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- Fundscoop Advisors Private Limited4.7(38 reviews)Bidhannagarsoumya dev mitra19 July, 20185.0
Fundscoop Advisor team is really good. Their attention to customer needs is worth appreciating for. Extremely fast and reasonable. I have been associated with them since last 3 years and every time i have enjoyed their services.saptarshi bagchi4 July, 20184.5
Gave some valuable suggestions and adviceAbout
Introduction: Professional Experience: 4 Years COP Membership Number Verified by UrbanClap: Yes Skills: Experienced in Accounting, Company Registration, Indirect Taxes, Direct Taxes, ITR Introduction: We are a group of professionals expert in Accounting, taxation & making Business Plans. Our satisfied clients include many Individuals (Indian's & NRI's), start-up companies and big MNC's. Our USP is our young and experienced team who is always ready to execute the tasks on priority, appetite to learn new things every day and make the clients happier. We have incorporated more than 200 Companies and around 250 SMEs as Clients. We ensure our clients that professional ethics in work is never compromised in any situation.
- Dewtia & Associates4.9(27 reviews)Kolkatasuman saraogi23 August, 20185.0
I had a lovely experience with Ashish Dewatia. This was the first time I filed ITR and he made the process very smooth and handled it very efficiently amd explained me properly about the process. I would definetly recommend his service..partha sarathi sanyal28 July, 20185.0
Excellent. They have filed returns for me and my wife. We will continue with them. Excellent Service.About
We are proficient in taxation and accounts practicing, having sufficient experience and exposure about income tax return filing, taxation, and accounts, TDS returns, Gst returns and registration. We always deliver the highest quality services ensuring the highest customer satisfaction.
- Rahul Dewtia4.9(25 reviews)Ballygunge, Kolkata, West Bengal, Indiaayan karmakar23 July, 20184.5
He is very suppportive and helpful to me. Resolve the issues in time. I will surely recommend him for IT filling and other financial kind of jobs. Thanks Rahul.sangita sharma10 July, 20185.0
Excellent service,active n reliable.. I recommend everyone must avail his service .About
To provide a simple tax filing and saving opportunity to the client and seamless way of giving the best of service is my prime motive.
- Khetawat and Associates4.8(16 reviews)Kankurgachi, Kolkata, West Bengal, Indiapijush kanti sarma sarkar22 July, 20185.0
I must appreciate about the knowledge on ITR specially for share trading..She knows all the details of present rules and regulations F&O trading and other topics..Very cooperative,well spoken and patiently understand the requirements and suggest accordingly...For any type of complicated matter she is the ultimate solution provider..I am very sartisfied..Will work with her in my future requirements and also suggests to others.shivangi20 July, 20175.0
I hired her for filing my ITR returns and I am very much satisfied with her work. She has good understanding of all accounting concepts.About
I have quality experience of working with some of the most prominent companies which has given me enough exposure to be starting my consultancy services. I provide services in all financial matters and my area of specialisation is income tax return efiling. I have served 10 SMEs clients.I am counted in one of the best income tax advisers in Kolkata.
- TAXOWORLD CONSULTANCY4.7(15 reviews)Hemanta Basu Sarani, Lal Dighi, Kolkata, West Bengal, Indiaabhishek besra23 July, 20185.0
Good behaviour, smooth IT return filling, came up with good suggestions. Recommended for all.sanchita23 July, 20185.0
Got timely help that suited my requirement. They seem to know their job well. Thank you.About
We are management consultant firm and provide services in the field of accounting, auditing, taxation, company registration and compliance. We have experience of more than 4 years and our goal is to provide best services to our clients
- S.Hussain and Company4.0(14 reviews)Gariahat, Kolkata, West Bengal, Indiashreya12 July, 20175.0
Sambhav is a professional CA. I got to know about him through urbanclap, and i hired him for doing the income tax return filing. He understood the requirements, and did a good job. His charges were decent. Would love to recommend :)shreya7 May, 20175.0
He is an excellent person and is very helpful. Always on time and finishes things off perfectly. User friendly and provides reasonable options to resolve various queries related to direct and indirect taxation, audit and accounting. He is immensely knowledgeable about all financial concepts. He provided me with the best CA service in Kolkata.About
We at S Hussain and Company, we have 25 years CA practice experience, our firm is located opposite to Marshall house, specializing in individual, small business, and NRI taxation. we provide help in starting a business in India and provide India business license with ease. we help our clients with small business software, small business bookkeeping, We ensure that our clients get efficient and effective solutions to their financial problems. We follow up with the client on a timely basis and promise a satisfactory service. We have over 100 SME clients and have incorporated over 15 companies.
- Ritika Agarwal5.0(11 reviews)Kolkatasarvesh agrahari2 April, 20185.0
Very gentle, professional and has good knowledge on tax and account related things..debanjan kumar ghosh1 April, 20185.0
Very much professional as well as helpful attitude towards work. Thank you Ritika Ji.About
Quality , secrecy and professional excellence are my core qualities. I am a ACS and ACMA having 6 years of work experience in areas of tax filing, company registration and GST services . Setting up a new business in Kolkata is not easy, you need an expert for that. An expert who can help you with company registration and getting India business license. Also assist you about other formalities regarding starting a new business in India.
- Pooja Agarwal & Associates5.0(11 reviews)Santosh Roy Rd, Dutta Para, Kolkata, West Bengal, Indiamr.neeraj8 June, 20175.0
I was highly satisfied with her services. One of the best chartered accountant services in Kolkatai in terms of knowledge and applying the same for the best benefit of her clients. She is one of the most humble and down to earth professionals I have ever met. She has great knowledge of all financial concepts. Thanks to UrbanClap that I came across her profile and hired her. I highly recommend her CA services.mr.vivek8 June, 20175.0
Pooja takes care of my income tax filing and auditing. She is very good at her work and extremely hardworking. Completes the work on time. I am extremely satisfied with her work. I liked her personality, way of working, has a good knowledge of income tax, accounting and much more, she is giving her best services in Kolkata.About
I am a Kolkata-based chartered accountant. My firm name is Pooja Agarwal & Associates. I provide all sort of chartered accountant services for small business in Kolkata related to small business accounting, auditing, small business process outsourcing, income tax, small business software, business cards, financial services, company law matters,import-export consultancy, sales tax matter, service-tax, STPI, etc. In order to meet the specific requirements of the clients, I strictly adhere to standard operational norms and provide the best possible solution and consultancy for their respective financial issues. With the active support I receive from our competent team of professionals, I have managed to provide the effective services to our esteemed clients. I have incorporated 5+ companies and have 100+ SME clients.
- Mita Poddar & Associates4.9(11 reviews)Girish Park Metro Station, Chittaranjan Avenue, Azad Hind Bag, Kolkata, West Bengal, Indiaharsh19 October, 20175.0
Great Work...very fast and fixed feesvarun kejriwal30 July, 20175.0
It was a good experience!! It was for return filing that I approached them!! They were understanding, I didn't had to put much effort!! I'm completely satisfied with the delivered work!! And impressed by their work, I've employed them for my legal issue!! As of now, they are doing a great job!! Recommended!!About
Professional Experience: 4 Years COP Membership Number Verified by UrbanClap: Yes Skills: Experienced in Accounting, Income Tax, Sales Tax, Service Tax, VAT, ROC Compliance Introduction: Harsh Mita & Associates was established in 2012. We expertise in Income Tax Return Filing, Registration of Companies in All Departments, Auditing, Accounting, Taxation and Company Registration. We have worked with big consulting firms. We have incorporated 200 companies and have 50 SMEs as clients.
- Hemant Surana4.8(10 reviews)Gorabari, Chetla, Kolkata, West Bengal, Indiashuvam karmakar11 August, 20184.5
NICE AND GOOD WORKING EXPERIENCErony basak6 August, 20184.0
Took some time but managed to get it done before the deadline. Seamless work requiring zero visits. Recommended.About
Timeliness and qualitative service is his core competence. Company/LLP/Firm/Trust registration, bookkeeping, compliance, taxation are his core areas of service. He also prepares project report for new ventures.
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FRUGAL EATING STARTS in OUR HEADS
Frugal food shopping starts inside us, not in the grocery store parking lot. It takes thinking, adjusting and planning before we're even ready to cross the threshold into an actual store. For some, the motivation starts with the reality of our paychecks or our checkbooks. For some, it's just who we are, it comes naturally. For many, it's harder, it's scarier, it's unknown territory. You see, it takes a frugal frame of mind to manage and -- if we're good -- to reduce a family's food budget. For many of us, it takes breaking old habits and honing new skills.
Accept that rising grocery prices are likely permanent. Economists cite a 'perfect storm' when identifying the factors that force a greater share of family income be spent on food.
- DEMAND Increasing worldwide affluence, especially in China and India, is increasing the worldwide demand for food, especially for a Western-style diet higher in calories and convenience.
- SUPPLY Poor agricultural harvests in Australia, Canada and other leading food export countries are stressing the food distribution system. In 2008, this summer's flooding in Iowa means much of an entire season's corn and soybean crops are lost.
- PRODUCTION & TRANSPORTATION COSTS Cheap oil allowed the import of food grown less expensively in far-away places, whether across the country or across the world. With oil at record highs, increased transportation costs and oil-related production costs (think fuel for farm equipment, think fertilizer) are built into the cost of the food itself.
We're seeing the effect with every grocery purchase. Between May 2007 and May 2008, whole milk is up 15.4%, Red Delicious apples up 12.8%, bananas up 25.2%, bread up 14.9%, American cheese up 5.3% and frozen orange juice concentrate up 3.2%. Inexplicably, the price of carrots is down 1.5%. (Source: Wall Street Journal, July 7, 2008)
Think 'food' not 'grocery' List all the places where we buy food. The grocery store and restaurants. But don't forget the soda machine at work, the popcorn counter at the theater, the morning coffee stop, the bottle of water from the c-store when buying gas. We buy and consume food in many locations, they all contribute. To save money on food, eliminate or limit all except the essentials. Think, "Do we need this? or simply want it?" If you track food expenses, keep track of these incidental expenses separately: they add nowhere but up and nearly all can be eliminated.
Eat less. Honestly, 'eat less' should lead this list because it just might be the easiest to accomplish and might well accomplish the most and the most quickly. Nearly all of us carry excess pounds. Our health would improve simply by dropping 10 or 15 or even 30 percent of our body weight. If it's economic factors that finally move us, as a people, to improve our health by losing weight, so be it. Start with the non-essentials, empty calories such as the obvious soft drinks, candy bars, potato chips. Cut out all foods eaten between meals. But then move on: Replace breakfast cereal with oatmeal. Make one-egg omelets and open-faced sandwiches. Serve meat in smaller portions, less often, or both. Make dessert for a special occasion. Avoid the temptation to eliminate entire meals: breakfast is important, so is nourishing our bodies throughout the day.
Cook. After that, the best way to save money on food expenses is -- let's face it -- to cook it ourselves. Think of it this way: if someone cooks the food for us, how is it much different than hiring a cook or a house cleaner or a lawn mower or a clothes washer? Some times the 'cook' is Del Monte or Kraft and the food is carried home in our grocery bags. Other times, the 'cook' is McDonald's or Pepsico and is passed through drive-up windows or delivered to our doors. All ways, always, the cost of that labor is included in the prices we pay.
Avoid the vicious cycle of the Empty Fridge. It's seven o'clock, you're just home from work, you're hungry. The fridge is nearly bare, just a few cups of yogurt, some slimy lettuce, a nearly-empty milk carton. So you eat some yogurt, then a bowl of cereal. The next night, same story, except that you know the fridge is even emptier so you stop for carry-out on the way home. The next night, same. (It happens to me, too, my own risk points are just before leaving on vacation and just after, it can go on for days.) When the fridge is empty of real food, it's just too easy to fall into "let's just order out" mode, perpetuating the cycle. Be prepared for days when this happens: have a really fast, really tasty recipe that can be on the table in minutes after a quick grocery run. At my house, it's this Quick Cauliflower or Broccoli Soup which can be made with either fresh or frozen vegetables.
Make frugal food consumption a personal challenge. It's us versus the food companies and yes, we're Davids and they're Goliaths. Every time a food company takes a commodity food (think 'real food', the underlying ingredients) and cuts it, cooks it and packages it, it's all to tempt us to pay several multiples for the 'added value' the company brings to a commodity product. It's all to make us buy more, pay more and therefore, work more and save less.
Get good at shopping for food frugally, a week, a dollar at a time. Don't expect to change everything at once. But if a few of these tips make sense, print them out and work the list, one week at a time, one item at a time. To build confidence, start with the low-hanging (ahem) fruit, the stuff that's easiest to incorporate into your own habits and practices. To make the most difference, determine where there's the most to save in your family finances, work those first.
Time is money. So it is -- and many of these tips involve getting a firm grip on grocery expenses in order to exact the most value from the dollars spent. This means time: analyzing, comparing, tracking. Here's an example. What's the price difference between the bag of dried beans that sells for $.89 and the can of beans that sells for $.99? Just a dime? No. The bag yields 7 cups of cooked beans, $.13 per cup. The can yields 1-1/2 cups of cooked beans, $.66 per cup. The canned beans - as inexpensive as they are - are five times more expensive than dried beans. Both are protein-rich, an inexpensive source of protein. How easy is it to cook dried beans? Check my recipe for Creamy Slow-Cooker Beans, no soaking required.
Consider self-sufficiency. In the past century, we've become a people of consumers, not producers. Think: what would it take to plant a garden? raise a few chickens? For many of us, these skills have been lost for a couple of generations. What resources would it require for communities and families to increase their self-sufficiency?
Think 'home economics' for the long-term. We're a resourceful, adaptive people. We can do this, we can eat well, we can eat healthfully, we can manage to eat within our resources. But saving money on groceries is likely a long-term endeavor, not this year's 'project'. It may well be a life-long study: something we all need to become good at, that we internalize, that we build into our decision-making -- and skills that we teach our children.
Feeling motivated? Good! Here are some ways to get started, now, by arming yourself with information and tools.
- List all the places where money is spent on food. Which are essential? which offer immediate savings?
- Track food expenses. Consider three categories: groceries, prepared food (for meals that could be made at home but weren't, carry-out, drive-through, etc.) and special occasions.
YOUR TWO CENTS = TWO DOLLARS = TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS = TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS = TWO MILLLION DOLLARS Collectively, Kitchen Parade readers have thousands of their own money-saving tips. Please: do share them, either in a comment or via e-mail. I'll collect reader tips for a special post to close this series. Your two cents, multiplied by thousands of readers, can really add up.
BLOGGERS You know you want to chime in! Write your own post about how you save money on food and groceries, then link to the introduction post of How to Save Money on Groceries. I'll collect your posts to share with readers at the end of the series. Together, we can make a difference!
HOW to SAVE MONEY on GROCERIESThe Introduction
Part One - Frugal Eating Starts in Our Heads (you're here)
Part Two - Frugal Food Shopping Requires a Plan
Part Three - Finally, How to Shop Wisely for Groceries
Part Four - Investing in the Future (coming soon)
Part Five - Reader Tips & More Resources (coming soon)
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I didn't realize that food prices were going to keep going up, it seemed like they might reach a plateau and stay there.
You're really making me think. This is good!
I know I am guilty of wasting food. For years I have planned meals for the next 5-7 days and done all the shopping at once, hitting many stores so I could get the best deals. I would guess 9 out of 10 weeks I don't end up cooking everything I planned before things start to go bad. With cost of everything going up, I probably am throwing away $1000 a year. So to try to remedy my wastefulness of food and money, I am buying weekly staples for breakfast and lunches, but I am only planning 1-2 dinners at a time. This has been working fairly well. I have so much food in my pantry that I have stocked up on in the past so I already have a base (that I would like to slim down too). I have been making dinner choices by choosing a few ingredients that I have on hand and then finding a recipe or two to see what I am missing. I stop on my way home from work/school and pick up whatever last minute ingredients I am missing. I am adding less than 3 miles to my commute 2-4 days a week but I think even with the increased trips to the store, I think I am saving money. There is more of a chance for impulse items since I am going shopping more often, but for the last month I have been able to stick to the list and haven't thrown out any produce or leftovers. Yay! Also, this has cut down on the amount we have spent on food because there is less planned so there is less food in the kitchen and we are much more likely to eat what we just bought.
Anonymous ~ Thank you!
Jules ~ You make the excellent point how important it is for each of us to find our own rhythm that works for US, not for someone else. I'm not a "by the week" person either but I know people who live and thrive by their system. Thank you for chiming in, I hope you'll write a post of your own to participate.
Luckily, I am as frugal as the day is long. I have not eaten in a sit down restaurant once this year. I have eaten take out (pizza & chinese) on maybe 4-5 occasions since January, because...hey...I'm no saint! No fast food. No sodas at the gas station. No coffees.
I agree that a well stocked pantry is the key to frugal eating. In fact, about every 6 weeks, I declare it a "Pantry Week," and eat meals out of my pantry or freezer. I love the challenge of throwing open the cupboards and just creating something yummy from what is already there. Beans usually figure prominently.
I am looking forward to the rest of this series!
For those who don't have time for a big grocery trip once a week, I work for a Consumer group called Consumer United (ConsumerUnited.com) and we offer $10 off grocery delivery when you sign up for Peapod by Stop and Shop. I hope this helps. Noelle
No argument, the Western world consumes too much meat and wastes far far too much food. You'll see in the subsequent pages to this post that I advocate against waste.
Please know: I think we're in agreement. I apologize if I've suggested otherwise.
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Calgary's sports community was rocked Thursday after learning Bill Powers — the man many Calgarians knew as the voice of the Stampeders — and his wife were found dead in their southwest home by police.
Powers, a veteran broadcaster and sports columnist, and his wife, Donna Lee, were discovered by investigators who were led to the scene by a man now considered a suspect in the deaths.
Sources tell the Herald the man, who has not been named, is Bill Powers' stepson.
"The world is a little emptier now," said News Talk 770's John Vos, a former colleague and friend. "He really knew sports, lived it and loved it."
Police said they were first alerted early Thursday by a witness, who asked officers to check on a man near Southland Drive and 14th Street S.W.
When police located the man, they spoke with him, and he led them to Powers' nearby Braeside residence, a tidy blue and white bungalow.
The man was arrested without incident and police said they weren't looking for anyone else in connection with the case.
No charges had been laid at press time.
Police have not officially identified the two people found deceased in the home in the 1700 block of 110th Avenue S.W. But sources identified the pair as Bill and Donna Lee Powers.
Calgary Search and Rescue volunteers kept busy Thursday combing nearby children's parks, backyards and shrubs searching for evidence.
A small knife was seized from a front lawn near the scene, but it's not known if it is connected to the case.
The homicide unit continues to investigate. Autopsies are scheduled for today.
For decades, Billy Powers was a staple of Calgary's sports community.
Born in Edmonton in 1941, Powers got his start in journalism as a general reporter with the Edmonton Journal.
He later moved to Calgary and joined The Albertan, predecessor to the Calgary Sun. He ended up in sports after editors offered him a free week off in exchange for covering the 1965 Canadian Figure Skating Championships.
From then on, sports was his passion.
In 1968, he found his way into radio as a sportscaster. Later, he became sports director at CKXL and then QR 77.
From 1991 to 2009, he worked on Calgary Stampeders broadcasts and was known as the voice of the Stamps.
"It is with great sadness that the Stamps learn of the tragic deaths of longtime Calgary broadcaster Billy Powers and his wife Donna Lee," the Stampeders said in a statement Thursday.
Powers, who also wrote sports columns for the Herald and the Calgary Sun, developed a reputation as a great storyteller who could give and take a joke.
Whenever Powers entered a room, people would gather around waiting for him to regale them with a joke or a story about what was going on in the world of sports, said Vos, who worked with him for two decades.
Powers always greeted friends and strangers alike with his signature "How you doin' partner?" Vos recalled. "It completely disarmed you."
Powers was inducted into the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame in 2001.
Recently, Powers had been writing a popular column in the Cochrane Eagle, where his longtime friend Jack Tennant is publisher.
Tennant said Powers led a simple life that included regular social calls to places like Inglewood eatery Spolumbo's.
In his private life, Powers was a grandfather, had two children and three stepchildren.
Friends and neighbours remembered him and Donna Lee as a friendly, sociable couple.
When Powers wrote for the Herald, between 1997 and 1999, his wife featured prominently in his columns. Their fishing trips, forgotten anniversaries, birthday celebrations, even health scares ended up in the pages of the newspaper.
Powers once recalled the first time he met Donna Lee at a Calgary Flames golf tournament, where he was tasked with running the beer cart.
"It was my job I thought until I got to the course and this beautiful blond from Edmonton was already in control," he wrote.
"We eventually decided to work together, and five months later the beer cart pair were married."
The pair married in 1989.
Judy Shapiro, who worked with Donna Lee at the Calgary Jewish Federation, said the two last spoke on Wednesday night.
Shapiro called her friend a wonderful person who will be deeply missed.
"She's a person who knew how to laugh and had a lot of compassion. She's got a lot of friends here and a lot of people loved her a lot."
Donna Lee worked as office manager at the organization for eight years, but the title didn't come close to describing her importance.
"She impacted everyone in this agency in a very positive way," said Drew Staffenberg. the federation's executive director.
Friends say Billy and Donna Lee will be terribly missed and fondly remembered.
When Powers himself was asked in a Herald interview published in 1984 what he wanted his epitaph to say, he responded: "Something like: 'Here lies Billy, a friend to the end.'"
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Published by Sojourners Magazine, February 2013
PERHAPS NO FRAMEWORK has impacted my organization, Interfaith Youth Core, more than Marshall Ganz's approach to public narrative ("leadership storytelling"), best articulated in his March 2009 Sojourners article "Why Stories Matter." We use it in our trainings with college student interfaith leaders and recommend it in the workshops we do with university faculty. Most famously, it was employed by the 2008 Obama campaign.
Like all effective frameworks, there is both a visceral and a heady quality to what Ganz teaches. Stories are the way human beings understand and communicate our deepest values, Ganz says, and there are three major stories that leaders must tell. The first is the story of self. This is not a selfish activity, or even one just about self-understanding (although that is certainly a piece of it). It's about interpreting to others your reasons for being engaged in a struggle. This helps them understand your involvement and, more important, gives them inspiration and language to get active themselves.
The second type of story is the story of us. Religions, races, ethnicities, and nations tell such stories brilliantly but often do it in a way that excludes—and makes enemies of—those outside the magic circle. The challenge for the 21st century leader is to tell a story of us that includes people of all backgrounds who are fighting for the same cause. Stories of us build community out of people who would otherwise be strangers.
The third type of story is the story of now—the reason for action, sacrifice, movement, and urgency at this moment above all others.
Young people, Ganz says, are powerfully positioned to practice public narrative, to be leadership storytellers. Drawing on Walter Brueggemann's understanding of the prophetic imagination, Ganz says youth are especially sensitive to both the world's pain and the world's possibility. If they can put that mix of anxiety, frustration, outrage, and hope into stories, a Moses generation will rise and the world, one activist cause at a time, will never be the same.
I know: That sounds optimistic. And 20 years into a vocation of social change, I have to say, I still believe it. The reason is implicit in Ganz's Sojourners article and his other writing, although not explicitly called out in the self-us-now framework. Ganz's framework is situated in a hopeful interpretation of the past, one that says the good things we enjoy today—justice, freedom, equality—have been fought for by those who went before. Now, it is our time.
Ganz does this brilliantly by, what else, telling stories. Of how he chose to leave Harvard to join the civil rights movement in Mississippi—a story of self. Of a Jewish tradition that celebrated freedom through the Passover Seder and abhorred racism because of the horrors of the Holocaust—a story of us. Of African Americans choosing Montgomery in 1955 to make a stand against segregation—a story of an urgent now.
One of the most inspiring things we teach young leaders at Interfaith Youth Core is that they didn't invent interfaith cooperation. We and they are only part of a long tradition, beginning with the imagination of the Creator and continuing through the interfaith leadership of people such as Martin Luther King Jr., the forces of pluralism defeating the forces of prejudice.
Traditions, as Cornel West likes to say, are like the wind at our back. We are lucky that previous generations struggled to send that wind our way, and it is our responsibility to provide it to the next generation. The stories of self-us-now we tell today are simply the next chapter in an overarching narrative of hope, justice, and pluralism.
Full article: http://sojo.net/magazine/2013/02/storytelling-and-social-change
Eboo Patel, founder of the Interfaith Youth Core, writes about social justice from his perspective as a Muslim American. His latest book is Sacred Ground: Pluralism, Prejudice, and the Promise of America.


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South Sioux City, Neb.– Following a public hearing and a 30-day public comment period, Nebraska Public Power District has determined final routes for both the north line and south line of its 115,000-volt South Sioux City Transmission Line Expansion project. When completed, the project will support an increase in electric demand due to industrial expansion and economic development efforts in the community.
Two, new 115,000-volt transmission lines will be constructed, one on a southern route from the existing Twin Church substation, located west of Dakota City, to a new substation to be constructed northeast of Dakota City. A second line will run on a northerly route, again starting at the Twin Church substation and terminating at the new substation. Both line segments will become operational during the summer of 2012.
"Determining the final routes does not mean that we have all of the details completely worked out yet," explained NPPD Senior Project Manager Craig Holthe. "We have taken into consideration all of the public comments in developing the final routes, but until we have right-of-entry agreements from landowners and an opportunity to conduct survey work and further engineering, some aspects of the route, such as where a structure is specifically located, could still change."
Holthe also noted that a few variations in the routes may occur where landowners have requested the line to be placed in a different location on their property. Voluntary easements for all land along these routes are required to make these changes. NPPD will be discussing these alternatives with landowners to determine if everyone is supportive of the route. As part of its consideration, NPPD will also need to determine if route alterations support future operations and maintenance activities.
With the final line route announced, NPPD will begin a process called right-of-entry. The right-of-entry process allows NPPD to conduct key activities on private property that includes surveying, preliminary field engineering, and land appraisal. Preliminary work in the urban areas will mainly be conducted from public right-of-way, with landowners contacted where access for property is needed.
Starting in September 2009, NPPD began a series of public open house meetings that culminated in a public hearing in November 2010.
To determine the line routes, NPPD started with a general study area and then narrowed that area into corridors. At the third round of open houses in June 2010, NPPD presented alternative and preferred line routes within the corridors. Proposed routes were highlighted at the public hearing held in November 2010. Since then NPPD once again reviewed all comments, along with at least three dozen other routing criteria, such as the line's proximity to homes, environmental issues, accessibility, etc., to arrive at the final line routes.


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John Damgard bit his tongue as William Black addressed delegates at the annual Burgenstock Meeting in Interlaken, Switzerland.
It was early September, and Black, a professor of law and economics at the University of Missouri, was giving his take on the financial crisis that surfaced in 2008. He'd earned his cred as litigation director for the Federal Home Loan Bank Board (FHLBB) and deputy director of the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation (FSLIC) in the 1980s, and has been researching white-collar crime ever since.
Damgard, a consummate diplomat, had run the Futures Industry Association from its inception in 1982 until last year, when he passed the baton to former Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Acting Chairman Walt Lukken. Normally ebullient, Damgard fumed as he watched Black blame the housing bubble on the twin cultures of corruption (among real-estate lenders) and trust (on the part of regulators).
When Black finished, Damgard strode to the dais and towered over him, waving his fist in the air as he turned to face the room.
"You don't have to listen to this," he told the audience. "More than 99% of the people who work in our industry are fine, upstanding and good people!"
The housing bubble, he said, wasn't caused by a culture of corruption but by misguided government policies.
"It happened because do-gooders like Chris Dodd and Barney Frank believed that it was every American's God-given right to have a house," he said. "They provided government guarantees that distorted the market, and that's where things went wrong."
The raucous and wide-ranging debate — which we're told will be available online soon — veered from global rules of corporate governance to the vagaries of customer segregated funds, and from the philosophy of Adam Smith to the founding of Apple Computers. It echoed both the narrow debate that has engulfed the futures industry since MF Global and Peregrine Financial Group (PFG) violated the sanctity of customer segregated funds, and the larger debate that has inundated the entire financial services sector since that fateful day in 2008 when Alan Greenspan acknowledged that he may have overestimated the powers of benign self-interest.
Black drew parallels among the actions of Jon Corzine, Russell Wasendorf and Bernie Madoff, whose $65 billion Ponzi scheme remains the mother of all financial scandals (both in terms of size and regulatory failure).
"In each case, we had high-status individuals who, because of the status and respect they garner, ended up posing a much greater risk to the system," Black said. "It's very difficult to believe in the forefront of your mind as a regulator that the person sitting across from you in a nice suit is lying through his teeth to you and forging documents."
If regulators aren't given more support, he warned, the entire system will suffer. "Elite frauds are about the most aggressive assault on trust you can imagine," he said. "They can shut down entire segments of the economy."
Damgard agreed, but said the system basically was sound. "MF Global is a black eye, and a couple bad apples caused a lot of angst," he said. "But the [regulatory] pendulum always swings too far."
But how much regulation is too much — and how should it be targeted? To answer that, you have to look back at what has gone wrong over the past 25 years.
Damgard accuses Black of measuring regulation by its size and scope instead of its focus, and says we often end up with more regulation than we need because regulators fail to enforce the regulations that already exist. He concedes that over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives needed more regulation, but argues that the SEC should have caught Madoff with the regulations and resources at its disposal (see "Types of failures").


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Intel launches R&D initiative to invent PDA
15 years after Apple's MessagePad, we're still not there yet
IDF Intel today disclosed a raft of technologies that will drive a research initiative it hopes will put the Assistant back into the Personal Digital Assistant, one of the most inappropriately applied acronyms in the history of personal computing.
Intel's plan is called 'Carry Small, Live Large', and while the slogan's new, the concept is decades old, stretching back to erstwhile Apple CEO John Sculley's August 1993 launch of Newton, the operating system and platform on which the first ever PDA, the MessagePad, was based.
Sculley defined a PDA as a handheld gadget smart enough to operate almost autonomously, intelligently linking disparate sources of information for the user's benefit. There was no internet then, at least not for public use, so the Apple CEO was thinking about personal information management. But the notion still applies, and is even more powerful a concept now we have both the internet and the ability to connect to it wirelessly.
While the MessagePad turned out not to be quite as smart as Sculley claimed it would be, subsequent handhelds were arguably even less intelligent, but they all managed to have the term 'PDA' attached to them. They still do, even though the traditional PDA device has now been all but killed off by the smartphone.
None of them have aver delivered anywhere near the functionality Sculley described, but give Intel's researchers five to ten more years and his vision might just come to be realised.
It goes without saying that the Carry Small, Live Large initiative is predicated on shrinking silicon chippery to cram more components into a shrinking die space, allowing handhelds to get smarter and become more connected.
But that's just the customary trend. CSLL assumes all this extra performance can be used to make PDAs more than mere data carriers and readers. So the built-in GPS and Google Maps app know exactly where you are and can feed that into your other apps. The gadget's multi-mode radio is capable of hopping from Wi-Fi to 3G or WiMax (maybe) right at the moment you leave the building, so you're connectivity's not interrupted, ensuring the route the device has planned for you - it knows you have a meeting in a hour - can be changed as soon as it learns there's a big traffic foul-up on the way.
Your PDA's already checked the weather report and told you to bring a brolly.
In other words, the machine's pro-actively assisting you rather than simply presenting information when you ask for it.
This requires fresh smarts - and probably a new operating system too - but it's on its way. Right now it just requires greater performance to allow all the intelligence-simulating data monitoring to be carried out without gobbling up the battery charge. Ditto the real-time video recognition techniques it showed today - right now, these require way more processing cycles than handhelds currently offer, or will for some time.
The 'one-radio, multiple wireless technologies' strategy appears closer to fruition. Intel has built an analogue-to-digital convertor that's capable of sampling the wireless environment around it - it has an integrated spectrum analyser - allowing it to adapt its resolution to meet the needs of the moment rather than assume a worst-case scenario.
Prototyped: Intel's 'digital pre-distortion' power amplifier
Intel's first smart ADC has a 12-bit quantisation and is designed to work with both 802.11n Wi-Fi and WiMax. So too is the 65nm power amplifier it talked about, and we wonder if both will find a home in 'Echo Peak', the Wi-Fi and WiMax radio module Intel will release in May as part of its next major Centrino revamp.
So too may techniques like 'digital pre-distortion' - modifying a signal in the digital domain so that when it's converted to analogue for transmission it's in a form best suited to the wireless environment of the there and then.
This is stuff Intel can do. But while it can demo some other elements of the Carry Small, Live Large programme, it won't be able to implement them on its own. A case in point: having a handheld detect it's in the presence of an HD TV and automatically 'borrow' the screen as its own display mechanism.
Intel showed a wireless chip capable of sending data over the 60GHz band at a rate of around 5Gb/s, but at what point in the image rendering pipeline the data leaves the handheld to be streamed to the TV remains to be determined. Ideally, it needs better rendering technology in the telly, but that it can't do without the help of TV manufacturers, and suddenly its reached the limit of its research - from this point on, CSLL becomes an industry initiative, and a discussion about setting standards.
That gives Intel's researchers more time to work on miniaturisation and power conservation, and to deliver the silicon from which real PDAs can be made. If they're right about the timeline, we could see much of this coming to market by 2013 - just in time for the 20th anniversary of the event at which the term PDA was coined...


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Passengers pack new rail line to Salt Lake airport
04/28/2013 8:40amA 6-mile light-rail line to Salt Lake City International Airport from the city's downtown is proving popular with more than just travelers.
Romney planning high-profile retreat in Park City
04/28/2013 9:09amFormer Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is bringing high-profile political figures, business leaders and campaign donors to Utah this summer for a retreat to discuss "key opportunities."
2 injured in motorcycle crash on I-15
04/28/2013 12:58pmA crash involving two motorcycles on I-15 in Bountiful left two people injured Saturday.
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04/28/2013 1:09pmOne person was killed in a crash involving a semi and a U-Haul in Parley's Canyon Sunday morning.
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04/28/2013 2:03pmFour teens were hurt — one critically — after being struck by a car as they tried to cross a rural highway in Utah County Saturday night.
Residents band together for Murray canal breach cleanup
04/28/2013 2:14pmNorth Jordan Canal Company officials are investigating the cause of a canal breach that damaged homes in Murray.
Patient information may have been compromised, Life Flight says
04/28/2013 3:06pmPatients flown by Life Flight during April, May and June of 2004 have been informed of a possible security breach in which their Social Security numbers may have fallen victim to unauthorized access.
LDS Church's former Presiding Bishop appointed to new welfare commission
04/28/2013 4:16pmH. David Burton, former Presiding Bishop of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has been appointed to the Utah Intergenerational Welfare Commission. He will also serve as chairman of an advisory committee that will assist the commission.
Woman critically injured after hitting camper on I-15 shoulder
04/28/2013 6:58pmA woman is in critical condition Sunday after slamming into the back of a camp trailer that had pulled over onto the shoulder of an I-15 on-ramp.
Mayor says SLC on 'last notch' of financial belt
04/28/2013 8:38pmFor five years, Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker has balanced rising costs and sinking revenues without significant costs to the public, but he's not sure how much longer that can last.
Police: Drunk man shooting rifle in back yard had marijuana grow, SWAT team called
04/28/2013 9:43pmA man allegedly shooting at targets in his back yard was arrested Saturday night after barricading himself in a home that contained a possible marijuana grow site.
Search and rescue respond to woman stuck while climbing in Big Cottonwood Canyon
04/28/2013 11:15pmSearch and rescue crews are trying to extricate a woman who became trapped on rocks while climbing.
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Radiohead Manager, Nettwerk Launch New Label: Artists Get To Keep Their Copyright
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And, in fact, we're seeing newer, more nimble and smarter record labels who are willing to embrace these new models rather than spending all their money on lawyers and lobbyists to hold back customers. The latest example (sent in by Ruby) is that Radiohead's manager, Brian Message, has teamed up with Nettwerk (who we've written about a bunch) to launch a new, much more artist-friendly record label called Polyphonic. One key point: artists on the label retain their copyright. To be honest, it's amazing that any band has ever been willing to give up the copyrights on its music to a label, so it's good to see alternatives showing up. The other plan is that the artists will get 50% of any profits, a significantly larger percentage than most other labels give.
Remember, also, that Brian Message is the guy who said file sharing is great for music and championed the band's "pay what you want" experiment (which I still don't think was nearly as creative as others' business models). And Nettwerk's Terry McBride has been an enthusiastic supporter of innovative business models that don't focus on relying on copyright as a crutch (in fact, he's discussed that copyright may be a totally pointless concept in the near future, and artists are better off to focus on other ways to build smart business models). It will be interesting to see who the new label signs up.


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Every city has its clichs and London is no exception. But beyond the bobbies, red telephone boxes and telegenic young royals, lies a real city that is just as easily toured as St. Paul's Cathedral and Westminster Abbey. linkwheel creation . All you need do is hop on a city bus. It's an approach adopted by photographer George Georgiou for his series Invisible: London, which explores the city's outer reaches, from Clapton Pond to North Greenwich to Crystal Palace. Georgiou, a Londoner who returned to the city after living abroad for eight years, snapped passing cityscapes and people at bus stops, recording the day-to-day actions that most people simply ignore.
The idea of photographing from buses presented creative benefits. "I kind of like the idea of the reflections and the layering," says Georgiou, noting that it was not unusual to see Victorian houses with Indian shops tucked underneath. But it also had its challenges. "There's a lot of dirty glass in London," he says. Georgiou set out specifically to ride all of London's routes, exploring places that were only familiar as far-off bus line terminations like Morden and High Barnet. And while he did not intend to train his camera primarily on down-and-out neighborhoods, he found well-heeled areas and people more difficult to capture. "Wealthy people walk differently," he says, adding that they are generally more private in public and don't spend as much time lingering on the streets and at bus stops. Moneyed neighborhoods also tended to have more mature trees and greenery, screening pedestrians and houses from Georgiou's lens. People living in less affluent areas, by contrast, were exposed in a desert of asphalt.
To be sure, London's council estates and suburbs lack the obvious appeal of its famous monuments. But Georgiou says the city is defined as much by transition as tradition. While familiar characters like the working class woman ("London Bus No. 145. Ilford to Dagenham Asda") remain, large numbers of immigrants contribute to ceaseless cultural change in the city. The outer reaches of London may be invisible, but there's no doubting that they are real.
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ODBC is a standard for accessing relational databases
ODBC is the most popular implementation of X/Open SQL Call Level Interface specification, which evolved into the international standard ISO/IEC 9075-3:2003 SQL/CLI by now.
ODBC is a C programming language interface that started life by Microsoft exclusively on Windows and is included in MSDN. This API makes possible for applications to access data from a variety of database management systems (DBMSs). The ODBC interface permits maximum interoperability - an application can access data in diverse DBMSs through a single interface.
ODBC consists of two key components:
Since its inception in 1992, the popularity of ODBC grew, an it has become the industry standard interface for developing database-independent applications. Application authors and database vendors have been making efforts for this data access standard to be available on other Operating systems. The OpenLink-branded ODBC Driver Manager is called iODBC, being the acronym for Independent Open DataBase Connectivity, is an open source platform-independent implementation for operating systems like Linux, Unix, Mac OS, OpenVMS and others.
In theory, an ODBC application can be quite independent of any DBMS from which it accesses data. In practice however, there some differences in quality and features supported by various drivers. Some big DBMS vendors are reluctant to improve and polish up their ODBC drivers hoping to make profit out of tying up application developers to their own APIs. But there are many independent driver suppliers, whose products outperform the "native" drivers supplied by DBMS vendors. To name a few:
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In celebration, in October we are presenting a mixed program of works reflecting the artistic diversity forming the core of what I believe we are all about. Masterworks like George Balanchine's Tarantella , and Salvatore Aiello's Clowns and Others . A work that was special to me while I was in full-out dance mode here—Allen Fields' Court Dances , not seen since 1996. And a premiering work by emerging choreographer Isaac Sharratt, from Milwaukee Ballet.
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The elected executive members of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) Students' Union Government (SUG) have been inaugurated. The Vice-Chancellor, Prof Benjamin Ozumba, warned the students' leaders not to toe the destructive path in order not to jeopardise their future. JAMES OJO (400-Level Mass Communication) reports.
It was a day they all looked forward to, after a keenly contested Students' Union Government (SUG) elections held in February. The University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) was agog, last Thursday, when the elected officials of the union were inaugurated.
The Vice-Chancellor (VC), Prof Benjamin Ozumba, in his address, charged the union leaders to live up to the billings.
He said: "What is your aim as SUG leaders? Do you have the aim to pursue whatever you want from the management by violence or by inciting students for demonstrations? I would pray that your passion to serve should become an obligation that sets you on a course of self-sacrifice for the benefit of the entire students. I urge you to support the management in keeping the university at the top of others in the country."
The VC described students' unionism as "leadership training ground" for your future leaders, advising the SUG leaders not to tow destructive path in order not to jeopardise their future. He told the union leaders to listen to students' advice and pursue grievances peacefully.
The Dean of Students' Affairs (DSA), Prof Uju Umo, who attributed the success recorded in the SUG election to what he called "non-interventionist disposition" of the management in students' politics, assured the executive members of the management's support. She urged them to be of good conduct.
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A three acre garden at western vista of The Holderness Inn.
The garden includes ferns, a butterfly garden, and a selection of shrubs and flowers adapted to the northern New England climate. Visitors can sit on the Inn's shaded patio, take the stone steps from one terrace level to the other, or sit in the shade of a wood archway.
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- Central, quiet location
- Proximity to public transit and sightseeing
Located in Downtown Detroit, this hotel is within 1 mi (2 km) of Fisher Theatre, Motown Historical Museum, and Detroit Institute of Arts. Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American History and Fox Theatre are also within 3 mi (5 km). Detroit Station is only a 5-minute walk.
Hotel Features
A restaurant, a bar/lounge, and a 24-hour business center are available at this smoke-free hotel. WiFi in public areas is free. Additionally, valet parking, conference space, and dry cleaning are onsite.
Room Amenities
All 124 rooms offer free WiFi, room service, and TVs with cable channels. Premium bedding, coffee makers, and free local calls are among the other amenities available to guests.
Languages Spoken
- English
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The hotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. This 3.5-star property offers access to a 24-hour business center and a meeting room.
Public areas are equipped with complimentary wireless Internet access. Event facilities measuring 7,000 square feet (1 square meters) include conference space. This business-friendly hotel also offers complimentary newspapers in the lobby, dry cleaning/laundry services, and room service (during limited hours). Onsite parking is available (surcharge).
Hotel St. Regis is a smoke-free property.
- Conference space size (meters) - 1
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- Breakfast available (surcharge)
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- 24-hour business center
- Conference space size (feet) - 7,000
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- Year Built 1967
- Total number of rooms - 124
- One meeting room
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Number of floors - 6
- Free WiFi
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- Free newspapers in lobby
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- Air conditioning
- Free local calls
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- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
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- Cable TV service
- Iron/ironing board
- Free WiFi
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January 29. 2013 10:45PM
NH House panel rejects beer tax increase
By BILL SMITH
New Hampshire Union Leader
House kills beer tax increase
Beer at liquor stores? Just say no
Foes say plan to hype nano brews is unconstitutional
CONCORD - A proposed 33 percent increase in the state beer tax was left at death's door Tuesday, as the House Ways and Means Committee voted to recommend killing the bill.
By a vote of 14-2, the influential tax-writing panel declared the proposed increase to be "inexpedient to legislate."
Chairman Barbara Almy, D-Lebanon, said members were concerned about the financial impact of a beer tax that is "considerably higher" than most nearby states.
Supporters of the tax now face a tough task. Passing a beer tax requires rounding up enough votes to overturn the Ways and Means Committee recommendation, and a promised veto by Gov. Maggie Hassan means a two-thirds majority would ultimately be required in each branch for the beer tax hike to make it into law.
The proposed increase of 10 cents per gallon, from 30 to 40 cents, would be paid at the wholesale level. Industry representatives argued at a hearing earlier this month that the increase would trickle down to the consumer level, damaging the state's strong beer sales record.
The tax bill was filed by Rep. Charles Weed, D-Keene, who wanted to use proceeds of the tax increase to fund substance abuse prevention efforts.
During hearings on the bill, opponents argued it would weaken the state's competitive standing in the region on beer sales.
"It would have put us as the highest beer tax in New England," said Ways and Means Vice Chair Patricia Lovejoy, D-Stratham.
The beer tax in neighboring Massachusetts, set at $3.30 per barrel, is about 11 cents per gallon and has been unchanged for 33 years. In Vermont, the 26.5 cents per gallon tax has not been changed since 1981. Only Maine among nearby states has a higher beer tax, at 35 cents per gallon; an effort to raise the Maine tax was was rejected by voters in 2008.
A short-lived extension of the 6.25 percent Massachusetts sales tax to alcoholic beverages was rolled back in a 2010 referendum.
Competitive pricing for beer in New Hampshire is credited with spurring strong sales in the state compared to stagnant performance nationwide.
Weed and other supporters said that alcoholic beverage sales are a logical source of funds for substance abuse programs, which have suffered in recent years as lawmakers divert liquor store profits from a substance abuse fund to other state purposes.
The two first-year lawmakers who voted to support the beer tax increase in committee, Democrats Harry Young and Richard Ames, represent different Jaffrey districts and each spent long careers working in human services. Young spent decades as a hospital administrator, while Ames was general counsel to several human service agencies in Massachusetts.
New Hampshire retailers sell more beer per capita than any other state in the country.
According to the Beer Institute, about 43 gallons per person of legal drinking age is sold in the state compared to a national figure of about 28 gallons.


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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — An arbitrator has found that Minnesota State University, Mankato, had no grounds to fire head football coach Todd Hoffner last May and has ordered that the university immediately reinstate him, an attorney for the coach confirmed Thursday.
Hoffner, who was recently named head coach at Minot State, is considering whether or not he will return to Mankato, said attorney Jim Fleming. Hoffner did not immediately return a message left by The Associated Press, but he plans to hold a news conference Tuesday.
"He and his wife are discussing their options," Fleming said. "I have spoken to him ... he is, of course, elated with the ruling."
Hoffner, 47, was arrested in 2012 and charged with two counts of child pornography after university staff found images of his naked children on a work-issued cellphone. His case gained national attention, coming just months after retired Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was convicted of child sex abuse.
But a judge dismissed the charges against Hoffner three months after his arrest, saying the videos on his phone depicted only innocent images of children acting playful after a bath.
Despite the dismissal, Hoffner was suspended for 20 days and then reassigned to an administrative role. He was fired in May for undisclosed reasons.
But in the 72-page decision, arbitrator Gerald Wallin said the university had no grounds to fire Hoffner. The ruling, which is considered private, was posted online by the Bureau of Mediation Services — and obtained by The Mankato Free Press — before it was removed from the website.
According to the newspaper, the ruling says the decision to fire Hoffner came from university President Richard Davenport, who wrote in a letter that Hoffner was being fired for viewing pornography on his work computer and for allowing his wife to use the device. University officials had also accused Hoffner of bringing his young children into the men's locker room while staff members were naked or partially undressed.
Wallin said Hoffner denied using his computer to view porn, and several people, including students, had access to the device, so there was no proof to that allegation, the newspaper reported. There was evidence Hoffner's wife had used the computer, but that was not grounds for termination, Wallin determined.
Wallin also found that even if Hoffner's children went into the locker room, no one took issue until his arrest on the unfounded child pornography charges, the Free Press reported.
Fleming, Hoffner's attorney, told the AP that the ruling orders Minnesota State, Mankato, to pay Hoffner for his 20-day suspension. It also says that if Hoffner declines to be reinstated and works elsewhere for less money, the university must pay the difference in his salary.
"Essentially, he gets the full benefit of his contract he had at MSU," Fleming said.
Minnesota State, Mankato, released a statement saying: "As a general matter we can say that employers are obligated to abide by arbitration awards, whether or not they agree with their terms." The university said it would have no further comment at this time.
Minot State spokesman Michael Linnell told the AP that Athletic Director Rick Hedberg met with Hoffner on Thursday. He did not elaborate and said the North Dakota university would likely have no updated comment until Hoffner's news conference next week.
"As of right now he's our head football coach, and we don't know anything different," Linnell said.
Linnell said there is nothing in Hoffner's contract with Minot State that specifically addresses the issues in Mankato, though there is general language about breaking a contract. He did not have details.
Fleming said Hoffner is currently in Minot, but his wife and children are still in the Mankato area, where she works and they attend school. Fleming, who represented Hoffner in the criminal case, said the criminal proceedings were rough, but the subsequent firing took a real toll on the Hoffner family.
"It has been a terrible almost two years, by anyone's standpoint," Flemming said. "He was happy to get his job at Minot. You know, he did not think he would ever coach again."
Hoffner spent four seasons at Minnesota State, Mankato, from 2008-2012. He compiled a 34-13 record and coached the Mavericks to three Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference South Division championships — in 2008, 2009 and 2011. Minot State plays in the NSIC's North Division.
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Marion County commissioners will not put a five-year, half-cent sales tax to build a stadium for the New York Yankees Class A farm team on the ballot in a March special election but they will consider a mail-in ballot being sent to voters to decide in March.
Marion County commissioners will not put a five-year, half-cent sales tax to build a stadium for the New York Yankees Class A farm team on the ballot in a March special election but they will consider a mail-in ballot being sent to voters to decide in March.
"I think as many folks as possible should have the opportunity to vote on this issue," Commissioner Stan McClain said.
The consensus of the board at Thursday's workshop meeting was that voter turnout was poor in special elections and they would prefer having the referendum question presented during a general election, most likely in November 2014, when there would be more voter participation. But a March mail-in ballot might possibly be more palatable. Commissioners will discuss the matter further at their Dec. 3 meeting.
That sentiment came as a disappointment to Anthony Bruno, senior vice president/chief financial officer of Yankee Global Enterprises, who has represented the ball club in its negotiations with the city of Ocala to move the Tampa Yankees to Ocala.
"We feel the March ballot is critical to this project. We are disappointed we didn't have a clear direction toward a March ballot. We are hopeful there can be work done to get us to that point and hopeful this isn't a big roadblock for this project," Bruno said. "We are still encouraged by the constituents and the voices we heard tonight for the support of the project."
Bruno had explained to the commission earlier in Thursday's meeting that the negotiations had been in progress for two years and that the March vote was important because he already had applied for permission from the Florida State League, Minor League Baseball and Major League Baseball to relocate the team for the spring 2016 season.
Commissioner Kathy Bryant said, like other commissioners, that she believed the voters should get the opportunity to decide whether they were willing to approve the sales tax, but she said she was not in favor of the people of Marion County paying the $350,000 for a special election in March.
Commission Chairman Carl Zalak said he would like Marion County Superintendent of Elections Wesley Wilcox to be at the December meeting to discuss mail-in ballots done by other counties and the cost of such an election.
The city has negotiated deals to bring the Yankees' minor league team from Tampa to Ocala by building a 4,000-seat stadium west of Interstate 75 behind Kohl's department store and leasing the team an additional 10 acres for commercial development.
Part of the deal calls for Marion County to own the stadium and lease it to the city, which subsequently will lease the stadium to the team. To pay for the $60 million stadium and land, the city has asked the county to put a referendum on the ballot in March asking voters to agree to a five-year, half-cent sales tax, which would generate about $82 million over the five years. Because the proposed tax would be a county-wide tax, the County Commission by law is the governing body that would decide whether to put it on the ballot. The roughly $22 million difference between the amount the sales tax generates and the cost of the stadium could be spent by the county on projects it deems worthy or it can be overseen by a citizen committee that would decide what economic development or promotional projects would be funded.
The members of the public who spoke at Thursday's meeting overwhelmingly were in favor of the commission putting the question on the ballot in March.
Doug Cone, chairman of the Ocala/Marion County Chamber Economic Partnership, said his board unanimously supported the city's request to put the sales tax question to the voters in March. He said having the Yankees would enhance business attraction, would open hundreds of acres for development and job creation, would not saddle the community with long-term debt, would add to the quality of life and would keep spending in the community rather than leaving the area.
Cone said the project has generated many questions, many still unanswered, but added, "Rarely does a community have an opportunity to affiliate itself with this type of project and an organization like the New York Yankees like we have today."
Commissioners had questions. Zalak questioned whether the Yankees name would be displayed on the stadium.
"We recognize that's important for this market," Bruno said. "This will clearly be a Yankees facility."
Commissioner Earl Arnett questioned the ownership being Bomber Baseball LLC and Bruno explained that that is a subsidiary of the Yankees and, as such, is owned by the Yankees.
Bryant wanted to know who would get the revenue from city events at the stadium. Assistant City Attorney W. James Gooding III explained that the city would, but it would reimburse for maintenance. Any money earned above that would go into a capital improvement account. Charities would keep what they earn.
Bryant questioned county ownership of the stadium and whether other entities could own it. Gooding explained that by having the county own the stadium, property taxes would not have to be paid. If another entity, such as the city owned it, even if the county donated the taxes back to the city, the city would still have to pay school taxes, which are higher than both the city and county's taxes, and would have to pay water management district taxes.
While many favored putting the tax question to the voters in March, others were opposed.
Dr. Asokan said he posed questions to commissioners and none of them were answered. He said the Tampa team is losing money. He said Orlando turned the Yankees down. He said Ocala is an afterthought and wondered why the hurry.
Chuck Pardee favors the project. He said referendums "get buried" in regular elections.
"Educate the public," Pardee said. "If they don't like the Yankees, let them know so they can move down the road to another community that would like those 1,000 jobs."
Nick Robinson of the Emerging Leaders of Ocala said that organization unanimously supports putting the question on the March ballot. He said that having the stadium is a "great way to continue to bring the young people here or the ones that grow up here to retain them here."
Ocala Police Chief Greg Graham said there was a minor league team in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, when he worked there and that it brought excitement to the community.
"I just think this is a great project," Graham said.
Ocala attorney Landis Curry said he did not believe it was the responsibility of taxpayers to fund the election.
He said the city has already spent $240,000 on the project without any public input and anticipates spending another $250,000.
He said there would be an 8 percent turnout at a special election. He said, according to polls by the CEP, the age 65-and-over voters represent 50 percent of the voter turnout and they would have to be "kept home" in order for the ballot to succeed.
Bryce Peek, representing the Ocala Downtown Business Alliance, said his board voted unanimously in support of a March referendum.
Doug Shearer questioned why there was no study to determine if the voters would approve the tax. He added that he was opposed to paying for the election.
Local contractor Larry Cotten said he sends his workers to Gainesville and Orlando because there is little work in Ocala. He said those workers likely would not object to paying $60 a year in sales tax to help build the stadium.
"Keep that in mind," Cotten said. "We need work. We need development and all the things that come with it."
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It is what it is, only less so.
On a functional level, I appreciate a film that comes out swinging, presenting itself as nothing more than exactly what it is, like when The Monkees sing "Hey Hey We're The Monkees." So when the first image you see is a giant bullet flying at your face, breaking through a succession of production company logos, you say to yourself, out loud because there's nobody else in the theater with you and if there are they're already texting and probably don't care, "Ow. That giant bullet. It's in my head. Now the movie can begin."
And it does, with a prologue rumble-mumbled by contract killer/swamp person Jimmy Bobo (Sylvester Stallone). Very quickly, an unlucky terrible man who gets in Sly's way takes a bullet to the head. Then there's another prologue, Okay, now the movie can begin.
What's it about? Some bad guys. And some other bad guys. And some badder guys. And bullets to the head, as though through repetition of the title in action we're meant to finally understand the platonic ideal of how to murder a person with a gun. In the forehead, please, like real man, somewhat frail but no less ripped and sure of your sustained-through-the-decades appeal, trading as much as you can on vague Rambo-like memories of yourself. And if you can't cut it like that, if you can't properly bulletize heads the way kids with BB guns pick off empty cans on a fence, then you're probably going to wind up with one to the dome yourself. That's why, close to the end, when evil muscle-goon Jason Momoa (last year's would-be Conan 2) unwisely eschews the gun paradigm and decides to deliver the movie's first and last sequence with any spark of fighting life in the form of an ax battle, spinning his like a teenage majorette leading a parade, you know he's still going to lose to Sly because the movie isn't called Ax To the Face.
Fans of vintage action entertainments know that it isn't just Stallone's show here; director Walter Hill made some very cool films like The Driver, 48 Hours and The Warriors. As a team-up and shout-out to vintage 80s cement-brained violence, respect alone would dictate buying a ticket to this one. But that's before you learn that everything sandwiched in between the occasionally viscerally punchy violence involves Stallone imploring his plot-dictated cop-partner Sung Kang (Fast Five, from which this movie could learn all sorts of things about movement, pleasure, race and excitement) to pretty-please stop "busting [his] chops" so that he can, in response, drool out tons of moronically old-mannish anti-Asian taunts. It's before you realize that every moment spent with generic bad men in suits will necessitate a go-nowhere, lip-licking chat about "huge amounts of money." It's before your eyes glaze over at the repetitive nature of more bullets to more heads.
The effect is as dulling as if you were just staring at a wall, so much so that you'll be tempted to theater hop. Late last night, after buying my ticket and sitting through the first 40 minutes, I heard Anne Hathaway sing-dying in the next house through the badly-sound-proofed theater walls. And I was tempted. By Les Miserables. And that movie sucks.
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Radio stations give away Powerball tickets
Radio stations give away Powerball tickets
WEST ALLIS, Wis. —
Even if they don't hit the Powerball jackpot Wednesday night, some Milwaukee-area residents at least got a free ticket.
"We are hoping we can make a millionaire out of someone from Milwaukee," morning show radio co-host Kidd O'Shea told WISN.com.
Radio stations 99.1 The Mix and 103.7 KISS-FM gave away Powerball tickets outside the Pettit National Ice Center in West Allis and the Marcus Majestic Cinema in Brookfield at noon Wednesday.
O'Shea said it took him and his co-host, Elizabeth, about an hour to give away their tickets.
All they ask is if one of the tickets is a winner, the holder takes them to breakfast and gives them $1 million.
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Sporting director Matthias Sammer believes that promising youngster Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg is close to making his first team debut for Bayern Munich.
The 17-year-old, who joined Bayern from Brondby in 2012, is seen as one of the club's biggest talents and joined the senior squad for their training camp in Dubai during the winter break.
"We'll continue to bring on Pierre nice and steadily. He'll train with the first team. Everything else is up to him," Sammer told the official Bayern website.
"Pierre has become more stable and virile. He has every chance [of making his debut this season]. It's well known that Jupp Heynckes has a very, very good eye for young players."
The teenager, meanwhile, is very pleased with his development in recent months.
"I'm gaining new experiences every day and training with the first team is unbelievably valuable for my development.
"I've come another step closer to my dream of professional football. It's a stage on the journey but nothing more."
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Don't see any new movies that make you want to go to the theater? How about an old one?
On Oct. 3 you can see Steven Spielberg's "E.T. The Extra Terrestrial" on the big screen, which is something you probably haven't done/don't remember doing unless you were above the age of 5 or so in 1982. Showings will include a taped feature that showcases nuggets such as how Spielberg came up with the idea for the film and what "E.T." now means to co-star Drew Barrymore. That feature assumedly does not include Barrymore's feelings about if Abby Elliott's dead-on impression of her threatened to render Barrymore obsolete.
Go to FathomEvents.com for more information about tickets and participating theaters. We still get countless movies about aliens every year, but few are as loved and affecting as Spielberg's classic. If you're one of the few people who have never seen this movie, that really should change now. If you are afraid to leave your house for fear of actual aliens, the movie also comes out Oct. 9 on Blu-ray.
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