Vicki Behenna, executive director of the Oklahoma Innocence Project and a former federal prosecutor, recently launched a campaign for Oklahoma County district attorney.
She said she had consulted with criminal justice reform experts before deciding to run.
“I never thought I would stand for public office,” she said, “but the District Attorney’s Office impacts thousands of Oklahoma families every year, both victims and accused, and I intend to be a voice for justice.”
The candidate served for more than 25 years as an assistant United States attorney in the local U.S. Attorney’s Office and was selected for the prosecution team against Timothy McVeigh in the Murrah Federal Building bombing trial while with the U.S. Attorney’s Office, he prosecuted several cases against Republican and Democratic elected public officials, a news release said.
“My passion as a prosecutor always led me to seek justice for victims, but my time as a defense attorney and with the Innocence Project has shown me that, in a system based on human judgment, you will also have cases decided on human error,” the candidate said.
“My own family has fallen victim to human error and misconduct, but we’ve also found resolution within the justice system,” she noted.
“My experiences will guide my leadership.”
In 2015, she was named executive director of the Oklahoma Innocence Project, which she described as “an organization dedicated to identifying and remedying cases of wrongful convictions.”
Oklahoma City University law students work with attorneys and the Oklahoma Innocence Project to pursue cases with which there is credible evidence of actual innocence, the news release pointed out.
“I accept my position with the agency as an office with which challenges will arise daily….even hourly,” the prosecuting attorney candidate remarked, “but what I won’t accept is to allow those challenges to stand in the way of new opportunities to examine new how we guide our criminal justice system to reach its ultimate goal,” the candidate said.
The goal of the criminal justice system as “justice for all involved.”
The candidate is a partner with the law firm Behenna, Goerke, Krahl & Meyer.


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Love, it’s a many splendored thing. Especially when it takes place in public and you’re a world famous rapper and actress in the midst of a whirlwind romance. Case in point: on Tuesday (May 25), Machine Gun Kelly, 31, noted a very special moment in his relationship with Megan Fox. “She said ‘i love you’ one year ago today,” the rapper/rocker tweeted out.
For those of you keeping score (thanks Cosmo), that carbon dating appears to reveal that the couple got serious a month before they were first officially thought to have begun hanging out in mid-June 2020. The pair reportedly met on the set of their upcoming film, Midnight in the Switchgrass, in March 2020, which was shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Fox’s ex husband, actor Brian Austin Green, confirmed on his podcast that the pair split in Dec. 2019. Fox later appeared in the May 2020 video for MGK’s “My Bloody Valentine” in which she played his heavy handed girlfriend.
Ever since, the pair have made their love public, on a series of dates with pals Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker, as well as at Sunday night’s 2021 Billboard Music Awards, where Fox, 34, wore a daring cut-out dress and MGK flashed his black-stained tongue on the red carpet at the show where he took home the awards for top rock album and top rock artist for Tickets to My Downfall.
Check out his tweet below.
she said ‘i love you’ one year ago today
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As Amitabh celebrates his 67th birthday,Bipashu Basu has wished him a happy birthday with a big hug.
Hollywood actress Tara Reid has reportedly shed her clothes to pose nude for Playboy magazine.
Though singing in a sensation now Shakira has revealed that she used to sound like a goat in her struggling days.
Bipasha moves away from sexy tag as she plays a Kashmiri girl in 'lamha' and alter-ego of a man in 'Pankh'.
Satish has earned rave reviews in international circuits but rues that Bollywood still slots him as a funnyman.
Amitabh Bachchan fondly recollected his childhood days and said he missed his parents gravely on his birthday.
The problem with Surrogates isnt really the plot or its pacing,which is interesting enough. But the whole premise.
In Away We Go,Burt and Verona,untethered and in a dream scenario as they call it decide to travel,make a new beginning in a perfect place for the daughter they are going to have.
Hyde Park Entertainment Group has extended its partnership with Imagenation Abu Dhabi.
Radcliffe is set to make his musical debut,it has emerged.
Ranbir said use of the 'Bombay' was not intentional.
Amy Winehouses next album may be out next year. Darcus Beese,the president of,Island, the singers record label,revealed that the all tracks should be ready by 2010.
A raid conducted on an office in Sydney has led to the discovery of Michael Jackson memorabilia.
A R Rahman and Vandana Shiva are set to become a part of the International Space Station(ISS).
Katie has put Tom Cruise on diet to keep him in shape.
Columbian pop star Shakira has set her fans on an online treasure hunt.
The Centre is dispatching 3,700 BSF personnel to nab the Maoists responsible for killing 20 policemen in Gadchiroli district.
Amitabh Bachchan who turns 67 on October 11,says that his enthusiasm about birthdays has long died.
She may be just four films old but Bollywood sensation,Deepika Padukone believes that she does not need art-house cinema to prove her credentials as an actress.
Five days Shiney was got bail,Noida police realised that the actor is putting up in UP,not Delhi.
Gossip Girl star Blake Lively seems eager to ditch her teenybopper image,as her latest venture is a drama filled.
Asin is having a dream time in Bollywood but she says she is 'clueless' when it comes to the industry gossip.
Jacqueline has already created many a ripples even as her debut film Aladdin is yet to be released.
Sheik Karimullah and three of his co-workers haven't slept for three days now. Their hands are full these days as is their tiny garage near the bus station in Kurnool town,with more than 25 two-wheelers lined up for repair.
Prices of rice has shot up by a minimum of Rs 400 per quintal over the last two days as unscrupulous traders have got back to hoarding.

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JACKIE FABULOUS, a native New Yorker from The Bronx, moved to California 15 years ago to get a law degree and a husband. After successfully earning her Jurist Doctorate and eloping in Vegas, Jackie learned she was better suited to play a lawyer on television and that standup comedy was the actual love her life. Divorced and ready to party, Jackie Fabulous realized her destiny was to become a multifaceted performer that is at her best when she’s riding waves of laughter by connecting with all races, genders, and social economic classes on a very personal level. Jackie had many compelling reasons to move back to The Bronx after getting her degree and failing at marriage. But the financial hardship of being a struggling artist and her younger sister becoming the victim of a crime relegating her to a wheel chair for life only motivated Jackie to fulfill a completely different calling that came to her in her 30’s after 4 years of law school.
Erin Foley is an amazing comedic actress, comedian, and writer. Just this year, she made her stand-up debut on Conan, did a guest star on the NBC series Go On, and also performed stand-up on TV Guide’s inaugural series Stand-up In Stilettos hosted by Kate Flannery of The Office and Comedy Central’s new series Mash Up hosted by TJ Miller. As a seasoned comedian, she also has a Comedy Central Presents under her belt, as well as having been on Premium Blend, Chelsea Lately and The Kilborn File. In New York and Los Angeles, Erin can be regularly seen at Gotham Comedy Club, Caroline's on Broadway, The Improv, The Laugh Factory and Stand Up New York. She has performed at the San Francisco Sketch Fest, Just for Laughs/TBS Comedy Festival in Chicago and the Moontower Comedy Festival in Austin. Foley has had the honor of being selected to perform at the prestigious Montreal Comedy Festival three times. Additionally, Erin has starred in many national commercial campaigns, the acclaimed Tribeca Film Fest short Cried Suicide, and even a supporting role in Almost Famous. Erin has branded a unique position for herself in the industry as not only a gifted stand-up but a talented actress. Her versatility makes her one of the most sought- after women working the comedy scene today.
Jimmy O. Yang is a Chinese American stand-up comedian and actor. He plays Jian-Yang, a recurring character on the Mike Judge HBO Series Silicon Valley. He performed standup on The Arsenio Hall show and received a standing ovation from the crowd. Jimmy can also be seen as a guest star on a special episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadephia (season 9) written by the Game of Thrones creators. Jimmy was born in Hong Kong to a traditional Chinese family from Shanghai. He now lives in LA
Born in New Orleans, Ocean moved to Los Angeles at any early age. Growing up in L.A. he was influenced by the raw talent of such comics as Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor. Ocean went back to Louisiana to study theatre at Xavier University. He later returned to L.A., where he currently resides, to pursue a career in comedy and acting. Ocean is currently working nightly in the stand-up circuit, in addition to working on an untitled independent film, the Comedy Playground pilot, and a series of commercials for Match.com.


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No flash of lightning lit the sky.
No cloudlet marred the blue on high.
The Saras 3b missed the welcome rain,
The moon's full beams were bright again.
Sugríva, lapped in bliss, forgot
The claims of faith, or heeded not;
And by alluring joys misled
The path of falsehood learned to tread
In careless ease he passed each hour,
And dallied in his lady's bower
Each longing of his heart was stilled,
And every lofty hope fulfilled.
With royal Rumá by his side,
Or Tará yet a dearer bride,
He spent each joyous day and night
In revelry and wild delight,
Like Indra whom the nymphs entice
To taste the joys of Paradise.
The power to courtiers' hands resigned,
To all their acts his eyes were blind.
All doubt, all fear he cast aside
And lived with pleasure for his guide.
But sage Hanumán, firm and true,
Whose heart the lore of Scripture knew,
Well trained to meet occasion, trained
In all by duty's law ordained,
Strove with his prudent speech to find
*Set* access to the monarch's mind.
He, skilled in every gentle art
Of eloquence that wins the heart,
Sugríva from his trance to wake,
His salutary counsel spake:
'The realm is won, thy name advanced,
The glory of thy house enhanced,
And now thy foremost care should he
To aid the friends who succoured thee.
He who is firm and faithful found
To friendly ties in honour bound,
Will see his name and fame increase
Wide sway is his who truly boasts
That friends and treasure, self and hosts,
Are blest in one harmonious whole,
Are subject to his firm control.
Do thou, whose footsteps never stray
From the clear bounds of duty's way.
Assist, as honour bids thee, now
Thy friends, observant of thy vow.
For if all cares we lay not by.
And to our friend's assistance fly.
We, after, toil in idle haste,
And all the late endeavour waste.
Up! nor the promised help delay
Until the hour have slipped away.
Up! and with Raghu's son renew
The search for Sitá lost to view.
The hour is come: he hears the call,
But not on thee reproaches fall
From him who labours to repress
His eager spirit's restlessness.
Long joined to thee in friendly ties
He made thy fame and fortune rise,
In gentle gifts by none excelled.
In splendid might unparalleled.
Up, to his succour, King! repay
The favour of that prosperous day,
And to thy bravest captains send
Prompt mandates to assist thy friend,
Tbe cry for help thou wilt not spurn
Although no grace demands return:
And wilt thou not thine aid afford
To him who realm and life restored?
Exert thy power, and thou hast won
The love of Dasaratha's son:
And will then for his summons wait,
And till he call thee, hesitate?
Think not the hero needs thy power
To save him in the desperate hour:
He with his arrows could subdue
The Gods and all the demon crew,
And only waits that he may see
Redeemed the promise made by thee.
For thee he risked his life and fought,
For thee that great deliverance wrought.
Then let us trace through earth and skies
His lady wheresoe'er she lies.
Through realms above, beneath, we flee,
And plant our footsteps on the sea.
Tnen why, O Lord of Vanary, still
Delay us waiting for thy will?
Give thy commands, O King, and say
What task has each and where the way.
Before thee myriad Vanars stand
To sweep through heaven, o'er seas and land.'
Sugriva heard the timely rede
That roused him in the day of need,
And thus to Nila prompt and brave
His hest the imperial Vanar gave:
'Go, Nila, to the distant hosts
That keep in arms their several posts,
And all the armies that protect
The quarters, 1 with their chiefs, collect.
To all the luminaries placed
In intermediate regions haste,
And bid each captain rise and lead
His squadrons to their king with speed
Do thou meanwhile with strictest care
All that the time requires prepare.
The loitering Vanar who delays
To gather here ere thrice five days,
Shall surely die for his offence,
Condemned for sinful negligence.'
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359:3b The Indian crane a magnificent bird easily domesticated.

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Rainfall and increased humanitarian aid efforts in Somalia have helped ease the situation in the country, according to the United Nations, which announced that three areas have emerged out of a state of famine.
The regions of Lower Shabelle, Bay and Bakool are no longer famine zones, according to a report from the Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit and the Famine Early Warning Systems Network, which was co-financed by the United Nations and the United States.
The report says food prices in these regions are falling and more food is available through markets. It cited increased efforts to boost Somalis’ spending power, the entry of more aid groups in the scene, and seasonal rains as key factors to the somewhat alleviating situation in the country, The New York Times reports.
But this progress is fragile and the situation of millions of people in Somalia, particularly in the southern regions of the country, remains critical, according to aid experts.
“This crisis is nowhere near over,” Sonia Zambakides of Save the Children said, according to The New York Times. “While there has been an improvement in these areas thanks to the international aid effort, children are still dying at a frightening rate across Somalia.”
The top U.N. aid chief, meanwhile, emphasized the need to sustain the fragile progress.
“I remain extremely concerned by the critical situation in Mogadishu and other parts of south and central Somalia,” said Valerie Amos, U.N. undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator. “We need the international community to continue to generously support the vital work we and our partners are doing.”
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The centre from St. John's has been in the organization since turning pro
St. John’s native Clark Bishop will be spending at least one more hockey season with the Carolina Hurricanes after re-signing with the NHL organization Tuesday.
Bishop, a product of the Avalon-Celtics minor system, was a restricted free agent who recently filed for salary arbitration. He agreed to a one-year, two-way contract that will pay him $700,000 at the NHL level and $100,000 if he plays in the American Hockey League.
In all, Bishop has played 247 games since turning professional with the Hurricanes organization in 2016. Of that, 201 games were played with the AHL's Charlotte Checkers.
However, the 24-year-old centre won't be getting an assignment to Charlotte this year; that's because the Hurricanes have changed their AHL affiliation to the Chicago Wolves.
Bishop recorded one assist in five games with the Hurricanes last season. In 25 career NHL games with Carolina, Bishop has a goal and three assists. He appeared in two 2019 playoff games with the Hurricanes.
In 53 games with the Checkers last season, when he was a Charlotte assistant captain, Bishop chipped in with six goals and 13 assists.
“Clark is a versatile, two-way center who knows our system well,” Hurricanes president and general manager Don Waddell said in a news release. “We look forward to him continuing his development this season.”
Bishop was selected by the Hurricanes in the fifth round, 127th overall, in the 2014 NHL Draft. He enjoyed a four-year Quebec Major Junior Hockey League career with the Cape Breton Eagles.

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|Date of game: 1/11/2014
Recap: Oklahoma City vs. Milwaukee
Oklahoma City, OK (SportsNetwork.com) - Kevin Durant poured in 33 points to go along with 10 rebounds and seven assist, as the Oklahoma City Thunder cruised past the Milwaukee Bucks, 101-85, from Chesapeake Energy Arena.
Serge Ibaka totaled 17 points with 17 rebounds and three blocks for the Thunder, who snapped a brief two-game losing streak. Jeremy Lamb added 17 points off the bench, while Thabo Sefolosha contributed 14 points in the win.
"That was a shootout. I thought our offense was much better in the second half. We haven't shot the ball well in the last three games but we finally got going in the second half and passing is what woke us up. Everyone was sharing the ball," said Thunder coach Scott Brooks.
Luke Ridnour and O.J. Mayo each scored 16 points off the bench for Milwaukee, which lost its fifth straight game. Brandon Knight and Giannis Antetokounmpo each tallied 13 points in the loss with Antetokounmpo adding 11 rebounds.
Lamb hit a 3 with 3:46 to go in the third quarter and the Thunder outscored the Bucks 17-6 in the final three-plus minutes to grab a 77-62 lead heading to the fourth. Durant made three free throws with 0.4 seconds left after a Miroslav Raduljica foul to end the stanza.
"It got away in the third quarter. I thought defensively we had some breakdowns and against a good team you just can't do that," said Bucks coach Larry Drew. "Offensively our shot selection wasn't very good and we didn't move the ball very well."
Mayo scored eight straight points, including two consecutive 3-pointers as part of an 11-0 run that Ilyasova capped with a 3-ball. That had the Bucks within 81-75.
Lamb and Derek Fisher made back-to-back buckets to push the lead back to 10, 85-75, with just over eight minutes left.
The Bucks would get as close as seven from there as the Thunder extended the lead back to double digits the rest of the way.
Oklahoma led 14-10 after one quarter of play and 38-35 at the half.Game Notes
Durant has now scored 111 points over the last three games ... The Thunder
improved to 11-2 against the East ... OKC shot 40.7 percent and held the Bucks
to 39.5 percent ... Fisher scored 10 points off the bench ... The Thunder
outrebounded the Bucks 58-40.

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Now that the winter's gone, the earth hath lost
Her snow-white robes, and now no more the frost
Candies the grass, or casts an icy cream
Upon the silver lake or crystal stream;
But the warm sun thaws the benumbed earth,
And makes it tender; gives a sacred birth
To the dead swallow; wakes in hollow tree
The drowsy cuckoo and the humble-bee.
Now do a choir of chirping minstrels bring
In triumph to the world the youthful spring.
- Thomas Carew, The Spring, 1630
Is that Forsythia that I see?ReplyDelete
Bright yellow blooms so wild and free.-Nice old poem-I'm not much for poetry but I like them if I can understand them.
Wow, the forsythia are beautiful! I think you're farther north than we are in southeastern Washington state, but it looks like you're at the same level of spring flowers.ReplyDelete
Just beautiful images Ruth! Yea spring!!!ReplyDelete
Great poem, Ruth. Very nice post on a day everyone is seeing unfold Spring before our eyes.ReplyDelete
I love forsythia! Yours are blooming already? Ours are just taking on a pale yellow color but are weeks from flowering!ReplyDelete
Thanks for your comments. It is exceedingly dull, damp and drizzly here and there is not even a crocus in bloom. I took these photos mid-April 2006 in our city. I posted them to represent the April I hope is coming very soon here!ReplyDelete
Larry, I am not a poetry expert, but see poets as artists with words. Like you, if I read a poem that leaves an intriguing word picture in my mind, I like it. (simple is best!)


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Elza Kephart writes and directs horror and fantasy films. Her latest feature, the horror film Slaxx, is out on VOD, Digital HD and DVD on September 7, 2021 through RLJE Films. Born and raised in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal), she holds a BFA from Emerson College (Boston) and the Canadian Film Center’s Director’s Lab. At 24, she wrote and directed her first feature, Graveyard Alive – A Zombie Nurse in Love. It played in over 20 international film festivals including Fantasia, Fantasporto and Sitges, winning the Kodak Cinematography Award at the Slamdance Film Festival. It was distributed on TMN, on DVD by Maple Pictures, and in theaters. Her second feature film, Go in the Wilderness, premiered at the Festival du Nouveau Cinema, played in various international film festivals, and is being distributed on various platforms, including itunes. Slaxx had its world premiere at the Fantasia International Film Festival and its International Premiere at the Sitges International Film Festival in 2020. She is one of the co-founders of the Montreal chapter of Film Fatales, and one of the co-founders of Extinction Rebellion Québec. (Photo by Marlène Gélineau Payette.)
I was very young when I realized there was something wrong with our world. I remember being around 10 or 11 when the Cabbage Patch Kids craze started (it was the ’80s!). I remember having a love-hate relationship with the Kids – everyone had one, so of course I wanted one, yet I could feel that there was something wrong about the fact that “everyone wanted one,” without questioning why. I didn’t want to be left out, but I didn’t want to cave under social pressure – what was a young girl to do? In the end, my folks got me a CPK for my birthday. Technically, I hadn’t bought it, but I still remember the feeling of happiness mingled with disgust. Now I was “just like everyone,” but I had also betrayed my true feelings, that we were being made to think we all needed these ugly dolls.
It really started me thinking about how corporations “brainwash” us to consume. My 11-year-old mind didn’t have such clearly worded concepts, but it was a strong feeling. This would follow suit with dieting; I was 12 and all the girls in my class were on a “diet” (12!!!). I remember how I loved watching Fashion Television, a Canadian fashion show. I remember seeing the models’ “perfect” bodies, and looking at my own 12-year-old body! and thinking I needed to lose weight (WTF!!!). I remember eating celery and trying to diet and feeling miserable. Then, one day, I realized this was bullshit, and stopped. I don’t remember what prompted me to stop, but it was clear. My body was my body, and I accepted it as it was. I remember seeing a daytime talk show where Leeza Gibbons complimented a guest on not having an ounce of cellulite. I remember thinking, “Why praise this on television? She was probably born that way and there’s nothing most of us can do about it.”
Since then, I have seen friends, female and male, struggle with weight, with dieting, with body image, and have been so angry at our society for perpetuating this rubbish. Same with hair dyeing! I dyed my hair with various materials since I was 14, hating my “dishwater blonde” hair, as my mother called it. Then one day, I read a short essay called “Beauty and Misogyny,” which decried most beauty practices, including hair dyeing. It said that women are never “good enough,” our hair can always be “improved,” even if we don’t have – gasp – grey in it! I henceforth stopped dyeing my hair – ironically, just as I started getting grey.
So my questioning of our culture’s brainwashing to consume and always be dissatisfied with our appearance started quite early, and has never stopped. This has been a huge motor for my new film Slaxx, a very pointed critique of fast fashion, mass consumption and corporate brainwashing power. It tells the tale of Libby, a young and idealistic salesclerk who joins the “Canadian Cotton Clothiers” during their night-time collection turnaround, only to realize a killer is at work, bumping off sales people one by one. [Spoiler Alert] What she discovers is that the killer is none other than a pair of jeans, possessed by the spirit of a dead child labourer, killed in an accident while picking cotton for the CCC, hellbent on revenge. While the film doesn’t concentrate on the theme of beauty ideals, I have infused it in there as well – nothing escapes Slaxx’s vicious and deadly critique! The film was my way to take to court all these nefarious practices, promoted by huge corporations who care about nothing but their bottom line, at the cost of people’s lives, the environment and our mental well-being.
As Slaxx’s pre-production was getting underway, in the fall of 2018, I realized, after the catastrophic IPCC report and reading the United Nations Secretary General’s declaration, the absolute climate and ecological emergency we were in; the declaration predicted crop failure, social unrest, and the potential extinction of civilization. The world, as I knew it, came to crashing halt. Everything I had envisaged in my future was upended. I joined an activist group and came to realize, through my involvement, how capitalism and corporations were directly responsible for the climate and ecological crisis. All of a sudden, it all made sense: My lifelong enemy, the “evil corporation,” was truly being pointed out as the movie villain it was, responsible for our destruction, all for a quick buck.
This made me even more furious, and I have since decided to use my art to talk about the climate crisis, extraction of natural resources beyond Earth’s capacity (through mining, logging, fishing, etc.), and how we must reorient our attitude towards Mother Earth, our responsibility to her and every living creature on earth. One of my upcoming projects, Night of the Pendulum, a supernatural limited series, reimagines the extractivist mining industry through a mythological lens, and follows one character’s journey from unconsciousness to consciousness, and coming to realize he must sacrifice himself for the good of all. Another project, an action-satire TV show, Global Terror Inc., revolves around teenaged activists who take their survival to the next level and start terrorizing the fossil fuel elite. The feature I hope to direct next, Chair Obscure, plays with the notion of “possession” by a spirit entity and “possessions,” as in things we own. The main character possesses someone to survive, but ironically ends up rejecting her possessions, to get a second, more honest crack at life.
I have also joined the Directors Guild of Canada’s Sustainability and Climate Action Committee, where we are hard at work implementing changes in our industry, as well as SCALE, an arts community action group spearheaded by Seth Klein, brother of Naomi. Through this group, I urge other art-makers to read a personal declaration on the Climate and Ecological Emergency before their performances or presentations of their work, to ensure that people understand that “business as usual” is no longer valid if we are to survive.
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GR Joe comes though with some realness for his debut BIG BARS Session.
We linked up with Hastings based Rapper and songwriter GR Joe for a long overdue BIG BARS Session. Joe drops some bars over a proper slick hip hop instrumental created by Realiskool Records very own Mendull Man.
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An estimated 70,000 Michigan students are victims of bullying. Now, government officials in Lansing are working on legislation to prevent it.
Commissioners from the Michigan Department of Civil Rights have been conducting forums around the state to learn more about bullying, including a stop in Marquette on Tuesday.
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Witte Earns PING All-America Honor
NORMAN, Okla. - University of Colorado Colorado Springs senior golfer Kevin Witte became the first Mountain Lion since 2009 to earn a spot on the PING All-America Teams announced this morning. Witte earned a spot on the Third Team.
Witte won the RMAC Championship and finished second at the NCAA Division II West / South Central Region Championships during the spring season. He led the Mountain Lions at the national championships and finished No. 14 at six strokes over par in late May.
Witte finished in the top three of the standings in five tournaments during the spring season and was a member of the PING All-South Central Region Team, RMAC All-Tournament Team and All-RMAC First Team.
Witte is the first Mountain Lion on the golf All-America teams since Tyler Bishop earned a spot on the honorable mention list in 2009. He's the fifth UCCS golfer to earn All-America honors and it's the sixth All-America mention for the program with Marc Hocking's two awards in 2002 and 2003.
The Mountain Lions matched their best national finish in a tie for No. 10 in the fifth national tournament appearance in program history. UCCS won its 11th RMAC championship in April and was the only team from the South Central Region to qualify for the national championships.
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|June 21, 2013||Trujillo Named Eaton Golf South Central Region Coach of the Year||University of Colorado Colorado Springs Head Men's Golf Coach Phil Trujillo was named the Eaton Golf Pride South Central Region Coach of the Year this morning in conjunction with the Golf Coaches Association of America.|
|May 31, 2013||Mountain Lions Place Three on All-Region Teams||The University of Colorado Colorado Springs led the South Central Region with three selections in the 2013 PING All-Region Teams announced this afternoon.|
|May 22, 2013||UCCS Matches Best Team Finish in Program History||Kevin Witte finished with a score of 69 to lead the University of Colorado Colorado Springs to a tie for No. 10 at the end of stroke play for the 2013 NCAA Division II Men's Golf National Championship.|
|May 21, 2013||DeLashmutt Leads #14 UCCS on Day Two||Eddie DeLashmutt improved by three strokes and finished with a 72 to lead No. 14 University of Colorado Colorado Springs after the second round of the 2013 NCAA Division II Men's Golf National Championship on the East Course of the Hershey Country Club.|


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If you've been cruising the streets of Los Santos enjoying the soundtrack and score of Grand Theft Auto V, you don't have to put together your own playlist. You can purchase a three-album set right now on iTunes.
Each playlist covers a different aspect of GTA V's music. The first album is 18 tracks of original music, including "Sleepwalking" by The Chain Gang of 1974. This track was featured in the game's trailer.
The second is the score. These 22 tracks were composed by Tangerine Dream, Woody Jackson, The Alchemist & Oh No, and DJ Shadow.
The final album is a sampling of 19 tracks heard in-game. You can see the entire list below.
You can pick these up a la carte for $9.99 each on iTunes or purchase the set for a discounted rate of $24.99.
Our TakeWhile this isn't as complete as the fantastic Vice City seven-disc set, it is a nice blend of source music, score, and songs inspired by GTA V. The price is right, and the discount is generous. Rockstar knows their stuff when it comes to music selection, and even if you only have a passing interest in the game, the soundtrack is worth a listen.


Narendra Modi’s Northeast India Outreach
By Edmund Downie
In a rare visit by an Indian PM, Modi begins navigating a complex region.
India and Bangladesh Poised to Resolve Border Dispute
By Alyssa Ayres
India's PM Narendra Modi has given his support to a 2011 agreement, which could have significant implications for the region.
India and Bangladesh Near Resolution on Border Dispute
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Choosing a math degree was the best career decision Marie Morel-Seytoux ’90 made at Willamette, but it almost didn’t happen.
Years before the STEM curriculum became commonplace in schools, Morel-Seytoux was a student who enjoyed math but didn’t think it could be useful for a career. Today, as a vice president at FICO, a leading data analytics software company, she finds it particularly funny that she ever felt that way.
Morel-Seytoux’s current role includes overseeing FICO Score Open Access, a program that helps more than 250 million consumers understand and access their credit scores, an effort former President Barack Obama praised in 2014. She’s spent the majority of her career at FICO, where she’s known for her analytic development, consulting, program management and operational leadership.
“When I was a student, I was one of those people who would ask, ‘What do you do with a math major?’” she said. “Now I feel the complete opposite — it really opens up career opportunities because it’s such a great foundation for other technical fields.”
Morel-Seytoux began her academic career at a large public university in California but Willamette’s academic rigor and small class sizes appealed to her so much, she transferred for her second year.
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“Professor Farnum showed me how a woman could be a successful intelligent professional without hiding her feminine side,” she said.
Campus clubs introduced Morel-Seytoux to the broader community. She helped build a house with the Community Action Group and brought speakers to campus through an education committee. As a math tutor through the Office of Multicultural Affairs, she worked with underrepresented and nontraditional students for a year.
Tutoring instilled in her a lasting value for diversity. In 1991, she joined Volunteers in Service to America, helping Native Americans acclimate to life off the reservation by helping them prepare for their GED test. She’s currently part of Advancing Women Executives, a training development company that creates equity and economic growth for women at the workplace.
At FICO, when she builds teams or hires new employees, she intentionally seeks people with varied backgrounds.
“I think you can be a stronger team together when you hire diverse talents and perspectives,” she said. “Willamette helped shape that belief.”
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Morel-Seytoux’s major had an immediate impact on her career.
Her degree led to an MS degree in operations research at Stanford University and directly applied to her first job at FICO in California as a data scientist. Initially, she worked on custom predictive model development and analyses for financial institutions. From there she rose through the ranks and led the Custom Credit Bureau Analytics team until 2001, when she decided to take time off to start a family.
For the next several years, she took a professional detour. She taught math part time at Contra Costa College, a community college in San Pablo, California, then “got the entrepreneurial bug,” moved back to Oregon and became president and owner of The Little Gym of Lake Oswego, a children’s fitness facility that dovetailed her interest in teaching and her passion for health and fitness.
In 2009, Morel-Seytoux returned to the financial world. Owning a small business developed her strategic thinking skills, and she quickly rose from analyst to vice president at a mortgage servicing company in Beaverton. Three years later, she rejoined FICO as principal consultant. She has been a vice president since 2017 and loves the job.
“At FICO, the people — just like our products — are incredibly analytic,” she said. “The culture is part of what I like. We look at all the different scenarios and the data to drive the decisions we’re making. There’s also a lot of collaboration and it’s collegial, which can be lost at a lot of corporations.”
Her technical skills are essential for her industry, but the communication and collaboration skills she learned at Willamette have been important as she’s grown in her career — they likely helped her land her first job, she said. But more than anything, the qualities are a useful complement to her degree.
“I moved into the business and management side, but having a background and understanding in math still brings value to my work now,” she said. “The degree has a very direct relationship to my current career.”


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Gurnee Economic Development Committee reviews progress on strategic plan
Gurnee Economic Development Committee met Feb. 16.
The purpose of the Economic Development Committee (EDC) is to create an economic development “strategy/plan” designed to improve or enhance the economic development capabilities of the Village's business community, increase job opportunities and improve and/or diversify the tax base of the Village of Gurnee.
Here is the agenda as provided by Gurnee:
Agenda of the Regular Meeting of the Gurnee Economic Development Committee - February 16, 2017
VILLAGE OF GURNEE
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE AGENDA
DATE: Thursday, February 16, 2017
TIME: 5:30 P.M.
PLACE: Conference Room A, Gurnee Village Hall, 325 North O’Plaine Road
1. Call to Order and Roll Call
2. Pledge of Allegiance
3. Public Comment
4. Approval of Minutes: October 27, 2016
5. Old Business
6. New Business
a. Approve 2017 EDC Meeting Schedule
b. East Grand – FY 2017/18 Budget Recommendation
7. Informational Items
a. Strategic Plan – February Progress Reports
b. Director’s Report
8. Chairperson Comments

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Church to begin Saturday evening service
Pastor hopes to reach out to nontraditional church-goers
Published: Saturday, February 16, 2008 at 12:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, February 15, 2008 at 4:18 p.m.
North Lexington Baptist Church is reaching out to another sector of the community that may want a church home, just not as early and as formal as a traditional Sunday morning service.
The church, located off Biesecker Road on Mize Road, will begin a Saturday evening service March 1. In newspaper advertisements the church is promoting the new "Come as You Are" service to people who are seeking answers, disgruntled with church, like to sleep in on Sundays and appreciate casual dress and atmosphere.
Pastor Robert Floyd said the service, which will begin at 5:30 p.m., will include a live band and last about an hour. A nursery will also be provided.
"I think we can do this and still not short-change the Gospel," he said.
The sign outside North Lexington Baptist Church that advertises the church's service times is a clue to passers-by that the minister and congregation are reaching out to nontraditional Protestant church-goers. The sign advertises church service times in English, Cambodian and Spanish.
Floyd said he knows of only two churches in North Carolina offering a Saturday service. One is in a community near Greensboro and another is in Raleigh. Floyd spoke with the minister, Pastor Mark Gray, who began the Saturday service at the Greensboro-area church. Gray told him the service had been very successful and pulled in another portion of the community that was not being ministered to.
"Everything I have seen and heard is that music is extremely important in these services," Floyd said, noting he was meeting with the band members this week to come up with a name for the group.
Following the first service in March, the church will have a short reception to allow participants to get to know one another better.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The use of updated breath test instruments in each of the Metropolitan Police Department’s (MPD) seven districts and a year-old overhaul of D.C. laws on impaired driving have helped improve prosecution of cases against impaired drivers, Attorney General Irvin B. Nathan said today.
Speaking to the Washington Regional Alcohol Program’s annual awards luncheon, Nathan expressed hope that “the new DUI laws, the improved breath testing programs, and the many accomplishments of law enforcement in this past year will assist in reducing impaired driving in the District and the National Capital region.”
The breath test instruments, called the Intoximeter EC/IR II, became operational just over a year ago, on September 28, 2012. Use of the instruments starting last fall ended a period beginning in early 2010 in which breath testing by MPD was suspended when the devices previously used were found to have been miscalibrated.
During the interim period, law enforcement authorities were able to use urine tests, and in some cases blood tests, to determine alcohol levels or drug content of suspected impaired drivers. However, it often took several months to receive the results from the toxicology testing.
Now, trained police officers can obtain instant results from breath tests that indicate whether suspected impaired drivers have more than the statutory limit of .08 grams of alcohol per 210 liters of breath or .04 grams of alcohol per 210 liters of breath for impaired drivers operating commercial vehicles. The definition of commercial vehicle in the District includes taxi cabs.
The use of breath test technology allows law enforcement and prosecutors to determine quickly whether an individual is impaired by alcohol or whether additional drug testing may be necessary. The test is simple to administer. Drivers exhale into a tube and the instrument generates a result that the officer is able to review at the time of testing.
The new breath testing program is overseen by a forensic toxicologist at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME), who helped develop the program and maintains its quality assurance. The agency said that more than 900 tests have been administered on the seven instruments in their first year.
Including classes held in August and this month, 81 officers have been trained to use the devices. MPD made nearly 1,100 arrests for impaired driving in the year ending September 30, part of a District-wide total of nearly 1,500 when arrests by several federal agencies are included.
In his remarks today, the Attorney General thanked the District’s Department of Transportation (DDOT), which helped obtain the funding for the breath testing improvements, and other District and local partners that contribute to impaired-driving enforcement.
He also discussed the updated D.C. laws on impaired driving, which provide higher penalties for first time impaired driving and more severe mandatory minimum sentences for repeat offenders, offenders with high alcohol concentration levels, commercial vehicle drivers, and for those impaired by Schedule I drugs, such as PCP. For the first time in the District, the law requires impaired drivers who drive with children in their vehicles to be jailed.
Attorney General Nathan said that even during the period before the District installed state of the art, well-calibrated equipment, “I am proud to say that our rates of conviction among cases we elected to prosecute remained steady and even went up slightly.”
“As we approach Halloween and the holiday season,” the Attorney General concluded, “we hope that our residents will celebrate responsibly” and that if they do choose to drink, they take advantage of the WRAP organization’s Sober Ride program, designate a sober driver, or use public transportation. For people “who make the wrong choice and get behind the wheel,” he said, “we know that our dedicated team of law enforcement professionals stands ready to help keep the District’s streets safe.”


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Himley Hall is an early 17th-century country house situated in Staffordshire, England. It is situated in the south of the county in the small village of Himley, near to the town of Dudley and the city of Wolverhampton. Himley Hall is a Grade II* listed building. Its park and garden, which were extended in the 1770s by Lancelot "Capability" Brown, are Grade II listed with the National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.
|Himley Hall and Park|
|Status||Open to public|
|Type||English country house|
|Completed||early 18th century|
|Owner||Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council|
|Designated||16 June 1953|
In early days, it was a moated manor house, standing beside the medieval church. For over four centuries it served as a secondary home to the Lords of Dudley and their knights. Its occupants included Dud Dudley, whose 17th-century experiments in smelting iron ore with coal were carried out nearby. In 1645, King Charles I encamped in the grounds on his way to defeat at the Battle of Naseby during the English Civil War.
In 1628, the Ward family inherited the title Lords of Dudley through the marriage of Humble Ward to the heiress to the Dudley estates, Frances Sutton. Humble Ward was the son of the jeweller and goldsmith to the court of King Charles I. Following damage to Dudley Castle during the Civil War, Himley Hall became the principal family home.
The current hall dates from the 18th century when John Ward demolished the medieval manor to make way for a great Palladian mansion. The village of Himley was relocated at this time, and its church rebuilt on its present site in 1764. In 1774 John Ward died and was succeeded by his son John Ward, Junior, who commissioned Capability Brown to redesign the 180 acres (730,000 m2) of parkland. Changes in Brown's 1779 plans included the addition of a lake, fed by a series of waterfalls from a higher chain of smaller pools.
After the Second World War, the property was sold to the National Coal Board for £45,000 in January 1947, only two hours before it was set to go on the auction block. The board planned to use as office space for 250 of its West Midlands staff. Three months later, during its conversion for this new purpose, a fire broke out and gutted the South wing. The house was unoccupied when fire broke out, and all of Lord Dudley's art and furnishings had been removed three days prior. This part of the house was rebuilt, but not according to its former appearance. The decline in the coal mining industry in the area led to the Hall being once more put on the market.
In 1966, it was purchased jointly by Dudley and Wolverhampton County Borough Councils − despite existing within the Seisdon Urban District (and then South Staffordshire from 1974). The park was opened as a public leisure area. In 1988, Dudley bought Wolverhampton's share, gaining outright ownership.
Set in the grounds of Himley Hall, Himley Park was created in the 1970s and is now visited by over 200,000 visitors each year. It features a large lake and hill with many woodland walks along with open parkland. It is well known for its thriving population of ducks. There is a small log cabin cafe which is open for hot food and drinks.
There is also a nine-hole public golf course which was designed by A & K Baker in 1980 and a family pitch and putt within the park, along with public fishing on the lake. Himley Hall sailing club have sailed on the Great Lake since 1970 and are a RYA registered training centre.
- Historic England. "Himley Hall (Grade II) (1230781)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
- "Honeymoon At Himley Hall". The Times. The Times Digital Archive. 29 November 1934. p. 31.
- "Himley Hall Sold To Coal Board". The Times. The Times Digital Archive. 15 January 1947. p. 4.
- "Fire At Himley Hall". The Times. The Times Digital Archive. 7 April 1947. p. 2.
- "Himley Hall: Past, Present, & Future". Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council. Archived from the original on 9 April 2016. Retrieved 24 March 2016.

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The journey of families with young patients who have premature scoliosis can be long and tough, and they may encounter various challenges such as illness adaptation and medical options. However, they are not alone. The orthopedic medical team for children with scoliosis understands and cares about the needs of these young patients and their families.
In 2017, the Orthopedics Department of Taipei Veterans General Hospital established the "Taiwan Scoliosis Care Association," which is composed of a group of families of young patients with scoliosis. Through their immediate experiences, the Association has a better understanding of the needs of these families and provides support and assistance through their group operations. The Association works closely with instructors and medical staff to help these families receive more comprehensive medical care and various daily-life services.
Over the past years, the Association has organized educational campaigns to promote preventive healthcare and appropriate concepts in medical rehabilitation. Additionally, they hold the "Timely Love for Scoliosis" public welfare concert annually, which brings together public service with culture and art. The concert provides a platform for young scoliosis patients to perform and also invites the participation of social enthusiasts, hoping to encourage individual care and support from various communities.
The Association has a special focus on young patients at Taipei Veterans General Hospital. In addition to regularly visiting and caring for these young patients, they have also allocated resources to organize free arts therapy programs that help relieve physical and mental stress for hospitalized young patients. These programs are open to all young patients, regardless of nationality or sex.
The orthopedic medical team for children with scoliosis not only provides physiological care to young patients but also concerns themselves with their families. They collaborate with social resources to accompany young patients and their families, helping them face the challenges of illness with courage

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J.T.S. (as he was generally known) owned slaves from the time of his father's death in early 1826* until Emancipation came to Texas in 1865. (Besides the enslaved persons from his father's estate, J.T.S. inherited "one negro boy named Matt" from his uncle Jeremiah in 1832 although he was not to take possession of Matt until he was 21.)
His step-father John P. Phillips acted as his legal guardian during his minority. Below is one of John Phillips' annual accounts filed with the Troup County, Georgia, Probate Court in 1841.
["Georgia Probate Records, 1742-1990," images, <i>FamilySearch</i> (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-30463-17086-76?cc=1999178 : accessed 28 January 2016), Troup > Returns 1839-1847 vol C and E > image 195 of 588; county probate courthouses, Georgia.]
In 1846, the year that J.T.S. attained his majority, the Phillips family moved to Macon County, Alabama, where he married Martha Heath Hardy three years later. On the 1850 U.S. Census - Slave Schedule J.T.S. was listed as the owner of 12 slaves; perhaps Matt was one of the adult males on that list.
1850 U.S. census, Macon County, Alabama, slave schedule, District 21, p. 183 (penned), Jesse Warren, owner; NARA microfilm publication M432; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 21 Jan 2016).
The next record of slave ownership for J.T.S. is an 1855 Cass County, Texas, Tax Assessment listing 17 enslaved persons valued at $1,200.** At this point he had been a resident of Texas for about three years.
["Texas, County Tax Rolls, 1846-1910," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-13728-38653-31?cc=1827575 : accessed 28 Jan 2016), Cass county > 1855 > image 31 of 37; citing State Archives, Austin.]
Subsequent tax records leading up to the 1860 U.S. Census - Slave Schedule with its 19 individuals show that J.T.S. owned that number as early as 1858. Note that no children are listed in the 1860 enumeration.
["Texas, County Tax Rolls, 1846-1910," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-13728-39053-39?cc=1827575 : accessed 28 Jan 2016), Cass county > 1858 > image 38 of 45; citing State Archives, Austin.]
[1860 U.S. census, Cass County, Texas, slave schedule, Beat No. 4, p. 33 (penned), J.T.S. Warren, owner; NARA microfilm publication M653; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 21 Jan 2016).]
And here's the 1860 U.S. Census enumeration for J.T.S. and his household which included an overseer. His personal property, most of which would have represented the value of his slaves, was $12,000.
[Year: 1860; Census Place: Beat 4, Cass, Texas; Roll: M653_1290; Page: 392; Image: 97; Family History Library Film: 805290. Ancestry.com. 1860 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: 1860 U.S. census, population schedule. NARA microfilm publication M653, 1,438 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.]
On the 1860 U.S. Federal Census Schedule for agriculture the output of the Warren farm was 40-400 pound bales of cotton.*** (J.T.S. is listed on the last line.)
[Census Year: 1860; Census Place: Beat 4, Cass, Texas. Ancestry.com. Selected U.S. Federal Census Non-Population Schedules, 1850-1880 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.]
Cass County tax records survive for 1861, 1862 and 1864 which show that J.T.S. continued to add to his human property during the Civil War finally owning 25 persons by 1862.
["Texas, County Tax Rolls, 1846-1910," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-13728-36954-33?cc=1827575 : accessed 21 Jan 2016), Cass county > 1861 > image 25 of 31; citing State Archives, Austin.]
["Texas, County Tax Rolls, 1846-1910," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-13728-37749-42?cc=1827575 : accessed 28 Jan 2016), Davis county > 1862 > image 52 of 57; citing State Archives, Austin.]
I've been re-reading Walter Johnson's Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market **** and a quote there caught my eye: Edward Russell, a northerner traveling on the Red River of Texas in 1854 was told by a southerner,
"Planters care for nothing but to buy Negroes to raise cotton & raise cotton to buy Negroes."
I think that this sentiment was one that J.T.S. would have understood. I also think it's significant that we've found no evidence that any of his former slaves adopted his surname as was common practice after emancipation.
**These tax records only list the number and value without including a breakdown by sex and/or age.
***Totaling 16,000 pounds and cotton sold that year for 10 cents a pound.
****Kindle version location 1072.
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Newport group's city finance claims spur election season council fightCampaign trail tensions exploded into full public view Thursday at a Newport City Council meeting as elected officials and candidates sparred over a report by a citizens’ group that alleges sloppy financial record-keeping at City Hall.
Campaign trail tensions exploded into full public view Thursday at a Newport City Council meeting as elected officials and candidates sparred over a report by a citizens’ group that alleges sloppy financial record-keeping at City Hall.
Based on reams of data requested from city staff over a months-long period, the Newport Citizens’ group, or NEWCO — a coalition of residents that earlier this year sought to form a financial advisory commission similar to the city's planning commission — presented a report at the group’s meeting last week they say shows, among other findings, that the city is missing receipts for thousands of dollars in purchases made using city credit cards in recent years.
Mayor Tim Geraghty disputed the findings. He angrily defended the city’s accounting practices and confronted council candidate Dan Flood, who cited the group’s report in a campaign email to supporters this week. Meanwhile, council member Tom Ingemann, who is seeking re-election, read a lengthy statement that attacked opponents of the council and called out fellow council member Steven Gallagher, who is challenging Geraghty for mayor in the Nov. 6 election.
Geraghty alleged that NEWCO purposefully released the report deep into campaign season, and did so “at the time when the city has the best financial record it’s ever had and [then] this garbage is being thrown out there.”
Newport’s bond rating has improved over the past four years, its cost of borrowing has fallen and the city has built a healthy fund reserve, Geraghty, Ingemann and council member Bill Sumner, also seeking re-election, have said repeatedly during the campaign.
“And you guys are throwing out there stuff about missing receipts and blah, blah, blah,” the longtime mayor said.
The report, and its allegations of missing receipts, emerged amid increasingly sharp exchanges between council and mayoral candidates at televised debates in recent weeks.
That discord bled into regular city business Thursday after council members unanimously passed an update to the city’s internal controls procedure outlining a requirement that receipts be filed for purchases made by staff with a city credit card, city charge account or petty cash. City Administrator Brian Anderson said that there had been no such policy in place.
The new policy came on the heels of NEWCO’s report, which began circulating among council members, candidates and citizens last week.
The group — including some members with accounting backgrounds — says it reviewed hundreds of documents obtained from City Hall. It alleges a lack of proper documentation for numerous expenditures made using city credit cards, including at Menard’s home improvement stores across the metro, a fabrics store, Carbone’s Pizzeria, Target and Walmart in amounts ranging from $5 to $1,000. It also alleges a lack of monthly bank reconciliations and the absence of appropriate segregation of financial duties at City Hall.
A NEWCO representative said in an email Thursday the group had forwarded its findings to the state auditor’s office.
“There are some other things in the report that are worth taking a look at,” said council member Tracy Rahm, the lone Newport elected official not seeking office this fall.
In an interview, Anderson said he was not aware of missing credit card receipts and could not comment on the group’s allegations.
The city is now reconciling its monthly expenditures against its fund balance, Anderson said. The months in which it did not were during a period which saw the city’s accountant resign while city staff installed an updated computerized fiscal record-keeping system. He called it “a perfect storm.”
An annual audit delivered to the city in March gave Newport’s finances a generally positive review with one exception: the city’s small staff doesn’t allow it to divvy up accounting tasks among employees as widely as preferred, according to the report conducted by auditing firm MMKR.
It is a finding common among small cities, the audit said, and one that audits of Newport’s books in previous years had found as well in a city where administrative support staff shrunk from three employees to two last year as officials sought to cut personnel costs.
Already a politically-charged issue after the council voted 3-2 in April to kill the citizen group’s proposed financial advisory commission, the subject of Newport’s fiscal oversight disintegrated into election season political theater Thursday. Geraghty confronted Flood, who was sitting in the council chamber’s gallery, over his campaign email that the mayor called “misleading.”
Geraghty, Ingemann and Sumner in April voted to reject the informally proposed finance commission, saying it was a politically motivated plan from a politically motivated group opposed to the mayor.
NEWCO’s membership includes former council opponents of Geraghty, including former council member Pauline Schottmuller and former mayor Kevin Chapdelaine.
Gallagher — Geraghty’s opponent this fall — and Rahm supported further exploration of the proposal. Gallagher proposed a motion Thursday to examine the city’s records for the missing receipts. It passed unanimously.
“What’s wrong with seeing them?” Gallagher said of the city’s financial records and credit card receipts. “And, if we don’t have them, we don’t have them — and we’ll tell the citizens.”
Soon after, Geraghty challenged Flood. Following that exchange, during which Geraghty pressed for the data from which the report drew its conclusions, Gallagher asked that the meeting be adjourned, saying it had “become a campaign piece.”
Geraghty, however, allowed Ingemann, who had remained mostly quiet during the increasing tumult, to read a statement that defended recently approved, long-delayed raises for the city’s part-time volunteer firefighters -- of which he is one -- and other city spending before turning on Gallagher.
“You can pick up the phone and give me a call,” Gallagher shot back at Ingemann as he continued his statement over shouts from the audience. “You don’t have to be stupid.”
Anderson, the city’s administrator, said after the meeting city officials would examine the documents requested by NEWCO in recent months to vet the group’s conclusions and examine any record-keeping issues.
“That’s the only way we can respond to that,” Anderson said.


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This roasted butternut squash soup recipe is one of my favorites! The combination of roasted butternut squash, apple juice, and autumnal spices make this a comforting dish. I like to pair it with a hearty rustic bread like sourdough to make a meal.
The ingredients are pretty simple, but the layering of flavors makes this roasted butternut squash soup better than anything canned or store bought.
Turn on your oven and pre-heat it to 350 degrees. While the oven is preheating, start by cutting the squash in half and scooping out the seeds with a spoon.
Place the cut squash on a sheet pan skin side up and bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes or until soft and the skin starts to blister.
After squash is cooked, while you’re waiting for it to cool, add all remaining ingredients (apple juice, milk, and spices) in to a large pot. Bring to a simmer, then turn off the heat.
Next, scoop the pulp out of the squash and add the pulp to the liquid. Stir well and bring back to a simmer, then turn off the heat. You don’t need to cook it for long since the butternut squash is already roasted.
In small batches, add soup to a blender and puree until smooth.
I like to have a rustic bread and a side salad with butternut squash soup to make it a meal. It’s perfect for a light lunch or dinner.

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