CINCINNATI (TDB) -- It's A Paul World lacks patience with those who read their Bibles and see the wrath of God behind Ohio's unfolding natural disasters. He contends Vegas or San Francisco -- or other unnamed "cesspools" in this state -- would be more logical targets for a miffed divinity. But only if the divinity were so inclined, which he doubts.
He's writing while Findlay, Mansfield and other Ohio cities are suffering, and says it is "distasteful" to blame God, who supposedly could be settling a score over some human failings that irked Him enough to loose the thunderbolts. The author of It's A Paul World is an anonymous blogger who apparently lives somewhere in Central Ohio, works in banking, and belongs of the Church of God. He was moved to write after reading that a religious voice in North Carolina said God was removing his blessings from America "because of our individual and national sins. He is withdrawing His protection," a statement that drew the wrath of It's A Paul World:
". . . to connect each natural disaster as punishment from God or to capitalize on other's suffering for an article is unseemly, after all the rain falls on both the just and unjust. There have always been floods, droughts, hurricanes, earthquakes, forest fires and tornadoes on the North American continent . . .
"The Midwest has been experiencing great flooding. Is God angry with the Midwest but winking at Las Vegas and San Francisco? Findlay Ohio is under water right now. I can think of bigger cesspools in Ohio that need flooding than Findlay."
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Saturday, August 25, 2007
Monday, January 15, 2007
Findlay In NW Ohio: Bidding To Go Wireless
FINDLAY, Ohio -- Mayor Anthony P. Irito's office is now out with a ''request for proposals" seeking a citywide wireless broadband network operator to cover all 17.2 squares miles of the town, including about 2,500 businesses and 11,200 households. Findlay is a city of 40,300 residents in Northwest Ohio's rural Hancock County. The city sees going wireless as a necessary economic competitiveness tool.
''To realize its mission, the City of Findlay, Ohio, hereby solicits proposals for a Municipal Broadband Wireless Network and ISP [Internet service provider] Partner," says the mayor's request for proposals. "The city's intention is to implement a new citywide, wireless broadband communications model. This model has as its goal a public-private partnership, combining to build a local community network of broadband infrastructure. This model shall enable local ISPs, network carriers, and local government to consolidate efforts in the Findlay market, and to develop public-private partnerships toward long-term sustainability for economic development."
The complete set of bid specifications are available HERE. Many of Ohio's college campuses are already wireless, and some cities apparently are moving in the same direction as Findlay. The mayor of Dublin, Ohio -- an upscale suburb of Columbus -- said this in a CISCO press release last fall about her city's wireless efforts:
"This municipal wireless deployment will allow residents, businesses and city employees of Dublin to have mobile access to the Internet," said Dublin Mayor Marilee Chinnici-Zuercher. "Our primary goals of this outdoor Wi-Fi network are to enhance public safety and improve the city's operational efficiencies while also encouraging and creating growth opportunities for locally owned companies and residents."
The full text of the press release is HERE. And there is an ongoing program around Cleveland described in detail HERE
Gov. Ted Strickland said during his campaign that he wants to expand broadband (high-speed) Internet service across the state, especially to rural Ohio. But Findlay looks to be thinking beyond and over the horizon.
"Without affordable broadband access, the growth of existing businesses and the ability to attract new businesses to the City is restricted. The future prosperity of the community is challenged by the cost structure of data and video communications and its availability," the bid specs say. ''Any solution proffered mus provide high-quality, ubiquitous, low cost, reliable service available within the corporation limits of the City of Findlay. The solution must address the varied needs of civic organizations, businesses, schools large and small, non-profits, government and residential customers. It is critical that the solution offer public-access hot spots."
''To realize its mission, the City of Findlay, Ohio, hereby solicits proposals for a Municipal Broadband Wireless Network and ISP [Internet service provider] Partner," says the mayor's request for proposals. "The city's intention is to implement a new citywide, wireless broadband communications model. This model has as its goal a public-private partnership, combining to build a local community network of broadband infrastructure. This model shall enable local ISPs, network carriers, and local government to consolidate efforts in the Findlay market, and to develop public-private partnerships toward long-term sustainability for economic development."
The complete set of bid specifications are available HERE. Many of Ohio's college campuses are already wireless, and some cities apparently are moving in the same direction as Findlay. The mayor of Dublin, Ohio -- an upscale suburb of Columbus -- said this in a CISCO press release last fall about her city's wireless efforts:
"This municipal wireless deployment will allow residents, businesses and city employees of Dublin to have mobile access to the Internet," said Dublin Mayor Marilee Chinnici-Zuercher. "Our primary goals of this outdoor Wi-Fi network are to enhance public safety and improve the city's operational efficiencies while also encouraging and creating growth opportunities for locally owned companies and residents."
The full text of the press release is HERE. And there is an ongoing program around Cleveland described in detail HERE
Gov. Ted Strickland said during his campaign that he wants to expand broadband (high-speed) Internet service across the state, especially to rural Ohio. But Findlay looks to be thinking beyond and over the horizon.
"Without affordable broadband access, the growth of existing businesses and the ability to attract new businesses to the City is restricted. The future prosperity of the community is challenged by the cost structure of data and video communications and its availability," the bid specs say. ''Any solution proffered mus provide high-quality, ubiquitous, low cost, reliable service available within the corporation limits of the City of Findlay. The solution must address the varied needs of civic organizations, businesses, schools large and small, non-profits, government and residential customers. It is critical that the solution offer public-access hot spots."
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