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Three Colleton County deputies graduated from the S.C. Criminal Justice Academy last week, and they all have interesting back stories.
Hallie Wright, 22, is a graduate of Charleston Southern University and mother of an 8-month-old girl. She's a Colleton County native and wanted to be in law enforcement as long as she could remember, according to sheriff's office spokesman Ted Stanfield.
Kevin Smalls, 29, is single. His father, Trooper Bruce Smalls, was killed in the line of duty on Sept. 27, 1985, on Interstate 95 in Jasper County. Kevin Smalls was only 2 then and wants to carry on his father's legacy, according to Stanfield.
Kenny Smith, 33, has three children, 8, 5 and 3. His father, a carpenter, is a reserve officer candidate starting training with the Colleton County Sheriff's Office.
All three deputies were recognized for completing a three-mile run during training in under 25 minutes. Wright won a Distinguished Graduate award for a grade above 96.
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Pinterest Widgets are one good way of easily marketing your products. If found in your website or other websites that are related to your business, then people will find it easy to follow you, re-pin images from your website on their boards, and the like. These days, people have little to zero attention span so it's better to have these widgets to make things easier for them.
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Crisis in the Eurozone
July 01, 2015 // 10:00am — 11:00am
In this phone conference, three experts on Greek and international economics discuss the potential collapse of the Greek economy and the implications for the European Union and global economy.
Greece and EEC Membership: Was it a Mistake?
February 03, 2015 // 3:00pm — 5:00pm
Cold War International History Project
Greece, the EEC and the Cold War, 1974-1979 by Eirini Karamouzi explores the history of the European Economic Community (EEC) in the turbulent decade of the 1970s with a focus on the Community's response to the fall of the Greek dictatorship and the country's application for EEC membership.
From Sarajevo, 1914 to Southeastern Europe, 2014: Wars, Transitions and Controversies
October 15, 2014 // 11:30am — 1:00pm
Global Europe Program
Drawing on recent scholarship and addressing recent controversies, John Lampe, traces the saga of Southeastern Europe from the explosive mixture of Balkan states and imperial borderlands before the First World War, through the trials that their successors faced during two world wars, the Cold War, and finally the wars of Yugoslavia's dissolution.
Greece: The Path to a Competitive Future
May 22, 2014 // 2:00pm — 3:00pm
An investigation by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in cooperation with the Greek authorities identified a wide range of regulations and legal provisions that undermine competition. Building on the approach of the OECD's Competition Assessment Toolkit, the Competition Assessment Review of Greece makes more than 320 recommendations on legal provisions that should be amended or repealed. In this session, Dr. Sean Ennis, a Senior Economist in the OECD's Competition Division, will discuss the findings and the methods used for preparing the report.
Cyprus - Prospects and Challenges: Looking Ahead to 2014
February 28, 2014 // 12:30pm — 1:30pm
Global Europe Program
It has been forty years since hostilities divided the Republic of Cyprus, yet the discovery of hydrocarbon reserves in the Eastern Mediterranean indicate that 2014 could be a year of possibility for the island nation. The potential development of these hydrocarbon resources could provide an opportunity for Cyprus to become a major regional player.
CANCELLED: Future Economic and Energy Prospects in Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean
October 24, 2013 // 12:00pm — 1:00pm
Global Europe Program
Future Economic and Energy Prospects in Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean
Roundtable Discussion on the Southern Gas Corridor
September 09, 2013 // 12:30pm — 2:00pm
Global Europe Program
This summer, the European Union's alternative source of natural gas was finally decided: the Shah Deniz energy consortium in Azerbaijan chose the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) over the much-discussed Nabucco project, to bring 10-20 billion cubic meters of gas a year through Greece and Albania to Italy. Now the question remains: what next for the Southern Energy Corridor? Was TAP the right choice? Will Nabucco's original route to Central Europe be realized? How will Russia respond?
Crisis in the Eurozone: Challenges and Opportunities for the European South
May 16, 2013 // 9:00am — 10:00am
Global Europe Program
European integration is the result of a series of policy initiatives with strong voluntaristic features. By far the most important of those initiatives was the adoption of the euro as a common currency for the 17 countries-members of the euro zone. The European edifice was designed for normal conditions and not for crisis situations. The budgetary and financial crisis of the recent years led necessarily to the adoption of an extraordinary system of economic governance of the euro area with entirely intergovernmental- and not community- features. While the countries in crisis are predominantly in the European South, Evangelos Venizelos, President of PASOK, argues that the notion of the European South is a political and not a geographic concept.
The Politics of Nation-Building: Making Co-Nationals, Refugees and Minorities
May 07, 2013 // 3:00pm — 4:30pm
Global Europe Program
What drives a state's choice to assimilate, accommodate, or exclude ethnic groups within its territory? In this pathbreaking work on the international politics of nation-building, Harris Mylonas argues that a state's nation-building policies toward non-core groups - any aggregation of individuals perceived as an unassimilated ethnic group by the ruling elite of a state - are influenced by both its foreign policy goals and its relations with the external patrons of these groups.
Andreas Papandreou: The Making of a Greek Democrat and Political Maverick
December 03, 2012 // 12:00pm — 1:30pm
Global Europe Program
Greece in the 1960s produced one of Europe's arguably most controversial post-WWII politicians. Andreas Papandreou's maverick politics grew out of his conflict laden re-engagement with Greece in the 1960s. In this biography of Andreas Papandreou, the author Stan Draenos chronicles the events, struggles and ideas that defined the man's dramatic, intrigue-filled transformation from Kennedy-era modernizer to Cold War maverick.


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- Aug. 2 2011
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Young Botanical Garden Takes Home Collection of Accolades in 2011 Award Season
Naples Botanical Garden Receives Awards in Several Categories Including Design, Tourism and Leadership
NAPLES, FL - August 2, 2011 - Despite its relatively young age, Naples Botanical Garden swept the awards categories this year among different industries, taking home honors from the American Public Gardens Association (APGA), Florida Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) and Gulfshore Life. Not yet open for a full two years as the expanded 170-acre property, the achievements are an exciting acknowledgement of the Garden's dedication and hard work to create not just a beautiful place for visitors and plant-lovers, but a world-class destination for education and culture.
"These awards are a testament to the amount of thought and creativity that has gone into the Garden," said Brian Holley, executive director of Naples Botanical Garden. "From the brilliance of the landscape architects who helped conceive the initial plans for the cultivated gardens, to the board leadership and staff expertise that leads the Garden's programming and educational efforts, it is a wonderful honor to see it all recognized by our respective industries and community."
In 2011 the Garden accepted the following accolades:
The Florida Chapter of the ASLA: 2011 Award of Excellence:
Presented to Goetz+ Stropes Landscape Architects, Inc., for "Making Connections: People+Land+Water" connected to the Rain Garden, Bioswales, River of Grass and Water Garden.
The Florida Chapter of the ASLA: 2011 Award of Honor:
Presented to Raymond Jungles, Inc. for the inspired use of landscape architectural practices in the Brazilian Garden.
Gulfshore Life's "Best of the Gulfshore" – Presented to the Garden for:
Reader's Choice for "Best Place to Take a Visitor"
Editor's Choice for "Best Place to Spot a Butterfly"
In addition, the Garden's Executive Director, Brian Holley, was presented with the APGA's Award of Merit this year at the national conference, for his career of excellence and ongoing contributions to the field of horticulture and public gardens. With more than 30 years of experience, beginning at Royal Botanical Gardens in Ontario, Canada, all the way to his current role at Naples Botanical Garden, Holley has demonstrated a clear passion and vision of excellence which he has brought to each position throughout his career.
The Garden celebrates all these tremendous awards as preparations are underway for a new year of programming and achievements in the 2011-2012 season.
For more information visit Naples Botanical Garden online www.naplesgarden.org or call 239-643-7275.
About Naples Botanical Garden
Naples Botanical Garden is a 170-acre world-class garden paradise that features the plants and cultures of the tropics and subtropics between the latitudes of 26 degrees North and 26 degrees South including Brazil, the Caribbean, Southeast Asia and Florida. A hands-on interactive Children's Garden along with 90 acres of beautifully restored natural habitats, walking trails and a Butterfly Garden offer educational entertainment and enjoyment for people of all ages. Founded in 1993, the Garden re-opened to the public in November 2009 after an extensive expansion. Regular hours of operation are 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. every day.


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Pool day is an annual tradition at Kentucky football's fall camp. The Wildcats get a short break from the grind of meetings and practices with a little time to have fun.
Over his three seasons on the team, walk-on Steven Duff has been one of the things his teammates most look forward to on pool day. "Human highlight Duff," as Joker Phillips calls him, uses his sneakily athletic 6-foot, 332-pound frame to do all kinds of tricks off the diving board.
On Wednesday, with the release of the video above on UK's official YouTube channel, Kentucky fans were let in on the Duff secret as his diving exploits circulated the Internet. On Thursday, the video went a whole different kind of viral as SportsCenter put Duff in its Top 10 Plays segment. The Wildcats were all eating together on Thursday morning when they learned about it.
"Nobody knew about it," Duff said. "We just kind of looked up there and we saw 'Kentucky football.' We were all surprised. It was pretty funny. We just erupted. It was pretty cool."
Since joining the team in 2009, Duff has served as a practice player helping prepare his teammates. He has impressed the coaching staff with his leadership and has been selected for the Southeastern Conference Academic Honor Roll each of the past two seasons.
"Nobody's more excited for Duff than me and this whole football team," Phillips said.
Except for maybe Duff himself. New Twitter followers and Facebook friends have come streaming in and Duff's mother rushed home to record the Top 10 as soon as she learned he had made an appearance.
"I'm super proud of that," Duff said. "It's definitely cool. It'd be nice to have our team on there a couple times this year, but I'll definitely take being on there before the season too."
Duff spoke to the media on Thursday about his newfound fame. Watch what he had to say in the video below.


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Good news! Doris Schattschneider's classic M. C. Escher: Visions of Symmetry is back in print and is better than ever. Taken out of print by the original publisher, W. H. Freeman, it has been reissued by Harry N. Abrams, probably the foremost publisher of art books in the United States. As one would expect, the quality of the binding, the paper, and the color printing are all first rate. Nevertheless, it comes at a surprisingly modest price. The illustrations from the original edition, most of them in color, are all present here. The first edition, of 1990, was printed in the United States, this new edition in China. The color in this somewhat expanded edition is a bit softer and the paper slightly off-white and somewhat less glossy. The overall effect is, if anything, even more agreeable than that of the first. The softer paper is apparently thicker enough that the new edition appears to be heftier, but in fact only twenty or so pages have been added. There's a new one-page introduction by Douglas Hofstadter, and a new well-illustrated Afterword to bring the reader up-to-date on developments in Escher scholarship since 1990.
A lot has happened since then: there have been additional conferences on Escher, some events for the centennial of Escher's birth, and the opening of a new Escher museum in The Hague. I do not plan here to describe at length the content of the first edition since that is known to many readers. Briefly, the book illustrates, with mathematical commentary, Escher's work in which he so ingeniously used symmetry to get his amazing patterns in the plane. For mathematicians, the underlying mathematics is interesting — but I emphasize above the quality of reproduction of the art because ultimately, for most readers, it is not the mathematics that stimulates interest in Escher's work, it is his dazzling ingenuity and use of color in creating these unlikely configurations.
In the first edition Schattschneider described in some detail the 1924 article of George Pólya in the Zeitschrift für Kristallographie in which Pólya showed that there are 17 symmetry groups of periodic patterns in the plane (a fact known in 1891 to the Russian, E. S. Federov, but this escaped the attention of both Pólya and Escher). The patterns corresponding to the symmetries (illustrated with examples by Pólya in his 1924 paper) were studied and copied by Escher. Numerous examples are given in the text. When the original book was written Schattschneider knew of contact between Pólya and Escher but the correspondence had been lost. She had interviewed Pólya before his death in 1985 and he recalled that there had been letters, but he couldn't find them. People assumed that if he had received letters from Escher they had been lost in his move from Zürich to America in 1940. The subsequent part of this story is part of the reason for an Afterword in this new edition.
Scholars assumed that Escher, who was largely unschooled in mathematics, had been influenced by Pólya's 1924 paper, but evidence and the details of the influence were not readily at hand. Roughly ten years after Pólya's death the new owner of Pólya's Palo Alto house, following the death of Pólya's widow, discovered two suitcases and a large box of papers and reprints in the attic, all sadly somewhat affected by age, neglect and the damp. The material then disappeared for a few years only to reappear in 2002. Upon examination this reviewer discovered that much of it dated from the 1930s when the correspondence between Pólya and Escher was supposed to have taken place.
The excitement was short-lived, however. The letters did not show up, but in some ways, what was there was even more interesting. Schattschneider discovered drawings by Pólya showing repeating patterns of snakes eating snakes eating snakes... The pattern was relatively simple compared to Escher's more sophisticated patterns. But on the back of one drawing was a notation in Pólya's hand indicating that he had sent it to Escher at a Brussels address. Beyond that, however, there were notes and sketches, with the outline of a table of contents, indicating serious work by Pólya on the manuscript of a book on symmetry for the lay person. There were sketches of tiles, probably made on trips to the Alhambra and elsewhere in Europe where he was looking at tiles and other examples of symmetry. Had Pólya completed his book and published it, he would have anticipated by fifteen years or so Hermann Weyl's classic Symmetry, a book also aimed at a general audience. The project was probably abandoned in the rush to get to America and get away from what was perceived at that time as a threat by the Nazis even to Switzerland, and the difficulties once here of finding an academic position.
Schattschneider chronicles the discovery of these papers in her new Afterword for this edition. Her tone is straightforward and factual — one regrets only that she does not quite convey the excitement of the sleuthing it took to track down these new pieces of information. This is only one of the stories of new developments in the saga of Escher's evolving ideas in constructing his amazing tilings. There are accounts of many problems now solved, even the use of the computer in producing Escher-like patterns. Schattschneider raises the question of whether Escher's work would have been very different had Escher had available to him modern computers and software. She asserts that in her view it would not be much different: he "chose simple time-tested tools, relying on hand and eye to realize his ideas."
While Schattschneider was writing this new material for the Afterword, others were discovering new Escher-like things: Marjorie Rice (of whom Schattschneider has written before), Makoto Nakamura, and Rinus Roelofs. The Escher legacy lives on. Had Schattschneider waited just a bit longer she might have included some recent work of H. W. Lenstra, Jr. (Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 50 (4) (2003), 446-455). But, then, something new needs to go into the next edition of Schattschneider's book.
The concordance, bibliography, various indexes, and the owners lists have all been updated. It's an impressive piece of scholarship that is extraordinarily beautiful as well. This book is an old friend and it's good to welcome it back in such an elegant and sumptuous form.
Gerald L. Alexanderson is Valeriote Professor of Science at Santa Clara University. He has served as Editor of Mathematics Magazine and as Secretary and President of the MAA.


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Tamara Ecclestone, daughter of the Formula One billionaire Bernie Ecclestone, is reported to have a shopping habit that has her father a bit worried.
How does she justify her shopping habit to her father?
"Sometimes he's like, 'Another handbag, Tamara? That's a bit nuts'…I think he's glad that I'm not hurting other people. I've never been to rehab. It could be worse," says Tamara.
That is true. She could be another Lohan, but still… having a $1 million handbag collection is a bit excessive. Her favorites are her Hermes Birkin bags, which go for $10,000. She has over 30 of them.
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Did Kim Zolciak Dump All of Her Friends? She Says … (VIDEO)
Kim Zolciak has left The Real Housewives of Atlanta behind for her spin-off, Don't be Tardy... and she is not looking back!
During her appearance on the Dec. 2 episode of Watch What Happens Live Kim revealed that she hasn't spoken to any of her RHoA co-stars since abruptly leaving the show during filming over the summer.
"Not even Kandi?" a confused Andy Cohen asked.
"No," Kim replied. "I don't like the whole I stole Kash's name … I'm just in a different place."
Still, Kim does acknowledge that during her time on the show her friendship with Kandi Burruss was very real, but they couldn't ever totally overcome an earlier disagreement that had nothing to do with Kash.
Apparently, Kim and Kandi were never able to move past their disagreement over Kim's song, "Don't Be Tardy For the Party," after Kandi claimed that Kim never paid her for her work on the tune.
"Kandi and I had a real true friendship, we really did, and 'Tardy For the Party' really kinda put a damper on things from my contract, but we could never really get back to where we were."
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Friday, November 22, 2013
Town Council gave first reading to their proposed 2014 budget at their November meeting last week.
The estimated revenues and expenditures total $26,716,209.
Among the estimated general fund revenues, the largest revenue is $10,570,000 from property taxes. Broken down, that includes an estimated $8,850,000 from real property taxes and $950,000 from vehicle property taxes.
The second largest revenue is estimated to be $6,738,519 from licenses: $2,673,519 from business licenses; $15,000 from business license penalties; $3,850,000 from business license insurance; and $200,000 from telephone licenses and fees.
The revenues also estimate a total of $65,000 from Accommodations Taxes and $1,334,706 from the Hospitality Tax.
The largest expenditures continue to be for the police and fire departments with $6,268,011 and $6,190,170 respectively.
Both totals include the personnel expenditures, such as salaries, and department expenses. The Police Department personnel expense totals $5,537,211 and the Fire Department personnel expense totals $5,637,470.
Council will hold a public hearing and give the proposed budget a second reading at the next Town Council meeting on Dec. 2 in Town Hall. The public is welcome to attend and voice their concerns.
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