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"I guess you'll be polishing his statue, eh, Meredith?" joked Franco. A chagrined Vieira said she'd polish Franco's, as well, though she admitted, "I'm in the doghouse."
As for Firth, he sent word from London to describe how he was marking Tuesday's happy occasion, saying he's "currently celebrating with my colleagues three feet above the ground. Not used to this much joy, or this much champagne at this hour."
He wasn't alone in kicking up his heels. Best Actress contender Nicole Kidman issued this statement: "What an extraordinary journey this film has taken me on! Rabbit Hole has been a labor of love, and I'm so thankful to John Cameron Mitchell, David Lindsay-Abaire and the brilliant cast. This nomination reflects all of the heart and soul that these people have put into it and I can't thank them enough."
Previous Best Actor winner (1996's Shine") Geoffrey Rush, Firth's Supporting Actor-nominated costar in King's Speech – which received the year's most nominations with 12 – had this to say: "As an Australian, I'm as excited to be recognized and honored by the Academy as my character must have been when his London speech therapy business flourished when the future King of England happened to pop by one day. This story has struck such a rich, resonant chord with audiences of all ages, which is very exciting – to have your work honored by your industry peers is even better."
Another Best Actress contender, Black Swan star Natalie Portman, said, "It is a wonderful culmination of the 10-year journey with [director Darren Aronofsky] to make this film. Making Black Swan is already the most meaningful experience of my career, and the passion shown for the film has completed the process of communication between artists and audience."
Still another Actress nominee, Annette Bening, for The Kids Are All Right, which received a total of four nods, declared, "Four nominations and four kids. I am damn proud!"
Supporting Actor for The Town, Jeremy Renner (also nominated last year for Best Actor in The Hurt Locker), said: "I am truly overwhelmed with gratitude by this recognition by the Academy this morning. I'm smiling from ear to ear knowing that lightning can strike twice and it feels electrifying."
Filmmakers Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, whose True Grit received 10 nominations, said, according to the Hollywood Reporter: "Ten seems like an awful lot. We don't want to take anyone else's."
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They might stand out as the only people not draped in bright green from head to toe.
Although members of the most recent wave of immigrant Irish are happy and proud to find Western New Yorkers exuberantly celebrating their culture and heritage, they also are a bit perplexed by some of our traditions.
They are more likely to wear a small bunch of fresh shamrock than a fake leprechaun beard. They don't pile into the pubs with all their pals for a night of drinking. There's no corned beef, much less green beer. And St. Patrick's Day is celebrated on one day, and that's March 17.
"I do enjoy that people here celebrate our culture as much as we do," says Anthony Duddy from Derry.
He is one of several young professionals in their 30s who have moved from Ireland to Western New York. They emigrated for the usual reasons – education, economic opportunity or love – and have met up with other expatriates here.
"It was surprising for me, coming from New York City, to see how big the Buffalo parade is. It's impressive," said Duddy, who earned a law degree from Fordham University before settling in his wife's hometown of Buffalo.
Some "off-the-boat" Irish meet up for Gaelic football games played by the local Gaelic Athletic Association affiliate, the Buffalo Fenians. The club's public relations officer, Padraic Walsh, from Kiltimagh, County Mayo, says the team and its supporters marched in the Old Neighborhood St. Patrick's Day Parade on Saturday and will join the Delaware Avenue parade today.
"We do try to stick together for the day," he says. "After the parades, we usually head for D'Arcy McGee's Irish Pub, because our friend Conor Hawkins, from Belfast, is the manager there."
Hawkins came to Buffalo 12 years ago to join his sister, who married a man from South Buffalo. He is often the unofficial greeter for new immigrants in his job at the pub.
"The new people who come into town, [D'Arcy McGee's] is one of the first places they stop in," he says. "It's a bit of a hub for the immigrant Irish community, the younger people."
Walsh and Hawkins agree that you won't usually find an Irish native decked out in green.
"How to spot a real Irish person on St. Paddy's Day? They are the only ones not wearing green," said Walsh, laughing.
Th�r�se Tully Rooney, from Galway, is the exception. For days, she proudly decks herself out in bright green, including flashing green shamrock earrings sent by her mother. She and her husband, John Rooney from Salthill, were looking forward to seeing their first Buffalo St. Patrick's Day parades with their 9-month-old son, Jason Sean. A few days ago, Th�r�se posted a photo on Facebook of Jason surrounded by green, Irish-themed, shamrock-bedecked gear sent from home.
Last year, the couple attended the Manhattan parade.
"I was unbelievably shocked. There were hundreds of thousands of people," Rooney said. "It was so nice to see everybody in good form."
One day holiday
"March 17th is a national holiday in Ireland, no matter what day it falls," says Walsh, who celebrates doubly because March 17 is also his birthday. "In years when the day falls during the week, it's hard for us to have as much excitement about the parade on a Saturday or Sunday … For us not having a parade on March 17 is like having Christmas in February."
Paul Mulcaire came to Buffalo from Kilrush, County Clare, in 1986.
"I used to tell people that St. Patrick's Day is one day and it's a holy day," he says. "I compare it to how Christmas has gone. Three months out, we're celebrating Christmas."
The Irish natives told similar stories about how they celebrated St. Patrick's Day at home.
The first priority for the day would be to pin on a bit of real shamrock, says Sinead McNally of Belfast, who moved to Buffalo four years ago when her husband was offered a job here.
"It's a bunch of the small shamrock, wrapped in a bit of foil to keep it fresh," she says.
Then it's off to Mass, followed by lunch or midday dinner, depending on family custom. Then the family goes to the local parade, which can include floats, bands, schools, dignitaries and people dressed as famous writers, poets and musicians.
In Galway, Th�r�se Rooney says, the floats show off cultural organizations, including Galway's famous Macnas street theater company. In the rare spots that don't have a parade, people will settle in to watch the Dublin parade on television.
Then it's off to the pub as a family, with grannies sipping tea or sherry and youngsters enjoying bags of "crisps" and soft drinks.
"We used to look forward to getting a glass of Club Orange or a glass of Coke while my dad and uncles and everybody would have a few drinks," Walsh says.
As the evening approached, there might be some informal music and even dancing.
"I know how much Guinness we sell at D'Arcy's," Hawkins says. "It was never like that at home. It was more mellow."
Irish food
Padraic Walsh's mother might prepare a pot of cabbage and cured pork shoulder or loin, what the Irish call bacon. But there was one thing it most certainly was not – corned beef and cabbage.
"Nobody in Ireland ever ate corned beef and cabbage," says David Slevin, from Horseleap in County Westmeath. "I came over here and people started offering it to me and I said, 'Why would I eat corned beef and cabbage?' The only corned beef I ever ate in Ireland was out of a can or a deli meat. I can only assume that when Irish immigrants first came over here, it was hard to find a shoulder of bacon, so they found corned beef as the closest substitute."
The music Americans enjoy is also different from what is now played in Ireland, says Walsh. "Something like 'Danny Boy,' that's from back in my great-grandparents' time. The people here are remembering the stories their grandparents told them, and that's as far as it got. But it's great that they're recognizing their heritage."
Adam Hayes, 24, a Buffalo native who lived in Ireland for four months while studying at the National University of Ireland in Galway, had some of his preconceived notions put to the test. "Before going, I had all the stereotypes about Ireland and the pubs, how people looked like and acted," he says. "Some of those are absolutely true and some are completely false."
Most surprising to him?
"It was maybe a month before we saw somebody in Galway with red hair," he said.
Did he ever see any green beer in Ireland?
"No, not once," he says.
'A great town'
"Everyone seems to want to celebrate being Irish, whatever small percentage they are," says Rooney.
In her work as a physical therapist, her accent draws attention.
"Lots of people, especially the elderly with some Irish background, ask me, 'Oh, could you say that again to me?' " she says. "But I like hearing the American accents too."
"Buffalo is a great town for Irish heritage and culture," Slevin says. "I never heard tell of Buffalo, New York, until I met my wife and moved here. I didn't expect there to be any Irish when I moved here. I really couldn't believe it when I found out. It was a lot easier to adapt to living in a different country because we have a great support system, a Gaelic football team and a lot of ex-pats."
The enthusiastic St. Patrick's Day celebrations on both sides of the Atlantic, says Slevin, are "a testament to the imprint of Irish culture on the United States. People in America want to go to Ireland for St. Patrick's Day, but people in Ireland want to come here. You can't book flights from Ireland to the United States a couple of days before St. Patrick's Day; they're jammed, everybody wants to come. It's pretty amusing."
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In a bizarre development in the Oscar Pistorius investigation, the top police detective on the case was replaced Thursday after it was revealed he also is facing charges of attempted murder – connected to an incident 18 months ago in which he fired shots at a minivan.
In October 2011, Hilton Botha and two other officers tried to stop a van they believed was carrying a murder suspect by shooting at it, the New York Times reports. The van was carrying seven people.
Botha was charged with attempted murder. The charges were later dropped, but were reinstated this week – which police called a complete coincidence.
"We were informed yesterday that the charges will be reinstated," Police Brig. Neville Malila said. "At this stage, there are no plans to take him off the Pistorius case."
But that soon changed. National police commissioner Riah Phiyega said Detective Botha would be replaced by Lt. Gen. Vinesh Moonoo, whom she described as the country's "top detective," the Associated Press reported
A spokesman for South Africa's National Prosecuting Authority said the decision to reinstate the charges happened on Feb. 4 – 10 days before Pistorius shot his girlfriend, the model Reeva Steenkamp, to death.
"It's completely unrelated to this trial," the spokesman said.
Botha denies accusations that he was drunk during the shooting, and claims he was firing at the van's wheels to avoid injuries. He is due in court in May.
Botha has testified this week in the Pistorius bail hearing. The double-amputee Olympian, 26, who faces murder charges, claims he mistook Steenkamp for a home intruder.
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AXA Advisors financial consultant Joseph Lane was elected 2013 chairman of the 30th Annual Taste of Buffalo presented by Tops. The Taste, a two-day food festival, is set for July 13 and 14, along Delaware Avenue and Niagara Square in downtown Buffalo. In addition, the following were named 2013 officers: First vice chairwoman, Ann Hackett, aHa! Designs; second vice chairwoman, Laura Jacobs, e3communications; treasurer, Luke Baecker, Arcara & Borczynski; secretary, Jen Mitri, Independent Health Foundation; and past chairman, Chris Hitchcock, Birdair Inc.
Ogorek Wealth Management financial adviser Anthony J. Ogorek recently presented at the National Association of Personal Financial Advisers national conference in Baltimore. The presentation was titled "NUA or Not: Dealing with Rollovers and Concentrated Stock Positions."
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U.S. Veterans Construction and Management Corp., Buffalo, was awarded a $3.48 million federal contract for mental health ward renovations from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' Western New York Health Care System, Buffalo.
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Did justice move too quickly?
That's what attorney Joe Amendola claims in his defense of convicted child-sex offender Jerry Sandusky. It is a possible area for appeal after Sandusky's sentencing earlier this week.
Pennsylvania law requires a defendant be brought to trial within 365 days (not including pre-trial motions) from when charges are filed or else the case can be thrown out. We are dismayed with the way the justice system works - sometimes in fits and spurts and other times with indeterminate delays.
But was four months enough time to move the case to trial? Former Penn State Vice President Gary Schultz and Athletics Director Tim Curley, who remains on leave, will have waited over a year before their case goes to trial.
On the one hand, it does look like Senior Judge John M. Cleland Jr. rushed, not giving enough time to Amendola and fellow defense attorney Karl Rominger to prepare. Cleland denied numerous defense motions to slow down the case, which had 10 victims. He set a timetable and stuck to it.
On the other hand, Amendola conducted hours and hours of interviews with the media during the four months of preparation. He spent way too much time pontificating, even trotting out Sandusky to do several national interviews - including an Emmy-winning interview for Bob Costas, a decision that backfired.
During the same time, the state Attorney General's Office posted the "no comment" sign at every opportunity. The prosecutors and investigators spent their time honing their case, which ended with 45 guilty verdicts out of a possible 48.
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Man, what a way to wrap up the summer concert season at the Erie Canal Harbor Central Wharf. Saying farewell to summer 2012 with a performance from seminal Def Jam artist, influential East Coast rapper and all around hip-hop icon LL Cool J. is the cherry on the season's sundae.
He might be more visible as a television and film actor these days ("NCIS: Los Angeles"), but make no mistake - LL's early work broke down doors for hip-hop, whether his songs were shining the spotlight on the skills of the music's DJs ("Go Cut Creator Go"), putting a major fingerprint on the sound of East Coast rap ("Rock the Bells") or bringing rap sensibilities to bear on rock rhythms ("Mama Said Knock You Out."). LL is, today as he was from the beginning, pretty much the man. (Just ask the guy who broke into his Los Angeles home last week and attempted to rob him. LL "subdued" the attacker until police arrived, according to the Los Angeles Times. "Mama Said Knock You Out," indeed.)
Beginning at 6 p.m. Saturday, LL Cool J will be joined by another legend - the revered "mash-up" pioneer and state-of-the-art DJ Z-Trip, who will open the proceedings with a solo outing, and then spin the steel wheels for LL Cool J's set.
Tickets are $10 if you get them today; $20 day of show (Buffalo Place box office, Tickets.com).
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The Lyric Concert with Paul Herriott Monday 21 July 2014
Bringing Composing the Island to an end, tonight at 8pm Paul Herriott presents 'Out of the Cradle: A Choral Finale'. Having traversed a century of music in Ireland, the closing choral concert brings Composing the Island back full circle, with two works from the 1920s from both parts of Ireland. Join a host of performers – the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, RTÉ Philharmonic Choir, Mark Hindley (conductor/chorus master), Helena Wood (leader), Claudia Boyle (soprano), Ben McAteer (baritone) and Dean Power (tenor). The concert begins with Norman Hay's The Wind Among The Reeds (1921), his setting of a collection of Yeats poems for mezzo-soprano, baritone, chorus and orchestra. And to conclude, Rhoda Coghill's Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking from 1923 written for tenor, choir and orchestra. It's a setting of the Walt Whitman text which begins, "Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, Out of the mocking-bird's throat, the musical shuttle, Out of the Ninth-month midnight, Over the sterile sands and the fields beyond, where the child leaving his bed wander'd alone, bareheaded, barefoot..." Join us live from 8pm.
Paul brings us to the Rokokotheater, for the Schwetzingen Festival in May this year.
A new centenary project launched by Heather Humphreys (Minister for Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts & the Gaeltacht), Composing the Island presents 29 concerts of orchestral, choral, instrumental, song and chamber music by Irish composers written between 1916 and 2016. For more information visit www.nch.ie/Online/Composing-the-Island. Composing the Island: A century of music in Ireland 1916-2016 is sponsored by Bord na Móna and presented by RTÉ and the National Concert Hall. In celebration of this wonderful project, RTÉ lyric fm will broadcast a host of live performances, recorded concerts and documentaries from the lyric archives, exploring the works and lives of Irish composers.
Wednesday 7th September, 8pm
Charles Villiers Stanford: Irish Rhapsody No. 4 The Fisherman of Lough Neagh and What He Saw (1914)
Norman Hay: Dunluce (1921)
Ina Boyle: Symphony No. 1 Glencree (1927)
RTÉ Concert Orchestra
Kenneth Montgomery (conductor)
Friday 9th September, 8pm
Howard Ferguson Partita for Orchestra (1936)
Frederick May Symphonic Ballad (1937)
Hamilton Harty The Children of Lir (1938)
Aloys Fleischmann The Four Masters (1944)
RTÉ Concert Orchestra
Máire Flavin (soprano)
Gavin Maloney (conductor)
Wednesday 14th September, 8pm
Brian Boydell: In Memoriam Mahatma Gandhi, Op. 30 (1948)
Seán Ó Riada: Hercules Dux Ferrariae (1957)
John Larchet: By the Waters of Moyle (1957)
Éamonn Ó Gallchobhair: Waltz from Nocturne sa Chearnóig (1959)
Thomas C. Kelly: Fantasia for Harp & Orchestra, on two Irish Airs (O'Carolan's Lament and The Heather Glen) (1960)
Noel Kelehan: Cuchulainn's Lament (1967)
Gerard Victory: In Memoriam James Connolly (1966)
A. J. Potter: Sinfonia de Profundis (1969)
RTÉ Concert Orchestra
David Brophy (Conductor)
Friday 16th September, 8pm
Seóirse Bodley: Configurations (1967)
Roger Doyle: Four Sketches for Orchestra (1969)
Gerard Victory: Miroirs (1969)
Raymond Deane: Embers (1973/1978 rev. 2015)
Raymond Deane: Sphinxes (1972 rev. 2015)
Seóirse Bodley: A small white cloud drifts over Ireland (1975)
Gerald Barry: From The Intelligence Park (1986)
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra
Gerhard Markson (conductor)
Wednesday 21st September, 8pm
John Buckley: Taller than Roman Spears (1977 rev. 1986)
John Kinsella: Symphony No. 3 Joie de Vivre (1990)
Kevin O'Connell: North (1998)
Siobhán Cleary: Alchemy (2001)
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra
Gavin Maloney (conductor)
Friday 23rd September, 8pm
Deirdre Gribbin: Venus Blazing (2001)
Donnacha Dennehy: Crane (2009)
Stephen Gardner: NEVER…NEVER...NEVER... (2003)
Brian Irvine: Big Daddy, Motorhead (2009)
Andrew Hamilton: C (2016) *world premiere/RTÉ commission
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra
Elaine Clark (violin)
Gavin Maloney (conductor)
Sunday 25th September, 8-9pm (Closing Concert)
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra
RTÉ Philharmonic Choir
Mark Hindley conductor/chorus master
Norman Hay The Wind Among The Reeds (1921)
Rhoda Coghill Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Rocking (1923)
Title: Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 In F, Bwv 1046a (First Version)
Composer: Bach, J S
Performer(s): Akademie Für Alte Musik Berlin
Album: Recorded at the Schwetzingen Festival (Broadcast 21/07/14) EBU
Duration: 11:47
Title: Harpsichord Concerto In E Minor
Composer: Bach, W F
Performer(s): Raphael Alpermann, Harpsichord, Akademie Für Alte Musik Berlin
Album: Recorded at the Schwetzingen Festival (Broadcast 21/07/14) EBU
Duration: 24:16
Title: Sinfonia In B Minor, Wq 182/5
Composer: Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel
Performer(s): Akademie Für Alte Musik Berlin
Album: Recorded at the Schwetzingen Festival (Broadcast 21/07/14) EBU
Duration: 9:46
Title: Oboe Concerto In E Flat, Wq 165
Composer: Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel
Performer(s): Xenia Loffler, Oboe, Akademie Für Alte Musik Berlin
Album: Recorded at the Schwetzingen Festival (Broadcast 21/07/14) EBU
Duration: 18:26
Title: Quem Terra Pontus Sidera
Composer: de Jerusalem, Ignacio
Performer(s): Chanticleer Sinfonia, Chanticleer
Album: Chanticleer - A Portrait ~~ C795001 Teldec 092749702-2
Duration: 3:50
Title: Trio In E Flat Op. 38 (After Septet Op. 20)
Composer: Beethoven, Ludwig van
Performer(s): Beaux Arts Trio
Album: LCON-WED181109 Not Available Philips 432 386-2
Duration: 42:59
Presenter: Paul Herriott
Producer: Gail Henry
Production Co-ordinator: Ian McGlynn


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Each living area has an individual hall council that plans events (Camino/Founders, Maher, Missions A, Missions B, San Buenaventura/SAPs/UTAs/PTAs, Vistas, and Manchester). All councils are advised by a Community Director and/or RHA Executive Board Member.
Getting involved in RHA is a great way to meet other students, plan great events, become a student leader, as well as serve to improve the USD community. For more information please e-mail email@example.com.
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on March 7, 2013 - 6:53 AM
For more than 25 years, John Bacon Jr. has been one of our area's premier drummers and percussionists. His resumé is stacked, boasting significant performance and recording work with the likes of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Maelstrom Percussion Ensemble, jazz luminary Roswell Rudd, Bobby Millitello, Bobby Previte, Wendel Rivera, Don Menza and various ensembles operating beneath his own name. During that time, Bacon – who is also a music educator, teaching and lecturing at Fredonia State College, the University at Buffalo and Villa Maria College – has proven himself to be eloquent in the languages of jazz, contemporary classical music, Latin sounds, avant-garde and even rock, when the situation demands it. Bacon is, by this point, the very definition of a master percussionist and a virtuoso musician.
Bacon will tackle something new when he performs a one-man percussion piece based on an improvised interpretation of various John Cage-inspired themes. Following Bacon's performance, the Holland/Weissman Duo will perform "New Works for Percussion and Cello." – Jeff Miers
John Bacon and the Holland/Weissman Duo — Date: 8 p.m. Friday. Place: Pausa Art House, 19 Wadsworth St. Tickets: $5. Info: www.pausaarthouse.com


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quote: Problem is those "most extreme incarnations" are the ones running Greepeace, The Sierra Club, Earth First, and all the other environmental organizations. They're not just nutjobs...they're the leaders of the movement.
quote: You mean it drains their credibility with you. You do not sympathize with their cause to begin with and they're not trying to change your mind and, of course, they are not trying to please you either.
quote: Really, the problem with that strategy is that it drains all the credibility of these organizations amongst "thinking" people. The global warming debacle is an excellent example of this.


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Barnard News
Prof. Sergios-Orestis Kolokotronis and colleagues create "largest genome-based tree of life for seed plants to date"
Prof. Marisa Buzzeo '01 and East Harlem School administrator Jennifer Feierman '09 collaborate to introduce middle school students to college-level science
Prominent Harlem physician and community activist was committed to public health and women in medicine.
Prof. Thomas Kamber's social entrepreneurship class awards grant to GEMS: Girls Educational & Mentoring Services
Read more in The Wall Street Journal.
Religion professor weighs in on Election 2012.
Watch interview on Korea's biggest television broadcasting network.
On December 15, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the Seven Sister colleges kicked off a new initiative. Watch video and read more.
Work of Barnard's Millicent C. McIntosh Professor in English and Writing called "a very important contribution to Irish-American literature."


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COLUMBIA — A state legislative panel approved a bill Tuesday that would create a nine-day early voting period in the state but eliminate its 30-day in-person absentee voting process.
House Democrats said replacing the 30-day window with a shorter early-voting period is a clear attempt to limit access to the ballot, with one Democrat saying the bill unfairly targets minority voters.
After years of pushing for early voting, House Democrats were upset Tuesday to learn that the proposal would eliminate the current absentee voting process that residents can use as long as they have one of nearly 20 excuses laid out in state law. Those excuses include having to work on Election Day or being 65 or older. Early voting wouldn't require voters to provide an excuse.
"It's a blatant falsehood to call this bill early voting," said Rep. Bakari Sellers, D-Denmark. "It's infuriating."
Sellers said many of the people who use in-person absentee voting are minorities.
The State Election Commission could not be reached for comment on whether the commission maintains statistics on the ethnicity of absentee voters.
The bill's sponsor, Myrtle Beach GOP Rep. Alan Clemmons, said the early-voting period wouldn't restrict anybody and "opens up the process."
At several points during the House Judiciary Committee meeting, Clemmons referenced past comments made by a spokesman for the Election Commission that absentee voting is now used as "de facto early voting."
The spokesman, Chris Whitmire, has said the lack of no-excuse early voting in South Carolina has almost certainly led some voters to lie in order to be able to vote early anyway, a crime punishable by up to three years in prison.
Clemmons said introducing early voting would eliminate any need for voters to lie in order to be able to vote absentee.
Columbia Democratic Rep. James Smith questioned whether Clemmons is "trying to engineer an outcome" by eliminating the extended absentee-voting period.
"It lessens voters' ability to access the ballot," Smith said.
The original version of Clemmons' bill would have raised the age requirement for mail-in absentee voting to 72 or older. Under an amendment passed by the House panel, that age was lowered to the current requirement in state law that absentee voters be 65 or older.
Clemmons' bill also would allow elections in South Carolina to take place once per quarter.


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In a rematch of last year's thrilling double overtime game in Muncie, Ind., the Stetson Hatters (2-3) host the Ball State Cardinals (2-3) Sunday afternoon at the Edmunds Center.
On Dec. 4 last year, Victoria McGowan hit a three-point buzzer beater at the end of the first overtime, but the Hatters fell just short in a 78-73 double overtime loss at Ball State. McGowan recorded the first of her three triple-doubles on the season (26 points, 11 rebounds, 10 assists), and came just two steals shy of a quadruple-double. Cherisse Burris helped get the game to overtime with a basket at the end of regulation.
"Ball State is a different team this year," Stetson head coach Lynn Bria said. "They have a new coach and they play a different style than they did last year. They run their offense very well. They are patient and they look for good shots. They don't have many players, but they play extremely hard. I've known (coach) Brady (Sallee) a long time, he's a very good coach, and he's got them going in the right direction."
Both teams are coming off of victories over Bethune-Cookman earlier this week. The Hatters defeated the Lady Wildcats 66-52 on Tuesday, behind a 27-point performance from McGowan. The Hatter senior scored 19 second-half points, including 13 in a row during a key stretch, to help lead Stetson to the 14-point victory.
Ball State, meanwhile, defeated B-CU 61-56 on Friday behind 18 points from freshman Nathalie Fontaine.
"Particularly against Ball State we have to be good defensively," Bria said. "We cannot allow them to gain some confidence early. We have to set the tone with our defense."
Stetson played its best defensive game of the year on Tuesday, limiting Bethune-Cookman to just 52 points. But the Lady Wildcats outrebounded the Hatters 38-32.
"I would like to see us rebound better," Bria said. "That is something we have worked hard on and it is something we have to do better than we did last game."
Stetson has hit 33 three-pointers in five games this year, the second-highest total in the league. Jama Sharp leads the team with 10 trifectas, while McGowan and Shanasa Sanders have hit eight three-pointers each.
The Hatters have won six straight and 18 of their last 19 games at home.
Fans can watch the game for free on HatterVision, or listen on the radio at 1230 AM in New Smyrna, 1490 AM in DeLand, or myam1230.com. Bill Topping and Dee Romine will have the call. Live Stats, the @StetsonWBB Twitter feed, and Hat-Alerts are also available for in-game updates.


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Source: Prior Smart
quote: "The suit alleges Microsoft "stole" the concept Live Tiles, which the plaintiffs claim they invented in 2000 and receive a patent for in 2004, with U.S. Patent 6,724,403."
quote: Microsoft appears to have known for some time about SurfStar's IP, so this suit shouldn't come as a big surprise. The electronics giant in 2005 tried to patent Live Tiles with U.S. Patent 7,933,632. The patent was finally granted in 2011, but only after Microsoft cited SurfStar's "relevant prior art".


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BAYAMON, Puerto Rico - Penn State rallied for a 55-52 overtime victory against Providence on Friday in its second game of the Puerto Rico Tip-Off Tournament.
The Nittany Lions (2-1) struggled all night against an active Friars 2-3 zone, but rallied from a 10-point second-half deficit behind nine straight points from senior guard Tim Frazier, who led Penn State with 19 points, nine rebounds and seven assists. Jermaine Marshall hit some big threes late and finished with 13 points and five rebounds.
The Nittany Lions will take today off before returning to the floor on Sunday to face Akron (2-2), which downed UNC-Asheville, 82-63, in its second game of the tournament. That game will tip at 1:30 p.m.
The Zips fell to Oklahoma State, 69-65, on Thursday in their first game. Penn State holds a 4-1 lead in the series, with the Zips.
The score was just 16-14 at halftime, in favor of the Friars.
Dr. Naismith just called. He said we did a good job taking basketball back, Penn State coach Patrick Chambers joked. Im not the shooting coach, if thats your next question.
Chambers encouraged his team to keep shooting despite the early struggles from the field.
You keep shooting and the routine, habits all come out, he said. You just have to let it fly and thats all you can do. It was nice to see this group grow up a little bit, kind of mesh a little bit.
Providence led for most of the game and pushed its edge to 30-20 with 12:28 to play after five straight points from LaDontae Henton. A Frazier three and a Marshall bucket sparked Penn State, which cut the lead to one 32-31 with an 8-0 run.
Providence rebuilt its margin to four, 35-31, after a free throw from Kadeem Batts. He led the Friars with 17 points and 11 rebounds and hit 13-of-15 at the foul line.
Frazier then took command, scoring nine straight points, as Penn State took a 40-37 lead with 2:23 to play. Providence answered with three free throws from Batts to tie the game at 40.
Marshall hit a baseline three to give Penn State a 43-41 edge with 46 seconds to play, but Batts again drew a foul and hit two at the line to knot the game at 43.
Penn State set up a play with 13 seconds remaining, but Marshall's baseline three was off, and the teams went to overtime.
Providence took the early lead in OT after a Josh Fortune jumper, but Penn State responded with a jumper from D.J. Newbill, a three from Marshall and a layup from freshman Brandon Taylor to take a 50-45 lead with 3:05 left.
Providence would get no closer than three the rest of the way as a Ross Travis tip-in and free throws from Frazier and Newbill held the Friars at bay.
Penn State shot 26 percent in the first half, but warmed up to 41 percent in the second half and was clutch when it counted, going 4-of-6 to score 12 points in overtime and finished at 37 percent shooting for the game.
Both teams slogged through a tough shooting first half as Providence took a 16-14 lead to the locker room despite a stretch of more than seven minutes without scoring. Penn State hit just 6-of-23 from the field and 1-of-10 from three verus the Friars' 2-3 zone. Providence fared worse, shooting 5-of-20 from the field against the Lions' man-to-man.
Frazier was held to just one point, on a free throw with 5:04 to play in the half, in the first 20 minutes as he went 0-of-6 from the floor.
PENN ST. (2-1): Newbill 3-5 3-3 9, Marshall 4-18 2-2 13, Frazier 6-13 6-10 19, Graham 0-0 0-0 0, Travis 3-8 0-2 6, Taylor 2-3 0-0 4, Colella 0-4 0-0 0, Borovnjak 2-2 0-2 4. Totals 20-53 11-19 55.
PROVIDENCE (2-2): Fortune 6-12 2-4 15, Batts 2-12 13-15 17, Goldsbrough 2-2 1-3 6, Bancroft 1-2 1-2 3, Henton 4-16 0-0 11, Kofane 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 15-44 17-24 52.
Halftime-Providence 16-14. End Of Regulation-Tied 43. 3-Point Goals-Penn St. 4-21 (Marshall 3-12, Frazier 1-3, Travis 0-1, Newbill 0-1, Colella 0-4), Providence 5-16 (Henton 3-10, Goldsbrough 1-1, Fortune 1-4, Bancroft 0-1). Fouled Out-Borovnjak. Rebounds-Penn St. 35 (Frazier 9), Providence 36 (Batts 11). Assists-Penn St. 10 (Frazier 7), Providence 6 (Bancroft, Fortune 3). Total Fouls-Penn St. 21, Providence 19. A-4,224.


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The perceived ease of use of real-time quantitative PCR (qPCR) and reverse transcription PCR (RT-qPCR) technology has revolutionized life science research. Its effectiveness at amplification and quantification of low levels of nucleic acids has driven the emergence of numerous applications, including cellular mRNA and miRNA quantification, biomarker discovery and validation, microbial quantification, cancer risk assessment, gene dosage determination, and detection of extremely low copy targets for forensic investigations.
This, in turn, has resulted in an abundance of publications utilizing qPCR data obtained with diverse reagents, protocols, analysis methods, and reporting formats. Unfortunately, few papers report in detail how these results were obtained. This lack of clarity and transparency has led to concern in the research community over the reliability of qPCR data interpretation and the real danger of the scientific literature being corrupted with publications reporting erroneous and conflicting results.
This has already occurred in some cases, resulting, for example, in retraction of a Science "Breakthrough of the Year 2005" report1. Now that qPCR has come of age, standardization is needed to ensure its validity, prompting the recent formulation of guidelines to increase experimental transparency, promote consistency between laboratories, and therefore, help assure the publication of valid conclusions2.
The Minimum Information for Publication of Quantitative Real-Time PCR Experiments guidelines (MIQE) aim to provide a yardstick for the quality assessment of a publication. The MIQE guidelines define the minimum information required for evaluation of qPCR results, and they include a checklist to be included in the initial submission of a manuscript to a publisher.
MIQE is modeled on similar guidelines such as MIAME (Minimal Information about a Microarray Experiment), developed several years ago3 and MIAPE (Minimal Information about a Proteomics Experiment)4. All of these are initiatives developed under the umbrella of the MIBBI (Minimum Information for Biological and Biomedical Investigations) standardization body, which has the goal of unifying all of the standardization guidelines for biological and biomedical research.
In addition, the Real-Time PCR Data Markup Language (RDML) has been developed by a consortium to enable the straightforward exchange of qPCR data and related information between qPCR instruments and third-party data analysis software, between colleagues, and with journals or public data repositories5.
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Yeah I just heard that as well. Most believe PSU is working with the NCAA on what the sanctions are which is why they won't appeal.
If you have a losing record at Reds games, please stop going.
When people say that I dont know what Im talking about when it comes to sports or writing, I think: Man, you should see me in the rest of my life.
---Joe Posnanski
An excerpt from Dan Wetzel's latest.
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ncaaf--...-spanier-.htmlSources say the school will continue to field a team. However, it will deal with heavy scholarship losses over the next three-to-five years as well as a multiyear ban in postseason competition and multimillion dollar financial penalties.
The standard line rippling through college sports Sunday is that while Penn State will be spared the death penalty, the penalties will make them wish they weren't.
What if this wasn't a rhetorical question?
All models are wrong. Some of them are useful.
If the rumors on the punishment are correct, the Big Ten will have no choice: they will have to either suspend Penn State football from Big Ten play or kick the school out of the league entirely. It would be dangerous to send a team full of walk-ons to play football against Michigan, Ohio State, Nebraska and the like.
They can stay in the league, but there's no way they can play a Big Ten conference schedule without scholarship players. They'd lose by 100 points (if teams felt like beating them that bad), and their players would be dangerously physically overmatched.
There are rumors of a 4-5 year complete ban on giving scholarships. If the actual penalties are less severe, it could be that Penn State could field a team incapable of winning in the Big Ten but that wouldn't put its players in danger against the schedule. Like a bad Sun Belt team.
I wonder what the big 10+2 rules are regarding throwing someone out.
Go Gators!
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Maybe this has been said already but I was wondering what happens to the guys on scholarship now? Do they still have to sit out a year if they transfer? Even though the school deserves all the penalties they get the players don't deserve it.
"Losing feels worse than winning feels good." -Vin Scully
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on May 5, 2013 - 10:30 PM
Back in the days when Rosalyn L. Taylor was working as a teacher in Buffalo's public schools, she sometimes thought about the changes she would try to make if she ever had the chance to run the district.
"I'd say that if I ever was in charge, I would have a mandatory class size of no more than 20 students," Taylor said. "It's a much better situation for a teacher to work with a smaller group."
As things turned out, Taylor did get a hand in running the school district. After 13 years as a teacher, she became a supervisor. She later rose up through the ranks to become the Buffalo Schools' assistant superintendent for elementary education in 1996.
She retired in 2006 but returned to action when she was appointed to represent the East District on the School Board, after Vivian Evans moved out of town and vacated the position.
Taylor will run for re-election – as a write-in candidate – in Tuesday's School Board elections. She had to run as a write-in because she was taken off the ballot last month for failing to get the required 500 qualified signatures on her election petition.
After her petitions were rejected, Taylor initially said she was not going to run again. Last week, she changed her mind. She said she believes her years of experience with the district make her a very strong candidate.
"It was due to the urging of my family, my friends and residents of the district. They urged me to do a write-in campaign, and I decided to do it," Taylor, 65, said in an interview Sunday evening. "I was a teacher in Buffalo for 13 years, and I worked for the district for 37 years. I know the teachers, the administrators and the inner workings of our central office. I had an inside view of how the district works for a long time."
Taylor's dream of keeping class sizes to 20 did not come true. Classes in the Buffalo schools can have up to 30 students, Taylor said, adding that most classes have between 25 and 28 students.
Keeping class sizes down is only one of many challenges that will face the next East District board member, which will be either Taylor or her opponent, Theresa A. Harris-Tigg, an assistant professor of English education at SUNY Buffalo State.
The 30,000-student district has one of the lowest graduation rates in the state. It spends $900 million a year in taxpayer dollars and faces controversies, including disputes over teacher evaluations and a teachers union contract that expired nine years ago.
"Student achievement is my top priority," Taylor said. "Everything we do with the budget, I want to know how it affects the teachers and students in the classroom."
Taylor grew up in Buffalo and attended Buffalo Schools. She graduated from East High School before going on to earn a bachelor's degree from SUNY Buffalo State and masters' degrees from her alma mater and Canisius College. A widow, she has one son, Ryan Eugene, who is a police officer in Richmond, Va.
Taylor does not believe Buffalo school teachers should be required to live in the city.
"What we need is the best teachers we can get, regardless of where they live," she said.
She opposes an increase in charter schools in Buffalo, and she is in favor of more support for the schools from city taxpayers and of schools' being kept open in the evening. She is a huge supporter of the Say Yes program, designed to help city students move on to college.
Taylor believes the new superintendent, Pamela C. Brown, has the district moving in the right direction. She disagrees with businessman Carl P. Paladino, the outspoken Park District candidate who has said he wants Brown and all her top administrators to be replaced.
Though she disagrees with Paladino on that point, Taylor said, she believes that Paladino's participation in the School Board race has spurred a lot more public interest in what is happening with the city schools. She said she believes she can work "in a cooperative and collaborative fashion" with Paladino if he is elected to the board.
In fact, Taylor said, she could envision herself as serving as a "peacemaker" if the combative Paladino joins the board.
"I am a peacemaker and always have been," she said. "We don't have time to fight and bicker."
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Volusia County sheriff's deputies searched early Friday for a man they said tried to kill himself using a hibachi grill.
Officials said 55-year-old Gregory Delgado of California lit the hibachi in a room at the Sleep Inn motel in Ormond Beach and then duct taped himself in the shower stall.
Investigators said they believe Delgado was trying to kill himself through carbon monoxide poisoning.
The smoke from the hibachi set off the alarms in the hotel.
The fire department responded and found the burning hibachi, but not Delgado.
Officials are searched on foot and by sheriff's helicopter in the area of Interstate 95 and Granada Boulevard to find him. He was arrested a short time later.
Investigators said they were familiar with the man because he had tried something similar in a different location earlier in the week
The motel was briefly evacuated, and guests were allowed to return after it was ventilated.
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Adhesive capsulits; Frozen shoulder syndrome
A frozen shoulder is shoulder pain that prevents you from moving your arm. Often the pain and stiffness are present all the time.
The joint capsule holds your bones together and allows them to move in between them.
Frozen shoulder may develop with no known cause. It can also occur in people who:
The symptoms of frozen shoulder often follow this pattern:
It can take a few months to go through these stages of frozen shoulder. The shoulder can get very painful and stiff before it starts to loosen up. And it may take as long as 18 -24 months for complete recovery. To help speed recovery, your health care provider will:
Your health care provider may also advise you to have a steroid shot. The steroid medicine can reduce inflammation, and this can make you more comfortable. The medicine is injected into your shoulder joint.
Most people have a full recovery with full range of motion withoutsurgery.
Using moist heat on your shoulder 3 - 4 times a day may help relieve some pain and stiffness. Pain medicine you can buy without a prescription can also help.
Get help setting up your home so that you can get to everything you need without reaching above your shoulders or behind your back.
Get help with housecleaning, taking out the garbage, gardening, and other household tasks.
You will learn some simple exercises and stretches for your shoulder.\
Some of the exercises are:
Call your primary health care provider if:
Krabak BJ, Banks NL. Adhesive capsulitis. In: Frontera WR, Silver JK, eds. Essentials of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. 2nd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier;2008:chap 10.
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REIGN OF ERROR: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools. By Diane Ravitch. Knopf. 416 pages. $27.95.
For many years in the United States, we have been warned that we are a "nation in crisis" whose public schools are failing our children. A new book, "Reign of Error" by Diane Ravitch, convincingly refutes this notion.
Ravitch brings many years as an educator and historian to the subject. She earned a Ph.D. from Columbia University in Education History. She was appointed to public office by presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton and served as assistant director of education in the George W. Bush administration.
She was asked by then-Secretary of Education Richard Riley to serve as a member of the National Assessment Governing Board.
Ravitch's basic, and some would say counterintuitive, premise in "Reign of Error" is that public schools are not in fact failing our children but, rather, providing students with a better education than ever before, judging by graduation rates and other factors.
She contends that the federal government's involvement in public schools has been a detriment to education and she cites the No Child Left Behind law implemented under President George W. Bush and the Race to the Top initiative advanced by President Barak Obama as two examples of programs with unrealistic expectations that cannot meet set goals.
This is a 180-degree change of philosophy since when she was personally involved in the creation of NCLB. She gives no proof, however, when she states that educational programs such as the one administered by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the charter school movement are mostly interested in corporate profits and tend to undermine public schools. She does give a more compelling argument against the misuse of standardize tests, especially the way they are used to evaluate teachers, administrators and entire schools.
In many districts, schools and teachers are judged solely on test scores and teachers' jobs are put in jeopardy unless improvement on these scores is evident. There are even instances where entire faculties lose their jobs and are required to reapply, as happened in Charleston at four elementary schools: Burns, North Charleston, Sanders Clyde, and Memminger.
Ravitch insists that testing is grossly misused, that it results in teachers teaching to the test and thus forfeiting creativity, autonomy and liberated exploration in the classroom. Through the use of graphs and statistics, she counters the perception that American students score poorly on standardized test compared to students in other countries. In fact, she shows that American test scores have risen over the past 10 years for all students, including minorities.
It might have been helpful if she had suggested that test scores of nations with homogeneous populations should be compared only with similar populations in the U.S. To make broad comparisons between our diverse ethnic population and other countries can be like comparing apples to oranges.
Low scoring schools are traditionally in poverty areas where students come to school with much baggage that hinders learning. This is not so much an educational issue as a societal one.
Ravitch states that schools in low-income areas often are rundown buildings with obsolete equipment. Yet in any given school district, because of federal Title 1 funding, the expenditure per student is usually higher in high-poverty schools than anywhere else in the district. In Charleston, beautiful new schools have been built in high-poverty areas and equipped with the latest and best technology.
Ravitch's most powerful comment concerning testing is that it should be used diagnostically, not to hand out rewards or punishment. Any other use undermines the creative, innovative and entrepreneurial spirit that have made our economy and society successful.
Three especially interesting facts shared by Ravitch:
17 percent of people surveyed said that public schools are in crisis, but 70 percent said they were pleased with the school their child attended.
90 percent of students graduate from high school, the highest rate in our history.
Students who have taken honors or advanced placement courses, or who apply themselves in all curricula, graduate today with a better education than high school graduates 50 years ago. (She bases this on the numbers and variety of high-level courses offered as well as the rigorous curricula compared to public schools in the past.)
Ravitch addresses many myths about education, in addition to the erroneous claim that standardized testing is an essential way to assess student and teacher performance. She focuses on poverty, merit pay, tenure and seniority, and provides much data that support the contention that public schools generally are performing well.
She also offers proof that charter schools, on average, are no more successful than public schools based on test scores and graduation rates. She does not address the fact, however, that charter schools in poverty areas are a viable alternative to the neighborhood schools because parents who choose a charter school are more likely to be involved in their child's education.
Ravitch does not mince words when she says that "virtual schools" are cash cows for their owners but poor substitutes for real teachers and real schools. She says there is no evidence to support many of the contentions, including that firing faculties and administrations en masse will improve a school.
Ravitch offers some solutions that are not necessarily in the domain of public schools. Medical and social services for poor children and prenatal care, for example, are community responsibilities. She might have explored better the question of "family values" in her book, though in a recent interview she did address the important influence of parent involvement and a stimulating home life.
"Family is far more important than anything that happens in the school, and when family is economically secure and when parents are educated and when they pay attention to what happens to their children, their children get higher test scores," she said. "When families live in poverty and their kids don't get medical checkups, and they have eye problems, ear problems, asthma, they have lower test scores. That's a reality, not an excuse."
One of her sweeping statements rings especially true in this educator's ears: "Every school should have a full, balanced and rich curriculum, including the arts, science, history, literature, civics, geography, foreign language, mathematics and physical education.
A recent research study published by the Music Educators National Conference found that students engaged in the arts during their public school career score an average of 60 points higher on the SAT than students with no arts background.
Schools should be charged with educating the whole child, which means a broader focus than just reading and math. Ashley River Creative Arts Elementary and the School of the Arts, both in Charleston County, are proof that a strong, creative and diverse curricula with an emphasis on the arts, result in test scores at or near the top among Charleston County schools.
Ravitch has experienced a complete change in her thinking about public education since her days in the Bush administration. It is refreshing to read an experienced and highly regarded educator defend the much maligned public school system in such a thoughtful and well-researched book, even if her reasons and solutions are not necessarily politically correct. Her book should be required reading for every educator, parent, government official and anyone else with a vested interest in our public school system.
Reviewer Barry Goldsmith served as a teacher, language arts consultant, elementary school principal and supervisor of fine arts for the Charleston County School District. He retired in 2001.


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Hawaii considers tighter Big Island fishing rules
HONOLULU — The Hawaii Board of Land and Natural Resources will consider strengthening fishery regulations in waters off the Big Island's western coast when it meets today.
The board is scheduled to discuss and vote on several proposed rules, including ones that would that would ban spearfishing by fishermen diving with the aid of scuba gear and limit aquarium fish collecting to a list of 40 species.
Department staffers say the measures would allow officials to more effectively regulate and manage marine resources.
But several fishermen are objecting, saying a scuba spearfishing prohibition is unwarranted and could lead to similar bans elsewhere in the state.
The fishermen also oppose changing the boundaries of a fishery management area off Puako. They believe there are more fish in the area than fish stock surveys indicate and say pollution from development on land is harming the reef more than fishing.
The proposed rules were developed over 10 years of discussion and hearings by the West Hawaii Fisheries Council, a community advisory group formed in response to a 1998 law that sought to manage conflicts over fishing in the area.
Those arguing for the ban say scuba divers target larger fish, which is a concern in part because the offspring of larger female fish have been shown to survive better and grow faster than the offspring of younger fish. They also argue scuba fishermen harvest in deeper waters where fish take refuge from free diving spearfishing.
The department says 89 percent of the 565 west Hawaii County residents who submitted public testimony last year supported the scuba ban. Similar percentages around the state and outside Hawaii supported the prohibition.
But Phil Fernandez, president of the Hawaii Fishermen's Alliance for Conservation and Tradition, Inc., said there's a benefit to scuba fishermen going deeper for their catch. He said they tend to target different fish — like gray snapper or uku and pink snapper or weke ula — that have relatively healthy stocks.
If spearfishing with scuba gear is banned, fishermen will just fish more in shallower reefs and fish stocks there will come under more pressure, he said.
The Kona resident said fishermen don't want a West Hawaii ban to set a precedent for other prohibitions elsewhere.
Fernandez and other fishermen also oppose redrawing the boundary of the Puako fishery management area based on updated surveys using satellite imagery of the reef.
Fernandez said this is because fishermen are being blamed for the reef's deterioration, even though he believes development on shore is more at fault. Polluted runoff is flowing into the ocean from paved roads, people using fertilizer on their lawns and cesspools, he said.
"There are many factors that's killing the reef," Fernandez said. "Fishing is probably the least harmful human use of that reef, yet fishing is what is being banned when they should be focusing their efforts on other areas."
Tina Owens, the executive director of the Lost Fish Coalition, a group supporting reef conservation, counters there's been relatively little development along the Puako coastline compared to, say, Maui where development onshore has harmed reefs. She said West Hawaii reefs aren't overrun with algae the way reefs elsewhere in the state are. She said overfishing is the major reason for declining reef health in West Hawaii and it makes sense to address this issue as soon as possible.
"Yes, there are other factors. But overfishing is the major factor in most of these things," she said.


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When Noble Energy talks about partnering with local school districts, executives don't speak in terms of $500 here or $500 there.
It's more along the lines of $1 million here, $1 million there.
Dan Kelly , vice president of operations for the DJ Basin region of Noble, made that clear again Tuesday, when he along with other representatives from Noble rolled out seven compressed natural gas school buses they donated to Greeley-Evans School District 6 and the Valley Re-1 School District based in Gilcrest.
"I am continuously reminding our people that we don't just work here, we live here," Kelly told a crowd of several dozen gathered for the event at Northridge High School. "We send our kids to school here. We go to church here, and we shop here. We take ownership in this community, and that has allowed us to make a significance in school districts where it is needed."
Compressed natural gas is an odorless, colorless and tasteless gas that is drawn from domestically drilled natural gas wells or in conjunction with crude oil production. It offers a higher octane rating, better fuel efficiency, lower operating costs and emissions reductions.
The buses, which cost nearly $150,000 each, were the first in a fleet the company plans to roll out to Weld County schools over the next five years.
"When we heard (the budgets of) these districts didn't allow for the replacement of aging buses, we recognized our opportunity to begin a partnership in CNG buses."
Noble has pledged $5 million over the next five years to Weld school districts.
District 6 Superintendent Ranelle Lang said she turned to students in the Advanced Placement environmental science course at Northridge High School to get thoughts on what the buses brought to their district. She said some of their answers surprised her.
"They said the obvious like cleaner and gentler on the environment," Lang said. "But then they said things like, 'Perhaps it will motivate others by the school district taking the lead to invest in green energy.' "
Valley received five buses and Greeley two. In addition to the money from Noble, Valley also received a grant from the federal Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality improvement program to help fund the extra buses.
Valley Superintendent Jo Barbie said they could not have purchased new buses otherwise.
"Due to cuts in state funding, we did not have funds to purchase these buses," she said. "And we had not purchased a new bus since 2010."
Noble is also building a filling station near the Valley administration offices at Weld County Road 42 and U.S. 85. Greeley already has a filling station at the Agfinity station on U.S. 85 and 16th Street.
District 6 Board of Eduction Vice President Julia Richard said the buses are an amazing investment in a district that is struggling financially already.
"When you see a bus like this, what an incredible investment. It frees up money to get to kids in the classroom," Richard said. "But for many of our students, just getting them to school is the No. 1 priority."


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For months, the race between incumbent Republican J. Paul Brown and Democratic challenger Mike McLachlan for the 59th District state House had been mostly funded by locals. That all changed recently as filings with the Colorado secretary of state show that around $150,000 poured in from outside sources in just the last month.
Now, questions have emerged about whether additional money was spent illegally.
The spending relates to two kinds of entities: super political action committees (PACs) and 527s (the latter are so named because of the section in the tax code giving them exemption). The effect of super PACs on races around the country is novel because their unlimited political spending capacity was only affirmed by the Supreme Court in 2010.
Rules pertaining to such groups� independent expenditure are murky and highly technical, and there are conflicting opinions about whether two anti-McLachlan groups are operating inside the law. Brown, meanwhile, has no connection to either group.
�I�m committed to running a clean campaign highlighting the positives about me,� he said. �You see these mailers � I don�t know who they are, where they came from, what they�re sending. It makes the race less local.�
The two mailers he is referring to arrived in voters� mailboxes in the past week. The groups behind them are the CitizenLink Colorado Independent Expenditure Committee and Colorado Citizens For Accountable Government.
The mailing by CitizenLink was a large, glossy double-sided anti-abortion postcard that arrived Tuesday. In fine print the mailer says it was �paid for by CitizenLink Colorado Independent Expenditure Committee.�
No such super PAC existed Wednesday, according to the Colorado secretary of state.
What did exist was CitizenLink, an affiliate of Focus on the Family, which was listed as a tax-exempt 501(c)(4) organization. According to the IRS, these organizations must operate �exclusively for the promotion of social welfare.�
On Thursday, however, the group had successfully registered its super PAC, said Carrie Kintz, CitizenLink�s media contact.
Kintz said, �the law says you have 48 hours to register the committee with the state. The postcard dropped on Tuesday, so we are abiding by applicable laws in the state of Colorado.�
Rich Coolidge, spokesman for the secretary of state�s office, said this characterization of the law was inaccurate because super PACs must register within two business days of making expenditures or accepting donations of more than $1,000. Colorado statutes define �expenditure� as when �actual spending occurs or when there is a contractual agreement requiring such spending.�
When asked to explain how CitizenLink�s super PAC, which is based in Colorado Springs, managed to design, order, print, transport, mail, correctly address and pay for its anti-McLachlan mailing on Tuesday � such that it also arrived in Durango mailboxes by the close of business � Kintz refused to go into detail, saying �the law does not specify the details. We conformed to the law.�
Coolidge said a 501(c)(4) that behaves like a super PAC risks losing its tax-exempt status, and that any political entity that violates the law could face penalties and fines.
The other mailing was a long glossy card paid for by the powerful Republican 527 Colorado Citizens For Accountable Government. It asks, �Who is endangering families in southwest Colorado?� On the flip side, it features a large picture of McLachlan and berates him by name on various points.
When 527s produce electioneering communications, they are required to disclose which candidates the communications oppose. The Republican group�s mailing landed in many La Plata County mailboxes on Saturday. The secretary of state�s filing deadline was Monday.
Coolidge said that while the group�s Monday filing disclosed it had spent $110,000 on a mailing targeting 12 Democratic candidates, it does not list McLachlan as one of its targets.
The group�s listed agent, Andy Nickel, did not return five requests for comment.
Coolidge said his agency usually takes action against such groups only after an individual lodges a complaint, and no complaints had so far been lodged against either Colorado Citizens For Accountable Government or CitizenLink.
Brown said he finds the unchecked influence of outside groups �frustrating,� even though it is ostensibly on his behalf.
�It�s totally out of our control,� he said.
McLachlan, too, said he was shocked to learn a Democratic super PAC, the Colorado Accountable Government Alliance, had spent more than $100,000 on cable advertising in September on his behalf.
Another Democratic super PAC, the Community Information Project IE Committee, spent an additional $14,914 on door-to-door canvassing in mid-September to support McLachlan.
Republicans are retaliating, with the major Republican 527 The Colorado Leadership Fund LLC spending $20,359 on ads for Brown, also in mid-September.
Justin Miller, communications director of the Colorado GOP, said he wasn�t surprised that independent expenditures were overwhelming the 59th District, which was redrawn last year in a bitterly contested redistricting process that left it more competitive for Democrats.
�It�s a hotly contested seat, and there�s only a one-seat majority in the state House. Our goal is to get Republicans elected, so we�re going to do everything we can to make sure that happens,� he said.
In 2010, GOP groups spent as much as $56,572 on Brown�s behalf � more than Brown spent himself � whereas no Democratic groups spent money on behalf of his Democratic opponent, Brian O�Donnell.
Matt Inzeo, spokesman for the Colorado Democratic Party, said, independent expenditures are the �x factor� in the race for the 59th district seat.
�That�s the tricky part � you can�t control it,� he said, �and a candidate�s work can be amplified or negated with the single stroke of a pen if the right person sets up their own super PAC.�


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Kennesaw State will fashion a gold helmet with a black facemask, a custom black stripe and an interwoven gold "KS" logo on the side when it takes the field for its inaugural season of football in 2015.
The helmet design was the result of a two-week-long voting period by fans last month. The winning pick was unveiled Friday night, during Kennesaw State's women's soccer game against Mississippi at Fifth Third Bank Stadium.
"We are excited about the selection of the helmet," Kennesaw State athletic director Vaughn Williams said. "The response was more than we anticipated. It shows that people are excited about KSU football."
The gold helmet earned 60 percent of the nearly 10,000 votes cast, outdistancing two other possible selections.
Second in voting, with 24 percent of the vote, was a black helmet with no stripe on the top and a gold facemask. It also had the gold "KS" logo.
The third option, which was at 16 percent, was a black helmet with a black facemask and a single yellow stripe on the center. It had the primary logo of the Owl and its wing span with "Kennesaw State Owls" written below.
When the vote was launched, Williams said he had no preference with the helmet design, but he said the monogram logo appeared to be a favorite of Kennesaw State coach Brian Bohannon.
As it turned out, the fans agreed with Bohannon, too. Seventy-seven percent of the fans that voted said the interwoven "KS" was their favorite logo.
The unveiling of the helmet is the latest in a long line of events leading up to 2015.
Earlier this year, the University System of Georgia's Board of Regents gave the official go-ahead for the football program. Then, Bohannon was hired as the Owls' first coach, after a long tenure as an assistant to Georgia Tech's Paul Johnson.
Two weeks ago, university officials announced that Kennesaw State would join the Big South Conference as a football-playing associate member.
With that announcement, Williams said, the preparation of the team's 2015 and '16 schedules has started in earnest.
"The schedule picked up enormously (after the conference announcement)," he said. "We don't have any signed contracts yet, because we had to readjust things, but we are close with the 2015 schedule and the non-conference schedule for 2016."
Williams said the schedules will likely be announced later this fall.
Meanwhile, the rest of the Owls' Adidas-designed uniforms — home, road and alternate — will be unveiled next spring.


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The former NHLer told TSN he went to Winnipeg police last week and wants to move this matter forward.
"I sought out some good advice from my lawyers and advisors on how to go about dealing with Graham James for abusing me when I was a kid," Fleury said in an email to TSN. "I have been reflecting on this a long time. I wanted to make the biggest impact on preventing this kind of thing from happening in the future."