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Bishop Alfred Ringer of New Destiny Ministries describes tornado repairs at the Trotwood Church.
At least 750 homes still empty in Trotwood after tornado
Tornado recovery
Josh Sweigart, Staff Writer
EDITOR'S NOTE: Dayton Daily News reporters Chris Stewart and Josh Sweigart — joined at times by Storm Center 7 Chief Meteorologist McCall Vrydaghs — are traveling the length of the largest of the 2019 Memorial Day tornadoes. It tore a path all the way across Montgomery County impacting thousands of homes and businesses. We are gathering people's stories and investigating obstacles to recovery. This story is part of that coverage. Go here for the full project.
A massive apartment complex in Trotwood is now a wasteland — the silence there broken only by the occasional flap of a blue tarp in the crisp autumn wind.
About 1,800 residents of multifamily housing units in Trotwood were displaced by the Memorial Day tornadoes, city officials said.
At the 432-unit Woodland Hills complex off Westbrook Road, clothes hanging in closets can be seen through broken windows, along with scattered personal belongings. Furniture and mattresses litter the streets.
PHOTOS: Abandoned neighborhoods, slow progress in Trotwood
From sprawling apartment complexes like this to an affluent golf course community, it's unclear when vibrancy will return to some Trotwood neighborhoods where residents were displaced by the tornadoes.
Of the more than 1,100 Trotwood properties affected by the storm, more than 200 suffered major damage or were destroyed. That includes apartment complexes totaling more than 750 units that remain empty.
Dayton Daily News reporters Chris Stewart and Josh Sweigart — joined at times by Storm Center 7 Chief Meteorologist McCall Vrydaghs — are walking the 18-mile path of the most destructive of the May 27 tornadoes. For this story, they traced the path of that EF4 tornado through Trotwood and parts of Clayton, where abandoned neighborhoods greeted them.
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"They are all going to rebuild," Trotwood Mayor Mary McDonald said. "We have a few citizens that are not, but we are extremely positive about the future for the city of Trotwood."
Evidence of that rebuilding isn't apparent everywhere. While some homes and apartment complexes are abuzz with workers, others appear untouched.
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Yvette Page, a Trotwood city council member challenging McDonald for mayor, said rebuilding has hit a lull as people face delays with insurance and lining up contractors. The danger is they will just pack up and leave.
"Trotwood is bleeding out because we still have people who are moving," Page said, proposing the city pass a tax abatement to encourage people to stay and rebuild.
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Even a temporary population decline could have far-reaching consequences. It could take two to three years to return to normal, McDonald said. But the U.S. Census Bureau's national headcount — which affects federal funding for the next decade — is just months away. City officials are urging displaced residents to report their permanent address as Trotwood.
"We need those numbers to be real," McDonald said.
Damaged houses at the Moss Creek development in Trotwood remain open to the weather five months after hit by an EF4 tornado. CHRIS STEWART / STAFF
Photo: Chris Stewart
After pummeling Brookville and Perry Twp., the storm barreled along East Westbrook Road, which marks the border between Clayton and Trotwood. There, it damaged and demolished the most expensive homes it would encounter on its path.
Behind the sign welcoming people to Crestway Estates in Clayton is a spacious home with the western wall sheared off, exposing interior studs to the elements. Many of the houses are boarded up.
Homes with $500k in damage
Further along Westbrook Road, several residents in the Moss Creek subdivision in Trotwood reported more than $500,000 in damage to homes on Tamarack Court, Courtney Lane and Wentworth Way. White farm fencing along the entrance to the golf course community — the course closed last year — lay splintered and crumbled.
"There's a lot of older people here, and it is very tempting for them just to take the money and go," Susan Boykin said, sitting in her spacious windowed foyer as workers could be heard clomping around on the roof of her Wentworth Way home.
Susan Boykin said coming to terms with their insurance company delayed repairs on her family's Trotwood home in the Moss Creek development, where many homes were destroyed including one next door to them. CHRIS STEWART / STAFF
The taxable value of her home dropped from $327,220 last year to a tentative value of $210,330 after the storm damage, according to the Montgomery County Auditor's Office.
"(My neighbors) will never get the money for their houses that they put into it. But they'll have enough to go buy a house somewhere else," she said. "They could take their loss and go live closer to the grandchildren if they wanted to, so it's an opportunity for them."
INTERACTIVE: Map shows thousands of tornado damaged properties in 3-county area
Boykin and her family spent about two weeks in a hotel in Sidney. Many of the neighbors are still in apartments and hotels. Looking out the back bay window of her home shows an empty lot where a 4,988-square-foot house once stood. Another home in view has no roof.
Finding honest contractors has been a challenge for Boykin, as well as negotiating with insurance companies. The homes in the area have custom doors and windows. She has a 4,000-square-foot roof and she said the insurance company first offered about $26,000 to fix it. She contested that and got more than $61,000, including downspouts and other items.
Apartment complexes empty
Continuing east, trees clog Moss Creek, which the storm crossed before hitting the Woodland Hills apartments. The sprawling complex sits empty.
The smell of mold emanates through open doors and smashed windows. Neckties, dresses, blue jeans, CDs, vacuum cleaners and other items remain left behind.
Tornado debris, including this child's bike, is seen outside the Woodland Hills apartments five months after a powerful EF4 twister damaged the Trotwood complex. CHRIS STEWART / STAFF
Rubble is ubiquitous, including a collapsed car port blocking the road to buildings further back.
The Westbrooke Village complex to the southeast, however, rings with the clamor of nail guns, saws and generators. A small army of workers climbs up and down ladders with roofing materials and new windows. Pallets of glass and siding are lined up in the parking lot. Workers in one building remove asbestos.
Workers put a new roof on a building at Westbrooke Village Apartments in Trotwood where hundreds of renters lived before a powerful EF4 tornado destroyed a majority of the complex. CHRIS STEWART / STAFF
By early next year, some of the 13 buildings may be ready for tenants, said Daniel Penn of Westbrooke Village's owner, Gated Properties VI LLC.
"Most people don't rebuild after it's all vacant. That's not our style," Penn said. "If we do right by the tenants and the community, it will ultimately be to our benefit."
WALKING THE PATH PART 1: 'Just hoping that we were going to live through it'
The owners of Woodland Hills did not return calls from the Dayton Daily News seeking comment. The owners told the city they are committed to rebuilding and that repairs have been delayed due to insurance disputes, Trotwood City Manager Quincy Pope said.
"To see brand new infrastructure come into that area, brand new builds, is going to be a real positive for the community," McDonald said.
'A lot of devastation'
LaToya Harper moved to Waywind Drive in September, the neighborhood of single-family homes that abuts both apartment complexes. The street sign is still missing. The home across the street from her lacks a roof. Most of the houses remain uninhabited, she said.
"When I first moved here, I was unsure if I made the right decision, because this is something you see coming home every day and leaving every day," she said. "It kind of puts you in a state of sadness.
A home in Trotwood's Wolf Creek Run subdivision remains in disrepair five months after the EF4 Memorial Day tornado. CHRIS STEWART / STAFF
"You want to come into a vibrant community, kids are out playing, and you don't see that here," she said. "It's just a lot of devastation."
The bigger problem is at night, she said. The street lights don't work.
"It's extremely dark," she said. "That's a safety concern."
The biggest obstacle Pope has seen to rebuilding is insurance.
INVESTIGATION: 'Disaster after the disaster:' Fighting insurance over tornado damage
"People are discovering that either they didn't understand their insurance, they didn't have insurance or they were under-insured," he said. "And I think that has become a difficult proposition for a lot of residents at a time when you have a natural disaster to learn that you are under-insured or that your insurance has expired."
Pope's also seen a shortage of contractors.
"Sometimes you may see a house sitting that looks like there's nothing going on with it, but that's because they are waiting on contractors to become available," he said.
'It's coming along'
Around the corner near the intersection of Olive Creek and Westcreek drives, a home stands with no roof or second-floor walls. A toilet and vanity can be seen next to a bathroom closet, where a towel droops from a hanger. The business card for a demolition company was left attached to the mailbox.
There are some signs of progress. Two Trotwood school buses stop on Westford Road. One lets off five teens. Another lets off four younger children.
Roughly 200 students were displaced by the storm, most of them relocating in Trotwood or Dayton, according to Trotwood-Madison City Schools officials. But fewer than 20 of them have transferred to another school district.
Tornado survivors: Tell us what you need on the path to recovery
Interim Superintendent Marlon A. Howard said children affected by the storm need "a continued realm of support."
The tornado continued east along Salem Avenue, displacing residents of the Salem Bend Condominiums before hitting Magellan Avenue.
There, rebuilding is taking place, alongside new home building. The whine of a sander can be heard as garbage trucks work their way down the street. Garbage workers say the amount of trash and rubble spiked after the storm, but "it's getting back to normal."
A recycling truck picks up large boxes that held construction materials during pickup in Trotwood's Wolf Creek Run, a hard-hit subdivision where rebuilding or demolition has proceeded rapidly compared to some other areas. CHRIS STEWART / STAFF
Carla Jordan was painting and drywalling in her house on Desoto Street when reporters arrived at her door. A home down the road from hers was leveled. The foundation is going down for a new home four doors down.
D.R. Horton announced this month the company plans to build 48 new homes in the area, alongside existing homes with chunks of roof still missing.
The neighborhood, populated largely by General Motors retirees, is coming back, Jordan said.
"It's coming along, but it's slow," she said.
Two-time tornado survivor now battling contractor
As the storm traveled east, Meckila Bent saw on television that it was bearing down on Shiloh Gardens. That's where she lives on Bromwith Drive. She climbed into her bathtub and urged her dog,Champion, to join her, but he stayed next to the tub.
"My prayer was 'Lord help, Lord help, Lord help.' I couldn't do anything other than that. And he did," she said. "He blessed us but it took me some time to realize what exactly had happened."
Bent was a teenager and lived in Xenia in 1974 when an even larger storm leveled much of that city. She remembers grabbing a pole in the basement as that storm raged overhead.
"Now I'm 61 and just going through it again," she said.
Meckila Bent and her dog Champion stand next to felled trees in the backyard of her Trotwood home five months after the city was hit by an EF4 tornado. Bent says she has had problems getting contractors to finish work on her house.
Photo: Josh Sweigart
She moved back into her house two months after the storm. But her windows are still covered with plywood. As she talked to reporters in her driveway, a tree trimmer climbed a ladder to bring down a branch hanging precariously over her house.
The tree trimming was supposed to be done by the same contractor who tore down her shed and back patio. His trailer was still sitting in front of her house.
"He said he would be back to cut that tree down," Bent said. "I paid him that evening. I had already gotten a cashier's check. He said he would be back the next day to do it. It's been eight weeks, he hasn't come back and gotten his trailer or nothing."
She said contractors have been a headache.
"Some of them aren't showing up," Bent said. "If it's not a big enough job, they don't do it."
'Not a good feeling'
Down the road, Lovie Donford stopped by her house to pick up some of her belongings from the garage. Parts of her living room remained open to the sky. Soggy insulation languished on the carpeted floor.
"They're going to gut the whole house," she said.
Her insurance company has put her up in a nice apartment in downtown Dayton, she said.
"My only complaint is it's a slow, slow, slow process," she said. "It's a lovely place but you just feel like you're not at home. It's not a good feeling."
One dilemma tornado survivors face is warm clothes, Donford said. Her winter clothes are still in storage, while others might have lost theirs.
Willie Dunford walks through his sister Lovie's house in Trotwood, where a hole in the roof is still open to the sky five months after the city was hit with an EF4 tornado.
"It was 90 degrees. It was June. It was hot. I have all summer things over there," she said. "They said, 'Oh you'll be gone maybe about six months, you'll be back in November.' So I thought I'll just take summer clothes to tide me over until November. I have no sweaters, no boots, no winter or fall attire to wear."
Electricians were working nearby at New Destiny Ministries. The church is waiting for letters to be delivered for the brick sign out front that was destroyed by the storm, according to Bishop Alfred Ringer.
Ringer showed reporters where parts of the roof and offices were damaged but are now mostly repaired. The church's pantries are still stocked with water bottles, cleaning supplies and non-perishables people donated, unsolcited, after the storm.
"We didn't plan on becoming a donation center, but that's what happened," he said.
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Many members of the community are older people too proud to reach out for help, Ringer said, so church members just drop off the goods so they don't have to ask.
Six or seven families who were parishioners have moved away, Ringer said, mostly south of town where they believe there's less chance of another tornado hitting them.
Hara Arena
Next the Memorial Day tornado crossed Basore Road. There, some homes under repair still have the tell-tale "X" spray-painted by rescue crews as they searched properties after the storm.
Before leaving Trotwood, the tornado laid waste to Hara Arena, the 60-year-old performance venue on Shiloh Springs Road that closed in 2016. The words "Hara Arena" still hang on the front, though the "E" is crooked. Much of the roof and facade are torn off.
Hara Arena in Trotwood was heavily damaged by the Memorial Day tornado.
The Kentucky-based company that owns the property says it can't start cleaning it up until the city approves rezoning from recreational use to light industrial so it can find a new buyer. Before approving the change, city officials want to specify what types of businesses they don't want there, in one of the city's main gateways.
So like much of Trotwood, the future of the arena is hopeful but uncertain.
COMMUNITY RESOURCES FOR TORNADO SURVIVORS:
Event to help replace women's clothing lost in tornadoes
Women who lost clothing in the Memorial Day tornadoes will be able to choose from 3,000 brand-new pieces during an event Saturday.
The Dayton nonprofit Clothes That Work and cabi, the nation's largest social-selling women's clothing company, will help 900 local women impacted by the disaster.
The new clothing is donated by The Heart of cabi Foundation. Local cabi stylists will also donate additional gently worn clothes for the event.
The event is from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Clothes That Work, 1133 S. Edwin C Moses Blvd., Suite 392, Entrance A in Dayton.
Tornado survivors will be asked to provide proof of loss via an insurance claim or a FEMA letter. Alternatively, individuals can bring an ID and/or original document showing their pre-disaster address. Red Cross volunteers will be present to help participants verify proof of loss.
Sign up for button up for winter event
The Miami Valley Long Term Recovery Operations Group is planning an event to help property owners seal up their tornado-damaged property before winter hits.
Property owners who need help with roof tarping and boarding of windows can call 937-966-0037 to request assistance by Nov. 13.
Volunteers will then be needed to help seal up homes throughout November, including at a Button-Up for Winter Weekend on Nov. 15 and 16. Those interested can sign up at mvstrong.org under the volunteer link.


With this, Vellore has become the first Lok Sabha seat in the history of independent India to have had its elections countermanded over abuse of money power.
Accepting the recommendations of the Election Commission, President Ram Nath Kovind on Tuesday cancelled polling in Vellore, making it the first Lok Sabha seat to have had its elections countermanded over abuse of money power. Moreover, polling in East Tripura constituency has been deferred from April 18 to April 23, Tripura deputy CEO Suman Rakshit said.
Vellore was scheduled to go to polls with the rest of Tamil Nadu on April 18.
The development comes two days after the Election Commission recommended to the President that elections in Vellore be cancelled citing the suspected use of money power to influence voters after huge cash seizures from DMK leaders over the last two weeks.
Cash was seized from the premises of DMK veteran leader and party treasurer Duraimurugan's son Kathir Anand's house in Vellore on March 29.
Subsequently, on April 1, based on information that illegal cash was being moved from a college owned by the Duraimurugan family to a cement warehouse in Vellore, a second I-T search was launched and Rs 11.53 crore was seized.
While searches at Anand's residence, who is the DMK's candidate in Vellore Lok Sabha constituency, yielded seizures of around Rs 19 lakhs, official scrutiny later found that only Rs 10.50 lakh was the excess or the unaccounted cash.
In connection with the I-T seizures, on April 10, Tamil Nadu police filed an FIR against Anand, and two others, Poonjolai Srinivasan, the owner of the cement warehouse and Damodaran, for their alleged links to DMK and Duraimurugan family.
The total seizures of unaccounted cash, drugs, liquor, precious metal and freebies, purportedly meant to influence voters, stands at Rs 2,550 crore, of which the highest – Rs 499 crore – is from Tamil Nadu.
The EC, in 2017, had countermanded elections to the Dr Radhakrishnan Nagar Assembly seat in Tamil Nadu twice.
In April 2016, during the TN Assembly elections, the EC postponed polls in Aravakurichi and Thanjavur, after cash running into crores was recovered from sites belonging to persons close to the AIADMK. In 2012, elections to two Rajya Sabha seats in Jharkhand were scrapped for the same reason.


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Die Familienteilzeit ist ein Konzept der Arbeitsorganisation und gegebenenfalls der Einkommens-Aufstockung, das eine Möglichkeit für Erwerbstätige vorsieht, im Rahmen der Erziehung ihrer Kinder oder der Pflege von schwerkranken Angehörigen in Teilzeit zu arbeiten.

Zu Modellen der Familienteilzeit gehören einerseits staatliche Regelungen, die einen Anspruch auf Arbeitsfreistellung garantieren, so etwa in Deutschland oder Schweden die Elternteilzeit (Elternzeit in Teilzeit) sowie die Pflegeteilzeit (Pflegezeit in Teilzeit). Andererseits gehören dazu tarifliche oder betriebliche Absprachen.

Zugleich mit der Arbeitsfreistellung gelten unter Umständen besondere Regelungen zum Kündigungsschutz und zur Anrechnung der Freistellungszeit in der Rentenversicherung.

Die Einführung einer Familienteilzeit gilt als eine Maßnahme zur Verbesserung der Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf.

Konzept
Dem Ansatz nach handelt es sich bei der Familienteilzeit (Elternteilzeit, Pflegeteilzeit) um einen Lastenausgleich zwischen verschiedenen Altersstufen sowie Personen unterschiedlicher familiärer Situation. Exemplarisch ist ein Artikel von Die Zeit aus 2001, in dem es hieß: Es ist ebenso unsinnig, Menschen wegen ihrer Lebensjahre zu begünstigen, wie es unsinnig ist, sie zu benachteiligen, weil sie jung sind. Obwohl ältere Menschen noch nie so fit, so leistungsfähig waren wie heute, schieben wir Abertausende hoch steuerbegünstigt in die Teilzeit oder ins Abseits, während Eltern von Kleinkindern selbst nach der Nachtschicht Vollzeit schuften müssen, um das Lebensnotwendige zu verdienen. Schluss damit. Wenn Ältere nach Maßgabe ihrer Gesundheit mithelfen, können Familien ihrerseits steuerbegünstigt in die Familienteilzeit gehen. Dann haben sie endlich genügend Geld und die Zeit füreinander, die nötig ist.

Ein ähnliches Konzept liegt der Kinderbonuszeit zu Grunde, die ebenfalls betrieblich oder tariflich vereinbart wird und bei der Eltern kleiner Kinder ohne Abstriche beim Entgelt zusätzliche Urlaubstage erhalten oder eine verringerte Wochenstundenzahl arbeiten. Familienelternzeit und Kinderbonuszeiten stellen ebenso wie die Altersteilzeit Elemente einer lebensphasenorientierten Arbeitszeit dar.

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Rechtsanspruch
In Deutschland ist der Anspruch auf Elternzeit und Elternteilzeit im Bundeselterngeld- und Elternzeitgesetz geregelt (zum Anspruch auf Elternteilzeit siehe Elternzeit #Teilzeitbeschäftigung).

In Deutschland kann ein Arbeitgeber einem Arbeitnehmer, der Anspruch auf Pflegezeit hat, eine nur teilweise Freistellung verweigern, wenn dies durch entgegenstehende dringende betriebliche Belange gerechtfertigt ist.

Kündigungsschutz
In Deutschland besteht bei Elternzeit und Elternteilzeit dem Bundeselterngeld- und Elternzeitgesetz zufolge ein weitgehendes Kündigungsverbot (siehe Elternzeit #Schutz vor Kündigung in der Elternzeit). Der Kündigungsschutz für die Pflegezeit und Pflegeteilzeit ist im Pflegezeitgesetz geregelt, und demzufolge darf der Arbeitgeber ab dem Zeitpunkt der Ankündigung bis zur Beendigung der Freistellung bzw. der Pflegezeit einem Arbeitnehmer in Pflegezeit bzw. Pflegeteilzeit nur mit Ausnahmegenehmigung ordentlich kündigen (siehe Sonderkündigungsschutz).

In Österreich besteht für Eltern, die sich in der Elternteilzeit befinden, grundsätzlich Kündigungs- und Entlassungsschutz, und zwar bis vier Wochen nach dem 4. Geburtstag des Kindes.

Steuer- oder sozialversicherungsfinanzierte Familienteilzeit

Elterngeld bei reduzierter Arbeitszeit
In einzelnen Staaten lässt sich das staatlich geregelte Elterngeld in Kombination mit reduzierter Arbeitszeit über mehrere Jahre strecken. Es lässt sich dabei unter bestimmten Bedingungen über ein Zeitkonto gestalten.

In Norwegen kann das Elterngeld über bis zu drei Jahre gestreckt werden. Eine Gestaltung als Zeitkonto setzt voraus, dass eine schriftliche Vereinbarung mit dem Arbeitgeber beziehungsweise, für Freiberufler und Selbständige, mit dem örtlichen Büro der Volksversicherung getroffen wurde. In Schweden kann Elterngeld wahlweise über einen längeren Zeitraum gestreckt und dabei anteilig zu 50 %, 75 % usw. bezogen werden, und durch die prozentuale Inanspruchnahme verlängert sich die Bezugsdauer, bis der Anspruch zu 100 % aufgebracht worden ist; das schwedische Teilelterngeld kann beispielsweise pro Tag zu einem Achtel (also circa einer Stunde) bis zum 8. Lebensjahr des Kindes bezogen werden. Durch diese prozentuale Inanspruchnahme kann in Schweden so über eine längere Dauer Elterngeld bezogen werden, bis es zu 100 % beansprucht worden ist. In Deutschland haben Bezieher von Elterngeld, die in Teilzeit arbeiten, Anspruch auf ein Teilelterngeld. Für Eltern von vor dem 1. Juli 2015 geborenen Kindern ist dabei allerdings aufgrund der Art der Anrechnung der Bemessungsgrenze das Teilelterngeld für viele Anspruchsberechtigte in der Summe (über alle Monate zusammengerechnet) deutlich geringer als der entsprechende prozentuale Anteil des (vollen) Elterngelds, weil sie ihren Anspruch auf Elterngeldmonate pro Monat in gleichem Maße verbrauchen, als wenn sie ganz freigestellt wären. Den skandinavischen Modellen ähnlicher ist hingegen das Elterngeld Plus, auf das Eltern von ab dem 1. Juli 2015 geborenen Kindern einen Anspruch haben.

Neben der Möglichkeit der regelmäßigen reduzierte Arbeitszeit besteht durch weitere staatliche Regelungen für Eltern die Möglichkeit, im Bedarfsfall bei (teilweiser) Bezahlung freigestellt zu werden. So besteht in Deutschland bei Krankheit der Kinder ein Anspruch auf Freistellung und Gewährung von Kinderkrankengeld, und in besonderen Umständen besteht ebenfalls ein Anspruch auf Freistellung von der Arbeit. In Schweden besteht bei Krankheit eines Kindes, Arztbesuchen, Einschulungen oder ähnlichen Situationen ein Anspruch auf Arbeitsfreistellung und eine damit einhergehende Gewährung eines zeitweiligen Elternschaftsgeldes (tillfällig föräldrapenning) in Höhe von 80 % des Einkommens für bis zu 120 Tage pro Jahr und Kind.

Weitere Konzepte einer Steuer- oder sozialversicherungsfinanzierte Familienteilzeit
Ein 1990 vorgeschlagenes Modell der Elternkurzarbeit sah vor, dass Eltern mit Kindern bis zu acht Jahren einen Entgeltersatz erhalten, wenn sie ihre Arbeitszeit um bis zu fünf Wochenstunden verkürzen; zugleich wurde ein Gleichheitsbonus vorgeschlagen, der zusätzlich bei einer Arbeitsunterbrechung durch beide Eltern oder durch der besser verdienenden Elternteil ausgezahlt werden sollte. Ein anderes, ebenfalls "Elternkurzarbeit" genanntes Modell sah eine kurze Vollzeitarbeit für Väter und Mütter vor, mit besonderen Anreizen dafür, dass sich bei einer Arbeitszeit-Obergrenze von sechs Stunden täglich auch Männer an der Familienarbeit beteiligten. Nach Einführung des Elterngeldes empfahl der Deutsche Verein für öffentliche und private Fürsorge im Oktober 2009, zur Vereinbarkeit von Familien- und Erwerbsleben die Situation von Eltern, die während der Elternzeit beide parallel in Teilzeit arbeiten, zu stärken und die Einführung einer der Altersteilzeit ähnlichen Regelung zu prüfen, die im Anschluss an die Elternzeit in Anspruch genommen werden könne, hob aber zugleich hervor: "In jedem Fall sollte vermieden werden, dass eine solche Familienteilzeit die bestehende Polarisierung der Arbeitszeiten zwischen den Geschlechtern verschärfen würde, weil vor allem Frauen diese Option wahrnähmen".

Eine Anrechnung der Familienelternzeit für die Rente, die über die anrechenbaren Kindererziehungszeiten hinausgehen, steht in der Diskussion. So forderte 2000 der Bayerische Landesfrauenausschuss (BayLFA) eine "Familienteilzeit" für Frauen [sic], die Kinder erziehen oder Angehörige pflegen, ähnlich der derzeitigen Regelung nach dem Altersteilzeitgesetz. Auch in einem Diskussionspapier des GenderKompetenzZentrums zum Thema Gender Mainstreaming heißt es: "Wir werden den demographischen Wandel und die wirtschaftlichen Herausforderungen der Zukunft nur bewältigen, […] wenn wir die Sorge für Kinder und Alte gerechter verteilen, staatlich besser unterstützen und Frauen wie Männer, die diese Arbeit leisten, entlasten – warum gibt es geförderte Altersteilzeit, warum keine geförderte Familienteilzeit?"

Anfang 2014 schlug Familienministerin Manuela Schwesig eine um ca. 20 % verringerte Wochenarbeitszeit für Eltern mit steuerfinanziertem teilweisen Lohnausgleich vor. Sie erklärte: "Vollzeit muss für Eltern neu definiert werden" ließ dabei aber offen, ob und wie eine solche Elternvollzeit mit dem im Koalitionsvertrag geplanten Elterngeld plus verknüpft werden solle.

Im April 2014 forderte die DIHK eine 35-Stunden-Woche für Eltern, um dem drohenden Arbeitskräftemangel zu begegnen. Denn wenn beide Eltern 35 Stunden arbeiteten, sei dies mehr als bei der weit verbreiteten Volltagsarbeit des Vaters und Halbtagsarbeit der Mutter. Die IG Metall kündigte 2014 an, eine 30-Stunden-Woche für Eltern zu fordern.

Nach dem Tarifvertrag, den die IG Metall im Jahr 2018 mit Arbeitgebern aushandelte, haben ab 2019 alle Beschäftigten, maximal aber 10 Prozent der Belegschaft eines Betriebes, einen Anspruch darauf, ihre Wochenarbeitszeit für einen Zeitraum von 6 bis 24 Monaten auf bis zu 28 Wochenstunden zu verkürzen. Dieses Modell wird als "kurze Vollzeit" bezeichnet. Im Gegenzug wird einem Betrieb, in dem Mitarbeiter in "kurzer Vollzeit" arbeiten, automatisch die Möglichkeit eröffnet, andere Arbeitnehmer länger arbeiten zu lassen, um auf ein "kollektives betriebliches Arbeitszeitvolumen" mit einem Durchschnittswert von 35,9 Stunden zu kommen.

Betriebliche Absprachen
Ein frühes und häufig zitiertes Beispiel für eine betriebliche Familienzeit wurde im Unternehmen B. Braun in Melsungen mit Gültigkeit ab dem 1. Januar 2007 umgesetzt. Bei einer Arbeitszeit von 50 % wird das Entgelt durch den Arbeitgeber beim ersten Kind oder bei der Pflege kranker Angehöriger um 15 %, ab dem zweiten Kind um 25 % aufgestockt. Dieses Beispiel wurde mehrfach, so auch durch das BMFSFJ, als vorbildlich zitiert. Das Familienteilzeitmodell der Firma B. Braun ist in der Betriebsvereinbarung verankert. Nach Aussage des Vorstandsvorsitzenden Ludwig Georg Braun soll die Familienteilzeit "unsere Beschäftigten dazu motivieren, möglichst schnell in das Berufsleben zurückzukehren, um den Anschluss nicht zu verlieren". Ziel ist laut Braun, "dass die Frauen oder auch die Männer, die sich für die Kinderbetreuung in den Jahren, in denen die Kinder sie besonders benötigen, entscheiden, den Kontakt zum Unternehmen nicht unterbrechen und im Beruf bleiben". Durch das Familienteilzeitmodell würden Überbrückungs-, Fluktuations- und Wiedereingliederungskosten vermieden.

Siehe auch
 Familienpflegezeit

Einzelnachweise

Arbeitszeit
Familienpolitik (Deutschland)
Individualarbeitsrecht (Deutschland)
Kollektives Arbeitsrecht (Deutschland)
Zeitsoziologie

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Now SP2 has been released, I've updated my list of Exchange Reference Material to contain the link to the new Exchange 2010 SP2 downloadable help file, also available here.
Thanks to Bart Smith for the tip. Bart also recommends Windows PowerShell in Action, Second Edition (which is also recommended as Exchange MCM prep). I haven't personally read it myself, but it looks worth checking out.


The Villa Delfini II is a luxury villa, just 200 meters away from the beach, located majestically over the small, unspoilt village of Kalamaki on the south coast of Crete. The villa has a secluded location with an incredible and unobstructed view of the Libyan Sea.
The Villa Delfini II is a modern, bright and spacious luxury villa on a 1.400 m² landscape.
Villa Delfini II can accommodate up to 4 people on 110 m² living space. It is equipped with beautiful, hand-picked furnishings, where Mediterranean charm meets modern luxury. The whole villa is equipped with underfloor heating. The upper floor has 2 exquisite, comfortable 20m² bedrooms with king-size beds (1 m 80 x 2 m) with cotton sheets and a satellite TV system. There is also 1 bathroom with 15 m² with washing machine, dryer, hydro-massage-shower, sink, toilet and balcony with lounge set. All rooms are equipped with air conditioning.
The villa is equipped with the latest smart home technology.
On the ground floor is the spacious living room with a nice and white sofa and the 50 m² fully equipped kitchen with sea view and guest toilet. The kitchen is equipped with a fridge with freezer, stove with oven, kettle, toaster, dishes and all utensils you need for 4-6 persons.
Outside there is the spa, as well as a 25 m² large, fully equipped summer kitchen with oven, grill, fireplace and outdoor bar. The pool has a waterfall shower and a size of 8.50 m x 4.00 m x 1.50 m and is chlorine free. Further there is a large covered, shaded outdoor spa area and a dining table with view to the pool and the sea, which is protected with wind protectors.


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[2011] Common Reflections 1
Starting as an In Situ art work in Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki (6 meters long), then evolved into a 20 meters long work, which was exhibited at Common reflections 1, in Nicosia and at Action Field Kodra, among other artworks.
"...An archive of cuttings from articles in newspapers and magazines, thoughts by others or herself and her children, are used as a thesaurus of fragmented ideas, instigations for introversion introspection. What is the value that time attributes to one's personal archive –of whatever qualities– seen through the ideal of conquering Happiness? The artist attempts a retrospection, a scarification of her own archive, retrospectively realizing the meaning of the words and articles which she chose to conserve for approximately 20 years. The seeming heterogeneous multitude of information, up to now unregistered and thus inexplicable, led her to her own "here and now". A set of instructions for life, whose meaning is allocated through time, retrospectively, and under the opportune circumstances..." part of Lydias Hadjiakovou text

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A Temporary Play Street Order (TPSO) lets residents close a street to traffic so children can play.
You can apply to shut your street as often as once a week for up to three hours.
You need to apply at least six weeks before your first playing out session.
Residents must be allowed access by vehicle at all times and arrangements need to be made to get barriers and signs in place. We have a list of suppliers (pdf, 57KB) (opens new window) you can use.
Your TPSO is valid for 12 months from the start date.
Our Street play road closures report (pdf, 50KB) (opens new window) is updated every Monday and Thursday and shows the applications we've received.
You can make an amendment if you've already applied for a TPSO, such as adding more play dates.
You can't have more than one play date per week and must let residents know using an updated version of your original resident notification letter.
Send your amendment request and a copy of the letter to traffic@bristol.gov.uk at least six weeks before any added play date.
You can apply for a one-year extension to your existing application filling in the same TPSO form above.
You must give us at least six weeks' notice.
If you have an objection or comment about playing out in your street, first of all speak to the person who sent the residents' consultation letter.
Contact traffic@bristol.gov.uk if your concerns are not resolved.
The Playing Out website has more information on how to organise your playing out events.


Dr. Melby works as an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Delaware.
– Examines how environmental factors affect human health and development.
– Current research focuses on cultural factors that influence childhood obesity, mother and child health, menopause, metabolism and diet.
– More than a decade spent researching menopause in Japan. Found a connection between soy and reducing the severity of hot flashes.


I'm looking to re-do my suspension. I definitely want to lower and put in a rear sway bar. Now, I am as noob as noob gets. So.
How much should I lower to get optimal performance?
Is there any reason to switch out the front sway bar?
Would I be better off getting new shocks or coilovers?
If by "get optimal performance" you mean you're looking to lower your lap times then the best place for your money would be a better set of wheels and tires and some racing lessons; way-WAY more bang for the buck than the miniscule gains you'll get by lowering your suspension.
The car has original shocks/struts and it's really starting to show.
I want to learn how to do things and taking this car apart seems like an ok place to start.


Steffi FeldmaNn Co-Founder of Keyp demonstrates that belief, motivation and sheer determination can take you to where you want to be!
The timing's never right. The qualifications are never fulfilled 100%. There are always others more advanced, better educated, better off, smarter, richer or with a bigger network.
Full disclosure: I have this feeling and thoughts on a daily basis and I'm definitely not alone with it. Still, it hasn't kept me from founding 5 companies and – amongst other things – selling one of them to a Fortune 50 Global Company. How? Let me try and figure this out while writing this article for you.
In hindsight, I think there was no fit for me in the (German) school system. The system is pretty fragmented and over the course of my teenage years, I went through all types of public schools in rural Bavaria trying to find my place.
I came back to Germany and I had definitely changed, and the time had shifted and strengthened my mindset. I had learned what I valued in life; work and on a personal level and now I wanted to do nothing short of change the world and make it a better place. I applied for all kinds of undergrad courses and whilst I was abroad in South Africa (travelling again) I got the acceptance email from a university in Munich: BA in Electrical Engineering (focussing on renewable energy sources). I accepted it straight away and went back to Germany to start this new phase of my life.
I still have that one fear that accompanies me and that is, that as an old woman I will look back on my life and not be satisfied with what I did and what I achieved, and it is this that motivates and drives me on every day.
I told you before, I didn't really complete school conventionally, I struggled a lot with things that were a lot easier for my fellow students but I didn't struggle with maths and physics - this has always made sense to me. So, I finished only two of the courses during the first semester of Electrical Engineering and then quit. I felt like such a huge failure. I still remember that feeling. I don't think you can just move on but you can overwrite it with new experiences and things you've achieved. I was back at square 1.
A coincidence led me to a new university's website and I stumbled upon their BA course in International Business Communications. I applied straight away and was accepted for their upcoming semester. I was over the moon! Languages and cultural studies combined with business – jackpot! After three years it was time to graduate with the highlight: the bachelor's thesis. I had already been accepted to Trinity College in Dublin for their International Management Master's and was about to move out of my flat in Munich – having sold all my furniture and belongings. Then I got the letter: I failed the bachelor's thesis.
I had to move back in with my parents, lost the place at Trinity College, had no degree, had to write a whole new thesis if I wanted to get a degree at some point and was devastated.
After a week of crying in my old room at my parents' house, I talked to a friend who had just founded another company in Munich. A startup offering innovation consulting and development to big companies in Germany. It all sounded like a great way to distract myself and bridge the time until I could rewrite my thesis.
Well, things never turn out the way you expect. I ended up co-founding the startup and now five years later, I'm a serial tech entrepreneur and wouldn't have it any other way! I am so proud of everything we've achieved as a team over the last years and sometimes I have to pinch myself when I look around and see so many people that love working at Keyp as much as we do!
We now have a second office in Zurich, Switzerland, and are about to expand to London! And I'm proud of what we work on. We provide infrastructure for digital identities with the goal to enable every user data sovereignty, especially over their own personal identity data.
It will eventually lead you to where you were meant to be all along! I could have never planned to be a founder and I wouldn't have dared to even think that.
I am now combining all my strengths because I created the job I do myself. I work in tech, got to learn how to code (rudimentary) while doing so, speak various languages on a daily basis and talk to fascinating, brilliant people from all over the world constantly! All of this while working on a piece of technology that is the foundation offer every citizen's digital identity and the essence of our team's values.
Be confident! Don't be intimidated – even if you feel like you can't do it, don't have the skills (yet) or are not ready.
Talk to people! Talk about your fears, challenges, thoughts. You won't believe what effect pure sincerity has on people. They start to share, too, and you'll learn that absolutely everyone is self-conscious at times.
Start! You don't have to know where you want to end up at or what the concrete goal is. Life happens anyway. So just get going, start what feels right and if you stay open-minded and open to change beautiful things will happen.
From a bird's eye view, I think we're currently living in a time of change. The world order is re-built, definitions of archetypes (managers, founders, coders etc.) are changing, people travel more, and cultures are mixing more, we have different social circles than our parents had or have (some of them only digitally for example), it's all more diverse and yes, sometimes, people are overwhelmed by this and wish for less change and more stability leading to more conservative politics – among other things.
But don't let them get you down!
I think this is just the last upheaval and we're about to enter a new era. How exciting is it that we get to shape this, get to be part of it? Technology has played such a huge role in societal change and every single one of us, with every line of code, everything we do and say, gets to change it for the better!
Steffi Feldmann is a serial tech entrepreneur based in Munich and is one of the Munich Geekettes Ambassadors She initiated a variety of projects in the area of digitalization, has worked together with many big brands over the years. Her background is both in tech and communications having studied Electrical Engineering and a BA in International Business Communications. Since 2017, she's one of the co-founders of Keyp, the next generation identity-PaaS, based on an open and decentralized infrastructure.


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Missoula Police Nab Man for Stealing Metal and Possessing Drugs
Nick Chrestenson Published: May 21, 2019
Photo Courtesy of Missoula Jail
At around 9:00 a.m. on Monday, Missoula Police received a complaint from someone who said some metal was taken from a location in the 200 block of Commerce Street. Police Public Information Officer Travis Welsh says the complainant gave a description of the suspect and also described the suspect's vehicle.
"The complainant also thought that the male may be in route to a recycling center where he could dispose the metals he had just taken," Welsh said. "Responding officers immediately went to the area of the recycling center. They encountered a white pickup that matched the description as well as the plate number. They observed a male standing outside of the vehicle. He was taking items out of the truck bed."
According to Welsh, the officers identified the male and quickly learned that he had outstanding warrants for his arrest.
"During the course of their contact, they also discovered that he was not only in possession of the stolen metal, but he also had a small amount of marijuana," Welsh said. "He also admitted to possessing methamphetamine at the scene. The man was identified as 49-year-old Mearle Taylor and he was taken into custody."
Taylor is being held for felony criminal possession of dangerous drugs, possession of drug paraphernalia, theft, and a handful of other traffic offenses.
Filed Under: Marijuana, Meth, Missoula Police Department, Theft
Missoula Police Got Paid Pennies a Day to Help Tame the Wild West
Montana City Named One of the Best Cities for Weed in the US
Missoula Sheriff's Office Reports Scam Calls Demanding Money
Montana Man's Beloved Raft Stolen, Story Shared Over 7,000 Times
Will Uber Eats Allow You To Order Marijuana in Missoula?
Missoula Weekly Crime Report: Fewest Amount of Cases Since February
Missoula Woman Stole Another Woman's $34,000 Wheelchair
Missoula Crime Report: Four Assault With a Weapon Cases This Week
If You Found 20 Needles on the Ground in Missoula, Where Would You Take Them?


Parentdom is a horribly vivid domain, sickening and strange, like Oz. All three of these books provide glimpses into this Technicolor realm of overwhelming responsibilities and terrifying powerlessness, in which the brave authors scramble and stretch and writhe in agonies trying to make sense of their roles as 21st-century parents.
Fiona Millar's The Secret World is a shocking report on her frantic battle "to try to do justice to my children, my education, my training and ambition". "It is 20 years", she writes, "since I took the plunge and went back to work as a full-time political reporter on a national newspaper, leaving a 12-week-old baby at home with a young, relatively inexperienced nanny." During those 20 years, while working as a journalist and adviser to Cherie Blair, she seems to have tried every kind of precarious childcare arrangement and balancing act, and has worked herself to a frazzle. She admits to being "permanently exhausted" and suffering from pangs of regret, rage and guilt.
She's not alone. Large parts of the book consist of conversations with women facing similar struggles. But for some, the kind of worries and anxieties that Millar describes will seem, frankly, ludicrous or simply incomprehensible. "One nanny fact is irrefutable," she writes. "They can be very expensive. The £30,000 a year charged by some nannies in the south-east of England ... is often expected to be part of a more generous package which can include sole use of a car, self-contained accommodation and expensive foreign holidays." Not surprisingly, Millar urges more flexible working practices and subsidised childcare. "Returning to work shouldn't mean sacrificing time with your children or the wider community." But it does, doesn't it, given the laws of time and space? No one can be in two places at once.
Unless perhaps they're Julia Hobsbawm. Where Millar is ruminative and punishingly self-reflective, Hobsbawm provides a no-nonsense, pull-your-socks-up guide to parenting which combines personal anecdote with case studies and "Top Tips". Again, the case studies might seem a little alien to anyone outside the major metropolitan areas ("Antonia, leader writer at the London Evening Standard and on the Conservative party's candidate list, is a mother of three"), and the top tips are perhaps not always utterly tip-top ("Avoid the Pushy Mum syndrome"; "Try to buy more time for your children rather than objects. An hour of actual attention is emotionally worth thousands of pounds to them"), but The See-Saw is not a book one turns to for profundity of thought. It's about quick-fixes for the parenting merry-go-round. Basically, lighten up, multitask and get on with it.
Tom Hodgkinson, in The Idle Parent, goes much further. He's ultimately a rich hippy, like Thoreau. His book is about how he's solved his parenting problems by packing it all in and going to live in Devon. His parenting motto is "Leave them alone". As for the likes of Millar and Hobsbawm, he exhorts: "Women, take heed! Stop working and start living!" Not that he's advocating a return to motherhood and apple pies. No. What he recommends for women is "Work of her own choosing, that is, independent work, autonomous work, creative work." At his best he sounds like William Morris. At his worst, like Jeremy Clarkson.
Again, some readers - and not just Millar and Hobsbawm - might find Hodgkinson's advice rather difficult to swallow. His laissez-faire, anarcho-Tory approach to parenting is all very well for someone living in rural Devon. On a farm. With an au pair. And a pony. And a lovely rural primary school with just 40 children down the road. And the means to pay for private education when they get older - Hodgkinson is particularly keen on Summerhill and Eton. But for the rest of us? "I can hear," he says, "the programmed liberal voice whingeing that not everybody can afford private school." Stuff and nonsense, says Hodgkinson. The parents of his friends when he was at Westminster School were just your average professionals. You know, "doctors, journalists, architects, actors, writers." And most families, he says, could easily save £10,000 a year "at a stroke" by cutting out luxuries such as mobile phones, holidays and big TVs. A friend, he says, ran a market stall at weekends to pay for school fees. Fees at Eton are currently in the region of £30,000 per year. So that would be some market stall. And some TV. But these blindspots are the quirks of the free spirit: Hodgkinson also advocates skateboarding, ukulele playing, camping and the drinking of beer.
So is there a simple solution to the bewildering challenges and problems of parenting? Millar: the state? Hobsbawm: the self? Hodgkinson: the children themselves? When Glinda arrives to save Dorothy at the end of The Wizard of Oz, the lesson learned is this: "The next time I go looking for my heart's desire, I won't look any further than my own back yard." If one learns anything from these books, it's surely that there are no answers, only autobiographies.
• Ian Sansom's The Delegates' Choice is published by Harper Perennial. To order The Secret World of the Working Mother for £11.99, The See-Saw for £6.99 or The Idle Parent for £13.99, all with free UK p&p, call Guardian book service on 0330 333 6846.


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State Sen. Perry bill on illegal immigration targets 'sanctuary cities'
AUSTIN – Anticipating that President Barack Obama will grant amnesty to as many as 4.5 million undocumented immigrants and their children, state Sen. Charles Perry has filed a bill aimed at ending what he called "sanctuary cities" that encourage illegal immigration to Texas.
Fox News and the New York Times reported late last week that as early as this weekend Obama plans to help immigrants living illegally in the United States get temporary legal status – without congressional approval, a possibility Perry blasted on Monday.
"It is shameful, arrogant and unconstitutional for our President to pursue this catastrophic policy through executive action, rather than allowing our democratically elected officials debate its merits in the halls of Congress," Perry, R-Lubbock, said after filing Senate Bill 185.
"SB 185 is a common sense measure that will address the ongoing problem of sanctuary cities in Texas and hopefully open up dialogue on what other measures we can at a state and federal level to solve our crisis in illegal immigration," Perry said in a statement.
Read more: http://lubbockonline.com/filed-online/2014-11-17/sen-perry-bill-illegal-immigration-targets-sanctuary-cities#.VGq6jhbuPoE
[font color=green]The text of the bill is available at http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/84R/billtext/pdf/SB00185I.pdf#navpanes=0 .
If I am reading the bill correctly it indicates that any municipality or county that does not enforce state immigration laws then they are ineligible to receive any grant funding from the state. (subsections A. and H.)[/font]
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Halliburton To Buy Baker Hughes For $34.6 Billion
Source: NPR
Halliburton, the world's second-biggest oilfield services company, said today it is buying Baker Hughes, the world's No. 3 oilfield services provider, for $34.6 billion.
Bloomberg reports: "With the agreement, Halliburton eliminates a chief rival and expands its business portfolio and reach at a time when falling oil prices have pushed the industry into a downturn. The merger will likely draw intense antitrust scrutiny, especially where North America businesses overlap."
In a statement announcing the deal, Halliburton Chairman and CEO David Lesar said the merger would save the company $2 billion annually.
Once finalized, Baker Hughes shareholders will receive 1.12 Halliburton shares plus $19 for each share they own. That values Baker Hughes shares at $78.62 per share. The company's stock price has fallen more than 30 percent since June, and stood last week at $51. Baker Hughes shareholders would own 36 percent of the combined company.
Read more: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/11/17/364754308/halliburton-to-buy-baker-hughes-for-34-6-billion
Border Patrol agent pleads guilty to harboring immigrants
A Laredo-based U.S. Border Patrol agent who dated a woman who was using fraudulent work documents pleaded guilty Monday to harboring immigrants who were in the country illegally.
Border Patrol agents conducting surveillance on a house in Laredo in July 2013 saw agent Roberto Cantu Rodriguez, 35, drive up in a Border Patrol vehicle, according to court documents.
It turned out that Rodriguez's girlfriend and five other immigrants who were in the country illegally were living at the house. This summer, agents detained those residents and in September, Rodriguez was indicted.
Four voluntarily returned to Mexico and two were prosecuted for illegal reentry, according to court records. Rodriguez had been paying his girlfriend's bills and rent, according to the plea agreement.
He'll face up to five years in prison and and a $250,000 fine when sentenced. That date has not been set.
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Border-Patrol-agent-pleads-guilty-to-harboring-5899352.php
Man Charged With Rape, Murder In 2012 Attack On Teen Lesbian Couple Appears In Court--No Hate Crime
SINTON, TEXAS--Days after a horrific attack on a teenage lesbian couple in South Texas that left one of them dead, David Malcom Strickland approached mourners at the park where the incident occurred, according to police.
Strickland, who at the time lived near the park in Portland, Texas, outside Corpus Christi, told the mourners that his girlfriend knew one of the victims. Strickland asked the mourners for details about the investigation and was observed searching the grass near the crime scene, witnesses said.
Nearly two years later, Strickland allegedly delivered a letter to a business in Portland in which he implicated another man in the June 2012 shooting that left 19-year-old Mollie Olgin (above right) dead and her then-18-year-old girlfriend, Kristene Chapa (above left), seriously wounded. As it turned out, the man implicated in the letter was a former roommate of Strickland's, from whom Strickland had been charged with stealing firearms in Utah. The letter led police back to Strickland, who was arrested this June and charged with capital murder, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, aggravated sexual assault and aggravated kidnapping in the attack on Chapa and Olgin.
On Friday, with Chapa and about 20 pro-LGBT protesters gathered outside, Strickland made an appearance in court. The protesters carried rainbow flags and signs suggesting the incident was an anti-gay hate crime. but San Patricio County District Attorney Michael Welborn told The Corpus Christi Caller-Times he doesn't believe it was motivated by anti-gay bias.
Read more: http://www.towleroad.com/2014/11/strickland.html
Cross-posted in the Texas Group.
Cross-posted in the LGBT Group.
EMS: 18 suspected K2 overdoses in downtown Austin on Monday
5:45 p.m. update: Medics had responded to 18 reports of suspected K2 overdoses downtown by about 5:30 p.m. Monday, according to Austin-Travis County EMS.
The agency first noticed an increase in the number of calls that appeared to be related to K2 over the weekend but had not tracked precisely how many incidents there were until today, said EMS Capt. Darren Noak.
Medics took 15 adults to the hospital, while two refused treatment and another ran away, paramedic Rick Rutledge said. No one's condition was considered life-threatening.
The calls have been centered in the east downtown area, between Congress Avenue and Interstate 35, Rutledge said.
Read more: http://www.statesman.com/news/news/crime-law/ems-reports-spike-in-k2-overdoses-in-downtown-aust/nh856/
[font color=green]Some sage (or is that catnip?) advice from TxT--Keep It Real![/font]
Crisis talks held over Texas A&M-Galveston food complaints
A Vice President from Chartwells catering which provides food services for students at Texas A&M at Galveston flew in to the Gulf coast city last week for crisis talks after loud complaints about the quality of their food served to students.
Photos posted online by students showed undercooked chicken, apparently moldy salad dressing and out of date condiments, among other problems at the university cafeteria.
Diners questioned by KTRK last week said they had to check every mouthful before they ate it.
A town hall-style meeting was held during Thursday's dinner service where a Chartwell's VP answered questions from the students and the students governing body, according to Texas A&M.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/neighborhood/bayarea/news/article/Crisis-talks-held-over-Texas-A-M-food-complaints-5898438.php
How Do You Memorialize a Mob?--The Great Hanging at Gainesville, Texas
Gainesville, Texas, is a patriotic small town. It's also the site of one of the nation's worst acts of mob violence—a history some citizens would like to forget.
Two years after the incident, news of the Great Hanging made its way east. This depiction, from the Feb. 20, 1864, issue of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Weekly Newspaper, is apocryphal—the victims were actually hanged one or two at a time.
On the gray, rainy morning of Oct. 1, 1862, about 70 men were roused from their homes in Gainesville and corralled inside a vacant store, under arrest on suspicion of treason. Within 13 days, approximately 80 more men had been captured. The town's citizen's court, made up of prominent community leaders, immediately found seven men guilty by majority vote and promptly hanged them from an old tree. As tensions mounted, a mob grew angrier outside the store, worried that the remaining men were not just seditious but bandits, John Brown supporters, or friendly to the Indian tribes that frequently attacked the area.
Within a little over a week, 40 men had been hanged and another two shot trying to escape the rope. The Great Hanging of Gainesville entered history as the largest act of mob violence in American history.
Memories of the event almost immediately began to fade. Families of the men who'd been hanged moved away or stopped talking about it. Newcomers flooded the town, which grew from 250 residents during the Civil War to more than 12,000 by the turn of the century. While two men—one a member of the jury and the other with full access to court records—wrote accounts of the hanging in the 1870s and 1880s, neither account was publicly available until the 1960s. Court records of the trial were lost by the 1920s. Around the 100th anniversary of the Civil War, in 1964, the Texas Historical Commission erected a pink granite marker conveying an account sympathetic to the mob, based on what is now known to be incomplete information. Over time the marker has become largely illegible.
Gainesville, meanwhile, has chugged along as a charming small Texas town. In 2012 Rand McNally named Gainesville the "Most Patriotic Small Town in America." Each year the town invites some 30 Medal of Honor recipients on an expense-paid trip to Gainesville, allowing the town to call itself the nation's only Medal of Honor Host City. There's a historical marker to honor the pioneers who first brought cattle to the area and established the town, and the old State Theater movie house still stands on East California Street, though it no longer shows movies. Leonard Park features baseball diamonds, a pool with water slides and a small zoo that grew out of a volunteer community circus. A Confederate memorial greets visitors at the entrance. Downtown, the Cooke County Courthouse boasts memorials to Confederate soldiers and to veterans of World War II.
Read more: http://www.texasobserver.org/great-hanging-gainesville/
Hegar Resigns Senate Seat; Dec. 6 Special Election Set
State Sen. Glenn Hegar, the Katy Republican who will become state comptroller in January, notified Gov. Rick Perry on Friday that he will resign his Senate Seat as of Dec. 5, paving the way for a special election to fill his seat.
Hegar won 58.4 percent of the vote on Election Day to succeed Comptroller Susan Combs. He was widely expected to resign from his seat early to allow for a special election to take place sooner, allowing his replacement to join the Legislature during next year's legislative session. If not for his move to comptroller, Hegar's Senate term would have lasted until 2016. A Dec. 6 special election to fill his seat was announced Friday afternoon.
"I am extremely honored, humbled, and grateful to the citizens of Texas who have elected me as their next comptroller, and I look forward to serving the taxpayers of this great state," Hegar wrote. "I extend my deep and profound gratitude to the constituents of Senate District 18 for allowing me to be their voice in the Texas Senate for the last 8 years."
The possibility of a special election to replace Hegar has been the subject of speculation for more than a year, when it became clear Hegar planned to run for comptroller. That strategizing among those interested in replacing him intensified in March, when he won the Republican primary and became the immediate front-runner in the general election.
Read more: http://www.texastribune.org/2014/11/14/hegar-resigns-senate-seat-special-election-expecte/
[font color=green]It looks like I'll have to hop on the bike to ride to my polling location once more this year. The lead contender in the race appears to be State Rep. Lois Kolkhorst (R).[/font]
Despite State Order, Charter Schools Stay Open
FARMERS BRANCH — On a recent Wednesday morning, Branch Park Academy looked like any other bustling suburban middle school.
Beyond a packed parking lot, a banner hanging near the entrance boasted that the school had earned the "highest academic distinction" from the Texas Education Agency. Inside, students' voices drifted from their classrooms.
By law, those students were not supposed to be there at all.
In June, the state education agency revoked the charter of the Honors Academy Charter School District, which runs Branch Park Academy and six other schools. While some individual campuses, like Branch Park, had met state academic standards, Honors had failed to do so over all for three consecutive years, meaning that, under a 2013 law, it could no longer operate as a public school.
Read more: http://www.texastribune.org/2014/11/17/despite-state-order-charter-school-stays-open/
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Aside from a career-high 14-game hitting streak in April, Chicago Cubs shortstop Starlin Castro has been in the midst of an offensive malaise.
Since the All-Star break, Castro has one home run, three RBIs and 26 strikeouts. Castro's problem is simple, according to manager Dale Sveum's explanation.
"You got to be able to hit the fastball," Sveum said before Castro flied out as a pinch-hitter Wednesday in a 5-0 loss to the Cincinnati Reds. "That's the bottom line.. I'll say that until the day I die. If you can't hit the fastball, you're going to struggle in this league. I know the emphasis on breaking balls.
Castro is batting .246 in a lineup that desperately needs production from him and first baseman Anthony Rizzo, especially with the departure of Alfonso Soriano nearly three weeks ago.
"Yeah, he's struggled with the fastball," Sveum said. "That's obvious. That's the bottom line. Guys that usually aren't having good years are missing their fastball. They're fouling it off and you get down when you shouldn't be because you're not hitting the fastball."
The solution, according to Sveum, is for Castro to use his hands. Castro has worked with hitting coach James Rowson, assistant Rob Deer and Sveum.
"It's frustrating for him," Sveum said. "I know he's tried and and tried things, but the bottom line is the performance and being able to get in the box and use your hands there. You can take all the batting practice you want. But you have to be able to do it in the batter's box."


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Fair Warning is a 1937 American mystery film written and directed by Norman Foster. The film stars J. Edward Bromberg, Betty Furness, John Payne, Victor Kilian, Bill Burrud and Gavin Muir. The film was released on March 5, 1937, by 20th Century Fox.

Plot
In California's Death Valley a chemistry whiz-kid helps a sheriff track the man who murdered a wealthy mine owner who had been staying at a fancy winter resort.

Cast
J. Edward Bromberg as Matthew Jericho
Betty Furness as Kay Farnham
John Payne as Jim Preston
Victor Kilian as Sam
Bill Burrud as Malcolm Berkhardt
Gavin Muir as Herbert Willett
Gloria Roy as Grace Hamilton
Andrew Tombes as J.C. Farnham
Ivan Lebedeff as Count Andre Lukacha
John Eldredge as Dr. Galt
Julius Tannen as Mr. Taylor
Paul McVey as Mr. Berkhardt
Lelah Tyler as Mrs. Berkhardt
Lydia Knott as Miss Willoughby

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20th Century Fox films
American mystery films
1937 mystery films
Films directed by Norman Foster
American black-and-white films
1930s English-language films
1930s American films


It's difficult to see people suffering. People have a variety of reactions when they see others trying to survive on the streets: pity, anger, curiosity, fear. Some choose to pretend panhandlers and people who are homeless are not even there at all.
We think it's important to have empathy for this population. They are people just like us. How would you feel if you lost your job, home, family? Or what if you were hungry, sick, freezing cold?
Our best advice is to begin with remembering that these are people who deserve care, concern and respect. While we discourage giving them money, small acts of kindness, such as giving them food or water, can make a positive impact.
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We caution all who feel compelled to give money to panhandlers. Even a small donation can put a life at risk.
Many people who find themselves chronically homeless suffer from behavioral health issues. Due to our many years of experience and first-hand accounts, we know that people who panhandle may use your money to support bad habits, including substance abuse.
For example, downtown St. Louis in Fall 2016 experienced a rash of K2 overdoses among the homeless population.K2 can be bought on the streets for as little as two dollars. Though not usually fatal, K2 is very dangerous to anyone who takes it.
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Becoming Human: The Archaeological Challenge
Archaeology • 20 Apr 2016
The British Academy Lectures, delivered by Professor Lord Renfrew FBA, on 26 October 2005. DNA studies show that the baby born into the world today would be difficult to distinguish from the child of our ancestor of 40,000 years ago. Yet the way of life has changed radically from the stone age hunter-gatherer to the modern citizen. What then are the processes which have led to the construction of the world in which we live, and to the achievements of humankind which define, in a sense, what it is to be human? The answer can only come from the material remains of the human experience over tens of millennia: that is the challenge of archaeology.
CANCELLED: The New Negro, the Politics of Respectability, and the Harlem Renaissance.
The period following Reconstruction, the decade following the end of the American Civil War during which enslaved Americans were freed and made citizens, saw the drastic erasure of the rights of African Americans and the birth of de jure ("Jim Crow") segregation.
Deadly Embrace: War, Distance and Intimacy
The British Academy Lecture, delivered by Professor Derek Gregory FBA, on 14 March 2012 (venue: The British Academy). It has become commonplace to claim that contemporary wars are fought from a distance: the iconic version is the drone missions flown over Afghanistan, Pakistan and elsewhere from the United States. Yet wars have been waged at a distance throughout history, and we need a surer sense of the historical curve through which military violence has shaped (and been shaped by) the friction of distance. But we also need a sharper calibration of war's geography, including changes in military logistics and command and control systems, the transition from battlefields to battlespaces, the comingling of the military and the civilian, and the emergence of new media to convey the theatre of war to distant audiences. And yet for all these changes the 'death of distance' – and the distance of death – in today's liquid world has been greatly exaggerated, and there remains a stark intimacy to many killing spaces that requires careful reflection.
Gender and modernity
The British Academy Lecture, delivered by Professor Anne Phillips FBA, on 1 February 2018 (venue: The British Academy). As we celebrate the centenary of the 1918 Representation of the Peoples Act, which gave a qualified right to vote to women in Britain, Anne Phillips assesses claims about equality being part of the 'inner logic' of modernity.
Language diversity, endangerment, and public awareness
Linguistics • 21 Apr 2016
The British Academy Lecture, delivered by Professor David Crystal FBA, on 23 February 2011 (venue: The British Academy). Despite a number of events in recent years devoted to language diversity, language endangerment, and multilingualism, such as the International Year of Languages in 2008, public awareness of the issues is still remarkably limited. Only one in four of the population know that half the languages of the world are so seriously endangered that they are unlikely to survive the present century. This paper reflects on why the ecolinguistic crisis has made so little impact on public consciousness, despite a great deal of effort by academic authors.
Revenants and Migrants: Hardy, Butler, Woolf, and Sebald
Surrealism and its Legacies in Latin America
The British Academy Lecture, delivered by Professor Dawn Adès FBA, on 27 May 2009 (venue: The British Academy). Surrealism has played an important but contentious role in the development of Latin American art. The history of the reception of surrealist ideas and practices in Latin America has often been distorted by cultural nationalism and also needs to be disentangled from Magic Realism. Surrealism was nonetheless a potent influence or chosen affiliation for many artists (such as Frida Kahlo and Wifredo Lam) and its legacies can still be detected in the work of contemporary artists from Latin America who now dominate the international scene.
The Appeal of Islamic Fundamentalism by Prof Michael Cook FBA
The British Academy Lecture, delivered by by Professor Michael Cook FBA, on 26 February 2013 (venue: The Royal Society). There is nothing exceptional about religion playing a role in politics, but among the major religions of the world today none plays a more salient role than Islam. Particularly conspicuous is the contribution of trends of thought that we loosely refer to as 'Islamic Fundamentalism'. What is it about the combination of the Islamic heritage and the state of the contemporary world that makes Islamic Fundamentalism so attractive and Islam so politically salient?
This lecture series was established to mark the British Academy's move to new headquarters in Carlton House Terrace in 1998. The lecture is intended to promote appreciation of the Academy's fields of scholarship, in particular on matters of topical debate. The lecture was first delivered in 1998.
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BusLogic Vehicle Tracking and Telemetry Systems have been developed as a unique combination of hardware components specially designed for the automotive industry and smart software developed on the basis of years of field experience and in line with many end-user requirements.
In modern business, it is necessary to control all types of costs. One of the biggest costs of any company, regardless of size, is the cost of using the vehicle. This group of costs includes: fuel consumption, depreciation, servicing and other costs. All these costs depend to a large extent on the driver's way of driving. For this reason, BusLogic has, with the help of its devices, developed a system for monitoring and informing drivers about real-time driving parameters. In addition to reducing costs, this system provides greater safety and more comfortable passenger travel.
The system allows the driver to monitor certain parameters in real time, in the display of the driver's terminal for the sale of tickets. The parameters that can be displayed to the driver are: Engine speed (RPM), Gas pedal pressure, Acceleration and brake graph and Current fuel consumption.
The system allows the administrator to define for each parameter the ranges considered to be allowed to run, where the device audibly and visually warns the driver that he has exceeded the allowed limit. This system warns the driver of a bad mode of driving and points to the parameter for which he exceeded the allowed limit. The short beeps emitted over a certain time period are warned by the driver of overruns. When the overrun occurs, the acoustic signals are weaker and the pause period between them is longer, which exceeds the duration of the warning, the sound of the warning is shorter and the time of the sound warning signal is shorter.
Most of the existing vehicle tracking and driver tracking systems allow you to analyze the resulting problems (potential costs) only after the completed drive, which greatly complicates driver control and prevents costing while driving (corrective action). In contrast, the BusLogic system has been developed in an easy and efficient way to improve driving and reduce carrier costs. Such a system does not require additional costs in the form of vehicles that will monitor the work of the driver on a daily basis and analyze the costs incurred, but it will act preventively warning the driver while working on aggressive or undesired driving.
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¤ The ability to monitor and inform drivers about real-time driving parameters.
¤ The ability to display the Gas pedal pressure.
¤ Ability to display Acceleration and braking charts.
¤ Easy and efficient use.