburn would be leaving PLL to join the cast of Ravenswood, fans became slightly more skeptical. How will Caleb find himself in Ravenswood, and more importantly, will Hanna be joining him?
Wetpaint Entertainment caught up with Ashley Benson at the Summer Slurpee Days event in Los Angeles, and the Pretty Little Liars star gave us the scoop on Caleb's departure -- and Hanna's trip to Ravenswood! It looks like Hanna will head to Ravenswood "sooner rather than later." So maybe there is hope after all, Haleb fans!
Wetpaint Entertainment: What are your thoughts on Ravenswood?
Ashley Benson: I'm so excited, but I'm so sad. I love my Tyler. He's the sweetest, and I'm really upset. But I'm so happy for him. If they film in a different state, I'm going to visit him on the weekends. So I was like, you'd better not like anybody better than me. I just love him dearly. He's one of my best friends, and I've enjoyed working with him so much.
Where do we find Hanna and Caleb when we get back?
They're in a good place. I mean we kind of go through ups and downs this season, because Hanna's just going through a lot personally, and Caleb's trying to help. She doesn't want it. It's tough, but they'll make it through.
Do you have a dream scenario for Haleb?
I just want them to end nicely. I don't know. I mean I don't want him to leave, so that would be my dream scenario.
I know that Toby and Spencer go to Ravenswood. Is it a big group trip?
No. Just them two. I will go there once.
What can you say about how that's incorporated?
I have no idea. I haven't read the script yet. I just know that I'm going sooner rather than later, yeah.
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If you drink coffee and take cancer medications, you should consider giving up the coffee. Caffeine found in coffee tends to make such issues worse, and therefore you ought to stop drinking it entirely. Other caffeinated substances should be avoided as well, including soft drinks. Cut coffee altogether if you are experiencing stomach trouble due to your cancer drugs. The caffeine in coffee will exacerbate these types of problems, so it is best to stay away from the drink completely. Be sure to avoid other caffeinated foods and drinks, like sodas and chocolate, for the same reasons.
Only you can protect your skin from the possibility of skin cancer. Many do not realize that it does not have to be a sunny day in order to feel the damaging effects of the sun on your skin. Keeping your weight down, eating a healthy diet and getting enough exercise can not only make you feel great every day, but can also reduce your risk of cancer. Mix your diet with a good deal of fresh fruits and vegetables to put a nice bow on your daily routine. These little changes can make a huge difference in your well-being.
It's especially important for cancer patients to quit smoking. The sooner you quit after receiving your diagnosis, the better your chances for long-term recovery from the disease. Some smokers may think that since they have cancer, there is no reason to quit. Cigarettes can cause further damage to your body because they contain cancer causing agents, which diminish your body's ability to recover.
Do not drink coffee while undergoing cancer treatment if you are experiencing nausea. Caffeine in coffee can increase the intensity of stomach upset, so it's best to remove it from your diet. You should also get rid of caffeine from other sources, including tea, soft drinks, and chocolate. There are many common myths concerning cancer that people still believe. You might hear people say that cancer is a contagious condition or that it keeps you from working. Make sure you are being open and honest. It's common for cancer sufferers to grieve that they can't do certain things anymore. Whilst it is fine to be a little upset, you need comes to terms with and embrace your new way of life. Putting the past behind you will make it easier to deal with your cancer diagnosis.
One of the best ways to deal with a cancer diagnosis is to join a support group to talk with other people who are going through the same thing. There are tons of Internet support groups that you can easily access with just one click of the mouse. Support groups give cancer patients the outlet needed to release pent-up emotions.
When you are battling cancer, it is imperative that you get enough exercise. Your blood will flow more easily if you are active. Exercise improves circulation, which may help certain treatments travel more efficiently through your body.
Some cancer treatments have been known to cause diarrhea. If that's the case in your treatment, consider eliminating coffee from your diet. While it may make you feel more alert, it can contribute to the diarrhea you are dealing with. By avoiding caffeine altogether, you can lessen your severe symptoms. One of the simplest, yet most effective support techniques you can apply in helping a loved one go through their cancer is to repeatedly tell them that you love them frequently. Show your love through helping the person, but make sure you say the words too. Those words have power and should never remain unsaid when someone you care about is seriously ill. This is a good way to affirm them that everything will be alright.
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