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South Carolina's 25 fastest growing companies were introduced and honored at a lunch at the Marriott Hotel in Columbia, attended by business leaders from across the state, with SolBright Renewable Energy of Charleston taking home top honors in the 12th annual competition.
From scores of entries spanning dozens of communities and industries, the companies were selected on the basis of income and employee growth in a process overseen by statewide accounting firm Scott and Company and the investment bank, The Capital Corporation. Other sponsors included Wells Fargo, Columbia Business Monthly and Greenville Business Magazine.
To be eligible for consideration, companies must:
• Be headquartered in South Carolina.
• Have been in operation for at least three full fiscal years
• Have reported revenues of at least $3 million ($50 million in assets for financial institutions) in the most recent reported year.
Company rankings were based on the three most recently completed fiscal years at the time of nomination. Nominees were judged on financial growth and employee growth over the three-year period from 2010 - 2012.
"We had a very strong field this year," said Dan Adams, president and CEO of The Capital Corporation. "And many of them are new this year, which is a testament to the strength and growth of the South Carolina economy."
Nominees submitted financial and employment information to Scott and Company CPAs, which verified the information and established the rankings from number 1 to number 25.
"We were very impressed with the steady financial growth of all the companies, and are encouraged about the outlook for their continued growth and success," said Don Mobley, managing member of Scott and Company CPAs' Midlands office.
Members of the sponsoring organizations made site visits to the nominees to meet with company executives and view their facilities and offices.
"I was very impressed with how so many of the companies had reinvented themselves to weather the economic downturn and have come out of it stronger than ever," said Rick Redden, president of Wells Fargo South Carolina Regional Banking.
Lori Coon, publisher of Columbia Business Monthly and Greenville Business Magazine, said the diversity of winners shows the strength of business across the state. "The honored firms represent a wide variety of industries, from construction and engineering to apparel, advertising and food service."
Spencer Webster, Coca Cola South Carolina Region Sales Manager, delivered the keynote address.
South Carolina's 25 Fastest Growing Companies for 2013, in order, are:
SolBright Renewable Energy, Charleston
Sandlapper Securities, Greenville
Wireless Communications, Greenville
BoomTown, Charleston
Southern Tide, Greenville
Immedion, Greenville
Ishpi Information Technologies, Mount Pleasant
Serrus Capital Partners, Greenville
Unitrends, Columbia
Ob Hospitalists Group, Mauldin
Creative Builders, Greenville
Spartina 449, Hilton Head Island
Alliance Consulting Engineers, Columbia
UEC Electronics, Hanahan
O'Neal, Greenville
Agency Advisors, Greenville
Customer Effective, Greenville
Network Controls & Electric, Greer
Avtec, Lexington
Infinity Marketing, Greenville
A3 Communications, Irmo
Wellman Plastics Recycling, Johnsonville
Vapor Apparel, North Charleston
EDTS, Greenville
Southern Way Catering, Columbia
For additional information on South Carolina's Fastest-Growing Companies, visit them online at www.SCFastestGrpwing.com or call 864-335-5080.
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FLORENCE — Francis Marion University's satellite campus in Mount Pleasant could open as early as next fall, but town leaders still don't know exactly where it will be located.
The university's Board of Trustees voted unanimously Friday to accept Mount Pleasant's offer to open a campus in the town. And town leaders said they are considering several options, but they haven't yet made a final decision on a location.
Francis Marion President Fred Carter said school leaders now will sit down with town officials to decide what to offer there. But, he said, all programs will serve the immediate needs of the local workforce.
"The board says go ahead," so that's what university leaders will do, he said.
Earlier this year, Mount Pleasant Mayor Billy Swails said he invited Francis Marion to open the campus because he was tired of hearing parents tell him that the area lacked a local public option for their children to earn bachelor's degrees.
The upscale community east of the Cooper River is the fourth-largest city in the state, and it has a great public high school, Swails said. But many of its graduates have to leave the area to earn a four-year degree from a public institution, despite having decent grades.
Many local students aren't accepted at the College of Charleston, a liberal arts school on the peninsula with a growing national reputation, Swails has said. The college enrolls large numbers of high-achieving, out-of-state students, who pay higher tuition rates, and in most cases requires students to have high SAT scores, he said.
Carter said the university plans to collaborate in some way with the College of Charleston on the East Cooper campus. The provosts from both schools will meet next week to discuss options.
The university plans to grow the new campus gradually, slowly adding new programs, Carter said. The first program it will put in place is a bachelor of science in nursing degree for students who already hold two-year registered nursing degrees. That program could open as early as next fall, he said.
Francis Marion will have some start-up costs, Carter said, although he's not yet certain how much they will be. "But we believe the programs will be self-sustaining."
Eric DeMoura, administrator for the town of Mount Pleasant, said town leaders "are doing our due diligence to find a location." It's too early to say which locations the town is considering, he said, because that might hurt its negotiating position. The town has committed to providing the space for the new campus. It also will cover the cost, he said. "This is good news. We're excited about it," DeMoura said of the new campus.
Mayor-elect Linda Page, who will take office Tuesday, said she supports the campus. There are higher education opportunities in the Charleston area, she said. "But more students will have opportunities for higher education with the new campus."
Julie Carullo, spokeswoman for the state's Commission on Higher Education, said Swails has sent a letter to the commission making it aware of the proposal, but the commission can't weigh in until there's a solid plan for the campus.
The commission must approve new facilities, leases and new academic programs, Carullo said. But she's not yet sure what kind of commission approval the new campus would need.
Randy Dozier, chairman of Francis Marion's board, said the university focuses on serving South Carolina residents. So the Mount Pleasant campus is "in keeping with what we do here."
The town wanted to provide higher education opportunities for local students, he said. And that's what Francis Marion does well. "It wasn't our idea," he said, "but it's a great idea."


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WARSAW – State Police seek information on a man masquerading as a police officer who stopped a 21-year-old woman driver on Route 98 this week and sought personal information from her.
The woman was stopped just north of the Village of Arcade in Wyoming County about 2:25 p.m. Tuesday, troopers said.
She said the man was white, about 6 feet tall and believed to be in his 30s. He had a medium build and blond hair. He wore a blue uniform with no insignia, and a duty belt with a gold shield and a collapsible baton but no holster or weapon. He was driving a navy blue four-door sedan with blue lights on the windshield and some sort of police insignia on the driver's door, troopers said.
Any one that has information is asked to contact the Batavia barracks at (585) 786-2299 or Clarence barracks at (716) 759-6831.
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A group of 15 subjects who have used marihuana infrequently and a group of 15 subjects who have used the drug frequently were intravenously infused with Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol.
In spite of the marked differences in marihuana use, the groups did not differ significantly in the amount of Δ9-THC necessary for its effects to be perceived, to accelerate the heart 25% above the base line levels, the total dose administered, the maximum level of "high," the maximum heart rate acceleration, and the heart rate acceleration observed 15 minutes after the beginning of the infusion.
This is evidence that marihuana, as currently used by young Americans does not produce tolerance or sensitivity to its effects.
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It used to be that you could safely assume a work was public domain unless there was a highly visible warning printed on it, containing both the copyright owner and the date of copyright (at least in the USA). This system also ensured that, when the work's copyright expired, you could tell from any copy that this was so—by simply adding the duration of copyright to the date printed in the work's copyright notice. The Berne Convention, however, changed all that by replacing the assumption of freedom with the assumption of monopoly, and it now takes extensive research to be sure a work is public domain.
The Creative Commons' new CC-Zero initiative, instigated largely as an adjunct to the Science Commons' "Protocol for Implementing Open Access Data" is designed to make things easier.
Open Access, Databases, and the Public Domain
Scientists have valued sharing data for many, many years. In fact, many of the early ideas in the free culture movement were just attempts to port the already-existing academic culture of sharing knowledge into other areas of life. But even in academia, there are obstacles. Journals are in a conflict of interest, for example, since they make their money by selling access to scientific data (even though, ostensibly, their mission is to make this data as widely available as possible). In many fields, particular scientific journals have effective monopolies on the dissemination of knowledge in their fields, so if they decide not to play along, then that field will suffer.
It used to be that you could safely assume a work was public domain unless there was a highly visible warning printed on it
Fortunately, the fields and the journals that serve them are by and large run by scientists. So when a large group of scientists gets behind the idea that the information needs to be more open, not less, in the era of internet communications and massive database-driven science, things begin to happen. In the last few years, that is precisely what has been happening in science within the new "Open Access" movement, which hopes to make most scientific data generally available under the most permissive licenses possible.
Recently, the Science Commons, which had hitherto promoted existing Creative Commons licenses for many of these purposes, has moved towards committing works to the public domain and has been developing a collection of best practices for doing it. That has evolved into the Science Commons' new Protocol for Implementing Open Access Data. Although they are not the only methods available, the Creative Commons' CC0 "waiver" and "assertion" documents have been developed with this protocol in mind.
As for Science Commons' motivations in making this move, they cite both problems with copyleft- and even attribution- license compatibility and also the large body of already public domain works which need to merely be asserted are public domain, rather than be licensed. Furthermore, applying copyright-based licenses to database and other "factual" materials, which may not be copyrightable in the first place, creates false expectations.
What's wrong with the old Public Domain Dedication?
Of course, the Creative Commons has for some time managed a system for dedicating works to the Public Domain. Ths system appears to be viable under US law, but is very distinct from the Creative Commons other licenses, because it is not a license at all.
Also, I say it "appears" to be viable under US law, because although there's now a fair amount of precedent, there's actually little legal basis for authors to assign their works to the public domain. After all, until US copyright law was "reformed" to comply with the Berne Convention, public domain was the default. All you had to do for a work to be public domain was to not seek copyright on it (not label it as copyrighted, not register it with the Library of Congress, etc).
In other countries, the situation may even be worse, since some "author's rights" are regarded as "inalienable" under some legal systems. You can't give away those rights, even if you want to.
Some "author's rights" are regarded as "inalienable" under some legal systems
As such, it has long been considered better practice in the free licensing community to use extremely permissive licenses rather than attempting to assert that your work is "public domain".
The Creative Commons CC0 documents are a move in that direction. Although not strictly "licenses", these documents are designed to be used alongside licenses, and may be interpreted as license documents in those jurisdictions where such an approach is necessary.
Assertions and Waivers
Another problem with the Public Domain Dedication is that it is only meaningful for works you own the copyright on. The system was not particularly useful for merely indicating that a work is already in the public domain. There is a large body of still-useful works which are in the public domain for statutory reasons—either because they were simply published long enough ago so that their copyrights have expired or because they were not considered copyrightable, such as federal government works in the United States, which by US law are not allowed copyright protection.
So, a second reason for CC0 is this need to distinguish these two important tasks: assignment of public domain (or public-domain-like) status and assertion that such status already exists. CC0 calls the former case the "CC0 Waiver" while the latter is the "CC0 Assertion".
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As with all of its licenses, Creative Commons will be providing button graphics, commons "deeds", and "legal code", and machine-readable RDF tagging for CC0 waivers and assertions. Here's the button code a finished CC license chooser might provide for a CC0 waiver (example taken from the CC Wiki / CC-By-3.0):

To the extent possible under law,  A. User has waived all copyright, moral rights, database rights, and any other rights that might be asserted over  Brilliance Described.

So, CC0 can be seen as an attempt to normalize Creative Commons' approach to the public domain, lining it up with its other licenses in a simpler-to-understand way.
For science users, the CC0 deeds will implement a new "norms" module. This reminds users that although there may be no legal obligations in the work, there may be ethical obligations. For example, in the sciences it would be regarded as unethical not to provide a proper citation for a work, even if there is no legal "attribution" requirement.
Furthermore, the RDF code that CC will publish for CC Zero makes it possible for search engines and clients which already have extended features for CC content to extend those features to public domain works marked with CC0 assertions or waivers. This will be a boost for projects like Appropedia's Public Domain Search.
The RDF code that CC will publish for CC Zero makes it possible for search engines and clients which already have extended features for CC content to extend those features to public domain works
Coming soon
The CC Zero modules are not quite ready for prime time. Creative Commons is still actively working on the legal text, and only recently decided to split the module into the two distinct "Waiver" and "Assertion" documents. However, there are a number of science users who are committed to using the protocol as soon as it is ready, and as I hope my Library of Congress examples have shown, there are valuable applications in the humanities as well.
Ahem, rights are supposed to be inalienable
Rights are supposed to be inalienable.
I am disheartened to read that countries that protect inalienable rights could be considered to be in a 'worse' situation.
We are here, trying to restore the rights that copyright unethically suspends, that should be inalienable, and in the same breath such rights are considered in a negative light? Neutralising copyright is not a rights alienation or abdication, but a restoration, an altruistic nullification of one's unethical privilege. We should all aspire to have our countries protect our rights as inalienable, and abolish such privileges as patent and copyright.
So, the thing that's been interfering with everyone's cultural freedom all these years is the PRIVILEGE of copyright (it's not a right).
People's rights (moral rights, etc.) do not interfere.
The public domain comprises all published works generally available to the public or in general circulation.
It could be divided into works enjoying copyright's protection and those that do not. Indeed, some people like to pretend that copyright protected works remain the private property of their copyright holders and cannot be considered to be in the public domain. These people reserve the term 'public domain' to mean works in the public domain that don't enjoy copyright's protection.
Don't submit to this maximalist redefinition of the public domain as it constitutes a retreat to the ghettos. They aren't sanctuary but cultural exile, and still vulnerable to the predations of copyright. So, reassert the definition of the public domain as all published works, and reclaim them as the public's rightful property.
Your objection appears to be just semantics:
Either there are "rights" which are "inalienable" and "privileges" which aren't (your proposed terminology) or there are "inalienable rights" (which correspond to your "rights") and "alienable rights" (which correspond to your "privileges").
But these are statements about what the words mean, not anything about what the law should or shouldn't do. My usage is more consistent with the actual terminology used in writing law. Perhaps this is confusing you?
The idea that copyright (or copyright-like laws, defined under separate "moral rights" legislation) is an "inalienable right" is a concept in some European laws, and is embodied in the terms of the Berne Convention on Copyright. This is the problem I allude to in the column.
By treating what you call a "privilege" as what they call an "inalienable right", there is an assumption that materials are copyrighted unless proven otherwise. I agree this is bad. This is why it's bad for these "rights" to be "inalienable".
However, that's the law.
We can whine about that, or we can act to fix it.
Political action may, in time, change things, but as we represent a pretty small political faction, and the opposition is large corporate interests with international pressure, an international treaty on their side, and billions of dollars to lose if we get our way, we can expect to have a pretty hard battle (and frankly, not one we can win any time soon).
But we can patch the problem with legal documents like CC0 and the various free-licensing schemes.
That's the best way we can fix the situation in the near term. It also is the way we can demonstrate a working alternative, which is the only way we'll ever have the constituency to actually change copyright laws all over the planet, which is basically what you are agitating for.
This particular patch (the "CC0 Assertion") deals with the loss of the notice requirement.
As for the term "public domain", I'm sorry, but what it means is "work not covered by any copyright claim". I don't see that it's useful to change such a term, unless you just want to confuse your readers.
The tone of your post suggests you are upset about something I said or about the CC0 idea, yet aside from quibbles over terminology, I can't find anything you disagree with. What's your objection?
Language is critical
Language is very important. Vested commercial interests have distorted the language over the years to misrepresent privileges as rights. And yes, distorted even the language used in writing law.
If you adopt the distorted language of those who would assert their privilege to suspend the public's liberty, then you effectively concede to them at the outset.
One of the better acts to fix things is to fix your own language, to restore the original definitions. After that, then you can make clearer and more informed arguments.
My primary objection is to the insinuation that to be in a country where an author's rights were protected as inalienable could be considered a worse place to be that one where the author could sell or give them away.
Consequently, I'd be interested in a more precise reference to the privilege of copyright being conceived or embodied as an 'inalienable right', for that would be a grievous error indeed.
Understanding is even more critical
Precisely. But words are tools, not just weapons.
The language I use characterizes the mode of thought of the people who wrote those laws, thus making it easier to understand how they got to be this way and how they are interpreted (these are the terms that Europeans use when describing their own laws, colored a bit by American usage, I admit).
I prefer to write in a mode that encourages that kind of insight and understanding rather than in a mode which incites blind ideological outrage and disbelief. Certainly in this case, I think it makes more sense. I'm trying to explain how the CC0 system works and why it is necessary, not fire up a copyright-abolitionist rally. This is a rather detailed and legally-technical problem.
I've heard the "framing" argument before, and there is some truth in it. But it can be carried way too far, just like "political correctness".
The IMPORTANT THING here is that finding, using, and releasing material into the public domain is about to get easier (again). There is an interesting political point, too, which is that the Creative Commons is doing more work on the "free" side of its license "spectrum" -- which has got to be a good sign.
Rights good, Privileges bad
I wouldn't have posted in the first place, BUT for the wholly unnecessary aside implying that it was a bad thing for an author's rights to be protected as inalienable.
The whole modus operandi of the free software movement concerns undoing the unethical constraints of the transferable privilege of copyright and preserving this undoing via a conditional licence. This restores all other authors' rights to copy at the sacrifice of the copyright holding author's privilege. There's no need for this to require the undoing of any author's right of publication or their moral rights (not to be misattributed, the integrity of the work that is identified as theirs to be preserved, etc.), so whether they're protected as inalienable is quite irrelevant.
I'm not aware of any law in any jurisdiction that holds the privilege of copyright to be an inalienable right.
Please carry on writing in the way you feel best communicates your ideas to your readers.
However, please permit me to pick you up where you risk construing an author's privilege of copyright as a good thing because it enables particular licenses, and risk construing an author's rights as a bad thing because (if inalienable) they may conflict with particular licenses.
As for the CC0 'public domain'. I see little worthwhile in abdicating one's privilege, compared to the far more philanthropic use of the GPL to neutralise it and restore the public's liberty to a work. So, actually, I don't consider CC0 to be much of an important thing here at all. I'd be curious to know why anyone thinks it is.
You are mistaken
You are mistaken if you think that "moral rights" are limited to things like "not being misattributed".
Using a work of yours in another work with, say, a completely different (perhaps completely opposed) political agenda is enough to give you the "inalienable right" to suppress that work's publication (This is called a "prejudicial" use of the work) -- at least according to some interpretations of moral rights laws.
That's a serious compromise of what in the US we'd call a "right to free speech".
A proper free license should be able to suspend this sort of overreaching law, but in such jurisdictions, it can't, because such "rights" are "inalienable" according to those legal systems.
That's the problem I was alluding to.
The Right to Truth
Moral rights concern matters of truth, and arise from the right to truth.
This is one of three rights (life, privacy, truth) that preempt and constrain the fourth right, liberty, which is also constrained, unethically, by two privileges (patent & copyright) - until abolished.
The right to truth is a constraint on the public against its neglectful or wilful impairment.
You can say what you like, but there's no need to endanger life, violate privacy, or commit falsehood, e.g. misattribution, plagiarism, libel, misrepresentation, etc.
On the other hand, there's nothing ethically wrong in making copies of published works - which simply disrespect someone else's commercial privilege.
So, freedom of expression is fine, but not if it impairs truth. Thus it is possible to place someone else's work in an adverse or prejudicial context and by so doing misrepresent the author and/or the truth of their expression.
This is an ethical constraint on freedom of expression - because it rightfully constrains someone's expression against impairment of truth.
And the right to truth is effectively inalienable (though truth is a collective right). You cannot sell the ability for others to misrepresent you. Of course, you can accept money and turn a blind eye, and so can many others, but no-one can claim they have a right to define or ignore the truth concerning your representation even if you'd prefer the money.
So, problems are arising when people fail to appreciate that freedom is not the fundamental right, when people think that nothing must stand in the way of freedom, that if anything does it must be wrong. Free software is software unencumbered by privilege, i.e. without the constraints of patent (against use of ideas) or copyright (against copying or derivation).
When you write software you do not need to endanger life (deliberately introduce defects in flight control s/w), violate privacy (bypass someone's firewall to seize their source), or impair truth (misattribute or misrepresent).
I would agree that because of copyright and the consequent proprietary mentality over published works, people often misinterpret moral rights as proprietary privileges, and confuse the definition of the former with spurious notions of an author's entitlement to control how their work is used. An author does not have a right to control how their published work is used. Rather, all authors are constrained against impairment of the truth concerning any other author and their published works. It's a big difference, but difficult to perceive if one mistakes moral rights to be additional proprietary privileges and simply lumps them all together.
"moral rights" != "moral" rights
Sadly, you are continuing not to understand that "moral rights" (as used here) is not a philosophical abstraction.
It refers to specific sets of laws, enacted in certain jurisdictions. Those laws cover things that go well beyond your fantasy of what "moral rights" might mean.
There's another, very serious problem with "protecting truth" -- for any question which is remotely interesting, not everyone can agree on what the "truth" is. Nor is it safe to assume that the majority opinion is correct (for centuries, the majority believed a lot of things that are almost certainly false).
I have not attempted to itemise every moral right as recognised and protected in every jurisdiction, but to point out that they arise out of the natural rights to life, privacy, and truth - moral rights predominantly the latter.
Of course the truth is unknowable. However, protecting it need not require knowledge of the truth, but knowledge of a falsehood - which we can know about.
Ultimately, the issue here is a matter of ethics, not an aggressive pursuit of freedom in which one fights against all constraints.
By all means denounce and deprecate the unethical constraints of commercial privilege such as patent and copyright, but do not denigrate rights. Their constraint upon our freedom is to be cherished as the mark of an enlightened civilisation.
PD versus Copyleft
I did have a paragraph on this, but perhaps it needs to be expanded. The Science Commons rationale for preferring to promote "public domain" style "licensing" rather than a copyleft free-license is based on two basic conflicts:
1) Copyleft Conflicts
There's more than one free licensing regime out there. Science data spans more than one content type, and so there's a much higher probability of conflict between "content" licenses and "code" licenses.
Furthermore, there's a lot of legacy data that you certainly don't want to shut out, that may be under an archaic license that can't be changed. Science data is supposed to be completely free to share (that's the whole point of the Open Access movement, and is an ancient ideal in the sciences), and so artificial constraints have unintended consequences (yes, the motivation for using free licenses is to ensure that sharing remains possible, but in practice, the actual licenses have a number of -- perhaps unavoidable -- faults that sometimes result in licensing overhead).
2) Scope of Copyright
In order to be copyleftable, a work must first be copyrightable. But MUCH of the data the Science Commons is interested in is just that: data. Facts are not copyrightable, only expressions of them.
Furthermore, even where the expression is copyrightable (e.g. scientific papers), it's not the expression so much as the data contained that we are interested in.
For stuff that's on the borderline, it's probably safer to just release any expectation of being able to control its distribution. The choice of public domain fits this decision.
Science Commons figured that it was better to avoid creating false expectations of an enforceable copyright (or copyleft), by simply acknowledging public domain status.
This is explained in even more detail by SC itself in the reference I included in the article: Open Access Data Protocol
These reasons are obviously centric to Science Commons' mission, but there are actually a number of niche cases where releasing a work public domain makes more sense than using a copyleft.
PD always has less compliance overhead and less legal risk than any license, including all "free licenses", with or without copyleft. Even assuring correct attribution imposes overhead. Science Commons has decided that it is better to rely on the "community norm" of correct citations than on an enforceable legal requirement.
From a pragmatic perspective, if a work is completely paid for and completly "finished", then public domain or attribution-only licensing makes a lot of sense for the creator. You don't have to worry about special permissions in cross-licensing situations, and you don't really care if the work is appropriated into a commercial/proprietary product, because you haven't really "lost" anything (it's the improvements to your own work that you really want to recover through copyleft, and if the work is "finished", there aren't any. This is hard to imagine for software, but many artistic, literary, and scientific works can be thought of this way).
Finally, of course, CC0 isn't just about the "waiver". There is quite a lot of scientific publications which are already in the public domain, either due to age or, in the US, due to stipulations placed on taxpayer-funded research.
Naturally, there will still be edge cases when the choice of PD will be less desireable, but that's going to be true with any choice you make.
Very helpful addition
That's a very useful addition to your original article Terry, thanks. :)
I completely agree about the burden of attribution - it should only have ever been a requirement for accuracy, not that attribution must be given.
The other thing about copyleft, is not just to enjoy one's own freedom to use others' published improvements to your work, but to ensure that others don't take this freedom away from anyone else.
It might be good to have something like CC0, but which said "I'll waive any copyrights I have in this published work no matter what use is made of it, except where they may help defend anyone against claims of infringement of copyright in derivative works" - or rather, viable legalese in that spirit.
As for the mess of licence proliferation that makes the case against copyleft in favour of PD, a lot of the blame for this mess can laid at CC's door. There was a missed opportunity for CC to create a single copyleft licence just as liberal as the GPL - instead of a pix'n'mix confusion.
So, for anything other than software we may well be looking at CC0 + 'opproprium against illiberal re-copyright of derivatives' as the only option available until copyright abolition.
Perhaps there could be an FC Norms module? That said "The norms of free culture deprecate any privileged constraint on use of published works".


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|Harnessing the Bacterial Power of Nanomagnets
Nanometer-size magnets have wide-ranging uses, from directed cancer therapy and drug delivery systems to magnetic recording media and transducers. Such applications require the production of nanoparticles with well-controlled size and tunable magnetic properties. The synthesis of such nanomagnets, however, often requires elevated temperatures and toxic solvents, resulting in high environmental and energy costs. Metal-reducing microorganisms offer an untapped resource to produce these materials in an environmentally benign way. At the ALS, researchers from the University of Manchester have shown that Fe(III)-reducing bacteria can be used to synthesize magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles with high yields, narrow size distribution, and magnetic properties equal to the best chemically synthesized materials.
A relatively unexplored resource for magnetic nanomaterial production is a type of subsurface microorganism capable of producing large quantities of nanoscale magnetite (Fe3O4) at ambient temperatures. Metal-reducing bacteria live in soils deficient in oxygen and conserve energy for growth through the oxidation of hydrogen or organic electron donors, coupled to the reduction of oxidized metals such as Fe(III)-bearing minerals. This can result in the formation of magnetite via the extracellular reduction of amorphous Fe(III)-oxyhydroxides, releasing soluble Fe(II) and completely recrystallizing the amorphous mineral into a new phase.
The Manchester team developed a method for producing large quantities of highly crystalline magnetite and cobalt ferrite (CoFe2O4) nanoparticles using the Fe(III)-reducing bacterium, Geobacter sulfurreducens. In particular, they demonstrated that cobalt ferrite nanoparticles with the high coercivity (i.e., resistance to demagnetization) important for applications can be manufactured through this biotechnological route. Three samples containing increasing amounts of Co in the biogenic magnetite structure were analyzed. X-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy showed that the material is nanocrystalline. Moreover, the coercivity of the samples increases with increasing Co content, so that it can be tuned for specific applications.
The cation distribution in the ferrite nanoparticles was investigated using x ray absorption (XA) and x-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) at the Fe L2,3 and Co L2,3 edges, measured at ALS Beamline 4.0.2. An XMCD spectrum is obtained as the difference between two XA spectra measured in opposite external magnetic fields. Magnetite has an inverse spinel crystal structure, which contains tetrahedral (Td) and octahedral (Oh) sites accommodating Fe2+ and Fe3+ cations. Each specific cation in the spinel structure generates a unique XMCD signature determined by its valence state (number of d electrons), site symmetry (i.e., Td or Oh), and moment direction, which can be computed using atomic multiplet calculations. By fitting a weighted sum of these calculated spectra to the measured XMCD spectra, the site occupations of the Fe cations can be obtained.
The biogenic materials show a striking change with increasing Co amount, namely a decrease in intensity of the leading negative peak in the Fe L3 edge, which implies that Co is predominantly replacing Fe2+ cations in octahedral sites. Similarly, the site occupancy and oxidation state of the Co can be directly assessed by examining the Co L2,3 XA and XMCD spectra. The close similarity with the spectra for synthetically produced CoFe2O4 thin films confirmed that the bacteria were able to suitably accommodate Co in the ferrite structure with the Co2+ residing primarily on Oh sites.
The XMCD measurements indicate a dramatic enhancement in the magnetic properties of biogenically produced nanoparticles when large quantities of Co are introduced into the spinel structure, a major advance over previous biomineralization studies. Inclusion of other transition metals into the spinel structure by Fe(III)-reducing bacteria to tailor the magnetic properties of nanoferrites could lead to a suite of materials required for different technological uses. The successful production of highly ordered crystalline nanoparticulate ferrites demonstrates the potential for scaled-up industrial manufacture of nanoparticles using environmentally benign and energy-efficient methodologies.
Research conducted by V.S. Coker, N.D. Telling, R.A.D. Pattrick, C.I. Pearce, J.R. Lloyd, F. Tuna, and R.E.P. Winpenny (University of Manchester, UK); G. van der Laan (Diamond Light Source, UK); and E. Arenholz (ALS).
Research funding: UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. Operation of the ALS is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences.
Publication about this research: V.S. Coker, N.D. Telling, G. van der Laan, R.A.D. Pattrick, C.I. Pearce, E. Arenholz, F. Tuna, R. Winpenny, and J.R. Lloyd, "Harnessing the extracellular bacterial production of nanoscale cobalt ferrite with exploitable magnetic properties," ACS Nano3, 1922 (2009).


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Criminal domestic violence is literally a black eye on the state of South Carolina, and sometimes it's much, much more.
For Mercia King-Ellis, it meant a restraining order and a beating with a metal baseball bat before her attacker, her estranged husband, got scared off, then later took his own life.
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King-Ellis said she was lucky to be alive, lucky to have escaped with bruises and 13 stitches in her head. That's because she could easily have become part of a different statistic, our state's unfortunate rank as No. 2 on the list of states where women are killed by men.
Among the initiatives unveiled as part of this year's Law Enforcement Legislative Agenda is a bill in the House sponsored by Rep. Peter McCoy, R-Charleston, that would broaden the definition of assault and battery.
In addition, legislation was introduced Tuesday to reauthorize the national Violence Against Women Act, which expired in September 2011. In addition to funding initiatives like the S.T.O.P. program, which stands for Services Training Officers and Prosecutors, it also would expand its coverage and definition of victims.
The S.T.O.P. program "utilizes prosecutors dedicated to criminal domestic violence cases, better educates judges and law enforcement officers, and supports the creation of more Criminal Domestic Violence Courts," said Attorney General Alan Wilson.
There were more than 48,000 victims of domestic violence in South Carolina in 2010, according to statistics on the website for My Sister's House.
"Attitudes have changed in recent years, and domestic violence is now recognized for the crime it is rather than a shameful secret," Wilson said.
But victims of domestic violence are three times more likely to be victimized again than are victims of other types of crimes, because initial crimes often go unreported.
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A 17-year-old boy is accused of assaulting a 14-year-old boy with a knife in Nashua on Thursday.
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Police originally responded to a city hospital at around 11:30 a.m. Thursday. The 14-year-old was being treated for a laceration to his hand, which required several stiches, police said.
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My Mom treated us to the whole day. It was fabulous. Thanks, Mom.
We left the stroller in the car and just let Ivy walk I mean run or go in the sling. I don't usually wear my ring sling much anymore but it's lighter to carry in my bag, so I grabbed that one.
[side note #1: It's International Babywearing Week this week (and I have this ginormous babywearing link up where you can enter to win a Sakura Bloom sling) and I enjoyed seeing all the babies being worn at the zoo. There were a lot. I saw a few mei tais and mostly baby bjorns and one lady had me try to help her figure out how to put it on but it was all tangled and the buckles/snaps were different than I remember so we never did figure it out. But I was thisclose to showing her how to make the scarf she was wearing into a wrap!]
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MILLVILLE - The Shenandoah River hit its crest Thursday evening at 12.5 feet. As of Friday afternoon, it teetered around 10 feet, which is flood stage.
Although Jefferson County Emergency Homeland Security and Emergency management had canceled the flood warning for the Shenandoah at the Millville access point, the water remained near flood stage.
Matt Knott of River Riders said although 10 feet is considered flood stage, 13.5 feet had previously been where the flood stage was set, until it was adjusted several years ago. He cautioned those who may be planning to go out on the water this weekend.
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The Shenandoah River at the Millville access point proves dangerous during high-water periods.
"I've been watching the river forecast all morning," Knott said Friday, adding that the forecast is done on Bloomery Road at a tower used by both the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the United States Geologic Survey use.
River Riders only takes adults on trips when the river passes seven feet, and those who go are cautioned that the trip will be different than when the water levels are lower.
"The water moves faster, the waves are bigger and there are less eddies or still places behind rocks," Knott said, adding that some individuals who had trips planned for Thursday had canceled and opted to do the adventure park instead.
"People can go out on their own, but at this point they should definitely be an expert or they shouldn't go," Knott said.
The difference, he said, is when you go out on your own there is no one to help and you need to be able to get yourself, and anyone else with you, to safety.
"You have to be able to affect your own rescue, rescue yourself, get yourself and anyone else in your group to shore by yourself without help," he said.
Knott said he will continue to track the water levels closely, although he expects River Riders may not go on all their planned weekend trips or do whitewater rentals or tubing.
The average water level for this time of year is a little less than four feet.
Although the water is not technically cold anymore, it remains a cooler temperature - Knott estimated around 60 degrees - a temperature at which he said hypothermia is still possible.
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In an era when Americans are living longer than ever before, why does it seem like there�s never enough time?
�We�re all having this problem, being harried, being hurried, being constantly interrupted,� said Lama Surya Das, author of Buddha Standard Time: Awakening to the Infinite Possibilities of Now and Awakening the Buddha Within. �We�re not focused on our priorities. We need to slow down and simplify.�
Das will speak Aug. 4 at the Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College as a fundraiser for the Durango Dharma Center. The next day he will lead a retreat at Congregation Har Shalom.
Das began life as a Jewish boy from Long Island, N.Y., growing up in the 1950s and 1960s. While in college, he became active in the movement against the Vietnam War. The death of his friend, Allison B. Krause, in the 1970 Kent State shooting, was an unexpected turning point in his life.
�We were fighting for peace, and I began to see that as a contradiction in terms,� Das said in a recent telephone interview. �To find peace, we must become peacemakers.�
Off he went to India and Nepal, spending the next 20 years studying with a variety of gurus, including some of the Dalai Lama�s teachers. One of them gave him his name, which means �servant of the disciple of light,� and he was eventually dubbed the �American Lama.�
His mother found the whole thing perplexing.
�She said, �So many years contemplating your navel. What gives?�� Das said with a laugh. �When I started teaching and writing books, she came and met the Dalai Lama. �You�re doing a beautiful thing, working with beautiful people,�� she said.
When he returned to America in the 1990s, he experienced a big culture shock. Not only was the pace and lifestyle dramatically different from the America he knew before, technology had exploded.
�Fax machines were amazing. I couldn�t believe it,� he said. �How could I make this little drawing on a piece of paper, and my friend could see it across the country?�
Das has since wholeheartedly adopted technology as a way to reach more people, especially young people. But he uses it to spread the timeless Buddhist teachings of mindfulness, lessons he considers important for everyone, whether or not they�re interested in becoming Buddhists.
�We have all the time in the world, and it�s up to us how we choose to use it,� Das said. �We�re not focused on our priorities. We need to slow down and simplify.�
His interaction with an audience is not just speaking at them, but holding practices of techniques people can use and question-and-answer periods because people learn in different ways, he said.
�Life is not just a to-do list. People need to step off the treadmill of actions,� Das said. �It can be very simple. Be here, now. Breathe, relax and smile.�


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Philip Seymour Hoffman looks chillingly vacant in this tintype photo he posed for at the Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 19, just two weeks before his death Sunday from an apparent heroin overdose.
Photographer Victoria Will took this portrait while Hoffman was promoting A Most Wanted Man with costars Willem Dafoe and Rachel McAdams.
Despite the somber look of the image, Will tells PEOPLE that Hoffman appeared to be "having a great time that day."
"He just was a regular guy," says Will. "Very approachable."
Entertainment Weekly also sat down with Hoffman and Christina Hendricks and director John Slattery at Sundance to talk about their film God's Pocket, which refers to a gritty neighborhood where Hoffman's character "lives outside the law" to survive by hijacking trucks and stealing meat.
"I'm not attached to anyone, really, except through this fantasy I have," Hoffman says of his relationship with Hendricks's character and his attempt to be a part of the fabric of life.
See the trio talk the film, working with one another and a smiley Hoffman explain why the festival is about "letting go."
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Automatic Extension of F-1 & J-1 Student Visa Validity
Automatic extension of visa validity falls under the DHS code at 22CFR41.112(d). In brief, the provision allows students and scholars to travel to a contiguous territory or adjacent island and return to the U.S. using an expired visa or an older, different visa for those who have changed status in the U.S., provided the visit does not exceed 30 days. Contiguous territory refers to Canada and Mexico. The term "adjacent islands" means Saint Pierre, Miquelon, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Bermuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, the Windward and Leeward Islands, Trinidad, Martinique, and other British, French, and Netherlands territory or possessions in or bordering on the Caribbean Sea (except Cuba).
Two major changes to automatic revalidation took effect on April 1, 2002. The two changes are:
- Citizens of states that sponsor terrorism cannot use the "automatic revalidation" provisions at all. The DOS has identified seven ineligible countries; they are: Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria.
- If a person applies for a visa of any kind at a U.S. embassy or consulate while visiting Canada, Mexico, or the Caribbean, that person is not permitted to return to the U.S. under the "automatic revalidation" provisions.
Students and scholars should understand that as long as you hold a valid I-20 or valid DS-2019, you can remain in the U.S. if your visa stamp has expired. This regulatory change does not impede your ability to continue and complete your programs of study. International travel, however, is a personal choice, and this change may prompt persons to think carefully about their travel plans.
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Clarence continued its dominance, but it was the performance of Olean freshman Makayla Sargeant that sent the biggest waves of excitement through the pool at the Section VI Girls Swimming and Diving Championships on Friday at Erie Community College's Flickinger Center Natatorium.
Sargeant won the 100-yard breaststroke in 1:04.94, breaking a Section VI record previously held by Frewsburg's Anneli Johnson (1:05.40, 2003). She held off a hard charge from Niagara-Wheatfield senior Marissa Watroba, who also qualified for states along with Sydney Atendido (East Aurora) and Dorotka Tou (Clarence).
"This definitely makes me proud because now I know that all my hard work has paid off," Sargeant said. "We're a smaller school and a lot of people don't really know us, so it's important for Olean to be on top [of the podium]."
Sargeant, a state qualifier as an eighth-grader, also finished first in the 200 individual medley (2:05.61). She out-touched fellow state qualifiers Watroba and Victoria Butler (Clarence).
"Wow!" Olean coach Dan Brown said of Sargeant's performance. "The things she has been able to accomplish at this age are just incredible. I thought that she had the capability, but to see it come to fruition is great. She's everything that you want as a coach. I couldn't be happier for her."
Clarence took top honors in Class A after winning seven events, including all three relays. East Aurora won Class B.
The Red Devil quartet of Maddie Jacumski, Tou, Butler and Dina Rommel began the meet with a win in the 200 medley relay (1:48.98). East Aurora was second with a state-qualifying time of 1:51.97.
Rommel then teamed up with Rebecca Anthone, Sydney Modeas and Claire Willis to take the 200 free relay (1:38.48). Orchard Park, Olean and Williamsville North also qualified for states.
That same foursome finished the meet with a first-place finish in the 400 free relay (3:36.00). North was more than six seconds behind, but did qualify for states.
Modeas was also a double individual winner, beating the field in the 200 free (1:52.66) and 500 free (5:01.71). State-qualifying times were also turned in by Anthone (200), Willis (200 and 500), Andrea Ernst (Orchard Park, 200), Rebecca Winnert (Williamsville South, 200 and 500) and Julianna Sebastian (Williamsville North, 500).
Despite battling a knee injury, Rommel won the 100 free in 52.98, nipping state-bound swimmers Hannah Graesser (Frontier), Anthone and Kristen Romano (Lancaster). The 100 back went to Jacumski, who touched the wall in 58.40. She beat out fellow state qualifiers Jenna Rice (Kenmore West), Romano and Brenna Woodling (Williamsville East).
"We far exceeded our expectations," said Clarence coach Joe Zwierzchowski, who also coaches the Williamsville North boys team and replaced Eric McClaren this fall. "I've coached a long time and this is the hardest thing I've ever done. Imagine taking over a Super Bowl champion. You've got to win a Super Bowl the next year if you have the same returning players. It's been a gift, but all of us – coaches and swimmers – have worked so hard all year.
"And hopefully we're not done by a long shot. I think our times put us in the game across the state."
Graesser won the 50 free in 24.04, clipping fellow state qualifiers Rommel, Amanda Ernst (Orchard Park), Emily Simon (Olean) and Yvonne Isaacs (Pioneer).
OP freshman Andrea Ernst was tops in the 100 fly (58.50), followed by Butler, who also qualified for states.
Earlier in the day, Lockport's Paige Kelkenberg defended her title and hit the state cut in diving, scoring 407.10 points.
This year's state meet is scheduled for Nov. 16 and 17 at Ithaca College.


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Two years later, and Fisch appears headed back to the League. ESPN reported today that Fisch has agreed to become one of the Jacksonville Jaguars' new offensive coordinators.
Fisch, who started his coaching career learning under Steve Spurrier, last served as Pete Carroll's quarterbacks coach in Seattle.
Miami's offense improved a lot under Fisch. Quarterbacks Jacory Harris and Stephen Morris both had very good seasons under his direction. Miami had one of the top offenses in the ACC in 2012.
The University of Miami hasn't officially announced the news yet, and when they do we'll have more on this story including analysis, the recruiting impact it could have, possible replacements, and more.


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Interesting new article on how Dai will be endeavouring to close the gap on Patrick Chan
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Daisuke Takahashi said Saturday he is ready to accept the harsh reality that he has a lot of ground to forge. "I have to perfect my quadruple jump," said Takahashi, who finished nearly 30 points behind Canadian Chan in the men's program Friday night and failed in his bid to defend his title....Aside from polishing his techniques on big jumps like the quad, Takahashi also believes he will have to continue building his strength...He is even considering training in France during the offseason...."There was a big gap between me and Patrick, which gives me motivation to work harder," Takahashi told reporters at a press conference. "It might be impossible to do it this season, but I want to see how much I can close the gap on him. I need to be able to really compete with him over the next two years (in time for the Sochi Winter Olympics)," he said.


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Jeffrey Allan Anderson (born April 21, 1970 in Long Branch, New Jersey) is an American film actor best known for being featured in Clerks. and Clerks 2 as Randal Graves. In between he has appeared in other Kevin Smith films and has written/directed/starred in the film Now You Know.
Born in New Jersey and then raised in Atlantic Highlands where he went to Henry Hudson Regional High School, the same school where aspiring writer friend Kevin Smith went to and where they also graduated in 1988. While working at AT&T Kevin was working on his first movie Clerks. The first auditioned was for the role of Jay but didn't fit well with it after that Kevin gave Jeff the role of video store employee Randal Graves a foul-mouthed slacker apathy incarnate with convenience store worker best friend Dante Hicks. While working on the movie he fell in love with his Clerks co-star Lisa Spoonhauer and proposed to her after only knowing her 3 weeks on the set of Clerks and got married in 1995 and was...
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Clerks II is the sequel to Kevin Smith's 1994 movie Clerks, and his sixth feature film to be set in the View Askewniverse. The film was released on July 21, 2006; it screened out of competition at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival and won the Audience Award at the 2006 Edinburgh International Film Festival.The film opened in 2,150 theaters on July 21, 2006 and grossed $10,061,132 domestically in its first weekend. As of November 9, 2006 the film's theatrical gross was $24,148,068 domestically, plus an additional $2,668,875 foreign[1] with a budget of $5,000,000. Although it was received with mixed reviews by critics,[2][3] the View Askewniverse's cult fan base has been fairly positive about the film.
In the prologue, Randal Graves leaves the coffee pot warmer on, burning down the Quick Stop convenience store where he and Dante Hicks worked for over a decade. The film then jumps ahead approximately one year, to find them working at a Mooby's fast food restaurant. Dante is planning to...,
The Flying Car is a six-minute 2002 short film written and directed by Kevin Smith. It features View Askewniverse characters Dante Hicks and Randal Graves, who were introduced in Clerks.While stuck in a traffic jam, the two have another philosophical, pop-culture-laden conversation — this one sparked when Randal asks Dante what he would hypothetically sacrifice in exchange for marketing rights to a flying car.It is similar to the scene in the original movie where they are driving to the wake. In both they are in a car and Randal convinces Dante a situation (in the original: performing oral sex on yourself, in this scene: losing a foot and being raped by a German scientist and his friends in exchange for the flying car) isn't as perverse as it sounds, then calls him a pervert for agreeing with him.The short film was the first commissioned for The Tonight Show and premiered there on February 27, 2002. It also appears on the 10th anniversary Clerks. X DVD....,
Dogma is a 1999 comedy film, written and directed by Kevin Smith, who stars in the film along with Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Linda Fiorentino, Alan Rickman, Bud Cort, Salma Hayek, Chris Rock, Jason Lee, Jason Mewes, George Carlin, Janeane Garofalo, and Alanis Morissette.
Brian O'Halloran and Jeff Anderson, the stars of Smith's debut film Clerks, have cameo roles, as do Smith regulars Scott Mosier, Dwight Ewell, Walt Flanagan and Bryan Johnson.
The film is a satire of the Catholic Church and Catholic belief, which caused organized protests and much controversy in many countries, delaying release of the film and leading to at least three death threats against Smith.Aside from some scenes filmed on the New Jersey shore, most of the film was shot in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The film was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay as well as a Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America honor for Best Screenplay.
This film was rated R by the MPAA "for strong language...,
Clerks is a 1994 film written and directed by Kevin Smith (who also appears in the film in a minor role). Starring Brian O'Halloran as Dante Hicks and Jeff Anderson as Randal Graves, it presents a day in the lives of two shop clerks and their acquaintances. Clerks was the first of Smith's "View Askewniverse" films. It introduces several characters, notably Jay and Silent Bob, who reappear in his later works.
Dante Hicks is a clerk at the Quick Stop, a local convenience store in Leonardo, New Jersey. One morning, he receives a phone call from his boss, who claims that another employee is sick. After a brief argument, he reluctantly agrees to work, on the promise that he will be relieved at twelve o'clock so he can play hockey with his friends. When he arrives to open up the store, he realizes that the shutters outside won't open because someone jammed gum in the locks. With the shutters down, the store appears closed, so he writes "I assure you; we're open" in shoe polish on a large...,
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on March 23, 2013 - 12:01 AM
By Jill Jedlicka
More than 1 billion people in the world do not have access to safe drinking water, yet we are privileged to have 20 percent of the world's accessible fresh water at our front door.
Clean water is an essential human need and one whose value will increase as global climates change. The Great Lakes provide drinking water to 34 million people in the United States and Canada, and the lakes support more than 1.5 million U.S. jobs that generate $62 billion in wages.
World Water Day, observed Friday, was established to raise awareness about international water cooperation. With more than 85 percent of the world living in conditions of water shortages, World Water Day offers an opportunity to recognize that Buffalo Niagara is home to the Great Lakes, the greatest fresh water supply in the world.
Much of the world still views our community as part of America's Rust Belt, when in reality our region is in the middle of a major transformation – one that is integrating and embracing our Great Lakes and waterfront into local economic revitalization.
As the region's leading clean water advocate, Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper recently launched a major initiative, Rust to Blue. This focuses on the physical restoration, protection and enhancement of our water systems as a driver for economic revitalization.
This "blue economy" is in action all around Buffalo Niagara, and is responsible for "the other billion" in economic activity. This includes a massive Buffalo River cleanup and revitalization effort that set the foundation for Canalside, green infrastructure investments for sewage pollution, new Niagara River Greenway waterfront parks and public access to new fish and wildlife habitat restoration sites throughout the regional watershed.
We want to build on our success and make sure that green infrastructure and cutting-edge greenway plans are designed into the restoration and revitalization of new waterfront initiatives, notably Buffalo's outer harbor, and Niagara Falls' Robert Moses Parkway.
Regional success, recognized nationally, is driven from within the community and represents the region's demand and desire to sustain a healthy and vibrant waterfront. The upcoming investments and decisions we make regarding the renaissance of these two iconic waterfront assets will impact our ability to connect people to our local waterways.
Water defined our region's history and it will define our future. We have come a long way in restoring and protecting our waterways since the Buffalo River caught fire in January 1969. We stand at a pivotal time where our collective work can transform our regional economy, improve our health and wellbeing as a society and enhance our ability to enjoy and protect our greatest natural asset, fresh water.
Jill Jedlicka is the executive director at Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper.


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John P. Russell, 84, of Summerfield, Fla., passed away in hospice care Sunday, June 23, 2013.
John was born April 22, 1929, to Otto and Ruth Russell in Mill Creek.
He served in the Air Force 29 years and retired with the rank of brigadier general. During his Air Force career, his code name was "Deacon." He flew many fighter-bomber missions in Korean and Vietnam War.
As commander of a fighter wing, in 1974, he supervised air operations in the Vietnam War's last battle during the recovery of the USS Mayagez, according to the Air Force biography. His military decorations included the Legion of Merit with oak-leaf cluster, the Distinguished Flying Cross and many others.
He is survived by his wife, Elaine Russell; children, Anne Bailey of Niceville, Fla., Susan Gornto of Fort Walton Beach, Fla., and John Russell of Johnson City, Tenn.; and four grandchildren. His three children said the best gift their father gave them was Christianity.
A memorial service will be conducted later this summer in West Virginia at the Mill Creek Presbyterian Church.


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on January 6, 2013 - 1:00 AM
Poems by Francois Villon, translated from the French by David Georgi, Northwestern University Press, 272 pages ($21.95 paperback original). You might well want to paraphrase Tolstoy: all respectable artists are (somewhat) alike; all reprobate artists are reprobates in their own way. It is, of course, an absurd generalization (it is with families at the beginning of "Anna Karenina," too) but there is a sense in which "respectability" is generic and always congruent to itself but when you're talking about those undeniably great artists who ran afoul of society, there is an almost inexhaustible variety of ways to do it: Caravaggio's way, Gesualdo's way, Catullus' way, Petronious' way and, above all, Francois Villon's.
It is now a virtual certainty that much, if not most, of his life was spent, if not firmly on the wrong side of the law, colluding with it at every opportunity. There was, for instance, that priest who died from a knife wound inflicted by Villon. He was pardoned for it. But there were miscellaneous robberies and burglaries where he was in the neighborhood, as well as a stabbing of the "Pope's Paris notary" as Villon's new translator David Georgi puts it. Villon didn't do it but having so many conspicuous friends in low places got him condemned to hang and then commuted to 10 years' banishment from Paris.
While he was "the young man with the quick blade and sharp tongue" in 15th century Paris, he was also, in Georgi's words, a man who "wrote some of the most hilarious, scathing, tender and vibrant lines in Medieval literature … stuffing 15 ballads into a mock testament, swerving from solemnity to biting sarcasm to outright filth in the space of a few lines and making a prayer stand so close to a sex farce that it would be a close contest whether his priests or his whores would blush harder."
Georgi, who grew up in East Amherst and now works at Vanity Fair, isn't, to be frank, as exquisite as some Villon translators (how's this for a current colloquialism "I'm not his serf and I'm not his bitch"?), but when you're dealing with "outsider art" which describes Christmas time as "the dead season when wolves live on wind alone," you're in the magnificent work of an archetypal poète maudit.
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Transportation and Parking Alternatives for Suffolk University Employees
It's easy to get to the Suffolk campus by using transportation alternatives like the MBTA, other public transportation, or by bike. If you need to drive, car-pooling and van pooling offer the best and most economical way to travel.
The University works closely with public agencies to provide information and assistance that can help you get to the campus without driving.
Through our Transit Program we can help you save time and money with an MBTA Pass or other public transportation passes. We can also help you find a carpool or a bike rack.


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