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Ana Sampson, co-author of The Book Club Bible, tells The World At One's Martha Kearney about the do's and dont's of literary circles.
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One hundred years since it was founded, Woman's Weekly now sells 340,000 copies a week, compared to two million back in the fifties. So how has the magazine survived and what impact has it had over... | BBC News – 2011-11-04
Future Publishing has sold its audio visual titles, Hi-Fi Choice, What Satellite & Digital TV and Home Cinema Choice, to specialist publisher MyHobbyStore. | Media Week – 2011-10-11
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Do you have math notations in your e-learning content that you want your users to be able to listen to? ReadSpeaker creates the online text-to-speech service that gives users better access to courses... | CNW – 2011-09-06
Booker Prize winning author Graham Swift believes digital publishing could threaten the livelihood of authors in the future because they are being paid too little. | BBC News – 2011-08-17
Cinchcast, whose technology has been used by BlogTalkRadio since 2006, released a cloud-based audio solution for digital publishers. | Folio Magazine – 2011-07-07
Arts editor Will Gompertz's second report into the impact of technology on the publishing industry | BBC News – 2011-06-29
Sara Lloyd, Pan Macmillan: "The basic process of writing will stay quite stable, but the authors who will do particularly well are ones who think about how to build a digital audience." | BBC News – 2011-06-28
The Audio Publishers Association is set to kick off its 14th annual June Is Audiobook Month campaign, designed to celebrate the industry and bring greater awareness of audiobooks. As formats and... | Publishers Weekly – 2011-05-16
The Publishers Association have released new figures which explain how much damage ebooks are doing to their paper based alternatives. | BBC News – 2011-05-03
Washington - Sidney Harman, the audio equipment entrepreneur who in the past eight months acquired Newsweek magazine and merged it with online news site The Daily Beast, died Tuesday night in D.C.... | Digital Media Wire – 2011-04-14
Author Kate Mosse tells BBC Radio 5 live Breakfast about the top 100 books people would pass onto their children or grandchildren. | BBC News – 2011-04-07
Amazon.com on Thursday added books read aloud by celebrities, authors and others to the library of works that can be wirelessly downloaded to the latest generation Kindle electronic readers. | The Independent – 2011-03-25
Of the 150 titles on HarperCollinss spring audio list, only two are being published on CD; the rest are being released as digital downloads. Although CD sales have been declining in the audio... | Publishers Weekly – 2011-02-07
Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing and Brilliance Audio have started a new imprint, Chicken Soup for the Soul on Brilliance Audio. The imprint will publish and distribute audiobook editions of... | Publishers Weekly – 2011-01-11
Sidney Harman, a 91-year-old audio pioneer, will be the new owner of Newsweek, The Washington Post Company announced after a two-and-a-half-month search. | New York Times – 2010-08-03
# apple The iBooks app 's been updated to not only include support for audio and video content, but to also offer "substantial performance improvements when reading PDFs." The free update appears to... | Yahoo – 2010-07-19
Sara Lowe has launched a new company, Faith Audio Center, a publisher/producer of original audio books, with online retail sales only. The company's first title, 'The Unbelievable (but True!) Story... | Broadcast Newsroom – 2009-02-26
Canvastic, the publishing tool for kids in grades K-8, has been updated with audio support. | Macworld – 2008-08-15
Hodder & Stoughton will publish an original audio digital short story by bestselling author... | The Bookseller – 2012-02-21
Rowan Pelling, former editor of Erotic Review and Telegraph Review, and Tom Tivnan, features editor for The Bookseller, discuss the rise in popularity of e-books particularly in genres such as... | BBC World – 2012-03-14
In the May issue of the Slate Book Review, Meghan O'Rourke writes about Are You My Mother?, cartoonist Alison Bechdel's therapy-fueled exploration of her relationship with her mom. Writes... | Slate – 2012-05-04
Flipboard, the popular social news magazine, starts integrating audio into its app for Apple's hand-held devices. | BBC World – 2012-05-16
Flipboard wants to be the first magazine with a soundtrack. The company is releasing an update on Tuesday that integrates music-sharing service SoundCloud as well as radio programs from NPR and... | Editor & Publisher – 2012-05-16
To listen to the Audio Book Club discussion of Are You My Mother?, click the arrow on the player below. | Slate – 2012-06-02
To listen to the Audio Book Club discussion of Fifty Shades of Grey, click the arrow on the player below. | Slate – 2012-06-29
The mummy porn novel Fifty Shades of Grey has made the subject of sex, fashionable again. Author John Banville, and Rachel Johnson, whose book Shire Hell was the winner of the bad sex in fiction... | BBC News – 2012-07-06
Crime writer Peter James told BBC Radio 5 live he would not blindly trust a producer to turn a book of his into a film. | BBC News – 2012-10-10
To listen to the Audio Book Club discussion of NW, click the arrow on the player below. | Slate – 2012-11-30
Bath-based AudioGO has bought US audiobook publisher Blackstone Audio from founders Craig and... | The Bookseller – 2013-01-03
Faber has launched a series of digital-only poetry e-books being described as "a new way to... | The Bookseller – 2013-01-08
Head of Zeus and AudioGO are to co-publish audiobook versions of titles in light of the audio... | The Bookseller – 2013-01-25
To listen to the Audio Book Club discussion of Pride and Prejudice, click the arrow on the player below. | Slate – 2013-02-02
The Economist is considering providing an audio-only subscription, according to Nick Blunden, global digital publisher of the title. The weekly print title, which is also available online and has... | Editor & Publisher – 2013-02-22
Quercus is collaborating with audio publisher W F Howes to "dramatically increase" the... | The Bookseller – 2013-03-18
To listen to the Audio Book Club discussion of Tenth of December, click the arrow on the player below. | Slate – 2013-06-19
Jennie Bristow, associate fellow at the University of Kent, says grown-ups read children's books because they feel 'disenchanted with adult culture'. | BBC News – 2013-06-25
Variety Magazine's Jon Weisman remembers James Gandolfini, the US actor best known for his role as a therapy-seeking mob boss in The Sopranos, who has died at the age of 51. | BBC World – 2013-06-20
Gabra Zackman is a new kind of acting star: She is heard, but unheard-of. | SacBee – 2013-06-30
Tom Spilsbury, editor of the Doctor Who magazine, says of Peter Capaldi: "He just is the doctor". | BBC News – 2013-08-05
It is 200 years since Grimm's Fairy Tales were first published. The BBC's Berlin correspondent Steve Evans reports. | BBC World – 2013-08-06
A new book about Gandhi says that he was worried about people skim-reading his work in the early 20th century. | BBC World – 2013-08-14
Veteran filmmaker Nicolas Roeg has published a book of memoirs, featuring insights from a career spanning six decades. | BBC World – 2013-08-28
Seamus Heaney was "the head of our poetry community", the poetry editor at his publisher Faber and Faber has said. | BBC News – 2013-08-30
The regulator of commercial radio, Ofcom, is considering a request to block a big take-over of a British radio station because the media group which has bought it publishes a controversial magazine... | BBC World – 2013-09-02
NEW YORK -- Writing a children's book isn't enough for Oscar winner Octavia Spencer. She's also narrating the audio edition. Spencer's "The Case of the Time-Capsule Bandit" comes out Oct. 15. It's... | The Huffington Post – 2013-09-26
Ajay Chowdhury, editor of the James Bond International Fan Club magazine, talks about the 'business of Bond.' | BBC World – 2013-09-26
The niece of James Bond creator Ian Fleming praises author William Boyd for his new 007 novel. | BBC World – 2013-09-26
Founder of the Big Issue John Bird discusses why only 25% of people who pay for the magazine actually take a copy. | BBC News – 2013-09-30
The British Museum is daring to exhibit the most comprehensive exhibition of Japanese Shunga, explicit and erotic paintings, prints and books used historically for education and entertainment. | BBC World – 2013-10-01
Waterstones chief executive James Daunt and critic Alexandra Heminsley discuss the future of the publishing industry on 'Super Thursday'. | BBC World – 2013-10-10
In the world of books, 10 October is Super Thursday - the day many publishing houses release what they hope will be their biggest sellers for the Christmas market. The BBC's Will Gompertz reports. | BBC World – 2013-10-10
Damian Lewis narrates an original story about his exiled character's whereabouts. | The Wall Street Journal – 2013-10-11
Author of Morrissey Dr Gavin Hopps and former literary editor of The Times Erica Wagner, discuss the decision made by Penguin to classify Morrissey's new autobiography as a classic. | BBC World – 2013-10-11
When this week's episode of "Homeland" ends, the story doesn't. Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products and Audible have partnered to bring more "Homeland" to viewers through new audio... | The Huffington Post – 2013-10-12
Tantor Media's decision last year to begin publishing print books to augment its audiobook and e-book titles has paid dividends, helping to boost total company sales in a number of ways. | Publishers Weekly – 2013-10-13
OUTstanding, a networking group for gay and lesbian business professionals, has published its first top 50 most inspiring lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender boardroom professionals in an attempt... | BBC World – 2013-10-22
Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, daughter of the Emir of Qatar, has topped the 2013 Power 100 list from ArtReview Magazine. The BBC's arts editor Will Gompertz reports. | BBC World – 2013-10-24
A new book by Mark Forsyth called The Elements of Eloquence examines what makes a beautiful sentence. | BBC News – 2013-11-11
Cressida Cowell, author of the How to Train Your Dragon book series, and Greg Childs, former executive producer for CBBC & Cbeebies, discuss the re-introduction of classic children's TV. | BBC News – 2013-11-11
Belinda Parmar, founder of technology blog Little Miss Geek, and Lindsay Frankel, assistant editor of Glamour Magazine, debate if women's magazines offer enough technology. | BBC – 2013-11-15
Steve Tatton, editor of the Income Data Services Executive Compensation Review, and Chris Williamson, chief economist at Markit magazine discuss figures that suggest a widening pay gap. | BBC News – 2013-11-18
Ann VanderMeer, who co-edited the The Time Traveller's Almanac, and Ronald Mallett, author of the book The Time Traveller, discuss the appeal of stories about time travel. | BBC World – 2013-11-20
Diaz adds narration to her body of work and more in this week's audio books news. | Publishers Weekly – 2013-12-06
Sourcebooks' Put Me in the Story personalised-book series has launched a new 'universal... | The Bookseller – 2013-12-19
The writer hired to pen a sequel to the 'Girl With The Dragon Tattoo' trilogy says he will start the new book from scratch. | BBC World – 2013-12-19
This month, Dan Kois, David Haglund, and Emily Bazelon discuss James McBride's National Book Award winner for fiction, The Good Lord Bird. The novel makes a farcical cross-dressing comedy of John... | Slate – 2014-01-10
Douglas Dodds speaks to the BBC's Will Gompertz about the V&A's decision to publish so-called 'degenerate art' online. | BBC World – 2014-01-30
To listen to the Audio Book Club discussion of The Group, click the arrow on the player below. | Slate – 2014-02-07
All-star cast gathers for 'Suspicious Incidents' and more in this month's audio book news. | Publishers Weekly – 2014-02-07
Of all the ways to enjoy a book, minds wander most when we're listening to someone else read it.With so much focus in the publishing world on e-books, you might have missed the recent explosion in... | Fast Company – 2014-02-12
Accomplished theater and television actress January LaVoy has been steadily building a reputation as an audiobook narrator for the past five years, and in 2013 she was named PW's Audiobook Narrator... | Publishers Weekly – 2014-02-07
This month Slate's Audio Book Club hits the road for a live show at Town Hall Seattle. Dan Kois, Hanna Rosin, and special guest star Hugh Howey (Wool) discuss Kurt Vonnegut's classic novel of war... | Slate – 2014-03-08
Kay to give the play-by-play of Rivera's 'Closer' and more in this month's audio book news. | Publishers Weekly – 2014-03-07
Penguin Random House Audio, which was unified under the direction of Amanda D'Acierno in September, announced further promotions and changes in its reporting structure. | Publishers Weekly – 2014-03-10
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The city of Euharlee, just west of Cartersville, is home to the oldest covered bridge in Georgia as well as a picturesque 1850s village.
It's signature bridge, on the National Register of Historic Sites, is open daily.
Civil War presence is evidenced by the remains of Milam's Bridge. The original bridge was burned May 21, 1864, by Jackson's Cavalry. Upon being rebuilt after the war, it remained in service until the 1970s. Plans are underway to restroe this steel truss bridge as a bike and pedestrian path.
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* The Travelers Well
* Blacksmith Shop
*Black Pioneers Cemetery - dates from 1830 to 1900
* Euharlee History Museum - open Tues-Fri. Housed in what was originally known as the Millers House.
* Grist Mill Ruins - located adjacent to the covered bridge
* Commissary/Granary - originally used for grain storage built around 1860; interesting features to note including the ironwork, flooring, and architectural features.
* Calaboose - where drunks and chickens theives were housed back in the day
* Obsorne Park - along the beautiful Euharlee Creek complete with walking track, tennis courts, baseball fields, playground and picnic area
* Frankie Harris Park - event park and performance venue
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8 | - | Selena Gomez |
9 | - | Justin Timberlake |
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Pretty big shake up this week. Bruno Mars nails the top spot in a five point jump, leaving 1D only a week to enjoy their return. Out of the clear blue sky, Elton John takes the second spot. John, who is recovering from surgery to remove his appendix, will be doing four weeks at Caesar's Palace starting mid-September. Not sure why the sudden explosion of interest, but I'm sure Elton doesn't mind.
Elton's arrival and Mars' Hail Mary play leave Luke Bryan nowhere to go but down, landing softly at #3, while 1D's landing was not quite so elegant. Wrapping things up in the top are the venerable Cowboys, who are even in their 2 preseason contests to date.
The Texans follow, kicking off the bottom five, in one of the few times I've used that idiom relevantly. The Bulldogs round out the rich, nougaty, football center of this weeks' countdown.
Selena Gomez makes her countdown debut this week. Despite claims of focusing on a film career, she's put out her solo debut album, Stars Dance, and is hitting the road for a late summer / fall tour. Joining her on the countdown, not the tour, are returning favorites Justin Timberlake and Keith Urban. Urban has been absent from the top 10 for a while now, but is back with a new fall tour featuring Little Big Town and Dustin Lynch.
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For information on the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) which is available to staff of grade 7 and above please see the information below. Alternatively contact Elaine Millard, Pensions & Employee Benefits Manager or Peter Brookes, Pensions & Employee Benefits Administrator for more details.
Your contract of employment will state if your university employment is subject to membership of USS. If your contract is pensionable you are automatically a member of the scheme until you opt out (except if you are ineligible for membership – see below). Please also note that the university is operating USS as a "salary sacrifice" arrangement for its regular employees, the implications of which are explained in USS'S Salary Sacrifice Factsheet. 'Salary Sacrifice' does not apply to sessional employees.
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If you wish to opt out of membership of USS you can do so. The appropriate form can be obtained from the USS website at: www.uss.co.uk. You cannot complete or submit the form ahead of your date of joining the Scheme.
If you have a pensionable contract of employment you will not be entered into the scheme if you are ineligible for membership. These are the only reasons for not being eligible for automatic USS membership:
You are aged 75 or over at the commencement of your relevant Aston University pensionable employment.
You carry out the majority of your duties for the University in a European Union country other than the United Kingdom.
You are already in receipt of a pension from USS. (See note on re-employed USS Pensioners below.)
If you have previously opted out of membership and now wish to opt in you can do so provided you are not ineligible for membership.
To encourage more saving for retirement, the Government has introduced a requirement for employers to enrol employees (subject to certain age and earnings limits) into work place pension arrangements. This is commonly referred to as auto-enrolment. Aston University becomes subject to this requirement with effect from 1 August 2013.
The University already enrols into USS the majority of its employees on grades 7 and above at commencement of employment or at the time they first meet the eligibility criteria for membership. This contractual enrolment into USS is part of the Terms and Conditions of employment.
Where the University has contractually enrolled you into USS the auto-enrolment requirement does not apply unless you opt out of membership of the Scheme. If you do opt out, you will immediately become subject to the auto-enrolment requirements. Generally, this will only affect you at the re-enrolment date (every three years from 1 August 2013). However, there may be individual circumstances when the University will be required to auto-enrol you ahead of the 3 year re-enrolment. Typically this will be because your earnings were below the auto-enrolment level whilst you were member of the Scheme but they have now gone above that level*. A notice will be sent to you if you are to be auto-enrolled and you will be able to opt out again should you wish to do so.
Further information on auto-enrolment.
* The earnings level for 2013/2014 is £787 per month. The assessment for auto-enrolment is carried out on actual pay received in the pay month. Therefore, if your employment commences towards the end of the month, your pay for that month may be below the auto-enrolment level, but go above the level for the next month. This can result in an individual being contractually enrolled at commencement of employment, opting out straightaway and then being auto-enrolled at the beginning of the following month. The Government is currently (June 2013) considering amending this particular part of the regulations with an intention of not requiring auto-enrolment where an individual has already opted out in the last 12 months.
Prior to the introduction of the auto-enrolment requirement, USS did not allow those already receiving a pension from USS to rejoin the Scheme if they were subsequently re-employed. USS has now amended its Rules so that its pensioners can be enrolled into the Scheme in accordance with the auto-enrolment requirements:
If your gross pay is more than £787 in a month, you are under state pension age and usually carry out your work for the University in the UK, you will be auto-enrolled into USS;
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If you join USS, a copy of the appropriate 'Guide for Members' will be sent to you with your membership certificate.
Should you wish to pay AVCs to increase your benefits, USS offers the following arrangements:
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Netflix Secures Exclusive Disney Film Deal
In a major pay TV movie deal, Netflix has secured exclusive rights to Walt Disney Studios animated and live-action films, beginning with the 2016 theatrical releases.
The deal gives the online movie service rights to Disney, Disney Animation, Pixar, Marvel and Disneynature films in the premium TV window on multiple platforms, including television, tablets, computers and mobile phones.
Also included in the agreement are Disney direct-to-video new releases, which will be made available on Netflix starting in 2013. In addition, the deal gives Netflix a multi-year catalog deal that brings to Netflix members such classic Disney movies such as Dumbo, Pocahontas and Alice in Wonderland.
Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
"With this cutting-edge agreement, we are thrilled to take our highly valued relationship with Netflix to the next level by adding Disney's premier films to their programming lineup," Janice Marinelli, president of Disney-ABC Domestic Television, said in a statement. "Netflix continues to meet the demands of its subscribers in today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, and we are delighted that they will have much earlier access to our top-quality and entertaining slate."
The deal is a blow to Starz, which currently holds the rights to Disney Studio film titles into 2017. In a statement the company said: "Our decision not to extend the agreement for Disney output past that time allows us the opportunity to implement our plan to dramatically ramp up our investment in exclusive, premium-quality original series which will best meet the needs of our distributors and subscribers."
The deal is a major boost to the subscription-based Netflix service, which gets to add exclusive access to new Disney films as well as classic Disney programming to its lineup of theatrical and TV show programming.
"Disney and Netflix have shared a long and mutually beneficial relationship and this deal will bring to our subscribers, in the first pay TV window, some of the highest-quality, most imaginative family films being made today," Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos said in a statement. "It's a bold leap forward for Internet television and we are incredibly pleased and proud this iconic family brand is teaming with Netflix to make it happen."


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My wife and I are looking to put in a large shower in our new master bath.
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Are you looking for an onyx ,cast pan? I get mine locally from a company that makes onyx vanity tops---
PM me for the company name---- Many counter top companies make them. Also look up 'handicap shower pans'----there are a lot of company's providing pans in larger sizes.
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Troy.....I feel your pain......we are going through somewhat the same issues right now....and initially I was asking the same questions.
First....and overview as I understand it...... You have 4 choices when it comes to how your shower pan is done.... 1. Hot mop - The original way most showers were done...make a mortar bed out of mortar...hot mop it with tar...then tile over that. 2. Membrain - Somewhat the same as above except they use a rubber membrain 3. Prefab shower pan - You still have a mortar bed...but you lay a pre-fab pan on top.... 4. Kerdi system - Basically a combination of the 3 above but using Kerdi products....a bit more expensive but I understand a lot faster. Methods 1 & 2 are labor intensive....and the quality of the result is dependant on the experience of the installer. Prefab shower pans...well.....if you don't mind your shower looking like a shower at a Motel 6....then I guess it's a good way to go. Do some searching....you will get plenty of hits on "Shower pan"....also look at 'tile ready shower pans'....these are shower pans that you can tile over....sort of a prefab hot mop minus the hot mop. Just remember....the shower is one of those things you don't want to take short cuts on....fixing the mistakes gets real expensive...... At our stage...about the only thing we have decided.....we are not using a prefab shower pan....was leaning towards hot mop....now I'm leaning away from it.....with Kerdi looking better and better each day.
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When upgrading from a previous version of CAD to 2012, my list of plotters has been changed and I can not plot to PDF. How can I add Adobe PDF to the list of plotters?
have you installed the oder version of AutoCAD or is it uninstalled?
If it's installed (and not to old) you can then start in both versions the plotter-manager and copy the PC3-files you need. Don't forget the PMP-files if there are any assigned.
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Thanks for your reply. The older version has been uninstalled so I cant use that method. I am unfamiliar with the term PMP, can you please elaborate.
>> The older version has been uninstalled
Ok, are you sure that all files are removed? Search your C: Drive for files with extension PC3 ==> if you find any that are not in an directory for AutoCAD 2012 you have a good chance to reuse them. Anyway one question first: what release was your old AutoCAD?
>> I am unfamiliar with the term PMP
PMP is a file-extension for a file that is (optionally) used separately with PC3 (in this file are e.g. paper-sizes stored), if you open a PC3-file you can see if it points to a PMP or not (one of the last lines in the properties).
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You may need need to reinstall the "Adobe" driver you mention: if it is a Windows PDF driver, you probably forgot to turn on SHOW SYSTEM DRIVERS in R2012, but if that 3rd party PDF driver installed something for you in the old AutoCAD version then you probably need to upgrade it as well for it to see R2012 and do the same (unless a reinstall of that PDF driver will do the same).
Of course this begs the question: why not use the built-in PDF driver already in R2012?
My previous addition was 2009.
How do I access thebuilt in PDF driver? At the select plotter screen, there isn't an available option to select the built in PDF driver.
if you open the _PLOT dialog and open the list of plotters you should find an item "DWG to PDF". If you don't find it ....plus you don't find your system-printers while the check for it is on (like AdobePDF should show up) you have some troubles with your AutoCAD profile. If you haven't done to much customization to AutoCAD (or better you have saved it) then you can try to reset the AutoCAD profiles ==> find it in the Windows Startmenu.
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That's the number of college-educated workers that South Carolina will be short of by 2030 unless changes are made, according to a new study by the University of South Carolina. Shortages are predicted to be particularly high for nurses, teachers, managers and accountants. More.
"Jim DeMint, the former senator-turned-Tea Party leader at the helm of the Heritage Foundation, never tried to win the love of the Republican establishment. He did, however, succeed over the past several years, first as the junior senator from South Carolina and since last year, as head of the GOP's most prominent think tank, at being feared by his fellow Republicans. But now he finds himself in the position of being merely despised."
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3/3: Income inequality isn't just about Wall Street
"Yes, inequality is growing nationally, and it's growing in South Carolina. It's not just the recent recession and economic meltdown, but a trend over most of the average person's lifetime. And that leaves the question, what do we do to make it easier for the poor and the middle class to share in the growth of income and wealth? Incentives? Job creation? Tax cuts? Tax the rich? Invest in infrastructure and education? What would work for you?"
-- Holley Ulbrich
Public safety sales tax. S. 1069 (McGill) calls for a public safety sales tax, with several provisions.
TB testing. S. 1084 (Nicholson) calls for tuberculosis tests to be required for applicants and employees who work in schools, kindergartens, nurseries or daycare centers, with several provisions.
Transportation sales tax. S. 1085 (Campbell) would allow counties to extend local transportation infrastructure sales taxes to 25 years, with several provisions.
Data breach reporting. S. 1086 (Hayes) calls for more transparency in providing notice to the public about data security breaches at state agencies, with several provisions.
Deadly force. S. 1087 (Allen) calls for limits to the state's law on people who can use deadly force after another person has entered a home, vehicle or business unlawfully, with several provisions.
Port Royal sale. S. 1089 (Davis) calls for the sale of the state's port property in Port Royal, with several provisions. H. 4829 (Erickson) is similar.
Budget bill. H. 4701 (Ways and Means) is the state's annual budget bill, which will be debated on the House floor in the coming week. H. 4702 is a resolution to appropriate monies from the capital reserve fund and allow unexpended funds to be carried forward.
Surface waters. H. 4817 (J.E. Smith) would require permitting for new or expanded withdrawals of surface waters for agricultural uses, with several provisions.
Alternative to GED. H. 4840 (Putnam) seeks to have an alternative to the GED test for a person to get a high school equivalency diploma, with several provisions.
DUI. H. 4845 (Daning) seeks tougher penalties for felony driving under the influence.
Military enhancement. H. 4859 (Limehouse) seeks several changes in the law to create a better environment for military families to help enhance the state's military bases in light of potential base closures, with several provisions.
Cursive writing. H. 4868 (W.J. McLeod) seems to enact the "Cursive Writing Education Act" to require instruction of cursive writing in second and third grades, with several provisions.
Medical marijuana. H. 4872 (Neal) seeks to authorize the medical use of marijuana under certain conditions, with many provisions. H. 4879 (Rutherford) is similar.
Tax incentives study. H. 4875 (Funderburk) would require the state Department of Revenue to study the state's tax incentives every four years and to assess their impact, including benefits and costs.
The South Carolina Commons House of Assembly passed an act creating St. George's Dorchester Parish on December 11, 1717. The new parish was previously part of St. Andrew's Parish and was created to accommodate the growing number of colonists along the upper Ashley River. In 1695 a group of Congregationalists from Dorchester, Massachusetts, established a New England-style township twenty-six miles upriver from Charleston and named it in honor of their former home. These religious dissenters formed the core of the parish's early population.
An Anglican church was completed in the town in 1720, and a 1726 census found 537 whites and about 1,300 slaves in the parish. In 1759, due to unrest caused by the French and Indian War, Fort Dorchester, a brick powder magazine surrounded by earthen works, was completed. Most of the descendants of the Congregationalists left the parish for Georgia beginning in 1752, but Dorchester remained an economically important town until the Revolutionary War.
The British burned Dorchester in 1781, and the town was subsequently abandoned. [The belltower, which remains, is pictured at right. Photo by Michael Kaynard.] After the war the town of Summerville replaced Dorchester as the regional market. Rice plantations along the upper Ashley River dominated the parish's early economy and continued to be an important source of wealth into the nineteenth century. During the antebellum era planters from St. George's and surrounding parishes built summer homes in Summerville to escape their plantations during the malarial season. After the constitution of 1865 abolished the parish system, St. George's Dorchester Parish was incorporated into Colleton District.
Statehouse Report encourages state leaders to develop and implement Palmetto Priorities involving several issues to make the state better a better place. Click the link to learn more about our suggestions for bipartisan policy objectives.
Here is a summary of our Palmetto Priorities:
CORRECTIONS: Reduce the prison population by 25 percent by 2020.
EDUCATION: Cut the state's dropout rate in half by 2020.
ELECTIONS: Increase voter registration to 75 percent by 2015.
ENVIRONMENT: Adopt a state energy policy that requires energy producers to generate 20 percent of energy from renewable sources by 2020.
ETHICS: Overhaul state ethics laws.
HEALTH CARE: Ensure affordable and accessible health care.
JOBS: Develop a Cabinet-level post to add, retain 10,000 small business jobs per year.
POLITICS: Have a vigorous two- or multi-party political system of governance.
ROADS: Strengthen all bridges and upgrade state roads by 2015.
SAFETY: Cut the state's violent crime rate by one-third by 2016.
TAX REFORM: Remove outdated special interest sales tax exemptions as part of an overall reform of the state's tax structure to be completed by 2014.
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MARCH 7, 2014 -- A new film promoting early reading could accelerate the public policy debate on how children learn in South Carolina.
Veteran Columbia filmmaker Bud Ferillo, whose 2005 "Corridor of Shame" documentary about abysmal conditions in poor South Carolina schools shocked many, is putting the final touches on "When the Bough Breaks," a 45-minute film that outlines the importance of reading to children long before they ever walk into a school.
The message rammed home in the film, a production of the S.C. Education Oversight Committee in conjunction with the Children's Law Center at the University of South Carolina School of Law, is that experts understand how reading early to children is a vital key in their future success in school and life. Highlighted by interviews with a scientist, educators and child care specialists, the film explores how parents and volunteers can augment the work of professionals in getting more kids to read much earlier.
"An early foundation in reading is one of the highest predictors for individual success," according to the EOC in 2013. "On the 2011 NAEP (National Assessment of Education Progress), only 61 percent of South Carolina fourth graders scored 'basic and above.' Only 72 percent of S.C. eighth graders scored "basic and above' in 2011."
Ferillo said a major idea in the film is to train parents to read to kids and make sure they get books to read a couple of hours every day from the time they're infants.
"We're talking about a cultural change," he said this week as he wrapped up work on the film. "Now that we know a child's brain is so incredibly active and receptive to early childhood reading and activity, it's critical that parents, child caregivers, facilitators and reading teachers have the training and tools to provide children with vocabulary.
"A child who is read to on a consistent basis from birth to the age of entering school will probably have a working vocabulary of 5,000 words. A child who is given a toy or a mechanical device or put in a playpen will have a vocabulary of 500 words."
The EOC, which has a vision of having 95 percent of students reading at grade level in grades 3 and 8, wanted to have the film as a tool to help raise public and community awareness about literacy in South Carolina, according to spokesman Dana Yow.
RESOURCES FOR CHILDREN National Center for Families LearningNurse Family Partnership of South CarolinaReach out and Read CarolinasReading is FundamentalSave the ChildrenS.C. Chapter of the American Academy of PediatricsS.C. Department of EducationS.C. Education Oversight CommitteeSCETVS.C. First StepsS.C. State Library RESOURCES FOR ADULTS Literacy Information and Communication SystemS.C. Office of Adult EducationU.S. Office of Adult Education and Literacy "We wanted to create a film that would showcase the continuum of literacy—from the importance of language development in the very early years to what is required to help a struggling reader in a secondary school," she said. "When 50 percent of the students entering the technical college system need remediation in reading before they begin their coursework, this is an issue that needs to be brought to the forefront of public discussion.
"The EOC has been working on this issue for years but it is exciting to see that the General Assembly, Gov. [Nikki] Haley and others are actively working to bring about comprehensive reform."
It won't be cheap but, as education advocates say, it might be more expensive to lose another generation of children to poverty and to have to provide remediation for some, prison cells for others.
"There are costs involved in helping all children read proficiently in this state," Yow admitted. "It will take money for a readiness assessment for 4-year-old kindergarten and 5-year-old kindergarten. There are significant costs associated with expanding home-based parenting programs like the ones featured in the film."
But working to ensure that students read at grade level by the end of third grade won't happen if educators wait for state solutions, she added.
"Much of what viewers see in the film involve relationships that occur between caring adults and children focused on literacy. The relationship that a parent or caregiver has with a child before he or she ever walks into a school is critical and cannot be overemphasized.
"When the child enters school, it is so important to have teachers who are trained to diagnose reading difficulties and appropriately intervene. Additionally, communities, volunteers, faith groups and others can have such a tremendous impact when they mobilize around this issue."
Ferillo added, "It's a wake call to parents and community groups who can provide the resources."
The title of the film, "When the Bough Breaks" comes from the 18th century "Rock-A-Bye Baby" nursery rhyme.
Ferillo said he picked the phrase "because of the choice that South Carolina has to make between providing the earliest opportunities to teach our children to read or face the consequences if they do not." And if South Carolina doesn't get its act together with more early reading, it will continue to have students in middle and high school who get failing grades or drop out. And some of those will turn to a life of crime, which will cost the state down the road.
"When the Bough Breaks" features interviews with more than two dozen people including a scientist, ex-gang member, sheriff, parents, educators, business leaders and volunteer leaders. The film will be made available to K-12 schools, colleges, county libraries, pediatricians and others who want to learn more about literacy.
"There is so much opportunity in the film, and we hope that people walk away wanting to help and make a difference in the lives of young people," Yow said. Andy Brack is editor and publisher of Statehouse Report. He can be reached at: email@example.com.
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Meanwhile, senators are expected to continue to floor debate the so-called "nullification" bill. Although the proposal no longer seeks to nullify Obamacare, it essentially seeks to restrict using any state money to enact the federal law -- even to the point of trying to keep people from using computers in public libraries to sign up for it. Observers say it's more time for headlines, not headway on state priorities.
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State Democrats will keep scratching their heads on ways to remain relevant in statewide races after this week saw two major candidates drop out -- Rick Wade from the race against GOP U.S. Sen. Tim Scott and Rep. Mike Anthony in the open race for state superintendent of education. So far, Dems haven't fielded candidates in statewide races for adjutant general, agriculture commissioner, comptroller general and state treasurer. The remaining candidates in the pair of U.S. Senate races are seen as weak, at best.
But would we want a minimally-adequate football team at Carolina or Clemson? No. A coach who lost season after season wouldn't be tolerated by everyone from fans to a governor.
Would we want to hire a minimally-adequate doctor, lawyer or dentist? No, no and no.
How about on a larger scale -- would we accept a minimally-adequate power company? A minimally-adequate port? A minimally-adequate police department? A minimally-adequate car? "No" times four.
So why in the world do we in South Carolina continue to accept "minimally adequate education" as the standard for our state's schools? Can't we do better? [The answer is apparently not because bills to change the constitution to require a high-quality education have floundered over the years.]
Some historical context: Back in 1993, 40 poor school districts sued the state to get more funding for public education. It's generally accepted that these schools, some of which were profiled in Bud Ferillo's 2005 "Corridor of Shame" film, haven't had the money to provide the same quality of education found in richer counties of the state.
A few years later, the case was appealed to the state Supreme Court which ruled in 1999 that all that the state constitution required of public education was a "minimally adequate education." The court defined the phrase as including the ability to read, write and speak English; understand basic economic, social and political systems, history and governmental processes; and receive academic and vocational skills.
This standard -- setting a minimum expectation -- caused lots of criticism 15 years ago. Even today, former Chief Justice Ernest Finney, who hammered out the wording on the decision, has admitted "that was probably not the brightest moment in my career."
Since the 1999 ruling, a circuit court decided in 2004 after 102 days of a trial with 102 witnesses that poor kids in poor districts did not, in fact, get a "minimally adequate" education up to third grade, but did after that. So the judge required the state to fund early childhood intervention programs to satisfy the "minimally adequate" standard.
But as we've written before, that didn't make anyone happy, so the case continued and headed back to the Supreme Court in June 2008, where it still sits almost six years later. And today, the state continues to have a low bar for performance of public schools.
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Let's not continue to accept a minimally-adequate educational system. Let state leaders have the courage -- especially with budget talks starting on the House floor -- to do something about it instead of continuing to lollygag.
Ferillo has a new film that will challenge leaders anew to fund education properly. It comes out this month, as reported above in Statehouse Report.
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By Shelby SwitzerSpecial to Statehouse Report
MARCH 7, 2014 -- When I turned 18, I had a lot of big ideas about what it meant to be part of a community. I had spent my last year and a half of high school at the S.C. Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities, which, with a student population of around 200, meant that I knew everyone in my class. We all felt like we had an active role in the school, and the students had close relationships with the administration – our community was built on dialogue and participation.
I had also just gotten accepted to the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, which, as you can probably understand, I was absolutely stoked about. That summer, I went off to jolly England and started having a blast, but in October, I hit a wall. It was time to fill out my absentee ballot from back home.
Who were all these people? What did some of these positions even do? None of the candidates for town council, school board, agricultural commissioner, or even a few state representatives, had websites, Facebook pages or any campaign information period. I was lucky if I could find a local news article here and there giving an overview of a couple new candidates, and I certainly couldn't find a "report card" of the performance of any incumbents at the local level.
I enlisted my parents for help. Surely they would have more knowledge, being on the front lines, so to speak. My first email to them about the subject reads: "Aghh! I got my absentee ballot today and it's really exciting but also frustrating because I can't figure out who to vote for! Eek!"
They came back with a couple online resources I had missed and newspaper clippings from the local print chronicle, but for many of the candidates, all three of us still had nothing.
We all realized there was something key missing in our democratic process, in our community: information. My father, not one to sit idly and "live with" a situation, came up with a solution. A couple days later, my mother emailed me dad's idea:
"Dad wants to start a web site that gives people a picture of their actual ballot with all the candidates and referendums listed and when you click on them you will see all available internet research organized by category, so you can make an educated decision without being 'sold to'. What do you think? There doesn't appear to be any such thing right now."
With our support, Dad took his idea to a tech entrepreneurs class in Columbia and met Karl McCollester, a local IT consultant who also had a dream for making local government easier for everyone. Together, and with another local visionary and designer Matt Hudson, they founded Voterheads.com.
Last November, you could go to Voterheads and see your ballot (specific to your location), with links to organized, non-partisan research on all names and items for the Midlands. This year's "See My Ballot" feature will have even more information
But Voterheads isn't just about keeping you informed around election time. Our mission includes facilitating communication between citizens and local government throughout the year. When you log into Voterheads, you can see your local city council, county council and school board agenda items every week, and vote and comment on them. You can even subscribe to follow topics that interest you, so that you get a notification whenever the council or board is about to discuss them. Premium subscribers – such as advocacy groups, law firms, utilities and manufacturers – can take this service further to monitor (across any state in the Southeast right now) large numbers of organizations or interests.
Although the citizen portion of the site is still in alpha stage for Richland and Lexington counties, Voterheads has already been highlighted in Government Technology magazine as a company contributing to the "21st Century City Hall." Finally, I'm getting the information I need however far I may stray from home, and I'm heartened that there is now a tool for dialogue and participation to help every community become stronger.
Shelby Switzer, now 23, is the social media manager for Voterheads.com, which is based in Columbia. She also is an instructor in Atlanta for the RubyOnRails computer language and programming framework.
Both sides of the aisle, as we say, have a perfect understanding of individualism. There is a belief that they "have mine" in terms of stuff, status, ideology (ssi). And the other side of the aisle is O.K. to have their stuff, status and ideology. In an effort to preserve their stuff, status and ideology, one dare not listen to the needs of those who do would want a greater portion of same. Those would be a threat to MY ssi.
So, I, a voter, am a thing to influence to be gotten on one side or another of the aisle. For a vote cast in favor.
I resent being reduced to a thing. I am a person. I need leaders who are statesmen and women able to hear the needs of citizens and community.
Instead of demonizing taxes as always evil, how about proclaiming what taxes will create in my community? We don't want a government assistance for healthcare but please, PLEASE give us government assistance to clean up after our winter mess. We don't want higher taxes, but don't close our bases and eliminate our National Guard or provide the money needed to keep the promises for retirement and healthcare benefits.
In a state mostly not of my party, I hoped that one way my party acted was to be ethically different from the other. Instead, natural to humankind, there are many who act just as unethically. It seems as a stand of, "Why should they get rich on kickback and the like? Now that I have my office, I'm gonna get my share."
Don't get me started on the use of lies to create fear in order to preserve "my base".
-- David "Zeke" Hanford, Irmo, S.C.
About taking and not taking federal money To the editor: Just a quick note to tell you how much I enjoyed the above article [on the politics of taking and not taking federal money.]
Your conclusion was something that I/we have LONG suspected, similar to my idea that the GOP cares more about numbers and politics than they care about poor folks, etc.
Anyway, this was a really good piece of work and I appreciate you writing it.
-- Will Cantrell, Stone Mountain, Ga.
Kudos on insightful commentary
To the editor:
Wonderful editorial on "The Politics of Taking Federal Money in a Poor State." Informative, insightful, intelligent. My compliments.
-- Dave Brown, Charleston, S.C.
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Flood insurance. It's good news for many coastal South Carolinians that the U.S. House has passed legislation to curb some of the drastic insurance rate hikes for flood insurance. Let's hope the Senate follows suit. More.
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San Antonio-based Mark Menjivar thinks of his project, "You Are What You Eat," as a series of intimate portraits. "One person mentioned that 'asking to photograph my refrigerator is like asking me to pose nude,'" he says. Menjivar, 29, a professional photographer with a degree in social work, came up with the idea while working on a documentary film about hunger. "I was thinking about how 'you are what you eat' is a cultural cliché, but is also very relevant."


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Colorado's president, Linda Stahly of Delta, a member of Lee Marts Ladies Auxiliary #3571, led the state delegation of the Ladies Auxiliary to the 100th national convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) held July 20-24 at the Kentucky International Convention Center in Louisville, Ky.
As leading representative of the state, she voiced the delegates' votes during the election of national officers and played a key role in deciding the direction of the national organization for 2013-2014.
A highlight of the convention was the announcement of the outstanding department presidents in the 11 membership groups at the national president's dinner. Resolutions to the bylaws were reviewed and voted on.
Other highlights included the opportunity for members to view the eight winning Young American Creative Patriotic Art entries and the Buddy Poppy displays, in addition to attending several joint events with the VFW such as the joint opening session and the patriotic rally on Tuesday evening.
During the convention, the national president commended the 2,000 attendees for all their hard work in honoring veterans and supporting deployed military personnel and their families. Members have spent millions of dollars and volunteer hours helping the heroes of our country.
The national president also thanked members for volunteering 1.2 million hours in the nation's hospitals, raising $2.4 million for the organization's Cancer Aid & Research Fund, and donating $315,000 to VFW national military services, which includes Operation Uplink™ to provide long-distance calling opportunities to deployed soldiers and hospitalized veterans.
Thousands of dollars have been donated to cancer research facilities across the country. National president Lemley sent funds to the Women in Military Service for America Memorial Foundation, the VFW Oklahoma Relief Fund for victims of the spring tornadoes, the hospitalized veterans' writing project and Warriors for Freedom.
The election and installation of national president Armithea "Sissy" Borel, a life member of Starks Memorial Auxiliary #4759, and the other 2013-2014 national officers took place Wednesday, July 24. It marks the beginning of the organization's 100th year of service.
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