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Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Taste of Goose Creek April 20
The Taste of Goose Creek will take place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, April 20 at Immaculate Conception Church (510 St James Avenue).
Irish, American, Italian, Filippino and Spanish foods, as well as chicken, barbecue and desserts will be featured. There will also be games, a photo booth, used book sale, live music and more.
Everyone is welcome.
Wellness class April 27
Roper St. Francis Families for a Healthy Heart program teaches easy ways to be healthy and active. The program is offering a series of free wellness classes to be held at Howe Hall AIMS school in Goose Creek through April. The next session is set for April 27.
Alzheimer's support groups continue
The local Alzheimer's Association has three caregiver support groups in the area held at different locations on the second Monday of each month.
Locations are Metro North Church (5:30-6:30 p.m.) at 109 Central Avenue in Goose Creek; Moncks Corner Medical Center (11 a.m – noon) on N. Live Oak Drive, and the Otranto Road library (1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.) in North Charleston.
For more information, please contact Cawana Tisdale at (843) 571-2641.
Relay for Life May 3-4
The American Cancer Society Relay For Life is a 12-hour team event that brings people from local businesses, schools, churches and families together for a night under the stars while team members take turns walking or running around the track. Relay For Life of Lower Berkeley is having its event this year on May 3-4 from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. at Cane Bay High School.
As a cancer survivor, you have something to celebrate! We invite you to show your courage and spirit. Join cancer survivors of all ages, their caregivers, and friends for a lap around the track during the Relay For Life Survivors' ceremony.
You do not have to be a member of a Relay team or pay a fee to be involved in any of the survivors' celebrations, but you do have to register.
Please register today at: www.relayforlife.org/lowerberkeleysc.
Cemetery cleanup announced
Spring Hill United Methodist Church will hold its spring cemetery cleanup on Saturday, April 20 at 8 a.m. (rain date April 27). Please bring rakes, clippers and weed-eaters. Christmas flowers and flowers in poor condition will be removed during this cleanup.
If you are unable to attend, and wish to contribute to the upkeep of this cemetery, donations can be sent to: Spring Hill Cemetery Fund, c/o Debbie Sweatman, 1167 Grapevine Road, Ridgeville, SC 29472.
CBHS Relay events announced
Cane Bay High School is hosting several events leading up to the Lower Berkeley Relay for Life night, set for May 3-4 from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. at the school.
• April 27: Golfing to Find a Cure Tournament at The Oaks Golf Club. To donate prize items, call 553-4141.
If you would like more information on the Lower Berkeley Relay of Life contact firstname.lastname@example.com.
Money being raised for resident
The Take One to Help One Organization is helping a local resident repair the roof of her home, and is asking the community for donations.
Donate to the fund by taking your check or cash to True Value Hardware in Moncks Corner; the account name is "Miss Mamie Fludd's roof."
For more information call Willie Powell at 709-0673.
Zumba class announced
A Zumba fitness and toning class began at the Moncks Corner Depot on April 9, and will continue through May 17. The classes meet 8 to 9 a.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays and cost $40.
Register at Moncks Corner Town Hall or at the Depot. Call 899-4708 for more information or email email@example.com.
National Kidney Foundation accepts used cars
Donate your used vehicle to the National Kidney Foundation to join the fight against kidney disease. Your vehicle donation will support the many prevention programs and direct patient services offered throughout South Carolina that are enhancing the lives of people with, and at risk for, the disease.
In addition, your contribution can earn you a tax deduction.
The National Kidney Foundation will pick up any used vehicle, motorcycle or boat -- in almost any condition -- from any roadside or parking lot free of charge.
Call 800-488-CARS or visit www.kidneycars.org.
Free computer classes announced for April
The Public Computer Center at Trident Technical College's Berkeley Campus is offering the following computer courses to the public, free of charge.
• Thursday, April 18: Microsoft PowerPoint, 3 p.m.
• Tuesday, April 23: Basic Microsoft Excel, 3 p.m.
• Thursday, April 25: Intermediate Microsoft Excel, 3 p.m.
• Saturday, April 27: Creating Mailing Labels, 11 a.m.
• Tuesday, April 30: Questions and Answers, 3 p.m.
All course participants will need to bring a USB flash drive to save their work.
The Berkeley Campus is located at 1001 S. Live Oak Dr. (Hwy 17-A), Moncks Corner. The Public Computer Center is located in the Learning Resources Center (Library), Room 106C. Please call 899-8029 to register or for more information.
4-H youth gardening contest accepting applications
South Carolina 4-H Youth Development Programs have a new short-term project for youth who are interested in gardening.
The Small Garden Project will allow youngsters ages 5 – 19 to learn how to prepare, plant, maintain and harvest a small garden. A contest record book will also be submitted for judging. Seeds will be provided for one vegetable.
Youth will choose at least two other vegetable crops to grow. An area of at least 100 square feet will be needed for the garden. Raised beds can be used if desired.
The registration fee of $15 for current 4-H members and $25 for non-members covers the cost of a soil sample, record book, score criterion and seed packet. Registrations will be accepted until April19. Soil samples will need to be submitted to the local County Extension office by April 26 in order to meet the May 10 planting deadline.
The contest record book will be due on Aug. 16. Contact Gayle Williford, County Extension Agent at 843-719-4140 x 116 or firstname.lastname@example.com to register or for more information.
Classes focus on healthy diet
Are you finding it harder and more expensive each month to feed your family a healthy diet? Have you given up altogether and let McDonald's feed your kids when you're rushing around from basketball practice to choir practice to PTA?
If you answered yes to those questions, and would like to learn a better way of eating, healthier and less expensively, the Moncks Corner Seventh Day Adventist Church at 1243 SC Hwy 402 is presenting a free vegetarian cooking school.
The school – "Eating Healthy in an Unhealthy Economy"- is set for every Sunday in April, from 3 to 5 p.m. It will feature guest speakers, prizes, and valuable information.
To register call (843) 899 - 4372.
County festival seeks food vendors
The City of Goose Creek will present its Second Annual Beach and Barbecue Festival on Saturday, April 27 from 4 - 7 p.m. on the grounds of the Marguerite H. Brown Municipal Center.
This free, family-friendly event will feature live music from Local Motion Party Band, a corn-hole tournament, and a kid's play area.
Barbecue vendors and other food vendors are needed. Interested vendors should complete an application and submit by Friday, April 5. Applications are available on the City's website at www.cityofgoosecreek.com.
For more information, call Barbara Nimocks at 569-4242.
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Tiffin reports
A 100-block Olive Street resident went to the station Wednesday evening to report the theft of jewelry.
A caller from Circle K, 806 W. Market St., reported Wednesday evening a shoplifter was on video.
A man went to the station Wednesday evening to report he was threatened.
Three people were found riding on a CSX train early Thursday morning near Riverside Drive and Clinton Avenue. They were given directions to head north and told if they cause problems in the city, they would be arrested.
Fostoria reports
Sara J. Detillion, 31, of Fostoria, was charged with theft Wednesday.
A 200-block East Jones Street man reported Wednesday evening someone stole his lawnmower.
A break-in was reported Wednesday evening in the 300 block of South Poplar Street.
A person reported Wednesday night a woman was throwing potted plants into the street in the 200 block of Cleveland Street.
A woman reported Wednesday night she was assaulted in the 100 block of East Fremont Street.
An 800-block Leonard Street man reported Thursday morning his vehicle was broken into overnight and a stereo was missing.
State Patrol
An accident was reported Thursday afternoon at CR 38 and SR 101. One person was transported to Mercy Tiffin Hospital. Further details were unavailable Thursday evening.
Tiffin fire
Firefighters were called to 49 Eden St. Wednesday afternoon for an outside rubbish fire.
Firefighters were called to 545 W. Market St. Wednesday evening for a system malfunction.
Firefighters were called to 40 Jackson St. Wednesday night for an outside rubbish fire.
County fire
Green Springs firefighters were called to CR 38 and SR 101 Thursday afternoon for an accident.
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Ricky Allen Miller and Tammy Lynn Guay, Risingsun.
Brad Lewis Reiter and Ashley Annette Whitta, Fostoria.
Jonathan David Wagner and Nicole Louise Hoerig, Tiffin.
Chad Allan Burger, New Washington, and Ashley Marie Reinhart, Republic.
Nickolas James Saam and Jennifer Lynn Kline, Tiffin.
Zachary Keil Meyer and Jessica Marie Gitcheff, Tiffin.
Joshua David Woerner and Elizabeth Marie Holman, Fostoria.
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Also their goal-tandem is good to very good, both have something to prove and it will light another fire under them. Though the Leafs made a mistake by trading Luke Schenn so their defense isn't that good anymore but they are not a team to be taken lightly.
On the Puckpodcast last week they've mentioned that the Wings ar e on of the second tier teams to winning it all, so this means the DetroitRedWings are in the mix with a couple of other teams such as Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, Columbus..who all are known for iup and down seasons << predictions are hard to be made.
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The National Hockey League threw away the first two weeks of its season Thursday, so fans who have the Buffalo Sabres' schedule posted on their fridge or tucked into their wallets can throw out those calendars.
Based on the way things are going, no one should expect a new schedule anytime soon.
The labor stalemate between the NHL and its players' union reached an inevitable point with the league's cancellation of all regular-season games through Oct. 24. Ticket holders here will feel the effect four times, with the axing of a quartet of games scheduled for First Niagara Center. Only fans in Anaheim, who are losing five games, will miss more trips to the rink.
"We were extremely disappointed to have to make [Thursday's] announcement," NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly said. "The game deserves better, the fans deserve better, and the people who derive income from their connection to the NHL deserve better."
If the league and the NHL Players' Association can quickly reach consensus on a collective bargaining agreement to replace the one that expired Sept. 15, a full 82-game season could be salvaged. If not, games and dates from Oct. 25 on will continue to be chopped.
"If there is some kind of common ground, we need to find it ... and not have more games canceled," Sabres defenseman and active union member Jordan Leopold said by phone.
Optimism is in short supply. The sides can't agree how to divide revenue of $3.3 billion annually. They were $1 billion apart in their latest proposals regarding how much the players should earn in the next CBA. They haven't even brought up core financial issues since mid-September and don't have any negotiations scheduled.
"This is not about 'winning' or 'losing' a negotiation," Daly said. "This is about finding a solution that preserves the long-term health and stability of the league and the game."
Meanwhile, the sides are throwing away millions and denting the wallets of people who depend on games.
By missing four home games and one road contest, Sabres players will lose more than $3.2 million in salary. Losing those home games means Sabres owner Terry Pegula will miss more than $3.9 million in ticket sales.
The cancellations will also impact downtown restaurants and hotels, hundreds of part-time workers at First Niagara Center and scores of parking-lot attendants, ticket scalpers and others whose jobs are tied to the home games.
Pegula has so far said the team won't lay off any full-time employees, but ushers, ticket-takers and other part-time, game-day employees won't work if the team doesn't play.
"We probably won't have anything until the Bandits start up in January," except for a few concerts, said John Heidinger, representative for the nearly 100 ticket-takers and ushers who are members of Local 200 of the Service Employees International Union.
The same stay-at-home situation applies to the 700 or so Sportservice employees, most of whom are seasonal and part time and who staff the arena and its concession stands on game nights.
Experts say much of the money spent by local hockey fans will be spent elsewhere in the local economy, but the argument that fans will adjust their spending habits doesn't help the business operators near the arena who rely on money generated from the games.
"The decision to cancel the first two weeks of the NHL season is the unilateral choice of the NHL owners," NHLPA Executive Director Donald Fehr said. "For nearly 20 years, the owners have elected to lock out the players in an effort to secure massive concessions."
This is the third time since 1994 that the NHL will not start as scheduled because of a lockout. In 1994-95, the league didn't drop the puck until January for a shortened, 48-game schedule. The entire 2004-05 season was lost to a labor dispute.
The schedule cancellation came exactly one week before the league's first games were to be played. Based on that, the league and union can negotiate until Oct. 18 before more games are lost.
Fans who used credit cards to buy tickets to the Sabres' canceled home games – Oct. 13 against Pittsburgh, Oct. 16 against Detroit, Oct. 19 against the New York Rangers and Oct. 24 against New Jersey – will have refunds automatically returned to their cards, while the small number of buyers who used cash should visit the box office. Season-ticket holders were mailed refund options last month.
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Van sank, got stuck in mud at bottom of water
Published 5:36 AM PDT Jun 24, 2013
A woman who died after her minivan plunged into San Francisco Bay has been identified.
The city Medical Examiner's office said Sunday that she was 60-year-old Debra Crenshaw of San Francisco. A cause of death was not released.
Crenshaw was behind the wheels when the van careened through a parking lot near the city's Marina Yacht Harbor, jumped a curb and fell into the water Friday. The van sank and got stuck in mud at the bottom of the bay before it was dredged up Saturday.
Police are investigating why the van was driven into the water.
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Like many of the students at Zucker Middle School of Science last Thursday, sixth-grader Samuel Ferguson expected the worst of his first taste of freshly juiced vegetables and fruit.
"I thought it was going to be nasty because it smelled funny," said Ferguson of the thick green concoction made of kale, apples, carrots and bananas.
Ferguson was surprised to find, despite the fact that he could see the vegetables going into the drink, that it was sweet, a bit like apple juice.
"I liked it," said Ferguson, who later brought baby carrots and a tangerine packed in his lunch to juice.
The juicing demonstration marked the beginning of a possible collaboration to introduce schoolchildren, less likely to be exposed to fresh vegetables and fruits, to juicing.
At Zucker, three interested parties came together for the juice-tasting experiment: Mickey Brennan of The Sprout in Mount Pleasant, Louis Yuhasz of Louie's Kids and Dr. Marcus Newberry, a founder of the Cooper River Bridge Run and a representative of Lighten Up Charleston.
Last year, Newberry approached Yuhasz at the Bridge Run press luncheon to pitch the idea of working together on bringing juicing to schools. Yuhasz, a loyal customer of Brennan, pitched it to him.
Brennan, a guru of juicing in the Charleston area, already wanted to start an outreach program in the schools and recently had served samples to students at Mary Ford Elementary School.
All see it as a solution to the problem of getting kids to eat more vegetables and fruits and hopefully turn away from soft drinks and other junk foods.
At Mary Ford, Brennan tracked the kids' responses by asking them to place a piece of green or red paper in a box. Green was a vote that they liked it. Red that they didn't.
Out of more than 300 responses at Mary Ford, Brennan counted only 11 pieces of red paper. The response at Zucker was running about the same.
Yuhasz, who developed a relationship with Zucker through Louie's Kids Fit Club programs for three years, suspects some vote down the juice because of peer pressure or just to stand out and be different.
Brennan, Newberry and Yuhasz see a future in getting more fresh juices into schools and vow to find money to fund it. Newberry hopes to ask the Bridge Run to fund a program through grants.
All fully understand the bureaucracy of school district cafeteria contracts and the perceived threats by some lunch providers, but vow to find allies — namely, friendly principals such as Zucker's Jake Perlmutter — to make it happen.
Part of the effort is to dispel the myth that juicing is expensive.
Brennan says juicing can be done with a simple blender using items such as frozen spinach, canned or fresh pineapple, and fresh apples and bananas. He also says that the price of juicers is not exorbitant.
The Breville juicer he used in Thursday's demo cost $100 at Target or Bed, Bath & Beyond.
Perlmutter knows his students well and also sees value in getting juicing into the schools.
"This makes eating vegetables a more palatable experience for them, and frankly, they may not have time to cook these things. This makes it easy and accessible."


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In a paper published online August 22 in the journal Nature, Ryan Jensen, Ph.D., postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Davis, and his colleagues reported the first purification of full-length BRCA2 protein. The protein, mutations of which lead to breast and ovarian cancers, has eluded research groups for years due to challenges preventing its purification.
Like many researchers, Dr. Jensen used his own handcast polyacrylamide gels to monitor the purification of BRCA2. During many of these attempts, the higher molecular weight proteins—including BRCA2—were undetectable.
When Dr. Jensen began using Bio-Rad Laboratories' Mini-Protean TGX long shelf life gels, he consistently observed "tight, crisp" bands corresponding to BRCA2. "When I hand poured my gels to analyze the purification of BRCA2, I wasn't always confident that it would show up," Dr. Jensen said. "With Bio-Rad's TGX gels, I can count on the fact that BRCA2 will show up every time."
Since the late 1960s, the SDS-PAGE workflow has become a widely used tool for analyzing protein mixtures. Within that workflow, the Laemmli system is regarded as the gold standard for SDS-PAGE techniques. Utilizing a Tris-glycine-SDS buffer system, the Laemmli system has the ability to clearly resolve and provide accurate molecular weight estimation of proteins in complex samples from a wide variety of sources.
Researchers looking to use the Laemmli system have two options for gels: handcast gels and precast gels. Handcasting polyacrylamide gels is time-consuming and often leads to inconsistent results. Handcast gels must also be used immediately. In their favor, handcast gels run on the standard Laemmli buffer system and serve as an inexpensive option for cost-conscious labs.
Commercially available precast gels, on the other hand, save researchers from the time and hassle of handcasting. However, precast gels with longer shelf lives typically require the use of alternative buffer systems such as MOPS or MES that present different electrophoretic patterns, affecting both the resolution and banding patterns of proteins in complex mixtures.
Specialized buffer systems also usually cost more per run, so given the widespread use of SDS-PAGE, this can have a significant adverse impact on a laboratory's budget.
Precast gels that utilize standard buffers face the disadvantage of the traditional Laemmli systems' loss of gel matrix stability, resulting in a shelf life of only a few months. Gel performance steadily degrades over time, reducing resolution and sensitivity, and increasing time-to-results.
In response to these and other challenges, Bio-Rad introduced Mini-Protean TGX long shelf life gels. These long shelf life gels are based on a novel modification of the Laemmli system, and offer advantages over both handcast and other precast gels in terms of consistency, speed, and reproducibility.
Christopher Belisle, Ph.D., is marketing manager of electrophoresis and blotting, and Kate Smith ([email protected]) is senior product manager, electrophoresis, both in the laboratory separations division at Bio-Rad Laboratories.
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The Rock Cave CEOS met June 4 at the Banks District Civic Center with 12 members in attendance. Mitch Griffin gave the blessing before refreshments were enjoyed by all. Ted Turner won the door prize. Susie Bender read the devotion, "Take a Mini Vacation," and Carol Haymond read the devotion, "Only What I Need," which was followed by the flag salute.
Carol Haymond read May minutes which were accepted as read. There was no treasurer's report. The balance is the same as it was in May.
Correspondence: A Christmas card from Christie Depoy and a "thank you" card from the Bryant Family were received.
Old business: Susie Bender, Glen Hawkins, Dora Neely and Dottie and Gail Bosley helped to clean up Fidler's Mill. Our Strawberry basket was bought by Mark Riggs and made $137.50. Learn 'n Return for June was canceled. Janet Depoy reported on the Weston area meeting which was attended by Janet, Susie Bender, Jean Linger and Connie Simmons. It was very nice.
New Business: JoAnn Hawkins reported on plans for the Civil War Memorial Highway dedication June 8 and the Dale Hawkins Civil War dinner at the Arlington Community Building with proceeds benefiting Fidler's Mill. A chicken barbecue was scheduled for June 22 at the fire department. The Banks District Fire Department and Friends and Fidler's Mill are sponsoring the event; freewill donations were be accepted.
The CEOS discussed having a food concession stand at the Upshur County Fair, July 19-21. The motion was made by Susie Bender, seconded by JoAnn Hawkins and carried with one abstention.
The social will be held at Arlington Community Building on June 14. Breakfast is at the Y Diner on June 11.
Mary Ann Griffin gave the lesson, "Welcome to Vietnam" which is where our international student is from.
The motion to adjourn was made by Ted Turner, seconded by Marriane and Carol. Adjournment took place at 8:25 followed by our plant and white elephant sale which made $95.
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Be thankful that your lawn needs mowing and your windows need fixing, because it means you have a home.
Be thankful for your heating bill, because it means you are warm.
Be thankful for the laundry, because it means you have clothes to wear.
Be thankful for the space at the far end of the parking lot, because it means you can walk.
Be thankful for the person who sings off-key in church, because it means you can hear.
Be thankful for people who complain about the government, because it means we have freedom of speech.
Be thankful for the alarm that goes off in the morning, because it means you are alive.


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A Lancaster man convicted of attempting to receive child pornography was sentenced today to a mandatory minimum term of five years in prison.
Joseph S. Marranca, 68, was accused of trying to arrange a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old girl, who in reality was an FBI agent posing as the girl.
"Luckily, there was no actual teenager he was communicating with," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Marie P. Grisanti.
Marranca's lawyer acknowledged the requirement for a mandatory sentence but asked U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara for leniency regarding other aspects of his client's sentence.
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KALAMAZOO, Mich. - The Ball State women's basketball team expanded its win streak to four with its 73-50 victory at Western Michigan Thursday night in University Arena. With the win the Cardinals improve to 9-11 overall and 6-1 in the Mid-American Conference while the Broncos fall to 6-14 overall and 2-5 in league action.
Both sophomore guard Shelbie Justice and freshman guard Nathalie Fontaine had career-high performances after leading the Cardinals with 20 points apiece. Sophomore guard Brittany Carter chipped in 10 points on the night. Defensively Fontaine led Ball State with seven rebounds.
For the game Ball State shot 49.1 percent while holding its opponent to 29.3 percent. The Cardinals scored 34 points in the paint and 24 points off of the Broncos 18 turnovers.
The Cardinals defense started off quickly holding the Broncos to only one field goal and a free throw for over nine minutes which allowed Ball State to build a 15-4 lead with 10:54 on the clock.
Western Michigan got back to within five (19-14) with 7:13 left in the half, but Ball State answered quickly with a 7-0 run to go back up 26-14 at the 5:21 mark. After that, Justice closed with 11 straight points for Ball State including a layup at the buzzer which gave the Cardinals the 39-21 halftime advantage over the Broncos.
Ball State built its largest lead of the game in the second half which was 26 (55-29) with just over ten minutes left in the contest. Western Michigan began to close the gap slowly but could only come within 18 (41-59) with 7:30 remaining.
The Ball State women's basketball team continues Mid-American Conference action on the road when it travels to Eastern Michigan Sunday for a 2 p.m. tipoff in the Convocation Center.


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INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. - The North Tahoe boys lost 2-1 to top-seeded Incline in the semifinal round of the Northern Division III soccer tournament Friday.
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Subtitle 23 BOARD FOR PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS
09.23.04 Fees
Authority: Business Regulation Article, §§2-106, 2-106.1 and 2-106.2; Business Occupations and
Professions Article, §§14-101, 14-208, 14-209, 14-311, 14-312, 14-314, and 14-316; Annotated Code of Maryland
Notice of Proposed Action
The Board for Professional Engineers proposes to amend Regulation
.03 under COMAR 09.23.04 Fees. This action was considered by the Board at a public meeting held on February 14, 2013, notice
of which was published in 40:2 Md. R. 177 (January 25, 2013), pursuant to State Government Article, §10-506(c), Annotated Code of Maryland.
Statement of Purpose
The purpose of this action is to increase license fees previously set by the Board in 2003 and then decreased in 2007. Pursuant to the
authority set forth in Business Regulation Article, §§2-106, 2-106.1, and 2-106.2, Annotated Code of Maryland, the Maryland design boards,
including the Board for Professional Engineers, may set various fees, including a license fee, in order to cover the actual documented
direct and indirect costs of fulfilling their statutory and regulatory duties. The law provides that the Secretary must calculate these
costs on an annual basis and provide them to the design boards for the purposes of fee-setting. Based on the current levels of revenues
and expenses, as certified to the design boards by the Department, it has become evident to the design boards that an increase in
license fees is necessary in order for the boards to strive to meet their statutory obligations. The need for increase in fees is a
result of a number of factors, including, but not limited to, increase in personnel costs, as well as in fixed and indirect costs.
The statute governing the design boards special fund limits a fee increase to 12.5 percent annually. As a result, the design boards,
both individually and as members of the design boards special fund cluster, decided to uniformly increase their applicable license/certificate
fees by 12.5 percent.
Comparison to Federal Standards
There is no corresponding federal standard to this proposed action.
Estimate of Economic Impact
I. Summary of Economic Impact. There are currently 18,000 licensed engineers. Due to staggered license renewals, 9,000 licensees
are expected to renew their licenses annually. In addition, an average of 1,000 individuals become licensed every year. Based on the
assumption that these numbers remain constant, the State Occupational and Professional Design Boards Fund will receive additional
revenues totaling $85,000.
III. Assumptions. (Identified by Impact Letter and Number from Section II.)
A. Assuming 9,000, or 50 percent of current licensees, renew their licenses in the first year, and 1,000 individuals receive new
licenses, revenues totaling $85,000 (10,000 x $8.50) will be received by the Fund.
D. Applicants for new licenses and current licensees are presently paying $68 for a 2-year license. The proposed amendment will
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"I'm always here and there – everyone in my industry is – and that's why a lot of relationships are fleeting," the actress, 25, tells Marie Claire in its November cover story, on newsstands Oct. 23.
And while the upcoming Nov. 16 release of Breaking Dawn – Part 2 has put a spotlight on the supernatural franchise's real-life romantic ups and downs between Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, Greene's own challenge is balancing her career with her personal life.
"I've gotten very good at detaching whenever I have to go away for three months, which I realize is hard on friends and kind of selfish," says the Florida native. "You go on a couple of dates, and then someone ships off to do a movie. It's not like you're going to fly out and see them, because it's not serious enough for that."
But no one can accuse her of being a different Ashley, even while on the celebrity fast track playing Alice Cullen.
"After the movie [Twilight] came out, some people said, 'You changed,' " she says. "And I said, 'I haven't changed, dude. Your opinion of me has changed because I'm working on this film.' Trust me, my parents would let me know."
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Tuesday, March 26, 2013
A local man called police because a derogatory sign had been placed at the front of his neighborhood.
The sign defamed his character, he said. (The name has been changed to protect his identity.) The sign read, "John Doe is a porn addict." The complainant told police that he is going through a divorce but did not have any information to identify who placed the sign there. The sign was photographed for evidence and removed.
Officers were called to a home where a husband and wife were arguing over change.
It turns out the husband sent the wife to the store with a $20 bill and instructions to buy him a pack of cigarettes. She bought the smokes, returned and went about her business. But the husband got mad, according to the report and demanded his change back. She refused to give him the change and he shoved her. She then shoved him back. The husband left the house and called police. The wife said she wanted to pursue charges and wanted her husband out of the house. But she later changed her mind about pressing charges after she was asked to sign the warrant.
A gas station clerk called police because a man came in and tried to steal something. He told police that a man walked in and snooped around the store, pausing for a while near the headphones and phone charger displays. The subject then went up to a random customer and tried to convince that customer to buy him a beer, but the customer refused.
The subject then went back to the phone charger display, picked up something and started to walk out of the door. The gas station clerk then called after the man and told him he was on candid camera and to please return the item he stole. At that point the suspect ran out of the store. The clerk said he was unsure of what the suspect stole but was positive he took something from that area. He said he would have his manager pull the video tape and if the suspect was caught, would like to have him placed on trespass notice.
A handful of men in a musical group meet at a local person's home every week for practice. One of those men played bass and borrowed the instrument and an amplifier from the owner of the house.
Things were going well until the bass player's wife became ill and he took a leave of absence from the group.
He never returned the bass and amplifier, because his intentions were to return to the musical group once his wife recovered. But the man fell on hard times, according to a police report, and he pawned the bass and amplifier.
The bass player told police that he needed quick money and had every intention of paying back the pawn shop. He said he was unable to get all the needed money to pay back the pawn shop, so they took possession of the bass and amplifier.
At this point he had to tell the owner of the musical instrument what had happened.
Police were eventually called in and helped get the instrument back. The owner of the instrument then decided not to press charges since his belongings had been returned. According to the report, he just wanted to put the incident behind him.
Police saw a sports car go flying down Coleman Boulevard at over 50 mph. An officer fell in behind the vehicle trying to catch up. He saw the driver and the passenger then roll down their windows and throw out their drinks.
The car was eventually pulled over and the driver was asked for his license and registration information. He then said the car belonged to the passenger.
The officer then switched gears and asked him what type of drink he threw out of the window. The passenger said it was not alcohol, but the driver said it was mixed drinks and that they had been drinking at a nearby bar all day. The empty cups both smelled of booze, according to the report. The driver's license turned out to be suspended for nine failure to pay traffic ticket citations. He was charged for driving under suspension 2nd, open container, failure to pay traffic tickets and speeding, and his passenger was charged with open containers.
Police were called to a home in regard to a domestic dispute.
The female told police that she and her husband had an argument and she bit him and he pushed her into a fish tank, causing it to break.
She said the argument spilled outside where her husband pushed her and she fell to her knees. The report said the officer noticed grass stains on her knees but no other physical manifestations of injury.
She said her husband then threw her car keys and she could not find them.
Police then spoke with the husband who was on the back porch crying and gasping for breath, EMS treated him to be sure he was not in cardiac arrest. In the meantime an officer spoke with their son who said that their father had left town for a few months to help family members repair their homes after a storm.
While gone, their mother had been acting strangely and would disappear for days at a time without explanation, according to the report. The son told officers that he and his little brothers gained access to their mother's email account and found that she was having an affair with a man named Joe. The boys then went through her phone and showed their dad what they had found. According to the report, the dad bear-hugged their mom so she would not go after their son who still had her phone. That is when she bit her husband, they struggled, she fell into the fish tank and it broke. The husband then told police the fight moved outside and he chased after her and when she stopped suddenly he ran into her, causing her to fall to the ground. The husband said her purse spilled open and every thing fell to the ground. That's when he said he saw her keys and threw them as far as he could so she could not leave.
The police officers ruled that there was no intent, given the circumstances to injure each other and that the differences in their stories seemed to be the result of perception rather than substantive differences in fact. The wife agreed to leave the house and she was advised to have a neutral third party escort her should she decide to return.
A grocery store manager called police because a drunk woman was in the store walking in circles and trying to get in the manager's office. He told the officer that the woman then walked back out into the parking lot and banged on the windshield of a passing car. An officer saw the woman roaming around the parking lot and stopped to talk with her. She said she had been at a nearby bar and was just heading back to the bar. Then she said she was heading home. She was so drunk, according to the report, that when asked for her ID she handed the officer a $5 bill. Then she almost fell over. She was arrested for public drunkenness.
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Menno Kooistra was born and raised in the north of Holland, where he published his first monthly magazine containing work by himself and a friend. In 1993 a second magazine saw the light of day: Sédox, featuring morbid underground comics from different artists. A little later he published in the amateur magazines De Stripper and Impuls. In 1996 Menno moved to Amsterdam to study at the Film Academy, followed by an education in Film Science at the University. Finished as a Master of Arts in 2003, he started drawing cartoons and comics on his own website Mennomail and in magazines such as Myx Stripmagazine. He collaborated with Johan de Rooij on the comic short 'Trui'.
In March 2007 Menno edited and released 'Bloeddorst' ('Bloodthirst'), a Dutch horror anthology, featuring over 30 Dutch and Belgian artists, who created an original comic on the horror theme. The book is a reference to seventies horror magazines Creepy and Eerie. Besides his own contribution, the book contains stories by Peter Pontiac, Maarten Gerritsen, Maarten Janssens, Marcel Ruijters, Fred de Heij, Minck Oosterveer, Lamelos, Alice Kok and Erik Wielaert. At the moment Menno is working on Bloeddorst the magazine.


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on February 10, 2013 - 1:00 AM
The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress by Chris Hedges; Nation/Truthdig, 407 pages ($16.99).
Just so you know, with no equivocation, where Chris Hedges is coming from, here from the introduction to this new edition of a collection from one of the more bracing journalists and commentators of our time, is Hedges parsing our future before our last presidential election:
"We will all swallow our cup of corporate poison. We can take it from nurse Romney, who will tell us not to whine and play the victim, or we can take it from nurse Obama, who will assure us that this hurts him even more than it hurts us, but one way or another the corporate hemlock will be shoved down our throats … Corporate power, no matter who is running the ward after January 2013, is poised to carry out U.S. history's most savage assault against the poor and the working class, not to mention the Earth's ecosystem. And no one in power, no matter what the bedside manner, has any intention or ability to stop it."
In other words, with Hedges we are talking about the remorseless, unreconstructed left – a fellow, for instance, whose most brilliant book (aside from this collection) was titled "Death of the Liberal Class."
This compilation of Hedges' original pieces for Truthdig.com was published originally to much acclaim in 2001. There are nine much newer pieces by Hedges appended here along with his new introduction: on the aftermath of the Iraq War, the Occupy movement and, from two years ago, a piece called "A Decade After 9/11: We Are What We Loathe."
"War creates a world without empathy," writes this journalist after two decades' experience as a foreign (and war) correspondent. "We live in a world at home and in the Middle East, hardened and distorted by hate. We communicate in the language of fear and violence … The only question left is how many more people are going to die needlessly in Israel, in Palestine and in Iraq before Israeli and American leaders begin to deal with our world as it is, not as they wish it to be."
A rare and eloquent figure on the left during our era.
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Joe Lavey has always had a special affection for "A Christmas Story."
Each holiday season, the North Tonawanda man follows a ritual of watching the classic movie, setting up models of the story's houses and shops under the tree and putting his "leg lamp" and BB gun on display in his front window.
This year, he is on to a bigger, nerve-racking project.
Sunday afternoon, he has arranged for Ian Petrella, the actor who played Ralphie's bratty little brother, Randy, to give a talk an hour before a 3 o'clock showing of the movie in the Riviera Theatre. And the fire truck used in the movie will be on hand, too, offering rides for all, starting at 12:30 p.m. Festivities also will include a chance for pictures with Santa and a raffle of autographed BB guns.
Money raised will go to the restored old movie palace on Webster Street and the volunteer Sweeney Hose Company No. 7, of which Lavey is president.
Petrella is a fan of old-time movie theaters and posted an offer on Facebook to appear to help with fundraising. Now, six months after taking Petrella up on the offer, Lavey is worried.
What if too few people come? "I think they've only sold 134 tickets out of 1,200," he said.
The 1983 comedy about Ralphie Parker, a 9-year-old boy, growing up in the late 1930s and longing for a BB gun for Christmas, has a modern cult following and even a museum across the street from the house where some of the movie was shot in Cleveland.
When it came out, it was a flop, lasting two weeks in 900 theaters, said Petrella, 38, an animator who sells autographs on the side. "It wasn't one of those films that catapulted you into stardom," he said.
Years later, "A Christmas Story" became a beloved holiday classic after it started playing on television, including a 24-hour holiday marathon on TBS.
"That's one of the things that I love the most. That you have fans like Joe out there," said Petrella, who counts Lavey as one of his oldest social media fans. "It's just kind of interesting how with this film, people like Joe add to the idea of the connection between the fans and film and how much the film means to them."
The movie still makes Lavey, 32, feel like his boyhood self.
When he was a kid, he cut out Brand Names' catalog pictures of BB guns for his Christmas list. And, just like the mother in the movie, his mom always protested, saying what turned out to be the movie's most famous line: "You'll shoot your eye out."
"When that was on TV, you knew it was Christmastime," said Lavey, equipment and supply manager for Twin City Ambulance.
Now that he is the father of two, his life has begun to mirror the movie's version of grown-up life. Lavey's wife, Katie, likes seeing how happy he gets when he finds a new bobblehead doll character or another ceramic house for his Christmas village scene, but there are limits.
No more than one leg lamp at a time. "I can't have both of them up at the same time," he said. "That's the rule."
For most of the year, the bigger one gets banished to the basement crawl space with the totes that hold a piece of siding from the Cleveland house and the rest of the tchotckes.
The lamps are replicas of an object in one of the more famous scenes in the movie, based on anecdotes in books by Jean Shepherd:
Ralphie's delighted father wins a sweepstakes from a soda pop company and the prize arrives in a wood crate marked "FRAGILE." Ralphie's mother finds the enclosed fringe lamp of the Nehi logo of a woman's leg so ugly that she "accidentally" knocks it off the table, and breaks it into pieces.
"Which I'm very surprised it hasn't happened in my house yet," Lavey said.
In one of Katie Lavey's far more supportive efforts, she arranged to have her husband's first lamp delivered in a wood crate for his 30th birthday, along with a custom, crate-shaped cake, topped with a little leg lamp.
But, a year later, she was not happy to come home and find a second, smaller version of the lamp – autographed by all the actors – in the dining room.
"Some of the words she actually used you wouldn't want to put in the paper," he said. "She was surprised."
One day, she says, when their children – Brittney, 1, and Collin, 4 – are out of the house, they might have room for a full display of his collection.
Of that, her husband is hopeful – but doubtful. "She's a liar," he said jokingly. "If we had a room for it, it wouldn't be up."
Still Katie Lavey caters to her husband's "Christmas Story" side when she can.
She has gone with him three times to see the movie-family house in Cleveland, which has a museum in another house across the street and features the snowsuit that Petrella wore. "That's like my Graceland," Lavey said.
She makes cutout Christmas cookies shaped like leg lamps and the bunny suit Ralphie gets from his aunt for Christmas.
And, once a year, she agrees to watch the movie. "It's not that I don't like it; I just don't have the love for it that he does," she said. Reflecting on what the movie means to him, she said, "I'm trying to think of a word – without saying, 'obsessed.' "
If all goes well Sunday, Lavey intends to aim higher: Next year, it would be cool if Buffalo hosted a 30th reunion for the actors and a "Christmas Story" convention.
So far, this season, he has reveled in the evening pleasure of looking outside and seeing cars stop and cameras flash as people take pictures of his front window. For the third year, has set up a BB gun leaning against a piece of crate marked "FRAGILE" and left his big leg lamp shining on.
Lately, he has been wondering if the night visits are becoming a tradition with people saying, "Let's go by the house that has the 'Christmas Story' stuff."
Thinking of that, he said, makes him feel pretty good.
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IMF Calls Out South Korea on Its Currency Policy
WASHINGTON—In unusually strong language, the International Monetary Fund Wednesday questioned South Korea's currency policy, telling Seoul that it should only intervene in exchange-rate markets to prevent volatility that might damage the economy.
The fund's scrutiny of Korea's currency policy comes after Bank of Korea's top official indicated early this year the central bank is ready to intervene in currency markets to curb the won's strength. It also follows criticism from the IMF's most powerful member, the U.S., late last year. The Treasury Department said in October that it was concerned that Korea had resumed currency intervention and needed to be more transparent about its activities.
"The won should continue to be market determined, with intervention limited to smoothing disorderly market conditions," the IMF's executive board said in a statement on the annual review of the country's economy.
The fund says the won is "moderately undervalued," accounting for inflation, but the currency is coming under increased appreciation pressure as the emerging market outperforms many of its peers.
Korean officials say their efforts are to stabilize markets.
But some U.S. economists say Korea's keeping a lid on the value of their exchange rate to bar exports from becoming too expensive.
Although countries can devalue their currency by buying foreign currency, the move puts upward pressure on other countries' exchange rates and can fuel trade and political tensions between governments.
To avoid creating friction over currency policies, the IMF said Korea should be more candid about its exchange-rate operations.
"Directors considered that increased transparency in interventions would help enhance the credibility of the authorities' exchange rate policy," the fund said.
Although still encased in IMF diplo-speak, the IMF's language on Korea's currency policy is more pointed than usual. The fund has in the past tempered its public comments on exchange rates, even to the point of being criticized for allowing member countries to delete sensitive currency-policy references.
The executive board appeared to be divided, however, about whether the country should continue to build up foreign currency buffers to protect against potential economic crises.
"Some directors considered that the current level of reserves is adequate and does not warrant further accumulation, while a few others, noting the proven benefits of building a strong buffer in past crises, cautioned against prejudging the case," the board said.
Fearing a repeat of the crises that rocked emerging markets in the 1990s–including having to tap IMF credit lines under tough economic conditions–many emerging markets have accumulated much larger stockpiles of reserve foreign currency to help protect against market volatility.
There's disagreement among economists over what levels are sufficient insurance, however, and what's just cover for currency devaluation.