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Firefly Nights Fall festival \| Main Street Bowling Green \| 6-10 p.m.
Fall Festival Truck or Treat \| Shops At Fallen Timbers \| 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Boo on the Boat \| National Museum of the Great Lakes \| 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Last admission onto the boat will take place at 1:30 p.m. Boo on the Boat requires purchase of museum admission. $8 – Children (6-17); $10 Seniors (65+); $11 – Adults (18-64) Children 5 and under FREE; NMGL Members FREE Admission onto the Col. James M. Schoonmaker is included in museum admission for all on Oct. 20 only.
It’s Toledo’s biggest Halloween party, strictly for zombies 21 and over. You’ll have access to 6 bars like. Cash is queen and ATMs are available. Food trucks are serving all night. No large bags or weapons (real or fake).
Tombstone Bike Tour & Family Haunted Ride \| Oak Openings Metropark \| 10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Fall Festival \| Rest in Rossford \| 11:30 a.m. - 3 p.m.
It’s time for our annual Fall Festival! Spider-Man will be here for pictures with the kids and there will be doughnuts and treats from 7 Little Cupcakes. A kids' costume contest starts at 12:30 p.m. with recognition for scariest, cutest, most creative, and most heroic kids' costumes. Kids can also play in a bouncy house, have face painting, watch balloon artists, and paint pumpkin for $10. Hayrides will be provided by Thayer Ford. This is a dog friendly event. Grown-ups, enjoy a Spiked Apple Cider. Chad from Ice Creations again will be on hand carving pumpkins.
The Peabody Memphis will celebrate its 150th anniversary in 2019 with a series of special offers and events.
February 06, 2019 - A Peabody 150th Anniversary commemorative coin is seen during The Peabody 150th anniversary media launch party. The Peabody Memphis will celebrate its 150th anniversary in 2019 with a series of special offers and events.
Daniel Webster (1782-1852) of Massachusetts ranks among the nation's leading political figures during the antebellum era. So well known was his skill as a senator throughout this period that Webster became a third member of the "Great Triumvirate," along with Henry Clay of Kentucky and John C. Calhoun of South Carolina.
Like Clay, Webster's desire to see the Union preserved led him to search out compromises. On this date in 1850, Webster delivered a speech aimed at uniting moderates. He declared: "Mr. President, I wish to speak today not as a Massachusetts man nor as a Northern man, but as an American and a member of the Senate of the United States ... I speak for the preservation of the Union. Hear me for my cause."
Webster contended that it was pointless to argue about the continuation of slavery where it already existed; it was not, he said, going to go away. Nor was there reason to worry about extending slavery into the arid lands of the southwest, where plantation agriculture could not flourish. Holding that slave owners were entitled to the protection of their property, he urged strengthening of fugitive slave statutes.
Thanks to the recently introduced telegraph, Webster's address quickly appeared in newspapers throughout the land. Throughout much of the country, save in his native abolitionist New England, he was praised for moral courage. In his 1957 book, "Profiles in Courage," Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) called Webster's defense of the slavery compromise in the face of the risk it brought to his presidential ambitions and the brutal attacks he faced, one of the "greatest acts of courageous principle" in Senate annals. In that same year, the Senate designated Webster as one of its five most outstanding members.
As the two national parties gather to make official the top of their tickets – Republicans this week in Tampa, Fla., Democrats next week in Charlotte – local donors are making their choices emphatically by opening their wallets.
South Carolina Republicans have given more than $1.2 million to Romney’s White House effort, edging past the nearly $1.1 million S.C. Democrats have forked over to President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign.
Romney’s York County receipts – about $22,000 – amount to less than 2 percent of the $1,247,334 his campaign has raised in the state through July, according to federal records.
Like Godfrey, Robert Cermak of Fort Mill, a computer engineer in banking, gave to Romney, citing children in his life as a reason.
Cermak said he has “enjoyed the goodness of this country without any burden” being placed on him. “They’re going to own more of that debt than I am. I fear for them.
A retired Clover schoolteacher and administrator and the parent of an educator, Elaine Myrick said she believes some people lack a foundation in ethics.
She and her husband, a dentist, have been to many developing countries as medical missionaries.
Myrick also worries about the future of Social Security and Medicare and whether those paying into the programs now will reap the benefits.
A registered nurse who now works in medical sales, Godfrey spends a lot of time traveling to hospitals around the state. Hospital professionals, she said, are worried about how the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will reduce reimbursements for hospital services.
The more government gets involved with health care, she said, the worse off health care will be. Competition in the insurance industry and more options for healthy young people to get coverage for catastrophic events at low premiums are ideas she endorses.
Roger Klaesius of River Hills, owner of a marketing and quality-control consulting firm for the defense industry, called the health care act a “monstrous tax increase” whose costs are yet unknown.
With so much of the law not yet in action, speculation on the campaign trail about its impact on health care providers and patients is rampant.
A recent analysis by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office on the health care law arguing that it will reduce deficits over time isn’t quite convincing to Klaesius.
These narratives are all “manifestations of how Obama policies are conflicting with (voters’) core beliefs about the size of government,” said Scott Huffmon, Winthrop University professor of political science.
Overall, Romney’s supporters were energized by his pick for vice president, U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin.
Ryan’s life story has been “absolutely amazing,” Klaesius said.
Cermak jumped to Akin’s defense, saying he apologized and shouldn’t drop out of the Senate race, which many national Republican leaders – including Romney and Ryan – have urged him to do.
Myrick and Klaesius said Akin should step down.
“I do believe in the sanctity of human life,” Myrick said, “but anybody that would make a statement like that is just not smart enough to be running for Congress.
"It's a potential red flag," one independent expert — Stephen Hecht, a chemist and tobacco researcher at the University of Minnesota — said of the study. "Under some conditions, e-cigarettes might be generating more formaldehyde than you'd want to be exposed to. But I don't think we know enough yet. There's a huge variety in the makeup of these cigarettes and how they are used."
Eric Jacobs, a biologist at the American Cancer Society, said a biochemist at the society looked at the work and "was reasonably convinced" that the chemical researchers measured would break down into formaldehyde in the user's lungs.
The society's advocacy affiliate, the Cancer Action Network, said the research "should raise serious concerns" about the lack of regulation of e-cigarettes, and urged the Food and Drug Administration to quickly finalize the proposal announced last spring to do so.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A record number of voters have cast ballots during early voting for the Tennessee primary election.
The Tennessean (http://tnne.ws/1o3Ajgd) reports that data from the secretary of state’s office showed more than 550,000 ballots were cast from July 18 through Saturday, when early voting ended. The newspaper reported that is more than any statewide total for an August election on record, according to data.
Headlining the ballot are races for U.S. Senate and House seats.
The ballot also includes primaries for state legislative seats; county races, judgeships and school board positions; and retention elections for state appellate judges.
With an especially long primary ballot, Secretary of State Tre Hargett had recommended that voters cast their ballots early.
My wife has received restricted stock, and when they vested, some of the shares were withheld to pay tax (about 1/3 of the shares). However, since I never received a 1099, and have never sold any shares, I never put these on our tax returns. I'm now considering the sale of some shares, and I'm now realizing that I probably should have declared these awards upon vesting, and taken credit for the taxes paid. I think the taxes withheld are roughly what I would pay now, but that's probably beside the point. I'd rather not have the IRS get upset.
The problem is that the earliest award is from 2007. I have paid the taxes on the dividends received as ordinary income (as I received an end of year statement for the dividends). Do I have to go back 5 years and submit 5 years worth of revised tax returns? Any guidance would be most appreciated. Thanks.
Image: File photo shows Israeli soldiers firing tear gas at Palestinians demonstrating against the Israeli military offensive on the Gaza Strip in the village of Beit Omar, north of the occupied West Bank town of al-Khalil (Hebron).
Human rights groups have censured the Tel Aviv regime for encouraging a shoot-to-kill policy, following a spate of incidents in which Israeli troopers fatally shot Palestinians suspected of attacking Israelis.
The rights groups stated that the practice of killing suspects at the scene without trying to arrest and prosecute them is a cause of concern.
Moreover, the suspects’ families face the likelihood of having their homes razed in a punitive measure, the rights groups added.
Amnesty International also noted that it has “strong suspicions” about a policy of “deliberate killings” by Israeli forces.
Amnesty’s researcher and campaigner, Saleh Hijazi, said the number of shootings of Palestinians by Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank has gone up.
On Sunday, a court in East al-Quds (Jerusalem) charged an Israeli policeman, identified as Ben Deri, with manslaughter in the shooting death of a Palestinian teenager during a demonstration in the occupied West Bank.
Palestinian officials said 17-year-old Nadeem Nuwarah along with another teenage protester was shot dead during clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinian demonstrators on the Nakba Day (the Day of Catastrophe) in the West Bank town of Beitunia on May 15.
Video footage showed a group of five or six Israeli police officers in the area, one of whom could be seen firing at the time when the two teenagers were hit.
According to Palestinian health authorities, the teenagers were killed by live ammunition, with human rights groups saying that an autopsy conducted on Nuwarah confirmed that he was fatally shot by a live bullet. The family of the second teenager refused to allow a post-mortem.
Following a highly publicized daylong sit-in by black state lawmakers, Gov. Jeb Bush has begun a series of hearings on his controversial plan to end race-based admissions in Florida's colleges and universities.
Miami citizens will have the chance to voice their views this week in one of three scheduled hearings on the governor's "One Florida" plan. Mr. Bush agreed to the meetings during a tense negotiating session with two African-American legislators who set up camp in the governor's office suite for more than 24 hours on Jan. 18 to protest his proposed ban on racial preferences in university enrollment and state contracting practices.
The governor agreed to postpone for almost one month the Florida board of regents' scheduled vote on his proposals, which include his "Talented 20" program. If approved by the regents during the rescheduled meeting on Feb. 17, the new plan would guarantee that seniors who graduate in the top 20 percent of their high school classes would be admitted to one of 10 state university campuses—provided they've also completed 19 required courses in high school.
Gov. Bush, a Republican, has maintained that he intends to expand the number of minority students who are served by the state university system, but critics point to studies saying that minority enrollment could drop just as easily as it could rise under the new plan. The governor and the regents, they say, are moving too hastily to approve a plan that will have lasting implications for future generations.
"He kept saying the plan is not perfect, but it will work," said Rep. Anthony C. Hill Jr., who, along with fellow Democrat and state Sen. Kendrick Meek, stayed in Lt. Gov. Frank Brogan's office until the governor agreed to the hearings. "We say, 'Let's take it to the people and let them come to the meetings and voice their concerns,'" Mr. Hill added.
Keith Goldschmidt, who is a spokesman for the 14-member board of regents, said critics of Gov. Bush's plan have failed to notice its other, more positive aspects. In addition to the Talented 20 program, the governor has proposed increasing need-based financial aid by 43 percent, to $65.9 million, in fiscal 2000.
In addition, he said, the new plan would not prohibit the state's universities from considering special circumstances for students who do not meet minimum admissions requirements, such as whether a student is the first in his or her family to attend college, or comes from an underrepresented geographic area.
Of the 28,000 students who enrolled in the university system last year, only 3,200 entered under an alternative admissions policy, including those whose race or ethnicity worked in their favor. Two-thirds of that total were minority students, Mr. Goldschmidt said.
"When you look at the plan in full, it's good for the state," Mr. Goldschmidt said. "University presidents should be able to maintain diversity or increase it."
Still, state Sen. Daryl L. Jones said he was frustrated that the governor and the regents had apparently made up their minds without first hearing from the public.
"It doesn't appear to me that there is going to be any good-faith effort to review the outcome of those hearings," said Mr. Jones, a Democrat who is the chairman of the Florida Conference of Black State Legislators.
Read a summary of Gov. Bush's "Equity in Education," part of the One Florida initiative.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army, as well as the other services and Pentagon organizations, is on a quest to find enduring countermeasures to defeat enemy drones in what has become a cat-and-mouse game.
Much like how a disease builds a resistance to drugs over time, the drone problem, especially in U.S. Central Command’s area of operation, is one that is constantly morphing.
According to a Defense Department organization tasked with combating the threat of unmanned aircraft systems, there is no single solution for every drone problem that friendly forces face when fighting the Islamic State group or any other enemy who can acquire cheap, commercially available drones.
Just over a year ago, the Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Organization’s leaders took a trip to Baghdad, Iraq, on a fact-finding mission at the request of then-Defense Secretary Ash Carter.
The Iraqis were very specific that, as a top priority, they needed the ability to counter UAS threats from ISIS.
And so JIDO, the Army and sister services have been laser-focused on getting such a capability — even if temporarily — out to forces fighting ISIS.
One of JIDO’s missions — born out of combating the improvised explosive device threat that proliferated during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — is to gather intelligence, watch the enemy and learn in order to anticipate and stay ahead of the threat; so the organization is constantly working to find a solution to send to theater that anticipates the enemy’s next move and counters it before the enemy can even make it.
Lt. Gen. Michael Shields, JIDO’s director, said the organization has seen a number of different ways ISIS has used drones to cripple forces fighting it. JIDO has seen them used for typical surveillance, but ISIS has become creative, strapping explosives to drones — essentially creating an airborne IED — and also turning vehicles and people into IEDs. Coalition forces have found IEDs in houses and used as booby traps.
But the proliferation of airborne IEDs — via quadcopter and fixed-wing aircraft — has been a major problem, and it’s sometimes hard to tell if the drone is just conducting surveillance or is armed. Some fly in and explode, whereas others simply drop small munitions from overhead.
“There is no one technology or capability that is going to result in the defeat of these devices,” he said.
Nevertheless, JIDO has fielded a number of solutions to CENTCOM.
The organization showcased a few possible solutions currently under development at Fort Belvoir as proof it’s looking at multiple angles to defeat enemy drones.
In conjunction with the Air Force Research Laboratory, JIDO is working on a counter-UAS solution that combines two systems already deployed in CENTCOM — a software-defined radio device that can spoof a UAS by taking control or disabling it — called the Negation of Improvised Non-State Joint Aerial threats, or NINJA, and the Long-Endurance Aerial Platform, or LEAP.
NINJA was originally a ground system, but JIDO and the Air Force Research Laboratory are taking it and putting it on LEAP so it can disable enemy drones from the sky. The system will be demonstrated at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, ahead of a deployment to CENTCOM next spring.
Additionally, the Air Force Research Laboratory is working on more of a “hard kill” solution (for when a threat isn’t responding to soft-kill electronic attacks) that uses a six-rotor, vertical takeoff and landing-capable UAS — in this case an M600 — that deploys a net to capture enemy drones. The system is platform agnostic.
The M600 can speed out to where a UAS has been detected, pick it up on its own airborne radar, deploy the net in a spread-out fashion and collect the drone.
The lab has tried many other net capture methods, according to David Hague of the Air Force Research Laboratory, such as other UASs that shoot out a net at a drone, which requires a great degree of precision, as well as ejected confetti such as streamers that get tangled up in a drone.
Spreading out the net prior to capture helps avoid issues should the net shoot and miss the target, so there is a higher level of reliability, Hague said.
The idea is to ultimately have the soft-kill and hard-kill counter-UAS solutions working together and handing off tasks when appropriate.
At DSEI, a defense conference in London, England, last month, a small Dutch company — Delft Dynamics — turned heads with its DroneCatcher system, which is a multicopter capable of taking out rogue drones by catching them with a net deployed from a “netgun.” Then the system can either drop the captured drone with a parachute if the area is clear, or fly it out of harm’s way.
Counter-UAS capabilities seemed to proliferate as much as enemy drones have in CENTCOM at the recent Association of the U.S. Army’s annual conference in Washington.
Many of the solutions tied into larger short-range air defense systems — another big capability gap the Army is attempting to fill — but many stood alone to focus on the direct mission set.
Lockheed Martin touted its Q-53 radar, which is going to be configured for counter-UAS detection through easy software upgrades to the system.
Orbital ATK featured a system developed through a partnership with Liteye, a Colorado-based company, that takes Liteye’s AUDS nonlethal electronic attack radio-frequency jammer system already deployed in CENTCOM and pairs it with an Orbital gun that can fire precision-guided or air-burst ammunition to provide a hard-kill option.
The AUDS, or anti-UAV defense system, was rapidly deployed for CENTCOM and has already proved effective, drowning out more than 500 drones with electronic attack, according to Dave Dorman, Orbital ATK’s vice president of armaments systems within the defense and government relations sector.
The military in CENTCOM was provided tripod-mounted systems to be used on rooftops, but it was quickly discovered the system could be mounted on pallets and armored vehicles, and the forces there began moving them around the battlefield. CENTCOM has now generated a requirement for vehicle-mounted systems, Dorman said. Orbital hopes to have those fielded within the next six to 12 months, he said, adding that a contract is imminent to begin work mounting the AUDS to mine-resistant, ambush-protected, all-terrain vehicles, or MATV.
SRC, Inc. also had a wealth of counter-UAS technology such as the Silent Archer system that uses a 3-D multimission radar called SkyChaser. The company claims it can work on the move while detecting and tracking low, slow and small UAS.
Leonardo DRS announced at AUSA that the Army awarded it a production contract for a small amount of vehicle-mounted counter-UAS weapon systems that the service would assess in combat next year.
The Mobile Low, Slow Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Integrated Defense Systems — or MLIDS — went into testing this month at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona, in advance of deployment.
The system consists of two vehicles. One MATV will be equipped with an elevated electro-optical infrared system that tracks and identifies UAS, and then jams them using an electronic warfare system. The other MATV will have a radar for UAS detection and tracking and will have a variety of kinetic weapons such as a turret with a .50-caliber gun. One of the other capabilities is a small UAS that can be launched from the MATV and flown forward to engage in an air-to-air fight with an enemy drone.
Raytheon also touted its laser dune buggy at AUSA, where a high-energy laser can take out drones from a Polaris MRZR all-terrain vehicle. The company claimed it will demonstrate the dune buggy at the Maneuver Fires Integrated Experiment at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, in December.
And many companies like Raytheon, Nammo and Lockheed Martin continued to beat the drum on munitions designed to defeat drones.
A Peterborough nature reserve has been closed after a large swarm of bees made their home on a tree.
Thousands of honey bees have formed a ball-like swarm at Woodston Ponds in Peterborough today.
It is thought the bees are the same as the ones which swarmed in Ivatt Way yesterday.

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