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The Big Book of Green Design
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The Big Book of Green Design explores the specific techniques and methods that graphic designers are employing worldwide to make their business a more earth-friendly one. When paying clients need a more environmentally conscious image, they turn to ad agencies and in-house designers for cost-effective solutions. The results are often surprising, innovative, and new, and The Big Book of Green Design features the best of these earth-friendly designs. Mainly focusing on printed materials, but also showcasing examples of trade show environments, repurposed designs, and the new "anti-packaging" trend, the book showcases over 450 examples of marketing and collateral materials produced using environmentally favorable methods. With a foreword by Eric Benson, an expert on sustainable procedures within graphic design, The Big Book of Green Design is very much a "see what your colleagues are doing" idea-sharing, inspiration-generating compilation for agencies, freelance designers, printers, and other creative professionals.
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Best-selling author George Saunders is turning his graduation speech that went viral into a book.
"Congratulations, by the Way," an expanded version of his commencement speech to the Syracuse University class of 2013, is scheduled for publication by Random House in spring 2014.
The speech is a meditation on the importance of kindness. He says what he regrets in life are "failures of kindness" and "as a goal in life, you could do worse than: Try to be kinder."
Text of the speech quickly spread on social networks and blogs.
Saunders' most recent collection of short stories, "Tenth of December," was published by Random House earlier this year.

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There will be no school in Worcester today as crews continue to clear snow from city streets. Douglas and Grafton are among the other districts in the region that have called off classes for today.
Some communities, including Auburn, canceled school after initially calling for a delayed opening.
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BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — Roberto Castro went from a share of the lead to five shots behind in three holes. He finished the third round of the AT&T National by hitting a 5-iron left of the 18th green and into the water. And he still managed to be part of a four-way tie for the lead.
BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — Roberto Castro went from a share of the lead to five shots behind in three holes. He finished the third round of the AT&T National by hitting a 5-iron left of the 18th green and into the water. And he still managed to be part of a four-way tie for the lead.
"Wild day," he said.
Not just for Castro. It was like that for just about everyone Saturday at Congressional.
Bill Haas hit a wedge into the water and made triple bogey on the 11th hole to fall five shots behind. Four holes and three birdies later, he had the outright lead. He was helped by Andres Romero, who squandered a three-shot lead in two holes by hitting his tee shot into a creek.
With all that action, James Driscoll must have felt as if he missed out on all the fun. All he did was post his third straight round in the 60s to join the leaders.
Castro put the perfect finishing touch on a theatrical afternoon by taking his penalty drop from the water on No. 18 and chipping in from 80 feet for par. That enabled him to salvage an even-par 71 and claim a share of the lead with Haas (68), Driscoll (68) and Romero, who closed with six pars for a 70.
"Saving a bogey would have been huge," Castro said. "Making a par is just a bonus."
They were at 7-under 206, which means next to nothing — not with 10 players separated by three shots going into the final round, with seven of those players looking for their first PGA Tour victory.
"This is as good a chance as I've had for sure," Driscoll said. "But there's still 18 holes to go."
Still in the mix is 19-year-old Jordan Spieth, who had a two-shot lead after opening with a pair of birdies. He also went through a five-hole stretch when he missed five putts inside 8 feet — including a three-putt from 5 feet for double bogey on No. 8. The Texas teen had a 74, though he's still in the game, just three shots behind.
"Making a double on the easiest hole on the course, and then following up with bogey on a par 5 with a lob wedge in my hand, it was very difficult at the turn for me to stay calm and hit good shots to start the back nine," Spieth said. "Maybe lost a couple of shots with my emotions there, which is upsetting. But like I said, I shot 5 under yesterday. I could shoot 5 under tomorrow and be in great position."
Jason Kokrak had a 70 and was one shot out of the lead, while Charlie Wi had a 29 on the front nine and shot 65 to finish two shots behind, along with Tom Gillis (66). Spieth was in the group at 209 with Brandt Snedeker, who had a 69.
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Fred Couples watched Kenny Perry relentlessly sprint up the leaderboard Saturday in the Senior Players Championship and figured it was time for his putter to start cooperating.
Three birdies over the final five holes restored some order as Couples took a step closer to his first victory of the season. The Hall of Famer finished with a 3-under 67 and was at 15-under 195 at rain-soaked and toothless Fox Chapel, two strokes clear of the hard-charging Perry. Couples already has three runner-up finishes this season. He has no plans to make it four.
"If I go out and play well, I have a great shot at winning," Couples said. "I'm certainly not going to be thinking about second place."
It appeared that's all the rest of the field was playing for after Couples ripped off seven birdies in 11 holes of the second round Friday before a midafternoon downpour halted play for the day.
The deluge cooled off Couples a bit. He two-putted from 60 feet on the par-3 third when he returned to the course Saturday morning, then made five straight pars before finishing his round off with a birdie on the par-4 ninth for an 8-under 62.
Tying the record for the lowest score ever in a major on the Champions Tour should have provided Couples with some breathing room. Instead, Perry made it close.
Perry began the day as speck in Couples' rearview mirror before the Kentucky player made three birdies and an eagle over the final six holes of the second round for a 7-under 63. He backed it up six hours later with another flawless 63, using his length off the tee and a new putter to chase down the frontrunning Couples.
MAYNOOTH, Ireland (AP) — Dutch golfer Joost Luiten will take a one-shot lead into the final round at the Irish Open on Sunday with a chance at his for a second victory this month.
Luiten moved to 13 under par and one ahead of Pablo Larrazabal of Spain after both players shot bogey-free 6-under 66s at Carton House on Saturday.
Luiten won the Lyoness Open in Austria this month for the second European Tour title of his seven-year pro career.
"I have been playing very well the last two tournaments as I was also 10th in the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth after my win in Austria," he said.
So tomorrow I will try to do the same, and if so, hopefully it may be good enough to win the trophy. It's all a matter of staying patient."
Even though major winners Rory McIlroy, Padraig Harrington, Graeme McDowell and Darren Clarke failed to make the halfway cut, Luiten said there will be no less pressure on Sunday.
"You really can't worry about who is behind you on the leaderboard, I am not bothered about who is behind me," Luiten said.
"The key for me will be trying to get some early birdies to help set up a good score.
Larrazabal was also a two-time Tour winner, though his last success was two years ago in Munich.
"I had a lovely day in the office today with the Irish crowds truly awesome," he said. "I hope tomorrow I can hit the ball as good as these three days and hole as many putts."
England's Robert Rock (71) was in third place on 10 under and still within sight of making amends for losing a playoff for the 2009 Irish Open.
England's Paul Casey (67) and Scottish newcomer Scott Henry (69) were tied in fourth place on 9 under.
Six players shared sixth, including former Irish Open winner Jose Maria Olazabal (71), who is looking to end an eight-year Tour victory drought.
However last year's victorious Ryder Cup captain again struggled with the driver.
"Well, it's just a shame as the leaders are running away, they are just too far ahead," he said. "The driver cost me big again. I only made three fairways today, and it's very, very difficult to score when you do that."
Olazabal is looking to become the oldest winner of the event at 43. He won the 1990 Irish Open.


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50 U.S. Code § 843 - Application of Internal Security Act of 1950 to members of Communist Party and other subversive organizations; "Communist Party" defined
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Application of Internal Security Act of 1950 to members of Communist Party and other subversive organizations; "Communist Party" defined
Whoever knowingly and willfully becomes or remains a member of (1) the Communist Party, or (2) any other organization having for one of its purposes or objectives the establishment, control, conduct, seizure, or overthrow of the Government of the United States, or the government of any State or political subdivision thereof, by the use of force or violence, with knowledge of the purpose or objective of such organization shall be subject to all the provisions and penalties of the Internal Security Act of 1950, as amended [50 U.S.C. 781 et seq.], as a member of a "Communist-action" organization.
For the purposes of this section, the term "Communist Party" means the organization now known as the Communist Party of the United States of America, the Communist Party of any State or subdivision thereof, and any unit or subdivision of any such organization, whether or not any change is hereafter made in the name thereof.
(Aug. 24, 1954, ch. 886, § 4, 68 Stat. 776.)
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ronda chatelle 10/5/2005 1:06:14 AMThis is outstanding! Pefect amount of clarity, movement and focus. Her concentration seems uninterruptable. (is that a word?) :) #321397
Rakesh Syal 10/5/2005 1:45:10 AMFantastic display of energy, Bob!!! #1918599
bob cornelison 10/5/2005 6:19:06 AMThanks Ronda and Rakesh! Now it looks like she is playing "flight of the bumblebee" when in reality she is probably playing "twinkle twinkle!"LOL!
Deborah Sandidge 10/5/2005 8:59:57 AMI like the energy and motion captured, Bob!! #1920146
bob cornelison 10/5/2005 9:12:24 AMThanks Deborah!
The Judges at BetterPhoto.com 11/25/2005 2:51:21 AMVery nice composition wit good, flowing energy. #2118365
bob cornelison 11/25/2005 9:44:06 AMThanks so much!
Jenny Bosmans 11/26/2005 12:45:23 PMCongratulations on this beautiful Winner, Bob! #2122940
Stanley J. Contrades 11/26/2005 12:50:57 PMCONGRATULATIONS on your 2nd Place win, Bob!! Very nicely done!!
KHAWLA Haddad 11/26/2005 1:54:49 PMCONGRATULATIONS on your 2nd Place win!!!! #2123403
Laura Clay-Ballard 11/26/2005 3:12:30 PMawesome shot. congrats #2123751
Leonard Pierce 11/26/2005 3:30:39 PMCongratulations on your second place win Bob!!! Very well deserved! #2123815
Deborah Sandidge 11/26/2005 5:10:00 PMBeautiful! Congratulations on your win, Bob! #2124031
Susan T. Evans 11/26/2005 10:21:51 PMBig congrats Bob this is awesome. #2124848
Donna W. Neal 11/27/2005 6:56:01 AMA BIG CONGRATULATIONS Bob #2125869
bob cornelison 11/27/2005 9:08:27 AMJenny, Stan, Khawla, Laura, Len, Deborah, Susan and Donna..THANKS!
Sharon Day 11/28/2005 3:41:51 PMBig congratulations on your 2nd place win, Bob!! Awesome image and well deserved win! This would have worked as well in SE. Great shot! #2131877
bob cornelison 11/29/2005 6:30:59 PMThanks alot Sharon!
Cathy M. Gromball 11/30/2005 9:31:15 AMCongratulations on your Second Place win, Bob!
Cathy :) #2137919
bob cornelison 11/30/2005 3:39:32 PMThanks Cathy!
Jill Odice 11/30/2005 9:59:55 PMXCongrats on your well deserved 2nd place ! This is so full of energy Bob :-) #2140347
bob cornelison 12/1/2005 4:39:17 PMAh thanks Jillo!
Goshka G. 12/1/2005 4:59:02 PMCongrats on this beautifully captured energy at work, Bob!! #2143237
bob cornelison 12/2/2005 9:39:29 AMThanks Goshka! I appreciate it.
Kathleen K. Parker 12/4/2005 10:03:41 PMJust saw this and knew I would love it. It is outstanding, Bob!
bob cornelison 12/5/2005 10:10:56 AMThanks KK!
Renee Doyle 12/12/2005 11:09:05 PMSorry I missed this earlier!! Congratulations and wonderful shot!! Actually, I enjoyed you entire gallery!!
bob cornelison 12/13/2005 5:15:31 PMThanks Renee! I will take a comment anytime because for one I am usually the late one to comment and second I enjoy the late ones just as much as the early ones. Thanks also for visiting my gallery! I really appreciate your comment that you liked my galley.
Susie Peek-Swint 1/2/2006 3:08:27 PMLooks like I'm even later than Renee is saying many congrats ~ super capture Bob ~ well done! #2245756
bob cornelison 1/2/2006 11:01:49 PMThanks Susie P.! Your almost Susie Q.!LOL!
Steven Gunnerson 1/20/2006 12:35:41 PMVery nicely captured Bob. I really love the sense of movement and lighting. #2311132
bob cornelison 1/20/2006 11:19:11 PMThanks Steven!
Melissa G. Meiselman 12/8/2006 8:34:03 PMDon't know how I missed this awesome image. I love the music of the violin and to see a capture of someone playing...well it is a real treat, Bob!!! #3682954
bob cornelison 12/8/2006 10:52:03 PMI love the sound of the violin also when it doesn't squeek. thanks Melissa!
bob cornelison 9/26/2007 10:50:36 AMFantastic gallery. Thought you might be interested in the artsy-fartsy club here at bp. click on clubs, topical, arsty-fartsy. #4849124
bob cornelison 9/26/2007 3:06:18 PMThanks Deborah! Why not..I just joined.
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The guys at Codango.com have got a review of Lifetype 1.2 up and running. The feedback is very positive and Lifetype scored a deserved 9! The review also highlights some areas that could see some improvements and the development team is planning to work on them accordingly.
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Fire consumed a home at 8 Sylvan St., just outside Danvers Square, shortly before 6 p.m. Friday evening.
Fire consumed a home at 8 Sylvan St., just outside Danvers Square, shortly before 6 p.m. Friday evening.
Dense smoke filled the neighborhood and TV helicopters circled overhead as dozens of bystanders watched local firefighters control the blaze.
"There was significant damage to the house of origin," said Jamie Shafner, lieutenant in the Danvers Fire Department. "There was no damage to the surrounding homes."
The fire was quenched by 10 p.m., with crews from Beverly, Peabody, Salem, Middleton and Wenham assisting.
Shafner said that the only occupant in the home at the time of the blaze was a cat, who was removed safely.
In total, one person was injured during the fire, fire fighter Peter Davis from Beverly.
"When a ladder slipped, Davis fell backwards and his foot was caught between two rungs of the ladder," said Beverly fire chief Paul Cotter. "Initially, we were afraid that his leg was broken."
Cotter said that Davis' steel-toed boot limited the extent of his injuries to a few pulled muscles.
"He was sore, but there weren't even any torn ligaments," Cotter said. "I was able to drive him home from the hospital that same night.
The fire appears to have been started from a nonextinguished cigarette.
"I'm just devastated that 47 years of work, of my life, can go up in smoke because of someone's careless negligence," said William Niland of Topsfield, who is the owner of the house. Niland, 72, originally lived in the house with his family before breaking it up into apartments.
At the time of the blaze, Niland was attempting to sell the house, and did not carry insurance on the property.
"I had one developer out a week before the fire offering me one figure, and now he is offering me a much smaller one," Niland said. "Financially, this is going to be a catastrophic calamity for our family."
Niland is in poor health and has undergone 14 surgeries for cancer. He is currently in talks with lawyers and developers, and said he may need to install temporary FEMA trailers on the site.
"When the founders of Danvers established the center of our culture, they picked this neighborhood because of the wonderful vibe that is here. Everyone feels it," Niland said. "I've always provided a good home for people here. I am just so saddened at what has happened."
One of the home's neighbors is owned by Danvers selectman David Mills.
"I was on the treadmill at the gym when the fire was burning," Mills said. "I got a call from a neighbor wondering if it was our home, and I was really concerned because I had a renter and my dog at home. I raced back and found everyone on the lawn. Thank God everyone at the home was all right."
Mills said that he had gotten some soot on his walls, but otherwise his property was unharmed.
"I hope that some charitable works come about to support the families that lived in the house," Mills said. "I would want to do something to help."


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Bachmann Re-Election Run Eased Other Campaign Debt
ST. PAUL (AP) - Michele Bachmann has dramatically reduced what had been a more than $1 million debt from her failed presidential run and she has her congressional re-election effort to thank for it.
New campaign finance reports released Thursday show the Minnesota congresswoman repaid more than $750,000 in presidential campaign debt by transferring it from her congressional account. More than $500,000 of that was shipped over between late October and late November.
Bachmann, a Republican, is one of the most prolific fundraisers in Congress. She narrowly won a fourth term in November over Democrat Jim Graves.
The congressional run was her second 2012 campaign. She waged a brief run for the GOP presidential nomination but dropped out after a poor showing in Iowa's leadoff caucuses.
Her debt now stands at about $170,000.
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LUBBOCK, Texas — An East Texas man with a prolific cattle rustling history spanning more than a decade has been sentenced to 99 years in prison for swindling bovines from a Mississippi rancher.
Carl Wade Curry, 44 from Athens was accused of stealing 400 head of cattle worth more than $200,000 last year.
District Attorney Staley Heatly says Curry placed an order with a Mississippi man using a fake name and cattle company in Vernon, where the owner shipped the cattle. The owner contacted authorities when he didn't receive payment.
A jury in Hardeman County took less than 30 minutes to both convict and sentence Curry on Wednesday evening. In the deal Curry used the name Earnest Jackson.
"He was going to mail me a check and he didn't," rancher David Sanders of Starkville, Miss., said. "Then he was going to Federal Express it to me. Didn't happen."
Sanders had already shipped the cattle to a non-existent address in Hardeman County. When Sanders didn't get paid he called the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association. A special ranger with the association located the animals before they were sold.
"They really put their noses to the grindstone and got this guy good," Sanders said.
Testimony at Curry's trial revealed he had stolen 2,097 head of cattle worth nearly $1 million since 2007, Heatly said.
Curry represented himself at the trial but had stand-by counsel by John Weigel, who did not return a call for comment Thursday.
In April, Curry was sentenced to 20 years in a cattle rustling case in Smith County in East Texas and faces more charges there and in Louisiana, Hardeman County District Attorney Staley Heatly said Thursday.
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Amir Williams scored a career-high 16 points and Shannon Scott added 13 to lead No. 8 Ohio State to a 63-52 victory over American University on Wednesday night.
Amir Williams scored a career-high 16 points and Shannon Scott added 13 to lead No. 8 Ohio State to a 63-52 victory over American University on Wednesday night.
The Buckeyes (4-0) struggled all night to make shots, finishing 20 of 56 from the field for 36 percent.
Scott tied a career best with nine rebounds.
Jesse Reed scored 15 points, Tony Wroblicky had 14 and Darius Gardner 10 for the Eagles (1-2).
The Buckeyes were coming off an impressive 52-35 win over No. 17 Marquette in Milwaukee on Saturday. The 35 points were the fewest the Buckeyes have ever allowed against a ranked opponent.
Up by five points at the break Wednesday despite having difficulty making shots, the Buckeyes stepped it up in the second half. Scott got things going with a steal and a layup in the opening seconds.
Then Scott came off a pick by Williams and tossed an alley-oop pass back to Williams for a dunk to start a 5-0 run that pushed the lead to 10 points for the first time. Lenzelle Smith Jr., starting his 79th consecutive game, hit a foul shot before Williams made a left-handed hook for a 37-27 advantage.
The Eagles got it down to six points but Williams scored and then missed the accompanying free throw, and Craft popped in the follow.
The loudest roar of the night might have taken place when Scott stole the ball and then fed Sam Thompson for a high-flying dunk at the 12:51 mark.
But not until Smith hit a 3 with 3:22 left was it clear the Buckeyes were in command. That was part of a 9-0 run that pushed the lead to 16.
Ohio State improved to 19-3 against teams from the Patriot League.
American had played two games with almost identical scores, losing its opener at George Mason 63-60, then winning its home opener against Maryland-Baltimore County, 63-61, in overtime. The latter was first-year head coach Mike Brennan's first win.
Reed only had two points against UMBC — after scoring 15 in the opener — but they came at a perfect time. He hit a game-winning layup with 1 second left in the extra session for the win.
Ohio State led at the half 28-23 despite a miserable offensive performance.
The Buckeyes had nine turnovers and shot just 26 percent from the field. That was almost a duplicate of their last game, where they shot 26.9 percent in the opening half while fighting to a 19-19 tie against Marquette.
The Eagles led much of the opening half, going up as much as 14-10 at the midpoint.
Their last lead was 20-17 on a shot inside by John Schoof at the 6:29 mark, with the Buckeyes closing the half by scoring 11 of the final 14.
Williams tipped in a Marc Loving miss and moments later Scott hit two free throws. After a media timeout, Williams flipped in a hook and Ross hit the front end of a two-shot foul.
Craft, who missed on his first five shots from the field, finally hit a layup late in the half.
After Gardner ended Ohio State's 9-0 run with a three-point play, Craft took an inbounds pass and dribbled the length of the court, flipping in a spinning left-handed layup that fell through the hoop while he was sitting on the floor on the baseline after contact.
Just 7 of 27 from the field, the Buckeyes were saved by their free-throw shooting; they were 12 of 14 at the line to American's 1 for 1.
It was the fifth meeting between the teams. Ohio State has swept all five.
Longtime Big Ten referee Ed Hightower received a nice standing ovation when it was announced late in the game that he was working his final game.


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Minnesota author Jess Lourey will visit Richmond Public Library on Monday, Feb. 25 at 6:30 p.m. She is author of the Murder-By-Month mystery series, including her first book, May Day, and the eighth in the series, her most recent book, December Dread. Her presentation, "Making Mysteries: a Writer Discusses Story Ideas and Writing," gives readers a mix of stories, information on publishing, and a discussion of where she gets her story ideas. Laughs are guaranteed.


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Officials: Manchester teachers won't bolt while students await busesBy KATHRYN MARCHOCKI
New Hampshire Union Leader
August 27. 2013 10:27PM
MANCHESTER — The introduction of a new hours-based calendar at city schools that will have teachers teaching longer days will not compromise student safety during arrival and dismissal times, School Superintendent Debra J. Livingston said Tuesday.
"We've been working very diligently to be very creative with personnel in making sure as many adults are with students during both times of the day as possible," Livingston said. That will include Livingston and other central office staff who will assist at arrivals and dismissals at least for the initial weeks of the school year, which starts Sept. 4.
But the head of the principal association assailed the plan, claiming the longer instructional day leaves less time for teachers to monitor elementary and middle school students as they arrive and leave school.
"This creates a major concern for the safety of your children," Association of Manchester Principals President Brendan McCafferty wrote in a statement Tuesday.
"This MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) places the responsibility of dismissing hundreds of students with the building administration," he added. Manchester Education Association President Benjamin F. Dick, however, said "I don't foresee a mass exodus of teachers five minutes after the bell rings."
"I believe in the professionalism of my teachers with regard to students and their safety," Dick said.
The new hours-based calendar expands the instructional day, shortens the number of days in the school year and doubles the number of professional development days for teachers to six.
It is a key feature of the Memorandum of Understanding the school district and Manchester Education Association approved April 8.
The agreement makes no change to the total length of the school day, but alters how teachers and students spend that time, officials explained. Classroom instruction will expand at the expense of the time teachers used to spend at the start and end of each day to prepare for classes or staff a duty station, Dick said.
While this means the window of time when teachers can assist with student arrivals and dismissals will shrink, Livingston said "I do feel strongly that teachers will do the right thing and will be there early as well as later in the afternoon to assist with the children."
In addition, school principals have worked with paraprofessionals to develop flexible schedules so more will be present during dismissal time.
Classroom hours
The agreement increases the number of instructional hours for middle and high school students from 990 to 1050.
Instructional hours for elementary students will increase to 999, Ward 10 School Committee Member John Avard said. The required minimum is 945.
The longer instructional day allows the school district to reduce the number of days students spend in school from 180 to 175. The school year for teachers will decrease from 183 to 181 days, even with the addition of three more professional development days.
"There are a lot of positive things with this new calendar. We know that our last day of school is June 12 ... We know it is going to save us money, at least on busing and other soft savings," Avard said.
He described McCafferty's criticism as "just a typical the-sky-is-falling kind of reaction to change."
Dick described the new schedule as "an opportunity for us to try and move forward."
"We do need to find areas that we might need to tweak," Dick said.
"I don't see anybody waiting too long to figure out if this is viable or not. But I think everybody understands that we recognize if it is completely undoable ... then I think everybody would try to figure out a solution very quickly," Dick said.
If, for instance, teachers find several weeks into the school year that most students are still in class 10 minutes after the end of the school day or large numbers of teachers aren't able to stay late to monitor dismissals "then we need to address it."
Dick said he first learned the Memorandum of Understanding failed to factor in time needed for elementary teachers to assist with dismissals shortly after it had been signed in April.
Dick said the union has been working on solutions since and offered four to five options to the school district. The union and school district's negotiating team signed an agreement in the summer that would have added five and two minutes to the end of the elementary and middle school days respectively, but he said it was rejected by the school board.
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As the holiday shopping and travel seasons go into overdrive, local police are warning students and residents to protect themselves against crime.
As the holiday shopping and travel seasons go into overdrive, local police are warning students and residents to protect themselves against crime.
With so many people traveling for the holidays, unattended homes can be gold mines for burglars. One preventive measure, the Alachua County Sheriff's Office suggests, is to leave a radio or TV on while away to make the house seem occupied.
"Lock everything up and have neighbors call law enforcement with any suspicious activity," said sheriff's Lt. Todd Kelly.
The Sheriff's Office also advised not to announce holiday travel plans on social networking sites and to put indoor and outdoor house lights on timers.
Burglaries to homes and businesses are prevalent this time of year, Gainesville Police reported. In December 2010, there were 131 burglaries reported to GPD, and 135 during the same period last year. In the first 10 days of December this year, GPD reported that there were 23 burglaries.
Most University of Florida students have left for the winter break, but for those still in town, UPD Capt. Jeff Holcomb offers some advice for staying safe.
"We suggest that students avoid walking alone at night," he said. "If they walk alone, stay in well-lit areas and be aware of their surroundings at all times."
He also said students should avoid distractions such as phone calls and texting when walking at night. If they notice someone suspicious or feel threatened, students should notify police immediately, he said.
Robberies and credit card fraud are also prevalent during this time of year but can be protected against by following some simple tips:
For those shopping on the Internet, ASO recommends using secure websites to purchase goods. Sites that begin with "https" are secure and encrypt information they send, including credit card numbers.
Packages should be delivered to relatives, neighbors or someone who will be home when packages arrive. Having packages delivered to the workplace is also an option, and signature confirmations should be requested on deliveries to ensure they aren't left on doorsteps.
In-store shoppers should carry credit cards rather than large amounts of cash, according to the GPD. Shoppers needing cash from ATMs should look for machines that are in well-lit areas and watch for people lurking nearby.
If a purchase is made with a credit card, be sure to obtain the receipt copies or ensure that they are destroyed.
Shoppers should also park in well-lit areas and have keys in hand upon returning to their cars so they will be ready to unlock the door. Before re-entering their vehicles, shoppers should scan the interior of their cars to ensure no one is hiding inside.


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Reye syndrome is a rare disorder of childhood and adolescence. It primarily affects individuals under 18 years of age, particularly children from approximately age four to 12 years. In rare cases, infants or young adults may be affected. The disorder's cause is unknown. However, there appears to be an association between the onset of Reye syndrome and the use of aspirin-containing medications (salicylates) in children or adolescents with certain viral illnesses, particularly upper respiratory tract infections (e.g., influenza B) or, in some cases, chickenpox (varicella).
Although any organ system may be involved, Reye syndrome is primarily characterized by distinctive, fatty changes of the liver and sudden (acute) swelling of the brain (cerebral edema). Associated symptoms and findings may include the sudden onset of severe, persistent vomiting; elevated levels of certain liver enzymes in the blood (hepatic transaminases); unusually high amounts of ammonia in the blood (hyperammonemia); disturbances of consciousness; sudden episodes of uncontrolled electrical activity in the brain (seizures); and/or other abnormalities, leading to potentially life-threatening complications in some cases. Due to the potential association between the use of aspirin-containing agents and the development of Reye syndrome, it is advised that such medications be avoided for individuals under age 18 years who are affected by viral infections such as influenza or chickenpox.
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By now I'm not sure how you can be unaware that Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have a new movie in theaters. The World's End, the third film the trio have made together, is the conclusion of what they call The Cornetto Trilogy, three genre-bending, incredibly funny movies that, when you put them together, about all the ways it can totally suck to grow up. The World's End may be the darkest and, naturally, the most mature of the three-- Pegg is once again the central character but playing the kind of screw-up who's hard to like, an alcoholic who yearns so deeply for his high school days that he drags his old pals-- including Frost as buttoned-up lawyer Andy-- on a pub crawl in their hometown. They eventually realize their town has been taken over by robots, but the night has gone downhill way before then, as Gary tries and fails over and over again to prove that you really can go home again.
Pegg and Frost, who at this point in their lives have probably done a billion of these interviews together, are a fantastic team to watch on film and a tough one to interview-- you get the sense that they've choreographed their responses to the T, and as much as you want to just watch the two of them joke with each other, you and your dumb questions keep getting in the way. But I did relish the chance to call out Pegg for riling up the Internet with a single tweet, to ask the two of them if their off-screen relationship is as important as we make it out to be, and to ponder what would happen if the three of them got $100 million to make a movie. The answer? Fast Seven. In a house carved out of a single diamond.
For more on The World's End you can read our review and find lots more about it all over the site. It's open in theaters everywhere this weekend. Get out there and see it!
Simon, to start with, I just have to call you out. I feel like you knew that you were going to rile up the internet with those pictures of Ant-Man. I know that everyone overreacted ridiculously, but you knew that was going to happen, right?
Pegg: Well I was at Marvel, I'd gone to do the Marvel podcast and I had a bit of time, so I was looking around. They've got an amazing mural in reception and I realized I was standing next to Ant-Man, so in the picture it's like, "Hey look, Ant-Man. It's Edgar's new film," and then the most absurd storm of speculation. It almost annoyed me that people were that fucking concerned about something so facile as who's going to play a fucking ant. It was like, grow up. It's a picture.
It's August. It's a slow news month. People are going to make something out of nothing.
Pegg: The ironic thing is, and I don't mean to be flippant in any way, but hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people died in the streets of ancient Egypt recently and no one's tweeting about that.
So, you guys have talked a lot about the way that this movie is dealing with nostalgia and I think it's interesting that you guys are kicking off 90s nostalgia. But when you talk about the movies that people grew up with in the late 70s and 80s, a lot of it was nostalgia for the 60s and the 50s, like you get American Graffiti and you get Happy Days and in the 80s you're already getting remakes of 50's sci-fi movies. Did you guys realize that you were kind of growing up with a lot of culture that was other people's nostalgia for an earlier time and did you guys feel like that kind of trickled down to all of us as we grew up with various pop culture like that?
Pegg: I don't know. The nature of nostalgia is simply that you are romanticizing a time that's gone because the time you're in is somehow dissatisfactory, whatever you are. You know, we're going to be nostalgic about this phone conversation in 20 minutes. It's just what nostalgia is. It's never really about the time you're being nostalgic for. It's just, I suppose the idea of simplicity and a time that's physically away from where you are now. All we wanted to do was go back 20 years. It wasn't because we're being nostalgic about the 90s. That was 20 years ago, and then we decided, then you start fishing around in the culture of the time and you pull up a lot of great stuff, like the music. Music is a great nostalgic tool, because it's at once timeless and dated. It has a specific time of inception, but it lasts forever. It's kind of ok to be nostalgic about music, but the point of Gary's nostalgia is that he's clinically depressed and all he's doing is he's clinging to the last time he was truly happy. So, it's about the danger of nostalgia, as much as anything.
Frost: I mean, if you're talking about me and nostalgia, I'm kind of out of the three of us, the least nostalgic and I would probably put that down to my past perhaps being the shittiest out of the three.
Pegg: Apart from about house music. You're very nostalgic about house music.
Frost: Yeah, but I can still dance a lot. I think I've always been a man who's been driven and controlled by my impulses, so to speak. You know, I think you get nostalgic when you don't act upon something that you have the opportunity to act upon, i.e. hitting a bully or kissing a girl or telling somebody you love them and I think, for the, you know, I did those things, you know, so I can't really look back and think, "God, I should have done that," because I kind of probably did it and probably got into a lot of trouble doing it. To be honest, I'm happiest right now. I mean, not in this room, but just generally. So, you know, my need for nostalgia is minimized, I think.
I'm sorry you're not as happy in the room, but I guess I don't blame you, for being locked in the Waldorf Astoria all day.
Frost: It's packed full of Louis XV style furniture and there's muffins, so, you know, it could be worse.
Given that you guys have made as many movies as you have together by now, the relationship that you have really comes out in the scenes you have together. I wonder if you think that people kind of overestimate the extent to which you have to know someone that well to have that chemistry , or if you've noticed how that has evolved for the two of you as worked together as much as you have over the years.
Frost: You know, Simon and I have a shorthand, which means we know how to work together. We just go straight into it and there's never a moment when we're wondering how the hierarchy works or "Can I say this?" In terms of the chemistry, you know, I worked with someone last year and we had chemistry immediately, and it showed. Sometimes you just meet people, and that happens. Other times, you can really like someone, but on set you have no chemistry at all. You know, does that detract from the performance, or what people see on the screen? I'm not sure it does, you know. If you're a good enough actor, I think you can hide bad chemistry.
Pegg: Yeah, I agree with Nick, but I think that the relationship that Nick and I have off screen only enhances that relationship we have on screen. You know, I'd never worked with Eddie Marsan before this film, but I loved working with him on The World's End.
He's amazing.
Pegg: …as I did with Rosamund Pike, who I went on to work with again in a film subsequently and actually, we used the relationship, our friendship that we;d sort of developed on World's End to sort of fundamentalize our relationship on the film we did afterwards, which was nice. But, for Nick and I, and Edgar, we understand each other very clearly and what it offers us is a means of communication and a way of working which is very efficient and effective. So, I believe pre-existing knowledge of each other can be an enormous help, but it's not always necessary.


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About Marilynn Byerly
Marilynn Byerly's two passions are writing and teaching. She has taught writing, judged numerous national and regional writing contests, reviewed books, and written articles on writing which have appeared in trade publications, national magazines, and writing websites. Her articles have also been used as part of the course work for writing and publishing programs at major universities. She has been a publishing news junkie for over thirty-five years, and an ebook pioneer and critic for over fourteen years.
Honey bees were brought over from England in the early days of colonization.
This continent already had an adequate supply of bee varieties to do the job for the native plants so we do have enough varieties of bees and other insects for pollenating.
The main problem is that agribusiness will have to go organic to stop from killing these bees and have more than one massive crop so that bees will stay in an area.
As an organic gardener of over twenty years, I have a huge variety of native bees, moths, flies, and birds to pollinate my flowers, vegetables and fruit trees. I also have plenty of healthy wild honey bees.
So, despite all the scary headlines, we won't starve although we will have to import honey from places where agribusiness doesn't destroy the local ecologies.
No, everything is copyrighted in a story because it's the expression of the idea so you can't claim that a paragraph out of a novel is yours. You can quote it, if you attribute it, and that's fair use. If you take a paragraph out and insert it into your work without attribution, it's plagiarism.
Just because you can take something doesn't make that taking right.
If you take all hope of recompense out of the creative arts, you end up with far fewer creators and creations, and the quality of those creations left is much poorer because you take away most of the incentive of improving.
As more than a few of my friends in the creative arts have said, "We aren't your bitches."
Like the Little Red Hen, we'll take our bread and leave you with nothing.
All this is just wonderful, but, once again, everyone has it wrong.
You can tell the story of Prometheus and fire, and you are perfectly legal. If I write a short story about the same subject, my story is copyrighted so you have no right to it.
I've had robocalls about "social security" for the last three mornings an hour before my alarm went off. In this case, I support the death penalty.
A state senator has a bill going through the NC House to add political robocalls to the "do not call" registry. Since I had four calls one Saturday morning before the alarm during the fall elections, I so hope this bill becomes law.
If you want to talk about copyright and not sound like an idiot, you should know what copyright does and doesn't cover. It doesn't cover ideas, plot and theme tropes, character names, or works already out of copyright. What it does cover is the specific expression of ideas, etc. By that, I mean the words or media.
Anyone can write a story about angst-filled vampires and the girls who love them, and many have, but if you write and sell a vampire story where the vampires glitter, the main characters are Edward and Belle, and the plot and setting are very similar to the TWILIGHT series, you can expect a call from Stephenie Meyer's lawyers.
Any story or idea from other authors or sources can be used by an author as long as she makes the idea her own with her own characters, setting, and plot. I have read a CAPTAIN BLOOD retelling as an historical romance, a Klingons-in-love STAR TREK inspired futuristic romance, and a paranormal romance that billed itself as HARRY POTTER for grownups. None of these authors were sued for copyright infringement because they added enough of their own ideas to create something different.
Since Tolkien, who was a Medieval scholar, took his inspiration and names from various older texts, he wasn't a copyright thief, nor was he lacking in creativity since he took these ideas and names to make his own astonishing creation.
I didn't realize you were talking strictly fan fiction.
Here's a tutorial I wrote on the subject if you're interested.
Actually, Little Wolf, it's not hard to avoid copyright problems in fiction. All you have to do it change a few things like the names of the characters and some elements of the original world building.
I've read a science fiction romance series that was obviously Klingons in love with the names and some changes in political elements.
I've also read a novel that billed itself as "Harry Potter for grownups." The world and the magic was very close to Rowling's, but the characters were adults with some of them obviously based on Rowling's characters. I had to laugh when Dumbledor showed up with a name change.
I won't even go into the number of TWILIGHT clones in the Young Adult market and now all the THIRTY SHADES novels which started as fanfic.
None of these books had the original authors' or creators' lawyers after them for copyright violations.
The real problem isn't copyright theft, but that readers are much more harsh about a work being so derivative.
If you want to do well in fiction, it's best to avoid derivative unless it can be used as a marketing tool, and in most cases that means going the public domain route. For example, lots of people will happily buy a new Sherlock Holmes novel but won't even notice a mystery about a Victorian inquiry agent based in London.
Some authors don't understand copyright any better than do most people do.
That's why I've chosen to educate authors and readers about copyright issues so they can make informed choices.
That's why I read sites like this and TeleRead to correct all the misinformation out there.
If you are going to discuss copyright and not be laughed at, it's a good idea to understand what you are talking about.
IDEAS can't be copyrighted. Literary THEMES and TROPES can't be copyrighted.
It's what you do with them that is copyrighted. So the expression of the words or story on film/media is what is copyrighted.
Lucas did not steal anyone's copyright. He used common ideas and tropes from popular culture as well as an archetypical plot to create the first movie.
When the original STAR WARS hit the theaters, he freely admitted that the first movie was his homage to movie serials like FLASH GORDEN.
And, it was freaking awesome for us SF geeks who saw it in the theaters because it was so dang innovative with its use of technology, etc.
If someone uses chunks of the film, it's within his/Disney's rights to go after them.
So you may can him names for protecting what is his, but hypocrite isn't one of them.
With just at a quick glance, I can attest that Sherwood Anderson is American. I have taught him in American literature. Jelly Roll Morton is one of the greats of classic American jazz.
Yes, yes, I can.
And US courts agree by allowing digital copyright owners to sue over theft, and the copyright owners often win.
This article writer certainly didn't bother to do his homework. See here for some of the authors missed:
I have to laugh at all those who think that public domain screws corporations. If we dropped copyright or shortened it considerably, the corporations would make a killing with all those books that could be turned into movies and games.
Not to mention all those books that could have zombies or sex inserted in for resale. In the last few months, one publisher has been busy inserting erotic scenes into classics like JANE EYRE. Nothing like a little girl on girl action to trash one of the greatest novels ever written.
Let's hear it for the value of public domain to improve culture.
Yes, Robert, they not only advertised as they always have, they increased their advertising in new markets and ereader platforms.
The examples I used are very successful authors with a huge fan base. They continue to write the same kinds of books so they keep the fans they have, and until recently, they had a huge increase in backlist sales as each new book came out.
Thank you. Nothing like an over-the-top metaphor to get a point across. Of course, lots of writers are having their careers murdered by low incomes and contemptuous pirates so maybe it isn't so over the top.
As to evidence, there is no way to collect information for a valid study comparing ebook sales to ebook theft, but I belong to several groups with thousands of professional authors. According to anecdotal evidence from many of them, yes, there is a correlation between an increase in pirate theft to lowered sales.
Some who have been very successful for almost ten years as straight-to-ebook authors have watched their sales numbers fall as illegal download numbers soar. I know some "New York Times" bestsellers whose digital sales have become ridiculously low as illegal downloads increase and sales of their backlist has plummeted.
I've had others tell of fans who complain to them because one of their books isn't available for free on the pirate sites and don't see the irony is the complaint.
I also know of over a dozen authors who are good friends who have simply given up their careers because they are so dispirited by the thefts, the contempt of those readers, and failing income.
I was talking about a specific example, Doctorow, used in the article, not the whole article's topic. Doctorow is a very unusual writer because he has incredible market access which very few writers have. That makes him a very poor example in discussions like this.
As to obscurity. A normal person who is murdered in a gruesome manner is no longer obscure for a short time, but I doubt many people would want to become well-known for this reason.
In the same way, most authors don't want their books becoming well-known in pirate circles because a vast majority of us who are pirated don't see any improvement in our bottom line. All it means is that our next book goes up even faster at the pirate sites and the download numbers keep increasing.
Most writers are perfectly happy to be obscure and get payed by those who do read us.
In other words, writers are rarely fame whores. We write for cash and are proud of it.
Using illegal download numbers and sales numbers as comparative tools is disingenuous since the numbers mean nothing in comparison. All that can be said is that the more famous the author, the higher the illegal downloads. The more obscure the author, the lower the downloads. Yeah, like duh!
And owning a copyright is "monopolistic?"
Gee, does owning a car or a house make you monopolistic? Am I a monopolist because I own the copyright of five novels I spent years writing?
The truth of the matter is that copyright is owned, a vast majority of the time in the creative fields, by some individual or a small group of individuals, not some corporation. Stop demonizing those of us who work hard at our creations and spend many unpaid years learning our craft.
Doctorow makes his money as a celebrity expert, and through his paper book sales and his movie deals. The free ebooks feed the other sources of income.
Most writers don't have their books in every bookstore like Doctorow, they don't have movie deals like Doctorow, and no one would pay them a penny for their opinions. They do have everything to lose if the only readers they have read them for free.
Konrath used the Doctorow model to his own advantage, but he's not been hustling this method since ebooks became such a large part of the market share of income.
One of the most important points about all these successes is that the copyright owner CHOSE this method. No one chose it for them so you can't use it as an excuse to upload an unwilling participant's copyrighted books on a pirate site.
I hate to use facts against such righteous indignation, but the US copyright office/Library of Congress already offers exemptions to the DMCA for the blind and others with disabilities. Here's a link.
The real point of the Author Guild's comments is the legal issue of whether text-to-speech and audio rights are the same thing. This hasn't been clarified in court, and until it is, authors and publishers are afraid that by allowing TTS through the Kindle or any other reader, they are losing their audio rights.
Right now, many of the major audio book companies won't touch a book that has TTS so publishers are blocking TTS via DRM.
This situation is a good thing for the disabled and other readers because once this issue is settled, probably in favor of TTS and audio rights being different things, TTS will be allowed on all electronic books.


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APNewsBreak: US penalizes Asiana Airlines over crash
LOS ANGELES (AP) — U.S. transportation officials have penalized Asiana Airlines $500,000 for failing to assist family members of passengers on a flight that crashed last year at San Francisco airport.
The fine announced Tuesday is a first. Regulators say no airline has ever broken U.S. laws that require prompt and generous assistance to the loved ones of crash victims.
Three people died and dozens were injured on July 6 when Asiana Flight 214 clipped a seawall while landing.
The U.S. Department of Transportation concluded that some family members had not been contacted two days after the crash, and it took five days to reach the families of all 291 people on the plane.
The agency says the South Korean carrier lacked translators and personnel trained in crash response.
Asiana had no immediate comment.


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UPDATE 2 (4:00 P.M. PST): Nintendo has confirmed that both Pikmin and Mario will make appearances at E3 2012 on Wii U.
Nintendo released the following statement regarding Pikmin:
"In a recent interview, Mr. Miyamoto confirmed that a new Pikmin game will be shown at the E3 Expo in June. He believes that anyone who has played Pikmin games in the past will enjoy playing."
Separately, Nintendo said the following about Mario:
"In a recent interview, Mr. Miyamoto confirmed that a new Super Mario Bros. game for the Wii U system will be shown at this year's E3 Expo. This is based on the Mario experience that was demonstrated at last year's E3 Expo. We'll have more to announce about our plans for the E3 Expo at a later date."
Original story follows:
UPDATE (11:00 A.M. PST): Nintendo has confirmed to Eurogamer that it will indeed be announcing a brand new Super Mario Bros. game for Wii U at this year's E3 press conference. Keep it here on IGN for all the details as they emerge.
ORIGNAL STORY (7:00 A.M. PST): 919353.html" class="autolink" >Shigeru Miyamoto has implied that a new Mario game for Wii U will be revealed at this year's E3. The news comes from an interview Miyamoto gave to Spanish newspaper El Mundo (via GAF).
The passage in question roughly translates as:
"[Miyamoto] anticipates that at E3, the largest exhibition of video games, held in June in Los Angeles, Nintendo will launch a new Super Mario for this platform, which will combine the TV screen with the remote." (Google Translate)
In the same interview, Miyamoto also said that he was currently focused on smaller but important projects for Wii U, Pikmin 3 and Luigi's Mansion 2 for 3DS.
Miyamoto also revealed that he wants to do more with the idea behind Wii Music. He acknowledged the game's disappointing reception, saying, "It is always sad when something does not sell as well as expected." Still, he believes there's a good idea in there somewhere, and revealed that when something under performs, the developers at Nintendo "usually try to work the best idea or at least take it up and concretize it from a different angle for use in another title."
What do you think about Mario as a possible Wii U launch title? Let us know in the comments below.
Daniel Krupa is IGN's UK Games Writer. Follow him on IGN and Twitter.


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Happy Birthday, Selita Ebanks!
The 5-foot-9 Cayman Islands beauty turns 30 today but manages to not look a day over 25. Since stomping in her stilettos on the Victoria's Secret scene, Selita Ebanks hasn't lost the sternness in her step, garnering cover shots on magazines such as Maxim, Esquire and GQ. Check out Selita's fiercest catwalk shots as a VS Angel.
Happy Birthday, runway diva!
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JOBS Act Delivers Needed Red Tape Relief to Small BanksPosted by on April 30, 2012
The bipartisan JOBS Act arrives just in time to help small, community banks as they are "struggling to stay profitable in a period of low interest rates, stagnant lending and rising compliance costs from other new regulations," the Wall Street Journal reports.
The JOBS (Jumpstart Our Business Startups) Act originated in the Financial Services Committee and is the culmination of an initiative started by Chairman Spencer Bachus last year to promote small business capital formation.
The Wall Street Journal article takes particular note of one provision of the JOBS Act that raises the number of shareholders at which small banks must register with the SEC from 500 shareholders to 2,000.
The change frees up small banks to raise capital by attracting new investors without taking on the red tape burdens that come with mandatory SEC registration and reporting. Filing quarterly and annual financial reports alone with the SEC can cost small banks as much as $200,000 a year.
This Wall Street Journal report follows:
Small Banks Get a Freer Hand
By ROBIN SIDEL
Jim Stein no longer has to worry when one of his shareholders dies or gets divorced.
As chief executive of Bank of Houston, Mr. Stein used to fret about tripping a regulation that required the community bank to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission if it has more than 500 shareholders. The bank, a unit of BOH Holdings Inc., carefully maintained its shareholder count at 350 because it wanted to avoid the cost and hassle of registering. But the level was always at risk of rising.
"One shareholder could turn into four through unexpected consequences," Mr. Stein said.
Now, Mr. Stein and other small-bank CEOs can stop counting shareholders as closely and turning potential investors away at the door. The JOBS Act signed into law this month includes a provision that raises the number of shareholders at which small banks must register with the SEC to 2,000. The JOBS Act aims to increase jobs by reducing regulations on companies.
The change means that small banks are free to raise capital by attracting new investors without taking on regulatory burdens that are associated with the SEC filings. It also could breathe some new life into bank mergers and acquisitions, which last year stood at the second-lowest level since 1980.
"This will create opportunities for us that didn't exist before," said Mr. Stein. The 7-year-old bank, which has six branches, wants to expand in the Houston area and potentially find a merger partner.
The new rule comes at a time when community institutions are struggling to stay profitable in a period of low interest rates, stagnant lending and rising compliance costs from other new regulations. Returns on assets at institutions with $1 billion or less in assets was a third less than the industry average in 2011, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
The move potentially could affect hundreds of community banks around the country. Just 16% of the nation's roughly 7,400 banks and thrifts are publicly traded, according to research firm SNL Financial. Many of those are thinly traded, but most are required to file quarterly and annual financial reports with the securities agency.
The JOBS Act also makes it easier for small banks to deregister with the SEC, permitting them to do so with 1,200 shareholders, compared with the current threshold of 300.
Many banks aren't likely to raise their shareholder base; community banks are often closely held among a small group, especially those that are family-run institutions. Some, however, are eager to attract more capital and investors, especially if they can now avoid the expense, which could be as much as $200,000 a year, of filing quarterly and annual financial reports with the SEC.
Maintaining the shareholder numbers game has been tough for Roland Williams, who monitors the 492 holders at Post Oak Bank in Houston. As chief executive of the seven-branch bank, a unit of Post Oak Bancshares Inc., he already had resigned himself to breaking through 500 shareholders this year because the bank is planning to raise up to $20 million of capital.
"You just can't have enough capital," he said.
The new rule isn't expected to threaten the safety and soundness of the community-bank industry; banks of all sizes must regularly file financial data with the FDIC and submit to examinations from national and state regulators.
Industry consultants say the raising of the 500-shareholder rule could fuel new life in the strapped sector by giving banks flexibility to build new branches or pursue growth through mergers and acquisitions. Some industry observers have long said that the U.S. banking system would be more efficient with fewer institutions even though the number of commercial banks and thrifts already has dropped 60% since 1985.
Several bank executives said the 500-shareholder barrier prevented them from pursuing mergers because they didn't want to issue new shares.
The 500-shareholder bar "has been something on the mind of every board in every merger discussion," said Curtis Carpenter, managing director at Sheshunoff & Co., an Austin, Texas, investment firm that focuses on the banking industry.
The new threshold also is likely to trigger a wave of community-bank stock offerings, according to Mindi McClure, managing principal at Bear Cos., an investment firm in Arlington, Va., that specializes in community banks.
"Having an additional way for banks to get more shareholders is a real positive," she said.
Jack Hartings, chief executive at Peoples Bank Co. in Coldwater, Ohio, already had warned his 465 shareholders that the bank might have to pursue a reverse stock split in order to avoid tripping the 500-shareholder barrier. Mr. Hartings, whose bank is a unit of Peoples Holding Co., also dissuaded potential investors from buying stock, telling them, "We appreciate your confidence in the bank, but right now we are not seeking new shareholders."
Mr. Hartings said the bank has no immediate plans to expand its shareholder base as a result of the law even though "everyone likes to own a piece of a company that they see in town."
"We have willing buyers, but not many willing sellers," he said.


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When Michael Vick took off for one of his dazzling runs against the Colts on Sunday, you could almost hear the entire stadium, the Eagles sideline and the team's ownership box all scream in unison, "Slide!"
But he just won't do it.
"I don't know how to do it." the Eagles quarterback said. "I don't know how to slide, so I won't get into that right now. I either get down, I go head first or dive or just fall. For some reason I always think I'm going to get hurt or something crazy's going to happen."
Some have suggested Vick take lessons with a baseball coach who could teach him the finer art of sliding feet first. Actually, when he was in Atlanta, Vick said, the Falcons sent him to the Braves for instruction.
"It won't happen," Vick said. "I did it before down in Atlanta. It didn't work."
Andy Reid joked after the win over the Colts about the one time Vick stepped out of bounds before getting hit, but the Eagles coach seems to have come to terms with Vick's not sliding.
"Listen, I let Michael play," Reid said. "I mean, he knows. Listen, he's the one that had the cracked cartilage, there. And so that's not a real fun experience. So he knows when he needs to get out [of bounds]. And I was joking when I made that statement. But listen, he got out of bounds a couple times, which is good."
Vick spoke briefly with reporters before heading to a meeting as he and the Eagles prepare for Monday night's rematch against the Redskins.
The Eagles are expected to be without starting free safety Nate Allen (neck) and starting right guard Max Jean-Gilles (concussion). Neither will practice Thursday, Reid said. Jean-Gilles has not passed his post-concussion tests and has not been examined by an independent neurologist, Reid added.
Rookie Kurt Coleman will fill in for Allen and Nick Cole will take Jean-Gilles' place.
Cornerback Ellis Hobbs (hip) and tackle King Dunlap (knee) were going to be eased back into practice. Reid said that it would be a "stretch" for Hobbs to make it back by Monday. Dimitri Patterson filled in for Hobbs against the Colts and played well.


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John Jay Causes and Contexts study: Second thoughts
Having spent some more time with the John Jay report and slogging through media coverage (check out Meghan Murphy-Gill's reflections on the same), I'm still having trouble getting my head around the claim that the culture of the 1970s somehow accounted for a spike in sexual assaults by Roman Catholic priests on children. Why would increasing rates of divorce, drug use, and crime provoke a priest to sexually assault a child? Things that make me wonder:
1. The "spike": The data clearly shows a pattern of incidents of abuse, growing through the 1960s and spiking in the late 70s, then declining sharply. An important consideration is that most allegations of abuse (more than two thirds) were reported after 1993.
And there's the rub: It can take decades for a victim to feel confident enough to report abuse. So, if victims start reporting en masse in 1993 (big spike in 2002 when Boston broke), subtract 20 years and you are in the 1970s. So it doesn't surprise me that there should be a lot of cases dating to the 1970s.
In other words, I think the further back in time we go, the less confident we can be that the data is telling the whole story of abuse. I'd be willing to bet there are a lot of pre-1970 cases that were never reported and will never be known. What I think is more reliable is the precipitous drop after 1980; by then society as a whole and the church had become more aware of the issue, and seminary formation especially began to emphasize human development.
2. "Pedophile priests": Commentators have made a lot of the fact that the John Jay folks made their cut-off for pedophilia at 10 instead of 13, and so argued that "pedophile priests" was a misnomer. If they had chosen a different age, a great many more events of abuse could have been described as pedophilia.
But I don't think we need to think too hard to figure out why so many victims were boys between the ages of 11 and 14: Those are prime ages for serving during Mass, when priests would have had more private access to boys--both in liturgy and outside of it--during which time they could engage in grooming behavior. I'm not convinced there were a great many compulsive pedophiles among abusers. In fact, about 3.5 percent fo abusers (150 priests or so) accounted for about 25 percent of the assaults. Those are the serial abusers.
3. Homosexuality: The study goes to some lengths to point out that men whose adult sexual orientation was homosexual were no more likely to abuse than heterosexuals; indeed when seminarians self-identifying as gay, beginning in the 1970s, correlates with a drop in incidents of abuse. In other words, the gender of the victim does not correlate with the sexual identity of the abuser. I don't think this is a shock to people who study sexual abuse of children. The attraction is the child, not the child's gender, and the key is unsupervised access. With few girls serving before the 1980s, I'm not surprised that most fo the victims were boys.
Another bit of data to consider is that 70 percent of abusers were ordained before 1970, and so were formed in the "old system": Many entered seminary as pre-adolescents (freshmen in high school) and never left until they were ordained at 26. I think it entirely possible that this small subgroup (the abusers) never really matured sexually, and so got "stuck" at the age they entered that all-male environment. They never made an adult sexual adjustment, and when they found themselves lonely, emotional adolescents they were, they sought an "emotional peer"--a preadolescent boy--even though they were in their 30s.
That theory is worth about as much as the pixels that make it show up on screen, but I think it represents one insufficiently explored path. When I went to college seminary as a sophomore, several friends were from one of the few remaining residential high school seminaries, where, it turned out, there was a definite pattern of abuse and also a certain amount of discomfort and immaturity regarding sexuality. I wonder how often that pattern was repeated, and if it correlates at all with the experience of those men ordained before 1970 (or even later) who became abusers.
Despite anyone's desire--the media or the bishops or the researchers--to focus on the sexual revolution, it's obvious that the findings are much more complex and raise even more questions worth exploring.


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Performing a cardiovascular physical examination
Before the advent of echocardiography, the only noninvasive tools used to routinely evaluate the cardiovascular system were a thorough physical examination, electrocardiography, and thoracic radiography. Diagnoses that could not be readily procured from these techniques would ultimately require invasive procedures, such as angiocardiography, to further characterize the underlying disorder. While echocardiography has replaced diagnostic cardiac catheterization in most circumstances, its utility and easy access have also produced an untoward side effect: the cardiovascular physical examination appears to have fallen by the wayside.
We often underuse the auscultation and physical examination techniques our predecessors mastered to successfully evaluate the cardiovascular system. Instead, we lean on echocardiography to offset the subtle nuances we fail to recognize. This holds so true in the medical profession that echocardiography is considered by many to be an extension of the physical examination.1 Nonetheless, cardiac auscultation still provides a cost-effective method of making serial observations, aids in the early detection of critical findings, helps intelligently guide the selection of costly diagnostic tests, and provides a therapeutic value of physical contact between physician and patient.2
In this article, I review the basic concepts and techniques necessary to perform a thorough cardiovascular physical examination. As with any other technique, a systematic approach enables you to effectively perform the examination and not miss a vital clue.OBSERVATION
Begin the physical examination by carefully observing the patient from a distance. I frequently do this while recounting the history and current medical complaint. Although often overlooked, the observation period enables you to characterize the pet's general appearance, attitude, and respiratory rate and effort. If you forgo this step, you may not detect subtle changes that owners may have failed to recognize.
Patients with severe, chronic cardiac compromise may exhibit marked weight loss and muscle wasting along the temporal region of the head and along the dorsolumbar aspect of the spine. Other pets may present with abdominal distention or weight gain from ascites subsequent to right-sided heart failure. Reluctance to move in a normally active or nervous patient may signal substantial cardiovascular compromise. Similarly, tachypnea, dyspnea, coughing, or an orthopneic stance with an inability to lie comfortably may be associated with substantial fluid accumulation within or around the lungs.
This step of the physical examination involves a careful inspection of the mucous membranes, eyes, and neck.
Mucous membranes
Alterations within the oral mucous membranes often do not occur until late in the process of many cardiac diseases, but the appearance of the oral mucosa may yield valuable information when combined with findings from the remainder of the physical examination. Normal mucous membranes are pink and moist with a brisk (one- to two-second) capillary refill time after blanching the gums. Although the capillary refill time is a nonspecific and often crude index of cardiac performance, it may be prolonged in instances of reduced cardiac output.
In addition to estimating the capillary refill time, inspect the mucous membranes for pallor or discoloration. Cyanosis is seen when the deoxygenated hemoglobin concentration exceeds 5 g/dl.3 Cyanotic mucous membranes often signify arterial hypoxemia, as seen with severe pulmonary disease or right-to-left shunting of blood (e.g. tetralogy of Fallot). Cyanosis may also be seen in patients with normal arterial oxygen saturation complicated by decreased perfusion to peripheral vascular beds. Peripheral cyanosis is usually observed in the digits or ear tips of patients with reduced cardiac output, marked arterial vasoconstriction, or vascular obstruction. While peripheral cyanosis is more common in patients afflicted by shock or hypothermia, a common cardiac manifestation is hindlimb footpad cyanosis encountered in cats with aortic thromboembolism. Patients with cyanotic cardiac disease may also display injected mucous membranes subsequent to polycythemia.
Acute blindness may be the first sign of systemic hypertension in a patient. This complication highlights the importance of inspecting the pupillary light responses and ocular fundus in patients with suspected systemic hypertension. Abnormalities that you may see include retinal detachment or hemorrhages, papilledema, or hyphema. Although infrequently recognized today, cats with dilated cardiomyopathy secondary to taurine deficiency may display central retinal degeneration.
Carefully inspect both the thyroid glands and the jugular veins before performing thoracic auscultation. Because of the connection between hyperthyroidism and the cardiovascular system, always palpate for enlarged thyroid glands in cats with suspected heart disease. As a consequence of the concentric hypertrophy and high cardiac output state associated with hyperthyroidism, cats with increased circulating thyroid hormone concentrations may have audible murmurs or gallop sounds.


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OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — A Canadian tribal chief said she will end her six-week hunger protest over aboriginal rights Thursday when indigenous leaders and advocates plan to spell out a list of 13 demands.
Theresa Spence, a 49-year-old Attawapiskat chief in northern Ontario, decided that she will end her fast after opposition parties and aboriginal chiefs signed a declaration Wednesday on specific demands that they will present to the government.
Spence began fasting to press her demand for a meeting with Prime Minister Stephen Harper. She galvanized a cross-country grassroots aboriginal protest movement about legal changes to environmental laws and land rights. Harper met with top aboriginal leaders earlier this month, but Spence declined to attend because she also wanted Governor General David Johnston, the representative of Queen Elizabeth II in Canada, at the meeting.
The declaration calls for improvements to housing and schools on reserves, as well as an immediate meeting between the governor general, the federal and provincial governments and aboriginal leaders. They argue the governor general's presence is imperative because the talks center on treaty rights first established by the Royal Proclamation of 1793.
The "Idle No More" protests picked up steam on Dec. 11 when Spence began subsisting only on fish broth and medicinal tea. Aboriginals slowed highway traffic, snarled a rail line and protested at the busiest Canada-US crossing point last week as part of a "day of action."
Danny Metatawabin, a spokesman for Spence, said she will end her hunger strike Thursday morning. Numerous other chiefs from the northern Ontario region are travelling to the capital to be part of a ceremony on Thursday where she is expected to speak. She remains camped out on an island in the Ottawa River near Parliament Hill.
The protests erupted almost two months ago against a budget bill that affects Canada's Indian Act and amends environmental laws. Protesters say Bill C-45 undermines century-old treaties by altering the approval process for leasing aboriginal lands to outsiders and changing environmental oversight in favor of natural resource extraction.
The "Idle No More" movement, which has shown unusual staying power and garnered a worldwide following through social media, has reopened constitutional issues involving the relationship between the federal government and the million-plus strong aboriginal community.


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AAUW to organize bus trip fundraiser
AAUW is organizing a bus trip fundraiser to see "The Drowsy Chaperone — a Musical Within a Comedy" on April 14 at Western Carolina University in Cullowee. The bus leaves at 1 p.m. from behind Belk at Blue Ridge Mall in Hendersonville and returns at about 7 p.m.
Tickets are $55 and include transportation. Proceeds benefit women's scholarships for college. Make checks payable to AAUW-H'ville Branch and mail to Nan Hess, 21 Winterview Trail, Hendersonville, 28739 or call 828-697- 8733.
The ride and show are sponsored by the American Association of University Women- Hendersonville Branch, www.hendersonville- nc.aauw.net.
Pardee accepting applications for Junior Volunteer
Pardee Hospital is now accepting applications for the 2013 Junior Volunteer Summer Program. Junior volunteers provide an important service to the individuals they serve and the community.
In order to participate in the program, potential volunteers must be at least 14 years old by June 1. Applicants are also required to write a brief essay explaining why they would like to participate, and include their interests and future goals.
Completed applications and documents must be turned in by May 6. Orientation will begin June 17, and junior volunteers will receive a Tuberculin Skin Test that is offered for free by Pardee Hospital.
Visit the "About Us" section of www.pardeehosptial. org and click on "Volunteer Opportunities" to find the Junior Volunteer Summer Program application form. Contact Karla Reese 828-696-4240 for more information.
Brevard Little Theatre to host auditions
Brevard Little Theatre, at 55 E. Jordan St., Brevard, hosts auditions for "The Red Velvet Cake War" at 2 p.m. April 13 and 7 p.m. April 15. Jim Robinson, the director, will conduct auditions.
In this Southern-fried comedy, three cousins could not have picked a worse time to throw a family reunion. Things spin out of control when a jawdropping wager is made on who bakes the best red velvet cake.
The play is by Asheville playwrights Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hopeand Jamie Wooten, who wrote "The Dixie Swim Club," which won the BLT 2012 People's Choice Award, and "The Hallelujah Girls," which won BLT's 2011 Best Play of the Season.
There are eight female roles and four male roles. No prior acting experience is required. Visit www. brevardlittletheatre.com for more information.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger & Sylvester Stallone headline this action sci-fi thriller, which is directed by Mikael Håfström and written by Miles Chapman & Jason Keller. Ray Breslin (Stallone) is a top structural engineer who, after, being wrongly convicted of a crime, is sent to serve out his sentence at a maximum security prison of his own design. Breslin has analyzed every high security prison and gained significant survival skills, but he faces his biggest challenge yet in trying to break out of this high-tech facility that he himself designed to be escape-proof. Schwarzenegger plays Breslin's cellmate, a man by the name of Emil Rottmayer.
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Canadian Bus Company
The Canadian bus company in charge of that bus that crashed in Oregon and killed 9 people can no longer do business in the United States. An investigation found out that the company violated safety rules by allowing the driver to be on duty for too many hours in too short of a time. They haven't figured out exactly what caused the crash however.


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Improving Staff Communication With Nursing Home Residents During Mealtime
Lene Levy-Storms, Ph.D., M.P.H.
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2005 Investigator-Initiated Research Grant
Studies have shown that as many as seventy-five percent of nursing home residents have some form of cognitive impairment or dementia. Nursing aides, who provide most care in nursing homes, usually receive relatively little training about communicating with residents with dementia. Survey findings suggest that nursing aides rank training in communication skills as a high priority.
Lene Levy-Storms, Ph.D., M.P.H., will assess the effectiveness of a training program that uses a videotape of aide-resident interactions. One hundred aides at two nursing homes will participate in the program. All of the participants will be videotaped while interacting with residents during a meal. Reviewers will rate each nursing aide on various verbal and nonverbal communication behaviors and assess the quality of engagement between residents and aides.
Half of the aides will participate in a lecture-based training program about communications skills. The other aides will attend a training program that incorporates clips of their own interactions with residents and enables them to identify their own strengths and weaknesses.
The investigators will then assess whether the participants in the video-based training program demonstrate a greater improvement in communication skills than those in the lecture program. Outcomes will be assessed based on ratings of post-training videotaped interactions over several months. The outcome of this study may demonstrate the utility of the training strategy to improve communication skills, enhance aide-resident interactions and contribute to more effective responses to nursing home residents' needs.


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|Helen & William Benzie
Here is the letter that was in my e-mail box this morning when I went down stairs to my office to work on my homework.
10 Constitution St, Inverurie
April 20th 1919
Dear Lizzie,
Jeanie and I are very
sorry to tell you that poor
Mother died on the 16th April
through dropsy. She was
ill mostly all winter with
swollen feet and legs up
to the knees and about
two months ago they broke
and ran out water. She
was wonderful well in
health through the winter
but changed about a week
ago then sank very quickly and
passed away in three days -
- just sleep'd away. Jeanie
came home six weeks ago
and had been attending her
as she could not, even, walk
about in the house, but just
sat in a chair. We are very
sorry, indeed, as we feel such
a want in the house. With
kind regards to Fred, yourself
and family, trusting you are all
well. Your loving Father &
Sister Wm & Jeanie Benzie
Reading this made me, once again, realize the importance of writing. How thrilled I am over this short two pages that give me just a little glimpse into the life of my great-great grandfather. "...we feel such a want in the house" - considering he was a dour Scot I imagine that is as effusive as he was likely to be!


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BREMERTON, Wash. (AP) — The father of a slain 6-year-old Washington girl says he forgives the 17-year-old neighbor suspected of killing her, and he is leaning on his religion following her death.
Gabriel Gaeta "chose wrong," but "I've already forgiven him," James Wright told the Kitsap Sun (http://is.gd/fpInEx ). Gaeta is jailed on investigation of first-degree murder and rape in the case involving Jenise Wright.
Prosecutors are awaiting a competency review before charging the teen. They are pursuing the case in Kitsap County Superior Court, where Gaeta is expected to be tried as an adult.
Jenise's body was found Aug. 7 after an intensive search involving hundreds of law enforcement officers and others. An FBI team with search dogs discovered the girl's body covered by a wood pallet and submerged in a muddy bog in woods near her Bremerton home.
Court records show she suffered blunt-force trauma to the head and was strangled and sexually assaulted, and that her body appeared to have been moved between a half-hour and three hours after she died.
Authorities said they linked evidence found near the girl's body to the DNA of Gaeta, a high school wrestler with no criminal history. A search of his home found evidence, including a blood- and mud-covered shirt and a bloody towel in Gaeta's bedroom.
James Wright told the Kitsap Sun that Gaeta was "part of the family" and among the many friends and neighbors welcomed into their lively home in the Steele Creek Mobile Home in East Bremerton.
"How can I be in (God's) grace if I don't forgive?" said Wright, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints.
Denise Wright said she's aware of death threats being made toward the suspect's family, and "I just want everybody to stop."
"It's not their fault this happened. Just blame him, not his family," she said.
Meanwhile, James and Denise Wright are focusing on regaining custody of three children who were removed from their care Aug. 4, as authorities began investigating Jenise's disappearance. The state placed the children with two adult siblings in Bellingham.
Just hours before the Wrights appeared in court for Gaeta's bail hearing Monday, they had a hearing to regain custody of the other children, ages 8, 12 and 16. They have been allowed visitation, and have another court hearing next week, KING-TV reported.
James Wright told the Kitsap Sun he is taking steps to heal and leaning on his faith in Jesus. But without the other kids in the house, the healing can't begin.
"How can you put a puzzle back together if you don't have all the pieces?" he asked.
Information from: Kitsap Sun, http://www.kitsapsun.com/


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FLY FISHING CUBA (part 2)
After months of reading, dreaming, getting together the gear, a quick plane trip, 5 hours of bus and 4 hours of boat transit, me and my buds arrived at the Tortuga in the Queen?s Gardens off the South coast of Cuba.
The Tortuga is permanently moored in a cove in the middle of the archipelago. From there, Avalon uses skiffs to get around. We had 2 skiffs and Guides for the three of us. There were also 2 other anglers that week, each in a single skiff.