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For Clinton administration economic advisor Robert J. Shapiro, the broadband powered Internet has been something like an all-you-can-eat restaurant, where everybody pays the same tab, no matter how much they consume. But of late the bistro's owners have discovered a rather disturbing trend. "There's some small percentage of its customers who come in and consume five desserts, six desserts, seven desserts, and three main courses," he explains. "People with really big appetites."
So what do they do next, the proprietors ask themselves. "We're going to have to raise our prices to finance this extra consumption by these people," Shapiro says they decide. But: "Do we ask everybody to pay more money? If we do we're going to lose a lot of our customers, or not attract more customers who would have eaten a normal amount."
The solution is simple: if you eat five desserts, you pay a little more, they conclude. "Well, if you represent twenty percent of all broadband users and you're going to consume eighty percent of bandwidth," Shapiro concludes, "then economically you should, the most efficient result is, that you pay a little more."
If you've followed debates over broadband pricing and network management over the last few years, you've probably heard something like this analogy at some point. But Shapiro and former Federal Reserve economist Kevin A. Hassett at the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy have given it a somewhat different spin, arguing that some people paying a little more is the solution to bridging the digital divide.
"If costs are shifted more heavily to those who use the most bandwidth and, therefore, are most responsible for driving up the cost of expanding network capabilities, the digital divergence among the races and among income groups can be eliminated much sooner," they write. In fact, their new study projects that if the biggest bandwidth consumers pay more of the bill for network expansion, almost all Americans will adopt some kind of broadband service by the second half of the next decade. But without embracing that policy, the study warns, 13 percent will not subscribe, even among consumers who earn $75,000 or more.
Digital delay
Shapiro and Hassett suggest that while the country has made some progress in closing the divide since the Department of Commerce first identified the problem in 1995, this nasty recession we're in has slowed the good news down, at least for the moment. Broadband adoption grew only slightly for African-Americans between 2008 and 2009, they say (43 to 46 percent growth so far), while among whites it has jumped from 57 to 65 percent.
Citing Pew surveys, the authors note that high speed Internet penetration is still heavily skewed, with about 88 percent of those in the $100,000 plus bracket range having access, while only slightly more than half of $20 to $30k households signed on. Price is the strongest determinant of broadband adoption, they say, and lower income consumers are particularly sensitive to changes in subscription rates, which have risen slightly of late. This hasn't stopped continued broadband account purchasing, they note, but has probably slowed it down.
"The link between prices and broadband adoption suggests that higher prices for all consumers will slow the drive to universal broadband and expand the gap that now separates white from African-American and the less affluent from wealthier citizens," they suggest.
Meanwhile ISPs are under big pressure to keep up with the growing demand for video and audio—the investment price tag for needed expansion costing as much as an extra $300 billion over the next two decades, they predict (Shapiro and Hassett took their data here from a 2007 U.S. Internet Industry Association study).
Flat rate = flat growth
So how should broadband rates be adjusted to fund this investment price tag? Shapiro/Hassett's economic projections conclude that a "flat rate" pricing model gets the country 79.4% penetration for people under $30k by 2017, and 86.4% for people over $75,000 in the same year. But in a scenario in which "80 percent of the additional cost [is] allocated to the 20 percent of very high bandwidth users," even lower income household broadband adoption will rise to 98.5 percent in 2017.
"To the extent that lower-income and middle-income consumers are required to pay a greater share of network upgrade costs, we should expect a substantial delay in achieving universal broadband access," the study concludes. "Our simulations suggest that spreading the costs equally among all consumers—the minority who use large amounts of bandwidth and the majority who use very little—will significantly slow the rate of adoption at the lower end of the income scale and extend the life of the digital divide."
At a press conference Georgetown held for the study on Tuesday, we asked Shapiro exactly how he thought ISPs should distribute future billing among consumers. "The most important thing to me is flexibility," he told us. "Internet providers can better determine than I can the particular model that works best. What we need, frankly, is an economic and regulatory environment that allows that flexibility to our broadband providers, because if we don't, we may significantly slow the spread of broadband."
The problem for regulators, of course, will be extending to ISPs the kind of flexibility that encourages investment, and not the kind that invites the proposed price gouging data caps that Time Warner Cable finally withdrew after weeks of public outrage.


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BOTHELL, Wash. – Secretary of State Sam Reed visited students from University of Washington Bothell and from Cascadia Community College on Monday to engage in a discussion about diversity and elections.
The visit to the Bothell campus was part of a college civics tour in which Reed is connecting with the state's youngest voters, who happen to be the age group with the lowest voter participation rate in Washington.
"It's important for students to realize their collective voice is powerful and that they need to exercise it through their ballot and through being involved," Reed said. "A key reason I do this tour is to remind students why their votes make a difference, and to encourage them to take part in their government and community."
Voters in the 18 to 24 age group remain by far the least engaged voting bloc in Washington, comprising only 5 percent of the population that took part in the 2010 General Election. The 65-and-over age group made up 24 percent of last November's voter turnout, followed by ages 55 to 64 (23 percent), ages 45 to 54 (21 percent), ages 35 to 44 (15 percent) and ages 25 to 34 (11 percent).
"The good news is that we're seeing a larger percentage of younger people voting than before," said Reed, in his third term as Secretary of State. "But they're still lagging behind the other age groups in terms of participating, and we hope to help college students realize why voting should matter to them and how their vote can influence the world around them."
About UW Bothell: The University of Washington Bothell combines the benefits of a small campus with the resources and prestige of a world-renowned university. Offering over 30 degrees, options, certificates and concentrations, its curriculum emphasizes close student-faculty interaction, collaboration among students, and hands-on learning.For more information, visit www.uwb.edu.
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The United States will suffer a series of severe droughts in the next two decades, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change. Moreover, global warming will play an increasingly important role in their abundance and severity, claims Aiguo Dai, the study's author.
His findings bolster conclusions from climate models used by researchers around the globe that have predicted severe and widespread droughts in coming decades over many land areas. Those models had been questioned because they did not fully reflect actual drought patterns when they were applied to conditions in the past. However, using a statistical method with data about sea surface temperatures, Dai, a climate researcher at the federally funded National Center for Atmospheric Research, found that the model accurately portrayed historic climate events.
"We can now be more confident that the models are correct," Dai said, "but unfortunately, their predictions are dire."
In the United States, the main culprit currently is a cold cycle in the surface temperature of the eastern Pacific Ocean. It decreases precipitation, especially over the western part of the country. "We had a similar situation in the Dust Bowl era of the 1930s," said Dai, who works at the research center's headquarters in Boulder, Colo.
While current models cannot predict the severity of a drought in a given year, they can assess its probability. "Considering the current trend, I was not surprised by the 2012 drought," Dai said.
The Pacific cycle is expected to last for the next one or two decades, bringing more aridity. On top of that comes climate change. "Global warming has a subtle effect on drought at the moment," Dai said, "but by the end of the cold cycle, global warming might take over and continue to cause dryness."
While the variations in sea temperatures primarily influence precipitation, global warming is expected to bring droughts by increasing evaporation over land. Additionally, Dai predicts more dryness in South America, Southern Europe and Africa.
"The similarity between the observed droughts and the projections from climate models here is striking," said Peter Cox, a professor of climate system dynamics at Britain's University of Exeter, who was not involved in Dai's research. He said he also agrees that the latest models suggest increasing drought to be consistent with man-made climate change.


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- "Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense."
- —Description of the Dursleys[src]
Dursley was the surname of a Muggle family, the only known living close relatives of Harry Potter. Petunia Dursley (née Evans) was the older sister of Harry's mother, Lily Potter (née Evans), but took the surname Dursley when she married Vernon Dursley. They had a son named Dudley.
- "They're the worst kind of Muggles, oh really Albus, must we?"
- —Minerva McGonagall discussing Harry's relatives[src]
Harry Potter's Muggle aunt and uncle met at work. Petunia Evans, forever embittered by the fact that her parents seemed to value her magical sister more than they valued her, left Cokeworth forever to pursue a typing course in London. This led to an office job, where she met the extremely unmagical, opinionated, and materialistic Vernon Dursley.
Large and neckless, this junior executive seemed a model of manliness to young Petunia. He not only returned her romantic interest, but was deliciously normal. He had a perfectly correct car, and wanted to do completely ordinary things, and by the time he had taken her on a series of dull dates, during which he talked mainly about himself and his predictable ideas on the world. During one particular date when they were sitting in his car in front of a chip shop she tearfully confessed about her strange sister. As she had expected, Vernon was quite shocked, though he comforted her and told her it was not her fault for having a "freak" for a sister and that he would not hold it against her. He finally proposed to her in his mother's (very ordinary) living room, it was all very emotional.
Due to Petunia's maternal connection to Harry Potter, he was sent to live with the Dursleys after his parents were murdered by Lord Voldemort. The belief was that Lily's maternal sacrifice for Harry would be transmitted through Petunia, even though she held Harry in contempt. Due to his wizarding background, Harry was treated with fear and negligence by the Dursleys; originally being kept oblivious to his wizarding heritage, and being told that his parents had died in a car accident.
The Dursleys lived at 4 Privet Drive in Little Whinging, Surrey,[1] and often went out of their way to keep their neighbours oblivious to anything odd about their family, usually explaining away anything odd by telling people that Harry was a delinquent who went to a detention school far away. Harry did occasionally update them about Voldemort and the Death Eaters. Because of their family connection to Harry and the danger of Voldemort using them to get to Harry, they were forced to go in hiding for their own safety for a period of time during the height of the Second Wizarding War.[2]
Despite his mistreatment of Harry, Harry's cousin Dudley Dursley eventually came to regret his cruelty towards Harry, and the two reconciled later in life; this was mostly due to an incident in the summer before Harry's fifth year of schooling that involved him saving Dudley from a Dementor.[2]
Known family members
- "When he had been younger, Harry had dreamed and dreamed of some unknown relation coming to take him away, but it had never happened; The Dursleys were his only family."
- —Harry Potter regarding his feelings towards the Dursleys[src]
|Dudley Dursley
|Only child of Vernon and Petunia.
|Dursley children
|Children of Dudley and his wife.
|Mrs Dursley
|Mother of Vernon and Marjorie.
|Wife of Dudley and mother of at least two children.
|Marjorie Dursley
|Sister of Vernon; a breeder of bulldogs.
|Petunia Dursley (née Evans)
|Wife of Vernon and mother of Dudley; a housewife.
|Vernon Dursley
|Husband of Petunia and father of Dudley; director of a drill making company called Grunnings.
Family tree
|Dursley family
|Mrs Dursley
|Mrs Evans
|Mr Evans
|Euphemia Potter
(d. c. 1979)
|Fleamont Potter
(d. c. 1979)
|Marjorie Eileen Dursley
|Vernon Dursley
| Petunia Evans
(c. 1960–c. 2020)
|Lily J. Evans
|James Potter
|Weasley family
|Dudley Dursley
(b. c. 1980)
|Harry James Potter
(b. 1980)
|Ginevra Molly Weasley
(b. 1981)
|2 children
|James Sirius Potter
(b. c. 2004)
|Albus Severus Potter
(b. c. 2006)
|Lily Luna
(b. c. 2008)
Dursley is a town in Gloucestershire, England. J. K. Rowling has never visited Dursley, but she grew up not too far away from the town and used the name as she found it interesting.
Petunia's name is the meaning of flower and the origin of the name is English.
Behind the scenes
- In the film series, the Dursley family is portrayed by Richard Griffiths who plays Vernon Dursley. Fiona Shaw plays Petunia Dursley (née Evans). Harry Melling plays Dudley Dursley and Pam Ferris plays Marjorie Dursley. In the second film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Ariella Paradise plays Petunia Evans as a teenager.
- The Dursleys neither appear in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire nor in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. With the exception of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, they appeared in five of the film adaptations overall except Marjorie Dursley, who only appears in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
- J. K. Rowling has said she almost wrote in the epilogue of the book of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows that Dudley Dursley appeared at the Platform Nine and Three-Quarters with a magical child, but she changed her mind, stating that "any latent wizarding genes would never have survived contact with Uncle Vernon's DNA."[3]
- Most of the Wizarding world are usually very surprised at the complete lack of family love and respect the Dursleys show to Harry Potter.
- In some of the video game adaptations of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the Dursleys are incorrectly referred to as Harry's stepfamily.
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game) (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game) (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game) (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game) (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (play) (Mentioned only)
- LEGO Harry Potter: Building the Magical World
- LEGO Harry Potter: Characters of the Magical World
- Pottermore
- Harry Potter Trading Card Game
- LEGO Harry Potter
- Harry Potter: The Character Vault
- Harry Potter: The Creature Vault (Mentioned only)


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Why LA Police Chief Charlie Beck's claim that LAPD officers 'are never trained to shoot to kill' is a pure load of politically correct crap. An officer's life may depend on his shot or shots striking center mass of the person posing an immediate threat to life or limb, and that requires shoot to kill training at the police academy.
By Donna Rossi
April 23, 2013
PHOENIX -- There were at least four officer-involved shootings in and around the greater Phoenix metro area over the past weekend. Each ended in officers shooting and killing someone.
Thousands of police officers go their entire careers never having to pull the trigger in the line of duty. It is not something they ever want to do. But it is something they train for.
Each officer-involved shooting is unique. No two are the same, according to retired Phoenix police Lt. Rob Robinson. The 27-year police veteran now works as a consultant and expert witness in police involved shootings.
Sometimes he works defending officers; other times he represents surviving family members of the person shot and killed by officers.
"Anytime you have an officer-involved shooting, it's based upon the perception of the officer. Whether he feels that he is in substantial risk of harm to himself, to another, to a third person, and he has to process that information as the attack, if it is an attack, is occurring," Robinson said.
On April 19, three Phoenix officers opened fire and killed a suspect who pretended to point a weapon at them. The next day, different Phoenix officers confronted a suspect who did point a gun at them. He, too, was shot and killed. Each time an officer shoots, the decision is made in a split second.
"The average person can move their hand from their side to a 90-degree angle across their chest in about 12 one-hundredths of a second. A police officer reacting to that would take approximately a second and a half to be able to draw his weapon and be able to stop the attack," Robinson said.
The decision, according to Robinson, is based on officer perception - what the officer hears, sees and perceives.
In another incident from Saturday, four Phoenix officers were dealing with a suspect who raised a wooden object at them. One of the four officers shot and killed the suspect.
"You could have an officer and put him in the same situation twice over different periods of time and the reaction may be completely different," said Robinson.
People often criticize police for shooting at a person's chest, which is likely more fatal than shooting for a limb.
"If you get a sight picture on somebody's arm, let's say, or hand that's holding a weapon and you go to fire, a person can move their hand out of range much quicker than the officer can pull the trigger," Robinson said.
Officers are trained to stop the threat.
"A Taser, it doesn't always stop an attack. Studies have proven over the years that a Taser doesn't work on some people. It works on other people. If you have the justification to use deadly force, you're authorized to fire your weapon to stop the attack," Robinson said.
Officer-involved shootings are investigated by homicide detectives and also separately by internal affairs specialists. The findings are also reviewed by the county attorney's office. Robinson said that officers have checks and balances to assure officers involved in shootings are following the law.


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Full Text of Remarks Delivered During the 2010 July 4th Celebration
Speech by NEA Executive Director John Wilson and remarks by NEA Executive Committee members
NEA Executive Director John Wilson: Thank you, Dennis. Happy Independence Day!
You know, we use this celebration to honor our freedoms, our legacies, and our heroes.
And before we get started on our celebration, a celebration of 1965 and the Great Society, I want to honor our legacy and the hero, the President of the National Education Association in 1965, Dr. Lois Ettinger.
I have asked Lois to be beside me so she can tug my coattails if we get anything wrong.
Land of liberty and boundless opportunity. A place where people can arrive with nothing more than the clothes on their backs and build a solid and secure life for their families. A nation where a child can expect a more prosperous life than the generation before, and where that child's own economic fate is not tied solely to the financial status of his or her parents.For more than two centuries, economic opportunity and upward mobility have formed the foundation of the American dream and remain at the core of our nation's identity.
And perhaps no brief period in our history better illustrated the meaning of those values than the year 1965.
45 years ago, these were the facts of American life:
- Half of all Americans over age 65 had no medical insurance, and a third of the aged lived in poverty.
- More than 90 percent of the black adults in many southern counties were not registered to vote. Only a third of the children in this country ages three to five years old had attended a nursery school or kindergarten. Today, most Americans would find those situations unacceptable and indeed they have been reversed, in large part because of laws enacted in 1965, the high water mark of president Lyndon B. Johnson's drive for what he called the Great Society.
It is undeniable that LBJ's Great Society social reforms changed the American landscape. "We have the opportunity" he declared, "to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society." And on this Independence Day, 45 years later, we come here to celebrate his powerful vision for equality and democracy.
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the all NEA choir under the direction of Executive Committee member Greg Johnson, Bob Lague and featuring soloist Ramone Moore of Virginia, Rebecca Marlow of Georgia, and Matt Garcia of Washington.
Ladies and gentlemen, your all NEA choir.
(NEA choir performs "An American Trilogy")
John Wilson: Who was Lyndon Baines Johnson? In the beginning of his career he was a schoolteacher, and this experience would inform his vision for the rest of his life.
Teachers and education support professionals try to make a difference in the lives of their students, and president Johnson was determined to make a difference in the lives of his fellow Americans.
During The Great Depression, President Roosevelt asked him to head a vocational training program, which he did until he ran for the United States House in a special election. He served in World War II and was elected to the United States Senate in 1948 where he rose to the position of majority leader because of his brilliant grasp of the legislative process.
Johnson was a masterful politician, but to him, political power was not an end in itself. It was always a means to an end, a way to accomplish an agenda about which he cared passion passionately. He realized that power means nothing unless it is used to accomplish something worthwhile.
When fate thrust him into the presidency, the combination of his talent and vision allowed him to make history.
President Johnson assumed office at a time of national tragedy, after the assassination of president Kennedy.
A year later he was reelected in a landslide, and his party held a two to one edge in Congress. The economy was strong and growing, and Johnson recognized that most of the American people shared his dream for an end to poverty and racial injustice.
He knew it was time to reach for his vision.
(NEA choir performing "The Power of One")
The Great Society represented one of the most ambitious policy agendas in American history to end poverty, to promote equality, improve public education, rejuvenate cities and protect the environment. President Johnson called it "the greatest outpouring of creative legislation in the history of the nation," an assessment that at the time was not viewed as hyperbole. In 1964, Johnson had guided the Civil Rights Act to passage. Then, in a nine month period in 1965, the main elements of the Great Society program were approved. Some of the milestones include:
- Medicare and Medicaid; the elementary and secondary education act;
- the higher education act;
- the Voting Rights Act;
- head start; and
- the establishment of the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities.
On the day that we honor our nation's independence, we celebrate President Johnson's quest to give every person an equal opportunity to achieve her or his dreams.
This celebration will feature the NEA Executive Committee members reading excerpts from Johnson's speeches as he announced or signed each piece of historic legislation in 1965.
On April 11th, President Johnson traveled to the former one room school room he attended as a child. With his first teacher seated beside him, he signed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. This was the first general aid to education program ever adopted by Congress. This law brought a massive infusion of federal dollars into our nation's schools, and provided resources to help educate disadvantaged children in inner cities and rural areas.
Lois will tell you, it was a law that we embraced, we supported, and we fought in partnership with President Johnson.
Executive Committee member Christy Levings: I want to welcome to this little school of my childhood many of my former schoolmates, as well as some of my dear friends from the educational institutions of this area. My attorney general tells me that it is legal and constitutional to sign this act on a Sunday, even on Palm Sunday. My minister assured me that the Lord's day will not be violated by making into law a measure which brings mental and moral benefits to millions of our young people. So I have chosen this time and this place for two reasons.
First, I do not wish to delay by a single day the programs that strengthen this nation's elementary and secondary schools. Second, I felt a very strong desire to go back to the beginnings of my own education, to be reminded and to remind others of that magical time when the world of learning began to open before our eyes.
From our very beginnings as a nation, we have felt a first commitment to the ideal of education for everyone. It fits itself into our Democratic creed. For too long political acrimony held up our progress. For too long, children suffered while jarring interests caused stalemates in the efforts to improve our schools. Since 1946, Congress tried repeatedly and failed repeatedly to enact measures for elementary and secondary education. Now, within the past three weeks, the House of Representatives and the Senate have passed the most sweeping educational bill ever to come before Congress. It represents a major new commitment of the federal government, to quality and equality in the schooling that we offer our young people. By passing this bill, we bridge the gap between helplessness and hope for more than five million educationally deprived children. We put into the hands of our youth more than 30 million new books, and into many of our schools their first libraries.
We reduce the terrible lag in bringing new teaching techniques into the nation's classrooms. We strengthen state and local agencies which bear the burden and the challenge of better education, and we rekindle the revolution the revolution of the spirit against the tyranny of ignorance.
As the son of a tenant farmer, I know that education is only valid in its passport from poverty, the only valid passport. As a former teacher and I hope a future one I have great expectations of what this law will mean for all our young people. As President of the United States, I believe deeply no law has signed or will ever sign means more to the future of America. We have established the law. Let us not delay in putting it to work.
Remarks in Johnson City, Texas, upon the signing of the elementary and secondary education bill, April 11, 1965.
John Wilson: On May 18th, Project Head Start was announced as a preschool program to help disadvantaged children before they entered elementary school. President Johnson said the program was conceived to make certain that poverty's children would not be forever more poverty's captives.
He called the response from neighborhoods and communities the most stirring and the most enthusiastic of any peacetime program that he could remember.
Executive Committee Member Paula Monroe: Today we are able to announce that we will have opened and believe operating this summer coast to coast some 2,000 child development centers serving as many as possibly a half million children. This news means nearly half the school children of poverty will get a head start on their future. These children will receive preschool training to prepare them for regular school in September. They will get medical and dental attention that they badly need, and parents will receive counseling on improving the home environment. This is the most remarkable accomplishment, and it has been done in a very short time. It would not be possible except for the willing and enthusiastic cooperation of Americans throughout the country.
I believe this response reflects a realistic and wholesome awakening in America. It shows that we are recognizing that poverty perpetuates itself. Five and six year old children are inheritors of poverty, of poverty's curse, and not its creditors. Unless we act, these children will pass it onto the next generation, like a family birthmark.
This program means that 30 million man years, the combined life span of these youngsters, will be spent productively and rewardingly rather than wasted in tax supported institutions or in welfare supported lethargy. I believe that this is one of the most constructive and one of the most sensible and one of the most exciting programs that this nation has undertaken. And I don't say that just because the most ardent, most active and most enthusiastic supporter of this program happens to be the honorary national chairman, Mrs. Johnson. We have taken up the age old challenge of poverty, and we don't intend to lose generations of our children to this enemy of the human race. This program, like so many others, will succeed in proportion as it is supported by voluntary assistance and understanding from all of our people. So there are going to be millions of good neighbors, volunteers who will give their time, a few hours each week, caring for these children, helping in a hundred ways to draw out their potentials. We need housewives, and we need teachers and doctors, we need men and women of all walks and all interests, to lend their talents, their warmth, their hands, and their hearts.
The bread that is cast upon these waters will certainly return many thousandfold. What a sense of achievement. And what great pride, and how happy that will make all of us who love America feel about this undertaking.
Remarks on Project Head Start, May 18th, 1965.
John Wilson: On July 30th, both Medicaid and Medicare were created when President Johnson signed amendments to the Social Security act, extending quality health care services to low income women and children, and persons over the age 65, among others. In 1948, President Harry S. Truman became the first sitting president to officially endorse national health insurance. The signing was held at the Truman Presidential Library in Independence, Missouri. Former President Truman was present at the ceremony, and Johnson presented him the first Medicare card in honor of his long standing advocacy for national health care coverage.
Executive Committee Member Greg Johnson: It was a generation ago that Harry Truman said, and I quote him, "Millions of our citizens do not have a full measure of opportunity to achieve and to enjoy good health. Millions do not now have protection or security against economic effects of sickness, and the time has now arrived for action to help them attain that opportunity and to help them get that protection."
Well, today, Mr. President, and my fellow Americans, we are taking such action, 20 years later, because the need for this action is plain. It is so clear indeed that we marvel not simply at the passage of this bill but what we marvel at is that it took so many years to pass it. There are more than 18 million Americans over the age of 65. Most of them have low incomes. Most of them are threatened by illness and medical expenses that they cannot afford.
And through this new law, every citizen will be able in its productive years when it's earning to insure himself against the ravages of illness in his old age.
No longer will Americans be denied the healing miracle of modern medicine. No longer will illness crush or destroy the savings that they have so carefully put away over a lifetime so that they might enjoy dignity in their later years.
No longer will young families see their own incomes and their own hopes eaten away simply because they are caring carrying out their deep moral obligations to their parents and to their uncles and to their aunts. And no longer will this nation refuse the hand of justice to those who have given a lifetime of service and wisdom and labor to the progress of this progressive country.
President Harry Truman, as any president must, made many great decisions of great moment, although he has always made them frankly and with the courage and clarity that few men have ever shared. The immense intricate questions of freedom and survival were called up many times in the web of Harry Truman's judgment. And this is in the tradition of leadership.
But there is another tradition that we share today. It calls upon us never to be indifferent toward despair. It commands us never to turn away from helplessness. It directs us to never to ignore or spurn those who suffer untended in a land that is bursting with abundance.
Because of this document, and the long years of struggle which so many have put into creating it, in this town and a thousand other towns like it, there are men and women in pain who will now find ease. There are those alone in suffering who will now hear the sound of some approaching footsteps coming to help. There are those fearing the terrible darkness of despairing poverty despite their long years of labor and expectation who will now look up to see the light of hope and realization. There can just be no satisfaction, nor any act of leadership, that gives greater satisfaction than this.
Remarks at the signing of the Medicare Medicaid bill, July 30th, 1965.
John Wilson: On August 6th, President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act. The law helped end the segregationist status quo that kept black voters from the polls. The document was signed after one of the civil rights movement's most dramatic events. In March 1965, state troopers attacked protestors near Selma, Alabama. That day became known as Bloody Sunday, and it galvanized the nation. Five months later, the President signed new voting protections for African Americans.
Executive Committee Member Joyce Powell: Today is a triumph for freedom as huge as any victory that has ever been won on any battlefield. It was only at Appomattox, a century ago, that an American victory was also a Negro victory and two rivers, one shining with promise, the other dark stained with oppression, began to move toward one another. Yet, for almost a century, the promise of that day was not fulfilled. Today is a towering and certain mark that in this generation that promise will be kept. In our time, the two currents will finally mingle and rush as one great stream across the uncertain and the marvelous years of the America that is yet to come.
This Act flows from a clear and simple wrong. Its only purpose is to right that wrong. Millions of Americans are denied the right to vote because of their color. This law will ensure them the right to vote. The wrong is one which no American in his heart can justify. The right is one in which no American true to our principles can deny.
There were those who said smaller and more gradual measures should be tried. But they had been tried. For years and years, they had been tried and tried and tried, and they had failed and failed and failed. And the time for failure is gone.
There were those who said that this is a many sided and very complex problem. But however viewed, the denial of the right to vote is still a deadly wrong, and the time for injustice has gone.
This law covers many pages, but the heart of the act is plain. Wherever, by clear and objective standards, states and counties are using regulations or laws for tests to deny the right to vote, then they will be struck down. Today, what is perhaps the last of the legal barriers is tumbling.
There will be many actions and many difficulties before the rights woven into law are also woven into the fabric of our nation. But the struggle for equality must now move toward a different battlefield.
So we will move step by step, often painfully, but I think with clear vision, along the path toward American freedom. It is difficult to fight for freedom, but I also know how difficult it can be to spend long years of habit and custom to granted. There is no room for injustice anywhere in the American mansion. But there is always room for understanding toward those who see the old ways crumbling. And to them, today, I simply say this: It must come.
It is a right that it should come. And when it has, you will find that a burden has been lifted from your shoulders, too. The central fact of American civilization, one so hard for others to understand, is that freedom and justice and the dignity of man are not just words to us. We believe in them. Under all the growth and the tumult and abundance, we believe. And so as long as some among us are oppressed, and we are a part of that oppression, it must blunt our faith and sap the strength of our high purpose.
Thus, this is a victory for the freedom of the American Negro, but it is also a victory for the freedom of the American nation, and every family across this great, entire, searching land will live stronger in liberty, will live more splendid in expectation, and will be prouder to be American because of the act that you have passed, and that I will sign today.
Remarks in the Capitol Rotunda at the signing of the Voting Rights Act, August 6th, 1965.
John Wilson: On September 29th, the National Foundation of the Arts and the Humanities was created. This new law was the future of several pieces of legislation. It was described as the reawakening, the quickening, and, above all, the unstunted growth of our cultural vitality.
It was authorized by this act that schools buy equipment to teach arts and humanities and to finance training institutes for the teachers and the arts and humanities.
Executive Committee Member Princess Moss: In the long history of man, countless empires and nations have come and gone. Those which created no lasting works of art are reduced today to short footnotes in history's catalogue.
Art is a nation's most precious heritage, for it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.
This new bill creating the National Foundation for the Arts and Humanities gives us the power to turn some of those dreams and ideas into reality. We would not have this bill but for the hard and thorough and dedicated work of some of our great legislators in both houses of the Congress. These men and women have worked long and hard and effectively to give us this bill.
And now we have it. Let me tell you what we are going to do with it.
Working together with the state and the local governments and with many private organizations in the arts, we will create a national theater to bring ancient and modern classics of the theater to audiences all over America. We will support a national opera company and a national ballet company. We will create an American film institute, bringing together leading artists of the film industry, outstanding educators, and young men and women who wish to pursue the 20th century art form as their life's work.
We will commission new works of music by American composers. We will support our symphony orchestras. We will bring more great artists to our schools and universities by creating grants for their time in residence.
But these actions and others soon to follow cannot alone achieve our goals. To produce true and lasting results, our states and municipalities, our schools and our great private foundations must join forces with us. It is in the neighborhoods of each community that a nation's art is born.
In countless American towns, there live thousands of obscure and unknown talent. What this bill really does is to bring active support to this great national asset, to make fresher the winds of art in this great land of ours.
The arts and the humanities belong to the people, for it is, after all, the people who create them.
Remarks at the signing of the Arts and Humanities Bill, September 29th, 1965.
John Wilson: On November the 8th, President Johnson signed the Higher Education Act with the goal of strengthening United States colleges and universities. It was the first congressional approval creating scholarships and low interest loans for students, and it increased federal money given to universities. The act also established a National Teachers Corps which was designed to improve elementary and secondary education in needy urban and rural areas.
Executive Committee member Leonard Paolillo: In a very few moments I will put my signature on the Higher Education Act of 1965.
The President's signature upon this legislation passed by this Congress will swing open a new door for the young people of America. For them and for this entire land of ours, it is the most important door that will ever open the door to education. And this legislation is the key which unlocks it.
To thousands of young men and women, this act means the path of knowledge is open to all that have a determination to walk in. It means a way to deeper personal fulfillment, greater personal productivity, and increased personal reward.
This bill, which I will make law, is an incentive to stay in school. It means that a high school senior, anywhere in this great land of ours, can apply to any college or any university in any of the 50 states and not be turned away because his family is poor.
So to thousands of young people, education will be available, and it's a truism that education is no longer a luxury. Education in this day and age is a necessity. And in my judgment, this nation can never make a wiser or more profitable investment anywhere else. This bill that I will signing will help our colleges and our universities add grasp to their reach for new knowledge and enlightenment. From this act will also come a new partnership between campus and community, turning the ivory towers of learning into the allies of a better life in our cities.
Too many people for too many years argued that education and health and human welfare were not the government's concern. And while they spoke, our schools fell behind, our sick people went unattended, and our poor fell deeper into despair. But now, at last, we have quit talking and started acting. You have witnessed a historic moment. You should carry the memory and the meaning of this moment with you throughout your life.
And when you look into the faces of your students and your children and your grandchildren, tell them that you were there when it began.
When we leave here this morning, I want you to go back and say to your children, and to your grandchildren, and to those who come after you and follow you, tell them that we have made a promise to them. Tell them that the truth is here for them to see, and tell them that we have opened the road and we have pulled the gates down, and the way is open, and we expect them to travel it.
Remarks at Southwest Texas State College upon the signing of the Higher Education Act, November 8th, 1965.
John Wilson: Just as President Johnson came into office under tragic circumstances, he relinquished his post in the hope that his departure would help heal a nation divided by a controversial war.
Today, some people only remember those bookends of his presidency. But his accomplishments were great, and they seem even more significant today, when politics is increasingly focused on tearing down opponents rather than building up our nation.
As LBJ said, "Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one."
Lyndon Baines Johnson was a good carpenter, and the laws he made are still standing strong, bulwarks of our nation's health care, education and civil rights.
As we look back on his accomplishments 45 years ago and close out this very special Independence Day celebration, I hope we can all be inspired including our political leaders today inspired to tackle the challenges of our time, especially in public education, because, as we all know, our nation will not truly achieve our goals of equality and justice until every student, every student, has an opportunity to attend a great public school.
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Those who attended and enjoyed last year's joint artistic venture with the Joffrey Ballet and the Cleveland Orchestra can anticipate a more ambitious program this year, according to Ashley Wheater, artistic director of the ballet company.
Highlights will include classic works such as "Le Corsaire," based on the choreography by Marius Pepita, and new dances such as Pretty BALLET by James Kudelka. "It's a huge and ambitious program, and I'm really excited to bring it here," said Wheater. The Joffrey Ballet and Cleveland Orchestra will perform Sept. 4 and 5 at Blossom Music Center in Cuyahoga Falls.
The Cleveland Orchestra had a tradition of working with ballet companies in the past said Ana Papakhian, media relations contact with the Cleveland Orchestra. The orchestra decided to bring back the tradition last year after a lengthy hiatus. "It was such a huge artistic success that we asked them to come back right away," said Papakhian.
Members of the media were invited to take a sneak peak at selections of two of the ballets, shown on video, before the orchestra's July 11 concert at Blossom. Shown were "Pretty BALLET" and "Reflections," another new piece by Gerald Arpino, danced to Tchaikovsky's "Variations on a Rococo Theme." "It is hauntingly beautiful," Wheater said of "Pretty BALLET." "The complexity of the music is shown in the complexity of the dance. It's a huge ballet, it involves 26 to 28 people." "Reflections" will highlight "some of the younger dancers in the company," Wheater said. Wheater added that he had enjoyed the collaborations the Joffrey Ballet has had with The Cleveland Orchestra, and hinted that he would be willing to work together at other venues such as the State Theatre in Playhouse Square in Cleveland.
Orchestra concert
The Cleveland Orchestra, led that evening by Tito Muñoz, performed Symphonic Dances from "West Side Story," Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D major, and Enigma Variations by Edward Elgar.
The highlight of the evening was the Violin Concerto, featuring violinist Giora Schmidt. The finale of the concerto earned Schmidt and the orchestra an enthusiastic standing ovation.
Upcoming concerts
The Cleveland Orchestra will next perform at Blossom Music Center Aug. 7 and 8. Music Director Franz Welser-Möst will conduct a program featuring Brahm's Second Symphony, Strauss's "Ein Heldenleben" and Schubert's Fourth Symphony.
For details, contact the Cleveland Orchestra at 216-231-1111, or 800-686-1141, or visit www.clevelandorchestra.com online.
Blossom Music Center is at 1145 Steels Corners Road in Cuyahoga Falls.
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Grayshott is a village in Hampshire, England which has a varied and interesting history.
The objective of the Grayshott Village Archive is to identify records relating to the activities of Grayshott residents and organisations from the middle of the 19th Century to the present day, and to preserve them for the present and future residents and others; for interest, reflection, and study.
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In order to expand the aims and interests of the Archive, we have established a "Friends of Grayshott Village Archive" scheme. The primary benefit of an annual contribution will derive from the satisfaction of supporting the continued development of the Archive and its records.
In addition, it is intended there will be two open evenings a year, held at various locations, at which members would meet to review the progress of the Archive. There will be an opportunity for members to express their views and to put forward suggestions for future projects and there will also be a short lecture, given by a Guest Speaker, concerning local history.
Members with a particular interest will also have the opportunity to review, by prior arrangement, some of the original documents held by the Archive.
The scheme is open to all those interested in local history and in supporting and expanding the aims of the Archive. The annual cost is £15 for family and £10 for individual membership. Application forms are available in the Post Office and Grayshott Pottery, from the Membership Secretary or CLICK HERE to download an application form.
This website can only provide an overview of the information available with some specific examples. Although it is the intention to expand the content provided, the vast majority of information will remain offline in the various repositories. If you wish to view the content of these repositories, please e-mail one of the contacts.
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Tegan and Sara
Indie-rock/New Wave duo Tegan and Sara first burst onto the Canadian music scene in 1998, when they earned the highest score in history at Calgary's "Garage Warz" competition; their quick rise didn't stop, for their melodic acoustics and charming stage personas led to a slew of dates with Sarah McLachlan's Lilith Fair that same year and a record deal with Neil Young's Vapor Records in April 2000. Natives of Calgary, these twin sisters derived their music interests from their parents. Tegan and Sara began playing piano at age eight, and in their teens they were skanking around in their own punk bands. This Business of Art, which was produced by singer/songwriter Hawksley Workman, marked their debut in mid-2000, and a summer tour with Neil Young and the Pretenders followed in July. Two years later, Tegan and Sara released If It Was You, followed in 2004 by their commercial breakthrough, So Jealous. In 2005, the White Stripes released a popular cover of If it Was You's "Walking with a Ghost." That same year saw the duo touring the U.S. with the Killers and landing seven songs in the popular medical TV drama Grey's Anatomy. In 2007, Tegan sang backup on a song on new Sire labelmate Against Me!'s album New Wave, and the twins, who had by then moved far from the singer/songwriter mold and were more interested in exploring pop, punk, and indie rock, came out with The Con, produced by Christopher Walla of Death Cab for Cutie. Working with Walla went well, and Tegan and Sara also utilized his production skills on their next album, 2009's Sainthood. 2009 also found the duo collaborating with Tiësto on the song "Feel It in My Bones" for his album Kaleidoscope and with comedian Margaret Cho on the track "Intervention" from her Cho Dependent release. 2011's live CD/DVD Get Along was paired with three short behind-the-scenes films called States, India, and For the Most Part. On their seventh studio album, the duo turned to producer Greg Kurstin (Lily Allen, Kelly Clarkson, Ke$ha), Justin Meldal-Jonsen (M83), and Mike Elizondo (Dr Dre, Eminem, Pink) for help in making an album that reflected a modern pop sound. The very slick, yet still emotionally powerful Heartthob was released in early 2013, which produced their biggest hit to date, "Closer".
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United Nations Foundation Launches Global Good Challenge
Washington, D.C.
September 24, 2012
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Groundbreaking Digital Collaboration for Social Good Asks People toDonate Their Voices, Take Actions to Improve the World, and Win One-of-a-Kind Experiences and Prizes
Washington, D.C. (September 24, 2012) – They say doing good is its own reward, but sometimes it's nice to get a little something extra for your passion and activism. Today the United Nations Foundation launched its largest and most ambitious digital initiative to date: the Global Good Challenge, which rewards participants with unique prizes for "donating their voices" by taking action and engaging their online networks to support the United Nations' work to address some of the world's toughest challenges. Some of the prize highlights include VIP backstage passes for a Lady Gaga concert, MTV Video Music Awards tickets, and a visit to the set of "The Celebrity Apprentice" for a meeting with Ivanka and Donald Trump.
"The Global Good Challenge is a new way for people to use technology and social media for social good. With the click of a button each person can be a digital champion for the world and help support the life-saving and life-changing work of the United Nations," said Elizabeth Gore, Vice President for Partnerships at the UN Foundation. "By mobilizing a large, united, and energized community of people and partners, we can take our efforts to solve global challenges to a whole new level."
The UN Foundation, a pioneer in building partnerships, growing constituencies, and mobilizing resources, has brought together a unique group of new leaders and influencers spanning the digital ecosystem for this effort.
"Today's global challenges are unprecedented, and so is the opportunity to address them; through social media and mobile usage, we're more connected to people around the world than ever before," said veteran entrepreneur Zaw Thet, a member of the UN Foundation's Global Entrepreneurs Council and a key force behind the Global Good Challenge through his nonprofit collective, Palindrome Advisors. "By using technology and bringing together new platforms to create a modern type of philanthropy, we are fostering positive change."
Now through mid-November, global citizens can sign up for the Global Good Challenge in one click on http://www.unf.org/good or on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/unitednationsfoundation. Individuals will raise awareness and take action to help the United Nations prevent malaria with Nothing But Nets, empower girls with Girl Up, and protect children from preventable diseases with Shot@Life. Participants in the Global Good Challenge will earn the ability to enter prize raffles by taking actions such as watching videos, taking quizzes, voting on opinion questions, and sharing educational and inspirational posts on Facebook and Twitter.
As a Champion for the UN Foundation's Girl Up campaign, since it was founded two years ago, Ivanka Trump understands how the Foundation engages people to help build a better world. That involvement has led to her to donate a prize for the Global Good Challenge – a VIP visit to a taping of "The Celebrity Apprentice."
"The UN Foundation's tireless commitment to tackling the big issues – including global health, peace and security, women's empowerment, poverty eradication, energy access, and U.S.-UN relations – motivated me to be part of the Foundation's latest project," said Ivanka Trump, Executive Vice President of Development & Acquisitions at The Trump Organization, and Girl Up Champion. "I view these opportunities through many lenses – as a business woman, an entrepreneur, a philanthropist, and a mother. The Global Good Challenge draws the best from each of these arenas, and it's an honor to lend my whole-hearted support to this new initiative to create a dynamic digital platform to reward individuals for donating their voices."
The Global Good Challenge is powered by plyfe, an innovative social amplification and rewards platform. By sharing their support for key global issues on social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook, participants will show their friends that they are engaged global citizens, as well as having the opportunity to win dozens of fabulous prizes.
The UN Foundation has brought together some of the brightest entrepreneurs under 40 through the Global Entrepreneurs Council to take the Foundation – and its campaigns, partnerships, and programs – to the next level of innovation and impact. Council members represent various industries, including corporate, creative community, and media, and have a proven track record of entrepreneurship, philanthropy, and advocacy on global issues.
Always breaking new ground, this Council has created multiple new platforms for the Foundation to leverage in support of the UN, including the largest out-of-home advertising campaign of its kind, a new mobile application and SMS platform, and access to new networks in the entertainment, technology and finance sectors.
Tweet this: @UNFoundation launches the #GlobalGood Challenge. Donate your voice for a better future while playing for amazing prizes @UNFGGC
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The United Nations Foundation builds public-private partnerships to address the world's most pressing problems, and broadens support for the United Nations through advocacy and public outreach. Through innovative campaigns and initiatives, the Foundation connects people, ideas, and resources to help the UN solve global problems. The Foundation was created in 1998 as a U.S. public charity by entrepreneur and philanthropist Ted Turner and now is supported by global corporations, foundations, governments, and individuals. For more information, visit www.unfoundation.org.
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While making the rounds in support of "Big Year," star Owen Wilson got himself to talking about the long-awaited "Zoolander" sequel, and the horrors in store for his character should it get made.
"Hansel, he's fallen on hard times," Wilson told MTV. "There's been a disfiguring injury... Think 'Vanilla Sky." One shudders top think about Hansel without his moneymaker... You can watch the interview here below.
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The studio has a script for "Zoolander 2"--aka "Twolander"--written by Ben Stiller and Justin Theroux, all the principles seem to be up for it, the people want it... why this isn't getting made is anybody's guess.
Wilson's had an up-and-down year, as "Hall Pass" was largely ignored or reviled, he was fantastic in "Midnight in Paris," and people just hated "Cars 2." "The Big Year" marks his fourth and final film of 20111, and it finds him birdwatching across the globe with Steve Martin and Jack Black.


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Hey guys! Long time, no see…With college and work I have had a ton on my plate but figured I would check in with a new box I received from Influenster. I wanted to share what I got, and see what kind of boxes you guys get! If you have not checked the site out, Infuenster is actually one of the better sites for writing makeup reviews and receiving products to test out and share the good, bad, and ugly about them. The nice thing about Influenster is that not only can you write reviews about products you already have at home, you can also answer questions others have about products, or ask questions you have about products before you go out and buy them. Not only do they have makeup and fashion products, but they also have areas about cooking, video games, pet supplies and more.
This month I received the XO VoxBox! I was super excited to get this one, and could not wait to test out some of the goodies inside of it! If you have already used Influenster before, and have gotten their boxes before let me know what has been the best box you have ever got! I would love to see what others have received before 🙂
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Fulton Commission Vice Chair Emma I. Darnell to Receive Georgia Gerontology Society Award | News
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Fulton County Commission Vice Chair Emma I. Darnell has been selected by the Georgia Gerontology Society to receive the 2012 John Tyler Maudlin Award. Nominated by the participants of the Dogwood, New Horizons and Northside Shepherd Senior Centers, the John Tyler Maudlin Award is presented each year to an "older individual in Georgia who exemplifies a positive role model of outstanding achievement in the field of Aging." The award was first given to Dr. Maudlin in 1967 as the First Annual Outstanding Achievement Award.
"I wish to express my deep appreciation to the senior adults of Fulton County and to the Gerontology Society for the honor of this award. ' The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But we have promises to keep. And miles to go'…", Commissioner Darnell said.
The award presentation will be held at 11:00 a.m. at the Senior Citizens Services Center located at 1705 Commerce Drive, N.W., Atlanta, GA 30318 on October 12, 2012.


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DESTIN � Of all the things that have come and gone, Sandpiper Cove has kept its spot on Gulf Shore Drive for 40 years.
DESTIN � Of all the things that have come and gone, Sandpiper Cove has kept its spot on Gulf Shore Drive for 40 years.
Construction of the condominiums began in 1973 and went through 27 phases before final completion in 2000. Condo materials initially were brought in on barges to Destin Harbor because Gulf Shore Drive was nothing but a sandy road, General Manager Jack Scelsi said.
Today, Sandpiper Cove boasts 631 units, 171 buildings, six tennis courts, five swimming pools, a par-3 golf courseand three spas on its 43 acres.
View a slideshow of photos from the complex.
�It�s a very unique property,� said Scelsi. �There�s a camaraderie between the owners and they all have their own special interests.�
Hurricanes, the BP oil spill and even the wavering economy has not threatened the development. All the units have been sold for many years, Scelsi noted. While most of them are second homes and rented out throughout the year, Sandpiper has seen an increase in owners who live there full time. The increase is a testament to owners not just investing in Sandpiper, but being a part of the community, he said.
�Many of our owners are original owners or second generation owners,� Scelsi said. �I�ll talk to young families about how they came here with parents and have come back to relive family memories. Several of them have bought condos based on those experiences.�
Working with the community is important to residents and employees. When Destin Middle School�s tennis team needed a court, Sandpiper offered its facilities. Four years later, the team still holds its home matches there. Owners and staff participate in beach cleanups, and left-behind toiletries are donated to women�s shelters.
Maintaining a family atmosphere also has been important to the Sandpiper community. Spring break typically is quiet.
�We have a zero tolerance for foolishness,� Scelsi said. �We�re a family-friendly community.�
Looking at photos of Sandpiper Cove in the mid-1970s is like looking back on Destin�s history.
�The biggest change was in 1986 when Emerald Coast Parkway was established,� said Annette Riedemann, Sandpiper�s real estate broker. �It was still a sleepy, fishing village. There were no high-rises, no Target, no Wal-Mart. We were so excited when K-Mart opened where Pottery Barn is now.�
Destin Mayor Sam Seevers was a rental manager at Sandpiper for 14 years.
�I loved working there,� she said. �During my time there, 97 percent of our revenue was repeat customers. Our staff worked very hard and we were proud of that fact. That job will go down in my history as being one of my most memorable jobs. It�s part of who I am today, truly.�
While Sandpiper Cove has changed physically over the years � such as the color change from battleship gray to a pastel yellow � it has remained a popular place to stay and live.
�All the changes have been positive,� Riedemann. �It�s one of the oldest condominiums in town, but it�s well-maintained and still one of the most popular resorts.�


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Poll: Pennsylvanians favor drilling, not in parks
Pennsylvanians support drilling for natural gas by a nearly 2-to-1 margin, but a majority is opposed when it occurs under state parks and forests, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Friday.
The survey found 58 percent of voters support Marcellus Shale drilling and 33 percent oppose it. Democrats are against drilling by a margin of 48 percent to 41 percent.
"Pennsylvanians are generally willing on drilling, but it depends on where, drawing the line at state parks and forest land," said Tim Malloy with the Quinnipiac poll.
Well more than a third of voters - 39 percent - said they were less likely to vote for incumbent Republican Gov. Tom Corbett this year because of an executive order last month that expanded the amount of drilling connected to state parks and forests. Pennsylvanians overall were against the policy, 57 percent to 36 percent. Thirteen percent said it made them more likely to support Corbett and nearly half said it would not affect them one way or the other.
Corbett's order allows drillers to extract natural gas from rock below Pennsylvania's state forests and parks, but it does not permit drilling-related construction that would disturb the parklands above ground. The new policy is projected to reap about $75 million for the state budget in the fiscal year that starts July 1.
The poll indicated 65 percent of women, 48 percent of men, 71 percent of Democrats and 38 percent of Republicans were opposed to the new park drilling policy. Fifty-eight percent of Republicans favored it.
The state's booming natural gas industry has brought jobs and economic activity to the state, but it also has raised concerns about the environmental impact.
The survey of 1,308 registered voters was conducted May 29 through Monday. The margin of error was plus or minus 2.7 percentage points.


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Districts Move to the Cloud to Power Up, Save Money
Schools need to be aware of the reality that putting a student-information system in a cloud environment means the cloud provider has access to personal information about students
Over the past several months, Lachlan Tidmarsh has presided over the first phase of using Google's cloud-based education apps in schools and central administrative offices in the Chicago school system. The 400,000-student district expects to save $6 million over the next three years by switching to Google's free, cloud-based email services.
But Tidmarsh, the district's chief information officer, says he is more impressed with Google's reliability than its low cost point. "It's Google. Google doesn't go down," Tidmarsh says, then adding, "Famous last words, right?"
The Chicago system is one of many districts around the country that are opting to use cloud-based computing services to improve the performance of their technologies and to save significant amounts of money. Cloud computing typically refers to software or a service that is accessible online and stored off-site. Rather than having a software program that has to be physically downloaded to every computer, and takes up space on a computer's hard drive or on a CD, users can simply dial in and access the program online.
Districts that have made improvements to their technological infrastructure to get ready for the Common Core State Standards should be well-equipped to utilize cloud-based applications, since many cloud programs, such as Google Drive, can be accessed through laptops, tablets, and various Internet-enabled devices, according to school technology experts.
There are serious questions and concerns, however, about moving computer operations to the cloud. Chief among those worries is the security of sensitive data, such as student records. That concern alone has led some district information-technology leaders to remain hesitant about moving in that direction.
Cloud-computing programs run the gamut in terms of services, offering everything from math tutorials and virtual science labs to classroom management and administrative tools.
Since cloud-based applications are accessible only online, schools using that approach on a large scale need to have enough bandwidth to ensure that the schools' servers won't slow down or crash if educators try to access the online programs. The State Educational Technology Directors Association recommends that school districts should have at least 100 megabytes per second per 1,000 students in the district, but districts that rely heavily on cloud applications would probably need a faster connection. And districts looking to cloud computing as a way to save money will first need to set up the high-bandwidth infrastructure that cloud computing needs, an investment that can cost thousands of dollars.
"That's the big caveat. It's not something you can just call up and have in a month," says Denise Atkinson-Shorey, a senior consultant for the Consortium for School Networking, or CoSN, a Washington-based nonprofit organization that represents leaders in K-12 educational technology.
Bandwidth Needs Grow
But for districts with the bandwidth infrastructure in place, experts say cloud approaches offer lower costs and less time spent on maintenance. Since many cloud-based applications are offered either for free or for a monthly subscription rate, upfront costs for software are typically lower than the standard model of purchasing software and installing it across the district.
Districts that want to move to cloud computing, but can't afford to make infrastructure changes, can find savings on licenses and software costs and invest them in connectivity, says Tom Mills, Google's global director of enterprise education.
"Bandwidth needs are only going to increase in the future—the longer you push [costs] off, the more you're limiting kids' ability to learn," Mills says.
Free programs such as iLabCentral, a virtual lab that resides in the cloud and contains more than 7,000 experimentations, are being increasingly viewed as an enticing option for schools that don't have access to expensive lab equipment.
"It really levels the playing field to provide kids with access to meaningful scientific experimentation," says Kemi Jona, one of the co-developers of iLabCentral and a professor of learning sciences and computer science at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill.
Cloud-computing advocates say the technology can help districts manage scalability, or the ability of a network to handle ebbs and flows in bandwidth and user activity, without wasting resources or becoming too bogged down.
Since a typical server environment in a school district requires plenty of storage space and memory, schools often buy enough hard-drive capacity to meet or exceed the demand that could be placed on their servers. But cloud-based software is usually hosted by a third party and located in an off-site area, so schools and districts won't use as much capacity on their hard drives, which could effectively save them money.
Rich Kaestner, a project director for CoSN, says software updates come from the service end, so district IT workers don't have to spend time and energy performing updates to each computer. Even so, that still means many of the typical IT needs—setting up user accounts, renewing licenses, and training students and teachers to use the technology—need to happen at the school level.
"There are some things you're really not offloading," says Kaestner.
Privacy Concerns
But there is a trade-off. If a district puts its student-information system in a cloud environment, the cloud provider has access to information about all students.
Districts need to be protective and aware of that reality and must follow requirements outlined in state and federal policy, including the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, a federal law that requires that websites obtain parents' consent before collecting personal details about users, such as home addresses or email addresses, from children younger than 13.
"You want to make sure you understand the company you're dealing with and look into how they deal with privacy concerns," says Atkinson-Shorey.
Paul Potter, the director of technological infrastructure for the 3,150-student Tomah, Wis., school system, says districts that have staff members with computer-programming backgrounds might want to consider developing their own cloud applications if they find that their needs aren't being met by some of the more popular cloud-computing providers.
Potter developed Infinity, a cloud-based course-management system used by students and teachers in Tomah, instead of using the state-recommended student-information system. He estimates the student-information application alone saved $120,000 for the district last year, with an estimated savings of $12 per student. Seven other districts in Wisconsin use Neptune, a scheduling app Potter also developed.
Others argue that there isn't a need for districts to create their own programs, because many resources that are more suited for cloud networks are already offered for free by software companies.
"I'm not sure I'd see any compelling reason for a K-12 district to build its own cloud applications," says Tidmarsh. "The programs we use [cloud software] for are not complex enough or not unique enough to build something custom."
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