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America's (un)welcome mat
By Lady Liberty
In recent days, the issue of illegal immigration has seriously heated up both in the corridors of Washington, DC and on the streets of Los Angeles and New York. It seems that almost everybody has an agenda.
President Bush wants Congress to approve a "guest worker" program which some say is really an amnesty program. The latter is likely the reason behind the fact that his 2004 proposal is still not approved by Congress. The president says our economy depends on the work done by illegal immigrants, so we may as well legalize their presence here and know who and where they are. He also indicated during his original announcement of his idea that he thinks legal immigration quotas are just plain too low.
Senators Ted Kennedy (D-MA) and John McCain (RINO-AZ) have now joined together to write legislation that echoes some of the President's ideas. Critics say the bill would offer amnesty to millions of illegal aliens already in the country. The Senators say it would do no such thing because illegal aliens would have to pay a fine and apply for citizenship. In a proposal intended to compete with the Kennedy-McCain legislation, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) has gone against a president who is a member of his own party, but with the majority of Americans with a focus more on border security and much less on amnesty (a general overview of both proposals is available online).
The House of Representatives has already passed immigration reform legislation. The House version of reform doesn't include amnesty, and it takes border security so seriously that it does include a significant length of fencing along with an increase in the Border Patrol and heavy fines for those hiring illegal workers. Many in the House, including strong immigration reform proponent Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) have criticized both the president's ideas as well as virtually all plans the Senate is considering. At the very least, no matter what the Senate does will almost certainly result in an entertaining time for members of a conference committee assigned to reconcile House and Senate versions of reform given what one news report calls a "chasm" between the two plans!
While the Senate argues and the House watches, the President traveled south of the border for a meeting with Mexican President Vicente Fox (a representative of the Canadian government was there as well, but a meeting not focused on immigration matters has become much focused on immigration matters, meaning no one is focusing on the Canadians at all at the moment). In one news story from the scene, we're told that President Bush has assured President Fox that there will be a guest worker program included in immigration reform. In another, issued on the same day, the President solemnly says that Congress is in charge of deciding what to include in its reform package (which it is, but that's not what the President intimated when he made promises to Fox).
Meanwhile, members of the House are giving speeches to the public, members of the Senate are giving speeches to each other, and President Bush is speaking with President Fox as large crowds of illegal immigrants are marching in some of our bigger cities. Los Angeles authorities estimate hundreds of thousands marched there; a week later, massive crowds did the same in New York. Those rallying in Chicago were apparently loud enough about it that local authorities there have already announced they won't enforce any new immigration laws there (although to be fair, the authorities in Chicago don't care about the Second or Fourth Amendments, so it's not a great surprise they'd also deny the Constitution).
The protesters don't want immigration reform. If any changes are to be made at all, they'd appreciate it if immigration restrictions were substantially loosened instead of tightened . In fact, some don't think there should be any restrictions at all. Some even suggest that the rest of us should leave the country to them since, they say, it was theirs in the first place and it's us who are here illegally. Meanwhile, most Americans oppose amnesty and some have started to worry that these marches will get out of hand (widely syndicated columnist Devvy Kidd has gone so far as to suggest states start gathering up and training their militias — which sounds extreme until you actually read the entire column containing the suggestion).
Many illegal aliens say they're sneaking across the border to enjoy the better life that America offers. There are some Americans who buy that explanation is not only being true (which in many cases it is), but as legitimizing the crime committed as well (which, if it did, would also excuse my robbing a bank because if I had more money I'd have a better life — also probably true, but still not an excuse). Illegal is illegal. But there's another complication beyond the mere fact that our borders remain relatively porous: two-thirds of the children of illegal aliens were born in the United States. Deporting Mommy isn't going to endear any authorities to anybody else anywhere, and there's little politicians are more concerned with than "endearment," especially to voters.
Even those who favor the most liberal immigration policies (those who are unsurprisingly typically the most liberal themselves) can't deny that most Americans aren't keen on amnesty or unfettered immigration. Perhaps that has something to do with a recent Department of Justice release that offered up some good-sized numbers on crimes committed by illegal aliens. Maybe its a study that turns previously "conventional" wisdom on its head where jobs are concerned by showing the presence of illegal aliens hurts American workers. But it might also be a growing antipathy for illegal immigrants who arrive outside the law, and who then make demands on their chosen country.
Those who are arguing in favor of amnesty as well as larger legal immigrant quotas like to point out that this country was built on the backs of immigrants, that without immigrants, the United States would be far less than it is. They're right. But they're neglecting to consider something that I suspect is the real reason behind the poll numbers, and that's the difference between immigrants today and immigrants of the past.
Not so very long ago, immigrants worked hard to earn passage to America. When they arrived, they followed all of the proper procedures to become citizens. Then they worked hard some more. They earn money so they could buy better lives for their families. They worked to educate themselves. They worked to learn English. In a nutshell, they wanted to be Americans so they worked to become Americans. They didn't discard their own traditions, but they adopted American ones as their own, and both sides of the equation were the richer for it.
Immigrants today are too often of an entirely different mind set. They want to enjoy the advantages they can get in the United States, but they want to remain Mexican (although this is likely true with some of those of other nationalities, I think it's entirely fair to say that the vast majority of illegal immigrants are Mexican). They want us to learn to speak Spanish rather than learning to speak English themselves. They want to collect welfare benefits. They even want to carry Mexican flags in marches organized to demand they be allowed to stay in America. They are in the active and vocal process of destroying that which they profess they want for themselves.
Of course, there are also some very real crime issues, here. And at a minimum, there should certainly be some concern for those who openly flout the law — from illegal immigrants and those who help them get here to those who hire them and facilitate their stay and their lifestyles. But the bottom line is that larger issue is so large as to encompass the entirety of the country both within its borders and its foundations.
If borders are porous, terrorists can get in as easily as other illegal aliens. If driver's licenses are given to illegal aliens, so is an ID that permits criminals and terrorists to move freely. If banks offer mortgages to illegal aliens, what other kind of loans will they provide and for what purpose will the funds be used? If people will break the law to get here, and break the law to stay here, how can we pretend they'll not break other laws up to and including the execution of terrorist acts? The answer is, quite simply, we can't. And since we can't, we mustn't offer easy immigration to those who want to come here nor amnesty for those who've circumvented the law to get here.
There are plenty of immigration reform proposals to choose from. But the only one I'm willing to support is the one that secures our borders once and for all; which refuses to reward wrongdoing; and that demands a little respect for the Constitution and Bill of Rights. The President has said that having an un welcoming attitude toward immigrants is un-American. But it's lumping illegal aliens into the same category as legal aliens that's threatening our national sovereignty and national security alike, and I'd call that the most un-American of all.
Lady Liberty, a senior writer for ESR, is a graphic designer and pro-freedom activist currently residing in the Midwest. More of her writings and other political and educational information is available on her web site, Lady Liberty's Constitution Clearing House, at http://www.ladylibrty.com. E-mail Lady Liberty at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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And don't forget to share how wonderful Dr. Daneills of tennesee is. What a wonderful DR. to talk to!!! So willing to assist Mary Pomroy of canada..so willing to reach out to her or any other ARDsufferer, wonderful person! Thank-you for sharing him with me Sherry!! :-)
In friendship Bev
> ----- Original Message -----
From: George Perry To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 8:16 PM Subject: Re: Karla
Well Said Beverly.
Why doesn't everyone just agree to disagree sometimes. I know things were said and feelings were hurt, but how about just forgiving each other and getting past this. You know what this means don't you? We're acting like family or something.
Okay on the count of three...
Let's forgive and forget and get on with being there for each other!
Man, I love you guys! :-)
> ----- Original Message -----
From: Bernie and Beverly Doucette To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 8:47 AM Subject: Re: Karla
Dearest Karla.. I share Sherry's sentiments...You are fighting a very, very tough battle right now and support will get you through the months you will be spending in the hospital in Chicago starting July 12th!! Even as ill and tired as you are, my dear friend, ...YOU must try to rise above everything that might sway you away from here, as YOU, among all of us, will need this forum to help you pull through.
Folks, Karla will be in spending months in the hospital hundreds of miles from home! First she will be going into her very serious surgery ALONE...that means no family or friends present for the surgeons to walk out to after her surgery to talk to, no one to be there in the event there is a complication, no one she knows who will look at when she wakes up in her room..no one she knows to hold her hand or rub her arm, no one to smooth her hair back and tell her they care..at least no one she will know!!! BUT over the course of her healing and her rehabilitation..Karla will need all of us, as her ONLY life line home ( and that means this forum too ) will be her computer!!!
Karla, you rest from this stuff, please keep in mind that most everyone on this forum is suffering, is tired, is desperate and frightened!! I would suspect that at one time or another, we all have been a bit testy on here, I know I have been and it has never been directed at any one individual, but due to the number of persons reaching our to one another through the IAS forum, and those different personalities, it is so easy to react to something said, something interpreted wrong, something taken personally, when it wasn't meant that way..that is life on the web I guess! But is it a reason for those, like you Karla, to leave this forum? Each person here has a choice to speak up and to stay here, of course they do, and each choice can be respected...whether we agree with the opinions or not, we MUST respect them. We can elect to respond or not, and if we elect to make a statement, we can expect to be challenged on that statement..all that IS okay! That IS freedom of speech and thought..but is that reason to back out of badly needed support?
This forum is not about personality's..it is about saving lives and educating...everyonce and awhile we will be challenged in the course of that, it is okay to be challenged..and we will all be learning how to communicate effectivly through trial and error, and being that this is a multiple listing's email forum, we will all be somewhat involed in things like that...but lets rise above any differences and move on to the so badly needed words of support to each other....simply a suggestion to all of us.
Again..only that individual can make that decision..only they know how much they need or want to utilize this forum, only they know if they need us.....I respect Karla's decision to remove herself from here...but I will ask her this...
Re-think your reason for that! If it is simply because YOU want to leave, then leave, but if it is due to extenuating circumstances due to others opinions and personalities...please think for a moment that this forum offers freedom of speech for all...and in the event we are challenged in that...understand that that is what this country stands on and what was fought for so many times over many years!! It is okay to challenge, to speak up, to be desperate and it is okay to be support, sympathetic and offer love and a hand of support and understanding to one another....that is what we are all about here in the IAS forum...understanding those who are suffering, frightened, tired and who need each other no matter what.
Sherry, you too deserve a chance to receive support, and you know to receive respect is to give respect...like any of us who may feel challenges, put down or whatever but another member, can go to that person personally to communicate or displeasure with them...and at times we lose sight of that, again misdirected anger and reactions, we all do it, don't we?? Sherry might want to stay with us and she might still need us...so does Karla, so does Igor and even me, Bev need all of you precious, dear, suffering people...this is OUR group, all of us , and it is about time we have this type of communication, support, education and be able to shout to the world about our disease ADHESION RELATED DISEASE!!!!
Lets all rise above whatever happened on here...and move on to help the IAS forum grow in numbers and spread the word...gain the knowledge about ARD that will ultimately save lives....and among those lives to be saved is yours..all of US here today, and those who are yet to show up shocked that we are here, relived that we are here...and they too will cry from sheer happiness and hopefulness that they too found this group!!
That is the future of this forum folks...to continue to save lives......and that will take all of us and our experiences... IF we so choose to give that!!!
> ----- Original Message -----
From: Sherry Marie <email@example.com> To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS <firstname.lastname@example.com> Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 7:20 AM Subject: RE: Karla
> Karla, First I want to wish you the best of luck with your surgery. You
> are right, you need all your strength to go into such a serious surgery.
> I have been away from the board and have recently come back. I come to
> this support group for just that, support. I want to offer you my
> support if you ever need someone to talk to or if you need someone to
> pray with. This forum has so much potential. I have benefited in my
> fight with adhesions by knowing there are other people going through the
> same things I am. I really hope you will reconsider staying. I need
> your support. Here is part of a little prayer that helps me make it
> through tough times. Father, I am well aware I can't make it on my own.
> So take my hand, and hold it tight, for I can't walk alone! Your friend,
> Sherry Marie

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A new website has been created for The Dictionary of Welsh Biography. It will be launched at the beginning of November 2018 and will include new content, functions and design. Head over to biography.wales now to see what's new!
This website will eventually be replaced by biography.wales. In the meantime, we would like to hear from our users so you're welcome to send us any questions or feedback that you may have.
Emeritus Professor Henry Lewis, D.Litt., (1899-1968), Swansea
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Here are the top 5 Central Florida theme-park rides among those that have generated the most personal-injury lawsuits during the past 5 years. Eleven others — from Disney World's peaceful boat ride, It's a Small World, to SeaWorld's high-speed roller coaster, Kraken — have each attracted 2.
Dudley Do-Right's Ripsaw Falls, Universal Orlando. Lawsuits: 7.
Mission: Space, Epcot, simulator. Lawsuits: 5. Claims: Heart attack; cervical damage; unspecified other injuries involving ride movements.
The Black Hole, Wet 'n' Wild, water slide. Lawsuits: 3. Claims: Unspecified injuries (2 falls from tubes, 1 collision with another patron).
Popeye & Bluto's Bilge-Rat Barges, Islands of Adventure, river raft. Lawsuits: 3. Claims: Unspecified injuries (1 slip and fall, 2 involving restraint system).
Rock 'n' Roller Coaster, Hollywood Studios. Lawsuits: 3. Claims: Aneurysm; stroke; unspecified injuries involving ride movements.


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The net_flush function flushes any buffered data. If you require that data be sent immediately, call net_flush after calling network output functions such as net_write or net_sendfile.
int net_flush(SYS_NETFD sd);
0 on success, or a negative value if an error occurred.
SYS_NETFD sd is the socket to flush.
net_write(sn->csd, "Please wait... ", 15); net_flush(sn->csd); /* Perform some time-intensive operation */ ... net_write(sn->csd, "Thank you.\n", 11);
The net_ip2host function transforms a textual IP address into a fully-qualified domain name and returns it.
This function works only if the DNS directive is enabled in the magnus.conf file. For more information, see Chapter 2, SAFs in the magnus.conf File.
char *net_ip2host(char *ip, int verify);
A new string containing the fully-qualified domain name if the transformation was accomplished, or NULL if the transformation was not accomplished.
char *ip is the IP address as a character string in dotted-decimal notation: nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn
int verify, if nonzero, specifies that the function should verify the fully-qualified domain name. Though this requires an extra query, you should use it when checking access control.
The net_read function reads bytes from a specified socket into a specified buffer. The function waits to receive data from the socket until either at least one byte is available in the socket or the specified time has elapsed.
int net_read (SYS_NETFD sd, char *buf, int sz, int timeout);
The number of bytes read, which will not exceed the maximum size, sz. A negative value is returned if an error has occurred, in which case errno is set to the constant ETIMEDOUT if the operation did not complete before timeout seconds elapsed.
SYS_NETFD sd is the platform-independent socket descriptor.
char *buf is the buffer to receive the bytes.
int sz is the maximum number of bytes to read.
int timeout is the number of seconds to allow for the read operation before returning. The purpose of timeout is not to return because not enough bytes were read in the given time, but to limit the amount of time devoted to waiting until some data arrives.
The net_sendfile function sends the contents of a specified file to a specified socket. Either the whole file or a fraction may be sent, and the contents of the file may optionally be preceded and/or followed by caller-specified data.
Parameters are passed to net_sendfile in the sendfiledata structure. Before invoking net_sendfile, the caller must initialize every sendfiledata structure member.
int net_sendfile(SYS_NETFD sd, const sendfiledata *sfd);
A positive number indicates the number of bytes successfully written, including the headers, file contents, and trailers. A negative value indicates an error.
SYS_NETFD sd is the socket to write to.
const sendfiledata *sfd identifies the data to send.
The following Service SAF sends a file bracketed by the strings "begin" and "end."
#include <string.h> #include "nsapi.h" NSAPI_PUBLIC int service_net_sendfile(pblock *pb, Session *sn, Request *rq) { char *path; SYS_FILE fd; struct sendfiledata sfd; int rv; path = pblock_findval("path", rq->vars); fd = system_fopenRO(path); if (!fd) { log_error(LOG_MISCONFIG, "service-net-sendfile", sn, rq, "Error opening %s (%s)", path, system_errmsg()); return REQ_ABORTED; } sfd.fd = fd; /* file to send */ sfd.offset = 0; /* start sending from the beginning */ sfd.len = 0; /* send the whole file */ sfd.header = "begin"; /* header data to send before the file */ sfd.hlen = strlen(sfd.header); /* length of header data */ sfd.trailer = "end"; /* trailer data to send after the file */ sfd.tlen = strlen(sfd.trailer); /* length of trailer data */ /* send the headers, file, and trailers to the client */ rv = net_sendfile(sn->csd, &sfd); system_fclose(fd); if (rv < 0) { log_error(LOG_INFORM, "service-net-sendfile", sn, rq,"Error sending %s (%s)", path, system_errmsg()); return REQ_ABORTED; } return REQ_PROCEED; }
The net_write function writes a specified number of bytes to a specified socket from a specified buffer.
int net_write(SYS_NETFD sd, char *buf, int sz);
The number of bytes written, which may be less than the requested size if an error occurred.
SYS_NETFD sd is the platform-independent socket descriptor.
char *buf is the buffer containing the bytes.
int sz is the number of bytes to write.
if (net_write(sn->csd, FIRSTMSG, strlen(FIRSTMSG)) == IO_ERROR) return REQ_EXIT;
The netbuf_buf2sd function sends a buffer to a socket. You can use this function to send data from IPC pipes to the client.
int netbuf_buf2sd(netbuf *buf, SYS_NETFD sd, int len);
The number of bytes transferred to the socket, if successful, or the constant IO_ERROR if unsuccessful.
netbuf *buf is the buffer to send.
SYS_NETFD sd is the platform-independent identifier of the socket.
int len is the length of the buffer.
netbuf_close, netbuf_getc, netbuf_grab, netbuf_open
The netbuf_close function deallocates a network buffer and closes its associated files. Use this function when you need to deallocate the network buffer and close the socket.
You should never close the netbuf parameter in a session structure.
void netbuf_close(netbuf *buf);
netbuf *buf is the buffer to close.
netbuf_buf2sd, netbuf_getc, netbuf_grab, netbuf_open
The netbuf_getc function retrieves a character from the cursor position of the network buffer specified by b.
netbuf_getc(netbuf b);
The integer representing the character if one was retrieved, or the constant IO_EOF or IO_ERROR for end of file or error.
netbuf b is the buffer from which to retrieve one character.
netbuf_buf2sd, netbuf_close, netbuf_grab, netbuf_open
The netbuf_grab function reads sz number of bytes from the network buffer's (buf) socket into the network buffer. If the buffer is not large enough it is resized. The data can be retrieved from buf->inbuf on success.
This function is used by the function netbuf_buf2sd.
int netbuf_grab(netbuf *buf, int sz);
The number of bytes actually read (between 1 and sz) if the operation was successful, or the constant IO_EOF or IO_ERROR for end of file or error.
netbuf *buf is the buffer to read into.
int sz is the number of bytes to read.
netbuf_buf2sd, netbuf_close, netbuf_grab, netbuf_open
The netbuf_open function opens a new network buffer and returns it. You can use netbuf_open to create a netbuf structure and start using buffered I/O on a socket.
netbuf* netbuf_open(SYS_NETFD sd, int sz);
A pointer to a new netbuf structure (network buffer).
SYS_NETFD sd is the platform-independent identifier of the socket.
int sz is the number of characters to allocate for the network buffer.
netbuf_buf2sd, netbuf_close, netbuf_getc, netbuf_grab
Plugin developers may define an nsapi_module_init function, which is a module initialization entry point that enables a plug-in to create filters when it is loaded. When an NSAPI module contains an nsapi_module_init function, the server will call that function immediately after loading the module. The nsapi_module_init presents the same interface as an Init SAF, and it must follow the same rules.
The nsapi_module_init function may be used to register SAFs with func_insert, create filters with filter_create, register virtual server initialization/destruction callbacks with vs_register_cb, and perform other initialization tasks.
int nsapi_module_init(pblock *pb, Session *sn, Request *rq);
REQ_PROCEED on success, or REQ_ABORTED on error.
pblock *pb is a set of parameters specified by the fn="load-modules" directive.
Session *sn (the Session) is NULL.
Request *rq (the Request) is NULL.
The NSAPI_RUNTIME_VERSION macro defines the NSAPI version available at runtime. This is the same as the highest NSAPI version supported by the server the plug-in is running in. The NSAPI version is encoded as in USE_NSAPI_VERSION.
The value returned by the NSAPI_RUNTIME_VERSION macro is valid only in iPlanet™ Web Server 6.0, Netscape Enterprise Server 6.0, and Sun Java System Web Server 6.1. That is, the server must support NSAPI 3.1 for this macro to return a valid value. Additionally, to use NSAPI_RUNTIME_VERSION, you must compile against an nsapi.h header file that supports NSAPI 3.2 or higher.
Plugin developers should not attempt to set the value of the NSAPI_RUNTIME_VERSION macro directly. Instead, see the USE_NSAPI_VERSION macro.
int NSAPI_RUNTIME_VERSION
NSAPI_PUBLIC int log_nsapi_runtime_version(pblock *pb, Session *sn, Request *rq) { log_error(LOG_INFORM, "log-nsapi-runtime-version", sn, rq, "Server supports NSAPI version %d.%d\n", NSAPI_RUNTIME_VERSION / 100, NSAPI_RUNTIME_VERSION % 100); return REQ_PROCEED; }
The NSAPI_VERSION macro defines the NSAPI version used at compile time. This value is determined by the value of the USE_NSAPI_VERSION macro. If the plug-in developer did not define USE_NSAPI_VERSION, by the highest NSAPI version supported by the nsapi.h header the plug-in was compiled against. The NSAPI version is encoded as in USE_NSAPI_VERSION.
Plugin developers should not attempt to set the value of the NSAPI_VERSION macro directly. Instead, see the USE_NSAPI_VERSION macro.
int NSAPI_VERSION
NSAPI_PUBLIC int log_nsapi_compile_time_version(pblock *pb, Session *sn, Request *rq) { log_error(LOG_INFORM, "log-nsapi-compile-time-version", sn, rq, "Plugin compiled against NSAPI version %d.%d\n", NSAPI_VERSION / 100, NSAPI_VERSION % 100); return REQ_PROCEED; }


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94 N. Main Street, Jasper, GA - (706) 253-2457
Mary Keener
Mrs. Mary George Green Keener, age 88 of Ranger, Ga., departed this life Wednesday morning, Feb. 11, 2009 at Piedmont Mountainside Hospital in Pickens County, Ga.
Mrs. Keener was born in Gordon County, Ga. August 29, 1920, a daughter of the late John and Agnes Southerland Green. Along with her parents, she was also preceded in death by her husband,Floyd ?Alf? Keener; daughter, Jeanna Penson; sisters, Hazel Pearson, Berta Lee Hancock, Hattie Bennett and ParaLee Smith; and brothers, Woodrow, John and Colon Green.
Survivors include her daughters and sons-in-law, Annie and David Perry, Fairmount, Barbara Bunch, Jerusalem Community, Jerri and Kenny Leachman, Marietta, and Frances and Adell Keener, both of Ranger; and sons, Eugene Keener, Fairmount, Kenneth Keener, Ranger, and Charles Keener, Calhoun. Twelve grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews also survive.
A service to celebrate thelife of Mrs. Keener was held on Saturday at 2 p.m. from Ryo Baptist Church with the Rev. Steven Baker officiating. She was laid to rest in the church cemetery, with her grandsons, Kelly and Keith Perry, Terry and Mark Bunch, Jared Leachman and Jason Keener, serving as pallbearers. Ponders Funeral Home of Fairmount was in charge of arrangements.
www.pondersfuneralhome. com
Stephen Rudnicki
Stephen John Rudnicki, age 89 of St. Simons Island, passed away Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009 at his residence.
Mr. Rudnicki was a native of Cracow, Poland. He immigrated to the United States after loosing his family during the Holocaust. He truly loved the United States. St. Simons became his ?true Homeland? again.
Mr. Rudnicki is survived by loving his wife, Pat Evans-Rudnicki, St. Simons Island, Ga.; son, Stefan Rudnicki, Los Angeles, Ca; and two granddaughters, Macy Evans and Kirsten Hightower, both of Talking Rock, Ga.
A memorial service was held on Saturday, Feb. 7 at 11 a.m. at the Chapel of Edo Miller and Sons Funeral Home in Brunswick, Ga.
The family would like to express their appreciation and gratitude for the wonderful care Mr. Rudnicki received from Hospice of the Golden Isles Supplemented by loving Private Nurses from Coastal Nurses.
The family requests in lieu of flowers memorial contributions to be made to the Hospice of the Golden Isles at 1692 Glynco Parkway, Brunswick, Ga. 31525.
Doyle Johnson
Mr. Doyle Glenn Johnson, better known at ?Rinso and Soda Popp,? age 77 of Fairmount, Ga., passed away Saturday morning, Feb. 14, 2009 at the Cartersville Medical Center following eight months of illness.
Mr. Johnson was born Nov. 30, 1931 in Pickens County, Ga., the son of the late Perry Hiland and Emma Tillery Johnson. He was also preceded in death by agranddaughter, Margurite Robinson; and sister, Grace Ray. During his lifetime, Mr. Johnson was employed by Shaw Industries in the maintenance department and was a member of Oak Hill Baptist Church in Rydal, Ga.
Survivors include his wife, Betty Ann Ray Johnson, to whom he was married for 55 years; daughter and son-in-law, Teresia and Joe Robinson, Cartersville, Ga.; sons and daughters-in-law, Mike and Ginger Johnson, Ranger, Ga., Butch and Penny Johnson and Mitch and Rhonda Johnson, all of Fairmount, Ga.; brother and sister-in-law, Lee and Ann Johnson, Calhoun, Ga. Seven grandchildren nieces and nephews also survive.
The funeral service was held Monday at 2 p.m. from Oak Hill Baptist Church in Rydal, Ga. with the Revs. George Gray and James Surratt officiating. Interment followed in the church cemetery with the Rev. Huey Holloway conducting the graveside service. Pallbearers were: Ricky Sheriff, Ronnie Abernathy, Darrell Hyde, Joe Robinson, Kenneth Temples and Tim Patterson. Honorary escort: Butch, Mitch, Mike, Dalton and Christopher Johnson and Darrell Hyde. Max Brannon & Sons Funeral Home of Calhoun in charge of arrangements.
www.maxbrannonandsons. com
Thomas Weibler III
Mr. Thomas P. Weibler III, age 49 of Jasper, passed away Saturday, Feb. 14, 2009 at his residence.
Survivors include his wife, Jessie Weibler, Jasper; mother and father, Nancy and Henry Bante, Lillian, Al.; son and daughter-in-law, Nicholas and Victoria Bunch, Jasper; daughters and son-in-law, Annette M. Beck, Jasper, Jessica Lynn Weibler, West Allis, Wi., and Melissa and Lee Chumley, Jasper; four grandchildren; a loved one, Susan G. Weibler, Jasper; and a loving dog, Sandy.
The family requests that donations be made to help with funeral expenses. Cagle Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Jim Bo Howard
Mr. Jim Bo Howard, age 51 of Canton, passed away Monday, Feb. 9, 2009 at his residence.
Survivors include his wife, Cindy Lou Howard, Canton; daughters and son-in-law, Crissy and Dallas Bradley and Amanda Howard, all of Canton; and grandchildren, Benjamin, Morgan and Coconut Bradley.
The funeral service was held at 2 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 12 from the Chapel of Cagle Funeral Home with the Rev. Edwin Weaver and Lamar Frady officiating. Interment followed in Friendship Baptist Church in the Ludville Community. Pallbearers were: Nick Taylor, Chris and Web McFalls, Web Howard, Eric Ellis and William Young. Honorary pallbearers: Dallas and Ben Bradley. The family did accept flowers or donations may be made to any food bank.
Mary Volz
Mrs. Mary Ruth Volz, age 88 of Talking Rock, passed away Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009 at her residence.
Survivors include her daughters and sons-in-law, Charlene and Troy Wells and Sandra and Bill Vannatta, all of Louisville, Ky., and Denise and Jackie Blackwell, Talking Rock. Five grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren also survive.
The funeral service was held Sunday, Feb. 15 at 2 p.m. from the Chapel of Cagle Funeral Home with the Rev. J.R. Smith officiating. Interment followed in the Georgia National Cemetery on Tuesday, Feb. 17 at 2:30 p.m. Pallbearers were: Michael and Josh Bail, Judd and Jimmy Blackwell, Nathan Gayton, Bryan Smith and Phil Clark. The family did accept flowers or you may donate to United Hospice.
Bill Evans
Mr. Bill Evans, age 78 of Talking Rock, Ga., died Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2009 at Piedmont Mountainside Hospital in Jasper, Ga. following a sudden illness.
Born July 20, 1930 in Pickens County, he was the son of the late Gordon Tom and Florence Swaney Evans. Mr. Evans had been employed as a custodian with the Pickens County Board of Education.
Survivors include his wife, Mildred Evans, Talking Rock; daughter, Sally Evans Young, Talking Rock; son, Ronald Lee Evans, Talking Rock; five grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; sisters, Myrtle Duckett, Jewell Childers and Betty Hancock, all of Talking Rock; and brothers, James, Jim and Emory Evans, all of Talking Rock. Several nieces, nephews and other relatives also survive.
The funeral service was held at 2 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 12 from Hinton United Methodist Church with the Revs. Jim Schlieht and Stanford Willard officiating. Interment followed in Hinton Community Cemetery. Roper Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Rev. Hollis Crook
The Rev. Hollis Crook, age 72 of Jasper, passed away Friday, Feb. 6, 2009 at Northside Hospital in Atlanta.
He is survived by his wife, Frances Crook, Jasper; son and daughter-in-law, James and Karen Crook, Fairmount; daughters, Barbara and Carol Crook, both of Jasper; brothers, Junior Crook, Chatsworth, and Jerry, Charles, Ronnie and Donnie Crook, all of Fairmount; sister, Mary Ann Townsend, Fairmount; granddaughter and her husband,Cindy and Chris Baker, Fairmount; and great-grandchildren, Savannah Laney and Daelyn Baker, Fairmount. Several nieces and nephews also survive.
The funeral service was held at 2 p.m. Monday from Jerusalem Baptist Church with the Revs. Harold Cantrell, Terry Dean, Bobby Seagers and Russell Nations officiating. Interment followed in the church cemetery with Kevin and Wesley Crook, Jamie Haynes, Scott Pack, Chris Baker and Michael Townsend serving as pallbearers. Roper Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Michael Newton
Mr. Michael Larry ?Mike? Newton, age 63 of Fairmount, Ga., died Friday, Feb. 6, 2009 following a sudden illness.
Born July 27, 1945 in Atlanta, Ga., he was the son of the late Allen Lawrence and Mary Lee Cole Newton. Mr. Newton had worked as a superintendent with Unity Construction Company in Powder Springs, Ga.
Survivors include his wife, Margaret Newton, Fairmount; son and daughter-in-law, Jeremiah and Kelly Newton, Fairmount; daughters, Olivia Newton, Fairmount, and Alisa Bates, Tallapoosa, Ga.; and grandchildren, Hannah and Allen Newton, Trevor and Allison Stacy and Jack Bates. Several other relatives also survive.
The funeral service was held at 11 a.m. Monday, Feb. 9 from Roper Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Herman Mulkey officiating. At his request, Mr. Newton was cremated following the service.


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Few cities have undergone such drastic changes in geography as Boston. Starting as early as 1742, the city began to fill in the shallows near the shore and build such structures as Faneuil Hall, the first open air market place and town meeting hall in Boston. By the 1820s and into the 1830s, hilltops were being scraped and used as landfill. By 1860, the Back Bay, which had been an environmental concern for decades due to sewage dumping, had been filled in.
The annexations by Boston of several neighboring communities including Roxbury (by 1867) and Dorchester (by 1869) allowed Boston to expand in terms of both population and geographic size. Following these annexations, Boston could, for the first time, acquire larger tracts of land for development of major parks.
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Mary M. (Mil) Smith, 92, formerly of 101 N. Mill St., Ridgway, died Sunday morning, Nov. 17, 2013 at Elk Haven Nursing Home.She was born Dec. 17, 1921 in Ridgway, daughter of the late Joseph and Ann (Reider) Smith. She had resided in Ridgdway for most of her life and was a graduate of St. Leo's High School. She was a member of St. Leo Catholic Church and was very active within the church. She enjoyed taking care of her family.She had been employed by Sylvania for over 30 years.Mary is survived by several nieces and nephews and great nieces and nephews.Besides her parents, she was preceded in death by three sisters, Katherine, Margaret, and Josephine; three brothers, Norbert, Hilary, and Charles; and also one dear nephew, Bob Smith.A Memorial Service for Mary M. Smith will be held at the Thompson Funeral Home on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2013 at 1 p.m. Officiating will be Fr. Brian E. Vossler, Pastor of St. Leo Catholic Church. Burial will followed at St. Leo Cemetery.There will be no visitation. Memorials, if desired, may be made to St. Leo Alumni Association, P.O. Box 124, Ridgway, Pa. 15853.


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June 22, 1998
Dr. Hoke Smith
Towson State University
Towson, Maryland 21204-7097
Complaint No. [ ]
Family Educational Rights
and Privacy Act
Dear Dr. Smith:
This is to advise you of the partial finding in the complaint filed with this Office by Ms. [ ] under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). Ms. [ ] alleged that Towson State University (University) violated her rights under FERPA when it disclosed information from her education records to [a newspaper] and when it denied her access to certain of her education records. By letter dated February 18, 1998, this Office advised you of the allegations and by letter dated March 27, 1998, Mr. Michael A. Anselmi, University Counsel, responded on behalf of the University. Each allegation is discussed separately below.
[ ] alleged in her December 20, 1997, letter to this Office that the University violated her rights under FERPA when Mr. Anselmi disclosed without her consent her education records and medical records to [ ], a reporter for [the newspaper]. She stated that the article came out on or before [ ] and that she learned of it on [ ]. She explained that Mr. Anselmi provided [the reporter] with a consent for her to sign prior to disclosing information from her education records, but that upon seeing the consent she "had second thoughts about doing the article at all." She stated that when she next spoke with [the reporter], she was advised that Mr. Anselmi had already disclosed information from her education records based on "the recent Family Policy Compliance Office ruling that allowed Johns Hopkins University to release information to a third party without written consent."
Mr. Anselmi responded to this allegation by asserting that the University had not violated FERPA as alleged when it disclosed information from Ms. [ ]'s education records to [the newspaper] because Ms. [ ] "impliedly waived her right to consent." Mr. Anselmi cited in support of his claim a February 19, 1997, letter of finding issued by this Office in which we ruled that Johns Hopkins University had not violated FERPA when it disclosed information from a student's education records to the student's employer, the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Mr. Anselmi stated the following:
Although FERPA regulations do not address waiver, the Department has ruled that students can impliedly waive the right to consent to disclosure. Specifically, in the November 21, 1996 Final Rule, the Department ruled that a student who sues a school impliedly waives the right to consent to disclosure before the school releases information in its defense. See 61 FR 59292, 59294. Thereafter, by letter of ruling of February 19, 1997 . . . the Department extended the reach of the implied waiver rule and said that universities may release information from student records, without consent where (1) "a student has taken an adversarial position against an institution"; (2) "made written allegations of wrongdoing against the institution"; and (3) "shared this information with third parties". As more particularly shown below, [ ] has a long history of filing charges of wrongdoing against the University. This history, coupled with the seriousness of the charges she made to [the newspaper], fully supports a finding of waiver in this matter.
Mr. Anselmi further stated that Ms. [ ] had previously sought to involve third parties in her dispute with the University by contacting them in writing about her concerns. He provided a list of those parties, which includes accrediting associations, state legislators, the Maryland Higher Education Commission, the Attorney General of Maryland, the Chancellor of the University of Maryland System, the Maryland State Treasurer, and [another newspaper]. He asserts that Ms. [ ]'s history in contacting third parties with "convenient and purposeful disclosure of her educational records . . . clearly weakens her claim of confidentiality in these records." He further stated the following:
Apparently, as a last resort, [ ] wrote [the newspaper] in [ ]. . . . Following review of the charges, [ ], a [ ] reporter, telephoned the University's attorney in [ ] asking for information about [ ] charges. [The reporter] said [ ] provided her a number of documents to support her claims. . . . During the phone call, [the reporter] verbally summarized [ ]'s allegations. . . .
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[The reporter] informed the University that she would report on these charges and she requested a timely University response. [The reporter] said she spoke to [ ] and that [ ] would consent to the University's reference to educational records in its response to the charges. By letter dated [ ] . . . the University provided [the reporter] the written consent form for [ ] to sign. Shortly thereafter, [the reporter] informed the University that [ ] would not sign the consent. Nonetheless, [the reporter] wished to proceed with the article and again provided the University an opportunity to respond. Given the seriousness of [ ]'s charges, the University reasonably could assume it would be harmed if it did not answer them.
Mr. Anselmi then stated that "neither the public nor the University's interest are served by an article that reports only the student's allegations of wrongdoing." He also stated that the University sought to obtain the student's consent, but that she refused. He contended that:
[c]learly, [ ] cannot be permitted to charge the University in a public forum with serious misconduct and then, knowingly and intentionally, seek to deprive the University from using the very information it needs to defend itself. Fairness required that the University be permitted to respond without [ ] consent; accordingly, finding a waiver of the right to consent in these circumstances is entirely appropriate and fully supported.
Mr. Anselmi stated that the information from Ms. [ ]'s education records that was disclosed was directly and solely limited to that information that was necessary to respond to the charges made to [the reporter] by Ms. [ ]. He further stated that [the reporter] was not permitted to view nor was she provided copies of Ms.[ ]'s education records, but that he did reference the education records to refute the charges that Ms. [ ] made to [the newspaper].
Mr. Anselmi provided this Office with a copy of his [ ] letter to [the reporter] in which he provided her with a consent form for Ms. [ ] to sign. Mr. Anselmi also provided [the reporter] with a copy of the Department's February 19, 1997, letter to Johns Hopkins University (which he refers to as the "Ruling") and stated:
While I believe the Ruling applies to the [ ] allegations, it is always best to obtain a student's written consent; accordingly, I would appreciate you having Ms. [ ] execute the attached original before we speak on Friday morning. . . . [I]f Ms. [ ] elects not to sign the Consent, I will rely on the Ruling in our discussions.
The consent form, a copy of which he also provided this Office, states:
I, [ ], consent to the release, inspection, copying or other disclosure, including the discussion of, any and all student records (whether academic, disciplinary, financial, scholarship, degree or otherwise) to [the reporter] or other journalists employed by [the newspaper], or parties associated with that paper, in connection with their review and report on recent allegations I made against Towson University. This authorization may only be revoked by a subsequent writing signed by me, and any person or entity presented with an original or copy of this authorization shall be duty bound promptly to release the information referred to above.
The consent includes a signature line for Ms. [ ] to sign her name.
FERPA generally prohibits the nonconsensual disclosure of education records. The term "education records" is defined as those records which contain information directly related to a student and which are maintained by an educational agency or institution or by a party acting for the agency or institution. 34 CFR § 99.3 "Education records." "Disclosure" means to permit access to or the release, transfer or other communication of personally identifiable information contained in education records to any party, by any means, including oral, written, or electronic means. 34 CFR § 99.3 "Disclosure."
FERPA generally requires that a student provide written consent before an educational agency or institution discloses a student's education records. 20 U.S.C. §1232g(b); 34 CFR § 99.30 and 99.31. While there are several statutory exceptions to the written consent provision, none permits the nonconsensual disclosure in circumstances such as the subject of this complaint. 20 U.S.C. § 1232g(b); 34 CFR §99.31. Moreover, neither the statute nor the regulations specifically permit an educational agency or institution to infer an implied waiver of the right to consent.
As Mr. Anselmi referenced in his letter, the Department stated in the "Analysis of Comments and Changes" section of the November 21, 1996, publication of the FERPA Final Rule issued to implement certain changes made to FERPA by the Improving America's Schools Act of 1994 that this Office has a policy of permitting a school to infer an implied waiver of the right to consent to disclosures of information from education records if the parent or student has sued the institution. The rationale for this policy is based on the belief that a student or parent should not be permitted to use rights afforded them under FERPA to prevent an educational agency or institution from defending itself in a court of law when the parent or student has initiated legal action and seeks damages against the agency or institution. In such circumstances, the educational agency or institution must be able to defend itself. The Department has maintained a consistent position on this issue, and advises educational institutions that any disclosure of personally identifiable information from a student's education records to a court of law in response to a lawsuit filed against the institution by the student must be limited to that information necessary to defend itself against the specific charges made.
Mr. Anselmi also correctly notes in his letter that this Office extended its policy permitting educational agencies and institutions to infer an implied waiver of the right to consent in other specific circumstances. However, the policy was extended based on the narrow set of facts present in that particular case, although our February 14, 1997, finding did not explicitly state this. In that case, a student copied his letter to a dean at Johns Hopkins University in which he had made allegations concerning Johns Hopkins University and a professor therein to his then employer, the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The dean responded to the student's letter, and sent a copy of the response to NCI, which was an organization with which Johns Hopkins has a special grantor-grantee relationship. The student requested that NCI, based on his allegations, take a particular action to assist him outside Johns Hopkins, and Johns Hopkins disclosed the information believing that, as such, NCI should be fully aware of the facts and have information from the perspective of Johns Hopkins on the matter.
In an August 14, 1995, letter, this Office issued its finding that Johns Hopkins had violated FERPA as alleged, based on the policy of this Office to permit a school to infer an implied waiver of the right to consent only in limited situations, specifically where a student files a lawsuit against a school and a school cannot defend itself without reference to information from the student's education records. In so doing, this Office took into consideration the fact that NCI was not rendering a decision affecting Johns Hopkins based on the student's allegations. In a July 10, 1996, letter, Johns Hopkins requested that this Office reconsider the complaint and our policy of allowing a school to infer an implied waiver of the right to consent in extremely limited circumstances. We did so, and as a result issued the February 14, 1997, finding in which we stated:
Based on the additional information provided by the University in its July 10 letter, we have determined that this complaint is analogous to an educational institution inferring a student's implied waiver of the right to consent to the release of information from his education records when the student has sued the institution. In both instances, the student had requested the involvement of an entity outside of the institution, and it is logical and appropriate that the institution would respond on the record.
Therefore, we believe that if a student has taken an adversarial position against an institution, made written allegations of wrongdoing against the institution, and shared this information with third parties, the institution must be able to defend itself. In order to defend itself, it would be difficult for an institution to provide a response without referring to the student's education records.
While the policy statement made in the Johns Hopkins finding was general and suited toward a broad application, the extension of the policy on implied waiver of the right to consent was based on a narrow set of facts. In retrospect, this Office believes that it should have more clearly delineated guidelines in the Johns Hopkins ruling that would have better clarified those situations, other than those in which the student has sued the agency or institution, where it is appropriate for an educational agency or institution to infer an implied waiver of the right to consent. We therefore set forth clearer guidelines in this decision today. However, we also wish to emphasize that any educational agency or institution that faces a question about disclosure with respect to an implied waiver of the right to consent should contact this Office with details about the particular situation it is facing for guidance before the agency or institution releases any education records.
As a matter of clarification of the Department's policy on permitting an educational agency or institution to infer an implied waiver of the right to consent to disclosure of personally identifiable information from a student's education records in a non-litigation context, we offer the following guidelines:
The Department will support an educational agency or institution that has inferred an implied waiver of the student's right to consent to disclosure when:,
- the student has taken an adversarial position against the educational agency or institution;
- the student has initiated the involvement of the third party by contacting that party in writing, and, in so doing:
- the third party's special relationship1 with the educational agency or institution:
a) gives the third party authority to take specific action against the educational agency or institution; or,
b) reasonably could be significantly adversely affected if the educational agency or institution cannot refute the allegations; and
- the disclosure is as limited as is necessary for the educational agency or institution adequately to defend itself from the student's charges or complaint. The third party should follow the procedures set forth in 34 CFR § 99.33 on limitations that apply to the redisclosure of information derived from education records.
a) set forth specific allegations against the educational agency or institution; and,
b) requested that action be taken against the educational agency or institution or that the third party assist the student in circumventing decisions made about the student by the educational agency or institution;
In formulating and establishing a policy that is not directly addressed by FERPA and is being implied, the Department seeks to ensure that the basis for such policy is strong enough to outweigh the potential harm. In this circumstance, the strong policy consideration behind the waiver of the right to consent doctrine is that an educational agency or institution should be able to defend itself against an adversarial position that has been taken against it by a student where the student has shared this information in writing with a third party that has a special relationship with the educational agency or institution in a way that could significantly adversely affect the educational agency or institution. The potential harm is the dissemination of personally identifiable information from education records without the appropriate written consent. The above guidelines are our effort to minimize the harm, while at the same time to protect the strong policy consideration that gives rise to the doctrine of the waiver of the right to consent.
The widespread dissemination that occurred with Ms. [ ]'s records is not permissible under the implied waiver of the right to consent for two reasons. First, the harm to Ms. [ ] from the disclosure to the [the newspaper] was too great. In this respect, the harm to the student differs from a disclosure in a lawsuit or a disclosure to a discrete third party that has a special relationship with the educational agency or institution and has been asked by the student to assist the student in an adversarial situation with the educational agency or institution. With respect to the University's disclosure to the [the newspaper], there can be no effective limitation on the widespread dissemination of the information from Ms. [ ]'s education records. Unlike a situation where the student has sued the school, the student cannot seek an order of protection from further disclosure when a school has disclosed records to the general public. Similarly, unlike a situation where information is disclosed to a discrete third party that has a special relationship with the educational agency or institution and has been asked by the student to assist the student in an adversarial situation against the educational agency or institution, the disclosure of information in this case was to the general public, and there can be no limitation on redisclosure. The harm to the student's privacy interest under FERPA is simply too great where the disclosure of personally identifiable information in education records is to the general public.
Second, unlike situations in which an educational agency or institution would be unable to defend itself in litigation brought by the student, or in which the educational agency or institution's special relationship with a third party could be significantly adversely affected, or the third party might take specific action against the educational agency or institution unless the agency or institution could refute the charges made against it by the student, the media and the general public cannot take such specific actions. Nothing in FERPA prevents an educational agency or institution from responding to a request for information or an interview with a statement to the effect that FERPA prohibits the disclosure of information from the student's education records which would be necessary to respond. If information is published which is inaccurate and misleading, FERPA does not prohibit an educational agency or institution from filing suit for libel.2
With regard to Mr. Anselmi's assertion that Ms. [ ]'s history of writing third parties with her allegations against the University "weakens her claim to confidentiality," FERPA does not protect the confidentiality of information, per se. Rather, FERPA affords students a right to privacy of information contained in their education records, in particular, the right to consent to most disclosures of personally identifiable information derived from their education records. With respect to Mr. Anselmi's reference to previous occasions where Ms. [ ] sought the involvement of third parties with respect to her complaints against the University, it is possible that some of those sets of circumstances would have met the criteria for inferring an implied waiver of the right to consent, as outlined above. However, because any such disclosures by the University that may have occurred in such instances where Ms. [ ] contacted other third parties regarding her complaints against the University are not subject to the investigation of this complaint, further comment or analysis of such circumstances is immaterial to this letter of finding.
Finally, with regard to the consent which Mr. Anselmi drafted and provided to [the reporter] for Ms.[ ], FERPA requires that a student's consent for disclosure of education records must:
- Specify the records that may be disclosed;
- State the purpose of the disclosure; and
- Identify the party or class of parties to whom the disclosure may be made.
The consent must also be signed and dated.
The consent prepared for Ms. [ ]'s signature appropriately specified the records that could be disclosed, stated the purpose of disclosure and identified the parties to whom the disclosure could be made. However, we note that FERPA does not require that an educational agency or institution disclose education records when a student has consented to the disclosure, as implied by the last sentence of the consent that Mr. Anselmi drafted. We further note that should a student revoke consent, such action would not affect disclosures made prior to the date the student does so.
While Mr. Anselmi stated that he neither permitted [the reporter] to review Ms. [ ]'s records nor sent [the reporter] copies of them, Mr. Anselmi orally disclosed information from Ms. [ ]' education records to [the reporter]. In so doing, the University assumed that an implied waiver of Ms. [ ]' right to consent to disclosures from her education records could be inferred. We find that this assumption incorrectly went beyond the limited scope of those circumstances in which such an inference is appropriate. We find this because Ms. [ ] had not sued the University and because the disclosure was not to a third party with a special relationship with the University that would allow the third party to take specific action against the University. Also, we do not believe that [the newspaper] and the University's relationship would have been significantly adversely affected had the University not refuted Ms. [ ]'s allegations.
However, in recognition of the facts that the University met the three prongs of the test that we set forth in our February 14, 1997, finding involving Johns Hopkins University and that our guidance on the special relationship prong of the doctrine of implied waiver of the right to consent under FERPA did not clearly delineate that the rule was based on the narrow set of facts present in that case, we do not find that the University committed a FERPA violation. However, we set forth clearer guidance today and encourage University officials to contact this Office for technical assistance, prior to the release of education records without the student's written consent, when guidance is needed in applying FERPA to a particular set of facts.
Ms. [ ] alleged that the University violated her rights under FERPA when it failed to provide her access to her education records within 45 days. Specifically, Ms. [ ] alleged that Dr. Frederick Arnold informed her on December 19, 1997, that "there was hardly anything left in [her] file" and that while she could have copies of her own letters regarding her appeals, "Mr. Anselmi would not let [her] have the information that was presented before the Graduate Studies Committee that was presented by 'the other side' because that was considered privileged."
In our February 18, 1998, letter to the University, we set forth the position of this Office on permitting an educational agency or institution to deny a student access to education records that are subject to the attorney-client privilege and we asked that the University provide specific information for each document Ms. [ ] had been denied based on that privilege. Our analysis of Ms. [ ]'s allegation that she has been denied access to her education records is considered in two parts C records subject to her general allegation and records which the University claims are protected by the attorney-client privilege.
Records Subject to General Allegation
Mr. Anselmi explained in his response the following:
Dr. Arnold, Associate Dean of the Graduate School, recalls that Ms. [ ] called him on December 16, 1997 and made a request to "look at her file." Dr. Arnold informed [her] of the information typically maintained by the Graduate School on former students. Dr. Arnold did not tell [her] she could not have access to certain information. Rather, to avoid misunderstanding regarding her request, Dr. Arnold asked [her] to put her request in writing identifying the information she wished to see. Ms. [ ], however, continued to call Dr. Arnold, and each time she called he asked that she put her request in writing. On December 23, 1998, [she] did so. . . . That letter requested "a copy of all [her] undergraduate and graduate student records," including "(academic, disciplinary, financial, scholarship, degree, or otherwise)."
Mr. Anselmi explained that after a series of contact between the University and Ms.[ ], the University "express mailed to Ms. [ ] the records she requested" on January 30, 1998.
By letter dated March 12, 1998, Ms. [ ] alleged that she had not been provided access to "copies of audiograms done at [the University] on campus Speech and Hearing Clinic." She stated that "these audiograms would document [her] hearing over [a] long period of time." She stated that in response to a phone call to his office regarding these records, Mr. Anselmi wrote her a February 23, 1998, letter but that he did not provide her with the audiograms. She provided a copy of the February 23, 1998, letter, which does not appear to address her request for access to the audiograms. She also provided a copy of a February 20, 1998, summary of the questions Ms. [ ] raised in her telephone call. Item one on that list is that Ms. [ ] "wants to know if the University has copies of the audiograms that were performed on her here at the University, and, if so, would like copies of them."
Finally, by letter dated April 27, 1998, Mr. Anselmi wrote this Office and explained the following:
In preparing the University's response to the above complaint, the University conducted an extensive and thorough search of all University records that pertain to Ms. [ ]. Because of Ms. [ ]'s 10 year history of filing complaints against the University, several files were established in a number of different University departments. To assure that Ms. [ ] has received all the documents to which she is entitled, my administrative assistant and I personally reviewed each file and every University record relating or pertaining to Ms. [ ] This review resulted in the identification of certain documents that may not have been disclosed to Ms. [ ]. The University mailed these documents to Ms. [ ] and the attached letter.
In his April 27, 1998, letter to Ms. [ ], a copy of which he provided to this Office, Mr. Anselmi stated:
After we expressed mailed the records to you on January 28, 1998, my assistant and I again reviewed University records to prepare a response to the complaint you filed with the Department of Education. To assure completeness, I am providing you these additional documents. While you may have received some of these documents, and some may be duplicates, there are documents included in this response that inadvertently may not have been provided to you in the University's January 28, 1998, response.
In order for this Office to make a determination as to whether the University fully complied with FERPA with respect to Ms. [ ]'s request for access, we will need additional information from you. In particular, please advise this Office whether the University maintains "copies of audiograms" completed on Ms. [ ], and if so, whether (and when) she was provided access to them. Additionally, we will need clarification as to whether the University believes that the copies of records sent to Ms. [ ] on April 27 definitely included records that had not previously been provided to Ms. [ ] in compliance with her December 1997 request for access. We are also requesting that Ms. [ ] provide additional information relative to this allegation (see copy of enclosed letter to Ms. [ ]).
Records for which the University Has Claimed Attorney-Client Privilege
Finally, in Mr. Anselmi's March 27, 1998, response to the complaint, he explains that the University denied Ms. [ ] access to 12 documents on the grounds that the documents are covered by the attorney-client privilege. He explains that for each document, the privilege is held by Towson State University, the communication is between the University and its attorney (himself) for the purpose of obtaining a legal opinion or legal services and not for the purpose of committing an illegal act or tort, and the communication is confidential and the privilege has not been waived. He identified the documents as:
Letter dated September 29, 1987 from Michael A. Anselmi to Dr. Vic S. Gladstone regarding Complaint of [ ]'s confirming their previous discussions and requesting information needed for legal advice.
- Letter dated October 13, 1987 from Bill L. Wallace, Ph.D. to Mr. Michael A. Anselmi regarding Complaint of [ ] providing the information requested in the September 29, 1987 letter above.
- Letter dated March 31, 1988 from Michael A. Anselmi to Bill L. Wallace, Ph.D. regarding Complaint of [ ] requesting additional information needed for legal advice.
- Letter dated April 7, 1988 from Bill L. Wallace, Ph.D. to Mr. Michael A. Anselmi regarding Complaint of [ ] in response to Mr. Anselmi's March 31, 1988 letter.
- Letter dated July 25, 1988 from Bill L. Wallace, Ph.D. to Mr. Michael A. Anselmi regarding Complaint of [ ] requesting legal advice on Complainant's allegations.
- Memorandum dated March 13, 1990 from Dr. Vic. S. Gladstone to Michael A. Anselmi providing information needed for legal advice.
- Memorandum dated May 18, 1990 from Dr. Vic S. Gladstone to Michael A. Anselmi requesting legal review of letter dated May 18, 1990 to Clinical Certification Board.
- Memorandum dated May 18, 1990 from Michael A. Anselmi to Vic Gladstone advising him that Ms. [ ] threatened litigation and providing legal advice on University obligations.
- Memorandum dated May 17, 1990 from Michael A. Anselmi to Vic Gladstone regarding Complaint of [ ]and commenting on letter dated May 15, 1990 from Peter Taliaferro.
- Memorandum dated May 4, 1990 from Michael A. Anselmi to Vic Gladstone regarding draft letter prepared by Mr. Anselmi for Dr. Gladstone's review and signature.
- Memorandum dated March 22, 1990 from Michael A. Anselmi to Dr. Vic Gladstone regarding University's legal position on [ ]'s request for certification.
- Memoranda dated May 16, 1990, May 10, 1990 and May 16, 1990 from Michael A. Anselmi to his file regarding discussion with Dr. Gladstone and Ms. [ ]'s attorney on the legal obligations, if any, that Dr. Gladstone may have to complete certification forms.
As discussed in our February 18, 1998, letter, FERPA requires educational agencies and institutions to provide eligible students an opportunity to inspect and review their education records within 45 days of receipt of a request. 20 U.S.C. § 1232g(a)(1)(A); 34 CFR § 99.10(a). As noted above, FERPA broadly defines the term "education records." 20 U.S.C. § 1232g(a)(4)(A); 34 CFR § 99.3 "Education records." While FERPA does exempt certain types of records from the definition of education records, neither the statute nor the implementing regulations specifically provides for denying a student's right to inspect and review an education record based on attorney-client privilege or work product privilege grounds. Nonetheless, an educational institution may deny a request to inspect and review on these grounds in certain circumstances. In particular, an educational institution's ability under FERPA to assert the privilege against a student seeking access to education records may be inferred by the institution's need to obtain confidential legal advice in certain circumstances. That is, when an educational institution needs to obtain confidential legal advice, and in so doing creates "education records," the institution may decline to permit inspection and review of those records, or portions of those records, on attorney-client privilege grounds, provided that all of the below conditions are met. In order for an attorney to invoke the attorney-client privilege for his client, he or she must establish that:
- the asserted holder of the privilege is or sought to become a client;
- the communication is between a client and a member of the bar, or his or her subordinate, who is acting as a lawyer in connection with the communication;
- the communication relates to facts disclosed by the client to the attorney for the purpose of securing either an opinion of law or legal services, and not for the purpose of committing an illegal act or tort;
- the communication is in fact confidential and not made in the presence of anyone outside the particular attorney-client relationship; and
- the privilege has been claimed and not waived.
After reviewing the above-delineated information about the letters in question, this Office has determined that the letters are Ms. [ ]'s education records. However, the University has provided this Office with facts showing that each of the above-delineated requirements for invoking attorney-client privilege has been met with regard to each of the identified documents. This Office finds that the University did not violate FERPA when it withheld from Ms. [] those education records of hers which are subject to the attorney-client privilege, and, accordingly, this Office is closing its investigation of this aspect of this allegation. Consequently, the University will not be required to provide Ms. [ ] with access to these documents.
Thank you for your continued cooperation with regard to the investigation of this complaint. Please provide the additional information requested under the general discussion of allegation two within three weeks of your receipt of this letter.
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It was about 4:30 in the morning and something stirred Jay Cooper awake.
The retired lawyer, then in his early 80s, heard voices outside his Corona del Mar home. He flipped up the blinds and went to the balcony.
That's when he saw them: An entire troop of soldiers on horseback; the French cavalry. He could tell by details on their uniforms.
Cooper rubbed his eyes. He wasn't dreaming. An entire regiment was lined up – on his green belt — ready to charge.
He woke Judy, his wife.
"We are under attack! We must leave. Get in the car – now!"
Judy, shaken, quickly looked outside. Jay looked again too.
The cavalry was gone. The green belt was dark and quiet.
"Honey, there's no one here," she said.
The couple slowly returned to their bedroom. And as they sat on the bed, perplexed, Judy did what she could to help her husband calm down – she made up a song.
"Armies in the green belt. Armies in the green belt, ta-da-da-da-da."
Jay sang back:
"Yes, I'm going craaazy."
Jay's vision wasn't real, but it wasn't a dream or a blast of Alzheimer's either. It turned out to be something much more unusual.
And even as Jay and Judy Cooper laughed and went back to sleep, they both knew that everything wasn't all right.
About 20 years ago, when Jay Cooper sat down to write a novel, he was a healthy, just retired 67-year-old, fully in charge of his faculties.
Cooper had cherished his legal career, but his passion always was storytelling. He'd made up detective stories as a child. And when he joined the Merchant Marines at age 18, in World War II, he took his first crack at a novel.
Working graveyard – using coffee, radio patter and writing to stay awake – Cooper spun a story around the dashing detective Martin Lopen. If the book ever became a movie, Cooper imagined, Humphrey Bogart could play Lopen.
But there was no published book and no movie. Cooper left the Merchant Marines and went to law school. Soon, research and work pushed Cooper's stories aside.
So when he sat down again, in 1993, he brought unspent passion to the task. He also had a long legal career to draw from, and a keen interest in the Middle East.
All of those were brought into the adventure of his new hero, Sal Dematteo, an attorney whose life is turned on its head after he sees a dagger that once belonged to the ruthless law giver Hammurabi.
In Cooper's story, the day after seeing the dagger, Dematteo begins having visions of ancient Rome and Judea.
The story plays out with many other characters — some modern, some ancient; some real, some imagined. But, in the end, Cooper says "Hammurabi's Dagger" is about ordinary people, and how extraordinary things can happen to them.
What he didn't imagine was something extraordinary was about to happen to him.
Jay Cooper's own visions began a little more than three years ago, after he'd completed his book and was looking for a publisher.
The visions came suddenly and Cooper had no way of knowing at the time that they were just hallucinations. They seemed very real.
And threatening.
He saw faces in bushes. He saw gang members running around, pumping poisonous gas inside his home.
In a nonhallucinatory moment he bought a bedroom fan blow away the toxic gas.
Cooper was diagnosed with Lewy Body Dementia, a form of progressive dementia that leads to a decline in thinking, reasoning and independent function, a result of microscopic deposits that damage brain cells over time.
An individual who has Lewy Body Dementia often suffers from recurrent, complex, visual hallucinations; typically well-formed and detailed.
When Judy Cooper heard about what had taken over her husband's life, she was shocked and, she admits, spooked.
"It's startling and very weird," she said. "(The visions were) like a self-fulfilling prophecy."
As she started reading a draft of her husband's book, she realized it included many autobiographical elements. The protagonists were lawyers, just like Jay. One of the lawyers was Jewish and extremely messy, much like the man she fell in love with more than 50 years ago.
And there is one scene in the book that she says now is simply the strangest possible coincidence. One of Jay's characters, an attorney named David Gold, looks out a window and has a vision.
He sees an army of soldiers coming right at him.
Jay Cooper doesn't make much of the similarities between his book and his own life.
"It was a story, that's all," he says.
He tries to separate fact from fiction – even when he's having the worst, most frightening hallucinations.
"I cannot control the content of my vision," he says. "When it comes on, I can feel it come on. Getting through it, that's a different story."
For now, he can still tell himself this: "If you don't think it's real, it ain't real."
Even as he sees the vase on his table transform into a person who then turns around and looks at him, he slaps his own face and commands himself to "snap out of it."
At night, if he feels a vision coming on, he'll get on the floor and do 20 push-ups. At 86, he says, that's not a bad deal.
In September, Cooper was asked to speak at the 20th annual Southern California Alzheimer's disease Research Conference. There, participants shared their methods of coping with various forms of dementia.
As Cooper took the microphone, he told the audience: "I'd just like to say… Welcome to the Academy Awards!"
He was kidding of course, but making an important point: A sense of humor, he says, can help you get through the worst day.
"You've got to accentuate the positive."
On Dec. 15, 2012 "Hammurabi's Dagger" was published on Amazon.
When his wife brought him a copy of the yellow paperback, Cooper clutched it to his chest. It was a milestone he never thought he'd reach.
"I couldn't believe it," he said.
Then, smiling mischievously, he added:
"I thought, 'This is an illusion. It must be!'"
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Cheryl is a minor character in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories.
Cheryl is a prostitute who appears in the mission Hot Wheels. Cheryl is known to work for Vincenzo Cilli at his warehouse in Atlantic Quays in Portland Island. She is seen performing oral sex on Vincenzo, while he is talking to his mother on the phone, which disgusts Toni.
Mission Appearances
- GTA Liberty City Stories
- She closely resembles Maria, leading to the fact that some players actually thought Maria was a prostitute.


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As if the blooms blanketing the countryside weren't enough reason to take a springtime drive through the Hill Country, Burnet hosts its annual Bluebonnet Festival on the second weekend in April to celebrate the state flower.
Wildflowers are blanketing the fields in many places, but if you're in East Texas, don't forget to look up in the trees, as well.
Whether you have the luck of the Irish by birth or just in spirit, St. Patrick's Day traditions have a special charm, especially in Texas.
With Fat Tuesday coming up on Feb. 9, festivals and other events are already kicking off across Texas to start the countdown to Mardi Gras.
Christmas trees, Santa and stockings are well known trappings of the holiday season—but what about campfires, cannons and cowboys? They're all part of the festivities at historic Fort Concho in San Angelo, which hosts an annual Christmas celebration that attracts more than 15,000 holiday merrymakers each year.
Nacogdoches, known as the oldest town in Texas, has a long and storied history to celebrate. Caddo tribes had long lived in the area before Spain founded a settlement in 1779. Nine flags have flown here—three more than the Spanish, French, Mexican, Texan, Confederate and U.S. flags that have flown over most of Texas—because of localized attempts to rebel from Spanish and Mexican rule.
There are almost as many ways to celebrate the season in Texas as there are toys in Santa's sleigh. Whether you're looking for a place to go caroling, see "The Nutcracker" or find unique holiday gifts, we've got you covered!
'Tis the season for dazzling Christmas displays—let our list of some of the biggest and brightest displays across Texas light your path toward a fun holiday outing with family and friends.
What if you could escape for a weekend not just to another place but another time?
The joys of Texas wildflower season in the spring are well known, but fewer are familiar with the colorful array of carefully cultivated blooms celebrated each fall in East Texas.
The "Cheeseburger Capital of Texas" hosts its 10th annual Cheeseburger Festival in City Park on July 18.
Looking for a way to beat the heat and keep the kids entertained this summer? Starting June 13, the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas welcomes a special exhibit in addition to its normal collection of fascinating features.


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West Elm Holiday Collection by David Stark & West Elm
Next week — October, 5th — West Elm officially launches the first phase of their Holiday & Entertaining collection for 2010. I viewed this collection over the summer in the West Elm offices in Brooklyn and am excited to share the amazing displays of the products from David Stark and the West Elm team. The 2010 holiday collection — larger than ever — includes an assortment of artfully crafted miniature trees, ornaments, garlands, various wreaths, minimalist nutcrackers, party favors, tabletop, dinnerware, home scents and a wide variety of gifts and decorative items. Check it out:
David Stark's displays brought this collection to life — the kelly green walls combined with mostly-neutral and natural colors was key. The textural use of paper, cardboard and newsprint gives the collection an appreciated depth and richness.
- Miniature Trees & Topiary — whether crafted from paper, sticks or wood, all of the miniature trees are super chic and most are appropriate for year-round decorative use.
- Minimalist Nutcrackers — available in mulitple sizes and white and natural finishes, these soldiers are elegant and cool.
- Cork Tableware — classic and naturally beautiful.
- Modern Snowglobes — these sold out quickly last year and the new designs will be popular, too.
- David Stark's Paper Garlands & Ornaments — eleganty crafty (it is possible!)
Portions of the collection are already making their way online — see for yourself at West Elm | What's New.
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WASHINGTON — Police and federal agents pulled the car over in a suburb north of Denver. An FBI agent showed his badge. The driver appeared not startled at all. "My friend," he said, "I have been waiting for you."
And with that, Jesus Audel Miramontes-Varela stepped out of his white 2002 BMW X5 and into the arms of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Over the next several days at his ranch in Colorado and an FBI safe house in Albuquerque, the Mexican cartel chieftain — who had reputedly fed one of his victims to lions in Mexico — was transformed into one of the FBI's top informants on the Southwest border.
Around a dining room table in August 2010, an FBI camera whirring above, the 34-year-old Miramontes-Varela confessed his leadership in the Juarez cartel, according to 75 pages of confidential FBI interview reports obtained by The Times/Tribune Washington Bureau.


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Web Business Monthly
You need traffic. You know search engines can deliver customers to your site. You've followed some basic search engine optimization instructions, you've tried some free submission tools, maybe even submitted paid listing requests, but you need more. What's the secret to uncorking the traffic potential of search engines?
Maybe money. Many online businesses rely more on traffic from keyword advertising than from search results. Keyword advertisers create text ads that search engines display whenever specific words are searched for. Advertisers pay a set fee only when searchers click on their ads--the reason that this arrangement is often called pay-per-click advertising.
Keyword advertising fees are typically based on demand. Ads coupled with popular words and terms with broad commercial appeal generally cost more per click than those with more specific, narrower terms. In the most competitive categories, companies outbid each other for the best positions, driving up the cost per click. But in more closely defined categories the price per click may be relatively low,even for the best positions.
Although nearly all search engines accept some form of advertising within their results displays, reputable ones clearly differentiate between paid listings and search results, so buying keywords won't buy your way into higher rankings. But it can ensure that qualified searchers always find your ad.
Top search engines that offer keyword advertising include Google and Overture. Both are Register.com partners and offer more information here.
Peter Girard is Director of Marketing Communications at Register.com.
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Paul Vixie: SOPA/PIPA Would Be Good For My Business, But I'm Still Against It
from the the-toothpaste-will-come-out-somewhere dept
A separate point that was raised by Mark Lemley early on was that this argument that those in the US simply can't go after foreign sites is ridiculous. Under existing law, it's happened plenty of times in the past where copyright holders have gone after sites and companies based outside of the US and dragged those folks into US courts.
The vast majority of the evening proceeded with the implicit assumption that everyone there was categorically opposed to SOPA... but towards the end two execs from Paramount Pictures made it known they were there, and they were very much on the other side. The temperature in the room must have dropped 20 degrees when that happened. To be honest, the panel itself might have had a few more fireworks (though likely wouldn't have been that productive) if there had been a SOPA supporter on the panel itself. Of course, the Paramount guys, in typical Hollywood fashion, made a bunch of false assumptions. Perhaps the best part was when one of them challenged venture capitalist Albert Wenger by claiming that the companies in his portfolio used intellectual property laws to protect their business: to which Wenger immediately shot back that they did not, and that they didn't support such things at all. Instead, he noted that the companies his firm (Union Square Ventures) invests in tend to win in the marketplace by competing and winning. He noted that even if they completely gave away the source code of Tumblr (one of USV's investments), it wouldn't matter. In fact, he pointed out that another company had copied Tumblr feature-for-feature... but they couldn't get users. The point is clear, and it's the same point we've made here for years: focusing on copyright to protect yourself is not a good business model, and not something they invest in. Instead, they focus on things that can succeed by executing even if someone copies them line for line.
Finally, there was an entertaining moment when Andrew Bridges asked the Paramount guys exactly how many sites they saw as a problem. Because, he noted, other studio execs from some of the big Hollywood studios had given him numbers between 10s and a few hundred. And, he noted, if it's just such a small number of sites, then why create massive regulatory issues for the entire internet, rather than trying to deal with the sites. The problem is that Hollywood wants control over much more than what's really "the worst of the worst." However, when someone suggested it was "a couple hundred" sites that were problems, Mark Lemley pointed out that then they should be all done, because ICE has already seized 450 domains.
All in all it was an interesting evening. The specific discussions on the problems of DNS blocking were particularly enlightening. It's why when the House had its ridiculously one-sided hearing on SOPA last month -- in which not a single panelist knew anything about DNS -- they should have had someone like Paul Vixie there to explain the basics of why SOPA and PIPA are bad ideas that won't fix things and will likely make things worse.
There was one metaphor that was used repeatedly through the evening, and it's really quite apt. People kept noting that "the toothpaste is just going to come out somewhere else." It's a good way of noting the unintended consequences here. Plugging this "hole" and then putting pressure on sites may stop certain actions, but it won't deal with the real issue that Hollywood is facing. In fact, it's likely to cause more problems, as the toothpaste squirts out somewhere else, unexpectedly.


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Skip Foster, a veteran publisher and Florida native, will be the Northwest Florida Daily News� next publisher and will oversee weekly newspapers in Crestview, Milton, Destin and Walton County.
Skip Foster, a veteran publisher and Florida native, will be the Northwest Florida Daily News� next publisher and will oversee weekly newspapers in Crestview, Milton, Destin and Walton County.
Friday morning�s announcement followed a nearly two-month search that drew candidates from across the country and ended with the hiring of Foster, publisher of the Shelby Star in Cleveland County, N.C., since 2007.
�I�m excited,� said Roger Quinn, central regional publisher for Halifax Media Group, which also owns the Shelby Star. �We looked across the country and found that the best candidate was one of our own.
�He has a proven track record of not just leading award-winning newspapers, but of making a newspaper � and himself � an integral part of the community it serves.�
Before assuming the publisher�s role at the Shelby Star, Foster served as its editor for 10 years. It was part of a newspaper chain that included the Northwest Florida Daily News, which gave him familiarity with the region�s �unbelievable� beauty and its newspapers.
�I am honored to lead such a tremendous team in this growing and vibrant market,� Foster said. �No one provides better content and better marketing solutions than the Daily News, Crestview News Bulletin, Destin Log, Walton Sun and Santa Rosa's Press Gazette.�
Connecting with the community
�I can�t wait to get to know this community,� he said. �My favorite part of being publisher is connecting the newspaper with readers, businesses and organizations in the markets we serve.�
Foster leaves a legacy of community involvement in Shelby.
This month, he was awarded the United Way of Cleveland County�s H. Eugene LeGrand Lifetime Achievement award. He was named the 2007 United Way campaign�s most outstanding volunteer and was the organization�s 2010 volunteer of the year.
In 2009, Foster founded �Connect, Commit to Change,� a community event that brings together two groups: agencies that help children and new volunteers.
The effort was launched in the wake of a shooting death in Shelby, after which a Star reporter heard a young child matter-of-factly ask, �Who got killed?� Foster wrote a column asking the community to commit to doing more for the community�s children. A board formed and, last year, during the now-annual event, more than 200 volunteers signed commitment cards to help one of the more than 50 agencies that help children.
International recognition
Foster has also served on the board of the Cleveland County Chamber and the N.C. Press Association�s legislative committee. He has served two stints on the vestry of the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer and is a member of the Shelby Rotary Club.
At the Star, he helped launch and sustain a content innovation project that earned the paper international attention. In 2007, Foster was invited to speak in Paris, France, about The Star�s forays into multimedia journalism. Foster was a 2002 Ethics Fellow with the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla., and helped write Poynter�s �Journalism without Scandal� report in 2003.
Foster, a Lakeland native, began his career as a sports writer in Hickory, N.C., in 1988, after graduating from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn. He moved to The Gaston Gazette in Gastonia, N.C., in 1989 and eventually was promoted to managing editor.
Foster is married to District Court Judge Anna F. (Dina) Foster, who will resign her seat to relocate to the Panhandle. They have three children: Mary Frances, 18; Matthew, 15; and Will, 11.
Related: Daily News, News Bulletin publisher steps down


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WASHINGTON -- Wednesday's presidential debate promises sharp contrasts. One candidate wants to repeal Obamacare, one candidate invented it. One opposed the auto industry bailout, one takes credit for it. One doubts the scientific consensus about climate change, one believes in it. One wants to "voucherize" Medicare, one wants to save it. One dismisses nearly half of Americans as a bunch of moochers, and one claims to champion the struggling middle class.
It promises to be an epic clash: Mitt Romney vs. Mitt Romney. Oh, and President Obama will be there, too.
In theory, the first general election debate is a trailing candidate's best opportunity to hit the reset button. New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie, doing surrogate's duty on the Sunday morning shows, acknowledged that Romney has had a "tough couple of weeks" but promised the debate would change just about everything.


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Meet fellow Polyamorists in your area! Come to a local Polyamory Meetup to meet other supporters of multipartner relationships and families. Talk about open relationships, polyfidelity, honesty, respect and alternate forms of commitment. Anyone interested is welcome!
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