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Former Michigan Book & Supply building sold for $5.8 million
City of Ann Arbor
A Farmington Hills-based real estate company finalized a deal this week to purchase a high-profile building on the corner of South State and North University in downtown Ann Arbor, paving the way for a redevelopment.
Agree Realty Corp. acquired the 18,000-square-foot former Michigan Book & Supply building at 317 S. State St. for $5.8 million, the company announced on Thursday. Agree has leased the building to a retail pharmacy store, the company said in a press release.
In an interview with AnnArbor.com, Agree Realty President Joey Agree would not confirm the tenant, but in November, the company submitted an application to install Walgreens signs on the building.
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"We are extremely pleased to announce the acquisition and redevelopment of 317 South State Street," Joey Agree said in a statement. "This is an exciting project, that once complete, will be a jewel in our portfolio of net lease assets and a fixture on the university campus for many years."
Agree Realty submitted the application to install Walgreens signs on the historic two-story building — which has been vacant since Michigan Book & Supply closed in early 2012 — to Ann Arbor's Historic District Commission in November. Located just steps from the University of Michigan's Diag, the building is one of the most prominent in downtown Ann Arbor.
"The former bookstore located at S. State St. and University is proposed to be renovated into a Walgreens store," the application said. "The existing building facade is to remain along with the interior structural elements. New signage is being proposed at this time."
Joey Agree said the building at 317 S. State St. is pre-leased under a 20-year agreement to "the industry leader in the retail pharmacy sector." The redevelopment is expected to be completed by the second quarter of 2014, he said.
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"We're not able, because of the confidentiality with our retail partner, to disclose the tenant," he added.
Agree Realty has an established relationship with Walgreens — nationwide, its top three tenants are Walgreens, Kmart and CVS. As of Nov. 2, 32 percent of the company's annualized base rent came from Walgreen Co., according to a quarterly filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Agree controls the Ann Arbor property on the corner of Jackson and Maple roads where a Walgreens was constructed in 2010.
The company also owned the former Borders headquarters on Phoenix Drive and a portion of the former flagship Borders store downtown, but lost or sold those properties after Borders liquidated last year.
"We have an affinity for Ann Arbor," Joey Agree said. "We think it's a great place to continue to invest capital. We have a long history in the city of Ann Arbor."
Most recently, Texas-based Hogarth Management, an entity controlled by the Borders family, owned the building on South State Street. Ann Arbor's First Martin Corporation managed the property.
The building — which was once occupied by discount variety store S.S. Kresge — has an assessed value of $1,031,500. It has 12,000 square feet on two floors and a 6,000-square-foot basement that Michigan Book & Supply used for textbook sales.
Michigan Book & Supply's lease began on July 1, 1989, and the store closed this year when its bankrupt parent company, Nebraska Book Co., filed for bankruptcy protection and closed 40 locations.
Just down the street at 209-211 S. State St., CVS Pharmacy opened a store in 2011 after it completed an $8 million project that preserved the historic facade, but demolished two houses behind it.
Joey Agree said the goal is to have plans submitted to the city of Ann Arbor in the "near term."
Lizzy Alfs is a business reporter for AnnArbor.com. Reach her at 734-623-2584 or email her at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow her on Twitter at http://twitter.com/lizzyalfs.
Milton Shift
Sat, Jan 5, 2013 : 1:51 a.m.
One block from CVS. Did we need another? What we need is a downtown grocery store...
Fri, Jan 4, 2013 : 11:30 p.m.
Not likely, but it would be cool if this Walgreens had just a few of the things the Kresge had, like a lunch counter, and a pet department with birds and fish....
Fri, Jan 4, 2013 : 12:43 p.m.
On-line art supplies made the store obsolete. Students will buy tons of stuff at Walgreens as they do at CVS. Kresge sold a variety of little every-day things. No designer clothes or boutique coffee. Fresh fruit, vegetables, and healthy prepared foods would be wonderful downtown but apparently won't pay the rent on that corner.
Fri, Jan 4, 2013 : 6:50 a.m.
All those pooh-poohing Walgreens in a downtown location might want to think over: there are no pharmacies downtown (that I know of and I live there). Also regarding selling of cigarettes: a look at Walgreens webpage shows they also do a lot of advertising for Nicorette ® products, etc. So tell us, "elite thinkers" of Ann Arbor: would you like to invest in another "high end" Jacobsons or Borders Books operation downtown?? Ha-ha!! You all did such a fine job of providing PATRONAGE to these former "chic" businesses, so you ought to be chomping at the bit to put some serious investment money where your opinion is. What could go wrong?! ;-)
Milton Shift
Sat, Jan 5, 2013 : 1:53 a.m.
There's also a local pharmacy just a few blocks from the Shapiro Library.
Fri, Jan 4, 2013 : 4:39 p.m.
Tru I am curious where you get your knowledge of the amount of business that Border's and Jacobson's did while they were in Ann Arbor The things that I feel the general public knows are: 1. both are part of chains 2. the chains went bankrupt 3. the Ann Arbor stores closed 4. in Border's case, we know they did enough business initially to become a national chain in the first place Please enlighten up on your knowledge that ...'You all did such a fine job of providing PATRONAGE to these former "chic" businesses'... As far as I and the general public know now, these Ann Arbor locations could have been doing equally as lousy as all the other locations OR they could have been shining jewels in each corporations' portfolio of stores. If you know details on how these individual locations fared, I would be interested to know. To be honest, if you don't know for a fact that these 2 stores were failing in their Ann Arbor location, your whole comment becomes just a mite snobbish.
Fri, Jan 4, 2013 : 1:05 p.m.
Did you miss the big CVS just up the street? They even have 2 floors.
Fri, Jan 4, 2013 : 2:54 a.m.
I miss Kresges.
mike gatti
Fri, Jan 4, 2013 : 2:05 a.m.
Shoulda bought more books and what not.
Esch Park
Fri, Jan 4, 2013 : 12:25 a.m.
B O R I N G.. Can't these guts do better than this?
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 10:46 p.m.
This reminds me of the Mark Knopfler song "Boom, like that." It's about McDonald's founder Ray Kroc and fast-food business competition. One lyric says "...they open up a new place flippin' meat, so I do too right across the street..." Just substitute CVS and Walgreens for Mickey D's and the competition.
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 9:19 p.m.
How many Walgreens, CVS and Rite Aide stores doe you need in the world? Is there really such a demand for plastic seasonal items, cheap makeup and prescriptions? How do these places stay in business? I can't stand these stores and refuse to shop there unless I have to have a rx filled. What is the deal? And how can a campus support 2 drugs stores like that? Ugh. At least it's not another pizza place.
Fri, Jan 4, 2013 : 1:05 a.m.
How do they stay in business? They have HUGE profit margins on the drugs and cheap plastic crud that they sell, most of which is made in China. Plus they pay their part-time "associates" minimum wage with no benefits. Big corporate profits. Can a campus support all these chains and 2 drug stores? Probably not. But the developers get fatter wallets even if Walgreens goes down eventually. That's what this is all about. $$$$$$$
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 9:45 p.m.
You should try Dexter Pharmacy in the Kmart/plum complex on Stadium if you want to fill your RX at a locally owned business.
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 9:05 p.m.
The geography of nowhere!
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 8:42 p.m.
Too bad...Trader Joe's should have snapped this building up!! Say goodbye to all the uniqueness of Ann Arbor....Rest in peace....White Market, Blimpy's, etc etc...
Fri, Jan 4, 2013 : 2:27 p.m.
Way too small for a Trader Joe's. They'd never go for it.
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 9:43 p.m.
How would a Trader Joes fit with your desire for uniqueness???? Trader Joes is about as mainstream chain store as you can get.
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 9:02 p.m.
Actually not really. With all the students there already? This place will be hoping along. There are two car garages and let me tell you, walking by there? I got dinner already planned. Trader Joe's? I am all for it.
Soft Paw
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 8:53 p.m.
Trader Joe's to thrive needs parking like a plant needs sunlight. Parking at N. U. & State is about as bad as it gets.
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 8:32 p.m.
OMG, can it get any worse? Marvelous bookstore becomes a Walgreens? ack!!! Where to buy art supplies now?
Fri, Jan 4, 2013 : 12:37 p.m.
Artists and art students obviously buy on line.
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 8 p.m.
Look at it as another convenient location to purchase the birth control provided by federal law.
Nicholas Urfe
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 7:41 p.m.
In the next day or so, I expect the building to get burgled by someone who thinks the $5.8 million is in a cash register just inside the entrance.
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 7:27 p.m.
This would have been a perfect spot for an Apple store. Oh well...
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 6:37 p.m.
Well folks this is Ann Arbor. Home of a gas station and a drug store on every corner!
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 8:18 p.m.
Actually there were gas stations on every corner Forest/ S.U., Liberty/Division, S.U./Church, S.State /Packard, Hill/Packard(S./E., S./W,N./E ) and I'm sure A few more locations tru the early 70,s. Many of those building are still in use for other business, i.e Pizza Parlors etc.
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 7:11 p.m.
Actually three if you count Madison, the other two are Main/Miller andMain/William
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 6:47 p.m.
There's only a single gas station in the downtown area, two if the one way down on Madison counts.
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 6:37 p.m.
years ago i had a great wakgreens but the ines i ave been in lately offer very little that you cannot get at the cvs alrady on state st. unfortunately rents and internet shopping maje it diffucult for independent stores to srvive -hence the chains
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 10:02 p.m.
We can only imagine what the comment that was removed said.
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 6:31 p.m.
I think they should build $$$4k per bed uber-luxury suites for the "best of the best*" Michigan is looking to attract. *As measured by financial means.
Pam Wilson
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 6:31 p.m.
A Walgreen's a block away from CVS? How about a Whole Foods or another grocery store for all of the students that live in off-campus housing close by? It's hard to believe that this purchase doesn't have to be approved by the DTA. Very disappointed, to say the least.
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 6:29 p.m.
You're all poo-pooing this (well, most of you anyway), but this is the sort of store where students might actually shop. If you liked Book & Supply there so much, why didn't you pump a bunch more of your money into it rather than just appreciating its presence there for the sole reason that it's what was there when you moved to town or grew up or arrived at college? Let's not forget that Book & Supply went out of business precisely because it was itself owned by a national chain.
Fri, Jan 4, 2013 : 1:28 a.m.
@A2comments, what does that have to do with anything? National chains fail, but not nearly at the rate of local independents. Of course, if you have a concept that will bring in enough revenue to justify buying the building , i am sure they would have allowed you to buy it too.
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 8:50 p.m.
Book and Supply went out of business because the company that owns them (and Ulrich's and Ned's and Campus Book & Supply and Mike's), Nebraska Book Company, can't compete in today's market. It had nothing to do with "precisely because it was itself owned by a national chain". Their prices are always high, totally non-competitive. They declared bankruptcy in mid 2011 and came out in mid 2012 with less debt. Yet for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2009, they declared "record" results. They did so again the following year. A year later bankruptcy. If you review the history, you'll see they bought up competitors (hence all the local stores they owned) and piled on the debt, apparently clueless that the market was changing. Then, well into the recession, with acquisitions stopped, the growth ended and everyone could see how ugly the resulting company was. Incompetent management doesn't require a national company...
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 7:46 p.m.
Certainly I'm not saying that students will only shop at a retail pharmacy to the exclusion of whatever else will be put there, but a Walgreens sells a lot of things a student might need to buy. When I was an undergrad on Central Campus not terribly long ago, of course before 7-11 and CVS, it was hard to actually get any sort of food items locally without having to get on a bus or in a car for a fifteen minute drive. Having a place to buy small food items or things like bandages or batteries would have been a Godsend for us. I'm simply saying a student will get more use out of a pharmacy than the soda fountain or one more small-time barber shop or whatever quintessential small-town shoppes of yore might be there. Of course as a student, I would have much rather had a grocery to buy a vegetable or some other food item without a horrible mark-up, but I guess you take what you can get. And no, I don't like that it's going to be another chain store, but I'm not myself prepared to open anything there. We have to remember that, above all, Ann Arbor is a place to live in for the people that live there, not simply for taking the occasional quiet stroll through campus every couple months and wax regrettably about how everything's different than when you (the generic 'you') used to go to college so many decades ago. And it seems, as far as the information available in these comments, that the building's only ever been occupied by chain retail stores, so I don't see it as an enormous shift from the status quo.
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 7:28 p.m.
This is a retail pharmacy. If you're making the argument students will only shop at retail pharmacy's I must ask you to cite your source. There are lots of local stores where UofM students shop. No one's comments are lamenting the loss of Book & Supply, but the addition of a retail pharmacy to a unique space.
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 6:17 p.m.
Border's family controls Hogarth which was the most recent owner of the S. State property.. Agree bought the property assessed at $1M for $5.8M (nearly 3 times the $2M market value?) Agree owned Borders HQ and part of Liberty which were then sold or lost.. . 1. If Agree is so financially secure how could they "lose" property? Was it their property or Borders? 2. Why would Agree give Borders 3x the market value to host a Walgreens store? 3. What is the relationship between Borders and Agree?
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 9:29 p.m.
@Lizzy Ta. Funny. State Street Corp. owns almost 2% of Agree which now owns part of State Street. Not so funny. Blackrock Inc. owns almost 5% of Agree.
Lizzy Alfs
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 7:15 p.m.
P.S.: I hope that helps!
Lizzy Alfs
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 7:14 p.m.
@LXIX: --Remember that market values are usually double that of the assessed value. But you're right, the price is very high. Not counting the basement, the sale price is almost $500 per square foot. --We wrote several stories on Agree losing and selling the properties they were leasing to Borders. It wasn't just in Ann Arbor; Borders was one of Agree's largest tenants, top three I believe, until the company liquidated. Agree then shed many of those properties. Here is a story: http://www.annarbor.com/business-review/landlord-defaults-on-loans-could-lose-borders-headquarters-building-downtown-store/ Agree is a public company, you can check out their financials here: http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=ADC --In my opinion, Agree would give Borders (Hogarth Management) 3x the market value to host a Walgreens store because it's an attractive, financially sound deal for them. It's a 20-year lease, meaning they are guaranteed rent for the next two decades. --I don't know the exact details on the relationship between Borders (I assume you mean the family) and Agree. But I assume there must be a working relationship there since Agree owned a portion of the former flagship store.
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 6:13 p.m.
Keeping Ann Arbor unique - "We do things different" just like everyone else. Now I have a Walgreens within 2 miles of my home in two different directions. I love variety.
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 8:16 p.m.
Big deal. I have two Kroger's, a Whole Foods, a Busch's and a Meijers.
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 5:54 p.m.
Ann Arbor was a much nicer place to live in the'60s & '70s.
Boo Radley
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 10:40 p.m.
Just about every place was a much nicer place to live in the '60s & '70s. For those of us who grew up during that time anyway.
James Toy
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 6:13 p.m.
U-M undergrads couldn't drive in town in the early 60's. I had to prove that I was a graduate student. A police officer was stationed at the State Street curb near Nichols Arcade to ticket jaywalkers. Consternation when a traffic light was installed at State and Hill.
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 5:50 p.m.
I'm disappointed too, but let's not blame "Ann Arbor" for thi. It's a free country. This building was sold on the open market, money talks and no local money spoke loud enough (if at all). And, by the way, folks seem to forget that one of the largest chain stores was right down the street until not too long ago: Borders. No one seemed to mind that because it was ours. Doesn't mean it wasn't a chain in every lousy sense of the word.
Milton Shift
Sat, Jan 5, 2013 : 1:56 a.m.
Free for whom?
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 5:49 p.m.
Somehow it has escaped those that have commented that the store USED TO BE A CHAIN! S.S. Kresge was a version of K-Mart. I am not huge for chains either, but a tenant is better than an empty storefront. Ann Arborites need to stop wishing this town was stuck in Amber from the 60's and 70's.
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 8:16 p.m.
Haha! Is that a "Fringe" reference? Hope so! Love it!
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 5:20 p.m.
Don't forget it's right across the street from a 7-11! Now it's easy to get all our Slurpies, prescription pills, blunts and condoms on the same block!
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 5:19 p.m.
And Ann Arbor joins the ranks of every other college campus that's sold out to corporate franchise. Having grown up in A2 and attended college in 2 different states, one of the things I loved about A2 was it's uniqueness. Next comes the McDonald's. Sell-Outs. I couldn't be more disappointed with what's going to happen to the building and the area. So much for the "local" push. Shameful.
Fri, Jan 4, 2013 : 1:23 a.m.
yeah because Michigan Book ad Supply was SOOOO very unique as part of a chain of college bookstores? Give me a break, the bookstores slapped a local name on it is all. That is not local. Of course, I do not recall what your bid on the building was.
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 11:32 p.m.
i too remember the Maynard McDonald's, in fact it brings to mind one of many memories....I'm sure you recall that this particular McD's had an upstairs. When the fire door was damaged, in violation of every conceivable fire code in the state of Michigan, instead of repairing it as the law required the owner to do, the skinflint owner simply padlocked it. Not Good. some time later, someone saw this padlocked door, and turned it in to the fire marshall. fire marshall promptly paid a visit, was upstairs for maybe 2 minutes, came back downstairs and "asked" to talk to the manager on duty.....they talked for a very short time, with fire marshall doing most of the talking. after fire marshall left, manager was on the phone talking to the district manager essentially telling her that the fire door needs to get fixed. TODAY. District manager was heard arguing w/manager. manager told her ok kelly, you do what you want but the fire marshall's going to be back here tomorrow morning at 9 a.m. and if that door isn't fixed we'll be padlocked at 9:03. this guy ain't playin'. Yep, the door got fixed that same day.....this was the first fast-food place i worked at and this is one of the many memories that stands out!
Boo Radley
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 10:37 p.m.
I can't recall people being that disappointed all those years that it was a Kresge store.
Jojo B
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 6:22 p.m.
Or the Burger King that lived in the (now ex-Kinkos) basement across from the now-vacant Borders building. Or the Burger King and Taco Bell that lived in the S. University area. I actually wouldn't mind any of those coming back.
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 6:21 p.m.
Considering I worked at that McDonald's in high school, yes I remember it.
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 5:46 p.m.
Heh, perhaps you're not old enough to remember the strange McDonald's that used to be a street over from this location.
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 5:10 p.m.
Now maybe their sidewalk(s) will get shoveled.
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 9 p.m.
Actually the city will shovel them since they still have ownership of the sidewalks. But yes, once a nice drugstore opens up it will get shoveled.
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 5:02 p.m.
This is too funny! A day after A2.com ran the story about chain restaurants opening up off of A2-Saline and reading all of the negative comments as it relates to "chain" restaurants,......we get a story a day later about a Walgreens opening up just down the street from CVS. I can't wait to read the backlash!
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 5:02 p.m.
Ann Arbor sinks to a new low. A chain drug store in a historic building in a prominent location. State Street is becoming a strip mall.
Milton Shift
Sat, Jan 5, 2013 : 1:59 a.m.
Yeah, sure, free to do whatever you want, if only you have all the money you don't have. Freedom, my... yeah.
Fri, Jan 4, 2013 : 1:20 a.m.
So a chain drug store is so much worse than a chain bookstore or worse yet an EMPTY store front? You are free to buy any building you want and put up your own business at any time.
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 8:59 p.m.
Anything but another drugstore. A nice buffet restaurant? Perhaps?
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 8:18 p.m.
A historic building that was, historically, what we used to call a, "dime store".
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 4:59 p.m.
How disappointing.
say it plain
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 4:53 p.m.
a walgreens, ugh. how awfully depressing for ann arbor. truly awfully. do all these new drugstores sell cigarettes or are they prohibited from doing so by the U, given the U's non-smoking campus efforts? Just wondering... how nice for us all that instead of bookstores and art-supply outlets we'll have *both* a Walgreen's *and* a CVS on state street. Makes the American Apparel outlet down the road seem so interesting and upscale by comparison! And I'm sure it adds to the quality of life for all the downtown residents that they can participate in CVS/Walgreen's price wars on chewing gum and cough syrup!
Fri, Jan 4, 2013 : 1:19 a.m.
So a national chain is taking the place of a national chain for a building that was originally part of a national chain is a bad thing to you? As for cigarettes, this property is NOT on UM property. Though if it is written in their lease that they can not sell cigarettes, they can not. I know of a landlord on that same black wills not allow alcohol i the building he owns.
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 11:56 p.m.
Say it plain - had you made a bid of $5.9 million for the property, you might have been able to select or deny any tenant of your choice.
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 8:08 p.m.
Given that it used to be a Kresge's, this is a historically consistent use for the site.
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 4:46 p.m.
Will Rite Aid now follow in Border's old space? Just asking.
Thu, Jan 3, 2013 : 6:19 p.m.
Hush now. We all know that is exactly what will happen.


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I had the pleasure of reading the manuscript of Ross Douthat's new book Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics (The Free Press, 2012), slated to be released April 17 of this year. I am going to honor the publisher's request that I not quote or review the book until it is published because it is still being edited. Nevertheless, I want to interact with Ross's basic ideas because I think they are provocative and because this is essential reading for all Christians seeking to understand Christianity's relationship to culture in the U.S.
Everyone agrees that our culture has become far more secular and hostile to Christian faith over the past two generations, but what are the factors causing that change? Many in the evangelical and Reformed world see the decline starting in the early 20th century when most of the mainline denominations and their affiliated academic institutions and foundations fell into the hands of theological modernists and liberals. But it can't be as simple as that. In his first chapter Douthat looks at four figures—Reinhold Niebuhr for powerful mainline Protestantism, Billy Graham for rising Evangelicalism, Fulton Sheen for popularly engaged Catholicism, and Martin Luther King, Jr for the prophetic African-American Church of the Civil Rights era—who at mid-20th century showed the cultural and institutional strength of nearly all branches of Christianity. But by the beginning of the 21st century all four branches of Christianity are fragmented, declining, and in disarray, while the number of Americans who say they have no religious affiliation or even belief in God steadily climbs. Robert Putnam nuances this a bit in American Grace when he argues that the mainline church began declining first, in the late 60s and 70s, while the Evangelical church began doing so by the 90s. Catholics have been battered with a different set of problems and so has the African-American church, but they are also definitely losing influence and people.
In his second chapter, Douthat attributes the change to five major social catalysts that have gained steam since the 1960s: 1) First, the political polarization that has occurred between the Left and Right drew many churches into it (mainline Protestants toward the Left, evangelicals toward the Right). This has greatly weakened the church's credibility in the broader culture, with many viewing churches as mere appendages and pawns of political parties. 2) Second, the sexual revolution means that the Biblical sex ethic now looks unreasonable and perverse to millions of people, making Christianity appear implausible, unhealthy, and regressive. 3) Third, the era of decolonization and Third World empowerment, together with the dawn of globalization, has given the impression that Christianity was imperialistically "western" and supportive of European civilization's record of racism, colonialism, and anti-Semitism. 4) The fourth factor has been the enormous growth in the kind of material prosperity and consumerism that always works against faith and undermines Christian community. 5) The fifth factor is—that all the other four factors had their greatest initial impact on the more educated and affluent classes, the gatekeepers of the main culture-shaping institutions such as the media, the academy, the arts, the main foundations, and much of the government and business world.
How does Ross Douthat's analysis compare with some older thinkers? Lesslie Newbigin blames the marginalization of Christianity in the West on the outworking of the 18th century Enlightenment—which promoted the sufficiency of individual human reason without faith in God—for a great deal of the shift. In this he understands historical patterns as being caused by ideas and intellectual trends working their way out through a society's institutions. I see no reason why Newbigin's history-of-thought approach and Douthat's sociology-of-knowledge approach cannot both be right. A third kind of analysis could easily find the faults within the church itself. As H. Richard Niebuhr points out in his essay, "The Independence of the Church", the church becomes weak and even corrupt whenever it becomes successful in a culture. This is an important factor to add. For example, why did the mainline and the evangelical church get co-opted by American political parties and lose credibility? Wasn't this due to a lack of robust, vital orthodoxy within them? If all these approaches are right and complementary, Christianity in the West has been the victim of "a perfect storm" of trends, factors, and forces.
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A Friend of the Mountains Remembered
This article originally appeared in earthisland.org and is used with permission.
Larry Gibson's parents never worried about finding him, when, as a boy, he wandered out into the forest. All they had to do was spot the hawk that followed him from the air. That's how close Gibson was to the West Virginia mountains.
He pined for those mountains after his family joined the exodus from Appalachia, moving to where the jobs were, into Ohio and Pennsylvania, in the 1950s. But finally, in the 1990s, he was able to move back to a small cabin on the land owned by his family for generations.
By that time, the nearby town of Kayford was nearly gone. And the hills where he once roamed trembled under gigantic bulldozers and leviathan drag lines that were pushing back the woods, reaching down into the earth, and tearing out the coal.
Mountaintop removal mining tore something out of him, too, but he found a way to fight back. And in the process, Larry Gibson became something unexpected, a unique species of Appalachian Lorax, a small man in bib overalls who could elevate your vision with a few dozen words.
Gibson died Sunday following a heart attack at his home on Kayford Mountain in West Virginia's Raleigh County. He was 66 years old.
Mountaintop Removal's Unshakable Opponent
In thousands of speeches at home and across the Appalachian region, Gibson would ask people, "What do you hold so precious in your own circle of life that you don't have a price on it? What would it be?"
For him, the answer was always Appalachia: the mountains, and his family's vanishing way of life.
Gibson's answer wasn't everyone's—but his question was. And when he asked it you could see people reaching deeply inside themselves as he talked with them, and challenged them, and charmed them into siding with him to fight the injustice that had already swept away most of his world.
Because he felt the injustice so deeply, Gibson stubbornly held onto a remnant of his world—a 53-acre island whose high point was a family cemetery—even while the surrounding 12,000 acres were blasted into a moonscape.
And because he did not sell out, journalists from just about every major network and publication in the world were able to see mountaintop removal first hand, while students could see the hell that earth would become if the power of giant corporations continued unchecked.
Standing in the family cemetery, visitors could see what Gibson meant when he said this form of mining was "like raising the dead while burying the living.
Kayford Mountain became the world's image of mountaintop removal mining, said Mary Anne Hitt of the Sierra Club. "Because it was one of the few places you could reliably see mountaintop removal from the ground, everybody went to Kayford," she said. "And Larry was always there to greet them and give them a tour." He would bring people up to the cemetery, then walk them over to the edge of a gaping wound in the earth. It was a view, Hitt wrote in a eulogy on Daily Kos, "that would shake you to your core and never let you go."
Gibson's path was not an easy one. Two of his dogs were killed. Coal-crazies constantly harassed him, and his cabin would regularly take bullets. Fellow activists were afraid that he would take one too, with all the threats he got. They raised $10,000 for a security system in 2010, but even years before that, they were pleading with coal-friendly West Virginia officials to tone down the "war on coal" rhetoric.
"Larry was one of the ones that stood elbow to elbow with me when no one else was there," Goldman prize-winner Maria Gunnoe said. "He came to my home to check on me after a flood put out the phone lines. Everyone loved him—everyone but the coal companies. Some of their men were simply cruel to Larry Gibson, and they should hang their heads in shame for the way they treated him."
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Appalachian residents are serious about putting a stop to mountaintop removal coal mining—and building a more sustainable economy to take its place.
Despite the abuse, he had a stolid and unshakable demeanor, whether speaking to large crowds, small groups, or the cameras of TV crews from around the world.
Gibson served on the board of the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition and helped form other groups like Coal River Mountain Watch. He understood the day-to-day practicalities of organizing and coalition building and gentle persuasion. But he could be fierce as well.
"Few people in our country were so fearless in the face of political pressure, bankers, Big Coal backlash and even death threats," author Jeff Biggers wrote in a remembrance on The Huffington Post. And fewer people had the inspiring impact of this determined mountaineer.
Although he was an international figure, traveling to Latin America and arguing for native Appalachian rights at the United Nations, Gibson remained unfazed by fame and well grounded in the mountain life and lore that was his heritage.
Partly because of this combination of fearlessness and inspiration, Gibson was named a CNN Hero in 2007. More honors would doubtless have come if he had lived longer.
"I always imagined that, when we celebrated the end of mountaintop removal, Larry Gibson would be there," Hitt wrote.
Gibson is survived by a wife and three children. The family has asked that those who wish to express their condolences donate to his Keeper of the Mountains Foundation at mountainkeeper.blogspot.com.
"I think it's just so ironic," Gunnoe said, "that Larry left Kayford Mountain through a gate that the coal company used to try to keep him out, the gate to a cemetery where his Grandma and Grandpa were buried.
"You win, Larry," Gunnoe said wistfully. "You got the last laugh."
Appalachian residents are serious about putting a stop to mountaintop removal coal mining—and building a more sustainable economy to take its place.
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Test your knowledge of population data! Start by choosing your geographic level: metro areas or states. Click on the name in each match-up that you think has the larger population. Green shows a correct answer, red indicates an incorrect answer. When you have opposing names picked for the next round, pick again. See how close you can come to a perfect score of 63. When you are finished, play again or mouse-over results to view the most current population estimates for each pair.
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This detailed look at annual percentage change in state population over the last decade shows variation in growth patterns. In recent years, North Dakota, and the District of Columbia have had the highest growth rates, in percentage terms, in the country. States such as Nevada and Arizona, fast-growers a decade ago, have had some moderation in their growth rates but the states continue to increase in population.
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The Census Flows Mapper is a web mapping application intended to provide users with a simple interface to view, save and print county-to-county migration flows maps of the United States. The data are from the 2006-2010 American Community Survey.
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This graph explores variation in high school education attainment within selected race and Hispanic origin groups by sex and nativity between regions. Attainment of a high school diploma (or equivalent level of education) is generally very high in the U.S., so this graph focuses on the percentage of the population 25 and older who do not have that level of education. There are notable differences between foreign-born and native population among many groups. For example, in the West, 57 percent of Hispanic foreign-born males had less than a high school education compared with 19 percent of Hispanic native-born males. Nineteen percent of Asian foreign-born females had less than a high school diploma compared with 5 percent of Asian native-born females.
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Of the major interstates in the country, I-5 passes through the second-largest population (behind only I-95 on the nation's east coast). In its path from southern California to Washington State, I-5 traverses densely populated areas of Los Angeles, Portland, and Seattle but, in contrast to the I-95 transportation corridor, there are long stretches of I-5 that pass through areas with very low population density such as California's Central Valley. Selected cities along the route are labeled, for reference.
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In 1890, the Superintendent of the Census described the western part of the country as having so many pockets of settled area that a frontier line could no longer be said to exist. The advance of the frontier line that characterized shifts in population distribution for the previous 100 years was complete. This series of maps highlights population expansion into new territory, subsequent gains in population density, and increasing urbanization.
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Running from Los Angeles to Jacksonville, I-10 passes through 8 states and several major cities and traverses the 3rd largest population among the country's interstate highways. Population density within 5 miles of the interstate show several lengths with very low population density, including stretches between El Paso and San Antonio. Selected cities along the route are labeled, for reference, with cities of 250,000 or more shown in bold and with filled circles.
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Running from Florida to Maine, I-95 passes through 15 states and several major cities. I-95 serves the most densely populated region of the U.S., the Boston-to-Washington corridor. Peaks and valleys in population density within 5 miles of the interstate show several stretches of continuously built-up area, especially evident from Petersburg, VA to Lewiston, ME. Selected cities along the route are labeled, for reference.
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WASHINGTON — Democrats expanded their control of the House and pushed for historic gains in their majority Tuesday by solidifying their dominance in the Northeast and making inroads in the South and West.
Ousting 22-year veteran Rep. Chris Shays in Connecticut gave Democrats every House seat from New England. Their victory in an open seat on New York's Staten Island gave them control of all of New York City's delegation in Washington for the first time in 35 years.
Democrats also rode the coattails of a decisive victory by Barack Obama in New Mexico to win one House seat they haven't controlled in four decades and another the GOP had held for 28 years. Both were left up-for-grabs by GOP retirements.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Democrats' first order of business was a lameduck session to quickly enact another economic stimulus package but cautioned that it would take time to achieve the party's top priorities.
"The country must be governed from the middle," Pelosi, a California Democrat, said Wednesday. "You have to bring people together to reach consensus on solutions that are sustainable and acceptable to the American people."
Pelosi said no decisions have yet been made on a postelection session. But she said talks are continuing with the White House on the terms of an economic aid measure, which would include additional assistance for people who are out of work.
Democrats unseated 12 Republican incumbents and captured nine open GOP seats, capitalizing on the unusually high 29 Republican departures. Republicans were only able to knock off four Democratic incumbents.
With less than three dozen races still undecided, Democrats had won 251 and were leading in five. Republicans had won 171 and were leading in six. If those trends held, Democrats could have a net gain of 20 seats. And Republicans were on track for their smallest numbers since 1994, the year a Republican Revolution retook the House for the first time in 40 years.
The Democratic edge in the current Congress is 235-199 with one vacancy in a formerly Democratic seat. Two Louisiana seats, one Democratic and one Republican, won't be decided until December because hurricanes postponed their primaries until Tuesday.
'Wave upon wave'
It was the first time in more than 75 years that Democrats were headed for big House gains in back-to-back elections. They picked up 30 seats in 2006.
"This will be a wave upon a wave," Pelosi said.
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Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
House Speaker John Boehner became animated Tuesday over the proposed Keystone Pipeline, castigating the Obama administration for not having approved the project yet.
- Budget deficits shrinking but set to grow after 2015
- Senate readies another volley on unemployment aid
- Obama faces Syria standstill
- Fluke files to run in California
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Republicans were licking their wounds and cheered themselves mostly by the prospect that Democrats — now holding the White House and bigger House and Senate margins — might overreach and position the GOP for gains in 2010.
"We sort of got through this, we think, a little bit better than some people might have expected," said Rep. Tom Cole of Oklahoma, the head of the Republican House campaign committee. "Our worst days are behind us."
Still, in the first sign of what promises to be a bitter round of GOP recriminations, Rep. Adam Putnam of Florida, the No. 3 Republican, told colleagues in a letter released near midnight that he was "reluctantly" stepping down from his post.
In the northeast, GOP Reps. John R. "Randy" Kuhl of New York and Phil English of Pennsylvania were defeated. Democrat Eric Massa unseated Kuhl in New York's southern tier, and Kathy Dahlkemper, a 50-year-old mother of five, toppled English in a swing district of rural communities and old industrial steel towns in Pennsylvania's northwest corner.
In Connecticut, Democrat Jim Himes, a Greenwich businessman, defeated Shays despite the Republican's highly publicized late criticism of McCain's presidential campaign.
In upstate New York, former congressional staffer Dan Maffei won election to succeed retiring GOP Rep. Jim Walsh, becoming first Democrat in nearly 30 years to represent the district around Syracuse. Downstate, Democratic city councilman Mike McMahon won the race on Staten Island to succeed GOP Rep. Vito Fossella, R-N.Y., who was forced to resign amid drunk driving charges and revelations that he fathered a child from an extramarital affair.
New Jersey Democratic state Sen. John Adler won election to succeed retiring Rep. Jim Saxton, R-N.J., in the state's Pine Barrens region.
Too close to call
In the South, too, Democrats made inroads. Montgomery Mayor Bobby Bright won election to succeed a retiring Republican in Alabama, despite his GOP's opponents attempts to tie him to Obama. High school civics teacher Larry Kissell won in North Carolina, defeating Republican Rep. Robin Hayes.
Democrat Gerald Connolly, a former chairman of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, was elected to succeed retiring GOP Rep. Thomas M. Davis III in a northern Virginia district that's trending more Democratic because of an influx of new voters. And in a far more conservative district further south, Rep. Virgil H. Goode Jr., R-Va., was in a too-close-to-call race for survival against Democrat Tom Perriello.
In Florida, GOP Rep. Tom Feeney — under fire for ties to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff — was the first incumbent to fall, losing to former state Rep. Suzanne Kosmas. To the east, Rep. Ric Keller, R-Fla., lost to Democratic attorney Alan Grayson, in an increasingly Hispanic district in Orlando.
Democrats also made inroads in the West, where Democratic businesswoman Betsy Markey in Colorado unseated conservative GOP Rep. Marilyn Musgrave. In addition to the two New Mexico seats, Democrats captured one in Arizona, left open by retiring GOP Rep. Rick Renzi, who's awaiting trial on corruption charges.
In suburban Detroit, Democrat Gary Peters, a former state lottery commissioner and senator, ousted Republican Rep. Joe Knollenberg. The speaker of the Illinois Senate, Democrat Debbie Halvorson, won a seat formerly held by retiring GOP Rep. Jerry Weller in the swing exurbs and rural areas south of Chicago.
The news wasn't all good for Democrats. Republican attorney Tom Rooney defeated first-term Democratic Rep. Tim Mahoney of Florida, who had admitted to two extramarital affairs just weeks before Election Day.
Republican Bill Cassidy dealt a bruising defeat to Rep. Don Cazayoux, D-La., elected in a special election six months ago.
And in Texas, Republican Pete Olson, a former chief of staff to Sen. John Cornyn, beat Democratic Rep. Nick Lampson.
Campaign war chests
But other freshman Democrats once considered vulnerable cruised to easy re-election.
First-term Democratic Reps. John Yarmuth of Kentucky, Indiana's Joe Donnelly and Brad Ellsworth, and New Hampshire's Rep. Carol Shea-Porter won easy re-election. They were part of a crop of freshman Democrats in conservative-leaning districts who began compiling campaign war chests and moderate voting records almost from the moment they were elected two years ago, leaving only a few of them endangered on Tuesday.
Former five-term Republican Rep. Anne Northup was unable to mount a comeback in Louisville, Ky., against Yarmuth despite GOP presidential nominee John McCain's decisive victory in the state.
Rep. John P. Murtha, D-Pa., who chairs a subcommittee with the most influence on the Pentagon's spending, who had a scare after calling his district south of Pittsburgh "racist," won easy re-election.
Democratic candidates raised $436 million, compared with Republicans' $328 million, according to federal data compiled by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee poured $76 million into competitive races and the National Republican Congressional Committee spent $24 million.
In Louisiana, indicted Democratic Rep. William Jefferson was cruising to victory in a Democratic primary.
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Speaking at Schroders' Secular Market Forum in the winter of 2014, the Financial Times' Martin Wolf discussed what we've learned - and have still to learn - from the financial crisis.
In his latest book, Martin Wolf explores the way in which the financial and economic crises – which struck high income economies after August 2007 – have altered our world. Discussing the book in Schroders' head office in the winter of 2014, Mr Wolf provided a summary of the positive changes made, but also the worrying number of issues yet to be fully addressed.
Wolf questions how different the world really is now, and asks whether our "new orthodoxy" can protect global financial markets from future crises. If it is possible, Wolf says, stability will be achieved through embracing "macro prudential" policy, which better recognises the relationship between markets and the economies they operate in. What Wolf has found is that if the financial sector, at a global level, is more structurally sound and factors in the world it lives in, the impact of the inevitable 'shifts and shocks' need not be so painful.


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Each month the Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and the Moderator or Vice Moderator of the 220th General Assembly write a column of general interest for the church-at-large.
Moving into a new year is that simple, but the getting there is never simple at all. The things you planned to accomplish in 2012 are either done or they're not. The new, improved you has lived another year and become ever so slightly improved but nonetheless older. For those of us who still write checks, we have to constantly remind ourselves to write 2013 on the date line. Even though it is a new year, it starts out very much in the same old ways.


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It's Veterans Day here in the U.S.: a day we set aside to honor those who have and are serving in our country's military. There are many fabulous ways to do this.
Now, I happen to know that a fair number of military personnel read this blog - a fact I find both humbling and just a teensy bit alarming, since I'm not sure those who share my twisted sense of humor should have access to heavy artillery. (Holy Hand Grenade, anyone?) On the other hand, I do so enjoy all the e-mails with the giant "DECLASSIFIED" stamps on them - and I'm pretty sure my coolness quotient went up about 1000% when a guy in uniform asked to have his photo taken with me at our last signing in Atlanta. (Hi, Paul!)
So in your honor, my dear veterans, here are some patriotic cake designs that will surely bring a tear to your eyes.
Because nothing says "America" quite like a dead, blank-eyed dog with a flag stuck in his head. [patting heart] Ah, it gets you right here, doesn't it?
Because you are all "Hero's."
And so we "honer" you, our "vetr ans."
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Alysrazor is the next boss on our list and much like Rhyolith before him, as a tank, you spend a large portion of the first part of the fight not dealing with the boss directly. Instead, as a tank, you will be primarily dealing with the various adds that Alysrazor will spawn as it flies around in the air.
While the birdy floats around, there will be a number of adds that you will be responsible for keeping under control.
The first type of add you'll run into are Blazing Talon Initiates. While these don't necessarily have to be tanked per se, keep in mind that these adds will be dropping patches of fire along the ground that should be avoided as well as casting a spell that needs to be interrupted so if you happen to have an interrupt free and are nearby when one of them starts to cast, don't be afraid to take a few steps over to make sure that the cast doesn't go off.
Your primary concern during this phase will be taking care of the little hatchlings that will spawn by the center of the room. As they spawn, you need to make sure that you're the closest target to them so that you'll get a buff that allows you to do 1000% more damage to them as primarily, you'll be the only one responsible for burning them down before the second phase starts. You'll also need to cart them around the field and move them over the little Lava Worms that appear. The worms deal a bit of aoe damage where they stand but having the hatchlings eat the worms will put a stop to that, giving your raid more safe room to move around in.
Once enough time has passed, Alysrazor will stop flying high up in the sky and come closer to the ground. Alys will start spawning various tornados that will move around the room. During this time, you're only real priority, along with most of your raid is to avoid the tornados as best as you can. Try to keep an eye out and don't get locked into tunnel vision on avoiding one tornado that you completely miss the other one moving up on you from behind.
As you move to avoid them, keep in mind that as with many other spells, often, the effective area of the spell is larger than the what it looks like and try to give yourself that bit of extra space to buffer yourself accordingly.
Once Alysrazor gets tired of playing around in the sky, she'll drop down which is when your group will be set on burning her down as much as possible. During this period, you'll be busy with a new type of add that will appear, a Blazing Talon Clawshaper which channels a spell that makes her recovery time on the ground a lot shorter.
As your group will largely be concerned with taking off as big a chunk of Alysrazor's HP as possible, you will be the main person responsible for interrupting these adds.
Once Alys hits 50 Molten Power, she'll stand up and it becomes a fairly simple tank and spank phase with the caveat of a stacking debuff on you and a LOT of tank damage.
Communicate well with your healers to synchronize cooldown usage to cover as large a time period as possible and switch off with your off tank once you start getting up to around 5-6 stacks or higher depending on your confidence in your healers.
Eventually, she'll take off back into the air and the phases will repeat, so continue on with your phase 1-2 assignments and you'll be sure to take the boss down after several attempts.


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The criminal allegations against Nolan Bernard could put him in prison for life. But on Monday, it was his tenuous link to Orange County's home-confinement program — through its most damning failure, the case of Bessman Okafor — that he was worried about.
"Guilt by association is an idea we're all familiar with," Bernard's lawyer Andrew Clark said in court, arguing his client should not be tried alongside Okafor, Bernard's co-defendant in a May home invasion who was later accused of killing a witness while on confinement.
Illustrating how toxic the Okafor case and the resulting scandal have become, Clark remarked that Bernard, who has been in jail and is not implicated in the slaying, should be tried "independent of that nightmare and storm of controversy."
Okafor's alleged plot to murder witnesses — and the Orlando Sentinel's reporting — pulled back the curtain to reveal a deeply troubled program, plagued by privatization paranoia, leniency urged by management and internal grudges.
The reviews and other public records document the failures in monitoring Okafor, who authorities say masterminded the Sept. 10 slaying of 19-year-old witness Alex Zaldivar.
Along with records already released, the reviews confirm the problems were widespread, and some within the program knew it was in peril long before Zaldivar was killed.
'Privatization' fears
Two recently completed reviews of home confinement — one by the county, another by internal-affairs investigators — add up to more than 100 scathing pages of misconduct.
Amid the finger-pointing in the reviews was an array of serious allegations, including that management pressured staff not to report defendants' home-confinement violations.
The pressure, lower-ranking staff said, was about numbers: "... we wanted our program to look strong... so that we wouldn't possibly be ... privatized," field officer Kenya Cox said.
Said case manager Meg Hughes: "... we were told we were going to 'work with people' and 'keep our numbers' up so violations for drugs or 'stuff like that' we didn't violate them."
Confinement staff were supposed to report any violations to a judge, who typically would issue an arrest warrant — removing that person from the program.
Both Hughes and Cox said Garnett Ahern, home-confinement-unit supervisor, was the source of that pressure. Ahern denied that when interviewed by internal affairs, but others corroborated it.
Orange County Commissioner Fred Brummer, generally a privatization advocate, said he wasn't aware of any serious discussion about privatizing home confinement.
"When someone has screwed up as badly as they have, there's no question you expect them to grasp for any excuse to make up for what is a horrific, horrific error," he said.
The reviews also showed that confinement staff testified that automated email alerts for most types of confinement violations were deliberately disabled.
"At best, Ms. Ahern created a level of acceptance in the eyes of her subordinate staff regarding the allowance of offenders to violate" home confinement, the IA review says.
"At worst, she may have even encouraged it."
Staff didn't agree
The reviews were sparked by an Orlando Sentinel report in February that revealed Okafor had potentially violated his court-ordered curfew more than 100 times.
In one excursion on Sept. 10, police say, Okafor and two other men shot three people in the Ocoee home where the May attack took place to prevent them from testifying at trial the following day. Zaldivar was killed, and siblings Brienna and Remington Campos were each shot in the head but survived.
In less than three months on home confinement, Okafor tallied 109 "curfew alerts." But an internal-affairs report shows confinement staff couldn't agree on how many qualified as violations — or explain why none were reported to a judge.
Cox, Okafor's field officer, noted in records that there were "major" curfew violations in August but never told his judge. Cox, Ahern, Hughes, Juanita Beason, an administrative supervisor, and Community Corrections Manager Cindy Boyles were found in violation of various policies in the reviews and are awaiting discipline.
Deputy Chief Jill Hobbs, who internal affairs said failed to act on the concerns of her staff, and Corrections Chief Michael Tidwell, who wasn't implicated, are both stepping down soon. Tidwell announced his retirement the day the reviews were released.
Brienna and Remington Campos' parents, Deanna and Alfonso Campos, said they are outraged that it took an act of brutality to bring the issues to light.
"It took the loss of one and the change in [the] lives of many to get [Corrections] to even look at something they should have been doing from the top all the way down to the bottom," Deanna Campos said.
Too trusting?
An internal-affairs report shows investigators were alarmed by the tendency of Okafor's home-confinement personnel to accept his explanations.
For example, Okafor's ankle monitor required a working phone line, but his line was often out of service. Home-confinement personnel accepted his assurances that it was a Bright House Networks issue — but never confirmed that with the company.
In reality, internal affairs determined, Bright House had permanently disconnected Okafor's service months before he was put on confinement. It's unclear who was really providing his phone service or where he was during the outages.
Cox, while investigating one such connectivity problem, accepted the defendant's sister's assurances that Okafor was at home without speaking to him.
That incident is alarming, but not novel: A Sentinel public-records request found a similar incident two years ago, involving several of the same people.
In September 2011, Cox and Hughes reported a defendant to Circuit Judge Mike Murphy after a lengthy curfew violation. The next day, the defendant and his mother told another home-confinement-unit member, Milt Clark Sr., that the defendant had been at a doctor's appointment during the violation.
Without documentation to prove that, Clark sent an email to Murphy, accepting the excuse. Clark was later reprimanded.
Clark explained his error in an email to Cox and Hughes: "As I told [Ahern], my problem is when I talk with the Mother of a Client I assume that everything she says is the truth."
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Missed opportunity: Polk County warrant
For days before the Sept. 10 slaying of Alex Zaldivar, Bessman Okafor was a wanted man.
He failed to attend a Polk County court hearing Aug. 21. Orange County home-confinement personnel knew that and told him to "stay out of trouble" but didn't report it to Okafor's judge in Orange, who could have issued a warrant for his arrest.
A Polk County judge issued a warrant for the failure to appear, which was "active" by Sept. 6, records show. Field officer Kenya Cox sent the Orange County Sheriff's Office to arrest Okafor at his house the next day, but he didn't answer the door.
Internal-affairs investigators asked Cox and case manager Meg Hughes: Why didn't they ask Okafor's judge to revoke his home confinement after his failure to appear?
Cox said Okafor couldn't be revoked for the new warrant because the Polk County traffic offense occurred before he was on the Orange program.
Hughes said Okafor could be violated only after he was arrested on the Polk County warrant.
IA concluded that both the failure to appear and the fact that Okafor wasn't found when Orange deputies arrived to arrest him would have justified the revocation of his pretrial release — which could have landed him back in jail.
Timeline: Bessman Okafor's home-confinement violations
Here are some important 2012 dates relating to the monitoring of Bessman Okafor from records contained in two recent county reviews. Curfew alerts indicate when Okafor's monitoring equipment reports he may be away from home without permission. This list reflects only the lengthiest of his 109 alerts.
June 24: Bessman Okafor released to home confinement
June 26: Curfew alert: Duration is 3 hours, 27 minutes.
July 12: Phone line disconnected: 4 hours, 56 minutes. Confinement staff notes say "issue is corrected."
July 13: Phone line disconnected again. Okafor asked to "notify" service provider "asap."
July 20: Curfew alert: 3 hours, 39 minutes.
July 31: Curfew alert: 2 hours, 38 minutes.
Aug. 3: Curfew alert: 4 hours, 9 minutes: Okafor says he went to bondsman, provides no documentation.
Aug. 7: Curfew alert: 2 hours, 1 minute
Aug. 11: Confinement staff notes: "Explained to [Okafor] the importance of ... No curfew violations."
Aug. 15: Curfew alert: 4 hours, 15 minutes.
Aug. 20: Confinement staff notes: "Major curfew violations?"
Aug. 21: Okafor fails to attend Polk County court date. Confinement staff tells him to "stay out of trouble."
Aug. 29: Curfew alert: 1 hour, 57 minutes.
Sept. 3: Curfew alert: 1 hour, 12 minutes.
Sept. 6: Field officer Kenya Cox alerts Orange County Sheriff's Office to Okafor's Polk County failure-to-appear warrant but not his judge in Orange.
Sept. 8: Curfew alert: 1 hour, 24 minutes.
Sept. 10: Alex Zaldivar is killed and two others are shot in a home invasion that coincides with another lengthy curfew alert. Okafor is arrested soon after on the Polk County warrant.


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There are few ways to poke that proverbial bear with greater effectiveness than to argue that increasing the diversity of casting in superhero movies is a good thing; not to mention, necessary, to reflect the growing fanbase of superhero and comic book movies, which continues to break down the barriers of race and gender (case in point: just ask Tumblr how many women love Tony Stark and Loki).
It's one thing to fill a traditional African-American character role such as Falcon in Captain America: The Winter Soldier with Anthony Mackie - or to consider an up and coming black actor to portray the African prince Black Panther onscreen - but go and cast Oscar-winnier Jamie Foxx to play Electro in Amazing Spider-Man 2 and, well... you can just sit back and watch the fighting begin.
It's time to revisit that discussion, with the latest casting update for the Fantastic Four movie reboot. According to insiders, 20th Century Fox and the film's director, Josh Trank, are looking at Michael B. Jordan - who played one of the three leads in Trank's breakout Chronicle - to portray Johnny Storm, a.k.a. Human Torch.
The Wrap says its received this tipoff from "numerous individuals familiar with the project," and Jordan's chances of landing the Human Torch role depend partly on how much chemistry he has with other actors in consideration. We learned earlier this week that Allison Williams (Girls) is shortlisted to play Susan Storm, a.k.a. the Invisible Woman, in the superhero flick; however, Jordan is reported to have had several meetings with studio executives over the past week (meaning, he may be a more serious candidate to sign on, for the time being).
Chris Evans, who now plays Steve Rogers/Captain America in the Marvel Universe, portrayed Johnny Storm in the 2005 Fantastic Four movie adaptation; indeed, the character has traditionally been portrayed as a caucasian man in the comic books, which begs the question: Is the casting of Jordan appropriate and respectful to the series lineage?
We say yes, for a few reasons:
- Johnny Storm/Human Torch is characterized by a hotshot attitude, charisma and anti-authority tendencies (not by his race). Jordan has proven more than capable of handling those demands, with his performance in Chronicle and on the television series Friday Night Lights, among other projects.
- The personal obstacles faced by the Fantastic Four - Reed Richards, Johnny and Susan Storm, and Ben Grimm - are very much universal, as opposed to being restricted to people of a certain ethnic background.
- Fantastic Four is about a group of superheroes who struggle to work together as a family, despite their differences in personalities. Hence, the series has always been about diversity (thematically), so it is fitting that casting should reflect that.
Similarly, there's no reason why Williams and Jordan cannot play brother and sister in the Fantastic Four franchise reboot, just because of the differences in race; after all, there's nothing to prevent the characters from being the children of a biracial couple (welcome to the 21st century, folks). More importantly, both are hot acting talents that have previously tackled roles that show they are up to the challenges presented by the Storm siblings.
So again, we see no problem with this acting pair coming aboard on Fantastic Four, anymore than when Foxx joined the Amazing Spider-Man sequel - or Samuel L. Jackson played Nick Fury in the first two Iron Man movies, Captain America or The Avengers - among other examples of comic book characters that changed races during the transition to the big screen.
Of course, you may share you own feelings in the comments section - just keep it civil.
Fantastic Four is being directed by Josh Trank and produced by Matthew Vaughn (director of Kick-Ass and X-Men: First Class), based on a script written by Jeremy Slater and revised by Seth Grahame-Smith.
It will open in U.S. theaters on March 6th, 2015.
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The Bruins missed their chance Thursday night to clinch a playoff spot and they did it in rather unspectacular fashion, no matter what thrills a 3-2 overtime loss might misstate. Their game was dull most of the night. They were without urgency, swagger, jam, moxie - all the elements they boiled in their Stanley Cup-clinching brew last season - for the better part of three periods.
Mostly they were without goals, until the Capitals bolted to a 2-0 lead midway through the third period, and that's when the defending Cup champs looked more like the team that finally has regained its feet in the last couple of weeks. Until then, though, they were too much like the team that wandered aimlessly for a couple of months, too often falling behind on the scoreboard, rarely able to gain a lead, those ominous black sweaters a lighter shade of pale.
"I think we were a half-step behind,'' noted coach Claude Julien, his squad needing but one more point in the standings to avoid a DNQ. "And a half-step can be big - it can be what a minor leaguer lacks in not being able to make it to the NHL. What seems small can actually be a pretty big thing.''
The key half-step left out of their game was best illustrated on the Capitals' second goal, by Marcus Johansson, with 9:54 gone in the third. Racing down the left side, Alexander Ovechkin laced a pass by Zdeno Chara deep in Boston's end. Chara's big stick just missed cutting it down. Racing down the right side, Johansson had a half-step on defenseman Andrew Ference, allowing him to close toward the right post and smack home Ovechkin's feed.
"I think the teams were in kind of a little chess game for the first two periods,'' said Chara. "Then they got the two goals, and it was good then that we responded and found a way to tie it.''
Julien is not one to make excuses, but he looked and sounded as tired as his team when the night was over. He referenced general fatigue and a demanding second-half schedule as reasons for a night that never quite got on track. A little bit of the down performance, he said, also was because the club lost the services of Adam McQuaid with six minutes to go in the first, the big blue liner smoked into the boards by a hard-charging (and boarding) Jason Chimera.
A short bench. A demanding schedule, one that Julien termed the toughest he's ever confronted in his coaching career. All of it translated into a team a half-step out of synch and 1 point short of closing out the protracted playoff race.
"It catches up,'' he said.
Five games to go. That's all that remains of the 2011-12 regular season for the Cup-repeating hopefuls. Two weeks from now, they will be a game or two into Round 1 of the playoffs, and they will have to be far better than they were once the mid-January blues hit them. They'll also have to a bit sharper than they were against the slightly more desperate Capitals. They played their way into Game No. 77, tied the Capitals on goals by David Krejci and Ference, but rarely can clubs survive in the postseason with games that need 50-plus minutes on the Bunsen burner to heat up.
Chara dismissed the thought that perhaps being on the doorstep, right on the verge of clinching a playoff spot, played any influence on the squad's mediocre performance.
"We can't be thinking, 'All we need is 2 points here to get in the playoffs,' '' said the towering captain, who logged a meaty 29:30, in large part due to the absences of McQuaid and Dennis Seidenberg, who was sidelined by cut on his leg that is infected. "The goal of our team is much bigger and higher than that. We have to play desperate hockey right to the end now and be ready for the playoffs.''
It's a fairly simple recipe that is the secret to Boston's success. The Bruins are significantly better, and have a much greater chance to win, when they score first. Not so last night.
Lead time is important to them. They won five of six games going into the match with the Capitals, and averaged some 38 minutes in lead time, virtually two periods, in those five wins. In the loss, 2-1 defeat in San Jose, they never led for a second - exactly what happened when they posted a season-worst four losses to the Capitals, Penguins, Lightning, and Panthers.
When they get the lead, they are better able to implement their strong defensive game, shut down teams in the neutral zone, rely on No. 1 netminder Tim Thomas. Thomas was strong again last night, though was uncharacteristically easy to beat in the shootout when he was burned by Matt Hendricks, Alexander Semin, and Brooks Laich. Hendricks, the first Washington shooter, had Thomas faked and flat on his back when he popped the puck into a wide-open net.
"I bit so hard on his fake shot,'' said Thomas, "and that's what happened.''
That little bit off, the half-step behind, Thomas suffered from it, too. The days of the regular season are now few. The Bruins acknowledge they're tired, they are slightly banged up, and could use a break before the grind of all grinds begins anew. Maybe that will come this weekend. And if not, these lost half-steps could be the ones that wear the boots that kick them in the backside.
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text: UMass Boston has had its share of multiple time All-Americans, but Carol Thomas is the only athlete in school history to have been honored as an All-American in two different sports. The former guard is well decorated on the hardwood, having been named a two-time All-American as well as an All-New England and All-ECAC performer. She will go down as one of the best all-around guards in school annals after averaging 15.5 points, 4.4 assists, 6.0 rebounds and 3.6 steals per outing during her career. Thomas became the first 1,000-point scorer in school history when she netted 16 points in her final contest to give her 1,010 in just three seasons, which is currently the sixth-highest total in program history. She holds the Beacons' record for steals in a season (92), season scoring average (19.3 ppg.), made field goals in a game (14), field goals attempted in a game (30) and field goals attempted in a season (494). The Dorchester native proved to be one of the best all-time playmakers at the school, ranking second in career, season and single-game assists with 284, 119 and 11, respectively. She became the first UMB women's player to eclipse 400 points in a season when she netted 426 as a junior, a total that still ranks as the fourth-highest in school history. Following her hoops career, Thomas joined the 1986 outdoor track and field team and finished third in the triple jump at the ECAC outdoor meet to earn All-ECAC status and help the squad to the ECAC crown. She bettered herself by finishing second in the triple jump at the 1987 NCAA indoor championships to earn herself All-American honors, en-route to helping UMass Boston win its third straight NCAA indoor title. Thomas was also named All-New England after finishing third in the triple jump at the New England indoor championships and then fifth in the New England outdoor competition. She earned four first place finishes, including the triple jump title at the 1987 ECAC indoor championship as a part of another ECAC team championship for the Beacons. Thomas still holds the UMass Boston outdoor long jump record as well.


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