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The Board of Governors reserves the right to make changes in the fee schedule without prior notice. All fees are charged per term unless otherwise indicated. For Waterloo Lutheran Seminary fees, please see the section on Seminary Fees. Fees listed do not include GST where applicable.
Students are responsible for the payment of fees that arise from registration and are indebted to the university for fees and/or fee penalties incurred prior to the receipt of written Cancellation of Registration notification in the Office of the Registrar.
Students are responsible for residence fees incurred under the terms of the residence accommodation undertaking.
It is the student's responsibility to provide correct address information to the appropriate graduate office, the Office of the Registrar, and/or the Business Office.
Fees are charged on a per term basis for registered students.
Fees are due regardless of whether a statement has been received. Full account information, updated regularly, is available online by following directions on the Laurier Online Registration Information System (LORIS) at http://telaris.wlu.ca. Fees assessed as a result of changes to registration are due and payable at time of assessment.
Failure to make payment in full by the due date may result in deregistration and subsequent fee penalties.
Students wishing to withdraw from programs with opt-out options (Extended Health and Dental) must follow the procedures and deadlines established by those individual programs. It is not sufficient to notify the Business Office of the intention to opt out.
Payment can be made online or through telephone banking (student ID number is the Account number) and at most financial institutions in Canada with your invoice remittance form. Payment can also be made by cheque (certified or non-certified), money order or direct debit. Post-dated cheques are not acceptable. In the case of payments made by non-certified cheque, no refunds will be issued for at least 21 days following payment by non-certified cheque. Any holds which are placed on an account will not be cleared for at least 21 days following payment by non-certified cheque. Any student with a poor payment record may be required to pay with a certified payment methods. Fees for courses added after the due date each term are due immediately.
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A Senior citizen is any person 60 years of age or older (Canadian citizen or international status) before the first day of classes of a term. Seniors are exempt from tuition fees for all graduate courses, but are required to pay other fees where applicable.The exception to this is the Waterloo Lutheran Seminary; course are charged 50% tuition.
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If OSAP will be covering the full amount of your tuition fees for the fall term, there is no payment required. Please ensure that you pick up and negotiate your loan documents at the earliest date that LORIS indicates your documents are available for pick up.
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International fees will apply to students who do not fall into one of the following categories:
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All fees are subject to Board of Governors' approval and may change without notice. Tuition fee increases will be in effect September 1 of each year.
These fees are for graduate programs offered at the Laurier campus. Fees for Toronto MBA programs are established based on costs.
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An additional charge of 1.25 percent per month (16.08 percent per annum) will be assessed on all accounts not paid in full. Students paying with OSAP will be charged all penalties.
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A Yellowmargin moray (Gymnothorax flavimarginatus)...I can't be sure, but judging by the scars on the nose and lower jaw, I'd say our G. flavimarginatus has had a recent close encounter with a sea urchin or two...sometimes eels get a little enthusiastic when going after octopus or other prey...
Yellowmargin moray (Gymnothorax flavimarginatus), being attended by a Scarlet cleaner shrimp (Lysmata amboinensis)
Yellowmargin moray (Gymnothorax flavimarginatus)
This is a rare find and a very shy animal: a Tiger snake moray (Gymnothorax enigmaticus) This species is almost exclusively nocturnal, feeding primarily on smaller eels.
I initially thought this was a juvenile Undulated moray, but further research shows it's actually a rare find-a Slendertail moray (Gymnothorax gracilicaudus). First and only specimen I've seen! Credit to John Hoover's "Ultimate Guide to Hawaiian Reef Fishes" for the ID help!
An Undulated moray (Gymnothorax undulatus) showing some impressive dentation...
Another undulated moray, caught in the middle of his beauty appointment with a scarlet cleaner shrimp (Lysmata amboinensis)
"No, really dear, it's not what you think!"
A member of the same genus as the Barred moray (see photos this gallery) but quite a bit more common, here's a Snowflake moray (Echidna nebulosa) looking a bit doubtful about me...
Snowflake moray (Echidna nebulosa)
No, it's not a sea snake! A snowflake moray (Echidna nebulosa) doing a great cobra impression.
Snowflake moray (Echidna nebulosa) and sunbeams.
An absolutely stunning adult Banded moray (Gymnothorax rueppellii)
A big banded moray (Gymnothorax rueppellii) out hunting at night. The banded markings on these eels are quite striking when they're young, but when they get this large the markings begin to fade.
A zebra moray (Gymnomuraena zebra). Guess where it got it's common name?
A LARGE Whitemouth moray (Gymnothorax meleagris)...actually you'll probably not see a bigger one.
A juvenile Whitemouth moray (Gymnothorax meleagris) has found a home in the old pipe railing on the wreck of the St Anthony...
Open wide! Whitemouth morays (Gymnothorax meleagris) use the bright white interior of their mouths as a threat display to warn off intruders.
Whitemouth moray (Gymnothorax meleagris)
Every now and then, a single find can make your dive. This is a Barred conger eel (Ariosoma fasciatus). Hard to explain how exciting this is...this is an EXTREMELY rare eel. According to John Hoover, only 5 museum specimens exist, and there are very few divers that have seen one. I'm still in shock, and can't believe I got a photo of this animal!
This is a big Hawaiian conger eel (Conger marginatus) that's been living in the old exhaust pipe on the St Anthony for most of a year now...and as you can see, he's nearly outgrown his home!
Another view of the resident Hawaiian conger eel (Conger marginatus) on the St Anthony...you can get a better look at his face and a better look at his home in this shot!
During the day, the Hawaiian conger eel (Conger marginatus) is sort of a nondescript silver-grey...but when out hunting at night, this eel reveals an amazing banded pattern...
C. marginatus having a look at me...
A rare and reclusive juvenile Barred moray (Echidna polyzona)...I was quite excited to find this little one, it's only the third E. polyzona I've seen!
Another look at a young Barred moray (Echidna polyzona)
A big, bold Whitemouth moray (Gymnothorax meleagris)
Wailea Point has a resident Yellowmargin moray (Gymnothorax flavimarginatus) that is approaching two meters long, but for some reason likes to rest tied up in a knot!
A very tiny but very brave Stout moray (Gymnothorax eurostus), defending his 4 square inches of reef...
Snowflake morays (Echidna nebulosa) are certainly beautiful...but this one looks like it's posing for a publicity shot!
Yet another gorgeous member of family Muraenidae, here's a large, healthy Zebra moray (Gymnomuraena zebra), coiled and looped around a hole in the reef.
The absolute prize of the dives today, this is the result of my very first encounter with a Dragon moray (Enchelycore paradalis). As you can see, this amazing eel was well tucked into the reef, it was all I could do to get a photograph...and I must tell you, neither this photo nor the ones you'll see in books do justice to this incredibly beautiful animal. See one in person if ever you can, they're astonishing.
Although this strongly resembles a Tiger moray (Scuticaria tigrina), it's actually something even less-frequently seen...this is a Large-spotted snake moray (Uropterygius polyspilus), which can be differentiated from S. tigrina by the large, bulbous nares present just above the eyes. First-time sighting for me...and thanks to my student Kerry Lyons for spotting this one! (A side note--I was so excited to see this eel, I didn't even notice the Goldlace nudibranch visible in this shot top-left center!)
I've seen many Freckled snake eels (Callechelys lutea), they're quite common on sand flats near reefs...and up until now I thought I'd been seeing adults. Then I saw this indivdual, which was about the same diameter as a baseball bat...truly, I didn't think this species attained this size!
This is a photo I've been trying to get for a long time...the absurdly shy and very tiny Dwarf moray (Gymnothorax melatremus)
I don't do custom crops often, but this long and lovely Snowflake moray (Echidna nebulosa) forced the issue...
Another fun sighting--I've seen a juvenile of this species before, but never an adult and never more than one at a time! This is a pair of rare Barred morays (Echidna polyzona), tucked into a hole together. The smaller of the two is showing the juvenile/adolecent coloration of this species, the larger the adult coloration.
...And the same G. meleagris letting me know it's time I moved on...
A zebra moray (Gymnomuraena zebra), shyly peeking over the coral...
A rather photogenic Whitemouth moray (Gymnothorax meleagris)
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Merchants of Venice
The bouncing bazaar known as the Merchant Soiree returns April 14, hoping to host many good fellows at Goodfella's. In the words of Shakespeare, the merchants invite you to buy with them, sell with them, talk with them, walk with them—at what's squaring up to be the biggest and most lovely Soiree yet.
In its seventh installment in the monthly event, the Goodfella's Soiree will host over 30 vendors in the courtyard in front of the restaurant—opening plenty of space for a true bazaar experience and a live music set.
"I really thought it was the neatest thing I'd heard of around here," said Goodfella's owner Frankie Randazzo. "We have so much space we can give them, so I think it will really be a big event. I'm really excited about it."
Beginning at 7 p.m., live entertainment will include by Skeeter Jones on the patio at Goodfella's, while Ramblin Boys of Pleasure featuring Ashlynn Ivy will play an acoustic set in the courtyard. The soiree will not impose on diners, as vendors will be out of the way in front of the restaurant. Ramblin' Boys of Pleasure with Ashlynn Ivy with an acoustic set in the courtyard.
"I want to see people sitting on the grass, relaxing, having a good time and enjoying the music," said Randazzo. "There are places where you often see people just enjoying time—you don't see that in Beaumont anywhere, and I think this would be a great way to do just that."Vendors on site sell everything, including jewelry, candles, orginal works of art and clothing, all with one catch—the items for sale must be handmade or comprised of recycled, repurposed materials.
"I definitely knew this was something I wanted to be a part of—that beautiful, artistic, natural showcase for local talent, combined with food, and music—this is the feel I want to help create in Beaumont," said Randazzo, who also uses rooms in his restaurant as galleries for local artworks—donating the standard 25% commission to a local charity of the artist's choosing.
"I really respect their enthusiasm and their desire to create something on their own," Randazzo said of the Soiree organizers. "This encourages people to shop locally and see what the community truly has to offer—great art, music and food. Everybody benefits from this and it's a great evening out."
The event is open and free to the public—guests are invited to enjoy dinner at Goodfella's, including drink specials and appetizer specials to be announced the night of the event. For more information, contact Larena Head at (409) 951-0961.
Goodfella's is at 3350 Dowlen Road in Beaumont.


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Kea/Tzia | Cyclades
An idyllic haven just a short hop away from the busy city, Kea's natural beauty and cosmopolitan charm has turned it into a hot-spot for Athenian weekenders and sailing lovers. The island is not famous for its nightlife, yet it boasts handsome beaches, picturesque villages, great food and an easy-going island vibe.
Kea's landscape is very typical of the Cyclades, with its stark-white houses and the blues of the sea and sky contrasting with the dry, sunbaked terrain. The coastline is fringed with sandy beaches and rocky coves that are accessible either on foot or by boat. A long network of trails connects the coast to the interior and provides access to Kea's ancient and prehistoric settlements.
Kea is the ideal destination for short, no-fuss getaways if you are staying in Athens, because of its proximity to the Greek capital. The island is mostly preferred by Greeks, so it is also a great option if you want to avoid tourists and blend in with the locals.
IoulidaKea's gorgeous capital boasts handsome traditional houses with terracotta-tiled roofs and paved alleys that wind their way through the village. Take the path that leads from the Town Hall, built by architect Ernst Ziller on the ruins of a medieval castle, to the enigmatic 6th century BC Lion of Kea.
Panagia KastrianiThe monastery of Panagia Kastriani is perched on the edge of a steep cliff, exactly on the spot where the icon of Panagia was discovered. Visitors are provided with monk cells where they can spend the night should they wish so. If you happen to be in Kea for the religious holiday of August 15, be sure to attend the feast organised here.
Ancient KarthaiaThe well-preserved site of ancient Karthaia is accessible only by boat or on foot (a 1 hour hike). The setting's otherworldly beauty and the spectacular beach that lays at the foot of the ruins make for a unique and unmissable experience.
Castle of Agia MarinaThe Hellenistic castle of Agia Marina was built on the 4th century BC and was later incorporated in the late-Byzantine monastery of Agia Marina. The monastery was later abandoned, yet there is still a celebration here on the holiday of Agia Marina, on July 17th.
Kea boasts a stunning landscape of rugged cliffs, verdant valleys and a sensational coastline made up of sandy beaches and craggy coves. If you like hiking, you will love Kea's trails that pass through the island's lush valleys, most of them leading to beaches where you can cool down in the cool, clear waters.
The island's beautiful capital, Ioulida, is one of the prettiest villages in the Cycladic islands, its neoclassical mansions covered by terracotta roofs, facing the stunning sea views. Both the capital and the port, Korissia, buzz with activity, especially during the weekends, when the Athenians descend on the island.
Walk around the villages, mingle with the locals and pick your favourite bar or restaurant to enjoy some local, fresh seafood and enjoy a relaxed drink.
You can also visit the charming seaside village and archaeological site of Piissa. Vourkari's understated elegance has turned it into a favourite for yacht crews and sailing lovers.
Sip a glass of wine in one of the waterfront bars, alongside the sailboats and yachts moored in the marina. Koundouros is perhaps the island's most picturesque village, dotted with traditional Kean houses, called "kathikies".
You can reach Kea from the port of Lavrio, which is located about a 1hr drive from the centre of Athens and a 30min drive from Athens International Airport. The ferry ride takes about 1 hour.
As a haven of tranquility and escapism for Athenians, Kea offers a vast variety of accommodation starring some of the most exquisite luxury private villas in the Cyclades. Minimal luxury villas with a swimming pool are the protagonists of the holiday theme in Kea where guests seeking a holiday villa to rent will succumb in the breathtaking settings and the airy essence of this quiet yet lively destination.


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Fule: Albania has a real perspective for progress on its European integration path in 2012
European Commission Press - 05.09.2012
The Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy, Mr Štefan Füle, met yesterday with Mr Edmond Panariti, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Albania. Commissioner Füle and Minister Panariti discussed the latest developments regarding Albania's EU integration process and its role in the region.
Commissioner Füle commended the genuine efforts made by both government and opposition to strengthen the cooperation in the context of institutional reforms and welcomed the positive developments achieved recently. He notably referred to the consensual adoption of the revised electoral code as an important step, which brings the November 2011 political agreement close to full implementation.
He stated that Albania has a real perspective for progress on its European integration path in 2012, provided the country delivers a critical mass of concrete results in key reform areas. He underlined that constructive political dialogue needs to continue to complete the reform of the parliamentary rules of procedure. He also stressed the need to continue progress in the fulfilment of the 12 key priorities of the Commission's Opinion, with particular emphasis on the rule of law, including the adoption of the Law on High Court and progress on establishing a solid and credible track record in the fight against corruption. In this respect, Commissioner Füle indicated that the revision of the immunities system would be an important step in the right direction.
Reiterating the European Commission's engagement and full support of these efforts, Commissioner Füle invited Albania to remain focused on comprehensive reforms, which are necessary for the achievement of the national objective of European integration and to continue playing a constructive role in the region.
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Summit County Community Notes: 12-9-2012
The Keystone Science School is looking for enthusiastic volunteers to help facilitate a hands-on free astronomy program for all Summit County fourth-graders and their families. No previous astronomy knowledge is required and all volunteers will have the chance to experience our on-site observatory to view the night sky. The program runs on Jan. 14-17, 22, and 29 starting at 5:45 p.m. and lasting until 9 at the Keystone Science School campus. For more info or to sign up for a date, contact Amanda Seidler at (970) 468-2098 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
The Rotary Club of Summit County (RCSC) would like to remind residents that we would be delighted to send some of our "care" packages to our troops stationed in Afghanistan. If you have a loved one – husband/wife, son/daughter, grandson/granddaughter, niece/nephew or just a great friend – who is deployed in Afghanistan at the present time, do let us know. We'll be mailing packages to troops in November and during the Christmas season. We need to know his/her name, address, anticipated date of return, and your contact details. Call Al & Liz Wickert at (970) 453-4778 or send an email to email@example.com. We'd love to hear from you. Contributions to this troop support effort would be gratefully received at the Summit County Rotary Charitable Fund, a 501c3 nonprofit, PO Box 4401, Frisco, CO 80443. Mark "Troop Support" on your check. Donations are tax deductible.
Summit County's answer to holiday shopping is Summit Unchained, produced by the Summit Independent Business Alliance. Win prizes in independent locally-owned businesses this holiday season. All entries in individual business drawings will also be eligible to win grand prizes. About $6,000 worth of prizes are available to win. Visit http://www.summitindependentbusiness.com and click on Events for the full prize listings.
Copper Mountain employees are excited to announce the Copper Environmental Foundation's 12/13 Grant Cycle. The foundation was started in November 2007 by Copper employees, with a long-term goal to support environmental initiatives in Summit and the surrounding areas. Grant funds are raised solely by the donations from Copper employees and distributed within the community.The foundation focuses on providing funding for youth (ages 5-18) environmental programs for projects in Summit and Lake counties. The foundation supports a variety of youth environmental projects producing tangible results. Proposed projects should have an aspect of environmental education and/or environmental action resulting in a positive impact on the environment. Projects that have the potential to be replicated or continued in future years are also strongly recommended to apply. The deadline for grant applications is Dec. 31, at 4 p.m. Applicants are strongly encouraged to call Steve Miller (970) 968-2318 ext. 38903 to discuss potential projects before submitting an application. Previous grants have ranged from $2,000-$10,000 per project. Eligible recipients may include private or nonprofit organizations, government agencies or individuals. Past beneficiaries include the High Country Conservation Center, Girl Scouts of America, Friends of the Dillon Ranger District and Summit School District.Applications can be downloaded by visiting http://www.coppercolorado.com/environment and email your completed application to email@example.com. Applications submissions are only accepted by email. Visit CopperColorado.com for terrain updates, snow reports, lodging steals, event details, and more.
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Google Seeks to Cut Carbon Emissions by Year's End
It's nice to Google following Yahoo's lead, for a change. According to Reuters, the search and mapping and e-mail and calendar and office app and advertising darlings announced, earlier this week, plans to be carbon neutral, by the end of the year, following the examples of Yahoo! and Rupert Murdoch's New Corp.
Google will continue to invest in alternative energies such as solar, and will purchase carbon offsets. The company will also invest projects like methane capturing and burning. An in-depth list of Google's footprint-reducing plans can be viewed on the company's corporate Website.


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Rural U.S.A.: Persistence and Change
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According to the pony-mad boys at MustangsDaily, the Ford Mustang will be getting a fairly significant redesign for the 2013 model year — taking a slew of stallion-like styling cues from the current Shelby GT500.
That includes the larger, protruding upper grille and a smaller, rounder lower grille that aligns with a mysterious Mustang test mule caught on the streets of Dearborn back in April.
As a modern touch, and to keep up with the Joneses, it'll sport a set of LED fog lights in the lower front fascia. Also, the controversial-to-Mustang-fans taillight design from the 2010 Mustang is getting tweaked to make it run straight across the back of the car rather than angling towards the front.
Powertrains are expected to remain the same for 2013 — a 5.0 L V8 and the 3.7 L V6, although Ford will likely give a slight bump in horsepower to the Mustang GT to give it a more Camaro SS-like number. The exact horsepower figure for the Mustang GT is unknown, but expect it to come in right around 425.
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Home improvement magazines, television shows and websites have made it easier than ever for homeowners to get inspiration on renovation projects for the home. Whether it's a complete kitchen remodel, adding an addition or sprucing up the bathroom, there is definitely no shortage of good ideas. The problem for many is how to pay for renovations that can cost tens and even hundreds of thousands of dollars.
According to BankRate.com, a recent survey conducted by the National Association of the Remodeling Industry revealed that many people planning home renovations pay for them with savings.
Experts say dual-income couples with grown children are among those who are most likely to dip into savings to pay for upgrades to their homes.
"There's a relationship between working couples, life partners, who have children who've completed college and within a very short period after that, they say, 'Wow! Look at the money we have!'" remodeling company owner Steve Klitsch recently told the website. "They're not paying tuition, not buying books. They suddenly have thousands or tens of thousands of disposable income they can put into their home."
Other options
The good news is that individuals don't have to wait until their children are grown to find money to pay for upgrades and updates for the home.
NARI reports that the most common way to finance a renovation is with an equity line of credit that bases the loan amount on the equity in their home.
Additionally, the Federal Housing Administration offers various loans specifically for home improvements. A new type of financing, called a 203K loan, allows individuals to borrow against the future equity in their updated home.
Some homeowners even choose to use credit cards to finance projects.
Do your research
It's important to compare rates, guidelines, terms and tax considerations among different financing options to find the best option for you.
Contractors can often provide a wealth of information on financing options for their customers, so ask for his or her help.
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Regardless of how you plan on financing your renovation project, investing in energy efficient products will end up saving you money in the long run.
"It costs you less every month to make the house more energy-efficient while you live there, so why not do it while the kitchen or bathroom is torn to pieces, instead of coming back and making another mess later?" remodeling expert Gary Henley recently told CNBC. "You're getting a quick payback, so it makes it affordable."
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Lifecore has a good rowing machine on their hands with the r100 rowing machine, it's a club level rower with great ergonomics and enough resistance levels to meet any users needs (15 levels to be exact).
The design and function of the Lifecore rower are aimed squarely at the Concept II rowing machine which is a best seller here in the US and most of Europe as well.
The team at Lifecore pulled out all the stops with this rower, and included must have features like heart rate control, user data sets, air and magnetic resistance and on, and on…
Lifecore Rower Key Features and Benefits
15 challenging programs
Heart rate control with 16 levels of resistance
Stores data for up to 4 users
Air and Magnetic Resistance with Electronic Brake System Technology
Ergonomically designed seat, angled foot rests with pivoting heel supports
Ergonomically designed handle
Silent drive system, folds for Storage
Solid steel fan/fly wheel
User weight: 600 lbs
A good testament to the quality of the Lifecore is the length of the warranty (5 years on all parts) and the unusually high user weight limit of 600 pounds – that means (3) of me could use this rowing machine at the same time without any trouble, that's impressive.
The Lifecore comes standard with what they call a, "Auto-controlled ergometer features a huge, clear, high-definition console with a digital readout to measure strokes per minute, time, distance, calories burned, and heart rate".
In plain English, that means you can get all your key stats from your workout at a glance from the crystal clear screen, high definition screen.
The only gripe I have with the Lifecore Rower is the size of the unit when in use. It's a large machine measuring 92″ long, so you'll need plenty of floor space open when you use the rower, but on the plus side, it folds up and out of the way when not in use.
I recommend the Lifecore Rower, and think it's a great value in the mid-level rowing machine market.


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*[http://www.sdreadytowork.com/Find-Companies.aspx South Dakota Company search page] From the website: If you want to know more about a South Dakota manufacturer, you've come to the right page. Here you can search by company name, company size, city or product. From the Governor's Office of Economic Development.
*[http://www.sdreadytowork.com/Find-Companies.aspx South Dakota Company search page] From the website: If you want to know more about a South Dakota manufacturer, you've come to the right page. Here you can search by company name, company size, city or product. From the Governor's Office of Economic Development.
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South Dakota State Agency Databases
This is an annotated list of databases produced by South Dakota State Agencies listed by producing agency.
To add a database to this list or to fix a broken link, either do it yourself as this is a wiki, editable by anybody or send an e-mail to brenda.hemmelman AT state.sd.us, the documents specialist for this page. This page was reviewed on July 13, 2011.
Return to State Agency Databases listing.
Attorney General, Office of
- South Dakota Sex Offender Registry - From the website, "This information is being made available on the Internet to facilitate public access to information about persons who have committed sex offenses to enable you to take appropriate precautions to protect yourself and those in your care from possible harm." The format allows for two types of search, text and map.
Environment and Natural Resources, Department of
- Underground and Aboveground Storage Tank Database - From the website, "The database provides the facility ID number, facility name, address, city, county, contact person, owner, phone number, number of tanks, and tank information. The first two digits of the ID number represent the county. The format of the ID number for UST facilities is 00-00000. The format for AST facilities is 0000000."
Governor, Office of
- South Dakota Company search page From the website: If you want to know more about a South Dakota manufacturer, you've come to the right page. Here you can search by company name, company size, city or product. From the Governor's Office of Economic Development.
Health, Department of
- Birth Record Search Site For South Dakota Birth Records With Birth Dates Over 100 Years - From the website, "This site contains information from birth records with birth dates of over 100 years of age as required by South Dakota Codified Law 34-25-8. At this time this site contains 150,833 records." Searchable by first and last name of individual or parent, county and document number. Records include date of birth, date of certificate filing, parents and place of birth.
- Professional Licensing Boards - links may or may not include searchable databases or lists of active/inactive licensees.
Secretary of State
- Fictitious Business Name Registration - From the website, "You are required to file a fictitious name statement if you operate a business as a proprietorship and do not include the last name of each owner in the business name. Corporate entities that are conducting business in South Dakota under any name other than their corporate name are also required to file." Business information, owner information, and registration information may be searched.
- Secretary of State Information Access System - From the website, "Welcome to the Secretary of State's Information Access System. This system has been designed to provide the public access to information in the Secretary of State's Office on a real-time basis. What does this mean for you? Users of this site will have access to information on the same day that information is filed with the Secretary of State." Use the tabs to the right of HOME at the top of the page.
- Corporate Database Search - Search the Corporate Database
South Dakota State Historical Society
- SD State Surname Search - From the website, "Use this form to search for SD state newspaper records."
- Index to Naturalization Records First & Second Papers Naturalization is the process by which a foreign born individual becomes an American citizen. Information such as a person's birth date and location, occupation, immigration year, marital status, and physical description or photographs may be found in this record series.
- Index to South Dakota State Newspapers holdings at the State Archives Searchable fields include: Paper Title, Date, County, and City.
- Government Records for State/County Governments - From the website, "As the official repository of state records, the State Archives maintains and preserves the documents produced by the executive, legislative and judicial branches of South Dakota state government. Many counties, municipalities, and townships have transferred historical records to the State Archives. The Archives collection also includes copies of federal records such as censuses, land records, and files of the Bureau of Indian Affairs."
- Cemetery Record Search - From the website, "This searchable database includes records that were cataloged as part of the WPA Cemetery Project (pre-1940s) plus any cemetery updates that our office has received. It is not a complete listing of all the burials in South Dakota."
State Treasurer, Office of
- Public Depository Protection Quarterly Reports - From the website, "These reports show the bank name, location, public deposits, time & savings accounts, municipal bonds, net loans, domestic deposits, total securities, letters of credit, surety bonds, adequacy of collateral, and maximum liability. Under the column of adequacy of collateral if that figure has parenthesis around it, it means that particular bank was under pledged for that quarter."


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This is the largest Buswhick Opens Studios ever! Just when you thought this annual event couldn't get any bigger, wait until you see the event program! Let's just say it's as thick as a Sunday edition of The New York Times and just as big. This year alone over 525 artists will participate (easily exceeding last year by 175 registrations). Spread over three square miles there are over 235 separate locations registered. Registrations spread from Kingsland Avenue near the Graham Station off the L, to Cooper Street off the Wilson L, and from Broadway to Woodward Ave in Ridgewood.
Norte Maar has come to know this festival intimately having been an active supporter and proud sponsor of BOS since 2008.
This Memorial Weekend, with an advance copy of the event program, we stayed in, studied up, cross referenced it with the website, messed around with the fancy new BOS Event APP and have come up with these suggestions to help best navigate this mammoth of a festival. Huge thanks and congrats to Arts in Bushwick's all-volunteer team for pulling this off once again.
We begin with 3 Tips:
1. Download the BOS Event APP.
This will be your saving grace! And bravo to the event organizer that came up this brilliant idea as it certainly upgrades the festival allowing you instant access to everything allowing one to navigate the neighborhood with the event program. Download BOS APP
2. Decide where you are going to start.
Of course, we suggest you begin your BOS experience at Norte Maar as it hosts its annual Maps-N-Mimosas, Saturday, June 2, from 11am-2pm. How can you go wrong starting your day off with a cocktail?
3. Skip brunch, buy art.
Spend your money on some new art. It's rare to have the opportunity to visit artists in their studios, away from the hype of the galleries and dealers. You'll be one-on-one with the artist and with a bit of cash in hand you will become the collector every artist is looking for! But you'll need refreshments so for ice coffee visit Little Skips, 941 Willoughby Ave (Central off the M) and/or Wyckoff Starr Coffee, 30 Wyckoff Ave, (Jefferson off the L)
14 Studios / Spaces not to miss
As in years past, the festival is split up into six zones. We've selected a few not to miss studios and art spaces that should not be missed. We are listing these stops in order as if you were on foot or bike (not in Zone order). Note: Norte Maar is located in Zone 5 / HUB: J (Dekalb or Jefferson off the L).
#26 Indeterminate Hikes + Basecamp @ 319 Scholes Str
Take an Inderterminate Hike through Bushwick's sublime industrial wilderness with the collaborative artist team of Echoarttech. Artists Leila Christine Nadir and Cary Peppermint join forces to start Ecoarttech which explores environmental issues and convergent media from an interdisciplinary perspective. They have set up a basecamp at 319 Scholes Str which will explore what it means to be a modern ecological being amidst networked environments, including biological systems, global cultural exchanges, international commerce, industrial grids, digital networks, and the world wide web. Sounds heady. Sat + Sun 12pm-7pm
#80 The Schoolhouse @ 330 Ellery Str
Nearly every artist we've come in contact with has either lived, worked, squatted or partied at the Schoolhouse. A true Bushwick cultural landmark for over a decade, it's sort of the landing spot for artists and musicians. For BOS they got a group show of some of Schoolhouse's residents and repeaters: Must-see Justin Orvis Steimer, Gaspar Dietrich, Chris Chludenski, Cody Healey-Connely, David Powers, Cassidy Mosher, Mariette Papic, Willy Muse, Elliot Kurtz (Freedom Press), Yuan Liu, Augustin Doublet, Tessa Mauclere. Fri 5pm-11pm; Sat + Sun 12pm-11pm
HUB E Airplane @ 70 Jefferson Str
If it's hot out, the scene will be cooling itself at Airplane, one of our favorite basement spaces. They'll have a group show up showcasing artists who investigate the collective and subjective expereience of the landscape and the natural world including works by Tim Belknap, Andrea Burgay, Matt Burke, Peter Caine, Maanik Singh Chauhan, Wendy Deschene/Jeff Schmuki, Jill Lavetsky, Gili Levy, Jennie Shanker, Shinya Watanabe, Studio AND (Audra Wolowiec and Neils Cosman).
HUB H English Kills Gallery @ 114 Forrest
English Kills remains at the center of the Bushwick scene. Once you land in the alley, you might never leave because you'll realize that it's so happening. They'll have a solo show of paintings and sculptures by David Pappaceno. Then cut across the street for some totally whacked out art by Don Pablo Pedro. Sat 12pm-10pm (opening reception 6pm-10pm); Sun 12pm-7pm
Two Birds with One Stone: Navigate the entire bldg at 114 Forest including stops at Unit #9 for big paintings by Joe Ballweg, Mira Dancy, Ryan DaWalt, and Brooke Moyse in a show called Greasy Luck Pioneers of Inspiration. Separate from the show, you'll get to see some new work by painter Mike Olin (cause it's his studio).
#63 INQUIRY @ 117 Grattan Str, Unit #419A
Our favorite blogger/painter Sharon Butler (Two Coats of Paint) opens her new studio and invites veteran Bushwicker Austin Thomas (Pocket Utopia) to curate. The show titled INQUIRY includes painting by Margaret Atkinson, Guy Corriero, Lawrence Greenberg, and Edie Nadelhaft. Separate from the show, you'll get to see some new paintings by Butler.
Two Birds with One Stone: While your in the Grattan Bldg also visit the studio of painter Patricia Satterlee.
#155 Studios @ 1182 Flushing Ave, 2nd flr
This is a must do, must see stop on the BOS experience. Meet and greet three of most talented artists working in the hood: Bjorn Meyer-Ebrecht, MaryKate Maher, and David McBride. Sat 12pm-7pm; Sun 12pm-7pm
#160: ALLTOGETHERNOW @ 234 Starr Str (Far Left Door)
The incomparable Julie Torres unites her facebook friends in an exhibition not to be missed! The show brings together painters from Australia, Europe, and across the US featuring Julie Alexander, Brian Cypher, Inga Dalrymple, Brian Edmonds, Justine Frischmann, Yifat Gat, Vincent Hawkins, David T Miller, Peter Shear, Ian White Williams, Stephen Wright. Fri 6pm-10pm; Sat 12pm-7pm; Sun 12pm-7pm
HUB J Studios @ 1717 Troutman
1717 Troutman is loaded. The second and third floors of this industrial bldg will keep you busy all day so you might wanna plan to either begin or end your day there. Here's our short list of what not to miss:
Unit#214: Studio of Lawrence Mesich (Unit#214) for his new video and installation work
Unit#218: For the dirty sugar experience
Unit#220: Parallel Art Space
Unit#315: Studio of Eric Mavko for his new figuratively based paintings
Unit#329: Regina Rex Gallery
HUB L Norte Maar @ 83 Wyckoff Ave, #1B
We've got the complete collages of PassKontrol, the neighborhood rock band plus a brand new site specific sculpture Ben Godward and a selection of favorite artists from Bushwick including Rico Gatson, Andrew Hurst, Norman Jabaut, Ellen Letcher, Brooke Moyse to name a few. For our complete listing go here. Fri 6-8PM then record release party @ Tandem; Sat + Sun 11am-7pm
#212 Bushwick Basel @ Starr Space, 108 Starr Str, ground flr
Jules de Balincourt hosts Bushwick's first 'art fair' featuring 11 Bushwick galleries, each curating their own show. It's been previewed all over the place with some controversy. Includes Regina Rex, NURTUREart, Momenta Art, Interstate Projects, Airplane, Studio 10, English Kills, Storefront Bushwick, Norte Maar, Valentine, Parallel Art Space, and Starr Space Artist-in Residence Greg Kloehn. Sat 12pm-7pm (cocktail party 7pm-9pm); Sun 12pm-7pm
#141 Boy Scouts @ 175 Stockholm Str
We don't know much about these guys, but BOS should be about discovery. So don't miss this rooftop event marking the inception of newly formed Brooklyn artist collective "Boy Scouts" and their friendly neighbors. Fri 6pm-12am (performance piece at sunset); Sat 12pm-7pm; Sun 12pm-3pm
#194 Studio of Hiroshi Tachibana @ 680 Woodward Ave
Hiroshi Tachibana is a Japanese artist who makes abstract paintings. He was included in 30 artists to watch in 2012 by NY Arts Magazine. Sat 12pm-7pm; Sun 12pm-7pm
#200 Studio of Michelle Jaffe @ 852 Cypress Ave, ground flr
Michelle Jaffe, one of the newest and most exciting arrivals to the Bushwick/Ridegwood scene, she presents an amazing sound and sculpture installation. Sat, 12-7pm; Sun, 12-7pm
HUB M: Outpost Artists Resources @ 1685 Norman St, ground flr
Outpost Artists Resources, one of our favorite innovative and experimental art space presents, Actual 'Wood: a survey of work created by artists both emerging and renowned who have found their way to Ridgewood, Queens.


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Growing up in a religious household, I got used to the sight of priests, but I always found them at once fascinating and slightly repellent. The funereal uniform is supposed to obliterate the self in a shroud of colorlessness, even as it draws enormous attention to the self; humility seems to be cut from the same cloth as pride. Since the ego is irrepressible—and secular—it tends to bulge in odd shapes when religiously straitened. The priests I knew practiced self-abnegation but had perfected a quiet dance of ego. They were modest but pompous, gentle but tyrannical (one of them got angry if he was disturbed on a Monday, the vicar's day off), pious but knowing. Most were good men, but the peculiar constrictions of their calling produced peculiar opportunities for unloosing.
This is probably one of the reasons—putting the secular antagonism of novelists aside—that in fiction priests are usually seen as comical, hypocritical, improperly worldly or dangerously unworldly, or a little dim. Another reason is that fiction needs egotism, vanity, venality, in order to produce drama and comedy; we want our sepulchres craftily whited. The seventy-six-year-old Reverend John Ames, who narrates Marilynne Robinson's second novel, "Gilead," is gentle, modest, loving, and above all good. He is also a bit boring, and boring in proportion to his curious lack of ego. At home in the Iowa town of Gilead, in the mid-nineteen-fifties, and aware of his imminent demise, he writes a long letter to his seven-year-old son, which is presented as a series of diary entries. (Georges Bernanos's novel "Diary of a Country Priest" seems to have been one model.) Mellowly resigned, tired but faithful, he is a man who can serenely exclaim "How I have loved this life!" or inform us that he has written more than two thousand sermons "in the deepest hope and conviction." The reader may roll his eyes at this, and perhaps think of Fielding's Parson Adams, in "Joseph Andrews," who tries to pawn his sermons, and who falls into argument with another parson about who is the better writer. Fielding seems closer to the human case, and more novelistically vivid.
But Robinson skirted this potential objection by making her novel swerve away from the traditionally novelistic. Ames's calm, grave diary entries contain almost no dialogue, shun scenes, seem to smother conflict before it has taken a breath. Very beautifully, "Gilead" becomes less a novel than a species of religious writing, and Ames's entries a recognizable American form, the Emersonian essay, poised between homily and home, religious exercise and naturalism:
This morning a splendid dawn passed over our house on its way to Kansas. This morning Kansas rolled out of its sleep into a sunlight grandly announced, proclaimed throughout heaven—one more of the very finite number of days that this old prairie has been called Kansas, or Iowa. But it has all been one day, that first day. Light is constant, we just turn over in it. So every day is in fact the selfsame evening and morning. My grandfather's grave turned into the light, and the dew on his weedy little mortality patch was glorious.
The result was one of the most unconventional conventionally popular novels of recent times.
Robinson describes herself as a liberal Protestant believer and churchgoer, but her religious sensibility is really far more uncompromising and archaic than this allows. Her essays, a selection of which appeared in "The Death of Adam" (1998), are theologically tense and verbally lush in a manner that is almost extinct in modern literary discourse, and which often sounds Melvillean. She is a liberal in the sense that she finds it difficult to write directly about the content of her belief, and shuns the evangelical childishness of gluing human attributes onto God. She writes that as a child she "felt God as a presence before I had a name for him," and adds that she goes to church in order to experience "moments that do not occur in other settings." In a way that many Americans, and certainly her liberal readers, would find palatable, her Protestantism seems born of a love of religious silence—the mystic, quietly at prayer in an unadorned place, indifferent to ecclesiastical mediation.
But Robinson is illiberal and unfashionably fierce in her devotion to this Protestant tradition; she is voluble in defense of silence. She loathes the complacent idleness whereby contemporary Americans dismiss Puritanism and turn John Calvin, its great proponent, into an obscure, moralizing bigot: "We are forever drawing up indictments against the past, then refusing to let it testify in its own behalf—it is so very guilty, after all. Such attention as we give to it is usually vindictive and incurious and therefore incompetent." We flinch from Puritanism because it placed sin at the center of life, but then, as she tartly reminds us, "Americans never think of themselves as sharing fully in the human condition, and therefore beset as all humankind is beset." Calvin believed in our "total depravity," our utter fallenness, but this was not necessarily a cruel condemnation. "The belief that we are all sinners gives us excellent grounds for forgiveness and self-forgiveness, and is kindlier than any expectation that we might be saints, even while it affirms the standards all of us fail to attain," Robinson writes in her essay "Puritans and Prigs." Nowadays, she argues, educated Americans are prigs, not Puritans, quick to pour judgment on anyone who fails to toe the right political line. Soft moralizing has replaced hard moralizing, but at least those old hard moralists admitted to being moralists.
I do not always enjoy Robinson's ecstasies, but I admire the obdurateness with which she describes the difficult joys of a faith that will please neither evangelicals nor secularists. Above all, there is the precision and lyrical power of her language, and the way it embodies a struggle—the fight with words, the contemporary writer's fight with the history of words and the presence of literary tradition, the fight to use the best words to describe both the visible and the invisible world. Here, for instance, is how the narrator of "Housekeeping," Robinson's first novel, describes her dead grandmother, who lies in bed with her arms wide open and her head flung back: "It was as if, drowning in air, she had leaped toward ether." In the same novel, the narrator imagines her grandmother pinning sheets to a clothesline, on a windy day—"Say that when she had pinned three corners to the lines it began to billow and leap in her hands, to flutter and tremble, and to glare with the light, and that the throes of the thing were as gleeful and strong as if a spirit were dancing in its cerements." "Cerements," an old word for burial cloth, is Robinson in her Melvillean mode, and is one of many moments in her earlier work when she sounds like the antiquarian Cormac McCarthy. But stronger than that fancy word is the plain and lovely "the throes of the thing," with its animism and its homemade alliteration.
Her new novel, "Home" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $25), begins simply, eschewing obvious verbal fineness, and slowly grows in luxury—its last fifty pages are magnificently moving, and richly pondered in the way of "Gilead." "Home" is not a sequel to that novel but more like that novel's brother, since it takes place at the same narrative moment and dovetails with its happenings. In "Gilead," John Ames's great friend is the Reverend Robert Boughton, a retired Presbyterian minister (Ames is a Congregationalist). The two men grew up together, confide in one another, and share a wry, undogmatic Protestantism. But where Ames married late and has only one son, Boughton has eight children, one of whom, Jack, is a prodigal son. In the earlier novel, Ames frets over Jack (now in his forties), who has been difficult since he was a schoolboy: there has been petty theft, drifting, unemployment, alcoholism, and an illegitimate child, now deceased, with a local woman. Jack walked out of the Boughton home one day and stayed away for twenty years, not returning even for his mother's funeral. After all that time, we learn, Jack has unexpectedly returned. In the last part of "Gilead," Jack comes to Ames for a blessing—for the blessing he cannot get from his own father—and spills a remarkable secret: he has been living with a black woman from Memphis named Della, and has a son with her.
"Home" is set in the Boughton household at the time of Jack's sudden return, and is an intense study of three people: the Reverend Boughton, the old, dying patriarch; his pious daughter Glory; and the prodigal Jack. Glory has her own sadness: she has come back to Gilead after the collapse of what she took to be an engagement, to a man who turned out to be married. Like Princess Marya in "War and Peace," who does daily battle with her father, the old Prince Bolkonsky, she is the dutiful child who must submit to the demands of an aging tyrant. She is fearful of Jack, whom she hardly knows, and is in some ways envious of his rebellious freedom. Robinson evokes well the drugged shuffle of life in a home dominated by the routines of an old parent: how the two middle-aged children hear "a stirring of bedsprings, then the lisp lisp of slippered feet and the pock of the cane." There are the imperious cries—for help getting dressed; a glass of water—and the hours distracted by the radio, card games, Monopoly, meals, pots of coffee. The very furniture is oppressive, immovable. The numerous knickknacks are displayed only "as a courtesy to their givers, most of whom by now would have gone to their reward." For Glory, who is in her late thirties, there is the dread that this will be her final home:
What does it mean to come home? Glory had always thought home would be a house less cluttered and ungainly than this one, in a town larger than Gilead, or a city, where someone would be her intimate friend and the father of her children, of whom she would have no more than three. . . . She would not take one stick of furniture from her father's house, since none of it would be comprehensible in those spare, sunlit rooms. The walnut furbelows and carved draperies and pilasters, the inlaid urns and flowers. Who had thought of putting actual feet on chairs and sideboards, actual paws and talons?
Much of "Home" puzzles out the mystery of Jack Boughton's rebellion, his spiritual homelessness. From his earliest years, he had seemed a stranger to his relatives. The family had been waiting for him to walk out, and he did, and then this story became their defining narrative: "They were so afraid they would lose him, and then they had lost him, and that was the story of their family, no matter how warm and fruitful and robust it might have appeared to the outside world." Even now that he has returned, Glory reflects, there was "an incandescence of unease about him whenever he walked out the door or, for that matter, whenever his father summoned him to one of those harrowing conversations. Or while he waited for the mail or watched the news." In the course of the book, we discover a little of what he has been doing in those twenty years away—as in "Gilead," we learn about the early illegitimate child, and about his eight-year relationship with Della, herself a preacher's daughter.
Jack is a suggestive figure—a highly literate nonbeliever who knows his Bible backward but finds it hard to do theological battle with his slippery father. Back home, he dresses formally, putting on his threadbare suit and tie, as if to do his reformed best; but he has a perpetually wary expression and a studied politesse that suggest an existential exile. He tries to conform to the habits of the childhood home—he tends the garden, does the shopping, fixes up the old car in the garage—but almost every encounter with his father produces a tiny abrasion that smarts and festers. The novel quietly mobilizes the major Biblical stories of father and son: Esau, denied his birthright, begging for a blessing from his father; Joseph, reunited, finally, with his father, Jacob; the Prodigal Son, most loved because most errant.
What propels the book, and makes it ultimately so powerful, is the Reverend Boughton, precisely because he is not the soft-spoken sage that John Ames is in "Gilead." He is a fierce, stern, vain old man, who wants to forgive his son and cannot. He preaches sweetness and light, and is gentle with Jack, like a chastened Lear ("Let me look at you for a minute," he says), only to turn on him angrily. There are scenes of the most tender pain. Robinson, so theologically obsessed with transfiguration, can transfigure the most banal observation. In the attic, for instance, Glory finds a chest of her father's shirts, ironed "as if for some formal event, perhaps their interment"; and then the novelist, or poet, notices that the shirts "had changed to a color milder than white." (Those cerements again.) Father and son clash while watching television news reports of the racial unrest in Montgomery. Boughton swats away his son's anger with his bland, milky prophecy: "There's no reason to let that sort of trouble upset you. In six months nobody will remember one thing about it."
As the old man palpably declines, an urgency sets in. The imminence of death should conduce to forgiveness, but the father cannot allow it. He knows that his son has not returned for good. "He's going to toss the old gent an assurance or two, and then he's out the door," he complains. Nothing will change, because the family situation rests on a series of paradoxes, which interlock to imprison father and son. Jack's soul is homeless, but his soul is his home, for, as Jack tells his sister, the soul is "what you can't get rid of." He is condemned to leave and return. If the prodigal son is the most loved because most errant, then it is his errancy that is secretly loved: perhaps a family needs to have its designated sinner? Everyone longs for restoration, for the son to come home and become simply good, just as everyone longs for Heaven, but such restoration, like Heaven itself, is hard to imagine, and in our lack of imagination we somehow prefer what we can touch and feel—the palpability of our lapses.
Behind all of Robinson's work lies an abiding interest in the question of heavenly restoration. As she puts it in "Housekeeping," there is a law of completion, requiring that everything "must finally be made comprehensible. . . . What are all these fragments for, if not to be knit up finally?" But will this restoration ever be enough? Can the shape of the healing possibly fit the size of the wound? You see a version of this concern in "Home," in the way the novel ponders the question of return. The Boughton children come home to a strange, old-fashioned Iowa town, but the return is hardly the balm it promises to be, for home is too personal, too remembered, too disappointing. Eden is exile, not Heaven:
And then their return to the pays natal, where the same old willows swept the same ragged lawns, where the same old prairie arose and bloomed as negligence permitted. Home. What kinder place could there be on earth, and why did it seem to them all like exile? Oh, to be passing anonymously through an impersonal landscape! Oh, not to know every stump and stone, not to remember how the fields of Queen Anne's lace figured in the childish happiness they had offered to their father's hopes, God bless him.
So old Boughton is dying, and nothing changes. "What I'd like to know is why you didn't love us," he petulantly chides his son. "That is what has always mystified me." He continues a little later, "You see something beautiful in a child, and you almost live for it, you feel as though you would die for it, but it isn't yours to keep or to protect. And if the child becomes a man who has no respect for himself, it's just destroyed till you can hardly remember what it was." Early in the novel, the Reverend seemed to want his son to call him something other than the customary, rather estranged "sir"—Papa or even Dad. Late in the novel, when Jack calls him Dad, he bursts out, "Don't call me that. I don't like it at all. Dad. It sounds ridiculous. It's not even a word." When he is not rebuking his son, he is complaining about old age: "Jesus never had to be old." He is calm only when asleep: "His hair had been brushed into a soft white cloud, like harmless aspiration, like a mist." In a final encounter of devastating power, Jack goes to his father to tell him that he is going away again. Jack puts out his hand. "The old man drew his own hand into his lap and turned away. 'Tired of it!' he said." They are the last words that the Reverend Boughton says to Jack, an angry inversion of the last, tired words of the serene John Ames in "Gilead": "I'll pray, and then I'll sleep." ♦


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The Baltimore Police Department tapped one of its lawyers as the new head of internal affairs, saying Rodney Hill's experience as an officer and his recent turn as a prosecutor of police misconduct cases give him the credibility to lead a group charged with restoring public trust.
Hill, 50, replaces Grayling Williams, who left in March to accept a position with the Pennsylvania attorney general's office. Since April 2012, Hill has been assigned to the Police Department through the city's Law Department, providing legal advice to internal investigators, prosecuting police officers at internal disciplinary hearing boards and representing the department in court.
"We are extremely fortunate that we were able to go 'in-house' for this position," Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts said in a statement.
Besides his legal expertise, Batts said Hill "brings a working officer's insight to the job." Hill began his career as a Montgomery County police officer, rising to the rank of lieutenant while pursuing a law degree. In January 2006, he became a Baltimore County assistant state's attorney. Police said he participated in more than 350 trials.
In 2010, Hill joined Morgan State University's general counsel team; he accepted a position with the city Law Department last year.
Williams served in the position for little more than a year after then-commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III hired him from the Department of Homeland Security's counter-narcotics office — a rare outside hire made after a series of scandals tarnished the department's reputation.
Among notable misconduct cases Hill now takes over is the recent suspension of four officers who worked in the Northwest District with Detective Kendell Richburg, who pleaded guilty in March to an armed drug conspiracy charge in federal court. Police and prosecutors said Richburg and a confidential informant worked closely, planting evidence and making up eyewitness accounts to raise the number of arrests Richburg made. In return, prosecutors said, Richburg shielded the informant from police while he dealt drugs.
Sources have said the suspensions of the four officers were related to the Richburg case, but police declined to identify the officers or disclose why they were disciplined.
Since Batts was hired last fall, he has publicly vowed to improve the department's standing through transparency and by aggressively rooting out of misconduct.
"I will go to the mat for an honest and ethical officer who has been mischaracterized or maligned," Batts said. "However, this department has absolutely no tolerance for officers who abuse their powers or undermine the trust of our community. The pride of this department, and good men and women who work tirelessly every day to ensure our community's safety, deserve nothing less."
Hill will report directly to Deputy Commissioner Jerry Rodriguez, a recent hire from the Los Angeles Police Department, who oversees the Professional Standards and Accountability Bureau. Hill will make $110,000 a year, police spokesman Sgt. Eric Kowalczyk said.


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Pervasive developmental disorders (PDD) are a group of
disorders characterized by delays in the development of socialization and
communication skills. These disorders are present at birth, but the signs of
the disorders usually are noticed during a child's first 3 years of life.
Pervasive developmental disorders include autism, Rett's disorder
(or syndrome), Asperger's syndrome (or disorder), childhood disintegrative
disorder (CDD), and pervasive developmental disorders not otherwise specified
(PDD-NOS). Pervasive developmental disorders may also be called autism spectrum
The severity of pervasive developmental disorders varies
by individual. Treatment for these disorders includes behavioral training,
speech and occupational therapy, and parent education and support.
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USGA official calls Broadmoor course layout "a test"
COLORADO SPRINGS — Speaking Wednesday during a scheduled USGA news conference, Ben Kimball, the director for the 66th U.S. Women's Open, talked about the 7,047-yard setup of The Broadmoor's East Course.
Kimball said feedback from players has been about what he would expect for a U.S. Open setup, which includes thick rough and slick greens.
"There are certain things that we're going to agree with; there are certain things we're going to disagree with," Kimball said. "Being our national championship, obviously we want to make sure that there is the ultimate test.
"…We want to make sure that even though everywhere you go you're going to hear a little complaining or whining about certain things out there, I think the setup is very fair.
"…(The players) realize that this is the U.S. Women's Open, and they've got quite the test, the battle, in front of them."


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Three Messaging Apps You Should Know About
Mobile messaging apps are all the rage these days. But why would you need a messaging app in addition to the built-in messaging you already have on iPhone or Android? Lauren Goode explores the key features of three popular messaging apps.
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Whenever you bring up jailbreaking with the uninitiated, you're faced with that one, recurring question: "Why? Why should I jailbreak?" This beautiful, functional, better-than-stock lockscreen is as good an answer as any.
Peekly is a two-page lockscreen widget with a clock on the first page and a three-month calendar you can peek at with a slide to the right. There's a whole other page with the weather, and you can see the four-day forecast if you peek to the left. And that's just the default layout.
Peekly already has options for adding your Twitter feed, your Google Calendar or an RSS feed, with more options to come. Basically, it's Dash Clock for iOS.
The catch, of course, is that you have to be jailbroken. But, hey, maybe it's time to take the leap. Then again, maybe Apple will wrap some cool functionality like this into iOS 7, but why count on that?


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Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) Sold Out
Conference attendance isn't exactly flourishing given the current economic situation, but Apple appears to be the exception.
The company announced Wednesday that its upcoming Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) is now sold out.
"WWDC is sold out," reads a note on the WWDC Web site. "Session videos will be available to purchase shortly after the conference. More details will be available soon."
The conference, which brings together Apple developers and IT professionals, is set to take place from June 8-12 in San Francisco at the Moscone Center.


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Stocks closed mixed Monday with tech stocks lower after the market traded within a narrow range during much of a quiet session with the market at or near highs for the year.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 23.31 points, or 0.19 percent, to close at 12,400.03, the highest close since June 5, 2008. The blue-chip index started the second quarter solidly, closing higher on Friday amid optimism over a recovery in the labor market after data showed a drop in unemployment.
Among Dow components, Johnson & Johnson, Wal-Mart and General Electric gained, while Hewlett-Packard and Intel slipped.
The S&P 500 rose 0.46 points, or 0.03 percent, to close at 1,332.87, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq down 0.41 points, or 0.01 percent, to 2,789.19. The CBOE Volatility Index, widely considered the best gauge of fear in the market, rose above 17.
Among key S&P sectors,technology and financials fell, while materials and health care rose.
Trading was quiet ahead of a week short on economic data or significant earnings reports, with the New York Stock Exchange recording its lowest volume for the year. Only 3.3 billion shares traded on the consolidated tape of the New York Stock Exchange Monday, compared with an average daily volume this year of 4.46 bilion.
Investors also seemed reluctant to push stocks past current resistance levels. The Dow traded near its previous 2011 closing high of 12,291.25, while the S&P had trouble breaking beyond 1,333, which was double its intraday low during the financial crisis, and "still struggles to get to the previous high at 1,344," Elliot Spar, option/market strategist at Stifel Nicolaus, wrote in a note to clients. Spar said he would be "cautious" on the market if the S&P 500 moves lower than the 50-day moving average of 1,310.
Texas Instruments announced after the market closed that it agreed to acquire National Semiconductor for $6.5 billion or $25 a share in cash. Earlier, semiconductor stocks had led the tech sector lower, but they rose in after-market trading.
OmniVision Technologies , specifically, fell had fallen more than 7 percent during Monday's session after news Sony may be supplying semiconductor imaging components to Apple for the iPhone. OmniVision had supplied those components.
Apple fell even after Canaccord Genuity raised its price target on the iPad maker to $480 from $460. And Nvidia also fell after UBS cut its price target on the graphic chips maker to $20 from $22.
Other semiconductor firms were under pressure including AMD and Marvell after Nomura maintained a "neutral" view on the sector, citing weakened demand, peak gross margins and higher capital spending. The iShares PHLX SOX Semiconductor Sector Index Fund fell nearly 1 percent.
Unrest in the Middle East and North Africa continued to worry investors. Oil pricesrose with U.S. light crude settling up 53 cents at $108.47 a barrel, its highest close since September 2008, reflecting concerns over supply. London Brent crude closed above $120 a barrel. Meanwhile, gold settled near $1,432 an ounceand silver rose to a 31-year high.
In company news, Nortel said it was selling all of its patents and patent applicationsfor $900 million to Google as part of a "stalking horse" asset-sale agreement. The sale follows a multi-round bidding process.
General Electric gained after news CEO Jeffrey Immelt defended the nuclear industry's safety record on a trip to Tokyo. GE is a minority shareholder in NBC Universal, the parent company of CNBC.com.
And among other Dow components, McDonald's, meanwhile, traded flat after news the fast-food chain planned to hire 50,000 employeeson April 19 as its business grows.
McCormick & Schmick skyrocketed after Tilman J. Fertitta said he intends to begin an all-cash offer to buy the seafood restaurant company through his affiliate LSRI Holdings, a subsidiary of Landry's Restaurants.
Shares of Southwest Airlines fell after news the airliner canceled 70 flights on Monday after a Boeing 737 was forced to make an emergency landing Fridaybecause of a hole in its fuselage, and that cracks were found in the fuselages of 3 other airlines after 33 were inspected. In addition, UBS cut its rating on the airline company to "neutral" from "buy." Boeing shares also fell on the news.
And General Dynamics
Ford Motor shares climbed to lead the S&P gainers after Credit Suisse upgraded the automaker to "neutral" from "underperform." (Read More: Ford Topping Sales, How Will GM Respond?)
In M&A news, Pfizer rose slightly after news Kohlberg, Kravis & Robertsplanned to buy the drugmaker's Capsugel unitfor $2.38 billion.
And Vivus jumped after the pharmaceutical firm reported a two-year study showed Qnexa, its weight loss drug, also reduces high blood pressure.
Molycorp soared after news the rare-earth producer bought a majority stake in AS Silmet, one of two rare-earth processing companies in Europe. "In the short-term, this will greatly increase our ability to supply our products into the increasingly tight global rare earth market and provide a convenient base from which to supply European customers," said Mark Smith, president and CEO, in a statement.
Deutsche Boerse is waiting to hear from NYSE Euronext's board and the credit rating agencies before it will make a counter offerto Nasdaq and InterContinentalExchange's offer for the stock exchange, sources told Reuters.
Analysts were mixed on the companies—Jefferies cut its rating on Nasdaq to "hold" from "buy," while Raymond James raised its price target to $33.50 from $28.50. Meanwhile, Wells Fargo cut its rating on NYSE Euronext to "market perform" from "outperform" while Susquehanna its price target on the firm to $40 from $36.
BP shares were flat after The Sunday Times in Britain said the oil group struck a deal with U.S. regulators which allows it to resume drilling in 10 existing wells in the Gulf of Mexico.
The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management refuted the report, saying there was no such deal, Reuters said.
Stocks could start to move later this week if the European Central Bank raises interest rates on Thursday to stem inflation, as investors consider the implications for U.S. rate policy, according to Brian Battle, vice president of trading at the Performance Trust Capital Partners, who noted voting members of the Fed indicated rates could, in fact, rise later this year.
Whether or not the Federal government shuts down Friday amid a budget impasse could also move the markets, Battle said.
In the meantime, stocks continued to grind higher.
"We've had oil at $107 a barrel, trouble in the Middle East, a nuclear disaster in Japan, and the stock market trades up 50 points everyday," Battle said.
Investors who make bets the market will go down, also known as "shorts," have been "squeezed out of the market the last six months," he added. "You can't fight it, it keeps grinding higher."
Comments by a handful of Federal Reserve Presidents will be closely watched throughout the week ahead of Thursday's ECB's rate-setting meeting and the U.S. Federal Open Market Committee minutes on Tuesday. The Bank of Japan was also scheduled to hold a meeting on Wednesday, and the Bank of England will make an announcement on interest rates Thursday.
Fed chairman Ben Bernanke is scheduled to speak at the Atlanta Fed's financial markets conference at 7 p.m. ET Monday.
European stocks hit a three-week closing high after several merger announcements.
On Tap This Week:
MONDAY: Bernanke speaks
TUESDAY: ISM non-manufacturing index, FOMC Minutes; Lockhart speaks, Kocherlakota speaks, Plosser speaks; earnings from KB Home before-the-bell.
WEDNESDAY: Weekly mortgage applications oil inventories, Treasury STRIPS; Earnings from Monsanto before-the-bell and Bed Bath & Beyond after-the-bell.
THURSDAY: Monthly chain-store sales, Bank of England Announcement, European Central Bank announcement, jobless claims, consumer credit, money supply; Lacker speaks; earnings from Constellation Brands before-the-bell and Rite Aid after-the-bell.
FRIDAY: Wholesale trade.
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Pilot Season: Anna Gunn Lands Post-Breaking Bad Role
Feb 4, 2013 10:04 AM EST
Breaking Bad may be coming to an end, but Anna Gunn has already lined up her next television role. Gunn, who plays the long-suffering Skyler White on the AMC show, has been cast in Bravo's drama pilot Rita, the network announced. Pilot Season: Get al… Read more