Cincinnati Change Response to Hurricane Katrina

2006-09-11T06:02:00.000-07:00

This WAR is for REAL !

Who we at War with in totality is not yet clear, but to get out of a difficulty, one usually must go through it. The war in Iraq is a very large battle front. Even the War on Terror now is just a battlefront.

Cincinnati Change believes that the United States of America, our country, is now facing the most serious threat to its existence, as we know it.

This War will be as bloody as the Civil War and as great a challenge as the Second World War.

We are in World War IV whether we like it or not, or whether we know it or like it. We cannot appease our out of this, the other side wants to win.

The deadly seriousness is greatly compounded by the fact that there are very few of us who think we can possibly lose this war and even fewer who realize what losing really means.

First, let’s examine a few basics:

1. When did the threat to us start?

Many will say September 11, 2001. The answer as far as the United States is concerned is 1979, 22 years prior to September 2001, with the following attacks on us:

* Iran Embassy Hostages, 1979;
* Beirut, Lebanon Embassy 1983;
* Beirut, Lebanon Marine Barracks 1983;
* Leon Klinghoffer October , 1985
* Lockerbie, Scotland Pan-Am flight to New York 1988;
* First New York World Trade Center attack 1993;
* Dhahran, Saudi Arabia Khobar Towers Military complex 1996;
* Nairobi, Kenya US Embassy 1998;
* Dares Salaam, Tanzania US Embassy 1998;
* Aden, Yemen USS Cole 2000;
* New York World Trade Center 2001;
* Pentagon 2001.

WE WILL NEVER FORGET
(Note that during the period from 1981 to 2001 there were 7,581 terrorist attacks worldwide).

2006-01-22T17:49:00.000-08:00

2005-12-31T19:57:00.000-08:00

Cincinnati Change believes we can change Cincinnati NOW. We started in 1988 and where incorporated in 2005. The Enquirer lists their top local stories and they limit it to 5. Here are Cincinnati Changes top local stories for 2005.

I - The Hurricanes

Katrina, Rita and Wilma should be the top story on everyone A list, we have over 800 people from the affected areas living in greater Cincinnati now. What else has affected, negatively, 25 million Americans, except for number 2.

What can we say except we are going to help 100,000 people affected by creating a fast response infrastructure for relief and rebuilding. This enterprise is being developed so that when this happens again we can be their to help rebuild based on the model we are developing in Cincinnati in 2006 in cooperation with Port Arthur, Texas where Rita visited for 12 hours.

II - The War

The War on Terrorism and the hope for Democracy is number 2. It will have even a longer term affect on us as citizens of the United States of America. We have spent 8 trillion dollars since September 11th 2001 and have a president who says, "I see a global terrorist movement that exploits Islam in the service of radical political aims -- a vision in which books are burned, and women are oppressed, and all dissent is crushed.

Terrorist operatives conduct their campaign of murder with a set of declared and specific goals -- to de-moralize free nations, to drive us out of the Middle East, to spread an empire of fear across that region, and to wage a perpetual war against America and our friends. These terrorists view the world as a giant battlefield -- and they seek to attack us wherever they can."

Our nation stands as a shining example to all the world of freedom and democracy, a unique honor that comes with a responsibility to lead. 2005 showed we are in the business of nation building. We can and have to win the War on Terror. We believe the 2006 has to be a transition year. The year 2005 showed us that we need to serve our troops better and support true freedom movements around the world.

Cincinnati Change believes in America should preserve our national strength and pride while working to extend peace, freedom and human rights throughout the world. We want to serve our people better and we want to do it smart with all the Third Frontier resources available.

III - The New Mayor

The election of Mark Mallory as Mayor. New leadership brings with it a chance to improve the city. He can use the assets of the city which are more than a billion dollars to make fundamental changes in the lives of the residents of the city. He can coordinate the leadership in the region to create a Cincinnati lifestyle that benefits everyone in the region. At Cincinnati Change we know they have the tools to deal with the problems of the city and look forward to this council to have the will to use tem to benefit the residents of the city.

Cincinnati Change and its minority small business founders are going to propose to them that they work with the mayor and his designated City Manager on a program for development that creates or retains over 50,000 jobs for Cincinnatians (who by the way are residents of Hamilton County and citizens in the state of Ohio) and sustains 12,000 low to moderate income homes while building 8,000 market rate homes in the city.

IV - The New City Council of Cincinnati

After the election of a City Council that got down to business right away. They passed a budget and set the stage for a consensus to develop on how we define public safety and go about achieving it when City Council Law & Public Safety Committee reviewed the shooting incident that occurred on Christmas Eve. This incident in Roselawn which resulted in the death of one 19 year old Chanel Jordan, who was coming to pick her brother up and was not at the "dance", and the wounding of another youth.

Cincinnati Councilman Cecil Thomas, chair of the Committee, has said it was a productive meeting, but now a holistic approach is needed to attack the problem, with council, police and parents working together. A number of community members spoke about the violence in the community and the need to take action against the problem. Cincinnati Change has declared 2006 as the year of Peace In the Hood along with Jobs in the Hood.

V - UC

The firing of Bob Huggins is cause for cheer, if it is part of cleaning up University of Cincinnati sport program into a program that treats all sports equally and increases their graduation. We believe that it should be the most important goal of all Division I schools. Although, at first, UC may not win tournaments, but they have improved not only the ethical standards of their sports program 100%. They have set a bar for the region to do no less.

Little known fact - the University of Cincinnati was the second-oldest and second-largest municipal university in the country. It became one of Ohio's state universities in 19977.

VI - Race

In 2005 racial division has not been reduced under previous leadership, but we have hope for 2006. We still had to much disconnect between the African American and poor in Cincinnati and the Cincinnati Police Department even with the Department of Justice Memorandum of Understanding (DOJ) and the Collaborative Agreement (CA). The Big story is the change in leadership of the FOP and the coming together of the African American community around the issue race and crime.

The image of police officers and the city as a whole is still recovering from race riots that erupted in April 2001, following the shooting death of an unarmed black man who ran from a white police officer trying and subsequent police slow down. The perception that emerged has been said to have embarrassed Specialist Kathy Harrell, the first woman elected president of Queen City Lodge No. 69 of the Fraternal Order of Police.

"The whole city got a black eye from it," she said in an interview. "But did we grow from it? Yes. Have we proven we're still an excellent city? Yes. Are there concerns that have to be dealt with? Definitely." We hope to work with her and other interested parties who believe that we can have Peace in the Hood along with Jobs in the Hood.

VII - Third Frontier

Ohio Governor Bob Taft pleas guilty to crime. This was a first for a sitting Ohio governor who has the lowest poll rating of any governor in polling history. Yet he has a chance during this his last year in office to make changes in Ohio's technology landscape for the future that will overshadow his past. He has the resources at hand in Ohioians passed his Third Frontier Program. For those ready it the program offers a chance to growth businesses, like the ones we currently partner with, into major global companies using Third Frontier funding.

VIII - Civic Pride

WHO-DEY: The Bengals making the playoffs is important for a simple thing that will make a big difference in 2006, increased civic pride. The bengals could be a central point of this pride campaign driven by Cincinnati Change to met the goals that are defined by the residents of the city in 2006 through an electronic village which will be in operation on our birthday June 19th 2006.

IX - The gowth of the Internet and Bloggers

The internet has 60 million home pages and over a billion possiable conncetions currently. The growth in 2005 of the blogsphere in the big news. A blog is a website in which hypertext and images (and links to video, audio and other files) are posted on a regular basis and in generally reverse chronological order. The term is a shortened form of weblog. Authoring a blog, maintaining a blog or adding an article to an existing blog is called "blogging". Individual articles on a blog are called "blog posts," "posts," or "entries". A person who posts these entries is called a "blogger".

Many bloggers support the Open Source movement. The free speech nature of its technology has helped blogging to have a social impact. Blogging makes it easy for employees to irritate their bosses, and a number have been fired. many say blogs changed the election of the Mayor in Cincinnati.

Open Source Politics, or the ability of people to participate more directly in politics, is reframing terms of debate (see George Lakoff). Many bloggers differentiate themselves from the mainstream media, while others are members of that media working through a different channel. Some institutions see blogging as a means of "getting around the filter" and pushing messages directly to the public.

An example of this growth is Wikipedia, in 2005 it was 4 years old online based on a very radical idea, the realization of the dreams most of us have always had for what the Internet can and should become. Thousands of people, all over the world, from all cultures, working together in harmony to freely share clear, factual, unbiased information… a simple and pure desire to make the world a better place. In 2005, it achieved 6-fold growth in pageviews with spending of less than $750,000.

Cincinnati Change has several blogs:

Cincinnati Change General Information About US

Cincinnati Change Response to Hurricane Katrina & Rita It Says It All - help those in need

MBE's in the Nati Minority - The Business Journal on Cincinnati

Nati Action Agency - a community action agency just for the city using city money

Nati Water Working for Cincinnatians - it's worth 400M plus lets use it for us NOW

Uptown Security - we can run our own police force as well as own CPD it's in the city rules

X- Cincinnati Change was "born" this year

Cincinnati Change was incorporated Juneteenth 2005, June 19th 2005, as a not for profit organization. Development efforts, that succeeded and failed in 2005, set the state for the mission of Cincinnati Change. We will serve as an innovative, proactive partner in supporting comprehensive economic development, workforce needs creation along it's development, quality housing development that is lead free and environmentally safe, supportive of historic conservation efforts where they make sense, land use management based on creating a land trust for the city, supportive of creating in Cincinnati a worldwide arts and cultural amenities infrastructure that is a tourism destination and creation of a comprehensive human and social services infrastructure for all Cincinnati's citizens to be Nati Action Agency.

In 2005 Cincinnati Change bought interest in it's headquarters at 2439 Auburn Avenue in preparation for starting operations in February 2006. Cincinnati Change believes that the strength of our nation lies with the individual and that each person's dignity, freedom, ability and responsibility must be honored by each other and those who we elect.

Cincinnati Change believes in the equal rights, equal justice and equal opportunity for all, regardless of race, creed, sex, age or disability, including, if needed, timed affirmative action. Cincinnati Change believes in free enterprise and encouraging individual initiative have brought this nation opportunity, economic growth and prosperity.

2005-12-07T20:37:00.000-08:00

National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, 2005

A Proclamation by the Chairman of Cincinnati Change. On this day we celebrate a national remembrance for those lost on December 7, 1941 at Pearl Harbor. We at Cincinnati Change honor the courage of a generation of Americans who devoted themselves to one of the great missions in our country's history – global democracy and freedom.

After the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor took more than 2,400 American lives, millions of our citizens answered the call to defend our liberty, and the world witnessed the power of freedom to overcome tyranny.

During this global fight for survival America's ultimate triumph was far from clear in the early days of World War II. When our country was attacked at Pearl Harbor as in Asia and Europe, country after country had fallen before the armies of militaristic tyrants. However, the brave and determined men and women of our Nation maintained their faith in the power of God to support our freedom and spread democracy.

They fought and won a world war against two of the most ruthless regimes the world has ever known. In the years since those victories, the power of freedom and democracy has transformed America's enemies in World War II into close friends. This is the greatness of America the ability to reach out it's hand in friendship to those who are our today our enimies as our friends tomorrow. Witness Japan and Germany.

Cincinnati Change is dedicated to the spread freedom and democracy around the world. We are a organization dedicated to secure a more peaceful world for our children and grandchildren. We are grateful to the men and women who are defending our flag and our freedom in the first war of the 21st century. We look forward to the days of peace like our forefathers have done in the past.

These patriots are protecting our country and our way of life by upholding the tradition of honor, bravery, and integrity demonstrated by those who fought for our Nation in World War II and that is continued to this day by our military.

The Congress, by Public Law 103-308, as amended, has designated December 7 of each year as "National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day." The service and sacrifice of our World War II veterans continue to inspire people across our country and set an example of sacrifice. Cincinnati Change remains deeply grateful for all that these heroes have done for the cause of freedom.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this Seventh Day of December , in the year of our Lord two thousand five, and of the two hundred and thirtieth year in the Independence of the United States of America.

FREDERICK HARGROVE SENIOR
PE, MBA
Chairman of Cincinnati Change

2005-11-22T18:22:00.000-08:00

We will create a for profit company called Education Learning Management Corporation
This company will be capitalized at $1,000,000.00 - in Texas using the SCOR.

ELMC SOUTHWEST REGIONAL REVIEW IDIQ PROTOCOL A $1,000,000 SMALL BUSINESS SECURITIES OFFERING

Education Learning Management Corporation shall file a Regional Review Form (RRF) as an attachment to the Form U-1, and shall file the disclosure document and exhibits concurrently in all states in the region in which the offering is to be registered and in the Program Administrator State. These documents will constitute the issuer's Regional Review Application.

Within three (3) business days after receipt of the application, the Program Administrator State will contact all participating states to identify the Lead State2 and the Lead Examiner3 and to inform them that they have twenty (20) business days to review the file and to relay their comments to the Lead Examiner. Contact will be made by telephone, fax or, when possible E-mail.

Participating states will submit any comments to the Lead Examiner within twenty (20) business days after receipt of the application specified in Paragraph 1, above. Participating states will also notify the Lead Examiner if they have no comments. Examiners of the participating states will separate and catergorize their comments as follows: disclosure comments, state-specific comments, and comments on compliance with agreed upon NASAA Statements of Policy. The Lead State has the discretion to exclude comments inconsistent with these statements of policy. If a state does not comment within the twenty (2) business day period, the state will be assumed to have no comments.

Following the twenty (20) business day comment period, the Lead Examiner will, within five (5) business days, prepare and circulate the draft regional review comment letter to all participating states. Each participating state will submit comments on the draft comment letter within five (5) business days of receiving the draft comment letter. If a participating state does not comment on the draft comment letter within the five (5) business day period, the state will be assumed to have no comments.

Following the comment period set forth in Paragraph 4 above, the Lead Examiner will, within five (5) business days, prepare and issue to the issuer the regional review comment letter (or inform the issuer that there are no comments), copying all participating states.

The Lead Examiner will communicate with the issuer and participating states, as necessary, to reach resolution of the comments. The Lead Examiner has the discretion to resolve outstanding comments of disclosure and compliance with agreed upon standards and statements of policy. In the case of a state-specific comment, the Lead Examiner may refer the issuer to the commenting state, which thereafter will be responsible for its resolution. The Lead Examiner will reply to the issuer's response to a regional review comment letter no later than ten (10) business days after receipt of usch response, copying all participating states.

If, prior to clearance, as specified in Paragraph 8 below, the issuer amends the RRF to add additional participating states, the Lead Examiner shall extend an additional ten (10) business day comment period from the date of receipt of the amendment and follow the forgoing procedures.

Upon completion of the review of the application and the approval of the final disclosure document in each participating state, the Lead Examiner will give same-day notice of clearance to all participating states. All participating states, except a state that has not resolved a state-specific comment with the issuer, will clear the application on that day.

Education Learning Management Corporation will be created as a Texas business to create a global school infrastructure for 1,000,000 students under management with CPS2. It will be a for profit company and be, in part, owned by not for profit organizations. The company shall be majority minority owned.

The company will in its first two years focus on military schools through an alliance with already established schools in Cleveland and Cincinnati, Ohio that form a new company called CPS2. It will create in Ohio a rural educational electronic distance learning network that uses fiber.

The company will provide for training in Port Arthur Texas, at Irvin Henderson's request, for 1,000 students who will be part of the 60,000 people households helped as part of the demonstration of our school facility design build, learning management and technology services.

This company will be capitalized with a $100M investment in 1394 revenue bonds. That investment will include development in the urban school districts of greater Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus along with rural schools in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana communities with 5,000 people. CPS2 will be a public school network with 40,000 students under management by 2008.